PROMISES OF THE ALMIGHTY
Promises of Mahayogi Baba Lokenath
"Whenever you are in danger, remember Me. I shall save you. "
"I can do whatever I like.
It is only your lack of trust, your non-belief, that keeps your desires unfulfilled."
"You may not know me.
You may not realize who I am.
Just pray to me with a little touch of your heart,
and I shall free you from gripping sorrows and miseries."
"No power on heaven or earth can damage the devotees who take shelter under me.
For there is none greater than me to punish you. "
"For those who with love and devotion surrender to me,
if they are in trouble, my heart melts.
"For those who with love and devotion surrender to me,
if they are in trouble, my heart melts.
This is my compassion.
And with my compassion, my power flows out to them,
freeing them from miseries and unhappiness. "
freeing them from miseries and unhappiness. "
"For more than a hundred years, I have traveled through the hills and mountains and have amassed enough spiritual treasures.
You shall sit at home and enjoy the fruits of my austerities. "
"If ever you should feel a sense of gratitude towards me,
give some alms to the poor.
Whatever you may give to the poor, neglected and downtrodden brethren of yours with true love,
I shall always receive it."
"I willingly reveal myself to you.
Therefore, you are in a position to reach me, or else, it is impossible. "
"I am Eternal. I am Deathless. I AM LOKENATH BABA."
"If ever you should feel a sense of gratitude towards me,
give some alms to the poor.
Whatever you may give to the poor, neglected and downtrodden brethren of yours with true love,
I shall always receive it."
"I willingly reveal myself to you.
Therefore, you are in a position to reach me, or else, it is impossible. "
"I am Eternal. I am Deathless. I AM LOKENATH BABA."
BE AN ARDENT FOLLOWER OF LOKENATH BABA AND EXPERIENCE THE CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE.
AND JUST BELIEVE THIS IS REAL.
AND JUST BELIEVE THIS IS REAL.
TEACHINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY
Enlightenment-I
Lokenath Baba eventually reached the pinnacle of Realization.
He had attained the Self,
that state of being one with the Absolute ground of reality.
He was at one with the Beloved.
There were a number of times when Baba did speak of the enlightened state:
"Words are such poor vehicles to express the inner experience.
Any attempt to reduce it to words only belittles the Ultimate Truth.
It is like the mute trying to express the taste of nectar."
"Everything that exists in the infinite creation exists within Myself.
"Everything that exists in the infinite creation exists within Myself.
The whole Universe is within Me.
I am existence beyond space, time and causation.
My existence is without beginning or end.
I exist in eternal expansion.
Whoever achieves that state can never fall from it.
Nothing can ever again be seen in isolation.
Everything is seen as the expression of the One.
In variety is the taste of Unity.
Everything that exists in the Cosmos,
I feel it existing within my serf.
I have become like that vast limitless expanse existing in eternity."
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"The Gita is not some reading material that needs to be read regularly as a routine.
You must become the Gita - that is the whole purpose of the Gita.
The Gita is a melody; it is a song.
No music lover just reads the music.
He must need to listen to it to realize its rhythm and harmony.
The Eternal Lord has been singing this divine song from time immemorial in the hearts of millions.
But we are always busy thinking about the past, doing the present and dreaming about the future,
hence we never hear this song."
"See the children - see how natural and unconditional their love and devotion is for their mother.
There is no hypocrisy, no false vanity.
With such simplicity and trust you must surrender yourself to the Divine Authority.
Demand from Him as purely as the child demands from his parents.
Pray to Him as if He is the only one you can totally trust, as if He is the one on whom you can exert all your rights.
Only then will you realize that you have come so much closer to Him,
that he is not far from you - in fact,
you will comprehend that He is the one sitting deep in your heart. "
"The difference between Bhog and Upabhog is like that between the husband of a woman and her lover.
Upabhog is illicit pleasure;
pleasure without proper control and without the sanction of the scriptures.
When you transgress the injunctions of the scriptures and enjoy the life of senses - that is Upabhog.
Upabhog can never give you mental peace and happiness.
However, you can attain spiritual peace of mind through Bhog,
which is pleasure with a sense of control and in accordance with the shaastras.
Through Bhog, you can even experience His Divine Grace. "
TEACHINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY
Enlightenment-II
"The three shots that cause all the sorrow and misery in this world are - insulting words, loss of wealth, loss of most near and dear ones.
One who bears with patience the pain of all these three shots will be able to conquer death.
"Darkness disappears with the rising sun.
The thief runs away when the householder awakens.
Likewise, contemplate on the higher qualities and the lower instincts in you will run away, and your body will become the temple of the Divine. "
"I only ask you to perform all your actions consciously.
Do whatever you like but do it consciously and with a sense of awareness.
Once you become conscious and aware,
you will find that your conscience prevents you from doing any evil deed.
