For weeks Brahman was asked, amid a profusion of tears, to reveal the Truth. Repeatedly He was implored to answer the meaning of life, creation, and this useless, empty human existence. Above all, He was begged for the Truth that would destroy the falsehood that the religious regimes had deluded him and the rest of humanity. What was desired was the Absolute Truth of the Absolute Creator, not the conflicting gods of various organized religions. Any god that could not explain and account for the other Messengers was not God. Any yahweh that only cared for his kind was not Yahweh. Any allah that had only one messenger was not Allah. Any prabhu that was found only in a single scripture was not Prabhu. 

The Supreme Creator had to be the Lord of all Messengers and Prophets that came on Earth. His Truth had to be found in all Scriptures that humans possessed. His Reality had to be Absolute, Irrefutable, and All Compassing. Then, and only then, will He be acknowledged as GOD THE ALMIGHTY.

The answer did not take too long. 

On the night of September 28, 1993, Kash’s father was sitting all alone, completely drunk as usual, and somehow listening to the relaxing music of Kitaro, a New Age music of harmony with Nature and spiritual healing that soothed the nerves, reflecting and complementing the stillness of the autumn night. His children were fast asleep and wife still at work.

Nothing stirred the silent atmosphere. He was peace with himself and Earth.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a thunderous voice bellowed, "JOIN SHRI MATAJI." It was a thunderclap that jerked him out of the serene stupor into a shocked daze. He whirled around in disbelieve but there was no one around. The intensity and clarity of this Mighty Call vibrated every nerve and fiber his body. Where did this Majestic Voice come from? Who was it that spoke with such Authority?

The mind reeled in reverence to this Divine Message that had come like a massive bolt of Cosmic Consciousness. It was the Divine Direction for no power on Earth could have had that force of awakening a comatose soul trapped in a alcohol ravaged body.

Despite his drunken state he knew that this Message had to be remembered at all costs. There was a Force in it that jolted his severely numbed senses to act immediately, lest the sheer strength of intoxication would reel him back into hapless lethargy and deep sleep. His heavily smashed state of mind ruled out any hope of remembrance. The only way was to somehow jot it down on something.

He managed to stagger to the kitchen table, take out his purse, and write down the message and date on a calling card. (The date took a considerable time to be confirmed as his alcohol-crazed mind could hardly function, less remember petty information such as dates. Even his lower primordial brain was barely functioning.) 

The exact words written down were: 'Join Mataji 28/9/93.' He was confident that in the morning he would come across this card and begin to find out who this Mataji (Mother) was.

Scan of calling card with message and date 

Morning came and there was the normal massive hangover. Nothing had changed except that his body rejected cigarettes. He just could not smoke anymore. He had accomplished overnight what he struggled to accomplish, in intermittent burst of inspired determination and New Year resolutions, for more than twenty-five years! He just could not understand the strange way his body was rejecting cigarettes, but was proud that he, that egoistic "I" in him, had probably at last done the impossible. (He never smoked again from this day onwards as his body completely rejected cigarettes, and soon after, liquor.) 

But the Mighty Call of the previous night was completely forgotten. There was not a single recollection of what had transpired just the night before. Such memory loss took place on certain occasions when the amount of alcohol exceeded his body’s capacity to cope up. It then supplied just the barest memory for the body to function, but still sufficient enough to continue slaking the desire for more alcohol — a sort of emergency generator during a massive power failure.

The card with the scribbled Mighty Message was missing, being misplaced in the seldom accessed photograph sleeve of the wallet. There it lay for nearly a year till September 5, 1994. Until then there was absolutely no knowledge of what had transpired on that fateful night of September 28, 1993.

Though his father had forgotten the Mighty Message, there was no stopping Shri Janma-mrtyu-tapta-jana-visranti-dayini Shri Nirmala Devi. She had to awaken the seeker who had earlier beseeched with all his heart and soul for the Truth. The Great Divine Mother Adhiparasakthi had to fulfill Her unconditional, eternal promise to rescue any human who, tired of earthly illusion and delusion, cries to the Creator for help.

On September 5, 1994, while spring-cleaning his wallet he came across this particular calling card with that peculiar note, "Join Mataji." He recognized that it was his handwriting. For a few seconds he remained puzzled, unable to understand this strange note. Why should he write such a short, strange statement in the first place? How did it come into his purse? And when did all this happen? For a minute or two there was no answer.

Then suddenly his mind reeled as the magnitude of the Revelation hit him like a tsunami wave: That was the night he was completely drunk! That was the night he heard the Mighty Voice! That was the night he stumbled and struggled to jot the Message down! That was the night that he did not want to forget! That was the night he never remembered. 

Then his mind, that impish little ego, began its dance of doubt: Maybe you were really drunk. Maybe you really heard voices. Maybe it was your imagination. Who would actually say these words, "JOIN SHRI MATAJI"? Why, in the first place, convey a message when one is dead drunk? 

There had to be a mistake. It could not be possible true. It made no sense.

The more the mind rationalized the more agitated it became. Soon the placid waters of the mind became turbulent. Not only the ego questioned but it also answered the very questions that it pretended not to know. The thoughtless state became increasing agitated, even as it tried to bring calm to chaos. 

It failed and the mind began to be confused and bewildered by its own question-answer-counter- question-counter-answer state. No matter how much it tried to rationalize it failed to arrive at a conclusion; there was always another fact or speculation to contradict the last answer. Kash, the only person with the Darshana to extract Truth from within himself, was still in school.

Waiting became torturous as the father paced the floor and tossed around in bed. He had to have the Truth of that fateful night that triggered his awesome journey to seek the Divine World of Reality. The Manna Monsoon was still lashing around in all its fury, rattling the shuttered windows of his mundane mind, occasionally ripping off a plank or two. It would only be a matter of time before all traces of past ignorance be completely washed away by the Divine Flood of Collective Consciousness.

But at this stage this furious Celestial Thundershower was far from abating, and right now he had to know what happened on September 28, 1993. Who was the Caller that directed him to join Shri Mataji?

After what seemed like ages Kash returned from school. Immediately the father explained the entire episode and told him to right away ask the Great Adi Shakti whether this voice was real or just a figment of his imagination. 

Kash went directly into the meditation room and sat in Sahaj Samadhi, and reach the Land of Eternal Light. The Everlasting Light shone ever so brightly and brilliantly above the Eternal Throne as Shri Mahaganesha-nirbhinna-vighna-yantra- praharsita Shri Nirmala Devi sat in Bliss and Joy. He bowed down to the Great Adi Shakti and asked Her about the call that his father had heard commanding him to join Her.

Shri Srutih Shri Nirmala Devi smiled and replied that it was true that his father had heard that Voice, which was that of Shri Ganesha! God Almighty had sent His reply through Shri Gauriputraya, the Son of the Great Divine Mother, to remove the veil of ignorance and direct him to the Supreme Source of spiritual enlightenment. The particular Shri Mataji whom Shri Ganesha had meant on September 28, 1993, and subsequently identified by Kash after getting his Self-Realization later in November 1993, was none other than His Divine Mother, the Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi.

His father was stunned speechless and the Truth hit like a thunderclap. The intensity of Shri Mataji’s Revelation and the identification of the Caller could not be accepted with calmness and detachment. The Spiritual Rain camouflaged the tears that begun to flow profusely again. Asking for forgiveness was pointless. It was far better to be forever silenced by humility, and be rewarded in return, with loss of ego.

All the wealth of this Earth would never equal this priceless Absolute Truth that it was Shri Ganesha, the Remover of All Obstacles, who had spoken the Divine Words, "JOIN SHRI MATAJI!" The Eternal Child had commanded the seeker who had cried out for the Truth of God Almighty to join His Mother, the Great Primordial Mother who had incarnated on Earth as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. This priceless Call also announced this Supreme Truth to all followers of the Sanatana Dharma: Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is the Divine Mother of Shri Ganesha — This Revealed Truth is Absolute.

For Kash’s father the Revelation that it was Shri Ganesha who told him on September 28, 1993, to join Shri Mataji brought much remorse. All his life he had ridiculed the stupid, idolatrous Hindus worshipping this Elephant-Headed Deity. How could they be so naive and dumb, notwithstanding their vast and awesome spiritual Knowledge, and believe in such a pagan idol? How could they extol the Divine with such inspired poetic praise and yet succumb to such infidel nonsense? As far as he was concerned only primitive idol-worshippers could continue with such heathen practices. He had never believed this mumbo-jumbo jumbo. Yet Shri Ganesha, contrary to the father’s disparaging regard for Him, came to awaken him when he had cried out for Truth from the One and Only God Almighty!

Janma-mrtyu-jara-tapta-jana-visranti-dayani (851st): To those devotees who are consumed by the evils of life, death, and old age, She is the harbinger of peace and solace by endowing them with true knowledge of their selves.

Mahaganesa-nirbhinna-vighna-yantra-praharsita (78th): She was delighted at Sri Ganesa destroying the impediments (Yantra) to Her success. Gana means group. The group here meant is 24 Tattvas. The pure mind is the lord of this group. So Sri-Ganesa here means divinised Mind who is Siva Himself. The devotee faces various obstacles created by his Dvaita-Bhava, in his Sadhana and Sri Lalita enables the devotee to get over them by Her cosmic presence everywhere, including his body. Cf. Lalitopakhyana — destruction of ‘Jayavighna Yantra’ by Ganesa.

Kumara-gana-nathamba (442nd): Mother of Kumara and Gananatha. Kumara is the Commander-in-Chief of the divine forces and hence the foremost of the divinishing forces of Consciousness. Ganesa is another aspect of the above whose manifestation is to destroy all obstructions to the divinishing force of Consciousness. These two deities have thousands of devotees all over our country worshipped for Moksa or God-realisation.