Living Divinity

Dear Reader,

There are thousands of monk across the world, very small percentage of them are enlightened, most of the enlightened monks choose to stay away from the world and worldly people. Very few of them choose to stay in the world and to help spiritual aspirant. My guru - Gyanswami is one of those enlightened monks who have chosen to stay in this world, work and earn his own bread, be a family person and help people like me and you to cross the ocean of illusion. I am grateful to my Guru for blessing me with Kriya Diksha, and also grateful to Mahavatar Babaji who sent him to help the spiritual aspirants. I am posting my Guru’s life journey hoping it will inspire spiritual aspirants. As of today (Feb-2010) Guru Gyan Swami is working with a company called RSB Transmission in Pune, India and lives with his family.

Following is the life journey of my param Guru Gyanswami in his own words:
My first meeting with my divine Guru – Mahavatar Babaji

When I was in first year of Electrical Engineering in Bihar College of Engineering, Patna in the state of Bihar I suffered from heart disease. Three valves of my heart were in bad condition. The doctor had announced that this boy will not live more than three months. In 1960s there were no valve transplantation surgeries taking place in India. The doctor consulted was one of the top doctors in state of Bihar, later in 1990s during BJP Government in India he was the health minister. Knowing that my son will die within three months my parents were in grief. In India one of the greatest misfortunes for a father is to see his son’s final rituals during his life time. I thought instead of dying in front of my parents and other family members if I go away from home they will have a hope that my son will come back one day alive. So I left my home without informing any one in the family. The village I lived is near the boarder of India and Nepal, I crossed the boarder and entered in Nepal and started going into deep forest towards Tibet. After walking like this for a long period of time I was very tired and in the evening time I almost fainted under a tree. I had no energy to walk any further or even stand up, it was almost certain to me that now this was the end of my life. No one is going to come and save me, I am going to die either due to hunger or some wild animal will kill and eat me in the night. I closed my eyes and started waiting for the end of my life, but I was surprised to hear a voice, it was the voice of a young man, he looked like a monk. He told me in Hindi language that “you are not going to die; you will give lectures and teach the yoga to thousands”. I was surprised to see some one in the deep forest and speaking Hindi language. Normally the region I was in was near Tibet, so people know either Nepali language or Tibetan Language, but this young monk was speaking very good Hindi. I was not in position to speak or even believe him what he was telling me. But I asked him in my broken language that I can’t speak, by birth I was not able to speak properly, even if I have to tell my name to some one I needed a pen and paper. He asked me to follow him; I had no other choice so I started following him. He took me to a cave near by, and then he took a pot made of stone, poured some water into the pot from near by water fall and started steering it with a wooden shaft. The water in the pot became thick white liquid. He gave it to me and asked me to drink it. As soon as I drank it I felt better, all the fatigue disappeared. He asked me to stay in the cave, I stayed there for three to four days, everyday he used to give me that liquid, and I started becoming healthier. After few days he told me to go back. I left that place and came back home. Everyone in my home was happy to see me coming back alive and healthy, my heart disease was totally gone. The doctors were surprised to see my case; they said that this is a miracle.I went back to college and continued my college studies. At this time I did not know anything about that young monk. I thought he must be a villager, who knew some herbs. I thanked god to send him to me to save my life.


The same monk comes and meet me in my hostel:

