1959
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January 5th 1959 My dear beloved and revered Gurudev Please accept my humble pranams. ..... Restlessness
All that I can now say is that I am restless and looking forward to that realisation of peace and presence of the Master and absorption in the Ultimate and the Master. With loving pranams, Yours, KCV Undated My Work as a Preceptor for a Year (1957-58) My dear Gurudev: It was on the 22nd December '57 that the Gurudev charged me with this work of being a preceptor. It was however only on the next day that I did it at the Master's wish and in it I felt almost nothing. I was advised to do it in a particular way, that is, to feel that the power of the Master was descending into my heart and from thence it moved to the heart of the abhyasi who was asked to meditate on his heart. To observe my heart and see what is reflected of the abhyasi in it, was the second direction. Thirdly I was also advised not to concentrate or meditate on my own for my own sake for that would arrest the flow towards the abhyasi for whose sake alone the transmission takes place. Indeed I found that in every case, whether I concentrated or meditated on my own and was seeking descent of the Master's grace and super-consciousness into myself or into the abhyasi the Master's grace was steadily moving into the heart of the abhyasi. So far as my experience goes I felt more as transmitting not when I wished to transmit Master's power, but when I was receiving the Master's power which automatically went to the heart of the abhyasi. I felt throughout that Master was intent on my training myself as it was one way of keeping me inwardly connected with Himself I was a channel of His power and got purified by it. It was, a kind of self-offering to the Master for His purposes - which has been to lift me to the highest state or the Ultimate. There were times when I felt extremely exalted during the transmission.
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Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 27th January, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Moving into Central region
Miracles you have got but there is no awareness. I wanted to offer prasadam but the difficulty is how to send it to you. The time is now coming for the awakening of kundalini, which will create right thinking, though you have a good deal of it already. I will not follow the injunction of Ouspensky regarding kundalini, if its tendency for awakening develops. With best wishes to you, love to children and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra Thirst for Merging
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2nd February 1959 My dear Revered and beloved Gurudev, Please accept my humble pranams. It gave me the greatest pleasure to learn that Master has passed the critical period and I am deeply grateful to Mahatma gurudev of Fatehgarh for the loving congratulations passed on to me by thee. I am also moved by the Grace of the Guru for leading me to the central region. On 25-12-58 I felt myself absorbed in the Divine. When I referred to my diary I found that I was increasing my irritability and felt almost a kind of so called deterioration from shanti. This I observed on the 28th December. On January 5th, I did not note anything in my diary. I was absorbed in the events that transpired from 1st to 4th about which I wrote to you. Or 17th January, I felt that the blood of the Master began flowing through me and bringing up new energy. It was centred at the heart. I was led to speculate about the Master's constant statement that he would give his very blood if the need came up. I was wondering also about the words of Christ that a disciple would begin to live on His Master, symbolised externally as bread and wine which are in mystic consciousness but flesh and blood. The experience of this led as I observed to irritability of the 18th January about trifling things. I had almost come to feel that all events are as a matter of fact not referable to the immediate events around me but to some spiritual activity going on elsewhere. So I was feeling that something is going on elsewhere, right or wrong. On 25th January 1959 during satsangh (6:30 7:20 A.M.) I observed that certain figures (rather grayish) left the bodies of the abhyasis. It was rather funny I thought that they were the samskaras of the abhyasis leaving their systems ever' like Kalipurusa who left Nala. I pray for the Master's long life and presence amongst us. You have written about prasadam to be given to me. I know it could be done by thee. You can surely take your own time for the diaries. With loving pranams, Yours, KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 9/18th February, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... I have also gone through your annual report, and am quite satisfied with your work. I hope it will be more efficacious, onwards, since the calibre of the preceptors, too, counts much. I tell you one of the most striking features of Sahaj Marg. Under the system, the very first sitting sows the seed of liberation within the abhyasi. Every preceptor of our Mission does the same, though unknowingly. To tell you confidentially, if an abhyasi has unflinching faith and practises, even a little if not much, with devotion, he will ultimately gain liberation, because the seed which has already been sown, develops by faith and devotion. My Varadachari, to tell you frankly, all that I got for my spiritual state, whatever it might be, was got very cheap, so I want to distribute it for no price at all. You will laugh at me if I say that I used to meditate only for 4 or 5 minutes every day, but there was one thing, by His grace I remained absorbed all the while in the sacred thought of the Master. He is the only God to me. I attach no importance to liberation. Rather I am one who can even sacrifice it at the altar of love for the Master. With reference to your sentence, "so far as my experience goes... to the abhyasi", I may say that I feel I must see the day when you are not able to know even who