Part A
Updates-Welcome back my revered readers, sorry to have been away for so long. I completely agree that a new post is very much overdue. The blog was organized in many separate sections like posts of sermons, teachings and verses from Bhagwad Geeta, photos, videos, poems and so on in September before I took a long break for the sake of convenience of every reader. I hope everyone benefited from it as much as it was intended to be.
The reason for extended non-appearance from the blog-world is that I was comprehensively involved with my daughter’s marriage that took place in the last week of November in Delhi. I have tried to resolve everything as fast as I could and am very much settled in my usual routine. Meditations are back, calmness restored and the mind totally infused with God’s benign touch and what’s more- I feel like composing a significant post before I go to Pondicherry to rest as well as learn intensively!
God Within
This will be the name of our blog’s next segment F. So far the last five segments A, B, C, D and E got over and they started quickly in the past with a trifling gap of some repose but this time the gap has been too wide but for a good reason. Let’s begin with my sharing something very distinctive with you which I experienced in one of my meditations randomly while I was not writing in those days.
I pleaded God to speak to me directly in deep contact and in mind’s total silence. I told God,”Kindly tell me something very unusual, unknown and hidden, something which is like a secret from humanity’s knowledge ever since God made man! What is it that this world does not know and God knows since eternity? Which knowledge is precarious and not written in books and only God knows and that will enlighten man far more than any other superior knowledge known to humanity so far? Like the treasures in the womb of the Earth, surely my Heavenly Father you are holding this secretive knowledge to which our eyes have been closed forever. What is it? Please bless me and reveal Thyself in your illuminating words and break the enclosures in which I have tied myself in eternal incarnations. Free me with your sacred words and empower me with that sacred knowledge which will help my Spirit to soar in moments of my consecrated silence! Tell me something unique that all humans do not know. Convey me that sacred knowledge which will lift my Spirit to the highest heavenly skies and soundless ether where I can meet you in pure silence!!”
This question was sparked off unplanned and incidentally because I see all men sleeping in a very deep slumber. Wherever I go, I see them in some kind of delusion and charmed sleep. In spite of so much exterior material progress which is any way made by just a few great men in the world, I have realized that apart from a few enlightened people, all of us are either in a dreaming state of mind or people are sleeping in some kind of darkness and they have no sense of awakening in them at all even if best and appropriate environments are given time to time. They are so, so so far from the realization that God exists within and that they should listen to the whispers of God residing inside and then carry out their actions. Living in spiritual darkness is far more regressive and hard if compared with all the hardships put together that a human suffers for achieving spiritual enlightenment! But God’s deluding power is so overwhelming that everyone is suffering in that delusion.
God’s reply which came instantaneously to me was, “Out of millions of people barring a handful who are alive, they do not know and recognize that there are three hidden powers of God in them that are governing their spiritual evolution and progress. God has created these three powers in this Cosmos. This information is not stored in any scripture or holy books either but is concealed in the Soul of beings.
They are Sankalpa Shakti, Ichcha Shakti and Kriya Shakti- The powers of thought, will and action respectively. These powers are hidden inside the core being of any human like Kundalini Shakti and are only activated by the illumined Master if and when God desires as sheer Grace. The previous sections of the blog were written highlighting the essence of these subtle primordial energies in a compact form. More knowledge shall be discussed in the new segment aptly titled ‘God Within’ by you in forthcoming posts”………(to be continued)
This post is only the introduction of the new segment and more will follow soon. As it is evening and we have lit our evening lamps and are saying our prayers, I leave this page with one beautiful evening mantra which I just heard a while back.
Shubham Karoti Kalyanam Arogya dhansampadam I
Shatrubuddhi Vinashaya Sandhyadeepam Namosutute II
May the light of the lamp bring us auspiciousness, good health and prosperity. Let it destroy the evil mind of the enemies. I bow and salute to the evening lamp.
Part B
Dear readers, it is travel time again.
Apart from blogging, more touring of holy sites are pending in the next coming months of the new year because of which the posts will be delivered intermittently. As a result, the usual dates of 10th, 20th and 30th cannot be followed. Posts will be sporadic without any fixed time and date.
