Maharajji Speaks
"My body's gone, that's all" was a lyric from the previous page. To add to that I'd like to say everything else that of what is known as Neem Karoli Baba is still alive and present. When he was in a physical body, he gave darshan in physical form so that the light rays that are emitted by the source of light reflected his body and fell on our eyes and we 'saw' the physical Maharajji. Now he's giving darshan through his photographs and dreams. Like we discussed earlier, every picture of Maharajji is extremely alive and he sees through the photograph as clearly as we see him. Before he could touch with his skin, and let people massage his feet and tapped the devotees on the foreheads or pulled beards, now he touches with spirit, an emotion you feel when you see his photograph or a listen to his devotees sing or talk you are being touched by Maharajji, being the son of the wind, also sometimes I feel him touching me as wind or the breeze. When in his body, he used to smell physical smells with his nose like the frying of puris or jalebis in the kitchen, now he is the jalebi and puri and its essence whenever it's offered as Prasad.
Before he used to hear with his ear the sound of the kirtan being sung by his devotees or the noise of the engine of the bus he used to run after converting the water into petrol, but now he hears everything from the silence between these words you are reading, the intention of my beating heart and the soft clicks of the typing of this keyboard, as clearly as he can hear the music of the universe and the sound of the planets moving around the orbit of our solar system or the footsteps of the ants carrying a particle of sugar from leftover kheer somewhere in Taos or Vrindavan. But the most fascinating thing that I've noticed about his life from his non-physical apparatus is his capacity to speak. Maharajji speaks, very boldly, very clearly and with fixed intention.
There are many ways in which Maharajji speaks.
- Through thoughts and intuition: This is the most common form of receiving communication from him to me. I get a very clear 'intuitive urgency' that I need to do something very often, and each time I get this I have a 'feeling' that its Maharajji. Sometimes I see his image in my head, some other times I can also hear his high-pitched voice (mostly saying JAO) but I can be sure that he's speaking based on the intensity of the feeling. For example, when I was in Anjanadri in the birth temple of Hanuman, I woke up one Saturday with the feeling that Maharajji was asking me to go to three temples, two Hanuman temples and one Durga temple (I had a picture of both him and Siddhi Ma in my room altar and ma's considered an incarnation of Durga Maa). I knew that my dad was severely sick in Bangalore and I had to leave Hampi, but also I came to know later that it was the last day that the temples would remain open before the whole country went into lockdown because of the pandemic. He made me visit the temples before they would shut down indefinitely. These days though we're almost continuously in the middle of a telepathic dialogue.
- Through other people: This is probably something that needs a thorough investigation. Maharajji speaks through other people, especially his devotees and members of Satsang. The level of telepathy and connectivity that the Satsang experiences as a whole are so intense that some aren't even sure if we're individuals anymore or simply 'the collective body of Maharajji'. He can say things, through others, loud and clear and we hear it with our ears.
In the last days of my recent stay at Kainchi, I was so in love with the place that I never wanted to leave, even though my funds were running short. I was sitting in the balcony of 'Amar Valley Resort' which is run by a friend and a fellow devotee and wondering what I should do. Within seconds I heard a woman turn her head towards me and say 'JAO' (Maharajji's signature phrase) and turn away. She wasn't looking at me or speaking to me but in the conversation she was having with the other person, she just 'happened' to say 'JAO' looking in my direction. I immediately understood that I was to book my flights.
Another incident is a super Lila that I will never forget. On the day that I purchased my first ever Hanuman Murti, which was on Christmas 25th December 2020, a little poor boy aged maybe 8 years old, with a Christian cross who seemed very suspicious came down and sat next to me, looked into my eyes and said "Take Chai?" ('Take Chai' is one of the chapters in the Miracle of Love and I had just finished reading it). My whole body was filled with the realisation that this was Maharajji and I ended up getting him a chai and a paratha. Everyone thought I was crazy, but remember the motto of the book "Fact is Stranger than Fiction". Especially with Maharajji.
Besides this, there are also other strange things that Maharajji does, let me explain what happened between me and my friend today who's also a devotee. Just a few days ago this friend of mine showed me an example in Dada Mukherjee's book 'By His Grace' where Maharajji made Dada say things he didn't intend to say. I saw that and decided to read the book yesterday and thanked my friend for the recommendation. Today however I saw the one finger mudra picture three times on social media and had a strange feeling in my stomach. Each time I see this picture, it acts as a disciplinary warning from Maharajji to 'get to work' or 'stop fooling around'. It's also a symbol of him being strict with me, so honestly I get a little scared when I see it. Eventually, me and this same friend of mine who usually never argue about stuff had a bizarre and heated argument online about a misunderstood joke and it turned ugly and strange very quickly. We started saying things to each other that were hurtful and triggered negative emotions to a point where I acted on impulse and disabled my Patreon account. I disabled it for the month of June and as I was disabling it my dad was on the phone with someone in the living room and I overheard him say to someone "Definitely not June, maybe in July" while talking to someone else about a completely different topic, so putting these two together I can draw the conclusion that Maharajji created this whole scenario and spoke through them. Why did he do this? Perhaps he doesn't want me to take donations so that I can focus on this book and not be worried about creating Patreon content (which I was) Perhaps he wanted both me and my friend to understand what triggers us and overcome these triggers, put aside our differences and learn to rest in Love. Whatever it was, I'm sure that Maharajji was speaking.
As a result of all the sequence of events and negative emotion I felt, i was in a space of utter doubt and total confusion to a point where I thought I should renounce the name 'Neem Das' as my impurities were too many and my display of anger with this person made me wonder if I'll bring disgrace to Maharajji's name in the future if I act out of such emotions. Within the minute he spoke again, this time though what is knows as "Syncronicity"
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