The Divine Unity
On February 28, 2000 as his father was preparing the Shri Brahmadeva image for the website, Arwinder happened to pass by. He pointed at it and told his father that although the image has only three heads, Shri Brahma has four.
Arwinder has always maintained that he had on many occasions meditated with the Messengers of God, in addition to the Devi.
On September 4, 1996, at 6:20 p.m. he was questioned again about the Spirit Beings who meditated with Shri Bhagavati to find out whom — out of the 34 he meditated with on a regular basis — he could identify by certain distinguishing features.
He immediately singled out Shri Ganesha. His elephant head and human body were distinct, and was clearly Arwinder's favorite friend!
He also picked out Shri Krishna by His distinctive skin color. Arwinder explained that he remembered clearly that one of them was blue in color, but did not know His name.
The rest had no unique distinguishing features and thus could not be singled out.
Half an hour later he picked out Shri Siva. This happened when, while browsing through the book Childcraft: The How and Why Library About Animals, Vol. 5, (World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer Co., 1986), he saw a cobra on page 27. Immediately he recalled that one of them had a similar-looking snake around His neck. He was told that it was Shri Shiva. Arwinder then added that Shri Siva also had a swastika on His left palm. The father inquired how did he find that out.
He replied that Shri Siva normally meditates with His left hand raised up, with a red swastika clearly visible on the open upraised palm.
On January 17, 1997, at 7:35 a.m. Arwinder’s father was singing "Hai Gobinda, Hai Gopala," (lyrics of Jagjit Singh's Krishna Bhajans), and Arwinder joined in. His father stopped and asked him these questions:
Question: "Do you know who is Gobind and Gopal?"
Arwinder: "No."
Question: "Did you see anybody blue in color in your meditation?"
Arwinder: "Yes."
Question: "He is Gobind and Gopal. Or Krishna. Did you talk to Him?"
Arwinder: "Yes."
Question: "What did you talk about?"
Arwinder: "I don't remember."
Question: "Is He dark blue or light blue?"
Arwinder: "Light blue. I saw He was light blue."
On Thursday, August 7, 1997, Arwinder, Lalita and their father went to the nearby Saul Bellow Library, before going to rent a movie from Club International (Lachine) at around 5.30 p.m.
On the way Arwinder was reminded never to forget what Shri Mataji had shown him in his Sahasrara — the Light, places, people and so on. He nodded affirmatively. His father then just casually tossed a question:
Question: "Do you still remember Shri Ganesha?"
Arwinder: "Yes, He plays the flute."
Question: "Are you sure He plays the flute?"
Arwinder: "No, not very sure."
Question: "Has He got an elephant face?"
(Arwinder does not answer.)
"Close your eyes to remember."
(Arwinder closes his eyes and concentrates.)
"What color was His skin?"
Arwinder: "Blue."
Question: "That was Shri Krishna wasn't it?"
Arwinder: "Yes."
Question: "Have you seen Him playing the flute?"
Arwinder: "In the temples. Sometimes when we meditate."
Question: "O.K., we will go back home and continue talking."
They were already near the Club International video store and the father borrowed a pen to scribble down what Arwinder had just said. After renting a movie The Brothers McMullen and picking some groceries from Maxi supermarket, all headed for home.
Immediately more questions were put forward and all answers noted.
Question: "O.K. How many hands did He have?"
Arwinder: "Two. I mean four. Four hands."
Question: "You are sure He had four hands?"
Arwinder: "Yes."
Question: "Did He hold anything in His hands?"
Arwinder: "Yeah, He had a flute."
Question: "Some more. Anything else He had in the hands?
Arwinder: "Yeah, prasad. He can only hold three things . . ."
(Pause as father was busy jotting.)
"Papa, He can only hold three things."
Question: "So, one hand had prasad, two hands flute. What about one more hand?"
Arwinder: "You know the thing Shri Mataji hold in the hand with Her finger."
Arwinder lifted up his Vishuddhi forefinger and showed his father.
Question: "You mean the one with sharp edges like a star." (a Sudharsan.)
Arwinder: "Like the one Shri Rama hold in the movie."
(His family had an animated video titled Ramayana, where Shri Rama uses the Sudarshan-Chakra, sometimes called Divine Wheel, to kill demons and was referring to this Divine Weapon.)
Question: "Is the thing turning or not."
Arwinder: "Yeah."
Question: "How you know it's turning?"
Arwinder: "Because I saw it turning. I asked Him: ‘Is it turning or not?’"
Question: "You mean you asked Him?" (i.e., Shri Krishna.)
Arwinder: (Nodding in affirmation.)
Question: "Where were you when this happened?"
