MASTER OF MILLENNIUM🔗

God of Creation blessed Him with his creative powers God of Mercy transferred His grace and charm God of Love filled His heart with honey of love God of Universe granted all His divine energies

With the brightness of millions of suns With wisdom of heavenly Goddess of Knowledge With the special blessings of Jaganmatha The Boy was born on lotus petals of Karma Bhumi.

Learned all sciences in the lap of Mother Ganga Practiced all arts in the arms of mighty Himalayas Trained under the care of Saints and Rishis Played and danced on the land of Deva Bhumi.

Touched every land of Mother Earth Blessed every drop of great oceans Cared every heart of frustrated men Became Swami of all and Master of millennium

Redeemed miseries and relieved prisoned men Refined disturbed hearts and redressed mankind Constructed Temples of Meditation; the heaven on earth Blessed all with Ananda, the Eternal Bliss

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4 OM NAMO SRI PARAMAHAMSAYA NAMAHA

My beloved daughter,

I have just read your mail. You mentioned that there is a two day programme for weekend holidays on Indian Yoga and Meditation. A Swamiji from India will be giving a training programme on the topic. I felt very happy about it but I am very disappointed to read that you have an important programme in the University.

You may get thousands of weekend holidays and hundreds of parties and meetings in your life. But you will never get such an opportunity of learning the greatest science of the world; the Indian Yoga and Meditation.

Do you know the names of your motherland? Yes! Your name Bharat and it is also popular as Yoga Bhumi, Karma Bhumi, Veda Bhumi and Deva Bhumi. These names are given to India because of the presence of Enlightened Masters and Brahma Rishis on this land from ages. A swamiji in an Indian heart is God. You never got a chance to know about the glorious history of India, except the history in your text books written by foreigners. I am fortunate to learn all about our mother land from my grand father and grand mother. You are so unlucky that you missed such an opportunity because of busy schedule of your studies from your third year when you joined in preschool.

My beloved daughter! You may be surprised to see such a lengthy letter from your Amma. Today your mother decided to tell you about your mother land. You have to find time to read it completely, if not in future I may not get an excuse from my granddaughter (your daughter should know from you).

In one of your earlier letters, you mentioned, "Amma, today I am standing on the most developed and highly advanced land on the earth". But, my daughter, you are from the most advanced country in ages. The so-called developed countries in your definition were thick forests and people were the most uncivilized tribes when your mother land was enjoying the most advanced and civilized life style. When those people didn't have language to communicate, Indians developed language with perfect grammar and wonderful script. When those people covered their body with leaves, your forefathers wore superfine textiles and decorated their body with gold ornaments. In those days we had universities, industries, hospitals and excellent engineering techniques. They traveled in airplanes and also visited other planets. All this happened ten thousand years back. Who did all these? Who is responsible for science and technology of those days? They are Rishis, Enlightened Masters. You know that our planet is protected by an ozone layer against dangerous sun rays. But it has been depleted during the last two hundred years because of pollution. There is another such layer protecting our land which is thousand times powerful. It is formed by the continuous thapasya of our Swamijis over the centuries. No pollution, no weapon can destroy this ozone layer. We are safe under this layer.

The layer is so powerful that it protected the land and people from various attacks by foreign invaders over one thousand years. We are protected from several natural calamities, social and religious dangers. Thousands of such attacks were unable to shake the roots of India. This is the power of Enlightened Masters in India. Even today several external forces are continuously working against India. But they cannot do any harm to us because of thousands of Masters, Rishis, Saints who are continuously strengthening the land through their thapasya. The Himalayas on the north; The Eastern and the Western Ghats on the east and west of India are homes of Rishis. They all are India's true wealth. The glory and the grace of the country is their gift. They energize our land continuously through their sacrifices; therefore we are safe and happy.

Do you know about Vedas? They are the base for our social life. They were developed by rishis around ten thousand years back, but they were written just four to five thousands years back. They contain the most powerful mantras. Saints of this land protected them and carefully passed them to next generations through their disciples.

Do you know how powerful and great these saints of India are? They are more than a doctor with super specialization. Just with one touch, one blessing and one manthra they can cure any disease. They are great engineers, scientists and also professors. Even today they are the best counselors, psychologists and also spiritual guides. One touch of the Master can transform any type of evil into good. If you undergo training for two days under such a Master, you can experience wonders.

My daughter! Please attend the programme. Don’t miss it even at the cost of your job or your course. Be very polite and obedient to Him. A Yogi is much beyond a human being. His life is a complex document. Its depth cannot be measured by man’s logic. He cannot be analyzed by any science under the sky or above it. Never say a single negative word against any Master

My beloved daughter! As a mother, most probably this is the best gift I can offer to you in my life.