transmits - you or the Master. Nor even you feel giving suggestions for the flow of Divine Current tended towards the required moulding of the abhyasi. Your readings about all the abhyasis is correct. Shri Vedantam is indeed improving speedily and devotion is developing in him unconsciously. Persons who are attending your satsangh and have attended regularly for some time at least get a start of ajapa. It is often the case with certain people that they leave off after practising for some time. It is not a new thing with you but it has also been with me as well as with my Rev. Master. There can be several reasons for that. Firstly, they have no real thirst but start the practice merely for the satisfaction of their curiosity. Secondly, sometimes the force of samskara becomes so strong that they get entangled in it. But this happens with a bit advanced abhyasis of a few years standing. There may sometimes be a few who join satsangh with a desire to secure help for the fulfillment of their desired purpose. A man having real thirst cannot leave the real method, when he has access to it once. Sometimes it also happens that if a man is overdosed, he avoids satsangh till the thing gets digested. ...... I tell you one very important thing, that the image of a saint can be taken to heart only if his indriyas have come to their original state, and the saint is completely merged (laya) in Brahm. If he is short of the mark, the disciple, taking up his image will also be short of the mark ..... Now, Doctor! What do you say now about your reading of which you complained so often. I do not find even 1% error in your reading. Your reading of yourself, on about 17th January, is also correct so far as blood is concerned. During the period, I was trying to give your indriyas a fresh energy of the original form, which I had stated in my last letter as taking out weight of samskara. At 8:30 P.M. on 22nd January I noted down on my writing pad that at 8:20 P.M. I felt unsettled and confused. My thought at once ran to you and convinced me that you were in trouble at the time. This condition lasted for about 10 minutes after which I was naturally diverted to the depth of my condition. Will you please inform me if you are alright now. The removing of the weight of samskara, in which" I was a good deal successful, resulted in bhoga, though its intensity was greatly reduced so that as one might say that in place of a dagger you might have had only a needle to face with. January 25 (satsangh) - they were no doubt the samskaras of abhyasis which had left their system. January 27 - That which happened on December 25, led you to believe at different times that you had been shot to the centre by the benign hand of the Master. With best wishes to you, love to children and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 18th February, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ...... I forgot to write to you previously that in the first week of January, I saw in a dream that I was at Tirupati and was dining with you in separate dishes. There were a few toys placed near your dish. As the dream was seen soon after your entry into the Central region so it must have some meaning. For this reason I write it to you. As far as I remember you were taking sweet rice at that time. That means you had got the real food, but taking into account the infiniteness of God, you may well be presumed to be yet playing with the toys like a child. That is a good lesson for us all. With best wishes to you, love to children and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
4th March 1959 My dear Revered Gurudev, ..... The dream you have written about on February 18, is really suggestive. I was constantly thinking that God and Master ought to be my food and by that food alone I must grow. No wonder that Master saw me taking sweet rice. However Master, let me inform you nowadays I am unable to sit up as such but bow down to Thee all the time and praying for absorption and experience of my state free from the mental fluctuations. With prayerfulness and love for thee, I am yours, KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated l0th March, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ...... Ajna ,Sahasrara and perfect Negation
"Ham wahan hain jahan se ham ko bhi kuch hamari khabar nahi ati" (We are wherefrom we do not get any tidings of our own self even.) When we slide down a little for the purpose of work, we feel our own fragrance (the Divine one) in every particle. Unless a momentary glimpse of that stage is witnessed it is very difficult to understand the condition. Think a little over it - whether it is so or not? After dictating the above letter I received yours of 4th instant which I will reply later on. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 23rd March, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... At your present stage of progress it is not essential for an abhyasi to practise meditation, but since I want that the Central region may remain continually active for some time, I recommend meditation still, though as you have yourself written that the Central region is in action. | |
23rd March 1959 My dear Revered Gurudev ..... Experience
I pray that I may enter into this state more fully, and the manas that interposes even now will cease its activity more and more, and I shall be super-consciously with the Master without break and with awareness of the Ultimate or Godhead and Master. I believe that Thy health is all right as also that of Brother Ishwar Sahaiji's. With loving pranams, I am yours, KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 10th April, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Bliss in not the end
State of Not Bliss
Higher State of Manas
If one observes closely the effect of my transmission, he will find but a little only of the charming effect of bliss, because I want to insert the very essence of God-realisation, not minding whether it is pleasing to them or not. Sometimes, of course, I do give a little dose of light bliss so that an abhyasi may not feel boring. ..... Yours, Ram Chandra Commentary on Diary ..... Some experiences of Pranahuti
