Bhagavan in Guru Purnima-2012, Kolkata

A letter by Swami Probuddhananda.

Dear ..............,
Thanks for your letter. I hope that you will find exactly what you are searching for. To come to your letter point wise, let me explain you a bit so that it might be easy for you to contemplate about the unseen world and the method of approaching this.
Bhagavan is our spiritual Master. A spiritual master is a person who has not only had reached that state of enlightenment but also knows the way how to guide a person to that state. He is not a person, a Master means the knowledge which manifests through Him. So, when you see people devoted towards Bhagavan or any other spiritual personality, you have to know that, they are actually devoted to the knowledge which comes out of a person through the medium called love. This knowledge makes the illusory faculty of our mind to weaken and thus gradually we move towards the supreme knowledge. So, don't be afraid my friend that you have to devote yourself to a person who will drive you according to His/her will, rather if He is a proper Master, His words will open your heart and enable you to see the truth which is there within you for ages. So, a spiritual Master is a must for enlightenment or to realize the truth, because we cannot even comprehend which is beyond comprehension, but one who had traveled upto that limits does. A Master is but impersonal knowledge and love personified.
If you see the life of Swami Vivekananda, you will see that all knowledge he had was from His Master, Thakur Shri Ramakrishna which was transmitted to Him through a state called Samadhi, a state of union with God or the Self.
Now, what is truth? Truth is the actual identity of yours. Who are you? We associate ourselves with the body, the mind, the ego and the outer world, but in reality, we have no connection with those. We are free from all, we are the ever illuminated knowledge, which only is the source of infinite bliss, peace and divine love. We have to know this identity or the real nature of ours and then shall we become enlightened. Enlightenment or realization of truth is in knowing ourselves in reality, not an assumption or guess, but a certain realization,confirmed knowledge which always stays within our heart even if we are fully engaged into all sorts of worldly activities. Though we are engaged in these worldly activities, a simultaneous knowledge flows through us that we are always unattached from all bindings, that we are the Soul, not the body or the ego. This is a very clear realization my friend and is the source of all heavenly qualities and love.
I have reached that state where I felt myself fully separated from the body, mind, ego and the world and felt oneness with the Self or Soul with the divine mercy of Bhagavan. For this there are steps by which one can gradually approach the truth which is within Him. I can tell you if you like. Hope this letter will make you feel better and strengthen your idea that you are actually in a right path, just that, a Master is needed to show you the proper way to your Self.
With love and best wishes, Swamiji

Sarada Chatterjee(Kolkata) writes,

The "mind" is the instrument that supports your personality with thoughts, and those thoughts are the instruments that will forever prevent "peace of mind";..... In fact, there is no such thing as "peace of mind." There is only peace if freed of the "mind."

Jay Bhagavan

What is fear?

Fear is a black cat, hiding in the leafy bushes at night. When it startles, it jumps up, rustling the leaves and shattering the silence, causing a wandering soul to cry out, just as it slinks back into another shadowy crevice with a hundred other cats.

Why not have mercy on that poor cat? Say, “Come here, kitty!” Give her a morsel of tuna wrapped in love, or dime of catnip in a bowl of joy. Put a pink polka dotted bow around her neck, and call her Hope.

She’ll go tell all the other cats about your generosity. They won’t be so startled when you walk by their hideouts in the night. Rather, they’ll come falling to the ground before you, bellies up, and purring in your open hands.

Narayana's Experience with the mahamantra

Dear Friends,
Today we received a letter from Narayana (Xavier Vidal Bueno), a devotee of Bhagavan from Spain. In 2007 he stayed here at Varanasi for some months. Though a naughty and fun loving boy, he has seriously dedicated himself for strict spiritual practice. After reading his letter its real joy to know that the spiritual flower in him is blossoming well. Please read on.....

Hello everybody,

I would like to share the experience I had last night, it was wonderful for me.
Some days ago I decided to do japa (chanting sacred mantra in the mind) at night before going to bed, and last night I was doing so. Normally I enter into a state of half sleep when I am about to finish and then I wake up again and finish the japa; this is because after work I'm very tired and I do the japa liyng on the bed. But yesterday was different, In some point of the japa ( wich I was doing with the full mahamantra ) I started to feel great pleasure and my energy increasing and some parts of my body moving like when you are nervous and tremble. As I felt that I wasn't tired and my concentration was increasing. I decided to folow with the japa for longer than normally; pleasure was increasing as it seemed that I was sinking deeper and deeper in the mahamantra as well as energy and prayers to God would come to my mind every time realizing the Truth of his presence. I could feel the flowing of energy through my limbs and my mind getting clearer as I got deeper and deeper concentration. I started the Japa at 11:30 pm and I finished at last at 3:00 am without any interrumption. This is the first time that I can do such a long japa and when I finished I felt everything was alive.

