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The spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Pune, Dada J P Vaswani was born on August 2, 1918, at Hyderabad-Sind. Being a brilliant student, he was given a number of double promotions and thus passed the the B.S. examination when just seventeen. A masters degree and fellowship at a leading college followed and Dada seemed poised at the threshold of a brilliant academic or civil services career. It was at this stage that he gave it all up and decided to follow his uncle and guru, Sadhu T.L. Vaswani, a mystic and philosopher on the spiritual path. Reaching out to people with a message of spirituality became his life mission. As editor of Excelsior magazine, he was initially met with opposition as not everyone related to the spiritual dimension. Still, he took it upon himself to write, proof read, print, get advertisements, package and post the magazine all by himself. The publications popularity grew to the extent that it surpassed the circulation of the leading daily newspaper, The Sind Observer. Ask Dada J P Vaswani |  |
Problems are a part of life. problems do not come by accident. The word problem is derived from two Latin words Pro Balo which means that which is deliberately thrown in our way-- by a beneficent Providence for our own progress on the Spiritual Path. We must not regard problems as our foes. They are our friends. We should welcome them and talk to them: Friend, what is the message that you have brought to me from the Beloved? Then your attitude changes. You will find that the situation around you will also change.
My advice ever is that we should abide by the Will of God. If God does not Will to send us a child, we should be happy-- like me-- living without a child. But if you still insist on getting a child, you can adopt one. Within a few days after the adoption, you will forget that it is an adopted child. You will love it as your own and get stuck in the snare of Maya.
Dada Shyam! God-realisation is open to everyone. The past does not bind us. I may have committed many henious crimes in the past, yet I can attain God-realisation. The classic examples are those of Maharishi Valmiki and Gautam Buddha's disciple, Angulimala. They had committed many murders but through the power of the Name Divine, they could free themselves from the past and enter into a new glorious face of God-realisation.
Divine melody can not be heard by our efforts. Divine melody is a gift of God to the seeker. The upanishad says: The Atman reveals itself to whosoever it chooses. We have to stand as beggars at the Divine Door of God begging for the alms of God's Grace in addition to other things. This will teach us to be more and more humble until we realise that we are nothing, no-thing, God is the All.
It is very difficult for us to know a perfect Guru. We move on a much lower plane. The perfect Guru has touched the peak of life. He lives on Mount Everest. We can but pray to God to bring us in touch with the Lotus Feet of the perfect Guru. There is no difference between God, Guru and Saint. The three are one. To be able to go ahead on a spiritual path, we must walk the way of obedience.
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