Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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0..m! Parama-siva susumņā-pathena mūlasrmgātam ullasa ullasa
jvala jvala prajvala prajvala soham hamsaḥ svāhā //
(5) Om ! From the cross-way of the gross elements, to the head, through the path of Susumnā, I join (my) Śiva-soul with the status of the Supreme Siva (in the lotus having a thousand petals), svāhā; Om ! Dry up, dry up, the astral body, svāhā; Burn out, burn out the contracted (i.e. the causal) body, svāhā; Om! O Supreme Siva, through the path of Susumnā, please make the cross-way (of the gross elements) at the bottom (of the spinal cord) blossom, make it blossom, enkindle it enkindle it, enkindle it brightly, enkindle it brightly, svāhā.
In my case, while I was busy with the slow breathing as per the instructions, the moment the respected Guruji started uttering the mystic syllable Om, suddenly, my body started shaking and bending forward and backwards, and perform various Yogāsanas. Later on, various scenes started appearing mentally. Guruji explained that it was the process of emptying the past latent mental impressions, to cleanse the gross elements (bhūta-buddhi). And, as days and months passed, after the Mahārāshri left Ahmedabad and went to another place, we were asked to practice dhydna daily at our residence in the evening. And, both of us, myself and my wife, used to sit regularly for meditation daily in the evening at the twilight time.
Later on, in the year 1969, (near Deesa, in North Gujarat), he proposed to perform the sacrifice called the Maha-visnu-yaga, and asked us to go with him to Bandhawad, stay with him in his Ashram there for about a month, and supervise the store for the sacrifice. We obeyed him.
Thereafter, next year, i.e., in 1970, there was a famine in the Banaskantha District, and Mahārājshri asked us (me and my wife Niranjanā) to go with him to Bandhawad to supervise, on his behalf, the famine-relief work of digging the village tank, started by the P.W.D. people. At the end of a month, when we were to return home, at Visnagar, I requested him to bless me with his Dhyana-mantras, and also a secret Guptaa-cālisa hymn of Hanumānji. He joyfully blessed the three of us, viz., Jadadishbhai Dave, myself and Sankalchand Patel, saying that when any one of us will recite these Dhyana-mantras before the gathering of his aspirant devotees sitting for meditation, the Shakti-pāta will automatically take place in the case of the aspirants.
When we returned to Visnagar, we tested this new capability of each of the three of us on our friends by making them seat for meditation, and it proved right. The ones on whom the experiment was done by us individually were Arjuna Vāghelā, Bhikhu Rāvala, Manu Prajāpati,
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