Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963January 28, 1963Diary: A surprise visit from Bill Hathaway brought an interpretation and the realization thatthe record has been neglected. It this certain that behind events there is a very harmonious pattern.My horoscope as originally interpreted was that life would be filled with two favorable and oneunfavorable event, but at the present moment it looks more like three favorable to one.On January 23 at night I had a long, complex lesson to give the diksha to Walt Baptiste. Thedangerous situation of growing on in years with an ever accumulating depository of esoteric practicesand no outlet, has to be relieved. On Thursday I gave him the Mauna Yoga diksha combiningmaterials from Ramana Maharshi and Pir-o-Murshid. Later I was reading in Ramana Maharshi, andfound I had done exactly correct.The Maharishi’s interpretation of the Centers is in accord with Naqshibandi and not Tantricteachings. This is a wonderful relief, because all the talks on Yoga I have heard are devoid of actualcosmic love. It is certain that the Maharshi has it and Swami Ramdas, but in general the Patanjalipeople do not have it and any excuse of Jnana is not true, because the God-realization brings all thequalities.Thursday night Della came with me to the Ashram to hear Swami Kriyananda. He was supposedto talk about Yoga for the contemporary world. The “Zennists” always read questionabletranslations from enigmatic Chinese of any period and Swamiji read from Christian mystics of anotherperiod. How the delightful love-experiences of Christian saints, particularly women, bolstersup Raja Yoga I do not and cannot see. And the old ladies in the audience, who might conceivablyreach God-consciousness by some of the means the Christian saints used, will never go through thePatanjali disciplines, so the audience is left astounded, even delightful, and empty.Friday received the finest letter from Vera. Also a delightful one from Helen Tardul in Hollywood.So I have revised the 10th and 11th cantos of “Siva! Siva!” these being on music and dance,and sent them to her.Also received a most important appeal from Elizabeth Tyler in Cleveland. Her husband hada stroke. So send my instructions to her and gave her the exercises to develop her own physic andhealing faculties. After the visits of Pir Zade and Bryn, I could see a gap, but neither of them can givethe esotericism and deliverance.Della did not show up to visit Lottie so saw her Sunday and am now writing at length. Lottie isa “victim” of the same horrors I had to go through, and praise Allah, I can help and encourage.Shasta Ewing showed up at the Thursday lecture. This is a sign that she is seeking and sheprobably will go around seeking and get nowhere. Her antipathy to A.W. is understandable but howto overcome him, or it, is beyond her.Madelynne says I am improving and there is no question but that spiritual deliverance has affectedboth body and psyche. Gong to her twice a week—class and private. This week Magana wantsto see me also.I am glad bill showed up. Seeing Ted Reich regularly and have read The Bead Game which wasgiven to Thea for her birthday. Also read Graves and Ted else gave me Alsop’s article on “Pylos.” Iwanted to see Bill to lay before him a reject which would get his attention. His world, so to speak,has gotten smaller and smaller, and if he can be influenced to see a larger universe he might findsome place in it. A big man cannot fit into a small bed.