Gurucharanam Saranam
Prophesies About the Arrival of a Great Supremely Enlightened Guru
By M. Chidambaran,
Dy. Director of Education- Retd., Haripad)
The Vedas, the Sastras, the Upanishads, the Puranas and the Epics
have been written centuries ago. Scholars have interpreted and commented on
them in accordance with their knowledge, wisdom, imagination and reasoning
power so as to make those interpretations authoritative documents. Prophecies
are not such authoritative interpretations. They are the knowledge attained by
rishis and other divine men through revelations and enlightenment from the Eternal
Light. The prophecies made by great acharyas after Sri Krishna such as the Buddha,
Jesus, Mohamed, Aurobindo Maharshi, Nostradamus, Narayana Guru and Vivekananda
are of this type. The great acharyas have predicted that a great Soul will
incarnate to this world to fulfill the will of Brahman and lead mankind to the
Eternal Truth. Let us look into some of those prophecies:
Sri Buddha
In ‘The Gospel of Buddha’ compiled by Paul Carus and
published by the Publications Division, Govt. of India, it can be read that the
Buddha had predicted that a great Guru by the name ‘Kindness’ or ‘Karuna’ will
manifest in due time to reveal the Eternal Truth, establishing a pure and
perfect lineage of human race to this world (page-210 Mettayya):
‘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’, which means he whose name is Kindness or
Karuna.
As predicted by the Buddha,
Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru
cleanses the spirits of our ancestors (mortals) and angels (the deities
they worshiped) by will or by His spiritual brilliance. These purified
souls will
be placed at appropriate places for rebirth to form a new pure lineage
in the
coming generation. No other acharya could ever do such cleansing of
manes and
deities for establishing a pure and virtuous lineage of human race with
ability
and fortune devoid of the evil effects of past karmas or actions, as
done by
Karunakara Guru. Guru reveals to his disciples through darsan and self
experience the eternal truth which the Buddha had taught. We can see the
incomparable leader of men and master of angels and mortals known by the
name
Kindness or Karuna or Karunakara in Santhigiri Ashram and know about him
through self experience.
Jesus
The gospel according to Saint John in the Holy Bible
predicts the coming of the Spirit of Truth as follows (Chapter 14- para 15-17,
chapter 16-para 5-14).
‘If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the
Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for
ever. Even the spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knowth him, it is
expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He comes He
will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment. I have yet
many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. How be it where the Spirit
of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak of
himself, but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak; and He will shew you
things to come…..’
We can see the Spirit of Truth with the above mentioned
qualities in Santhigiri Ashram. He spoke only that is heard from the voice of
God and that is known through spiritual or divine wisdom. He reveals these
things to His disciples and devotees through darsan or vision. He didn’t speak anything about Himself. He
informs us before hand what is going to happen and the reason for it and guides
us to fullness of truth.
Aravinda Maharshi
(Aurobindo Ghosh)
Maharshi Aurobindo had the darsan of the descent of
Supramental Light to the earth, followed by Sri Krishna. He narrates it as
follows: (The vision of Aurobindo by Dr. Velayudhan Nair, Page 58).
‘An extremely powerful oceanic flood of light rushed down
from above. Sri Krishna is not the Supramental Light. Sri Krishna is the Over
Mind Godhead that prepared the path for the descent of Supramental Light to the
earth. This happened on 24th November, 1926.
Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru was born on 1st
September 1927, after 282 days required for pregnancy and delivery since the
descent of the oceanic flood of Supramental Light and Sri Krishna on 24th
Nov. 1926. During the time of completion of the stages of spiritual evolution
of Guru who has manifested as per the will of God to free mankind in this
Kaliyuga from the evil effects of past bad karmas or deeds, it is said that Sri
Krishna came to the atmosphere of the precincts of the Ashram in a chariot and
nullified the opposition of the forces in subtle state. This was witnessed by
the disciples in the Ashram, who were having darsan. The Overmind Sri Krishna
cleared the way for the descent of the super conscious Supreme Light to
complete the karmas which could not be completed by the other acharyas born
after Sri Krishna.
From the time when Guru could recall as a child, till his 9th
year, He saw a light and luminous figure within His chest. Guru could realize
only later that the figure He had seen was that of Sri Krishna. He thought that
everybody would be having such experience. Guru who was like a dumb in the
early years could utter only those words heard from the face of the figure seen
internally. This figure and light vanished slowly when He became 9 years old.
He began to speak normally and started primary education only after that.
What Maharshi Aurobindo had seen in his vision, the
experiences of Guru from birth to the present time, and His messages throw
light to the part played by Sri Krishna to liberate mankind and establish the
ultimate Sanatana dhama as per the Will of Almighty, through Karunakara Guru.
