#153, YOU WILL BE BURNT TO ASHES!
Quote from a Reminiscence of Shri A. Srinivasa Pai: "... The late Dewan Bahadur R. Raghunatha Rao and a number of other social reformers including my old Assistant Professor of history, the late Mr. A. Subba Rao (a sturdy social reformer and agnostic) used to attend. Some of the social reformers were snubbed by the Swami and their views and methods criticized. Once when Mr. A. Subba Rao spoke rather disparagingly of the thinking power and views of our old rishis, the Swami remarked that Mr. Subba Rao could have no idea of the power of intense meditation which the rishi had acquired through long self discipline, and added. "You will be burnt to ashes if you think for half a minute like them." ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW 1. Why Vivekananda was threatening the poor Professor of History? 2. Nobody would be burnt to ashes, by meditation, intense or otherwise. 3. Vivekananda did not make any Para kaaya pravees1a (Entering into the bodies of others), to study how sages though...