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306 STRIPPING THE GURUS
gitimate son of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, and a tanner’s daughter,
was also known as William the Bastard. He was actually reputed
to be able to heal scrofula (a kind of tuberculosis) with a
mere “king’s touch.”
In later years Yogananda revealed to me why he called me
his “giant returned.” Yogananda in a past existence had been
William the Conqueror.
I experienced in a vision the Battle of Hastings as King
William conquered England. I was beside him in this battle,
and was of such stature I could look him straight in the eyes
while standing beside him as he sat astride his horse. I carried
a gigantic battle axe which in effect allowed no harm to
come to his person (Paulsen, 1984).
However: Even a very small war horse of, say, fourteen hands
at the shoulder, with the nearly six-foot tall William ensconced in
its saddle, would dictate a standing “giant” around an unbelievable
eight and a half feet tall, for their eyes to be at the same level.
Yogananda (1986) continues:
Quite a few people have heard me mention a previous life in
which I lived for many years in England. Experiences of that
life come clearly to my mind. There were certain details
about the Tower of London [a historic fortress, originally a
royal palace built by William the Conqueror after the Battle
of Hastings, and today displaying the Crown Jewels] that I
remembered very well, and when I went there in 1935 I saw
that those places were exactly as I had seen them within.
Or, as Kriyananda/Walters (2002) relates it:
Master had told Daya that she was one of his daughters
when he was William the Conqueror. One couldn’t help feeling
that there was a certain regal quality about Daya Mata,
as also about Virginia, her sister, who now bears the name
Ananda Mata, and who also was closely related to Master
during that lifetime. I came to believe, though Master had
never told me so, that I was Daya’s youngest brother, Master’s
son, in that incarnation.
Yogananda further said of one of Durga Mata’s brothers: