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Samardha Sadguru
Sri Sri Sri Hanumath
Kali Vara Prasad
Babuji Maharaj |
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Sri
Babu
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Bharat, our sacred motherland had always enjoyed and continues
to enjoy the privilege of producing many seers and sages who
are immortalized by the bliss of self realization. While
realizing the Self is one thing, to guide and help others
realize it is another; and he that lends such guidance is
reverentially referred to as GURU in Sanskrit. This word GURU
has no synonym in any other language to convey its full
meaning and effect. When elaborated, the first letter ‘GU’
means darkness, that is ignorance; and the second letter ’RU’
means the dispelling of darkness and conferring of
wisdom.
Thus
‘GURU ‘ is he that is light itself, the light of wisdom;
the only light that can dispel the darkness of ignorance which
the brilliance of a billion suns cannot. Jadadgurus like Sri
Sankaracharya, Loed Buddha, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Rama
Thirtha, bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi and many others were
born in this land. All these were great personages who richly
enjoyed the absolute state of self realization but were not
contended. They came out of their seclusion and sacrifice
everything to share the wealth of their experience with many
thousands of their
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Samadha Sadguru Sri Sri Sri Hanumath Kali Vara Prasad Babu is
one of that clan, presently gracing with His divne presence,
Sri Babu Vignana Mandir is Sri Kali Gardens. This is an ashram
located at a short distance from Nambur Railway station in
guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Sri Babu is an ardent
advocate of Rajayoga, and a great Rajarishi himself. Though he
has not taken up the traditional sanyasa ashram, he is a true
sanyasi in the real sense of the word having shattered the
shackles of mortal bondage and attained the state of supreme
bliss (Nirvikalpa Samadhi) in his childhood it
self.
As a
young boy Sri Babu set out in quest of spiritual enlighnement
and in the process spent many years in severe penance, deep
meditation and constant touring across the length and breath
of the country. The deity of his earliest worship was Lord Sri
Rama whose Sakshatar(Darshan) he had on many occasions.
Whenever he was wandering in forests or such other lonely
places he always used to have the experience of being
accompanied and protected by Lord Hanuman. He had spent many a
month in meditation at each of the sacred places like
Srisailam, Tirumala, Sabarimalai, Uttarakasi and interior
Himalayas. He had visited every place of pilgrimage and owned
all spiritual experience that it could offer. Those who had
the privilege of accompanying him during a more
recent tour of north & South India, had actually seen how,
at every place he used to spend many hours and even days in a
state of identity with the presiding deity of the
place.
Most part of Sri Babuji’s early life was spent in almost total
seclusion. He was known to very few people during that time.
Even those that knew him could get his darsan very rarely and
that too at intuitively appointed places and timings. None
dared to look straight into his brilliant and powerful eyes or
even touch his feet. Due to the constant inward diversion of
all senses(Antarmukhatva) his faculty of speech was effected.
(Now of course he speaks with the thunderous voice of the
Divine Mother) his formal education came to a conclusion even
before his learning the alphabet because, when he took up the
slate and pencil to practice the letters of alphabet, He saw
the Divine Mother Sri Kali there in the slate. In spite of
these handicaps, he used to discuss many spiritual topics with
the learned Pandits and correct and convince them. They were
all arms down before his wisdom born out of practical
experience.
It
was during this period that he came into contact with the
great sage and Rajayogi, Sri Kandarpa Parasuramayya. The two
were so much drawn towards each other that the later used to
regard Sri Babu as his only spiritual heir and divine gift.
Sri Parasuramayya considered Sri Babu as his friend,
philosopher and guide; and Sri Babu even to day refers, with
moistened eyes, reverentially to Sri Parasuramayya as his
father. It was this great man that could contain Sri Babu with
all his soaring spiritual ambitions and attainments and
persuade him to sacrifice his solitude and seclusion for the
nobler mission of the emancipations and the upliftment of
millions of mundane me and women. The divine direction and
guidance of Sri babu would not have been perhaps
available to all his devotees to day, but for the efforts made
by Sri Parasuramayya and Sri Babu’s two most adherent
devotees, Late Dr. Lanka Seahagirirao and the Late Mr.
Mavulrti chiranjeevirahu to keep him in our midst.
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The presiding deities of Sri Babuji’s daily worship are the
divine mother Sri Kali and Sri Hanuman. All the same the summem bonum of his preaching’s and practice is Advaita of the
highest class. This rare and marvelous blending of the Saguna
and nirguna cults finds its paralleled only in Sri
Ramkrishna Parmahamsa. Equally harmoniously blended in Sri
Babu are the frank forthrightness of a child and the sparkling
wisdom of a Brahmagnani.People
who have known Sri Babu even as boy of fifteen narrate with
astonishment and adoration how all the divine powers came to
him automatically. There have been innumerable instances in
which Babuji cured cases of disease declared hopeless by
expert doctors, solved admittedly impossible family feuds and
brought to reconciliation parties with mutually
murderous intentions.
