Guruji's teachings
Guruji's own words on the visions that filled his final years, and his simple advice to a tired disciple: just do the Viraja Homam.
Written by Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji), posted by Vira Chandra. Originally published at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com.
Last Message
From last week I am in living an ocean of utter creativity of silent visions. And totally silent even if galaxies are colliding or being created! There is no way I can describe the visions. I feel I am dreaming when I am in the waking state. This waking state is not me.
The real me is totally mad and totally creative. I see no violence in that, thank God. I am experiencing some mad state. I know it is totally incommunicable, but will try nevertheless.
I know, when the saint of Simhachalam blessed my Guru Svaprakashnanda rubbing his head and saying "pichi pichi pichi, mad, mad,mad" I used to wonder what it was. Was it a deeksha or what? Now I understand what it meant.
There are two states. Being and becoming. Being is what you are. It is called now. This is continuous. Becoming is creating time by chaning me. Becoming is what you are not. It can be sudden or continuous. It can be anything. Blazing lights, galaxies, stars, earths, oceans, people, animals, worms. Smallest to biggest. That is ever changing. In this state you are seeing yourself as other than you. This is the creative part.
Whatever you are seeing is spinning out of your current being, controlled in part by your giving it an intention, a direction. Another part is spontaneous, not created by you. This is the much bigger part. Records of all happenings are set in scrolls, mostly in Sanskrit. If you can access a particular region of gravity, space and time of total five dimensions, you can retrieve such information. You can see yourself at different ages, before births into the past. I can read the Sanskrit. But they are written so fast, and so voluminous, I just cant remember them. Except a few headings here and there. Some of them change as I try to read them too.
I am enjoying my madness. That is the real me. This world, my role in it, gender, caste, name, fame, money, power, status, goals mean nothing. That goes for Manidveepam as well.
I am myself. That is the most important fact. I am also understanding the futility of asking for the power of making others see what I see. By the time I get into the others trough my will, the visions have changed infinitely. And it never repeats. So what is the point? They will always be my visions, whoever I happen to be.
At least is there a mantra, yantra, tantra or any process which can give such experiences? No. It is Her choice. By Her I mean the part of me which becomes what I see through my intention. Language is so inadequate. When I pray, I am in my dream world, not my real world. So prayer is useless.
Sorry to bother you with my raving and ranting. You are one person with whom I can share my madness.
Viraja Homam
Viraja Homam is a core and very important component of the Sri Chakra Navavarana Puja. Its significance can be gauged from the following conversation Guruji had with one of his disciples who was plagued with personal problems –
Disciple – "Guruji, there are so many problems in my life that I simply feel down and out. I sometimes wonder if life is even worth living any more. Everyday I have to somehow literally pick myself up to do things. I have no motivation to live whatsoever. What should I do?"
Guruji – "Doing Navavarana Puja can be very helpful. It will help rejuvenate you physically, mentally and astrally."
Disciple – "Guruji, I don't have the energy or the will to sit down for 2 hours to do an elaborate puja. I am finding it difficult to even survive!"
Guruji – "I understand. I recommend you do the Viraja Homam daily. It is the single most important part of the Navavarana Puja. It will help you to reconnect with Devi both inside and outside. It will re-energize your astral body immensely. By daily practice of the Viraja Homam, you will let go of your physical and mental maladies, and fill yourself at all levels by the Amritam or divine nectar. This state of divinity is always within us but our limited vision prevents us from experiencing it. Viraja Homam removes these limitations by an internal sacrifice where we witness the transmutation of our limited self into the unassailable peace of the divine Self. You will be a floating bubble of peace unaffected by the turbulence of life. My blessings are with you."
Source: Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati (Guruji), "Last message & Viraja Homam," posted by Vira Chandra at amritananda-natha-saraswati.blogspot.com, November 7, 2016.
Guruji's talk of Being and Becoming points at something Kaula practice keeps coming back to. Inner worship is about resting in what never changes in you, while still honoring the changing world of shapes, elements, and events as part of the same Goddess. You do not need to chase visions to take this seriously. You just keep turning inward, past the roles you play, toward what is simply there.
The Viraja Homam story is more down to earth, and easier to use right away. It is a piece of external worship, fire offering as part of Navavarana Puja, but Guruji's advice was to keep it simple on hard days. You do not need the full two-hour puja to stay connected. A short, honest daily practice, done with real intention, can carry you when a longer one feels out of reach.
Together, these two teachings say the same thing in different ways: practice does not have to be grand to be real. Some days it looks like sitting quietly with what does not change in you. Other days it looks like showing up for one small ritual instead of none at all.
He was describing a period near the end of his life when he lived inside a silent, ever-changing flow of visions. He said this inner world felt more real to him than his ordinary waking life, his name, his role, or anything else about him.
Guruji called Being what you are right now, always, without change. Becoming is everything that appears and changes, from galaxies down to a single worm. He said Becoming spins out of Being, partly guided by your own intention and partly on its own.
Guruji said no. He said it is Her choice, not something a mantra, yantra, or ritual can force. He described it as the part of himself that becomes whatever he sees through his own intention.
Viraja Homam is a core part of the Sri Chakra Navavarana Puja. Guruji recommended it on its own, done daily, to a disciple who felt too worn down to sit for a full two-hour Navavarana Puja. He said it reconnects you with Devi and renews you at every level.
No. Guruji told the disciple to do the Viraja Homam alone, daily, calling it the single most important part of the longer puja. It does not require the time or energy the complete Navavarana Puja needs.
Read the original: Last message & Viraja Homam, on Guruji's blog, posted by Vira Chandra.
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