another mystical teacher was sri parananda, whom felkin claimed to have first seen materialising out of steam at the bad pyrmont baths in germany. this apparition, described as a dark eastern man with a beard and large black eyes, wearing a flowing robe and a peculiar conical cap, arranged with felkin to meet him in exactly one month in the lounge of the carlton hotel in london. according to felkin their subsequent meeting in the flesh was the start of a series of conversations that lasted for several years.