I mentioned in my introduction that my oldest brother was an SRF member and got me into the path I'm on; I view him as my first guru. He died 40 years ago in a car crash. When I re-read Yogananda's account of seeing Sri Yukteswar again, I think of the heart melting joy I would feel if my brother John appeared to me. A few years after John died, his widow gave me a few of his effects. One was a shirt. It still smelled like John (Yogananda describes Sri Yukteswar's scent in the resurrection chapter). My heart almost stopped. I slept with that shirt for weeks.
Yogini
Thanks for bringing up this subject of scents and Yoganandas' experience with natural aromas of another human being.
The first experience i had of this was playing football as a youth. One of the older guys that played with us had a certain scent that was very distinctive. It was not at all offensive but became much stronger when we played sports together and seemed to come from the sweat glands. But i often smelled a different odor coming from myself when growing up which came from the thick hair on my head.
