Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

weeping and wailing just a few moments ago,saying, ‘Oh my elder sister, I have fallen intobig trouble,’ now said, ‘What had to happen tohim has already come to pass. I have smallchildren. Who will look after them if I die?’“The disciple saw and heard everything. Hestood up at once and said, ‘Master, let us go. Iwill follow you.’ (All laugh.)“Another disciple said to his guru, ‘My wifeserves me so well, Master. I can’t leave herbehind to follow you.’ This disciple practicedhatha yoga. The guru taught him a ruse, too.One day there was a lot of weeping and wailingin the house. The neighbours came and saw thepractitioner of hatha yoga seated on a smallcarpet in the house, his body stiff and twisted.Everybody thought that he had breathed hislast. His wife was crying and had fallen on theground, saying: ‘Oh mother, what catastrophehas befallen me! How have you provided forour future? Oh my friends, I never imagined Iwould meet with such a fate.’ In the meantimeher relatives brought a cot to take him out ofthe room.“But then a problem arose. He could not betaken through the door since his body was stiffand twisted. A neigbour ran and brought an axeand began to chop the door frame. The wifewas weeping bitterly. Hearing the sound ofwood being chopped, she came running and,still weeping, asked, ‘What are you doing?’ He