reminiscences

Around 1904, ShriMaharaj one day called Tatyasaheb Ketkar to his room. ShriBrahmanand Maharaj saw this, and later asked Tatyasaheb what he had been told. Tatyasaheb said,' I have been told to worship Shree Rama in the 'Manaspuja ( Mental Worship ). ShriBrahmanand clarified the point and said,' That means you should wor­ship ShriMaharaj himself. This is his way of speaking; remember, he is identical with Shree Rama.¹

Reminiscences

The intercalary month was in progress, and so a devotee presented ShriMaharaj with a silver bowl, which he kept in a niche. Next day, the barber came to shave him, and ShriMaharaj asked him to use not his usual brass bowl but the silver one in the niche. The barber docilely obeyed. As usual, he kept the bowl in the usual, convenient place, namely, at his right hand, that is, to ShriMaharaj's left. The poor man's mind naturally dwelt on the silver bowl with a covetous feeling, which ShriMaharaj easily divined. When the shaving ended, ShriMaharaj picked up the bowl, which stood on his left, with the nearest, that is, left hand, and immediately handed it over to the barber, with the words,' Take this as yours.' This was watched by a learned pundit who was standing there, and he raised the academic objection that a grant with the left hand is ultra vires. ShriMaharaj said,' It may be so, but I did it lest, during the brief time of transferring the bowl to the right hand,my mind yielded to covetousness and changed the action.'

Invitation from Gondavale Samsthan for Sadguru's Aradhana

ಶ್ರೀ ಸದ್ಗುರು ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚೈತನ್ಯ ಮಹಾರಾಜ ಗೊಂದವಲೇಕರ  ಸಂಸ್ಥಾನ, 

ಗೊಂದವಲೇ  ಬು|| ತಾ.ಮಾನ, ಜಿ.ಸಾತಾರಾ, ಪಿನ್.415540

ರವರಿಂದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರಿಗಾಗಿ ಶ್ರೀ ಮಹಾರಾಜರ ಆರಾಧನಾ ಆಹ್ವಾನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ.

22-12-2010 ರಿಂದ 30-12-2010 ರವರೆಗೆ .

Reminiscences

Once the manager of a match-manufacturing factory saw ShriMaharaj. In the course of conversation, he asked, ' Is it absolutely necessay to have aSadguru ?' ShriMaharaj replied, ' You need a special quality of wood to make matches from. You then treat it in a particular way. Then you split it to a particular size and impregnate the pieces in a particular solution. In a similar manner, one must first observe a certain discipline to train the mind, and saturate it with devoutness. You then provide a particular inflam­mable tip to the matches. Even that, however, needs a roughened surface against which it has to be 'struck'. Your supervision to ensure all this is necessary. In a similar manner a Sadguru's direction and supervision are neces­sary in the spiritual quest.¹

Reminiscences

"In lives of many saints, we come across instances of their having brought dead bodies back to life; but you say. that saints do not interfere with the rules of destiny. Where is the consistency in this ?" When someone asked this ques­tion, ShriMaharaj replied, "It is of course true that saints do not interfere with the set progression of destiny. But one sees in everyday life that when an employee is in need, the employer gives him an advance from future earnings; a loan can also be given from the provident fund; one can also obtain a loan on term deposits. Similarly, under cer­tain special circumstances saints give as an advance a part of one's life in the next birth. They make use of this spe­cial power only if they see that that soul's spiritual well -being will be advanced only if this is done at that particu­lar time, not otherwise. Such situations arise rarely, and therefore such incidents are also rare."

"Yet, despite the task of turning a soul towards God by draining out the poison of his love of worldly things being more difficult than that of raising a dead body, the saints are tenaciously and incessantly engaged in it."

Reminiscences

ShriMaharaj once said, "Two main things terrify man: poverty and death. Take the case of poverty. One who

chooses to belong to my fold by leaving all his concerns and fears in my lap. I take on myself to provide him with at least a few morsels of food, albeit course, for his belly. Speaking about death, my guru has taught me perfectly well how to make his final moment fulfilling, who chants nama as per my advice, and I will not fail in that.'

Reminiscences

On the way to Kashi, ShriMaharaj stayed at Harda, for several days. During that time, a person doing the work of trapping parrots and selling them came to ShriMaharaj with a parrot, and praising it for its smartness, he urged ShriMaharaj to buy it. At his insistence, ShriMaharaj bought it. When handing over the parrot to the priest he said, "Hang up the cage in front of Rama and teach it only to say 'Shriram, Shriram." Accordingly, the priest got the parrot trained, and it used to utter nama almost uninter­ruptedly. Thus ShriMaharaj accomplished the well-being of that soul.