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Our lives are in our hands-II
30.05.09
As it became dark in the evening and the forest was dense, he was unable to find his way back. He became nervous and worried. With an intense prayer in his heart, he began to call Lord Shiva. After about half an hour or so, in that quiet and peaceful environment, he heard some footsteps, after which he saw a sannyasi, an ascetic in ochre clothes standing next to him smiling gently. He was carrying a bowl and was holding a staff and wearing wooden sandals. The sannyasi was very fair and tall and his body emitted golden glow. Furthermore, his face beamed extraordinary peace and serenity and he had a sort of magnetic enchantment inducing towards him.
Presuming him to be a realised mahayogi, he knelt down humbly at his feet. The sannyasi glanced at him with a questioning gesture. Shivendra understood this and spoke, “Maharaj, I have lost my way. Since the past three hours, I am searching my way. Can you please show me the path?”
Hearing this, the sannyasi began to laugh loudly scaring Shivendra profusely.
“My son, which path have you lost? I only know one path and that path leads man to progress. Do you want that path of life?”
Shivendra nodded his head in affirmation. The sannyasi made Shivendra sit beside him on a huge rock. For three to four hours, he had a fruitful conversation with Shivendra. During that period, his mind and body were at complete rest and he became very attentive. He perceived and understood what was the underlying existing cause behind this entire universe. He was given the sacred knowledge of liberation. The ‘beej’ (seed) of the ‘sansara’ (sensory world) is Brahma (Atman) he was told. The sannyasi also explained to Shivendra the difference between a good and an evil man, a friend and a foe and how to discriminate between the two.
They spent a considerable time in mutual company and he was a recipient of a great treasure of knowledge and Shivendra got profound joy and satisfaction in it. With a lot of love, the sannyasi said, “My dear son, whatever I have told you never forget it. Whenever a good man comes to you show him the path of brotherhood and mankind. Give love to all. Instil their lives with peace, faith, happiness and progress and make their lives abundant. The more people you reach out, the better it will be.”
He further added, “Do not discriminate between people on the basis of country, religion, caste or creed. Follow only the religion of brotherhood of mankind.” After saying this he again repeated, “Will you lose your way now?” Lovingly he patted his back and before he asked for his leave, Shivendra asked his name. He replied, “Kandhari.”
How to make your life extra ordinary from ordinary?
01.11.09
With these bright and enriching thoughts, let me now proceed to reveal and talk about what Holy Swami Shaligram, the foremost disciple of Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri has told us in order to make our lives extra ordinary in many ways. He said-
Believe in your destiny Don’t doubt your destiny which is a very big force which we carry in an embryonic state within us. Whatever we are supposed to have or get in life in future, we will definitely get and acquire in a fixed course of time. So why lose hope and have doubts in our power, abilities, or capacity to do something? Instead put all your energy and focus on achieving what you desire for.
Now why do all genuine saints ask us to believe in our destiny, one may ask or at least the atheists may ask me.
Confidence in your destiny gives you sense of satisfaction and contentment or else feelings of discontentment, jealousy and hopelessness are nursed. If you have a firm belief that whatever life has pre-decided to bestow on me, I will surely get one day, no one can take that away from me, you will have no fears or concerns and will never be overwhelmed by mental worries and anxiety. On the contrary we are sure to stay calm and we will move towards our set goals. Lord Krishna was destined to become the king of Mathura, no matter how many attempts were made by Kansa to kill Him but he was unsuccessful in his wicked attempts.
When your time comes to get bestowed what is due to you, circumstances automatically become favourable. Try to see at present whether the forces are against you or in your favour. If they are unfavourable try harder, intensify your efforts leave no stone unturned, you will achieve your goals. Knock every door until the opportunity arrives and knocks your door. And even if after trying nothing works then-
Have patience Cultivate patience, not little but a lot of it. Extra ordinary people are blessed with this great quality. Believe in yourself that you will be able to achieve what you have set your goals for but that will take time. Until that manifests, you must put up with every effort and that too very consistently. We tend to forget that when we do not achieve results after making many attempts at something, only patience helps.
In normal circumstances, what we do is try to do a bit of something then lose hope and eventually give up. For some results we have to work harder as it takes longer than normal to get desired results. So be it!! Achieve your aims and goals with untiring patience.
Lord Rama never gave up and had unending patience when he set out to find his abducted wife, his beloved consort, Seeta. He searched for her everywhere in the forest and in plains. And being the king of Ayodhya, he did not hesitate to ask for help from anyone whether they were animate or inanimate, high or low, rich or poor, known or unknown. He worshipped the sands of seashore of Indian Ocean and also to Lord Shiva after the battle in Lanka until he achieved what he had set for!! So
Be persistent Whenever I think of persistence, I think of ants. Ants never give up and they carry such big loads on their head and to me they never seem to be getting tired of doing the same job all their lives. When they walk up, they fall umpteen times. They never say that it’s not possible to reach my destination because I keep falling. Instead, they create their own path and walk on it. You try stopping an ant that is carrying a grain of sugar up the hill you will understand what I am saying. It will never stop and instead it moves in another direction and keeps moving up. If there are people who are blocking your path, don’t complain, cry or sulk, just carve out a new path and walk in a new direction. Carve out your new destiny by being very persistent in your efforts. Persistence really pays. No matter how long it takes to get results, months or years, put in your efforts on a regular basis until you get what you want in life, it could be physical, material or spiritual in nature. To make our lives better and progressive, material gains are also needed.
Be determined By being determined, we remain focused in our endeavours. If you are determined, you will become fearless. Determined people are afraid of nothing, not even death. They face everything that comes in front of them; they address it and move on. There are going to be problems in between, there will be short periods of darkness, you may sometimes feel hopeless but it does not matter. Be determined and rise once more and do not rest until you have achieved what you had set out for. There are many people out there who have set up their big business houses, companies, ventures and other establishments who had no help whatsoever but they were determined to pursue to follow and chase their dreams and goals. Great athletes and sportsmen, mountaineers, climbers, freedom fighters are also people with extra ordinary determination and therefore achieve extra ordinary feats.
Control your mind and speech People who have regulated speech can control their mind easily. Our speech should be full of meaning and worth. Senseless words, senseless talking and senseless thinking depletes our energy and stops us from exploring our optimum potential. Learn to conserve energy by talking less and thinking more. A lot of energy is wasted in worthless conversation for the heck of it. Limited talking will give us more time to contemplate and meditate.
A scattered and restless mind can never achieve anything big and extra-ordinary. Try to meditate to make the mind calm, strong , powerful and dynamic to achieve whatever you want to achieve and pursue an enriching, enhanced and superior life. To extrapolate and break all limitations of mind and body, be conservative in talking and do not spend your precious energy in fruitless interactions with people. Save time for yourself to nurture, conserve and mould your life in extraordinary ways. People who speak less and meaningfully have the power to have an impact and can change other people’s life in many areas. So control your mind and control your speech. They both are interrelated.
Be courageous If you look at the life of Panchali, she was one woman who was very courageous. She did not fear anything and always spoke the truth without any hesitation. She was bold enough to tell Bhishmapitamaha, the seniormost member and head of the entire lineage, that he had no business to be called Pitamaha and the caretaker of Hastinapur if he did not have the courage to stop the Kauravas from insulting and disrobing her in public. She had the courage to go bemoaning to Dhritrashtra and tell him that as he had kept mum during such an ill-omened hour, ominous fate would fall on the next generations of Kauravas. She feared nobody in the huge hall where there were only men and no woman to be at her side at such a critical time.
She also decided to be on the battle field for those 18 long days at Kurukshetra till the war was over to see to it that no Kaurava survives the wrath that they had called upon themselves by their own misdeeds. In the camp, she would nurse the soldiers and falling kings to the ground. She saw the gory of death and destruction and waited for Pandavas to bring the war to an end.
After the war, like Pandavas, she too relinquished Hastinapur and chose the cold and arduous Himalayas to bring the chapter of her life to a close. All along, she chose to be with the Pandavas uptil Swarag Rohini peak, near Alaknanda river in the mighty Himalayas, next to today’s Badrinath temple where one by one, the Pandavas laid down their lives willingly as repentence and penance for the war they had fought so unwillingly!! History pays tribute to that bold and courageous woman even today.
Women can achieve and accomplish anything and make their lives extra ordinary if they want to, provided they possess or cultivate boldness, courage, forthrightness and fortitude. So cultivate that and fear nothing in life.
Judge your life by its quality It is in our nature to judge ourselves by comparing ourselves with someone else who has ‘become something’ or seems to have achieved much more than us in terms of success and material gains.
But my dear child, I do not view and judge myself on this criteria. This is not the bench mark for me to judge people. I agree that there are many people whom I know are much more successful and are wealthier than I am in terms of career, success and wealth. Good for them!! I am not missing out on anything, I am very positive about it. On the contrary, I consider myself to be more fortunate than all others because I am able to connect to God anytime I wish to, I have my own contacts and connections!!! Do they have that?
I have peace in my life. Do they have peace of mind?
I have joy in my life. Do those people have joy in their life or are they in delusion and misery of some kind?
I have contentment and satisfaction. Do the very rich and visibly famous have contentment or do they crave for more?
I have unshakeable faith in God. Faith that has helped me to navigate in the darkest hours of my life. Do you have sufficient faith and believe in God and his mercy and Grace?
And if yes, then you are a blessed one and a chosen one!!
Judge yourself and your life by the ‘quality of life’ that you are leading and not by the amount of material you are consuming, not by accumulating heaps and heaps of notes, gold and silver, owning estates, or if you have 200 people working under you. Think!!! Change your definition of rich, beautiful and successful.
Only a true spiritual man is happy and successful in life. Someone who has understood the mystery of life, someone who has solved his complex human mind problems with the help of deep connection with the Almighty God, who has understood that this world is a temporary residence where we are supposed to give more than we take, who never looks back and does not even count his innumerable good karmas. Someone who is always rejoicing without getting any gain or success, someone who forgives all in spite of their ill temper and behaviour and someone who loves to pray and talk to god is a blessed soul. Such a person is extra ordinary, he is special, his life becomes extra ordinary.
So judge your life and yourself on this criteria and now make your life extra ordinary. It is not the number of years that we live, but the quality of life that we spend here. At this moment while explaining, I remember Abhimanyu, the star of Mahabharat. He was barely 16 years old when he died an unfortunate and tragic death in the hands of capricious and wicked Kauravas. But he did a spectacular job by tilting the fate of the war. He helped the Pandavas in the war by not allowing Dronacharya, who had vowed to kill Yudhisthir after the death of Bhishmapitamah, either by capturing or killing him and hence bringing the war to an end in their favour. Though Abhimanyu was such a young lad, but his contribution towards Pandavas and the human society at large was huge. He took on the responsibility of changing the course of the war and has created a place for himself in history for heroic, dauntless courage. So who lives better and how? People who have a sense of awareness and consciousness or people who are awake all their lives and live each day in awareness, wakefulness and gratitude are the ones who live their lives truly well.
Why is Atman difficult to know?
20.11.10
When I was completely lost in these thoughts closing my eyes, in me appeared the benevolent face of Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri with his two hands in the air as usual, as though he is invariably blessing us. He asked me upfront, “Tell me why is Atman difficult to know?” I was stumped and speechless. I was in no condition to reply because of these two reasons. Firstly, his emergence was unexpected and secondly gazing at his tall stature, literally and figuratively, I was wonderstruck and in no position to think. He is my Divine Father. He has taught me how to walk by holding my finger on the spiritual path, has initiated me, he has comforted me in times of acute distress and has shown me light in times of darkness. Imagine how could I tell him something about Atman and why is it difficult to know it?
I simply prostrated humbly at his divine feet inwardly like a child and became attentive to receive sacred benediction from him. I was only too eager and waiting in anticipation to hear his celestial words in simple expressions. He explained the lofty ideas through a metaphor.
He began to communicate in a continuous flow,
“The body and Atman appear to look one and akin. Even if we do get a few glimpses of it sometimes, we cannot recognize it although it is in front of us. So the seeker must separate the two like butter in the buttermilk.
When we travel on the spiritual path, the consequences of past karmas of many, many lives manifest and show results. At that time we have to bear the consequences on our body and mind and we suffer in many ways. This clouds and covers the Atman and we lose our peace and become morose. Even those who have just been initiated in Atman recently are unable to stay in tune with the Atman because the negative effects of karmas are making a deep impact on the mind and body. Separate the mind, the thought of body from the unchangeable and joyous element called Atman in you. You should recognize this fact, know that the present life situation is due to past actions and be quiet and stable in mind. It takes a long time and a lot of pratice to achieve a state where the mind is completely conquered and is invulnerable. The search of God is not for the weak souls.
In times of misfortune, sickness, adversity and loss, humans have a tendency to rely on unreliable sources. They still take help of relatives, friends and other people, but they never take refuge and shelter in God. They still do not become dispassionate and detached with worldly attachments and ties which are infested in their minds. God is the only source of right advice and guidance, peace and calmness and is the solution to all our problems. During adverse, inharmonius and difficult conditions our mind is receptive, one must avail this opportunity and he must purify his soul by prayers and meditations.
The people who surround us with whom we live, work, our neighbours and others; they do many wrong and sinful deeds. The vibrations of their defiled mind cover our subtle Atman. The appalling vibrations that fall on us make us suffer in the form of mental disturbances and physical imbalance. The atmosphere that we live in is far from being pure. Meditation will clear the fog in the mind and clean the energy centres.
Now think of this- When our beloved, our lover is separated from us in some life because of some circumstantial reasons, we are unable to bear the pangs of separation. We remember him or her very fondly, we cry and long to meet him/ her and we keep thinking every moment when will I ever see my beloved’s face. When we eventually meet our beloved, we are so relieved although the union may have taken many lives. The pangs of separation take many lives to heal as we wait and wait to meet and see our sweetheart’s face! The pain and heartache of separation from ‘Purushottam’, the Supreme is much greater than the pain and gloom of our lover lost many lives before. We have been separated not by a few but many, many lives from our beloved Supreme Master, our sweetheart. The Supreme Master is as much eager to unite with us as we are desperate to mingle and unite with Him. And when we ultimately unite with the Supreme Light, the joy and ecstasy is unique and cannot be compared with anything similar that is of this ephemeral world.
We unknowingly roam and wander everywhere in the world in search of happiness, comfort, contentment and peace. We search for it in objects, material gain, success, relationships, sensual pleasures, temptations, vices and so many other deceiving aims. But sadly we are never ever satisfied with anything for long as everything in this sansara or world is short lived and has ‘anshik sukh’ partial happiness.
Once we get entangled in this sansara, the place of birth and death due to our karmic cycle, we get trapped in the chakravyuhu, the webmire and unconquerable maze like Abhimanyu in Mahabharat. It is almost impossible to come out of this maze and puzzle of this sansara. We too, like Abhimanyu know how to enter the maze but do not know the secret of escaping because of our slumber and lack of right knowledge. To be able to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, we may take a few eras and millenniums!! Now this is a sad situation. Hence it is advised by the sages and the learned that we must make special efforts or darun prayatna to liberate ourselves. The sadguru will surely help us but we must also make tremendous efforts from our side to liberate ourselves or else we shall again get lost in the maze and we shall again lose the opportunity of liberating ourselves by shutting the door of salvation with our own hands. To avoid this fragile situation, there are created so many types of spiritual practices for us to use as anchors and tools to thwart drifting.
Gradually, the ordinary intellect must be made sharper and refined by discrimination and spiritual wisdom as Atman is extremely subtle.
The further vast volume of spiritual knowledge of liberation was given to me by Swami Nityananda with the help of an allegory the following day. He reminded me about my trip to Kailash Mansarovar yatra which I undertook in July-Aug this year. And he explained to me that on a pilgrimage, there are many people at starting point, but gradually the number of people decreases and just a few can reach the top or the highest altitude. Similarly, if we imagine and visualize that only one person out of one lakh people attempts to pursue the path of God. We separate that person from the crowd and ask him to come on one side. Then we take another such aspirant and ask him to join the first person. We have selected two aspirants out of two lakh people, three from three lakh people and so on. And from one lakh such selected spiritual contestants just one single seeker is successful and able to know Atman. This means that the possibility of success is very difficult and rare. But why is it so? There are many reasons for this, he illustrated.
Those people who misuse Tantra, do black magic or witchcraft in the spiritual endeavours are disqualified and eliminated first of all amongst all the aspirants who chose to pursue God and enlightenment.
Then there are people amongst the group of aspirants who do not have the virtues of compassion, gratitude and generosity. They too start with others, walk a little but are disqualified from the path of God.
In the count of so many aspirants, there are some who call themselves devotees but they harbour negative emotions like competitive spirit, hatred, vengeance, weakness for money and honour, stealing, pride and other such unwanted tendencies They too are eliminated by God from the path. These people cannot reach the door of the Heavenly Father.
Now out of all the people who began, only some aspirants are left. These are the ones who make advancement and move ahead. But in this category are those people who do not obey the spiritual teacher because of their demerits of stubbornness, attachment to one’s ego or simply because of not letting go. Even though they do make considerable accomplishment on the path of God, they are unable to gain access to subtle knowledge. The gurus may be in physical form or in the astral world that does not matter in any way. It is expected of the seeker to obey the Master, obey the Universal and Spiritual Laws in every way till the last leg and phase of the spiritual journey. It is only when the disciple obeys the advice and counsel of the Spiritual Master in every sense that the door of the last and highest realms of the Atman is opened.
The stage of this kind of disciple can be compared to someone who is looking at the garden through a glass door. Although he can view everything clearly, he cannot go in the garden. The deep sunken corrosive ego in the disciple is difficult to identify by him and still harder to get rid of. It is only when one has the will and desire to erase one’s false self, that it becomes possible for the teacher to do his job of cleansing the inner core and layers of the subconscious mind polluted over so many previous lives. To unite with the Atman, the disciple must submit the subtlest ego with his own consent and agreement. He must surrender completely with faith in his heart for his own welfare.”
The state of Super Consciousness-I
30.12.10
Banyan Tree: “Today you came to me and you have worshipped me, I am very pleased with you. I have been standing quietly for so many years and nobody glances at me. Everyone is attracted to the external beauty of other trees and gets swayed by them. You have come all the way from so far to look at me and take my photos! I am very happy to be on your blog because it belongs to Shri Mahavatar Babaji. The area of the ashram which has the samadhi ashes and meditation hall has divine light. Can you see that?”
Me: “Yes, now I can. I see two big circles of light. One is on top of the relic and the other on top of the meditation hall.”
Me: “How old are you?”
Banyan Tree: “A few hundred years. Three hundred and twenty one to be exact.”
Me: “But you don’t look that old. You have a slighter trunk. How come?”
Banyan Tree: ”Because I don’t have ichha to be so big. I had the desire to be only spiritual and holy. Trees have prana or life force inside them. Look at me in the middle, can you see the silver light inside me?”
Me: “Yes, I do.”
Banyan Tree: “That’s my prana or energy which I give to others. There is energy also in the leaves and other parts of the tree but maximum is in the centre of the tree, in my trunk. Look again.”
Me: “I am seeing it.”
Banyan Tree: “Trees have two main things -Spirit and life force –Atma and prana respectively. Each tree has its own Spirit and it has vital life force called prana. If the tree has a desire to help others selflessly and to be holy in nature, then it grows very big in size. Most Banyan trees have either of these desires while a few have both the desires, hence the difference in nature of each tree.”
“Recall the gigantic Peepal Tree that you saw in Murugan temple in Katargama in Sri Lanka. It has both- Ichha Shakti and Sankalpa Shakti. So it is very, very big and is also spiritual and holy. And my child, that tree can hear also! Therefore whoever comes to worship it, say their prayers there have wishes fulfilled. Those who come to quietly meditate under it, gain a lot of power to overcome their hurdles on the spiritual path and consequently make quick and hasty progress.”
Me: “No wonder, Hindus and Buddhists alike come in large numbers to worship this gigantic tree!”
Banyan Tree: “Not all Banyan or Peepal Trees are powerful and very pious. Just a few have a great desire to grow big in size and to be holy too like the one you saw on your pilgrimage in Sri Lanka.”
The Banyan Tree still continued filling me with abundant knowledge by telling me more.
Banyan Tree: “Each tree has prana according to his icchha Shakti. The more icchha Shakti, the more prana it will have. The prana is stored in its leaves. As it grows bigger and bigger, it will have more and more leaves to store prana. These trees have abundant prana to give to others. So have icchha Shakti and grow in Atma and not in material. Unless one possesses icchha Shakti , he cannot grow in Atma. Have icchha Shakti to grow in Atman and not desires to grow in material and worldly things. If you grow in Spirit you have power. Add power to your family, nation and planet like Babaji. Babaji is like a massive Banyan Tree. He possesses ancient wisdom, eternal values and esoteric knowledge. He is Boddhi Sattva, one who has enlightenment of Truth, knower of eternal Truth. Follow Babaji and his teachings. Serve God the way he is serving God since time immemorial. This is the best service you can do to humanity and to God.”
He continued to bless me further by revealing to me, “Some extra ordinary Banyan Trees emit Super Conscious rays, they are old, very old unlike seasonal flowers. Most saints of today are like seasonal flowers but Mahavatar Babaji is like the Banyan Tree. The Banyan Trees and Babaji are both alike. They give us a new lease of life, vitality for health, spiritual progress and hasty evolution but silently. He likes to hide from public and do selfless service for God eternally.”
The state of super Consciousness-III
20.01.11
The old rishi continued– “Babaji is God sent for all of you. He has mercy on every living creature. You are so very fortunate to be able to worship him in Pure state and Form in this life. This is your punya, good deeds. You have added many more punyas by asking for forgiveness for your clan. Babaji will manifest in you as light, knowledge, love and tapasya. Give all the fruit of your tapasya back to him so that he can use the tapafal, outcome of your spiritual efforts for the vridhi, escalation of satya, truth in this world. Babaji has blessed your past generations by accepting your forgiveness and their redemption through you. Your future generations will be pious, healthy, happy and prosperous and spiritual in nature. One day you will print and publish a book of this blog of articles by which the society of pious souls shall benefit and they will uplift their spirits. They will atone for their misgivings and they will get redemption from past and present wrongful karmas and they will surge ahead in spiritual evolution. You and your family will be healthy, prosperous and spiritual. All your desires will be fulfilled and peace shall prevail in your present and future lives to come. Preach to the world the power of love, co-operation and harmony. Where ever there is Dharma, truth, there is God, peace, prosperity and inner happiness. I bless all those people who read these articles with reverence and faith in Mahavatar Babaji, and they too shall be showered with spiritual happiness and satisfaction, good health and prosperity.”
Expand your consciousness-II
10.02.11
Maharishi Agastya was dark in complexion, short, had long hair tied in a big knot over his back and had a bunch of ancient manuscripts on palm leaves in his right hand. This face matched with the other astral view I had of him in Rameshwar temple, most probably in 2004. After we had offered our offerings and prayers in the Shiva temple at Rameshwar, I sat down in the hall against a pillar away from people, almost hiding and I did japa on my rudraksh mala. I closed my eyes to avoid seeing anything and with intensity repeated the holy name in a vibrant and pious atmosphere. I wanted to repeat the name of God as much as possible as my stay in Rameshwar was short. With this thought and intention, I picked up my rosary and began chanting Om Namaha Shivaya mantra. After little bit of chanting, I soon saw a short and stout figure with white dhoti draped around his waist and pot belly, a sacred thread over his left shoulder, and hair tied in a big knot on the back. He came in the hall, folded his hands with devotion and bowed his head in obeisance to Lord Shiva and turned around and came and stood next to me. I was astounded because I had not invoked any sage whatsoever. But with this incidence, I only gathered that the souls of the great sages must be coming here in the early hours to take a darshan of Lord Shiva which is true about all holy places. But why I got to see him and what could be the intention, rather what good I must have done in the past to get a splendid moment like this, I wondered. I was incredibly baffled at the unexpected arrival of his. As if this was not enough, he came and sat next to me on the floor. When I felt his warmth and very faint sensation of his auric energy, I began to thank my good luck and good karmas for an occurrence like this.
Inwardly, I did pranam to him with awe and reverence. He blessed me by saying these words, “Yes, I am Agastya. I come here every day to pay my obeisance to Shankar Bhagwan, I am his devotee. Swami Nityananda (of Ganeshpuri) has sent you here to do penance. I knew you will come. Your prayashchit redemption is over. You are now clean. Now do tapasya, tapasya of body, mind and soul. Draupadi had full faith in Lord Krishna and he salvaged her honour and rescued her out of love . Out of sheer divine love between the two, Lord Krishna called Draupadi- Krishne. He gave his own name to her. You are asadharan stree, a remarkable woman. You will attain success faster than others. Your devotion to Krishna is exemplary, others will follow you. Your success is due to your devotion and faith in Krishna. You have worshipped him in many incarnations. He will do your udhdhar, he will rescue you, give you salvation. And now let me clear your mystification. Bhagwan Rama came uptil here and then crossed over the ocean to Lanka. I helped him in his penance and in winning the battle with the asura Ravana. Ramayan is not a myth but it is all true. Faithless people doubt in God’s presence. After you go from here, continue your sadhana without a break with full devotion and faith in God, you will succeed.” This is one incident and…
I had no problem in recognizing this great sage about whom I had mentioned if you can recall, in the post –How does one know Atman? that Maharishi Agastya along with Mahavatar Babaji and Boganathar took Saurabh Samadhi after intense tapas in the forests and caves. When he came to me in his astral body to impart higher than usual spiritual wisdom during meditation in the morning of 2.2.11 this time, I at once offered my pranam in my heart without moving the body as it would have broken my communion with him. Very fluently, losing no time, he began to converse with me telepathically, “I am Maharishi Agastya. I am not a muni. Muni is the one who does manan, thinking on the mind level. I am a Maharishi because I did shodhan, research on medicine, astrology, chemistry and spiritual sciences. I like to help those meditators who are trying sincerely. When one tries to salvage his soul, he is met by many unexpected trials and tribulations. Only the daunting souls can march ahead. The weak and anxious souls decide to either stagger or stop their journey. The trials of life should be taken as tapasya. I am doing tapas since the past seventy five thousand years.
“When you concentrate on the agya chakra, do not give attention to any sound or loud noise coming from outside and reverberating in your head. Stay fixed. Fix your gaze at that point as long as you can. The thoughts and images that are coming in your mind are not generated inside you. They are of the people who are either thinking of you or talking about you somewhere, discard them, they are absolutely unimportant.
Depth in meditation raises the level of Consciousness and duration widens the Consciousness.
Part-A
For depth, one needs practice. With practice, concentration and meditation becomes deeper. By depth is meant reaching the highest realms of the celestial skies of ether and space. Connect your mind to the highest skies. There are seven skies, seven loks or worlds, seven chakras, seven colours in a rainbow, seven days in a week and seven levels of aspiration. Touch the seventh level of highest realization where one learns to identify himself with the Spirit and not the body!
Our soul is entrapped in the body. It is like a bird caught inside the cage where the soul is tormented and flutters in anguish to free itself to fly in the sky of freedom to meet its beloved, the Highest Consciousness or Supreme Self called Chetna Shakti.
The guru comes in our life to open the door of the cage so that we can escape the cringe and constriction of the imprisoned soul. The limit and boundary till we fly in the sky is decided by us. We can fly to either low, medium or the highest skies. All that depends on your Ichcha Shakti, your will to aspire and attain. Your vision with Babaji narrated in the last post denotes this. Your will to take leaps and strides was not in your destiny but you are taking because of your Ichcha Shakti. When Ichcha Shakti is prabal, that is intense, our own Atma helps us and catalysts the whole process of aspiring higher.
You can be unstoppable if you wish to and cover distances which you couldn’t even comprehend let alone achieve them. If once your Consciousness is awakened, there is no stopping. So help yourself and others too. And I am protecting the birth place in Parangaipettai from nature’s calamities so that it does not get destroyed”.
Part B
Now strangely, Babaji had told me to visit Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha before I embarked on Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in July last year. I had planned my trip accordingly. But there were changes in the last hour and because of time crunch Lumbini was cancelled. While posting the last many articles, I realized that all the recommended places which I have visited have some great significance in my life. Just try to recall the great Banyan Tree that is more than 8,000 plus years old about which I have mentioned in my last post? This is the huge religious Banyan Tree in Lumbini with whom I connected on the same day after Maharishi Agastya illumined me. The day was 2.2.11. It was the same Tree that has explained to me many undisclosed spiritual laws. With God’s great mercy, the benevolent tree divulged his past background and history also. Here is his story in his own words –
“About 9,500 years back, I was a rishi, a sage in Nepal in the Himalayan Mountains. For many years, I did intensive physical, mental and spiritual tapasya penance to realize God. After I realized God I reflected and thought why did I not ask anything for others with the clout of my tapas? I wish I had asked something for others instead of myself !
As God is very quick in listening to sincere and unselfish prayers, I was heard instantly and God said to me with his caressing words, “ Hey Munivar, I accept your heartfelt and sincere prayer. After about 7,000 years a very pious soul is going to incarnate on the Earth for the salvation of people. An extremely sacred place is required for deep realizations for this exclusive and extremely pious soul. Think and tell me about one such appropriate place which will be befitting for that soul. Where ever there is penance done should be appropriate.”
I told God, “Kindly give me such a later life so that I can serve that pure and pious soul.”
With my will so very strong and the desire so uncompromising to do intense penance because of which I chose to become and be born as a Banyan Tree; since it is only the Banyan Tree whose longevity is thousands of years!
I lived a long life of 100 years as a rishi and when the environment was conducive, my spirit entered a banyan tree in Lumbini and I waited for a very long time for Bhagwan Buddha to arrive. I made my long wait and hiatus my tapasya and sadhana. When Bhagwan Buddha was born, there was bright light on the land and I understood that my tapasya will soon yield result. One day I saw Gautam Buddha, who had a divine insight while walking here and he himself came and sat under the banyan tree. When God’s dazzling Light fell on him, some of it fell on me too and I got the consideration and returns of my tapas.
Gautam Buddha lived a long life of 93 years. He suffered a lot in mind and body so that even if not many, but just a few could be awakened in Spirit. But there are only a handful people who truly love God. Typically, people come to God only to mitigate their sorrows and meet their needs and then they return to their lives and homes.
Mahavatar Babaji is also working selflessly and serving the humans so that their progress in Spirit is possible. But the evolution of human race is at an extremely slow pace. The reason of the slackened pace is their lack of desire. Only if the human being has an intense desire to free himself that it is possible to carry out such a vivid change. Nobody can stop us from unfolding our full potential. When satguru reveals us the Truth, we must follow it and practice every teaching with sincerity. Practice with regularity. Practice any technique or method but your goal must be the highest. Detect your aberrations, weakness and vices and relinquish them permanently.
One life is not enough for our progress. So complete the unfinished task in this life itself and create your next life so that your future life has only God, human service and love, peace and joy.
Pay attention to every word that is uttered by Mahavatar Babaji who speaks in favour of your highest welfare and concern for the whole world. Co-operate and help him in making this earth peaceful, joyous, clean, green and prosperous in all natural resources. For it to materialize, have pure thoughts, do unselfish acts and dedicate this life for the sake of God. I bless you all, my children. Do good to others, do yagya of love. Babaji is a very, very pure soul. Help him in his global vision.”
Part C
Dear readers, on the next day, Babaji was as usual benevolent to decipher the vision of the spectrum of three colours- yellow, orange and white which I had seen and could not interpret. The compassionate Master admitted that indeed Maharishi Agastya was an ancient soul and has been doing tapas for more than 75,000 years. He then unfolded a greater mystery which left me contented and enriched for the next several days. He revealed that-
“Light comes to us in the form of wisdom and knowledge. Try and attempt to have more and more of that. Expand your Consciousness and widen your spiritual knowledge. Give Light and wisdom to others.
Once the Spirit unfolds in us and you know Atma, there are three levels of aspiration and heights to accomplish after that. In accordance, there are three types of gyan or wisdom – Teevra gyan, Prachand gyan and Prabhutva gyan. When we translate that, it means wisdom that is intense, very intense and most intense respectively.In between these three stages there are other sub -stages of spiritual and God’s wisdom. Now let’s look at the age of the Banyan Tree in Lumbini. It is very ancient and 8,500 years old. The wisdom given to us by this sacred and ancient tree is intense. It is called teevra gyan, intense wisdom as we call it.
Maharishi Agastya has done tapas for 75,000 years. He has wisdom and knowledge that is very intense- prachand gyan. What he has kindly bestowed on you all is prachand gyan.
My existence since my first birth and origin is some lakh years old ( sorry, I cannot reveal the exact figure) Hence my wisdom and spiritual knowledge is Prabhutva gyan which means extremely intense or blazing knowledge. Prabhutva gyan is rarest of rare and is attained with lakhs of years of tapas and is extremely exclusive.”
Expand your Consciousness-III
20.02.11
Part A
Maharishi Agastya’s blessed words of insight and ancient knowledge once more-
“Those souls who have been living in this universe for a very, very long time are a treasure and store house of earth’s as well as man’s history. Just imagine how much we have seen, how much we have known and imagine how many eras, epochs and time cycles we have witnessed.
The time that was followed after the creation of the Earth, was very heavenly and delightful. There was no insufficiency or deficiency. Slowly, with time the population of humans increased and the trees were felled. The deterioration and destruction on the earth is due to human follies and lack of sight and vision.
Once Africa was very prosperous in vegetation and animal life but pride and arrogance combined with greed depleted its resources. There were more sins than virtuous acts committed. The more faith we have in God, the more gladness and happiness generated around. Whenever the sins of man exceed on this earth, God has to send a very luminous soul to re-establish Truth and Dharma called Avatar to remind us of the eternal knowledge and truth that advocates having compassion on all living beings, loving all, doing good to all and helping all men. Where ever there is a surge of wrongful acts, there is disturbance, remorse, unrest and disorder and people are in agony and pain. The luminous souls or Avatars as they are called incarnate and give their punyas or meritorious karmas to Mother Earth and that in return brings back peace, order, cheerfulness and love. Dharma or righteousness and Truth are re-established. If we also add something as our contribution towards this objective and mission of the Avatar or other realized souls and dharmatmas, then their workload shall be eased. The positive rays of Divine Light emitted by them generate peace, happiness, greenery and relaxation to the tensed minds on the Earth.
We must always remember our duties towards our country and to God. Family duties can also be somehow managed; it is not a big issue. When we work for God, our household and family responsibilities are taken care by God itself- “Sarvadharmanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraja”
Maharishi Agastya continued with his flow of divine words after giving me a glimpse of the sacred light and knowledge. He said, “The human by nature is constricted and restricted; it likes dullness, timidity and obscurity. When he gets light in the form of wisdom, he does not accept it. Knowledge of God and Self is eternal and we must attempt to attain it. Knowledge is Light, with knowledge we get to see God.”
Part B
Mahavatar Babaji’s golden drops of divine words in meditation-
Incessant grace of revd. His Holiness Mahavatar Babaji once more. He enlightened me by throwing so much light on areas which are out of purview of average human mind and my day became so much richer. He began by saying-
“What you are going to receive from me now is because of the good karmas of your many lives. This is ‘prasad,’ grace from god to you and you must share it with all.
After self-knowledge, a seeker transcends and attains three stages of further development, one by one if he has the will and desire to attain, ichcha shakti that is.
1st stage- After self realization, there is a stable state of sustaining peace. The mind’s agitation stops and one is calm most of the time.
2nd stage- The stage of Om. Continued sound of Om, which is divine sound is heard in meditation or otherwise by the meditator.
3rd stage-During meditation many times the culminating stage is also touched, the stage of thoughtlessness called shunya or void, a state of Pure being.
The meditator passes from one stage to another and after long practice of concentration and meditation and Guru’s grace, he stabilizes in one such stage and then shifts to the higher one. The mind and body have to be prepared and fine tuned for such higher stages. Right diet, enough sleep and regular exercise are of prime importance. Ayurvedic medicines such as Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Shatavari are good brain tonics. Foods such as amla, almonds, nuts, milk and milk products, fresh fruits and vegetables play a vital role in nourishing and recharging the nerve cells and channels (Refer Food and breath control) Head and body massage with a nourishing and rejuvenating oil and aromatherapy are also helpful to a great extent and are supportive in creating a healthy well being.” He went further ahead by saying the what is mentioned in the oldest Vedas-the Rig Veda.
“When the Universe was not born, what was there?
Shunya- void, emptiness, nothing .
When the Universe was created, there was peace, tranquility, coolness and purity.
Sound of Om reverberated in the atmosphere as there was so much tranquility. There were dense forests and thick vegetation. In thick vegetation, the sound of Om flows naturally. As excessive deforestation began, gradually the state of Om deteriorated and it came down to the first stage of shanti or peaceful state. As and as the number of people increased, the forests were cut, rivers shrinked or vanished, the ice from the snow mountains melted. Drastic changes took place on the Earth because of adharma or sinful ways of living.
In a world full of people, there is chaos and commotion in the atmosphere. The thoughts that float in the space clash with each other and it becomes harder to meditate upon God in modern world. The relentless noise of traffic, people and machines add to the disturbance in the atmosphere.
The Earth is a unit, one house, it is one. Do not think in terms of country or community, see the Earth as one planet and think and see the planet as a whole, it is yours. At the moment, our Earth is passing through the lowest level where the rate of unrighteousness, sins, lust for money, greed in on the surge and increasing everyday. This trend should be reversed and we must make our planet greener, more peaceful and pious once again.”
Babaji concluded very beautifully when he took me to greater heights as he told me-“Those who wish to soar higher and touch new heights should follow this blog and they will realize the power of God. There is road beyond self realization, the latter is a phase, a sojourn in the very long path of the pilgrimage and we need not stop here.
After we get to self realization, the second stage is of Knowledge of Atman which should be attained. The next stage of Cosmic Consciousness or Virat Swaroop is followed after knowing Atman. God is eternal, indestructible, know Him. Expand your thinking, limits and do good to yourself.
There are many depths and levels of peace. Profound peace, intense peace and limitless peace.
There are several levels of knowledge too. Move onwards.
Reach the thoughtless state, the state of perfect perfection!
If you reach the state of shunya void, you will be able to unfold all the mysteries of nature.
There are several stages of bliss or ananda also. There is no limit or boundary for it.
Human is unable to attain great degree of perfection mainly because of his social commitments and obligations. Break the barrier of all layers of ego. Free your mind from very old pattern of habits and sanskaras.
