Blavatsky H.P. - Existence of the Himalayan Mahatmas: Difference between revisions

{{HPB-CW-comment|“The fact is, that I had the good fortune of being sent for, and permitted to visit a Sacred ''Ashrum'' where I remained for a few days in the blessed company of several of the much doubted {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahatmas}} of Himavat and Their disciples. There I met not only my beloved Gurudeva and Col. Olcott’s Master, but several others of the Fraternity, including one of the Highest. I regret the extremely personal nature of my visit to those thrice blessed regions prevents my saying more of it. Suffice it that the place I was permittet to visit is in the {{Style S-Small capitals|Himalayas}}, not in any fanciful Summer Land and that I saw Him in my own ''sthula sarira'' (physical body) and found my Master identical with the form I had seen in the earlier days of my Chelaship. Thus, I saw my beloved Guru not only as a ''living'' man, but actually as a young one in comparison with some other Sadhus of the blessed company, only far kinder, and not above a merry remark and conversation at times. Thus on the second day of my arrival, after the meal hour I was permitted to hold an intercourse for over an hour with my Master. Asked by him smilingly, what it was that made me look at Him so perplexed, I asked in my turn:—‘How is it {{Style S-Small capitals|Master}} that some of the members of our Society have taken into their heads a notion that you were “an elderly man,” and that they have even seen you clairvoyantly looking an old man passed sixty?’ To which he pleasantly smiled and said, that this latest misconception was due to the reports of a certain Brahmachari, a pupil of a Vedantic Swami in the N. W. P.—who had met last year in Tibet the chief of a sect, an elderly Lama, who was his (my Master’s) travelling companion at that time The said Brahmachari having spoken of the encounter in India, had led several persons to mistake the Lama for himself. As to his being perceived clairvoyantly as an ‘elderly man,’ that could never be, he added, as ''real'' clairvoyance could lead no one into such mistaken notions; and then {{Page aside|40}}he kindly reprimanded me for giving any importance to the age of a Guru, adding that appearances were often false, &c. and explaining other points.”]}}