Just to tell a little bit of Lahiri Mahasaya
and his deep insight of the scriptures because we follow the path of Kriya.
Lahiri Mahasaya’s interpretation is unique.
Whether it is Gita or it is any Upanishad or any other text which he did commentary.
And just to tell you he did not write anything.
Then who wrote it?
He was... as we discussed, he was in the late afternoon, evening sitting with some devotes and disciples
he was discussing.
So others took note.
And then they showed the note to him.
He said it’s okay.
When he said okay and that was printed.
So Lahiri Mahasaya did not write any book except, he did not write any book except few diaries.
He was maintaining some diaries.
So his handwritten diaries these are the books or you can say he wrote.
Otherwise he did not write, he spoke.
So whatever he spoke, most of the time his householder disciple
whose name I was telling the other day, Panchanan Bhattacharya.
Householder, but very strict.
He started one organization.
The name was "Arya Mission Institution."
And which did not function after some time, it is no more.
Arya Mission Institution, which was started by Panchanan Bhattacharya,
printed all these scriptures interpretation which Lahiri Mahasaya did.
Lahiri Mahasaya brought the scriptural interpretation into life.
For example think of the Gita.
When you study the Gita people take you back to battle of Mahabharata,
they explain beautifully but taking to the battle.
And more simple interpretation but not bringing into one’s own life.
Lahiri Mahasaya said whatever happens in the battle is all right
but the battle is going within you now.
So your whole body is the battlefield.
Your life is the battlefield.
Inside the body who is Arjuna?
In your life who is Krishna?
In your life who is… so in this way he always explained, he brought the scripture into yourself.
This is the beauty in teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya.
His disciples, always remember, the teachings are always going from teacher to the student.
If the teachings are in the hands of good students, what happens?
It becomes easily practiced and again propagated.
The teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya, later on through his disciples,
disciples like Swami Sri Yukteswarji, like Swami Pranavananda,
like Panchanan Bhattacharya, like Sanyal Mahasaya,
so the others they made it more understandable, although not all the writings of Lahiri Mahasaya
especially the Bhagavad Gita.
It brought new direction, new light which was never before,
it was only with the Yogis discussed and finished.
But bringing it to our own hands, it was they.
And later on the same teachings of the Masters starting from Lahiri Mahasaya to Sri Yukteswarji or
Pranavananda or Sanyal Mahasya,
again like Paramhamsa Yoganandaji and Gurudev.
They again made it even more simple and understandable.
So this is how this tradition comes from the teacher to the student.