Thanks God!

Jai Bhagavan!

Hare Krishna!

Narayana

Friday 13th June 2008
Barcelona,Spain

Prayer of Narayan, Barcelona,Spain

Here is a prayer that had come to my mind wile I was going to work today:

My lord, you are the source of the universe along with the three worlds, yo pervade the entire creation,
everything moving and non-moving, alive or not alive, has emanated from you and is created, maintained and dissolved only by you.
How ignorant I am! Because I am enjoying everything in this world, without knowing that all this is nothing but your great maya and is your energy.
I enjoy the taste of food, the nice weather, the breeze, the sweet fragnance of flowers, without being aware that this pleasure only comes from you thus thinking:
This food is very good, or the weather is nice!... thinking it to be independent of you. But all joy comes from you, so I say now, How great thou art!
Please Lord, let me offer unto your lotus feet, every breath I take, every action, every think I enjoy, and don´t let my mind get bewildered by illusion,
let me see You in every being, in everything and thus engage me in your devotional service. Please be merciful to me! Don't let me forget about you while I do my job,
and let my work be as a sacrifice for You, and thus enjoy as I serve You. O Krishna! O Bhagavan! please forgive my lack of memory, I have fallen in tho the jaws of my senses and failed to perceive Your greatness.
I offer my respectful obeisances unto you.

I don`t remember exactly the words I was thinking In that moment, so I wrote what I could remember...

Jai Bhagavan!

Hare Krishna

It's You...

A poem dedicated to Mother Kali.

Cam Trethowan, Melbourne, Australia.

Perpetual seasons,

Grey clouds and white

The other…the quandary

Endless questions

Silence…. a gift,

Ramparts dissolved

Fearlessness poured into this vessel.

Kali stands eyes ablaze

Laughing hysterically into the darkness

Mouth agape

The rapturous void consuming the world.

Risa writes from Greece

Hello Bhaktji, how are you? I am fine, here in Greece. I am not lost, as a matter of fact I think I have found myself more than ever before. Things are going very well, because I see them going very well. I am very conscious of my life and what I am doing, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. In general I am having a great time. I feel GOD closer than ever before. Actually He is one step away from me, one step that I am afraid to take, but I know that soon I will totally surrender. Things from the past no longer bother me, once they have been done, and taken away by our great Guru (I don't know if I have told you that Bhagavanji has come to my dreams and told me this: "your karmas are now gone" and he presented me a new me). Since that day, any connection I had with my past actions has disappeared, and that is a relief. My future, from the other side, is something that also doesn't bother me at all, as long as I can create my present the way I want it. Everything seems done by the hand of God. My present is full of experiences, some good, some bad, but still they leave no mark on me. They are not being judged by me, they only happen. So you see, Bhaktiji, I am very happy. I know Bhagavan is inside me now, and he will never leave me. It is irreversible now. I hope everybody is OK, give my love to all (even though they know they have it).

Risa

My Garden by Maria from Mexico

Sunday was a very special day for me...the gift of Vesak was having a long and deep meditation with the ocean and the earth, feeling the depths of peace...the trees have been showing me how to connect to the earth in sweet stillness, and the birds taught me how to sing from the heart in a subtle but powerful way...and all i could do was thank thank thank...the wind was kind and tender, talking with my skin, remembering me that I am incarnated in this body, sacred temple, and have many things to learn about love, about the true mission of us humans on this planet...i could feel how delicate and fragile my body is, and at the same time I could see that this body and everything around me was just empty on its side....and I could feel the Power of Creation...we just create whatever we need to see to learn our lessons about LOVE...My favorite meditation these days is trying to listen to the secret messages of the wind when it blows and talks to me..about love...i try to taste the hidden symphony of flavors from many dimensions that are in every spoonful i eat, spoon- full of love.... i try to enjoy the infinite layers of vibration a song has...pure sounding love....i feel the multiple notes and colors of the trees i see, of the eyes of the persons i meet...All is full of love...God is in All,and All is God...I am happy and thankful to be able to share with you all, this simple but eternal gift...may we plant more light seeds in our gardens and help others to plant light seeds in their gardens so that everybody would be helping everybody else planting light seeds in their gardens....and one day we could All become just ONE BIG FLOWER of ENDLESS LIGHT...............Aisha

Experiance of Maria from Mexico.

My garden today was craving for water....sometimes is hard to contact with the needs of my seeds and the proper nutrition to make them grow.....so i just surrendered to the feeling trusting that my Higher Self would guide me through the tunnel of confusion and sadness...how can i take care of the seeds of love and true service to the world when i feel little helpless and ignorant?....will my seeds grow wrong or even die?...many questions arise...? how should i deal with this sensations without getting caught in them repressing them or even denying them?...so i prayed....humbly.......and waited...............until a light came in and i realized that the best way was just letting myself go through the clouds of my mind and my emotions, holding on strongly to the witness that watches like an eagle from above......detached from my eagerness of happiness......the happiness i know and experienced deep in my soul.....just let go of it too.....i could feel then that just by ACCEPTING my present situation WITHOUT the need to change it would make everything turn into light again.....it just flowed like a river remembering that the water i needed for my seeds to drink today was already being poured...!!!!!Just letting things pass through me like a living tunnel changed completely the colour of my day.....I contemplated how small i was and i felt happy...cause everyday I need the Lord to take me by His Hand....and every single day i need to remember that if i don't LET BE whatever process of purification is happening to me, in several levels ( even unknown dimensions of my Self), the growth and ripeness of my consciousness could be delayed......so I went to my dance class and danced EVERYTHING I had with me...., and then people would come to me for help and life would smile to me again in simple things that make the Universe Shine Endlessly....i felt ONE with ALL THERE IS......again the lesson was to be present, whatever happens, whatever comes....without judging.......that is the best seed of light for my Garden today....beloved ones I send you my blessings....sat nam

"Toda la felicidad que existe en el mundo viene de querer hacer felices a los demás. Todo el sufrimiento que existe en el mundoviene de querer la felicidad solo para uno mismo." Shantideva

Risa from Greece writes:

Hello my friends,

here I am back to Greece. I just arrived yesterday, and my brother and me went to see a play. It was inspired by the the book of Borjes "Babel". The play talked about how much complicated it is for us to find the truth, by comparing life with a library full of endless books. There were some people who were looking through all the books to find the meaning of life. They lived the story of every book they read, thus realizing all possible experience, but still the books were endless. So the play finished by showing many empty rooms which turned into a big library, which turned into a mind. Going out of the theater, i said to my brother that this play showed me everything i had realized in this trip to India.

The last images of the play remind me my state of mind back in the days when i first met Bhagavanji. He emptied my mind by disconnecting me from my past actions, simply by coming into my dream and saying to me "Your karma's are now gone" and presenting me a new Risa. After that, i realized that i have to keep on working in order not to create new karma's, but back in India it was much easier due to the surrounding. I was spending most of my time at the ashram meditating, chanting and talking to the Swamijis and to the other devotees of Bhagavan.

Now, back to Greece, i already see the difference in me, from the old Risa to the new Risa, the one that came to my dream that day, and i see that yes, it might be difficult to keep on like the way i worked back to Varanasi, but i also realize that my willing to realize God has not left me. It is just that the path is different, but the goal never changes. That play came to remind me to look of all the work I've done back there and not to let go of it, and mix myself again with the illusion.

Wherever we are we can make it easy for us to continue working for realization. If we really like to, Bhagavan will never let us go if we don't let him to. If our desire is true, God will create the right conditions for us to continue with our work. The only thing we have to make sure is to have true love and desire to find Him and he will then find us.

Love to all

Risa

Mariane from France writes about the experience with Bhagavan.......

I met Bhagavan last November 2006 and today looking back at my inner journey since then I can say that this wonderful and powerful Man has planted in me, by his magic presence and touch, the seeds of Inner Peace and Love. During this last year my life has been switching to a new vibration, to a higher level of awareness. Day after day a miracle is unfolding as I watch my tension, anxiety, confusion, struggle slowly going away, disappearing and making space for a fresh look at life, for an opening to a higher dimension that in the presence of Bhagavan I started to feel.
While living near Bhagavan for some months, I was watching Him and at times feeling envious of this mysterious freedom and power that emanate from Him. Today I still cannot figure out that mystery but deep from my heart I feel lots of gratitude and thankfulness to Bhagavan to have woken up my inner light, joy and heart.
I watch this inner transformation that is happening within me and I am delighted to experience love, peace, inner rest and openness to the river of life.
This shift to my well being started to manifest when Bhagavan one day during the convention 2006 came up to me and asked me “do you think of me sometimes” ? I was in a state of shock and wandering what was that about¡ how he dares to ask me that question..... but slowly his words were making their impact in me and I found myself doing my sadhana of remembering Him sometimes during the day and soon I realized that a trusting , loving space was felt within me and a letting go of my control, my armour was melting away. At that point I understood that here is Bhagavan showing me the way to freedom, to the sacred within and that the words of the Guru have a deep meaning and need to be allowed to penetrate oneself even though the mind don t know their meaning, as it has a deeper dimension.
From that time onwards my inner transformation started with all its ups and downs but always, as often as I can, remembering Bhagavan and chanting Hare Krishna, which has revealed to be the tool to stop my mind running all over, and with this inside chanting, somehow a washing of the darkness is happening and a place is created for what is needed in that moment.
My thanks as well to the whole IVS family to have participated in their own way to help me in m y spiritual growth, with their love and care given to me and as I felt supported by all of them.

Today from that inner peace, I greet with very much respect Bhagavan and the whole IVS family.

A Small but Wonderful letter from Our Cute Friend Narayan From Barcelona

Bhagavan is love itself, pure Bliss, and he shows us that we are also that, His love is ours,
our love is His, we are one with Bhagavan because He is everything.
He has shown the truth about us and the world, Love is everywhere and this is our true nature.
Jai Bhagavan!
Narayana

Letter From Pedro:

To all my dear Brothers and Sisters,

This times that we have to live show them selves full of changes, changes that get manifested in different levels of the society and of course inside of each one of us.

If it is known that life consists in this continuous changes is also evident that in the present seems to offer more and a greater diversity of changes in less amount of time. That is why we call these days as a moment of transition.

The transition that is evident is the projection the changes that occurs inside of us. Changes that in most of us had been stimulated by the “Bhagavan phenomena” as a determinant factor. That is why the ones who had the chance to experiment Bhagavan’s grace, have to face a transition period even more drastic that the rest of our society. The Providence not in vane has select us and given with the qualities to overcome this transition process and in this way help like a light house in a sea that it seems to turn every day more tempestuous.

If we are aware of the changes that go on in our environment maybe the distance does not allow us to evidence the changes that go on in Bhagavan’s physical person and the ones who surround Him. This transition shows a tendency to delegate all the functions that He has to the different parts of his surrounding circle. In the same way that the most sensible king or executive manager of a great company would do, He is preparing His retreat to a position in which he don’t need to take any mundane decision and allow him to optimize the energies that resides in him.

In this way he prepares the soil for His inevitable departure of this world avoiding as far as possible the tribulations that because of our human condition develops in every succession cases.

This is the way that the transition process will go on. The change will be to a position where his physical presence affects the less, and by doing this instead of fisurating the bases of IVS will set deep and strong bases to make this society last for the good of humanity. This pillar has been well digged already by Bhagavn’s sadhana and values. This will be the greatest legacy that He will leave not only to the ones who have the blessings of meeting him indeed will be to this whole world.

Bhagavan will not be for ever with us, but His energy is infinite and eternal and the values that characterized Him must be for ever our guide.

So there is a great challenge in our hands. Immortalize Bhagavan. For this wont be enough to keep safety all His words, words that with the time and space could even turn empty if they don’t get materialized in the characters of the ones who meet him. The challenge consists in making our lives according with the values that made Bhagavan the character we meet and becoming Bhagavan. The challenge is way high up. Only the Providence will know if we are able to achieve this goal. But we must work with out attachments to the results, and even after all, goals are not made to be achieved they were made to sing the way, like the polar star, that has never been reached but still has been followed for ages.

During this visit to India I have the chance to experiment the “Bhagavanic’s” qualities in other individuals. One of them shows me the very same way how to transmit the highest knowledge in the must simple way just as Bhagavan use to do. This person was Maharajji, with him I could experience the same feeling while meditating that I thought I could only feel in Bhagavan presence. Also with in the devotees I felt the divine Love that I thought it could be only emanated by Bhagavan himself, as a clear proof that Bhagavan’s Love transcends the physical body of our beloved.

This dissipated all the doubts that got presented with the challenge of becoming Bhagavan. In deed is a fact and is the desire of the Providence that we dream becoming Bhagavan.

This will be the greatest support for this transition period for a society that is facing these turbulent times.

The society that Bhagavan has dreamed has already strong pillars that will allow our Guide passing to a less protagonist place in the spectacle that is getting performed.

Then this society passes to the hands of each one of his devotees. The IVS of these new times must have a cellular design, in which every single component perform his very own roll, just like the cells in the human body does, we must work on our own having always on mind that we depend on the others to perform our divine duty. The Bhagavan stem cell has become an organism all ready. From now on all cells are interdependent and none of them are essential. These qualities assure the longest live of the organization. Centralized institutions have proved to be impractical and easily perverted by the time, even if we talk about the most excels of all institutions they still are conformed by humans with the limitations of that condition.

