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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