Introduction
The Adi Guru [Lalaji Maharaj] left no representative when he departed from us. When he fell seriously ill, some of his disciples inquired of him about his representative. He calmly replied, "When the candle shall be lighted, the moths would themselves fly to it." On another occasion, [he was] asked the same question. Lalaji smiled and said, "Ram Chandra will be the light of the family." On another occasion, Lalaji said, "I am leaving my representative and he will himself appear."
Shri Ram Chandra Ji Maharaj (Babu Ji), the Founder-President of Shri Ram Chandra Mission, the ablest disciple of the Adi-Guru, adhered to the discipline enforced by his Master and used to send his diary narrating his spiritual experiences and his state to his Master. One night Babuji saw his Master in a dream. He saw that his Master merged himself with his worthy disciple and said, "I became you and you became me, I became body and you became soul, so that after this none could say that I and you were different." Babuji wrote this down in his autobiography.
The greatest miracle of Lalaji is perfection of Shri Babuji's grand personality, which is unparalleled in the history of spiritual development. His researches and discoveries in the field will be regarded as wonderful and superb and shall remain a subject of further researches for centuries. Only posterity will be able to assess and evaluate the boons bestowed upon humanity through Sahaj Marg and the Shri Ram Chandra Mission so named by Babuji after his beloved Master.
(Excerpted from "Editor's Postscript" in Truth Eternal, Chapter 1)
At the Feet of the Master
I reached the feet of the Master on 3rd June, 1922 to receive transmission from Him for the first time. As the effect of it I felt that I had moved up to a level where the surroundings were very much different from those of the external atmosphere. This feeling persisted, and I remained in that condition for several days. I started meditation not on Divine Light as is prescribed in Shri Ram Chandra Mission, but on my Master's form, seeing Him in my heart. This was quite spontaneous and automatic, and I went on with it.
I sincerely took up the method of meditation after I passed the S.S.L.C. and Matriculation examination. Within six months, I saw in meditation that the whole of my heart was filled with soothing light, and a plant full of light was emitting forth light from all its branches and leaves. I continued practice. Six months later, I noticed a peculiar thing in my heart that my heart was reciting the word 'Om'. This we call ajapa. How does it start? If the Master infuses it with His Divine power it starts immediately. If it is left to the abhyasi, it gives a shaking to the heart twice or thrice when it starts. It also starts throughout the particles of the body, which we call anahata.
Some people have practised ajapa by reciting mantras repeatedly in the heart. It is artificial. If the practice of reciting is given up for some time, ajapa is gone. Introduction of the true state of ajapa is possible only if the Master has the power of transmission. Transmission is the only thing which takes the abhyasi to the higher regions. Self-effort fails after reaching some region because as you go up you come in contact with the subtle force of Divinity, and it pushes the abhyasi down because he cannot get at it. There the Master of high calibre who has command over the regions is needed.
When ajapa started, I was so proud of it that I said to my Master, "I have got ajapa now." When it gets a toy a baby is very happy. As he grows old, happiness also travels on. Similar was the case with me. When my Master had given me the knowledge, I came to know that I have to swim the unfathomable ocean.
In 1924 I felt an ubiquitous force present in every animate and inanimate object and particle. I was drowned in the sea of wonder. I felt God pervading every thing like broad daylight.
These things are but a grain of Divinity in comparison to the higher states. A man should never be satisfied at any stage he comes across, because 'on and on' is the voice of experience. The things went on, and I entered region after region by His grace. During the summer vacation I started playing cards, devoting four or five hours a day to it. It continued for a week or so. The result was that during my time in bed I used to remember playing cards instead of thinking of my Master, as had been my practice. My Master told me in a dream, "You should give up playing cards." Since that time till today I have not played cards at all.
During meditation another change in my inner feeling was that the idea of God seemed to be lost to me, yielding place to that of my Master, and Master alone. To me there was no God but my Master. I went on with it regardless of all other things, till I reached the level expressed by my Master in the following words in a dream when he left the mortal frame: I became 'Thee' and Thou 'I'. Now none can say that I am other than thee or that thou art other than me.
(Excerpted from Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Volume 3, Introduction)
