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The Three Sadhus
~~OM~~ Remember the story of Narad Muni passing by the tree where the three sadhus were meditating?The first sadhu said, “Narad Muni, you are trikal darsi, you see the past, present and future.How long will it take me to become enlightened?”Narad looked inside, he said, “It’s going to take you ten thousand years.””Ten thousand years! […]
Story of Mahisha
~~OM~~ Remember the great ego performed a tremendous tapasya. And the ego said, “I want to be immortal.” Brahma came and said, “That’s impossible, no one is immortal, everyone that takes birth dies.” And so the great ego said, “Well, my death, if it has to occur, let it occur at the hands of a […]
Bara Maa shares stories about Shree Maa: 3
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Question: What do you think contributed to the birth of Shree Maa, who is regarded today as a Divine Mother? Did you perform spiritual practices, austerity, tapasya, or did you pray for a spiritual child? Did you know that you would give birth to a spiritual child?
Bara Maa: Yes, I prayed, I did puja, and my Guru said that my child would make a major spiritual contribution to this world. So I knew. But I am sure every mother prays that her child will be happy and lead a productive life. The difference with Shree Maa was that she radiated light from the time she entered into the womb. And my Guru specifically said that she was a divine child. I had total faith that he would not tell me that if it wasn’t true.
Question: Did you know Shree Maa would become recognized as a Divine Mother?
Bara Maa: Yes, I understood completely that something special was to come from her.
Question: Do you believe it was God’s grace that brought Shree Maa into your family?
Bara Maa: Of course. A pure soul chooses where he or she will take birth according to the karma to be fulfilled. We cannot force a soul to take birth in our home. The soul will choose. That is Grace.
Question: Did you have to make any special arrangements to care for Shree Maa as a child, that were different from the other siblings?
Bara Maa: She was my first, so everything I did was special. Every child is special. They all require something unique.
We came from a big family. Can anyone actually know who they really are, and what they have come to do? Can they know how big they are, how important they are, how important they are destined to become? Who am I, will only be known through our karma.
Shree Maa often sat with her eyes closed. Wherever she sat, a crowd gathered. Our house was always full of people.
So many people came to test her. She would sit with her eyes closed. One time a tantrik sadhu came with a bag hung from his shoulder. He ordered Shree Maa to sit beside him. She did not move from her meditation. He called to her again and again, but she did not move. Suddenly he got up and left in a hurry, afraid that he would be discovered to be a fraud.
Many other sadhus visited; even government officials. They were all amazed. Shree Maa knew the most intimate details of Sarada Devi’s life, even told stories about Ramakrishna that no one else knew, but everyone recognized to be authentic.
One Kalika Sadhika came and said she is a fraud. She tied some mustard seeds in a cloth and put it under Shree Maa’s pillow, while Shree Maa was sitting in meditation. She said that this would “cure” her from the obvious affliction from which she was suffering. When Shree Maa awoke from her meditation, everyone had left, and she immediately went into her room and threw her pillow out from the window. How did she know that something was done? How did she know what to do to remedy the matter?
One time on Amamashya we were celebrating Kali Puja. We were all complaining that Shree Maa continued fasting. She didn’t eat anything. We had prepared a big pot of rice. Nobody wanted to eat until Shree Maa ate, so we all complained again and again. Then she went into the kitchen, picked up the pot, and ate the entire contents. She ate all the rice prepared for so many people!
I always observed Akshar Tritiyam Vrat, the Vow of Worship for the third day. I worshipped Mangala Chandi, and I offered whatever I had to give. I wrote my own songs, and offered them as an appropriate gift to the Goddess.
Meaning of being a Hindu
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Discussion on Transformation of Sexual Energy
This discussion on sexual energy is classic. We have all heard about the need for controlling our sexuality and about the power derived from transforming sexual energy into spiritual energy. In this frank discourse, Shree Maa and Swamiji…read more
Bara Maa shares stories about Shree Maa: 4
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Bara Maa: When Shree Maa was sitting for the class ten examinations, she would always fall into meditation. She would close the books and sit with her eyes closed for hours together. My brothers would scold me: “It’s all your fault! You used to take her to sing kirtan and visit saints and have sat sangh. That is why she isn’t paying attention to her studies now!”
I would reply: Who can say what God has planned for each of us? I don’t know if it is best for her to keep her eyes open in the book or to keep her eyes shut with God inside.
Now that I am here in America to see what she has done with her life, I think she made the right decision.
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Shree Maa- Trip to India- Swamiji and Shoes
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We asked Sushil dada to share with us more stories of his time with our beloved Swamiji. “You will not believe this”, Sushil dada said. “I don’t believe it myself. But I was there.”
“Yes, yes, what? What?” We ask breathlessly.
“Is Kolkata hot? The roads?” Sushil dada asked us.
“Yes, of course, most of the time.” We answered quickly.
“Swamiji used to walk there barefoot. All the time. How did He do this? I saw it. But I still can’t believe it.” Sushil dada said.
We asked: “What about you?”
Sushil dada said, “Oh, I had shoes. How could I walk in that heat without them? But not Swamiji. He was walking and walking. So many places, He always went walking. Without shoes.” He looked at Swamiji and said, “Is that not so?”
Swamiji was smiling and we asked Him, “Why did you do that, Swamiji?”
Swamiji answered; “Oh! It was a bother! Either the shoes got stolen or they broke. It was better without them. I didn’t have to worry about them.”
“Unbelievable!” Sushil dada voiced all our thoughts!
Shree Maa- Trip to India- Swamiji and the Farmers
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We were sitting with Swamiji and Sushil dada. Sushil dada (Sushil Chowdhury) is the author of Sahib Sadhu and he spent most of his teenage years with Swamiji, in his own village Bakreswar where Swamiji did intense tapasya and travelling with Swamiji.
Sushil dada is an expert in Sanskrit and speaks English with the cutest Bengali accent and was joyfully telling us stories about Swamiji. He said that Swamiji would be locked in a little temple in Bakreswar and be chanting and doing puja continuously from dawn to dusk. Nobody could enter the temple as the door was locked from outside and Swamiji had the key inside. When Swamiji finished His practices he used to throw the key outside and they would open the door. Swamiji would have his only meal for the day – a humble fare of daal and rotis. In the evenings, Swamiji would share His knowledge with all those present.
Rolling his eyes in a sweet manner, Sushil dada asked us, “Do you know who was present then?”
“No Dada, please tell us.” Eagerly we asked.
“Farmers, Pachu and me.”
Swamiji laughed, “That was the satsang, a young Brahmin boy, Sushil, Pachu who worked in cremation grounds and some farmers and me.”
“Swamiji was a farmer with the farmers.” Sushil dada exclaimed. “They wore dhothis till their knees and Swamiji too. He spoke to them in a village dialect so they would understand. With them He was like them. They love Him.”
Today, we see Swamiji working with routers and computers and His classes are webcast to over 70 countries. Viewers across the United States watch His classes on community TV. He is as much at home with us in the western world as He is with the farmers in rural Bengal. He is able to talk to us in a way we understand. We love Him for all He is doing for our universe.
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