Our Ashram - 1

On 24 Dec 2021, our Ashram land has been registered. It was indeed an auspicious day, Margashira Krishna Panchami, the 5th day of dark fortnight of Margashira month.

There is a wonderful saying of Mother of Jillellamudi, "A muhurta is never set, it just happens". Similarly, we never thought of doing this on this day, but it so happened on its own, prompted by an unseen force.

Now, listen to the importance of this day.

It was on 24 Dec 1886 that a few young men named Naren, Rakhal, Baburam, Tarak, Sasi, Sarat etc took Sanyas and changed their names as Swami Vivekananda, Swami Brahmananda, Swami Premananda, SWami Sivananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda, Swami Saradananda etc. This happened in Antpur, a village in Bengal. It was the native village of Swami Premananda. It was here that the foundation has been laid for the future Ramakrishna Math and Mission.

Exactly on the same day, after 135 years, Panchawati Ashram Land has been acquired. Next day was Christmas day. Even though fanatic Christians hate us, we never hate them. We love Jesus more than they do, because whatever he taught originally was nothing but Hinduism in a new garb. He came to India, learnt its mystic practices, lived in Tibet, learnt about Buddhism and its subtleties. So, we never entertain any feeling of animosity for Christ. What we don't like is forceful conversions and hate propaganda of Christian missionaries, abusing Hindu gods and goddesses. This we dont like.

Today, the 26 Dec 2021, is more auspicious than Christmas, because it happens to be the birthday of Sri Sarada Devi who was worshipped as Ma Kali by none other than Sri Ramakrishna himself. I see a great blessing in our Ashram land becoming a reality in the middle of so many blessed days.

There is a hamlet through which we need to pass to reach our Ashram land. The presiding deity of it is Ankamma Talli (Mother Ankamma). It is the colloquial name of Goddess Kali. She was termed as Chamundi in Devi Bhagavata and other Sakta scriptures. She is the same deity who is worshipped on the Indrakiladri hills at Vijayawada and on the Chamundi hills at Mysore. I saw her temple while entering this village. It thrilled me to the core because after searching at many places, we finally came back to the feet of Mother Kali, the goddess we worship devotedly.

During 7th Century AD, places like Dharanikota in Andhra country were important centers of Buddhist Tantra practices. Nagarjuna, the famous teacher of Mahayana Buddhism, who is regarded as second Buddha, was from Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. Huan Tsang from China dared his life and crossed Himalayas to arrive at Dharanikota near Amaravati in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, which is a very nearby place to our Ashram, to learn the secret practices of Tantric Buddhism. It is at this place that the Kalachakra Ceremony was done by Dalai Lama in the year 2006.

We have many female deities named Tara, Marichi, Lalita, Chinnamunda etc in Tantric Buddhism. All of them were none other than different forms of Ma Kali. You will find them being worshipped in every village in South India, in their local village names. In fact, they are the sapta matrikas, the seven mothers of the Vedas, re-emerged in Sakti forms, after the decline of Buddhism in India.

The presiding deity of nearest city Ongole is Rajarajeswari or Lalita. I assume that readers who went through my book 'Hidden meanings of Lalita Sahasra Nama' will understand well, at least theoretically, the secret theories and practices connected with Sakti worship.

So, we arrived finally to Ongole and nearby villages, who were centers of Tantric Buddhism and Sakti worship in olden days. This is how our Karmic links lead us to the places we were connected with in the ancient past.

In my book 'Musings', I briefly mentioned about my past connection with Lord Buddha and his teachings. Without this past connection, i would not have written commentaries on 'Dhammapada' and 'Maha Smriti Prasthana Sutra' two seminal works of Buddhist teaching. In fact, many more books on Buddha and his philosophy with my commentary are going to see light in the near future.

To go back a little into history, Buddhism flourished in Andhra country about 2000 years ago. We can see the ruins of many Buddhist stupas and Viharas standing as witnesses to this glorious period, down the course of Krishna river. Gundlakamma, a minor rivulet flowing in Prakasam District has many such ruins by its side, testifying to the Buddhist roots that the Andhra country had in the past.

Just 2 Km from our Ashram land, we have Gundlakamma reservoir, where a Buddhist stupa was unearthed in the year 1962. This Stupa resembles the Sanchi Stupa in its design and shape.  Chandavaram, another ancient Buddhist site of 2000 years standing, is located nearby.

One of my first books was 'Tara Stotram' which is going to come out shortly as 'Hymn of Mother Tara'. Readers who happen to read this and my similar works on Sakta Tantra will understand well my firm footing in Tantra Sadhana.

In this way, our Ashram land is directly related to Lord Buddha, Tantric Buddhism and Sakti worship. Our Ashram is coming up in such a hallowed piece of land. We are going to do these sadhanas again in this land. So, history is going to repeat itself.

We got the land for our Ashram

 

Good news to you all !

My prediction of ten years standing has come true today. Our efforts for the past one year bore fruit today. Our Ashram land has become a reality, not in the far off hills, but near Ongole City in Andhra Pradesh.

