Yogiraj Sri Shyamacharan
Lahiri Mahashay
Pranams at the lotus feet
of Yogiraj!
Chapter - 4
One day Shyamacharan Lahiri
received a notification from his office, found that he is transferred from
Dhanapur to Ranikhet, he left the family behind Kashi and left to Ranikhet. Those days commuting was not easy, there were
no railway lines, so he had to adopt various means of transport to reach
Ranikhet. Once he was settled in Ranikhet,
he used to watch in awe the beauty of Himalaya, he walks for some time. One day he went for a walk and moved up to
Dhruvgiri, soon he heard somebody is calling him by name for once or twice, but
the voice reverberated in the whole area for several times. He was so surprised and went to check the
person, Lahiri Mahashay conducted a rigorous search for the voice in all
surrounding areas, after some time he saw a young man standing on the top of
the hill, and he was showing gestures to come up. Lahiri Mahashay went up to the hill but he could
not recognize the youth, he said “ I was calling out your name. You did not
recognize me?” Lahiri Mahashay said, “ No, I do not know you.”
He took Lahiri Mahashay to a nearby cave. He showed the woolen blanket
and Kamandalu and said: “ Could you recognize these items?” Lahiri Mahashay said
“ No, Maharaj, I could not understand you or any of these items, but you know
my name. How?” Babaji said “ I know you very well, I have brought you from
Dhanapur to Ranikhet, after some days you have to return to Dhanapur,” Lahiri
Mahashay was surprisingly watching at him, he was standing like a statue and
watching at the astounding youth. He
touched the forehead of Lahiri Mahashay, with the single touch his body roused
with divine energy; slowly he could regain all the memories of the past
rushed in. Soon Lahiri Mahashay
understood that in his previous birth, he used to conduct Tapasya in this
cave, the Kamandal and the woolen blanket were used by him, he used to meditate
by sitting on it, his face shone with extreme bliss, he immediately prostrated
before the youth and said “ Gurudev, I have recollected all those memories,
this cave was my field of spiritual practice, kindly forgive my ignorance.” The
youth continued “ I was waiting for you for the past forty years. After leaving this place I was following you
like a shadow, I was watching you from the day you have born, now only you have
come to me, now I will perform purification process, drink some oil from the
vessel, and wait near the lake,” he followed the instruction of Babaji and went
to lay near the lake.