Neville's young friend Matt postpones spiritual study and dies in India

In London in 1925 he urged his 21-year-old friend Matt, whose father had introduced Neville to The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita, to take an interest in these things; Matt said he wanted to live first and would wait until he was old like his father, then went to India as a tea taster and died of a fever there about six months later, news reaching Neville in New York by a letter from Matt's mother.
Date (happened)
1925
unresolved
  1. 1925 stated · preferred
    Source Gods Purpose ¶28"back in 1925", told in Gods Purpose (nid 1946)
  2. 1925 stated
    Source Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶40"I go back to 1925", told in Tloa Lecturethe Sower (nid 1831)
Place
India
Persons
Matthew (Matt)
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. 5 February 1965 stated
    Source Tloa Lecturethe SowerTloa Lecturethe Sower (nid 1831), telling 1831-3, told 1965-02-05
  2. 22 November 1971 estimated · probable
    Source Gods Purpose
    Reasoning Passage 549709 retells the independently dated 1925 episode in lecture nid 1946. The node's sole delivery claim is 1971-11-22/probable from a printed source-document dateline, so this second telling inherits that date at the same confidence.
Sources

Source

  • Gods Purpose ¶28 (He said, “No, I’m only 21, and when I get old enough like my father”—father was then 50—”when I get an old man like my father, then I become interested, if then. But I want to live first.”)
  • Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶40 (I go back to 1925, in London, I said to this young chap, [Matthew?], “Why aren’t you interested in these thoughts?” I became so completely aroused at the age of twenty that I couldn’t conceive of anyone not being interested.)