The walking Lord of Varanasi – Sri Thrailanga Swamiji

Pranams at the lotus feet of Swamiji!

Chapter -V

Umacharan Mukherji remembered the nectar like the advice of Swamiji, there is no piousness higher than Mukthi, there is no knowledge that is higher than knowledge of self.  In order to attain these two, there is no alternative other than blessings of the preceptor, if there is no knowledge of self, a person has to suffer from miseries and grief constantly.  The whole Universe is an illusion; none of the creatures in the Universe has the right to live in happiness alone.  One day Swamiji asked Umacharan to bring some papers so that he could dictate something,  Swamiji said, ‘I  want you to write down information about twelve subjects, I will keep instructing and you can note it down, our subjects are supreme spirit, preceptor and disciple, worldly existence, pure intellect, righteousness, Upasana/practice of spirituality, previous birth, self-realization, realization of Bramham and union with it, knowledge about philosophy, creation and a few important things and whoever read these would acquire knowledge.’ The next day Umacharanji brought some papers from the market,  Swamiji continued to pronounce like Maharishi Vedavyasa, and Mukherji was noting them down like Ganesha.  He wrote down in several papers, Umacharanji was moving too close to Swamiji.   One day Mangaldas told Mukherji that soon he will be a disciple of Swamiji because Swamiji keeps praising Mukherji for his perseverance saying that ‘Bengali Babu is a good soul’, Umacharanji’s joy has no bound and became too emotional.  One day Swamiji was sitting and Umacharanji was massaging the feet of Swamiji, ‘Oh! Bengali babu, want to get Deeksha from me’, Umacharanji just closed his eyes and prayed for the mercy of Swamiji, Umacharanji said ‘Baba, your compassionate grace on me always, other than this what else I need in this life.’ Swamiji said ‘We will discuss on this matter tonight. You are free from bondage now, once you receive Deeksha you will be bound by responsibilities, now you go home, we will talk about it in the evening.’  Umacharanji came in the evening, Swamiji took him to a small room adjacent to the main hall, he sat on the floor and started to speak ‘ You want to learn Yoga, but you are not qualified to undertake Yoga which is too tough deed to practice, it is described in Katopanishadh, five sense organs, reasoning ability, knowledge, wisdom,  mind, and intellect, turns out motionless/stop functioning, that state is called transcendental state/ Yoga, one need to have extreme courage to perform this, you do not have that.  Hence, you are not capable to take up Yoga practice. You are good to adopt Upasana techniques; therefore you take lessons on Upasana”.