The completion of this dharma could be fulfilled only through a Supreme Guru
who reached the highest state of spiritual evolution and got the authority to
do so as per the will of God.
Nostradamus
The predictions of Nostradamus (Century-1, stanza 50,53, 71,
72, 73, 76)…. Summary
‘He who is born at a place where 3 seas meet together will
treat Thursday as a Holy Day. He will conquer many things and will become
famous throughout the world. He will act like a whirlwind and will take India
(Orient) to the highest point. A person, not from a Semitic religion (not a
Christian nor Islam), not from white race (not a European) and who considers
Thursday as a Holyday will become conqueror of this world. That Messiah (Savior)
will rise up during the fag end of 20th century. He will be known by
an ancient name. He will be more famous and enlightened than anyone else and
will send true message to all’.
Where the three seas meet – at the southern most end of
India in the southern part of Kerala, where the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea
and the Bay of Bengal meet together, a Messiah has risen at the fag end of 20th
century (Guru lived between 1926 -1999), with an ancient name ‘Karunakaran’. He
treats Thursday as a Holyday and conveys the real message from Almighty to the
human race. You can see that Messiah in Santhigiri Ashram at Pothencode,
Thiruvananthapuram Dist., Kerala. The message of that great Guru that shows the
path for the liberation of mankind will spread throughout the world like a
whirlwind and will take India to the zenith of eternal fame.
Guru predicts that the message of Guru and the pure lineage
of Guru will spread throughout the world in 350 years and a pure world society
that considers human race alike will be formed and will give guidance and
leadership to the mankind.
Sri Narayana Guru
Compassion is a great divine quality that is essential for
all to reach God. Narayana Guru had the darsan of the arrival of a great Guru
who is the incarnation of compassion and love – Karunakara Guru. Narayana Guru
narrates his wonderful darsan and divine experience in his verse ‘Anukamba
Dasakam’ as follows. Narayana Guru sees the qualities of all known acharyas and
divine things in the great Guru he had seen in darsan. He names and describes
the peculiarities of each one of them and asks whether the Guru in darsan is
that one.
‘O, Karunakara! Kindly let me always have your compassion
and love that do not hurt even an ant and the thought about your divine figure.
Let me always have the fortune to see your divine body. Is this compassionate
figure that of Lord Sri Krishna who acted as the charioteer of Arjuna in
Mahabharata war and revealed to him the ultimate truth? Are you Sibi who is an
ocean of patience and love towards fellow beings? Or are you Sankaracharya who
wrote simple and lucid explanation of Advaita Siddhanta or the principle of
monotheism? Are you God himself who has taken human form as an embodiment of dharma?
Are you Jesus Christ who is the Holy son of God? Are you the precious Jewel
Mohammed Nabi who is the embodiment of compassion and kindness? Are you the
divine spirit that cures diseases using vibhuti or divine ash and do things
which cannot be done even with the power of all kinds of siddhis? Are you
Kamadhenu, the heavenly cow that has taken human form full of compassion? Are
you the divine Kalpa tree that gives gift to devotees as per their wishes and
request? Are you Thirnavakarasu? Are you Thiruvalluvar? or the Rishi Agastya?
Are you Nandanar, who reached the heaven with human body?’
Those who have direct
experience of Karunakara Guru will realize that all descriptions given by Sri
Narayana Guru are suited to Navajyoti Sri Karuanakara Guru.
Vivekananda
In the Part IV of Vivekanda Sahitya Sarvasvam, Vivekananda
tell us who a Guru is:
‘Guru is God, nothing less than that. Guru is the divine
mask worn by God to come near us. When we continue looking, the mask dissolves
and vanishes very slowly and God appears before us’
Vivekananda informs us that God comes near man and leads him
to the path of truth in the form of a Guru. It is our duty to find out that
Guru.
Conclusion
It is realized by direct experience that the Mettayya
predicted by the Buddha, the Spirit of Truth predicted in the Holy Bible, the
Supramental Light described by Maharshi Aurobindo, the Messiah who had risen up
during the fag end of 20th century in the Orient at a place where
three seas meet and would conquer the whole world as predicted by Nostradamus
and the Guru as described by Vivekananda is none other than Navajyoti Sri
Karunakara Guru.
For the disciples as well as the faithful through the
experience of darsan in jagrat, swapna, sushupti, turiyam and thuriyateetam the
greatness of the Guru becomes perceptible. The distinctive characteristic of
Santhigiri is nothing but the revelation through darshan. It is obvious to the
disciples and the faithful that Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru holds the divine
power and authority to correct and lead the great souls who have achieved the
position of deva, sanyasin and rishi.
