THE LIFE OF MY TEACHER - ACHARYA DEVA PUJYA SHRI RAGHAVENDRA RAO
Bhai Sahab Pujya Shri Raghavendra Rao
“Nadi Moolam; Rishi Moolam; Sthree Moolam; Nischitam;
Satyam.
Vishleshnam Nishiddam”
Sacred
Precincts of Sacred Land
of Ancient Wisdom.
Present day
Wisdom and Information Starved and Dependent Being, The Thinker, The Logic
Dependent, The Rational and The Scientific Tempered Being, The Present day Man
sought and seeks information continuously, we can say perennially in order to
know, know to examine and analyse the every issue and matter whether it is of
his domain or not and he keeps abreast of the developments of the world and
perhaps it may help him to take proper decision to initiate action for the
accomplishment of task.
Infectious
and Contagious this Tendency to Think, Examine, To Know and To Analyse any
information or issue, so the thinker attempts always to think before he takes
the decision to initiate action, it is also same with me too, though not I
belong to the category of Learned and Intellectuals, still I also attempt to
think and analyse, because I am in the present times.
When I got
the literature of Shri.Babuji Maharaj first time I did read, thought, analysed
and tested privately the method with whatever the capacities I was bestowed at
that age of mine as a student in the 1st Year Degree Course and
thereafter only, I was convinced and felt that I can give a trial for 6 months
for this Method of Practice under the tutelage of The Master hence I approached
Shri.M.D.jahagirdar and Shri Raghavendra Rao to start the practice formally as
stipulated. My First Initiation with Divine is By Shri.M.D.Jahagirdhar and
Shri.Raghavendra Rao who are The Preceptors of Shri Ram Chandra Mission,
Shahjahanpur, U.P. India, Who are Appointed by Shri Babuji Maharaj as
Preceptors With Full Permission to Impart Training and Transmit The Divine
Impulse The Transmission; Pranahuthi to the Seekers.
Somehow I
was attracted to Bhai Sahib, Shri.Raghavendra Rao and who’s Second nature is
Humour and due to his simplicity and easy to approach personality. As the days
passed on the intimacy with Bhai Sahib grew, the young mind , the me, starving
for Intellectual expositions, Scientific Temperaments, Logical Thinking,
Rational Approach, Critical and Analytical Mind Set, when found the same lines
with Bhai Sahib further I was attracted towards Him and that attraction
entirely enveloped me when I found His Humourous and Simple But Unparallel
Communication ways and Skills which comprises of Two Way Communications of Bhai
Sahib, thereby making the seeker the same me Intelligent and resulting into
developing the proper perspective of the issue as well allowing needed amount
of mental space of the seeker and at the same time allowing the seeker with the
freedom which is in total and complete freedom of thought and keeping the
thinking process in the state of the same undisturbed, uninterrupted, but still
used to shape the Mind of the Seeker. The Special Ingredients, The Love and
Care and Humour are part of this Special Mix of Ways of Communications and the
special attention always been given for the individual dignity and decorum in
the Presence of Bhai Sahib, other wise the so young mind, a boy, the me, how I
could have got such a respect and treatment that too I am nobody and I am only
presumed to be the seeker and that too I am a student at that time, see the
encouragement, he sows the seed of interest, he nurtures it, he waters it and
he further protects it and make it grow
and give the yield to the same one in whom the tree of personality with fruit
bearing capacity manifested. I could only place those thoughts now,
Reminiscence, because He bestowed on me that type of training benevolently.
I have to
make a special mention about His way of reducing the burden of any type on any body
and if any body approaches Him for the solution or relief, The way Bhai Sahib
used to release that any amount of oppression, due to the seriousness of the
issue, of any visitor when over burdened, through the Humorous way, is worth
witnessing, makes the person fit to smile and laugh thereby lighten the burden
and eases the pressure on the visitor and gives the visitor the hope and fills
the courage in his heart and lifts the spirits of the visitor in a natural way
and removes the oppression and lit the light of knowledge in the gloomy heart
of the visitor and the visitor no more remains as a visitor by the time of
leaving the house of Bhai Sahib and leaves that house as if he is taking the
leave from his beloved father and from his own home which he left time
immemorial ago and found now, with the burden of leaving the home he goes. How
such wonderful results get manifested, when asked Him, He smilingly lifts His
Hands Upwards and leaves at that juncture.
Humour when
heard and felt in Human gets Expressed by ways of Smiles and Laughter, The
Smiles and Laughter is the way of rejuvenation which is a accepted thought of
the present day, of science of medicine, of science of stress management, and
The Only Tool Which Can Burst and Set right The Process of Nuclear Explosion in
the human cells, in the Bio-Logical Science Terminology it is named as The
Process of Cell Burst Out resulting The Death and no chance of bringing back
the life, form and composition of Cell and thereby Avoiding The Atomic
Explosion or Cell Burst Out in Human Cells or Particles of the Human Body and
resulting in Protection of The Vital Organs resisting the Failure of The Human
Body, which process was set into motion Due to Oppression of Different Forms
and Various Types of Stress, Experiencing while Living in the Human Life, of
Internal Thought Pressure or External Thoughts or Events or Prevailing
Circumstances, if properly, carefully
and tactfully handled That State Of Human with That Medium of Smile and
Laughter can save innumerable human lives and can avoid unwanted medication and
can retain and rejuvenate the life force for the life of human, the
Physiological explanation for the Smiles and Laughs.
Whereas
from the point of view of Spirituality The Laughter and Smiles when Induced and
expressed in the presence of Rao Sahib for the assemble or gatherings of
abhyasis of the memory of Shri Babuji Maharaj and for Shri Babuji Maharaj’s
Rememberance, That Medium Which is The Form of Grace Only which manifested for
achieving That Objective of Connecting With The Pure Divine and Nourishing The
Mane, Mind and Heart of Tired and Exhausted Beings who are Living through under
The Scorching Heat of Materialism and Arduous and Painful Journey of Scheming
Waves and Tides of Ocean of Materialism and were caught in the Whirlpool of
Desires, likes and dislikes of Bhavasagara-Samsara without Hope, Charging Them
With The Pure Divine Rao Sahib Lovingly Caringly Sails Them Trough The Ocean of
Mean Materialism, with That Medium which increases The Absorption and Re Orient
The Abhyasis for the Life Ahead.
I am
fortunate to see such number of occasions.
A Faint Curiosity Sprang up in my heart to
know about Bhai Sahib and His Personal Practice, His Approach to Master,
Method, His Struggle and His way of interpretations about the whole Issue of
Practice and His Personal Life, and His Family, and His Habits and Back ground.
Shri.Raghavendra
Rao was born on 19th March in the year 1925 and hails from the
Jahagirdhar and Zamindari Family of Erstwhile Nizam State, from the village of
Patha Palli, A Village of A North West District namely Mahaboobnagar, of
Present Andhra Pradesh State of India, from the Deeply Religious, Orthodox
Madhva Brahmin Family of Four Brothers and Four Sisters, and He being the
Youngest of all the Children of His Noble Parents. He has been initiated and
trained as per the customs and practices of His family in the matters of
Religion, Morals, Manners and etiquettes and taught and trained in the matters
of God and God Realization according and as per to the Faith and Religion, a
way of life, Practiced By The Family and Elders and of The Family Lineage, A
Family Approach to The Matters has been inculcated in the Young Mind of Rao
Sahib. The Primary Education in True Sense has been imparted and prepared him
to receive the general primary education.
The General
Primary Education, and Middle and High school Education imparted to him in
Narayanpet and pre collegiate education undertaken in Gulbarga and He graduated
in the faculty of science namely B.Sc., and thereafter He took an entrance
examination for the B.E. Graduation course and scored 100 Marks out of 100
Marks, in the entrance examination and the graduation is at Hyderabad in the
faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Osmania University, Urdu as the medium of
Instruction and Learning till the Graduation. He is a bright student while
studying and learning. He is a double graduate, a graduation in the faculty of
Science B.Sc., and another is B.E. in the faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He
is a member in MISE.
At an Young
Age of 17years He got married to his Niece, His Elder Sister’s daughter namely
Smt.Draupadhi Bai Amma who is aged 13years, at that time of marriage and their
married life is like two friends and they always shared their opinion openly
without any inhibition of the modern times and Lived Happily and they were
blessed with Four Daughters and Three Sons and all are married, settled and
hale and healthy, except one daughter who remained single and staying with
parents then and now with Brothers at Raichur. They were blessed with great
grand children during their life time itself.
