The CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have THE long been a search for ultimate verities and the con- comitant disciple-guru relationship. My own path led me to a Christlike sage whose beautiful life was chiseled for the ages. He was one of the great masters who are India’s sole remain- ing wealth. Emerging in every generation, they have bul- warked their land against the fate of Babylon and Egypt.
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic fea- tures of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi † amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
The helpless humiliations of infancy are not banished from my mind. I was resentfully conscious of not being able to walk or express myself freely. Prayerful surges arose within me as I realized my bodily impotence. My strong emotional life took silent form as words in many languages. Among the inward confusion of tongues, my ear gradually accustomed itself to the circumambient Bengali syllables of my people. The beguiling scope of an infant’s mind! adultly considered limited to toys and toes.
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