My grandfather, part 5... by Dr Ram Sharma

My grandfather,  part 5
by Dr. Ram Sharma

I know when I was a child, my grandfather fulfilled my spiritual desire and that was truly a miracle.  I was always very fond of the scent of his pens.  He asked me whether I wanted these things and then he would put his hands in his bag and took out a gift for me--the pens were the most costly as those were not available in my village at all.  These pens and his little loving gifted things,  I still treasure these even to this very day.

My grandfather used to tell me the details of his pilgrimage to Badrinath (Uttarakhand).  He would tell me that the land of Uttarkhand is so very pure and it has so many invisible saints who are ever here and continuously they will remain so meditating here.  Those great sould are visible to saints only.  He told me how he took many baths in Sahastra Dhara at Badrinath-- and how cold this water was too--yet there he would meditate the whole day.  Around evening time one night,  a saint came to him who had covered his body in ash,  and he wore many rudraksha bead rosaries.

The dear saint took my grandfather to a nearby care where there was a large banyan tree just outside of it.  It was one of the largest he had ever seen too.  This tree was so thick with leaves that no light or rain could ever come under it.  There was such heat though under that tree.  My grandfather meditated there for an entire week.  That great saint also gave him some leaves to eat and by eating then,  grandfather experienced no hunger or thirst that entire week.  There was pure cool water nearby, but they did not even drink.  After one week,  that great saint took my grandfather deep into the nearby cave.  There was a large stone upon its gate which the saint moved aside in order to even enter the cave.  Both of them went within and there inside,  they came through a narrow tunnel that was almost four to five kilometers long.  Both of them reached to a place where my grandfather saw many great saints meditating as they appeared with their ash smeared bodies.

The great saint told my grandfather that those whom he sees there meditating have been there for thousands of years.  While inside of there,  grandfather felt such an unearthly divine peace inside.  The saint told him that no human being from this age can ever go inside there and stay for long.  And,  if anyone should enter there,  he must return outside immediately.  I, too,  was fueled by his deep reverance of devotion within.  He spoke intimately with me about this place of his soul's serenity of refined care inside of his heart.

My grandfather used to meditate by burning a fire each summer for forty days.  this was Tapasya he used to do this in such a spiritual manner for the healing welfare of all people.  SARVE BHANTU SUKHINAH-- ALL SHOULD BE HAPPY   was ever his heart's devotion of care.  He had such a peaceful aura that so many diseases used to disappear from those who came before him.  His voice was always so full of peace, love and sympathy for all things and for those who came to him for relief of their problems and diseases.  His life gave all such great examples of unconditional love.

Heart's salute to my grandfather!

My grandfather, part 4... by Dr Ram Sharma

My grandfather, part 4
by Dr. Ram Sharma

My grandfather was such a radiating sun that he alighted upon all to lift them up each darkness of their sufferings.  I remember such an incident within my life that I will never forget-- a horrifying incident too.  I was around eight years old then and during the month of June on a summer evening around 7:30 pm I don't know what happened with me exactly that night.  My father noticed me and rebuked me because he thought I was trying to copy a lame paralyzed person.  He rebuked me over and over again as I could not stand upright.  I was in a dire fit of paralysis--and half of my body was without any sensation.  Suddenly father realized the urgent gravity of this horrible situation too.  My mother was equally stunned to see my changed condition.  Suddenly,  my father tried to take me in his arm, but I was falling off to one side--darkness was all in front of m and everything appeared to be moving round and round so fast.

As this occurred in the late evening,  there was no probable chance of getting a horse cart to go into the city from my village,  but my father took me into his arms and rushed off with me to try and get any horse cart but there were none to be had.  All of a sudden,  out from nowhere,  my grandfather arrived!  He was coming from bicycle from one of his pilgrimages.  He told my father that he knew inside somehow he was needed and that this was going to happen and that is why he rushed straight away to our village.

My grandfather immediately took me inside his arms--made me to smell some leaves he presented and again,  I felt sense begin to return to my body.  Then,  after we arrived back home,  he gave me additional ayurvedic medicinal treatments.  He went back into the fields to take medicinal plants and returned to give me available ayurvedic medicines.  He prayed for one hour and after that within three hours time had passed,  I was again perfect.  This was at first a most fearful dream for me and I still remember it to this day.  This incident penetrated within my soul and dipped me deeply into the flow inside the vast ocean of spirituality from that day on.

There are countless other occurrences I have witnessed in which my grandfather saved the lives of other people, too.  He never took any money for that either.  He lived for the sake of humanity.  He had such a wonderful aura that people felt that all their sufferings had lifrted to leave them.  He never proclaimed any miracles but always presented himself as a most humble servant of humanity.

I salute my grandfather!  I have my very life now due to his kindly caring soul with a great heart!

My grandfather, part 3 ..by Dr Ram Sharma

My grandfather-3
by Dr Ram Sharma

My grandfather narrated many accounts to me that included moments when he would meet many great saints in the himalayas.  He also narrated one incident that told how he was caught inside of an approaching snowstorm while going to Badrinath to Kedarnath.  There was no one around to help--as my grandfather was rolled within icebergs of an avalanche. Suddenly, a saint appeared to him while wearing white clothes who had come to save him.  He took him into his cottage--and grandfather wondered how there was no effect of the snowstorm upon that cottage.  That saint advised my grandfather that certain meditations of sadhana were able to accomplish this protection.  That very incident within the himalayas forever changed him within his understanding of mystical protection within the elements of nature.

He used to tell us about the Divine as the Ashta Maha Siddhis and their heart place of powerful sitthars--within many divine practices through austerities performed with ancient knowledge of yoga.  He explained how a yogi can shrink his body.  This is called anima or ever expand his body too, or mahima.  Through laghima,  a yogi can also lighten up his entire body weight and fly upon the air or can walk upon the water.  Patanjali yoga further describes these sacred transformations of siddhis or supernatural powers through a divine balance within.  Living in such divine balance brings one within the sacred five elements of life and these may be aquired by birth, by mantras, by meditation, by medicine and by tap.  My grandfather devoted his entire life for the sake of helping mankind.  He resigned from his job duties as a householder for his devotional being for life to open inside its healing cause.. serving all humanity!

My Grandfather, part 2... by Dr Ram Sharma

My grandfather-2
by Dr Ram Sharma

Dear grandfather Sh. Jyoti Prasad Sharma had such an aura that all persons who used to come and meet with him would always immediately begin to feel very well.  Many of these people praised him because he cured so many persons who were on the verge of death and there were often those who came to them with incurable diseases.  My grandfather used to go to the himalayas--Badrinath, Kedarnath and Amarnath nearly every year.  The sacred himalayas were a divine and direct source of his spiritual energy because so many great beings meditated there and still radiate throughout this land wihin heightened levels of spirituality for those of similar heart devotions.

He used to tell me how great saints can change their souls from our from one body to another just as Adi Shankaracharya had done.  He narrated this incident several times to me about his witnessing of saints changing their body too.

"An old saint was meditating near a river and suddenly he was the corpse of a young man--he dragged that corpse and changed his soul to go into that body as he left his current body behind."  The effect of spirituality and aura were so great within him that every person he met would start feeling all of their sufferings had disappeared.  He used to wear so many beads of several kinds-- like rudraksha beads, basil beads and sphatik beads.

Rudra beads can maintain and normalize blood pressure--and drive away any depression too.  Holy basil beads are antibiotic--and drive energies within the body to intercept and kill viruses.  Sphatik crystal beads help to make one feel more peaceful.  The effect of these spiritual energies can be very vast and great within each person.  I myself have felt his spiritual energy used to help others.  My grandfather lived for the healing welfare of mankind.

I salute my grandfather !!

My Grandfather.... by Dr Ram Sharma (Part 1)

MY GRANDFATHER
by Dr Ram Sharma

My Grandfather -1

My grandfather, Sh. Jyoti Prasad Sharma ji, was a great yogi and ayurvedic doctor in every true sense of the word.  He used to walk on all of his pilgrimages alone.  All the year long,  he was busy in going from one place to another.  At our village,  he used to wake up daily at four am in the morning-- after that,  he would go to the Ganges canal which about two kilometers away.  He used to pray two to three hours in the morning and one to two hours in the evening.

As I was a child then-- he used to narrate to me so many stories-- I have some deep memories within these transmissions.

In one of these,  he told me he went to Badrinath Dham on foot-- through a wild forest with many wild animals.  Because he was a great yogi--he used to say this... "When we see any wild animal--fear comes into our mind and after that we think of killing that animal--this same negative energy strikes into the mind of the wild animal and can cause that animal to even become ready to attack!
So if anyone will have good pure thoughts that are filled with compassion instead,  any animal will not attack."  He often found himself in many such incidents and no wild animal dared to ever attack him because he exuded such an aura of love and kindness for all beings.

He used to travel often from Badrinath Dham to Kedarnath by foot too.  It is on the other side of the mountain and the travel distance is about 50 to 60 kilometers.  He used to perform variouse devoted austere sadhanas there.  He used his learning to locate certain trees and if anyone would eat those leaves of certain trees--they would have no hunger--no urine-- and no thirst-- and there a person could devotedly chant mantras while sitting at one of these pilgrimage sites.

In our village many patients and persons used to come to him with their problems.  He would often solve certain critical cases through his vast knowledge of ayurveda that is rare today.  His heart was full of social service as his sole motto--he never took money from any of these patients--as he was never after money for the help of his caring for others!

I salute to my grandfather for his great love for all life!!

New dawn...

POEM BY DR. RAM SHARMA
NEW DAWN
Desires, dreams, doldrum
Slight love
One desire in the heart
Daily dies slowly slowly
Suddenly
A revolt burst in the heart
In one moment
The meaning of life began to change
A new dawn
Began to emerge