3-03-24
Chapter-4
1 of 2 of Bogarnath Maharishi
8 of 17 of this series
(Introduction of Swami Bogarnath, quoting from an old post of 2015 –https://spiritinlife.blog/2015/01/05/in-sacred-moments-with-revered-his-holiness-maharishi-bogarnath-iii/)
The present day temple at Palani-
The present day temple that you see of mine was formerly my cave in Palani. Swami Kartikeyan’s temple which is standing now was the place for which I had come thousands of miles on foot. I saw the same great Light at that place. It was the place of penance, tapasthal of Swami Kartikeyan. Before going to Sri Lanka to Katargama, Swami Kartikeyan halted at Palani and did penance for three years. I was attracted to it. I decided to live there and made it my base. I worshiped him every day and was guided by him in my intense sadhana and later tapasya. The idols of the revered deities or teachers in those times were made of wheat flour, turmeric and colours of flowers. People who lived below the mountain looked after me.
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Bogarnath: “My dearest child, I have allowed nobody so close to my persona and aura. But you are a special case. First of all, it is God’s wish that in Kaliyug the most sincere and prominent sages and saints of primordial times of India, who with great difficulties achieved God in their lives and then decided to go into hidings, now be brought forward in the public eye for the first time ever. By doing whatever God has willed is my tapasya today because we are slowly, very slowly changing the course of time and face of the Earth by that command. You are the only person on Earth among all the sadhaks or seekers and devotees of Babaji who wished to know so much about Mahavatar Babaji. Even to the extent of knowing his teachers or Gurus from whom he took initiation of very special yogic sciences after you read just one book about him a little more than a decade ago. Your mind is very penetrating and wishes to go to any length to get to the truth of everything. This is a very good trait of a very highly evolved sadhak. You shall gain profusely by this nature.
And two other posts of 2014 –
https://spiritinlife.blog/2014/12/22/in-sacred-moments-with-maharishi-bogarnath-i/
Contents –
- His life as a Sage.
- His difficulties without a Guru.
- His sadhana of many lives gave him पुण्य – positive karmas which saved him from falling from his divine consciousness gained in his first life incarnation.
- He lived all his lives waiting for grace कृपा to befall on him. Nonetheless, he persisted.
- He turned his mind inward devoid of any wants and did penance तपस्या of silence and peace. मौन शांति.
- This world is a reflection of our deeds, thoughts and desires.
- His last life as a wandering monk in Palani.
- About you and me.
Part A
Maharishi Bogarnath, his life only of uninterrupted tapas and tyaag
My first ever life on the Earth in South India
“My first birth was in Andhra Pradesh in the *12th version of this Earth.Maharishi Bogarnath: Today, the famous Tirupati temple is made on the same place. After renouncing the world, from the age of sixteen to nineteen I practiced silence, maun for three years in the dense forest.
From the age of nineteen to twenty-two, I served my Guru. From twenty to twenty-two, I practiced Pranayam given by my Guru. After that, I practiced meditation a lot. I lived for 106 years and in my first birth itself. I achieved samadhi, a rare feat.
I always remained a renunciant, sannyasi like Adi Shankaracharya. In my first life, my auspicious thought, shubh sankalpa was for adopting silence and peace, maun aur shanti. In my every life, this thought remained unbroken. I lived only 156 lives and in the last life, I turned my back on the world. Till today, I have never had a thought to go back to the world and enjoy it because silence of mind is ultimate peace. I would eat food only twice a day and sleep less because peace gives immense power. I lived more by peace and prana shakti given by pranayam than food energy.
My last birth in Gorakhpur (U.P)
I was born for the last time in Gorakhpur in the middle of a great geographical upheaval. Times were turbulent, and changeover was happening. Two eras or yugas were at a confluence and stability was not in sight. It was a phase of yug parivartan. My parents wanted me to be a farmer while I wished to be a renunciant. I was born with a sankalpa of renouncing because when a Soul is freshly born, it has the ability of asking for a boon but within a period of 49 days only. I was in a pristine state of untainted Brahma prathistha like you and Adi Shankaracharya in the very beginning itself. In this time of grace, I quickly developed my mind to speak the most appropriate words to Parmatma because our sankalpa gets manifested in a moment of intense shunya.
I wanted to be a sannyasi because so much time is lost in maintaining relations, acquiring food and shelter for a large family. Moreover, there is very little time to be in the holy company of the sadhus and mahatmas.
Like you in the womb this time, I had asked God to come to my rescue as soon as I was born because the ugly, greedy thoughts of people are always surrounding us. As soon as we are born, we begin to breathe the atmospheric air which has the thoughts of all the people. The desire to become popular was rampant in the village in those times because the village was nurtured and looked after by the head or mukhiya. The mukhiya would always keep track of the harvest of all the farmers. ¼ of their harvest would be given by each family for those who could not grow enough yield or for sadhus, priests, wandering monks and sick or old people. Very rarely would the mukhiya in the village retain for himself the donated harvest as a commission for his service or a greedy act.