To start with, at the moment I shall go to South India. Pondicherry is the first destination. Parangipettai is very close by to Pondicherry and it is obvious and obligatory to be visiting Babaji’s holy birth site. Madurai is on the cards after Pondicherry in the last week of Dec. From Madurai, I shall go to Palani, the samadhi place of Shri Boganatharji, the great guru of Shri Mahavatar Babaji. I can’t wait to meditate and resume Kriya fervently at this significant holy place. There have been many breaks in doing Kriya and hopefully there would be no serious lapses henceforth. This is the blessing that I seek from Shri Boganatharji at his resting place.
A few days are going to be spent in isolation in Pondicherry while the rest in teaching and imparting further instructions to some disciples of our sweet Guru Shri Mahavatar Babaji at his behest.
In January, I shall go to YSS Dakshineshwar hermitage in Kolkatta for a week. It is in the Eastern Part of India. There will be some free time for me apart from regular intensive meditations and Kriya in the quiet hermitage.
In February I shall be touring the Western most part of India- Somnath, Dwarka followed by Nathdwara and ending with Mt. Abu again with some deserving disciples. This trip will be my first ever step in Western direction where going to do sadhana in holy sites is concerned.
March is reserved for Varanasi, Sarnath and Bodh Gaya, it falls in upper regions of India and is quite central in position. Shri Lahiri Mahashayaji lived most part of his life in Kashi or Varanasi. I will be visiting this holy site for the first time. It has been my silent desire for many years to visit the house in which Shri Lahiri Mahasaya lived all his life frugally and did high grade tapasya at the directives of his most revered guru Shri Mahavatar Babaji by being a house holder, meeting his disciples and spreading the obscure and long lost Kriya far and wide through them. My long cherished request has been answered by God at last and I surely look forward to it with great zeal.
Rest of the programme of touring of the year 2014 is yet to be finalized. The blog will surely reflect the same as the time comes as you shall either see the pictures or the posts will convey something about them. These pilgrimages are meant for my own solitude and reflection apart from imparting lessons personally to some chosen devotees.
One drastic shift in ideology and belief of mine has taken place recently. I was always undetermined and cautious and wished to keep a low profile in the internet world of social networking for a lot of reasons. But then finally I have accepted and agreed to go public with my blog with Shri Mahavatar Babaji’s proposal. His wish has to be mine; they cannot be varying and different at any point of time.
As is well known Spiritinlife blog has never been used to express personal views or revealing individual matters for that matter. It has certainly not been used for social networking either. Its aims have been just to disseminate spiritual ideas and lessons far and wide in the world as is evident to you, and it has been a resourceful medium to spread the teachings of Shri Mahavatar Babaji particularly to his old and new disciples spreading across the globe. It is indeed a new source of spiritual wisdom which is easily obtainable sitting at home and at any convenient time for the genuine people. For some reason Shri Mahavatar Babaji now wants me to showcase or have a display cabinet by which some more people can be connected through Facebook to Spiritinlife blog.
My ‘The life-journey so far’……will be in Facebook pages very soon and I wish and pray for those disciples and devotees of Babaji to get connected with him through one more medium other than this blog. The groundwork for this work is on and will take a few weeks. I am already envisioning how well I can do this given job by my great Teacher so that the virtuous aims of dear God and him are fulfilled proportionately. Surely, there are many crying souls who are looking out for some spiritual assistance, guidance and strength to go on in life or fulfilling their spiritual dreams of Self Realization. May they all meet their Gurus here through these two sources of inter-connectivity and may they all get to see God within themselves one day……….
P.S. Would like to bring to your notice that on this auspicious day, this is the 200th post that has got published today. I sincerely thank God and all my gurus and the saints for giving me the courage to speak my inner mind and the strength to go on writing in spite of many obstacles.
I humbly thank every reader who is reading the blog-posts, they are invoking the creative energy in me by being diligent and regular and responding systematically at regular intervals.
A big thank you to those readers who invest their time piercing the nooks and corners of the blog and thus doing justice to the intensive work done here. If the same zeal is shown throughout, I wonder what all shall God and Shri Mahavatar Babaji and others saints reveal to us……May we always show our dedication, reverence and devotion at every step of our evolution. May we all love God and the holy saints in our every breath in this and all our lives to come……..
Om shanti, shanti, shanti Om…...
Jai Guru dear Sarikaji,
yesterday was Gita jayanti and today you have given us this post. Welcome back with all our heartfelt love to you may we all dive deeper in our sacred teachings given by the very holy Mahavatar Babaji which you are giving to us in this blog.