Being Trained
in Orthodox Ways of Worship of Madhva Philosophy as Woman Member and Well
Trained in The Rituals of That Order of Worship With The Suitable Hymns and
Sacred Chants and Imparted and Got Well acquainted With That Time Culinary
Delicacies Preparations, A Great Art Form, The Said Preparations Used To Be The
True Offerings and Invitation In True Sense To The God of Appetite Namely “
Vaiswanara” A Hindu God For Appetite , and Her Taste Buds Simply Superb and
Tell in one go the needed ingredient addition or substraction or copeup
ingredient extent to match in The Dish Prepared or getting Prepared and
Observant Eye for the Shade or Colour of dish is of Parexcellant, further been
Trained in the fine arts of Knitting, Weaving, and Tailoring and Her Eye of
Measure is The Measure of Exact and Precise for The Materials and Cloth Need
for any specific requirement which She Used to Say with exact measure of
requirement, and She used to be fond of Floor Designs and collected innumerable
patterns for that along with the tools and instruments and She was a great
lover of Plants, Creepers, Shrubs and Flowers, Fruit Bearing Trees, Curry
Leaves Trees and She has That Hand Of Mother for them too that is the reason
the plants used to grow astonishingly well and sprang surprises with the amount
of yield in and form of flowers in
abundance and fruits in full of bunches of the trees. Cleanliness has become
Her Second Nature as Godliness is Her First Nature. Any One and Every One is
Same, She is Bold and Courageous and Upright, Fair and Honest and She is The
Form of Truthfullness and never budge an inch while to say a thing as back on
the face with loving and care. She is a Perfectionist.
When Amma
was Permitted By Shri Babuji Mahraj To Impart Divine Impulse, She used to
Impart Training In Particular to Woman Abhyasis and used to conduct
regular meditation session if Rao Sahib
is not there or any other preceptor is not present at that time, Her Method of
Training was That She Asks the aspirant to take the supposition as Shri Babuji
Maharaj only Meditating on Himself within Herself, when informed by Rao Sahib
to Shri Babuji Mahraj about This Method of Practice Prescribing By Amma, The
Answer from Shri Babuji Maharaj is “A Galnce With Exclamation and With Slight
Turning of His Right Hand Upwards with A Curve” a A Small utterance “Tho” A
Hindi Word, Suddenly It Seems Rao Sahib Went Silent and Remained Silent, by
Observing the Significance of That Expression of Shri Babuji Maharaj, and
Further Shri Babuji Maharaj Said,” HUM BAHU RANI KU SIKHAYENGE, JAROORAT
PADETHO.”
Beings of
Inseparable Life, With Unison of Unparallel Degree rather Form Of Unison rather
Unison Only, While Living, They Lit The
Life with The Light of The Divine, That Being Their Living for which They Were
Ordained, A Sacred and a Noble Act, and Permitted By Shri Babuji Maharaj with
Full Permission as Preceptors of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, In Innumerable
Hearts and Minds and Engulfing and Embracing Their Homes, Families and Lineage
of Their Families With That Life Divine, when visited and stayed, Both Rao
Sahib and Amma Smt. Draupadhi Bai, A True Mother, Gave meaning and Expression
for Motherhood by Her Living, Recipients, We, The living proofs of Her Motherly
Love and Affection with Touch of Generosity and She being The Embodiment of
Patience and Perseverance and Rev. Amma is The Source of Solace, Strength and
Hope and Moral Booster for the Woman in general and in particular to Sister
Abhyasis and Children.
Amma and
Rao Sahib, Appa, Blessed innumerable Homes and their places all over India and
left those Homes as The Temples of Spirituality because That Light of The
Master is Everlasting and Remains as a Permanent Companion at their place and
in their hearts and minds Forever, Blessed are those Who had Such an Opportunity
of Those Blessed Beings Visiting Their Homes and Those men and women who
Welcomed Them With open hearts and minds , remains forever in the annals of
mankind, such an invaluable heritage in the form of memories, hearts and minds,
places and the things, they left lovingly for their children and for the
posterity and visible to those eyes who were gifted with such a vision, May
Master Blesses one and all with that vision. Amen. A Loving Father and A Great
Mother, I had lost.
He has
opted the profession of Teaching, being a Natural Teacher, appointed as
Lecturer in The Industrial and Polytechnic
College at Bidar. He
opted the Service in the State Service of Erstwhile Mysore State, now The State
of Karnataka, after the Reorganization of States in the year 1956 based upon
the criteria of Language Spoken and Practiced, and retired as Deputy Director
of Technical Education in the State of Karnataka
of his age of 55 years in the year of 1981.
He Blessed
number of places(towns) in Karnataka state by staying there for quite sometimes
during His life when He was to discharge His professional obligations and the
Places are Bhadravathi in Shimoga District, Harihara Presently in the
Davanagere District, Rodlabanda of Raichur District, Bidar of Bidar District,
Gulbarga of Gulbarga District, Bijapur of Bijapur District, Bellary of Bellary
District, Hassan of Hassan District, Chintamani of Kolar District, Raichur of
Raichur District, and came to Bangalore with promotion as Deputy Director of
Technical Education.
He is a voracious
reader and able to speak, read and write in English, Urdu, Hindi, Telugu,
Kannada and able to speak and read in Marathi. Though not studied in the Text
Form of Sanskrit but He used to read and Speak and understand the Sanskrit.
He is a man
of Taste and liking, He is widely Traveled within India
and The World, twice He made travel around the Globe and Whenever He undertakes The Travel whether
in India
or Abroad, He used to prefer to stay with the Brother Abhyasis and He will
adjust to anything without any placing request with the Host or Others.
Geography and History, Mythology used to attract His attention more, a sort of
wonder and used to find thought provoking curiosity in those subjects and He used to mention that any body observe
the events of the past times by visiting those historical monuments and observe
its glory of that times, the visitor is bound to get the State of Vairagya as
the visitor will be reminded about his own capacities and abilities and
weakness and futility of thinking perenniality of his possession and his being
continuity and the realization comes to the visitor about his existence of
limited time, when compare to those Thousands of years of civilization in the
form of Relics and Dilapidated Conditions, and those men of that great times
graves speaks much more louder than what the visitor can hear about their
efforts and attempts during their life time.
All modes of Transport He used during His
Travel within India and Abroad and He used to relish more with the road travel and
myself and Justice.D.R.Vithal Rao had the great opportunity to travel with Him by road throughout Karnataka
State, Andhra Pradesh State, Tamil Nadu State, Kerala State, Goa State, and
Mahrashtra State and Orissa State, Uttara Pradesh, and with Justice Vithal Rao
He has also Travelled covering Gujarat, Bihar, Bengal, and Assam States. His
Observation of Topography was stunning and He had Photogenic Memory of the
Topography of the Land and Road and His land marks used to be hillocks, and Mountains, vast mangrove, boulevards,
orchids, Forest Trails, rivers and canals along the road travel and He used to
remind me as and when I attempt to take a wrong rout instantly and the travel
sense is superb and He used to allow one stretch 2 or 3 Hours and halt for a
while, halt for tea, but at the sun set the halt at a proper place if there are
no abhyasis and He used to be very particular of the comfort of the
co-travellers and for the comfort stay of the co-travellers and also of the
Driver of the vehicle and He personally enquiry about the driver requirement of
tea, coffee, or rest and food and the food of the choice of the co-travellers
and the driver but for Himself a handful morsel or a glass of buttermilk.
Rao Sahib
used to make a point to Be Present For Sun Rise
and Sun Set if He is near The East Sea, or West Sea or Dams or
Reservoirs, in a causal exchange of views before Sun Rise at Some Sea Shore, He
told That The First Ray Of Rising Sun If Touched To The Heart When Observed
With The Mind Eye, Along With That The First Ray The Pure Divinity Also Get
Merges With That Ray And Lit The Heart And Engulf The Entire Heart And Being,
and That First is Also Beneficial For The Physical Health-Rejuvenation Takes
Place. For The Sun Set Observation at Hospet Dam He Told me That Last Ray Of
The Sun When Touched The Body It Cleanse The Body and Refresh The Body as well
Mind. It is Greatly Beneficial and Health Restoring Events The Sun Rise and The
Sun Set.
Rao Sahib,
undertook the travel to Switzerland ,
France and Monaco along with Justice Vithal
Rao and myself accompanied them and we traveled by road, rail and aircraft
within these countries for about 2 or 3 months or so and all along we stayed
with the abhyasis of those countries and at those places. Extensively we traveled
within France and Switzerland, all those arrangements at all the places used to
be so informal and natural and the Meditation sessions used to be for the
convenience of those abhyasis and any clarification about practice used to be
just and casual and natural and the beauty is who ever comes with any type of
query whether they are commoner, technocrat, Intellectual, clergymen,
beaurocrat, Royal, or Connoisseurs, businessmen, women, or children, or aged
for every one there was place in His Heart and all used to get thoroughly
satisfied and openly used to declare that they want to meet Him again and
again, because He is The Shoulder to them to hold and rest and cry upon who has
that Love of Shri Babuji Maharaj and Concern for their well fare and well being,
as Beloved Father.
He thoroughly believed and practiced in
weightless travel and very light travel with 3 or 4 sets of pants and shirts
and two Dhotis and His clothes never used to have sweat smell, but that travel
briefcase of 20 or 25 years age used to comprise of a compact shaving kit nail
cutter ,needle with twain, shirt and pant spare buttons, small knife, paper
cutter, scribble papers, a candle and a match stick, cotton, ear buds, pen and
pencil, a torch, a small alarm piece and emergency medications with small
dettol bottle, bandage cloth, and the documents of identity and He never used
to handle the money and always He used to Handover the Money to me, and He used
to keep all those items in a particular way at a particular place and any item
is just available at the time of need.
