Thought for the day

Root of all feelings is the sense of touch. The basis for touch feeling is the body and the body results from birth.

From the book: The Mukthi Stupi: Sceptre of Truth 

Beacon to the World

In a rural area of south India near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, a pillar of modest size, but of cosmic proportions has been erected. This book celebrates a unique event in the history of the world, the inauguration of that pillar, the Mukthi Stupi. Brought in to the physical plane by sixty years of sadhana and one-pointed longing for the Lord, it is the landmark for the coming of a new age, the Sathya Yuga, the Golden Age, the Age of Truth. Like a beacon of immense power it is beaming the light of Truth, the light of wisdom all over the world.  It is powered by divine love, Prema, and will give liberation to all.  Radiating waves of Truth it has the capacity to eradicate the evil that lives in the human heart and replace it with love for God. Unseen, it moves among us unraveling the knots of desire, anger, and greed; it is preparing our hearts to receive the seed of God consciousness and lighting the lamp of love therein.

The pillar is known by many names, the Mukthi Stupi the Shiva Shakthi Stupi, the Sceptre of Truth, the Yoga Stupi, the Sai Stupi, the Sai Jyothi Stupi, the Jnana Deepam Stupi, the Sathya Deepam Stupi, Brahma sthamba, Moola sthamba, the ‘thread of consciousness’, Shiva lingam, the Adhi Guru peetam, the Sceptre of Mukthi and even the ‘Divine Crowbar’.  Names are many but they all denote the One Truth, the eternal power of Love, the pure consciousness that dwells within each of us.

The Mukthi pillar is destined to play a vital role in the upliftment and transformation of the world. A powerful radio beacon broadcasts vibrations in all directions. Though unseen, they surround us and affect every corner of our existence. Like this, the Mukthi Stupi is transmitting unseen positive healing waves of love that are destroying the evils in the heart of man, awakening the innate divinity and igniting the feelings of devotion and true love for God.  This is Vasanthamayam, the love of the Mother for creation, the divine love of Radha and Krishna, the love of Sai Shakthi.

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From a young age I had the desperate thirst that I should see God. Day and night I cried for God. It was revealed to me that the Lord had taken avatar as Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and I did intense sadhana to attain Him. Swami bestowed many divine powers as fruits for my sadhana but I did not want any. I wanted Swami alone. He said, “Your powers only increase with your sacrifice. You will have to come as an Avatar.”

I prayed to Swami to take all my powers and make me empty. I cried that I do not want to come as an Avatar, I want only Him. Swami took away all the powers and filled His Sathya in me. The Truth, Swami, filled this vessel, which was made empty. Swami said, “It is the Sathya called Sathya Sai that resides in the body cover called Vasantha.”

On the morning of 17 April 2002 at 4 am in the Vashista Cave, Bhagavan Baba making me Shudha Satwa,  pure consciousness, caused me to merge with Him. This is the merger of pure consciousness with God. After this merger Swami asked me to build Mukthi Nilayam and start the construction of the Stupi. After the opening of Mukthi Nilayam, Swami revealed many important secrets of higher wisdom. I wrote these in books, the Upanishads, Beyond the Upanishads and The Principle of Becoming God. I also wrote on the Brahma Sutra and Yoga Sutra. On 5 March 2004, the construction of the Stupi began. Swami said that this pillar is a symbol of my body filled with His Truth.

The divine powers of the Omnipresent One are invoked in a deity for worship. The energies are drawn and concentrated in the deity through the chanting of Vedic mantras and by performing yagnas and poojas. In the same way, the Stupi that is built according to sacred principles, draws the divine energies. Sri Ganapathi Sthapati has said that the Stupi is the abode of Shiva, a Shiva Linga. It also represents the Kundalini shakthi, which arises when a soul attains God consciousness. The Stupi symbolizes how an individual soul, jeeva becomes Shiva, the universal soul.

This Stupi is a temple of Kundalini shakthi; the pillar is the deity of Kundalini. Nowhere in the world can you find a deity of this kind. All those who see this Stupi and worship it will be blessed with the awakening of the Kundalini. This is the center for all yogas, the center for all paths of worship, devotion and wisdom. The Stupi is the abode of all powers; it has the power to liberate the entire world. It is the Moola sthamba, the primordial source of energy.