After I came back to the college, my health was becoming better day by day. The heart disease had disappeared and the problem of stammering also vanished. I was able to speak very fluently. I started taking part in group discussions and won the debate for speaking in favor of and against the topic of debate. A few months later, when I was studying in my rental room with Rajnikant – the son of my god father Dr. B.D. Sharma, Rajnikant told me that a monk has come to meet you.I went downstairs to see who had come; I was surprised to see that this was the same person I met earlier in the forest who cured my heart diseases. But I was not in position to believe that this monk was able to locate me and come to my room. I invited him to my room upstairs. Within a few minutes he told Rajnikat to go downstairs and bring some flowers. After Rajnikant went downstairs, the monk stood up and caught my right hand and touched it to his forehead and asked me “are you still not believing??” out of fear and astonishment I replied yes I am believing you, but in side I was feeling very difficult to believe. While Rajnikant was away the monk quickly gave me many instructions – what to do in my life. He showed me how to recognize him in future by looking at raised fingers of his both the leg. In the mean time Rajnikant came back with flowers in his hand, the monk immediately changed the topic of discussion. He started giving us blessings like any other normal monk and started leaving. I and Rajnikat planned to follow him wherever he was going. After coming out from our room he went downstairs and started walking on the main road, we followed him just behind him. After we walked few steps behind him, in front of our eyes he vanished in the air!!! We were shocked to see some one disappearing in front of our eyes… Few months later this incident I read the book Autobiography of a Yogi written by Paramahansa Yogananda, when I read about Babaji and saw his photograph, I immediately recognize that the monk I met was none other then Mahavatar Babaji Himself!!! Without telling any one I decided that after completing engineering I will go to Himalayas to meet Babaji.

Years in Himalayas:

After completing my engineering I left for Himalayas to meet Babaji again.He had given me a clue to recognize him by his raised toes of both the legs. I asked many monks about Babaji in Himalayas and looked at their feet to find the monk with raised toes. After few weeks I met a group of monks, when I asked them about Babaji, they laughed at me and offered me to stay with them. They use to make laugh at me saying that “oh so you have come to find Babaji”, I was sincere in my search for the one who gave me the life. One day I noticed that all the monks suddenly started behaving as if they were about to welcome some one, I saw a familiar monk entering the cave I looked at his feet and found the raised toes. I ran to him and bowed down at his holy feet, he was my master – Mahavatar Babaji. He initiated me in Kriya Yoga. I stayed with group of monks in Himalayas; they taught me many secret yoga techniques including par kaya pravesh, etc.

The Yogis I met in Himalayas:

I met many monks in Himalayas; their age must be in more than few hundred years. One of the months used to call me by name “Vivekananda”, once when I was seating with him near a fire, he told me ‘Vivekananda – you like dry fruits, correct?” I said yes, next moment he put his hand in fire and took out dry fruits and gave me. I ate them, they were real. But I doubted him; he gave me some more dry fruits in the same way. Again I thought that he must be hiding dry fruits in side the fire. He was able to read my mind, this time he asked me what you get from the railway station during the journey. I replied ‘hot puri and potato sabji’ (hot fried bread and cooked potato), immediately he put his hand in fire and took out the ‘hot puri and potato sabji’, I believed him and ate the delicious meal in the cave. Great yogis can transform one form of energy to any other form of energy by their will power.The Himalayan monks knew every thing about the scriptures – Vedas, Upanishads etc without reading any books. When yogis connect themselves to the divine world, they do not need to read books the knowledge flows through them.

Babaji’s message:

In 1975; after around 2 years of my stay in Himalayas with Babaji and other saints, one day Babaji told me to return back to home and start family life. I was reluctant to leave Babaji, I told him that what will I do without you, you are everything for me. Babaji replied that “my dignity is due to you”. He said, you should earn your own bread by working and spread yoga without charging any fees. Like a mother does not charge money to love her baby, the divinity does not need to charge money for teaching the liberating technique of Kriya Yoga.“Today people have commercialized the yoga by charging money; the yoga is seen as alternate to the medicine. But the real purpose of yoga is self-realization. You should earn your own bread and teach Kriya yoga without charging money”

My first Job Interview:

Name of the company – M/S Balaju Yantra Shala, Kathmandu, Nepal joint venture of a Switzerland company SATA and Nepal’s NIDC. Interviewers were hypnotized, they asked me to join from the next day.

The Great Yogis of India I have met:

Laal Baba:

One of my collegue told me about his guru, when I went to meet him. He asked every one to go out, he showed me his real form, and he told me that everyone comes to ask for worldly thing, but I will give you spiritual power. He transmitted power to me to help other people. He used to meet me daily when he was in the city. He told his disciple that if I don’t come for long time you go to shivalaya and pray to lord shiva that you want to meet me, so one of his disciple prayed near Baidyanath Dham (one of the 12 jyotir ling) and baba appeared next day.