He had an Eagle Eye of Observation and
Observation and Examination of the things and place and people used to be of
the minute details and nothing and nobody can escape from His View. His
Alertness Used to be That of The Soldier in the Actual Battle field Alertness
and His Carefulness used to be as if the
whole world and His Master who is observing Him and His actions always and
never ever He can be away from His Master’s Observation but at the same time He
can Say always a Spade as a Spade when sought His opinion and to who so ever He
may be but that say used to be with humility.
As I hail
from orthodox Hindu Religious family and I used to attend the discourses of
Ramayan, Mahabharath along with my grand mother when I was a child and the
pictorial description and depiction of Personalities, Events and Places of
those times and of those Mythologies had left a deep impact on my childhood
memory and I used to wonder where are Those Races, Those Races and Creeds which
found mention in those mythological texts Viz., Kinnara, Kimpurusha, Yaksha,
Gandhrava, Naga, Vanara, Manushya, Nara, Danava, Devatha, Nishada,
Naramamsabhakshaka and what happened to those Mighty Personalities in the
spiritual evolution sense is my query, of those Mythological Texts and the classification of those Races and
creeds, that, which were present at that time and what happened to them
thereafter of those mentioned times and how are they now in the present time and
where are they now?
Those
Mighty Men, and Those Races and Those Places are all on this Globe Only and
those races are present now also and are living on almost at the same places
where they were there but due to changed times and change of the topography
some are at distant lands and some are in nearby lands and now they are named
differently, those explanation is in general pertaining to those races, is the
answer from Him.
Those
Mighty Men of Those times apart from Yugapurushas and rest of them beelined
when those mighty men got the scent of His Coming that is The Ultimate In Human
Form Ram Chandra visiting this Planet for the first time and only time in the
total times of existence, requested The Ultimate to Provide them an opportunity
to be with Him during His Physical Living on this planet and the request was
granted and all those Mighty Men of All Those Races and Creeds took birth as
Humans and received The Grace in Person or In Absentia From The Master, such
are the times now, these times of the times of Shri.Babuji Maharaj and we are all
so fortunate to have seen Him and Moved with Him and Talked and Shared of His
Personal Time. It is a Great Privilege bestowed on us, as so Rao Sahib told me.
He is a Original Thinker, Scientist, Rational,
Analytical in Application, Sound Mind with The Perfect Logic, Superstition Free
Man, Bold and Courageous, Frank and Fair, Honest and Sincere and Truthful and
Most Loveable Man and Very Tender and Super Sensitive and can not bear to see
the pain and misery of any body and attempts to do anything all out and out
with only aim to release the pain and misery of the miserable who ever he may
be, because He is a very kind hearted one and expansive and large hearted one.
Sacrifice is His way of Life.
He is
ardent lover of Music, Music in the form of Vocal, Music in the form of
instrument, Shahiris, Gazzals, Bhajans, Jugal bandis. The Indian Classical
Music of Hindustani and Karnatic Music of Vocal as well as Instrumental. He had
special liking for Sitaar and Flute. He was also interested in western classical
music both vocal and instruments. Apart from the Classical Music, He was
interested in light music also say Folklore songs, Devotional Songs, Hari
Kathas, Burra Kathas and classical old Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi,
cinema songs. The Pile of Collection of Gramophone Records of that time along
with that time Gramophone Machine, Audio Cassettes, Audio C.D.’s., of different
languages and different instruments are
still available at his residence at Raichur, apart from the books about those
subjects.
Sometime
ago when I enquired about the music and other devotional songs role in the
pursuit of god realization on the path of spirituality, He said they can become
External Aids and Tools at the Advanced Level only and also they can be of some
help after some serious mental practices and intense Meditation sessions, that
too when sung in the presence of The Master with the permission of The Master
with Devotion when they surge from the Depths of Heart, then they may be of
great help. For a change and to have some relaxation, ease and rest the music
may help.
When
further specifically enquired about Singer-Poet-Saints of India about their
approach towards god and realization when compared as per the standards and
reach and height set by The Master, the effect of their practice in this form
and way of approach towards that and the result derived by them viz.. Saintess
Meerabai, Bhakta Sooradas, Bhakta TulasiDas, Bhakta Jayadeva, Bhakta Thukaram,
Bhakta Purandara Dasa, Bhaktha RamaDasa, Annamayya, and Thyagaraja, He
expressed in a guarded way but still clearly saying that they are all practiced
Devotion and With That Means attempted to establish their link with those
deities which are dear to their hearts and their practice resulted in as
Devotees of God and further it helped number of their devotees also to have the
reach up to the state of devotee but the void is there for the Final Attainment
and The Destination is still far away and which can be filled only with the
grace of The Master.
When Sung
in His Presence the Aftab-e-Marefat, the effects upon the huge gatherings
during the Basanth Panchami and Shri Babuji Maharaj’s Birthday Celebrations at
the conclusion of spiritual congregations is a self explanatory event and the
effects of participation of that Session is visible upon all the member
participants, time and again whenever it was sung, all along of the times from
Shri Babuji Maharaj to till now.
Aftab-e-Marefat
is a Song Composed in Urdu by One of The Devotees of Shri Lalaji Maharaj who
later became the Devotee of Shri Babuji Maharaj and Sung In Loving Memory of
Shri Lalaji Maharaj.
Once Rao
Sahib told me, when I asked Him how He
came to the feet of The Master and what it was your state before coming to The
Feet of The Master, How He Came to know The Method Sahaj Marg, He told me that
He read a review in The Hindu News Paper in the new book sections for the
philosophy subject about The Book of Reality At Dawn, written by Ram Chandra
and review by Shri.K.C.Varadachari and was impressed about the review and
placed an order for the copy with Shri Babuji Maharaj before actually meeting
Shri Babuji Maharaj, and got the book Reality At Dawn, thereafter He read the
book and started and continued the correspondence with Shri Babuji Maharaj.
Shri Babuji
Maharaj explained the Method of Practice of Sahaj Marg to Raghavendra Rao Sahib
in one of His letters and requested
Raghavendra Rao Sahib to start Practice as stipulated for the Abhyasis of Sahaj
Marg, and it is to begin with prayer the Meditation before sunrise, Cleaning in
the evening after the completion of day’s toil, and before going to bed, bed
time prayer actually experiencing the state of prayer and to sleep in that
state of prayer and Constant Remembrance of the Divine or Master, during
wakeful state of life.
When I came
to know about the Method of Practice of Rao Sahib’s which is also the same
practice which is prescribed to me too, then How that such wonderful results
were presented in the Human Self and That Human Self Transformed as The
Personality and who has the name of Raghavendra Rao and why such an extent of
Manifestation of Master’s Grace is visible in Him in totality when compare(“
when compare to others” - This query I placed for my self in order to
understand the exclusive practices if any were applied for the evolution of The
Individual Self, by Raghavendra Rao) to others, who are also spent same amount
of time and association and put up their share of practice and struggle and
were so near to Shri Babuji Maharaj and why Abhyasis also get attracted to
Raghavendra Rao Sahib like that?
It appears
that Rao Sahib’s Practice can be classified in this Way; -Physical Practice, Mental Practice and Third Way
Samarpan and Atmasamarpan.
Physical
Practice: Writing Letters To Shri Babuji Maharaj, and waiting for the Reply
Letters From Shri Babuji Maharaj and Receiving Letters from Shri Babuji Maharaj
and Reading The Letters of Shri Babuji Maharaj in Satsang and discussing the
same with the abhyasis and also reading those letters to His friends and discussing
with the friends, Reading Books, Contributing Articles for the practice and
strengthening and enriching the Literature of Method, Penning the Books about
the Practice and Method, Translating The Literature of Mission, Assisting The
Translation of Mission Literature into Kannada, Telugu, and English, and
replies to the Letters of Abhyasis and seekers on various subjects and aspects
of life and practice, and He is keeping always the faculty of learning open all
the time and under all the circumstances, but the constant factor in all these
pursuits the spirit and life fully
perceivable. The total Number of Letters received from Shri Babuji Maharaj is
192(One Hundred and Ninety two) starting from the year 1955 to the concluding
year of 1981 / 1982, and Rao Sahib’s Letters to Shri Babuji Maharaj in total
numbering approximately 3oo( three hundred), where as Rao Sahib’s
correspondence is in gunny bag full of the copies and received letters from
abhyasis and others.
Rao Sahib
Every year Minimum of 10 days to 3weeks used to spend with Shri Babuji Maharaj
at Shajahanpur and also traveled along with Shri Babuji Maharaj to different
centres in Uttara Pradesh State of India, till 1980 / 81 and Shri Babuji
Maharaj used to Visit and Stay With Rao Sahib a Minimum of 10 days and Maximum
of 3 weeks at all the places of Rao Sahibs Stay which is because of Rao Sahib’s
Professional Obligations, up to 1977-78,
and all these days number of abhyasis used to visit Rao Sahibs house and
used to stay in the House of Rao Sahib and Rao Sahib told me When The Master
Visit any House, The Master is The Host and rest of us are guests.
Rao Sahib
Used to go to the place to meet Shri Babuji Maharaj when Shri Babuji Mahraj
Visits South India that too
when Shri Umesh Chandra Saxena stayed at Madras
due to his profession.