This land is located very near to Chennai - Kolkata highway in the vicinity of Ongole and Medarametla. It is just a journey of half an hour from both these places to our Ashram. We purchased 5 Acres of land and got it registered

You can reach our Ashram, 

• In 5 hours from Hyderabad airport.
• In two hours from Vijayawada airport.
• In one and half hour from Guntur,
• In an hour from Chilakaluripet
• In an hour from our Jillellamudi Ashram
• In 5 hours from Chennai airport
• In 9 hours from Bangalore airport
• In 5 hours from Tirupati airport

The search for our Ashram land begun five years ago. Initially, we wanted to buy land near Hyderabad and tried our level best but could not succeed due to soaring land prices. So, we bought a house in Jillellamudi which is now serving us as our meditation house. Our members can go, stay there and meditate as long as they want.

Again, we started our search which finally fructified in my birth place i.e Prakasam District.

Ever since we visited the villages in the vicinity, enquiries started pouring  in, asking 'How will be your Ashram? Will it have a temple, a school, a medical dispensary etc?' My answer to all these questions is 'It will have nothing except silence'.

Our Ashram will not be like the business Ashrams you see everywhere. It will be the real Ashram. It will have nothing to do with things like artificiality, politics, struggle for money and power, corruption, religious business and ego clashes. We hate them.

• It will be a green Ashram, with mud & bamboo cottages. It will not have concrete buildings.
• We plan to build our Ashram with no cement, no iron and no plastic. We will use eco friendly material to build it.
• Planning, designing, electrical work, plumbing work everything will be done by us. 
• We plan to use less wood and more bamboo.
• We plan to live with minimum furniture.
• We will keep the cottages and our meditation shrine cool by proper planning of their height, cross ventilation and ambient design.
• Ashram will be full of greenery, trees and plants. We will grow our vegetables,
• We conserve land and water and use solar power.
• We will build our own pond, store the rain water and use it for drip irrigation.
• We plan to live more under trees and less in closed spaces.
• We practice our Mantra, Tantra and Dhyana practices in the serene atmosphere of our Ashram, eat vegetarian food and live a modest and down to earth life.

In 2022, we are planning to visit Auroville to learn the Nature Living methods they are following, to adopt them in our Ashram.

Our Ashram will stand above petty things like caste, creed, color, nationality, money, ego and hypocrisy. We value plain hearts and silent minds more than anything else in the world. We welcome such souls to come and live with us.

What I have been writing, speaking and teaching all these years, will become a reality in our Ashram. We practice the real Tantra, real Dhyana and real Yoga in our Ashram.

You will not find TVs and News papers here. Mobile usage will be restricted to its barest minimum. We will not encourage gossip, politics, movies etc. We dont believe in consumerism. Pseudo spirituality will be kept miles away from our Ashram.

Many of my disciples, living in India and USA, are planning to come down to settle down here with us. With my 40 years sadhana experience, I will be guiding them in real spiritual life, in the ancient traditions of Indian religion and philosophy.

We will conduct spiritual retreats once every three months, under the trees. Deriving from my rich experience, my disciples will learn the secrets of Yoga, Mantra, Tantra, Dhyana, Astrology and Martial Arts.

The year 2022 is going to usher a new chapter in the annals of Panchawati Spiritual Foundation. A silent spiritual revolution is going to start from Andhra Pradesh state of India again in 2022. I predicted in 1980 that this will happen and now you can see it happening.

 

Those who are walking with me in this journey are really blessed. They shall see the results with their own eyes and receive the real blessings with their own hands.

The making of our Ashram and the bliss of our natural meditative life will be posted in our web sites, Face book and You tube channels from time to time. Enjoy them !

Shri Narendra Modi, the Legend and the chosen Son of India !

13 Dec 2021 Margashira Shukla Dashami Monday is the day that is to be written in golden letters in the history of India, because Lord Shiva's temple at Varanasi has been liberated on this day, from the pitiable condition in which it has been languishing for the past 1000 years. . 

Millions take birth and disappear like insects in the flow of Time, but only very few take birth on this planet once in a thousand years. Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji is one such blessed soul. There are many reasons for me to say this.

• He is the hero who solved the Kashmir issue which has been burning for the past 75 years.
• Again, he is the legend who removed the heart ache of millions of Indian Hindus who have been crying for the past thousand years, over the pitiable state of the divine temple of Lord Shiva in Varanasi.  

The list is endless. There are innumerable good things done by him in the service of our motherland. But, the above two reasons are enough for all Indians to bow down at his feet for all eternity. 

There are some great persons whom we remember with devotion and reverence as soon as we get up from the bed every morning. We start our day after folding our hands in their thought. Adi Sankara and Swami Vivekananda are some among them. I place Shri Narendra Modi Ji in their row. India is indebted to him forever.

'Divya Kashi, Bhavya Kashi' is his dream project which was started in 2019. Earlier to that, he dreamed of getting the Ganges river cleaned. Their first phase is over now. Today, in a grand function organized at Kashi, he dedicated the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor to the nation.

Ganges has regained it lost purity. The path that leads from Ganges river to the temple of Lord Shiva has been widened into a majestic road, as it used to be in olden days.

I request everyone to listen to our PM's speech from beginning to the end. Very rarely we get the privilege of listening to such a thrilling speech that comes straight from the heart of the speaker. I have heard hundreds of speeches delivered by great scholars and Swamis but all of them just pale into insignificance compared to the speech delivered today at Kashi by Shri Narendra Modi ji. While listening to him, you will see not only a patriotic heart, but the enlightened vision of a seer and the wisdom of a Karma Yogi and a Jnani. You will be thrilled many times during the speech and involuntarily cry without your knowledge. I have observed many of the 6000 seers and Swamis in the audience, wiping out their tears, while listening to him.

To know how cruelly the Muslims of the past desecrated the holy temple of Lord Shiva at Kashi, you need to look back into Indian history. Then you will understand how much they had damaged the hearts of Hindus and why the Hindus of India hate Muslims even today.

It was 1194 AD. Kutbuddin Aibak, the army general of Mohammad Ghori of present day Afghanistan attacked and destroyed the beautiful temple of Lord Siva at Varanasi. The thoughtless and destructive teachings of Quran were his shelters. Then in 1240 AD the temple was rebuilt by a Gujarati marchant. Again it was destroyed in 1400-1500 during the reign of Sikandar Lodi. During the reign of Akbar, Raja Man Singh and Raja Todar Mall took initiative and rebuilt it. Then came the rule of a despicable idiotic demon called Aurangazeb who ruled our country for a long 50 years. It was a veritable hell time for the whole of India. During his reign, in 1669 again the temple was desecrated and destroyed. He converted it into a mosque. In 1780 AD, the Maratha queen, Shrimati Ahalya Bai Holkar arranged for re construction of a small temple, leaving the mosque as it was. And in 1835 AD, Maharaja Ranjith Singh of Punjab, arranged for told plating of the temple's dome.

Let the Muslims follow their religion, nobody cares. But why should they destroy the temples of other faiths? They say that it is sanctioned by Quran. If it is so, there is an urgent need to review and reform Quran. A book which teaches intolerance and destruction cannot be called a book of God.

None of the leaders who ruled India in the past 75 years cared to look either at Kashmir or at the heart rending state of the great temples of India which have been destroyed, occupied and turned into mosques by the cultureless stone-age tribes from the North West.

At last, the Shiva temple of Kashi has regained its lost glory today, thanks to the great efforts put forth by our PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji, fulfilling the aspirations of millions of Hindus for the past 1000 years.

Not only this, there are many other things that have happened in this long process.

During the foreign rule, the original idol of Mother Annapurna was dug out, stolen,  crossed the oceans and finally landed in Canada. It is only through the tireless efforts of our PM Shri Narendra Modiji that this divine idol is brought back from Canada to India and was re installed in her temple in Varanasi. Can we imagine the good fortune of our PM sir? What a great legendary soul he is !

There is more ! In the process of widening of the narrow lanes leading from Ganges to the temple, about 1500 families were relocated. And lo ! nearly 40 ancient temples which were illegally occupied and became the living quarters of people, came to limelight. We find that the Puranas mentioned about these temples, but they are nowhere to be seen today, drowned in the quagmire of lanes and by lanes of Varanasi. Now, all of them have seen day light again, and regained their lost glory.

It is not an exaggeration to say that legends like Shri Narendra Modi ji are born only once in a thousand years.

There is a rural saying in Telugu which says 'How does a pig know about the fragrance of a fine perfume?', Similarly, how do the illiterate, rustic, idiotic, fanatic invaders of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan know about the exalted philosophic subtleties of Indian religion? How can the immoral and lowly minds of Muslim invaders steeped in looting and destruction, ever know the secrets that lie behind the great temple traditions of India?

Even after 75 years of independence we are unable to reclaim and renovate our ancient temples just because of the stunted mindsets of leaders who were at the helm of affairs during our freedom struggle and the latter leaders whose sole aim was minority appeasement and vote bank politics.

As a young man, Shri Narendra Modi Ji was fired by the great ancient traditions of Hindu religion and wanted to join the Ramakrishna Mission as a celibate. He was discouraged by the great Swami Atmasthananda Ji who said 'Your path is not sanyas. You have to serve our mother land. You should not become a monk. Go and serve the country selflessly'. Today, we are witnessing history, because of the extraordinary vision of that Swamiji and the divine advice he gave to Shri Modi Ji.

It is my confirmed opinion that not only us, but the coming generations for thousands of years, will worship Shri Modi Ji as a legendary son of Mother India who liberated Kashmir and also liberated Kasi Vishwanath Mandir, to remember just two things out of hundreds of landmarks he had set up in the history of India. 

Shri Narendra Modi Ji is not only a legend, but the chosen son of Mother India. Souls like him are born only once in a thousand years. I see a King Janaka, a Sankara and a Vivekananda in him.

Indians have become indebted to him forever ! He should remain our PM for another hundred years !