But all these, he humbly claims, are the divine mother’s
benevolent operations executed through “this instrument
(Pointing to Hi Self) “ the great and kind mother has
just chosen to put on this grab (Himself) for carrying
out Her acts of mercy towards her suffering children”
declares Sri Babu. He shuns the use off acquired powers for
material gains and is convinced |
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that they are a great
impediment to one’s spiritual progress. Material pleasures are
nothing, when compared with the pleasure of the realizing that
you are not this mortal frame, but that you are the immortal
Self; the one and only one indivisible, omini present
omnipotent and omniscient Self. But, infinitely greater and
beyond measure is the pleasure that such a realized soul would
in the faces of all those whom he could inspire, guide and
help to realize the Self as he himself did. A spiritual leader
or Guru would prefer such pleasure to personal
bliss.
Sri Babu
does not preach any rigid dogmas. He only exhorts people to
avail of the most privileged human birth to extricate
themselves from the cycle of births and deaths by leading a
simple, pure and spiritual life. According to him, leading a
spiritual life, does not mean renouncing the responsibilities
towards one’s family, vocation or society. In fact, one is
advised to discharge all such responsibilities sincerely and
wholely heartedly, but only through righteous means without
harming others. In spite of one’s busy routine, one can still
fine time to spend few moments in fervent prayer and
meditation, if only one does not allow laziness to override
him, because, laziness is Death.
Prayer coupled with faith bestows mental poise and in ward
purity Sri Babu assures that uni-pointed devotion towards, and
unsverving faith in, the lotus feet of the Lord that is
guru, provide the surest remedy for all sufferings and also
lead us to the ultimate
goal.
The
number of people coming into the fold of Sri Babu’s divine
spell has been ever on the increase. It was, therefore, found
necessary to bring up an ashramam and request Sri Babu to
grace the same constantly with his divine presence, so that
all devotees could have his darsna to seek and obtain his
Vignana Mandir thus came into existence in 1972. there is
absolutely no discrimination on the basis of caste, cred or
sex in this ashram. Disciples of all communities live and dine
together there. The nectar of spiritual messages flows
perennially from his divine centre of knowledge through the
ringing voice of Sri babu, to keep rejuvenating and
enlivening all those blessed
beings that come in to his electrifying presence, get into his
assuring looks and feel his curing touch.
Morning and evening prayers along ith the recitiation of the
Upanishads and the gita Sankirtan, critical commentary on the
classics like, Ramayana, bhagavata etc. and lectures on
spiritual topics are some of the daily features of the Ashram.
On almost all
the festival days there will be Guru Pada Pooja as also other
special programmes. The Navratri celebrations in the Ashram
during the Dasara festival cannot be sufficiently described
but can only be enjoyed by personal participation and
experience. It is no exaggeration to say that every day is
festival day in the ashram in the divine presence of Sri Babu.
Sri Babu never preached rigid dogmas. He advocated the path of
Raja yoga for one and all. Leading spiritual life did not mean
renouncing the responsibilities towards one's family or society. One
must discharge all those duties sincerely and righteously and
yet get more and more mentally attached to the Lotus feet of
the Lord. Such a person is a true sanyasi even while he is a
Grishastha and is thus amply qualified to attain Mukti, that
is liberation from
bondage.
According to Sri Babu, intense and unswerving faith in Guru
(that guru is himself the God supreme) and implicit obedience
to Guru's directions are enough for a spiritual seeker to
achieve his goal of self-realization. Sri Babu was originally
very much against publicity. His darsan was scarcely available
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with others
about him. But as the number of devotees swelled up, the urge
among his devotees to have his darsan and
guidance becameuncontainable. All the devotees implored upon Sri
Babu to permit them to bring up an Ashram where his gracious
presence and divine guidance could be made available to all
desirous devotees.
Thus came into being Sri Kali Gardens Ashram in 1972. And ever
thereafter, Sri Babu Vignana Mandir, that is Sri Babuji's
cottage in the Ashram, became perennial fountain -head from
where the nectar of spiritual education springs out eternally
to reach and rejuvenate people in every nook and corner of the
world. Sri Babu repeatedly visited not only different parts of
the country but also many countries abroad like U.S, U.K, West
Indies, France etc. and gave invaluable spiritual discourses
and guidance to many spiritual
seekers.
Sri Babu gives people what they want in the hope that they
will begin to want what he wants to give them. Samardha
Sadguru Sri Sri Sri Hanumath Kali Vara Prasad Babuji Maharshi,
enshrined in the hearts of his disciples as "Babu", hails from
such a clan of Gurus and graced this element of
human habitation with his divine presence of nearly seven
decades of the twentieth century. |
Jai Jai Gurudev Samardh
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