Rao Sahib
used to attend the functions of Mission
wherever they were conducted like, Basant Panchami, Centenary Celebrations,
Birthday Celebrations of Shri Babuji Maharaj.
In South
India He is pioneer in Building The Temple of Spirituality In Innumerable
Hearts and Homes apart from Creating Centres for Training to Impart The Divine
Impulses and To Spread Brahma Vidya among the general populace and further
making innumerable places fit for conducting spiritual congregations and
conducted spiritual congregations there and He Vehemently Stressed The Point “A
Revered One Makes The Place Revered” and The place Becomes Revered because of
Revered One Only and seldom the designated places as per the religious text as
sacred are unable to provide suitable atmosphere for the serious pursuit of God
realization. The Modern Temples of Spirituality in the form of Centres and
Ashrams which are Manifested with His Efforts be came” Revered” and are living
proof of that statement.
He used to
conduct Innumerable Spiritual Congregations for number of years in number of
places.
He used to
Conduct regular Meditation Sessions at His Residence apart from the Raichur
Ashram.
There used
to be 4 to 6 abhyasis for spiritual training, throughout the year at His
Residence from different centres from India apart from the weekend rush.
There used
to be Abhyasis coming from different countries for the spiritual training who
used to stay in groups of minimum of 4 and maximum of 17 and more once in a
year or two for 5 days minimum and maximum of 10 days, to Raichur, during the
Life Time of Rao Sahib and Amma. In one or two occasions some foreign abhyasis
stayed in a stretch for about 2 or 3 months with Bhai Sahib, at Raichur.
It appears
I have 24 hours for a Day and Certainly Rao Sahib also had 24 hours a day then
How He had so much time to spare for others, Method, Master, Mission .
If I
analyse His physical time Living, Sparing, Utilizing and Spending this way, the
way Rao Sahib Lived, that 24 hours of a day doesn’t tally with the number of
His 24 hours of a day then The Living Reverberatingly Resounds That Only His
Master Lived, then I have to for get about His Mental and Spiritual and Psychic
Energies Utilization apart from The Prana, as I am not in a position to take
into consideration rest of the things.
Now A Faint Query Arises and Stands Before Me
to Answer and it is demanding that I should Answer that Do I Have Such Amount
of Physical Time With Me? Am I Ready to Aspire For Such A Way Of Life and Living? Lastly Is It
Possible To Live Like That?
The Answer is so Gracious and
Instant and The Answer is BIG, BIG, BIG, AND BIG NOoooooooooooooo, and forever
NOoooooooooo, And Not Possible.
For the
Sake of Analysis and for Intellectual Exercise and to Prove My Intelligence let
me attempt to Examine His Mental Practices, Samarpan and Atma Samarpan.
Rao Sahib
was Accorded Permission To Train and Utilize The Transmission and been Given
Full Control and Command On The Process of Transmission at The Very First Meeting
With Shri Babuji Maharaj, even then He Kept Up The Thrust of Practice where as
it concerns as A Disciple, He used to Hit His Head Against The Wall with the
pang of separation from The Beloved and Intensity of Longing is So Intense and
Severe That He used to get Severe Headache and Used to weep uncontrollably the
whole nights for the days and days and those who know Him earlier used to get
strange thoughts about Him and His Behaviour, A Thoroughly Absorbed Being for
The External Appearances. A Shooting Pain in the stomach in the mid of the
night with that Intensity which can Lead
to the state of Death and The State of Death Experienced by Rao Sahib, at that
time The Remembrance of Shri Babuji Maharaj felt and the pain vanished and all
of a sudden a New Life is Emerged and Living Started, He told me when I
enquired.
By any
amount of Indepth Examination and Analysis It becomes almost Impossible to
Differentiate The Physical Practice, Mental Practice, Samarpan and Atma
Samarpan from The Life and Living of Rao Sahib, because The Divine is The Life
and Living is The Master And That Living Is The Life Divine and That is The
Seamless Finish He Gave To The Living of Human Life.
What is the
essence of The Correspondence of Shri Babuji Maharaj and queries of Rao Sahib?
Unless I understand those times of Rao Sahib when He Started the correspondence
it may become almost impossible to understand the lines of Training on which
and with which Shri Babuji Maharaj had started The Process of Training. Let me
get the glimpse of those Times of Rao Sahib under which He Opted Sahaja Marg,
This Method of Practice of God Realization.
They were
the Times of just Post Independence of India and Rao Sahib was student during
the Independence and The Nizam State was yet to be Amalgamated In The Indian
Republic and still couple of States in The Present Day India were yet to be
unified and He was student in those movements of Independence of India and The
Literacy Rate of India at that time was minuscule and Orthodoxness and Casteism
and Untouchability was thoroughly practiced and place of worship entry was only
for selected class, these forms of ways of Life had thorough grip on the psyche
of India and The Feudals were in total control of Land Assets, Water Assets,
and The orchids and Orchards which could provide employment means of livelihood
to the Agriculture Labour and Farm Labour and rest of the Artisans were at the
mercy of Those Feudals and there was no opportunity for employment and work, hence inhuman
poverty, these are Physical State of Affairs of Those Times. What could have
been the result if such state of affairs prevailing ?
The Result
is Superstition, Subjugation, Exploitation in the name of God, Idle men in the
uniform of Sannyasis, and their great “Arm”, The Curse, Threat and inducing
Fear with couple of magic tricks in order to satisfy their bellies and lust
Thorough Practice of Black Magic, Ungodly Practices, Utilization of the places
of worship for the Carnal Pleasures, Some Section of Society was forced to
adopt the means and methods of Satiating the Lust of Some Section of Society
and The Last But not Least THE DEFORMED, CROOKED, INHUMAN STATE OF AFFAIRS TO
TAKE ADVANTAGE SOME VESTED INTEREST PEOPLE
GAVE COLOUR AND SHADE OF RELIGION AND ATTRIBUTED TO THE NOBLE INSTITUTION
THAT EVILS WHICH WAS EMBEDDED TIME IMMEMORIAL AGO WITH CLASS DIVISION OF SOCITY
IS IN PERFECT GRIP OF THE SOCIETY AND NATION, it is almost impossible to break
and crack the grip, in the melee The God and The Human were Lost forever in
That Wilderness. The Human is Slave who could be bought and sold and The Woman
Hood is at great stress and The Threat of becoming the Symbol of Sex. The Total
and Complete State of Oppression .
Mahatma
Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj Unveiled The Method of Practice of SahajMarg, in the
loving memory of His Master, His Holiness Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of
Fathehgad, lovingly called Lalaji Maharaj, in the year 1945, pre Independence
times and easily can be imagined the
state of affairs of those times, For The Mankind for The God Realization within
This Life or Within the short span of time, without any bar for sex, creed,
caste, religion and without any pre requisite qualification for the practice
and The Needed Qualification to Practice is Willingness and Humanness.
The Objectives
of Shri Ram Chandra Mission: To Remove The Oppression from The Oppressed; To
Assist Those Sincere Seekers on the path of God Realization to Realize God
within This Life or Within a Short Span of Time, To Spread The Brahma Vidya, Setting aside the Old School of Thought of
Practice, Janam, Janam, Janamanthara, for the realization of God.
The Founder
Took the Complete Responsibilities of the follower of the Method of his
practice and Offered The Pranahuthi, The Transmission, Pranasyapranaha His Eternal
Prana, and He Became The Soul Of The Practice-The Master Everlasting Presence
in the Service of The Mankind.
Mahatma
When Expressed That Ultimate Self In The Form Of “Reality At Dawn” which
Explains The Godly Functionaries and Godly Regions and Necessary Pre requisites
of Practice Like Faith, Surrender, Goal, Master, and Means and Ended that Expression with The
Vision and the explanation about The Emblem of Shri Ram Chandra Mission.
Further
When The Need of The Yogic Form of Expression of That Ultimate Self Emerged,
Then Mahatma Ordained to Get Expressed In The Way of “ The Efficacy of Raj Yoga In The Light of
Sahaj Marg”, Wherein The Mahatma Delicately with The Tenderness Dealt The Child
of Method of Yoga Practice of God Realization and The Stages and States by
Explaining as : “The Heart Region”, “The Mind Region”, And “The Central Region”
This Central Region is The Mahatma’s Invention which was never felt or
recognized by any great men in the annals of mankind from the beginning to the
times to that of Mahatma.
The Urge of
Further Knowing About The Ultimate Journey Emerged, Mahatma Kindly Explained
The Journey In The Form of “Towards Infinity”, Where in Mahatma Classified and
Numbered The Distance as 13 Points or Lamp Posts with Concentrated Energy and
With The Final State , The Mahatma Concluded.
Mahatma
When Viewed The Situation of Human Existence As of Certainty of Infinity On One
Side and Finite On The Other side, leaving the void between Infinite and Finite
to fill, in The Mele, to fill in the void The Subject Of Philosophy Born, Then
Lovingly He Conceded That Request of Need of Finite Being Called Human By
Allowing That Ultimate Self to Express in the form of Philosophy, which was
named as “The Sahaj Marg Philosophy”, in which He loving explained The
Philosophical Aspect of Sahaj Marg, from the stand point of Finite Being and
for that being to conceive That Infinite.
