Sri Suneet Joshiji
See the Divine Being in the Fire!! Shaktanand!!
...Just a ten min. walk down the mountain to this quiet beach by the Ganga.
Om!
Monday, 17 December 2012
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
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 Sadhu
we were in Banaras sitting with Alice Boner, (Alice Boner,1889-1981,
was a Swiss artist and scholar of Indian art who had made Varanasi her home
from 1936 to 1978.) She asked Sripadji, 'What kind of Sadhu are you?"
He casually pointed down the street and said, "See that dog there
walking with his master, he is a 'regular dog'. Now see that one
over there, the street-dog, moving here and there, wherever and
whenever he likes. He is an irregular dog!
I am an irregular sadhu!!"
And this is what actually made Baba Sripadji so specially
unique, heartfelt, inspiring and intense! No matter which
form of God one adored he could connect with that individual
in a miraculous way touching the Soul!
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012
"Yes, I walk daily into the nearby forest and back, it's about 10 kms, very
beautiful! There is a security guard at the entrance. I talk to the trees and
steal 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'm
also a security guard, a spiritual security guard!"
"I always remember the words of Mikhail Naimy in 'The Book of Mirdad':
'Forgetting the world makes you a pilgrim.
Forgetting the next world makes you a saint.
Forgetting forgetting makes you complete.'
Om Om Om!"
~ Some words of yesterdays talk with Swamiji.
~*~
And here is my favorite quote from Mikhail Naimy's ~
The Book of Mirdad : The strange story of a monastery
which was once called the Ark
"So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the
sky for all and everything to see.
For so, in truth, it is.
So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent on hearing
what you say.
And so, in truth, it is.
Do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your heads.
And so, in truth it does.
So, wish as if you were the wish.
And so, in truth, you are.
So live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live.
And so, in truth, He does."
~*~
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Swami Purushottamanandaji Maharaj, the renowned grand disciple
of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and disciple of Swami Brahmanandaji
arrived at this Vashishtha Gufa in 1928. Since then he had been performing
'tapas' (austerities) occupying this cave for more than 25 yrs. 'til a small
Kutia was made for him near the cave's entrance. Still he is the amazing
inspired Gurudevji to several brilliant yogis like Swami Bhumananda Puri,
and Swami Nirvedananda Puri. It was in 1955 that Swami Jnanananda Giri
came to this ashram at Vashishtha Gufa and was to spend much time there
among other young swamis receiving the discourses of Maharajji from the
"Yoga Vashishtha Maha Puran" and many blessings. These stories one has
heard and discussed again and again with Swamiji over the years.
When Swami Purushottamanandji Maharaj first arrived at the Gufa
it was actually all surrounded with tall trees and jungle! And even now
there are wonderful huge trees at the Gufa's entrance.
For over 30 years he occupied this cave up to his Mahasamadhi on
Feb.13, 1961~ It was Maha Shivratri.
that a lion used to come daily at sunset from across the river and sleep at the
entrance of the cave while Maharajji used to stay inside at the farthest end
of the cave. This went on for about a year and then the lion stopped coming.
In the words of Swami Jnananandaji, "The charm of this forest retreat
was due to it's natural setting. Living there was in itself an austerity. One
slept on the river sand that cushioned the floor of the large cave. Cooking
was done on a wood fire, in the open, with only a sheet of canvas overhead
to give shelter from the rain and wind. Every sadhu knows only too well
that the fires of divine aspiration burn brightest when life is simple,
independent, and in touch with nature..."
Maharishi Vashishtha is one of the Saptrishis ( 7 great sages ) a Brahm
Rishi and manasputra of Lord Brahma, the Sadguru of his time possessing
20 kala's,(divine arts) with perfect knowledge of the full cosmos and of God!
After the death of his 100 sons he, along with his wife Arundhati, came
down from his Gurukul at the banks of the river Beas to journey South and
passed this way by the Ganga banks to perform tapas ( austerities) for a few
hundred years.
The Gufa itself is situated over 20 kms. North of Rishikesh and 10 kms.
South of Byasi on the main road to Devprayag. The cave itself is said to have
been sealed only in the last few years, that it went on for several kms. and that
Siddhas (divine beings) have been coming here to do tapas in their subtle
bodies since thousands of years. It is one of my favorite places in the India,
there is such beauty and a wondrous powerful energy here!!
One has only to follow the small light at the end of this long dark cave,
and sit silently before the great Shivlingam and white image of Vashishthaji,
and in moments one is swept up and away in the ecstatic vibrations and most
mystical experience of That Inner Depth which is beyond words!! It is a Pure
Grace that lifts one out of oneself and into the soul presence of the Divine.
And even if once this has happened, it is never forgotten and the way here
has been mapped-out in the heart forever!
This is the Grace of a Realized Saint.
Swami Purushottamanandji Maharaj.
Just North of Vashishtha Gufa was this amazing sight
of great light flooding Heavenly Grace!
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Friday, 2 November 2012
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Bring back the one who left.
Lure him with music
or any irresistible pretext.
If he says, I will be there in a little while,
that is part of his beguiling,
his art that can tie strands of water into knots
and make weavings of the wind.
Do not accept those.
Bring the presence!
Sit down within that and live inside
what is beyond physical beauty,
beyond the sun's extravagance
or the handsomeness of human beings.
Yemen has the most exquisite rubies,
but the one I want to see
coming through the door
is the one who lives here. ~
~ RUMI ~
~ Translated by Coleman Barks
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
..." 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 becomes
the recipient of the lord's Grace. Without following one's svadharma, one
cannot hope for the Lord's Grace. It is true that the Lord's Grace is ever
partially raining down upon the moving and unmoving, the manifest and
unmanifest, and the sentient and the insenient. It does not differentiate in
terms of time, place, or object. It has been raining down from the beginning
of time. It will do so till the end of time, because raining down is its very
nature. In fact whatever is existent is because of only a fraction of the
Lord's Grace.
This is the Truth. However it is not possible to realize this Truth of the
Lord's Grace without Sadhana. It is the nature of the sun to spread its
rays of light far and wide to bring new life and energy to the whole universe.
However because of some problem with the eyes, if one is not able to enjoy
that light, one cannot blame the sun, saying it is being partial. It is the
problem of the eyes. In the same way, even though the Lord's Grace is
always present, we have to remove the incapacity to experience it. It is
through Sadhana that we will gain the capacity to experience the Lord's
Grace. Through Sadhana we will gain a sparkling and pure 'Antahkarna'
with which we will easily experience the Lord's Grace."
(Translated from Hindi by Ananda Saraswati.)
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