God is constantly with us and ready
to take us up at the slightest sign on our part of
accepting Him.
Dr. K. Madhava
My dear brothers and sisters,
My humble pranams to all of you.
On this auspicious occasion of
Srikrishna janmashtami, I consider it a blessing to
share a few thoughts on the topic of the seminar.
This statement is a fact which is
felt in us very early in our practice. In fact this
is possible in my view only with the help of
Pranahuti, without the access to Pranahuti it will
be difficult if not impossible to feel the presence
of God so intimately.
We all know about the human nature
and its descent into degradation and how materialism
has established its hold on human psyche. Mankind is
groaning with it’s over burdened misery and there is
strife, tension, war and distrust everywhere.
To quote the Rev.Master “Great men
are not born accidentally. They are born when the
world waits for them in eager expectation. Such is
the phenomenon of nature. At the time when
spirituality was tottering helplessly and the solid
materialism had usurped the position of spiritualism
in human life and Yogic transmission had become
quite obsolete, the Great Soul of my Master
descended down to earth in the form of Samartha Guru
Mahatma Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, U.P.
This spiritual genius was born on Basant Panchami
day, 2nd February, 1873. His life marks the advent
of a new era in spirituality. He was in fact the
nature's prodigy and his work in the spiritual field
is beyond common conception. He has practically
modified the system of Raj Yoga so as to suit the
need of the time and the capacity of the people in
general. He has made wonderful researches in this
science and has made human approach up to the
farthest limit possible and practicable for a man in
the least possible time. He was completely dynamic
so much so that even people not following him got
transformed by the action of the effect radiating
from him all the while.” (SDG - Essence of Rajayoga
– Page 9)
Because of Pranahuti where the purest
original divine consciousness itself is introduced
into the heart of the abhyasi, the individual
becomes awakened to his real nature and his
aspiration to reach homeland gets strengthened, his
mental tendencies which have been extrovert so far
are modified and he finds himself drawn to prayer
and he finds that he can easily turn his mind
inwards towards his heart, he finds he is naturally
getting absorbed in subtle divine thought of divine
light without luminosity.
It is like being born anew. The
change that is brought about by this divine impulse
in the whole system is nothing short of amazing and
inspires awe and wonder.
The conditioned mind which so far
lived in a world of its own which is formed by
experiences gathered through sense perceptions from
outside world, and conceptions and imaginations
added to it, and the influences from the huge store
house of memory from this and past lives, its
prejudices and judgments and desires and efforts to
fulfill those desires, and frustrations resulting in
the thwarting of desires and its constant effort to
make meaning out of these situations, is totally
shut out to divine presence within. Added to this
the effect of surroundings and environments and the
thoughts and feelings of people around are not at
all conducive. To quote again The Master from SDG
“Under the present conditions when the poisonous
effect has overshadowed the entire cosmos so as to
attack every mind and keep it in a constant state of
tumult and disorder, when the senses have all gone
out of control, and when the individual mind is on
the wings every moment, we stand in dire need of
such a personality to take us along supporting us by
His superior Powers.” (SDG – Essence of Rajayoga –
Page 9)
Transmissions open the door to new
vistas and he starts enjoying the new imperience.
It is really ironic, tragic and sad
that the conditioned egoistic mind does not yield or
surrender to the reality which the Great Master has
so kindly blessed us.
It is my personal experience so also
of almost all associates that whenever we think of
the Great Master, we feel an instant change in the
consciousness, we feel lifted to a different plane
of consciousness, we feel calmness descending into
us or shall we say calmness expanding from inside, a
lightness felt in the being. This goes to prove that
he is inside us, outside us, so near to us, so
continuously connected to us, He is both time and
space and also transcends time and space. This
experiences which are entirely due to blessings of
Rev.Master also prove deep in our hearts the
statements of Master that if you take one step
towards the divine, the divine takes ten steps
towards you, and so also the statement that the
centre is yawning towards the circumference.
In spite of the love of the
Rev.Master towards us, we seem to love our ego more.
We do not want to give it up. Pujya Sir has
mentioned in one of the seminars that unless we find
this narsisstic love of self loathsome we can never
get awakened to Reality.
Rev.Dr.K.C.V. talks about surrender
of physical, vital, mental, spiritual, indeed the
entire being, the sense and motor organs to be
dedicated to the divine.
To quote him” It is by the conscious
acceptance of the divine as the only Goal of man and
ones life and being ones being. Surrender of all
other goals to this one goal is the sinequa non or
necessity for this inflow of divine prana or life
breath.”(Complete works of Dr. K.C.Varadachari -
Vol 1 – Page 579)
Pranahuti grants us contact with
reality but to surrender to that Reality and allow
that force to transform human being to divine being
is what all sadhana is about. And according to
Rev.Babuji Maharaj “How do we know that our
Surrender is complete? It is when we begin to know
that the abhyasi is surrendering naturally to all
humanity. When surrender is perfect the idea of
surrender itself is gone, and it becomes completely
natural. "To acquire naturalness should be the main
care of the abhyasi". Surrender and cooperation are
twin sisters.” (SDG method of training)
Of course in the same article titled
method of training he avers that if there is
anything difficult in the path of righteousness, it
is surrender, if taken up directly.
But in this game of life where we
have chosen the path of righteousness we are not
alone, the blessings and support of Rev Master is
always there and with the backing of his special
will nothing is impossible.
