Dear Divine Ma,
What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?
Why are we so reluctant to put photos of Swamiji on our altar? Well, at least not while he was alive, he didn’t want to be on our altars. He said the other gurus were Self-realized, and he simply was not. Of course, Yogananda said liberation would come to Kriyananda at the end of his life, that “death would be his final sacrifice.” Does this mean that Swamiji was liberated upon his death? Asha says he lived this life as a jivan mukti. If so, doesn’t that mean he had been incapable of creating any new karma? What evidence do we have that he was already a jivan mukti throughout his life? If he was still creating karma, then he couldn’t have been a jivan mukti yet. But it IS possible he became one upon his passing, as Master hinted. If he did become a jivan mukti upon this death—that translates as “freed while living” and only having past karma. But to be spiritualized, immersed in God, creating no karma, that’s a form of freedom that could qualify Swamiji for being on the altar!