Hari Om.
Because it is August we do Agasthiar
pournami. The month of August was named after Agasthiar. In Greek philosophy he
was a great spiritual man who taught some potent religious stuff to the Greeks
in those days. Agasthiar’s name is mentioned in the
Ramayan as a great sage, and if you go to the deeper text of the avatars before
that, Agasthiar is mentioned. There were 2 great personalities mentioned in the
Ramayan, the Bhagavad Gita, and in other scriptures, and they are Agasthiar and
Hanuman. Even in the Gita the flag of Hanuman is on the chariot of Sri Krishna.
That tells us we are on the right path. Agasthiar is the great saint who gave
us the order of this world. The masters on the astral world who control the functioning of
this plane are called the sapta (seven) rishis. In charge of them, their boss,
is Agasthiar. In North India it is pronounced Agastya, and in South India it is
Agasthiar. Second to him is Bhogar Maharishi. In North India he is called
Bhogar, and in South India he is called Bhogar Maharishi. In China he started
the religion of Taoism and is called Bo Yang.
We, of the Hindu religion, believe that we
are the originators of everything that happens around us. Krishna appeared 3000
to 5000 years ago. Ram appeared in another era altogether. He is beyond our
time. At that time Agasthiar was setting up Hindu grammar. He is a master of
Hindu grammar. There are only 2 such masters: Agasthiar and Patanjali who was
also a great master of grammar. By ‘grammar’ is meant Sanskrit grammar, to put
everything in a uniform way for us to live this life. Therefore we follow
Agasthiar. Our guru is Swami Murugesu. Swami Murugesu’s guru is Khanniah Yogi.
Khania Yogi’s guru who taught him and left is Agasthiar. From our yoga
perspective our guru is Yogiar. His guru is Kriya Babaji, and Babaji’s gurus
are Agsthiar and Bhogar Maharishi.
Therefore, we take Agasthiar very seriously
in our homes. In some homes Agasthiar is the only saint worshiped, and those
devotees get what they want in life. Agasthiar initially gave Gayathri to
Vishwamitra who brought it down to Sri Ram Acharya, who in turn handed it down
to Swami Murugesu who started the Gayathri Peedam. So, Agasthiar is in all the
lineages: the Giri mountain, tradition, the Ganges tradition and the Sivinanada
tradition. If you go to Chinmaya, Gayathri comes from Sivananda, and Sivananda
acquired the tradition from Agasthiar. Everything links to Agasthiar, who was
not more than 110 cm tall. He was like a dwarf but he had the power. You know
the short people here how you are, how you have the power. Agastyar has the
power. Coming back to this time in Kali Yuga where all the planets are so badly
aligned, Agasthiar is the one who takes us there. All this is related to
Gayathri, Sri Ram and the Maha Mantra.
Agasthiar has the power to dissolve the
complete space we live in. He is very strong. No other men are strong like him.
He had two wives and one of them didn’t listen to him. Just by striking his
stick and thinking about a river, she became a river, the Kavady River. That’s the power he had. This is no myth. But
the fact that Babaji still exists is considered a myth. It is not. I have 10 people
who travelled with me to Badrinath and we had the privilege of meeting Babaji.
If you believe in God then no explanation is necessary but for he who does not
believe, no explanation is possible. You see where you fit.
Hari Om.
Hari Om.
