The Test at First Meeting: Chapter 12

You have come. Cold. Unemotional. Just Sri Yukteswar on a tiger skin, testing immediately. Mukunda kneels, says he's ready, and the Master says: You ignore my wishes. The boy just arrived, already - correction. This is Sri Yukteswar's method. He teaches through voice and through withheld praise, through pointing out contradictions, through demanding the disciple choose him over everything. Complete surrender is the condition for transformation. Years in this hermitage will burn away every illusion, every false desire, every secret attachment. The Master's coldness is the forge. Love in a saint wears the face of absolute demand. No coddling.