5 OM NAMO SRI BHAKTA MANASA MANDIRA NILAYAYA NAMAHA

MY GOD CAME AND TOUCHED MY HEART

DIVINE SILENCE OF MASTER - CELEBRATING SILENCE OF DISCIPLES

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OM NAMO SRI DIVYA ANANDA PRADATHAYA NAMAHA

SONG OF INNOCENT RIVER

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God our beloved Master! Who are you?

He is the father, mother, companion and teacher to his people He is the protector, guide and counselor to the citizens of his kingdom

He is the greatest Master of today's spiritual world He preaches and practices the art and science of meditation.

He is the light of distressed and depressed souls of the world He is the constructor of temples of meditation, the spiritual heaven for us.

He is the only source to fulfill our desires and wants. He is the only power to detach us from desires and wants

He is the redeemer of our pains, worries and troubles. He is the healer of all our physical, emotional and spiritual wounds.

He is my best friend, well wisher and relative to us. He is the only energy to relieve us from chains of relations.

He is the God of millions; Swamy to all his beloved devotees. But, He always says that God is in you and you are God.

He is the God of Gods; Master of Masters Saint of Saints and the Light of the World.

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DIVINE SMILE

There is a beautiful and peaceful ashram on the banks of a sarovaram (Lake). It is a center of excellent education and training for the seekers of spiritual knowledge. Gurudev of Ashram is a Brahma Rishi, Maha Jnani. He gives personal attention to the students and lays strong foundation for their total development.

On a full-moon day, Gurudev along with a group of students (Brahmacharis) sat under a tree on the banks of the Sarovaram, which is filled with beautiful kaluva flowers (White water lilies).

Master was answering their questions and clearing their doubts. He was debating with them and giving simple tests and puzzles.

Suddenly Gurudev looked at the group and asked them "What is today"? All said "Today is full moon day". Then he asked "What are there in the sarovar?".

One student answered "Master! These are kaluvas". Swamiji with his beautiful smile said "Yes! You are right. Can any one of you say the speciality of Kaluvas".

One student stood up and said, "Gurudev! They blossom only in the moonlight. It is believed that the moon is the Lord and Swamy of Kaluvas. They bloom only for the moon".

He smiled and said, "You said beautifully, but now there is no moon light. It is dark. But all kaluvas opened beautifully. What is the reason?"

All the disciples looked around. It was really dark because clouds covered the moon completely. For a moment they were confused and became silent. Swamiji was looking at them for an answer. One student said, "Master I can explain". Swamiji said, "Yes proceed". “Master when clouds covered the moon completely, the flowers in the lake thought that their swami, the moon left them suddenly and were sad. They were about to close the petals in sorrow and disappointment. Exactly at that time our Swamy came to the sarovaram and sat here with the most beautiful and divine smile. The brightness of the smile of our Swamiji spread all over the sarovaram and touched the kaluvas. The flowers thought that their Swamy the moon came very close to them and touched them. They were very happy and in joy they opened petals more beautifully and started dancing to the tune of gentle breeze. Due to this reason in the darkness also they are beautifully opened”.

Swamiji smiled more beautifully giving joy to his disciples and also to the flowers and said, “My child! Your answer is intelligent, though not correct. Your spontaneous and timely response impressed us”.

He turned to his disciples and said, “Dear children, in our routine life we encounter such unexpected questions and incidents. You should be attentive and alert and should be able to respond spontaneously with intelligence.”

He observed satisfaction and joy on the faces of students and said, “Children, it is already late. Let us stop our discussion for today”. With a graceful smile he blessed the students and left.

Kaluvas were dancing with joy and spreading marvelous fragrance all over. Students walking towards ashram were talking among themselves, “The divine smile of our Gurudev not only makes kaluvas dance but also fascinates angels in the heaven to dance.” “Smile is the most powerful and beautiful weapon during war and peace.”

11 OM NAMO LOKA PRIYA PREMA MURTHYNE NAMAHA

God’s love is so wonderful No scale can ever measure it

God's presence is so graceful

No heaven can be so comfortable

God's word is so powerful

No weapon can ever shake it

God's message is so hopeful

No darkness can ever disturb it

God's song is so joyful

No one can stop us dancing

God's grace is so bountiful

No wealth can ever buy it

God's care is so comfortable

No fear can ever touch us

God's blessing is so blissful

No worry can ever come close to us

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FROM SONG OF PAINS TO PRAYER OF JOY

I don't feel discouraged when I am denied an opportunity

God! My protector! I know that You have packed better one for me I don’t cry when my path of progress is suddenly blocked I thank You for showing me a number of new avenues

I don’t get discouraged when I lost the game of life I thank You for giving me new strengths to start new game

I don’t feel bad that I am sad and silent I thank You for giving me time to think about you a lot

I don’t feel desperate that I am lonely and isolated I thank You for the opportunity to be in your presence for long

I don’t feel sad when the problems and insults wounded me I thank You for energizing my potentialities of resistance

I don’t curse my bad luck for arresting me in hospital I thank you for empowering my talents to write your songs

I don’t feel disappointed when fate made me crippled I thank You for holding me in your hands forever.

