Acharya Girish Jha

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3. Life – a journey to spirituality begins with unusual experience in life

An unusual experience after the death of mother when I could not utter a single word for more than 15 days started a spiritual journey of which I was neither conscious nor aware of what is happening at that time. But I could reflect upon past and conclude that what ever happened brought transformation in life as I started reading books on spirituality, began going to temples, and something within always pushed me towards divine and divine alone. I could recall that divine became one of the most important thing in my life as I used to sleep, walk and talk all about divine. Those days were very immature but my mind claimed that if I know divine by heart and head and always avoided people having no faith in divine. Simultaneously,   reasoning mind used to reflect upon how people used to pray and worship god in temples, mosques, church and monasteries. I used to look at my father who used to devote 2 hours daily on worshipping Goddess Durga (one of female goddesses) but enter into confusion when he used to loose his temper and beat all his children. He was repeating mantra, prayer loudly and claimed that he is the only theist in his family , followed very strict discipline in eating and wearing clothes. His eating and wearing, remembering and chanting of couplets , performing daily rituals and rites were known as being very religious and spiritual both. But reason never supported any of his arguments and soon I became a rebellion but never lost faith in divine. Perhaps, in those days, I believed that only way to search divine is to discover him within, feel his presence within and bring him down into body, life and mind. I used to enter into, perhaps, which, I may term as meditation, (as I never learnt meditation from nay body until then). That meditation brought an experience of transcendence as there is total forgetfulness of body, life and mind but still I could experience life beyond all of them. I used to lie on floor for five hours without any movement and still I could experience deep calm, peace and love flowing out of body and mind. Later, when I used to talk with people, especially friends, they used to make mockery of me and call me as joker. Many of my friends used to say that I have gone mental due to problems I faced in my family, especially with my father. But what always fascinated me in those days was experience of deep calm and peace that manifested after lying down for five hours and many a times that calm and peace remained with me for days together. There was something of those experiences which always guided my future life.

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1.      Life of a child – experiment, adventure and curiosity 

I only remember those days only when I used to be scared of my father but always loved my mother. Father used to become angry over small issues and slap on face even on minute mistakes. The fear that I inherited about my   father remained until I went to collage. My mother died when I was only 15. There were many impressions implanted by mother like reciting prayers from texts and chanting couplets from Bhagvad Gita-one of the oldest and most famous scriptures in India.

I always loved to recite prayers and chanting from Bhagvad Gita until the death of mother. A very strong rebellion mind took birth just after the death of mother, but keep quite for more than 3 years. At the demise of my mother, something happened looking at dead body of mother. I stopped speaking; rather, I could not speak even when I tried for many days. Many people used to talk that I had become mad and nothing can cure me. Others spoke about shock I got because of mother’s death.  But I had to problem not speaking at all during that time and used to listen to all comments and remarks made by relations, father and strangers who gathered at funeral of my mother. I do not know what was laughing inside me even at the time of death, while tears in my eyes. There was something which I could even know now that was separate from the body and mind. Mind felt strong loss of mother but something within laughed at mind. This was strange experience I had had during that time, when I could not utter a word for more than 15 days. This event was perhaps the beginning of my spiritual life which I did   realize after the age of 21. My father instead of being worried always had been sarcastic about my not speaking and making mockery of my being quiet. This appeared very tough time outwardly but I enjoyed that period. Being a child, I never realized what it means by stopping speaking altogether.

After 15 days, suddenly, I started speaking and people around me specially brother became angry and asked me not to act like this in future. I did not understand what he was saying to me and heard him very quietly. Everything changed which I could only know after meeting my master more than 11 years after. During the period between 15 to 26 years, I passed through many phases of material life, tribulations, afflictions and events and incidents which every man passes through but manifestation that took place only after I met my Gurudev, Swami Laxman Das Avadhootji, – a living legend, Laughing Saint and Great Himalayan Master………………..GJ………………to be continued

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