Query:
Is there an Ashram where we can have Satsangs in the presence of the realized
one. I desire to live in the presence of a god Realized Master.
Vijay
Kumar:
You can find
many Ashrams in India particularly in Haridwar and Rishikesh in the state of Uttaranchal,
India ... yet, none of them may be able to impart you the absolute knowledge ...
the essence of Bhagavad Gita ... the one and only document representative of the
complete wisdom Jnana contained in the Cosmos). As I never propose to build an
Ashram I shall not be able to able to accept you as a seeker of knowledge ...
all that this is Spiritual.
It
is only a period of time that I am unable to do so ... after my family is fully
settled ... my two daughters settle down in their professions ... get married
and so on ... only after that I shall be able to accept people from world-wide
... only the serious absolute seekers of truth ... to my abode. I am merely an
instrument in the hands of God ... I shall be able to impart all that God has
bestowed upon me.
In
my lifetime I shall only be able to accept one or two pupils ... who have the
eagerness, capacity, patience and all that which is desired from a true seeker.
Ramakrishna
Paramhansa had only one pupil ... Swami Vivekananda and I shall also
have probably one among the multitudes ... one who can understand what is being
imparted. Presently amongst all the people who assemble for my discourses not
even 1% are able to fathom the inner depths of the Spiritual wisdom being imparted.
Many relate Spiritual wisdom as a means to earning money ... bountiful material
riches which can give them the best of physical comforts they can enjoy.
Yet
I shall narrate one incidence in the life
of Lord Mahavira - Lord Mahavira the moment he Realized God came to
know from his inner inhibitions (intuition) that none on earth except a spiritual
seeker and a teacher Gautam was only competent to understand the meaning of his
words ... yet, Gautam had taken a vow that he shall never meet Lord Mahavira in
his lifetime as he considered himself equivalent to him in the Spiritual knowledge.
He had a bloated ego, which did not permit him to accept the truth.
It
so happened that destiny made some knowledgeable persons of the society who understood
the logical reasoning behind the happening make a decision ... they approached
Gautam with some sayings of Lord Mahavira suppressing the fact that in fact they
had come from Lord Mahavira ... they were queries of the highest order which only
could have come out from the mouth of a person who had Realized God ... having
gone through the words Gautama became so inclined to meet the person who had written
them that he soon followed the wise men.
As
the total retinue of the wise men and Gautama and his followers neared the place
where Lord Mahavira stood without giving the discourse (no words floating out
of his mouth) ... the senses of the Gautama felt fully energized ... he understood
his folly and bowed before Mahavira. The might of a god realized soul made even
the bloated ego of the Gautama melt away ... soon after Lord Mahavira disclosed
all the essentials to Gautama ... the only person present among the millions who
understood what Lord Mahavira was saying. Subsequently Gautama preached to the
masses what he came to understand from Lord Mahavira.
The prime reason why we need to have Spiritual masters to convey the meaning of
the realized souls to the masses. In Jainism, the foremost Prayer of the Religion
(Navkar Mantra) ... contains words which express our initial offerings to Arihantas
... those who Realized God within their lifetime. These god realized souls when
they leave their immortal fame are known as Tirthankars. The first Prayer is thus
addressed to the Arihantas for the prime reason that had it not been for the Arihantas
to be present ... the common masses would not had been able to decipher what was
being said by the would-be Tirthankars. and the second Prayer is subsequently
offered to the Tirthankars.
In
the Spiritual hierarchy ... Tirthankars (the god realized souls ... those who
have completed their cosmic journey and liberated themselves from the cycle
of birth and death forever) is highest ... next comes the Arihantas
(one on the path of gaining absolute wisdom ... the would be god realized souls)
... then the Spiritual masters, the Acharyas who head Spiritual institutions ...
the centers for imparting of the Spiritual wisdom ... and finally the Spiritual
teachers (Upadhyayas).
The
brief distinction between an Arihantas who is also a god realized soul and Tirthankars
(the status of a god realized soul after he has left his mortal frame) is that
having Realized God ... one has to keep a limited impurity within the self without
which soul the atman within would leave the body immediately. One day one person
casually asked Ramakrishna Paramhansa why he was so fond of making and relishing
food ... he replied that unless he keeps this 1% impurity within him ... he would
be forced to abandon his body and leave for the ultimate goal ... and in order
to retain this body for a certain period of time ... he shall be able to impart
the Spiritual knowledge so earned within his lifetime.
In my own life one day ... after having Realized God in 1993 ... I was going up
the lift to the head office of the organization of own I had been the managing
director ... I was seriously concentrating on God while traveling in the lift
... somehow my soul the atman within started to lift itself (leave my body) ...
and as the soul atman within my body started to lift itself I could see my legs
folding as if made of rubber and crumbling down ... immediately within a fraction
of the second I had to forcibly within my mental frame blurt out some unsavory
words against an employee who had committed a mistake the earlier day. This immediately
straightened out my legs for I had within me a small percentage of impurity otherwise
having achieved full impurity ... my mortal frame would have left that very day.
I would like to
express here that no student ever can truly identify his Guru ... yet, real Guru
is always able to distinguish among the masses ... the right candidate for imparting
the Spiritual wisdom. It is most unlikely that I shall make a mistake ... yet,
what has been destined for me by God ... shall be implemented in totality. Everything
in the cosmos is a making of God Almighty ... where and whence is the cause for
worry! Everything gets executed as per the will of God!
