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\nIn the Gita Arjuna asks Sri Krishna: "He who takes up¦
\nyoga but before going through to the end, wanders away andj
\nfalls from it, what happens to him? Does he lose both¦
\nworldly and spiritual gains and perish like a cloud dissolving?" In answer Sri Krishna said: "Neither in this life nor
\nhereafter is there destruction for him. Never does any one
\nwho practises good come to woe. Having attained to the
\nworld of the righteous and having dwelt there for immemorial years, he who fell from yoga is again born in the house of
\nsuch as are pure and glorious and driven by his longing for
\nyoga, acquired during past lives, he tries even more for
\nperfection and, finally, through the practice of many live’
\ngets rid of all sins and achieves the supreme end." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe theory of re-incarnation which has been always held in’
\nthe Aryan religion as a part of the knowledge acquired
\nthrough yoga, had lost its position among the educated folk,
\ndue to the influence of western learning. After the advent
\n(lila)<\/i> of Sri Ramakrishna and the spread of Vedantic knowledge and the study of the Gita that truth is being re-established. Just as heredity is the chief truth of the physical
\nworld, so, in the subtle world, re-incarnation is the chief
\ntruth. There are two truths implied in Sri Krishna’s state-
\nment. Persons who have fallen from the path of yoga are
\nborn with the tendencies (samskaras)<\/i> of learning acquired in
\ntheir past lives, and, like a boat moved by the wind, the
\ntendencies bring them to the path of yoga. But, in order to
\nachieve results, for the production of a suitable body it is
\nnecessary to be born into a family that is fit and proper. An
\nexcellent heredity produces a fit body. When one is born in a <\/font><\/p>\n

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\npure and glorious home, one has a pure and strong body,
\nborn in a family of yogis one has an excellent body and mind
\nand has the advantage of the requisite education and
\nmentality. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nFor the past few years in India one can see as if a new race
\nis being created in the midst of the old that was dominated by
\nthe gross influences. The earlier children of Mother India
\nwere born in an irreligious atmosphere or one of religious
\ndecline and receiving an education in keeping with that, they
\nhad grown short-lived, small, selfish and narrow in spirit.
\nMany powerful great souls were born among these people
\nand it is they who have saved the race in its hour of great
\nperil. But without doing work commensurate with their
\nenergy and genius, they have only created a field for the
\nfuture greatness and the marvellous activity that awaits this
\nrace. It is because of their good deeds that the rays of the
\nnew dawn are brightening up all the corners. These new
\nchildren of Mother India, instead of getting the qualities of
\ntheir parents, have grown bold, full of power, high-souled,
\nself-sacrificing, inspired by the high ideals of helping others
\nand doing good to the country. That is<\/i> why, instead of being
\nobedient to their parents, the young men go their own way,
\nthere is a difference between the old and the young, and in
\ndeciding a course of activity there is a conflict between the
\ntwo. The old are trying to keep these youth, born of divine
\nemanations, the pioneers of a golden age, confined to the
\nold, selfish and narrow ways, without understanding they are
\ntrying to perpetuate the Age of Iron. The youth are sparks
\nborn of the Great Energy, Mahasakti,<\/i> eager to build the new
\nby destroying the old, they are unable to be obedient or
\nsubmit to the laws of respect for the parent. God alone can
\nremedy this evil. But the will of the Great Energy cannot be
\nin vain, the new generation will not leave without fulfilling
\nthe purpose for which they have come. In the midst of the <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nnew the influence of the old lingers on. Because of the fault
\nof inferior heredity and an āsuric<\/i> education many black
\nsheep have also taken birth; and those who have been
\nordained to inaugurate the new age are unable to manifest
\ntheir inherent force and strength. Among the youth is a
\nmarvellous sign of manifesting the age of gold, a religious
\nbent of mind, and in the hearts of many, a longing for yoga
\nand half-expressed yogic powers. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAshok Nandi, accused in the Alipore Bomb Conspiracy
\nCase, belongs to this second category. Those who know him
\nwould hardly believe that he might be involved in any
\nconspiracy. He had been sentenced on slender and rather
\nincredible evidence. He was not overwhelmed, like the other
\nyoung people, by a strong desire to serve the national cause.
\nIn intellect, character and life he was wholly a yogi and
\ndevotee, he had none of the qualities of a man of the world.
\nHis grandfather was a realised Tantric yogi (siddha),<\/i> his
\nfather too was known to have acquired powers through the
\npursuit of yoga. The rare birth in a family of yogis of which
\nthe Gita speaks, that had been his good fortune. Signs of his
\ninherent yogic powers had shown themselves intermittently
\neven at a tender age. Long before his arrest he had come to
\nknow that he was destined to die while young, hence his
\nmind did not take to schooling or the preliminaries of leading
\na worldly life, yet on his father’s advice, by ignoring the
\n‘failure’ (asiddhi)<\/i> of which he had earlier intelligence, he was
\npursuing what he considered to be his duty and had taken to
\nthe path of yoga. It was then that he was suddenly arrested.
\nAt this danger, which was the result of his own action, Ashok
\nremained unperturbed and in the jail he devoted his entire
\nenergies to the pursuit of yoga. Many of the accused in the
\ncase had adopted this path, and though not foremost he was
\none among these. In love and devotion he was inferior to
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\nheart charmed every one. At the time of Gossain’s murder
\nhe was ailing in the hospital. Before regaining his health he
\nbegan to fall ill frequently during his solitary confinement.
\nEven when sick he had to stay during the chilly nights in a
\nroom that was open on all sides. Because of this he developed tuberculosis and then, when there was no chance of his
\nsurviving, sentenced to the heaviest punishment, he had
\nbeen kept once again in that death-cell. Thanks to the
\npetition of the barrister Chittaranjan Das arrangements were
\nmade to remove him to the hospital, but he was not given
\nbail. In the end, due to the Governor’s generosity, he was
\nallowed to die in his own home, looked after by his own
\npeople. Before he could be freed through appeal God
\nreleased him from the body’s prison. Towards the end
\nAshok’s yogic powers developed considerably; on the day of
\nhis passing away, overwhelmed by the power of the Lord as
\nVishnu, ‘distributing’ the holy, salvation-inducing Name and
\nspiritual advice he gave up the body with the Name on his
\nlips. Ashok Nandi had been born to work out the consequences due to a previous incarnation, hence all this misery
\nand his untimely death. The energy needed to usher in the
\nAge of Gold did not descend in him, but he has shown a
\nbrilliant example of the natural yogic powers. Men of good
\ndeeds spend a little time in this world to work out their
\nprevious sins, then, freed from all sins, they leave the
\ndefective body and, assuming another body, they come to
\nexpress their inherent energies and to do good to men and
\ncreatures. <\/font><\/p>\n

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