Last Days With My Guru
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Yogananda, Paramahansa
42-10: After I returned to America I took off sixty-five pounds.
42-11: Sri Yukteswar passed at this hour-7:00 P.M., March 9, 1936.
42-12: Funeral customs in India require cremation for householders; swamis and monks of other orders are not cremated, but buried. (There are occasional exceptions.) The bodies of monks are symbolically considered to have undergone cremation in the fire of wisdom at the time of taking the monastic vow.