Dear readers, taking forward the last post-
https://spiritinlife.blog/2015/02/15/in-divine-moments-with-swami-kartikeyan-i/ and submitting this wonderful article to Lord Shiva, the greatest mystic and Mahayogi with utmost reverence and gratitude on this auspicious day of Shivaratri-17.02.15.
Today, I begin with citing a paragraph from my last post on Fb to recapitulate. In last post, the most revered His Holiness, Swami Kartikeyan explained to me the meaning of the poem, Who am I?
Who is Swami Kartikeyan?
He is a Sage and disciple of Maharishi Vishwamitra who lived in very primitive ages. He is the second son of Lord Shiva. Swami Kartikeyan is an extremely illumined Sage of ancient times who would not like to give up his long-lasting silence and peace ever. He has been explaining to us the wisdom that God has given to me in my meditations lately. The messages from God were grave and so are their explanations given by Swami Kartikeyan.
07.01.15 morning meditation.
Swami Kartikeyan: “Silence and peace, more silence, more peace you shall get if you let go of your old grips or clasp and merge yourself completely in the silence of your Atma. When you come in touch with your Atma, you are in complete restfulness and calmness.
Om Namah Shivaya is the Mahamantra, profound mantra; it is Moksha dayai, gives liberation, can give man freedom from the slavery of actions’ consequences when they are obligatory and detrimental. Shiva was the first human being on this Earth who got God realization, prior to him some had partial realizations. How was this possible? He practiced continued tapasya of maun and shanti, penance of silence and peace. He had no Guru to help him seek, there were no formal gurukuls, hermitages, people were all the time occupied with farming and looking after home and hearth. Life was rough and hardships were many. Rains were punitive, the Sun was harsh and man was too dependent on Nature to procure food, shelter and clothing. Forests gave peace of mind because the trees give solace to our body and mind. Shiva went into deeper forests for days to have continuing, uninterrupted silence and peace.
It was during such long periods of isolation and persistent quietude that the world of God within began to unfold in its full form. His mind never wavered once in his aspirations and all his realizations were passed on to me later on God’s behest so that a chain could be formed and the race of man does not lose this unprecedented legacy.
As his mind was very strongly influenced and affected by the severe circumstances of raw, untamed nature, he decided to conquer his mind in order to remove all the things on which he was dependent. He mastered all that and made his mind so impeccable that nothing mattered at last. At that stage, God was pleased and came forward to reveal Himself in His various glories and wonders….”
So many moments just passed by when I got lost in the depth-less peace and silence that the great Sage bestowed upon me to experience what he was trying to teach me. With his exceptional blessings, my mind could reach his time period when he had incarnated. I had to ask him this following important question which concerned me directly.
Me: “My revered Lord, I have never been advised to do hard practices of spiritual penance by any of my Gurus, yet I have made a significant advancement as far as knowing oneself is considered. Many other aspirants are making great improvements now but not under any harsh circumstances. I beg you my Holy Master, kindly once and for all satisfy my doubt as this thought has gathered many times in my mind earlier. Please put them to rest forever.”
My long-standing probe and lingering curiosity were satisfied by none other than a very acutely realized Soul when he spoke to me in chaste Hindi. I shall first articulate in Hindi after which you shall find its translation in English for everyone’s convenience.
