In the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan state of India there lived a
woman who was known all around for her gentleness and very good
conduct. Once, Lord Narayan appeared to her in all his brightness
and said, “Good lady, in a week’s time from now I’ll be born as
your child. Please name him Narayan ok !”. What the lord told the
woman in her dream came true. The woman brought a luminous child to this Earth.
The 21st of April 1933 dawned in new
redness and with joy for everyone. The villagers were singing &
dancing. It seemed nature herself, overwhelmed with joy, spreading
streaks of divine light all over. In short, an atmosphere of
welcome to a great godly event had mystically emerged. Amidst all
this a child is born, at 10:21 in the morning. Father Pandit Multan
Chand Shrimali and mother Rupa Devi are struck by a happy, surprise
and named the baby “Narayan”.
Narayan was now growing up. His activities showed sign of divinity and
extraordinary powers. Right on the twenty seventh days after his
birth a big snake spreads its hood over the child’s head and
hisses. Frightened the mother, she prays to the snake to leave her
child and the divine serpent moves away wriggling. The hindu faith
accepts this serpent episode as an indication that the child has
virtually divinity. The child’s education begins. His maternal uncle Ram Sukhaji, who
is deeply learned in the Yajurveda, teaches him. He is put to
school too. At the age of 5 or 6 he learns the tenets of the Vedas
& the Puranas and comits hundreds of holy and philosophical
verses to memory. He begins to practice Samadhi. His intellectual
and spiritual sharpness astonish the people around. He is benign to
all and loves even animals & birds. For all the virtues, he
gets known to the village as the ‘saint child’ and is loved by
all.
One day he was returning from school, on the way he saw a house on
fire. The burning house had a child inside it. The mother of the
child was crying for her baby calling out for help. Amidst a big
crowd, no one present there dared to run into the house to rescue
the child. When the school boy Narayan understands the situation,
he hastens into the high flames at the risk of his life and comes
safely back with the child in his arms. Narayan is badly injured
and it takes him fifteen days in hospital to
recover. It was not an event for an event’s safe; it was something that
truly sheds light on one aspect of his extraordinary and
charismatic personality. He did what an ordinary human cannot do.
For this and several other benign acts this boy got transformed
into great spiritual teacher that was Dr. Narayan Dutta Shrimali,
who threw himself into flaming fire for saving all humanity and
each human individual.
Changes of time made material progress dominant over spiritual
endowment. People began to see perfection of life in luxury and
physical comfort. Consequently, began to suffer and hue and cry
prevailed. Achievements in science & technology brought
physical facilities and material resources but failed to provide
spiritual peace & happiness. Relieving men & women from troubles & traumas and bringing
them to the right path of life became inevitable. But to do this
was quite beyond ordinary human power. Mother Earth wanted some one
with extraordinary power who could lead the entire suffering
humanity in the right direction. It is for this that the great Dr.
Narayan Dutt Shrimali was born as an incarnation of
God.
The great preceptor (Gurudev) is in fact, the mahayogi,
Paramhamsa Swami Nikhileshwaranand of
Siddhashram, and this is his eternal individual entity.
Siddhashram is a divine place where one can go to only on having
attained spiritual perfection. It is somewhere in the vicinity of
the great lake Mansarovar and the holy Kailash peak in the
Himalayas. The place is , however cannot be seen with physical eyes
nor can it be reached by using a scientific equipment. There is, of
course, one medium the spiritual height you have attained. The
person who manages this place is the great venerable Swami
Satchidananda Maharaj and Paramhamsa Swami
Nikhileswhwaranda is his most beloved disciple. It is from
this place that a nice balance is struck between materialism and
spiritualism. When the balance goes bad, divine souls are sent down
to the earth. It was in consonance with this master scheme that
great holy personages like Ram, Krishna, Guru Gorakh Nath, and
Sankharacharya got incarnated. In this iron age, the materialism
spiritualism balance went off and swami Nikhileshwarananda was
born.