And don’t forget to pray and meditate regularly for the good of all- living as well as non- living beings.”
The procedure and progression of knowing our soul-I
30.01.13
I reached the Himalayas and saw Gangotri and the white temple there and I also saw the thick foliage of evergreen trees on the nearby mountains. A voice began to talk to me telepathically, “ I am Ganga, my sacred waters give life to millions. Many years ago, when I used to flow, there were such lovely, beautiful dense forests growing where ever I flowed on my way. Today there are no forests and green jungles, but only concrete buildings. Uptil Haridwar, my water is still clean but after that it becomes despoiled. Do you know why? I replied, “No, I dont know Ma.” She answered,“That’s because my water does not flow freely from there on, it becomes stagnant.”
I did namaskar to Ma Gange and tried to solve the riddle. Why did Ma Ganga tell me all this? What am I to do with this information. Am I not clean yet? These thoughts ran across my mind immediately. As I was struggling with myself…
Just then I saw a small white temple which had a spacious room with white walls. Inside the room was a big white idol of Lord Vishnu holding the conchshell, shankh and a mace in one hand and in another sudarshan chakra wearing a garland of white lilies and a few red roses. There was a beam of white light filtering in the temple from the left corner of a roof and slanting rays were falling on the idol of Lord Vishnu thus making the visual so sacred and wonderful. It gave me immense joy to see such a holy scene before my fortunate eyes. This was the first time I had a darshan of Vishnu Bhagwan. I felt extremely fortunate because Vishnu Sahastranaam is my favourite tribute to Lord Krishna.
I tried to connect these two visions occuring one after the other quickly but could not gather anything. My curiosity was immediately satisfied when in an instant the idol of Lord Vishnu vanished and in its place I saw Mahavatar Babaji standing there in his usual appearance. I was stupefied at the turn of events and the variety of scenes rolling out before my eyes like a slide show on the computer screen. Comprehending my problem, Babaji said, “Start the next post now. One’s Consciousness need not only be raised, it should also be widened and expanded.” He gave me a few examples of attachment, anger and greed that some people possesses around me and showed me the harmful effects these vices have over their lives.
Do you remember the post of Super Consciousness-I in which I had told you that there are many Himalayan Yogis meditating and doing tapas in the caves out there? One day, in the morning when I was contemplating about this post, my mind got connected with one such ascetic living in the cave of Uttaranchal. He told me that he has been meditating there since the past thirteen years and has not come out of the cave ever since. The requirement of the sunshine is fulfilled by some Yogic Kriya and he is atoning his bad karmas of unkindness, ego and arrogance. He told me that attachment of a sadhu is worse than that of a householder. The sannyasi or sadhu has an ego which is undetectable by him and others as well and such a person has severe attachment to his monastery, disciples and his position. It takes a lot for them to accept that humility is superior to monkhood and that accepting other people and their views is a virtue. He himself had been arrogant and harsh when he was living in the normal world and with great difficulty has accepted his mistakes. Mahavatar Babaji’s supple guidance and unconditional love has changed him forever and he has realized the importance of unconditional love for all beings. “Those who are practicing Yoga, Pranayam or Kriya must try to look deeper inside themselves and seek Guru’s guidance in scraping off hidden subtle ego lurking inside them.”
I heard God speaking inside me and the Voice began to explain to me the sacred knowledge hidden within this verse in Bhagwad Geeta in the sacred hour. The Voice of God said-
“Bhagwad Geeta originated during the time of warfare and bloodshed when Arjun’s heart was filled with remorse and compassion as he did not want to kill anyone. He detested bloodshed and completely surrendered to God in spite of knowing that victory was his without any doubt because Krishna was with them. God was very pleased with Arjuna and responded and spoke to him through Krishna. Krishna became the medium through which God gave the eternal, shashwat knowledge to Arjuna. God’s responds unconditionally to sincere prayers and pure hearts.
The world or sansara that we live in and see around us is eternal and the ignorance of man is also primitive and eternal since the first man was born many, many centuries ago. The physical world is temporary and illusory, it is like a bubble in an ocean. The ocean is the Universal Self or God. God is eternal, limitless and infinite. We are born here many times and every time we come here we are in a state of dream or sleep. When we dream, we are in delusion. Delusion can be broken when we attain knowledge of Self with self realization. For that we must go to an enlightened Guru who breaks our delusion and gives us the eternal knowledge of Self. The Vedas contain the knowledge of eternal Self. The knowledge of Self is also eternal like the world or sansara. We must acquire this knowledge. The Guru takes mercy on us and shows us many of our important past incarnations that we have lived so far as a proof that indeed we have lived so many lives only dreaming and did not know the Truth.
With constant help and guidance of the Guru, each and every cell of our brain is illumined with continuous spiritual practices and master’s touch over a good period of time. Normally, humans use very little portion of the brain in a life time. As the dormant memory cells are recharged, we can do past life regression. We get over with our very old unwanted tendencies and habits, and the memory of our Soul is kindled. Eventually, as we progress on our path, we get enlightenment of the Soul once all the dormant cells are functional and used optimally after recharging them with Divine energy in the form of Light. But the ignorant man’s brain is shut as the nerve cells are clogged with ignorance and dark particles. For the enlightened, God is eternal and always present while for the ignorant, the power of God is unknown and false power of self or ego is always prevalent. This is the main difference between the two categories of people.
The analogy of a Banyan Tree is used as a metaphor to explain this. It can be explained on two levels- body and mind. First on body level- the parts of a Banyan Tree can be compared to that of our body. The roots of the tree are the parts that hold it firmly to the ground. They are like our feet holding us firmly on the ground . The legs and trunk of the body are comparable to the trunk of the tree. Our hands are compared to the branches. The canopy of the tree is the head of a human body and the roots dangling from the canopy are our matted hair.
On the second and higher level, we compare the upper part of the tree to the upper part of our body- the human brain. As explained just a little while ago, that the canopy of the tree looks similar to the brain of a man. It is similar in shape and anatomy. The leaves of the Banyan Tree are like the cells of the brain and the veins in the leaves are the nadis or veins in our body. The cells in the body have memory engrained in them called smriti. As we live in this sansara for too long, we forget God and believe the world to be real. This is vismriti or forgetfulness of God. Smriti and vismriti both are in the brain and the memory of God should be revived gradually with the eternal knowledge of Self or Atman with Guru’s guidance. Behind the memory or smriti is God. We must reach uptil here where the memory, smriti of our divinity is re-awakened. At the last stage of evolution, the remembrance of God is real, God is real, God’s personality real, God’s power and existence as real in contrast to the existence of our false ego.
And finally there is one more part of the interpretation of this shloka which when combined with all the explanations before makes it complete and final.
Urdhva mulam adhah shakhamashwatham prahuravyayam I
Chandasi yasya parnani yastam veda sa vedavit II
Ashwattha is the other name of Banyan Tree. Ashwattha means shashwat, that never ends, eternal.
There are two types of men in this world those who know and those who do not know- The gyani and agyani respectively. Majority of people come in this world without knowing who has created them and this world and get completely entangled in the maya jal the webmire of maya or delusion. They repeatedly come in this world because of their vasanas or desires for physical world and are therefore called ignorant and compared to an inverted Banyan Tree in this shloka. The falling roots upside down are the roots of ignorance in the inverted tree. They are contrary to what they should be ideally and therefore the tree is shown upside down.
While the wise men, come in this world, do not get too entangled, go to a guru, take Vedic or esoteric knowledge from him, cut down the branches of their ignorance with an axe of wisdom and are compared with a Banyan Tree which stands firmly on its roots and is absolutely grounded. Those men who have knowledge of God are firmly grounded and do not get swayed with the storms of enticing maya.
So much for the explanation of the verse 1 of Geeta chapter 15.
In the end, God asked me,” Do you know that there is a Banayan Tree which is more than eight thousand years old? Have you seen it? ” I thought for a while and looked around every where mentally and thought of a few places. ActuallyI did not know that a tree can live up to eight thousand years, leave alone know one! God enlightened me, “There is one such Banyan Tree, the Boddhi tree in Lumbini under which Gautam Buddha attained prachand prakash intense light. It is the only tree which is so ancient. It is now 8,056.5 years old. Mahavatar Babaji can be compared to this Boddhi tree, so eternal, so timeless and so ancient. Such trees are never uprooted even in the strongest of wind, earthquakes or storms and are always stongly grounded. You are a very blessed soul because you are writing all this about him. Pay your homage and tribute to an ageless, timeless, immortal soul who has been living for more than 1,8oo years to serve my children.”
I heard God speaking inside me and the Voice began to explain to me the sacred knowledge hidden within this verse in Bhagwad Geeta in the sacred hour. The Voice of God said-
“Bhagwad Geeta originated during the time of warfare and bloodshed when Arjun’s heart was filled with remorse and compassion as he did not want to kill anyone. He detested bloodshed and completely surrendered to God in spite of knowing that victory was his without any doubt because Krishna was with them. God was very pleased with Arjuna and responded and spoke to him through Krishna. Krishna became the medium through which God gave the eternal, shashwat knowledge to Arjuna. God’s responds unconditionally to sincere prayers and pure hearts.
The world or sansara that we live in and see around us is eternal and the ignorance of man is also primitive and eternal since the first man was born many, many centuries ago. The physical world is temporary and illusory, it is like a bubble in an ocean. The ocean is the Universal Self or God. God is eternal, limitless and infinite. We are born here many times and every time we come here we are in a state of dream or sleep. When we dream, we are in delusion. Delusion can be broken when we attain knowledge of Self with self realization. For that we must go to an enlightened Guru who breaks our delusion and gives us the eternal knowledge of Self. The Vedas contain the knowledge of eternal Self. The knowledge of Self is also eternal like the world or sansara. We must acquire this knowledge. The Guru takes mercy on us and shows us many of our important past incarnations that we have lived so far as a proof that indeed we have lived so many lives only dreaming and did not know the Truth.
With constant help and guidance of the Guru, each and every cell of our brain is illumined with continuous spiritual practices and master’s touch over a good period of time. Normally, humans use very little portion of the brain in a life time. As the dormant memory cells are recharged, we can do past life regression. We get over with our very old unwanted tendencies and habits, and the memory of our Soul is kindled. Eventually, as we progress on our path, we get enlightenment of the Soul once all the dormant cells are functional and used optimally after recharging them with Divine energy in the form of Light. But the ignorant man’s brain is shut as the nerve cells are clogged with ignorance and dark particles. For the enlightened, God is eternal and always present while for the ignorant, the power of God is unknown and false power of self or ego is always prevalent. This is the main difference between the two categories of people.
The analogy of a Banyan Tree is used as a metaphor to explain this. It can be explained on two levels- body and mind. First on body level- the parts of a Banyan Tree can be compared to that of our body. The roots of the tree are the parts that hold it firmly to the ground. They are like our feet holding us firmly on the ground . The legs and trunk of the body are comparable to the trunk of the tree. Our hands are compared to the branches. The canopy of the tree is the head of a human body and the roots dangling from the canopy are our matted hair.
On the second and higher level, we compare the upper part of the tree to the upper part of our body- the human brain. As explained just a little while ago, that the canopy of the tree looks similar to the brain of a man. It is similar in shape and anatomy. The leaves of the Banyan Tree are like the cells of the brain and the veins in the leaves are the nadis or veins in our body. The cells in the body have memory engrained in them called smriti. As we live in this sansara for too long, we forget God and believe the world to be real. This is vismriti or forgetfulness of God. Smriti and vismriti both are in the brain and the memory of God should be revived gradually with the eternal knowledge of Self or Atman with Guru’s guidance. Behind the memory or smriti is God. We must reach uptil here where the memory, smriti of our divinity is re-awakened. At the last stage of evolution, the remembrance of God is real, God is real, God’s personality real, God’s power and existence as real in contrast to the existence of our false ego.
And finally there is one more part of the interpretation of this shloka which when combined with all the explanations before makes it complete and final.
Urdhva mulam adhah shakhamashwatham prahuravyayam I
Chandasi yasya parnani yastam veda sa vedavit II
Ashwattha is the other name of Banyan Tree. Ashwattha means shashwat, that never ends, eternal.
There are two types of men in this world those who know and those who do not know- The gyani and agyani respectively. Majority of people come in this world without knowing who has created them and this world and get completely entangled in the maya jal the webmire of maya or delusion. They repeatedly come in this world because of their vasanas or desires for physical world and are therefore called ignorant and compared to an inverted Banyan Tree in this shloka. The falling roots upside down are the roots of ignorance in the inverted tree. They are contrary to what they should be ideally and therefore the tree is shown upside down.
While the wise men, come in this world, do not get too entangled, go to a guru, take Vedic or esoteric knowledge from him, cut down the branches of their ignorance with an axe of wisdom and are compared with a Banyan Tree which stands firmly on its roots and is absolutely grounded. Those men who have knowledge of God are firmly grounded and do not get swayed with the storms of enticing maya.
So much for the explanation of the verse 1 of Geeta chapter 15.
In the end, God asked me,” Do you know that there is a Banayan Tree which is more than eight thousand years old? Have you seen it? ” I thought for a while and looked around every where mentally and thought of a few places. ActuallyI did not know that a tree can live up to eight thousand years, leave alone know one! God enlightened me, “There is one such Banyan Tree, the Boddhi tree in Lumbini under which Gautam Buddha attained prachand prakash intense light. It is the only tree which is so ancient. It is now 8,056.5 years old. Mahavatar Babaji can be compared to this Boddhi tree, so eternal, so timeless and so ancient. Such trees are never uprooted even in the strongest of wind, earthquakes or storms and are always stongly grounded. You are a very blessed soul because you are writing all this about him. Pay your homage and tribute to an ageless, timeless, immortal soul who has been living for more than 1,8oo years to serve my children.”
Thought Power-I
28.02.11
Mother Earth.
“My dear children, this earth was created out of sheer divine love by Divine Father. In a moment of intense love out of his Thought, this Earth was created. Our Earth has all the elements, all the resources to sustain life for billions of years to come. This Earth also has waves of unlimited thoughts of people living here. These thoughts form a blanket over our planet and can be seen by the astral or divine eyes of the illumined souls in the uppermost regions of the celestial skies.
There are two types of thoughts that comprise this blanket- the good and positive thoughts which act as rays of positive energy and are helpful in sustaining this planet. The others are the contrary thoughts- they are negative and destructive thoughts which are an impediment in building, sustaining and maintaining the Earth. Whenever the negative rays exceed the positive rays, there is divine intervention from the celestial skies from the living divine souls who are ordained by God to maintain the balance of Dharma and Adharma– Truth and falsehood. The golden rays from the celestial skies fall on the Earth which are refracted and received at the spot where it was aimed at. When this happens, very slowly the wheel of dharma begins to rotate and spins till the balance is again restored.
In practical terms it means that when divine light falls in places where there is a lot of adharma, there may be sudden or violent changes which when allowed to happen create positive results in future. Bad elements are removed; new positive drastic changes take place on the earth; and truth, goodness and happiness restored.
We must be an instrument and a participant in such good moves inspite of mental fatigue, physical weariness and lack of vision. God is behind all this drama and we must attempt to achieve success in such endeavours.
Peace and love are two things without which this Earth cannot survive. So spread love and peace in every possible means and methods to create the ever joyous planet.”
Thought Power-III
20.03.11
S-“Who deserve enlightenment?”
G-“Those who suffer in this Maya, illusion and who after many incarnations take shelter in God. God directs them to their predestined Guru, who is a recipient of God’s incessant Grace.”
S-“Why does man reincarnate repeatedly?” (Read Why is Atman difficult to know?)
G-“ Because the thinking power of man is abysmal low and he does not improve the power of his thoughts.”
S- “Why does man not improve his thought power?”
G-“Because man’s existing thought power is already so low. Based on his present poor thought power, he creates new karmas which hurl him down further and hence in this way there is no way by which he can be raised. But God is concerned about us. God is always anxious and eager that somehow we must rise in Atman, in Spirit because God cannot see our suffering.”
S-“And how does God help us?”
G-“God helps us indirectly since we are not ready and prepared to connect and deal directly with Him. Those souls who are awake in Spirit, who are called our Spiritual teachers and Masters, God communicates through them. The Masters illustrate the divine path because they are always in unison with God.”( Also refer ‘The power of praying intensely’)
S-“How does the guru help us?”
G-“The thoughts or sanklap of the guru are in agreement and unity with God. They have unlimited force in them. Whenever someone with a clean heart, with a pure feeling sends out a prayer or appeal or a humble request to God, that prayer or request after touching God, first of all reaches the divine guru. The guru after God’s approval sends out divine thought vibrations which travel in the Universe. The thought waves in Cosmic Consciousness are acknowledged by us if we are prepared. So establish a strong bond with the divine guru with your mind and then establish yourself in Atman. Their powers will give you profound peace and you will become very strong in mind and deeds. After this happens, the seeker begins to think on Universal level and does good for the Universe. In this situation, God is too pleased with such souls.
Jan kalyan Vishwa kalyan, srishti kalyan, vriksha aaropan, Vishwa shanti ki prarthana se Bhagwan bahut prassan hota hai.
With prayers sent out for the world’s welfare, planet’s wellbeing, for peace and happiness for all, acts of doing afforestation, God is extremely delighted. Without even asking for anything in return by us, God gives us everything in abundance, all our desires are nourished and we begin to touch new heights in spiritual growth and improvement.”
Thought Power-III
20.03.11
Swami Nityananda of Ganeshpuri gave me my next lesson when he very sweetly explained, “To increase the power of your thought, remain peaceful all the time. Peace is achieved when we do noble and pious actions. When evil or unharmonious deeds are performed, the guilty is punished with unhappiness and cheerlessness. Joy is derived by doing good deeds. Plus actions performed consciously with a noble vision leads a soul to higher awareness and clean consciousness. Actions performed with powerful thoughts of nation building, looking after the needs of all the people, of environment and ecology of one’s nation and world, taking consideration and care of all living beings will produce and generate new power to your thoughts. If you do powerful new karmas today, progressively your mind will get stronger and more powerful as each day passes.
Very strong and positive mind will create a new ‘shrishti,’ a new world for you. If more and more people do pious and generous actions, the collective thought Power of the world will increase many times. The mission of all the saints is to increase the collective thought power of masses in all nations and it begins at individual level.
You initiate this act from today. As one’s sanchit karmas are extinguished with the grace of God and the gurus, the power of thoughts increases manifold. All the shakti of the manas or mind should be oriented and focused in doing only selfless actions- nishkam karmas. The power of nishkami purush is so much higher and has more potential than others. The results of our actions are in God’s hands. When we decide and dedicate all our pious actions to God, God and our Gurus are extremely pleased and give us more shakti, their power to do nishkami karmas. Thus each good action is born with a good thought. Increase such good thoughts and also increase the power of each thought by meditation daily.
Meditation leads to contemplation. Contemplation leads to Self-Enquiry which in turn leads to Self Realization and Self Transformation.
Strike a balance between meditation that is- self transformation and practical life that is -actions. To increase your thought power you must do both, both are essential for your inner growth and progress. The gurus will tell you how to solve the riddle of this complicated world as one is always puzzled at its bewildered state. Do not be afraid of taking a variety of experiences as experiences will give you practical knowledge. Experience is your master. Guru’s protective hand is always at the back.
Do your duty of meditating as the mind can become powerful only if it is devised to generate its own energies and to unite with the powers of the gurus and God. Those who are enabled to strike a balance between actions and meditation will grow in body, spirit and mind.”
After a few days, Swami Nityananda again gave me respite when I was hit with a wave of tumult. His timely guidance was this-“People think that if our life becomes more comfortable and prosperous we shall automatically attain peace. Nothing can be more untrue than this because if you have peace, then everything is alright. ‘Hansa ’ means durable peace, not freckled and fickle. If your mind is calm, then the thoughts are powerful. Words, thoughts originating from peace are always beneficial.
Sometimes disturbances from outside are so overwhelming that our sustained peace gets upset. If you have lost your peace, regain it and stay in a peaceful state of mind. Practice meditation and one needs practice of holding on to sustained and durable peace. In such a situation, start your ‘japa’ and other practices so that the mind again becomes tranquil and gets relief. When the mind gets relief, it will be able to meditate deeply. The outside world is in a feverish state-noisy, restless and agitated, ascertain it. Get involved in it only as much as is essential, leave the rest like the saline water of the ocean.
Practice living in peace like that of Lake Mansarovar. For such intense peace, stay in seclusion, turn the mind inwards and continue doing your sadhana. If you continuously put your mind in God, a great deal of power will flow in your thoughts and you can do impossible tasks”.
The role of ‘power of will’ in a seeker’s life-I
30.04.11
After some moments, Babaji gave me the outline of this post and gave these useful tips for all the spiritual seekers. His advice for which we are always so grateful, should be followed so that we review ourselves from time to time and add some charge and spark to our sadhana and in life in general.
He said to me, “The power of will or Ichcha shakti is the driving force, the initiative force present in all of us. In normal world it is useful to start and initiate a goal, a purpose, a mission or any other task.
But for a seeker, the role of will power or ichcha shakti is much higher than one can understand or acknowledge. The bondage of recurring cycles of birth and death can never be broken by any soul unless he or she has a will to do it. Even God’s help or grace comes to us when we create and initiate that will in us to free ourselves. The soul spends lives after lives reincarnating groping in the dark without spiritual wisdom and spiritual growth if he does not initiate and use his latent power of will.
And those seekers who are already traversing now will reach a stage when they do not make substantial growth. Those seekers if they search for answers within, will recognize that they have yet not had the desire or the will to move up and step up their spiritual efforts and hence they are where they were times ago. Hence if they now kindle a desire, a blazing will not to dwindle or languish, they must in moments of stillness and calmness express their will to Omnipresent God.”
Qualities of a real seeker
20.08.11
Part A
That morning, I had prayed to God to tell me how can I continue serving them in spite of my overtly disrupted routine and kindly let me know what is it that I must now begin to write for the next post so that all those who are following the blog sincerely may get their answers; their doubts should be dispelled and they should get over their shortcomings as quickly as possible. The response came in instantly in this poem which flowed without a break as I kept on writing in my diary.
After the wisdom filled poem, Swami Dayananda Shaligram spoke these following golden words for all the seekers, whether they are just the beginners or have advanced much higher on the spiritual step ladder. A disciple, he said should have these qualities if he/she wishes to open the door of the kingdom of God.
“Control the senses by controlling your mind. Once the mind is controlled, the senses automatically come under our control.
It is the manas, or the mana , our mind that first wanders and then proliferates further in worldly affairs and material stickiness. Beware of its nature of proliferation. We have come here to wind up our sansara, to tie up the loose ends and conclude our accumulated karmas done over past so many lives. Instead we are spreading out, diversifying and expanding our physical and material worlds. The mind should be hooked and anchored to the mind of the Guru or God whatever the state of the disciple is and not become dull because of constant rubbing in of worldly matters. The more time the mind is immersed in thoughts of God, the lesser it will trouble you.
So not controlling the mind can prove to be detrimental and create more diversions for the mind. Because we have done so much wandering in so many lives that it becomes difficult to control and bring the mind to rest by meditating now. Also the mind refuses to budge and cannot be controlled by any tool or method for the reason that it has become a habit for it to fritter, chatter or just be malicious and negative.
It takes a lot of time and unrelenting effort and persistence to master the mind but even your slightest effort adds up to the bank balance of your good karmas. So practice some form of mind taming by controlling it by various types of spiritual and mind training methods and techniques available to you. You may practice anything, but do it regularly and sincerely over a considerable time period to get results.
There is peace inside us. Our mind must be made peaceful so that its peace helps us to realize God within us. No matter what practice you perform, never give up until you get the desired results. It is ‘tamas’ or dullness in us which stops us and hinders our spiritual growth. To avoid that, do not postpone your spiritual duties; perform all your daily duties and do no waste your time in negative or unproductive thinking. Perform actions which are helpful in your spiritual goals by saving time everyday.”
Part B
When some amazing moments passed by, I felt so privileged when I heard the tree talking with me once again, “Do you think I would have let you go to Bombay with this kind of weariness? You are doing selfless tasks most of the day after finishing your personal duties and so you must benefit from me. Now inhale deeply a few more times and store that vital force inside your brain to be used up for writing the next article. I too wish to serve Mahavatar Babaji in his mission by giving you prana instantly so that you can use it for his blog.” I was gratified as I felt so very humbled to have got a shot in the arm with fresh air and I bloomed and revived like a sunflower which was drooping in absence of the Sun!
Keeping that intention and sankalpa in my view, I inhaled deeply all the fresh air surrounding me along with the blessings bestowed as I prayed and wished quietly in my heart that all the readers who happen to read this post must also get the special mental force bestowed on me. Instantly reading my mind, at this point the holy tree said, “On your next post due on 20th Aug, put a picture of a red hibiscus flower, the red hibiscus which is blooming on that bush next to me. Pluck not the one that your eyes see easily but the one that is just below it and the one which is hardly visible to anyone. That one is sacred and has tremendous energy, it will give you and your blog subtle pranic energy.
Genuine saints never exhibit their real divine powers; they keep their siddhis or extraordinary divine powers a secret because they do not like to flaunt them, just like this red beautiful flower. I revealed to you its hidden subtle powers of subtle energies. But people are ignorant and foolish, just because the good souls are extremely humble and refuse to flaunt their divine powers, they are not respected.
Whatever comes from God is sacred; whatever is sacred should be revered. If you show no respect to your teacher or Guru, you will make errors after errors and consequently you will not get bliss and real joy from God. So tell all the readers to read each word with reverence and instill full faith and devotion in the givers.
This blog has unrestricted yet incomprehensible divine, supreme knowledge bestowed by the compassionate Grace of Shri Mahavatar Babaji. It is timeless and priceless; realize its value and worth. Don’t squander your valuable time in unproductive actions and activities. Contemplate on every word that is being said here, value the time and energy being spent on creating this blog and respect all those who have made it possible. By showing reverence and devotion to those, you shall appreciate and comprehend the hidden knowledge preserved in it, secreted yet disclosed in these words. The Mahatmas are ever waiting for you to change your behavior and wrong actions and have compassion for you yet the human takes infinite time to turn his mischievous mind towards divine qualities. Therefore, do not hesitate to peep inside your inner being and throw out all the trash and negative thoughts and habits like anger, ego, envy, pride, lack of humility and gratitude.”
As if this was not enough, the kind Banyan Tree unfolded yet another secreted piece of scientific knowledge of Yogic world. He revealed to me, “And for those who are real devotees and are seriously practicing meditation I want them to know this- the more prana or vital force you have, the more you will be able to meditate. The higher realms of spiritual kingdom can be accessed with the blessing of the divine guru and high level of fine energy called sukhshma prana.
The more Iccha shakti you have, the more prana your body will contain effortlessly. If you have a strong will or Iccha shakti, the more prana you shall have from prakriti or nature because of which you will be able to meditate more deeply. We can draw in prana mentally from nature in meditation for this purpose. If you meditate on a healthy or holy tree situated anywhere, you can draw huge ‘prana’ while sitting at home when you focus your mind deeply on such a sanctified and revered tree; while staying at home, you shall be revived. Iccha shakti is vital to improve your power of meditation. Therefore improve and increase your power of will.”
Our lost rich heritage-III
30.11.11
That night first I saw a Banyan Tree which was copious in form and sturdy in its built. In a flash of a moment, it left the ground on which it was standing and stood firmly on my abdomen. In no time, I felt a lot of energy around me and I was completely revitalized as though I had a walk in a thick forest so full of fresh revitalizing air. Though I recognized the tree, I still wanted to clear my doubts and I questioned it. “Are you the same Banyan Tree that I saw at the entrance at Guruvannam?” It said yes to me and in an instance it began to acquaint me about the spirit world. It said, “I am guarding this place and am about 326 years old in age. Our ecosystem is in danger because we have no reverence for nature and we have disregard for the sanctity of our own planet. Everyone must contribute in physical form, be it physical activity or monetary help for the reason that we owe our life to Mother Earth. Therefore, appreciation and gratitude towards forests, birds, animals and all living beings must be maintained.
People think that just because trees, animals and birds are mute, they can be meted out with any bad attitude and behavior by humans. All trees, animals and birds have their own Spirit. When you cut down a tree, you are taking away a life. Nature is made to serve everybody and serve the utility purpose of humans. Even if you have to cut down a tree you must only do so when it is extremely essential and with prior permission of God as well as the Spirit of the tree itself. Trees also bless you. And they curse you if you loot the Earth mercilessly for greed and avarice. The poor quality of man on this Earth today is due to greed and avarice of majority of people. But there are some who are doing commendable job of restoring the Earth by bringing about harmony, stability and afforestation by restoring the ecosystem and biodiversity in nature.
The tree then began to speak to me with a clear message, “Degradation of the planet is because of greed of millions of people and restoration is by very few individuals. Those who have regards and faith in their spiritual masters will repay them through some service to the Earth by educating those who are dirtying the environment, by greening it, by reducing the carbon levels, increasing oxygen content and correspondingly reducing pollution levels. Reduce non biodegradable things in the atmosphere. Be a spiritual man and not a materialistic person. Finally, send out prayers and meditation vibrations for preserving our planet. If the planet survives, we continue to survive.”
Reincarnation-II
30.05.12
Poise returned. Meditation is therapeutic; it is my medicine, an answer book and my source of undiluted serenity and joyfulness. I rested in composer for a sustained time when out of that imposing peace sprang these divine words….
“About reincarnation or rebirth……People take lives after lives, births after births. They go on living each life without ever wanting to have a desire to accumulate wisdom, spiritual wisdom in true sense. Their mind likes to live in ignorance although it stagnates and eventually putrefies. Each life is a waste of breaths, millions of breaths. In every life the same ignorance is repeated. The layers of darkness, the opaqueness remains intact because of clutching to money, sex, power, material possessions and other Earthly objects. Greed creates new births each degrading than the previous ones. This cycle must stop if you wish to put an end to all the mental and physical sufferings and endless woes and troubles. They will end only if you have spiritual wisdom.
And how does spiritual wisdom come to us?
By constantly doing good deeds, high quality, and unselfish deeds. Deeds that give others happiness, that help people who are in real need. Deeds that will save or regenerate our planet and deeds that will spread goodness and peace around you.
By having devotion and trust towards God.
By serving the Gurus in unconditional manner.
God is very generous, kind and extremely compassionate. We are given life after life. Each life is a chance to reform, to realize, to awaken, to redeem our souls. Our each birth is to enliven the Spirit in us.
We reincarnate so that we gain spiritual wisdom one day, we unfold God’s presence and divinity in us. We reincarnate to sparkle, to dazzle our lives and live our lives with God given acumen, judgement and knowledge. If each human life is lived with God’s grace for the welfare of the humanity, to seek true love of God then reincarnation is a boon, a gift, and a reward from God. If you do so, you are God’s pride, God’s delight!
Reincarnation is useful for those who are pious, merciful, benevolent and free in Spirit. It is bane for those who love darkness, who do deplorable acts, who are naïve and think that actions performed will not be rewarded or punished. And that their actions which are based on arrogance, deceit, hypocrisy, false self-importance, greed, envy and restlessness will give them victory over others. Life is miserable for those who think that the more they possess the desirable objects, the happier they would be.
Reincarnation should be used to flower your soul, to blossom the Spirit, to strengthen the character and be successful in personal empowerment and spiritual growth in every life!
Life is beautiful, human life is precious. Each breath is priceless, each moment expensive. Pray to God to open your eyes, to flood your mind with His wisdom, to give you one lesson each day to know your Spirit and to teach you how to live in pure Love and Light in every incarnation that is bestowed on you as sheer Grace given by God, as mercy from the Almighty Father, the benefactor of Truth, Light and Love.”
Blessing as Self-Realization-I
30.08.13
I began to float lightly in the Cosmic Universe inundated in God’s peace besieged by quietude. I held on to this Supreme gift cravingly and felt even lighter than ever before.
Once the mind is free of all the earthly bindings after cleansing and baptising in the holy waters of ever pure Spirit, it can reach anywhere and it can connect easily to other Spirits straightaway with ease with God’s will, because in the ethereal space there is One Universal Mind and we are all connected.
After this, I promptly got connected to the voice of one forest’s Spirit in the European countries. The soul of that forest arrived unpredictably on its own just after the previous one departed and said, “I am the Soul of a forest in United Kingdom.” Sensing my bewilderment, it said, ”Yes, even forests have Spirits or Souls. This particular forest has a lot of peace. I am gifting you instantaneous healing from the physical discomfort that you are afflicted with at this moment as you have received the bad vibrations of some malicious people living around you. Your unselfish prayers for saving the people from natural calamity have earned you this gift of healing and my undecided sudden appearance.”
My mind raced and thought rapidly before I anticipated I would lose my most unexpected contact with the Spirit of this Forest. So I swiftly asked myself, “What unknown knowledge of the concealed Spirit can I, on the spur of the moment receive from a Soul of a Forest which is engrained with so much peace?” So far I had never communicated directly with the Spirit of a forest, I knew though that all forests, mountains and rivers have a Soul of its own. They all have a guardian as these Spirits. The Spirits are caretakers of the assigned areas for their growth, nurture and protection. Immaculately came the impeccable reply to my running thought, “All the trees in a forest have an individual soul of its own and they emit peaceful vibrations in this forest. All the trees collectively emit united tranquillity and peace. Each forest has its appointed deity or celestial entity which has a Spirit of its own. It is the responsibility of this forest Spirit to safeguard the longevity and protection of that forest. These Spirits bless or curse humans according to the good or bad actions performed by them correspondingly. The looters, poachers and corrupt people are cursed and are dealt with severely and punished in many ways in due course of time. While the gentle, caring, kind and humane people are congruently rewarded and blessed in so many benevolent ways now and in future lives also in the form of health, happiness and prosperity.
Civil and social unrest may be because of religious, political or cultural conflicting issues, devouring peace of some regions and places of the world. Out of so many ways, one way of establishing lingering peace in such zones is by growing and nurturing forests and trees in a big number. Every human- being must definitely at least once in his life grow many trees somehow. That person will attain instant peace of mind. By planting a large number of trees, a thick cover of peace will blanket this Earth and in moments of human strife, it will act as a buffer in that place. It will make a huge difference there. In case where unfortunately, communal riots and disharmony are struck, peace shall be resumed quicker than usual time because of the forests and trees transmitting quietness, coolness and serenity in the atmosphere. One unknown reason of losing peace from this Earth is felling and losing of colossal number of big, green trees very swiftly from it.”
Blessing as Self Realization-II
10.09.12
The blessing came as Self Realization during my meditation in Swami Shri Dayananda Shaligram’s temple there. He blessed me with a lot of peace as I sat there for quite some time with my still and restful body and mind. Once I absorbed that heavenly peace and felt so good, he set out to give me a long discourse as elucidation.
“There are hardly 25% people in this whole world who know that peace is very essential in our lives. The rest of 75% people are mean, rude, harsh, greedy and selfish. Out of these 25% people who make an effort to gain peace, merely 2% succeed. Peace should be sustainable. To achieve that sustainable peace of mind, there is first strife. After strife and storm comes peace. One has to strive hard to eliminate all the undeserving people, circumstances or events in one’s daily life to gain permanent peace of mind.
Lord Krishna made all possible efforts to bring about peace without a war between the Kauravas and Pandavas but did not succeed because of arrogant and selfish attitude of Duryodhana who did not want peace but instead wanted to avenge his insult and craved to rule the kingdom singlehandedly without sharing the rights of the Pandavas. And so there was a war between the two parties. Arjuna and others had to go through the unbearable painful strife in order to gain peace in their lives. Mahabharat war was fought for bringing about peace in the land.
Only 2% people gain success in attaining long-lasting and sustainable peace in their lives and more so in the mind because the jigyasu yogi or the ardent persistent seeker will pierce through the three subtle bodies and eliminate them completely. They are sthool, sukshma, kaaran shareer. In translation it means that the striving seeker has to pierce and transcend the physical body, the mental body and emotional body correspondingly. Beyond these three bodies is the Sakshi Atma, the witness, the Self. With prolonged practice of meditation, the three bodies are annihilated one by one as the rays of Universal Energy and Spirit enter the last core region of a human being called the kaaran shareer. The more the rays of Light enter, the more peace one gets. This takes time but with profound spiritual knowledge gained by the persistent seeker, the last bits and traces of ignorance are burnt and the seeker attains long lasting peace. Such a high yogi gives prolific peace to others in the environment too. Strive hard. You too should bring that sustainable peace in your lives, bring peace in your heart, your mind and in other’s lives too.”
I get a new life, a new Light in Badrinath-II
30.10.12
Later on, Shri Babaji told me, for I loved flowers a lot he decided to attract my attention in this appealing, unusual and quaint manner. It was also an indication that he would give me some knowledge of occultism in future. The world that we live in should not be the limits of my spiritual education and knowledge, he believed.
He further said that the above cited narrative and extra sensory perception of the astral valley of flowers is a native of one of the upmost levels of the seventh skies, or the seventh stage of Consciousness. He asked me to cite this narrative as there is a definite purpose behind it. He wishes to illumine the people and impart them the following spiritual knowledge and wisdom- In his own words,
- “All the people are after some kind of happiness and that happiness is of the ephemeral, transitory and perishable world. The happiness that they are pursuing will never be found outside; it is to be found inside within oneself with meditation. One is perishable, impermanent worldly happiness of lower order attained by the derivation of the senses and this pursuance culminates in a glut and over supply of sorrow, misery and painful consequences. The humans can even fall in hell because of their compelling bad habits because they become a slave of their senses and finally the senses begin to rule their mind and body.
- Next are the people who wish to fulfil their yearnings of attaining money, power, status and some who live to bloat in their egos. Such people are bound to be suffering from depression, diseases and discontentment in future. There is no end and limit to find happiness outside; we will be squandering many human lives like this to no avail.
- Then a few come in this world and uncover everything, and out of them choose what is sacred, pure and revered. They lead a gentle, pious and restrained life.
Those persons, who with their firm, unyielding stiff efforts, try hard in each life, as a final point find long-lasting happiness and God’s bliss one day. This type of long-lasting and stable happiness, ever increasing, and ever widening happiness is beyond the senses. It is defined and termed as ‘ati indriya ananda’ –that which is beyond the senses. Such splendid happiness is experienced by the mind or manas. When the mind approaches God and is very near to it, then such an exotic state is derived by the seeker by the blessing of God and Guru both. Ati Indriya Ananda is achieved with Guru Kripa, Ishwara Kripa.
Everyday remove all your impurities, keep your mind away from contaminations. Concentrate your mind at one point, make it stable. Learn meditation and make your senses, mind and body stable and you will find success in your efforts with the grace of your Guru.
Atma’s nature is Satchitananda. When your chitt, inner core will become stable in the Light of the Truth Satyaprakash, you will attain ananda, enraptured bliss. Keep your mind calm, keep it pure; have patience. One day you will also experience the power of God.
Those persons attain Prabhutva Gyan or blazing knowledge never permit any negative thoughts to breed inside. No matter what happens, they never lose confidence in themselves. The path of God is a very long route; there will be many ups and downs. Like a brave soldier, obey the commands of your Guru, and become fearless and march ahead, you will one day reach your journey’s end.
To achieve blazing knowledge, keep your mind stable uninterruptedly. Be alert, the mind should not be unsteady and unbalanced. The storms blowing outside should not enter inside you. To achieve this, you will require tremendous mental energies. To generate abundant mental energies keep your body healthy, pure, disease-free and synchronized with your mind. The heart and the brain are the two most important organs of the human body. Keep the heartbeat rate steady and stable by regular meditations and physical exercises. Take enough sleep and eat saatvik or pure foods. Lead a life of being morally upright, unblemished and courageous.”
I get a new life, new light in Badrinath-III
10.11.12
The Banyan tree was situated inside a spacious cave cut out of a mountain piece. Its strong and thick roots were holding to the ground tightly and were distributed in all ways. In front of the tree trunk amidst the drizzle of golden rays, was a seat which had a grey woollen blanket. On the blanket someone was seated. My eyes were keen to know who it was. It was a yogi. I watched this yogi in a mesmerizing spell and awe. I was captivated by his presence and aura. First I saw just the right half of the yogi in meditation whose hair was unusually long and was dropping down freely much below his seat like the hanging roots of the Banyan tree behind him.
Slowly, I saw the full face; it had a radiant golden glow. The body was also brilliant as rays of golden yellow light were coming out of him. He wore an ochre cloth over his body and was meditating with a still body. Now I could see the whole figure and recognized the identity without any doubt or scepticism. I saw myself bending towards him in gratitude and reverence and I had no sense of time or space while I sat there wonderstruck. The vision was now complete. I was in a big cave in a mountain where there was an old Banyan tree. There was a lot of divinity present there and the rays of Golden Light from God, of peace and knowledge were coming towards the cave. I sat there on the ground at his feet with poise, peace and patience. We both sat there in the cave under a big Banyan tree amidst the atmosphere of golden light. Much time lapsed and I was having a glorious time during those wonderful moments.
The yogi began to give me a sermon-
“God is an eternal force. That force is in you, recognize it. This Universe is his creation made of illusion, maya. Separate the maya from Ishwar God. God is infinite and so is his creation endless. The supreme knowledge with which one knows God is also eternal shashwat. Attain that. Separate the perishable body with the eternal Brahma. You are Brahma. You are Eternal. Thou art That.”
Who are you?-I
30.11.12
Part A
He asks us a few questions which we must listen carefully and address them with attention, “Who are you? What for have you come in this world? What are your goals? What do you want to become? How will you achieve those goals? Who is your guidance?
This life is not for amassing and accumulating tons of gold and other wealth. This life is not for fulfilling your earthly desires. This life is not for fulfilling your pride and satisfying small, irrelevant goals. This life is not given to us for settling scores of many past lives either. Neither is this life meant for pursing conflicts and battles and waging wars on others. We just have to sit calmly in our homes with lot of fresh air and open sky and abundant light to realise that we have come on this Earth with a much, much bigger purpose and meaningful missions. We have come here to know ourselves. We should be able to go deep down inside with the help of regular satsangas, holy company and holy talk and meditation. Contemplation is the outcome of meditation. Wisdom comes with contemplation and practise of yoga of meditation.”
Babaji whispered further, “Then begin your post with that first……Tell them that you are not a seeker anymore. You are a teacher here. In your spare time, you always tell me about all my disciples and the events on the blog. Not once have you felt that the achievements and success of your blog are yours. Your sense of surrender is very acute. You have been discussing the improvement, progress or regression of all the devotees and seekers who have come to you. You pray for them and ask for their deliverance. You have been taking all approvals from me and have acted upon only those ideas and programs which I have favored because you rely wholly on my judicious actions and advice. I have given you telepathic powers so that the communication channel is firm and unbroken with God and me. Your deep sense of discipline, commitment and faith is what I expect from all the other aspiring devotees. If they too will keep their Master on top of everything, they too will surge ahead without any delay in their rapid spiritual development. If they can match the sterling quality of obedience which you possess, they will attain victory, glory and uncontainable joy in times to come.”
Part B
Swami Nityananda threw a question at me so unexpectedly,
“What is the reason that it takes us so long to know our divinity and to unfold it, although it is already present since our inception?”
Translation, original words follow:
“Your weaknesses, flaws, fragilities are the cause of your downfall. Flaws are deeds. Every deed has its consequences. The weight of the consequences has to be carried, and to do that time is needed. New births have to be taken in accordance to those deeds and in those new births, which is a capturing snare, the jeeva or individual soul falls into it.
The knowledge of Self releases us from our darkness. Darkness means vanishing of awareness, doing wrong actions and falling on the wrong path. Whenever we do actions of deceit, betrayal or selfishness, we are forbidden gradually from attaining the knowledge of our Spirit or Atma. This is because we have to bear the consequence of our own wrong actions and we bear them on our body and mind.
Those people, who in the name and guise of religion, dharma are not telling the whole Truth to others, will find their knowledge waning slowly.
And those people who are enjoying good time in the name of religion or God is only because of some good deeds of earlier life. However, because of their wrong deeds of today, the previous lives’ good deeds will be washed away soon. And that’s why I too call Shri Mahavatar Babaji a Banyan Tree and the rest of today’s new age, modern Gurus are like changing weathers, withering seasonal flowers.
We should once and for all attain that knowledge which will annihilate all our destruction so that we are able to understand a new world, a new life. Those who walk on the Right Path, God will sustain them and their path, and God will give all blessings and give full knowledge.
We must first attain wisdom, knowledge which is so difficult to attain, many lives are required to attain that knowledge. Just like with great efforts we make rose water with roses, so is the hard process of attaining the greatest wisdom.
Once we achieve the highest wisdom and knowledge, we must remain in that state and not err. We must live in that state for a few years after which we will stabilize in it and never come down.”
In his own words:
“Vikar girata hai. Vikar karam hota, karam ka phal hota hai. Karam phal bhogna padta hai, bhogne ke liye hame samay chahiye hota hai kyunki vaisa janam lena padega aur naye janam mei phir ek chakra chal padta hai.
Atma ka gyan humko hamare andhkar se chudata hai. Andhakar matlab chetna ka lupt hona, galat kaam karna and galat raah par padna. Jab jab hum dhokha, jhooth, daga karte hai, swaarth ke karma karte hai, tab tab hum apne aapko Atma gyan se dheere dheere nishkasit kar dete hai kyunki jo humne vikar, galat kaam kiye hai uska phal hume bhogna padta hai aur use hum shareer aur mana se bhogte hai.
Jo log dharam ke naam par, uski dhal par logon ko pura sach nahi batate, unka gyan dheere dheere lupt ho jata hai.
Aur jo woh ab khushi, aish paa rahe hai woh pichle janam ke achche karam hai, so mila hai. Lekin aajke galat kaam unki sari kamai ko saaf kardenge. Is liye maine Babaji ko Bargad ka Ped kaha aur aaj ke baki sadhuoko, guruo ko, dharmik guruo ko passing show, aati jaati bahar kaha hai. Woh ek mausam ke phool hai.
Hume ek baar gyan aisa lena chahiye jo hamesha ke liye sari tabahi khatam kar de, nayi duniya, naya jeevan ko samjhane ke liye. Jo nek raha par chalega, uske raaste ko, aur usko bhagwan banaye rakhega, usko bhagwan poora gyan dega, khoob ashish dega.
Pehle vivek, gyan prapta karna hai jo ke bahut kathin hai, isme bahut janam lagte hai. Jaise desi gulab mei se bahut mehnat se Gulab ka jal banta hai, aise hi kadi mehnat se gyan prarpt hota hai.
Gyan milene ke baad usmei bahut kaal tak rahena hai, koi galti nahi karni hai. Kuch saal usi avastha mei rahena hai, uske baad hum sthir ho jayenge aur kabhi bhi neeche nahi ayenge……..”
Om Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari; Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari; Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari…….
So much is the information coming from the Heavenly Father and our dearest Shri Mahavatar Babaji regarding those celestial communications that this post is being delivered at the nick of time and is spontaneous in nature. Those seekers who are interested and concerned about their future progress will definitely find this post very illuminating after reading it with devotion and veneration.
I learnt with the compassion of God and benevolent and pure love of Shri Mahavatar Babaji through many living examples that it takes anybody a very long time to manifest the inherent Soul inside us predominantly for these reasons-
One has to struggle hard with one’s destiny-
Irrespective of whatever kind of destiny we have, the aspiring sadhak or seeker must at every critical turning point of his life be braver and mightier than those challenging prevailing life situations. Winning those challenges and trials and not bowing down to them by merely keeping the sacred Guru and merciful God shall assist you in this tough attempt. Just a few succeed. The reason is the mind should have a very strong will power to overcome all kinds of precarious life situations like sickness, misfortune, lack of sight and blurredness, resentment, lack of support and apathetic relations to name just a few. The trials could be of any type depending on the karmic pattern of the individual.
Lack of persistence real hard persistence pays. Determination, if added to persistence will help you tremendously if you wish to know your Soul and relieve yourself from the complicated trap of action and reaction and the suffering that comes along with it as we do not know what should be done and should be avoided best.
Lack of undying patience Some problems of life are simple; while many are complex and some other very complex in nature. Those who have patience will persist till their impact wanes.
Gratitude towards God and the Divine Gurus is limited
The concealed characteristic of many individuals to put themselves before others pops up at wrong times as this is basic human nature. But those striving yogis who till the end point put Guru and God before their own selves skip so many of the so called ‘landslides and rockfalls’ of their precarious fates and recover from them quickly as they save them by showering their Grace from time to time. The self-centered person suffers from delusion, the delusion of ‘I’ness while the self-sacrificing and loving yogi marches ahead and is victorious in the end as he is able to win one by one all the difficult and tricky life situations.
To manifest our soul, to recover from the hardships and miseries of the impelling tricky destiny, the following procedure needs to be followed in the increasing order and the Yoga or Union with God attained.
Nadi shuddhi The purification of the energy and nerve channels.
They are spread profusely in the body and can be cleaned and energized by Yogasana and other simple ancient and Oriental mild physical exercises.
Shwas shuddhi The purification of the breath. It is achieved by doing one of the various types of breathing techniques call Pranayam. Even watching the breath is one easy technique for the beginners.
Karma shuddhi Improving the quality of our actions from woeful to gleaming ones. Being ever vigilant and cautious at every moment on each day and watching our actions and forcing them to be always clean, good, selfless and pious. This is of extreme importance for any seeker because any wrong deed can push anybody from a great height in a ditch. Merely doing Yogasana or Pranayam will not suffice. Utmost care and vigilance should be paid by the sadhak in improving the quality of actions in body and mind both.
Mana Shuddhi Purifying the muddy mind by daily meditation, chanting and watchful awareness. It is only after this final stage is arrived that the seeker can attain ‘Atma sakshatkar’ or God realization.
Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-III
20.05.13
Why does it take us so very long to discover our soul?
Lord Shiva expounded to me, “Moksha is mandatory because ignorance is the cause of all human sufferings. The true meaning of Moksha is living the life on the will of God and eradicating ignorance by receiving spiritual wisdom and removing the sufferings of all past karmas today. The past amassed karmas act as a huge hurdle. The good ones are easy and simple to live by but the sins are very difficult to overcome sometimes. But if you follow what I have said, you can achieve that.
When the sanchit or accumulated karmas are exterminated slowly, new virtuous karmas will be created which will be beneficial to you and the society at large. We will not suffer mentally and physically if this goal is achieved. Instead the results of unselfish and virtuous actions done consciously will result in love, peace, happiness, health and longevity. They will also produce the Joy of Spirit and highest ecstasy. The world does not know about this and does not also believe in this theory. So do not preach anyone; they will learn when they observe your good, righteous and pious living. But this takes a long time because the human being learns from his own mistakes and not otherwise.
How to tackle the impact of the difficult accumulated karmas?
It can be achieved by maintaining your peace of mind. All of you worship Lord Vishnu and Lord Buddha in the reclining position without ever finding out the exact denotation of this symbol. Lord Vishnu is shown with either a pink or a blue Lotus in his navel in this special position. Pink is for love and blue represents tranquility.
Profound peace can be attained if you balance all your chakras at the navel, the Kundalini spot. Bring your mind’s attention at it and inhale deeply. You will be supplied extra oxygen in this place which will in turn make your mind absolutely stable. This is one of the many Kriyas to bring a disturbed or an agitated mind at rest and fetch harmony and stability in times of intense crisis. Practice it until your peace of mind is never lost frantically.
Express peace and peace everywhere. With peace of mind, you can achieve the impossible by being grounded and stable. Rest your mind when troubled like reclining Lord Vishnu until peace returns and live your life by the will of God every day. God is the savior, the provider and the biggest healer.”
How to know the Truth?-I
10.07.13
I saluted to Lord Shiva and started praising him by chanting his several names-“Hey Adi Guru, Hey Sada Shiv, Hey Shiv Shankar, Hey Gauri Shankar, Hey Bhole Nath. Bless me, bless all your children. As you have come to me in this auspicious time, I ask you. Tell me what should I convey to the world, the people? I have experienced profound calmness amidst howling tempests since three days. I see an image of a closed door in front of me which must be undone. It is preventing me to upsurge. I cannot stretch myself and reach you as I see something holding me back. I see many people’s faces, voices and their power of thoughts binding me. They are remembering me, thinking of me and I am unable to fathom what one should do in such a situation. They are seeking me, urging and asking me and wish to know how they should progress. How do they make further spiritual progress? Oh my Lord, open this door. I want to approach you, I strive for you. I am not able to hold out or withstand the reflections surrounding me of these people who in their hearts and minds are depending on me for personal guidance, spiritual growth and love and care. In today’s meditation I cannot get into the transcendental state because the silent voices of your children stand in my way and complete immersion of my mind is not possible. I pray, kindly give us sermons, give us Light, and tell us how to reach you and how to know the Truth that you hold and hide in you? You are a Soul, a Spirit. From you I aspire to know the soul of the Truth, my sweet Lord.”
In between, I contemplated and whispered to myself, “The Truth has always been there, it always existed. This Earth and the humans are new in comparison to the existence of the Truth. As it has always existed, there should be a means, a path, and a procedure to know this Truth. Some wise men have known this Truth earlier than us in distant past, so how to know this Truth?”
During such intense deliberations, the door that was once closed opened by itself and I could now perceive and grasp as I had arrived at the seventh sky or the seventh level of Divine Consciousness. A very gentle voice, the voice of Lord Shiva started to commune with me and counselled lovingly, “Let me tell you what never has been told before. Your Consciousness is pure. You have done no wrong. Those who love you are seeking you. They look up to you for self-reliance, further guidance and a path to follow. At this time, you have their energies accumulated in your heart chakra, your pranic vital force has been drained. Apply more spiritual powers. Do as I say to you now. Inhale deeply. Exhale deeply. The divine energy is clearing the contents of their thoughts from your physical body with my command. When the thoughts are inside our body, they have chemical energy. When they are emitted, they become electrical energy. Use the power of your will now to disintegrate people’s thoughts in your heart so that they diffuse and break down. Use my energy in your breath and bring it inside your brain. Slight mental exhaustion has ensued and sufficient supply of fresh air will recharge your body and brain. Fresh oxygen drawn in with your will power will throw out the carbon dioxide.”
I was gratified and became absolutely comfortable as all sorts of mental, physical or emotional weariness wiped out in an instant with Grace. I wished this state could be prolonged as long as possible and that I should derive maximum in such auspicious duration of stints with God. In intense quietude and calmness of body and mind, Lord Shiva reappeared and continued with his sermon. “There are thirteen people who have fixed their minds on you strongly these days. They are seeking guidance, love and rehabilitation guidance because of which the gush in your mental powers has diminished.”
I said respectfully, “But I already feel so re-energized with your kindness. I can resume my work and would very happily spread your sacred words of liberating wisdom. Please tell me what we should do and know next. I desire that you give us a sermon today. What should become the content in my next post?”
With God’s very great blessings in the holy hour today morning have originated these sanctified words of Lord Shiva which I highlight as sermon. Remember them, treasure them deep in your heart and obey these commandments as the holy words of God. They will reintegrate and consolidate your future spiritual lives to new heights. Such is my belief!
Part B
Sermon “To know the Truth, one should have earned a colossal amount of auspicious and virtuous acts. If somebody makes many mistakes, then the results of those mistakes as well as their misdeeds show up in old age when the human suffers and grieves. Promising and virtuous acts create and amass a power of their own which propels and pushes you forward. This is what is known as the power of action or Kriya Shakti. Just listening to discourses and sermons will not be sufficient; you must also generate new, virtuous actions for producing the force to make you surge forward. Do very good, pious, noble and charitable deeds unremittingly. It is our fault if we overlook the disadvantaged, rundown, dispossessed and the meek people. Help the impoverished, poor and needy; those who are in distress, those who are weak in body and mind and also those who are deprived. Reach out and give them whatever you can in your might and capacity.
Good deeds will get you peace of mind. It will bring about stability, a sense of equilibrium. In peace you will find happiness. When you find deep calmness and peace of mind within you, you shall know the Truth.
Om Namah Shivaya is a beej mantra, it is very powerful and has intense power of purification, redemption and doing penance. It should be chanted as many times as is possible to clear the ruggedness of past karmas which act as hurdles on your path.
Now wrap up this segment with two continuing posts on the same topic; How to know the Truth?- part II and III. After this, the last post should be on compilation of meditation techniques, subsequently you should take some rest from thinking and writing to refresh yourself.
The disciples should have a method in reading this segment E- New Life New Light. When you discontinue publishing new posts, they should not discontinue with their studies. They should adopt this method of learning and integrating the sacred knowledge and science of Moksha as shown in this section. Read the last 4 articles. Absorb them. Go to the first few articles and read and assimilate them. Switch to the later posts again and in this way go back and forth till you have read all the posts and feel that the entire content is wholly assimilated in your mind. Ask questions or report when you are satisfied with what has been told to you. Reinforce your new education and make sure that it is applied in your daily life.
The Truth is extremely difficult to find. Harder still it is to realize this Truth. Make severe attempts to cleanse, purify and reorganize your present life in order to integrate the precepts of Truth in your daily life. Until then practice daily any meditation technique to your penchant and worship God by doing virtuous deeds every day with devotion.”
How to know the Truth?-II
20.07.13
Yesterday evening, I sat in twilight meditation and mentally read a mail that a devotee of Shri Babaji requested me to read out. She wanted me to pass on her message to our Holy Master so that we all purify our actions, thoughts and every cell of our being and to bless us all, which I did. I also did my chanting to bring some peace to a relative of mine who is no more and who pleaded me to relieve her of her grief and repentance in the next world. I too became sad and relived some incidents from our lives which brought unnecessary sadness and dejection. The repentance on her part was for the reason that she did not love me when she was alive. When I sent her healing holy vibrations of Lord Shiva’s ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ mantra, I felt lighter and better and she felt the same. I prayed to God explicitly to forgive her so that her miseries could diminish and wane and she could rest in peace. Spontaneously, the following words were articulated in silence by me,
“Shiva, Shiva, kaalharta, muktidaata
Prabhu sabko shanti do, shanti do”
Just after this, my mind got connected and became in tune with Lord Shiva, who very kindly once more appeared at my invocation to my utmost surprise and whispered gently, “Shiv ka avahan karo, Shiv stuti karo. Adhunik technology se dard zyada mila hai, mana mei ashanti adhik hui hai. Mansik takat ghati hai aur mana mei pareshaani, uljhan adhik hai. Pahele manushya ka mana swabhik hi shaant raheta tha. Aaj ka manushya dukhi adhik hai. Uski vedna adhik hai, woh apne padosi se bhi alag thalag ho gaya hai, woh swarthi ban gaya hai, usmei prem nahi hai.Usne rafter to bahut tez banali hai parantu uska mana shaant nahi hai.
Mukti mei jab sanchit karamo ki gathari ka antim karam naash ho kar vayumandal mei vyapt hota hai, to mana mei bahut gahara dukh hota hai kyunki woh karam atyadhik kashtdayi hota hai . Eeshwar atyadhik dayalu hai, woh sanchit karam mei akhri mei woh hi karam rakhta hai jismei manushya ko pahele atyadhik dukh mila ho. Woh isliye aise karta hai kyunki unse hamara dukh dekha nahi jata, woh atyadhik dayalu hai.
Aap sab mujhe pyare ho lekin tez rafter se jo bhi prani mujhe prapt karne ki prabal ichcha mana mei rakhta hai, woh mujhe sarvadhik priya hai. Tez rafter se veh hi mujhe prapt kar payenge jo apne aapko nirmal bana lete hai. Nirmal banna asaan nahi hota hai kyonki mana mei prem nahi hota. Kewal uske mana mei nirmal prem ubharta hai jo niswartha hai.
Eeshwar prem hai. Eeshwar prem se bana hai, usmei prem otprot hai. Jitna manushya eeshwarya, maanviya prem se apne hridaya ko bhar leta hai, Eeshwar usmei utna hi prakat hota hai, woh aisa swayam karta hai. Eeshwar vahin prakat hota hai jo mana paavan ho kyunki woh swayam paavan hai.
Logon ke mana mei prem kyon nahi paida hota?Kyonki woh swarthi hote hai.Unka apna laalach, apni khushi hoti hai. Aur jo sabko prem karta hai usey sampoorna shaanti prapt ho jati hai.
Eeshwar prem hai, niswartha prem. Eeshwar ka prem nishkaami hota hai, beshart hota hai, badle mei kuch nahi manga ja sakta.”
Translation
“Invoke Shiva, sing and praise Lord Shiva. New technology has given man more miseries and agitation. Mental strength has diminished and the mind is more edgy than before. Earlier, the man was naturally calm. Today’s man is more miserable than the earlier one. His agony is more, he is not even friendly to his neighbours. There is no love in his heart. Though he has gained speed, his mind is not calm.
During the last moments of liberation, when the last action or karma is being relinquished and gets disintegrated in the atmosphere, at that time the human being is in great distress because that last specific karma is very painful. God is very merciful. In the vast baggage of accumulated karmas, he keeps the very sad ones at the last level. He does this because he is very kind and compassionate and cannot see our miseries and woes.
I love all of you but those devotees who try to attain me very rapidly with a great urge, he/she is my most favourite. Only those will be able to attain me swiftly who make themselves pure in mind. It is not easy to become pure because love is missing; there is deficiency of love in one’s heart. Only that heart becomes pure who is unselfish.
God is love. God is made of love, God is saturated with love. The more and more Godly and human love will be filled in the devotee’s heart, God will manifest itself in the same proportion; and this God does on his own. God manifests only there where the heart is pure because God is Himself pure.
Why does love not flow in people? This is because they are greedy and selfish. They live for their own happiness. But those who love everybody, that devotee achieves grave peace and tranquillity.
God is love, unselfish love. God’s love is unconditional and without any contract. It is not to be negotiated!”
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Mirage
20.10.10
It was with certitude I realized that it was Divine Light entering inside me and I welcomed it with all my heart and soul. The beam was retained there for a while. I rejoiced while I welcomed it. From the place of the third eye, the rays of Light entered my spine and moved round and round the vortexes till it charged all the energy centres very swiftly. Along with its current was robbed all the physical weariness of the daily grind and I could see the burnt dark energy particles dissolving and disintegrating out of me. In no time I felt lighter and renewed.
Unprecedented profound peace began to circumambulate around me and I took a holy bath in it!! I immediately prostrated with veneration in my heart to this divine Light and uttered this holy word with devotion, “ Ishawara”.
By now I was truly ecstatic at this stage. Moreover this experience left me very humbled to the core because God was so very kind to me that day with his Grace by revealing thyself to me. My inner being was completely soaked in gratitude and thanksgiving towards the Almighty for this pious moment.
After this, a soft murmur originated within me ,“ You did not understand the dream. Let me explain it to you.” The message was loud and clear so I became very attentive and serious at this point ready for the message to come to me.
The dream was quickly replayed in parts in front of my eyes and this word was spoken, “Mirage”. After this I saw an image of two things- a pen and my black spiral register.
I comprehended that the following explanation has something to do with mirage or illusion and I must write the next post on mirage.
The Voice continued, “This place called the sansara is a mirage, mrig trishna. We come in this world and get attracted to its glitter and charm and fall prey to its trap because of illusion or trishna and in return we get birth after birth and death after death. We must live in this world but involve ourselves only in limited ways and measures. If we indulge ourselves completely, we will drown in it.
During our short tenure here, there are many turning points in our life where because of lack of spiritual and divine knowledge, we take a wrong decision and a wrong turn. The wrong turn stops and fails us from reaching our abode, the Abode of our Divine Father, the Lord.
If we are fortunate, then the Voice of the Divine in our Spiritual Master directs and helps us to take the right turn and the right path to our inner abode where God resides.”
Expand your Consciousness-III
20.02.11
It was a very pleasant morning and as soon as I woke up, I was eagerly desirous to meditate so that I could once again lose myself and be one in the ocean of God’s endless flow of grace. The last few weeks have been full of rapid learning and like a child going to school and enthusiastically waiting for the teacher to arrive in the class, I sat to meditate on that day to have one peek, to sneak a quick look of the infinite which is so, so irresistible and endearing . Therefore at the beginning of meditation, I requested God and pleaded-“God I want to know more about you, I want to come closer to you, bring me closer to you, more closer to you my Lord.”
Hearing my plea, God responded without delay when the effulgent Light cascaded on me and covered me completely. I basked in the morning sunshine as well as divine Light simultaneously in my room and rejoiced till the most inner core of my being. Such glorious moments of intense joy and ananda, such blissful moments, so much Light! Who would ever wish to come out of such embalming divine showers?!
God’s answer in words also trickled in very quietly, “I accept your sweet request and wish to give you more knowledge, very intense knowledge prachand gyan (Refer last portion of Expand your Consciousness-II)
“After Self realization there are three stages. First there is shanti- peace, after shanti, there is a stage of Divine sound-Om and after Om there is complete silence –shunya or void, a complete thoughtless state.”
Improving our Thought Power-II
10.04.11
After my prayers, I slipped into a short spell of comforting peace and savored every moment that followed. I began to speak to God, “God, you are very sweet, you are very loving, very endearing. The more I know you, the more I love you. I get more and more drawn to you as each day passes as if you are a giant magnet and I a piece of small iron. Your attraction power is irresistible, Lord. Please pull me more and more towards yourself so that I get to know you even more. Shower your Grace over me, my Lord, my humble request to you today. Please give your enchanting love and ecstasy” Speaking out my innermost feelings around that time put me in some other world where there was no gloom or distress……..
After mellifluous joy, arrived effulgent rays of Divine Light entering every pore of my existence thus giving me a shower of divine bath. So soothing, so very comforting… And I am beginning to think that should we not call this Atma santushti?
Peace followed and captivated me for the next few moments.
Next, a communiqué was established between me and God in the form of soliloquy.
A gush of Vedant knowledge was given to me without my even asking for it and I was submerged in its sweet ecstasy!!
S-“Who deserve enlightenment?”
G-“Those who suffer in this Maya, illusion and who after many incarnations take shelter in God. God directs them to their predestined Guru, who is a recipient of God’s incessant Grace.”
S-“Why does man reincarnate repeatedly?” (Read Why is Atman difficult to know?)
G-“ Because the thinking power of man is abysmal low and he does not improve the power of his thoughts.”
S- “Why does man not improve his thought power?”
G-“Because man’s existing thought power is already so low. Based on his present poor thought power, he creates new karmas which hurl him down further and hence in this way there is no way by which he can be raised. But God is concerned about us. God is always anxious and eager that somehow we must rise in Atman, in Spirit because God cannot see our suffering.”
S-“And how does God help us?”
G-“God helps us indirectly since we are not ready and prepared to connect and deal directly with Him. Those souls who are awake in Spirit, who are called our Spiritual teachers and Masters, God communicates through them. The Masters illustrate the divine path because they are always in unison with God.”( Also refer ‘The power of praying intensely’)
S-“How does the guru help us?”
G-“The thoughts or sanklap of the guru are in agreement and unity with God. They have unlimited force in them. Whenever someone with a clean heart, with a pure feeling sends out a prayer or appeal or a humble request to God, that prayer or request after touching God, first of all reaches the divine guru. The guru after God’s approval sends out divine thought vibrations which travel in the Universe. The thought waves in Cosmic Consciousness are acknowledged by us if we are prepared. So establish a strong bond with the divine guru with your mind and then establish yourself in Atman. Their powers will give you profound peace and you will become very strong in mind and deeds. After this happens, the seeker begins to think on Universal level and does good for the Universe. In this situation, God is too pleased with such souls.
Jan kalyan Vishwa kalyan, srishti kalyan, vriksha aaropan, Vishwa shanti ki prarthana se Bhagwan bahut prassan hota hai.
With prayers sent out for the world’s welfare, planet’s wellbeing, for peace and happiness for all, acts of doing afforestation, God is extremely delighted. Without even asking for anything in return by us, God gives us everything in abundance, all our desires are nourished and we begin to touch new heights in spiritual growth and improvement.”
Why is peace of mind so hard to achieve?
10.07.11
My heart welled up with emotions when I closed my eyes and remembered the Lord residing within me as I did mental chanting of His holy name-
Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar; Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar ; Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar ……. (synonyms of God)
No sooner did I repeat His name that I saw a drop of gleaming Light emerging from the higher space and then hitting me at the place between my eyebrows.
The Light was fairly square in shape and sparkling rays were emerging out of this drop of Light in outer direction as my eyes could see them distinctly. I promptly absorbed all the rays as I now understand every shred, every speck, every miniscule part of it is so forceful and is a gift from God and should be humbly accepted as a ‘prasad.’
I was sliding into absolute tranquility when God’s benevolent words began to trickle in like little drops of golden light over me…
“Why is peace so difficult for man to achieve?” In a continuous flow of words, quickly came in the answer too.
“Because he has never tried to find it, since man is ignorant about it.
And why is he ignorant?
Because he does not know that there exists something so benign, so propitious, so auspicious as peace. And that peace should be attained at all costs the way we know that material prosperity, success and fame should be sought after. We do not know peace because we have long forgotten it. We do not yet know where to look for that peace.
And how to attain that peace?
By purifying yourself of all the inner impurities, being grateful to God and others, being unselfish in all your goals and doing charitable and kind acts. Learn to meditate to calm the disturbed and troubled mind”
Regarding me He said, “You have all your life searched for love and peace and have gone for it fearlessly, so you are an appropriate person to tell others about it. Those who seek it, one day find it if they are centered and one pointed in their goal. Man has created a putrefied mind in today’s world and he is leading an inharmonious, immoral and senseless life. Ask them to alter their present life. Who can help you if you help yourself not! To get a few moment’s pleasures, they are ready to sacrifice their whole day, all energy and their age. Isn’t it ironical that even after dedicating all the years and all their physical and mental energies, one is not at peace with oneself? There is not a moment’s peace in them.
Why is it so?
Because these days people don’t look within, their sight is reaching outwards. The more you seek inside, the more peaceful you shall become. Dive deep inside, stop the turbulence, stop the constant bickering of your mind.
Go further inside and your mind will come to a complete rest. Progressively, once the mind is quiet, you will find peace, absolute peace. The shadows of restless thoughts, the churning of worldly desires must end as peace awaits you. Go for it, run after everlasting peace of mind. Live for lasting peace and yearn for spreading peace wherever you go. You are the children of God. God is love, God is peace. You are love. You are peace. Live in peace now and forever.”
Silence of the soul-III
01.01.12
God is all pervading and omnipresent and He knows every little thing that we see, do or experience. God began by educating me with this knowledge, “Leaving just a few, this whole sansara is full of people who have not controlled their mind. Their mind compels them to make so many horrible errors after errors because of which they fall one after the other in degraded births and there is no way for them to rise up. Their bad karmas bring about bad results and in turn they fall in lower quality of lives and consequently a bad mind compels them to do more bad karmas thus bringing upon them more error, misery, grief and suffering. The never ending cycle goes on.
It all starts with the mind which has the power to drop you from a height to one’s abysmal low. You used to think that meditation is for controlling the mind because the weak and copious thoughts used to bother you. But you did not know that all the men in the world except for a few are all governed by the agitated, insatiable and dirty nature of mind which drops the soul of the individual in hell and such souls cause so much negativity and nonconstructive on the earth. Therefore, the saints and the spiritual Gurus lay so much stress on controlling the mind because there is so much suffering for the soul to go through all this because of so much darkness in them -life after life after life.
And once someone understands that purity of thought and mind is the key to a wholesome, peaceful and balanced life, that individual will practice meditation and will stay away from bad people as much as possible. The interaction with the worldly people cannot be avoided completely but retaining your sanctity, stability and purity of soul is utmost important. Therefore, stay in silence; recover from the impurities of the thoughts of others with the name of God who is the best healer and make your life more divine and peaceful by always remembering God in spite of the extra burden placed on you. It is possible to balance the purity of the Spirit and the contrasting dirt and muddiness that exists outside you by constantly remaining with God and Gurus. Rest a while to recover and get back to your normal spiritual life. Never forget that you are a child of God and those of you who wish to be sheltered and protected in the arms of God must always listen to the counsel and warnings of the Guru. Those people who get lost and drift in this world never realize that they are going on erring and their ignorance about the presence of divinity within themselves is causing so much pain and misery to them.
However, those souls who have worked on themselves since many births and incarnations one day arrive at a point where they are face to face with their pure, unblemished Spirit and they are constantly protected and cleansed by their divine Gurus so that their sanctity is maintained and they in turn rise up further in spite of either karmic load and/or their spiritual aspirations. Such a stage is arrived when the disciple has innumerable good karmas to his/her credit and the good karmas give power and bounce to his/her abundant spiritual growth and evolution. It becomes imperative for the advanced yogi and aspirant to become aware of his duty to keep himself pure and uncontaminated all the time as the Spirit does not favour or oblige any murkiness clouded over it at any time.
In fact, a stage comes when the disciple reaches the pinnacle of spiritual progress and it becomes the will of God to keep the aspirant clean and spotless by saving him/her every time abundant unclean energy engulfs him/her. The disciple should also listen to the voice of God for smallest of directive that may come directly from within or from the Sadguru who is constantly guarding his much loved disciple.”
The soul speaks to you!-II
20.01.12
Part A
The dazzling Light entered my upper brain with its sensations tingling up there and along with this there occurred expansion and relaxation in my brain. With so much Light entering my nervous system as you would expect, I felt extremely comfortable and relieved of all day’s weariness. At this point in time, Shri Shri Mahavatar Babaji spoke to me mentally with kindness, “This is not enough. Wait. Let more Light circulate in the rest of the brain so that it can accommodate more new knowledge. You will not need any sleep tonight because one great positive thought has more power to rejuvenate your mind and body than a few hours sleep at night. The power in sankalapa (thought) is immense. If you increase the power of your sankalapa by very positive and potent thoughts then your requirement of sleep will decrease. So increase the power of your thoughts, make powerful sankalapas.”
In such moments out of nowhere my soul began to speak to me, “According to Hindu calendar, today is your birthday. Ask for any boon from me, I shall grant it!” I felt a flux of light at my heart centre.
Without any time spent here and there I prayed to my Soul, “My beloved God, my sweetest Lord, give me more insight in yet deeper meditations. May I always, always worship you; may I always do your bhakti, may I always serve you. That is all I want. The rest of my requirements and cares you shall take care of obviously and I am certain about it.”
After saying this, I was mentally transported again to my infancy stage when I remembered that I had prayed to God in my mother’s lap as a baby. “May I never again sleep in the lap of ignorance”, I had pleaded to my Soul and I also recalled the power of praying intensely on our birthday and how I had once prayed and pleaded very intensely to God long time ago before I was even born to unshackle all my karmic bonds in this life itself.
The soul in me threw open the closed gates of yet another higher door of cryptic knowledge by unfolding this enigmatic awareness by explaining me, “ Although we have light of God in our soul but sometimes our soul is very close to God. This means that in some rare moments, there is excess divine light in us, even though it could be for a very short period of time. If we make an affirmation, a positive affirmation at that moment, it could prove to be monumental and it could be the turning point. It can change the future course of path for anyone. To rise in Spirit, one must make very powerful thoughts irrespective of external detrimental conditions. The power in thought is more powerful than the power of food and sleep put together. Therefore, do not think or grow anxious about not getting due rest or sleep but instead have powerful thoughts and increase the physical stamina and endurance by increasing the attention span on God and depend solely on the sankalpa, thought of God to energize you all the time. And what I have just told you is what you should be writing in your upcoming post once you return. The content of the post is crucial so make the draft now before leaving.”
Part B
With gentle rays of love and peace thrown at the upper skies by me, I sat in blissful peace on my bed and was lost in the unexplored and unknown regions of celestial areas. Just then I saw a beam of thick Light coming beyond the Earth and originating much beyond the Earth and touching me. I wished to know from where the beam of Light was originating. My inner vision saw that the beam was endless and was coming from infinity. I concluded that there is Light beyond the Cosmos that I know of but then where is the beam of Divine light originating from? Who is sending it to me? Why is it coming to me?
At this juncture, my soul began to speak to me, “This whole creation was created with the thought sankalpa of God. First came the thought, then the Cosmos. The thought of God has Light in it. That sankalpa of God is still present in this Universe. It is present even today and cannot be wiped out; it is so powerful. There can be catastrophes on the Earth, but this Universe cannot be wiped out because it is my will and sankalpa that it should be conserved and should continue to exist.
If you connect your thought with this thought of God, you shall be empowered. The Spirit in you is also light of God. Only a pure heart can know and understand all this.
In order to make some spiritual energy hubs on this planet, I had this first thought and it was me who first sent out this positive thought in a Mahatma, a holy Spirit so that these caves could be constructed more than two thousands of years ago. Through this Mahatma, the thought was transferred to some other people and the caves were made. These prayer halls or Chaityas as they were called, were meant to be places of worship, praying, chanting and holy activities. But later some destructing civilization vandalized it in order to gain supremacy. Wars are mainly fought for supremacy, proving a point because of one’s ego or just plain hate. From time to time, one civilization tries to gain supremacy over other civilization by force but the creation will never be destroyed because it is my will. The defacing and ruining that you have seen and has disturbed you is done by one civilization because of not gaining supremacy but out of hate.
Before the actual outward damage happened, there was something unnoticed that took place. The monks in the beginning were pious and were carrying on their duties well. Later on, after about eight hundred years or so, the civilization peaked and the monks in the Viharas and Chaityas became immodest and hungry for power thus spoiling the unseen atmosphere, the atmosphere of thoughts and sankalpa. The air became polluted and at this time, another civilization took over this place forcefully and damaged the work and toil put up by so many labourers and other people during the medieval times of Indian history. Whenever the negative thoughts over power the positive thoughts, there is bound to be regression and destruction. Therefore, have very positive thoughts and increase the intensity of positive thoughts in the atmosphere by meditating and positive affirmations. In today’s world also there is a silent war of thoughts going on between two countries and civilizations to gain supremacy. Those civilizations who try to be most powerful by negative means in some time face downfall because God will stop them and not allow excess negative, detrimental vibrations in this Universe. Those nations or people who resort to immoral and unethical means to overpower others shall be overthrown by their own wrong doings in due course of time.
Nevertheless, the bad air is again and again cleared and sanctified by the good deeds and thoughts of good people. There should be more good karmas than bad karmas from everybody to gain lasting peace and happiness and well being. Very sadly, most people are like empty cane baskets- light and hollow. They do not possess profound and spiritual thoughts. To make your life more blissful and joyful, one must learn to meditate on the thought of God and their thoughts should be one with God’s wish. Learn to prolong your mind’s attention on God and go deeper still inside and I shall reveal to you many hidden facts about God’s sinless, pure world. Only a pure mind and heart shall be blessed with such divine revelations!!”
The soul speaks to you!-III
30.01.12
Since morning I have harboured these realizations and when the Grace of God fell on me during 24th afternoon, the Soul- God in me broke the silence and spoke to me, “People are ineffective and show low performance not in one life but in progressive lives because they do not learn to concentrate. It all starts with concentration of mind. To concentrate is an act, an action in itself. Waves of distraction are always coming from all sides but one’s mind should be trained every day to become stronger by not allowing it to banish and disperse.
Another important thing that people do not know is that mind’s concentration improves exorbitantly if one is constantly engaged in some kind of action and activeness called karmas. Performing many kinds of activities enhances our brain power and multi-tasking at varied levels is the real test. So do not shy away from doing multi skilled actions at multi levels to nurture and refine your brain. A high powered brain shall develop with concentration and meditation both. “
As for me God said, “Concentration on God is not only during meditation but throughout the day as well as night. Today in spite of your engrossing in mundane activities, your thought was fixed on me. All throughout you were thinking inside while performing those actions- what will God teach me next? I have learnt that there is more power in our thoughts than food and sleep put together. You have also cancelled the futile thoughts arising out of external life situations. And you have decided to finish your daily lessons and then fulfill the social engagements.
Continued and persisting anchoring of mind on God gives a person very high level of knowledge and people who have high level of spiritual knowledge excel and perform multi tasks at multiple levels. This is because while their mind is enduring and engaged in some way to God, they have no inclination or time in hand to interact with low quality minds. Even if they interact with low quality minds and average people, their sankalpa or thought is always powerful and profound. Their sankalpa gives them more power to do great karmas in future and subsequently they have no time to squander or fritter away in unproductive actions!
Doing unselfish karmas, doing karmas for the welfare and benefit of the society and the planet, helping people silently by praying shall generate highest grade of results thus giving you a very pious, peaceful and divine life.”
Listen to the voice of your soul-II
20.02.12
Thinking of all this I was dipping and slipping further more in the infinite celestial world without any inkling that all along there was a silent spectator who was listening to my extremely feeble thoughts floating in the upper cerebral space. Some moments of extreme silence was experienced which made me understand the importance of shunya or void that is so significant in Pranayam. I am talking of the empty space or void that one gets to observe between one inhalation and one exhalation. It is a moment of silence, peace; a moment of thoughtlessness, a moment of egolessness. It is a moment of graciousness. It is a state of Brahma, a state of nivrati or nirvana. It is during complete silence of one’s mind that God is reached I recognize today. And out of such silence came this unfaltering and unswerving golden voice of God with a ray like streak of glowing white light entering the right side of my upper head.
“First of all bow down reverentially to all your divine Gurus and touch their feet in abstract form in obeisance and gratefulness. They have done for you what nobody ever does for any other human. You were completely devastated and ruined once. They have revived, up surged and levitated you to dazzling spiritual heights. In spite of recurring mental and physical obstacles, you made speedy developments because the Gurus were empowering you silently to overcome all the hurdles on your path. The more you wanted to rise, the more power they supplied you. Gurus help only those who have total faith and endless trust in them. In the entire course of spiritual journey, there are many phases of ebbs and flows because of one’s karmic story, but the Guru is strong and resilient enough to sail you through all along until the day when you arrive safely at the shore. Those who doubt and do not feel or know the hidden godly powers of the Sadguru will not be able to traverse far. So hold on to the mast of the sailing boat even during the rough weather and feel the power of God inherent in the Divine Gurus.
There are two contradictory forces around us. One is the Light of God residing inside and the other is its conflicting force which we can name as Mayic or Asuric force in the form of fear, self-doubt, worry, panic and other low feelings and thoughts coming from the energy-field created outside by the masses. These two forces are in contradiction to each other and opposite in direction thus there is always a conflict between them. This force weakens your Spirit. It also diminishes your concentration and attention span and should be eliminated. Not a vestige of such depleting force should remain anywhere inside you.
Those of you who wish to increase your spiritual powers must understand its importance and during your meditation times, you must submit all the weaknesses to the deputed Gurus. Your power lies in your Spirit and those of you who wish to walk up to end point must expel all the unwanted thoughts in order to make the mind extra ordinarily strong. A strong and robust mind shall sustain and put up with all the worldly and spiritual pursuits. The power to overcome diseases-mental and physical both, to overcome life’s obstacles and self-created mental blockades depends on the quality of the mind one possesses. A strong and bright mind shall withstand all the initial tests taken by the Guru to help you to qualify and deserve Self realizations and Atma Bodh- realization of one’s own real identity.
Therefore, remove all the mental barriers and surrender to God in the form of Guru and enter the kingdom of serene Divine world.”
Live in peace
09.03.12
God is an observer and knows about us as nobody else. He knows everything and is familiar with all our joys and sorrows.
On 26th night of Feb, the moment I got in the bed to sleep after a long journey, a blinding light hit me in the eyes and forehead and I saw myself leaving the body. My soul, like a lightning transcended from the physical plane and united with the Light of God. All my aches and pains and sorrows melted like iron in a hot furnace. I was no more in the normal world where your soul has problems adjusting with so much wrongs and evils. The realm of God is pure and guiltless. It has only joy and peace and once we connect with that realm we become one with that joy and peace. The limitless comfort and rest that I got then was enough to rejuvenate me completely and I began to drown in that ocean of immense serenity and sublime happiness. There was just golden Light surrounding me…..
Just then God began to enlighten me in that magical moment, “Your heart is wounded. Your soul can connect to the soul of those dolphins and you have felt their sense of alarm and panic as though it was yours. I am touched by your sense of oneness of Spirit and respecting the sacredness of God’s creation.
It was not ignorance of the boatman or of lack of respect for rules of safety for animals. But it is something else. People themselves do not live in peace and do not allow others also to live in peace. And you are disturbed by that. Why should someone disturb the peace of some other creatures? By the law of God, we should not dampen or ruin anyone’s peace. If you learn to live in peace yourself, you shall let others also to live in peace. If all humans understood this law of God’s functioning, all living beings would live without fear. Fear is created on earth by destroying peace.
Tell all this to others by writing one special post by the title Live in peace so that they too know living in peace is abiding by the law of god and breaking this rule is a misdeed. Spread love and peace, spread joy and fearlessness so that all creatures live in freedom and peace.”
Blessing pours as Light
13.08.12
The same Light which sometimes is addressed as God, came as a bolt over me in a few split seconds. Like a thick panel of light it hit me in the spine and entered inside it. The running of comfy and snug Light was so much longed-for. I was instantly re-energized. A feeling of well being and goodness ascended side by side. Alternately, my mind’s concentration became fixated and the dissipated energies rewound and indeed God spoke to me …
“What is there to be so distressed and demotivated about? For everything there is a good reason. Not all can be explained yet it can be believed by the firm believers. The death and destruction that was happening at the time of your arrival at the Himalayan foothills was not without a reason.
Human mind is very constricted and biased. It mainly thinks about itself irrespective of nature’s laws and people do not abide by the rules laid down by the Spirit or God which creates havoc and disorder. It again falls in the domain of the saints and the realized ones to bring about order, harmony and peace. Babaji is doing just that. Our karmas create our destiny. Collective karmas if done adversely will deprive the people of prosperity, peace and sense of wellness. So send out loving as well as thoughts of regeneration in the environment to re grow the lost good thoughts in the atmosphere. Believe in your destiny and continue doing your daily service or seva of God and leave the result of your good karmas to God to bless you in any way it deems fit. Babaji is watching over you always.
A yogi whose heart is pure and mind stable in all times will find lasting peace and tranquility. Restore yourself from the fatigue accumulated over last many weeks and find solace within. Connect your mind with My presence and you shall obtain bliss. As God is even-handed and generous you shall be rewarded at the right time. Nothing goes unnoticed under the eyes of omnipresent Almighty.
Continue your sadhana with the same zeal and gust as before. Meditate daily and help those who are in need of you and you shall find enduring elated happiness.”
Blessing as words…..
13.08.12
n a little while, I sensed that the unbroken, extra ordinary calmness was calling me and wishes to convey by speaking something to me; I decided that I should go near it. So I sat down to meditate thereby bringing to a halt all the external activities in the house.
No sooner did I settle down on the mattress and closed my eyes, that all the loud noises on the road vanished and the voices of children playing in the open spaces of their buildings eloped. The congeniality in the heart escalated until I was totally drowned in peace and calmness that I saw a big, gentle face of a calm man which disappeared right then, and after which a serene voice began to speak to me touching upon personal and general predictions, “I am God. I will speak to you now, listen. Blessing can come to you as words also. The words that you write here are read all over the world and a horde of people are deriving benefit from it although just a few people write back to you. People are getting illumination, enlightenment and clarity of mind via these words. This is coming back to you as blessing from me in words today.
In the next three years you will travel a lot across the globe and those people who read these words and have assimilated them can come to you to diffuse any doubts when they meet you. Ask them to read each word with care and reverence. It is me who is disseminating these words through you. These words when read with devotion will clear their spiritual path of their ignorance. Help those who come to you with devotion and veneration only. There are a few persons around you who are malicious and selfish and have revulsion towards you. When you get their thoughts wipe them out immediately as such thoughts are an obstruction in your continuous periods of tranquility.
Tranquility and peace of mind is a blessing.
There are some things in this world which are found in very small amounts yet they are extremely essential. Copper and Boron are trace elements and are rare. They are required by the body in extremely small amounts but are very essential for the normal functioning. Boron is found in apples. The fatigue and weariness in your body is due to deficiency of these two trace elements these days, so consume apples and dates. Drink apple and carrot juice and have hot cocoa milk with nuts. You shall recover fast.
People chase and run after so many mundane things in this world but hardly a few recognize that calmness and tranquillity of mind is such a rare thing and it should be acquired. Calmness, quietness and composure are as essential to us as vitality in the body. You cannot live without it. ”
Blessing as illumination
19.08.12
I thanked the Almighty with a heart full of gratitude and thanks. Merciful God blessed me with a quick recovery and also some great illumination along with it. I needed to know what was bothering the world and what was it that makes people create disequilibrium, chaos and rebellion everywhere they go. The previous night I had also pleaded God to give wisdom to those people who are against God’s laid out benevolent and compassionate plans and create mischief. Therefore, God responded by communicating with me through these merciful words which brought so much relief, cheer and goodness.
“The complete chaos, utter confusion and lack of harmony in the world are due to its own ignorance. An agitated and vicious mind creates unrest and destruction first inside its own space and then outside it. Most people have an inner world of hateful, vicious, greedy thoughts.
Hate breeds and spreads violence; jealousy and hatred are the two root causes of outside mayhem, lack of co-operation and peace between men. God did not create hate, humans created hate. God created love, peace and harmony. It is the unrestrained, untaught and wild mind that forces man to do incorrect, immoral and sinful actions which generate endless, sorrowful lives in future for them. Therefore, it is most essential for everybody to learn to meditate to quieten and serene the mind so that we know how to love all. It is only through the practice of meditation that will help all people to become more understanding, friendly and empathetic. The mind enlarges and enhances to Super Consciousness through this special mode of tranquilizing and purifying the mind and heart called meditation.
When much mass wrongful acts are earned and deposited in the people, there are catastrophes like floods, land and soil erosion, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, mass deaths and unreasonable fluctuating seasons and harsh weathers. Nature cleanses the environment through various methods of upheavals to bring back balance, harmony and sanctity.
People suffer in masses and there is poverty, hunger and other causes of intense sorrow everywhere. Mass bad karmas create mass bad effects. However, the virtuous and morally upright men called saatvik suffer unduly in many ways because of the mass bad karmas of so many other people on this planet.
The excessive wrong karmas of masses are enough to bring down the presence of this planet but it is for the high powered innumerable virtuous sacred karmas of the small numbers of the illumined and enlightened souls called Mahatamas and saints that creates balance on this Universe by stopping the world to break apart.
Ignorance about Universal Truths, Oneness of God; lack of knowledge of the Silent Spectator and presence of Omnipresence within and without is the root cause of all miseries.”
The procedure and progression of knowing our soul-II
10.02.13
On the night I finished my last post of 30th January regarding our soul’s progression, when I went to retire in my bed, I saw a huge ball of golden Light that appeared in the centre of my third eye. It was a perfect round ball and pretty dense in yellow colour.
It immediately grew big in size. It grew very immense after which I rapidly saw Mother Earth in it. The Earth was covered copiously by this Golden Light. Then the Light became bigger, far more bigger than the Earth until the Earth vanished leaving behind just the Golden globe of Light. This sphere of Light became further big and it became so big that it covered the entire ethereal space. It eventually covered the Universe, the whole of Universe. It grew larger still until the Universe disappeared and there was nothing else in this Universe but that dense, pure golden Light!
Pure Golden Light!
Only Light!
Seeing this magnificent Light, I immediately put myself in it willfully; and dived in it until I completely disappeared. At this stage, I murmured to myself feebly, “Ah! Cosmic Consciousness!”
With my heart so full of gratitude and humbleness, I bowed down reverentially at the Cosmic Light and thanked God for have given me a slight glimpse of its Infinite presence.
Immediately, I heard inside, “Do not wrap up the last post now. From your side it was over. Make two more parts of it. The experience that you have just received is a testimony that you are in Cosmic Consciousness and you will also be during some more spells further in the night or day intermittently.
I got curious and asked, “What type of experience is this? Is this kind of experience higher than the ones I had about a year or two back of Super Consciousness while I was in Delhi? I was referring to the days when I was writing regular articles on Super Consciousness. Were they not supreme experiences?
I raised this question because I did not plunge so effusively in such concentrated Cosmic Light before. Meticulously I distinguished that something in me was still not besieged, like a very thin line something still existed inside me; it was like a very, very thin dark grey hair. Clearly, the jeeva in me was still outstanding and unresolved, so what if it was as thin as a very slender fine line! It had to go, even this last thin line had to go.
In my meditations, I had communicated and expressed to God my inner feelings of late that whatever I have acquired in my realizations and divine experiences so far itself was so abundant, liberal and generously given that I will never ask anything more henceforth. Never in my dreams and fancy imaginations, had I expected that I would ever get to know God, that too so closely. I was merely trying all my life. I had also prayed to Shri Mahavatar Babaji in prominent meditations, that hence forth I will never keep any craving or initiative to ask God for more revelations since I have nothing to return or repay. I am already so overfull with all the blessings and kindness that I have received in abundance and immeasurable measure that I do not have anything left with me which shall be appropriate to give as a token of adoration, gratitude and thanksgiving. A point has come in my life when I should ask nothing, not even a touch of divinity’s unfolding or a peek into the world of God. I am a recipient of boundless grace, love, joy and limitless peace from my Gurus and God and I have not yet done enough to do anything equivalent in return, so why should I request or ask anything more? Whatever I have received so far is much more than one can ask or ever have. All I should do now is only serve God in the most selfless manner and do it unceasingly day and night.
God replied, “Super Consciousness is not the ultimate stage- Cosmic Consciousness is the ultimate one. In Super Consciousness stage , there are dots of remnants of the individuality still lingering although one may have glimpses of divinity. When each and every accumulated karma, of every life that one has lived on this planet has been erased and washed off, one gets a brief vision of Cosmic Consciousness like this one. This is true samadhi, uninterrupted, continued naad ghosh and bliss. The jeeva is finally eroded wholly and there is no curtain between the individual soul and the expansive Spirit of the Universe. This is an irreversible stage. It is a very long drawn out procedure and just a few souls can reach uptil here because it is very tiring and full of fatigue and demands unusual forbearance and patience. A few succeed.
Releasing and exhausting the amassed seeds of past karmas is a mammoth task and can be overwhelming for anybody. Anyhow, tell everybody that nonetheless it should be attempted and tried so that once clean, your life will be stain free, joyous and very, very peaceful. Those who attempt will be blessed for their seriousness and clean heartedness.
Guide each one who is on this path and you will be blessed profusely by your Teachers and Me. Everyone is in darkness, it is with acute difficulty that we get blazing Light and knowledge like this one. Others should be given a helping hand and should be given a fair chance to remove their darkness from their lives.”
The procedure and progression of knowing our soul-III
10.02.13
As peaceable was the sleep, so was tranquil returning to wakefulness. In a state of perfect calmness, a soft and gentle voice of God inside spoke, “Whether I speak like a man or a woman, whether I speak in loud or soft words, whether I come as an image or not, does it really matter to you any more? You hear my most soft whispers and the lightest step that I take sneakily as I get invoked in your lovable heart. Hence know for sure that I am housed in you permanently!
In the Himalayas your heart is, the soul in me always, who cares for me in a manner such as you? I speak to you so often in the day; you drop everything that is occurring in the mind and listen attentively as if there has been no world existed ever outside you. With due respect and reverence and pristine love, you seek me, you overhear me as if I am the lover and you the beloved. Should I not return all the honor, love, care and thoughtfulness that was bestowed on me so unselfishly?
In return I give you today, my revelation that I love you as much as anyone can love. I adore you as no one before has, I protect you as no one before has done and I reveal myself through you to all now. Because this has been your kind prayer on the lips and inner gaze all the way through as nights and days drew to an end!
I love those who love me, I protect those who care for me and do harm to none. I oversee you as clouds over the lands, I illumine you as light at dawn, I water you as sap in the veins of green floras, I feed you as a mother to her child and I watch over you eternally as the protective Father of the tribe……
You took me in and threw up your palms in the skies of the Universe so that these blessings could be shared and people as unknown faces are healed and restored properly. Did I not see that? My eyes are everywhere, my ears listen to your innermost songs and emotions and I judge you subject to your hidden intentions and yearnings.
Listen to me carefully if you can. If you wish to beget Me, seek Me lovingly! Seek Me day and night! Seek Me in joy, seek Me in disaster! Seek Me when you toil, seek Me when you sleep and Love me as much as you have loved no one ever before in all your lives!!
Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-II
10.05.13
Of late when I was in Sri Lanka travelling in the flat plains of its interior land between beautiful low ranged mountains and flat agricultural land after we left behind Katargama, I heard some stories from the driver relating to past ethnic strife and how peace has been resolved in that small island after a conflict of more than three decades.
The landscape of the area, sparse population and intense quietude in the air had a profound impact on my sensibilities. I did not welcome his conversation as I had experienced so much tranquility in Katargama and there was an uncomfortable calm prevailing in our atmosphere, more so inside me because of this sudden, unwanted dribble with political discussion. I was not prepared for this topic and completely avoided it. I did not participate in this discussion and had withdrawn myself downright. But after sometime, the ongoing discussion was creating a sort of disturbance in my enchanting peace of mind. My state was similar to somebody who was very drowsy and was not allowed to sleep peacefully in bed at night. And as though, I was forced to get involved in the regular outer world’s activities instead of living in my Paradise. But then I was helpless and also in between the conversation of others, I dipped into a state of deep relaxation and with great force I got in connection with the presence of God. I slipped into a short and deep state of transcendental state and could not hear anything. It was a state of pure ecstasy and sublime peace. The fixing of my mind with that of Supreme Consciousness was spontaneous and I thought that may be it is the peaceful atmosphere casting its magic over me. But today I attribute it to nobody but the graciousness of God. My constant, irresistible yearning to be able to hear that Voice just once in between the fast pace and hectic activities of our daily life is similar to seeing the face of our sweet beloved; such is the delight and ecstasy of touching the soul inside us. It has so much joy and peace both mingled as one that I would barter anything that I have for a few, short flashes of this exclusive communion! Anytime!
After a while, I became dead to the conversation that was taking place in the car as I don’t know when I had already plunged and touched the very base of my Spirit.
The Universal Father or Parmeshwar is hyper sensitive and has innumerable feelers to sense our inner most feelings. Responses from God to those silent, innocent feelings come naturally to some blessed recipients if the intentions are pure.
Simultaneously, my intellect on another level of cranium had grasped the ongoing conversations flanked by the connection and disconnection of my God communion and I speculated vaguely.
Side by side I wondered why peace can’t be enduring in our lives and on this Earth. I lamented, grieved and prayed to God to bring about more trust, love and peace amongst the citizens of the place so that we all have prosperity, longevity, wellbeing and happiness. As you know we all end up our discomforts and sorrows with this last word -Why? I was unknowingly silently telling God-Why do we fight? Why do we have distrust? Why do we kill each other? Why should we resolve political issues by killing humans? God’s world is so beautiful, so full of blessedness and graciousness while the world outside is nowhere near it. If only we learn to be more thoughtful, more caring and more generous towards others. May be we as humans, still have to know that peace is of utmost importance in our lives than a few yards of land or some more political rights…….I was pensive and lamenting in my heart. Who is right and who is wrong? Who will decide? God, why do we have ethnic strife? Why do we humans take so much time to discover our own Pure Soul which has all the right guidance, wisdom, precise living ideals and values and that which frees us from all miseries and human sufferings? I was thinking about various dimensions amidst the commentary and reporting of the island’s political status in the car.
Obviously, I was there and no-one else when numerous kinds of reflections crisscrossed my mind. But there was a silent Spectator who heard all this. I have realized that the most bewildering, sudden events occur in case of an interchange with our soul. It arrives unexpectedly, it responds to things which we never expected and above all it is capable of answering to all our questions and curiosity. They may be familial, environmental, political, spiritual or personal. Before long I plunged further inside when the revelations from the divine world began to pour in.
God justified my pleas by giving me some very accurate answers which cannot be sourced from other places and are certainly true because the knowledge gained through our sixth sense is reliable. Knowledge acquired by intuition is resourceful, undiluted and well-intentioned. It is unfailing. Answers from God are trustworthy and since then many meditations have been blessed with acute and in-depth information about the ways and mechanisms of the power of God. I have reaffirmed to myself that we are always under its constant supervision and shelter.
In the car, the echoing, painful observations did not go unnoticed from the very presence of God and in an instant the mercy of God began pouring inside my heart as Grace, as knowledge, as discovery and as awesome insights. I began seeing a wonderful movie in front of my eyes after I had closed them and sat quietly near the window to muse and ponder deeply because by now I had no control over my eyes or my mind either. They were dull and sleepy. I was already transported to a sacred world where God and I as if, sat side by side closely on a bench in the Paradise and the outside world ended! I soon perceived what probably a handful can peep into- wondrous spiritual realizations which I attribute to my sacred Guru Shri Mahavatar Babaji. I realize that these revelations are much beyond any human comprehension and that he wished to reveal to me and to the world through me with this blog’s platform. And he wished to teach us the highest precepts through my multiple, benign spiritual experiences and hence these wondrous revelations……
Millions of years ago, India was pure Heaven; a clean and beautiful sub-continent full of all nature’s gifts. Abundant water, natural resources and people with high morals were all there. Animals would roam freely and birds, animals and humans coexisted peacefully. The forests were lavish and copious and there was enough to feed all. The rivers were held sacred and worshipped. People were generous and greed was unknown. Nature was worshiped as God and reverence to all living creatures was held high.
The intelligence of God conceived even then that India’s population would explode in times to come during an era of modern age of machines and the environment would be in great threat because of that. The divine plan was to save, preserve and retain the natural ecosystem from destruction permanently by man’s wrath. As it was the will of God to save and preserve the endangered species, an island was carved out. With the help of natural geographical major changes, the curvature of the Indus land was naturally broken apart with the force of nature of earthquakes and climatic changes. The breaking up of India into two parts happened with the Will and Initiative of God.
At this juncture I became numb. I thought to myself if God knows so much and with his bidding and command major earthquakes take place and a large nation is broken into two pieces to save the living beings’ future, I should in every minute of my life live by the command or wish of God!!! Everything happens with the power of God so where is the problem of submission and why do we have to discover and find it hard to go by the natural flow of things that happen to us in our lives. Why we as humans not realize this? What is it that our eyes can’t see and what is it that we cannot bring ourselves to understand the mechanisms of this enigmatic world? All throughout we are advised by the learned men to surrender to the will of God and accept his decision and not be ruled by our unruly mind. It is so evident to me at this moment that God is in charge of this Universe and He will make the place alive by its bountiful life force and the very ignorance of this great fact shuts my eyes to its everlasting Presence!
And those phenomenal realizations could have come only in a peaceful place like this cut off interior village of Sri Lanka because the wavelength coming in my brain from the astral world was extra fine and needed so much quietude, peacefulness and privacy. I assumed the reason very well for Babaji for sending me so far off from home to get this blessed, unique understanding. My humble prostration to the Holy soul and the Greatest Master residing in the hidden caves of the Himalayas at this sacred hour of twilight! Though so secretive in nature yet like God so visible through intriguing workings and mysterious protective hand at my back!
I was also exposed to one more very fascinating fact during those holy times of God communion. It was this-At that time Sri Lanka was an integral part of India and was geographically one piece of unbroken land. In those times the locals of today’s Sri Lanka were the people working on the agricultural land and the people of the tip of South India in Tamil Nadu were the owners of the fields. Today the situation is reverse. The strife between two communities dates back to a few thousand millenniums back and still seems to simmer and there has been a conflict because of this fact! Some of the people who are born today and are involved in the conflict as victims or perpetrators are those ones who have lived their lives when Sri Lanka and India were one nation!! Their sub consciousness resonates those memories and motivates their actions.
I said to myself- “Does it take us so long to realize the Truth of God in us? Do we fight over land issues, have enmity, jealousy, create violence and sleep over millenniums?? Oh my God!! What is this?
And how did God calculate and predict the time of population explosion of India thousands of years back??? Extremely mind-blowing thoughts were floating inside my tiny head about to be exploded though the outside conversation hadn’t died out and even as the excitement of the driver was consistent! I was craving for a space where there would be no humans and just me and God and the mystifying revelations…….
I learnt that the predictions were based on a few theories out of which the law of karma outsmarts everything else. Maharishi Boganathar, Agastya Maharishi and Shri Mahavatar Babaji are those divine souls who can trace back their steps and rewind memory by the power of visualization back in eternity when the Earth was created and founded. Agastya Maharishi has therefore been applauded and commended for writing people’s future on palm leaves thousands of years ago even before those souls were born to exact precision in times to come. Even today we have astrologers who have our life predictions carved by Agastya Maharishi on old leaves in remote villages of Tamil Nadu written more than some thousands of years ago. Such perfect is their science of reading the future of individuals with the insight given by God and other deities that one is dumbfounded. I have been to a few such people where the accurate names of my present family, relatives and a few life incidents have been inscribed on dried palm leaves by none other than Maharishi Agastya!!!! And I don’t even know how many years back it was inscribed.
God explained to me that this science of predicting people’s lives before thousands of years was to help them in taking charge of their lives and having accountability of their deeds. It also ensures them that there is someone who is invincible and we should surrender our existence and ego to it. Such sciences are given by God to a selected few pious souls in order to harmonize the people of this world and bring lasting peace in all continents. Here I mean to say that Shri Boganatharji, Shri Mahavatar Babaji and Agastya Mahrishi are those sacred souls who have been given the rare gift of Godly Science of reverting steps back in eternity and peeping into great, elongated periods of time and space so that the planet can be preserved and God’s establishment on this Earth cannot be revoked by mass human misdeeds! World harmony and peace has to be maintained and erring human nature should be checked. As long as the sacred goal of establishing worldwide peace is established, it does not matter which occult science has been used because the enlightened souls go only by the will of God and have no personal choice in selection of their intentions.
Similarly, Himalayas were created through titanic movements of plates inside the Earth by the Will of God to have a definite place which would be cut off from the noise and senseless uproar and chaos of urban, modern world for sages, thinkers, yogis, writers and ascetics to meditate and work in purity of nature. Endangered Nature can have the possibility of avoiding the reversal of degeneration of natural eco systems too with this purpose.
I earnestly bow to these greatly illumined Masters for casting their graciousness at me and having revealed such unique and never before revelations to mankind. My humble prostration with folded palms and head bowing down with thankfulness for allowing us to get a glimpse into their ocean of limitless knowledge of the secrets of the sciences of the Divine and its wonderful functioning….
What is Truth?-III
30.06.13
Monologue
The Supreme- “Your intense grief and worry for Babaji and all others has invoked and besought me. I am not Nityananda but the Creator of this planet. I have come to you as Light. I was there even before the Universe was made. This Earth is very new if compared with my existence. The Himalayas were carved out of my own will so that they can rescue those serious people who wish to atone, redeem and also created for those who wish to advance ahead in their further spiritual pursuits in monasteries and hidden caves here and there. The Himalayas have been polluted and plundered in the last few decades by the greedy cartel of politicians, agents, mafias and the bureaucrats in addition to the police which is at the mercy of the administration.
Squandering and unintelligent mind squatters here and there. It wanders everywhere and makes endless, countless errors which it has to repay in painful measures life after life. To solve this mystery of stopping the human mind to err is to tame it by controlling it and making it your slave. If you err, you reimburse.
Tens of thousands of people have perished in the punishment meted out by the Creator’s design of skillful acts. The ones who have been penalized are those who have in this or previous or more incarnations plundered Nature by cutting and felling trees indiscriminately, poaching, looting the villagers, mining unreasonably, changing the courses of rivers frantically thus destabilizing the entire area’s flora and fauna and ending the lives of plants and animals, wasting water, electricity and other resources without regard to its sanctity, doing unprincipled actions in religious places, mismanaging the funds of religious shrines, grabbing land of others, mercilessly beating children and sometimes the elderly at homes, telling lies to bring dishonor to innocent people, beating pregnant women, keeping the family members hungry when food was available, stealing and pocketing wealth that legally belonged to others and most of all having complete disregard to the environment in which they have been living and sustaining on it for food, water, fodder, cattle, fresh air and livelihood.
It is a hard slap on humanity to know that whenever there is an extreme mishandling and negligence of human morality and values, in such times God will manage the environment with its own will and discretion as well as restore it. God will decide and do things with its own power and decision. When the time becomes suitable and applicable, all the forces in the Nature combine, destroy everything that humans have made if excesses are done beyond acceptable limits. Humans are punished by the five elements – water, fire, wind, earth/land or space. The forests are assigned to the goddesses and deities to preserve its sanctity and honor. They should be submitted to and given due respect. You will not even get fire, wood or land to cremate the dead bodies if you bring collective ire of the Gods in the jungles. If such drastic steps are taken by Nature to punish, remember man has done severe bungling and goof ups in handling the delicate balance of man and Nature.”
I quivered. As I lay there, I begin to get wondering -why should we not know these hidden facts and why we, as humans are so reckless and negligent? As nothing could have been done now to undo the wrath, I pleaded and prayed for the dead. I implored God to tell us what we should be doing now. What are the right things that we should know in this matter and we would try to emulate these articulated principles and follow them as far as possible.
The answers came as follows-
- “Nature is like a very gentle lady. She will provide us all our needs provided we do not exploit or harass her.
- Politicians have selfish interests. The police, who is controlled by the people in power and the politicians are responsible for the mass tragedy. When the decisions to make dams are taken, the politicians should consult and involve the scientists in their meetings and go by their scientific advice. The scientists will give them a sound advice on ecology and sustainable environment.
- Small dams should be built over rivers for electricity but the course of the rivers should never be changed. The rivers in the Himalayas are flowing even before man walked on the Earth. There is a Force prevalent in water that can become adverse and fierce and destroy in high magnitudes if the natural laws are violated.
- The rivers should be allowed to flow freely on all sides and its path should not be disrupted or violated.
- River waters are for posterity. We should not overuse the natural resources just for ourselves but keep in reserve for next generation to come. If we violate this law, we shall be punished severely. We leave behind our wealth for our children so that they are prosperous. The same rule is applied whereas natural resources are concerned. Use only that much which is essential for your use. Leave rest for others.
- Do not cut mountains drastically, cut marginally to build homes and roads.
- Continue acts of preservation side by side.
- Himalayas were made by the will of God to do penance and spiritual research. Do not disregard the sanctity and purity of its reason of inception. The Himalaya Mountains are being used for commercial viability by a section of society. Do not make holy places commercial, impure, noisy and dirty.
- Do not move mass population from their homes to a new place for development reasons. If you do so, you are changing their destinies drastically. Wrath of Nature can be manifold if equal distribution of natural resources and wealth is not made fairly. Fury of Nature reflects the gross bungling, deprivation and mismanagement of God made resources and natural elements.
Your pure love for the safety and wellness of your sadguru has invoked me and earned you a special interface with me. Now share this soliloquy with everybody so that they too benefit from your blessings.”
#181
Delusion
30.09.10
Cryptic questions and answers that took place between Shri Mahavatar Babaji and me mentally at the airport while I waited to catch the plane.
Q-Who gets enlightenment?
A- Those whose heart is pure.
Q-When and how can one clean and purify the heart?
A-When the intellect is pure. The intellect should be purified of ego, ignorance, jealousy, fear and all other insecurities.
Q-What is delusion?
A-Doubt, scepticism and confusion. When they cover the mind, the soul is in delusion.
Q-How do we eradicate delusion?
A-By cleaning the heart.
Q-How can the heart and mind/buddhi be purified?
A-By awareness, meditation, selfless activities, kindness and charitable actions.
Q-Why must we eradicate/remove delusion?
A-Because it gives us chains and recycles of birth and death.
Q-What happens in delusion?
A-When we are in delusion, a sort of mirage is created in the mind which in reality is a reflection of the true self-that is yatharth or reality. There is distortion of the vision. When we are covered with distorted perceptions, our actions are distorted. Our judgment goes wrong, we create wrong actions. The consequences of our actions are ours and hence we suffer adversely.
Q-How does one know that he or she is in delusion?
A-There will be bouts of confusion, temptations, frustration for having lack of control over things and most of all, one is uncertain.
Q-What are the correctional methods?
A-Introspection, reflection, contemplation, study of scriptures, listening to the ancient wisdom of the sages and realized entities. And most important of all- correcting your present actions to redesign the future life.
Q-How does one know that he or she is getting the wisdom from the right person?
A-If what you read or hear can be identified with and are convinced, if your mind accepts the mentor or guru’s wisdom and advice and counsel. If your mind does not oppose or contradict his or her knowledge and if you are applying the spiritual philosophy with positive results, then you have found your mentor or spiritual advisor.
Q-If there is a contradiction in mind, what does it apply?
A-It applies that it is the ego which is acting as a wall between the teacher and the learner.
The state of Super Consciousness-II
10.01.11
I envisioned Shri Babaji walking with very quick steps and in this way denoting the urgency of his expedition and importance of time’s utility. I was walking next to him and trying to catch up with him on a hilly ground. He looked very happy and enthusiastic that day or else he is somber and serene. He took me to a very beautiful place full of tall, green trees which resembled fir and deodar. The ambiance was of a thin forest with many trees growing on a mountain top. The shade of the trees was cooling and under it was situated a beautiful pond. It had many colorful lotus flowers floating in it. He took me to the divine pond where the atmosphere was saturated with divine purity and serenity and the place resembled and felt like a paradise.
Babaji went ahead and plucked one lotus flower, then another, then some more and then many more from the pond one by one. The petals had tiny drops of water on them making them look all the more pure and sacred. The bunch of lotus looked so pretty in his arms and I was cheerful by looking at the lovely bouquet and the image of exuberant Babaji both at one place. Just then, while holding the flowers in his divine arms, Babaji took one white lotus and gave it to me. He looked at me as if waiting for me to express something. I didn’t. After a very short pause, he broke in a spell of mystic laughter and divine joy. He pulled out one purple lotus from his bundle and gave it to me in my hand. I held it in bewilderment and at the same time I was overjoyed at his kind gesture. Without waiting, he now gave me a pink lotus, then a yellow one and a few more one after the other. All the flowers from his arms were in mine by now and in utter amazement I looked at the collection of heavenly lotuses piled up and was absolutely numb because events were occurring at such rapid and unexpected ways. I stood there totally incomprehensible not knowing what to do or say to him.
He put up a question to me, “Do you know why I gave you the lotuses?” I hurriedly considered a lotus flower in Buddhism, as an emblem in many spiritual organizations, on books and sacred places but I did not know the present connotation and the co-relation. I did not reply.
He had a white lotus in his right hand and with a mysterious smile he said, “White is for purity and peace. Take this.” I now received a white lotus from him.
Babaji had a purple lotus in his hand after this. He asked me, “What is purple for?” I had no answer. “Tranquility”, he replied. “Take this.” I received a deep lavender lotus from his sacred hand.
After all this, he again asked me, “What is pink for?” I stood quietly and wished not to answer.
“Love. Take this lotus also. It is for you.”
“What is yellow for?” Now I gathered some courage and answered in humility. “I don’t know Babaji.” He looked pleased and smiled slightly from the corner of his mouth. He said, “Enlightenment, knowledge. Now take this yellow lotus also.”
In the next moment, an unanticipated development took place. Babaji burst out laughing loudly like an ecstatic yogi and began to dance throwing his hands up in the air, turned his neck round and round and sang with merriment and ecstasy. He then said, “I have given you peace, love, joy, ananda, tranquility and transcendental knowledge to give to this world. I am spreading these virtues through your web log on the net in modern times in this world. From now onwards, more and more people will read and receive these gifts of God from you. My idea of spreading God’s love and peace is successful, is successful, is successful. Then he circled round and round like an intoxicated saint singing and chanting God’s holy name. He resembled Chaitanya Mahaprabhu singing and chanting God’s holy name while diving in celestial bliss.
Understanding by now that it was an auspicious moment granted by God, I did not want to lose the golden opportunity of a very sacred hour. I realized that I would be obliged and my prayers would be surely answered. Therefore I pleaded, “Holy Babaji, I pray to you at this moment and hour, please bless me that I never ever make any mistakes in my present and forthcoming lives. May I always remember God. May my memory of God forever be revitalized and it should never be erased or corrupted. May I always do God’s service, may I always do your work and may I always spread your divine fragrance through your words and teachings.”
Babaji smiled at me softly and with overflowing love said very sweetly, “My sweet child, Babaji becomes pleased with devotion, with love, with sacrifice, with service. I am pleased with those devotees who have a keen desire for seeking God and serving Him. I fulfill all such desires. And those people who do not have this desire yet, they should instill purity, devotion and love in their hearts. One day, they will also attain God. Once and for all purify your inner being, inner heart. And after cleaning, forever keep yourself in a pure state so that your future lives are pure, beautiful, worthy and for service of humanity. I love those who love God. Today, who so ever will wish for this desire, I shall grant and fulfill it.”
Expand your consciousness-II
20.02.11
It was 4.22 pm when I looked at the time and I closed my eyes to rest a bit. In just a few seconds, I felt an unusual aura of peace in my vicinity and just after that the presence of Mahavatar Babaji on the threshold of my door. Initially I did not believe myself when I sensed his presence. I was elated but confused too. To have rest, I was relaxing my body when I heard him say inwardly, “Can you not see that I have come to you?” I did not still believe myself and presumed that because I have been so engaged with Babaji and the making of the post, that it must just be a figment of my imagination. So I began to talk to myself and said, “No, no, it can’t be. I am too tired to concentrate again and focus my mind to connect with Babaji’s exceptional high wavelength. Anyway, why would Babaji come to me of all the people? I have a very long way to go. And in case he has really come, then he must just tell me what he intends to say even though I cannot fix my mind very sharply at this moment and I can’t see him with my eyes open.”
Now, at this instance, I saw two bright bands of colour- bright orange and yellow in front of my shut eyes. Babaji spoke the same thing twice further, “I am standing at your threshold, can you not see me?” Now I was on the alert and ready to act at this moment as it was not my misapprehension anymore I realized. I answered, “It must be true that you are standing there but I cannot see you although my extended right hand is sensing your presence and divine energy. I guess you are standing at the threshold. Please hold my hand Babaji, so that my arm absorbs your given message of your arrival and presence which I shall translate and interpret after I am fresh and energized. How can I ever lose this rarest opportunity? But I am too tired now.”
Once again he quipped, “Do you remember the instance of Yukteshwar on the Ganga’s Rai ghat when I went to visit him in Srirampur after he completed his book Holy Science?” (Consult AOY chapter 36)
I could easily recollect the episode but I still could not fathom why all this was being reminded to me. I saw no connection at all. Finally he said, “You need more practice of concentration, fix your eyes on the central point between the eyebrows and remain like that as long as you can. You should concentrate at the third eye to control the wavering prana, the life force. Random thoughts keep pulling your mind from concentrating at one single point. To go higher up, one should be able to prolong the attention at kutastha, the spot between the two eyebrows which is the door to Heaven or the realms of Super Consciousness.
You cannot see me in my astral body because I am at a very high wave length of energy. To be able to commune with me for a longer duration, you should practice meditation in depth and duration. The Banyan Tree in Lumbini will teach you more how to have strong will power and to be absolutely selfless in nature. If you have a very dynamic will power, you shall be able to expand your consciousness with each passing day. So practice meditation with a dynamic will and desire.”
The role of ‘power of will’ in a seeker’s life-II
10.05.11
His holiness Mahavatar Babaji who has unlimited compassion and mercy on all humans and every creature alike, responded to my prayers in no time during my meditation and telepathically transmitted this liberating education or Moksha Vidya on this fortunate day. He thus began with a question and gave answers in the form of cryptic solutions to the crippling ignorance of humanity-
“How did Arjun get spiritual knowledge?
Because of detachment, vairagya .
When there is detachment or vairagya in life, there is desire or will to know God. But before those situations which give you detachment come, concede and kindle a yearning and a will within you for liberating yourself so that your future is laden with bliss, happiness and absolute peace. It is you who has to develop this will after which I shall help you.
The power of will is a gift to us from God with which we accomplish all our undertakings and tasks. First comes the will to do something; God comes to our rescue later, he sends us help to accomplish all that we wish to attain. But prior to all this it is you who should have the initiative in your heart to do something grand, something new, something huge.
Similarly, only if and when the human being is ready to get rid of his dimness and unawareness, only after such a will is awakened in him, only after he possesses a will to liberate himself that such an aim is accomplished at an appropriate time.”
Acquainting about himself, Shri Mahavatar Babaji disclosed,
“Before my present incarnation, I had a burning desire to help mankind, to salvage them from ignorance and do good to all in the world. So when I was born this time I was born with the same power. Therefore, the spot at which I was born still radiates powerful rays of my power of will. There is a yantra or geometrical figure at this spot which till this date radiates powerful rays of my power of will . You must benefit from it by focusing your mind on this spot in your meditations and the power of will be ignited in you and you shall be gratified.”
And about me he informed, “You were born with a burning desire to free yourself from the bondage of the fruit of your actions. Therefore when the right time arrived, I quickly sent you to Yogananda(YSS), Nityananda and Shaligram (Ganeshpuri) and to The Mother (Pondicherry) for your spiritual education. They all are your gurus, Masters and I am your Param Guru, Highest Master. The will to cover up and complete your karmic obligations was so intense that you fulfilled it in the minimum time possible.
The time taken by any seeker or learner to accomplish and complete his spiritual duties and obligations is entirely dependent on the extent of will power possessed by him or the will generated by him within himself. It takes as much time as he decides to free himself. God is very merciful; God will not initiate or stop the help and cooperation that he sends through nature unless you want it. Therefore reduce that time and meditate on God and pray to Him right now.”
Why is peace so essential for a seeker?-III
10.08.11
All these days while I was thinking about what and how should I blog during such times of commotion and complete uncertainty, I waited all along and had complete faith in my param Guru Shri Mahavatar Babaji who has never failed me and he is the one who guides this blog. I maintained my calmness and was positive that I will publish my new post before midnight of 10th August.
Surely enough I woke up very fresh and energized today after I had a short dream in which I saw Babaji, who was in meditation as he sat under a massive Banyan Tree. Incidently this time he did not sit at the trunk of the tree but between the pillar-like numerous thick roots of the tree.
I wondered about the symbolic meaning of this atypical view. Before I could even decipher it, He spoke to me in a very soft whisper, “I can see that you are mixing with all kinds of people and are suffering because you have to mix with people of very low mentality. This has caused depletion of energy yet you are firm and stable in your goal to enter a post without skipping the fixed date. The Banyan Tree here has already blessed you as you are serving me but since you had no time to devote to concentration, let me tell you that you will complete this assignment without any delay. Write another post on the importance of peace for a seeker because a seeker faces similar problems like any other person in the world but his approach to the problem is different.
A good seeker will maintain his peace of mind because he is certain that no matter what sort of difficulty he is facing, his guru will always be by his side, no matter what. Although in special cases and particular times, the guru will remain silent because he will set aside some time for you when the karmic pattern of the concerned person is such that he must suffer for the past misdeeds. The guru allows his disciple to suffer little bit because he is teaching him silently to learn from his past mistakes. As soon as the disciple accepts his mistakes and regrets his bad deeds, the guru will send you the message that from now onwards, lead a pious and peaceful life. That is what I do to my children when I have to teach them an important lesson but very silently! Having said that, please know that I never leave my children, no matter what sins they have committed. It is up to you how soon you want to realize and which next lesson you wish to take from me. Therefore, do not feel disappointed, wake up and get on the next important lesson. Do not give up hope and maintain your peace and calmness. My spiritual guidance and help will reach you through this blog, I speak to you and the readers can connect with me through the regular entries here. All the answers will be received by them through this medium and they should hasten up their recovery and speed as fast as they can.
Now about the roots that you saw in your dream. Today in the early hours you saw me meditating under the numerous thick roots of a Banyan Tree. Roots hold the tree to the ground and supply food. Similarly, I am those strong roots by which you should hold tightly in order for me to nourish you.”
About me he said- “Increase your Kriya Shakti. You are undergoing states where you are swinging between two extreme mentalities- the highest and the lowest. Yet it is possible to cope up with the current state wherein you increase your working capacity by altering your food, holding on the lingering peace and maintaining silence for brief periods whenever possible.”
He continued, “Those of you who have firm faith in me will realize that permanent peace and sustainable bliss is only possible when we clear our past baggage of bad karmas. Once the cleaning process is over, you shall attain permanent peace and wondrous joy which permeates your Soul. Until then, stay connected to Sarika, tell her about your dilemmas she will answer to all your personal as well as family problems and help you to withstand the difficult period. Difficult times are good as they teach us the most and once you are clean and pure you shall find peace within. Endure and clear up whatever you have accumulated as karmic baggage and receive divine peace and bliss from me. I shall never let you down.
Once you reach the state of sustainable tranquility and peace you shall reach the state of bliss. Peace and bliss are in Atman. Our Atma has complete happiness, peace and bliss. Attempt to reach a state of divine communication where in you can access to these attributes at ease. My blessings are with one and all and I hear even the most faint whisper of my devotee; I send immediate respite to them. Receive me well with all your attention and I shall never dishearten you. Pray to God day and night to alleviate you from the sorrowful state to the state of enduring peace. Peace, peace, peace to all. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti!!”
Our lost rich heritage-II
20.11.11
After being in bliss some moments flew by and I began hearing these ragas played in flute like words in my inner ear as though there is someone who is talking to me mentally sitting far away. The mental transference began from the remotest cave in the Himalayas to the island city on the Arabian Sea here in Mumbai, the overcrowded commercial capital of India. I could see a silver string originating from Shri Mahavatar Babaji in that cave and running all along the way and terminating on me. A silver coloured string, which was actually a telecommunication path, was seen between the two of us-me and His Holiness Shri Mahavatar Babaji. As soon as I comprehended that a communication channel has been established between both of us, I heard these gracious words coming to me from the caves near the mountainous region near river Alaknanda in the Himalayas-
“Whenever your mind is so impeccably united and connected with me, there is a bond, a telepathic conveyor, a telecommunication path built between us in the astral space. At this moment I am in deep meditation and I am speaking to you through mental communication or telepathy.”
I could again see Shri Mahavatar Babaji sitting in a perfect lotus posture with my inner vision.
“When two people have strong love and understanding for each other, this phenomenon occurs on the subtle astral plane. Just a few know and appreciate this means of communication.”
I was absorbing wholly what was being given to me with my heart so full of gratefulness.
“Now tell me, what is the cause of man’s pathetic living condition on this Earth today?” an unexpected question was thrown at me.
“Ignorance”, I replied to him without losing any time for thinking.
“Ignorance and lack of foresight,” he said. “Man has been living on this planet since millions of years. It has taken him millions of years to evolve and make this Earth fit for living.Many civilizations with their glorious cultures, race and heritage have risen and fallen back in dust. Awesome structures and cities were built and have been razed to the ground, so many men have come and so many have gone. They have left behind some of their essence, their essential core being behind for us to know how developed they were in terms of creativity, sculpture, literature, knowledge and realizations. The essence of man’s spiritual awakening as well as knowledge is embedded in the Holy Scriptures now.
However, because man lacks foresight, he has not been able to preserve the past inheritance and legacy so richly endowed with their experiences, knowledge and hindsight. Because of lack of foresight in humans, they do not acknowledge and preserve the inherent knowledge stored in scriptures, realized souls as well as in the illumined Masters. Sacred knowledge is passed on by the realized Masters to their chosen devoted disciples who have faith and devotion in their Masters and is in this way stored and preserved through ages, eras and civilizations.
Our past builds our future.
Those who wish to have the sacred knowledge must know their Spirit. The Spirit has the hindsight and all the knowledge is endowed in it. The Spirit has the foresight that will prevent you from regressing in your soul.
Practicing meditation alone will not help. One must plan his future, plan the coming events well, plan his life thoroughly and should have a vision, a sight for himself/herself.
To materialize those goals, one has to do karmas, actions accordingly. Correspondingly, your karmas have the ability to shape your future. They have the potential, the power, the shakti endowed in them. Unleash that energy that is stored in the karmas, unleash that power of manifestation that is stored in your karmas!”
Silence of the soul-I
10.12.11
About ten days ago, Shri Mahavatar Babaji advised me to do meditation on Om. He said, “Go inside. There is Om inside you, meditate on it.”
And then he once again repeated what he had told me earlier, “There was a time when there was nothing in this Universe –shunya. Only Brahma existed, it was only silence that existed. And then out of the shunya, came the sankalpa or thought of God. Out of this thought of God, in peace and silence the srishti, the Brahmaand or the Universe was created. After the creation of the Universe, the very first sound that originated at that time in this Universe was Om.”……………………….
Once this was achieved, I only heard nonstop Om first in my head and then in my whole body. There was not a speck or decibel of any sound inside me apart from Om and the continuity of this mystical sound was awesome and the phenomenon breathtaking. Nothing compares this experience to any experience of the world that we live in and I made sure that my mind is anchored firmly at one centre to be able to lengthen this magical experience. And just as I was able to get enough of it, I entered shunya , the silence. Ah! At last the silence of my soul was touched. It was a thoughtless state where nothing happened, no sound and no thought-pure Brahma, the purest Brahma. It was as if at last I was able to lay a hand on the last level of the infinite ocean.
All along very gently I was reaffirming to myself that I am this, I am Om; this is what I am truly, this is my real identity.
Babaji again showed me the creation of Universe and presence of Brahma and the similarity of the two experiences- one now and here and the other at the point of eternity.
I envisioned after this a complete movie like vision in my inner eyes of our planet rotating continuously tilting at its axis after which the planet vanished and I saw nothing. This state of nothingness endured for a short while as I travelled back in eternity to fathom the state of affairs even before the Universe was created. Once I reached at that time, I experienced in me that there was only silence that existed before the planets were created and it is the same silence or shunya that I have just experienced now at this moment after I heard Om in my body. This goes to prove that the same Om which existed as the first sound in this Universe and the shunya or silence that existed before Om are the same two things which still exist in this Universe and they are the same two things that are present in me too. In other words pure Brahma is in me and the sacred sound Om is present in me even now. It is the same thing and I just rediscovered them during those most auspicious moments of my life!!! Never before could I get so close to it!!
Pujya Babaji has told me that there was only nishabdi brahma and silence before the earth was formed billions of years ago. Once the earth was created and formed, the first sound that was born and emanated was that of Om. The same sound still reverberates and is heard in the silence of nature, forests, oceans and seas even now.”
Silence of the soul-II
20.12.11
One day recently, Babaji out of his own wish blessed me by cascading more illuminating knowledge on me which is so essential for a growing yogi on his path of self realization.
Mahavatar Babaji answered the following spontaneous questions raised by me when there was a connection between the two minds in meditation in the wee hours of 15.12.11
Me- “What is beyond shunya ?”
Him- Brahma. After silence of the soul you shall reach your Spirit.
First is peace, then joy, and then the soul arrives at silence. After prolonged continuity with the Spirit of the Guru, with his mere kripa if the disciple persists to do intense good karmas, the guru shows the disciple the omnipresent Universal Spirit, Brahma. Brahma is beyond silence.
One must meditate on Brahma, the Universal Spirit. In reinstating, the jeeva or soul of the individual does not return to the normal world of cause and effect, the unending cycle of birth, decay and dying. Rather, the soul lives each life and each day of every life in dedication to Guru and complete surrender to God. In this way, there is no action that is initialized by his disciple and hence no undesirable effect of that karmas which in return give the highly developed yogi stable peace of mind and joy. There is so much freedom in such a mind and that is what Bhagwan Buddha at that time was telling all in so many different ways to free themselves from the impact and result of one’s own karmas and consequently get rid of all the sufferings of mind, body and soul in innumerable lives. This is what is meant by liberation and moksha of one’s soul.”
Why was I sent to so many heritage sites by my Param Guru??
21.03.12
Since I returned from Khajuraho Mahavatar Babaji has given me many new spiritual lessons and insights, some of which can be shared with all of you. They are-
“Liberation or Moksha is a very long journey. It takes many lives to conclude the futility of one’s ego and desire and material clinginess. Just a few are successful in this long marathon full of births and deaths. Those who succeed are blessed by God as they nullify all their bad karmas and afterwards regenerate innumerable virtuous karmas because of which they never fall again in the web and maze of repeated life cycles.
The Maha Guru after enlightening you will again send you to those main landmarks in your soul journey so that you can recall how much hard you have strived to reach a stage of complete purity or nirvikaar, the stage of Brahma, a stage of perfection. The uppermost chakra called the Brahmarandra is the most difficult to open and recharge and happens only with the blessedness and grace of the gurus and God.”
I get a new life, a new Light in Badrinath-II
30.10.12
My silent conversation with Shri Mahavatar Babaji during meditation-
Shree Babaji-“Regarding the depth and duration of your meditation, the duration has increased but further depth needs to be acquired, go further inside.”
Me- “How?”
Shri Babaji-“By relenting the thoughts that inhabit your persona or aura. Become aware of them. You are very serious inside but cheerful from outside. Your sensitive heart should not be allowed to harbour or cling to the anxieties or concerns of other people’s wrongful living. You should not feel sorry for them because they are misled by their own shortcomings. Clear this now in meditation and in future do not hold on to these wavelengths. Just do the right actions towards them all, do good to all and once the good acts are done, do not contemplate or brood over it. Do not think of them at all. Free yourself of those thoughts because they are from lower consciousness and your saatvik energies will drop. The removal of such thoughts will create some empty mental space. Fill that space with Brahma”
He initiated me by pronouncing, “Anahat tak jana hai jo shunya ke baad aata hai. Shunya ke bad naadghosh hota hai jahan par yogi ke mana mei akasmaat Om sunaee deta hai ya phir sundar ghantiyon ya ghanti ki awaaz. Shunya se pahele shanti aur ananda aata hai.
Mana jab shunya mei hota hai tab shabdaheen, vicharheen hota hai. Yah mana ki gaharaee se hota hai isliye kaha jata hai mana ko aur gahara le jao. Is awastha mei jitni der raha paogee, utna eeshwariya sukh milega. Yah guru kripa se milta hai. Jisko sansari aadmi kalpana yogya bhi nahin hai, yeh woh sukh hai. Isliye dhyan mei baithne ke liye merudand ko aur majboot banao jisse tum aur der tak sukhasana mei baith pao.
Aise samay mei apni aakhon mei dekho, tumhe prakash aata dikhaee dega. Woh mere mei se aa raha hai. Tumhara mana har tarah se mujh mei doob chukka hai aur jab- jab tum mera smaran karogi, tumhe prakash dikhayee dega. Vah jyoti tumhe Brahma ka gyan degi jo ati durlabh hai. Vah anek janmo mei ekatrit punya uday hone par prapt hota hai.
Brahma prakash hai, Brahma gyan hai, Brahma chetna hai. Is chetna ko apne andar sada jagay rakho. Brahma prakash punj hai, apne andar usey sada prajvalit rakho. Brahma sada tumhari raksha karta rahega. Brahma tumhari chetna ko prajvalit karta rahe is sandhya aisi manokamna karo….”
English translation.
“Go upto Anahat which comes after shunya. After shunya comes naadghosh , a state where the yogi suddenly hears the sounds of Om or of melodious bells or a bell. Before shunya comes peace shanti and bliss ananda .
When the mind is in void or shunya, it becomes speechless and thoughtless. This state comes with the depth of the meditative mind therefore it is advised that you take your mind further deep. The longer you prolong your stay in the deeper levels of your mind, the more you shall attain happiness originating from God. Such a state of mind is achieved with the blessing of Guru. That which is incomprehensible to the worldly man, it is that very joy and bliss. Therefore make your spinal cord stronger to enable you to sit for longer hours in meditation in sukhasana, a comfortable yogic pose.
During such times, look inside your eyes, you will see light. That light will come from me. Your mind is completely immersed in me in every sense and whenever you will remember me, you will see light. That light will give you the knowledge of Brahma which is very hard to achieve. The knowledge of Brahma is attained with the releasing of uncountable pious actions accumulated over many lives lived before this birth.
Brahma is Light. Brahma is spiritual wisdom. Brahma is Consciousness. Always keep the flame of that consciousness kindled in you. Brahma is a cluster of Light, Prakash Punj. Brahma will always protect you. May that Brahma always keep your consciousness ablaze, have such a yearning this evening….”
What is inside our soul-I
2.03.13
The soul’s penchant for re-connection with the Divine grew fonder but I not knowing what was happening exactly. The pull was strong enough that indeed many a times, I have gone to those spots again in holidays to revive those ecstatic times while at play. Whenever in youth I thought of good times, these memories would pop up several times again and soothed and appeased was my soul many times more when I reminisced about those green pastures to and fro. I thought it was the nature’s magic or just the childhood spectrum of naughty, playful activities.
“No, said the Grand Master. Not once was it ever a child’s play! It was an act of an advanced yogi who had experienced this exclusive interplay of magic and God’s display; not just in the childhood of this incarnation but prior to this stage and previous human plays. Go back to it again now and you will once again fall in deep ecstasy because the yogi gets this gift from God for the priceless deeds done in times of unselfish heart and mind’s performances. It was achieved before you were born now and got carried with you as your wealth of last days. Prior to this also, you have spent hours in isolation and solitude with nature and God and have asked for boons beyond palaces, rubies and gold. The yogin realized that nothing is permanent in this constantly changing world; what comes now must go. Why not go after something that would go with me as and where I go? So you have inside you glimpses of spiritual bliss earned in last incarnations and that which you were blessed with even at the tender age of four!”
I said, “Who knows if this was spiritual bliss or merely the magical play of the soothing elements in the surroundings that nature gifts as cool breeze over waters of a river or the plentiful drifting clouds and sky in blue?”
“If this was merely the tender heart’s fancy, you would not have fallen so easily into deep ecstasy so naturally at this ripening age too. The Master can only give you the environment but the soul must have the seed and the soil ready to bloom so beautifully! In many incarnations you have tried to bloom in soul. Many lives have gone in perfecting your soul but not in vain.”
I became a child again at the Holy Feet of my most beloved and graceful Divine Spiritual Master. The child’s curiosity again forced me to know from the All knowing Master’s Vast Ocean of memory during my exclusive moments with Him a few days ago at the sacred morning hour of four when the world was in deep drowse and I arose. I penetrated and looked deep inside me and wished to know.
“What is inside the soul?” I asked
“Joy, pure sublime Joy! It possesses innocent, lingering and never ending pure Joy.
The garden is blooming and the soul is full of perfume of pristine joy and deep ecstasy. If you will share this with others, they shall get a glance of the soul that they possess if they will peep in.”
How to manifest our soul?-I
30.03.13
There are two places or spots which are most sacred, although the entire area is calm, peaceful and holy. More than 1800 years ago, Babaji came here from Kashi, India and meditated in a very dense forest where no one could even penetrate. Babaji was free of every particle of Maya, yet he did intense penance for others and our Earth. He meditated for many days under a Banyan Tree without food and water and wished not to be disturbed. Unfortunately, one wood cutter who was filled with the raging desire of cutting this very Banyan Tree could not be stopped by anyone and in spite of being warned repeatedly of the alarming dangers, he went ahead and cut the same tree under which Babaji had meditated intensely. After a few days, the woodcutter was so full of guilt and shame that he took away his own life by hanging from a tree.
The office bearer whom I met this morning, told me disappointedly that they have been trying to plant a Banyan Tree again at the same spot where there is a modest temple of Babaji today, but all their efforts have failed. The new Banyan Tree that they plant, die and do not survive. This piece of information intrigued me and I was very curious to know the reason behind the dying of the Banyan Trees at the holy spot where Babaji once did intense penance and meditation.
During my meditation a while ago, our dearest Babaji told me, “The wood cutter was already cursed even before he cut my Banyan Tree and the curse lingered. The curse was because of his acts of deep ignorance. But there is another Peepal tree or Bodhi Tree in this precinct where I had also meditated which is alive with my energies today. I used to meditate under it after the Banyan Tree was cut. You have already written about it (The state of Super Consciousness-I) that it has tremendous Sankalp Shakti and therefore you have come to this holy spot again to make an intense and strong resolution and to meditate with that resolution under the Bodhi Tree. It shall be fulfilled.
Seekers who have unconditional love, complete faith in their Holy Master, shall be blessed with more courage and physical and mental strength to pursue further learning by dynamic meditations. So utilize this time and go very deep inside until you know the inner most depth of your soul. Inhale my presence in this holy place through your mind and breath. Instil peace and calmness that will not break continuity of your mind with me. Distribute this Divine knowledge to those who surrender to you and who please me. Do not extend help to those who are densely ignorant and covered with mud of darkness because the sacred knowledge of the Divine is given at the mercy and the will of God to those who have surrendered their individual self at the lotus feet of their holy Gurus. Invoke love and gratitude in those hearts that are willing to serve others and refrain from those actions in which you lose your precious time.
I bless all of you if you will make special efforts to go deep within yourself and contemplate. Remove all the remaining portions of your ignorance by doing daily meditations, praying and maintaining silence. These actions will purify you and make you peaceful. The manifestation of soul is due to prolonged peace of mind. Manifest your soul with the lingering peace of the Divine within you. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om.”
Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-II
10.05.13
Dear readers, we were discussing the reason why does it take the human soul to manifest so exceedingly late before the description of the exclusive experience was narrated. Why does it take so, so long to manifest our soul?
One of the main reasons what Shri Mahavatar Babaji explained to me was that we human beings are drowned in our ignorance and do not have the realizations of the eternal Truths. We do not know that there is God’s presence on this Earth, around us and even inside us. We do not surrender to that all pervading Force and we go on doing endless, erring karmas which are detrimental and harmful to us. If we once understand that our life is sacred, temporarily given by God to only manifest that divinity in us, we shall be blessed.
There is a certain order, a definite mechanism governed by God which we are unable to see because of the dark covering of our weaknesses of evil thoughts, greed, immorality, falsehood, lust, anger and many other human shortcomings and flaws. The aim of pursuing spirituality should be living each day and each moment surrendering to the sweet will of God, the Supreme. If we are not driven by our weaknesses, we can slowly bit by bit uncover the pure, joyous incredible soul in us. Living with the brightness and beauty of our soul shall remove all our miseries, illness, misfortunes, ill luck, unhappiness and mental depression. Divine Will or the initiative of God is not known to humans and we begin to live by our own ideas and egocentric habits.
Today lack of morality, no faith in God and greed to consume has forced the humanity to come to a point of no return and create a sick society.
The entire world worships Lord Krishna in various glorious forms of life roles that he had donned when he was alive. Krishna means Universal Spirit. But who meditates with Krishna’s Presence inside to get AtmaSakshatkar?
So learn to meditate to stop the disturbed, agitated and avaricious mind to anchor to the divine presence in you. The Divine is present in us but we cannot access it because we are already preoccupied with incessant senseless direction of our life because of desires, egocentric activities and engrossed in worthless possessions. You will know God’s will if you meditate with pious intentions with a sincere and earnest mind. Bring yourself more closer to God in times of God communication and say your prayers with all your love and devotion.
Maam Ekam Sharnam Vraj…….
Sarvadharmaanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraj I
Aham tyaam sarvapapebhyo mokshyishyami ma shuch II
Resigning all your duties to Me, the all powerful and all pervading Lord, take refuge in Me alone. I shall absolve you of all sins, worry not.
From Bhagwad Gita chapter 18, verse 66.
What is Truth?-III
30.06.13
My mental dialogue in my meditations with the Jagadguru Maharaj Shri Mahavatar Babaji coincides with the relevance of today’s topic. It was held sometime during my quiet moments with him in May end and sometime later in early June. My thirst to learn from Him about the eternal Truths remains unquenched. It is again offered at the Holy Lotus Feet of the Great Himalayan Master as a small offering of obeisance and love from me to Him-
(Translation to English follows as soon as Hindi lines finish)
Dialogue
S-Mana sundar kab hota hai?
MB-Sundar! Wah sundar tab banta hai jab usmei Eeshwar jaagta hai.
S-Bhagwan mujhse kya chahta hai?
MB-Bhagwan chahta hai tumhare se prakash failey, Satya ka prakash, woh prakash jo sada se hamare andar hai. Eeshwar chahata hai ki hum unko jane kyunki saaransh sari maya ka Brahma mei hi hai. Brahma ko janane ke bad humko kuch janne ke liye hoga hi nahi.
S- Satya ko janana itna kathin kyun hai?
MB-Apne karmo evam sanskaron ke kaaran. Jeeva ko sanskar ulti disha mei udakar le jaten hai, Maya mei. Iske banispat, Eeshwar ko janne ke liye humey ek jagrit Atma ki avashakta padti hai jisse hum swayam ko jane. Hamari Atma mei satya hai. Usme gyan hai, bodh hai. Woh gyan sada raheta hai chahe din ho ki raat, jagrit ya nidra, swasthya ho ya rog, harsh ya shok. Satya ka viprit hota hai andhkaar.
S- Satya kya hai?
MB-Eeshwar, Brahma, Satya ek hi hai. Woh sada se hamare paas tha, humko uska saath nahi mila kyonki maya daayan jaisi humko pahele lubhati hai, phir bhulati hai phir rulati hai. Is Satya ko samjho aur jaano. Sansara nashwar hai. Prakriti mei vinash aur rachana dono hote rahete hai hamesha.
Mana ki maya shanti bhang karti hai. Mana ki gehri maun mei Satya ko jaano. Param shanti Brahma mei hai, usey mahsoos karo apne mana ke andar. Usko dhyan se payo, man mei tatolo, wahin us tahey ke andar, Satya ka nivas hota hai.
Eeshwar ko prem se mana ke andar pukaro, avahan karo, woh prem ki bhasha bahut jaldi samajhta hai. Usey sab bodh hai, usey mana ki bhasha sabki saralta se samajh aati hai. Yadi mana ke andar Eeshwar ke liye prem nirmal ho, to tumhare andar Eeshwar tumhare saamne aajeayega, tum usey pyaar se pukaro apna samajh kar. Mana ko dheela chod kar pure aaram mei aakar Eeshwar ka avahan karo, wo avashya tumhari mana ki sachchi baat ko pura karega.
S- Samadhi kya hai?
MB- Shaant antarman se phuta hua Eeshwariya ananda, ya Eeshwar se gahera avirodh yoga ke akasmaat avsar, jismei kewal Satya ka anubhav ho. Yah mana ki ati shaant awastha hoti hai. Kabhi kabhar shwas Atma ki gaheri shanti mei parivartit ho jati hai. Sadhak ko is awastha ke liye ghor prayatna karna chahiye, usey apne kalyan ke liye samay nikalna hoga.
Samadhi hamari sahaj awastha hai. Is awastha mei sansara ka beej lupt ho jata hai. Isliye paripakva saadhak ko sansari baton se mana ko door rakhna chahiye and mana ke aakhri taheh tak jana hoga apni Atma ko choone ke liye. Samadhi Atma ki swabhik awastaha hai.”
Translation
S-“When is the mind beautiful?”
MB-“Beautiful! It becomes beautiful when God awakens in it.”
S-“What does God want from me?”
MB-“God wants you to spread Light, the Light of the Truth. That Light which is in us since the beginning. God wants us to know Him because the essence of all Maya, the delusion is embedded in it. After we know Brahma, there will be nothing left for us to know.”
S- “Why is it very hard and difficult to know the Truth?”
MB-“Because of our own karmas, and the sanskaras.”
The embedded sanskaras (hidden tendencies) take the ‘jeeva’ (soul) in Maya in the opposite direction altogether. While to know our self, we need a direct contact with a Divine soul who is already awakened. The soul in us is the Truth. It has knowledge, a sense of knowing irrespective of day or night, sleep or wakefulness, sickness or health, joy or gloom. The opposite of Truth is darkness.”
S-“What is Truth?”
MB-“God, Brahma, Truth is all the same. It was with us throughout but we could not associate with it because of the enchantress Maya. It initially bewitches us, and then makes us deluded and forgetful and later makes us cry. Understand this Truth and know this Truth. This world is impermanent. Creation and destruction both go on in Nature all the time.
The delusion or Maya spoils the peace of your mind. Know the Truth in the silence of the mind. The ultimate peace is in Brahma, feel that in your heart. Attain that deep peace with meditation; search inside, after that deep layer beyond the mind you will find Brahma.
Invoke God with love in your heart, call Him, He understands the language of love very swiftly. He comprehends everything; He understands every one’s language of the heart effortlessly. If you have pure love for God inside, God will appear inside you, in front of you; invoke Him as your own beloved. Relax your mind and call upon God; He will truly respond to your sincere calling.”
S-“What is Samadhi?”
MB- “The spell of raptures of euphoria, Divine’s pure bliss, or spells of direct uninterrupted deep connection and union with the Universal Divine Spirit where only Truth exists is samadhi. It is a state of very profound silence. Sometimes breath concludes into silence of the Spirit. It is our natural state and should be pursued by the seeker when he spares time for his own good and welfare.
Samadhi is our natural state. It is a state of lack of worldly thoughts born out of the bubble of the mind’s samsara. So the layers of worldly tendencies should be curbed by the senior advancing sadhak and attempts to touch the base of the Spirit touched to gain Divine’s Truth. Samadhi is Atma’s most natural state of being.”
#180
How to have peace in this inconstant, chaotic and unpredictable world-II
30.03.09
Chapter4 verse 7 and 8
Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati Bharat I
Abbhyuthanam adharmasay tadatmanam srijamyahum II 7
Paritranaaya sadhunam vinashayay ch dushkrutam I
Dharamasansthapnarathaya sambhavami yuge yuge II 8
Arjuna, whenever righteousness is on the decline, the unrighteousness is in the ascendant, then I appear.
For the protection of the virtuous, for the extirpation of evil doers, and for establishing Dharma(righteousness) on a firm footing from time to time.
How to have lasting peace within our hearts?-II
01.09.09
Chapter 7 Verses 27&28
Icchadweshsabuthen dwandmohen bharat 1
Sarvabhutani sammoham sarge yanti parantap 11
Oh valiant Arjuna, through delusion in the shape of pairs of opposites (such as pleasure and pain etc), born of desire and hatred, all living creatures in this world are falling a prey to infatuation.
Yesham twantgatam papam jananam punyakarmanam 1
Te dwandmohanirmukta bhajante maam dradhvrta I1
But those men of virtuous deeds, whose sins have come to an end, being freed from delusion in the shape of pairs of opposites (born of attraction and repulsion) worship Me with a firm resolve in every way.
The importance and power of deep study
15.09.09
In Bhagwat Geeta, in chapter 4, Bhagwan Sri Krishna explains to Arjun that
Shreyandravya mayadhygya gyan yagya paramtap I
Sarvam karmakhilam Partha gyane parismapyate II 33
Arjuna, sacrifice through Knowledge is superior to sacrifice performed with material things. For all actions without exception culminate in Knowledge, O son of Kunti.
Tadwidhi pranipaaten pariprashnen sevaya I
Updekshyanti te gyanam gyaninstatwadarshinaha II 34
Understand the true nature of that Knowledge by approaching illumined souls. If you prostrate at their feet, render them service, and question them with an open and guileless heart, those wise seers of truth will instruct you in that Knowledge.
Yagyagyatva na punarmohammevam yasayasi pandava I
Yena bhutanyasheshena drakshyasyatmanyatho mayi II 35
Arjuna, when you have reached enlightenment, ignorance will delude you no more. In the light of that Knowledge you will see the entire creation first within your own self, and then in Me.
How to cope up with waves of mental distractions-I?
01.10.09
Chapter 6 verses 33, 34, 35
Arjunauvach
Yoyam yogastvaya proktah samyen madhusudan I
Atsyaaham n a pashyami chanchaltwastithim sthirim II33
Arjuna said, Krishna, owing to restlessness of mind, I do not perceive the stability of this Yoga in the form of equanimity which you have just spoken of.
Chanchalam hi manah Krishna pramathi balvaddridham I
Tasyaham nigraham manye vayoriv sudushkaram II 34
For Krishna, the mind is very unsteady, turbulent, tenacious and powerful; I consider it as difficult to control as the wind.
SriBhagwanuvach
Asanshaya mahabhaho mano durnigraham chalam I
Abhyasen tu Kaunteya vairagyen ch grihute II 35
Sri Bhagwan said: The mind is restless no doubt, and difficult to curb, Arjuna; but it can be brought under control by repeated practice of meditation for mind control and by the exercise of act of dispassion, O son of Kunti.
Food and breath control-B
01.12.09
Chapter 17 verses 8,9,10
Ayuhsatvabalaarogya sukhpritivivardhanah I
Rasyah snigdhah sthirahridhya aaharah saatvikpriyah II
Foods which promote longevity, intelligence, vigour, health, happiness and cheerfulness and which are sweet, bland, substantial and naturally agreeable are dear to the Saatvik type of men.
Kattamalalavanatyushnateekshnarukshavidahina I
Aahara rajasyeshta dukhshokaamyaprada II
Foods which are bitter, acidic, salty, over hot or spicy, pungent, dry and burning and which cause suffering, grief and sickness are dear to the Rajasik type of men.
Yatayamam gataras puti paryushitam cha yat I
Uchchishtmapi chamedhyam bhojanam tamaspriyam II
Food which is half cooked or half ripe, insipid, putrid, stale and polluted, and which is impure too, is dear to men of Tamasik disposition.
Breath control
Chapter 4 verses 29,30
Apane juhivti pranam praneapanam tathapare I
Pranaapangati ruddhwa pranayamparayanaah II
Apare niyatahaarah prananpraneshu juhavati I
Sarvepyete yagyavido yagyakshapitkalmashi II
Translation-Other yogis offer the act of exhalation into that of inhalation, even so other, the act of inhalation into that of exhalation. There are still others given to practice of Pranayam (breath control), who having regulated their diet and controlled the process of exhalation and inhalation both pour their vital airs themselves. All these have their sins consumed away by sacrifice and understand the meanings of sacrificial worship.
This shloka is about performing sacrifices or yagyas with many things, one of them sacrificing the prana and indicates observing the incoming and outgoing breath through the scientific techniques developed by sages for regulating breathing.
What is Karma?-I
04.03.10
Chapter 4 verses 16, 17
Kim karma kimkarmaeti kavyoapyatra mohita I
Tatte karma pravkshyami yagygyatva mokshyaseshubhat II 16
What is action and what is inaction? Even men of intelligence are puzzled over this question. Therefore I shall expound to you the truth about action, knowing which you will be freed from its evil effects, its binding nature.
Karmano huapi bodhvyam ch vikarmana: I
Akarmanashch bodhvyam gahana karmano gati: II 17
The truth about action must be known and the truth about inaction also must be known; even so the truth about prohibited action must be known. For mysterious are its ways.
Karma literally means ‘to do’. Karma means an action or an activity that we perform.
Vikarma are the prohibited actions called sins or paap in Hindi. Paapare of three types- paap, mahapaap and jaghanya paap. These are sins in increasing order and in intensity and therefore severe punishment is ordained by the lord through nature.( Refer post-How to live today-?)
Akarma means non attachment to an action, doing what is right for us at that moment by submitting our desire, will or ego and being unaffected by its following outcome, knowing completely well that it is in our best interest although at that moment our mind may not be at rest and we might have doubts on the abilities of God’s power. This is the main underlying principle, the essence of the sacred book Gita where Bhagwan Krishna preaches Arjuna not to worry about the consequences of his actions and do whatever Krishna tells him because Krishna is antaryami, the knower of all the buried thoughts, the knower of all our past and future lives. Being akarmi or non doer is a state of mind, it is the door to heaven, a means to gain stability of mind, the secret of enjoying uninterrupted joy and a release from appalling effects in the form of sorrow, gloom, mental tension, pain, misfortune, poverty etc in future.
What is Karma?-II
15.03.10
Chapter 2 verse 47
Karmanyevadhikaraste ma faleshu kadachana I
Ma karmafalheturbhurma te sangoastvakarmani II
Translation
You certainly have the right for prescribed activities but never at any time in the yielding results. There should be no attachment in either performing your actions or the results of them.
Interpretation
The mind of the worldly person is turbulent by nature, it is full of cravings for worldly stuff, and is made up of dualities of likes and dislikes. The senses carry away forcibly the mind of the man. The inner core or chitta has impure tendencies called sanskaras and when actions are performed with hidden tendencies of ego, greed, evil or selfish motives the result of the actions will have a direct negative impact on the doer. Therefore Bhagwan Krishna suggests that you should not worry about the results, just do your actions properly with sincerity and devotion.
The results or fruits of our actions are delivered according to the intention of our karmas.
If the intention of our thoughts of action is good, nature bestows beneficial and harmonious results. If we perform actions with impurities like jealousy, anger, hate, greediness, ego, the results will have harmful consequences and impact us adversely. As the man has very little knowledge about his own well being, he does actions which are contrary to his spiritual as well as personal growth. Therefore Bhagwan Krishna advocates that do not eye for the results, only perform your duties, the call of the hour. He says that you should not desire for the result primarily because the impurities of the mind will contaminate or adulterate your results.
It is only by being detached, that the dross of worldly impurities are wiped out from the chitta gradually. Our inner self gets purified till a stage of unselfishness is achieved. The mind and senses are thus at rest and composure is accomplished.
If we become detached, the mind becomes stable. A calm and stable mind experiences peace. Yoga of equanimity for wise men possessing an equipoised mind renouncing the fruit of actions are freed from the shackles of birth and attain blissful supreme state.
Offering the fruit of actions to God, the karmayogi attains everlasting peace in the form of God realization, whereas he who works with selfish motives, being attached to the fruit of actions through ego, desires gets tied down.
What is Karma?-III
01.04.10
The last verse of Bhagwat Gita says in chapter 18 says-
Yatra Yogeshwarah Krishno yatra Partho dhanurdhanah I
Tatra shrivijayo bhutirdhruva nitirmatirmam II
Wherever there is Bhagwan SriKrishna, and wherever there is Lord of Yoga and wherever there is Arjuna, the weilder of Gandiva bow, goodness victory, glory and unfailing righteousness are there, such is my conviction.
What is renunciation?-I
15.04.10
Chapter 5 verse 10, 11, 12
Brahmanadhaya karmani sanga tyaktva karoti ya I
Lipyate na sa papen padmapatramivambhasa II
He who acts offering all actions to God and shaking off all attachment remains untouched by sins as the lotus leaf by water.
Kayen mansa budhaya kewalayirindriyairapi I
Yogin karam kurvanti sanga tyaktavatmashudhaye II
The karamyogi performs actions only with his senses, mind, intellect and body as well, withdrawing his feeling of mine and shaking off sense of attachment for the sake of self- purification of inner self.
Yukta karmafalam tyaktva shantimaproti naishtikim I
Ayukta kamkaren fale sakto nibadhyate II
Offering the fruit of action to God, the karamyogi attains everlasting peace in the form of God realization, whereas he who works with a selfish motive, being attached to the fruit of actions through desires gets tied down.
The state of Super Consciousness-I
30.12.10
Chapter 15 verse 1
Urdhva mulam adhah shakhamashwatham prahuravyayam I
Chandasi yasya parnani yastam veda sa vedavit II
The state of Super Consciousness-III
20.01.11
Chapter 4, verse 8
Paritranya sadhunam, vinashaya ch dushkritam I
Dharmasansthapnarthayam sambhami yuge yuge II I
Lord Krishna tells Arjuna: To deliver the pious and holy, to destroy evil, and to establish Dharma, truth I shall manifest and appear in every era.
Expand your Consciousness-I
30.01.11
Chapter 15 verse 1
Urdhva mulam adhah shakhamashwatham prahuravyayam I
Chandasi yasya parnani yastam veda sa vedavit II
Ashwattha is the other name of Banyan Tree. Ashwattha meansshashwat, that never ends, eternal.
There are two types of men in this world those who know and those who do not know- The gyani and agyani respectively. Majority of people come in this world without knowing who has created them and this world and get completely entangled in the maya jal the webmire ofmaya or delusion. They repeatedly come in this world because of theirvasanas or desires for physical world and are therefore called ignorant and compared to an inverted Banyan Tree in this shloka. The falling roots upside down are the roots of ignorance in the inverted tree. They are contrary to what they should be ideally and therefore the tree is shown upside down.
While the wise men, come in this world, do not get too entangled, go to a guru, take Vedic or esoteric knowledge from him, cut down the branches of their ignorance with an axe of wisdom and are compared with a Banyan Tree which stands firmly on its roots and is absolutely grounded. Those men who have knowledge of God are firmly grounded and do not get swayed with the storms of enticing maya.
So much for the explanation of the verse 1 of Geeta chapter 15.
Expand your Consciousness-III
20.02.11
Chapter 18 verse 66
Sarvadharmanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraja I
Aham tva sarvapapebhoya mokshayishyami ma shuchaha II Bhagwad Geeta
Translation-Resigning all your duties to Me, the all powerful and all supporting Lord, take refuge in Me alone, I shall absolve you of all sins, worry not.
Kriya Shakti, the power to act-II
10.06.11
Chapter 2 verse 58 & 61
Yada sanharte chayam kurmoanganiva sarvasha: I
Indrayaniindriyayartheabhyastaya pragya prathishtha II
Translation:
When like a tortoise, which draws in its limbs from all directions, the yogi withdraws his senses from the sense objects, his mind is stable.
Tani sarvani samyamya yukta aaseet matpara:I
Vashe hi yasyeindrayani tasya pragya prathishtha II
Therefore, having controlled them all and collected his mind one should sit for meditation, devoting one’s heart and soul to Me. For he, whose senses are mastered is known to have a stable mind.
Kriya Shakti, the power to act-III
20.06.11
Chapter 6
Arjunauvach:
Yoyam yogastvaya proktah samyen madhusudan I
Atsyaaham na pashyami chanchaltwastithim sthirim II 33
Arjuna said- Krishna, owing to restlessness of mind, I do not perceive the stability of this Yoga in the form of equanimity which you have just spoken of.
Chanchalam hi manah Krishna pramathi balvaddridham I
Tasyaham nigraham manye vayoriv sudushkaram II 34
For Krishna, the mind is very unsteady, turbulent, tenacious and powerful; I consider it as difficult to control as the wind.
SriBhagwanuvach:
Asanshaya mahabhaho mano durnigraham chalam I
Abhyasen tu Kaunteya vairagyen ch grihute II 35
Sri Bhagwan said- The mind is restless no doubt, and difficult to curb, Arjuna; but it can be brought under control by repeated practice of meditation for mind control and by the exercise of act of dispassion, O son of Kunti.
Why is peace is so essential for a seeker?-I
20.07.11
There is a shloka in the Bhagwad Gita about yogi: Chapter 2 Verse 69
Yaa Nisha Sarva bhootanaam Tasyam Jagarati Samyamee I
Yasyaam Jagrati Bhootani Saa Nishaa Pashyato Munehe II
That which is night to all beings, in that state, the God realized yogi is awake. Where all beings are awake in the ever changing, transient worldly happiness, that is the night for the seer, one who knows the Self.
How should one read the holy book Bhagwad Gita?
First and foremost we must invoke the spirit of Lord Krishna and his chief disciple Arjuna, both.
Lord Krishna will impart the eternal knowledge of Self while the all pervading Spirit of Arjuna will teach us how to be an ideal disciple of the Spiritual Master and mentor. And how to balance one’s inner spiritual life with the outer physical and material world consisting of our family, relatives, society, profession and others areas; that is to say that the inner world and the outer world must meet and converge on a positive note. We need to learn to balance both for our happiness, emotional security and sustained peace of mind.
Now we turn to the meaning of the verse-
This verse indeed is very tricky yet interesting because of the analogy of a learned man, the seer with day and the ignorant with night and how contrast they are; yet there is no contradiction in the mind of the seer. The beginners do get baffled by this intriguing example which is also the case of the instance of an inverted Banyan Tree in chapter 15 verse 1. The Banyan Tree is a simile and a comparison of spiritual ignorance of the masses of the world with that of the ancient tree. There is a post on this shloka- Expand your consciousness-I where the verse is explained in the last portion.
Please know that there are two types of men in this world- Those who are aware and awakened in Atman and those who are not, categorized as gyani and agyani- knower and ignorant respectively. Nearly everyone in this world is ignorant in spiritual awareness barring a few handfuls.
The gyani or knower as the word suggests means one who knows, one who has spiritual knowledge, lives in divine illumination and light irrespective of day or night. Inside him there is brightness of wisdom, wakefulness and the light of God kindling and in this way he always lives in day and light. His senses and mind are in control and all his actions are performed with divine inspiration and wisdom. He views the Cosmic Universe as a manifestation of God’s creation and knows that he is not a doer and hence does not claim any credit for any good actions that he performs.
Whereas all the other people called the agyani or ignorant live in darkness or night without any wisdom and light doing all sorts of sinful, immoral and senseless activities throughout their lives. These two types of people are contrary in nature like day and night. So while the agyani lives in darkness, the gyani resides in light of God. The gyaninever ‘sleeps’ and the agyani is in night because of darkness of ignorance inside him. The ever changing, transitory worldly happiness is night for the yogi while the agyani runs after worldly fleeting happiness. The gyani finds happiness in discovering the revelations of God’s blissful nature and finds it priceless. The agyani on the other hand has no idea that all the other luring, short-term sensual happiness will turn into misery and lingering sorrows. Knowing so, thegyani discards the fleeting, illusory happiness and attains lasting happiness, joy and peace which is permeated in Divine Communion!!
These two types of wise and ignorant are men that are poles apart.
Nevertheless, the gyani does not get perturbed by all this because he knows that wondrous God is arduous to perceive and attain while achieving senseless and incongruous goals are a lot easier to accomplish. The gyani practices yoga, stability of mind, spends his time and breath in unselfish actions called nishkaam karma while the ignorant spends his whole life indulging in and running after insubstantial and earthly things because of greed and desire and also seeks corporeal pleasures. Besides this, he does not have complete faith in God. Such people are in an unconscious state; they are in ‘sleep’ or darkness. So while the whole world sleeps in darkness of ignorance, the gyani is persistently awake with the flame of divine illumination which illuminates his life, mind, thoughts and deeds.
The ignorant lives only for himself sustaining on his little self and complex desires thus creating a long chain of future reincarnations while the knower performs all his deeds to delight God and his spiritual teachers and in turn remains in ecstasy. Strangely, outwardly both the knower and the ignorant look the same but it is their consciousness, type of thinking and actions which sets them apart.
Though the gyani sees that most of the people are far from being wise, unselfish and caring; he is calm and maintains his composure because he has already realized that this is maya and people will remain indelusion as long as they do not intend breaking that veil of ignorance with their own wish and intent.
Hence the last verses 70 & 71
Aapuryamananchalpratishtham samudramapam: pravishanti yadvat I
Tadvatkama yam pravishanti sarve sa shantimaproti na kamkami II
As the waters of different rivers enter the ocean; which though full on all sides remains undisturbed, likewise he in whom all enjoyments merge themselves attains peace; not he who hankers after such enjoyments.
The ecstatic yogi after experiencing God in him becomes like an ocean where all types of waters trickle and pour in him yet he does not become overwhelmed. Like the ocean, he too assimilates everything silently because of his deep wisdom and unyielding peace of mind.
He acknowledges that this sansara will remain in a steady flow, in influx of constant changes, people will come and go, there will deaths and births, happiness and sorrow will take turns, there will be loss and gain in his life but he is Atman, the unchanging Spirit, the source of all illumination, peace and ecstasy and he is That!
And the last verse says:
Vihaya kamanya: sarvanpumamshrchrati nispriha I
Nirmamo nirhankar sa shantimadhigachati II
He, who has given up all desires and moves free from attachment, egoism and thirst for enjoyment attains peace.
So dear readers, we began with why is it so essential to have peace as seekers and we have ended up by knowing that by giving up all the attachments, egoism, self-indulgence and thirsting for worldly desires brings us lasting peace; that state of a seer which can be compared to an ocean which does not get disturbed by all the activities that are carried out in and around it.
That’s why in the previous verses in second chapter, Lord Krishna first enlightens Arjuna about indestructibility of Atman, the Self and then goes on to advocate him to cross over from his current wavering state to equanimity by discarding dualities present in this world after which the mind becomes steady. Once the mind is in constant equilibrium for an extensive time period; he connects to God, our Atman, the state of perfect equanimity and unending peace.
Qualities of a real seeker
20.08.11
As I bring to a close this post, I remember a few lines from Bhagwat Geeta from Chapter 2 from verses 64, 65 & 66. The eternal spiritual wisdom in it stands true even today: these shlokas seem to conclude everything that a struggling seeker must acquire and I would be keen on to quote them here…
Raagdveshviyuktaiastu vishyaniindriiyaishrachran I
Atmavashyaivirdheyatma prasadamdhigachati II 64
But the self controlled Sadhak while enjoying the various sense objects through his senses, which are disciplined and free from likes and dislikes, attains placidity of mind.
Prasade sarvadukhanam hanirsyopajayate I
Prasannachetaso hvashu buddhi: paryavatishthate II 65
With the attainment of such placidity of mind, all his sorrows come to an end; and the intellect of such a person of tranquil mind soon withdrawing itself from all sides, becomes firmly established in God.
Naasti budhiryuktasya na chayuktasya bhavana I
Na chabhavayata: shantirshantasya kutu: sukham II 66
He who has not controlled his mind and senses can have no reason; nor can such an undisciplined man think of God. The unthinking man can have no peace; and how can there be happiness for one lacking peace of mind?
Who are you?-III
20.12.12
In Bhagwat Geeta, Arjuna faces a similar dilemma when he tells Lord Krishna in chapter 6 verses 34 and 35
Chanchalam hi mana Krishna pramathi balvadhadham I
Tasyaham nighraham manye vayoriv sudushkaram II
For Krishna, the mind is very unsteady, turbulent, tenacious and powerful; therefore I consider it as difficult to control as the wind.
Shri Bhagwanuvach
Asanshayam mahabaho mano durnighrham chalam I
Abhyasen tu kaunteya vairagyen ch grihate II
Shri Bhagwan said: The mind is restless no doubt and difficult to curb, Arjuna; but it can be brought under control by repeated practice of meditation and by the exercise of dispassion, O son of Kunti.
Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-II
10.05.13
Sarvadharmaanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraj I
Aham tyaam sarvapapebhyo mokshyishyami ma shuch II
Resigning all your duties to Me, the all powerful and all pervading Lord, take refuge in Me alone. I shall absolve you of all sins, worry not.
From Bhagwad Gita chapter 18, verse 66.
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What is the purpose of my life?
10.07.08
“Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya.”
Om- the sound of God.
Namo- I bow to you.
Bhagwate- God.
Vasudeva- All pervading God.
Literally, it means- I bow to you, the all-pervading God.
Peace-the quality of our Soul
30.01.09
Sarve bhavantu sukhina . Sarve santu niramaya. Sarve bhadrani pashyantu. Ma kashchit dukhbhag bhavet.
May all be happy. May all be without disease. May all have well-being. May none have misery of any type.
Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.14
Ignite the flame of Illumination-II
20.02.09
Om Namo Bhagwate Nityananda.
Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu.
Gururo Devo Maheshwara.
Guru sakshat para Brahma
Tasmai Shri Gurvai namah.
The process of liberation
20.05.09
Om Namo Bhagwate! Om Namo Bhagwate! Om Namo Bhagwate!!
(Chant this mantra repeatedly silently or aloud for a long time for releasing your soul from all the chains and bondages of the mind and its long, lingering ignorance)
How to make your life extra-ordinary from ordinary?
01.11.09
Hare Nityananda, Paavan Nityananda, Hare Nityananda Paavan Nityananda ……
This means:-
Hare (Ishwar, Lord) Nityananda (Nitya means always ananda means bliss, Paavan (Pure) Nityananda
Swami Shaligram composed this mantra when he was alive for his Param Guru Swami Nityananda and it was seen by people then that He would be immersed in this mantra chanting for hours and would be totally lost in Divine union during that time.
How to increase the power of your will?-C
15.12.09
Om Nama Shivaya
There is an original and causal power concealed in the mantra ‘Om Namah Shivaya’. If one chants this mantra reverentially as well as faithfully, he will soon find his path of salvation. Those who wish to have a Guru, will find a guru. If the person decides to meditate, sooner or later he will surely find his steps and methods of sadhana including specific meditation techniques. And if someone wishes to increase his power of will, he will achieve that too.
Kundalini Shakti-III (D) Devi Mantra
01.02.20
Sarva mangalam maangaleye Shive sarvarth sadhike I
Sharanye Trayambake Gauri Narayani namostute II
Meaning: O Mother! You are the personification of all that is auspicious. You are the benevolent form of Lord Shiva. You bestow Divine energy and help people achieve righteousness, wealth, fulfill desires and liberation. You are worthy of being surrendered to. Three eyes adorn you O Devi! O Narayani Devi I pay obeisance to you!
What is renunciation?-II
01.05.10
Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram
Devotion-I
15.05.10
Shri Krishna Govind Harey Murare, hey Nath Narayan Vasudevaya.
Devotion-II
01.06.10
Jai Jagdish Harey, Keshav Jai Jagdish Harey.
Hey Krishna, Hey Govind, Hey Murari,
Hey Krishna, Hey Govind, Hey Murari,
Harey Ram Harey Ram Ram Ram Harey Harey, Harey Krishna Harey Krishna Krishna Krishna Harey Harey
Achyutam Keshavam Krishna Damodaram Ram Narayanam Janki Vallabham…,
Vasudeva Vasudevam Kansachanur mardanam, Devaki Parmanandam Krishnam Vande Jagat gurum.
How to go on a pilgrimage?
20.09.10
Om Mani Padme Hum
Improving our Thought Power-II
10.04.11
The Vedic prayer for all mankind is-
Om Sarve Bhavantu sukhinah
Sarve santu niraamaya
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu
Maakashchid dukh bhaag bhavet
Om shanti, shanti, shanti Om.
Translation
May we all be happy,
May all be free from disease and enjoy health and freedom,
May all possess good luck and prosperity,
May no one suffer even on dark days,
Om peace, peace, peace…
Improving our Thought Power-III
20.04.11
Bhumi Mangalam, Udak Mangalam
Agni Mangalam, Vayu Mangalam
Gagan Mangalam, Surya Mangalam
Chandra Mangalam, Jagat Mangalam
Jiva Mangalam, Deha Mangalam
Mano Mangalam, Atma Mangalam
Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu
Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu
Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om .
Translation:
May there be auspiciousness and tranquility on earth, in water, in fire, in the wind, in the sky, in the sun, on the moon, on our planet, in all living beings, in the body, in the mind and in the spirit.
May that tranquillity be everywhere and in everyone.
Om shanti, shanti shanti Om.
The role of ‘power of will’ in a seeker’s life-II
10.05.11
Asatoma sadgamaya
Tamsoma jyotirgamaya
Mrityorma amritamgamaya
Om shanti, shanti, shanti, Om!
Translation:
Oh Lord! Lead us from ignorance to Truth
From darkness to Light and
From death to immortality
Om Shanti, shanti, shanti Om!!
This is a Shanti Mantra, a hymn of peace from ancient Rig Veda.
The role of ‘power of will’ in a seeker’s life-III
20.05.11
Om Sahana Vavatu
Sahanau Bhunaktu
Sahaveeryam Karavavahai
Tejas Vinavadhi Tamastu
Maa vidhvishavahai
Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi!
Meaning:-
Om! May God protect us both, the teacher and the student,
May God nourish us both,
May we both acquire the capacity to study and understand the scriptures well.
May we work together with energy and vigour,
May our study be enlightening, not giving rise to hostility,
Om, Peace, Peace and Peace!
This is peace mantra from Taittariya Upanishada of Yajurveda and invokes peace for both- the teacher and the learner. It also advocates a sense of oneness amongst fellow-beings. It should be sung whenever collective learning takes place by the student or the Master.
Energy sources of a yogi and a seeker.
30.06.11
Narayan Narayan Hari Hari, Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari
Why is peace of mind so hard to achieve?
10.07.11
Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar; Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar ; Hey Prabho, Hey Eeshwar.
Why is peace so essential for a seeker?-II
30.07.11
Narayan Narayan Hari Hari Prabhu Narayan Narayan Hari Hari
Why is it mandatory to have a Divine Guru?-I
30.08.11
Om! Poornamadah Purnamidam Poornat Poornamudachyate
Poornasya Poornamaadaya Poornamevaavashishyate
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om!!
This is a Vedic prayer from Isha Upanishada which means-
That is Perfect; this is Perfect
Perfect comes from Perfect
Take Perfect from Perfect
The remainder is Perfect.
Meaning-That Supreme Consciousness is perfect. The manifested Universe of matter of maya– of names and forms is perfect and complete. From perfection is born perfection. When fullness and perfection merges in that fullness, all that remains is mere perfection.
From Brahma we have come and in Brahma we shall dissolve.
Why is it mandatory to have a Divine Guru?-II
10.09.11
Brahmanandam Param Sukhdam Kevalam Gyanmurtim
Dwandateetam Gagansadrisham Tatvamasyadi Lakshyam
Ekam Nityam Vimalam Achalam Sarvadi Sakshi Bhootam
Bhavateetam Trigunarahitam, Sadgurum Tvam Namami
Sadgurum Tvam Namami, Sadgurum Tvam NamamiI
Our lost rich heritage-III
30.11.11
“Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina, Sarve Santu Niramaya, Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu, Maa Kaschit Dukha Bhagh Bhavet”
May we all be happy, may we all be disease free, may we all have well-being, may none have misery or sorrow of any kind.
Blessing as illumination
19.08.12
‘Hey Ishwar, Hey Prabhu, Hey Bhagwan, Hey Narayan, Hey Parmatma, Hey Jagannath, Hey Dayanidhe, Hey Kripa Sindhu, Hey Deenbandhu, Hey Deenanath, Hey Sarva Rakshak, Hey Sarvahitkari, Hey Sarva Palankarta, Hey Sarva Shaktimaan, Hey Sarva Vyapak, Hey Bhagwan……..’
(Oh God, Oh Universal Lord, Oh Merciful Lord, Oh Compassionate God, Oh Blessed Lord, Oh Lord of the downtrodden, Oh Protector of all, Oh Benefactor of all, Oh Almighty God, Oh Omnipresent God……)
Who are you?-II
10.12.12
Chidananda rupah, Shivoham Shivoham
Who are you?-III
20.12.12
Hari Om Tatsat, Hari Om Tatsat, Hari Om Tatsat!
The procedure and progression of knowing our soul-I
30.01.13
Om Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari; Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari; Guru Narayan Narayan Hari Hari…….
The procedure and progression of knowing our soul-II
10.02.13
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam, Purnat Purnamudachyate
Purnasya Purnamadaya, Purnameva Vashishyate
Om shanti, shanti, shanti Om……
#178
The Light of the world-Shri Mahavatar Babaji-I
30.06.08
Grace in Solitude
Solitude is the time when the soul comes in direct contact with the Spirit. The Spirit, the source of true knowledge and understanding.
As I returned from a quiet evening walk to my abode, the Spirit silently descended over my being and revealed to me that was so far unknown.
I remembered a dear soul whose heart ached and could no longer hold its own weight. My heart went out to give solace and tend to this tired soul.
Our ache and helplessness became one, from where came the source of the pain and who was sharing it became blurred.
His pain became mine and I the source of his load, the way it is difficult to differentiate the light from its glowing radiance.
Just then my eyes became moist and wet, and a drop of tear filled the eyes.
My heart was filled with a mild and poignant pang and in no time it took over my complete self.
How else can I give relief and more comfort to the soul who wants to help itself but does not know how to do so?
A few fleeting moments passed by when my Spirit, in the form of a Voice spoke to me in a calm tone – “Vasudeva is very pleased with you. You have risen many steps upward today.”
“Higher than the worship of deities is the worship of Guru. Higher still is the worship of mankind.
God is worshipped best if worshipped through mankind. Those who love and worship humanity is loved the most by God himself.”
Mental prosperity
30.07.08
Divine Will
Each and every atom in the Cosmic Universe is created with the ignition of the spark.
Every atom that exists in the Cosmic Consciousness is nothing but Light.
We are created and exist because of the existence and presence of God created atoms.
Every atom conceivable is created by Divine Light.
And each atom ever created has been created by Divine Will.
This Divine revelation when unfolded and discovered upon me.
Unearthed to me one of the most hidden secrets of Creativity.
I bow to you my Divine, my Master and true Preceptor.
For revealing such sacred knowledge, pious and Supreme.
What you revealed is so pure, so pristine.
So very genteel, yet so startling.
It has unformed and disintegrated the fragile, glassy walls in my mind.
From which I could see You, but touch You not.
Your Supreme Grace has cascaded on me once more.
My sweet and beloved Divine was hidden so near, yet so far.
Can any word of gratitude suffice for the greatness and magnitude
of your Grace, dear?
That you have showered on me, my dearly loved, Supreme and my Creator.
How come I and not others are your continued blessed receivers?
I wonder at this moment and find no true justification.
Except that it may perhaps be only because of some extra-ordinary good deeds.
That I must have created for myself, back in space in time, unknown to me.
And as you are ceaselessly very gracious and benevolent.
And we your naïve children in your warm and secure shelter.
Offer and give you so very little, as small is our might and capacity.
And you the force behind this Magnum Opus, the all giver Father of the World.
But now that you have revealed to me that
Every tiny particle in this Infinite Creation is created at your impulse and will.
Hence I am now convinced and surely know that
Whatever meritorious deeds I did in the past.
Was in reality driven and created by your mere will!
And very stealthily you impose on me that
It was I who did it!!
No, my Lord, no. It can’t ever be me.
It is just you and you and just you.
I now know that the wheel of this Cosmic Creation.
Is rested upon your magnificent creative powers.
You are the Creator, Preserver and the Destroyer.
I am merely a spectator who bows to you in servile humility.
It is only you and you and you my beloved Lord.
It is you who is present in all the unseen and seen manifestations.
Every letter and word that my fingers move to create this manuscript.
Has emerged, is being created and written by You, You and only you.
Silent Praying
In this hour of twilight, my mind is at rest and peace is more.
The gentle peace is the step by which I bridge the gap and
Reach the inner chambers of my house of silence!
I have walked in and ask in awe.
Who resides here?
I recognize His presence very well now.
As He says not anything, but says it all!
He is mute but speaks to me when we are alone.
His words are like the silent flow of a stream on a hill.
The water so refreshing, cool and sweet.
The life-giving amber ambrosia on which He feeds me.
Is the sweet nectar which He quietly gives me.
Give me more as it is the Life in it.
Which sparks my mind like tiny meteors in the sky.
The sparkling of the sparks illumine me and I know that
You are the one who holds the lamp of the Light in my mind.
Illumine me more as I wish to know and feel you even more.
Nothing else I ask of you, but one thing now.
Transform my mind to enable me to acquire mental prosperity.
Like shimmering golden sparklers on a moonless sky create ripples of joy.
The sparkling of silent illumination in my mind gives me peaceful happiness abound!
What is love?
30.12.08
In love we shall find God,
In love we shall attain peace,
In love is hidden our salvation,
In love is hidden salvations for others.
Love means to give and never ask,
Love means to give freedom and never tie,
Love means to receive whatever comes your way,
Without a grouse, complaint or a sigh.
Love means to endure, even if you think you can’t take it anymore,
Love means doing things for others which you never did before,
Love means giving respect for their ideas, beliefs and unique thoughts of mind,
Knowing that one day they will converge with yours.
All roads lead to one destination,
That is the abode of God,
No matter where, when we met and how,
All that matters is we have met at last with a purpose in mind,
Our love is true and must meet every test of time,
We both must hold hands together and must attempt the climb,
The next step of transformation and ascent,
To prove to ourselves that we have met with the wish of our Maker.
In these moments of utmost happiness and joy,
Let us not forget and enter the stupor,
Or else the purpose of our meeting will be lost.
So arise, arise, arise and arise and you shall climb.
Till you see the Light of the creator in you,
And re-awaken the Glory and Honour that was once yours,
So that the world will see you and
Through your grand work for the Divine
Will be reminded to others that
Do not be in a state of quiescent,
Know that the Light of God is present everywhere,
In you, me and everyone.
Know that in God you shall find full rest and peace,
In God lie all the answers to all the queries of the fleeting world,
One cannot ever rest well unless he rests in God through his soul,
So rest your mind and body in God alone!
Using the creative powers of visualization
20.01.09
My Lord! You give me Inspiration
Inspiration is blind without creation
I call you, my Divine to make me your
Space of beauty and rhyme.
Create in me something never created before
And create so beautiful that never seen before!
The power to create by mental and Spiritual visualization
In our mind lies the power to create.
In our mind lie the thoughts.
Our thoughts have power contained in them.
To make them dynamic, strong and come true
Invoke Divine Will and use Divine perceptions.
Throw and beam your thoughts in the Cosmic Universe.
Soon you will see Nature at your command.
See your ideas, visions and dreams
Shaping up, bit by bit, like the bricks in the castle.
Weave dreams around your aspirations, lofty ideas and soft fluffy wishes.
Create visuals in your mind like a design on a fabric.
Soon you shall see the vibrant colours and hues of the motifs coming up alive,
Like a beautiful garden full of blooming roses.
Inhale the intoxicating fragrance of the lovely roses floating in the misty air.
Drink the nectar of peace, serenity and fulfilling joy.
Design and create your own wonderful tomorrows
By the warps and wefts of creative visualization and mental imagery.
Keep on weaving your dreams till one day they manifest
Like a heavenly angel straight from the fairy tale!!!
Our lives are in our hands-III
10.05.09
Agar atma prakash karna chhate ho to shubh, hitkari, swarthheen karam karo.
Nishkam karam mukti ka dwar hai, rasta hai.
Nishkam karam man ko shanti deta hai.
Nishkam karam-bandhan se mukti deta hai.
Nishkam karam do dilo ko jodta hai. Raag, bhaye ko door bhagata hai.
Nishkam karam punyai ka ambar lagata.
Nishkam karam se Arjun ko Krishna mil jata hai.
If you wish to have Divine Illumination, then perform beneficial, selfless actions.
Selfless acts are the door to salvation, is the path of salvation.
Selfless acts give peace of mind.
Selfless acts free us from the bondage of results of our actions.
Selfless acts join two hearts. It eliminates anger and fear.
Selfless acts add to your treasure trove of virtuous acts.
With selfless acts, Arjuna (devotee) finds his beloved Lord Krishna (God)
Devotion-II
01.06.10
One particular devotional song moved me to the core right from the moment I heard it. Whenever I would sing or memorize a specific stanza, it would bring tears in my eyes spontaneously. I would get choked as though the story was my very own. My heart would tear in pieces when I envisioned a picture of Draupadi’s appalling and pathetic state in the hands of the wretched Kauravas. And my heart would well up with gratitude when I would think and imagine how Lord Krishna came to rescue Draupadi who was distraught with so much anguish and distress.
The words of that stanza in Hindi were-
Madho, Madho.. Tum ghat ghat ke ho basaiyya,
Madho Madho…
Drupad suta ja din nirbal bhaiyee
Kinhi kripa dayala
Dusshasan ka maan ghatayo aru
Mukh kinho kala.
Translation:
Oh! Madho ( Madhav is one of the many names of Lord Krishna)
You are present everywhere. Madho, madho…
The day the daughter of Drupad- Draupadi
Became weak and was in a pathetic condition
You showered mercy on her and oh! compassionate Krishna
You shattered the pride of Dusshasan
And blackened his face.
Madho, Madho…
Why is Atman difficult to know?
20.11.10
Light the lamp of Thy Love
In my house, with Thine own hands,
Light the lamp of thy love!
Thy transmuting, lamp entrancing,
Wondrous are its rays,
Change my darkness to Thy light Lord!
Change my darkness to Thy light,
And my evil into good,
Touch me but once and I will change,
All my clay into Thy gold.
All the sense lamps that I did light
Sooted into worries.
Sitting at the door of my soul,
Light Thy resurrecting lamp,
Light Thy resurrecting lamp!
(Poet Shri RabindraNath Tagore, translated in English by Paramhansa Yogananda)
How to increase the level of your consciousness-II?
10.12.10
O lord of mine! Surrender, complete surrender to you
I do today; I bow to you completely at Thy Holy Feet.
May You and I always be one like the wood and holy Vedic Fire.
The big woods burn in the flames of fire but in the end.
Where is the wood? Only fire.
May I burn like the sandal incense.
Soothing, sweet fragrance it has and calming touch.
And healing properties of inner soul.
Once burnt all, only deep fragrance left,
In the house, in the mind and in the remaining soul.
May I too, Oh my beloved Lord! Burn like the incense and
Spread your Light, happiness and delight
And emancipating knowledge of Supreme.
And forever live in the inner chambers of your benevolent heart!
Hidden from the eyes of the people malevolent everywhere.
Yet serve them, my kind compassionate Master.
In serving them I express my love for you, my beloved.
As the expression of my gratitude towards you can only
Be expressed in no other but just this way!!
The state of Super Consciousness-III
20.01.11
Sant Kabir has praised his Guru who has realized Brahma and has described the transformation process of self-mingling, assimilating and uniting with the Infinite. This is what he has to say:
Hamare guru mile brahmagyani
Payi amar nishani…
Kaag palat guru hansa kinhi, dini naam nishani
Hansa pahuche sukhsagar mei, mukti bhare jahan pani
Hamare guru mile brahmagyani…
Jal beech kumbh, kumbh beech jal, bahar bhitar pani
Niksyokumbh jal jal mei samai. Yeh gati virle jani
Hamare guru mile brahmagyani…
Hai Athah thah santan mei. Dariya lahar samani
Jeevar jaal dal ka karihe, jab meen pighal bahi pani
Hamare guru mile brahmagyani…
Anubhav ka gyan, ujjwalta ki vani, so hai akath kahani
Kahat Kabir gunge ki sena. Jin jani un mani
Hamare guru mile brahmagyani…
Translation-
I have found a Brahmagyani Guru and
And got a gift of immortality…
My guru has changed me from crow to hansa (a bird equipped with the skill of separating water from milk) and given me the name of god.
I have been blessed with an ocean of divine happiness and now salvation is a small thing.
I have found a Brahmgyani guru……
There is an earthen pot in the river; there is water inside the pot.
There is water outside it. When the pot breaks, the water inside
Mixes with the water outside, only rare people understand this
I have found a Brahmgyani guru……
The saints have a depthless depth in them, the wave shall mingle in the waters of the ocean
How can a fisher man catch a fish which has dissolved in water?
Kabir says that this knowledge has come from experience, speech is born out of purity, and the knowledge is endless.
The state that I have reached is indescribable, only those who know shall believe.
Expand your Consciousness-I
30.01.11
Pani Bahata hai, jeevan bahata hai, manushya tharta hai.
Apne andar ki kitab kholo,
Khud ko jano, apne ko pahchano
Kisliye yahan aaye they, kya kar rahe ho?
Dukh kyon sahate ho jab swayam sukh ki khaan ho?
Andar ke taale tumhe jakadte hai,
Unhe guru se chabi lekar kholo,
Ganthe swayam khulti jayaengi
Jab samarpan karte hai
Samarpan woh sachcha jisme
Bhavnaye sachchi ho
Man mei tarang sundar uthe to
Ishwar use sweekar lete hai.
Mai bhi tumhara haath pakad loonga
Yadi tum chahoge
Pakadkar phir kabhi na chodunga
Jab tak dhyeya pura na saadh lo
Ek bar chu kar dekho
Andar kaun hai?
Kya kabhi mahsoos hota hai
Tumse pahele koi mojud hai?
