ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ To prepare one for any future stories, unusual tales if you will, of Baba Sripadji this one event shared with me very recently by Swami Jnananandaji must be kept in mind. Swamiji said, ' Once when Sripadji was a very young...
"Yes, I walk daily into the nearby forest and back, it's about 10 kms, verybeautiful! There is a security guard at the entrance. I talk to the trees andsteal flowers that fall from them on the ground. People must think I'm mad!( and he laughs!) One has to be a little mad otherwise it's a bit tough. I'malso a security guard, a spiritual security guard!" "I always remember the words of Mikhail Naimy in 'The Book...
Swami Purushottamanandaji Maharaj, the renowned grand discipleof Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and disciple of Swami Brahmanandajiarrived at this Vashishtha Gufa in 1928. Since then he had been performing'tapas' (austerities) occupying this cave for more than 25 yrs. 'til a smallKutia was made for him near the cave's entrance. Still he is the amazinginspired Gurudevji to several...
..." the 'Jiva's Dharma' is 'Sadhana' and the Lord's 'Dharma' is 'Kripa'(Grace). It is only when the Jiva follows his own Dharma that he becomesthe recipient of the lord's Grace. Without following one's svadharma, onecannot hope for the Lord's Grace. It is true that the Lord's Grace is everpartially raining down upon the moving and unmoving, the manifest andunmanifest, and the sentient and the insenient....
Sant Teja Singhji, the beloved Guru of Sant Gulab Singhji, was firstmet by him outside his village of Thoa Khalsa, Pakistan. where he stayedunder a tree beside the Gurudwara. When anyone asked him in or tried to bring him food he refused saying that he had come all the way from VillageMankapur, near Lucknow with his own food rashin. "I have not come of my own free will." 'Mere...
"Radha Rani ki Jai! Maha Rani ki Jai!Shri Barsane Wali ki Jai! Jai! Jai!"Sri Radhaji's birthday is tomorrow, 8th day of the waxing moon.It is celebrated ecstatically every year in her birthplace of ShrijiMandir in Barsana. In the wee hours before the break of day thedevotees and lovers of Sri Radha and Krsna begin coming into the village from all directions and even far far away places. Theyfirst start the barefoot walk on the 'parikrama marg',...
The Cosmic Dance (Sufi) c.1650 Isfahan An ecstatic union of dervishes, the Simurgh, birds, fish, insects, and animalsall swept up in the current of the Cosmic Dance!! ...
"Read the book and know the book is reading you." Swamiji said this when I spoke about the book and the people who askedhow they could get it... 'Transcendent Journey', the Autobiography of Swami Jnanananda Giri may be had now only by...
Swami Parvatikarji Maharaj in BadrinathVina MaharajjiVina Maharajji Badrinath Dham Swami Parvatikarji Maharaj and Baba Sripadji Sri Badrinathji c. 1975 Swami Dattatreya Rama Rao Parvatikarji (1916-1990), is seen hereplaying his 'Brahm Vina', as he calls it, at the Badrinath Temple. ...