Dear
associates in the path,
Pranam.
1. It is with the blessings
of the beloved Master Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj
of Shahjahanpur U.P. India, we are gathered
here once again to celebrate His birthday. His
message has started reaching the people throughout
the world.
2. When a person or his views
or inventions or discoveries become popular,
claims are made to have helped in developing,
inventing or discovering such truths. We know
our Master was structured by his master; this
is half the truth. Our beloved Master by his
merit of zeroing himself has become the cynosure
of the eyes of masters of the past and all streams
of divine consciousness have merged in him and
thus making him a special personality is the
other part of the truth. The special personality
is a living principle and is characterised best
when we say “Sri Ramchandra Consciousness”.
The Master has undertaken the task of transforming
the human consciousness both individually and
universally.
3. That Rev. Lalaji Maharaj
was a Sufi Master does not make his disciple
Sri. Ramchandraji Maharaj or his disciples automatically
a Sufi. Rev. Babuji Maharaj gave an entirely
new system which is called rightly as a New
Darshana by Dr. K.C.Varadachari. That the principle
of Transmission is available in Sufism and also
in our Masters’ system does not make them
the same. The conditions beyond Prapanna Prabhu
are not known to Sufis. The 65 points beyond
these regions Rev. Babuji asserts are his discoveries.
Surely then they were unknown to the saints
before him. Though the centres in the heart
region are known to them, the discovery of points
A and B are the inventions of Rev. Babuji Maharaj
only as is explicitly claimed in the book “Efficacy
of Rajayoga”.
4. To say the successors of
Rev. Babuji are also Sufis is total distortion
of truth. No such claim was ever made by the
Sufis during the life time of the Master. At
the time of declaration on 31/3/1945 made by
a guru bhai of our Master to the effect that
Rev. Babuji is the successor representative
of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj there was no response
from any of the Sufis or others to the claim.
But then various masters including the Avatar
Lord Krishna merged in him making the special
personality awesome great. We should note that
Rev. Lalaji was never a President of SRCM as
he left his mortal coil 12 years before starting
the SRCM. President successors are there and
they all belong to SRCM and cannot have any
claim of lineage from Rev.Lalaji leave alone
from that of his master. I have stated all these
because now a days I get mails seeking clarification
on these matters. To think that the system developed
by Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj is just another
version of Rajayoga or Vedanta or Sufism etc.,
is a clear distortion of facts and incorrect
understanding.
5. Transformation of human
consciousness can be achieved by the Super Mind
was the claim of Sri Aurobindo. Master says
that it is not a task that can be done by the
Super Mind and we require an even higher state
of Super Consciousness to do the task. It is
in this context we have to view the discovery
of the Central Region and Centre itself by Rev.
Babuji Maharaj. To discover something is one
aspect and making such a discovery accessible
to all is another aspect. The new Era of spirituality
has taken the task of individually transforming
those who are willing human beings dedicated
to the transformation of humanity. Thus the
gates of the Central Region which were not open
to saints even of the caliber of Kabir during
their life time are now opened for all those
who are willing to participate in this divine
task.
6. His method is for all who want to make the
term ‘humanity’ dignified. The principles
of individualism, separatism and dogmatism needs
to be replaced by the principles of mutuality,
co-operation and reason. Only then it appears
there is some chance for peace in a hopelessly
divided and strife ridden world. Master used
to say that the time has come when we either
mend or end. His method gives us peace and calmness.
But the peace we arrive at is of a different
order. I may say that in the system of our Master
peace does not mean to be in a place where there
is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means
to be in the midst of all those things and still
be calm in our heart. That is the real meaning
of peace. We are all assembled here with the
noble intention of pooling our resources and
understanding in order to engage in the greatest
transformation of consciousness that is ever
proposed by any spiritual discipline. It is
our awareness that during meditations assisted
by Pranahuti we go so deep into ourselves that
we stumble and fall into infinity or Void. While
the imperience is bliss our consciousness after
we wake up from the deep state of meditation
is one of pain of having left the company of
the Divine and some times we feel even vexed
at this game of hide and seek with the Divine.
7. The access to higher regions beyond the microcosm
where amity and coherence are the governing
principles, that are available for some of the
practicants it should be understood is not given
for their sake but for the sake of their labour.
Higher we move in the path, higher are the responsibilities
that come to us and there is no place for personal
interests, attitudes and predilections. Because
of certain traditional notions of realisation
we tend to think the higher states are made
available to us for our sake. Realisation in
the traditional sense meant only going beyond
pind desh and even the best of the saints like
Kabir did not go beyond the 16th circle in our
path during his life time according to our Master.
That the Central region is available for entering
into by us should make us understand how much
the Divine and the Master are expecting us to
do. The trust that is reposed by Master and
the Divine on human being is enormous. I am
very sure that most of us are committed to the
cause of the Master and this tribe shall increase
in number as days pass by.
8. It is Divine decree that there will be always
some persons who have strived hard and earned
the trust of God. I am not talking about the
Master: but among the aspirants here and elsewhere
there are some who have earned the trust of
God. It is they who foment the Divine grace
for the commons. They move about in the world
as if they were part of it, yet inside, their
hearts and souls are in the Divine Presence.