Jai guru,
manju
Jai Guru Manju, Thanks so much for your love and encouragement.
CONGRATS dear mom on this 200th post 🙂
Glad to read that you will be coming up with a Facebook page soon. Pls let me know how If I can help in any way to set up the page.
Very happy to read that you are finally going to visit Shri Lahiri Mahasaya’s house where he did his tapasya.
Looking forward to learn more under Segment F ” God within ” posts coming up in the near future.
Dear Shahid, your wish has come true, we will have a page on facebook and spread the noble ideas far and wide. Whenever I am in need of any assistance, I will get in touch with you without hesitating.
Thanks a lot
Mom
PRANAM AT THE LOTUS FEET OF SHREE SHREE MAHAVATHAR BABAJI AND TO YOU!!!
Respected Sarikaji you are so merged with the GOD that you can
ask such a question to the almighty !
.And the answer – so sublime!!!.
Let GOD Bless our limited souls with the capability to follow this
celestial secret .
Preying for Blessings
Suresh
Dear Sureshji, I am surely delighted to see that you have found this post sublime. Indeed sublime it is.
If with great fortune the mind becomes very sublime with intense kripa or Grace of God, then we should say or ask something that is of that high order. Using that hour of sanctity could not have been used for any other cause but to know from God what our small mind does not know. The strong urge to know more about God and to live in those moments many times more again is blissful.
May God give you and other deserving children some intimate moments of divinity! May we always do noble deeds to please him. Pray to God that he illumines your sacred path of God with Light and bliss.
Sarika
Congratulations on your 200th post, Amma. That is quite an achievement.
I have heard that mantra several times. Didnt know its meaning.. or the fact that it was an evening mantra.
You have written about Sankalpa Shakti, Ichcha Shakti and Kriya Shakti earlier as well. I look forward to more knowledge on the subject.
Jai Guru dear Mandira,
heartiest congratulations on your wedding!!!! may God and our divine Mahavatar Babaji bless you and may they fill your life with joy and abundance.
manju
Reblogged this on movva srinivas and commented:
Didi
Babaji mentioned about 3 types of tapasya.his was prachand tapasya.
What. Is meant by tapas ?
@Dr. Srinivas,
Knowledge of Spirit is of three types and grades- Teevra gyan, Prachanda Gyan and Prabhutva gyan as taught to me by Shri Mahavatar Babaji, which translated in English means intense, blazing and very blazing knowledge correspondingly.These states are achieved one by one slowly with God and Gurus’kripa and achieved after Mukti or finishing left over many lives’ karma results.Please refer to our discussion which we had once again.
But you are asking about tapasy aor penance as done by the sages and yogis to attain something powerful and also for redemption. Here I would like to quote something from my older post,
‘ A journey to Sri Lanka again-I’
……..Before I left for Sri Lanka, Mahavatar Babaji explained to me that there are three levels of ’tapasya’ or progression that a yogi can pursue and attain. They are- tapasya, ghor tapasya and finally mahaghor tapasya. They are increasing degrees of hardships and forbearance that a ascending yogi undergoes to attain the highest levels of God realizations. Mahavatar Babaji did ‘mahaghor tapasya’ or highest level of hardships and endurance undertaken to achieve the ultimate spiritual realizations in Katargama in Sri Lanka….
Babaji has done and will continue to do ‘mahaghor tapasya’ and the further levels of it in this category. I am sure all this is looking so far fetched but as your interest in so much in knowing more about Babaji so you should get to know from me.I am sharing my knowledge that He has given me incessantly day and night….
In case, any doubt, please revert.
Didi
ohm namo bhagavade vasudevaya.
pranam guru babaji.pranam ma,
as always thanks for writing this post for us.
i am little late to congrats you for the 200th post,
but i am at right time to this blog. perfect time.
with all love,
Midhun Pk
Jai sat Guru Ma
They are Sankalpa Shakti, Ichcha Shakti and Kriya Shakti- The powers of thought, will and action respectively. These powers are hidden inside the core being of any human like Kundalini Shakti and are only activated by the illumined Master if and when God desires as sheer Grace.
Ma, Kindly through some light on “all three hidden Shakti can be activated by illuminated master if and when god desires as sheer grace”.
Pranam to Ma and all divine masters.
Gratitude.