The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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I want to open my heart before you all on this Parva of Vasant Panchami:
- to share my loving compassion for humanity;
- to show you the spring of karuna that has erupted in my inner self;
- to tell you how much compassion is there in its deep folds to make every life noble;
- to let you see the indwelling divinity.

I want to distribute all these divine attributes among you as well.

You look at these, experience and test them, and if you have courage and quality, come forward and take these divine attributes from me – your Guru.

Take home:
some peace,
some greatness, and
everything that is noble, sublime, and glorious, from here.

I want to endow you also with the immense powers of shaktipata and kundalini that my Guru had blessed me with.

May you become worthy of these boons. This is what I wish for you all on this holy day.

||OM SHANTI||

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Brahmvarchas Shodh Sansthan has been established to
- revive the scientific basis and training practices of
     - elevation of vital energy,
     - hidden talents, and
     - spiritual awakening of consciousness force by tapashcharya (tapa).

Gayatri Nagar, Shantikunj has been built for
- the renaissance of theism by nurturing a community of divine-centered human beings, as a model of heavenly ambience on this earth;
- manifesting the virtues of selflessness, simplicity, duty, service, endurance, benevolence and co-operation in their day to day lives.

Thousands of people come here to receive our love, guidance and help; they come here to seek the light of knowledge and wisdom, and to get inspirations to progress along the righteous path.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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If you cannot develop sanskaras (virtuous tendencies) in your children, send them here, send them to me.

Why?

What will I do?

Like Rishi Valmiki,
- I can transform your children into Lava-Kush;
- can make their mother a blessed tapswini (performing spiritual austerities) like Devi Sita,
- and endow you with the ideals of Ram-Lakshaman.

This is why Shantikunj and Brahmavarchas Ashrams were founded on the auspicious parva (festival) of Vasant Panchami, as nuclei of our mission of Yug Nirman, for worldwide dissemination of the light of knowledge, theism, and divine Vedic cultural values.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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I have only two dreams:
1. inculcation of divinity in humans, and
2. creation of divine life on the earth.

My supramental attainments of Shaktipata and Kundalini are dedicated only for materialization of these objectives and for nothing else.

Blossoming of Brahmvarchas in every dimension, every impulse of life – this is incarnation of divinity in the human self.

And what is the descent of heaven on the earth?

Well, heaven or paradise is not some God's capital (Vaikuntha) in the subtle world.

It can very well be created on this earth, in the very world we are living in.

The ambience and circumstances of a paradise are created wherever good people live in moral discipline, with mutual love and cooperation.

I wanted to build a model colony, village or town:
- where elevated personalities could live simple, happy, dignified lives, devoted to high ideals;
- where people could set a living example of what an altruistic, purposeful, glorious life, engaged in welfare of all, is like.

Gayatrinagar, Shantikunj amply demonstrates the realization of this dream.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Theism evolves in Brahmavarchas.

Brahmavarchas includes - awakening of the infinite powers hidden or dormant in the inner self by pure ascetic practices (tapa) of:
- self-discipline
- self-refinement and
- self-transformation.

The principles of Brahmavarchas incorporate:
- self-restraint over the sense organs (by observing austerity, fasting, chastity, etc.) at the gross level, and
- control and purification of the thoughts, aspirations and sentiments of the inner self, on the subtler levels.

This is how tapa generates spiritual energy and activates the latent divinity existing in the individual.

I had initiated my Brahmavarchas on the day of Vasant Panchami.

In one word, it is a confluence of theism and tapa.

Theism means adoption of a moral, righteous life; and

tapa means voluntary adoption of hardship, penance, austerity, for achievement of high ideals and altruistic endeavors.

Brahmavarchas Shodh Sansthan of our Mission is a symbol, a place where I want to demonstrate and teach the super-science of Brahmavarchas.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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The religious shrines, the methods of worship and devotion are there to:
- to help condition our minds, our inner selves
- ponder over and experience His cosmic consciousness
- to know and link ourselves with the divine values.

The temples of Gayatri Mata, built by us, are symbols of the eternal teachings of Gayatri Vidya.

Gayatri means shraddha, viveka, karuna and pavitrata (pavitrata means piety of body, mind and heart).

You should keep the holy pictures of Goddess Gayatri, worship it, pray and meditate before Her with heartfelt devotion and faith.

This would gradually induce Her grace and virtues in you.

