Spiritual Science, the Path to Bliss

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Spiritual Science
The Path to Bliss   —  Chapter X
Life Story of Author and Spiritual Experiences

by B. S. Lamba

. . . In Chapter I, I have already described how I met the Balayogi at Adivarampeta about twenty miles from Kakinada in spite of so many obstacles.

This is very important.  The Vedant and the Holy Granth have emphasized the importance of the guru without whom one can never meet God.  Well, immediately after meeting the Yogi, on the 29th August 1957 next morning I found the Inner Controller functioning in my body and I could perceive God for all the 24 hours.  The moment I surrendered to Him, He began to function and took charge of my body.  He Himself became my inner guide from that day.

As I reached Madras back from my tour on 2nd September, 1957, I was made to get up from my sleep with the music of Cymbals and the Divine Force lifted me up from the bed and put me in a sitting posture.  I sat down for meditation on my deer skin and then the mystic practices started from that day with the Inner Controller’s guidance and I had only to sit down and He Himself began to work in my body.

I had began to sit for meditation four times a day, morning, afternoon, evening and night.  Every day I was made to get up at different hours in the morning fluctuating from twelve midnight to five in the morning.  The experiences were bewildering.  The inner guidance was more perfect than any that a living teacher could impart.

The Divine Force tried to put me in Padmasana by making my limbs supple; but this could not be achieved as my old body had gotten sufficiently stiff. Divine pranayam started automatically.

When I will go near the picture of the Yogi, the Divine Force will draw me closer and then make me take some steps back and then forwards and the picture will open its eyes.  I was made to put my ear by the side of the wall and I could hear heart beats and feel the wall as a human body.  I was made to go to a chair and move it and gradually it became so heavy that with all my strength I could not move it, as if He Himself sat there.

I found that anything I touched was alive, a pen, pencil, paper weight and all other articles.  I took a flower and it began to rotate in my hand.  Later I felt life in my clothes.  If I took a thread or a rope it would stand erect just as the legend is about the Indian rope trick.  The garland of flowers I put around the Yogi’s picture will move to my neck and then begin to dance in front of my nose.  This was all bewildering; but then I worked out that the Yogi philosophy starts with the basic principle that everything has life.

The Absolute was actually manifesting in me, that it is not only theoretical, that He exists in every particle but I could verify it by touching anything.  Even plants and leaves behaved and could be felt as living things with heart beats and their moves towards me.

Then came darshans of the Trinity.  I could see the three Gods one on each of my palm and Shiva in the middle. Sketch of the figure is shown in Plate VII.  After a few days, darshan of the Trinity became very common and it will form anywhere, on bed, wall etc.  Then wherever I looked, Deity will form (only head).  It literally became that wherever I look, I see you only.

If a hill was looked intently, it will form one head with brilliant eyes.  During meditation on pressing the eyes beautiful blue hues with starry sky became visible and turned into white day light with a black spot out of which deity will appear.

Sometimes deep violet starry patch will form in blue starry sky and the Deity will appear.  The Deity will form on flower, walls and everywhere.  I usually began to get darshans on the right hand palm and also left palm.  Darshan are more vivid when concentrating at Thalmus (mid-skull) and then concentrating in the pupil of one eye, then other; and then bringing the concentration at brow by directing to focus deity from each eye there and then looking (with closed eyes) intently at back of head in line with brow center.  The deity is to be seen in front and back subtle body in line with Ajna.

I read in one book about Ko Yuan, a Taoist of Wu dynasty (A.D. 222-227) who is fabled to have attained the state of an Immortal.  He worked miracles.  When Shipwrecked on one occasion, he emerged from beneath the water with his clothes unwet, and walked freely on its surface.  Finally he ascended to the sky in bright day light.  Ko Yuan, the great Chinese spiritualist has described God (Tao) as follows  “All pervading is the great Tao.  It may be found on the left hand and on the right . . . It clothes all things as with garment, and makes no assumption of being their lord; it may be named in the smallest things.  All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is It which presides over their doing so; It may be named in the greatest things.”

This authority has been cited to show that Ko Yuan had similar experience of seeing God appear on the palms of both hands.

The music of cymbals was heard on 2nd September 1957 on return to Madras after meeting the Yogi.  Later the flute, Veena Conch and trumpets representing heavenly music were heard.  These are all mentioned as experiences of mystics in books.  But it was bewildering that I could hear vocal music of a lady on top of my head.  The song was inarticulate but the tune could be made out “Wohi Rasna jo Hari gun gae”  (That is the tongue worth the name that sings in praise of the Lord).  Later my attention was drawn to “Anand Sahib” in Holy book in which Guru Nanak had a similar experience of goddesses reciting ‘kirtan’.

During my meditation I had not have to do any thing, the Inner Guru sitting in the cave of the heart took up my Yog.  All Bandhas and Mudras described by Patanjali and briefly mentioned in the chapter on Yog were automatically practised.  Mystic practices were taught to raise the sperm fluid from bottom (Swadhishtana) to top of head to be converted to ‘Ojhas’ to accelerate merging into Him and to overcome the sex instinct entirely.  When I read the Holy Granth, the tunes changed and He read through my mouth while simultaneously there was pranayam and body currents. In fact, I was completely possessed by Him the moment I surrendered.

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