The Saint Of Kamareddy-Swami Hriyananda

I visited a small sleepy town of Kamareddy north of Hyderabad,half way to Nizamabad.

There are no great places to stay there so my hosts had made arrangements in a lodge near the bus stand called Radhakrishna Lodge.

A small trek towards the outskirts of the town is the venerable Swami Hriyananda's Ashram called Chandi Mantralayam. I met the saint and was immediately taken in by His powerful persona. He appears as a simpleton but when I inquired from his shishyas, I realized that he is a doctorate in literature(PhD) and 5 times Master Of Arts in Literature, having been a senior Suptd with the college.

During the course of our satsang I understood the depth of his being.

I had arrived on the last day of the Chandi Homa so it was an auspicious occasion.

He offered me a seat near him and instructed his disciples to take care of me, telling them that the Guru has arrived from Mumbai,which Vajreshwari(my host)continuously corrected to tell him that I had come from Bangalore!!

I witnessed a powerful vibration on entering that place which I brought to His notice. Similar vibrations have been felt by me at Dakshineshwar,Kollur ,Shringeri and Vrindavan.

I was invited to talk to his disciples in the evening of the general satsang.

There after the palki procession took place.

Now for my story- I was asked about the Saint by his disciples on my impressions about him!

I told them that he has an essence of Shri Ramakrishna Parmahansa and his wife is the essence of ShardaMa. I also told them of the essence of Vivekananda around them. They were flabbergasted at my suggestions, since they had never asked the Saint about these things till that fateful day. They wanted to know how I knew about Him! I told them not to push for such things but let them be revealed by themselves.

After sometime the saint walked out of his samadhi and started narrating a story of how he got into this spiritual life. This was the first time they were hearing about it.

He told all of us that Shri Ramakrishna used to come continuously in his dreams and had asked him to start the Chandi Path and Homa but he never wanted to do it.

Then one night Ramakrishnaji rudely awakened him and gave him a resounding slap and ordered him to start that immediately.The whole night he was made to sit and recite the chandi path. Later at dawn he was allowed to sleep.This was over 60 years after Ramakrishnaji's passing away.

When he woke up his life had changed...the Chandi had become his life goal and Shri Ramakrishnaji had left him the legacy of taking the Chandi to the masses.

The Swamiji then told them how the essence of Ramakrishna had made him take to the Chandi.

Today he has established a temple in the name of Chandi with a beautiful statue of Durga in the well of the temple.

His disciples got the proof of the occurence of Ramkrishnaji in their Swami's life.

The swamiji them told them that all saints are One and they all communicate the same one language.There is no need to get surprised at the incident at all.

Later on I came to know how they all had experienced the Chandi's coming in 9 disciples simultaneously.

There are lots of such incidents to make Kamareddy a holy place.

I shall write about it later also in short steps for you to understand it well.

Let me end here and hope you read more about it later on also.

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Hypocrisy

I was talking last week on the way people react to some of the troublesome issues in life by not reacting in the way they are supposed to just because they cannot step on someones toes. To make the other person feel nice we sometimes keep our mouth shut and let the person railroad you.

We become the greatest hypocrites in life by pandering to that person and making him or her feel great. But isn't it a lie?

Why can't we just let it be and give the person the truth about the matter?

Why can't we just download the sad, bad or whatever feelings we have and flush it down once and for all?

Here we are afraid that it may lead to something which we may not be able to face or bear. Maybe it will turn into an ego issue or just another fight on hands.

It is the fear of the unknown that makes us that way.

We have been afraid of it since we were small when our parents have asked us whom do we like better-the mother or the father?

We have always been very diplomatic and said that both of them are dear to us!

We have learnt to be a hypocrites since childhood.

So there is something that we feel about today and still cannot express since we may jeopardize the relationship with the loved ones.

What hypocrites we have turned into,eh?

Just be yourself and express the hidden feelings once to that person and see what happens!

Wow, won't we be taking a great risk???

Life sucks, doesn't it, when you cannot even tell your wife or girlfriend that she needs to apply some deo or go to the gym regularly....or whatever it is that makes you keep your trap shut!!

C'mon man just blurt it out, why are you a coward?

Hey there, I know you won't do it but would suffer just like another martyr....

Long live Gandhiji ,Jesus and King!!!

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The Truth and only the Truth

Yesterdays satsang was a very different issue with a staunch follower of Kriya Yoga who has an able Guru but had no idea how to follow him.