Osho:

One of the days while I was in college I went to a theater for a matinee show. There was some time left before the show started and I saw a group of people listening to a talk by an elderly person with a beard. I was just inquisitive and headed towards the crowd. There was a spiritual talk going on and he said “I see that lot of young people are going to the movies but only old people had gathered here to attend to my talk, I would make spirituality so interesting and exciting that even young people would flock to get it.”. I was shocked for a second as if he was speaking to me. I wanted to visit osho and I found out the details that he was staying in Bombay at that time. I went to visit him and Ma Laxmi let me in and I saw osho and he recognized that I was Babaji’s disciple. I used to hug him and kiss him in the foot with love and he was also very fond of me. He asked whether I had any money with me, I said no I don’t. He called in Ma Laxmi and asked her to provide anything that is needed for my stay. So in this manner, I visited Osho several times and found that he was a great master with a distinctive style, charisma and class of his own.

Satya Sai Baba:

One day my father received a telegram from my brother’s office – Air force in Madras/Chennai that he was missing. My father was worried, because such news is generally followed by more bad news. Father asked me to immediately go to Madras to find out about my brother, I started for Madras by train. My family members are great devotes of Satya Sail Baba, but I was not the great believer. On the way to Madras I prayed to Satya Sai Baba that if you are so great please bring my brother back from wherever he is before I reach to his office. If this becomes the truth I will come to you and rub my forehead on your feet. When I reached my brother’s office in Madras, the office personals told me that your brother is back and alive, I was relieved. I believed that Satya Sai Baba listened to my prayer, so I decided to meet him to complete my promise which I made to my self. I went to his Bangalore ashram and set along with thousands of people for his darshana. Sri Satya Sai Baba came and walked by with his hand in blessings posture. He stood before me for a while, but at the sight of him I lost what I was suppose to do, I kept looking at him with my palms folded. Then he started walking away from me, I realized that I lost my chance to rub my forehead at his feet. He went away few hundred foots from me. I was thinking in my mind what should I do? To my surprise, Sri Satya Sai Baba turned back and came towards me, again he stood in front of me, without speaking a word he lifted his garb so that his foot was visible and brought his foot near me, he knew what was going on in my mind.

Devraha Baba:

When I visited my inlaws’ house in Aligarh, I went to meet him with my family in 1990, my son was 9 years of age. I my wife, son and father in law went to see Krishna temple in Vrindavan, we went to other side of Yamuna river. It was closed so decided to visit Devraha Baba. When we went to meet him, he called only me keeping my family waiting outside. He gave me some instructions which I can not disclose in the book, after 30 mintues he asked me to call my family. He blessed all of us. After nine days of my meeting he left his body.

J. Krishnamurthy:

An enlightened master of India. I read books written by him. When I was working in Tata in Jamshedpur I came to know that J.K is coming to Banarasa to deliver lecture. I went to listen to him with one of my friend, some body told me if you get physical tough of great master you get help in spiritual progress. The first day was cultural program, I thought he must be sitting in some special seat, but I was surprised to see him coming and seating with me, he was with me for 1.5 hours. I used to listen to him for a week, he use to walk in campus everyday. When I saw him in the campus, I bowed him and thinking that you bless me, he suddenly turned towards me and came to me and blessed me for few minutes. It was a great feeling to be blessed by such a great saint. After a year of my meeting he left his body.

Anandamoyi Maa:

When I was in final year of my college, once I had gone to Varanasi (Kashi) and I was stying in Dakshinamurty Math. One of the monks took me to the Ashram of Ma in Babaras, that time Mother was visiting for short time. Mother cought hold of my hand and blessed me, lots of love and blessing for me for my future course of my life. She knew that I am going to work for Babaji to spread Kriya Yoga.

The Ocean comes to touch my feet in Puri:

Darshana of Loard krishna in Jagganath Puri: