Pranam to Parampoojya Parameshwar Sadguru Swami Anilji Maharaj
Atmadhnyan Shighra Sadhana… 26
(English Translation of the series in Hindi by Brahmatmaikdhnyani Sant Swami Anilji Maharaj)
When I and my friend went to seek the answers from Sant Khapti Maharaj , his Ahram (hermitage) was like a cottage. Maharaj greeted us very well and arranged for the meals for us.
Later on when Maharaj was in good mood, we took out the list of the 15-20 questions we made to ask Maharaj. We did not have spiritual maturity as to what to ask whom. We were yet to start a, b, c of the spiritual knowledge and we went to question the experienced Spiritual Authority!
Level of our questions were matching our standard, like, “ if God is not there then who made this world/universe/nature; “etc. With permission from Maharaj we asked the first question. Maharaj answered , “ This all is your illusion.”
He did not give chance to ask any other question., and said in Marathi, “ata ya”, come again.
Real meaning is leave now. Maharaj literally ousted us.
Looking at the rigid asceticism like shukmuni the respect for Maharaj had risen tremendously. Then I could meet him 5 -10 times but the there was same disrespect for the deities and used to say some mysterious things, the meaning of which was not understood.
Then one day Maharaj visited my house. He asked me, “you are devotee of Ganesh, you would be surely knowing the story of his birth. While taking bath, Parvati took out so much waste material from the body that a statue was made out of it and statue became live! When lord Shankar arrived, he cut off his head. When Parvati cried then he brought head of an elephant and connected to the body of statue.
Now tell me whether Lord Shankar could see elephant only for cutting the head. Could not get a man? What Shankarji has done? Wasted the body of elephant and the head of the statue was not utilized. If both would have been joined then one more deity could be formed!”
Then Maharaj said, ” You are educated science student. Do not merely listen to the stories. Get to understand the latent secret essence. If Lord Ganesh is made of waste material, then you and I, are we not made of waste material?”
Some and substance was that Maharaj was bent upon putting a stop to my worship and devotional activities! Whatever mysterious sentences Maharaj used speak, I hardly understood them. However I had firmly decided in my mind that the Maharaj only can tell me what is reality, he only can take me to God and then I will be able to seek from God as to why he is putting me always into difficulties and agonies. In my mind I had accepted Maharaj as my Guru and resolved that I will obey and serve him more than my life.
Finally A day had come when I wrapped up all the idols and photos of Lord Ganesh in a red cloth, put them in the jeep and took them from Nagpur to Hoshangabad for the immersion in the river Narmada after worship. Guru became my everything. Tried to send as much time with Guru as possible. Neither paid attention to the family, nor to the business. As a result, I had to face the serious material consequences. However now there was no fear!
Luckily one day, myself, Maharaj and famous sant from Amravati, Achyut Maharaj, only three of us were in the car. Maharaj said, “whoever has to become Krishna, must lift the Gowardhan mountain.” Both Sants discussed on this subject which I could understand a little. I kept on thinking, how mysterious are these Pouranik tales? How much essential it is to keep the secret from the common people!
Perhaps Maharaj had thought something for me. Told me one day, go and bring a book from the market. Every scripture contains the same knowledge. The sight is needed to look at that.
Miraculously I got a book written by Dr. Chaturkar on the subject of Knowledge (Dhnyan) on which he was conferred PhD by Nagpur University. I got the blessings from Maharaj. I started understanding a little. My curiosity now crossed the heights of Himalayas. I was madly thinking about Maharaj. Day and night, continuously Maharaj was my sight!
It was not that, I had not read Gita, Upnishad earlier. However nothing was getting understood. When I was in college itself, I used to read the books from Ramkrishna Ashram, Nagpur but would not get the meaning. Since the Maharaj asked me to read, All those books now found to have a profound meaning.
I used to like
Bhagawan Shankaracharya from childhood. I started reading Shankar literature again and some Vedant scriptures together! I discovered that many of the Statements of Guru Maharaj were written in the Scriptures. My joy found no bounds!
Now I begot one wing of blessings from Guru Maharaj and other was Vedant! It was left to me whether to fly high in the sky of infinity or look at the family life?