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shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 15th April, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... ..... As for your feeling of flood of His Grace at times while detachment from it at other times, I may say that as your present state warrants detachment at time means that you are absorbed in Him. For myself I can say that I do not feel the grace at all, though It is always there. I feel it only when I take up duality for some good reason and that is mostly when I feel something tending to descend from the Divine. It is a peculiar state for which I do not find words to express. With best wishes to you, love to children and respect to Appaji. Yours I. Sahai for Ram Chandra | |
Vijayawada Camp, Dated 15th June, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... The work relating to yourself, which I had started at Tirupati is now being done by the Divine Itself and you must be feeling it if you study closely. It is indeed something very great and which when completed may entitle me to my dakshina according to our ancient culture. ..... With best wishes, love to children, and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 4th July, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Living Dead Turiyatita
With best wishes, love to children, and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 24th June, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... I meditated on your form for about 3 or 4 days and I felt soothing. I tell you reason for doing so. The silent force was marking within you with enormous speed and I wanted to reduce it. 'Since I cannot catch the Divine Hand I took part in it with the result that the velocity decreased and the benefit remained the same. I am happy to note that you are greatly interested in the work of the Master and the Mission, please be sure that you will enrich the Mission with teachings, writings and speeches. I have strong hope that by His grace you will not suffer any obstruction. I expect that God will give you more than what you can conceive of. A few day ago I examined your kundalini and I found that it is taking turn towards its awakening and the work started which you already felt, but there is some Heavier light still which when removed it will come to its full awakening. Love to children. Respect to Appaji. With best wishes, Yours, Ram Chandra | |
9th July 1959 My dear revered and beloved Gurudev, ..... Divine Flow
Conviction
Cleaning Its Importance
..... Yours, KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 18th July, 1959 My dear brother, Sankalpa
When the energy deepens it gives a fine blue colour. Your feeling that you are charged with power is correct and the Supreme has really taken charge of you. I feel that one of the courses of nature is over and another has started. Before the second process was started you must have felt the state of poise. This time the work started from the lower region near about kundalini. I am simply watching and doing nothing. Your lower centres are mostly cleaned, if there is anything it is very little which will be seen after. I also want that Tirupati may rise to spread spiritually throughout. For that you should try when power is given to you by God. To tell you the truth the mentality can be changed over a night. If I say that it can be changed in a second's time then that will be an egoistic version. When God gives authority for a certain work He does not meddle with the affairs and that is the authority enjoyed by the Special personality. Now the question arises as to why he does not complete the work instantly when it is so badly needed. It is a mystery which can be verbally told. There is a general law that when God sends out such a personality for the change he departs as soon as his work is over. It is quite possible that he may be having some other spiritual work for which his presence in material form may be essential. I am sure that he has finished his work just as Lord Krishna did before the actual incident of Mahabharat took place. But it has not been brought in full swing owing to certain reasons. The things are coming slowly down. In every heart you will find his will working for the spiritual awakening. Doctor, I appreciate the abhyasis of the Mission for their desire to progress soon and I also want the same. But the difficulty is that I cannot touch the higher centres unless they are needed. When Shri Raghavendra Rao came to Bellary I was so happy to see him that I could not check myself to give him still higher approach. I gave him a sitting and made him cross six points with all their yatra. When I wanted to proceed further my Master stopped me. The result is that he has high pressure and tension. Now I am busy in removing the tension and the pressure and the further work is stopped. By His grace I succeeded in reducing it but it is still there. I am thinking and thinking how to save the abhyasis from such pressure while giving high approaches in the shortest time but I could not arrive at a proper result. Chit Lake of Master
Respect to Appaji and love to children. With best wishes, Yours, Ram Chandra | |
July 17th 1959 My dear revered and beloved Gurudev, ..... Restlessness for mergence
I pray again that I may break through the duality at a very early date and arrive at the heart of Reality-consciousness or Reality, simply so that this restlessness and doubt and so on may vanish at once and once for all. Let the Master take me into Himself utterly so that my problems will be solved once for all. I am at present in a very peculiar state of restlessness, and old things arise to disturb me. I thought that all these would pass and never recur again. Why do they recur if I have indeed passed all these circles and the world has been left far behind? This is a crucial problem. ..... I am yours with all loving pranams, KCV | |
24th July 1959 My dear Revered and Beloved Gurudev, ..... Queries
Chit Lake-Observations