Arwinder: "In Shri Mataji’s place."
Question: "Where was this Shri Mataji’s place?"
Arwinder: "They only have one place."
Question: "You mean the place with the Light."
Arwinder: "Yeah."
Question: "Was there any body else?"
Arwinder: "Yeah."
Question: "Who were they?"
Arwinder: "The One with the Elephant Face. Shri Mataji also. You know the One with Monkey Face?"
Testament of Jesus Christ
Arwinder then identifies the book as The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It was produced and the picture of Lord Jesus Christ (left) shown to him.
Arwinder: "Yeah. He is the One."
Question: "His name is Lord Jesus Christ you know?"
Arwinder, apparently busy with his thoughts, does not answer.
Arwinder: "I also saw someone else. You know the people with three heads. You know the book, the Mantra Book we use during the Puja?"
The Sahaja Yoga Mantra Book was produced and he went through it. On page 78 he stopped to observe the picture of Shri Adi Guru Dattatreya but replied that He was not the person.
On page 64 he stopped, pointed at Shri Brahma (left) and told his father:
Arwinder: "He was the One. I saw all of them. I saw everybody."
Note: On February 28, 2000 at 7.50 p.m., as his father was preparing the Shri Brahmadeva image for the website, Arwinder happened to pass by. He pointed at it and told his father that although the image has only three heads, Shri Brahma has four.
His father asked him how he knew that.
Arwinder replied that he had walked a complete circle around Shri Brahma and was sure that He had four heads. He then pointed at the tip of the hidden fourth crown (see above photo with slight tip of fourth crown showing) and said, "This is the other head. He has four heads and four hands."
Question: "Did you see any women?'
Arwinder: "Yeah."
Question: "The women were with whom?"
Arwinder: "They were all the Sahaja Yogis’ girls." (i.e. the Consorts of the Deities.)
Question: "Were they pretty, beautiful?"
Arwinder: "They were like Shri Mataji. All the girls were Sahaja Yogis."
Question: "Did the girls talk to you."
Arwinder: "Yeah."
Question: "In what language?"
Arwinder: "English."
Question: "You mean all of them speak English with you?"
Arwinder nods his head in affirmation.
Arwinder: "I saw all of them."
Arwinder then thumbed through the book, pointed at Shri Shiva (left), and said:
"I also saw Him."
He then stopped at page 109 and pointing at Shri Durga (below) replied:
Arwinder: "I saw Shri Mataji’s tiger also."
Question: "Why you never told me about this tiger before?"
Arwinder: "I don’t know. Sometimes when I see . . ."
He then went to explain that he remembers certain things only after he comes across related photographs or images.
For instance, he recalled meeting Shri Siva only after he saw the photo of a cobra.
Even Kash admitted that it was difficult to recollect the experiences in the Sahasrara after a lapse of time. According to him this dimension is so different and unlike anything on Earth that to remember details months later takes considerable effort.
Question: "Was Shri Mataji sitting on the tiger or not?"
Arwinder: "Yeah, sometimes. Not all the time."
Question: "How many hands does Shri Mataji have?"
Arwinder: "She can have two, four, six, eight."
Question: "You mean She got different hands at different times?"
Arwinder: "Yeah, She can have two, four. You jump like two, four, six, eight. Not like three, five, like that."
While replying Arwinder kept thumbing through the pages and at page 96, seeing Shri Rama, replied:
Arwinder: "He I did not see with the bow." (i.e. he saw Shri Rama [left] but without a bow.)
At page 72 he came across Shri Vishnu (below) and confirmed:
Arwinder: "He I saw."
On December 16, 1997, at 6.25 a.m. he was specifically asked about preference; whether life on Earth or the spiritual world was better. Without hesitation he replied that the Kingdom of God is better, specifically because of the Light, Shri Mataji and "less noise."
Arwinder added that he would like to go back there again, unaware that he had descended with the Great Primordial Mother — along with many ancient souls already on Earth and thousands still waiting to take birth in the wombs of shaktis — to battle the dark forces threatening to destroy His Creation.
Note: One day in November 1993, as Kash sat with the Great Adi Shakti in his Sahasrara, Shri Padmanabha Sahodari Devi 1 decided to take him to visit Shri Vishnu and Lakshmi. She levitated him and they traveled at stupendous speed and soon reached their destination that was engulfed in thick mist. Kash could hardly see more than a few feet.
They landed on something unusual, and felt alive.
