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Aug 30, 2003

"The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future." --Herman Hesse

The author of the famous 'Autobiography of a Yogi', Paramhansa Yogananda, died on March 7, 1952. Conscious during his exit from the body at the time of physical death, his passing was marked by an extraordinary phenomenon. A notarized statement signed by the Director of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Harry Rowe, testified: "No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death ... this state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one ... Yogananda's body was apparently in a phenomenal state of immutability."