From Bombay, Turiyananda and Brahmananda went to Mount Abu, Pushkar, Jaipur, and Vrindaban. In Vrindaban they practised severe austerities for six months. According to Indian custom, a monk begs for his food from door to door. Turiyananda had to beg from nearly thirty houses to get one meal. One day, he thought: “What am I doing? I am a vagabond. Everybody is working, producing something, whereas I am doing nothing.” He was hungry and exhausted, and fell asleep under a tree in the Keshi ghat of Vrindaban. There he had a vision: He saw himself outside of his body, and he was looking at himself while he slept. He saw his body expanding and expanding, until there was no end to it. The body became so large that it covered the entire world. Then he addressed himself: “Oh, you are not a vagabond. You are one with the universe. You are the allpervading Atman.” So thinking, he jumped up and felt very happy. His despondency was at an end.
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