Babaji was in Katrigama.
Bhogar Maharishi was his guru there and Agasthiar was his guru in India. The
spot where Babaji attained his Samadhi state is in Katrigama. Every morning Bhogar
told him to build a hawan kund with stones. And every morning Bhogar would kick
it down and tell him it was wrong and then rebuild it exactly the same way. After
many practices Babaji realized it was a lesson. From that lesson Babaji became
a perfect person, in every sense of the word. So, like that, in this life you
have to have obstacles in your path.
I’ve had
obstacles. When I was really on the religious path I was about 36 years old, I
was just onto the spiritual path. Clinton, Melissa, Tashi and Vishnu were all
little – and what happens? Somebody attacked me. They chopped my hand and I lay
in hospital in a coma. But that is what made me stronger, made me believe more
in God because I still had breath. That they couldn’t take away from me. When I
went to the orthopedic surgeon 4 months later, he said that we had to remove the
hand. Something said to me, like a bee in my brain, to tell him not to remove
it. 5 months later I went for a retest and he said it was developing nicely but
I needed to learn to use it. I told him that I would write his cheque with that
hand, and 4 months later I did. Still today I write with this hand because I
learned from the obstacle. If I had removed my hand and had to develop my other
hand I’d never get it right. Now I write with both hands.
What have I
attained in 20 years, spiritually? I couldn’t put it on paper, there’s so much.
There were things I never knew, but now I know. I don’t know how. And what caused
this? One obstacle. I had more time, I didn’t have to go to work. I could sit
and meditate for hours. There was a time I used to meditate for 10 hours in one
sitting. I would lock myself in my room from 4 in the morning until 3 in the
afternoon. But I had a reason. I needed to prove that I could still carry on
living and doing God’s work even with a disability. I’m telling you these
things so you can put more into your belief.
Belief is not
like having a carrot in front of a donkey. That’s not belief. Belief is much
stronger than that. Anyway, I want you to have strong faith. You don’t have it
but you think you do. I’m telling you these things so that even when I am not
here you’ll think about this and have a strong belief in God. I know that
nothing will flicker that light in me, not even a hailstorm. I make sure the
light is protected. When I am locked in my room from 11 to 1, nobody disturbs
me for 3 hours. They know that is my time. And I will sit there and
have a discussion with the masters, like you are having with me now. So, the
order is: enlightenment, self-realization, and then God realization. The definition
of enlightenment is to make the mind lighter. As long as the mind is like that
your journey will be simple, and quick.