At the age of 12 Gurudev was married to Bhagvati. Even after his marriage
he continued his studies and also started teaching. But this
ordinary way of life did not satisfy him. “My life is not only for
my family, for earning my livelihood, for employment, it’s for high
attainments and for the world”, he thought. From his very childhood
he was interested in delving into cores of subjects such as mantra,
tantra, dhyan (meditatiaon), yoga, sammohan (hypnotism), palmistry,
astrology and Ayurveda and reveal the ultimate truths inherent in
them to the inquisitive world. He would ask himself questions such
as – Do mantra tantra and the like have powers ? “If they do, how
can I achieve the powers and use them for the good of the society?”
He knew that life bound to the family would not help and that the
great saints & sages who visualized the truths of ancient
learning had done so by performing tapasya (penance) in the access
remote dales caves in the Himalayan forests. So he decided to quit
home and banish himself into the forest. He was at that time
working as a teacher and living happily with his parents and his
beautiful and gentle wife. In spite of this he chose the life of
Sanayas, which, of course, is full of pains and struggles. Thus he
decided to sacrifice his own pleasures for the happiness of
mankind.
He began a hard and challenging trek over the deep jungles of the
Himalayas, looking earnestly for saints performing tapasya in the
stony caves. His only purpose was to get the sages and obtain from
them mystic and elemental knowledge. By his undaunted and unceasing
efforts he succeeded in quenching his thirst for knowledge of the
truths. The saints from whose darshan he benefited were Swami
Purnananda, Trijata Aghori, Swami Prabhupada, Kinkar Baba, Naga
Baba and others. In the course of his quest tours he had also came
to Nepal and obtained mystic knowledge from Babas like Bhurbhuwa
Baba, Pagala Baba, Tringker Swami and Kamarupa
Baba.
It was on this Sanyas tour he met the great guru Swami
Sachidananda, and he regards this as the greatest achievement of
his life. During the tour he thoroughly studied all the subjects
such as mantra, tantra, dhyan, yoga, sammohan, astrology,
palmistry, Ayurneda. Chemistry & solar science, investigated
into their scientific aspects to see how man can benefit from the
findings. He assimilated all the knowledge and obtaining the
blessings of his great guru, he returned home and became a
grihastha (entered into family life) again.
For the great venerable gurudev, who had lived long on open ground
under the blue sky, it was in all ways difficult to return to
family life but he did so. Gurudev was sorry that the invaluable
learning which the sages, our ancestors had treasured by efforts of
thousands of years was about to go extinct the posterity kept them
withheld. To reach the knowledge and learning out to the society,
it was imperative for him to live as part of it. That is why he
chose to return to the society. Divine souls set every step and do
every work for the welfare of the world.
He dissaproved the so called social acceptance that to be a spiritual
one needs to quit home by marrying the venerable Bhagvati shrimali.
Despite his conjugal life at home he remained spiritually active.
He has unfolded the mystic knowledge of Bharatvarsa through books,
camps, lectures and deeksha. Through out his life he worked for
human welfare by rising above psycho social complexes concerning
ethnicity, communalism, religion and nationality.
He started his work with the study of Astrology. He explained the
theories and methods of this ancient science of Bharatvarsh,
rendering them easily comprehensible. It is particularly for this
that he is counted as the topmost astronomer of the world. He has
rejuvenated the system of mantra and tantra, sadhana practice. It
is by his continued contributions that practice areas like Palmistry, Sammohan, Ayurveda, Alchemy, Dhyan, Yog, have
regained popularity and interest in mystic studies like solar
science, paravigyan, kriya yoga and kundalini shakti have
revived.
He has analyzed the tenets of these studies, which are formulated
in difficult sanskrit verses, in a scientific aspects in easy
language. The proofs which he has given will greatly help men to
solve their material problems and attain spiritual
heights.
Pujyapad Gurudeva thus restored the invaluable treasure of ancient
learning and scholarship for the welfare of mankind. When he saw
that the society was getting gradually westernized at the cost of
its glorious ancient heritage he left no stone unturned to revive
and rehabilitate the society’s intellectual spiritual heritage,
including the mantra and tantra practices in its original and
undefined form. In this connection he has published a monthly
magazine with the title “Mantra Tantra Yantra Vigyan”, which, of
course, has earned a special place in the world of spiritualism. He
has at the same time, established the Siddhashram Sadhak Pariwar”
and thus perpetuated the glorious “gurukul tradition”. He has given
top most priority to producing excellent disciplines. He says “A
live disciple is a living book which will enlighten the age to
come”
Perfection of life consists in a true balance of spirituality and
materialism. That was what Gurudeve pursued as his ideal, and in
that his material life was all perfect. Father of three sons and
two daughters, he lived a successful grihastha life. He had earned
M.A. degree in Hindi from Rajasthan University and the Ph. D. in
the same subject from the university of Jodhapur, where he later
served as the head of the department of Hindi. Many people had the
honor of being his students at the university. He had a command of
many languages.
Getting excellence in a particular field of learning needs whole
life time. The great guru, alone, succeeded in re establishing the
whole body of ancient learning in all its perfection, which proves
that he was not an ordinary human.
However, for all that he did he had to suffer on his head from the
ignorant society and the hypo critic clergy (religious officials).
He was accused, insulted and divided,. There were even conspiracies
against him.
Gurudeva who endeavored to enlighten the world was himself smudged.
The people only viewed him as mere flesh and blood but did not see
the divinity he wore. They see him just as a scholar, writer and
astronomer. It is not under the power of an ordinary human to
recognize a singular person. There were however some people and
institutions who knowingly or unknowingly, paid him their
respect.
In the year 1982, the then president of India Dr. B.D. Jatti
conferred on him the title of “Mahamaopadhyaya” and in 1988 the
Mantra Sansthan of Ujain honored him with the title “Mantra
Siromani”. And in 1989, Dr. Sanker Dayal Sharma, the vice president
of India decorated him with the title “Samaj Siromani”. And in
1991, during his Nepal visit for “Viswoshanti Mahayangya and
Shivalaxmi Sadhan Sivir” the then prime minister of Nepal Krishna
Prasad Bhattarai had specially felicitated and honored him on
behalf of Nepal. Similarly in 1992 Sir Jagannath Anirudra, prime
minister of Mauritias, honoured him with the title “Jagat guru” and
in 1993 a temple of gurudev was inaugurated.
Pujyapad Gurudev made every moment of his life meaningful, eventful
and human welfare oriented. He taught the society the lesson of
love and fraternity and called it to fight superstition and narrow
mindedness. He lifted men and women from luxuries of life and
pleasures of the world enticed them to sadhana and tapahsya. He has
also softened the rigours of sadnana and tapasya with the sweetness
of music and dance. He has thus, shown that one could achieve
spiritually and achieve godlines even along living in the life of
grihastha.
Having performed all the tasks which God had assigned him and
living the future responsibilities on the shoulders of his
disciples, the great guru departed from the world at early day
break on July 3, 1998. He had told his disciples that his last day
on earth had come. He had also told them his body should be given a
very simple funeral and that the news of his demise should remain
undelivered through the media. We salute our beloved Jagadguru
again and again hundreds of times.
Now he is present in the universe as Paramhamsa Swami
Nikhileswaranand Maharaj (Gurudev) and providing guidance
to his disciples for the welfare of the people. The disciples get
his darshan during their dhyan, Sadhna, and dreams, even they see
and feel his presence and can talk to him about their problems and
concerns. Any body those who have been performing sadhana can get
his darshan, feel his presence and talk to him. One can experience
and feel about gurudeva, who has achieved the height of Sadhana and
devotion, through this one can know about invaluable things of the
universe also.
It is not possible to venture describing the work done by him in a single article. He has done so much work, even that could not be done
by thousands of organizations together, the title ‘man of the age’
even seems less to him. In short, during his stay on earth he
concentrated about two things: (1) to visualize the truths of
ancient invaluable learning which had treasured by our ancestors,
and (2) to prepare real great disciples to do every work for the
welfare of the world.
His main goal was to make a real spiritual age on earth, to
accomplish this task he has been providing guidance as Paramhamsa
Swami Nikhileswaranand Maharaj (Gurudeva) for the welfare of the
people of the world. Siddhashram Shakti Kendra finds itself blessed
with opportunities to remain constant to ideals of the great
gurudeva and help him in the execution of his plan for the
restoration and revival of the spiritual world where humans can
live in peace and happiness. This, in fact, is a matter of glory
not only for the Nepalese nation but also for the entire world.
Gurudeva was born not for a particular nation of religion but for
the mankind as a whole. The day will come when mankind will know
this.
