Narayana Swami & Yogi Ramsurat Kumar
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM speaks about his reverence for Narayana Swami. He was an example of being permanently in the state of Shivoham. He constantly remembered "I am Shiva" within his inner space.
As a boy Narayana Swami had been bedridden for a year with an unknown illness. His mother took him on the spiritual pilgrimage for healing but on the way he jumped off the litter he was being carried on and submerged himself into the sea. His mother tried to stop him but was unable to stop his sudden urge to join the water.
She waited for three days, consumed by a feeling that her son was not lost. At the end of the third day, Narayana Swami emerged, an enlightened being. He had the power to use a mirror like a security camera. He could see anything anywhere from that mirror. He would use JnanaAnjana, an energized black paste, on the mirror and the scene he wished to see appeared in front of him.
In one incident where as a young boy THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM found Narayana Swami shivering with fever when he came to visit him.
"Swami! Shall I bring a blanket for you?" he asked worried about his spiritual mentor.
"No" Narayana Swami told him. "I am Shiva. If I am Shiva, this body will heal itself."
It didn't even take a matter of minutes for the fever to subside, as if Narayana Swami was shaking off a wet coat.
One time, out of curiosity, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM peeked into the mirror that Narayan Swami had. Immediately, he saw a beautiful goddess living and breathing inside the mirror. Her long almond shaped eyes shone at him as he gazed at her mesmerized. A sound rattled in the distance behind him. Quickly, he put down the mirror unsure of whether Narayana Swami will allow him to look in his mirror.
Later on, he recognized that he saw a yakshini in the mirror- a divine being that dwells in different dimensions of the Universe!
Another immense presence in The Avatar™'s childhood was Yogi Ram Surat Kumar. Known for his unconventional liberation techniques, he stopped at nothing to give a powerful spiritual experience to those who sought him out. Yogi Ram Surat Kumar had a large following in Thiruvannamalai and even had his own ashram now that includes the burial ground that he always used to spend time in. It was in this burial ground that the lives of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and Yogi Ram
Surat Kumar intersected. They used to sit closely together as Yogi Ram Surat Kumar would answer question after question from his mentee. He never grew too busy for the boy nor irritated. He knew that it was Sadashiva himself who was interacting with him as a 10 year old boy.
THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM recalls an incident with both Narayan Swami and Yogi Ram Surat Kumar that demonstrated an audacious use of Shaktis in the modern day.
"One day, an extremely ardent devotee approached Yogi Ram Surat Kumar and asked for enlightenment. He told him he would do anything. He demanded that he be tied up by the rope. Without hesitation, Yogi Ram Surat Kumar did so slowly, recognizing immediately that this man needed more than just rope tied around his limbs.
One person gave the promise to him, "I will not move till you leave me. I won't bother." So he sat and really, really, he sat whole day and did not get agitated.
Yogi Ram Surat Kumar had a dog. Through the dog he sent word to Narayana Swami. Narayana Swami was a very famous Guru who manifested the power to see in the mirror. When he came, Yogi Ram Surat Kumar said in a very casual way, "Eh, show him what is happening in his house with his wife."
Narayana Swami applied the JnanaAnjana on the mirror and showed that his lady was having an affair with somebody. This person's only attachment was with his wife. So Narayana Swami showed that the TV showed very clearly that his wife was having an affair with somebody. Immediately that engram got agitated. That agitation happened, got awakened, and this fellow immediately wanted to go to the house. He started telling, 'Leave my rope, leave everything, I want to go there!'
Somehow Ram Surat Kumar was able to slowly talk to him, 'Now tell me, you gave the promise that you will work till the end. Now, I only brought and awakened this agitation. Now even if you go, what are you going to do? What can be done? Nothing can be done. So understand, this is the bio-memory in which you are stuck.'
By showing Narayana Swami's mirror to this person, Ram Surat Kumar made that person experience the silence – he calls it as a 'mouna' – means the pulse rate becoming zero. He would check it from this point and that point and I saw that person, that devotee, experienced mouna. You will be surprised – after one day that devotee went back to the house, the wife was not in the house which the mirror showed. At that time and that day which he saw, his wife was not even in that house! The mirror showed a lie!
Understand, what that mirror showed was a lie. Fortunately, I was there when that person came back again for next darshan.
Then he asked, 'Neither she was in that place nor that affair was going on, it was a lie. Why did you do it? How did you do it?' Ram Surat Kumar was laughing. That was his answer. He simply created the whole scene! That's the punch line! And he had one assistant to create that lie. He simply created the whole thing in that mirror through Narayana Swami's help, Narayana Swami is well known for this; he can show anything. So finally it boiled down to what? He just worked on his engram, and the information shown to him was not even a fact. It was not even a fact.
Of course, to play these kind of risky games, you need a tremendous understanding between the Master and disciple. If something cracks even in one place, what will happen? If that fellow had rushed there and suddenly seen that neither she was there nor the other person was there, he would lose complete trust over this person, the Master and everything, and it would become a big ruckus.
When you lose trust over these kind of scenes, you will not only never come back to this Master, you will never go to any other Master for three-four janmas – like a cat which once boils its tongue with hot milk will never go near the milk again. It is a big risk. But he was successful. He was successful. He had an infrastructure, a dedicated disciple. In one day he put that person into the mouna state. He calls Nirvikalpa Samadhi as mouna state. He put that person in mouna."
Narayana Swami was able to show anything on the mirror and have the other person, without one doubt, see the image that was on the mirror.