The Earth Has a Good Future

Maharajji ’s Gurupurnima Message (summary), 18th July 2008

Dear souls,

Harmonize Yourselves With This Transformation

This is now the time of divine transformation, the awakening of consciousness on Earth. This is destined to happen, for it is the next step in the evolution of humanity on this planet.

May Sacha bless you with enlightenment. Today we are here to celebrate Gurupuja [religious celebration in honour of the Guru] so that we will connect our hearts with the Guru. In celebrating this puja, we will pray that the Guru will hear our prayer and fill our hearts with peace, honesty and love for all.

Harmonize yourselves with this transformation, remember me and connect yourselves strongly. So when maya wants you to repeat the karmic mistakes of humanity, this connection will save you and open you up so you become one with me. Then you will become free of the ego, the human demon.

Bhai Kanhaiya

I will give you an example from life of a very loving human being and his Guru.
Once there was an Indian who was both a ruler and a Guru. His name was Gobind Singh. At that time he was fighting Mogul people in a big war. He had a close devotee, Bhai Kanhaiya who was asked to go to the battle field and give water to the warriors. So he went out, and started give water to both Indian and Muslim warriors (Moguls were Muslims). At this, the people became very angry and ran to the Guru to complain about his conduct. Bhai Kanhaiya was sent to Guru Gobind Singh, who asked him to explain this behaviour.
Bhai Kanhaiya told him,
“Beloved Guru, I can’t see any difference between Indian and Muslim warriors; I only see Guru Gobind Singh.”
The Guru looked at his devotee and replied,
“I’m very pleased with you, Bhai Kanhaiya.”

My Guru Opened my Spiritual Eye

Look at my life. I was a simple clerk and I surrendered my life to my Guru, and that principle has always brought everything which was needed to the ashram and to the people living here. And much is needed to have an ashram. People always come here and support the ashram for a long time. For five years I have not left the ashram to ask anybody for anything. My Guru opened my spiritual eyes so that I could help humanity in this life.

Get Ignorance out of Your Heart

All I ask of you is to get ignorance out of your heart and become good devotees of Sacha. Follow the custom of dharma.
You Indian people have to change your opinions about Western people. They come here to India and have faith in the Vedas and puja; they worship and practise the dharma sincerely. You want to live in very modern style, giving up your spiritual practice, and that is not good. You should have faith in your religion. If you are fond of a worldly life, then maybe you will have to experience some of the destruction taking place. This will destroy all your plans.

The Lord will Always Remember You

In these days many people suffer from all kinds of diseases like cancer, tuberculosis, aids diabetes, high blood pressure etc. If you want to live a high life, sacrifice one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening for meditation, kirtan (devotional songs), havan (fire ceremony) or some kind of spiritual practice. This will be helpful for all.

It is important to see kindness in others and to be kind to one another. The best thing to do is to donate to people who are in need. Give food, clothing, donate money or do whatever you can for people who suffer in life. You will see that the Lord will always remember you and bless you.

Be honest in all aspects of life, especially those who are doing sadhana. Suffering will come when this has not been acquired as a living principle of life. You can realize this divine leela. You can also do this “Prabhu Aap Jago Paramatma Jago” mantra for your benefit and also for the world’s.

The Time to Reconnect With Me

The Earth has a good future. Are you ready to join this transformation?
Always remember God within and you will always have what you need. Guru Purnima is the time to reconnect with me.

OM SHRI SACHE MAHA PRABHU KI - JAY HO
PARMATMA KI - JAY HO
OM SHANTI

A Book on Maharajji and the Lineage Published

A book has just been published in English about Maharajji and the Sacha lineage. Its title is :
Shri Hans Raj Maharajji and the Dawn of a New Consciousness

The Contents
This book of 365 pages is divided into five main sections as follows:
Section 1 : Maharajji’s leelas or how Maharajji intervenes, sometimes in an extraordinary way in the lives of his disciples.
Section 2 : How certain men and women became his disciples.
Section 3 : A sketch of the life and work of the past Masters of the Sacha lineage with some unpublished anecdotes about Kacha Baba, Sacha Baba Girnari also known as Girnari Baba and finally Sacha Baba Kulanandji, Maharajji’s Master.
Section 4 : A sketch of the life and work of Maharajji. This section includes the heart of his message to humanity for Maharajji works above all for the entire humanity. We follow him through his childhood up to the time he dedicates himself to the Universal Good, where his life takes a radical turn one October day in 1955. He had gone to be healed of a chronic illness which was sapping his life. God asked him to heal the entire humanity ...
Section 5 : ShantiMayi, her meeting Maharajji, the circumstances of her enlightenment, the work she has undertaken since then and how some of her disciples came to her.

