Here it must be understood that this yoga was never given through instructions and physical nearness. If anything, the disciples were cautioned not to mistake the physical nearness with a sign of inner progress. True, it could be of tremendous help if someone had an external contact and used it rightly, but human consciousness is seldom ready to use this rarest of Grace. To be too close physically to the Divine often increases the hidden resistances. The sun that gives warmth and light from afar burns and scorches when it draws very near. Rare is the man who knows that the ego must indeed be burnt away and the desire-self destroyed for the Divine Consciousness to find enough room. Most want to have a physical nearness to the guru for receive help with their worldly and spiritual needs. What they forget is that this instant help does not depend upon physical nearness but on psychic intimacy and closeness with the Divine. All who have walked the path through the psychic door, testify to this fact that the Divine Mother is as accessible, Her help is as constant and instantaneous now as it was before, when She was in Her physical body. Still to satisfy this need of Her children She has left not only Her numerous photographs but signed cards and books, pieces of Her sarees and Relics, flower petals touched by Her and many such sweet little things that not only serve as a reminder but help the physical consciousness to come into contact with Her.
A colossal black serpent guards the treasures of the vital world. It only yields to those who master humanity’s sexual impulse.
