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\n


\n
\nLetter<\/span>
\n<\/span>to Anandarao<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n                                                                                                                    
\n<\/span>[June, 1912?]
\nDear Anandarao,<\/p>\n

                  
\n<\/span>My Bengal correspondent writes to me that you have sent me the following
\nmessage, "The Baroda friend has left service and therefore there is
\ndifficulty in finding money. He asks, now you have become a Sannyasin, on what
\nground he can collect money. Still, if you let him know clearly your future, the
\ntime it will take to effect your Siddhi and the amount of money you need, he
\nwill try to collect from Rs.600 to 1000."
\n                  
\n<\/span>I cannot understand why on earth people should make up their minds that I
\nhave become a Sannyasin! I have even made it clear enough in the public Press
\nthat I have not taken Sannyasa but am practising Yoga as a householder, not even
\na Brahmacharin. The Yoga I am practising has not the ghost of a connection with
\nSannyasa. It is a Yoga meant for life and life only. Its object is perfection of
\nthe moral condition and mental and physical being along with the possession of
\ncertain powers, – the
\ntruth of which I have been establishing by continuous practical experiment, –
\nwith the object of carrying out a certain mission in life which God has given
\nme. Therefore there is or ought to be no difficulty on that score. If I were a
\nSannyasin, there would indeed be no money difficulty to solve.
\n                  
\n<\/span>The question about the Siddhi is a little difficult to answer precisely.
\nThere are four parts of the Siddhi, roughly, moral, mental, physical and practical.
\n<\/i>Starting from December 1908, the moral has taken me three years and a half
\nand may now be considered complete. The mental has taken two years of regular
\nSadhana and for the present purpose may be considered complete; the physical is
\nbackward and nearing <\/i>completion only in
\n\t\tthe
\nimmunity from disease, <\/span>–<\/span>
\nwhich I am now attempting suc<\/span>cessfully to
\nperfect and test by exposure to abnormal conditions. The physical also does not
\nmatter so much for practical purposes, as the moral, mental and a certain number
\nof practical<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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Siddhis are sufficient. It is these practical
\nSiddhis that alone cause delay. I have had first to prove to myself their
\nexistence and utility, secondly to develop them in myself so as to be working
\nforces, thirdly to make them actually effective for life and impart them to
\nothers. The development will, I think, be complete in another two months, but
\nthe application to life and the formation of
\nmy helpers will take some time, <\/span>–<\/span>
\nfor the reason that I shall <\/span>then have a
\ngreater force of opposition to surmount than in the purely educative exercises I
\nhave hitherto practised. The full application to life will, I think, take three
\nyears more, but it is only for a year of that time (if so long) that I expect to
\nneed outside assistance. I believe that I may have to stay in French India for
\nanother year. I presume that is what the question about my future means. But on
\nthis point also I cannot speak with certainty. If, however, it refers to my
\nfuture work, that is a big question and does not yet admit of a full answer. I
\nmay say briefly that I have been given a religious and philosophical mission, to
\nre-explain the Veda and Vedanta (Upanishads) in the ancient sense which I have
\nrecovered by actual experience in Yoga and to popularise the new system of Yoga
\n(new in arrangement and object) which has been revealed to me and which, as I
\nprogress, I am imparting to the young men staying with me and to others in
\nPondicherry. I have also to spread certain ideas about God and life by literary
\nwork, speech and practice, to try and bring about certain social changes and,
\nfinally, to do a certain work for my country in particular, as soon as the means
\nare put in my hands. All this to be done by God’s help only and not to be begun
\ntill things and myself are ready.
\n<\/span>.
\n                   
\n<\/span><\/span>The amount of money I shall need for
\nthe year in question are Rs. 300 to clear up the liabilities I have contracted
\nduring the last nine or ten months (in which I have had only fortuitous help)
\nand some Rs. 1200 (or 1500, reckoning up to August 1913) to maintain myself and
\nthose I am training. I had hoped to get the money from a certain gentleman who
\nhad promised me Rs. 2000 a year for the purpose and given it for the first year
\nfrom October 1910 to October 1911. But there are great difficulties in the way
\nand I can no longer reckon merely on this support which would have made it
\nunnecessary for me to tax my friends. Please ask<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

my friend if, with this explanation, he can
\nmanage the money to the amount suggested.  <\/span>If
\nI get other help from this side, I shall let him know so that the sum be
\nlightened.
\n                     
\n<\/span>At present I am at the height of my difficulties, in debt, with no money
\nfor the morrow, besieged in Pondicherry and all who could help are in temporary
\nor permanent difficulties or else absent and beyond communication. I take it,
\nfrom my past experiences as a sign that I am nearing the end of the period of
\ntrial. I would ask you if you can do no more, at least to send me some help to
\ntide over the next month or two. After that period for certain reasons, it will
\nbe easier to create means, if they are not created for me.
\n         <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


\n                                                                            
\n                                                <\/span>A.
\nG.<\/p>\n

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