Kash was introduced by Shri Mataji to Shri Vishnu and MahaLakshmi. Kash saw the lotus-eyed Supreme Personality of God resting peacefully on the lap of Lord Ananta Sesa. The complexion of Shri Vishnu, who was wearing yellow garments, was like a dark-blue cloud. His face was very handsome and cheerful with its smiling glance and lovely eyebrows, its raised nose and finely formed ears, and its beautiful cheeks and red lips. Shri Vishnu's broad shoulders and expansive chest were beautiful, and His arms long and stout. His neck was strong, His navel deep, and His abdomen bore lines like those on a banyan leaf. He had large loins and hips, thighs like an elephant's trunk, and shapely knees and shanks. His raised ankles reflected the brilliant effulgence emanating from the nails on His petal-like toes of His lotus feet of causeless mercy, revealing the most beautiful flowerlike division.
Adorned with a head gear, bracelets and armlets, which were all bedecked with many brilliant gems, and also a belt, a sacred thread, necklaces, ankle bells and earrings, the Lord shone with dazzling effulgence. In one hand He held a lotus flower, in the others a discus, club and conch shell. Gracing His broad chest were the Srivasta mark, the brilliant Kaustubha gem and a flower garland.
His consort Shri Mahalakshmi, who wore a dazzling pink sari. He noticed that She had a ring in Her nose and a tikka (red dot) on the forehead. Her feet had a sheen of golden turtle. She had four arms with delicate and soft fingers. Her black hair was tiny, soft, and delicate. She wore rows of pearls interlaced with emeralds and a garland of gold hung over her shoulders with dazzling beauty.
Kash looked up and an incredible sight of immense power and matchless splendor held him spellbound — an awesome, gigantic multi-headed snake was standing guard over them! They were resting on the bed of the completely white gigantic Sesa-naga [snake] lotusflower, under the umbrella of the serpent hood of Shri Sesha. The Primordial Cosmic Serpent was all gloriously bedecked with priceless head jewels.
When Kash returned from meditation he narrated this incredible journey to his father, who believed it but had some difficulty about a giant snake. But Kash insisted that he was sure it was as he felt the body heat of this great Divine Serpent. The difficult portion of his story was that while sitting on the Sheshnaga he felt one peculiar sensation: It gently swayed from side to side, as if floating. But he could not see through the thick mist swirling all around, and was unsure if they were indeed floating on a body of water.
His father, quite ignorant of Hinduism, was skeptical that a serpent could float in a stationary coiled-up position. Kash was asked whether he was sure that they were surrounded by water. Perhaps they were on land all the while, a more plausible explanation for a serpent to support weight while motionless. His son replied that he felt that the Cosmic Serpent was floating and gently swaying, and was not completely stationary as on land.
Due to lack of visible confirmation of a body of water and Kash's own inability to give verifiable evidence, this floating fact was thus omitted in the original notes.
More than a year later the searing Truth of a child's Third-Eye Vision came streaming forth. As his father watched Ramayana, an epic mythical narration of ancient Hinduism, there appeared for the first time the glorious form of Shri Vishnu reclining on Shri Ananta in the vast Milky Ocean! Kash had indeed witnessed this Timeless Vedic Truth and his sensation of being afloat correct. The Spirit of the Living God, Shri Adhiparasakthi Shri Nirmala Devi, had indeed taken him to the Cosmic Causal Ocean where Shri Vishnu and Shri Lakshmi rested on the floating Shri Sankarsana — Shri Vishnu’s serpent bed!
QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI
"He is the Shesha as they call the Serpent, which sleeps on the Bhavasagara, on which Shri Vishnu rests. The same Shesha had taken birth as Shri Lakshmana. Now for a western mind you see if you talk about snakes, they only know the Adam and Eve snake that's all. They don't understand anything, and they can't understand why people worship snakes . . ."
Sri Visnurupini Devi
Shri Rama's Birthday Puja, London, U.K. — April 2, 1982
(Vishnurupini [893] In the form of Visnu (Visnurupini.)
“So today I’ve decided to have Mahamaya Puja. I have never talked about Mahamaya as it is not to be talked or told. It’s a secret, as they say.
Is the basic of Sahaja Yoga, I should say because it is described when the Goddess comes in the Sahasrara, the Shakti, She is Mahamaya. ‘Sahasrara hai Mahamaya,’ already described.
She has to be the Mahamaya means She should camouflage Herself fully. Nobody should be able to know Her as the Goddess, to begin with, and even if they get realization they should not reach to the end of it. There are many reasons for that.
The first thing, the job. The job of Mahamaya was to give Realization. . . . Now this work, difficult work of giving Realization to others is very intricate. It has to work out in such a manner that nobody feels that it is done by some great personality or with a great awe or fear. So the Mahamaya Incarnation has to come, that people can come closer.
