The Restless Disciple Flees: Chapter 13

Act One is seeking, encountering the extraordinary. Miracles. But Act Two is formation, deepening. It starts with Mukunda running from his guru. He found Sri Yukteswar and already he's restless, barely six months at the ashram. Something demands solitude. Unbroken communion with God. Sri Yukteswar says: Many hillmen live in the Himalayas yet possess no God-perception. Wisdom is better sought from a man of realization than from a cave. The guru isn't denying the mountains' value. But the disciple goes instead to Ranbajpur, near Tarakeswar, where he meets Ram Gopal, the sleepless saint. The place changes. The teaching doesn't. The only cave that matters is inside.