About His Guru Swami Sarveshvaranandaji
It was all of a sudden that God’s grace descended on me at the age of fifteen as if it was preplanned and predestined. I got an opportunity to dedicate myself single-pointedly towards the realisation of my childhood dreams. It was the day of Basant parva (1926). While I was engrossed in worship in my room during the small hours of the morning (brahma-muharta) I saw an aura of light. I was stunned, amazed and awestruck. I rubbed my eyes to ascertain whether it was a hallucination or something astral like a ghost or a demon, but it was none of these.
An astral body of a yogi emerged in the middle of that aura of light. It was astral in the sense that his figure was visible although it was hanging in the empty space with an envelope of light all around it. I was wondering as to who he was. The apparition said, “I have been linked with you and guiding you during your past several lives. Since your childhood is now over, I have come to impart you the necessary guidance. Probably you have no recollection of your past lives and so you are frightened and amazed. See the events of your past births and remove your doubts”. His grace descended on me and I had a feeling of drowsiness. I experienced, for the first time in my life, what is known as yog-nidra, a stage which is also called jagrat samadhi. While bathing in that state of elevated consciousness, I had a cinematographic view of actual events of my several past births.
I can still vividly recall how a glimpse of that divine personage in the form of waves of light, of whom I am a part and parcel and who appeared in my room of worship when I was fifteen, had immediately aroused a host of questions in my mind. Generally, people wander aimlessly in search of Sadguru (spiritual guide) and consider themselves extremely fortunate when they succeed in finding one . But what happened with me was altogether different. I had already been initiated by Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviyaji in Gayatri mantra when I was eight years of age and so the question of selecting any other person as Guru (spiritual guide) had ended then and there. I had not even imagined of meeting another Guru. The miraculous way I was blessed in this manner all of a sudden was a matter of great wonderment for me.
