Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00370)

I would still be a bit suss about this, I thought the whole idea was that the Chela raise his own vibrations to that of the master. One would imagine that just being in his presence would be enough to exchange vibrationary waves.

david-blankenship@comcast.net wrote:
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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> T.H. Martyn 
> 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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