10 Sep 2022
[By Shri Soumyadip Mondal]
Pranaam Swamiji,
First of all, I prostrate on your lotus feet for accepting me as a devotee of Yours. Earlier, I may have had devotion towards God, but the degree of it was unknown. But now with Your grace on my head, I am a strong believer of God that is You Yourself – the contemporary human incarnation of our generation. Now I think positively that God is present there with us in each and every moment of our daily life. Considering myself as a devotee of my Sadguru Shri Datta Swami is the first miracle. Thus, my spiritual journey as a devotee is flagged off by the knowledge preached by You. As we all know that spirituality is the quality of being concerned with the human soul as opposed to material or physical things, firstly we need to find the strong base of “pravrutti” and then to aim for “nivrutti”. On this little voyage on spiritual ocean, I could understand a new meaning of a general English word “miracle”. If we go by the definition, miracle is something that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine intervention. Earlier, since I knew that magic and miracle have the same meaning, Your divine knowledge made me realize that magic and miracle may be felt analogous in their connotation, but there's a difference between the two. I now clearly understand that magic is an act of a man while a miracle is an act of God or some godly power. Understanding the real meaning of miracle itself is a miracle.
Now that You have opened my eyes, I am able to see miracles in everything, in every day of my same life that I was living before coming to You and after surrendering to You. Surroundings around me remained the same but the view to see the surrounding is changing slowly. I feel the presence of a bond with You, my Lord. I discovered that the density of my uncontrollable thoughts could explain of late - the dual nature of me either to be under the control of highly excited or deep depression states. I found laminarity among the turbulence of life with Your grace.
Chhanda Chandra, my wife, has already divulged the major miraculous experiences that took place in our lives. Instead of repeating the same, I will share some of the experiences which I could notice as miracles after I came under the umbrella of Yours. Some of the miraculous experiences are stated below:
1) I got cured after twelve days of hospitalization from deadly corona during September, 2020. In this phase You had taken the control button to keep my wife and son fully out of danger. With Your grace, she got the company of few good souls who were even ready to either stay with them or take them to their home for stay, which was just not even thinkable.
2) During the second wave of corona in May, 2021, my father had covid infection. He is also an asthma patient since long. So, when oxygen level dropped below 90%, the doctor asked us for his hospitalization. At this point I booked air ticket to move from Mumbai to Bengal for 24th May. But I could not fly because the flight got cancelled with the advent of a sudden thunderstorm in Bengal. Now where are the miracles:
3) I had no control of the words that I used to vent out frequently when I am angry with someone or something. Now with Your grace, I can take over the control of losing temper at many moments more than earlier days.
4) Monsoon in Mumbai places it’s foot for a long season and heavy rainfall. One day, when I faced strong downpour under open sky which could not be averted by umbrella alone, a help-less me had discovered that an unknown vehicle approaching and offering me to take shelter just at that moment.
5) I have been suffering from some disorder that compel me to think out of the horizon and I am under medication since 2007 till date. I have been suffering from insomnia. I used to lose temper at slight provocation. Lack of confidence covered me. I used to get depressed at small failures and felt anxiety for the uncertain future. But this is the first time since then that I feel myself to be able to conquer the disease as was predicted by You way back in 2020.
5) With Your infinite grace, I could turn into a vegetarian overnight shedding all non veg foods with which I was associated since my birth. After studying Your ocean of knowledge, I am able to differentiate between the mere messengers and the Sadguru – Yourself - the Human Incarnation.
6) Recently, last Sunday (04.09.2022) I was working in the 3rd floor in the building at office. I noticed water inundated on the floor corridor and rooms of 2nd floor. I went to search for the source of the water but could not trace it as Sunday being a holiday, all the rooms were locked by the occupants who use the water lines in their respective rooms. To my astonishment I saw the heavy-duty electrical panels and wires located at 1st floor and ground floor are bathing in water flowing from the top. Seeing danger looming large, I tried to contact relevant authorities towards further action and after many efforts I found the help on the weekend day. It could have been a disaster otherwise. For how long the water was falling on the electrical lines was unknown. Swamiji saved us from a ticking bomb avoiding explosion with divine intervention.
Swamiji, I don’t know if I can even dare to thank you for all these that you have done to me. Though you have told us not to expect anything in return of the devotion showed towards God, I make the error of a repeated sin by asking something or the other from God in exchange of my love. Kindly take away my worldly desires and make me do sacrifice of the fruit of my work at your divine lotus feet with pride.
I take this opportunity to thank Phani sir for assuring me that nothing bad will happen to me amidst dense difficulty according to my horoscope.
I am grateful to assertive and composed Dr Nikhil Kothurkar, for being the torch bearer of the Satsang sessions which have been soothing my nerves since I started attending them.
I acknowledge the hours of preaching by Surya sir, when I was deep down with my self-confidence.
I show my sincere gratitude to Durgaprasad sir who always set my depression under the soothing shower of spiritual knowledge.
I can’t forget Antony sir’s assurance and help in showing path to engage my leisure time to creative activities.
I thank Bharat Krishna ji for the long telephonic conversations convincing me to shed worldly desires and asking me to have faith on Lord Hanuman.
And last but certainly not the least, I just can’t wait to write a book on the support and infinite patience of my wife Chhanda who took my care as a mother-figure, friend, philosopher and guide.
Swamiji, please forgive me for seeing You as insulated electric wire till now, though You and Your ocean of knowledge are enlightening my life with the electricity flowing through the wire, setting You above all human beings as the human incarnation.
With salutations at Your divine lotus feet, I would like to sign out this time with hopes in coming back again with the pages etching the upcoming miracles in the future.
I thank all the listeners for their patience and plead to forgive me if I had sounded like an empty box.
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