DYING IS ALWAYS FRIGHTFUL
You see, the person is too nervous and afraid and full of fear, because he is dying; and who has never done Kriya yoga and never so he has not expose to such experiences like Naada and light appearing; suddenly if these things will happen – he will be afraid and will try run away from it: and that will change his destiny.
Q: his reaction I could understand – but why exactly the shining disappears?
Guruji: they are too busy to remain appearing always for a fearful person. He will continue to be more afraid – so why to be after him? That shining may be the consciousness of the Void.
Q: but why they give another chance?
Guruji: they have compassion.
Q: who created this exact pattern of two chances?
Guruji: Kaal: Time Itself. As a religious person you can blame everything on god: god created this and that; but nobody knows for sure.
PRANA IS SHIVA
Q: we discussed so many times that prana is the Time?
Guruji: look at the Sanskrit dictionary: Prana is one of the names of Shiva, and only Shiva is worshipped as Time.
Q: so could we say that prana is the embodiment of Time?
Guruji: maybe the Time itself.
Q: the notion of liana: you’re entering the house of the 108 lianas – what it could be?
Guruji: this is the house with 108 doors: maybe it’s the door to the different dimension. A door is a very mysterious thing.
Q: it’s not connected with nadis?
Guruji: you can connect it; and it may be connected with your breath also: in 12 hours – 108.
DESTINY AND DESTINATION
Q: I heard the story that when Guru gave her Kriya – and after she didn’t drink and she didn’t eat?
Guruji: Guru gave her a certain mantra with a certain ritual. Kriya doesn’t always mean that you’re practicing some yoga. Every ritual is called kriya. And that was the power of the certain mantra. But even without eating she was growing old naturally.
Q: but You said that for us like practitioners the food is needed?
Guruji: yes. It is written in Gita: you must enough eat, enough sleep – only then success will come. If you want your body to achieve certain goal.
First we develop our brain – then perception will come.
Q: if you see the destiny of the person, being in samadhi; can you see the future lives destiny?
Guruji: destiny is not enough; I’ve just told you: destiny is not your destination. If you’re able to see the destination of that man – then only you will be able to see some future. Seeing destiny is just consulting your road map.
Q: if you can see the destiny – you will see also the several lives?
Guruji: first you will see your own destiny and destination; first you will confirm and relaxed about your own self- then you will notice others.
TEST FOR THE SEEKERS
Q: is it true that Lahiri Mahasaya took the 5 rupees for initiation and 10 rupees from widows?
Guruji: no idea. I was told nothing so I’m teaching for free. I also don’t believe that siddha like Babaji, who can create the palace made of gold in a single moment – he won’t go for 5 rupees.
Q: so it’s misinformation
Guruji: no, it may be true: it may be just a test for the seeker. Maybe because of that.
ABOUT AURA
Q: what happens with the aura when electrical body is completely formed?
Guruji: aura will become extraordinary; it will remain.
Q: first the aura is formed, then vayu sharir?
Guruji: they formed simultaneously. Aura is just the reflection of electromagnetic charges – which we say are our thoughts and our perceptions. Down towards they are electromagnetic charges.
Q: but as I understand even not a yogis could have aura more or less developed if they are wisemen or someone like that?
Guruji: aura depends on how much charges you’re having in your brain: everybody has aura.
Q: aura is like another charges?
Guruji: no, it’s just the reflection. It is not coming from outside to influence you.
HOW TO PRACTICE INTENSELY
Q: sometimes when I practice – I feel all that beauty and perfection of the practice and I understand it’s enough – but sometimes I think I can do more?
Guruji: that is doing beyond your limits, ok
Q: should I each time go beyond no matter if I’m tired or I have the pain in my neck – or it should be the middle way?
Guruji: take the middle way and keep pushing yourself. When you’re comfortable in a middle way – do more.
Q: because my heart tells me that everyday going beyond the limit may be not so good
Guruji: so finally you discovered – you have the heart( smiling)
…then only you realise that: that’s why we’re regular and consistent. Suppose something will happen and I will be not able to do full practice: it happens only twice a year: Shivaratri night and Janmashtami night – next day the face look different. It is different than before. Then it takes about 4-5-7 days for back to normal.
COMMUNICATING WITH THE IMMORTAL YOU FEEL ONLY FEAR!
Q: so many people claims that they were met Babaji and talked with him like we are talking; but You said that it was the real outstanding experience – and mostly he was talking?
Guruji: you’re not brave enough to ask him anything. It was one way communication. And in Benares I had I diary with me – usually old diary – he made me write in it: write down, you may forget! And that 57th birthday thing – I was remembering it almost every day, because it’s a technical program; but started to practice it at the birthday 57. You cannot dare to ask such a higher being only fear you experience. And exhilaration comes when you’re telling the stories after you came home- till then you’re shaking with fear. Second time he came after 7 years. Now it is 26 years gone.
Q: it must be specified for a certain reason
Guruji: it is impossible for us to even imagine how immortal person must be thinking and what are his motive. I’ve been wrecking my brains just to have some idea; why? – no answer to that why. But I consider myself blessed and very lucky: it was like winning lottery.
You see, when we read Yogananda’s book – the first thought comes to the mind: maybe some day Babaji we will see face to face. And when you’re beginning to practice Kriya yoga – this thing is always in the back of your mind: maybe I’ll see Babaji one day – but he rarely appears. I was lucky. Like it’s our lineage and as a disciple it’s our duty to honour his wishes: if he doesn’t want to reveal his identity – we should respect it. Such a personality will not do anything without very big reason.
WISDOM
Chanakya said it and I’ve read it 55 plus years back: there are only three most expensive jewels in this creation: food, water and sweet words. Idiots considers stones as jewels. I agree with him absolutely.
THE RITE OF SHAVING THE HAIR OF A NEWBORN
When a child has born and his head is not shaved – past life memory will retain. And he will never be existed with the new family. It’s a point with every family that they shave those delivery hairs: many children are taking birth with them.
Even if some memory remains – because it is very difficult for a child to exist with a new family; if the old memory will continue to be with him- so they just sit him on a potter’s wheel and rotating him anticlockwise 7 times or 11 times – and all the memories are gone. This is how it happens.
AGHOR JAPA
Q: what do You think about famous Aghor mantra: Aghoerbhyo’tha Ghorebhyo Ghora Ghora etc?
Guruji: It is not connected with Aghori: whatever mantra they do – they do it very mysterious and secret, directly from Guru to disciple. These are known mantras – nobody cares about them.
Q: so it is like Namah Shivaya?
Guruji: it is like that: on the fifth face of Shiva, Aghor.
Q: what is the special aim of this mantra?
Guruji: to please Him: so He will look at you and grace you: that is a one point program.
Q: but You have seen Aghoris practicing japa?
Guruji: every Aghori is doing japa, but received from the Guru directly – they never say it loudly: nobody knows what they do.
Q: they use rudraksha mala?
Guruji: mostly.
Q: is it true that bija mantras are like zip archives and when you’re saying it – you’re unpacking mantra to the full version?
Guruji: no, bija mantra is the particular vibration, which can directly connect you with that particular power. I’ve never seen anyone more relaxed than Aghoris: fortunate I came across one or two – genuine ones.
Q: I remember the story when Aghori told You that the Soviet Union will fall
Guruji: yes, in 1985: who would have imagined? It came true within 5 years.
Q: it was only once You saw the alive Aghori?
Guruji: one more time, in a different smashan. Very normal, sweet nature; very relaxed.
Q: he was living directly on smashan – or just came to practice?
Guruji: he had lived there for 2 years- then his Guru called him away. Continuously he was not living there. He was from Dattatreya lineage. There are Gorakhnath’s also – but I’ve never come across.
Q: You talked with this second one?
Guruji: yes – but not so significant.
FROM ASHWATTHAM TO SHILENDRA SHARMA
Q: Your connection with Shiva and Shiva worship: what were the indication from Your childhood – except the vision of Mahadev in Bageshwar?
Guruji: we belong to Bharadwaj gotra: we’re descendants of Ashwatthaman and Dronacharya- so our Kula devata is Shiva. So maybe it is the family thing or the clan thing, that Shiva devotion and his grace stamps in our genes, DNA memories: it came very naturally to me. And after that vision in Himalayas when we were visiting my sister-in -law’s estate near Bageshwar – since then something changed inside my mind and I cannot be without talking about Him or reading about Him; and now we’re worshipping Him for nearly 25 years. And He is the first Guru of yoga as well; so it came very naturally to me, it was absolutely effortless. I never have to force myself to do it – it just started and we’re continue. He is our Kula devata. Amazing: our ancestors were fighting in Mahabharata, epic battle.
Q: You have the oldest gotra?
Guruji: no, Vashishtha gotra is even more older. We have record keepers; they keep record of the Bharadwaj clan – Vansh Parampara as they say. I send there my disciples and they found all the records, from Ashwatthaman to Shailendra Sharma. And I think: the more you know about your roots – you feel better, more confident, and you know where you belong.
Q: nowadays Ashwatthaman is one of the seven rishis?
Guruji: he is next Vyasa and one of the seven rishis
Q: so it will be like a forever team?
Guruji: it looks like forever: they are all immortals now in this team. And it is given in Vishnu purana in one chapter – so you can look into it.
Q: what do You think: that clans, which belongs to Ashwatthaman and other seven rishis – now they must be very prosperous?
Guruji: prosperous in many different ways: prosperity doesn’t always mean moneywise – but mostly they are doing well.
