Message #38553

[mccoy]

I agree that expectations can be too high for people, but sometimes those expectations are created by the person himself, so he suffers the consequences.

Example: Kryiananda in his book the path depicts himself in a certain manner, building a figure which creates some expectations. He fell way short of those expectations.

Whereas Yogananda in his autobiography was pretty humble, Sri Yukteswar really seems the highest master there, barring Babaji.
However, by reading other biographies (like his brother's Mejda), Yogananda appears to be actually much greater than he depicts himself. He created expectations that were actually exceeded.