Any such deed that brings you a sense of repentance and grief after it is done is a sin;
any action that creates a peaceful and happy state of mind is a virtue. "
"The three shots that cause all the sorrow and misery in this world are - insulting words, loss of wealth, loss of most near and dear ones.
One who bears with patience the pain of all these three shots will be able to conquer death.
"Darkness disappears with the rising sun.
The thief runs away when the householder awakens.
Likewise, contemplate on the higher qualities and the lower instincts in you will run away, and your body will become the temple of the Divine. "
Recalling His time in the Himalayas,
Baba Lokenath said, "While in samadhi, heaps of snow would cover My body and would melt away.
In that sublime state I had no feeling of the existence of My body.
I was in that state of samadhi for a long time. Then, finally the effortless state of the Ultimate Truth was revealed.
In that state of consciousness, there was no difference between me, the rest of the cosmos and all its manifestations.
The inner and the outer all merged into each other as an expression of ultimate bliss, absolute joy.
There is no state beyond this to be achieved in human life with total effort and divine grace."
"Renunciation comes through acceptance of everything that life has to offer to you; detachment comes through your love for the Divine. "
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ALMIGHTY
Conscious Awareness
To the question, "What is the path to a happy and peaceful life?"
To the question, "What is the path to a happy and peaceful life?"
Baba spontaneously replied, "Do whatever you like, but do it consciously, with a sense of awareness."
The questioner, however, continued, "If You give Me permission to do as I please, then what would You say if I hit somebody's head with a stick?"
Baba smiled and replied, "Do it and see. I asked you to perform all actions consciously. Once you become conscious and aware, you will find that your conscience will prevent you form hurting anyone."
The evils in society are perpetrated because awareness is absent.
All evil actions are the result of unconsciousness.
Baba gave another fruitful instruction. "If you intend to become spiritual, you must analyze your actions and thoughts each day before you go to bed at night. You must assess the good actions and evil actions and come to a firm resolution not to repeat evil actions anymore."
A seeker should try to practice all activities in a state of awareness.
Most recurring actions that flow from lust, anger, greed, jealousy and the like manifest only in a state of unawareness.
The seeds of these tendencies lie dormant in the subconscious layers of the mind.
Each Creation is Great in Itself
One day, Baba was visited by a pundit from a local school who proceeded to lecture Him on the scriptures.
As the pundit was talking, a crow began making an unpleasant sound which the pundit found intolerable.
He threw a stone to make the crow fly away only to have the bird return immediately to the same branch and resume making noise.
To Baba, the bird was freely expressing the beauty of its existence through its own sound. When the pundit tried to drive it away a second time,
Baba interfered. "You have driven away the crow because the sound seemed very unpleasant to your ears, but your sound, too, seems to Me equally unpleasant and disturbing."
The pundit was shocked because a crow is a crow and man is the master, superior to all creatures.
To Baba, each and every creature is itself a manifestation of Divinity.
He felt the same about the smallest ant as the highest being.
As a result, hate had no place in His heart.
Baba wants us to know that nothing should be looked down upon.
Be Angry but Do Not Become Blind with Anger
Baba also says, "Be angry but do not become blind with anger."
Never allow anger to possess you.
Then it blinds you.
When anger is given free rein, it bursts out and causes damage -- not only to the person at whom the anger is directed, but also, more seriously, at all levels of being to the one who is angry.
Let anger become conscious.
Step back, be a witness to anger and its mechanisms, to what is appropriate and inappropriate in the situation.
The show of appropriate anger in daily life may be inevitable.
The parent chastising a child, the teacher reprimanding the student, may call out a display of anger in protective guidance.
No one should be consumed by anger.
Remain a vehicle of appropriate and conscious expressions of anger, always working for the highest possible good.
Then anger cannot possess or damage the mind or body, or thwart the purposes of the soul.
Each Creation is Great in Itself
One day, Baba was visited by a pundit from a local school who proceeded to lecture Him on the scriptures.
As the pundit was talking, a crow began making an unpleasant sound which the pundit found intolerable.
He threw a stone to make the crow fly away only to have the bird return immediately to the same branch and resume making noise.
To Baba, the bird was freely expressing the beauty of its existence through its own sound. When the pundit tried to drive it away a second time,
Baba interfered. "You have driven away the crow because the sound seemed very unpleasant to your ears, but your sound, too, seems to Me equally unpleasant and disturbing."
The pundit was shocked because a crow is a crow and man is the master, superior to all creatures.
To Baba, each and every creature is itself a manifestation of Divinity.
He felt the same about the smallest ant as the highest being.
As a result, hate had no place in His heart.
Baba wants us to know that nothing should be looked down upon.
Be Angry but Do Not Become Blind with Anger
Baba also says, "Be angry but do not become blind with anger."
Never allow anger to possess you.
Then it blinds you.
When anger is given free rein, it bursts out and causes damage -- not only to the person at whom the anger is directed, but also, more seriously, at all levels of being to the one who is angry.