I used to pray to God that the villagers must be self-reliant because in those days, man was fully dependent on nature for food, water, house and even medicine. When my mother came to know that I was praying for the people of our village, she said that you are evidently fit to be a renunciant. I was only six and a half years old at that time. She helped me to keep a fast, learn the prayers and rituals that were performed to pay obeisance to nature such as the Sun God, wind God, water God and even death and birth God. Birth and death were both celebrated in that era because nobody wished to live longer than a maximum fifty years. In those days, it was supposed to be a materialistic idea and was considered clinging to the world for enjoyment.
When I turned sixteen years old, I was told to join a group of sannyasis. My mother agreed but pleaded to me to come back home once before I took the final plunge. I went to Kashi to live until I got Moksha. Markandey Maharishi told me astrally to go to Manikarnika ghat and meditate on at least three days and nights continuously. Due to this sacred act, my sannyas became vibrant but not depressing and lonely. I took a vow never to tarnish the path that I had chosen so early in my Soul journey as I would be leaving my mother alone in old age.
At the age of twenty three, I went back home as commanded by my Guru Swami Kartikeyan. I made sure that my mother and sister were looked after well for a few years by me until they felt independent to pursue their path of liberation as well. By age twenty-six and a half, my goal was about to be realized. Around twenty- seven, I renounced my home and family to live in silence for the rest of my life like I had lived in my very first life in Andhra Pradesh. I set on foot to go to Palani where my Guru Kartikeyan had done intense tapas for three years before he left for Katargama in Sri Lanka on foot when he incarnated many years back.
Part B
Minds of both of us were similar in thoughts in childhood; we were very mature in Soul, and it had deep awareness since the beginning
When you were three and a half years old, you would always tell God to make you do tough penance in this life. You have asked God to change your destiny so that whichever hard life-situations you get, you would become worthy of Moksha and God Realizations for certain. You were successful in this endeavour. You are today ahead in time in realizing all the goals of the global mission of reviving the old sacred scriptures which you are procuring astrally from the akash. I will make you re-write my handwritten manuscripts and sacred scriptures on manas, its structure, its shape and even how it keeps reforming moment to moment. It will be considered a rare feat and a treasure for the world to preserve. I will make you write this extraordinary piece of rare scripture after five and a half years in the month of June. That is in the month of June of the year 2029. Such is the meticulous planning of God and the Rishis who constantly watch the ebb and flow of time and the world karmas of the people. Whenever there are auspicious patches in between inauspicious, a project is accomplished by us with your co-operation.
This post is so delayed since a very auspicious patch of seven continuous days was hard to get; we were on the lookout for a very long time. From today, 1st March until 7th March 9.30 pm, are the auspicious days. Accomplish many feats like publishing this post and a few others on different platforms during this time. Contact new people if your any new project is to be initiated. Take at least two sessions, one each of meditation and discourse in this phase. You all shall get success and triumph in all your efforts.
The work that you are doing now deserves to be applauded and praised because usually men do such hard tasks and women take the role of giving birth and nurturing their children and family respectively. You will be remembered in the world for donning many hats and they are of a meditator, teacher cum mother, writer and speaker; this is apart from undertaking all family and social responsibilities. Being in constant touch with the energies of God and Gurus is a very demanding task. Living on the worldly plane is very easy because the mind does not think beyond this world’s subjects. Those yogis however, who can do so while living in the world and are able to contact the realms of higher wisdom must protect their mind and body because the whole of their nervous system becomes vibrant and active. Preserving such a body and mind is a demanding task on a regular basis. You are doing that. Besides, you are forever strategizing in the day or night to save time. That is a task by itself. You are invariably remodeling the original planning and management on most days to avert the collapse of your good management efforts. For this, you have been blessed recently by Parmatma. You will be able to write faster and accurately since the nervous system has been enhanced further.”
Me: “What will these scriptures contain param pujya Swamiji?”
Maharishi Bogarnath: “They will consist of mainly three topics manas, sankalpa shakti and maun and shanti. ”
Me: “Why am I getting this opportunity to make a rare scripture and your darshan so many times in the last eight months continuously?”
Maharishi Bogarnath:
- Your desire and will to search, know and realize is unending.
- You have kept every promise that you have made to us in all undertakings so far. You have accomplished them before time and with a cheer in heart and soul.
- Even if your workload has increased 11.56 times since 2022, you have never grumbled. You continue to work day and night to accomplish all your assignments which we constantly renew and hand out to you amidst challenges of daily life and grind.
- Your confidence comes from always being upright. Today, it is your biggest asset because you are now ready to face the world for interface and speak about us for the first time publicly soon. So far, you have only written with a quiet demeanour.
- Your exceptional resilience power. No matter what hard life situations you face from time to time, you always bounce back with inner strength and that is your penance.”
(Next part of this post will be published on 05-03-24)
*12th version of this Earth
You will be aghast when I say that there were Earths made and destroyed many times before; thirteenth time it is now says the Greatest Sage.
It perishes with a cause, we think that this is the only world, only life and only people that were ever made and never before did they live.