The area in all at the beginning appeared to be just a wave-filled area. It was without any dots or specks though the whole thing was light and shade. That was on the 22nd. On the 23rd again in a sitting I began to observe by transmitting firmly at the region. (Of course ABS did not experience anything peculiar and particular.) But I saw that the lake had reddish lines. But it was all in a state of vibratory movement. I slowed down the process and found that it may be considered that these lines are but the points in continuous rotation giving the impression of lines. I believe the points in thy case were brilliant rubies rather than dark or black specks. And obviously the chit was in such a placid condition that it was possible for me to see them to be an enumerable number rather than an innumerable one. Anyhow I should very much like to have thy reading. I shall try again with others. I could not succeed in the case of Shri Somesvara Sarrna. Obviously they have to be cleaned before the observation can take place. ..... In the meanwhile please lead me to the state of Non-duality which alone I believe will make me altogether with Thee always and in every sense. With loving pranams, yours as body, KCV Chit Lake-Observations
Sahaja Samadhi
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Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 26th July, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Ashram
It will be the centre of all activities of the Mission's branch. It will be a fit place for all functions celebrated locally. The associates coming to you from other places can stay there so long as they like and wishing so may settle permanently for spiritual pursuit. It is not necessary to have weekly satsangh there, as it might be very inconvenient, to most of the satsanghis. You can have it at your own house as usual. Besides this, since the place has been charged, its very environment will fill those who visit the place with Divine impulse leading to their spiritual advancement by constant association. This may not be believed at my words alone, but may be practically experienced by anyone who is sensitive enough to realise it. We have been inspired for the work by the pious sankalpa (building the ashram) for no selfish purpose of our own hence the final success is but absolutely certain. ..... I think you must have received my previous letter in which I had written that this time the Divine work had started from the lower region near about the kundalini. It is quite possible you might be feeling a slight aggravation of the lower vrittis. Let this, the Nature's second course, be over After which I shall think over again. Duality is not in you but the thought of it is persistent. When you think of me externally the continuity of thought is broken and subsequently it is dissolved in you. Is it a fact? Experience of perspiration
With best wishes to you and love to children and respects to Appaji. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Tirupati 2nd August, 1959 My dear Revered and Beloved Gurudev, I am feeling sometimes that I have reached Master's grace fully. At other times there is a slight separation from thee. However it is clear that Master has been pleased with my humble self and will grant me fuller union in all planes of existence here and elsewhere. Satsangh Experience
With profound loving pranams and self-offering, I am yours, KCV | |
August 10th / 11th 1959 My dear revered Gurudev, ..... I pray again and again that I may be constantly in Thee and Thou in me in the super-conscious condition and ordinary condition. Several times I am saying that I am in the sahaja condition, but feel a little concerned after I make that statement. Is it not funny? With humble loving pranams. Yours, KCV | |
Shahiahanpur, U.P. Dated 30th August, 1959 ..... Central region
Chit Lake
Transmission
..... With best wishes, Yours Ram Chandra | |
September 7th 1959 My dear Revered and beloved Gurudev, Aspiration
With loving pranams. Yours KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 10th September, 1959 My dear Varadachari, Restlessness
..... My respects to Appaji and love to children. With best wishes. Yours, Ram Chandra Copy of letter to Mr. N. Kumaraswami | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 14th September, 1959 My dear Varadachari, Inner Silence
Love to children and respects to Appaji, With best wishes. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 17th September, 1959 My dear Varadachari, Preceptors
My respects to Appaji and love to children. With best wishes. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. 20th September 1959 My dear revered and beloved Gurudev, The work here is keeping pace though no new abhyasis have come forward to take up this training. The reasons may be twofold: that the change wrought in our abhyasis has not been radical enough or the preceptor is not yet up to the mark capable of attracting more to the system or mission. I am conscious of this responsibility and that makes me many times restless to realise fully in the hope that it may be such an irresistible attraction to others - the spiritual force being magnetic in the highest degree. Of course there is the third point that the men, should deserve to reach the highest or aspire for it seriously. This is God's work and His work alone. Inner Silence
Master, I am really in deep anxiety about the Ultimate realisation and I pray that I may be blessed in full measure. I feel myself thoroughly charged sometimes and then I am able to do all the transmission, sometimes the other condition of being nothing prevails and all my superficial thoughts scamper in. With pranams and love, Yours, KCV | |
Shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 4th October, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Spreading of Mission
