Enlightened Beings How to recognise an Enlightened Master


If a wolf in sheep’s’ clothing claimed at the top of his voice that he was sheep, would we believe him? Claims do not carry any weightage in the field of spirituality. It was not within capability of Swami Vivekananda to recognize Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, his spiritual master. But Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, an enlightened one had inkling that one like Swami Vivekananda would be visiting him.

 

One who has seen light of sun, for him to distinguish sunlight from that of tube or bulb was not difficult. But for a tube or bulb to recognize sunlight was next to impossible. In the entire history of mankind, not even a single student could ever determine whether his preceptor was enlightened or not. Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (preceptor) rightly said, do not preach unless you become an enlightened one.

 

In the last about 150 years amongst 7 billion people existing world over only Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana finally succeeded in reaching stage of enlightenment. Yet, claims untold existed on mother earth. There was no dearth of people claiming to be self realized, god realized, enlightened, brahma jnani, atman jnani and so on.

 

These ignorant people failed to recognize that all these spiritual terminology meant the same. In my 50 years of spiritual travail I have yet to find a person who could explain to me the proper definition of spirituality or enlightenment, or moksha salvation. I took a 40 days world tour in 1987 just to assess the mental prowess of people worldwide. I returned absolutely empty-handed.

 

An enlightened one was like the power of a cool breeze, a streak of silver lining in the darkest hour of night. If Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed came on mother earth, would it be difficult to recognize them? Enlightened ones always stand out from the crowd. Only those who were 100% truthful could recognize the potential of an enlightened one.

 

When young I used to devour 2 to 3 books in one night. With passage of time even that was not necessary. Reading a few lines in any book I could make out whether it formed essential reading. The writings of an enlightened one, the sayings of an enlightened one, the quotes of an enlightened one or the teachings of an enlightened one were perceptibly clear to a sincere traveler of spiritual path.

 

Right from six years of age I travelled path of absolute truthfulness. I could hear the sweet small inner voice of my soul atman that always guided me on right path. Prompted by the voice of this soul atman, I could easily distinguish right from wrong, truth from false. Reading one line relating to Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa or Maharishi Ramana, I could easily make out they reached stage of enlightenment in their lifetime. I used to think, only an enlightened one could say so, none other.

 

If I say in the last about 150 years amongst 7 billion people existing world over only Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana reached god, I would stand by my statement for the rest of my life. The whole world on one side, I would still emphatically say only two people world over reached stage of enlightenment. To summaries the issue, I would again quote Mahavira that we must try reaching stage of enlightenment, forgetting everything else. That was how God ordained spiritual path to be.

 

By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref 150907)

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