| An august spiritual saint can vibrate the whole world by the power of his thought waves and the force of his sentiments without even moving out of his chamber or cave. While sitting in his closed room in any corner of the earth, the charge of his spirituality can storm the grand expansion of the subtle world and transmute evil instincts into good will and divine sentiments. There is no exaggeration or illusive imagination in these expressions. This possibility has indeed been realized several times in the history of mankind. The endeavors (saadhanaas) of Maharshi Arvindo and Maharshi Raman have set evidential examples in this context only a few decades ago.
Maharshi Arvindo had performed higher level yoga saadhanaas silently in his lonely chamber in Pandichery. As per his resolution, his spiritual energy had charged the entire Indian territory with patriotic sentiments. This charge was manifested in the enthusiasm and excitement of millions of freedom fighters in the movement of the independence of India. What the revolutionary Arvind Ghosh would have only dreamt was easily materialized by his saadhanaas after self-realization.
The endeavors of Maharshi Raman, Madame Blawetski and Ledbeater also fall in the above category of spiritual experiments. Yugrishi Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya had successfully performed the highest kinds of saadhanaas throughout his life; this included twenty-four Mahaapurashcharanas of Gaayatree continued for twenty-four years. Details on these saadhanaas are covered in volume nos. 9 to 14 of the Vangmaya series. The present volume focuses on his very special saadhanaa of sookshmeekarana - subtlization and sublimation of the life-force. Much before the commencement of this unique spiritual experiment he had hinted about this venture through his writings.
In his words - "the last twenty years of the 20th century and the first five years of the 21st century constitute the period of yug sandhi - junction between two eras. It is an emergency period when we will have to dedicate our endeavors to serve the dual purpose of preventing the decline and destruction of human dignity and simultaneously establishing the righteous trends of elevation and development in multiple dimensions of life. Each one of us will have to play his role with responsibility during this critical phase. I will continue to devote every second of my life, every impulse of my vital energy without pause until the dawn of the divine era becomes visible."
Gurudev Shriram Sharma had described his sookshmeekarana saadhana as a spiritual endeavor to set the foundation of the edifice of the new and bright era. During the two years period (1984-1986) of this arduous saadhanaa he had practically shut himself in a single room at Shantikunj, Hardwar. This was equivalent to the esoteric experiments carried out by the ancient rishis in the caves in the thick forests on the Himalayas. In the present volume Gurudev has highlighted the ascetic disciplines, practices of yoga and samaadhi (trance) associated with this saadhanaa in which the vital force from every cell, every molecule of the body is extracted and concentrated for sublime transformation into what is termed in the spiritual literature as the chhaayaa purusha or the etheric body. He has also described the subtle experiences of support received form the latent or the invisible beings. Readers will get to know how the great souls receive the inspirations and guidance from the subtle world as help in their dedicated endeavors aimed at noble purposes – such as, those of the arousal and refinement of human sentiments.
The sookshmikarana saadhanaa of revered Gurudev also incorporated the Saavitree saadhanaa of pancha kosha jaagarana in which the five gradually subtler layers of consciousness – namely, the annamaya kosha (gross body cell), praanamaya kosha (vital-body or energy-body cell), manomaya kosha (mind cell), vigyaanamaya kosha (knowledge cell) and aanandamaya kosha (beatitudeous bliss cell) - are activated and spiritually transmuted in five different streams of power which can virtually be like five divine associates. In simple terms, this would correspond to a sublime transformation of the individual self into five subtle beings. Gurudev refers these divine associates as "veerabhadras"... |
