These answers have been put on the internet, as well as the replies to many oral questions during the satsang, and articles on Ma that he wrote mainly in the 50’s. Preface This anthology on practical Vedanta is a collection of my essays on various aspects of practical Vedanta, as expounded by Lord Krishna and as applied by Swami Vivekananda in the nineteenth century and Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and Ma Anandamayee in the twentieth century. 1.00mb WMA Download HERE : 1.80mb mp3 Download HERE The Navadurga is translated as the nine Durgas, referring to nine different forms of the great goddess Durga. Atmananda did her last work of editing by revising the first number in September 1985. During almost 70 hours, I only slept three hours, but the energy was there and allowed me to care about practical things during the day and meditate in Vijayânanda’s room during the night. As we said before, for two or three weeks, he had difficulty in finishing long sentences. Moreover some travellers, despite the fact Kankhal was not included in their trip, decided to come and visit Vijayânanda. Swamiji was actually doing just that during satsang when telling us some cherished memories of Ma.…. "Prime Minister Smt. Paramhansa Yogananda translates Anandamayi as "joy-permeated". Discover the real story, facts, and details of Anandamayi Ma. Narayan did not realize that he was at the point of death and that he had only one hour to live. Even if you can‘t fully be aware of his level, you can receive directly love from him, this is the experience of many people who came to visit him. Mother Reveals Herself), all forms of sadhana, known and unknown, just occurred to her in the form of a lila (play) without any conscious effort on her part. She is a devotee of Swami Chidânanda, who was, up until his death, the successor of Shivânanda at the head of the Divine Life Society, and who was also close to Mâ Anandamayi. I should mention that another great Swami of Mâ, Shivânanda, left his body just 4 days after Vijayânanda, on Friday the 9th of April in the morning. The Poison That Kills. Many of you probably already know that Swami Vijayânanda left his body peacefully on Monday the 5th of April at 5.10 PM. For the last few months, he was saying that Pushparaj had been a monk in a former life and that he was returning progressively to this kind of life ; for several months, he was sleeping in Swamiji’s room, at the bottom of his bed, to be with him when he wanted to go to the toilet, because Swamji had fallen several times whilst doing so. We must realize that." At 5.OO PM, the breathing got even more difficult. This evokes the area from where the soul leaves the body. He was plunged deep in himself in the lotus position and his breath stopped. Ma died on 27 August 1982 in Dehradun, aged 86. The individual suffers because he perceives duality. What will we do now we are left to our own devices ? As there were no more questions at that point, each of us was more sensitive to the vibrations of the moment, and we can say it was a magic moment. One day, it so happened that an ill-tempered and arrogant rich man had a big bundle to carry home. Around the big bath of the 30th of March, dedicated to Hanuman, the god of service and devotion, Vijayânanda said that he was feeling his presence in particular. ANANDAMAYI MA. [1][17] His meeting with her is recounted in the chapter titled "The Bengali 'Joy-Permeated Mother'", where she explains her background: "Father, there is little to tell." Swamiji said that the bodies were like leaves that were falling from the tree, while the Self was the tree itself and remained the same in any season. The nape of the neck, the back of the head and his chest were very painful. Hindu. In 1918, they moved to Bajitpur, where she stayed until 1924. "[10], Nirmala moved to Shahbag with her husband in 1924, where he had been appointed as the caretaker of the gardens of the Nawab of Dhaka. Many people, for one reason or another, had not much time when they came to see Swamiji. It’s touching from a symbolic point of view, you can interpret this as the symbol of what he had done his whole life : to give his energy in the service of Mâ, to give on behalf of Mâ. [6] During the time in Shahbag, more and more people began to be drawn to what they saw to be a living embodiment of the divine. When the bad rich man was spending his only day in paradise, Kabir was having a walk around; the sage recognized him and whispered in his ear the taraka mantra, the mantra which saves from the round of birth and death. After his return to Bhimpura he learned to breath without the ventilator, though still with the tracheostomy; the times when he appeared conscious with open eyes increased day-by-day. Nowadays she is a political consultant in the French ambassy in Delhi. Mâ’s game is really surprising : as I was just beginning to write this message to