स्वामी कार्तिकेयन:
“बाबाजी के समय तक क्रिया जरूरी थी आज नहीं। लाहिरी महाशयजी ने किया वह भी ठीक है क्योंकि आदि युग की बहुत सारी आत्माएँ उस युग में पैदा हुई थीं और उनको क्रिया से ही आत्म साक्षात्कार मिला। तुम सब के लिए आज के नवीन युग में यह आवश्यक नहीं है। तुम कर भी नहीं पाओगे क्योंकि तुम्हारा शरीर और मन दोनों खराब हो चुके हैं। तुमको आत्म साक्षात्कार आसानी से हो जायेगा अगर तुम अपना मन अपने आप जल्दी से साफ़ कर लो। बाकी का काम हमारा है। तुम केवल ध्यान करो, मन में ईश्वर के लिए प्रेम जगाओ और गुरुओं की शरण लो।
इस युग में चोर अधिक साधु कम हैं। यह ग्रन्थ जिसकी हम रचना कर रहे हैं, वह बहुत अमूल्य है। इस में विश्व के सबसे पुरातन पुरुषों के बारे में लिखा है जिन्होंने ईश्वर पा लिया था कठिन परिस्थितियों में। वे आज समय की धूल में भुला दिए गए हैं क्योंकि पापियों की संख्या सत्पुरुषों से कहीं अधिक है। वे अपने को पुजाते हैं नर हो कर, पुरुषोत्तम को तो कदाचित नहीं जाना। ऐसी परिस्थिति में ईश्वर ने एक नयी रचना की है जिसमें सच्चे विद्यार्थियों के लिए ऐसा गुरुकुल तैयार किया गया है जिसमें किसी किस्म की मिलावट नहीं है और कुछ पैसे भी नहीं लगेंगे।
सत्य क्या है? उसे कैसे जाना जाए? सत्य को पाने के लिए प्रेरणा मिलने के लिए हमने अपनी एक आदर्शी, सत्यवादी, भक्ति से पूर्ण, सर्व गुणों से संपन्न और गुरु भक्ति में अव्वल स्त्री को चुना है जिससे सारे विश्व में फिर से उजाला हो रहा है। उसको किसी से भी अपेक्षा नहीं है, केवल सब से प्रेम है, उसे ईश्वर से बहुत अधिक प्रेम है।
ऐसे स्थान पर आकर तुम निश्चिन्त हो जाओ, तुमको धीरे धीरे सब कुछ मिल जायेगा। जो लोग मन के साफ़ नहीं हैं, वे यहाँ टिक नहीं पाएंगे। उनके जीवन में भटकना ही लिखा है क्योंकि वे प्रायश्चित कभी नहीं करते हैं और नर्क में झुलसते हैं। वे अपना दुर्भाग्य स्वयं निर्माण कर रहे हैं। कुछ जन्मों बाद जब उनको सन्मति आ जाएगी, वे सही रास्ते पर स्वयं आना शुरू कर देंगे। तुम लोग यहाँ प्रेम और श्रद्धा से आओ और उसी में रहो। तुम्हारा कल्याण हो जायेगा। जो शराफत से यहाँ आकर अपने मन को झुका देगा, वो स्वर्ग को पायेगा। तुम अपना नया भाग्य अपने स्वच्छ कर्मों द्वारा बनाओ, तुम्हे शांति और ईश्वर की प्राप्ति होगी। यह मेरा आशीर्वाद है तुम सबको। तुम्हारी श्रध्दा रंग लाएगी और तुम बहुत जल्दी अपने सर्व पाप बंधनों से मुक्त हो जाओगे।
बहुत जल्दी तुमको बाबाजी के भी दर्शन होंगे इसी माध्यम द्वारा। वे मेरे अति प्रिय हैं। उन्होंने लाखों जन्मों की तपस्या का फल इस संसार को दे रखा है जिससे इस विश्व में बहुत जल्दी सतयुग आने वाला है। वे निरंतर प्रयास करते रहते है कि यह सृष्टि निरंतर हरी भरी और शांति से चलती रहे। वे जहाँ भी जाते हैं, वहां केवल प्रकाश हो जाता है। तुम उनसे इच्छा का वरदान माँगो, वे तुमको देंगे। उनकी इच्छा शक्ति बहुत प्रबल है जिसके आधार पर उन्होंने अपने मन के बल पर अपने शरीर को अमर कर रखा है क्योंकि वे चाहते हैं कि कलयुग जल्द से जल्द समाप्त हो जाये। मैं तुमको आगे चलकर ऐसी ऐसी बातें बताऊँगा जिसे सुनकर तुम चौंक जाओगे।
मुझे कभी भी पृथ्वी पर वापस आने की इच्छा नहीं है क्योंकि यहाँ बहुत अधिक शोर है। मुझे शांति और मौन सबसे अधिक पसंद है। वही मेरी तपस्या का आधार है और वही मैं तुमको आज्ञा देता हूँ। तुम भी अब से ध्यान करो, उससे मन शांत हो जाता है। मन में प्रभु का वास करके गुरुओं का आवाहन करो, वे तुमको अपनी शक्तियाँ देंगे जिससे तुम ऊपर उठने के योग्य हो जाओगे।
ध्यान में सबसे पहले ‘ॐ नमः शिवाय’ का थोड़ा जाप करो, वह कल्याणकारी है। श्वास लम्बी छोड़ो और लम्बी लो। अपने प्रिय गुरुओं का आवाहन करो और उनसे अपने लिए रक्षा कवच माँगो। वे तुमको राक्षसी और आसुरी जीवों से दूर रखेंगे, उसके बाद धीरे धीरे ध्यान में उतर जाओ। जितनी देर मन लगे उतना बैठो। अपने अंदर शांति लाओ, सत्य का प्रकाश भरो और जब मन में तरंगें आएँ, उन्हें बाहर फ़ेंक दो। दिन में बहुत सारा समय मौन में रहो, शांति स्वयं मिल जाएगी। अपने स्वास्थ्य का पूरा ध्यान रखो जिससे योग में कोई रुकावट नहीं आये।
रात को सोने से पहले एक बार फिर ध्यान में चले जाओ और नींद में ‘ॐ नमः शिवाय’ जाप करने की इच्छा रखो। जो दिन में बहुत जाप करेगा, उसकी नींद में जाप स्वयं ही चलेगा।”
Swami Kartikeyan: “Until the time of Babaji, Kriya was necessary but not today. Whatever Lahiri Mahasayaji did, that was alright because some primitive souls were born during that time and they got God realizations with Kriya only. For you in the New Age, this is not required. Indeed, you will not be even able to do it because your body and mind both have deteriorated. You will easily get God realization if you clean and purify your mind quickly. Rest of the work is ours. You only meditate, invoke love for God in your heart and take refuge in the Gurus.
