“For more than three decades I have waited for you here—waited for you to return to me!’ Babaji’s voice rang with celestial love. ‘You slipped away and vanished into the tumultuous waves of the life beyond death. The magic wand of your karma touched you, and you were gone! Though you lost sight of me, never did I lose sight of you! I pursued you over the luminescent astral sea where the glorious angels sail.
Through gloom, storm, upheaval, and light I followed you, like a mother bird guarding her young.
As you lived out your human term of womb-life, and emerged a babe, my eye was ever on you. When you covered your tiny form in the lotus posture under the Nadia sands in your childhood, I was invisibly present! Patiently, month after month, year after year, I have watched over you, waiting for this perfect day. Now you are with me! Lo, here is your cave, loved of yore! I have kept it ever clean and ready for you. Here is your hallowed asana-blanket, where you daily sat to fill your expanding heart with God! Behold there your bowl, from which you often drank the nectar prepared by me! See how I have kept the brass cup brightly polished, that you might drink again therefrom! My own, do you now understand?”
“‘My guru, what can I say?’ I murmured brokenly. ‘Where has one ever heard of such deathless love?’ I gazed long and ecstatically on my eternal treasure, my guru in life and death.
~ Lahiri Mahasya describing the words of Mahavtar Baba Ji in Autobiography of A Yogi
Even with such a divine beginning of spiritual life, Lahiri Mahasaya had 10 years of very hard spiritual effort to reach perfection
His memoirs – his diary – has been written with great humility and love. They are an inspiration for common people – that with constant effort divinity is at hand
Lahiri mahasaya in his diary describes Kong’s period of time where he struggled with sexual desires, frustration, etc
Never get discouraged or give up
He used to say, banat, banat banjaya
Meaning about to happen, about to happen, DONE!
But the struggle is there for years to come.
The reward – out of this world!
Bhavin