Then Mahatma Found The Need of Ideal Living In
The Form Of Human Living, Then The Sahaj Marg Abhyasi Life is to be Ordained as
That Life and Living when practiced properly and that practice resulting in the
Form of “Das Usloon Ke Sara” “Commentary On Ten Commandments” or “Ten Maxims of
Sahaj Marg”, Which With A Great Hope and Concern For The Mankind made That
Ultimate Self Reveal It Self In That Form Of Realization of That Ultimate Self
for and In The Mundane World, and set it as goal For The convenience of Mankind and made it
possible to realize by practicing Sahaj Marg.
All Those
Great Treatises Are Revealed In The Form Of Literature of Sahaj Marg in The
present language form.
Being an
Abhyasi of Sahaj Marg Rao Sahib also has to pass through all the abovementioned
states, stages, levels, functions, which were found mention in the
abovementioned literature, during his tenure ship as student and He Did Pass
Through all those mentioned states, stages, and levels and Assisimilate Them In
His Living which is vibrantly visible in His Day to Day Living.
Being a
Preceptor With Full Permission, with perfect command and control of Transmission,
Rao Sahib been given to Master The Preceptor Manual wherein Shri Babuji Maharaj
Declared The Lamp Posts with The Concentrated Energy for the utilization on the
journey towards infinity, apart from the The Transmission or Prana of The
Master, which were present in the human system or body, for the evolution,
which Rao Sahib duly obliged and Mastered The Same and the results of His
Giving Transmission is and was visible in all The Spiritual Congregations and
Individual Mediation Sessions or In His Physical Presence or That Presence,
when once I asked Him why there was a difference I experience and like me
number of people experience the difference when You Conduct The Meditation
Session, He Said, I Always See The Masters Presence In The Heart of Abhyasis
and The Abhyasis when They Visit my Home They Come As Gods And Goddesses and
while Going Away from My Home they Bless Me and My Children and My Family
because They Are The Children of Shri Babuji Maharaj, Nay Many Forms Of Master,
then I thought where is the question of services at all in the dictionary or
life of Rao Sahib, it is only Worship Of His Master and Only His Master is
Present always and everywhere and in every thing.
Single
Handedly Shri Babuji Maharaj had to build The Edifice of Spirituality in the
Hearts and Homes of the Men and Women Across Countries and in The World. Great
Revolutionary of All Times in The Annals of Mankind, Shri Babuji Maharaj is,
because never ever a Method of Practice with the total support and with a
promise to take the responsibility of the seeker by the Founder of the Method
had declared and available.
Do I have
such an amount of time to spare? Do I have such an amount of Patience? Do I
have such an amount of Zeal to Learn? Do I have such an amount of Dedication
and conveniently I wish and aspire the same from Shri Babuji Maharaj which He
Bestowed on Rao Sahib, for getting That State Which is The Gift of The Master
with the necessary Toil and Struggle and Sacrifice put in on the parts by Rao
Sahib and what not, words fail for a gentlemen even to say a word about Rao
Sahib’s Deservingness.
And Now Let
me comeback to the views of Rao Sahib about the Saharj Marg which He Himself
thought for Himself that here there is One Person who is talking about the
Practice, Prayer, Method and that too Suitable to Grihastha and to The Seeker
and The Founder of the System Offers His Support on the path Unconditionally
and without any expectation, with only intention and zeal to Help the sincere
seekers on the path of God realization as fellow traveler, setting aside the
old thought of school that the god realization is possible only when total
renunciation of the family and pursuits renounced, if only to leave this family
and pursuit in order to realize the God or The Self, then why God in First
Place Created them and nurtured them and continued them and sustaining them,
these rational thinking process of Rao Sahib couldn’t be satisfied by any
quotes from any holy scriptures of any religion, because He is a Thinker with
logic and rational mind used to find a definite role of those primary
institutions in shaping and preparing the man at the primary level and nurture
the man to grow in a right and proper way and those institutions are Viz
Institution of Individual, Institution of Family, Institution of
Marriage, Institution of Religion, Institution of Society, and Nation and the
world Vausdhaiwa Kutumbakam.
He said that being a scientist it became very
difficult for Rao Sahib to accept the worship of God in mechanical way and the
mechanical form of worship and the worship without spirit and not able to find
any solace in any form of worship, in any amount of reading, of any form of
religions and religious texts and philosophies, treatises, explanations
discourses and isms, ideologies and great men and great statesmen and
politicians and leaders in which the missing link is the total absence of
spirit and life and no sound proof method of practice and guidance and support
from the founder of the method and practice and lack of in depth understanding
of the prescribed method among the followers of the method and to the founder
and authenticity of its practical application to the present day man and the
inbuilt dynamism in the said method of practice to adopt to the changes in the
times and situation and men and for the method to produce the same and even
results if practiced by a seeker in and at any given time and not found when he
did search for such method and master and instead of service for the mankind he found the selfishness in a guarded form in
the available methods.
The Men and also of those practices which have been adopted in His Ancestral Home
or The Community, which appeared to Him as Stale, without Spirit and Life and
they became Mechanical, which state driven Him to the state of Vexed for the
forms of worship and produced in Him a nauseating feeling of unbearable order
and developed in Him Aversion to the level of unbearable and painful, due to
the true ungodly ways, when that state got converted itself to the state of Total
Misery and His Existence became the Form Of Misery and reached to the peak and
the peak state slowly about to get converted as total madness of Him which is A
Reflection of the existing affairs of the pursuits of ungodly means of God realization.
The Firm Faith in the existence of God and a
necessity to have Goal of Life as the highest, and a suitable method of
practice, and Able and Capable Master to guide on the path of realization and
The Master as the Pre requisite for the Method with a suitable prayer which is
a statement of facts but not as singing glory, for him as it is indispensable
on the path of unknown and the distance is Infinite and he being the finite,
all these prerequisites which are to be developed after thorough and indepth
practice under the capable Master’s Careful guidance and intense practice are
present in Full Bloom State and That Full Bloom State of His Heart expressed in
the common parlance as Madness, The Madness for the Union, The Madness for
Mergence, The Madness to Become One with The Ultimate and remaining Act On The
Part of The Ultimate isTo Turn To Rao Sahib and The Ultimate in Human Form is
Ram Chandra, at that Juncture He Got The Feet of The Master on 22nd
October, 1955 and that First Meeting with The Master Shri Ram Chandraji Mahraj
has occurred at Shahjahanpur at Shri Babuji Maharaj’s House and That Intense
State of Deep Seeking and Waiting and Intense Yearning Self when turned to The
Divine, The Divine The Mahatma has Transformed as The Divine- Pujya Shri Babuji
Maharaj Self, Instantly and Completely and the result is Thorough and Thorough
Transformation and The Master Manifested Another Master but This Pupil who got
the Master Hood remained as pupil at the lotus feet of Him and further remained
as Pupil Only and allowed His Master to Live thereafter, till His last breath
of His Life and there after in the brighter world too. The Perfect Atma
Samarapana of The Only Order.
Every
Subject and Any Subject is a Subject only for Him and He used to read,
understand and used to get mastery over the studied subject matter and with
ease as The Master of the subject matter He used to explain and give commentary
with logic, reason, and in a systematic and scientific way. I asked Him once a
question that how You could Understand in this way with ease and in a jiff and
His answer is “ The Light of My Master when focused upon the subject matter,
the very subject matter reveals itself and the knowledge of it gets transferred
and proper understanding descends and the light dawn upon the reading
material.”
It Appears
That The above mentioned method He Lovingly applied while Interacting with the
men of the world apart from abhyasis and He used to find every subject as open
book for Him and of the subject present, past, and future is clearly visible to
Him and He was bestowed with such compassion His Hands automatically Lifted Up
in Prayer For the relief of That Subject.
When any
Book of any subject of any size, has been given to Him to read First He used to
Examine the Book intently of the size, of the print, of the cover, of the
content and thereafter He starts the reading. The way He used to read a book is
He used to turn His Head From Left to Right but never He used to move His Eyes,
this practice is perfect practice to read as per the Yogic Method of Reading
and as per the Opthalmologically also it reduces the strain upon the eyes and
is the correct way of reading and the speed with which He used to read is
astonishing and the speed is probably a page in a minute or so but He used to read
from the Cover page to The Back Cover Page. The speciality of His reading is He
never misses a single word.
The
Communication Skills and power of writings of Him are written all over and all along the Living Times of Him in the form
of His Correspondence with
Shri Babuji Maharaj, His Replies to Innumerable abhyasis and the copies of the replies in Gunny bags full which are lying at His Residence at Raichur, and His Articles in a book form which was published as Call of the fellow traveler, The Panoramic View of SahajMarg, The English Translation of Urdu Form Of Book of The Ten Commandments, and The Kannada Translations of other Books are proof of His Contribution, The Language is Precise, Simple, Spirited, Lively, Direct, and Clear like Crystal. Shri.Babuji Maharaj during His Physical Time Presence on this mother earth, from the year 1955 to 1982/83 All The Correspondence in the form of letters of His Advise, Suggestions, Clarifications, Organisational Matters, Spiritual Elevation to Abhyasis had been communicated to Rao Sahib.
