Sri Yukteswar

Today is Sri Yuketeswar's birthday.

He was the Spiritual Master of Paramhansa Yogananda. The last few days I have not be feeling very peaceful or grounded, but kind of fearful and sensitive. The spark of energy, of life, of love that has been filling my heart and leading the way has waned. The moon was new on Sunday, today is Tuesday so probably as the moon keeps getting fuller I too will feel my heart and body expanding. In the mornings I usually put on my iPod walking to work, listening to devotional music or sometimes to astrology/yoga lessons, but this morning none of that felt right. So I flipped it to Autobiography of a Yogi. I was wondering where the strong pull to listen to that again came from. He was talking about how the east can learn from the west and all of our advances in materiality and stuff like that and the west can learn from the east's practice and techniques of yoga and yogic systems.

Then when i was posting to Craigslit, the part where they have you verify a word before posting - my word was "yogic." I love these little things. they really feel like gifts from Amma, the lila, play of life.

this is from: http://www.yogananda-srf.org/special_ancmnts/150annv_sy/150anv_e.html

A saint of truly universal outlook, Sri Yukteswar recognized that a synthesis of the spiritual heritage of the East with the science and technology of the West would do much to alleviate the material, psychological, and spiritual suffering of the modern world. His deep conviction that tremendous advances could be made, both individually and internationally, by exchange of the finest positive features of each culture was crystallized by his remarkable meeting with Mahavatar Babaji, the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya. His spiritual classic, The Holy Science , demonstrates and explains the universal evolution of consciousness, energy, and matter — the entire spectrum of experience we call life.