Life is a Yadnya...Sant Dnyaneshwar 6 March 2010 Hi dears, Since i have been to 'Alandi' on 1st of December 2009, i can't stop going there again n again... Of course in subtle form! As last time i missed my golden-opportunity to meditate at, under-ground-Dhyaan-Mandir, which was closed due to lunch-break of d Templer's staff! Am longing to go there, where that GR8 soul had spent quite-some-time, meditating.... i would like to feel d golden-dust of that 'holy' Vaastu! Sant Dnyaneshwar's life is a Yadnya in true-sense of d word! It is as if an 'Offering' for betterment of d society! It is to 'cleanse sick-ailing-elements from d society! D same society which had given tremendous torture,insult, Extremely-bad-treatment to him n his siblings! His siblings were Nivruttinaath,Sopaan, Muktaabai... He along with his bros n little-sis went through all that wishful-harassment, dished-out by d so-called-elite-society of that era! without even mildly-protesting, against d injustice, for No-particular-fault-of-theirs! N in return this kind-hearted-simple-minded, extremely-intelligent-youth has offered D Universal-Love in d form of Dnyaaneshwari at d tender age of Only 15 years to this 'very society'! In d process thousands n lacs of people were truelly "inspired"... by him n his siblings' persona n work.... Even this-day-n-age, There is No-Parallel to Him n His-GR8-works..... Sant Dnyaaneshwar is A 'Live' example of "Sat-Chit-Anand", Personified! He gave d mantra of Cosmic-Love-is-Universal-Divine-love! He taught us that V should Not forget d feelings of Gratitude, even for a moment.... "Pasaay-daan" is d height of gratitude, any being can express by words n actions.... V should be grateful to our 'Pitar', d ancestors... V should be grateful to our parents, who brought us in this world! V should be grateful to our spouse for sharing this world with us! V should be grateful to our issues-d off-springs, for d joyful experience of being a parent! V should be grateful to our siblings to make our child-hood memorable! V should be grateful to d society... V should be grateful to d Nature... V should be grateful to d Cosmic Energy... V should be grateful to our Natural-Resources... V should be grateful to our Vaastu... V should be grateful to d good-health n 33 crores of Gods, who cohabit with us in our body-n mind! V should be grateful to d divine-blessings... V should be grateful to d feelings-of-Oneness! V should be grateful to Sants for their teachings n noble-thoughts... V should be grateful to every moment which is a Yadnya! This 'Yadnya' of beathe-in & breath-out that is "So-aham" & "Ham-sah"... is an offering... "Swaha" to d Divine! A small village named 'Nevase'... Vitthalpant was a learned, Ved-Shastra-parangat-'Pandit'... Since he was child, was fascinated with d idea of 'Sanyaas'! He always followed d 'Sadhu n sanyaasi', waring saffron-robes... His parents compelled him to marry Rukmini a simple girl from Alandi! He could not refuse or rebel against 'wish' of his ailing, old parents... Hence got married against his own-wishes! Unfortunately for young Rukhmini but fortunately for Vitthalpant, his ideal Swami from Varanasi, arrived ... Vitthalpant was under complete influence of d swami. When d swami prepared to leave for Varanasi, Vitthalpant pleaded to allow him to be with him, at Varanasi Aashram... After spending some time at Aashram, he had to return,again, against his wish, Only for his old parents n newly-married-young-wife! Once back, he became father to 4 children, namely Nivruttinaath, Dnyaaneshwar, sopaandev n Muktaa! This was d era of 13th Century! D orthodox society objected to, Vitthalpant's change of life-style from sanyaas to 'grihastha'-ashram! i.e. become a family-man! He n his F'ly was black-listed from d society by d high-bro-shastries-n-Pandits! After enough torture n keeping them hungry for many-days, d 'Cruel-n-cold-blooded-society-Pandits' suggested a 'Prayaschitta'... a kind-of-punishment for d couple to sacrifice-their-lives-n-DIE!! For better-n-normal-life, of their children in future, they made up their mind to just 'sacrifice'! D kids were very young-n-innocent to know any of these sudden-n-sad-happenings-in-their-lives.... Vitthalpant was a very disciplined Pandit n extremely simple person he believed in d 'Prayaschitta' ordered by d Society-Pandits, N for d thought of welfare of their children, agreed to die with his wife! Very soon, One-early-morning, even before Sun-rise, Vitthalpant n his wife, Rukhminibai, jumped in d cold waters of d river, leaving, fast-asleep-innocent-4-children, to fend for themselves!! D punishment given by d cold-blooded society, Never ended with d death of Vitthalpant-Rukhminibai! The 4-orphaned-children were Never treated like, Normal kids! Their parents'-sacrifice was Not even Noted by heart-less-society... Every single minute, they were made to struggle for every single-morsel of food! they were treated very badly by every body... Only due to d fears of going against-society-Pandits! Being born in Brahmin Family, d boys were supposed to have "Dveej" i.e. Upanayan-sanskaar after completion of 7years of age... Though they had grasped d knowledge of Shastraas, very-fast... They were denied by d society-Pandits, d right of "Maunji-bandhan"! Then they went to Nashik-city n requested d learned-ones to examine n cross-check their knowledge of Veda-Shastra-n-Yogaabhyaas etc Here Dnyaaneshwar made d animal 'utter' d chanting of Shlok-Hymn from Vedas! This surprised every body... this news spread like a fire.. Their supreme-knowledge n command over Yoga-Shastra-Ved was acknowledged by one-n-all..... still they were not rich to afford a stove n d 'Tawa' or 'khapar' to roast sweet-thin-chappaties called 'Maande', this is a Maharashrian delicacy... One day Dnyaaneshwar wished to eat it n asked little-sis-Muktaa, to cook d same for lunch! Poor Muktaa made all d preparations... but no stove, no fire n khapar to roast them...so became sad... sensing this, Dnyaaneshwar, d Maha-Yogi,  used his Yoga-power to heat his back-so-Red-hot that Muktaa could 'roast' d Maande on it! N then all of them enjoyed d delicacy of Maande! Even this news was spread like a miracle.... now-on-wards d F'ly got d deserving respect n celebrity-status from all-n-sundry! Hearing such miraculous news about Dnyaaneshwar, one elderly Sanyaasi named, Changdev came to meet, Dnyaaneshwar. He wanted to impress Dnyaaneshwar, by making a big show-off of his so-called-power-n-huge-number-of-disciples... One fine morning, Dnyaaneshwar was sitting on a broken short-wall, along with his brothers n sister Muktaabai, when he heard about arrival of Changdev, who was older than d trees! He was 1400 years old!! Riding a wild-Tiger n accompanied by thousands of his disciples...he marched Dnyaaneshwar casually asked d wall, on which they all were already sitting, to take them to welcome their guest of honor, Changdev! D amazing thing happened! D 'wall' obeyed Dnyaaneshwar's request n took them to Changdev! After seeing d non-living-wall's obedience to d gentle-request of Dnyaaneshwar, d guest, though 1400-years old,prostrated in front of Dnyaaneshwar! he saluted d greatness of this Saint! If he can make non-living objects like a wall, to act on his 'gentle-subtle-request', his amazing strength is beyond imagination.... Dnyaaneshwar then, was recognized as a renowned Saint! I personally feel d GR8-ness of Saint-Dnyaaneshwar is in d "Pasaay-daan"! where he declares his wish to almighty God... "Jo Je Vaancheel To Te Laaho....Praanijaat" He is asking god to full-fill all d wishes of each-n-every-being! He is urging d god to give all possible good things, to all d beings.. In-spite-of all d pains, tortures, harassment, he did Not have even a trace of harsh-feelings or bitterness... about anybody... of d cruel-society! He is not asking any punishments to such heartless creatures! Instead, he is asking for d 'change-of-heart' or change-in-their-approach, from d god! he is not asking for any personal fortunes for himself or his brothers or his little-sister! He is not asking for any wealth! He is Not asking for any-kind-of Power! He has no desire of marital-bliss! He has no selfish-ambition to become 'some-body'! Though d people have Never shown any kindness or compassion to his parents or his elder-brother, or younger brother, or little sister! Dnyaaneshwar shines like a Sun, at this dark, cruel back-ground, through his 'Self-less' wish to d God for welfare of Man-kind! He was called as a "Mauli"after completion of, translation of Bhagavat-Gita,in simple Marathi. He did this for common-man, to understand this treasure-of-knowledge, which was originally in 'Sanskrit', known to very few.. He made d meaning simple-n-clear for lesser-educated-people, to implement d teachings of "Gita", practically in day-to-day-life! This GR8 work was done at d tender age of Only 15 years! Because of his personality, not only Maharashtra but entire nation was inspired greatly! Because of him, first-time in d history, d lower-most strata of people also, happily joined d group of devotees.... d cast-ism got dissolved n all d people jelled very well n got involved in d spiritual activities with rare togetherness! N surely this was greatest-achievement in that era, where no powerful medium was available for easy communications.... like today's TV,Net, electronic-electric, telephones, fax, std even Telegraph n telegrams were Non-existent! Only word-of-mouth, singing devotional songs, 'kirtans-in-temples' speeches etc was d only possible medium. Through his GR8 life-n-literature, he had enlightened a flame of love, brother-hood, compassion into d hearts of all!        From bottom of my heart i know that this-little-flame is still present in each-n-every living-being n am sure it will remain Alive till d end! there Can't be anything like 'Higher-wish' above d sentiment expressed so subtly by none other than, Dnyaaneshwar! Till date, Pasaay-Daan is d Top-most-piece-of-literature, Ever been written by any alive or dead person in d entire history of Universe! Hands down, it should be given d Highest Acclaim, it deserves for it's sheer content for d welfare of Man-kind! Friends, at d age of Only 21 years, this greatest soul voluntarily took, "sanjeevan-Samaadhi"! Meaning he left his body n got merged in 'subtle form'! The Nirvikalpa or Sanjivan Samadhi of this greatest yogi.. In his treatise, Bhavarthadeepika or Dnyaneshwari, he has emphatically indicated about relation between higher awareness n light or pure energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation! This can be clearly elaborated by d correlation between electromagnetic radiations and consciousness on d basis of explanations given by d all time great physicist, Albert Einstein... Yoga is often considered as a journey, from body to mind n from mind to soul or spirit or life energy! In other words Yoga is a journey from gross material energy to more refined form of the energy... This phenomenon of journey from gross material energy to more refined energy, is apparently quite similar to d Bose-Einstein condensation! Noble prize-winner scientists, have experimentally verified, D Bose-Einstein condensation... Interference pattern of atoms of an alkali metal, when observed at d absolute zero temperature (-273 deg. cent), can be compared with the higher three dimensions of d Ashtanga-Yoga, Dharna, Dhyan n Samadhi! D alkali atoms were slowed down using a magnetic trap, Dharana: Slowing down d fluctuations of mind n focusing it on d goal of self realization n when brought closer, Dhyan: Bringing one-self closer to the ultimate Principle n ultimately d atoms were merged into each other forming light- Samadhi: Merging into d ultimate Principle-d Self... This is Tima, wishing, Each one of U, d Great-Goal in d life... Shlok of d day- Sadaa Pandharinaath Paadaabja Bhrunga| Nivrutti-Ishwaraa Anugrahaat Praapta Tatwam| Mahaa Indraayani Teer Bhumau Vasantam| Samaadhistha Murtim Bhaje Dnyaandevam|| Tip of d day- D 'gram-dal' or Channa-dal is good source of proteins but it is heavy to digest n it's intake, initiates formation of gases in d stomach. To avoid this, always add Ginger in grated or paste form or for sweet-recipes, use Dry-Ginger-powder, called "Soonth" in it while cooking. For d preparation of 'Puran' for 'Puran-Poli' Soonth helps in easier digestion of it n also enhances d taste.