Swamiji’s Agenda

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Swamiji’s Agenda
Part 3

by Prof. P. N. Murthy

H. N. Krishnamurthy, a close devotee of Swamiji, once told me, “Swami wants to revive Hindu religion to its pristine glory and purity.”

Elaborating on this Swami once said, “There are many misconceptions about Hinduism.  There are many superstitions, blind beliefs and foolish practices which have surrounded it and clouded the Truth.  It has been violently distorted by the pundits.  This has to be corrected and the True Teachings and its Divine character have to be brought out.  Only then the great prowess of Hinduism will be realized.”

Then it was said, “Is this not a gigantic agenda?”

Swamiji replied, “Yes it is.  For that first this country has to be saved.  People must be able to live peacefully. T heir standard of living must increase.  How can you teach philosophy to those suffering from hunger?”  This was the same refrain as Vivekananda.

Swami loves poor people.  He enjoys feeding them.  Sometimes in Bangalore he feeds nearly ten thousand people in a single day.

Swamiji gets upset when something happens to the country or he learns that something is likely to happen.  During such times he is day and night constantly in the thought of saving the country from catastrophe.  He looks like one possessed with anger.  One wonders how such a compassionate person can be so angry.

Swami went into tapas during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war.  “Nobody should do anything to Bharat.  That country should not suffer in any way.”  The same sentiment I noticed in Swami during the Punjab problem, living closely with Swami.  He used to get every report read to him every day.  He used to watch television.  “Why is this government inactive?  People are suffering.”  His body used to shake with concern.  During the Indo-China war in 1962, his skin used to split and blood used to come.  Swami told me several times:

“We are the agents of the Divine.  All are the same to us.  We will not tolerate anybody who harms society and country.  This X [identifying a troublemaker by name] should go.  People should be free from trouble.”

“If people have to change, the minds must change.  If they do not change, they must be changed.  If necessary, force must be used.  Medicine should be according to the symptoms.  If necessary, surgery should be done.  One should not feel that the body is being cut.  Otherwise the rest of the body will be lost.”

Perhaps there is need for such a surgery now, hence this severe anger.  Lord Krishna tells Sisupal, “I shall pardon up to a hundred mistakes.  One more, your head will go.”  In the same strain, the patience of the maharishis must have worn out looking at the present world situation.

Swami Viswanand, founder of Eternal Yoga Temple, used to say (in 1965), “By 1990 people should change and turn towards the Divine starting the Golden Age.  If not, the date for the beginning of the Golden Age by the maharishis [sic].  If necessary, a holocaust will be created to stop the blasphemous downward trend and start the journey God-ward.”

If this is the agenda of the Divine, the agenda of His agents also must be the same.  So is the agenda of Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj.  Dharma, peace, truth and love are the aspects and items in the agenda.  To establish these is the primary mission of all avatars.  Swami is mobilizing, commissioning and creating all instruments and forces to achieve the agenda during and after his life.

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is carrying on his mission like a mass movement for turning the people towards the Divine through various healing, educational and lecture programs.  He is striving for harmony between religions ceaselessly.  He made Prasanti Nilayam his center of operations.

For Swami, his instrumentalities seem to be dhyana diksha [initiation into meditation], constructing and sanctifying temples, creating ashrams, satsang [spiritual conversation] and his conversations, and performing tapas at times when peace is in peril.

Swami likes satsang.  He encourages the audience to ask questions and sometimes provokes them into discussion with him and among themselves.  He does not show much inclination to deliver lectures.  He prefers conversations to lectures, discussions over conversations, sadhana over discussions, and tapas best of all.

 

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