The Spirit of Spring = Pujya Gurudev

The Spirit of Spring and Awakening of Kundalini

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

Let us begin with the collective chanting of the Gayatri Mantra: "Om Bhur Buva Swa, Tatsaviturvarenyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi, Dhiyo Yona Pracodayat ||" 

Sisters and Brothers, I was referring to the umang vibrant enthusiasm and ecstatic emotional thrust generated in the spring. It emerges from within. It can't be stopped by any attempt. This is what spring brings in Nature. A day of spring had also bestowed a divine umang upon Prince Siddharth. On the one side were his family, the enchanting joys, luxuries and powers of royal life, and on the other was the Call of Time Spirit, the cries of suffering humanity, agonized by ignorance and eradication of true religious values in the world. 

The umang of Vasant (spring) awakened in his mind and guided him: "If you want to spend your life blindly chasing happiness in worldly joys and attachments, you would have lived a meaningless life; anybody can do it, in fact everybody is doing only that; you should chose the path of awakened awareness." This message of spring drove him towards the search for the path of Deliverance from Suffering; and eventually he succeeded in his search and became The Buddha, The Awakened One. When umang emerges from within, it erupts like a spark of fire that rises and expands unhindered. It transforms ones life in a stormy way. The Appearance of my eternal Guru, on the Vasant Parva in Febrauary 1926, was also like a sublime cyclone of this immensity. 

He flashed before my consciousness my previous lives and before leaving, he blessed me with what is known as "Shaktipata" and "Kundalini Jagarana". Supramental spiritual attainments that require grand ascetic endeavors and sadhana for several lifetimes, were bestowed upon me in a matter of few moments. Everything within me seemed to have been transformed. I could now visualize the world far beyond and quite differently from what I used to see before.

Let me tell you about my Kundalini Jagarana (awakening of Kundalini). What is kundalini? It is the sublime source of unlimited vital, spiritual energy that remains dormant in most of us. Yoga Shastras talk a great deal about the sadhnas of Kundalini Jagarana. Without going into complications of its hidden science, you must know that most natural expression of ultimate state of Kundalini Jagarana is awakening of divine attributes in the sadhaka. I therefore regard kundalini as sensitivity and compassion; as sagacity and foresight.

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma