NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

WHEN ASKED ABOUT DATE OF BIRTH, THE MASTER REPLIED HE WAS NEVER BORN. RELATIVES SAY HE WAS BORN IN MARCH 1897 ON A FULL MOON DAY-HANUMAN JAYANTI. HIS FATHER, SHIVRAM PANT, WAS A POOR MAN AT KANDALGAON-RATNAGIRI DIST. NAMED MARUTI, HE ASSISTED HIS FATHER. HE HAD A BRAHMIN FRIEND HARIBHAN GORE. HE LISTENED TO HIS RELIGIOUS TALKS. AT 18, MAHARAJ'S FATHER DIED, LEAVING A WIDOW, FOUR SONS, 2 DAUGHTERS. MAHARAJ MIGRATED TO BOMBAY AND SET UP A SHOP TO SELL CLOTHES, TOBACCO, AND HAND ROLLED CIGARETTES. HE GOT MARRIED AND HAD A SON AND THREE DAUGHTERS.

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HIS FRIEND YESHWANT RAO BOAGKAR WAS A DEVOTEE OF SRI. SIDDA RAMESHWAR MAHARAJ OF THE NAVNATH SAMPRADAAYA. ONE EVENING MAHARAJ MET THE GURU- A TURNING POINT OF LIFE. THE GURU GAVE HIM A MANTRA AND INSTRUCTIONS IN MEDITATION. EARLY IN HIS PRACTICE, HE STARTED HAVING VISIONS AND OCCASIONAL TRANCES. SOMETHING EXPLODED IN HIM GIVING BIRTH TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, A SENSE OF ETERNAL LIFE. MOST LIVE IN SELF CONSCIOUSNESS. A FEW SEERS AND TEACHERS LIVE SIMULTANEOUSLY IN COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, EFFULGENT WITH INFINITE KNOWLEDGE.

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ABANDONING FAMILY AND SHOP, HE BECAME A MENDICANT, WALKED TO THE HIMALAYAS, SOON RETURNED HAVING ATTAINED SELF-REALIZATION ALREADY. UNEDUCATED, HIS CONVERSATION IS ENLIGHTENED TO AN EXTRAORDINARY DEGREE, WARMHEARTED, TENDER, SHREWDLY HUMOROUS, ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS, TRULY INSPIRING, GUIDING AND SUPPORTING ALL WHO COME TO HIM. HE IS THE LIVING, PRESENT, ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE. HE IS THE TRUE SELF THAT HAS BECOME ALL THINGS.

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