We all should adopt theism in practice and also spread it around us.

You all may begin with sincere devotional practices before Gayatri Mata's picture in your own house and also inspire your neighbors to do so.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Believing in God means:
- having faith in His eternal omnipresence
- believing in His absolute Law of Karma

His Law allows us be the architect of our own destiny; His Law is simple - as you sow, so you reap.

Each one of us can be blessed by His infinite grace; but first we have to abide by His laws that are essential for the ideal maintenance of His creation.

This is what theism teaches us.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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The day of Vasant Panchami is full of grand opportunities for noble resolutions and initiatives.

This is the day of landmark initiatives for our mission.

Each year, this day sparks a new enthusiasm and a new courage in me, that drive me to elevate and expand my efforts with greater zeal to beautify this world, to work for the welfare of all beings.

The milestones of our mission's achievements towards social awakening and revival of the divine cultural values have all been initiated through resolutions made on this day; new projects have been undertaken on this very day.

Now, today, we have to take another leap along our forward journey.

We should strive single-pointedly to spread the light of true Theism - faith in divinity, the universal ethics.

Disciplines of morality and ethical conduct are integral facets of Theism.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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If you are sensitive to your duties, and have adopted noble moral ideals in your conduct and deeds, your consciousness (being) would work like a sublime magnetic force that would naturally attract spontaneous support from all directions and from everyone, and will also invite divine grace.

This certainly happens in the lives of saints; this is what manifests in the lives of great personalities like Gandhi and Kagaba.

The history of Indian Rishis is an immortal testimony to this fact that - emergence of karuna in the heart eventually leads to sainthood, and divinisation of the ego-bound human self.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Whenever the indwelling divinity is awakened in an individual, it expresses itself:
- as pain
- as sensitivity to share others' agonies
- as unbounded love
- as karuna.

God is not a physical structure or a material creation - It is Brahma – the omnipresent, eternal consciousness force.

Consciousness cannot have a material structure or shape.

It is most naturally expressed and experienced in pure sensitivity.

What is pure sensitivity?

Well, in essence, it is that intrinsic spiritual power which gives rise to viveka (enlightened discernment) and karuna.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Compassion is that which makes one cry with others’ sorrow, which drives one to live for others’ welfare.

Sagacity is that which guides one to live a dignified life of a noble human being, who engages his talents constructively in righteous pursuits.

Look for example, at Kagaba – who is honored as the "Gandhi of Japan".

He dedicated all his life in the service of the downtrodden, the helpless, and the patients of leprosy and other dreaded diseases, who are practically abandoned by their families.

His karuna (compassion and generosity with saintly love) for them inspired his wife also to join in his altruistic mission. Both of them used to be engaged in this noble mission, round the clock, without expectation of even gratitude.

What enabled this superhuman endeavor?

It was the power of karuna, which had sprung up in their hearts.

This is what I call the expression of Kundalini, which produces a zeal, a pain, a thrust, and pulls the individual consciousness out of the smog of all infirmities and selfish attachments.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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What is Kundalini?

It is the sublime source of unlimited vital, spiritual energy that remains dormant in most of us.

Yoga Shastras talk a great deal about the sadhanas of Kundalini Jagaran.

Without going into complications of its hidden science, you must know that most natural expression of ultimate state of Kundalini Jagaran is - awakening of divine attributes in the sadhaka.

I therefore regard Kundalini as sensitivity and compassion; as sagacity and foresight.

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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When umang emerges from within, it erupts like a spark of fire that rises and expands unhindered. It transforms one's life in a stormy way.

The Appearance of my eternal Guru, on the Vasant Parva in February 1926, was also like a sublime cyclone of this immensity.

He flashed before my consciousness my previous lives, and before leaving, he blessed me with what is known as "Shaktipata" and "Kundalini Jagaran".

Supramental spiritual attainments that require grand ascetic endeavors and sadhana for several lifetimes, were bestowed upon me in a matter of few moments.

Everything within me seemed to have been transformed.

I could now visualize the world far beyond and quite differently from what I used to see before.

Let me tell you about my Kundalini Jagaran (awakening of Kundalini).