I don’t get afraid of approaching death I thank you for liberating me to new life

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O! GOD! MY MASTER, TEACH ME HOW TO SERVE YOU

O! Lord of the World! My Master!

Teach me how to serve You

I wish to sing songs for You; but I realized that I learned all songs from You

I wanted to read scripture for You, but

I understood that, You are the author of all scriptures

I like to practice austerities for You; but

I noticed that, You are the Master of austerities

I wanted to perform rituals for you; but

I know that, You are the designer of all rituals.

I wish to offer flowers and fruits to You; but

I believe that, they all are from Your garden

I wanted to decorate Your Mandir; but

I came to know that angels of heaven decorated it

I wanted to offer myself to you O Lord! but

I realized that I did it long back.

O! God and my Master!

Teach me how to serve you

OM NAMO SRI SARVA SANKATA VINASAYA NAMAHA

MOTHER'S LOVE AND CARE IN YOU

God! My beloved Parent!

Then I turned to You to plead and pray

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With this you can glide over the ground

It is not a balloon

With this you can fly into the clouds

It is not aeroplane

It can take you to the new orbits in the space

It is not space craft

It can trek to the top of hill and land on ground safe with it

It is neither rope way nor parachute

It guards you and guides you when you are in unknown land It is not cops vehicle It pushes you to higher plane and supports you till you stand It is not a robot If it enters into your life, every moment is a celebration It is not your spouse Then what it could be??? Can you make a guess It is the Blessing of Master.

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In the heart of a tourist town there was a famous musical instruments shop. Tourists used to visit the town to buy some instruments from this shop.

One day, the owner opened the shop as usual in the morning and a senior worker started dusting the instruments carefully. He decorated them all over the shop. There were violins, veenas, sitaras, tabla, mrudangam, flutes and many such varieties. All were beautiful, new, fresh and attractive. All the instruments were happy and proud that they were placed in a very prominent position in the shop.

The worker took an old veena from a corner of the shop and started dusting it. The commercial owner shouted at the worker, “Why do you waste your time and energy on that old and useless instrument? I told you to throw it into the store room. It is spoiling the beauty of my shop”.

The worker felt sorry for veena and he did not want to throw it into the dark room. He said obediently, “Sir! Let it be in this corner. We can sell it at half rate or less to any innocent customer”. The business man agreed with an unpleasant face.

The veena heard the conversation and felt very sad. Tears started rolling uncontrollably. A tabala near veena asked her the reasons for her sadness.

Veena said, “Dear friend! When I was created, I thought I would be decorating the hands of scholars and masters. Later it was noticed that I was handicapped. My creator forgot to put one step on me. So I was rejected and became a burden to all. Now I am waiting for my death”. Veena cried uncontrollably. Very much touched by her story, Tabla also felt sad and said, “Dear friend! Don’t cry. God has a purpose in creating you. He will show you a way. Have trust on him”.

Veena replied, “I have no hopes. But I have only one desire to tell God. I wanted to die in the hands of a master after giving some joy to him. I have plenty of talent and skill. But I don’t want to die in the dark room.”

Meanwhile, the shop was filled with customers. All were selecting different musical instruments but no one looked at this handicapped, old veena.

During that time a group of tourists under the leadership of a Brahma Rishi were passing through the street. Suddenly the Master stopped and said “Let us go to the shop and buy a musical instrument”.

All entered the shop and started searching for the best. But Master went directly to veena and took it into his hands. The shop owner rushed in a hurry and objected to the Master, “Master don’t touch it. It is a defective and old Veena. I will give you a new and the best veena”. Master replied firmly, “No! I want this veena only”. The worker came running and cleaned the veena as best as possible. Master tied strings and adjusted sruthi. Veena was very happy and excited with His touch.

Master started playing veena and veena gave excellent ragas. All its suppressed talents and skills were rejuvenated. Now floodgates were opened at once for veena’s talents. Understanding the desires and skills of veena, Master was playing wonderful ragas. Suddenly the shop was filled with divine music. Not only people in the shop, all those passing through the street stood still and were involved in the music. All forgot that they were on the earth. They were so much immersed in the divine music that time also forgot to run. Master stopped playing veena. Now people started competing to buy veena. In the auction, its price was inflating to an unexpected level. Owner was looking at all this with wide opened eyes and mouth. Master asked the owner, “I want to buy this veena. How much do I have to pay?” The owner fell at the feet of the Master and said with tears, “Master! You are none other than God. Please take this veena and bless me”. He handed over the veena carefully to the Master. This is the mystery of touch of Master. His touch can give life to lifeless.

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PRAISES AND PRAYERS TO THE GOD OF LOVE

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