Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00367)

In Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda mentions that at a certain time, when his Indian master thought he was ready, he asked him to sleep side by side with him. Apparently, it was a tradition so that the chelas could receive the higher vibrations of the master. The book is available online and one of the members of this list gave a link. This seems odd, from a western point of view.

David B.

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> Gregory Tillett wrote in THE ELDER BROTHER: 
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> T. H. Martyn, a leading 
> Australian Theosophist, had invited CWL to live in his home 
> after his own son's tutor had gone to war in 1915. CWL stayed 
> until 1917. One day, Mrs. Martyn [said].... 
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> "I saw Oscar [Kollerstrom, an adolescent] in a state of nudity 
> in the bed with Mr. Leadbeater and Heyting also naked. He 
> walked out of the room naked to his bed which was on the 
> verandah...and I saw Mr. Leadbeater getting into bed where 
> Oscar was and the light extinguished."(p. 198) 
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> concluded from observation of CWL and boys that "Mr. Leadbeater 
> as as a motive and apart from any philanthropic purpose the 
> gratification of a perverted sex impulse...his relations with 
> some boys (probably not all the boys around him) has been for 
> his personal sex gratification.... 
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> .....Why did Leadbeater 
> invariably sleep with a young boy in his bed? And why did he 
> invariably have a boy in the bath with him? It has been argued 
> that his weak heart necessitated such companionship for fear he 
> might have some sort of attack whilst alone; but does 
> companionship require mutual nakedness in close proximity? And 
> why did Leadbeater insist on communal bathing for his pupils at 
> the Manor, with all of them in the bathroom, naked, at the same 
> time? He was given an enema every morning by one or other of 
> his pupils, in the presence of the others while they bathed. 
> This, said the close associated of Leadbeater's who told of the 
> morning ritual, may have given rise to misinterpretations. One 
> could understand why."(280) 
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