Sorry, Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj. Hari Maharaj used to lift his mind from the operated part of the body when he was being operated on and, hence, felt no pain unlike what you have said in this video. It was his yogic way of self-administration of anaesthesia. Once when the doctor, knowing that Hari Maharaj used to undergo operation without the administration of anaesthesia, started the operation without intimating the Swami, the latter shrieked out in pain and said, "You should have told me before starting the operation. I could have then lifted my mind out of the affected zone." The doctor was stunned. So, Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj, you are misquoting the incident and it must be corrected in future renditions. Again, you say that the sage's mind is serene in hope and in despair. But the sage transcends such dual throng and neither hopes nor despairs, for having transcended time, he abides free of such mental fluctuation centring in hope and despair. Likewise, the yogi sees the eternal life that transcends material birth and death. Hence, for him to be ascribed the duality of earthly life and death is a betrayal of his essential existence in the transcendent consciousness of existence absolute or even in the plane of the 'bhavamukha' (the plane of the junction of the absolute and the relative). These are some of the discrepancies that have crept in owing to the use of language as we understand it with their concomitant references. Again, you say that ''we are immortal''. But that is wrong again for we as 'we' are all mortal. Only where we cease to be 'we' and the Being is as it is, there immortality is, or rather, mortality is erased with all of phenomena in the singularity of absolute consciousness which is changeless and, hence, deathless. However, I am sure that you also know that you have put the principles across this way for your audience, untrained in more sophisticated terminology of the Vedanta, for them to get a glimpse of the abstruse idea of this extreme Vedantic text through the film of their own flawed understanding, their common everyday linguistic parlance fraught as they are with the very dual shades you so wish to avoid in the exposition of this austere scripture that admits of no duality whatsoever. However, the Hari Maharaj episode was wrongly stated by you and merits adjustment considerations in future discourses.
Foreword added by Sugata Bose
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