. . He touched my heart and broke that egoism in me" (Sinananda 7). This is consistent with the extrovertive mystical experience described by Stace, inasmuch
What seems significant about the meeting episode is that it contains a tacit commentary on the social caste system typical of India. Additionally, Vishnudevananda's quoted references to ego touch on the yoga discipline that is consistent with meditation and the achievement of satori or the bliss of mystical experience. After this meeting, and at subsequent ceremonies, Vishnudevananda reports, he did have a sudden mystical experience and hear the Ganges river speak to him: "God pervades everything; this too is His Special Form" (Sinananda 8). The effect of the
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