Why Pray Param Guru Shri Shri Baba Lokenath Bramhachari?

India is a land of Gods and Goddesses, sages and saints. Every Hindu soul in India rests his faith on the God or Goddess of his like. For Bengalis alone, there are 33-Crores of Gods and Goddesses. Each one of us pray the God we love, however, we do give our respect to the other Gods as well. We celebrate all the Pujas, but to the God who stays the closest to our heart- we share all the secrets and make all the prayers and ask for His mercy for any wrong-doing. All these activities take place deep inside our soul and are never revealed to anyone. This is the closeness of our connection with the Almighty.

Who is our Baba Lokenath Bramhachari?

As an author of this website, I have a different opinion and experience with Baba Lokenath. Though I have known Him since my teenage but never thought about Him. However, I started to love Him when I was already more than 40-years now. More than 20-years had passed by in between. How did this happen that I had gradually drifted my faith towards Baba Lokenath?

The answer is that- it has just happened all by itself, for no particular reason behind. I just love Him unconditionally, I pray Him all the time to thank Him for everything, and I ask for His kindness whenever I am in distress and need Him to drag me out of it. He is very kind. He is our Great Father and our Param Guru- and I always feel that He is following and guiding me through everything. Thus, I have my peace.

Once Swami Vivekananda had instructed a few people to write the memoirs of Thakur Shri Rama Krishna Paramhamsa, at the same time he had warned everyone not to write anything about any of His Miracles. But to write only whatever our Thakur Shri Rama Krishna had said in His preachings.

Why Swamiji did give that warning to the people before he asked them to write? Was there any particular reason behind this instruction? It is always very difficult to decipher the exact cause of such instructions or activities of great persons. Most of the time our conjecture will be based on some hypothesis and it may vary from one person to the other.  

Shall we worship a person just because He is full of mysticism and that he can cause miracles? Or, we shall love and worship Him because of His very precious preachings and spirituality. Most probably, this is where Swami Vivekananda wanted us to converge our views and understandings.

Baba Lokenath helped many people to get rid of many diseases; it is by His heavenly powers He had cured the diseases. Those days, it was the miracle of Baba Lokenath. What about these days? Today there are many efficient and very good doctors who can also cure many dreadful diseases. Also, Baba with His blessings had helped a few of His followers to get rid of Court cases from definite conviction. Again, these days there are many such efficient lawyers who have always won their cases and never lost any.

That would bring our Baba Lokenath, the doctors and the lawyers in the same datum, differentiating them only by time and technology. That would mean we can revere Baba Lokenath, the doctors and the lawyers the same way. Those days what Baba did with His mystical power, today the lawyers and doctors do with the power of knowledge, science and technology.

Then why should I pray Baba Lokenath and pay my respect to Him more than any good doctor or a lawyer?  

Here is the reason that justifies why Swami Vivekananda had warned his followers while writing about Thakur Shri Ramakrishna’s life not to write any miracles that He might have done in His lifetime. Swamiji had emphasized to his disciples to write about Thakur’s teachings only.

Great saints can do miracles to save us from dreadful diseases or steer us clear of the turmoiled waters. But that is not for what they have come to this earth. They are the Spiritual Leaders, the Gurus and the human beings with extra-ordinary qualities. If we are physically sick we can be healed by medicines, but no medicines in this world can bring peace in our mind and soul. No matter how great a doctor is, he cannot cure us if we are disturbed and lack peace.

This is where the distinction lies between a Spiritual Guru and a doctor or a physician. For the peace of our mind and solace of our heart we seek the path shown to us by our Spiritual Leaders and Gurus.

Baba Lokenath, Thakur Ramakrishna, Sai Baba, Guru Nanak, Jesus Christ or Mohammed- they are either the sons of God or incarnations of God or God Himself in human forms. They have always come down to this earth a numerous times to give us a lesson to value this life and to give it a meaning. It is beyond our imagination and understanding to judge their capability. They did many miracles that benefitted many people. But they did not come to this earth in a Mortal form to do these miracles. These miracles were the part of their performance that had followed them. They had come here with a much greater purpose, to teach us the meaning of this valuable human life. They are our Spiritual Gurus who show us the path to divinity.

Is Baba Lokenath superior to Thakur Shri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa or Guru Nanak or Sai Baba or Jesus Christ?

May be He is, or may be not. Who are we to judge their capability or superiority? We do so, most often, to propagate our own hypothesis or our belief without even deeply understanding its profoundness. Each of them lived in this world during different timeline, under different conditions, but all of them had left the same or similar messages to us. Each of them had a specific purpose, which they had fulfilled and then left this world, and for us they have left many precious teachings.

