Friday, January 9, 2015

Mahayogi Baba Changdev

A discourse was given by my revered preceptor Harivilasji Aasopa, at Harihar Trik Aashram Maheshwar, an aashram dedicated to non-dual Kashmir Shaivism.

Shree Harivilasji said: - The whole creation, the universe is created out of Brahm and gets absorbed back to Brahm at the end of that creative cycle. The universe is the result of nescience. The whole creation stays in the creator, the Brahm. The all existance is Brahm and nothing that exists is other than Brahm.

This is the ultimate knowledge available easily to the one who surrenders to Baba Changdev with his body, speech and mind. By the grace of Baba Changdev he is filled with bliss, his doubts get dissolved and for him nescience no longer exists in the light of ultimate knowledge.

Having achieved eight supernatural powers (Siddhis) Baba Changdev shines forth with his own light. One who remembers Baba Changdev, feels his presence at oince. By the grace of Baba Changdev one realizes that the world that reflacts in the Brahm and appears so real is at best illusiory, not at all the ultimate reality.

The entire created world with various forms and names is formless Brahm in its innermost reality.  In other words you may say that the world is a whirlpool in the ocean called Brahm. The fact remains that the world is unreal in spite of its apparant reality. By the grace of Baba Changdev the real nature of truth is perceived.

Whatever is willed by God appears instantly. By His will only things take their shapes. God is all pervading and is the innermost reality of everything. He accepts the nature of everything that exists like men, animals, trees, stones, space or time. God Himself is present as this differentiated world. He acts as perceiver, perceived and perception.

As long as life is there, a man's body continues to do something. Every action evokes a result depending upon the intentions behind that action. The body has to suffer or enjoy the result, for which life of the body may be insufficient. Thus a man has to accept another body and the cycle of rebirth continues.

When a man performs all the worldly acts by pure and peaceful mind, remembering Baba Changdev, the action does not evoke any fruit to be borne by the body later.

A man willing to acheive the ultimate in spiritual path may well maintain his family life, remaining fearless, worriless and desireless loving Baba Changdev's lotus feet. This way he does everything as it should be done naturally in accordance with God's will. He has no prejudices or hatered in his mind. He is a free wanderer of Non-Dual world. He has a universal vision.

Mahayogi Baba Changdev knew God as all conscious, all blissful, all pervading and supreme most power, manifesting as world.  This is the ultimate knowledge after which nothing remains to be known. Baba Changdev was a great yogi, he saw the world as "God Everywhere" and not merely the collection of different things.

Baba Changdev lived for 1400 years beliving firmly as God to be the ultimate uninterrupted, all pervading consciousness. No second entity exists.

Great yogi and mystic Baba Changdev is firmly and wholeheartedly believed upon by Bawra Baba aged 80 years at present, resident of Aasop villege District Jodhpur Rajasthan India. Bawra Baba regularly chants for last 50 years "Changa Sharanam - Changa Sharanam", meaning "I surrender to thou Baba Changdev". Bawra Baba the umconditional lover of the lotus feet of Baba Changdev has many supernatural perceptions. He said "this body remains alive till the predestination (Prarabdh) is weakened." Baba Changdev also left his terrestrial body by his own will after his predestination was weakened, and got salvation in Brahm. By his divine power Baba Changdev still exists. By firm belief and surrenderance one can perceive his presence.

Mild breez or powerful wind is same as air. Similarly Baba Changdev is present today. His subtle presence can be made overt, to get his grace, by living a simple life doing all the work and speaking with full alertness and loving his Lotus Feet. Bawra Baba reveils a bitter fact that his grace is not the result of fate but result of wholehearted efforts. Failure is the result of inadvertence. A lover of Baba Changdev's lotus feet should live devoid of passion and should be indifferent in pleasure and pain. He must observe maximum silence remembering Baba Changdev with healthy and happy mind. He has no more to do or acheive.

Baba Changdev we all the disciples surrender to thou Lotus feet.