If the cannons has been well set is up to each one how to implement them depending by his character and the environment that surround him.

Finally the transition will be no other than passing from the psychical Bhagavan to becoming the potentially Bhagavan that resides in each one of us.

So let’s march on, knowing the goal and giving greatest impeccable way of living will do to canalize the turbulent energies of these days so the divine play that has been set will go on.

May the bliss that unites us encourage reaching the divine love until every corner of the earth.

Jay Bhagavan

Hare Krishna

This is a wonderful letter(translated) from Ramsharan(Gulliermo) what he feels about Bhagavan. The letter shows how devoted he is towards Bhagavan

Hare Krishna, Bhagavan is the subtlest vibration in the material world, therefore we perceive as much as our subtle state permits us when we are in front of him. He said almost all the same things in every opportunity on which each one of us has seen him, but now the vibration of Bhagavan makes everything turn out perfectly among the devotees. Everyone among the foreigners showed appropriate and precise behaviour for the situation in which they found themselves. Bhagavan creates this. The foreign devotees made a subtle, expressive and sensitive connection. Devotees who have been practising spirituality for many years have recognised Bhagavan and been inspired to continue finding themselves once again. Every time that we see Him, we are receiving everything. As said by Maharajji, "Bhagavan is God. If you have faith in that, so much the better for you, but even if your faith is not so strong, Bhagavan will always continue to be God". The name is inherent to Bhagavan, just as Bhagavan to the name. He who can measure the infinite existence of God, how it is possible to receive the energy of the all-powerful if we are just small mortals sometimes real, sometimes abstract. As Bhagavan says, let us practise spirituality all the time, not just when we come to the temple to chant, let us practise every moment of the day, always connected with ourselves, aware of our road to clearer consciousness. Now I have begun to realise words that Bhagavan uttered when I met Him three years ago, and now I have begun to realise words that Koji transmitted three years ago, too. As my mind knows that it is itself that plays the games, and although it is merely a player and not the creator of the game, the mind never stops playing, and when I recognise it, it also shows the power of mutating and transforming itself so fast that it once again surrounds me with the coverings of Maya. This time that we have enjoyed the spiritual vibration unique to God cannot be described by mere words, and as Bhagavan said, words are an insult to the supreme silence, but people arrive here hoping for words, so I have to say something. Bhagavan shows us with every action his compassion and the total acceptance of an Ishwarakoti. He manifests in the physical form so that we may have an image that we can easily receive through our senses, he speaks that we may hear him through our senses, he embraces us and shows us affection that we may feel his physical presence and his incarnate form. Although he is all that, he is also completely free in every way, he is the Everything incarnated and also a very simple man, he is the very Bhagavan, and he also likes to take photographs. I have heard many times from various swamijis that it is very difficult to catch and perceive the subtle vibration of Bhagavan. Now that I have been continuing to realise little things, and the information has been being transformed from knowledge to realisation, I have begun to associate the teachings with all these saints that surround us. Now I believe that I can call myself a spiritual aspirant, and now I will be able to begin to live spirituality always, and when I remain quiet, thinking within myself and meditating like Bhagavan himself said just a few days ago. Bhagavan is always giving light to everything and everyone, Bhagavan is the sun in a place that has been dark for many years, Bhagavan is the rope in the darkness. We are just limited existence, and from this limitation we all know that we will not perceive the vibration of the infinite that Bhagavan means. Devotees, come closer to yourselves and do not stop searching for the truth within yourselves, there it resides, and there we must search for it. I love all of you. Hare Krishna Jai Bhagavan

Cristian, Devotee of Bhagavan from Chile writes his experience about Bhagavan's stay at Varanasi

Wed, Feb 27, 2008
Dear Friends,
today Bhagwanji left Varanasi.

we are full in emotion. no many words now. but just wanted to thanks everibody because being with him and seing increse the family everyday is plenty of hope/

Bhagwan is out of our understanding. really. people fell in love to him just in a few hours.. and as result deep joy is coming.

a group of 24 chilean people came to see him. and all them were very touched by his grace- i am not saying this just in words.. - really they were able to see the grandness of His love and feelit inside as never before.

the atmosphere has been full of spirit..

and is amazing to see the change in pleople just after a few days with Him.

i am very gratefull of all this and the opportunity to be with him and all.

Bhagwan health is also good. he has dance a lot. and enjoy every moment with new devotees.

i hope and wish the best for IVS, which is no more than the visible part of this celebration togeter with Bhagwanji.

is a tremendous Power in Him and pure love come to all because of that.

love to all.

Cristian.

#if you see clouds one day in the sky are just clouds, doesnt mean that the sun if not there.