“Religion is ...a device to enable people to have feeling,”

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I started early up the river, and on arrival stopped for some time on its banks awaiting the hour when I might put in an appearance before the Swamaji. The gentle stir of the slow current on a warm evening, and the passing gusts of a cool breeze, filled me with unaccountable awe; my emotions ran high. All the yearnings I had ever experienced seemed on this evening to be dammed up in me, waiting for release in my first initiation, which was to be the gleaning of my first inner understanding. The purpose of this initiation was to awaken the creative flow within, to free the mind of prejudices, to make the soul receptive to all things in quest of Eternal Happiness. It seemed so strange that I had come so far from the lonely deserts of Arizona to this devout land, from an environment so young to a culture so old. What had planted the seeds within me of this desire to come here? What had called me to this Land of Mystery? Why was I being accepted? It was clear, or so it seemed to me now, that all my effort to gain some understanding of the Laws of Life had not been in vain. . . . I knew I was on the verge of being liberated, on the path to verify by experience what I had learned in theory. Already I was realizing how the emotions expand while the intellect contracts; for I had almost become unaware of the passage of time. The initiation was to begin at midnight. It was to be the start of a new life for me, of spiritual rebirth. The shackles of the personal consciousness would be forever removed. I would directly perceive the universal manifestation of the Divine Law.
Theos Bernard.