2 4 S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 4 - 1 S p r i n g 2 0 1 8 When the light of the paramātma glows, the darkness called avidyā is destroyed totally; then the yogi who perceives everything clearly, does not see anything in this world. Ozhivil Odukkam of Vallalar voices a concordant note: “Know that only he is the jñāna guru who, with a glance, brings the disciple to absolute stillness, having perceived [in him] the state of maturity wherein becomes harmonised [with the Self] as that which is false gradually disappears, so that he dissolves into the waves [of the ocean] of bliss of union [with the divine], in which he exists as Reality itself.” (Vallalar 2013, 13). A friend of mine – a yoga teacher – was asking a yogi (a pramukh of a South Indian ashram) what is necessary to do in order to achieve enlightenment. The yogi gave a description of suitable practices and with a wink of his eye added: but there is still a small gap on the way to enlightenment and that can be bridged only by a guru (Fig. 4). But because my friend is an action-oriented person, he missed the last point as there was no doing involved. Only time will show, whether he will find the bridge covering this “small” gap, or that he will come to a realization that a guru is needed. Let us hope that there will be always yogis who could help to mature sādhakas, as it is shown in the story below. In 1977 a small group of Europeans guided by the late Aviyogi Suren Goyal, went to see Prabhudatta Brahmachari and he guided them to Deoraha Baba. One of the group members, a young German lady, had the view that a guru (here Deoraha Baba) has to know her problem and offer help. The others tried to convince her that unless she presents her problem to a guru, he will not take action. On the day when the group had to leave, when they were with Deoraha Baba, she mentally switched to a mental request for help. The same moment an orange thrown by Deoraha Baba hit her at her forehead, and her meditation problem got resolved. Now the distance between Deoraha Baba and the lady was about fifteen meters and thus Deoraha Baba must have pre-cognised the change as the time the orange was flying towards the lady was longer than the moment between her change of attitude and the moment when her forehead was hit by the orange (throwing oranges at the people around him as a prasad, “gift”, was a usual habit of Deoraha Baba). Fig. 4. At the crucial point of the sādhanā, the sādhaka has to realize that he needs a help. Thus, help comes after the body, manas and buddhi are all attuned to receiving the help. On the 3rd level the knower and the known are starting to be felt separate. The help, though not visible, lifts the energy level of the sādhaka and making jñāna temporarily available to the him. It facilitates the exit from the world of ajñāna (drawing by G. M. Timčák, 1977).
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