Consciousness

I am currently reading Autobiography of a Yogi (yet again). Here, I couldn't help wondering about how Paramahansa Yogananda keeps meeting one enlightened being after another - almost throughout his life. He writes about them matter-of-factedly as if it is a walk in the park. The truth is that to set your eyes on ONE is a great privilege. It doesn't happen to everyone. The rioters in Calcutta during the struggle for our independence met only one murderer after another in succession. Most folks meet only ambitious, self serving individuals. So, why the stark difference?

I think the answer lies in this quote by Sadhguru (I am quoting from memory): "Whatever you hold as the highest within you, naturally your energies get drawn towards it." Our consciousness is like a magnet - they way we are within attracts people and situations in alignment with it. I think most people's inner state is like a hodge-podge of variations - so the day-to-day situations get baselined at some median. That becomes our "general life" with spikes and troughs. The other property I think is that, as it reaches higher and higher levels, as in the case of Paramahansa Yogananda, the strength of it to manifest the outer situations increases exponentially.

That is why, when he sat in his attic resolving not to move until he received an answer on when he would be meeting his Guru - the eternal voice replied "Thy Master cometh today!". And come he did - in the form of one of the greatest men to have trodden this planet!