Translation-
Water flows, life flows but man stagnates.
Open the book which is inside you
Know thyself, recognize your true self
Why did you come here, what are you doing?
Why do you suffer when you are a treasure of happiness?
The shackles inside arrest you
Release these chains with the key from the Master
The knots shall open on their own
When we surrender our self
Surrender that has sincere feelings
Is real and true, and feelings which are true
Are hurriedly accepted by God.
I shall hold your hand
If you so wish
Once I hold, I shall never leave you
Until the goal is met.
For once, glance inside, touch and see
Who is inside you?
Have you ever once felt that
There is already someone present even before you?
Qualities of a real seeker
20.08.11
Mana ki andar ki sadhana karo
Mana ko bahar ki vastuo se door karo
Mana ko aadat dalo chup hone ki, shanti ki, pratiti ki,
Eeshwar ke anubhuti ki, atma prakash ke darshan ki
Aur bahut kaal tak eeshwar ke dhyan mie rehene ki.
Atma bodh kathin hai kyunki is mei parishram and thakan adhik hai
Parantu ek bar prarpt karne ke bad sada sada ke liye vishram hai.
Isliye mana ko modo, mana ko sansari baton se sada door rakho
Chahe hum sansar mei rahe parantu yadi hum kuch samay pratah kaal eeshwar ka dhyan kare
To mana poora din shaant rahega, itni takat hai eeshwar mei ki shanti poora din bahegi
Isliye nirantar eeshawar ka dhyan karo jab tak ki
Avastha aisi aa jaye ki sare din mei kabhi bhi bhagwan ya guru se dhyan hatega hi nahi.
Vaha paripakva avastha tak aa jao aur eeshawar mei vishram karo
Us shanti me doob jayo aur anek janmo ki thakan ko door karo.
Om shanti shanti shanti Om!
Translation-
Perform inner sadhana of mind
Detach your mind from worldly subjects
Habituate your mind to remain silent, to remain calm and to live in divine perceptions
Make it a habit for the mind to experience God, to see Divine Light
And let your mind have the habit of remaining in constant communion with God over a long period of time
Given that Self Realization is arduous to attain since it demands extreme effort and one is exhausted in the process
Yet once you achieve it, there is rest for forever
Therefore transform your mind, keep it away from worldly chitchat and repartee
Although we may live in this world but if we spare sometime in the morning to meditate on God
The mind will remain calm because God has so much power that
Peace begot from God will linger throughout the day
Therefore always meditate on God until you
Arrive at a stage when your mind never off tracks from the thought of God or Guru
Come up till this established stage and rest in God forever
Immerse in that God peace and get rid of the weariness of many lives
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om !
Pondicherry revisited….. photo gallery
5.01.13
(I thought it would be a nice idea to share a few inspiring lines from ‘The Prophet’ Khalil Gibran where according to me, Love spoken here is about the penance of the seeker and the reward is the Love of God in return……)
‘Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He thrashes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant:
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.’
#177
20.01.09
My Lord! You give me Inspiration
Inspiration is blind without creation
I call you, my Divine to make me your
Space of beauty and rhyme.
Create in me something never created before
And create so beautiful that never seen before!
The state of Super Consciousness-II
10.01.11
“My sweet God, may I never lose sight of you, may I forever worship you, may I never lose your memory in me, and may I never stop praying to you. May my heart always bind with you and may I never get too entangled in this external world and please bless me God so that I forever think of you. May I always do natmastak, bow profoundly to you all the time, even while I am asleep.”
“Babaji, it is my most earnest and sincere pray to you in this sacred moment. Hey Prabho! Destroy all my sins and mistakes of all my past lives. May I never ever err, may I always only serve Ishwara, the Holy Lord! May I serve you all my life and in all coming lives too. May I spread your words and teachings. Remove my darkness, all my darkness for forever and forever!!
“Holy Babaji, I pray to you at this moment and hour, please bless me that I never ever make any mistakes in my present and forthcoming lives. May I always remember God. May my memory of God forever be revitalized and it should never be erased or corrupted. May I always do God’s service, may I always do your work and may I always spread your divine fragrance through your words and teachings.”
“Babaji, you are playing hide and seek with me. Until you relent, how can I tell the world who you were, where you were born, why did you incarnate and what was your mission in life at that time? My very dearest, my beloved Master, reveal thyself, reveal thyself, please reveal thyself… It is my very humble request to you please tell me something about your past and present lives so that my life’s mission is accomplished. If I am able to bring your devotees and your dear ones closer to you; if I can tell this world that there exists a great soul like you hidden from the public gaze and if I can help you in some miniscule measure in your worldwide mission of uplifting the humanity at large, then the purpose of my life is met. I wish for nothing, I want to know just about you.”
The state of Super Consciousness-III
20.01.11
“Baba, God is very kind and gracious to me because he has given me a chance to stand in your temple and I have come here to take your darshan. If you think it is right to ask, then, please grant me your blessings. Please give me good health so that I can find God within myself and bring an end to all my sorrows. I want to see God in myself. I want to solve my problems with the help and guidance of God alone. I wish to know why I am facing so many troubles all at one time. Make me and my family stronger; mentally and physically so that we can tide over the current difficult issues and problems. Bless me dear Baba that I learn the right technique of meditation, bless me that I can concentrate and I find the right teacher for all these things. Sai Baba, help me to navigate my path, please.”
“Dear Spiritual tree, please bless me , my family, our forefathers and the future generations to come. If we have committed any mistakes in the family now or before, please forgive us. Please may we all have longevity, good health, goodness and prosperity. Whatever corrective measures need to be taken to amend and atone for the past mistakes committed by our forefathers, I shall do them.”
Expand your Consciousness-I
30.01.11
Sublime thoughts and feelings were coming in my mind and I saw myself praying for the salvation and upliftment of those souls who have faith in God and have a desire to evolve themselves. I prayed to God that his children who are making an effort sincerely should be blessed with triumph and success. I requested God to give them his love and peace and that they too realize Him and become free from all shackles of bondage. May his children also do tapasya, penance and search out and see God in the form they desire as God appears in any form depending on the kind of devotion and faith placed in him. I became somber at this point when a spontaneous request flowed from my heart in that hour of devotion, “God, please give them what you have given me, dear God please bless them with your divine presence in their hearts.
“God, may I never again sleep in the lap of ignorance”.
Expand your Consciousness-III
20.02.11
“God I want to know more about you, I want to come closer to you, bring me closer to you, more closer to you my Lord.”
Thought Power-I
28.02.11
“Oh my God! We all are your children and you our Father, our Mother, our Guardian and Protector. This Earth is our home and abode. Please bless all your children, may they all live long, may they all live in peace and joy, may they all live in prosperity and health.. Sarve bhavantusukhina , sarvesantu nirmaya…..
……..May we all love each other; may we all help each other. Wherever there is darkness, give light, where there is hatred sow love there; where there is unrest plant sustained peace; where there is disease, give health and well being; where there is sorrow, give happiness to all.
May Life always be sustained on this planet Earth; may the Mother Earth yield green harvests year after year; may the rivers always be full of life giving water. God, may the air that we breathe be pure, may your children have a long life, may the trees too have a long life and may all the animals and plants continue to live on this Earth in joy and fearlessness. And may we get timely rains and God may all your children live on this planet in peace and joy.”
Om Shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti Om!”
Improving our Thought Power-II
10.04.11
“God, you are very sweet, you are very loving, very endearing. The more I know you, the more I love you. I get more and more drawn to you as each day passes as if you are a giant magnet and I a piece of small iron. Your attraction power is irresistible, Lord. Please pull me more and more towards yourself so that I get to know you even more. Shower your Grace over me, my Lord, my humble request to you today. Please give your enchanting love and ecstasy”
“God, let there be harmony, co-operation, love and peace amongst us. There should be no room for animosity or conflict amongst your children and may I always give out loving and peaceful vibrations to whomsoever I meet or know or not know. “
The Vedic prayer for all mankind is-
Om Sarve Bhavantu sukhinah
Sarve santu niraamaya
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu
Maakashchid dukh
bhaag bhavet
Om shanti, shanti, shanti Om…
Brihadaaranyak Upanishad 1.4.14.
Translation
May we all be happy,
May all be free from disease and enjoy health and freedom,
May all possess good luck and prosperity,
May no one suffer even on dark days,
Om peace, peace, peace…
The role of ‘power of will’ in a seeker’s life-II
10.05.11
Oh my Lord! Please accept my prayers lovingly. Clear the darkness and gloom of my infinite incarnations, bring my darkness to an end. Free me from the binding forces of my actions. Please reveal thyself, give me your glimpse because of whose power my darkness will fly away. Show me Light, my Lord! Show me your divine nature not by miracles but by your spiritual light. Light the flame of your Light, Jyot inside me. Lead me from darkness to Light by holding my hand, my Lord, I am your ignorant child!
May love, peace and brotherhood be my attributes and may I always serve all your children untiringly. Expand my heart so much that I include all your sons. Appear before me, my Lord, show me your attributes, reveal thyself, my Lord, reveal thyself, please!
Oh God! From this day on my attention and mind will be always fixed on you. May I always bow at your pious feet.
May your children live long at all times, may there be life on earth eternally, may there be greenery always everywhere and may your children spread the message of universal love, immortality and peace in all corners of the world. God, I shall also be a part of this sacred work and I wish for the wellbeing, auspiciousness and goodness for all your children. I shall be your obedient child and serve you always. This is my wish, my will, please accept my wish on this auspicious day my Lord!!
Why is it mandatory to have a Divine Guru?-II
10.09.11
My dear sweet co-travellers pray! pray ! pray! Pray every day; pray every time you sleep; pray when you wake up in the morning; pray to God to give you devotion; pray whenever you see the sky; pray when you see the flowers bloom; pray when you listen to a melodious tune of lovely music; pray when you see raindrops falling on your windows; pray when you are sick; pray when you are healed; pray when you have questions in your mind; pray when you find answers to your quest; pray when you fall; pray when you rise; pray when you lose something; pray when God gives you something; pray when your eyes are open; pray when your eyes are closed. And when you pray all this many times, the sweet Lord will one day start to answer you and it will be just one of those days when his Voice is audible in you in a splendid way!
Our prayer is the language of our heart and our inner soul. Each sentence, each word, each syllable and sound of every word is gently received by God with insurmountable love and compassion even though He may never say it. But if we keep on sending our messages of unfaltering love every time, every day without fail and delay, He will begin to show response in a direct or indirect way. View His kind act as benevolence, as grace, as unending love and hold it close to your heart which will surely soften and melt you away. His purest love will give you a holy bath. His compassionate words will heal you and show you the path in the darkest days. His Grace will melt you to conjoin him in unity plunging in boundless Joy, Peace and divine Bliss in hundreds of ways! Soaking and dipping in these God Gifts, gratitude will show first not on your lips but in your eyes as tiny pearls of tears!!
Silence of the soul-II
20.12.11
My prayer today- May we all rise in the unblemished holy Spirit. May we trust God and the God assigned Gurus, our Spiritual Teachers and guardians. May we always be fearless to walk in the garden of God’s beauty, ananda, joy, liberating knowledge and complete renunciation of all anxiety, fear, worry, sadness and get liberated from the unstoppable cycles of birth and death and the consequent suffering that comes along with those random lives.
The soul speaks to you!-II
20.01.12
“My beloved God, my sweetest Lord, give me more insight in yet deeper meditations. May I always, always worship you; may I always do your bhakti, may I always serve you. That is all I want. The rest of my requirements and cares you shall take care of obviously and I am certain about it.”
Interlude?
09.08.12
I only said to Shri Mahavatar Babaji, “ Maharaj, your will and wish is my destiny”.
I get a new life, a new light in Badrinath-III
10.11.12
My very beloved Mahavatar Babaji, I thank you with all my heart, soul and mind for being so patient with me as you have chiselled and sculpted an idol out of a waste piece of rock in the wilderness!!!The craftsmanship, labour, art, sweat, patience and love is yours, I am only the receiver, the beneficiary. You are like the blazing Sun in the sky that lights up this Universe and hides itself at night. The Sun has been lighting up this Earth since I don’t know when and it never ever asks for acknowledgement and any credit. Shri Babaji, you are the Light of this world! You have brought so much Light into my life and through me to other people’s lives. May we be your obedient children and always follow the radiant path of knowledge, humility, consecration, purity and virtuousness as shown by you. This is still too small in return for all the countless blessings that you have been pouring on us endlessly.
#176
- Where is Ananda hidden?
(10.06.08)
Take a few deep breaths. Focus on the point between the eyebrows and concentrate there for a while. Do not care about the noise from outside or sound of the thoughts in the background. Sit calmly and allow the mind to become motionless and enjoy the peace. Once the peace settles over you, bring your attention gently over the incoming and outgoing breath. Watch the continuous flow like an observer and do not apply any force or will.
Let this go on for some time and you will notice that as you are doing this, the mind has become calm and still and the breath is becoming shorter and slower. Now with a quiet mind, notice that there is a ‘gap’, a ‘void’ after we exhale and before we take the air in. Focus on that empty gap and become conscious of its presence. When we concentrate on these ‘gaps’ or ‘nothingness’ by keeping our attention on them, the body starts becoming motionless and the mind arrives at a point of Absolute Stillness like a still lake devoid of any ripples!
Enjoy the calmness that has now enveloped you!
2. Expand your Consciousness-III
(20.02.11)
Meditation to expand our Consciousness
Visualize white Light on top of your head at the crown chakra. Let it remain there for some time or as much as you wish.
Bring this Light from your head to your shoulders. Feel the white Light on your shoulders, remain still. You will experience peace.
Bring down the Light from your shoulders to your spine and then to your root chakra. Let the Light remain there for some time.
The spine is a hollow tube which starts from the base and ends at the base of the neck. Pass the divine Light in the hollow tube up and down many times.
Practice this and experience unalloyed peace within you.
3. Thought Power-II
(10.03.11)
A meditation technique for the beginners and advanced seekers alike-
- Sit in a comfortable position in a quiet zone with your eyes closed and back upright.
- Rest your hands on the knees with your palms turned upward.
- Take a few deep breaths until you feel relaxed.
- After sometime bring your attention to your eyes and remain there.
- Lift your attention from your eyes and bring it in between your eyebrows.
- Visualize a small lamp at this spot with a flame.
- After a while visualize that there is just the flame lit at that place. Focus on the flame.
- Remain in that position as long as you are able to.
- Now visualize entering the flame.
- You might see yellow Light in your vision.
- At this juncture, repeat a positive affirmation for yourself for your own higher good or affirm for others or do both.
- The limitless powers of the Universal Energy will start entering you, receive them without any restriction.
- Remain in this position as long as you can.
- Sit in silence for some more time so as to absorb the divine rays.
- Benefit from the calmness and tranquility.
- During the active day, recall this experience and revisit the positive feelings over and over again.
Practice this morning and evening/night till you see the good results.
4. Improving our Thought-Power-I
(30.03.11)
A. Meditation for past life karma cleansing.
People think that in meditation we must try to stop the wandering and onslaught of thoughts and apply force to stop them. For all the sincere seekers, this point should be clarified once for all. One requires a powerful mind to let go of the subtle past karmas and be an observer. So in your meditation to improve your thought powers, bring to an end those disturbing thoughts which people are sending to you by not allowing them to enter first your aura and then your mind. More so if the thoughts are bothering you and are a hindrance in maintaining the tranquility of your composed mind. For this what you should do is that you must be watchful of the thoughts and images that keep bombarding you during concentration or meditation and instead of entertaining them, discard them. If they re-occur discard them again and again until they stop coming to you. In this manner, we make our mind empty of re-connecting to past karmas done with those people many lives ago. Practice this and after a few days, you will again be your normal self when harmony and tranquility prevails in normal life.
This method of meditation described is for subtle meditation and is prescribed for past life karma cleansing for advancing seekers.
For beginners, to improve your thought power, practice these suggestions-
When in turmoil, think of times when you were in peace. Re-live those peaceful moments.
Increase the depth and intensity of your meditation. When there is unrest inside you, re-live the depth and intensity of past meditations.
Repetition and chanting of one or two line mantras will soothe the mind and will make the mind stronger. Divine mantras add specific powers to the mind.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind. If they do re-surface, eliminate them repeatedly.
When in distress- mental or physical, do not give up on daily physical exercise and remembrance of God, even if you cannot meditate during such times.
B. A meditation technique for empowering your mind-
After making the atmosphere conducive, sit in a meditative posture with your body completely relaxed.
Once you are composed and calm in mind, concentrate at the crown chakra.
For some yogis, there may be some discomfort in the beginning. Continue after some time again until you feel comfortable.
Once you get accustomed to concentrating at the crown chakra, visualize golden light over your head.
Stay in this position as long as you are comfortable.
After some time visualize the rays of golden rays falling on the crown chakra. Feel the soothing rays. And the peace in the soothing rays will touch the brahma randra or crown chakra. Prolong this action or kriya.
Later visualize the golden rays entering your body through the crown chakra and penetrating the upper part of the brain, feel its sensation. The rays will then trickle down to the lower part of the brain. Imagine that your whole brain has been recharged with divine rays.
The Divine Light when invoked willingly, energizes us after it flows inside our body. If you focus on the crown chakra then the divine rays will energize your mind and give excess powers to recharge and revitalize your mental energies thus improving your thought power.
5. A Voyage to Eternity- a pilgrimage to Shri Mahavatar Babaji’s Ashram at Badrinath
(11.07.12) Meditation on Light of God
- Sit in a comfortable position after making your body and mind calm.
- Close your eyes very gently.
- Inhale and exhale deeply till you feel your breath has calmed down.
- Focus your attention at the third eye by bringing your gaze gently to the point between the eyebrows.
- Keep your consciousness steady there.
- Imagine a picture of Shri Babaji at this place. Concentrate on it.
- Some may see blazing light either before or after the image of Shri Babaji, concentrate on it. One may also hear or see Om, the first sound created by the Divine . Absorb that.
- Feel that divine light permeating within you, around you.
- After some time, revolve and move this light over your spine as many times as you are comfortable with thus recharging yourself by cleansing your mind and body.
- And finally bring back this light at the point between your eye brows or kutastha.
- Relax completely and sit in this posture as long as you like.
- Practise this meditation daily with reverence and love.
6. Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest-III
20.05.13
Profound peace can be attained if you balance all your chakras at the navel, the Kundalini spot. Bring your mind’s attention at it and inhale deeply. Focus on the energy here. You will be supplied extra oxygen in this place which will in turn make your mind absolutely stable. This is one of the many Kriyas to bring a disturbed or an agitated mind at rest and fetch harmony and stability in times of intense crisis. Practice it until your peace of mind is never lost frantically.
7. What is Truth?-III
(30.06.13)
Kriya for relaxation and tranquility
- “Inhale deeply many times a day. Leave the breath very slowly. After doing this many times, do involuntary breathing. When the mind becomes very calm, repeat the same exercise. Lie down after the mind has become extremely calm like Lord Vishnu. (Recall from Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-III Last portion-It can be achieved by maintaining your peace of mind. All of you worship Lord Vishnu and Lord Buddha in the reclining position without ever finding out the exact denotation of this symbol. Lord Vishnu is shown with either a pink or a blue Lotus in his navel in this special position. Pink is for love and blue represents tranquility………)
#175
Preface
There are many kinds of knowledge available and obtainable in this world. We all have achieved some or the other type of knowledge or many types of knowledge and education to meet our expectations and needs. Out of all these so many kinds about which we are not aware of, is one more education and knowledge. It is veiled somewhere and is existing but not so common and easy to know, discover and achieve. When acquired, that special knowledge leads us to a beautiful life of continuous joy, happiness, harmony, repose and freedom as well as enduring peace of mind.
The knowledge of Sanatan Dharma and the knowledge of Eeshwar Yoga’ or God union in true sense is not a common thing. It has been reserved for the selected very few because of its sacredness and sanctity. The yogis, rishis, munis, bhikshus, gyanis, sadhus and sages as well as the philosophers have kept their secretive knowledge with them unless they found the right candidate. The later was repeatedly tested severely and then given the facts and information slowly with discretion and carefulness over a period of long time. And that also after giving Guru dakshina or fees for the teacher. Out of so many even then, just a few could succeed in their ultimate goal in one life time.
The Sanatan Atma Gyan or Eternal Self ‘s knowledge is the mother of all knowledge. It is acquired with the help of intuition and not by any other formal classroom education or tools.
If ever acquired by someone, the recipient has a source with which all sorts of worldly as well as personal problems can be solved with it. It is because the knowledge of Self or God when acquired makes the recipient a source of infinite information and knowledge of Nature as well as of God and therefore, the recipient becomes free and liberated. That is why Lord Krishna tells Arjuna in Bhagwat Geeta that if even a fraction of this Sanatan Dharma or eternal knowledge is acquired and practiced by you, you shall become free from fear of sickness, death and all other worries and sorrows; you will become fearless – abhay. Knowing Truth liberates the human soul from the suffering of many blunders and incarnations and frees the fetters of bondage of innumerable karmas or deeds.
There are three categories of disciples called shishyas or chelas. They are Uttam, Madhyam, Kanishtha – superior, medium and inferior respectively. They enroll themselves in this mammoth undertaking and endeavour to know the Truth of God’s universal existence. Simultaneously, there are three stages and levels of human accomplishments – inferior, medium and superior.
The best or Uttam disciples – are those who are always in sync with the will of their Masters and do not refuse to comply at all. They bring along with them more harmonious deeds than unscrupulous ones as their baggage. They are in a hurry to discriminate the Truth from untruth, falsehood. They waste no time in acquiring the sacred knowledge to reveal the Truth because they understand that the gems and invaluable treasures securely tucked and carefully guarded by the Master cannot be attained from anywhere else. Such disciples are very scarce in number. They take minimum help from the Guru and work tremendously on themselves for quick progress and spiritual elevation. They come to the Divine Master with the sole purpose of knowing the Truth. The Master is most happy and relieved with this small band of chelas or disciples who later aid their Teachers in dispensing the Truth and the teachings of the great souls.
The medium or Madhyam disciples – are slow to understand the value of the priceless, holy knowledge of Self the sacred Master grasps and holds inside. They take a substantial time to realize the urgency of disclosing the Truth to themselves as they fail to understand the time limit and constraint that we humans have in every birth and we miss this great opportunity most of the time. Or they leave their endeavour somewhere midway and attempt again in following lives because of which they take far longer than the superior ones in getting Self Realizations or Atmabodh. Nevertheless, in some life because of karmic beatings, they are forced into fast learning as circumstantial reasons and are heavily benefited. At last, they begin to walk steadily on God’s path and make it to their destination. It is because the support of the Atma realized Guru is overwhelming and they get a huge push to move forward. It takes far more time for such disciples than the superior ones in revealing the Truth to themselves as the sleep or ignorance is well embedded in the grooves of the mind. They perform better in groups and with continuous encouragement. With outside assistance, they are able to reach the shore of salvation.
The inferior or Kanishtha disciples – are the ones who have a poor backing of their own good deeds from the past. They carry lesser harmonious deeds in comparison to virtuous ones. Their unreleased ego, unweeded shortcomings and heavy darkness does not allow them to walk fast on the sacred path. Although they do begin on God’s path because of some random sacred deeds of their past lives, they are unable to see their own shortcomings and blame some other factors for their delay in not receiving the blessedness and Grace of the Divine Guru. They make many slip ups and mistakes repeatedly and learn slowly from them. They find it hard to admit their mistakes and do not like disapproval and corrections. Their path is restricted as they do not understand that a lot is required to achieve the sacred knowledge of Truth to free oneself. It is attained with the mercy, love and earnest blessings of the sacred Guru. Their awareness is short lived and they are short sighted. They can be compared to a very dim flicker of a lamp which extinguishes with the puff or gust of the slightest breeze.
Part A
What the Guru does?
The Guru first takes stock of all the deeds performed by the disciple in all previous lives. Accordingly would be decided the course of actions, the time to be taken to cover the entire journey. Subsequently, a designated mentor, a teacher will be appointed who will constantly monitor, check, guide, help and correct the disciples. So, constant correction, learning, transforming and adapting is a prerequisite for the disciples to maximize the assistance from the sacred Masters and the mentor. Our sacred Guru Maharaj Shri Mahavatar Babaji does not care what kind of disciple you are because his mission on Earth is to help and assist all. It is up to us to decipher where we stand and what we must strive to achieve; support and constant guidance will be given by all the Universal Forces to accomplish that.
What must the disciple do?
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- Have tremendous and blind faith in the Guru. The Guru will help you in eradication of ego and other deep reserved tendencies called sanskaras which are seeds to new good and bad karmas and new meanderings in next lives.
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- Have exceptional patience and endurance to know the Truth.
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- Unending, flawless determination to be able to stay on the sacred path of Truth, the path of knowing God directly with the help of the Divine Masters.
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- Advance ahead in spite of concurrent hurdles.
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- Detrimental forces like Maya or ignorance should be uncovered by doing tapasya or ghor tapasya – penance and intense penance respectively. Self-seeking and egotistical goals should be replaced by selfless activities in which flowers of love blossom and we live our lives in God’s pure love.
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- Give up ego and rear up humility and softness. Modesty and unpretentiousness comes with purging of the sense of small self.
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- Serve others with love and respect. It is the spiritual duty of the seeker to repay the Holy Master by serving others by encouraging even the atheists to believe and walk on the path of the Truth, non- violence, compassion and enduring peace.
- We need constant energy. The mental energies get scattered by outside noises, pollution, distractions, continuous talking and other worthless activities. So learn to meditate with tremendous sincerity and devotion for your own good, well-being and happiness. Change the fidgety and restless mind to calmness and serenity.
Part B
Dear readers, this post is last in this segment as far as new content is concerned. After this post is delivered on this day, I wish to organize the blog in various groupings. There will be continuous entries of these groupings until 20th September’13 after which I will close.
The last 5 entries at a glance for the viewer’s convenience will be in this sequence –
- All Meditation techniques
- Mantras, shlokas from holy Bhagwad Geeta, prayers and poems
- Question and Answers as conversations between me and Mahavatar Babaji as well as God
- Sermons
- All Photos and video links
In the afternoon when the post was about eighty per cent done, I stopped to rest a while. I was delighting in the thin and sometimes thick raindrops pouring inside the house from my windows. Cool water drops were so gentle and soothing. I put my face a little outside and drew pleasure in feeling the coolness in rains. In retrospection, I quickly went back in the past and reminisced how once I was so thirsty for knowledge of Self many years ago. It was when I happened to read the most memorable stories in my spiritual life of two young boys of Vedic times – of Satyakam and Nachiketa. They are from Upanishads, Chandogya and Kathopnishad respectively. They have had an indelible mark on my sensitive mind since then. I liked Satyakam’s truthfulness and honesty. His extra ordinary ability to see Brahma in everything without the aid of a formal teacher or guru. I used to think as I read his story how can I know Universal Brahma in this way? How to know a method that involves my own Self to know the omnipresent Spirit? I have craved and longed to get a Self-realised, Atmagyani Guru since many years because after reading our holy texts it was clear to me that Brahma cannot be achieved and known personally without a Perfect Master.
Regarding Nachiketa, I have great regards for this personality. No other character is so adamant and persistent than him when quenching the thirst of knowing the Truth is concerned therefore when one reads his story, the fire of one’s own thirst gets ignited and inflamed. I read these two stories in Swami Vivekananda’s book on Vedanta many years ago and they have not faded or lost its sparkle ever since then. The stories are still extremely close to my heart and my two most favourite picks. They are examples of best disciples which I, while we’re on the subject recollected and therefore quoting. Certainly, every Guru would love to have a student like them. Nachiketa, son of sage Vajashravas is cursed by his own father. Nachiketa leaves no stone unturned unless the Teacher Yama answers all his questions in death; he rests only after he is acquainted with what is truth of life, death, Atma.
Then, a pure disciple like Satyakam, son of mother Jabala comes from an impoverished background. His father’s identity is lost in ambiguity. He humbly and obediently follows each and every instruction of his Guru, Gautam Rishi. He is sent in the forests because he is considered a poor boy from a humble background and is being made to go through a test and pre-qualification. Nevertheless, he returns after a year with a thousand cows not only pleasing his Guru but also experiencing, the omnipresent Brahma because of his relentless longing, obedience, purity, sincerity and truthfulness!
With these exquisite thoughts, I would like to finish this post as well as this segment by once more offering everything that I have or have done or will do in future at the sweet altar of our beloved God, His holiness Shri Mahavatar Babaji and all the endearing divine deities, seen and unseen formally yet who are all the time being so supportive, loving, caring and bestowing kindness on me and you all. It is because of their sweet and kind gestures that we have been and will be able to move forward on this sacred path of pure Truth.
With loving gratitude, endless devotion and everlasting sincerity to my beloved God and all the Holy Masters……
#174
Introduction
This blog is autobiographical in nature although dedicated to Parmeshwar, Param Pita Parmatma, the eternal Lord and Divine Father of this creation. Nonetheless, it is inspired and telepathically imparted by none other than Yogeshwar, Shri Mahavatar Babaji, the greatest Himalayan Yogi. It depends on the aspirant how much he or she is able to decipher from the personal anecdotes so often narrated here to clarify something and drive home the point. They give a fair idea about the life, trials, tribulations, devotion and aspirations of a steadfast yogi or a dedicated, consistent aspirant on the path of Self Realizations and her progression to thoroughgoing. It is all about how much you want to travel on the path which will take you to God. It is all about how much desire you hold to seek, seek and seek. Total one pointed focus, dedication, determination and unfailing faith in oneself and God as well the Spiritual mentor and gurus are prerequisite conditions on this path. The foremost important trait of full surrender to God and the Holy Masters should also be remembered and practiced to know what Truth is if you wish to do so.
Truth has many manifestations. Truth has many aspects. Truth is hard to know. Truth is simple and easy to grasp if the seeker has cleared his bundles of negative karmas with her or his own wish. This job cannot be done by anyone else but depends on the willingness of the pursuing aspirant. Be it today’s Paramhansa Yogananda or Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa or Maharishi Shri Aurobindo, they all have one thing in common. They only pursued God. God was their prime need, prime focus and prime goal in life. It is mandatory to become so resolved and persistent if God has to be pursued in one life. Truth about God is known after the cleaning process of the innermost level is completed. Astute judgement of falsehood and Reality, impermanence of Nature and the world and the infallible Truths of the Supreme Force ever present in the Universe are imperative to know by the sincere one.
Part- A
The unprecedented fury of Nature and its wrath on humans left me completely stunned and bewildered when it struck India’s Uttarakhand area on 16th June’13. My first thought that sprang up was why God was so angry. What have we done so wrong? A little later, I become aware that Shri Mahavatar Babaji must have been definitely aware of this pending disaster because of which he had asked me to write a whole section on my blog titled ‘Our lost heritage’ Segment D, much in advance to tell us how important it has become today for all of us to ensure that we become aware and make a holy habit of serving God and Nature as our spiritual duty. He has been quite concerned about the fast deteriorating quality of human race’s life because of excessive deforestation, world population boom, electronic age, consumerism, excessive corruption in daily lives and lack of basic amenities not yet able to reach every person in the world. He genuinely cares for our planet and has been serving it since a very long time.
Formally, Shri Mahavatar Babaji came in my life in 2002, but prior to that also he has been guarding me, keeping a vigilant eye over my life and was waiting for the best time to come when he could reveal and teach me the ultimate Truths when I became ready. He took it upon himself to make certain that I sail the ocean of delusion, that I get enough strength from him to cross over the heaps of adverse karmas that were still to be reaped and the wisdom that followed after these trying procedures would be mine. It was at this juncture that I was overwhelmed by his greatness, unconditional love and compassion that I was saturated with thoughts of returning something back, doing something for him as a gesture of gratitude. I assumed that he had already done so much for me that I must not look for more things as what he has done for me, nobody can do. I do not know any person who has in his capacity the capabilities to free you from your past and recreate a divine world on this Earth now.
I have met quite a many people in my life who are devotees of some sannyasis, sadhus, Swamis, gurujis or a cult and who consider Shri Mahavatar Babaji as their Great Guru. They seem to be having one thing in common-they all see Shri Mahavatar Babaji as a God like figure. They consider themselves as trivial and put Babaji on a high pedestal like God and then they ask for all sorts of things to be fulfilled or wanted. They probably do not understand that the stature of Shri Babaji is virtually God like therefore we must not ask trivial things! We must know for sure what we must seek and request from this spiritual giant!
For the reason that Shri Mahavatar Babaji is assigned huge tasks for the world as well as for the human race, the foremost being removing the darkness out of their lives, we must essentially ask for Grace so that we choose to become divine in nature! The aeons old darkness should be wiped out with his help and our miseries mitigated. Delusion is momentary absence of Light. We must seek him for Light, knowledge, a higher purpose of living this life. We must know the Truth of the Universe, of the sweet Lord, of the world we live in, of human evolution, of time, space, matter, mind, Creation etc.-those issues and topics that man has been grappling for centuries and yet has no answers and is troubled by them life after life. Shri Mahavatar Babaji has answers to all these human spiritual, yogic and occult pursuits. It is imperative that we understand that he is a yogi of the highest order and we must seek the Highest Truth from his vast ocean of mammoth wisdom and super intelligence.
Part- B
I have in the middle of my daily chores or sometime in my meditations been doing the chanting of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ on behalf of others in the last week. I prayed to Lord Shiva to rid his devotees of their excessive burdens, hurdles or any mental or physical anguish so that they get some relief, happiness and spiritual assistance. When we begin to pay off our debts, the road to happiness and liberation seems too far sometimes. Every single seeker who lives his or her life after acceptance of divine will, undergoes a similar experience.
Yesterday evening, I sat in twilight meditation and mentally read a mail that a devotee of Shri Babaji requested me to read out. She wanted me to pass on her message to our Holy Master so that we all purify our actions, thoughts and every cell of our being and to bless us all, which I did. I also did my chanting to bring some peace to a relative of mine who is no more and who pleaded me to relieve her of her grief and repentance in the next world. I too became sad and relived some incidents from our lives which brought unnecessary sadness and dejection. The repentance on her part was for the reason that she did not love me when she was alive. When I sent her healing holy vibrations of Lord Shiva’s ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ mantra, I felt lighter and better and she felt the same. I prayed to God explicitly to forgive her so that her miseries could diminish and wane and she could rest in peace. Spontaneously, the following words were articulated in silence by me,
“Shiva, Shiva, kaalharta, muktidaata
Prabhu sabko shanti do, shanti do”
Just after this, my mind got connected and became in tune with Lord Shiva, who very kindly once more appeared at my invocation to my utmost surprise and whispered gently, “Shiv ka avahan karo, Shiv stuti karo. Adhunik technology se dard zyada mila hai, mana mei ashanti adhik hui hai. Mansik takat ghati hai aur mana mei pareshaani, uljhan adhik hai. Pahele manushya ka mana swabhik hi shaant raheta tha. Aaj ka manushya dukhi adhik hai. Uski vedna adhik hai, woh apne padosi se bhi alag thalag ho gaya hai, woh swarthi ban gaya hai, usmei prem nahi hai. Usne raftar to bahut tez banali hai parantu uska mana shaant nahi hai.
Mukti mei jab sanchit karamo ki gathari ka antim karma naash ho kar vayumandal mei vyapt hota hai, to mana mei bahut gahara dukh hota hai kyunki woh karma atyadhik kashtdayi hota hai. Eeshwar atyadhik dayalu hai, woh sanchit karam mei akhri mei woh hi karma rakhta hai jismei manushya ko pahele atyadhik dukh mila ho. Woh isliye aise karta hai kyunki unse hamara dukh dekha nahi jata, woh atyadhik dayalu hai.
Aap sab mujhe pyare ho lekin tez rafter se jo bhi prani mujhe prapt karne ki prabal ichcha mana mei rakhta hai, woh mujhe sarvadhik priya hai. Tez rafter se veh hi mujhe prapt kar payenge jo apne aapko nirmal bana lete hai. Nirmal banna asaan nahi hota hai kyonki mana mei prem nahi hota. Kewal uske mana mei nirmal prem ubharta hai jo niswartha hai.
Eeshwar prem hai. Eeshwar prem se bana hai, usmei prem otprot hai. Jitna manushya eeshwarya, maanviya prem se apne hridaya ko bhar leta hai, Eeshwar usmei utna hi prakat hota hai, woh aisa swayam karta hai. Eeshwar vahin prakat hota hai jo mana paavan ho kyunki woh swayam paavan hai.
Logon ke mana mei prem kyon nahi paida hota? Kyonki woh swarthi hote hai. Unka apna laalach, apni khushi hoti hai. Aur jo sabko prem karta hai usey sampoorna shaanti prapt ho jati hai.
Eeshwar prem hai, niswartha prem. Eeshwar ka prem nishkaami hota hai, beshart hota hai, badle mei kuch nahi manga ja sakta.”
Translation
“Invoke Shiva, sing and praise Lord Shiva. New technology has given man more miseries and agitation. Mental strength has diminished and the mind is more edgy than before. Earlier, the man was naturally calm. Today’s man is more miserable than the earlier one. His agony is more, he is not even friendly to his neighbours. There is no love in his heart. Though he has gained speed, his mind is not calm.
During the last moments of liberation, when the last action or karma is being relinquished and gets disintegrated in the atmosphere, at that time the human being is in great distress because that last specific karma is very painful. God is very merciful. In the vast baggage of accumulated karmas, he keeps the very sad ones at the last level. He does this because he is very kind and compassionate and cannot see our miseries and woes.
I love all of you but those devotees who try to attain me very rapidly with a great urge, he/she is my most favourite. Only those will be able to attain me swiftly who make themselves pure in mind. It is not easy to become pure because love is missing; there is deficiency of love in one’s heart. Only that heart becomes pure who is unselfish.
God is love. God is made of love, God is saturated with love. The more and more Godly and human love will be filled in the devotee’s heart, God will manifest itself in the same proportion; and this God does on his own. God manifests only there where the heart is pure because God is Himself pure.
Why does love not flow in people? This is because they are greedy and selfish. They live for their own happiness. But those who love everybody, that devotee achieves grave peace and tranquility.
God is love, unselfish love. God’s love is unconditional and without any contract. It is not to be negotiated!”
