DIVINE EXPERIENCES - Sri. DAS GANU (3)

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DIVINE EXPERIENCES – DAS GANU MAHARAJ (3)

Das Ganu Maharaj, Kirtankar, aged about 78, residing generally at Nanded (Nizam’s State) says:

After Baba passed away, I have been seeing several Saints. But hardly any of

them satisfied me. There was one that specially impressed me. Near my place –

Nanded in 1919 there was a Virakta Brahmachari staying on a rock having no

possessions and caring for nothing. I saw him first, when I was performing my

wife’s ceremony and was powerfully attracted. As I went there, to take his

Darshan he turned away from me and prevented my taking Darshan. This happened

thrice. I was deeply disappointed, nay mortified. Anyhow, let me have the merit

of feeding him. I thought, and went home, I sent up a man to that Brahmachari

with food. I was agreeably surprised to learn that he accepted it. Then I was

emboldened to go to him once again and asked him why he would not permit me to

bow to him and to take Darshan. He said no reply.

"You call yourself a Kirtankar. Have you left off Ahankar i.e., Egotism?"

I: No. How can I? Each man has Ahankar.

He: Did you not feel Ahankar, when sending me food, feeding that it was you that

were sending food etc.,?

I: Ahankar being of three sorts Satwik, Rajasic and Tamasic some sort of Ahankar

would underlie all actions; only the worst forms are to be sunned.

He was not of that opinion. He wanted me to drown my ego completely. He was

always reading my mind. He gave me some samples of his power.

He: Are you not engaged in writing the lives of Saints?

I: Yes

Then he quoted a few lines of verse that I had just composed six days ago and

not published in any way. I have taken aback by the Antaryamitva of his. Again

he asked me "Did you not get Ganga water from the feet of Sai Baba?"

I: Yes.

He: What did you do with it?

I: I sprinkled it over my head.

He: And you did not drink it, because you thought you were a brahmin and would

be polluted by drinking it. Look at your egotism.

Seeing his nature and powers, I daily spent three or four hours alone with him

at night. Some of those who were going to me and having good opinion of me and

a poor opinion of that Brahmachari wondered at my conduct and one of them (let

us merely give him some random name as Mr. Beake) Beake began to heckle me

about it. I told him that Brahmachari had psychic power and could even know the

contents of other minds. Beake doubted my veracity and I had to take him once to

the Brahmachari and tell the latter of Beake’s unbelief. Then following a very

interesting conversation.

Brahmachari: (to me) what? You want to make an exhibition of me, as though I were a monkey?

I: No. But this person is full of unbelief.

Brahmachari: (to Beake) Shall I tell you some fact then about yourself.

Beake: Yes.

Brahmachari: Had you not immoral relations with Z?

Beake: No.

Brahmachari: Was not Z that was maintaining you and supporting you for a long time?

Beake: No.

Then Brahmachari clinched the whole matter of his truthfulness and his power by immediate proof.

Brahmachari: Shall I tell you what is in your packet?

Beake: Yes.

Brahmachari: You have a letter from the Raja of Kolhapur about the affairs of

‘Satya Samaj’, which you are supporting. Take the letter out and give it to

Maharaj (i.e., me Das Ganu) (That was done)

Then the Brahmachari gave full details of the contents of the letter. My friend

was flabbergasted. He had placed the letter in my hand. Every word spoken of it

by Saint was true, and it proved that consequently what was said about Z also

must be true. As my friend felt humiliated and would make some progress if I

left him alone with the Saint, I felt him there and went away. My friend did

improve in giving up his bad associations and his other bad habits. The Saint’s

name and fame spread so quickly that the Tahsildar insisted on my producing him

one evening for delivering a Pravachan. The Tahsildar the Autocrat of Cham of

the taluk, of course, believed that the Saint could not decline to go the

meeting nor decline to speak. But before the day fixed for the meeting, it was

discovered that the Saint left that place. He left it for good and was never

again seen or heard off.

(Written by HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha Swamiji during June 1936, Devotees Experiences Vol.3)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small

voice of conscience.

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya...

Srila Prabhupäda: Everyone is suffering here in the material world, and

scientific improvement means that the scientists are creating a situation of

further suffering. That's all. They are not making improvements. Bhaktivinoda

Thakura confirms this by saying: "By so-called scientific improvements, the

scientist has become an ass." Moreover, he is becoming a better and better ass,

and nothing more. Suppose that by working very hard like an ass, a person builds

a skyscraper. He may engage in a lifelong labor for this, but ultimately he must

die. He cannot stay; he will be kicked out of his skyscraper, because material

life is impermanent. Scientists are constantly doing research, and if you ask

them what they are doing, they say, "Oh, it is for the next generation, for the

future." But I say, "What about you? What about your skyscraper? If in your next

life you are going to be a tree, what will you do with your next generation

then?" But he is an ass. He does not know

that he is going to stand before his skyscraper for ten thousand years. And what

about the next generation? If there is no petrol, what will the next generation

do? And how will the next generation help him if he is going to be a cat, a dog

or a tree?

The scientists—and everyone else—should endeavor to achieve freedom from the

repetition of birth and death. But instead, everyone is becoming more and more

entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Bhave 'smin klisyamänänäm

avidyä-käma-karmabhih. This is a quotation from Srimad -Bhagavatam (1.8.35).

Here in one line the whole material existence is explained. This is literature.

This one line is worth thousands of years of research work. It explains how the

living entity is taking birth in this world, where he comes from, where he is

going, what his activities should be, and many other essential things. The

words bhave 'smin klisyamänänäm refer to the struggle for existence. Why does

this struggle exist? Because of avidyä, ignorance. And what is the nature of

that ignorance? Käma-karmabhih, being forced to work simply for the senses, or

in other words, entanglement in material sense gratification.

Student: So, is it true that modern scientific research increases the demands of

the body because the scientist is ultimately working to gratify his senses?

Srila Prabhupäda: Yes.

>From the book, Life Comes From Life

 

 

 

 

 

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