At this juncture it is pertinent to
quote Rev. Dr KCV “Therefore, it is necessary to
feel that the surrender will be accomplished and
completed by the Master Himself. That is why, I
think, the Upanishad rightly puts it in this form.
"Om Krato smara Krutham smara;
Krato smara Krutham smara".
"O lord of Sacrifice or Surrender! Remember what I
have done and the second statement "Remember what I
have done" means God will have to complete the act
of surrender Himself. Now this is a very difficult
point to explain and many people want to be lazy
enough to say "let Master surrender. Why should I
surrender, let Master do everything and I shall be
the recipient". I do not think that is the meaning.
If we go a little way, God takes us a long way. If
we make total surrender, He will complete the
surrender by taking us up. That is, we are enabled
to surrender more and more willingly to His
treatment and training without any protest, without
resistance and without egoistic self assertions that
we have done the surrender and that he has not done
it. The whole point therefore is that our devotion
will develop when we observe that not only our
physical body is prostrated before the Master every
day or every hour, but our vital bodies which are
full of desires, cravings and other tendencies, get
controlled. "Sama" and "Dama" equally follow it.
Then, the mind also ceases to wander and we find
constant remembrance and our spiritual faculties
begin to develop. In other words, we find that we
are more and more absorbed even without our being
conscious that we are in God or the master. This is
devotion. Once this occurs we recognize at once that
God's Grace is flowing through us. And I hold the
view that God's grace has begun to flow through us
the moment we surrender either mentally or
physically or vitally. Now all these things show
that God is constantly with us and ready to take us
up at the slightest sign on our part of accepting
Him.
I think we as members of ISRC have a
destiny and a role in this world... By sincere
sadhana we start moving into Sri Ramchandra’s
consciousness more and more and as our devotion
increases our consciousness starts becoming stable
in universal consciousness. We become messengers of
righteousness and piety and rouse a feeling of love
towards the divine. This is our duty and this is the
only way we can show our gratitude to the Great
Master, for all the love He is showering on us which
we are incapable of comprehending. His love leaves
us dumbstruck and in silence. I again quote Rev.
Dr. KCV here from Imperience Beckons “He loves us so
much that every opportunity is provided for us to
grow. When we ask for strength, He provides us
difficulties to make us strong; when we ask for
prosperity, He gives us the brain and brawn to work;
when we ask for courage, He causes danger to
overcome; when we ask for love, He sends us troubled
people to help; when we ask for wisdom, He gives
problems to solve. The way of instruction of the
Lord is difficult to understand but when we
understand the joy of awareness of His love has no
bounds. The lesson of truth that we learn is very
great and what a loving teacher we have!”
(Imperience Beckons – page 109)
It is worthwhile to remember
frequently and strengthen the feeling that when we
are doing sadhana sincerely our rising consciousness
automatically enhances and enriches the human
consciousness and transforms it. When we are
sincerely and whole heartedly practicing the 9 p.m.
prayer it is the service to humanity we are doing
and participating in our small way in the Master’s
work of Human transformation.
The spirit of the call of Dr. KCV
which I am quoting below has to be etched deep in
our hearts if we are to participate in his divine
work, the raison de etre for the existence of ISRC.
“NATURE IS JUST IMPATIENT AND THE
DIVINE PERSONALITY (REV. BABUJI - editor) IS EQUALLY
INTERESTED TO EXPEDITE THE DIVINISATION OF MAN - THE
HOPE OF GOD - WHO CREATED him IN HIS IMAGE - meaning
thereby that he is granted the original thought -
the kingly aspect in Man and Nature.
The New Darshana is for those who
participate in the Divine Work of Divinising Man -
rather than those who seek individual
transformation. The assurance of Master that He is
taking care of every abhyasi and that every abhyasi
should spread the message means that every one
should actively participate in bringing about
simplicity, purity and fraternal feeling in all, not
worrying about his own realization. It is not
therefore meant that one should not have the
craving. It is a must, it is the promise and it is
the beginning. But that is not the work of the
Master nor is it His mission.
Those saints who seek individual
salvation only are comparable to those who are
selected to play a cricket match, seeing the strong
opponent side (evils in life) walk back to the
Manager praying to Him to allow them sit in the
pavilion due to their inadequate capacities, or more
appropriately to Uttara Kumara who having started
for the battle with Kauravas seeing their might
wanted to flee. The uniform worn by him (the abhyas
of Ten Commandments etc.,), the refuge he has in
Brhannala (the veiled Master) not withstanding he
wanted to flee (so are those who seek liberation
from life and who do not want to better the lot of
man.). The Ten Commandments, the practice of
meditation are but uniforms that the sadhaka has to
wear. No doubt they are to be pure and perfectly
ironed. But that is only a preparation. The
individual elevation in consciousness is but a step
in the greater task of Divinisation of Man. If every
abhyasi really believes in the Master, he has the
onerous responsibility of shedding through his
actions and behaviour the Radiance of the Divine
Personality deeply imbedded in him. He should be
conscious of the fact that he is walking temple, in
as much as Master is present in his heart.”
(Complete works of Dr. K.C.Varadachari – Vol 1 pages
583-584)
The reality of the statement of the
topic of the seminar has to become the reality for
everybody, presently it is only felt in a blessed
few like all of us.
Pranams
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