Shri Babuji Maharaj, His Replies to Innumerable abhyasis and the copies of the replies in Gunny bags full which are lying at His Residence at Raichur, and His Articles in a book form which was published as Call of the fellow traveler, The Panoramic View of SahajMarg, The English Translation of Urdu Form Of Book of The Ten Commandments, and The Kannada Translations of other Books are proof of His Contribution, The Language is Precise, Simple, Spirited, Lively, Direct, and Clear like Crystal. Shri.Babuji Maharaj during His Physical Time Presence on this mother earth, from the year 1955 to 1982/83 All The Correspondence in the form of letters of His Advise, Suggestions, Clarifications, Organisational Matters, Spiritual Elevation to Abhyasis had been communicated to Rao Sahib.
Rao Sahib
is great Listener and the way He used to listen is Keeping the Left Hand or
Right Hand Behind the Ear, slightly bending forward, intently and deeply
absorbed and very keen to know the critical element in vocal expression, in
order to increase the size of the listening instrument and allowing the needed
space for the sound to reach Him In The Sense In Which The Teller is Talking
and He Used to Observe and make the way for the Sound Waves to reach, only to
know Wherefrom they are originated and what is happening to the individual and
how those waves are affecting Him and what is the result of those waves when
touched Him and Producing what in Him and in that individual, when the vocal
expression completed He used to recline back and assimilate those expression
and with a pause and with Deep Thought full State some Vocal Expression Emerges
and The Individual is Flabbergasted and stunned, thoroughly satisfied self and
His Issues, problem, query or clarification which were haunting the abhyasis
mind and mane are released and again He resumes the Humorous way of Talk and
any body wanted to raise a query He used to assists Him to put it in a proper
way while listening and Rao Sahib used to give the shape to the feeling of the
Enquirer and number of times He used to say The Question must be a right
Question and He used to correct the
wrong way of questioning and He says, That Way Questioning does not cover the issue properly and totally
in the form of question.
All the
information, in any form of the knowledge is welcome to Him because He is a
born Teacher and the primary duty of the Teacher is to learn first, understand
first, analyze first, examine the facts first, ascertain the facts validity
first, then assisimilate the validated fact then standardize the same in order
to impart when proper and suitable situation demands, this is the answer He
gave when I enquired why do you take so much of pains and do all these things,
by His conduct He proved to the world that the eternal motto of The True
Teacher is Try, Try, Try, and Try again and again and again upon all the pupil
to impart the needed and sought training
for which they come to Him, do not bother for their total cooperation, do not bother
for their abilities, do not bother about their capacities try and find means to
improve and increase their capabilities within their frame of attitudes towards
the method and Master and keep inventing new methods but never stop trying and
giving a chance to the seekers, because they are The Devotees of His Master.
After the
reading of the book in any language is over He used to explain sometimes when I
enquired about the material and content in the book, He lovingly explains the
Theme, Structure, Knitting and weaving and strength and aesthetics and beauty
of the subject matter and the pattern of language or other wise and the result
is instantly He used to transmit the essence if needed to the enquired self. A
True and a Perfect Reader and He reads as Impartial and Unbiased Way , Noble Strait .
All along of His Life during the life Time He
used to Complete and Clear The Cross Word Puzzle in 4 Daily News Papers and of
All The days and number of Times the results of His Clearing and Completing The
Cross Word Puzzle used to be Correct and get tallied when the results were
given the next day that is tomorrow. This is the way He used to enrich His
Vocabulary of English and He used to See the Meanings of those words in Kannada
and if possible in Telugu, and Hindi. He has the Mastery Over The Urdu Language
which is very dear to His Heart and He used to say that The Urdu is the
Language of The Heart, JUBAAN –E- DIL
AUR MOHABBAT- E- JUBAAN.
In order to
train and give exercise to the Brain and Mind and to sharpen them He used to
solve the Sudoku Puzzle every day in all most all the news papers and used get
tallied with His results everyday apart from the books of sudoku puzzles and He
used to solve every puzzle all the time and in every paper and in every sheet
of the book of sudoku puzzles. I asked Him Appa You Solve it every day, He said
Lovingly Yes.. Yes.. I have to keep abreast of the developments of the world,
and to keep alive the faculty of learning and learn to know and know examine
and anlyse, ascertain, classify, codify, standardize and to impart the essence
to the seekers.
From
Children Comics to Adult Literature, Light reading material to Mind boggling,
thought provoking, Literature of wildness, Fearsome, Suspense, Spy and fantasy
and fiction, romance, love and serious subjects covering Philosophy,
Spirituality, History, Geography, Civilization, Science, Sci-Fi Fiction, Music
Literature of Classic of Indian and Western, Legal, Administrative, Political,
national and international, economics, Matters of Money and other Science Journals of drugs and
pharmacy and engineering, being a Scientist Himself, He used to read about all
those mentioned subjects with the same ease and speed and with the same
interest and intensity.
He has read
and learned all The Vedas and Upanishads in Original Form and in Sanskrit. He
Mastered The Mahabharath, The Ramayana, The Bhagavtha and other Holy Scriptures
and writings of Lord Buddha and the Writings of Shri Adi Shankara, Shri
Madhvacharya and Shri Ramanujacharya and also of other saints and philosophies
and The Wittings of Saint Kabir and He has read The Bible and The Holy Quran
apart from Western Philosophies, when some one enquired about his studying
other philosophies He replied stating that with the light of My Master I able
to understand in a right perspective and proper understanding descends about
those philosophies other wise it is a stale subject matter. Every Great
Writings has the Essence that is why the said writing becomes great writing and
The Writer becomes The Great Men of the times and That Essence of All Those
Great Men Writings was Absorbed by Rao Sahib with the Grace of His Master.
While
Explaining to me sometime ago about Lord Buddha and His philosophy, Rao Sahib
told that The Lord Buddha Set aside all the mechanical forms of worships and
deleted and eliminated the entire hordes of gods and goddesses from the Holy
Scriptures. The Total Religiosity which is the result of ungodly, unholy means
adaptation for sense gratification these noble means of prayers and hymns and
sacred chants, is like a sticky material and stick to the consciousness of
common man and prevailed and percolated in all the layers of Atmosphere and
Then The Lord Buddha Set Aside Those Types and Forms Worship for the sense
gratification and Set The Goal As Nirvana and The Lord Buddha Became The Form
Of Enlightenment and the one who removes the darkness from. Buddham Sharanam
Gacchami; Dhammam Sharanam Gacchami; Sangam Sharanam Gacchami; The Only Way is
Sharanagathi- The Renuciation; The Surrender; The Love; for the enlightenment.
While
briefing about Lord Christ and Christianity Rao Sahib said that The Father, The
Son, and The Holy Spirit means The One Who receives the Divine Knowledge is the
Son and The Giver is The Father and The Medium of Giving is The Holy Spirit and
given also the Holy Spirit and Lord Christ attempted and worked relentlessly to
establish the Dignity and Decorum and Value for the Human Life. But Lord Christ
also Set aside the Mechanical forms of worships and innumerable gods and
goddesses of His Times of Barbaric and Slavish Times. Love is the core
essential of His Teachings.
In an
informal exchange of views about the on goings of the times of Mohammed
Sahib-The Prophet, Rao Sahib told at his residence in Raichur that, they were
the times of Barbaric Cruelty, which were exhibited in the form of incessant
fights among the tribal populace and in the methods adopted to take the revenge
against the captives of fight and the treatment meted out to the hapless and
helpless prisoners of fight and children, women, and aged of the family members
of the defeated Chieftains are so inhuman, height of barbaric and virtually
Satanic means adoption. This led to the Chaotic State as all the able bodied
men were dying in countless numbers and the dependant young woman and children and
aged left to fend for themselves for their livelihood and this resulted in sale
and purchase of women as sex slaves and the woman hood itself came under severe
pressure and it was about loose the Sanctity and “The Woman” could take the
form of and symbol of Sex and leaving such void for the Relationships among the
very barbaric civil society for women as sister, daughter, mother, aunts, etc.,
etc., etc., The Fabric of Family, The Fabric of Relationships so delicate and
so intricately woven could torn apart by that situation. And further Ungodly
means and ways of worship were in use and in the name of worship thorough
carnal pleasure satiating means at the places of worship practiced and that
resulted in unbearable oppression on the general populace and upon atmosphere
and there was a serious threat to the institution of family, institution of
marriage, institution of religion and there by affecting the institution of
society as they were the primary institutions in shaping the man, then all of a
sudden and suddenly The Prophet Emerged and declared a new method virtually
destroying every other method of practice of god realization and set into
motion certain social and moral modifications suitable to the conditions
prevailed and protected those primary institutions and men from further fall
and destruction. And the mother nature’s benevolence was also limited to that
part of the land though bountiful in providing the basics of human sustenance,
for example, water, cultivable land, forest for the availability of animals,
the scorching sun, the desert lands etc., etc., etc., means resources are
limited and requirements and needs are more than generation hence rationing,
sharing, careful utilization and need based utilization was prescribed for the
general good of populace. As the ratio of able bodied men to women was reduced
drastically due to incessant infighting among the tribal chieftains and anarchy
could prevail if not answered the issue thence Mohammed Sahib introduced the
way of Polygamy, declaring a able bodied and resourceful man who can feed and
maintain the families of 4 women can marry and protect them from the heat of
vulgar men.
