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Divine Play
Swamiji's
Treasure
Recordings of conversations with Shivabalayogi
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During a program in Seattle in 1991, a man with psychic abilities could see colors coming from Swamiji when the arthi was done before him at a program. He asked Swamiji about it during darshan. Swamiji told him, "The same thing happens if you do an arthi before an idol. You get blessings from that." A devotee's experience in the Bangalore ashram during the 1970's:
We stayed at
the Bangalore ashram for a month after the function was over. Normal evening
darshan was going on in the hall. I was in the queue for the ladies and men
were lined up on the other side. From Swamiji’s eye, a light the size of a
marble floated in the air towards the men. I saw the ball penetrate the
group of men, then suddenly a man shouted
out in trance. By then I was not talking to Swamiji very much. I was actually a little afraid of him. Much later when I started talking with Swamiji more freely, I told him, “I saw the ball of light coming out of your eyes. What was it?” Swamiji replied, “That is the shakti [power].” More recently, late 2005 and early 2006, a devotee from England spent several months at Shivabalayogi's ashrams in India. She took hundreds of photographs in Adivarapupeta that reveal the presence of innumerable balls of light, ribbons of shakti or spiritual energies, transparent and cloud-like fields, and other distortions that are ordinarily inexplicable. This account of the photos is from the devotee who took them. ————————— I spent ten months in India, most of which I was in meditation and if not in one of Shivabalayogi’s ashram then at a Shivabalayogi devotee’s house, mostly with a family in Delhi, or in the Himalayas at Gangotri and Yamunotri. I was in Bangalore ashram for Navaratri of 2005 and although I dramatically increased my hours of meditation there, the power I experienced in Adivarapupeta was even greater. Swamiji pretty much chose the camera before hand. I had not possessed a camera for many years. I had no interest in the fuss of having one, however when I left for India, the last thing my brother said to me was buy a camera and send photos of your travels over the net. I thought nothing of it and had no intention of it. He repeated it many times. When I finally was heading for the flight I was running very late and literally running for my plane. I passed the digital shop at duty free and as I did my brother’s words rang so loudly in my head that I actually stopped and went into the shop to look. I picked the cheapest and harassed the poor sales attendant to serve me as quickly as possible. She advised it wasn’t a good one so I asked for the next best, which was quite a bit more expensive but still cheap in the grand scale of things. Positive that it would do, I got it and ran. Two weeks later, it took the children in Delhi who spotted the camera in my bag to get it out of the box. They played with it constantly and forced me to learn how to use it. To be honest I was a little scared of it as I am not that technically minded! Anyhow, next I am in Adivarapupeta. It is Christmas day, and there are some five hundred or more children sitting outside the Samadhi. It is night time and there is a power cut. All the children are getting excited. I came down having just come out of meditation and decided to try to take some photos. Frustrated that there was no light, I did an experiment. I pointed the camera in the direction of the assembled children and randomly clicked. The flash went off, the children roared with excitement, and out came the first jyoti! Because it was so different from all the ones I had seen previously, I thought nothing of it. But ten or so photos later I got quite excited at what was showing up. The first occasion was Christmas day of 2005. You can see Bala, the temple pujari [priest], dressed as Father Christmas and the main bhajan boys with white swirls coming out of their heads. The next was the December 28th, and after that New Year’s. The most fantastic was Krishna’s wedding on the 14th of January, 2006. This was the really incredible night when it all really took off. I was snapping away and my eyes were bulging out my head at what was coming out. I thought I would stop but Swamiji gave me very clear instructions to keep clicking. After that I would just hold the camera in the air above everyone’s heads and click until the memory ran out. By the way, I never saw any lights on the screen before the photos were taken. Then later that eve I was standing by the side watching people dance and the bhava going on. I then got instructions to look at the moon, and take photos. These ones blew me away! On Swamiji’s birthday, I was stood behind his Samadhi statue right shoulder snapping away at the celebrations. As I was trying to twist myself so that Swamiji’s shoulder was not in the front of the picture I was told very clearly to include his shoulder in the picture. So I did and little white swirls came out all around his shoulder in that particular picture. After this was Shivaratri. There were many that came in the homa and one extraordinary one of just block white light which I don’t even remember taking. I was rarely out of bhava the whole time I was in the Adivarapupeta ashram. I know nothing or anywhere that has the power of that ashram. I cannot describe the intensity of Swamiji’s power on these occasions, and I know that a lot of it had to do with the power that comes through Yashoda when she organizes Swamiji’s functions. I am acutely aware of these beings during bhajans as well, and feel the images portray them excellently. I have not seen anything like them before, not even in my meditation, but my mother has in hers, whilst in Adivarapupeta. She especially saw the white jyotis with golden stripes through them. I was doing very intense meditation at the time and was in bhava for the majority of the time even when not actually meditating. When I took the photos I was always in a very controlled state. When I say I was in bhava, I mean Swamiji was upon me guiding me, talking to me, but not so much that my hand was ever unsteady. In fact, I always held the camera dead still whilst taking pictures. I do go into full bhava also (where gods and goddesses manifest through me) but not whilst taking photos. I feel so many photos came out with phenomena because of the power of Adivarapupeta and it being the 12th year since his mahasamadhi! These photos have explained so many things Swamiji talked about, answered so many questions, and given many blessings from dear Swamiji to all his devotees. The camera is a Nikon Coolpix E5600 and the photos were generally on the green dial setting. I have meditated intensely on the phenomena and I have decided that Swamiji used my digital camera with its slow lens to get the effect that he wanted, so the effect was something that the technology could produce. However it was definitely Swamiji doing it because some things would be blurred and others perfectly clear, and some lights would have lines and others not. Therefore I feel it was my camera that was causing the effect but Swamiji designed it! There were people with other cameras at Adivarapupeta, at the same time, but the phenomena was not manifesting in their photos. Now that I am away from Adivarapupeta, my camera is not bringing out such phenomena.
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JYOTI (astral
light) PHOTOS
