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Mr. J. Simmons on Dr. Wyld`s Theory
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<Untitled> (There is a Sudra girl in my native town)
There is a Sudra girl in my native town of ***, who had studied Raja Yog under an ascetic of Northern India. She appeared to be about seventeen years old. I had been so often deceived by pretended yogis that prudence dictated the necessity of learning some unfailing tests for discovering a true Raja Yogi. I went to her and before I could ask her permission to apply the tests, she read my mind and graciously consented. As advanced Raja Yogis alone can smoke ganja and let out the smoke through the nine outlets of their body successively, I asked her to do so. She not only did it but smoked again and passed the smoke through all the pores of her head and body, so that she seemed, for a time, enveloped, as it were, in one dense cloud. A few days after she took me to the river which was overflowing its banks. She walked barefooted on the surface of the water up and down the river for about an hour and then sank into a dangerous eddy. For an hour, her head alone was partially seen. In vain did the alarmed spectators and policemen try their utmost to save her. Then she suddenly emerged and for four hours she swam now up against the stream current tide, now down with it and now right across. At last she rose high in the air and disappeared. I soon soon hastened to her house but found her not there. She was not seen in the town for five years more. In 1876 she returned with a stern resolve to show no phenomena whatever. She is a good ...[3]
Editor's notes
- ↑ Mr. J. Simmons on Dr. Wyld`s Theory by Massey C.C., Spiritualist, The, December 28, 1877
- ↑ There is a Sudra girl in my native town by unknown author. Story about Raja Yogi 17 years old girl in Northern India. Handwriting resembles HPB, but not quite. The ending of the story is not found yet.
- ↑ The ending of the story in not found yet.