It was
the pre-dawn hour (brahma muhurta) of the auspicious day of Basant Pancami and
I was busy with my daily routine of worship when I had the concrete vision of
the divine personage enveloped in a column of light and he, on his own,
provided answers to all doubts, questions and queries that had been lurking in
my mind. I saw my past three lives one after the other from the beginning till
the end, which were all for divine work and during which I had been
instrumental in playing crucial roles in teh regeneration and upliftment of the
society and had initiated integrative and inclusive paths of Sadhana in tune
with the needs of the times, under the guidance of that Devatma who was
standing before me. All that had earlier appeared to be strange vanished from
my mind and a feeling of deep intimacy, affinity and gratefulness awakened in my
rejuvenated and awakened soul. My family, whom I had considered my kith and
kin, appeared to be alien and I started regarding this Devatma, who was before
me in the form of a column of light, as the soul of my soul. I felt that my
past and future were linked with him. I had no other aspiration and nothing to
claim as my own but to follow rigorously and faithfully the directions of my
master. This is what is called true surrender. I surrendered myself at that
moment to that divine soul and regarded him not only my guide but equivalent to
Divinity Itself. This relationship has been maintained for the past sixty-three
years and I have been forging ahead wholeheartedly and unhesitatingly on the
path indicated by him. No questions or doubts have ever arisen in my mind as to
my capability to accomplish his will or what results my efforts will bear.
That day
I learnt one more lesson; that the grace of divine souls is granted only for
public good, for the growth of righteous attitudes and tendencies in humanity
and it is not showered on anyone who hankers after fame or material prosperity.
These enlightened souls have no kith or kin, opponent or rival. The
all-pervading Spirit, manifested as Soul of Humanity, is their Deity and they
yoke their chosen and beloved souls in the service of the Divine in humanity.
In the light of this new insight, I at once recollected the master - disciple
relationship of Ramkrishna - Vivekananda, Samarth Ramdas - Shivaji, Chanakya - Chandragupta, Gandhi -
Vinoba, Buddha - Ashoka. Where, however, the relationship is based on mere
exhibition of funny and frolicsome miracles, it should be construed that a
reprehensible tendency like jugglery is going on between the so-called Guru and
his disciple. Gandhbaba could create small of any flower, Baghbaba used to call
a tiger in his cottage. Samadhibaba remained buried under the ground for a
number of days, Siddhababa fulfilled desires of the supplicants. Several such
folk tales came to mind and I could understand how such people could have been deemed
great merely for exhibitions of jugglery of the level of mesmerism.
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