Let anger become conscious.
Step back, be a witness to anger and its mechanisms, to what is appropriate and inappropriate in the situation.
The show of appropriate anger in daily life may be inevitable.
The parent chastising a child, the teacher reprimanding the student, may call out a display of anger in protective guidance.
No one should be consumed by anger.
Remain a vehicle of appropriate and conscious expressions of anger, always working for the highest possible good.
Then anger cannot possess or damage the mind or body, or thwart the purposes of the soul.
ONLY A LITTLE ABOUT THE ALMIGHTY.
Baba Lokenath (1730-1890)
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari.
The Saint of Bengal: Here is one sage who predicted that a century after his death, he would be greatly revered by one and all. True enough, at present, his is a household name in Bengal. Nearly every Hindu Bengali home has his idol placed in the family altar, huge temples are being built in his honour, thousands of devotees bow before him and glorify him as their Guru and Lord. He is Baba Lokenath.
Baba is Born: Baba Lokenath was born on Janmasthami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, in 1730 (18th Bhadra, 1137) to a Brahmin family in the village of Chaurasi Chakla, a couple of miles away from Kolkata. His father, Ramnarayan Ghosal's sole wish in life was to dedicate one child to the path of renunciation to liberate the family. So when the fourth son was born to his wife Kamaladevi, he knew that the time had come for him to initiate his boy to the service of the Almighty.
Education & Training: Accordingly, he ventured to a nearby village of Kochuya and pleaded with Pandit Bhagawan Ganguly to be his son's guru and teach him the Shastras rich in Vedic wisdom. At the age of 11, young Lokenath left home with his guru. His first sojourn was the Kalighat Temple, then for 25 years he lived in the forests, selflessly serving his master and practising the Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali along with the most difficult Hatha Yoga.
Penance & Enlightenment: Baba Lokenath was nearly seven feet tall with little flesh on him. Denying the needs of his physical self, he negated sleep, never closed his eyes or even blinked. He went about stark naked and in that state he braved the chill of the Himalayas and immersed himself in profound meditation or samadhi for nearly five decades. Finally, the light of self-realization dawned on him at the age of 90.
Baba's Travels on Foot: After his enlightenment he traveled extensively on foot to Afghanistan, Persia, Arabia and Israel, making three pilgrimages to Mecca. When he came to the small town Baradi near Dhaka, a wealthy family built him a small hermitage, which became his ashram. He was then 136 years of age. There he put on a sacred thread and clothed himself in saffron robes. For the rest of his life he bestowed miracles and celestial wisdom on all who came to him to seek blessing.
Baba's Teachings: His teachings were infused with simplicity that endeared the common man. He preached love and devotion and an unwavering faith in God and in one's deeper, immutable self. For him nothing is but Self. After attaining siddhi or enlightenment he said: "I have seen only Myself. I am bound by my own karma. The materialistic world is bound by the tongue and the sex organ. He who can restrain these two is fit to attain siddhi (enlightenment)."
Baba Leaves His Physical Body: On the 19th day of Jyestha, 1297 (June 3, 1890), at 11:45 am, the Baba was seated in his usual Gomukh yoga asana. He went into a trance with his eyes open, and while still meditation, the Baba left his physical body forever. He was aged 160. He said, before death: "I am eternal, I am deathless."
"In Danger, Remember Me": It is believed that Baba Lokenath appeared in a vision to Suddhananda Brahamachari in 1978, over 100 years after he died, commanding him to write his life story, and he wrote the Baba's biography entitled "In Danger, Remember Me". Today, Lokenath Brahmachari is the household deity of millions of Bengali families on both sides of the border.
"Do not think that with the death of this body everything will come to an end.
Baba Lokenath's Divine Presence
Today, Baba is no longer in His physical body. He is the Divine, all-pervading presence, the presence that works silently in the hearts of all who are devoted to Him.
"When ignorant people see me in my ordinary human form, they consider me likewise.
They do not realize that I am the Paramount Being,
the Paramaatman - the one that pervades the Universe. "
"Because I eat, drink, attend to the call of nature and live like any one of you, you think of Me as one like you. Your greatest mistake is to think of Me as a body. How am I to explain who I am? Everyone is so involved in the fulfillment of small desires, so unconscious, so forgetful of the true 'I'."
"Because I eat, drink, attend to the call of nature and live like any one of you, you think of Me as one like you. Your greatest mistake is to think of Me as a body. How am I to explain who I am? Everyone is so involved in the fulfillment of small desires, so unconscious, so forgetful of the true 'I'."
"Do not think that with the death of this body everything will come to an end.
I shall be as available to you as ever when I was in My physical body.
Only the body will be burnt to ashes.
That 'I' which is not the body will never perish.
I am the Changeless, Immutable One who is never lost nor finished.
Where and whenever anybody needs My help,
I shall be available forever after."
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