Also, it has one advantage, very great advantage is that when a simple person who’s just a housewife starts giving Realization, people are flabbergasted. Also they think, "If she can do it, why not we do it? After all, she’s just an ordinary housewife. So, it’s all right. If she can do something, we can also do it."
So they have self-confidence and, being a Mother, She does Her loving part, Her compassion. But the greatest is the patience. . . .
But now, what is the purpose? As I told you is that I could come close to you and I need not, sort of, fill you with fear or oddness, or even a feeling that I am not a human being. I behave exactly like human being, I react exactly like human beings and all these Powers are hidden within Myself. Unless and until you are a Realized soul, you won’t understand. Whatever you may do, you won’t understand.
Or maybe in the previous life you had your Realization or maybe also you have done such tremendous punyas that you can recognize. There are people like that who have done it.
But to make it more, sort of congenial to you, is to become absolutely a human being. So I married. I have children. I have grandchildren and I do shopping, as you see. People are surprised how I take Coca-Cola. I’m not supposed to take Coca-Cola? Or I eat popcorn. They’re surprised. But I have to be just like you. But inside I am not, outside I am."
Shri Pustih Devi
(Pustih [444th]: Nourishment. It is She who nourishes the Jiva — annam Brahmeti vyajanat (Tai-Up. 3.2). ‘Know food as Brahman.’)
ADDITIONAL QUOTES
“Chopra: Deep stuff or New Age fluff?
ST. PETERSBURG
Motivational guru Deepak Chopra believes he provides answers for a new age, teaching his international body of followers that the key to solving problems is to seek God within. Chopra's philosophy, zealously marketed through books, seminars and tapes, has won him legions of fans. . . .
"There is no guilt in his system. There is no need for remorse or anything like that. It is not like you have to stop sinning (or) you have to clean up your act. There are no commandments," John Morreall, professor of religious studies at USF, said of Chopra's teachings. "People want easy, digestible stuff that doesn't require them to change their life, and any way you can package that will be successful," Morreall added.
In fact, a sell-out crowd is expected Monday when Chopra makes an appearance at the Mahaffey Theater, said the Rev. Joan Pinkston, minister at the Center for Positive Living, which is sponsoring his visit.
She said this is the third time her church, at 5200 29th Ave. N, has brought Chopra to Tampa Bay.
"He is so popular and he does bring a universal message of truth for those who are ready to hear it," Pinkston said. "He brings it to the masses who are unchurched and who may never capture that message other than through the secular community."
In a telephone interview, Chopra, who was born in India, said he prefers to be thought of as spiritual rather than religious. "The founders of religion were universal beings," he said. "But at some point it developed dogma and ideology and unfortunately we have had more anguish and more war and more hatred and more bigotry and more suffering in the name of religion than in every other name. . . . I like to think of myself as seeking spirituality, which is the basis of religion. God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.' "
Chopra, whose teachings are based in part on the Vedantas, the sacred writings that are the root of Hinduism, added that it often is said that God created man in his own image. "I think it is the other way. Man created God in his own image," he said. "The image of God is usually a dead white man in the sky. That is just an image. It is not satisfactory. Why can't God be black or a woman? . . . All the conflict in the world is because we have different images of God. God is beyond image. As soon as you create an image about God, you limit God." But, he said, that is what defines most religion.
Spirituality is different, giving one the ability to love and have compassion, added Chopra, author of 22 books, including best-sellers Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and The Pathway to Love. "It is the capacity to experience joy and spread it to others," he said. "It is the security of knowing that your life has meaning and purpose. It is a sense of connection to the creative power of the universe. This creative power of the universe is by various religions called God. "In my experience, it is infinite. It is unbounded. It's immanent and transcendent. It is timeless. It expresses itself in the infinite organization of the universe and in the infinite intelligence of the universe."
And to find God, those caught up in the search must get in touch with what Chopra refers to as "the essence" of their own being. That essence, he explained, is God. And it is within every person, said Chopra, quoting Jesus in the book of John. . . .
And it seems to sell particularly well among intellectuals, Morreall said. For those trying to cope with stressful conditions, Chopra's message finds a ready welcome.
"What Chopra offers is the promise that you will be able to quiet down the noise and you will be able to control your world. And that is immensely appealing," Morreall said.
To members of the Center for Positive Living, part of the Spokane, Wash.-based Religious Science organization, Chopra reaffirms a familiar philosophy.
"With what we teach, we believe in one power and it doesn't matter what you call it, whether it is God, spirit, nature, life," Pinkston said. "It is the ultimate one power. What we believe is true about God is also true about us. The one thing that may separate us from other mainline, traditional religions is that we truly believe that this power that created us is within us and is not something that is outside and separate from us and that it is, yes, greater than we are and that we can use it and we are using it every moment." Chopra's popularity, she said, is based on his universal message.
