Dada Cidananda, a very senior monk in Ananda Marga shared some interesting stories with us about his Guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. He calls his Guru, Ba’ba’. Below are two short ones.
1) Once in Jamalpur during a gathering with some monks and devotees.
In this group there were 2 devotees who had plenty of mental
clashes. Ba’ba’ called a vey young monk and asked him to close his
eyes to see what was going on in the mind of one of these two
devotees.
The monk responded that he wasn’t seeing anything. Then
Ba’ba’touched a point behind the monk’s neck. The monk then started
narrating what he was seeing. He saw that the devotee as a very
elevated yogi in his previous life. Ba’ba’ told him to go back
further then that. The monk saw that previous to that, he was a
temple assistant where where he was in constant touch with many
monks and saintly people. And previous to that he was a hunter. In
that life (as a hunter), while he was hunting he met a saint who was
thirsty. The saint requested for water. And the hunter sacrificed
the little water he had for his own consumption and gave it to the
saint.
Ba’ba’ then went on to explain that as a result of having done that
little service through his sacrifice, the hunter, in his next life
become a temple assistant. Finally in the life previous to this one,
he achieved spiritual elevation.
In this life he was born into a very successful business family. He
was able to successfully launch profitable businesses. But he would
also suddenly lose interest in business and start diving into his
spiritual practices.His family relationship soured and he was always
in mental turmoil. When asked by Ba’ba’ to ascertain the veracity of
the story, the devotee confirmed that it was true.
Turning to the second devotee Ba’ba’ said,
" You are thinking that I have been a very old devotee, practicing
spiritual disciplines and meditation for many years. But Ba’ba’ uses
a young boy( monk) for his demonstrations. Why not me?". The second
devotee confirmed Ba’ba’s statement.
Ba’ba’ explained that this young boy, for the past seven hundred
years, had been practicing and perfecting his mind and body
spiritually. As a result he was able to tolerate high spiritual
vibrations which Ba’ba’ transmitted. Ba’ba’ also mentioned that the
devotee’s mind would have burst if He had done the same
demonstration on him.
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Dada Cidananda then encouraged all of us to be serious about our practices if we wanted to attain higher states of spiritual realizations.
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Namaskar
BABA NAM KEVALAM
Ragavan.