Back Cover
What does the back cover of the book say ?
“One day, when I was forty-one years old I went to bed at home as usual. I laid down, relaxed with my eyes closed and suddenly a picture appeared in my third eye. I had never seen anything like this before. A very peaceful man with very strong, pure love appeared. He smiled in a heartfelt way and looked directly into my eyes. He was sitting on a chair, dressed in white and had a long beard. I could see his upper body. After that, I woke up. I was very touched and wondered who this man was and what it meant,” says Monika from Switzerland.
Later on, she did indeed meet Maharajji during a trip to India and became his disciple like many others from the five continents...

“Maharajji” is the title that his disciples have given to the great saint Shri Hans Raj who lives in Rishikesh in India. He became enlightened in 1955, on the very next day after meeting his Master in Allahabad. He is the latest successor in a line of great saints which was started at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of leading the entire humanity in the great adventure — that of the spiritual Transformation or Parivartan which started off then and which is progressively unfolding decade after decade. This great Transformation, will be the means to overcome the upheavals in all fields of human life, and so bring more light, brotherhood and peace to all men if they seize the chance given. With total abnegation and a heart which encompasses each being, Maharajji works night and day for this task so that each human being on this planet, whatever he may be, will find true happiness.
In this book we will see Maharajji with his disciples through engrossing stories, and also a sketch of his life and work along with that of other Masters of the Sacha lineage.

How to order
This book will be available within a month in Europe for 18€. You can order on the following websites, given in alphabetic order :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://www.prajnaparamita.nl/engels/cdshop.shtml
http://www.sacha-cd.com/
It will also be sold in Australia, the United States (adhikari@shantimayi.com) and at Terre de Sacha in France (TdS@ShantiMayi.com).
A website which is being created in France will also be offering it for sale.
This list will therefore be completed later.

Maharajji’s Message at the Basant Panchami Festival (Monday, 11th February 2008)

Saints and the Sun Are Alike
Saints and the sun are alike. Just as the sun sends its rays all over the world without making any distinction between clean and dirty places, in the same way saints give their love and blessing to everyone, whether they are considered righteous or unrighteous, spiritually advanced or not. In the same way, the Ganges gives its coolness to everyone alike. One must love each being, for he is a child of God whatever he may seem to be. Whether one be good or bad, when one dives into the Ganges, not only does one get its coolness but one also benefits from the purification it offers spiritually. It is the same for saints when one goes to see them; whatever your status or the state you may be in, you receive their blessing.

The Guru is God
When I met Sacha Baba [Kulanandji] in 1953 and had his darshan for the first time, I immediately thought he was God Himself incarnated. I had complete faith in him. So whatever he told me to do, I obeyed; I had confidence in Him because for me it was God who was speaking. The Master is God, and one does not disobey. That is why in 1958, when Sacha Baba told me that if I could manage to fulfil the basic needs of the ashram [in Allahabad] for food, then he in turn would satisfy India’s basic needs for food, thus putting an end to recurrent famine in the country. I had faith in what he promised. I therefore went to Punjab to ask the people there to donate cereal, which I transported to Allahabad. I devoted myself to this task every year until 1972. My Master kept his promise, for today, India is self-sufficient in food. Today, Tripathi is the one who is continuing this task for those who live at the ashram in Allahabad, by going around and asking for donations of cereal.

Empty Your Heart for the Master
One day I had a profound mystical experience where I had the darshan of three great Divine Mothers, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi et Mahasaraswati. Tripathi was with me that night. When I wanted to bow down before Them, They refused for they said, “You are Narada, you are Vishnu, you are God.” Then I understood that Sacha Baba wanted to incarnate in me. I sent Tripathi to tell him that I did not want him to incarnate in me because my body was too fragile and could not bear a large amount of divine energy. So if he could incarnate in the body of a young disciple or of a more appropriate person, it would be better for me. Sacha Baba replied that the first thing was that I thought that I would always be just sitting at his feet at his ashram in Allahabad, whereas one day, I would have to take care not only of that ashram, but also of another one and of the whole world too. Secondly, he could only use a place which had been cleared out, not one which was cluttered up, for there was no space at all there. “As you have emptied your heart and your heart is longing to be with me, I will come into you, and will work through you for the whole world.”

If You Worship Your Guru, He Will Give You What You Ask
When time came for Sita to get married, a competition was organized, as was the custom in those days. Only the suitor who won the contest which consisted in breaking a special bow could be given her hand in marriage.
Now Sita had already seen young Ram before and she had seen in a vision that the young man was God Himself incarnated on Earth. So, well before the contest which was held in order to choose her future husband, she performed tapasya [austerities undergone in order to obtain God's help] and asked the Goddess Parvarti for two favours. First of all, she asked that everyone pray to Parvarti and that She grant humanity whatever it wanted — whether the people be saints or ordinary men. Secondly, she wanted to marry God if he was incarnated on Earth, and not an ordinary man. So she implored Parvarti, saying that if God was really present, let him accept her as his wife.
This means that she thought Ram was God and wished that Ram would accept to marry her. And finally, Ram was the one who won and was given her hand in marriage. If you worship your Guru, he gives you whatever you ask.

Whatever a Saint Promises Will Ineluctably Come True : Story of Turkaram and Namdev
In the past, there lived a great saint called Tukaram who lived in Maharastra. One day, someone by the name of Namdev, from Punjab came to visit him. Namdev lived for a long time by his side. When he wanted to return home, he asked Tukaram to help him so he would have God’s darshan. The Master answered, “Go and wait, for one day you will have it.”
And Namdev returned home. One day he was making chapatis [indian flat bread] under a tree. When the chapatis were ready, he went away for a few seconds to wash his hands so as to spread ghee (clarified butter) onto the chapatis before first offering them to God according to the custom, then eating them. But as soon as he turned his back, a dog came and took the chapatis out of the fire and moved away to eat them. When Namdev saw that, he was so angry with the dog that he took a big stick to hit it. As soon as he raised the stick, Lord Krishna came out of the dog, holding all the chapatis. Namdev was both surprised and embarrassed. He bowed down at Lord Krishna’s feet saying,
“Lord, why didn’t you wait until I had put ghee on the chapatis before taking them? They would have been nicer.”
The fact is that he had in that way had God’s darshan. This means that if a saint says something, you must believe him for what he says will ineluctably be fulfilled.

Devoting Oneself to Serving God
Devote yourself to serving God. Do at least one hour of sadhana in the morning and another hour in the evening. He who devotes himself to God does not need to pray for his material needs for God will fulfil those needs, seeing that he knows what they are. Look at this ashram [Sacha Dham], I never ask who is coming to eat, I don’t choose those who should eat here, yet there is always enough food for everyone. God meets the needs of whoever serves him, and he does not even need to worry.

The Good Or Bad You Do Will Come Back to You
Be just and good towards all. If you do good or bad, this will inevitably come back to you. If you cheat someone, in fact you cheat yourself, for karma is inflexible and one can neither escape from it nor get rid of it. Take Lord Ram, for example, when he came to Earth, he killed a demon called Bali by hiding behind a tree. Later on, when he came back in the form of Lord Krishna, he was killed in exactly the same circumstances by a hunter who was hiding behind a tree.

Maharajji's Christmas Day Message 2007

My souls,

All Saints are like the sun. The sun never finds that this water is dirty, and that that water is pure, or that this place is dirty, and that place is cleaner, it never thinks so [It therefore shines everywhere]. So every Saint gives the same message; whether it be Christ, Krishna or Guru Nanak, the message is the same : “Love is God. Love one another.” However certain religious people create differences, otherwise there is no difference between saints. You worship Christ, I worship Krishna, others Vishnu or Guru Nanak, etc. They all give the same message : Love. And Love is God. Remember Rama and Krishna, they had the same love.

When Christ was being crucified on the cross, he told his disciples that they should love the people who were crucifying him in the same way as they loved him. He never thought that since they were crucifying him they were his enemies, but rather that he was one with them. The sun and saints are the same. The sun never sees that the place where it goes is dirty or clean. In the same way, Saints never think that this person is “like that” so they will not give him love, and that others are righteous so they will give them more love. NO. Love is equal. It is the same love for all men, whether they be “righteous” or “unrighteous”. Indeed, everybody is entitled to become realized, and the message of realization is the same.

So I pray to God that He will make us forget our differences and that all will get Love and give it to to the whole world so that there will be no differences in religions. All religions go to God, and God is one. God is in every heart. The heart is one; Love is one, and Love is God. Rama says “Love is God.” Krishna says “Love is God.” Christ says “Love is God.” Nanak says “Love is God.” Love with your heart. When one works, it is done mentally and intellectually, not with the heart. When one loves with one’s heart, one loves everybody equally. The heart makes no differences. The heart is one, and it is universal. Why am I the same as you? I am the same since my heart is within all of you, you are all one heart, so I think all of you are my heart. And the heart is one. Love is heart.

