1978 - Tiruvannamalai
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This time when I went to Thiruvannamalai I spent lot of time with all the Sannyasis who were with me and explaining the stories of each and every stone and pillar. Suddenly I realized, just thirty years before I had at least fifty people, ideal, great enlightened beings in Thiruvannamalai! Thinnai Swami, Saakku Swami, Sorakkai Swami, Narayana Swami, Mouna Swami, Annamalai Swamigal, Raghupathi Yogi, Kuppammal. Just thirty years before I had at least fifty beings who were visibly radiating the power of that Shivoham experience! See, in my case, if you come to a program and see your Kundalini gets awakened, see hundreds of people’s Kundalini getting awakened, healing happens, then you feel, ‘Oh, I think this guy has power. I think he has enlightenment.’ You come to the conclusion only indirect way. But I have seen the Masters who have so visibly, directly, shamelessly declaring the power of Mahadeva! That is the right word I will use – “shamelessly declaring the power of Mahadeva”!
I have seen one Swami. He was called Sorakkai Swami locally. “Sorakkaei” means, Bottle Gourd (a vegetable). Why you know? Because, in front of him one half Bottle Gourd, that shell will be there, in which people will put food. Whenever he feels like, he will eat; otherwise he won’t. And next person who wants to offer food to him, he will empty that Bottle Gourd and clean it, and put the fresh food and keep it and go. He had some twenty-five, thirty dogs, his friends. Throughout his life, he lived in a 3 feet x 3 feet small structure. Please understand, I have never seen him moving! I even doubt his bones all got frozen! I know he is alive, because he used to talk to people sometimes. And he will smile sometimes. His hands will move. Because of that I know he is alive. No one-two-three (means, emptying the bladder and bowels). No one-two-three! Because, the birds have started sitting on his head and eating from his hair, some of his disciples have made, followers have made a small, stone-pillared hall. You cannot say hall and all. Just four pillars around his body and two stones on the top. If you see that structure, you will understand. It is only 3 feet x 3 feet. His whole life he sat. Sometimes, the sitting posture will be different. That is why we can even presume that he is still alive! I have never seen him doing one-two-three, or taking bath, moving out. But the kind of a space he will radiate, and the way he will be sitting! It was so visibly declaring the powers of yogic tradition!
Like this I have seen at least fifty people, through extraordinary lifestyle, amazingly declaring the yogic powers, living the powers of Mahadeva, radiating the powers of Mahadeva. I feel.... I don’t want to say anything about Arunachala, because, Mahadeva never tolerates. When Madurai was burning, he kept quiet. Even Meenakshi did not bother. But, when one saint was even about to curse Thiruvannamalai, Mahadeva just came and held the neck, ‘Hey, my city! You cannot do anything! You should not do anything!’ So, I don’t want to tell anything about Thiruvannamalai. I feel this generation looks so poor without that fifty of them. Without that fifty of them, this generation looks so poor.
I told Mahadeva, ‘It is now my responsibility to put at least few hundred people as a garland to you who have that same state as those fifty.’ I will do it! I will do it! Just like how we get wooden pillars from the old houses and refurbish and give it back to society, I will get the old souls from Kailasa, refurbish them with the modern language and knowledge to reach out to the world, humanity, and give it to humanity. No, I really felt, I really felt, without that fifty people, humanity is so poor! It does not know the possibilities. It does not have any more living examples. By living as an example, the things Ram Surat Kumar used to teach! Sorakkaai Swami, Mouna Swami, Annamalai Swami, Thinnai Swami, Sadhu Om, Kuppammal, Isakki Swami, Raghupathi Yogi, all of them just thirty years before! I am not even talking about Ramana Maharshi’s generation. Humanity has become so poor without them. Because, now, none of you even have one single living example to see and learn. To see and learn!