He gave me an idea of the profound knowledge his Guru has and how the Guru spends time for one month in the Himalayas washing off the accumulated karmas that he gathers from his disciples. In that he explained that the place in Himalayas is a secluded village which has all Kriya Yogi's who are very old, even a 275 year old person.

I saw the expression of great reverence to his master and the awe with which he considers this knowledge.

After listening to him for a long time, I asked the satsangi whether he ever questioned his Guru on the veracity or if he has ever visited that place to verify the truth?

I gave him examples of Shri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Vivekananda and how the Guru asked his beloved pupil to question him and never take anything for granted.So it is very much required that you, the reader never take anything for granted or as truth till you verify it for yourself.

Remember that is for the mind to verify and ascertain it and once it accepts the said words or actions of the Guru then to go ahead.

But otherwise never to proceed till you test the theory or teachings and get the proof of the pudding yourself.

Here is how you do that.....

First listen to or read the teachings of the Guru or Granth.

Then mull on it, cogitate on it and let the mind grasp the finer nuances of it.

Then apply the teachings in our life and find out the truth.

Get a perfect experience so that you are absolutely sure what you have got is the truth and only the perfect truth.

Here I shall explain how it can be done by an example.

The teacher says that when you mix Sodium Hydroxide and Hydrochloric Acid you get salt and water. Write the formula. Then see how the two ingredients look like.

Then see how the two are mixed together, let the teacher show you the resultant is salt and water. Next you take them in your own hands and start the experiment and conclude it to know the truth.

Till you do not have the real proof, DO NOT accept any or every teaching.

Get the experience and then you will know for sure that what is being told to you is the ultimate truth.

Uttara Gita

I came across a very beautiful text called Uttara Gita and was surprised to know the contents of it.

Uttara Gita is supposed to be the last of the Gita's of Krishna in which He talks to Arjun about the Supreme Path of Self Realization or knowing Brahman!

In the original Gita there is a passing mention of pranayam and astanga yoga but here in this ms he talks about it in detail.

The talk veers towards the Kundalini chakras and the path of the coiled serpent in the body through the sushumna and the two other ida and pingala nadi's!

The piercing of the chakras and its subsequent result is also discussed.

He talks about the 7 heavens and 7 hells in the body.

Frankly, this being a piece of rare document, it should become a text for the spiritually inclined to move towards their lofty goal of self realization.

The only problem facing the aspirant would be to find a Guru who can guide him through that path of Krishna's teachings towards liberation.

Guru's come rare and have very biased way of teaching, disregarding the other paths and deriding them.

Take the path of a Sufi or a follower of Islam or Christianity or a Sikh also.

No one is wrong but to get a fit into the teachings of Krishna is difficult viz a viz the above other faiths!

To draw a thin line of singularity would be difficult for these biased folks.

So take care and find a Guru who can be unbiased and would adapt to all faiths and beliefs and show the Oneness of All in creation.

Know that everything in this beautiful Universe is His creation so find the One who fits the bill of Singularity of learnings and teachings.

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Who is a Preceptor?

I was happy to get some nice comments on my note, so it prompted me to write on why do we need a preceptor or a Guru and who is that!

Guru means the one who removes the darkness(ignorance) from our life-that is a classical meaning. But for me it turned out to be a strange one.

One fine day, I suddenly found myself spouting strange meanings to ancient spiritual texts which I had never read nor had prior knowledge of their existence. It intrigued me to unravel why and wherefore this knowledge came from. This set me on a spiritual path.Consequently, I knew my preceptor and the source of this strange ken.

Let me give you the perspective about this strange being and ken.

That which we are born with is called ignorance- no idea about God or that esoteric entity which runs this whole ballgame.That knowledge which keeps us very human and attached to all mundane things like money,relationships,studies and all that a normal person strives to get in this life by very mundane methods. In the spiritual realm we call such a person as ignorant. He has a strong ego,ambition,drive to get ahead in life,thinks that this world is created by union of male and female....those whom we meet everyday of our life.

The next is called Gyani or Knowledgeable person. He strives to know about God and His creation by studies and books, et al.He also has ambition,etc, but attributes all to that man in the sky called God.But his knowledge is of a baser kind hence he is called a Gyani.You find them in a few number.

Now comes the third crucial person whom we call as Vigyani or the One who has the most profound Esoteric Knowledge. He knows who the great God is and intimately.He has all the clues about that knowledge and makes no show of it. He acts like a simple human and does not use any of the so-called powers for drawing crowds towards himself. Those who fall into this category are Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa,Shirdi Sai Baba,Kabir,Meerabai,Guru Nanak,Jesus,Buddha,Dattatreya,Shankaracharya and so on.

Now these people can be called SadGuru's since the knowledge which they impart is absolutely pure and stainless and without any ulterior motives.

Guru's are not found but they search you out and take you from there on.

They do not form some weird cults or groups and have a curriculum for studies.They do not offer degrees or certificates and there is no completion of any course.

That which they offer is self effulgent in you and they just lift the veil of ignorance from your divine eyes. They are called preceptors and are divine beings.

We have to strive to find them and if the grace of God is there on us then they find us instead.But we should continue to search for such beautiful beings also.

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Tapaswi Samyami

How does the self look like and does he have any shape,hues or dimensions?

Funny, it cannot be described in words since words are insufficient to say it all.

Can we describe the word Love to another who has never experienced it at all?

Self is all that is to experience by any human being in this birth.

Self does not have shape, sound, body,light,substance or any such thing which can be put up in the tangible world.

It is all powerful, all round, self effulgent, all knowledgeable, self sustaining and does not need any support system for being there.

It does not have any desires, wants, needs and can exist without any objectives or goals.

Nothing sticks to it at all. No emotions to bind it and no body to hold it.

It has no attachments to food,clothing or shelter.

No attachments to any living or dead person or being.

The family ,house, caste, religion, animals, properties, objects have absolutely no meaning to that Self.

It appears distributed but is infact one only.

The self has no boundries, no lives, no hold on anything or nothing can hold it down.

On realizing the Self there are no more goals to get to.

Nothing appeals to you at all. This world becomes an illusion and worthless.

The self is the monarch, the pauper, the common man and also the special one.

It has nowhere to go, nor come. It just there is.

Nothing changes and nothing affects it at all.

The path to reach it is worthless since it has reached itself.

Just the way, you would discard the form of transport after you have reached the destination or goal. The means are not important after you have reached there.

What use is the education, the Guru, the books, the implements,the doership, the studentship or for that matter even the hallowed grounds you have attained it?

But here let me clarify one thing-the means of attaining it is very important.

What are these means that can be used to attain that elusive dream Self?

The body is the most important tool, next comes the 8 tools called the senses, mind, intellect and finally the ego.

You have to use these tools for getting to your goal.

If you do not have a body how will you ever get there so pay respect to that body.

Next the mind is very important tool. We all have to disect and assimilate through this wonderful organ called the Mind. Using the intellect which will be razor sharp and will direct the mind to the right place. Next is the ego which helps us in knowing the false and the truth.Discrimination is the sword by which we cut that ego,mind and reach the goal.

You can only understand it after reaching it.

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Now that seemed a very long time coming to me.Long and tiresome 7 years and I was too tired to acknowledge it.

The first thing that hit me was how could Swami Virajeshwara get it and not me?

I was hoping for some miracle to happen to me and tell me in the ear that you are there.

But then it suddenly came up to me like a sudden impulse which drives us to do unknown activities.

One day I was in deep meditation and I found that I have become a small cell in the whole body and was drifting in the blood stream. I did not have any self drive to extricate myself from that place. I was forced by the flow of blood to just go along and I just went flowing in the blood stream. I did not have a will of my own. Suddenly I saw myself turning up as the body itself and driving this cell further and further.

I saw the whole world floating inside of me. Every tiny cell in the body was a being and the whole universe was compacted in this being.I seemed to grow bigger and bigger and far beyond proportions. The earlier feeling of being a small cell vanished and inplace I was the mightiest of the beings around.

I seemed to direct the entire flow of creation and dissolution in my being.

It was a stupendous experience far beyond human understanding.

I suddenly got off and now I could feel my being floating and visiting places not seen by me ever. It was all so weird for me to know all that.

My dream or that experience ended and I came back to normal.

I had earlier had an out of body experience which taught me to look at my own body and observe every small thing around me.

I was able to commune with the God of Death also during that phase but this was far beyond my own reckoning.I was in deep sleep or meditative state.

Though my Kundalini vibrations were of low intensity earlier, they suddenly increased beyond proportions and I found myself begging for some relief from the constant pain in the back and neck.

My urge to be one with the universe became very intense and I felt swinging wildly from one state to another.