Our Great Father, Shri Shri Baba Lokenath had also left us some very valuable teachings. Whatever miracles He did to others may be left to them or their family to cherish. But for us He is always there in an Ethereal form and reside within our heart and soul.

Baba Lokenath Bramhachari had Himself prayed and worshiped at Hindu Temples in India, in the Mosques of Mecca and Medina and in the Church of Vatican.He had read the Holy Shrimad Bhagawat Gita, the Holy Kuran and the Holy Bible. He was very secular in His views. He had advised us to pray Him, to whom we can love unconditionally, let that be anyone. 

Param Yogi Baba Lokenath Bramhachari had promised to us that whenever we shall remember Him under whichever situation, He shall come to save us. And He always does so. It is the faith that we must have upon Him along with an unconditional love.

Baba had said to followers, “Shatadhik bachhar pahar parbat ghure baro akta dhan kamai korechi ami, tora cheye ne kebal.”

 It means that: “I have roamed many mountains for more than hundred years and earned some valuable possessions. You just only ask it from me.”

He is everyone's Father; and a Father can never see His sons and daughters suffereing. He is very kind hearted and He will always shower His kindness whether we ask for it or not. All we need to do is to have our undying faith on Him.

So the question still remains, unanswered, “Why should I pray Baba Lokenath?”

Swami Vivekananda in his famous speech in the Parliament of Religions in 1893 at Chicago had said, "It is good to love God for hope of reward in this or the next world, but it is better to Love God for love's sake, and the prayer goes, "Lord! I do not want wealth, no children, no learning. If it be Thy will I shall go from birth to birth, but grant me this, that I may love Thee without the hope of reward- love unselfishly for love sake"."

Therefore, I pray Baba Lokenath not for wealth and not for well-being; I just love Him for Love-sake.

Let us close our eyes, surrender all our worries in his Holy Feet and pray for His Kindness to give us the eternal peace.

Jai Baba Mangalkari Lokenath Bramhachari!!!

I have not seen the God, but I have seen Baba Lokenath in his picture, and learned about His life and preaching. He is the one who has treaded through the roughness of deserts and the mountains and oceans to travel through different parts of the World, seen many religions, customs and practices. He has spent many years in the harshness and extremities of the climate in the Himalayan Mountains practicing Yogic Meditation. He had experimented over His physical being, the ardent control of the physical senses, so that He can beat the odds of this Nature in His venture to see the God.

Did He see the God?

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Baba's arrival and His reluctance towards popularity

Perhaps for more than hundred-years of His life, Baba had been engaged profoundly in Yogic Meditation, far away from social life. He was in search of the Absolute truth. For this duration He did not have much of a verbal communication with anyone and gradually became reticent. After wandering on the Chandranath mountains He decided to descend to the plains of Ganges. He had chosen to come down to a village called Barodi. There, He took shelter under a very old Peepul tree. It was a sparcely populated village and the tree was situated quite a far away from the locality. Occassionally, a few of the villagers used to pass by, specially, when going to their field. When a few of such villagers saw Baba, they got impressed by His sight. They spread the news in their locality that a Charismatic looking saint had arrived to their village.

Thereafter, People from that village used to come regularly to visit Baba and offer whatever they could. But it was for a long time Baba had not consumed any food. He was an established Yogi he could render His life for days to weeks to months without food and water. So he did not eat the offerings in the beginning. One little girl used to visit Baba and everday she used to bring with her little milk. Baba used to drink that milk, and gradually, started eating soft fruits, because He could not eat hard food as He has not been doing so for a very long time.

Baba used to stay there in quiet. Of those people who used to come to visit Baba, many came to pay their respect, and many came to get His blessings to get rid of some or the other problems. By His grace and blessings no body returned empty handed. His popularity began to grow. But Baba had never sought for His popularity.

However, it is the silence in which Baba sought the truth and got His enlightenment.

Baba had once said, “Jato Gupta Tato Pokta, Jato Byakto Tato Tyakto”. It is difficult to translate the exact wordings.

But what it means is more important. “More is the silence or secrecy, greater is the abundance or richness; and more it is expressed or exposed, so much more is shunned or evaded.”

Baba meant that anything that is full and rich does not need to express itself. When the time is appropriate, it becomes self evident. Baba neither liked advertising his qualities nor desired any kind of mass popularity. He used to spend His time in the state of meditation and remained in eternal bliss. Sometimes even with His eyes wide open His sole used to wander out of His lifeless Body and transcend to some unknown sphere and then again after sometime gradually, His body come back to life.

Great saints and people of substance seek quiescence because it is in this state they can connect their soul with the Bramha. With popularity comes the commotion, and with it comes chaos; then the quietness and the serenity is lost.

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