Regarding your third point you have yourself beautifully replied but how the grace of God will move towards the irresistible attraction of our fellow beings is the question. Your very thought in the depth of the being will work to bring His grace, because it is the pious thought corroborative to the will of the Almighty. Now I come to you wherefrom I never depart. If you study yourself you will feel in you the subtlest changes every day and it is very difficult to convert them into words. You want to cross the rings of light which so I sincerely wish to have the ultimate realisation. Really speaking I have not transmitted you since I left you at Madras but my watchful eye is always there. You have got such a tremendous force within you that if bondages are removed nobody can bear the power if it is transmitted for a second only. What I want is the dried up force, i.e., forceless force as I feel in myself. As you will proceed on towards negation you will feel yourself liquidated so to say. At times you come in that state to a greater degree but in every case the condition is there growing. Realisation
My feeling is that the Divine is itself pulling you towards the Ultimate and the capacity is being developed. If I exercise myself for the sake of crossing the rings it will not be proper at this stage. What I do is that my thought is always there for the uplift. This will help you greatly in your pursuit and will create the favourable circumstances. If I take you by the force of the Master instantly brain nerves may shatter but I assure you that you will get at them, My prayer is always with you. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Tirupati October 8th 1959 My dear revered Gurudev, ..... Necessity to admit only sadhakas
Non Prejudicial attitude-a must
I am not anxious for power or control but for the most important thing namely improvement of the spiritual condition of the abhyasis so that our Mission will have some persons to speak with experience about the method we are following. My own condition has been very peculiar. I must confess that I felt even that no progress has been made at all and this made me feel very much but that I am constantly thinking of the Master for the highest approach. Without it I feel wretched. I do not know what will happen with it - death? Death? Nothingness? Any way I have surrendered to the Master and He knows. Yours with loving pranams. KCV | |
October 19th 1959 My dear revered and beloved Gurudev, I am equally grateful for the kind remarks you have made about my views. I have only done that out of a sense of duty. I am unaffected by whatever is said about me. Regarding myself, I have nothing to present or report. It is truly dreary and indeed I am losing all hope and all bliss. It may be called an act of ingratitude to say that this is a very unsatisfactory state. As you have said in the Commandments one has to take all as His gift. In the outer world I have been treated most badly, superseded and so on, though I have earned applause elsewhere. I feel that God has selected me specially for ill-treatment and so on, which of course you wish me to take as gifts from my beloved Godhead. In the inner world I have now come across a state that is verily like a T.B. patient, helpless -- ..... Master I do not know what I shall be. I have left myself in the hands of the Master. Whether I should be absolutely incapable of slightest movement with out the will of the Master or anything else, is to be decided by the Master. Yours with loving pranams. KCV | |
shahjahanpur, U.P. Dated 25th October, 1959 My dear Varadachari, ..... Check in the Central Region
Forceless Force
Clarification
I perfectly agree with your opinion that spiritual training is more important than the construction of Ashram which is only for the convenience of others and a source of publicity. Love to children and respects to Appaji. With best wishes. Yours, Ram Chandra | |
Tirupati 8th November 1959 My beloved and revered Gurudev, ..... This morning I got another information. That there has been no improvement for the past two years of an abhyasi; this information I got from Shri Hanumantha Rao the old gentleman of 80 yrs. I said that if an abhyasi is not earnest about reaching the highest and has not faith how could such a one ever rise. When he said that he was feeling that the atmosphere of my room is not so very intense as previously, I told him that it is likely he has lost his sensitivity or it is due to the higher tension of the room which he could not discern, or still that the Master for the purpose of soothening the transmission of my humble self has produced softness rather than intensity, which is higher and more potent as transmissive power than before being forceless force. ..... Other abhyasis are feeling the present day transmissions very very elevating. One and all feel that they are improving and I find their love for the Master is growing by leaps and bounds. I myself Master, felt that Thou hast poured thyself in me all the time and without interruption. What more can I say except that I do not know what I can do except to lose myself in thee. Anyhow when anybody feels that the Master's judgement is wrong and wishes to increase his own ego, there is hardly any ground for cure. ..... ..... Yours as body KCV | |
Hyderabad Dated 25th November, 1959 Dear brother, If you observe minutely you will find day to day changes, subtle they may however be whay you eagerly wish for, is my earnest desire too, and you are having it step by step. You like to be freed from the endless circle of rebirth. I assure you that you are destined to be so. Not only this but you shall also be able to liberate others by His grace. The method may be dangerous but you have power and courage to break the limitations instantly. Ingratitude
Please accept pranam from I.Sahai and R.Rao. My respects to Appaji and love to Children With best wishes yours Ram Chandra | |
Shahjahanpur U.P. Dated 29th December, 1959 My dear Varadachari, Received your affectionate letter of 19th December, 1959 at Allahabad. ..... ..... I am really so much captured by the high devotion of all the members of your family that I feel myself mortgaged. I am glad to say that I feel you to be in a peculiar state, as if everything has been taken away from you and I am sure that in about a month's time you will realise that it has brought you to something still deeper. |