I wanted relief from all these traumas and so I prayed fervently day after day.

I just felt like running away from this material world.

I then decided that by the month of May 2007 I shall run away to the Himalayas.

It was full one year before I would be doing that.

I would sit in the store like a zombie and fight with everyone at any given opportunity.

I was searching for peace within myself and wanting to know who is this wonderful being who is giving me this knowledge and experiences.

I craved for that little peace that I could get from these worldly or out worldly afflictions. The intensity of the need to understand grew on me day after day.

I could not co-relate to anything or anyone during these periods.

I read voraciously and assimilated a lot of information during that period.

I was hoping that some tangible being would be my preceptor, but that was not to be.

I hoped that some open book was lying somewhere from which I was getting all that knowledge but again that was a far cry.

I prayed to all known Gods during that period.

Ma Kali was my Goddess and Saibaba was my kula Guru.

Then suddenly one fine day I was taken to that place which made me sit up.

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Well, here I am writing the last page of my life first.

You may ask why do I have to write the last page first-so let me give you the reason for doing such a weird turn.

I was asked if I am There and I said Yes,I am There! So the next question was how do you know you are there and then it occurred to me that I have to try telling you how I am there and believe me it is going to be a very tough task for me to get to explain that.

But I am going to try and hope that I am able to give you the right perspective and answers.

On my way I encountered a lot of situations which made me wonder if I will ever reach the desired goal or destination in this life or am I to wait for a few more?

I arrived at the destination few years ago and knew then how difficult it was before I finally made it.

It suddenly occurred to me one fine day that all that I was searching for is there within me and I have been searching like a mad man all my life for that elusive thing called Self Realization!

The term itself is self explanatory but how do I make you understand all that?

Self is that which we really are and Realization is knowing or understanding that!

If it were to be so simple then I would be the king but I am not so here I go again trying hard to make you understand all that I understood suddenly!!!

First the revelations which came to me are responsible for this great effulgence!

Knowing that I am there and making someone else know that is difficult.

How would I explain the taste of sugar to someone who has never seen nor tasted it before? It is as difficult as that.

I realized that all that exists outside of me is not outside at all but inside of me.

When we look at objects which seem different are no longer different but I am one with them.They exist in me only.

I own everything here and there too. I can only perceive them outside of me due to an an aberration only. This is called Maya. She makes us think that all objects are outside of me and they have separate life of their own.

But once I am there I know that all objects that appear outside are unreal and transitory. They change but I am that which does not change at all. So I am permanent. So who is this-I am?

I am that which has everything within me and nothing is outside of me.

Let me take this example of Suresh Rao which looks so much real but all the cells are dying and changing so fast that what I see just now covering me are not there the next moment. What is it that holds me intact then? Maya!!

No one can come and give me a qualification or a certificate that I am there!

I just have to know that and go on from there.

I have to be candid telling you that I had never read any holy or spiritual text in my life and suddenly one fine day I was able to expound on them in a way I could never fathom. Even those who heard me were amazed at this ability of mine.

I do not know how it suddenly came to me.

I could get some strange answers from some unforeseen places and then those instances became a sort of deja vu for me. I really was perplexed and never could make head nor tail of that.

Just by the touch of my hand the person in front of me could go in a trance state and how she or he could do that was beyond my ken!

I could commune with some strange deities and ask them for some answers and lo they were there for me.

There was no knowledge beyond my understanding in the spiritual.

There were no questions arising but there were all answers for the ones which were put to me.

My entire life revolved around the strange world of the spiritual.

I got up thinking about the spiritual, read all day long on that,expounded all day long on that, never had thoughts about any other thing except that,prayed most of the time, wanted to visit holy places, the urge to be one with that Supreme is tremendous, working for that One is very high, writing books on that One, teaching about Him, Singing songs about Him, bhajans, kirtans and reading so much that my day was insufficiant for that act.

The charge of that sweet Goddess within me was driving me nuts. Kundalini surges through me all the time.I was not aware of it at all but when it became too difficult for me I reached out to doctors too and they couldn't explain. Finally Dipti could tell me that it was the Kundalini shakti and it was going beserk. I couldn't control that energy flow at all in the beginning, but now I could.

My inner being constantly spoke of just going away from all this material world.

I walked out three times and all those times I was drawn back by the words of my Guru and some strange urges.

I have not yet finished here but I have a lot more to tell but since I am tired now I shall stop but I will tell you more about it.