I pray to Christ, I pray to Krishna, I pray to Rama, I pray to Guru Nanak who all give us the same message, so that throughout the world there will be peace, love and wisdom; in this way every body here will love one another and become an example for the world. And for everybody in Sacha Dham I want things here to become such that all religions will live together in love, through their hearts, not with their intellect. And I pray again and again and again to Christ for him to give me Love so that I can give it to all of you.
This is my message.

Prakash Diwash or Enlightenment Day

Maharajji’s Enlightenment

On 3rd October 2007, the festival called Prakash Diwash or Enlightenment Festival will be celebrated at Sacha Dham. It is held every year to commemorate the spiritual enlightenment of our beloved Master Shri Hans Raj Maharajji which took place on 3rd October 1955. Surprisingly, he had arrived at the great Guru Sacha Baba’s ashram in Allahabad only the evening before.

How did he arrive there? At that time, Maharajji was working as an accountant in the Indian civil service in Allahabad. Unfortunately he developed a chronic form of dysentery which was exhausting and which resisted different treatments prescribed by doctors. This discouraged Maharajji so much that he did not know what to do to return to health. Then, a fellow office worker, Swami Navalji, suggested he go and see Sacha Baba, a very great saint living in Allahabad, who would heal him. At that time, Maharajji had already moved away from religion, although as a child and a young man he had ardently desired to realize the Divinity, so great was his aspiration. It must be said that from a very young age he would often see Great Beings in his visions and dreams. But with time, this aspiration had progressively disappeared. He no longer believed in religion and saints.

However, having followed medical treatment in vain, he accepted his colleague’s offer, for after all, one never knows where the solution to a problem might come from. He therefore went to Sacha ashram in Arail, Allahabad, where he was received very kindly by the Master, Sacha Baba. The latter gave him a room with all he needed for his stay at the ashram and recommended that he go and participate in a session of devotional songs which was going on. The following morning, Maharajji decided to meditate at dawn. It was during this meditation that an extraordinary mutation took place in his consciousness and his whole being, causing him to reach divine realization. He had come for his physical body to be healed, but he had received healing for his whole being! He had attained Self-realization. This was a marvellous event which became the turning point in his life and which, later on, would have profound effects on thousands of men throughout the world.

With time, Maharajji became progressively attached to Sacha Baba and he had only one aim : to help his Master awaken the consciousness and hearts of men to Wisdom, Love, Peace and the Beauty of God. In order to achieve this, he left his job as an accountant and abandoned everything in order to Serve God and his Master.

Serving God

For several decades, Maharajji travelled throughout India to share his Master’s teachings with all those who he could reach. He completely forgot himself in this task. Little by little, disciples gathered around him and in 1974, Sacha Baba asked him to create his own ashram in Rishikesh, at the foot of the Himalayas : Sacha Dham or “The place of Ultimate Truth” (or “Holy Place”). Thus Sacha Dham was born, where Maharajji settled. Since then, he has always lived in Rishikesh and up until the time of Sacha Baba’s mahasamadhi (his leaving this world) in 1983, Maharajji, who has always nourished deep love for his Master, went to see him regularly. He has always said that he works in the name of God and that of Sacha Baba, and whatever he does, he attributes it to his Master, taking no personal merit, even when he works what men call miracles.

For those who have spent even a few days with Maharajji, the life of this great saint is an immense sacrifice made out of love for all men. His example, while evoking in each of us the greatest respect and the deepest veneration, remains a model from which we should draw inspiration for the good of all beings. Indeed, all beings are in fact ourselves, in spite our consciousness which has been muddled by ignorance, thus leading us believe that we are different and distinct from others.

Intense Moments of Spiritual Communion

The Prakash Diwash Festival is an opportunity to remind disciples that the aim of life is to achieve this divine realization, for with time, one lets oneself go and forgets one’s highest aspirations. Moreover, during this same festival where a puja (a highly significant religious ceremony) is celebrated, Maharajji gives special impetus to his disciples’ spiritual development by granting them certain specific energies which are usually grouped together under the term “blessings”, but all blessings do not have the same aim and the same impact. On Prakash Diwash day, enlightenment is given special importance! Many of his disciples come together at Sacha Dham to benefit from these unique moments of spiritual communion and deepen their ties with the Master. For those who are far away, it is always possible to share these moments with Maharajji and the assembly of his disciples by connecting inwardly with them, for we are taught that time and space do not really exist.

Special Blessings

So on this special day, without neglecting his task of directing humanity towards a higher spiritual state, Maharajji devotes great attention to pouring blessings upon his disciples wherever they are in the world. It is true that Maharajji blesses his disciples all year long, but this day is a special one, and so special energy is transmitted. On this day, the channel between the Master and his disciples widens, and disciples who focus on Maharajji, opening their hearts even more to receive his blessings, will receive particular grace according to the efforts they have made in the past year to connect with the holy river (the Master), who purifies them like the holy Ganges purifies dirty water which flows into it.

Indeed, Maharajji has often said that the more one loves a true Master, the more easily one is purified, for the love one shows to him opens a canal through which the Master can work to take away negative things which keep us away from God, while transmitting positive energy to allow the divine spirit of God in us to manifest. Indeed, the Guru is God’s representative who He sends to guide disciples seeking more and more light. And since the aim of all disciples is to achieve union with God, it is the Guru who plays the role of intermediary between them and God. God has therefore given great power (the power of Shiva) to the Guru to cut away whatever is negative from the disciple’s personality and heart. He has also been endowed with the necessary shakti or spiritual power to make the disciple grow little by little into a great spiritual tree. This enlightened person will finally be able to communicate freely with the Divinity and in turn cooperate with God to help others return to the divine state which all men have to reach one day.

What is therefore important, is what happens in one’s heart throughout the year, and not just on Enlightenment Day. Knowing that it is the Guru who leads us from darkness to light, it is necessary to constantly focus our hearts on Maharajji throughout the year, while carrying out the specific sadhana he has recommended. Then we are sure that whatever particular blessing the Guru has to bestow on us, we will be able to receive all of it.

Kind Attention to Humanity

Disciples, of course, show deep gratitude to Maharajji for devoting his life to humanity and his pupils. Maharajji in turn, asks his disciples to pray for humanity, so that all may turn to God, and that hardship and even lives may be spared from disasters in the coming months and years. He also wants his disciples, through their prayers, to help humanity so that all their needs may be fulfilled. The Sacha lineage has seen to it that this can become reality; that progressively all hearts will turn towards God, and that the basic material necessities of all men will be met.

May Maharajji’s peace, love and light descend on us all !

Maharajji Mahaprabhu Ki Jay !

The New Car (Aurora, Germany)

Maharajji has done many things for my family and I, and I am very grateful to him for this. One day, I had a car accident, and the insurance company said that I was not to repair my car because it was almost ten years old. This was a big problem for me, because I lived very far from the place where I worked, and I needed a car to get there. What was I to do? My husband was unemployed and my salary alone was not enough to buy a new one. We therefore decided to ask Maharajji to help us, although I was a bit reticent since he had already helped us a lot and I did not want to bother him again. However Maharajji accepted and said that I would be able to buy a new car.

Encouraged by his promise, I went to choose a suitable one. Having done so, there was now the problem of paying. I consulted two banks for a loan, but they needed my husband’s payslip as well as mine and so I was not able to get one. Fortunately the concessionaire had his own bank, so I applied there for a loan. While discussing the terms, I kept on hoping not to be told to bring in my husband’s pay slip along with mine for the loan, but fortunately only mine was asked for. I was offered 10,000€, the sum I needed to buy the car. I was relieved, and felt deep gratitude towards Maharajji for what he had done.

Although I was surprised to get such a big loan with only my salary, this surprise wore off very quickly, for I knew that with Maharajji’s help anything is easy. However, about six months later, I needed a small loan of 2,000€. When I applied to a bank for it, I was told that I would need both my husband’s pay slip and mine. Not being able to give my husband’s, I tried other banks, but was given the same answer, and so I had to give up.

I fully realized then that it was indeed a miracle to have been able to borrow 10,000€ alone since I was systematically refused 2,000€ everywhere with just my salary. Maharajji had been so simple about it, no fuss, no problem. I must say that I had had such deep faith in Maharajji, that I had not doubted his words and everything had seemed so natural. With him, even miracles come so naturally.

A Very Useful Loss (Liloue, France)

My son’s car had disappeared. After searching for it in vain for several days, I was lamenting this loss when I heard a voice say,
“You are crying for the car which was going to carry away your son!”

Maharajji had taken the car away and protected my son from a very serious accident. Maharajji is truly loving and is always with us.