Swamiji’s Agenda

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Swamiji’s Agenda
Part 2

by Prof. P. N. Murthy

Tapas shakti [the power attained through tapas] is Truth embedded in man’s personality, body, mind and will.  This is the reason for calling maharishis and gods the embodiments of Truth.

This shakti reveals and manifests with different names and forms.  Each aspect acquires a personality and influences a field of action in the world.  It associates with a part of the body.  Some aspects come to the world in the sound form.  These are mantras. These aspects of shakti, the powers and personalities, have different abodes and locations from which they operate.  In our bodies they are revealed at the chakras (or plexuses).  These powers and personalities are engaged in the creative processes assigned to each one of them.  Sometimes they descend and manifest in unusual bodies in the world to perform with great intensity certain specific activities.  These are called avatars.

In its act of embodiment in this world the shakti aspect enters a woman’s womb of Its choice, a womb that can tolerate the power and deliver it to the world.  The stories that we hear of a light entering a woman’s womb during a dream or otherwise belong to this part of the action of shakti.  After the body is delivered, the baby grows and to increase the power, tapas is performed.  In a way this performance shows the way to truth to the ordinary person striving in this world amid strife.  After the body fills itself with the required power for attaining the assigned mission in the world, the tapas ends and action among the people begins.  This happens in different ways to suit different circumstances and purposes.

From this, one can see that Swamiji’s is no ordinary birth.  It represents a clear action from the Divine to rid humanity of all trivial distinctions of caste, creed and country and launch it on the path of dhyana and tapas to realize its spiritual glory.  Swami is a great movement.  He represents a transition in human history.

While in Dehradun, on May 9, 1984, Swamiji said:

“I have been doing service to the world in some fashion or another since the age of ten.  I have initiated lakhs [hundreds of thousands] of people into dhyana.  There is no one until now in human history who has initiated so many people.  I think my job is over.  My mission is finished.  Why should I not also, like all the government servants, retire at 55 or 58?  When I leave I shall initiate either twelve, twenty-one, fifty-one or a hundred and one people into tapas and bless them to carry on my mission.”

“Who will allow you to leave?” one of us asked.

“No one can stop me,” said Swamiji.

Then Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Lahiri Mahasaya came to my mind.  They also left around the same age after finishing their work in the world.  It occurred to me that Swamiji may leave after the construction of the Trimurthy temple in Bangalore.

He repeated once again in Bangalore, “I will also retire at 55.  After this I shall stay at one place and guide the mission through devotees and disciples.  I am already very tired.  This body will remain until the age of 85.”  [In those days, the retirement age was reduced from 58 to 55 in Andra Pradesh.  A big agitation against this was going on.]  Now in 1986, he crossed fifty-five [sic: Swamiji turned fifty-one in 1986.].  Still he is not retired.  He is touring energetically in other continents.

In Adivarapupeta on June 11, 1983, I raised this issue.  Swamiji then said, “This is my last birth.  That is why the nadis say like that.  If anyone writes differently I will not come because they have written it so.  Mine is a birth for a mission.”

Has he done everything that is to be done?  If so, whatever is done now or is being done refers only to this age but refers to the future of humanity in this creation process.  Is this a milestone in this process?  To answer this query, one must refer to Swamiji’s earlier births.  Looking at the births listed in the nadis, a very interesting aspect of his appearances in the world is revealed.  In everyone of his births he has essentially sown a seed and assigned the task of nurturing it into a tree to some one of his disciples and left.  When I mentioned this to Swamiji once, he said:

“You have said it.  Even in this birth it is the same.  If anyone wants to see God, he can come to these temples and see God.”

 

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