In this era, there are few saints and more bluff masters. This manuscript that we are creating is very priceless. It is about the world’s most ancient Sages who achieved God in arduous circumstances. They have been forgotten in the dust of time because today the number of sinners is far higher than the God realized saints. They are allowing themselves to be worshiped even when they have not realized Almighty at all. Under such circumstances, God has made a new creation which is a Gurukul, a hermitage, a school which is for the sincere and genuine seekers where there is no adulteration of any kind as well as no money is taken from anybody.
What is Truth? How to know Truth? To inspire you to know the Truth, we have chosen our one ideal woman, who is truthful, full of devotion, comprising of all qualities, surpassing others in devotion because of whom Light is spreading again in this world. She expects nothing from any of you; she only has love for all and she has immense love for God.
After coming to such a safe place, become worry-free. Gradually, you shall achieve everything. Those who are not pure in mind will not be able to sustain themselves here. They are bound to drift as this is their fate since they do not redeem themselves and are quaking in hell. They are making their own hell. After a few lives when wisdom dawns on them, they are going to come on the right path on their own. You must come here with love and devotion and be in that. You will be blessed. Persons who will turn their minds with their own will reverentially, will enter paradise. Make your destiny with your taint-free actions; you will attain peace and God. This is my blessing for all of you. Your devotion will bear fruit and you will very soon become free from the bondage of your sins.
Very soon you will come face to face with Babaji on this medium. He is my very beloved. He has dedicated the outcome of his good deeds of a million years to this world because of which the arrival of the era of Truth is about to come. He is continuously making efforts so that this world goes on thriving with green plantation and peace everywhere. Wherever he goes, there is only Light. Ask for a boon, a benediction, he will grant you. His will power is exceptional on which account he has made his body immortal since he wants the era of darkness to end soon so that the agony of people should end. At a later point of time, I will disclose such things which will astonish you.
I never have any desire to return on the earth for the reason that there is too much noise. I love peace and silence the most out of everything. These two attributes are the pillars of my penance and I am directing you also to do the same thing. From now onward, you also meditate, your mind shall become peaceful. Install God inside and invoke the Gurus, they will transmit their powers to you and that will enable you to be worthy to ascend yourself upwards.
In your meditation, do some chanting of Om Namah Shivaya, it is very beneficial. Exhale deeply and inhale deeply. Invoke your beloved Guru and ask for a shield of protection. They will protect you from the evil and destructive forces after which slip slowly into deeper levels of meditation. Sit as long as you like. Bring about peace in yourself, fill yourself with the light of Truth and when the waves of agitation come, throw them out.
Devote your time in silence, you will automatically attain peace. Take good care of your health so that your union, yoga with God does not snap away by those obstacles.
Before going to sleep at night, go into meditation again and wish that chant of Om Namaha Shivaya, continues in sleep also. If some of you do a lot of chanting in the day, as a consequence they shall chant in their sleep also…..”
