The Spiritual Significance of Kumbha Mela Being Celebrated tomorrow (20 September, 2018) in Santhigiri Ashram:
The human race is facing a great crisis today. Great preceptors like Sri Krishna, Sri Buddha, Mahavir, Moses, Zarathustra, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad and Guru Nanak appeared for the spiritual renewal of humanity during historic intervals. However, their mission remains incomplete necessitating another epoch of spiritual renewal by a world teacher.
The spiritual vision of the great Indian rishis reveals how a soul can achieve absolute freedom from all imperfections and attain perfect peace.
There is only one Almighty God, Parabrahman. His light pervades in everything and everyone.
From that indescribable light of God emerges Manu, the nucleus of creation. He is the first born of God, the Adam of human race.
A solar system is the creation of Manu in association with saptarshis, the seven planetary spirits.
The Indian rishis calculated the age of the universe in terms of Manvantaras after the name of Manu.
Through the concept of Manu and Manu cycles India gives the world a perfect idea about creation and evolution of souls through the guidance of great mahatmas.
This is the basic concept of Sanatana Dharma, the eternal spiritual culture. Sanatana dharma is the culture of great mahatmas.
In the present cycle of Vaivaswata Manu an error occurred in the Sanatana Dharma.
A preceptor mistook himself as Brahman at the summit of God realization.
He pronounced ‘Aham Brahmasmi’, i.e. I am God.
A curse fell upon the human race as a result of this utterance against God.
After this curse, four chaturyugas went in darkness.
For a long age, the human race lost track of the true path and fell into degrading practices like sorcery, spirit worship, atheism, and so on.
For a long age, the human race lost track of the true path and fell into degrading practices like sorcery, spirit worship, atheism, and so on.
God sent 2444 mahatmas from the beginning of this kali yuga, to guide the human race towards the path of true dharma.
However, the fallen souls known as Yoga bhrashtas, Satan and Jinnis opposed these mahatmas and persecuted them defeating their mission.
Several mahatmas and sages prayed to God Almighty so that the human race, which has lost track, may be guided to the right path.
Many great souls and prophets like Moses, Sri Buddha, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed prophesied that the world will be guided to the true path through a great Soul.
Before the passing away of the Buddha, Ananda the principal disciple of the Buddha, asked the blessed one suppressing his tears,
“Who will teach us when you are gone?”
The blessed one replied,
“I am not the first Buddha who came upon the Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the World, a holy one, a supremely enlightened one, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the Universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
“He will reveal to you the same Eternal Truth which I have taught you. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax and glorious at the goal in the spirit and in the letter.
“He will proclaim a religious life wholly perfect and pure, such as I now proclaim.” Then Ananda said “How shall we know him?” The blessed one said “He will be known as Mettayya (Maitreya), which means, he whose name is Karunakara, i.e. kindness. “
In the Bible’s book of John, Jesus promises to send a Comforter:
‘And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you forever; But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you’.
That great Soul in these prophecies is Navajyotisree Karunakara Guru.
It has been recorded by Maharshi Aurobindo Ghosh that he saw a Supramental Light, descending to the earth in the year 1926, accompanied by Sri Krishna.
Navajyotisree Karunakara Guru was born in the year 1927, after ten months of this incident.
Guru’s mother saw that several devi-devas, sages and prophets and their followers are offering obeisance to the divine child in her womb.
Navajyotisree Karunakara Guru was born on 1st Sept. 1927 in Chandiroor in Alapuzha district, as the son of Smt. Karthyani and Sri Govindan, who were ordinary peasants.
Guru’s life, full of sacrifices, began at the age of fourteen, from the ashram of Sri Narayana Guru, who fought against social inequalities and superstitions.
There was nobody to guide Guru in His quest for spiritual realization.
Guru felt that His spiritual path was blocked.
Once, Guru was living at the Aruvipuram branch ashram of Sivagiri Mutt as its in-charge.
One day, He decided to observe 41 days’ meditation climbing the top of Koditooki hill, nearby.
The meditation started and on the 40th day, a figure appeared before Him in an aura of light. It was Rishi Sai Baba.
This vision gave hope to Guru.
Within the next few days, Guru found his spiritual guide – a Sufi saint by the name Qureshia Fakir, who was popular as Pattani Swami.
The saint was living at Beema Masjid near the city of Thiruvananthapuram.
After the spiritual wanderings with Qureshia Fakir, Guru came to a deserted place at Pothencode in the year 1964 and set up Santhigiri Ashram.
Intimations from the Light of God began to be received about the great mission of Guru.
A revelation was received from the Divine Light, thus:
‘What I wished for ages has been fulfilled now’.
The Akhanta Na
The great Guru mantra led the devotees to peace and all types of goodness and welfare and a self-reliant community life.
A revelation followed after Guru’s spiritual fulfillment that Kumbhamela should be celebrated every year commemorating this occasion.
On this day, thousands of devotees with 11 days’ vritam (vows) take Kumbham (earthen pot filled with sacred concoctions) and circle the Ashram in a colorful procession with the accompaniment of percussion, panchavadyam, etc. chanting the Akhanta Nama.
It has been revealed that the Kumbha Mela of Santhigiri Guru Parampara will become a great festival in the world.
It has also been revealed that by taking Kumbhams for 12 years successively a devotee will be saved from all types of karma dosha and pitru dosha along with all related ailments both of the mind and body.
After laying down the foundation for a new spiritual order the great Guru left His physical body on 6th May, 1999.
His physical departure is referred as ‘Adi Sankalpam’.
Guru instilled spiritual wisdom and the knowledge of right karma and dharma and unified the people going beyond the barriers of race, religion, caste and class discrimination.
Guru had prophesied that at all times an enlightened spiritual master would lead the Guru Parampara.
This prophecy has been fulfilled through Her Holiness Sishya Poojita Amrita Jnana Tapaswini, the present spiritual Head of Santhigiri Guru Parampara.
Chronic diseases, unexpected calamities, problems of marriage, mental and physical deformities, suicide, drug addiction etc. are some of the problems that haunt man in the present.
Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru initiated two basic rituals for a solution to these problems. They are the Guru Pooja and the system of marriage in Santhigiri.
The families in the Guru Parampara are released from the karmic and ancestral curses through Guru Pooja or Pitru Suddhi.
A new generation of children with good fortune as well as the awareness of dharma is being born, through the marriages between the families that are thus freed from karma dosha and ancestral curses.
By participating in the prayers and rituals in the Ashram like kumbha mela, pournami vritam etc., the individuals and families are able to fulfill their wishes.
The spirituality of Santhigiri focuses on the family. Guru mentioned that a mother is the first teacher. The mother should be a spiritually knowledgeable soul. If a woman is thus spiritually enlightened, a family would become good. Only through such noble family life, the society can be transformed.
For this, the family life should be spiritually aligned with the Guru and the Ashram way of life.
Welcome to Santhigiri Ashram, the Abode of Peace!
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