Forgive me if this seems disrespectful to Yogananda, but one can't help noticing that he died quite a young man and no SRFers that I am aware of have lifespans which deviated significantly from average. One wonders why he would teach such a thing when he either didn't practice it himself or he did practice it and it didn't work exactly as expected. Or maybe I am misconstruing his words to mean "never dying" when instead he is talking about some other aspect of the physical aging process. His exact words quoted here are cease to grow old. In any case, it is quite a claim for which there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of evidence.
Again, please, forgive me for casting doubt on your guru's advice. I just...I mean what's the point of a forum if we can't discuss honestly?
I'll admit I never got the spiritual eye stuff. All I ever got from it was a headache. That doesn't mean it's not got some reality, of course.
What makes you think that there is anything wrong with dying young? Some of us need to be other places. This is not the only place. Thank God for that! I left Michigan to live in Southern California when I was 23 years old. People wondered why did he leave? These kind of questions have there basis in those who do not like being uprooted. Others see moving on as an opportunity...when it is needed.
I had a good reason. If I leave here soon God will have a better place for my spiritual growth. I am sure that when Paramahansa Yoganandas work was done here he was needed somewhere else. By the way Babaji has never died! So who should we use as an example? Sri Yukteswar is also my guru...he died at 80.