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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(Translation of excerpts from the discourse on Vasanti Panchami day February 1981:
"Vasanti Hooka, Umang Aur Ullas Yadi Aa Jaye Jeevan Me")

Let us begin with the collective chanting of the Gayatri Mantra:

“Om Bhur Buvah Swah, Tatsaviturvareñyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi,
Dhiyo Yonah Pracodayat ||”

Sisters and Brothers,

I was referring to the umang – vibrant enthusiasm and ecstatic emotional thrust – generated in the spring. It emerges from within. It can't be stopped by any attempt. This is what spring brings in Nature.

A day of spring had also bestowed a divine umang upon Prince Siddharth. On the one side were his family, the enchanting joys, luxuries and powers of royal life, and on the other was the Call of Time Spirit, the cries of suffering humanity, agonized by ignorance and eradication of true religious values in the world.

The umang of Vasant (spring) awakened in his mind and guided him - if you want to spend your life blindly chasing happiness in worldly joys and attachments, you would have lived a meaningless life; anybody can do it - in fact everybody is doing only that; you should chose the path of awakened awareness.

This message of spring drove him towards the search for the path of deliverance from suffering, and eventually he succeeded in his search, and became The Buddha – The Awakened One.

Let the Spirit of Spring Permeate and Uplift Your Life (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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Your life should be such that I, the Guru himself, will come to you and ask for assistance, your active collaboration in his altruistic world-uplifting efforts.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa himself used to go to Narendra (Vivekananda), seeking his help in dissemination of devotion and knowledge, in transforming the society.

A tongue cannot work like a mike, and a mike alone is of no use without a tongue (voice), combination of both serves the purpose. The voice (message) of the Guru is spread through the mike (efforts) of the disciples. My Guru is the voice and I am his mike.

I want you also to be able to do the same in turn.

I would like you to be worthy of spreading divine message.

If you could cultivate this ability, there would be no delay in the working of His grace in your lives. God keeps the boons of shaktipata and kundalini ready in His hands to bestow them upon deserving souls. You could also receive them provided you have the desired level of shraddha (inner faith and dedication) and patrata (worthiness).

We have taken up the mission of revival of the Vedic knowledge and Rishi traditions of Yagya along with Gayatri Vidya.

We have now introduced the medium of "Gyan Rathas" to spread this knowledge through mission's publications.

You may devote two valuable hours per day for this noble task.

This would indeed be more virtuous than singing devotional songs or worshiping divine idols for the same time.

Let the Spirit of Spring Permeate and Uplift Your Life (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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I cannot describe in words the dreaded physical and mental ailments that I have seen people suffering from. Many come here to get rid of their beastly tendencies, the sinful life they have been living so far.

How to tell you, how contented (glad) I feel by helping them out, by liberating and uplifting their lives, by giving them happiness.

You see! All this is the astonishing power of awakened kundalini.

On the Vasant Panchami day every year I keep thinking that all of you present here should also share in my precious fortune and lead your lives to glorious heights; may your noble deeds and names become immortal on the golden pages of the annals of humanity.

Your life should rise above its present state of suffering and perversion.
You should be able to resolve all your problems yourself and also have the potential to help others in getting rid of their problems.

Then you will not have to come to me and beg - "Guruji! Kindly save me; remove my sufferings; etc."

Let the Spirit of Spring Permeate and Uplift Your Life (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

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This is how I could launch the grand missions of Vichar Kranti and Yug Nirman Yojna, to destroy the smog of evils and ignorance prevailing in the minds of people, and lay the foundation of an era of bright future for all.

It looks as if each and every part of my being is filled with immense vigor, valor and courage like that of Rishi Parashuram.

If people see any sign of a social reformer or a great personality in me, it is all an expression of the shaktipata bestowed by my Guru on that Vasant Panchami day in 1926.

The awakening of kundalini is said to bestow siddhis and riddhis (spiritual attainment of supernormal talents and angelic potentials). With the help of these, an accomplished sadhaka or siddha yogi can miraculously help others and also reach higher realms in his own spiritual ascent.

My Guru came, activated my inner consciousness and awakened my kundalini. This resulted in the flow of viveka (spiritually illumined wisdom) and karuna (saintly love and compassion) within me, and eventually filled me with enduring contentment, peace and bliss.

This is what we are blessed with, as we dedicate all that we have, in the performance of our duties, as per the enlightened guidance of viveka and saintly impulse of karuna.

People come here full of varied sufferings and tensions of worldly life; with tears in their eyes, they come to me for help. I experience limitless inner peace and blissful repose in allaying their agonies, resolving their problems, eradicating the adversities of their lives.