"Here is a medical doctor who has taught at Tufts University, and he is very well-read. I believe that people are really hungry for the message . . . that the soul responds to — that we are divine beings," added Pinkston, a former Baptist who began searching for a new path about 30 years ago.
"We teach the metaphysical, the inner message of Jesus the Christ," Pinkston said. "(Chopra) is teaching the same message. The way he is teaching is that love can renew, heal. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us and bring us closer to God and that is what we are all searching for, the union of the self and the spirit." . . .
What morsels of wisdom will he leave with his audience Monday?
"I only want to achieve one thing in that when they leave they will say to themselves there is a lot to think about," he said. "And in some of them it will start a new journey which will radically affect the way they live their life.""
(Kitty Bennett, Times researcher, UMI Company 1998.)
"The saints who sang the hymns of Tirumurai inspire us onward and inward. The grand, great old Rishi Tirumular captured the essence of the Vedas and the Agamas in his epistles, announcing the rules and regulations that we must follow, telling of the attainments that we may expect. Over two thousand years ago the great siddha Saint Tirumular taught, "Offer oblations in love. Light the golden lamps. Spread incense of fragrant wood and lighted camphor in all directions. Forget your worldly worries and meditate. Truly, you shall attain rapturous liberation."
It is said in our Hindu scriptures that it is necessary to have a satguru. However, it is also possible for an individual to accomplish all of this himself without a guru. Possible, but most difficult and exceedingly rare. There may be four or five in a hundred years, or less. Scriptures explain that perhaps in past lives such a soul would have been well disciplined by some guru and is helped inwardly by God in this life. With rare exceptions, a guru is necessary to guide the aspirant on the path as far as he is willing and able to go in his current incarnation. Few will reach the Ultimate. The satguru is needed because the mind is cunning and the ego is a self-perpetuating mechanism. It is unable and unwilling to transcend itself by itself. Therefore, one needs the guidance of another who has gone through the same process, who has faithfully followed the path to its natural end and therefore can gently lead us to God within ourselves. Remember, the satguru will keep you on the path, but you have to walk the path yourself.
All gurus differ one from another depending on their parampara, their lineage, as well as on their individual nature, awakening and attainments. Basically, the only thing that a guru can give you is yourself to yourself. That is all, and this is done in many ways. The guru would only be limited by his philosophy, which outlines the ultimate attainment, and by his own experience. He cannot take you where he has not himself been. It is the guru's job to inspire, to assist, to guide and sometimes even impel the disciple to move a little further toward the Self of himself than he has been able to go by himself."
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
(GURUDEVA
528) Sri Sahasra-dala-padmastha
— Resides in the Thousand-Petalled Lotus.
531) Sri Sukla-samsthita
— Resides in tissue of seeds.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
535) Sri Svaha
— Divine Speech in sacrificial oblation.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
543) Sri Punya-labhya
— Attained by the meritorious or righteous.
— Worshipped due to good actions in previous births.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
551) Sri Sarva-mrtyu-Nivarini
— Cures all disease of body and mind.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
552) Sri Agra-ganya
— Primordial
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
552) Sri Achintya-rupa
— Form inaccessible to thought.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
555) Sri Kali-kalmasa-nasini
— Destroys sins in this Kali age.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
557) Sri Kalahantri
— Destroyer of Time.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
563) Sri Mukhya
— The First One.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
567) Sri Bhakta-nidhih
— Ocean of Kindness for Her devotees.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
568) Sri Niyantri
— Maker of Laws and Rules.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
569) Sri Nikhilesvari
— Queen of All.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
571) Sri Maha-pralaya-saksini
— Witness of the Great Dissolution.
— "Glory to Your Form, the Lone Witness to the Dance of Shiva at the destruction of Kalpa." Sri Samkara Mantra-Matrka-Stava.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
572) Sri Para-saktih
— The Ultimate Power.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
573) Sri Prajnana Ghana-rupini
— Supreme Wisdom
— State of Consciousness where nothing else is experienced except Self.
— "Like the taste of salt in the sea (It) is everywhere; Prajnana is All Pervasive." Brahadaranyaka Upanisad
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
591) Sri Sirahsthita
— Dwells inside head near Brahmarandhra.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
(Sri Lalita Sahasranama, C. S. Murthy, Ass. Advertisers and Printers, 1989.)
NOTES
1. Padmanabha-Sahodari (280th): Sister of Vishnu. She was born along with Visnu.
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