Spiritual Science, the Path to Bliss

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Spiritual Science
The Path to Bliss   —  Chapter I (continued)
Lamba Meets Shivabalayogi

by B. S. Lamba

It will not be out of place to describe my personal experience when meeting the Yogi.  It was 28th August 1957 that I visited Kakinada Salt Factories on tour while I was posted Deputy Salt Commissioner Madras Region.

Rai Bahadur Rolla Sitaramaya Naidu of Kakinada was primarily responsible for arranging the meeting in spite of several obstructions as he had noticed something special in my aura and told me that he will reveal to me after we had visited the Yogi.  The Last Saturday on which the Yogi used to give darshan had already passed four days ago and I was told that there was little hope of seeing him but still our local salt officers will try.

Shri G. Narasinhamurthy Tehsildar posted in the vicinity of Kakinada had the key of the room at Adivarampeta.  He had promised to come at 8 P. M. as darshans could only be had at night.  He arrived one hour late at 9 P.M.  As I used to go to bed early at about 10 P.M., I refused to proceed to Adivarampeta which was about 20 miles away, a portion of road being katcha.  But I was persuaded to go.

It began to rain when the katcha portion of the road came.  I was afraid that the car in which we were travelling will get stuck up and told my companions to return to Kakinada.  But they persisted and we reached the village.  Here, in order to reach the residence of the Yogi, in the paddy fields, we had to cross about fifteen feet width of slush with knee deep mud.  Again I expressed desire to return to Kakinada; but my faithful orderly, K. K. Nambiar by name took my shoes and told me that he will wash my legs with the well water on reaching our destination and so we reached there at about half past ten at night.

We were then told that the other key of the double lock was with Dr. B. Appalaswamy who was residing in his native place at Ramchandrapuram and we had to wait till he came and then only the room could be opened.  I fixed the time limit 11 P.M. when we should return to Kakinada if the doctor did not come by that time.  At exactly eleven o’clock we could see the light of the car coming towards Adivarampeta and the doctor reached at about half past eleven.

Dr. B. Appalaswamy and G. Narasinhamurthy Tehsildar, the two leading disciples of the Yogi then opened the room and took some time to get the Balayogi to come to waking condition from Samadhi, obtained his consent and then called us in when it was past twelve mid-night.

We were about a dozen and we all stood round the dais and saw the Yogi who was sitting with closed eyes.  We were then asked to move out after 5 minutes.  As I came out and stood outside the compound wall with R. B. Sitaramaya, I found myself completely magnetised and the intensity went on increasing as I was being charged.  I had read about Spiritual Magnetism and that even God Himself is a huge magnet and exercises a strong pull.  All the same, I was bewildered and told Sitaramaya that I was getting more and more magnetised and may not fall down.  He held me by one arm and on the other I had support of the wall.

When this was happening we were again summoned inside, as the meeting had been specially arranged for me.  We entered the room and I sat close to the Yogi near the dais.  The Tehsildar told me that I had already been spiritualised by the Yogi and I told him my experience while standing outside the compound wall and that I was quite receptive to the Spiritual Force, being completely magnetised.  The Yogi acted as an electric dynamo supplying the current to anybody who could receive it.

I was then questioned about my spiritual experiences etc., and I related all.  The Yogi asked me to shift my turban a little to expose the forehead and he studied me thoroughly inside out.  Then I was asked to close my eyes and I found them constantly blinking.  He then asked me to sit at a little distance from him as the force emanating form him was perhaps too strong for me.  I was then asked to meditate.

I found my body reclining on one side and gradually going down and down till others thought that being out of stable equilibrium I shall fall down;  and as they were going to hold me, he asked them not to touch me.  Then the body bent in the other direction.  This showed that my soul was touched by the divine force that he directed on me.

I was then told to open my eyes.  The Yogi spoke in Telugu and it was translated to me by the Tebsildar.  I was told that he had been waiting to see me for long.  Then I was asked that if I earnestly desired to move on the Spiritual path, who will look after me if some trouble or difficulty comes, as I was alone at Madras.  I replied that I depended on God entirely for all my actions and safety and that He will look after me.  The great Yogi nodded with his approval.

I was then given a few instructions.  That I shall not disclose to anybody my spiritual experiences or that I followed any mystic practices.  Secondly that I should not open my eyes before one hour while meditating.  I should concentrate between the two eye-brows and should face East.  I should intimate the Yogi about my spiritual experiences from time to time.

I met the Yogi at about half past twelve mid-night on the auspicious Thursday, the 29th August 1957 and with his permission came out of his room at about 2 A.M.  It took almost an hour more for others to close up and our party returned to Kakinanda at about 4.30 A.M.  I slept at five in the morning and got up after sleep for an hour or two.

When I sat for my meditation, I could feel the change that more quietitude had come and the mind was more steady.  I could not open my eyes and when one hour was completed, the eyes suddenly opened automatically; the hands got automatically folded and head bent for Namaskar automatically and I felt that the Inner Controller began to function with the Yogi’s gaze only and I tasted the bliss of discovering Him in my own body.

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