Their hearts are mellowed by the presence of
the Master and their compassion and love for
humanity increases as they serve more and more.
If they do not use the power in the heart fruitfully
for the benefit of other aspirants they develop
what Master called ‘power grossness’.
If they pray to Master for the spiritual good
of humanity in general or any individual in
particular their request is accepted. They are
the associates of the Master and their assistance
to the mankind is always with the eye of mercy
and compassion to those less fortunate than
themselves.
9. The great Master wanted all his associates
blessed as they are by keeping Him in their
hearts by the grace of the Master, to pray for
the good of humanity. This you know is the very
basis of our 9 P.M. Prayer. I had on an earlier
occasion said this can be considered as our
Yajna. For performing Yajna there are certain
qualifications required. But for this noblest
Yajna that we do every day there is no qualification
requirement. There is no need to have the sacred
thread for this. It is here that we find the
‘practicals’ for the possibility
of higher evolution in consciousness. Theoretically
many saints and all religions taught this prayer
on certain special occasions. But it is the
Master who made this prayer a daily feature
of our sadhana. Some of us who practice this
prayer keeping our focus on the point A have
felt distinct advantage in our advancement in
spiritual life. This I am sure is the experience
of my associates also.
10. Each night before going to bed we pray to
Master repenting for our lapses and seek forgiving
our mistakes and lapses and sins too. Many feel
that there is nothing for them to feel repentant
about and there is always a question of praying
for lapses not felt. Others write to me that
they donot get into sobbing mood and there is
nothing to cry for. True it might be from their
individual separatist point of view. If we feel
that we are part of the humanity at large and
an integral part at that, we cannot but feel
for the various crimes, atrocities, wars and
violence and feel repentant for belonging to
that group of creation called humanity. The
claim that human beings are rational is now
getting questioned in the little conscience
that is left, very badly when we visualize our
state of living: insanity is reigning everywhere.
It is prayer and prayer alone that can be the
key to get out of this mess of violence and
porn into which all of us are being dragged
by the asuric forces.
11. It is a well-researched fact that the more
we focus on the ills of the world and the more
our attention is drawn to the drama of silly
characters amid our fellow human beings, the
more vulnerable we become to the serious side-effects
of news and commentary that places greater emphasis
on the worst of human faults. It is a deplorable
fact that the information we view or hear on
major network TVs, radios and monitored publications
are slanted, censored and minimized to the point
of being misleading and purposely misinforming.
I have seen many sensible persons unwilling
to watch TV, or listen to the radio or read
newspapers. One can surely make sensible choices
being selective about what they view and listen
to.
12. I do not like to dwell on things that are
well known to you but only stress that if we
were to live and move in universal consciousness
we cannot but feel for the lapses of humanity
in general. There is nothing that we can do
individually if we think we are separate entities
but if we realise we are one with humanity,
we have everything to repent and pray for. I
am talking about this aspect not as a part of
9 P.M. prayer but our night bed time prayer.
Because each night when I go to sleep keeping
the Master in my heart I am not able to agree
with Mahatma Gandhi who said that “Each
night I go to sleep I die and the next morning
when I wake up I am reborn again.” I feel
like saying that “each night I go to sleep
keeping the Master in my heart and when I wake
up it is with the awareness of the Master.”
When we live in the Master the question of dying
does not arise at all. When we live in such
consciousness we maintain an eternal vigil in
the realm of consciousness to which we belong.
If that were to be the Sri Ramchandra Consciousness
what more do we seek? Such is the fortune of
some of us and such shall be the fortune of
all the rest of humanity. This will happen sooner
or later as that is the Will of our Great Master.
13. All of us have moved to some extent or the
other in our journey to the Infinite. There
is a high point to which we can easily lay claim
and have our thoughts and acts reflect that
high point in us. We can easily pray from the
highest point possible for us and for that we
need to have only love for the Master and determination
to live upto the levels to which we belong.
Every thought and action of ours should reflect
the influence of the Master in us. We need to
remember that the Master is laying the path
for the future through us. The paths we lay
down will be the treks for future generations
and we have onerous responsibility to lay the
path straight, smooth and fine. If we fail in
this task I consider that to be the greatest
misfortune that can befall us individually and
collectively as human species. It is in this
context I have been pleading for a better compliance
of the ten commandments of the Master. Our behaviour
and thinking which is based on the Sri Ramchandra
Consciousness is laying the paths for the future
humanity. It is to be remembered God and we
are coparceners and the inter dependence between
us is something that we have to fully appreciate.
We have been accustomed to pray to the Divine
for everything till now and it is the turn of
the Divine to seek from us the cooperation required
to make this world a paradise. I am sure those
who live in Sri Ramchandras’ consciousness
are willing partners in this enterprise. The
world shall be a Paradise soon even as envisaged
by our Master but for that we need to work very
very hard.
13. Let us live now during these days of celebrations
more intensely and more involved in the Sri
Ramchandra Consciousness so that we gain the
strength to live up to His expectations.
My humble Pranam at the holy
feet of all those devoted to Master
K.C.Narayana
|
