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Stories about Maharishi
The Shankaracharya's Welcome to Maharishi
Jyotir Math, India, 1975
>From the tradition of Shri Shankaracharya
He is the disciple just like the Master:
Destroyer of tamas of the inner Self, King of Rishis,
And from the darkness of the people He is the bestower of light.
Greatest of the great, greater than greatness,
He is indeed the reason for the welfare of the tradition.
Bestower of the calmness in the three layers of existence,
Incarnation of Yoga, indeed of Shankara,
Whose speech is true speech, Whose demeanor is precise,
Whose actions are compassionate, Whose fame is compelling,
In the world of all men He is the inner Self.
The course of His speech is the incarnate form of Indra. the Creator.
O Mahesh Yogi, let Your benevolence be extended unto me,
Great Rishi, King of Rishis, Rishi of Gods.
>From the light of the Himalayas to the level of the plains
He resides in the midst of Shankaracharya Nagar.
Sri Ananda Mayi Ma
In 1981 during the Vedic Science course in Delhi, Maharishi sent a large
group to the Taj Mahal for a visit. While in Agra, the group heard that the
great saint Sri Ananda Mayee Ma was at her place in Vrindavan, which was on
the route back to Delhi from Agra. Maharishi enthusiastically said the group
should visit her and to take shawls, saris, fruits, garlands, sweets —
masses of them — as our gift.
The group arrived at twilight and meditated in a group outside her house
while waiting for their chance to go up to the roof of the house where she
gave darshan. While the group was waiting two giant white birds flew low
over her house — the celestial quality of the sight made everyone gasp.
Dr. Bevan Morris asked the receptionist to inform Sri Ananda Mayee Ma that
we were from Maharishi. But the group had to go up in sections of ten as the
space was limited. Dr. Morris went up in the last group, and found that Sri
Ananda Mayee Ma was sitting deeply withdrawn not paying attention to the
people coming and going, and the pile of cloth, flowers, fruit etc. that had
been placed in front of her. At that stage she was very elderly, and near
the end of her Earth days.
It was immediately obvious to Dr. Morris that she had not been told that
this was Maharishi's group. He asked the administrator again to please tell
Sri Ananda Mayee Ma that these people were sent by Maharishi to see her. The
administrator began to speak to her in Bengali and at the point where he
said "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" Sri Ananda Mayee Ma suddenly sat bolt upright
and folded her palms together, and then started grabbing fruits and flowers
and wrapping them up in packages, and giving them to us to deliver to
Maharishi.
Then she gave a sublime message of devoted greeting and love to convey to
Maharishi. The group upon reaching Delhi delivered this message to
Maharishi's great joy.
* * *
On another occasion Maharishi was doing Puja with Sri Ananda Mayee Ma at her
place in Haridwar, but finally Maharishi had to go. He told Sri Ananda Mayee
Ma, Ma you stay here and continue, and I will go. She seemed to agree and
let him go, but after a few moments got up and followed Maharishi out to the
car, walking a little behind him with the sweetness of a small child. There
was a mala wala — a garland salesman — with a basket full to the brim with
marigold garlands on the street there, and Sri Ananda Mayee Ma pointed to
him so that her assistant purchased the whole basket. Then Sri Ananda Mayee
Ma took the whole basket to where Maharishi was now sitting in the car, and
she tipped the whole basket of garlands through the window into his lap.
Ananda Mayee Ma is considered the greatest lady saint of modern India,
enlightened from a young girl, an expression of Mother Divine. She left the
world in 1982. It was her custom to send westerners who visited to Maharishi
to learn Transcendental Meditation — for example, Peter Wallace, the brother
of Keith. Her devotion to Maharishi shows again that we have grasped very
little of the grandeur of Maharishi's personality and status, and his role
in the universe.
Tat Wala Baba
During the Teacher Training Course with Maharishi in the Academy of
Meditation Shankaracharya Nagar in Rishikesh at the end of 1969, a course
that included many of the greatest luminaries of the Movement, the course
participants asked Maharishi if the famous recluse saint Tat Wala Baba could
come to visit the course, as had happened in previous courses. Tat Wala Baba
was living in a cave about three miles up in the hills behind our Academy.
It was his custom to only come out once a day for one hour to let visitors
enjoy his darshan. There was a lean-to just below his cave for this purpose.
He was a very powerful man, very muscular like a wrestler, with matted hair
that fell all the way to the ground. Maharishi said of him that he seemed to
be in a good state of Unity Consciousness.
Maharishi agreed to invite Tat Wala Baba to come to speak to the course, and
sent Brahmachari Shankerlalji, a very elderly and blissful Brahmachari, who
had been Maharishi's Guru Bhai when Maharishi was Guru Dev's Brahmachari,
and who lived out all his final years in Maharishi's Academy of Meditation
in Rishikesh (except for one time in 1970 when Maharishi sent him to Japan
for a trip to see the Movement there). Maharishi also sent Bevan to
accompany Shankerlalji to go to the cave and invite Tat Wala Babaji.
They drove as far as the could into the forest down a narrow track, and then
climbed the final section up the hill. They found Tat Wala Baba had just
come out for his daily Darshan and was sitting listening to a Pandit who was
chanting slokas from a big book that was open in front of him.
Shankerlalji and Bevan respectfully greeted Tat Wala Babaji, and then
Shankerlalji conveyed Maharishi's invitation to come to speak to the course.
Tat Wala Babaji immediately stood up, saying to the Pandit and the others
who had come to see him: "Maharishiji is calling I have to go," and put on
his sandals and started walking down the hill.
He came in the car through the forest to the Academy, pulling up outside the
lecture hall where the course was meeting with Maharishi. The lecture hall
was approached from the back down a ramp, and as Tat Wala Babaji entered the
ramp the course participants could see him coming, and indicated to
Maharishi that he had arrived. Maharishi came immediately from his seat, and
as he turned the corner up the ramp, at the moment he first saw Tat Wala
Babaji, Maharishi's face lit up like the sun from the joy.
There followed a beautiful session of questions and answers with the course
with Maharishi and Tat Wala Babaji sitting hand in hand — an experience that
no one there will ever forget.
* * *
On another occasion a visitor to the Academy went up to see Tat Wala Babaji.
When he arrived, he found another visitor there, a businessman from Delhi,
who asked where our meditator was coming from. He said he came from
Maharishi. The businessman scoffed, saying he should study some Indian
philosopher from Oxford instead. So our meditator said, "Why not ask Tat
Wala Babaji his opinion of Maharishi," to which the businessman agreed.
Tat Wala Babaji responded to the question, speaking very rapidly in Hindi,
going on for about 15-20 minutes. As he continued, the businessman looked
increasingly crestfallen. At the end our meditator asked, "What did Tat Wala
Babaji say?" The businessman replied, "He said, 'Maharishi knows
everything.'"
Devraha Baba
Devraha Baba was a great saint of India who passed away in 1991. So elderly
was he that the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, more than fifty
years ago said that his father had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba as a
child — that is, in the middle of the nineteenth century — and Devraha Baba
was already elderly at that time. An Allahabad High Court Barrister told
Purusha visiting there that seven generations of his family had sat at the
feet of Devraha Baba.
In 1982, a group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the Aardh Kumbha Mela,
in Hardwar. In front of all the people attending his talk, the Purusha
introduced themselves as being from Maharishi. Devraha Baba replied,
"Maharishi is very dear to me." After saying some other very nice things
about Maharishi, he started throwing fruit to the Purusha. That was his way
of giving blessings. He did three rounds of fruit-throws to them, which they
were told was very special.
* * *
In 1989 another group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the Kumbha Mehla in
Allahabad, where he was residing on a raised platform above the sand banks
near the Sangam. The Purusha were with Devraha Baba when he saw a long line
of yellow-clad young Vedic Pandits coming across the sands towards him
chanting the Veda, sent by Maharishi to greet India's eldest saint.
When he saw them, Devraha Baba suddenly put his hands across his heart and
said passionately, "Maharishi has revived the whole Vedic tradition!"
* * *
At the Kumbha Mela in 2001, the devotees of Devraha Baba told our Purusha
how Devraha Baba would often say that there is a Gyan Yuga coming in the
midst of Kali Yuga, starting from a transition period from 2000 to 2020, and
that His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the one creating it!
Sadguru Sant Keshava Das
Sadguru Sant Keshava Das was a saint from south India who was considered a
great exponent of Bakti Yoga. He primarily composed and sang Bhajans and
expounded on the Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna's teachings.
In 1996, a group of Purusha, local representatives of Maharishi's Indian
organizations, and a local real estate agent were out looking for land for
building Vedic Pandit schools. The realtor was a devotee of Keshava Das and
took the group to his main ashram, close to the land they were looking at,
for his Darshan.
Keshava Das was very gracious to the group. And when they introduced
themselves as being from Maharishi, Keshava Das said,
"Maharishi is single-handedly reviving the Vedic tradition."
This was a great compliment to Maharishi from a revered saint, as he himself
was also trying to revive the Vedic knowledge.
Swami Lakshmanju
Swami Lakshmanju (1907–1991) was the last Acharya of the Kashmir Shaiva
Siddhanta tradition. Written accounts of conversations with Swami Lakshmanju
include the following comments about Maharishi:
"If you ask me, Maharishi's teaching starts where mine ends and it goes from
there to Infinity." Then he added, "Maharishi is the greatest saint to walk
the Earth in ten thousand years!"
Raj Mata of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
(as told by Dr. Neil Patterson)
"In 1976, the Raj Mata of Lucknow, U. P., came to visit Maharishi in
Switzerland. She had been a great devotee of Guru Dev when he was
Shankaracharya and Guru Dev used to stay at the Royal Palace whenever he
would visit Lucknow. Raj Mata told me that she remembers Maharishi when he
was a brahmachari serving Guru Dev, but she really didn't pay much attention
to him at the time. However, she was very surprised years later, after Guru
Dev had left this earth, when people would come to her…people who had known
Guru Dev and who had recently seen Maharishi. They would tell Raj Mata that
Maharishi is just like Guru Dev. At first, Raj Mata said she didn't believe
this. But throughout the sixties and early seventies, people kept telling
her that Maharishi was just like Guru Dev and that she should go and see
him. So, finally, she decided that before the end of her life, she had to
come and see for herself. She stayed with us for about three months. On the
day she was leaving, I escorted her to Maharishi's meeting room where she
was to see him for the last time and with my assistance she sat on the
floor. I protested that Maharishi would not want her to sit on the floor but
she said to me in a very heartful tone,
'Oh no, you do not understand. When all those people told me that Maharishi
was just like Guru Dev, I came to see for myself. But having been with
Maharishi these past few months, I can see that they were wrong. Maharishi
is not like Guru Dev, He is Guru Dev. There is no difference between the
two. Maharishi got completely absorbed in Guru Dev's Being and became That.
Maharishi is not only the disciple who is just like the Master. He is the
Master. He is Guru Dev and therefore I have to sit at his feet.'"
Jai Guru Dev
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