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Do these yogic dignitaries contradict each other? "Physical health is essential for true spirituality," says Bhagat Singh Thind, a contemporary Sikh-Indian lecturer and teacher of yoga in the U.S.A. Yogananda, who claimed to have been granted the title of Paramahamsa (Great Master) by his guru, stated flatly in one of his lessons on Self-Realization: "The presence of God cannot be felt while the darkness of overpowering disease prevails." Yet Sri Ramana Maharshi, suffering from a fatal cancer, affirmed the contrary and declared the body to be nothing.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 1 : The Laws of Nature > # 75