The walking Lord of
Varanasi – Sri Thrailanga Swamiji
Pranams at the lotus feet
of Swamiji!
A Bengali person Jayagopal used to visit Swamiji on a regular basis, he had a great devotion to Swamiji, whenever he visits Swamiji he will bring flowers,
fruits, sweets, or milk for Swamiji.
Soon Swamiji realized that Jayagopal’s visit has no selfish motive, he
is visiting Swamiji because of his intense devotion and faith in ascetics. One day he arrived with an increased heartbeat,
he said: “ Bhagavan, my heart is beating so fast from the morning, I have come
in the morning to meet you.” Swamiji asked him to come in the evening so that he
can explain the reason for that. Swamiji said ‘Your father was not well in the
morning, he was thinking of you. He
passed away.” while Jayagopal was too busy with the service of Swamiji. The next day Jayakumar was getting ready to
leave to his village; he received a telegram saying that his father is expired.
It was in
1874 Swami Vidhyanandhagiriji, a disciple of Sri Prithvigiri
Maharaj arrived in Kashi and stayed in Rajghat, people of the Mutt told him that he had
made a visit after several years to Kashi. There are many temples were built in
his absence and several Yogis and noble-souls are living here, they requested
him to visit all. Swami
Vidhyanandhagiriji said he had visited all the shrines, this time he had come
to visit Thrailangaswamiji, other than he had nothing to do in Kashi. One day Vidhyanandhaji arrived at
Thrailangaswamiji’s hermitage, seeing him Swamiji immediately embraced
Vidhyanandhji, people surrounded were shocked, these two Saints disappeared
from the sight instantly. People have
not witnessed a sight like this before, after thirty minutes they could see
Swamiji sitting on the same place, but this time he was alone and
Vidhyanandhagiriji was missing. Some
people went to Mutt where Swami Vidhyanandhji was residing; there Swamiji was
conversing with the people.
Thrailangaswamiji never accepts anyone as his disciple easily. Most of the saints build Ashram in their own
name, but Swamiji did not do anything like that, because most of the people are
not willing to follow the guidance of their preceptor, most of the people want
to fulfill their desire, it will add sins to the preceptor, if a disciple did not
follow the disciplines and instructions of a preceptor, it should be completed
by preceptor. In ancient times, Siddhas
and Saints won’t accept disciple easily, they conduct many experiments to
choose the right disciple who sincerely and fearlessly follows the instructions
of a Preceptor can only achieve the highest of the state in spiritual
practice. It is essential to have
courage, faith, discipline, perseverance, dedication, and devotion to become a disciple of an illustrious preceptor; one should take up a lot of hardships to
attain the blessings of a preceptor.
