A beautiful synchronicity

I just discovered this excerpt in another of Baba's unpublished manuscripts, his autobiography, Search of Self. He is writing about his guru, Sri Tripura Charan Devasharma, who wrote the original book which is now being passed on as The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba:

The next evening I quietly crept into the temporary ashram of my destined guru and guide along the path of Crea-yoga, the esoteric path of Raja-yoga. There he was, sitting erect, with spine straight like a pine and wearing a Christ-like countenance with a tuft of beard adorning his beaming and benign face. The room, ground floor and cabin-like, stuffy and ill-ventilated, was crowded with the many who had gathered to have a darshan of him.

When I went in and folded my hands before him in formal courtesy, he received me with reserve. He gave me a copy of his Bengali book entitled Sadhan-Bhajan and asked me to read it and meet him the next day. I left hurriedly with the book after exchanging due courtesies.

I consigned the book to the pile of forgotten papers and jolly well forgot all about it till....!

There it lay for quite a time, but I never attempted to look into it. I thought it was all rubbish, bunkum, and I never thought then that that book contained the essential principles on which the operative techniques of active union with the absolute spirit of the universe are based.

In time, it fell to my lot to amplify it in English, along with its companion volumes, Dikhsya Sikhsya, and Kriya Yoga - all in Bengali by the same author, my Crea-guru, Yogacharya Sri Tripura Charan Devasharma.

My first interview did not impress me, nor could I dream then that within the next three months I would be beseeching him to initiate me into Crea-yoga....

from Ganesh Baba's unpublished autobiography, Search of Self