Independent states

Firewood turns into ash, and does not turn into firewood again. But do not suppose that the ash is after and the firewood is before. We must realize that the firewood is in the state of being firewood and has its before and after. Yet having this before and after, it is independent of them.

Eihei Dogen,

SHOBOGENJO GENJO KOAN

(From Taizan Maezumi Roshi's book, ''Appreciate your life''.

SHAMBALA PUBLICATIONS 2002)

What she has left...

''During a talk given in America in 1940, Paramahansa Yogananda said of his disciple Sri Gyanamata: 'Of all the women I have met in America, I think the one who has found highest favor with God is Sister Gyanamata.'

Eleven years later, at her funeral in Encinitas, California, he declared: ' A great saint has gone away... But she has left spiritual footprints... for all souls that are in despair; that they might trace her footsteps. Those spiritual footprints will always be here."

(''GOD ALONE, The Life and Letters of a Saint'', 

Sri Gyanamata. A disciple of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, 

Self Realization Fellowship 1984)