give some details about the way Vijayânanda “had merged into the Braman “( in Sanskrit and Hindi, you say “ bhrama-lin ” when a sage leaves his body), I received a phone call from a young Swami of Israeli origin connected to Bhaskarânanda and who informed me that he left his body that morning on Thursday the 8th at 4.55 AM at the ashram in Bhimpura, on the banks of the Narmada, Gujarat. See also www.anandamayi.org He did not write down his suggestion concerning a grave at Pushparaj’s because it would have put him in the forefront, which he did not want. People had difficulty transcribing her often informal talks because of their conversational speed. Nirmala attended village schools of Sultanpur and Kheora for approximately 2–4 months. ‘ and so he did for 34 years, until his last breath in the afternoon of the 5th of April 2010. ”. He expressed his appreciation for their efforts by saying: “ It’s great ! He chose to study medicine, and first followed a spiritual teacher who was a French psychiatrist influenced by Buddhism, in Paris itself. While the ego is the cause of birth and death, it also helps towards liberation. We will gather together all the notes of Swamiji’s satsangs of this last period. Death, Cause unspecified 27 August 1982 (Age 86) chart Placidus Equal_H. On Sunday evening, we were in Rishikesh with the last group who had spent 5 days with Vijayânanda in Khankal. We generally recognize the value of planning for the future, although none of us knows what the future has in store for us. It’s probably relevant to say that at the moment when Swamiji left his body in Kankhal, our group of French people was just coming back from the pilgrimage of Surdanka Devi, 3,000m high, in the Himalayas. [11] In 1926, she reinstated a formerly abandoned ancient Kali temple in the Siddheshwari area. Her style of teaching included jokes, songs and instructions on everyday life along with long discourses, silent meditation and recommended reading of scriptures. Christian. Did Vijayânanda know that he would leave his body ? He did so, and then came back to Varanasi. What is surprising is that he had predicted to her that she would be present when he would leave his body, in spite of the strict rules that prohibit women from entering the sadhu kutir, which is reserved for male ascetics. Anandamayi was sensitive to environmental influences as was demonstrated when she once passed a Muslim tomb. We’re going to organise a big banquet to celebrate together ! The saddest thing, when you are with the body of the person who was the most important for you for 25 years, is to realize all that you should or could have done and that you did not do. ”. His departure is for him a very big change and it’s even more beautiful to see how quiet he has remained and how helpful he was for all that has to be done during these last days. Link to Wikipedia biography. It was a celibate marriage—whenever thoughts of lust occurred to Ramani, Nirmala's body would take on the qualities of death. Some people heard him pronounce “Jai Ma” quietly. (A must-read if you're a seeker written by a seeker. We attended the arati on the edge of Ganga in Parmath Niketan with the Dalaï Lama. [6] Uday Shankar, the famous dance artist, was impressed by Anandamayi Ma's analysis of dance, which she used as a metaphor for the relationship between people and God. In fact, it was probably the symptoms of an intracranial hypertension with the beginning of an engagement of the basis of the brain in the spinal canal: this results in depression of the breathing function that makes breathing weaker and weaker, and leads to death. Consequently, at the end of March, I said to my hermit neighbour in Dhaulchina, Swami Nirgunânanda, and to another friend of mine on the phone, that is seemed that Swamiji would not stay much longer in his body. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them. He noticed that the thing that frightened people about the big passage was the prospect of endless suffering. But this supposedly endless suffering could be alleviated by medicine or at the most they caused a fainting fit or the death itself, so they were not endless. Through interviews with Ma s devotees, Aymard illustrates the fundamental Hindu belief in the presence of a saint after his or her death. It’s very different from relating a spiritual experience in detail. He left his body in his usual position of meditation, resting against some cushions with the hands brought together and the legs stretched out; it had been difficult for him to cross his legs for several years. In this sense, he used to tell often the following story about Kabir : “Kabir was a weaver. [5] She did not give formal initiations and refused to be called a guru, as she maintained that "all paths are my paths" and "I have no particular path". Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. In fact, it will be a blessing for the French people to have the body of this great sage close to them. It was useless to make a big drama of it or to be always talking about death and becoming “ a specialist ”. Yet there is also a natural interval between the inhaling and exhaling breath. The bad rich man then got furious: “You, coolies, you always say that, and afterwards you ask ten times the price!” Kabir replied: “All this does not matter, since when you reach to your door, you will fall flat dead!” At this point, the rich man became still more furious : “You will see when I am at the door of my house that I am not dead, just by the sound beating I will deliver to you!” Kabir smiled, took the bundle and went with the rich man towards his house. But Swamiji had no interest in being placed in a place that could become a temple, with morning and evening rituals. Before, when you were very close to him, you could hear him, but for one or two weeks, it was getting more difficult because his breath was shorter and shorter. Anandamayi Ma (née Nirmala Sundari; 30 April 1896 – 27 August 1982) was a Bengali Saint, described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society) as "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." I stayed for the first time in Kankhal for three months and three weeks in 1985. Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same. In the end of 1950, he took a boat from Marseille in South France to Sri Lanka and India in the hope to find his guru. Sandrine Oubrier spent 15 months almost continuously at the ashram in Kankhal and attended almost all Swamiji’s last satsangs. She taught how to live a God-centered life in the world and provided the living inspiration to enable thousands to aspire to this most noble ideal. Swamiji often said that the function of a guru is not to give an intellectual teaching but to transmit energy. We can see the direct and stabilising influence of Swamiji, beyond the superficial changes of life and death. He was chiefly responsible for the first ashram built for Anandamayi Ma in 1929 at Ramna, within the precinct of the Ramna Kali Mandir. I hope the report of the last period of Swamiji’s terrestrial life will help you to deepen the relationship you had with him. Vijayânanda’s special way of transmitting energy arose when he was asked to bless something. She says that twice during the last year, some visitors told Swamiji that they would come back for the Kumbh Mela and he answered that maybe he would not be there. Several ashrams had organised continuous repetition of mantras. He had often said that to live to be very old was not always a blessing and could be a disadvantage. After Swamiji’s departure, I often remembered the story of the end of a great Zen guru. Several members of the group met the Dalaï Lama for first time, they were very impressed. The first night, some small surges of emotion arose quite frequently with the beginning of tears but that did not last. "[2] Precognition, faith healing and miracles were attributed to her by her followers. [5][6] She spent five years after her marriage at her brother-in-law's home, attending to housework in a withdrawn meditative state much of the time. The sense of "I" implies will-power and self-exertion. Born to a Jewish family on November 26, 1914, at the beginning of World War I in East France, he was destined to succeed his father who was the main rabbi of the town of Metz. Please read this entire web page. At Christmas 2009, he had bad flu that handicapped him and he missed the satsang for a few days. There was the theoretical possibility to bury the body for the time being in a garden and find another place far away from Haridwar and its pandas, and to quietly build a samadhi for Vijayânanda. It’s not necessary to be a good writer, you just need to feel it deeply inside. ', 'Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. For sure, it’s impossible to tell everything about such a deep and subtle relationship with Swamiji, but you can relate some things. When Izou arrived in Kankhal on the 28th of March, just after her father’s burial on the 19th, Vijayânanda asked her not to leave. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. ” Mâ stood up and told him : “ Your body has done so many intense practices (tapasya), it can’t be thrown like this ! Vijayânanda had been living in that room for 34 years where Mâ had installed him telling him : “ yahan baito ! May we thank her for her service to Vijayânanda. She arranged a room for him on the terrace of the sadhu kutir, and she told him : “Yahan baito! Let us now describe what happened in the last few months. In many ways, Vijayânanda was turning his back on many things and prepared people for his departure. Sonia Barbry has been visiting Kankhal for ten years. In this matter, it’s similar to the psychology of the mourning of one’s dear ones in general. 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