Gyani Baile & Dolly Baile

activates the body. If man only understands this truth of spirituality he
will never indulge in bad deeds. The functioning of the body is itself a
mystery"
- Baba
The above statement of Baba makes so much more sense in the light
of her personal experience where she was seeing with her eyes closed the
illumined pictures of the deities. Relating to these illumined pictures
Baba said "Shivangini, this is the effulgence of your Atman which is
illuminating the objects that you see lit up. And that is the reason for
being able to see it without senses, the eyes."
Jnana Yoga (the path of knowledge or wisdom)
Prior to her Inner Experiences our knowledge of the scriptures was
almost absent. As stated in previous sections, during her experience
phase all types of scriptures started flowing her way from the least
expected sources. The amount of reading that she ended up doing was
more than the total sum she had done in her whole life to date. That level
of reading on her part while carrying a full load responsibility of
professional career, home, and children was a miracle in itself.
She sorted through a lot, took help from this book mentioned above by
Shakunthala Jagannathan, and of course the constant help of her Sadguru
resulted in our understanding of the Jnana Yoga as summarized below:
Jnana Yoga is not mere knowledge but spiritual enlightenment
achieved through the intuitive intellect, in its sublime and evolved form.
In the beginning the aspirant reads and analyzes the knowledge of
scriptures, meditates and contemplates the concepts. Since Hinduism is
not based on any single book or on the words of single prophet, there are
literally thousands of books to guide both the beginners and the scholars.
The first and the most ancient set of books called Vedas were handed
down orally from teacher to disciple and they are referred to as Shrutis
which means "to hear". Vedas are known as the voice of Rishis and are
believed to be of Divine origin. It is said that the knowledge of the
physical sciences is derived from the sense organs; knowledge of Vedas
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