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His responsibility beyond the earth
Today while I was sitting outside Baba’s door, I asked a senior Indian worker, Dada Shubbhabodhananda, to tell me the most special experience he’d had of Baba. This was his story:
It was one year ago during a DMC tour in India. As the secretary general of the Service Department, I oversaw the security arrangements.
One morning, at 3am, I woke up to check everything.
First I made sure that the 2 guards were both vigilant. Then I walked around to the rear of the house. Baba’s room was there, and the window looking into His room had the curtains drawn back somewhat.
I looked in, but He wasn’t there. Perhaps He had gone to the bathroom?
I walked over to the bathroom window and listened. Nothing. Very peculiar. Where could Baba have gone?
I walked back to the big window of His bedroom, but He still was not there. For some minutes I stood there gazing in the window, wondering.
Suddenly I became aware of the slight shadow of a figure in the center of the room.
As I watched, the vague shape became more and more definite. It was a man sitting in meditation. Finally I realized it was Baba. Where there had previously been nothing, He materialized.
The next morning I was full of curiosity, hoping for some opportunity to ask Baba about the night before. Baba called me in alone to perform massage.
The trouble is mutual
Ananda Nagar. Today Dada Svarupanandaji (the principal of our college here and one of our most senior Dadas) told me a couple of stories from his early days in Ananda Marga.
After my initiation, but before I became an acharya, I visited the yoga center of the famous elderly lady saint Ananda Mayi Ma. At that time, Baba was not well known, so I did not inform anyone there that I was a Margi.
I sat together with the other devotees in front of Ma. She called me forward, and said:
I was shocked by her psychic ability to know my guru, and thrilled by her praise of Baba.
Later, when I met Baba, and passed Ananda Mayi Ma’s namaskar.
He returned the namaskar, and commented:
Another occasion, also before I was an acharya, I was together with Baba at night.
Though we were walking, His mind was obviously far away. Taking advantage of His transcendental state, I stole 2 rupees from His pocket.
Afterwards, I used that money to buy sweets and brought them to the tiger’s grave where three of us sat with Baba.
We all enjoyed the sweets. Then Baba said to me:
Baba looked at me sternly and said:
During those early years, (Svarupanandaji continued) one could often see Him enter into trances and different special states of being, just like other highly elevated spiritualists.
But He is not like others, because He never studied under any guru, and He passed through all His personal realizations as a youth.
After that, I mean for the last thirty years or so, He always appeared in total control of Himself-even though He’s busy raising the kundalini force (spiritual energy) of so many other people. And busy making trouble for us. Well, of course, we’re also nicely skilled in making trouble for Him.
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