Q: rishis are supporting their clans, their gotras?
Guruji: if the clan’s men are behaving well – yes.
Q: but what about other rishi, who are not in big power now: are they supporting their clans?
Guruji: I think so, yes: some support is always there.
350 000 MAHAMUDRAS
If you will practice 20736 pranayamas in one time – you will experience samadhi.
Q: how many days it tooks?
Guruji: 12 days and 12 nights continuous.
Q: but physical body will…
Guruji: you will be beyond carrying of your physical body( smiling). So better to go slow.
As you know – I like to boast: we were calculating: in my 40 years of yoga practice – I will complete it in October, 39 years are done; that means I have practiced 350 000 plus mahamudras so far, if we take average 24 every day.
Q: apart from the practice?
Guruji: including practice 350 000 mahamudras are already behind me. We’re not philosophers: if a yogi is teaching somebody – he shows by his own example: it’s not a philosophy, it’s a practical approach.
Q: yes, I remember with mudgars: You were moving them 10, 20, 30 and more – but no fast heart beat?
Guruji: no hard feelings – no hard beatings(smiling). I’m still moving them every day. Actually it is a warriors exercise: when you can do 500 repetitions with mudgars, which I used to do, – you can move the sword whole day without tiredness. Search on google: Iranian wrestlers trains with mudgars: together, in unison, – this is fantastic thing to watch. And they use heavy mudgars. Amazing to see: hundreds wrestlers moving mudgars, together, in harmony, different exercises.
ABILITY YO TAKE THE STRONGEST OF DECISION
It can happen any time: there is no standard criteria for this.
Q: so samadhi can come in any yoni mudra in the practice?
Guruji: it can happen any time – even when you’re relaxing.
Q: I saw one guy in Thailand – he’s just the fighter, the sportsman; and he told me that he sat on the stone – then open his eyes and discovered that 5 days passed
Guruji: you’re sure he was not high on drugs or something?
Q: then he went to the north and start to live in a village where only drug people live; nobody care for the children – and he became a monk and said: only crazy monk like me can go to that crazy place – and he began to help this children, to train them…
Guruji: no, this is a technical question here: was he trying to help children – or was he trying to prove something for himself? What he was trying?
Q: the question is – was he really not feeling time and what was the experience?
Guruji: that is the rare case: everybody feels time. When I was in Puri – one Japan zen buddhist monk came: he was not a monk, because he was wearing white, normal clothes. We saw him sitting in lotus for 14 hours, not moving. We saw him sitting there in the morning – and till the late night he was sitting there: then he somehow opened his lotus and it took him more than one hour to be able to walk. No idea about khеchari, nothing: he said – this is our training: we’re forced to sit in lotus like this. So it’s a different principle then.
Q: but this 12 days and 12 nights only the person beyond the physical limits could do – you cannot tolerate it so long?
Guruji: who has reached the certain decision – only such a person will tackle this. Dharana: ability to take the strongest of decision and try to fulfil that .20736 pranayamas in one go. For a Russians it is very easy to master lotus: you just need to wear j-string and went outside where is minus 20 degrees and sit on the ice in lotus: you will be frozen in that(laughing), definitely! So very easy to master it.
Q: lotus position is obligatory in Kriya yoga?
Guruji: for higher mental states it is must.
HAIR IS A MEMORY
Q: how to understand that person was practicing yoga in previous incarnation?
Guruji: the understanding will be much deeper than a normal person and he or she will start trying to search the right path from the very early times.
Q: so it is not suitable for such a person to shave his head and remove his memories?
Guruji: he will remember: it’s absolutely different situation.
Q: practice he will remember no matter shaved or not?
Guruji: no, this is to remove the family memories.
VISHVAMITRA’S GAYATHRI
Q: Vishwamitra is guilty in killing the brahmins?
Guruji: yes, because sons of Vashishta he killed and never attorned for it.
Q: if Gayatri mantra carries his sin – so somehow person who is practicing it also gets this sin?
Guruji: definitely. And it is specially for Solar dynasty people, not for everybody – as now they are propagating. Every god has different gayatri mantras so we should find it: Google Baba knows everything.
Q: so if nowadays somebody will practice?
Guruji: I’ve seen them suffering. This is a conclusion after many years of observation. Nobody is happy.
Q: even if they are just listening to it?
Guruji: whatever: the impact will be there.
DON’T BE EGOISTIC
Q: I’m interested in the process, how to die correctly?
Guruji: why? You should be interested in the process, how to live correctly!
Q: I’ve read in Autobiography of the Yogi that Guru did the second Kriya and said to disciples – don’t be egoistic, it’s time for me to leave?
Guruji: that is Nabhi Kriya with breath. But we don’t know exactly.
Q: he knew how to behave in his last moments?
Guruji: he knew that, yes. The time will come and you will also know.