The
Philosophy of Prophet Mohammed Sahib is, God is One; Let us Worship Him Only
and Only Him, that is how Rao Sahib explained.
Once when
Myself and Shri Raghavendra Rao Sahib and Justice D.R.Vithal Rao Sahib and
Br.Ghante were traveling from Goa to Hospet, from the border of Karnataka State
upto Hubli He Spoke to me in Chaste Urdu continuously using Shayaris, quotes,
lyrics and they were The Pure Divine Poetry and Divine Music and the beauty is
that He knows that I can not understand the Urdu Language, but I had not
interrupted Him or asked Him the meanings of the shower of The Pure Divine but
some how I know that I had understood the meaning and He has been inducing and
strengthening The Faith, The Faith of Unshakable Form, The Faith in myself, The
Faith in My Master, The Faith in The Method is of all His Divine Poetry, The
Pure Divine in Sound Form and the travel was a nonstop travel upto Hubli an
approximately of 4 or 5 hours travel.
At Another
Occasion of Marriage of the Daughter of Bro. Dr. Kumar at Gulbarga in the Hotel
Room when rest of our companions were in deep sleep absorbed in themselves, in
the presence of Justice Vithal Rao and myself who is still in sane state,
and Bhai Sahib Chanted Hymns in the
Chaste Sanskrit the Entire Text of Purusha Sukta for 2 or 3 Hours to me and I
got transfixed in that Eternal Sound and through that sound the ancient wisdom
of this sacred land been given about The Purusha, About Yagnya, About Havishu,
About Offerings in The Yagna and About The Atma Samarpan, About The Practice of
God Realization and again He knows that
I can not understand the Sanskrit nor Justice Sahib can Understand the Sanskrit
Language but I am sure the essence of Divinity is transmitted through the sound
form through His Vocal Chords.
The great
Vachanas of Shri Basavanna in Chaste Kannada The Pure Divine through His Vocal
Chords and the essence was transmitted, the essence is the god resides in
humble hearts and the body in itself is The Temple, The Pure Divine is The
Source and It Manifests through The Guru and The Life can Emerge from the State
of Death and Dead when the grace of the Lord Smears upon The Dead and The
Living Shall be the Grant of That Life and That Life Living is as Human Being.
The Vemana
Shataka in Chaste Telugu, The Bhagavatha of Pothana in Telugu, The Sumathi
Shataka, and The Stories of Tenali Ramakrishna so on and so forth that very
wisdom and the devotion, submission and Surrender and the humbleness with
humility were been given as a gift to me but again the core of the utterances
is The Pure Divine and with a definite purpose, reminding me that I am a human
being and to remain as Human being. He told me to become worldly wise one
should read The Panchatantra and Spiritually Oriented One Should read The
Literature of Shri Babuji Maharaj.
Shri Adi
Shankar’s “ Maata Naasthi, Pita Naasthi, Naasthi Brathru, Naasthi Bandhu……..,”
while surging out from the deep depths of Divine, The Seat of Divine, The Heart
of Him through and from His Vocal Chords, The Recital taken the Form of The
Devotion and filled my tiny heart and such a yearning developed in me to lay my
life then and there and that moment is enough for this life. Everything is
Unreal and Only Real Is He and He Alone, so strive to achieve That which is
Only Real and Permanent, that is the sum and substance of The Philosophy of Adi
Shankara, that is how Rao Sahib explained.
When and
While Explaining the treatises of Shri Madhvacharya He made me to understand
the, The Very Philosophy of That Great Saint in a simple and easy manner and
that is This World is as real as That World and Both Are Truth and I have to
bring in the balance while living in this world and Both The Worlds are of Him
Only and He alone is The Truth and that is only The Truth. All these
explanations are in Sanskrit.
The Out
Look of Shri Ramanujachraya, Bhai Sahib while explaining about that Great
Saint’s Philosophy, is As, It is The Birth Right of Everyone To Worship God and
To Worship God No Bar For Anyone, The Total Denial State of Worship which was
prevalent at that time to major section of society and eligible criteria
fulfilled a certain section of society only and can worship god and not
otherwise and that state got converted to Total Acceptance For Worship To All
The Humans. Manava Seva ; Madhava Seva;
The
Intricate Philosophy of The Great Saint is to start worshipping The Mata
Laxmi,- in order to reach The Lord, - The Divine Consort of Lord Vishnu, is The
Form of Shakthi-The Energy and The Activity Centre and The Conscious Form of
The Lord and The Purusha is The Lord who rests in the Yoga Nidra, Deep
Absorption State with latent motion, and it is the duty of a devotee to bring in
the balance in The Form of Energy, The Activity Centre, The Conscious Form of
him while living with the life to the level of Latent Motion which is worship
of Mata and to enter into that state of Latent Motion similar to The State of
Absorption during his physical Living, as the human is also the form of energy.
He was so
fond of verses of Sant Kabir and in the chaste Hindi and Bhojpuri Rao Sahib
used to sing when he was in the state of deep devotion and that state of that
devotion captures the heart and melts away the heard Hearts and fills the
hearts with devotion and as I could not understand language wise my status
remains as ever as listener only.
“Shanthi
Pao Tab Jab Teri Ram Japo Naam Teri”
That is the
Sum and Substances of Sant Kabir’s True Philosophy and Purpose of His writings
and singing Rao Sahib used to say.
Utilization
of Faculty of Speech, Utilization of Means of Speech only for the sake of and
for the service of Mahatma’s Devotees to
bring out such a wonderful results of Tuning and Correcting the Wild Hearts,
Mending the Mean Minds and making the being to experience the effects of
devotion thereby increasing their faith and firming up their faith and
resetting their orientation and charging them with love, sharpening their
skills of understanding and increasing their intellectual capabilities, all
these results with a causal and informal talks and expressions while informally
meeting Rao Sahib.
The Love
for the Languages, expressions, ways of expressions, beauty of expressions,
strength of expressions, rhythm of expressions, orientation of expressions,
force of expressions, expression of feelings through the medium of language,
expression of love, expression of communications of the subject matter I have
seen with Rao Sahib and that association only developed the interest in me for
the languages and its ways of expressions.
It was a
mesmerizing the way He used to recite the Shayiris in Urdu, Gazzals in Urdu and
Hindi, Quotes from Hindi, Quotes from English Literature, Quotes from Telugu
Literature, Quotes from Kannada Old and New Literature, Quotes from Marathi
Literature, Quotes from The Sanskrit Literature, this way He developed in me
the interest and liking for the languages. The Ways Are So Chaste.
He used to
utilize these External Help and Assistance to impart the wisdom by utilizing
Those Greatmen wisdom and to strengthen the Faith and in the form of Heart Felt
rendering to create the needed atmosphere and needed amount of intensity of
devotion to prevail and to rivet the minds and hearts firmly upon the Divine.
Converting the recitals or Bhajans or
Gazzals or Shayiris as aids and tools when sung and heard with the rhythm and with melodious voice of Him filled
with Love and Devotion and Bhava, at the Advanced Level of Spiritual Reach and on the Journey they
Help the Sincere Seekers. It used to be in a very private gatherings of 6 or 8
people who could afford such long time for the sake of their own upliftment and
enlightenment and it became necessary to keep us occupied with the Divine and He graciously obliging to keep us
engaged, for Him to keep us engaged with the Divine and to give us the best
results for the time spared by us as He is very conscious of Preciousness of
time and efforts of others.
I used to
visit Him quite often along with Justice Vithal Rao Sahib and Rajesh(Babuji) at
Raichur and some other abhyasis also used to join us like, Br.B.P.Hundekarmath
of Raichur, Br.Kasinath from Hospet, Br.Ghante from Dharwad, Br.Dr.Narshimha
Rao of Amarchinta, Br.Dr.Shyam Rao of Gulbarga, Br.Dr.Kumar Vaikunt of
Gulbarga.
He used to provide us for the Stay, Food, and
Comforts for all the days and He used to be at the peck and call of us and
waiting all along for us, this went on for decades, and All His Family Members
that is His Sons, Daughters, Daughter-in-laws, if Son-in-laws present they are
also and Grand Children including Amma, who is also a Preceptor with Full
Permission of Shri Ram Chandra Mission of Shahajahanpur, U.P., India., are
beelined to take care of us and to provide us to start with Bed Tea, Bed Coffee
in the early hours at about 5 a.m., breakfast with Tea and Coffee and again
some fruit, Lunch, thereafter place for Siesta with proper aids, noon Tea,
small refreshment in the late noon, along with tea and coffee, and Dinner, and
all these services are clock precision with a gap of 2 and Half hours. And
proper needed arrangements He used to make for Leaving us for Bus station or
Railway Station and to Receive us also including Railway Enquiry and Bus Time
Departure and Arrival and for the Bookings also, Only His Time and His Family
is Free and the Value for our Time and Money and they are Precious, what a
Nobility of us.
Every day
Meditation sessions apart from Regular Sessions at Ashram, whatever may be His
Physical Health Condition and Physical Convenience!