#173
Introduction
Messages from the Masters and of God are delivered in this web-space called Spiritinlife. They come in intense meditations in communion with my Param Guru, Shri Mahavatar Babaji and also in unity with God. Meditations are peaceful times- they heal us, they bestow upon us so many blessings which are several times in disguise and are not even ever known to us at all. They are profound moments of Self realizations where the soul gets inundated with particles of electric atoms and big blobs and drops of peace enter our immediate atmosphere. Who can deny that this art of human endeavour and activity should not supply excess celestial energy to revitalize, think in new, unknown areas and shatter the old patterns of our dilapidated mind sets? The crowning glory for any disciple, seeker or a devotee is when God appears to him or her in those beautiful moments of divinity and then breaks and opens the closed doors of barricade or deep slumber of antiquity!
Part-A
As soon as I woke up this morning a little after 6 or may be 6.30, I heard heavy drops of rain falling on the ground and trees. Dense rainfall and a very lovely weather I stirred up to. It was cool and very pleasant and the first thought that ran in my mind was that I should immerse in this wonderful weather and enjoy being in present moment by dint of throwing out worn-out and hoary thoughts of yesterday. I took my cup of ginger tea in the bed and rested against two white pillows with the thin quilt on my legs to stay warm. I looked out of the window gleefully to see the rain and revel in the water falling from the sky as raindrops besides listening to the music that the drops of rain were making with ecstasy by tumbling and rumbling on leaves of trees as well as on the ground. I heard the dawning music and appreciated nature’s act of giving us immense joy. There are a few birds like the Sunbird, Robin or Bulbul that begin to sing around 6.30, more so at 7 am everyday on treetops in front of my house. They are not to be heard these days as the weather is cloudy and the trees are all so full of abundant dripping rainwater. They have nowhere to perch and rest on. Whilst I was catching up with the music of the lush rains, one tiny, courageous, baby sparrow came hopping out from somewhere and with its frail, quivering voice began to croon morning raga to serenade me! Moreover, the bird was invisible! In the roaring sound of dense rainfall, this birdy wished to sing and its frail song soon became powerful. It unabashedly sang to its heart’s joy passionately for a long period of time until my own heart soared and soared and I fell into raptures of immense joy and cheer. I enjoyed every moment of listening to the raindrops tapping on the ground, the morning raga of the tiny sparrow and the heavenly taste of every sip of morning tea that I was sipping. Happiness has to be found inside, we cannot depend on others to give us happiness at all times and I found mine in the morning hours………
My days are usually eventful and demanding. Thus far, I have been extremely patient and confident even if that meant that there has come no hint or tip off about what I must say in this post in the preceding days. Never before have I been so quiet inside or this calm irrespective of waves of outer commotion. I owe this to the fact that no matter how hectic my schedule has been in the past few years, everything was accommodated well and nonetheless I was able to meditate and receive my messages from the divine world. I have delivered the messages. These very past experiences have made me so calm and quiet inside. My confidence and faith in my Gurus, and of course God is firm and I believe that no matter what is going inside or outside me, the Silent Spectator is aware, it is always present. It knows. No time is lost and at the right stage, all work is accomplished and everything is done accurately and efficiently to my heart’s delight.
I was sure that today God will respond in some mode and indicate to me what should be our next discourse, our lesson and a message to take delivery of. Hence, after my stage was set by the charismatic singing of the small bird and the melodic rains, it was inevitable that I would gracefully slip into a dynamic meditation. Outside joy plunged my soul into inner joy very sophisticatedly.
In a short while, the outside sounds vanished and I embarked and reached a noiseless world, so full of quietude and tranquility. So very blissful! I wish so hard to be staying longer in this beatific world as there is no other joy which can be measured and compared with this distinct joy–nothing is greater than the blissful moments of God union in this world; my experiences have assured it time and time again.
As I surrendered to God after enjoying Nature’s wonder outside, I immediately saw an image of Shiva temple called the Mahadeva temple in Khajuraho. This was the first temple that was built here and is the only surviving temple where people worship today, the rest have become non-functional and are merely visited and appreciated by tourists.
I saluted to Lord Shiva and started praising him by chanting his several names-“Hey Adi Guru, Hey Sada Shiv, Hey Shiv Shankar, Hey Gauri Shankar, Hey Bhole Nath. Bless me, bless all your children. As you have come to me in this auspicious time, I ask you. Tell me what should I convey to the world, the people? I have experienced profound calmness amidst howling tempests since three days. I see an image of a closed door in front of me which must be undone. It is preventing me to upsurge. I cannot stretch myself and reach you as I see something holding me back. I see many people’s faces, voices and their power of thoughts binding me. They are remembering me, thinking of me and I am unable to fathom what one should do in such a situation. They are seeking me, urging and asking me and wish to know how they should progress. How do they make further spiritual progress? Oh my Lord, open this door. I want to approach you, I strive for you. I am not able to hold out or withstand the reflections surrounding me of these people who in their hearts and minds are depending on me for personal guidance, spiritual growth and love and care. In today’s meditation I cannot get into the transcendental state because the silent voices of your children stand in my way and complete immersion of my mind is not possible. I pray, kindly give us sermons, give us Light, and tell us how to reach you and how to know the Truth that you hold and hide in you? You are a Soul, a Spirit. From you I aspire to know the soul of the Truth, my sweet Lord.”
In between, I contemplated and whispered to myself, “The Truth has always been there, it always existed. This Earth and the humans are new in comparison to the existence of the Truth. As it has always existed, there should be a means, a path, and a procedure to know this Truth. Some wise men have known this Truth earlier than us in distant past, so how to know this Truth?”
During such intense deliberations, the door that was once closed opened by itself and I could now perceive and grasp as I had arrived at the seventh sky or the seventh level of Divine Consciousness. A very gentle voice, the voice of Lord Shiva started to commune with me and counselled lovingly, “Let me tell you what never has been told before. Your Consciousness is pure. You have done no wrong. Those who love you are seeking you. They look up to you for self-reliance, further guidance and a path to follow. At this time, you have their energies accumulated in your heart chakra, your pranic vital force has been drained. Apply more spiritual powers.
Do as I say to you now. Inhale deeply. Exhale deeply. The divine energy is clearing the contents of their thoughts from your physical body with my command. When the thoughts are inside our body, they have chemical energy. When they are emitted, they become electrical energy. Use the power of your will now to disintegrate people’s thoughts in your heart so that they diffuse and break down. Use my energy in your breath and bring it inside your brain. Slight mental exhaustion has ensued and sufficient supply of fresh air will recharge your body and brain. Fresh oxygen drawn in with your will power will throw out the carbon dioxide.”
I was gratified and became absolutely comfortable as all sorts of mental, physical or emotional weariness wiped out in an instant with Grace. I wished this state could be prolonged as long as possible and that I should derive maximum in such auspicious duration of stints with God. In intense quietude and calmness of body and mind, Lord Shiva reappeared and continued with his sermon. “There are thirteen people who have fixed their minds on you strongly these days. They are seeking guidance, love and rehabilitation guidance because of which the gush in your mental powers has diminished.”
I said respectfully, “But I already feel so re-energized with your kindness. I can resume my work and would very happily spread your sacred words of liberating wisdom. Please tell me what we should do and know next. I desire that you give us a sermon today. What should become the content in my next post?”
With God’s very great blessings in the holy hour today morning have originated these sanctified words of Lord Shiva which I highlight as sermon. Remember them, treasure them deep in your heart and obey these commandments as the holy words of God. They will reintegrate and consolidate your future spiritual lives to new heights. Such is my belief!
Part B
Sermon “To know the Truth, one should have earned a colossal amount of auspicious and virtuous acts. If somebody makes many mistakes, then the results of those mistakes as well as their misdeeds show up in old age when the human suffers and grieves. Promising and virtuous acts create and amass a power of their own which propels and pushes you forward. This is what is known as the power of action or Kriya Shakti. Just listening to discourses and sermons will not be sufficient; you must also generate new, virtuous actions for producing the force to make you surge forward. Do very good, pious, noble and charitable deeds unremittingly. It is our fault if we overlook the disadvantaged, rundown, dispossessed and the meek people. Help the impoverished, poor and needy; those who are in distress, those who are weak in body and mind and also those who are deprived. Reach out and give them whatever you can in your might and capacity.
Good deeds will get you peace of mind. It will bring about stability, a sense of equilibrium. In peace you will find happiness. When you find deep calmness and peace of mind within you, you shall know the Truth.
Om Namah Shivaya is a beej mantra, it is very powerful and has intense power of purification, redemption and doing penance. It should be chanted as many times as is possible to clear the ruggedness of past karmas which act as hurdles on your path.
Now wrap up this segment with two continuing posts on the same topic; How to know the Truth?- part II and III. After this, the last post should be on compilation of meditation techniques, subsequently you should take some rest from thinking and writing to refresh yourself.
The disciples should have a method in reading this segment E- New Life New Light. When you discontinue publishing new posts, they should not discontinue with their studies. They should adopt this method of learning and integrating the sacred knowledge and science of Moksha as shown in this section. Read the last 4 articles. Absorb them. Go to the first few articles and read and assimilate them. Switch to the later posts again and in this way go back and forth till you have read all the posts and feel that the entire content is wholly assimilated in your mind. Ask questions or report when you are satisfied with what has been told to you. Reinforce your new education and make sure that it is applied in your daily life.
The Truth is extremely difficult to find. Harder still it is to realize this Truth. Make severe attempts to cleanse, purify and reorganize your present life in order to integrate the precepts of Truth in your daily life. Until then practice daily any meditation technique to your penchant and worship God by doing virtuous deeds every day with devotion.”
Revised on 26-02-19
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Part A
Introduction
My dear ones, this article is going to be comprehensive, inspirational and thought provoking. Many hours of thinking, deciding, meditating and typing have gone in its making. In normal circumstances, I keep a control over the length and duration of the post in order to keep it short and concise. Well, this one is different. As I began working on it since Friday night, the main question in my mind was how do I begin? From the time when the last post was submitted on 20th June, I have had extensive time periods in meditations during nights as days were preoccupied with many tasks. I wrote my conversations with Shri Mahavatar Babaji for myself in my diary on 23rd May not knowing that today that knowledge would be so exact and valuable. My mental dialogue in transcendental states with Shri Babaji was intended for me but as I began typing Part A, I realized that Part B should include that dialogue also because if you read the whole post from the beginning to end you will understand that everything is related and interlinked. Moreover, if I add that portion here, we will know more about what is Truth, a topic which we have been discussing since the past many weeks. In this way, after reading the whole truth, we come out with a very clear picture of our path of our spiritual journey and its course of action. As I read along these paragraphs, I am convinced that this article delves into human being’s spiritual evolution and how we are affected by our environment and surroundings and the inter relation of our spiritual journey’s path, its course of action and our immediate world…..
Spirit In Life blog is committed to preserving our environment and has a complete section called ‘Our lost rich heritage’. In this segment, I have identified and stated many principles and values of the laws of the Universe as I travelled along to many world heritage sites of India. The aim was two pronged- first to travel to world heritage sites and speak about how civilizations rise and fall because they are not preserved well. So much history, knowledge, culture, inscriptions and mental resource has vanished because we are not preserving them.
Secondly, a lot of spiritual wisdom goes unnoticed and nowhere to be found in the world because the wisdom of the realized ones was never documented and preserved. The same case would have happened in the case of Shri Mahavatar Babaji. Nothing much has been documented about his life, his teachings, his views on world affairs, how the creation of Earth took place, our environment, ecology and the intricate balancing of surviving and sustaining man and the planet Earth. It is a blessing for all of us that through the mental medium of telepathy, he makes me write ancient, lost spiritual knowledge on this blog. There is nobody in this entire world who is a better authority than him or the ancient Rishis to teach the world community about the worrisome world issues and human conflicts prevalent today in modern world or Kaliyug. Most of our problems today have been created by us in the blinding avarice to make material progress at the cost and price of losing out the sheen and light of our Soul! How tragic! The recent Himalayan environmental disaster in the Kedar Nath valley and other religious shrines stands out from others in its magnitude, shortsightedness and scale.
In Part A, I have documented my epilogue and monologue that I had with the voice of God, our minds will find some comfort and many answers to many unanswered and profound questions.
I was very concerned about the after effects of such unholy disasters in the environment and the difficulties that Shri Mahavatar Babaji, our Holy Sadguru Maharaj would face in his daily and future life henceforth. His permanent abode is in the Himalaya Mountain’s caves and make shift homes. When he will descend the Satopanth Lake after the summer months and go towards his winter abode in the middle ranges of the Himalayas will the roads be safe? Will the air, water and food not be contaminated? From where will he arrange a decent living place even if the rebuilding of the state goes on? Although his current abode is perched on a lake, yet the atmosphere and the environment is the same and we all share the same resources.
From the day the climate became gruesome and extremely fatal 16th June onward, the whole day and night at the back of my mind, I had a lingering worry as to how will this situation affect our dear Babaji and his future course of actions? Will they bring more hardships and difficulties for him and his small group of disciples? I was virtually helpless and felt much incapacitated yet my worry would not wane anytime until in the afternoon of 21.06.13. Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rainfall since the beginning of June and nothing in the weather could make me uplift my spirits. The mind had no respite from my gloom and despair.
After having a light lunch one day, I tried to give myself some rest and dissuade myself from the chronic worrisome state of mind. I strongly felt as if my own relative is suffering in the mountains and I am not able to take off my mind from the gravity of this serious problem. So I decided to give myself some rest and sleep. In a very deep relaxed state of mind in which I fell after a few minutes, I saw a big beam of Light entering the windowpane next to my bed from the left side. I owed it to a streak of sunshine and tried to bring some peace in my mind seeing this light. When I closed my eyes, I saw the same beam of Light inside my eyes. In it I saw a very old man with fuzzy white hair and a fluffy beard. I presumed that it must be the manifestation of Swami Sri Nityananda of Ganespuri who must have arrived to give me some relief in my meditations which he does so many times when I am in distress.
The mellow Light became thicker and the face vanished. I felt warm and energized in the face and in my brain also as if the energy to be able to absorb divinity was given in the physical in order to be able to receive Light well. Whatever it was, it was so soothing and relaxing and I encouraged it by lightening and easing myself by throwing away my worries at the arrival of the Divine. I was delighted by the sudden influx of the rays of golden Light and was waiting to see what would happen next. The mere presence of one glimpse of God’s ray of Light brings with it immense ray of hope so this was enough to bring about my balance, stability and peace back.
No sooner did I recognize that God has arrived and has also shown me a countenance to establish its valid presence, I bowed with all my heart’s feelings as well as extravagant gratitude and soon became numb and quiet. I sensed it that there is some augmentation of auspiciousness around me which will provide me the will and strength to be able to cope up with my gloom because of this Himalayan tragedy and herculean sufferings that which we humans have created for ourselves. It is impossible to bear so much devastation, grief, loss, affliction, tragedy, bungling, negligence and mass destruction and of course mass ignorance and darkness!
I could not also bring myself to accept that there was a celebration in the family which was not called off at this very sad time because of which I was seething silently and was accelerating my own protracted grief and despair. Although I did not attend it, I was still in so much simmering pain all this while; it did not even have an escape and my head was hurting most of the day as my nerves were fatigued. For the very reason that I have been to these four holy places in the upper reaches of Himalayas, I am able to comprehend the problems which the pilgrims must be facing even after they might have survived and escaped the wrath of the furious floods. Each day would have been treacherous, horrible and unbearable for them, I understand.
My silent, seething cries reached and were heard in the high skies and God arrived at my window to give me a deeper understanding of the reasons why it all happened; and to give answers. I sense so many such heartaches looming large all over the world, more so in India. Even as I narrate this to you, I am unable to control my tears welling up in my eyes as I recount the horror and sadness that we have brought upon ourselves with our own lack of insight and wisdom!
Sensing my underlying helplessness and perpetual thinking about the well being of our holy Shri Mahavatar Babaji, God came to me. I was consoled, I was comforted, I was given answers to the questions rattling my mind since so many days ceaselessly. I count it as my great blessings and will always remember that auspicious day when I was in direct touch with the Supreme. Nothing can be so authentic and promising as well as comforting when one is driven back to infinity and understands that some of our situations in the world are engraved somewhere else where our eyes cannot penetrate. The extra sensory perceptions and the divine insights are the most reliable answers to knowing what are the ways of the working of the Supreme. With my hands folded in gratitude and in awe of the sacredness of the Divine, I begin to narrate what I happened to experience in the afternoon.
Monologue
The Supreme- “Your intense grief and worry for Babaji and all others has invoked and besought me. I am not Nityananda. I am the Creator of this planet. I have come to you as Cosmic Light. I was there even before the Universe was made. This Earth is very new if compared with my existence*. The Himalayas were carved out of my own will.** The purpose- they can rescue those serious aspirants who wish to atone, redeem. For those who wish to advance ahead in their further spiritual pursuits in monasteries and hidden caves here and there. The Himalayas have been polluted and plundered in the last few decades by the greedy cartel of politicians, agents, mafias and the bureaucrats in addition to the police which is at the mercy of the administration.
Squandering and unintelligent mind squatters here and there. It wanders everywhere and makes endless, countless errors which it has to repay in painful measures life after life. To solve this mystery of stopping the human mind to err is to tame it by controlling it and making it your slave. If you err, you reimburse.
The cause behind the disaster- Tens of thousands of people have perished in the punishment meted out by the Creator’s design of skillful acts. The ones who have been penalized are those who have in this or previous or more incarnations plundered Nature by cutting and felling trees indiscriminately, poaching, looting the villagers, mining unreasonably, changing the courses of rivers frantically thus destabilizing the entire area’s flora and fauna and ending the lives of plants and animals, wasting water, electricity and other resources without regard to its sanctity, doing unprincipled actions in religious places, mismanaging the funds of religious shrines, grabbing land of others, mercilessly beating children and sometimes the elderly at homes, telling lies to bring dishonor to innocent people, beating pregnant women, keeping the family members hungry when food was available, stealing and pocketing wealth that legally belonged to others and most of all having complete disregard to the environment in which they have been living and sustaining on it for food, water, fodder, cattle, fresh air and livelihood.
It is a hard slap on humanity to know that whenever there is an extreme mishandling and negligence of human morality and values, in such times God will manage the environment with its own will and discretion as well as restore it. God will decide and do things with its own power and decision. When the time becomes suitable and applicable, all the forces in the Nature combine, destroy everything that humans have made if excesses are done beyond acceptable limits. Humans are punished by the five elements – water, fire, wind, earth/land and space. The forests are assigned to the goddesses and deities to preserve its sanctity and honor. They should be submitted to and given due respect. You will not even get fire, wood or land to cremate the dead bodies if you bring collective ire of the Gods in the jungles. If such drastic steps are taken by Nature to punish, remember man has done severe bungling and goof ups in handling the delicate balance of man and Nature.”
I quivered. As I lay there, I begin to get wondering- why should we not know these hidden facts and why we, as humans are so reckless and negligent? As nothing could have been done now to undo the wrath, I pleaded and prayed for the dead. I implored God to tell us what we should be doing now. What are the right things that we should know in this matter and we would try to emulate these articulated principles and follow them as far as possible.
The answers came as follows-
- “Nature is like a very gentle lady. She will provide us all our needs provided we do not exploit or harass her.
- Politicians have selfish interests. The police, who is controlled by the people in power and the politicians are responsible for the mass tragedy. When the decisions to make dams are taken, the politicians should consult and involve the scientists in their meetings and go by their scientific advice. The scientists will give them a sound advice on ecology and sustainable environment.
- Small dams should be built over rivers for electricity but the course of the rivers should never be changed. The rivers in the Himalayas are flowing even before man walked on the Earth. There is a Force prevalent in water that can become adverse and fierce and destroy in high magnitudes if the natural laws are violated.
- The rivers should be allowed to flow freely on all sides and its path should not be disrupted or violated.
- River waters are for posterity. We should not overuse the natural resources just for ourselves but keep in reserve for next generation to come. If we violate this law, we shall be punished severely. We leave behind our wealth for our children so that they are prosperous. The same rule is applied whereas natural resources are concerned. Use only that much which is essential for your use. Leave rest for others.
- Do not cut mountains drastically, cut marginally to build homes and roads.
- Continue acts of preservation side by side.
- Himalayas were made by the will of God to do penance and spiritual research. Do not disregard the sanctity and purity of its reason of inception. The Himalaya Mountains are being used for commercial viability by a section of society. Do not make holy places commercial, impure, noisy and dirty.
- Do not move mass population from their homes to a new place for development reasons. If you do so, you are changing their destinies drastically. Wrath of Nature can be manifold if equal distribution of natural resources and wealth is not made fairly. Fury of Nature reflects the gross bungling, deprivation and mismanagement of God made resources and natural elements.
Your pure love for the safety and wellness of your sadguru has invoked me and earned you a special interface with me. Now share this soliloquy with everybody so that they too benefit from your blessings.”
Part B
My mental dialogue in my meditations with the Jagadguru Maharaj Shri Mahavatar Babaji coincides with the relevance of today’s topic. It was held sometime during my quiet moments with him in May end and sometime later in early June. My thirst to learn from Him about the eternal Truths remains unquenched. It is again offered at the Holy Lotus Feet of the Great Himalayan Master as a small offering of obeisance and love from me to Him-
(Translation to English follows as soon as Hindi lines finish)
Dialogue
Q1 S- Mana sundar kab hota hai?
MB- Sundar! Wah sundar tab banta hai jab usmei Eeshwar jaagta hai.
Q2 S -Bhagwan mujhse kya chahta hai?
MB- Bhagwan chahta hai tumhare se prakash failey, Satya ka prakash, woh prakash jo sada se hamare andar hai. Eeshwar chahata hai ki hum unko jane kyunki saaransh sari maya ka Brahma mei hi hai. Brahma ko janane ke bad humko kuch janne ke liye hoga hi nahi.
Q3 S- Satya ko janana itna kathin kyun hai?
MB- Apne karmo evam sanskaron ke kaaran. Jeeva ko sanskar ulti disha mei udakar le jaten hai, Maya mei. Iske banispat, Eeshwar ko janne ke liye humey ek jagrit Atma ki avashakta padti hai jisse hum swayam ko jane. Hamari Atma mei Satya hai. Usme gyan hai, bodh hai. Woh gyan sada raheta hai chahe din ho ki raat, jagrit ya nidra, swasthya ho ya rog, harsh ya shok. Satya ka viprit hota hai andhkaar.
Q4 S- Satya kya hai?
MB- Eeshwar, Brahma, Satya ek hi hai. Woh sada se hamare paas tha, humko uska saath nahi mila kyonki maya daayan jaisi humko pahele lubhati hai, phir bhulati hai phir rulati hai. Is Satya ko samjho aur jaano. Sansara nashwar hai. Prakriti mei vinash aur rachana dono hote rahete hai hamesha.
Mana ki maya shanti bhang karti hai. Mana ki gehri maun mei Satya ko jaano. Param shanti Brahma mei hai, usey mahsoos karo apne mana ke andar. Usko dhyan se payo, man mei tatolo, wahin us tahey ke andar, Satya ka nivas hota hai.
Eeshwar ko prem se mana ke andar pukaro, avahan karo, woh prem ki bhasha bahut jaldi samajhta hai. Usey sab bodh hai, usey mana ki bhasha sabki saralta se samajh aati hai. Yadi mana ke andar Eeshwar ke liye prem nirmal ho, to tumhare andar Eeshwar tumhare saamne aajeayega, tum usey pyaar se pukaro apna samajh kar. Mana ko dheela chod kar pure aaram mei aakar Eeshwar ka avahan karo, wo avashya tumhari mana ki sachchi baat ko pura karega.
Q5 S- Samadhi kya hai?
MB- Shaant antarman se phuta hua Eeshwariya ananda. Ya Eeshwar se gahera avirodh yoga ke akasmaat avsar jismei kewal Satya ka anubhav ho. Yah mana ki ati shaant awastha hoti hai. Kabhi kabhar shwas Atma ki gaheri shanti mei parivartit ho jati hai. Sadhak ko is awastha ke liye ghor prayatna karna chahiye, usey apne kalyan ke liye samay nikalna hoga.
Samadhi hamari sahaj awastha hai. Is awastha mei sansara ka beej lupt ho jata hai. Isliye paripakva saadhak ko sansari baton se mana ko door rakhna chahiye and mana ke aakhri taheh tak jana hoga apni Atma ko choone ke liye. Samadhi Atma ki swabhik awastaha hai.”
Translation
Q1 S- “When is the mind beautiful?”
MB-“Beautiful! It becomes beautiful when God awakens in it.”
Q2 S- “What does God want from me?”
MB- “God wants you to spread Light, the Light of the Truth. That Light which is in us since the beginning. God wants us to know Him because the essence of all Maya is in Him. The cure, the remedy to remove the film of delusion in your mind is embedded in Brahma. After we know Brahma, there will be nothing left for us to know more.”
Q3 S- “Why is it very hard and difficult to know the Truth?”
MB-“Because of our own karmas and the sanskaras.”
The embedded sanskaras (hidden tendencies) take the ‘jeeva’ (soul) in Maya in the opposite direction. While to know our self, we need a direct contact with a Divine soul who is already awakened. The Soul in us is the Truth. It has knowledge, a sense of knowing irrespective of day or night, sleep or wakefulness, sickness or health, joy or gloom. The opposite of Truth is darkness.”
Q4 S- “What is Truth?”
MB-“When the mind is extremely silenced to the core, from within emerges ananda, bliss.
God, Brahma, Truth are all the same. It was with us throughout but we could not associate with it because of the enchantress Maya. It initially bewitches us, then makes us deluded and forgetful and later makes us cry. Understand this Truth and know this Truth. This world is impermanent. Creation and destruction both go on in Nature all the time.
The delusion or Maya spoils the peace of your mind. Know the Truth in the silence of the mind. The ultimate peace is in Brahma, feel that in your heart. Attain that deep peace with meditation; search inside, after that deep layer beyond the mind you will find Brahma.
Invoke God with love in your heart, call Him, He understands the language of love very swiftly. He comprehends everything; He understands every one’s language of the heart effortlessly. If you have pure love for God inside, God will appear inside you, in front of you; invoke Him as your own beloved. Relax your mind and call upon God; He will truly respond to your sincere calling.”
Q5 S- “What is Samadhi?”
MB- “The spell of raptures of euphoria, Divine’s pure bliss, or spells of direct uninterrupted deep connection and union with the Universal Divine Spirit where only Truth exists is samadhi. It is a state of very profound silence. Sometimes breath concludes into silence of the Spirit. It is our natural state and should be pursued by the seeker when he spares time for his own good and welfare.
Samadhi is our natural state. It is a state of lack of worldly thoughts born out of the bubble of the mind’s samsara. So the layers of worldly tendencies should be curbed by the senior advancing sadhak and attempts to touch the base of the Spirit touched to gain Divine’s Truth. Samadhi is Atma’s most natural state of being.”
MB- “One Useful Kriya for all the aspiring yogis. Practice this many times to make your mind calm and composed”
Kriya
“Inhale deeply many times a day. Leave the breath very slowly. After doing this many times, do involuntary breathing. When the mind becomes very calm, repeat the same exercise. Lie down after the mind has become extremely calm like Lord Vishnu. Recall from Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-III ( Last portion-It can be achieved by maintaining your peace of mind. All of you worship Lord Vishnu and Lord Buddha in the reclining position without ever finding out the exact denotation of this symbol. Lord Vishnu is shown with either a pink or a blue Lotus in his navel in this special position. Pink is for love and blue represents tranquility………)
Maintain silence in different times of the day. Silence gives you a glimpse of your soul. Truth is known in silence. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om……….”
Updated on 25.05.21
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Inception of our Foundation Nav Jeevan Jyoti Foundation took place in February 2017. One of the main objectives of this Foundation is tree plantation apart from spreading the lost and forgotten ancient wisdom of the Rishis in modern world today.
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About the line-This Earth is very new if compared with my existence. The Himalayas were carved out of my own will….
It will be revised and refurbished at a later stage when God wills with more unknown facts about our planet. There were many revelations made on this topic on 25.2.21 by God, Eshawar.
Key words-
# God comes as effulgent Cosmic Light
# Excess Deforestation
# Keep natural resources in reserve for next generations to come
# Nature’s incessant plundering
# Environmental disaster Kedarnath Nath 2013
# Squandering and unintelligent mind squatters here and there.
# Mahavatar Babaji, Himalayan Yogi
# Samadhi
# Kriya
# When is the mind beautiful?
# What is Truth?
# Why is it so difficult to know the Truth?
# Silence gives you a glimpse of your soul
# When the mind is extremely silenced to the core, from within emerges ananda, bliss.
# Truth is known in silence.
Related posts of year 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic Covid-19
& the most recent post of 20th and 22nd May 2021 guided by the Omnipresent God during my samadhi state.
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From long, deep caves of darkness, a bright Dawn emerges, a new Era begins. Part- I (P-1)
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2.#Attachment-1 of three old posts as an extension to the previous post- The result of degeneration of Eternal Values- I
Updated on 16.6.21, the 8th anniversary of Kedarnath tragedy
The Himalayas were carved out of my own will.**
There are four important pilgrimages in the Himalayas.
1. Yamnotri 2. Gangotri 3. Badrinath 4. Kedarnath
The first tapasvis or Sages who did penance on these places and sanctified them by their meditation and positive humanitarian thoughts thousands of years ago are in the same order-
1. Agastya Maharishi 2. Atri Rishi 3. Kartik Swami 4. Markandey Maharishi
Giving you a reference from on old post
“Omkareshwar temple is very good, I like it very much. Such temples are made on places where great penance has been done. It is very ancient. It is less than 28,000 years old. To be exact it is 27,782 years.” (Kashyap Maharishi)
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Part-A
20.06.13
My dear everybody, this post is dedicated in the memory of all the pilgrims and devotees who have lost their lives unexpectedly in the Himalayas while doing the pilgrimage of chardham in Uttarakhand and to also those who died in other neighbouring regions. Nothing could be more frightening than seeing Nature’s unrelenting fury. I have been distressed at nights to see the horror and dismay on TV screen. What God has made so beautiful and in so many years is being destroyed by human beings’ short-sightedness and apathy. The ignorance of we the people, for our environment, the unchecked heavy construction on the mountains, the unrestrained vehicular movements, senseless making of dams and hydel projects without researching the consequential, detrimental, prolonged aftereffects have caused so much human misery, sadness and loss. It is quite possible that some effects may turn out to be irreversible. For more than ten thousand years, pilgrims have been going to these holy places but they were in tune with Nature. As we become a developing nation, in the name of progress and human needs, we are trying to conquer Nature by changing the course of rivers permanently. There is only so much that God will allow us to tamper with His creation after which we are bound to suffer and grieve manifold if we continue to disregard the norms and unsaid rules of the maker of this Universe.
I do not intend to say more than this on this topic because as mature adults we understand very well the current state of affairs. My aim is only to bring harmony and peace in our distraught minds and share with you my meditations by throwing some light on what the sacred Masters think about what is going on in our environment and how we should deal with the disturbing news that we get to hear from time to time. Is there any lesson for us in all this? I was also very concerned about the condition and well-being of our revered Mahavatar Babaji who does not have a safe house like us and has been living in rough conditions since many centuries in the Himalayas. Though I know that God will always protect him, yet I have prayed in the day and at night for him and his group of disciples for his safety and for him and others getting the basic needs of living till normalcy returns.
In my meditation at 5 pm today, I was able to connect to Swami Nityananda and Swami Dayananda Shaligram of Ganeshpuri and found out that all is well with Mahavatar Babaji and his mandali of chelas at Satopanth Lake. It is after meditating deeply and getting some news of our beloved Babaji that I have been able to blog as the day is getting over. But nonetheless, we will continue to reflect on what is Truth and how to know it in this continuing article.
Part B
Quoting from Why does it take a prolonged time for our soul to manifest?-I
To manifest our soul, to recover from the hardships and miseries of the impelling tricky destiny, the following procedure needs to be followed in the increasing order and the Yoga or Union with God attained.
Nadi shuddhi The purification of the energy and nerve channels.
They are spread profusely in the body and can be cleaned and energized by Yogasana and other simple ancient and Oriental mild physical exercises.
Shwas shuddhi The purification of the breath. It is achieved by doing one of the various types of breathing techniques called Pranayam. Even watching the breath is one easy technique for the beginners.
Karma shuddhi Improving the quality of our actions from woeful to gleaming ones. Being ever vigilant and cautious at every moment on each day and watching our actions and forcing them to be always clean, good, selfless and pious. This is of extreme importance for any seeker because any wrong deed can push anybody from a great height in a ditch. Merely doing Yogasana or Pranayam will not suffice. Utmost care and vigilance should be paid by the sadhak in improving the quality of actions in body and mind both.
Mana Shuddhi Purifying the muddy mind by daily meditation, chanting and watchful awareness. It is only after this final stage is arrived that the seeker can attain ‘Atma sakshatkar’ or God realization.
We shall need this reference later. But before that I have to tell you something here which will take us further on in our discussion.
A mail I received on 13th evening by a casual visitor on my blog.
Dear Madam,
You articles are very interesting. Could you please let me know as to where and how often have you met Babaji?
What line of Sadhana do you pursue-is it Kriya Yoga or Shri Ravi Shankar’s ?
Thanking You,
My reply-
Dear X,
I am pleased to know that you have found the articles on Spiritinlife interesting. Hope they were also illuminating and helpful in seeking at least a few answers in your search for God and Self Realization.
I am yet to meet Shri Mahavatar Babaji though I made three unsuccessful attempts. Please read- I get a new life, a new Light in Badrinath-I to know more about my experiences regarding it.
I have done many types of disciplines prior to becoming the direct disciple of Babaji in 2001. Over the years, I have discontinued them involuntarily as Babaji has given me a lot of seva of helping others in their spiritual journey with my blog. This is my sadhana now. Apart from this, I do ‘sahaj yoga’. This is to say that meditation happens on its own with God’s Grace, I don’t try to do it with my efforts. Rest of the times, I serve others everyday with no holiday or break unrelentingly.
Hope I have answered satisfactorily to your query.
Sarika
His reply on 14th very early morning as I was in deep meditation-
Thanks for your reply. Does it mean there is no yogi who can help and guide? I don’t believe in cult figures at all. I would like to meet one true advanced yogi which probably is not possible today.
Regards,
X
It is only after Shri Mahavatar Babaji told me to reply to him on the blog in this specific way in order to benefit all of us that I write here. My response to him is only my experience which I had in my meditation a few days ago. As I share some of my spiritual experiences with everybody, it is up to the readers to draw conclusions. If they wish, they may continue taking help from me and pursue this path created by Babaji himself through Spiritinlife. Please know that my role is only to guide you after you have realized that this is the path you wish to follow. You may or may not like to seek my advice is solely your discretion.
In my meditation…..
Just as I hit the bed little before midnight with soreness and pain in the limbs after a hectic day, I became absolutely fresh and pain vanished in a few minutes. I remembered God as is my daily practice and put forth the query of one devotee from USA before the Param Pita, Sadguru Maharaj Mahavatar Babaji. A huge beam of White Light came towards me like a thick lightning and struck my face and I heard-‘Apps’.
I got my answer.
Feeling light after getting an answer for that devotee straight from Mahavatar Babaji, I visualized myself as if Light is still falling on my face and I am lying in the milky Light and surreal Joy, I fell asleep in it. I slept with that Light falling on my face.
At 4 in the morning I woke up very fresh although I had slept at midnight. I washed my face and went back to the bed. There was so much silence and quietude that I savoured it intensely. In that soothing solitude and tranquillity, the sound of Om began to ring in my left ear and I went back to the time of the beam of White Light entering my face and I broke into a spell of divine ecstasy. I had no sense of living in my physical body and my soul swayed effortlessly in space and vacuum where the naadghosh of Om was ringing. In that Om, I slipped again to catch some sleep and lost consciousness of external surroundings. Someone put me to sleep after filling me up with divinity and then woke me up at sharp 6 again.
I fell in a transcendental state once more. This body was here in the city with some vehicular noises beginning to make their ugly presence felt by this time while He was in the cave quiet and motionless near the triangular, turquoise lake with humans absent. The two bodies were lost and erased in the earthly space and only their souls and minds connected. The minds of two became single. What He was thinking I was receiving simultaneously comparable to two transmitters that are connected and relay signals to each other. My mind was reading what he was thinking and speaking mutely in faint whispers.
His words were coming. They are treated always as holy words, Holy sacrament they are for me; the words of good Lord they are. He speaks the words of God; I receive the holy mantras as I, his dedicated servant, eagerly and patiently waiting for every drop of sweet elixir.
Shri Mahavatar Babaji said this to me, “Nadi shuddhi and Shwas Shuddhi is done with Pranayam by the majority of people through Yoga. Just a few people reach the stage of Karma Shuddhi, the third stage. The first two stages are sadhana and the next two are tapas. The seekers do not reach the stage where all their actions are done with selfless motives, nishkaam karma at Karma Shuddhi stage. Fewer still and rare are those who reach the last and final stage where the Mana Shuddhi stage is reached. To purify the mind is absolutely important yet most difficult. The mind cannot be made pure without the kripa and Grace of your enlightened Guru.
Only when the mind has become as pure as gold that the seeker is be able to communicate effortlessly on the abstract level where the thoughts of the disciple and the Master are relayed in the air and immediately accepted and comprehended in the silenced mind; not a trace is lost.
The reflection of the mind-state of one is found in the other at the highest level; they become one. If one is able to connect through God as Light in the inner core, the mind-communication is flawless at this level. All the God’s knowledge comes through this medium of unhindered mental communication between the seeker and the Sought.
Mana Shuddhi – After mana shuddhi stage, we reach a stage where the Truth of God begins to manifest.
God is Truth. Truth is Light. Truth is knowledge. Truth is Peace. Truth is Silence of God.
To know the Truth, one must rely on Self.
Go deep within. Most of you will find darkness and muck. Remove that. Remove the primitive ignorance under which lies the Truth of God. The sankaras or hidden tendencies are tarnishing the Light of the God inside you. Remove that with the Light of knowledge, Truth and merit of Self. Shine like a star on a dark night. Blaze like the Sun in the day and shimmer like rays of twinkling stars on moonless night.”
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# Tapas
# Nishkaam karma
# Nadi shuddhi
# Shwas shuddhi
# Karma shuddhi
# Mana Shuddhi
# Atma sakshatkar’
# God is Truth
# Truth is Light
# Truth is knowledge
# Truth is Peace
# Truth is Silence of God.
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