Jain Digest 1994 06 Special Issue

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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GURUJI'S TALK ON
IMAGINATION
Years ago, after I gave a lecture in Ujjain, a young man came up to me. He was very bright and active and a beautiful orator. He told me, "Muniji, when you were giving the lecture, so many times I saw your hair standing up, and I was thinking, what is going on? Sometimes, light was appearing, and another time I saw what looked like Lord Paraswanath sitting behind your head. The face was so beautiful and peaceful. On top of your head I saw the cobra snakes." The young man was talking, and I was thinking, "This must be his imagination. I have so much love for Lord Paraswanath, but it is not possible he can appear like this." Then one day when I was sitting in meditation, something appeared, I felt a special presence but I had some doubt and was thinking it was my imagination. Slowly, I began to realize that the imagination is a gift of supreme nature. All things are appearing in the world by imagination. It is not a simple thing, we must love and respect it. My attitude changed about imagination. After that, I did not feel that it was a false thing; I began to see that it is the beginning of reality. Now, this is my firm faith, but without experience you can't increase your confidence. So many times I talk inside with Lord Paraswanath. He is a perfect Siddha. You can't talk with him as an embodied being, but if your faith is perfect and strong, then he will appear. This is due to your will and your power of imagination. I decided by imagination, by will, by meditation, by visualization, we can contact with the supreme powers. Imagination becomes reality. Lord Mahavir did so much meditation, so his image, his vibration, his electric current is here - everywhere, even now. Then why can't we contact him. During the cow protection movement in 1966 in India, when it was reaching its climax, one time I was talking inside, “Lord Mahavir, am I doing good? Can we get success?" And the answer came clearly, "If you are honest in your purpose, success or failure is not so important, but sincerity, dedication and pure motive are. If you have perfect love in your purpose, then purpose is perfect." Imagination appeared in reality so many times in my life. I saw many small things, and I saw very big things. I talked so many times with Dada Guru Jin Chandra Suriji Maharaj. He lived 800 years ago. I asked him hundreds of questions and
he gave perfect answers. He was the one who told me that I would come to America and that I would establish many centers in the world. I talked with Maharaj Roop Chandji, who appeared to me many times in my life. Maharaj left his body more than 100 years ago. In India, years ago, I was suffering from a 105 degree temperature in the hospital after an operation. I was feeling very sick - so much pain. I called on Roop Chandji Maharaj, and told him that I wanted to remove the fever. (Mostly in my life, I did not do anything for myself. I did not use mantra for personal gains or for self-healing.) Maharaj told me, "Your karma is not finished. You have to suffer." I asked him, "How can I believe you? Can you remove my pain for one hour?" He removed it instantly, but said, “In one hour your fever and pain will return." Then he left... After that I was normal.” The doctor checked me and my temperature was normal. I was walking around eating and talking and I forgot what Maharaj had said. Exactly one hour later, my fever returned to 105 degrees and the great pain again filled me. One day in 1978 I visited a beautiful chapel in Hamilton, N.Y. It was very calm and quiet, and a comfortable place for meditation. Inside there was a large crucifix. I sat for meditation and before long I heard a voice saying, "I am accepting you. You will get all things, my disciple. You will get success, but it will take time...”I opened my eyes and saw the cross converting into Christ, and Christ converting into the cross. I was watching this, and blinking my eyes, but the figure of Christ was very much alive. He told me some things (which are to be kept secret), and he showed me my future. These experiences have no concern with sect or religion, truth is truth, reality is reality. You are Christ, you are Krishna, you are Mahavir, Buddha, Paraswanath, Mohammed, you are God. You can contact the divine. In the first stages, have faith in you imagination, then you can convert yourself. You are divine. Forget yourself, dissolve yourself into the divine object, and the object will appear in front of you.
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June 1994
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