Debt if it
is Debt can it be ever re paid? The Gracious One Never Uttered or murmured a
Single word Nor The Family Members, but as a right and privilege we have often
used that faculty to complain. If all the Wealth of the World if I have, Can
that Debt be redeemed? No Equal, a paltry sum, a miser’s attempt, Alas I had
Lost such a One, it would have been better a one like me to go than Such
Gracious One To Leave this Planet.
Rao Sahib
physique is well formed and properly developed Tall physique and properly built
and gait is firm and swift with grace He moves, but very tender and supple is
the formation of muscle of His Body and Strong Cage of Boney Structure, and
wide chest with long hands and rosy healthy artistic fingers and nails, clean
and neat appetite, the head is to the proper proportion of the body, powerful
eyesight, powerful Jaws and very strong Denture, very sharp ears and well
developed long ears, wonderful taste buds with powerful Tongue, a very well formed
and developed Nose Bone structure with wonderful smell discerning capacity,
when He sits down He always sits in Erect posture.
He is early
to rise and early to bed, and all His physical actions are clock precision and
maintaining and storing things are also has a certain and definite pattern with
need as the base for the expressed patterns, majority of application of those
methods of storing, retrieving and maintaining is the way of automation in the
human form.
He was dead
against to taking loans and He used to say that Debt is a great burden, and
always lived within his means and His personal expenses were nil because He has
no personal need and He told me once that He wanted every abhyasi’s personal
expense should be nil and He further enlarged the statement stating that He
doesn’t want miserly way of life, and spend for others as much there is a need
to spend, but always he used to be generous and a Perfect Host, and while
serving the servings are Sumptuous and Tasty and full.
Reciprocation of Social Etiquette and Manners
are lively, spirited and superb with Him and that is the reason He always go
through with keen interest every detail of all the invitation cards and
preserves those cards of invitation till those celebrations are over, on His
table, who ever would have sent and used
to reply them or send His family members to attend or He Himself used to attend
those functions with due Honour, or Send The Due Honour with Known People who
attended those functions and enquire with those men about the function and His
communication of His inability of attending the said celebrations thereby He
used to fill the void of attending those functions , by responding to those
events in this way. He used to fill the Spirit in those Acts and used to set
aside the mechanical way, with due
regard and respect to the Customs and Practices of Institution of Family,
Institution of Marriage, Institution of Society, thereby He Brought The Sanctity to Those Institutions, Nation
and The World are nothing but group of those Institutions with physical
boundaries. Vasudhaiwa Kutumbam.
The house
He built at Raichur is the living proof for the above statement, when one of my
civil engineer friend asked Him, sir, You have built the window with Concrete
Frame, He answered stating that yes.., yes.., it is a need based house
constructed for the comfort of stay and to protect from heat and cold and to
give us a shelter. We can say it is eco friendly house with the ample provision
for sunlight and air and proper ventilation.
When it was
difficult for us to Visit Him at Raichur, Though Aged He used to undertake The
Travel By Road or By Rail, howsoever it is difficult and painful for Him to
Travel He used to visit us at our place number of times and for number of years
and used to Stay always with Justice Sahib for minimum of 3 days to one week
maximum, and all those days twice a day Satsang used to be conducted at Justice
Sahib’s Place and He used to meet 150-200 Abhyasis and indulge in innumerable
discussions. What for He used to Travel with all the pain and inconvenience?
Why He used to Undertake such amount of Travel, when asked Him, He said, it may
be difficult for all those abhyasis to visit me even though they wanted to
visit me at my place due to my old age, then it is better One Person to Come
For The Benefit of So Many, any how the purpose is served whether I undertake
the travel or they undertake the travel and these present day times are hard,
tough and difficult.
He
explained me once when I asked Him about Human, Life and Living, when we were
traveling towards Hospet to go to the house of Br.Kasinath;
He said
that Human is the One Who has the thinking faculty with well developed mind,
and with the human heart.
If we
keenly observer there won’t be any much difference in the activities of Human
and Animal
When the
Human lives with the life as human he tends to use all the Sterile Instruments
of Surgeon which to be kept in Sterile Condition which are God given Gifts
namely, Mind, Thinking, Heart(Human Heart),Buddhi, Chitta, to satiate the
master of him and for his carnal pleasure, that is The Body and The Body
Dependents and things, and he lives with that deep-rooted conviction that ‘He’
means the body only, then it becomes ‘Life’ Only.
Shri.Babuji
Maharaj when sown the seed of Divine then Human becomes in True Sense as Human
because He has got The Divinity that differentiate him from the animal hood and
All his Sterile Instruments of God Given Gifts are getting used and trained to
the purpose for which they were bestowed on human that is to pursue the path of
God Realization, then the Living Started for the human.
Now if I
enquire with myself what is Raghavendra Rao and How I could relate me myself
with Him, suppose with the following expression I attempt to compare my
feelings for Him; Say;
“Guru Brahma; Guru Vishnu;
Gurudevo Maheswaraha!
Guru Sakshath Para Brahma
Tasmayee Shri Guruve Namaha”
They are
all States of Godly Functionaries for the sake of and to assist Nature’s Work
somewhere up and above in different plane and platform and I can not reach them
but Appa is Near always and never away;
“Aasatoma
Sadgamaya; Tamasoma Jyothigamaya; Mruthyorma Amruthangamay”
From Unreal
to Real; Form of Enlightenment to Become; Acquire The State of The Eternal
Life;
He is The
giver of all these forms of Truth; and made number of individuals to realize
those States of Truth.
“Om Sahanavavathu; Shaha Nau Bhunaktu;
Shahaveeryam karavavahai;
Tejaswinavadhithamasthu; Maa
Vidhwishamahai;
His Prayers
for the individual Evolution and Individual Emancipation and Fulfilment, always
is there But due to His Master’s Transformation of Individual Self of Rao sahib
as of That The Self, From That The Self That Awareness of That The Self is Not
Present and From That State of Unawareness, The Spiritual Impulses are emerging
or flowing in a Natural Way continuously to all nook and corner of The
Existence or Creation and Beyond and That The Self Every Act Is An Act of Prayer
Only and That State of Prayer becomes The State of Prayer When That State comes
to the Awareness and That Awareness named as The State of Prayer and That The
Self Turns To That Form or State In Particular and In Specific, When Any
Individual, Seeker, Devotee, Presents Before Him or Happens to Get The
Remembrance of Him, Instantly He Resumes The Prayer;
Oh! Master!
Thou Art
The Real Goal Of Human Life,
We are yet
but slaves of wishes putting bar to our Advancement,
Thou Art
The Only God and Power To Bring me Up to That stage.
Amen.
He was not
in need of my faith, He was not in need of my prayer, He was not in need of my
confidence, He was not in need of my intelligence, He was not in need of my
capacities, he was not in need of my powers,
He was not in need of my gentlemanliness, He was not in need of my
civility, He was not in of any favour from me, He was not in need of any
monetary gain, He was not in need of my time, He was not in need of my Prana.
Of my Free
Will and choice I sought everything from Him, of His Time, of His Prayer, of
His Faith, of His Intelligence, of His Capacities, of His Powers, of His
Gentlemanliness, of His Civility, of His favours, of His monetary assistance,
of His Prana, of His Chaitanyata, of His Prajna, but He is so Gracious without
my asking He Did Atma Samarpan For The Cause and For The Devotees of His
Master; Na Bhootho Na Bhavishyathi;
But I
remained wailing, weeping, having lost such Association of Such a Teacher and
The Master Who Could Manifest such
Teacher, not knowing what to do and simply waiting with their memories
in order to conclude the left over life
of mine.
That
Eternal query still remains; what is that query, the query is What is
Raghavendra Rao? What is His Mission? Because the life and living of Him Transcends
all the meaning of life, living and death and life and living thereafter the
death, then it can only be a Mission for which He Blessed this Earth, About
That Mission Only Shri Babuji Maharaj, His Master, Knows.
“Sahasrasheersha
Purushaha
Sahasrakshaha Sahasrapaat
Sa Bhoomeem
Vishwatho Vruthvaathyathishthat Dashangulam.”
This Vedic
Mantra of Purusha Suktha is The True Form of HIM and I have seen and still left
Something to See in Him and am Fortunate The Purusha Remembered Me as Me.
“Vedahametam Purusham Mahantam
Aditya Varnam Tamasah Parastaat.”
This
Vedic Mantra Apt to Mention Here and This Vedic Mantra ordains As Sacred Duty
To Perform, That Performance of Sacred Duty is To Pronounce To The World Having
Seen, Having Lived with That, The Great One and The Only One, The Personality,
is binding on one and all as this Vedic Mantra is Sacred and Spelt With Ancient
Wisdom of Those Time of Time Immemorial and Those Men and Times were merged in
the womb of This Beloved Mother Earth, and for the Sake and Love of The Mankind
This Wisdom Was Given As Gift To The Mankind.
I had lived
with Him The One, The Purusha, The Personality and The One and The Only One He
Gave Me The Life and Taught Me The Living am Blessed.
But for me
for the rest of my left over life He is My Beloved Father – Appa. That is all.
Rishi
Moolam; Nischitam; Satyam; Vishleshanam – Nishiddham.
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