“There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”
Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.”
“One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: ‘This too shall pass.'”
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Mahavatar Babaji and Guman Singh
The great Mahavatar Babaji had many disciples.
Among them, Thakur Guman Singh Naula of Dyuda Village near Haldwani bore prominence.
His demeanor often reminded one of the poet-sage Kabir.
Babaji would often stay and spend time with Guman Singh.
At the Singh’s place, Babaji performed many miracles.Babaji, impressed by Guman Singh’s devotion often took him for a bath in the nearby Sharada River.
Even today, Guman Singh’s grand and great-grandchildren retain many of Babaji’s intimate belongings that he kept with him for daily use.
In one autumn of the year 1922, Babaji went to Kailash Yatra.
He stayed at Ashkot near the Uttar Pradesh- Nepal border, as a guest at the palace of King Shri Karman Singh.
Why do mendicants visit the influential?
As part of an old custom, renunciants and Yogis would often frequent the living spaces of Kings, rulers, and Influential men.
The mendicants intended the welfare of society.
Kings and Influential men represented the apex of society who could influence the society at large.If holy men visited such people, the rich man would serve them in a humble mood.
Thus the mendicants and powerful yogis could infuse humility and the sense of surrender and service into these men.
Giving these influential men an opportunity to serve could bring about some transformation in them.
If this were not done, in all possibility, the offices that they held and the money they possessed could easily corrupt them.
This could very well poison society.Karman Singh served Babaji with all his heart.
Babaji prepares to Leave
Babaji informed the king one day that his time for departure from the place had come.
The king wanted to offer his last services to the Yogi.
He, therefore, carried the palanquin in which Babaji sat.
After a few miles, Babaji ordered the king to go back and attend his duties while Babaji proceeded with some devotees and attendants from the king’s court.
The palanquin party approached the junction of the Kali and Gori rivers near the border area.
Babaji entered the waters of the river.In the shallowness of the river, he sat in Padmasana.
People watch Babaji disappear
As people watched him entering a meditative state, his body started taking a lighter form as it became less and less visible.
His body was now turning into a light figure.
As he disappeared he announced that he shall be back.
He promised, “I will come again with a new form for the well-being of society”.Although Babaji disappeared from public eyes, he would somehow visit some of his devotees and give them special Darshanam.
The people reported sighting Babaji through the years 1950, 1953, 1954, 1959, and 1962.
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i wonder as i wander
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adb
“Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
Story of Rana and Babaji
One, Rana and family, people considered, very fortunate.
Rana belonged to a place near Almora.
People now know one of the descendants of Rana by the name C S Rana as Swami Fakirananda.
He published recently, his erstwhile family experiences.
The story goes like this.
Shri Ram Singh worked as a school teacher at a village near Okhaldoonga near Haidakhan.
He had Darshanam of the Mahavatar in 1963.
Since then, only he would meet Babaji personally every week.Nobody had a public sighting of Babaji during that time.
Only in 1970, Babaji made his public appearance for the very first time, in his brand new form.
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adb
“A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.”
What are Shreyas and Preyas?
In Shreyas, there is an initial phase of toil and apparent trouble- later, there is ending bliss.
In Preyas, there is an initial phase of temporary excitement and shallow happiness- later there is unending distress and trouble.
All humans without exception have to accept any one of these two paths-
Shreyas or Preyas.
This is because the mind can never stay idle even for a moment.
Without Shreyas, there can be no holiday for the mind.
The mind then has to toil life after life without respite.
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How to subdue the chariot?
Jeev is not an experienced guide.
So, the Jiva should consult its eternal parent, the Lord for the right guidance.
Unless the Jeev accepts the subordination of its parent, the chariot shall run in all wrong directions.
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GD REALISN
The crux is- Remembering the Lord always.
However, one condition applies.
One should simply think of the Lord, with no worldly expectation whatsoever.
Don’t expect anything from Him.
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