In
Haridwar (Uttaranchal state), India ... a place about 32 kilometers from where
I live ... there is no dearth of good Ashrams ... the only problem being that
gurus spiritual masters who can impart the absolute knowledge are not available
... these institutions have been merely reduced to religious centers of learning
(Religion and Spirituality are absolutely different aspects of the same absolute
truth) and it is the field of Spirituality which we want to follow if we desire
to know God at a certain stage in our life.
Religious centers are the places where the wisdom is imparted from the books ...
true wisdom can never be imparted from books ... every true master invokes all
wisdom contained in the Cosmos through the process of Shruti Jnana (more on Shruti
Jnana can be read here- Shruti)
... he is not required to read any text ... yet he is able to explain the inner
meaning of words contained in Bhagavad Gita ... Upanishads
... Bible ... Koran and all other Spiritual texts of all Religions of the world
as if he is the master of all wisdom.
After
having reached the source of all wisdom through Shruti Jnana ... the reservoir
of Mind Plus (more on the power of mind can be read here- mind
a universal phenomenon) ... there is nothing else to know. My advice is that
you can start from an Ashram which may be able to impart you the basics of Spiritual
knowledge ... subsequently as you proceed higher on the Spiritual path ... you
shall yourself be able to distinguish for yourself the right from wrong ... I
covered the journey leading to Self Realization without a Guru ... I had God as
my Guru and the master ... the hidden factor which is extremely difficult to practice
... yet, the results were astonishing.
In
Rishikesh, there is one Ashram now maintained by the followers of Saint Sivananda
... though Swami Sivananda did not Realize God within his lifetime yet he was
a very highly acclaimed religious preacher of his time ... he was only one meaningful
life away from Self Realization. You can visit his Ashram to complete the goal
you have set in your life.
An incident in the life of Eklavya (one who belonged to a lower caste and neither
had the means of the money to accomplish the goal of his life yet, achieved everything
he ever wanted to do) will explain further- Eklavya was very eager to learn archery
and he approached Guru Dronacharya to accept him as his Guru. This violated the
principles being followed during that era as no person less than a Brahmin was
ever considered competent for gaining the Spiritual knowledge.
As
Guru Dronacharya refused to accept Eklavya as his student having belonged to a
lower caste ... Eklavya had no choice but to follow the path which I came to follow
early in my life. In spite of my best efforts when I was not able to locate a
Guru in my life ... I had to ask God to accept me as his pupil ... a devoted soldier
... he accepted. Eklavya became the foremost archer of his time ... much ahead
of the best pupil even Guru Dronacharya had trained ... the famous Pandava king
Arjuna. This truly is an unbelievable fact yet true. One can learn everything
living wherever one may be ... it is not essential to venture out as In present
times availability of a reliable Guru is considerably reduced. Most have become
money minded and follow materialistic trends.
What
actually Eklavya had done was ... unknown to the Guru Dronacharya ... he created
a clay replica of the Guru Dronacharya and practiced archery considering the clay
model as the Guru. He used to watch from a distance the knowledge being imparted
by Guru Dronacharya to Pandava king Arjuna ... his power of concentration ...
his desire to become number one in the field of archery ... and his bulldog determination
to achieve the desired goal (the determination which the British premier Winston
Churchill had) ... nothing less were the ingredients of which Eklavya was made
of! His faring even better than Pandava king Arjuna is a unique example in the
history of mankind.
In present times ... students have become so dependent on the teachers that if
the teacher is not sincere enough then students do not care about giving a thorough
reading on their own and mastering the subject. Everything is possible in the
Spiritual domain ... God is always there to guide those who truly believe in him
... 100% faith system of God is a must!
One
cannot expect to start the engine of our spiritual life at 99° temperature. Water
will only boil at hundred degrees in order to generate steam just sufficient to
start the journey ... once there is a full thrust ... there is no looking back.
I have practiced all this in my life ... I know what is essential for a true spiritual
seeker ... to distinguish false from truth is something which I practice in daily
life ... none is able to cheat me for I am able to read the thoughts of every
person around me.
Do
not despair. I am always there to assist you in your queries ... you can send
as many number of queries as you desire ... as the queries within you dissolve
... you shall rise higher and higher on the Spiritual plane leading towards your
goal. Following the process of Neti is an essential ingredient on the path to
God Realization.
Neti is the process followed by Maharishi Ramana ... it involves negating everything
in the Universe. Not this ... Not this is the best form of inquiry one can ever
follow on the Spiritual path ... if we desire to have one-to-one dialogue with
God in present lifetime then we need to search for God ... and if we finally negate
everything in the Cosmos we know is not God ... then what remains is only God
... this was the path I subconsciously followed and I was successful.
One must always read in
depth all literature available on Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana
... In the last 150 years ... these are the only two persons who Realized God
... following the path they have taken gives vital clues which are required to
be followed on the path of spirituality. There are no shortcuts ... we have to
practice patience to its limit ... only then can one hope of becoming a Buddha,
Jesus Christ,
Lord Mahavira, Prophet
Mohammed, Ramakrishna Paramhansa or Maharishi Ramana one day.
I
will again emphasize here that reliable Spiritual gurus In present times is extremely
difficult to search for ... yet nothing is impossible in this world. You can take
your own decisions and proceed on the path of spirituality with full faith in
God ... you shall accomplish the dreams and goals in your life without fail.
Always
there to clarify your queries (send
your query),
Vijay
Kumar "Atma
Jnani"
Vijay Kumar... The Man who Realized God in 1993 on Hindu Ashrams.
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Full text of query:
hi dear friends I realy
woul like to recieve any information from you I also would like to know if there
is a ashran where we can have Satsangs,to be in the presence of the realized one,please
let me now I am planing to live in india,inspite of any problem,I believe that
to be in the presence of te alive master is the best thing to do for me in this
life thanks