I was listening attentively with rapt attention and did not believe myself when I heard the following things later and was gratified-
स्वामी कार्तिकेयन:
“मेरी प्रिय बेटी, तुमको पुरस्कार मिलना चाहिए और वह है कि तुम बहुत जल्द श्री महावतार बाबाजी से मिलोगी। वे तुम्हारा इंतज़ार कर रहे हैं। विश्व में अनेक ऐसी बातें हैं जो उनको दोबारा संचालित करनी हैं। जिस प्रकार एक कमल का फूल कादे कीचड़ में पैदा होता है परन्तु अपने आपको धीरे धीरे विकसित करने के पश्चात्, कीचड़ से ऊपर और ऊपर उठता जाता है, उसी प्रकार ही हर जीवात्मा को अपने आस पास जो अस्वच्छता है, उससे दूर होकर अपनी आत्मा में ऊपर और ऊपर उठते जाना चाहिए। जिस प्रकार समुद्र प्रति दिन प्रातः काल जितनी भी अनावश्यक वस्तुएँ हैं, उन्हें कूड़ा करकट अलग करते हुए अपने आप को हरदम स्वच्छ रखता है।
मनुष्य को भी सदा अपने मन और आत्मा को निरंतर स्वच्छ रखना चाहिए। जिस दिन मनुष्य यह समझ जाता है कि ये संसार ईश्वर की छबि है, एक क्रीड़ा आँगन है, उसका मन अपने आप ईश्वर को अधिक प्रेम करना शुरू कर देगा। तुम भी यह चमत्कार देखोगे जब तुम अपने मन को समेट लोगे।
मन ईश्वर की ही देन है, उसमें ईश्वर स्वयं वास करता है परन्तु तुमने उसमें दुर्गंध आने वाली वस्तुएँ जमा कर रखी हैं। उसमें से सबसे भयानक वस्तु है अहंकार, इच्छा और उनमें से उत्पन्न होता है द्वेष और क्रोध यदि वे संपूर्ण रूप से पुरे न हो। यह भ्रांति जल्द ही मनुष्य को ईश्वर से बहुत दूर ले जाती है जहाँ से आने में कई सदियाँ लग जाती हैं।
परन्तु तुम कृपा करके ऐसा कदापि मत करो। तुम इस सत्य को प्राप्त करने के लिए भरसक यत्न और पुरुषार्थ करो, कभी थको मत। अपने आप पर भरोसा करो और ब्रह्मवेता गुरुओं का आवाहन करके अपने काम जल्द से जल्द पूरे करो जिससे तुम सदा विश्राम और अति इन्द्रिय आनंद का प्रसाद प्राप्त करो। जो मनुष्य अपना सर्वस्व ईश्वर को मानने और जानने में अर्पित कर देते हैं, वे जीते जी अपने अंदर स्वर्ग प्राप्त कर जाते हैं, उन्हें कहीं जाने की आवश्यकता भी नहीं है। तुम सब मिलकर इस विश्व को फिर से सत्य को मानने वाले और सत्य को पाने में तत्पर मनुष्य की गणना में आ जाओ जिससे इस विश्व का कल्याण हो। परमात्मा तुम सब को सद्बुद्धि दे, सत्कर्म करो और सत्य में निवास करो।”
Swami Kartikeyan: “My sweet child, you should get a reward and that reward is that you will soon meet Shri Mahavatar Babaji. He is waiting for you. There are many things in this world which he wishes to re-organize. A lotus flower is born in muddy, murky pond but it slowly raises itself above that dirty water and lifts itself up. Similarly, each Soul must overlook the unclean environment prevailing around him and should rise up steadily in Atma. And like the Ocean, which every day in the morning throws all the undesirable things on its shore and thus remains clean by doing so. You should become like that.
Human being should also constantly remain clean in mind and Atma. The day the man understands that this world is a reflection of God, a playground; he will begin to love God more. You shall also see this miracle if you consolidate your mind.
God has given us our mind, God himself lives in it but you have gathered all those things which have a bad odour. And out of that the most frightening things are ego and desires, out of them emerge abhorrence and anger if you cannot fulfil those desires and ego. This delusion takes away man from God so far away that returning back home to God takes countless years.
For God’s sake, you should not do this. You should try very hard and make all efforts to know the Truth; never get tired of pursuing it. Trust in yourself and after invoking the God realized Gurus, complete your work fast so that you can eventually rest forever and attain bliss as benediction, which is beyond the senses. The persons who dedicate themselves wholly in believing and knowing God, they procure a paradise within themselves while they are alive and they do not have to go anywhere else. You all should together make this world a believer in Truth and be counted in those people by which the world’s welfare is achieved and consciousness raised. May God give you Truth in your intellect, may you do truthful actions and may you live in Truth.”
Om shanti shanti, shanti Om…….