Baba story Cosmic Flutist When Baba was 14, He started a new phase of His life. From Jamalpur mountain, one comes to a field by a big reservoir or lake. On the west side of Death Valley was a large hill beside the reservoir. It is upon this hill that Babua would come every evening and play the flute. This was a very remote and secluded area for a high school boy to sit all alone, playing for whom? Those who do dhyana (sadhana of merger in the inner reality of one Ideational Desideratum or Iśt́a) on Baba’s liilas will find that this is a very difficult liila to do dhyana on. Dhyana may be possible a little if one wants not to just enjoy the magic and the mystery but if out of love one wants to understand why this liila was borne forth it is too intense and demands too much purity from the sadhakas. The first question that comes to mind is that this liila is so very different from Lord Krsna. The motive of Vraja Krsna playing the flute was to attract people away from their daily joys and sorrows and suspend them in a flow of sublime sweetness. The calling of the flute was a calling to people to come discover what true joy, true thrills, true rapture really is. When our Babua played the flute, He chose a desolate but beautiful place because He knew the conscious and subconscious minds of humanity just could not withstand or comprehend the vibrations of this flute. However the hiranmaya kosa [highest level of mind] is awakened by the subtle resonance of this otherworld flute playing. This in turn awakens the atimanasa kosa (supramental mind – first layer of the unconscious mind) through a musical vibration and this process is called Gandharva Vidya. However, in this case, the Cosmic sounds of Baba’s flute were especially for the collective mind of humanity. The collective of humanity has only just begun to develop the collective atimanasa kosa as some have realized. So what Baba was doing is sowing the seeds for the blossoming of the collective vijinanamaya (subliminal mind) and collective hiranmaya kosas. When our Babua was playing the flute on this hill it was however for an even deeper purpose than this nurturing the embryo of the collective Superconscious mind with the lifeblood of the melodies of His heart. It was from a very different bhava than Lord Krsna. As human beings evolve they are capable to receiving and comprehending more and more subtle bhavas. The root bhava of the cosmos arises from that original yearning or loneliness that caused the creation of this universe. The people of Shiva’s and Krsna’s time simply could not even be aware of it let alone respond to it. But can we? This is the eternal question that arises in our souls when we subconsciously or unconsciously become aware of this Cosmic flute melodies that are ever flowing throughout the Macrocosm. Can we renounce ourselves and our own yearning completely so as to take upon ourselves that infinite yearning of His and to use the love that He pours on us to quench and enflame and merge in that yearning? This is the Supreme Question behind every single note and every single pause of silence in the Cosmic flow of tender flute sounds. So much more remains to be said, but in the end it is best to let our Babua’s songs speak for us. Báṋshii sure sure more t́áne Man ná máne kono bandhana Hásir pháṋke pháṋke ke d́eke Sab cheṋŕá e kii áváhana. Man ná máne kono bandhana Phuler paráge dáke more Phul Phut́iye thare thare Sárá ná diye tháki kii kare Chut́e jái jhat́iti carańa. Man ná máne kono bandhana Ákáshe vátáse mishe rayeche Hrdákáshe[1] bhese caleche Maner mayur kaláp meleche Náce gáne peye je tári spandana. Man ná máne kono bandhana Báṋshii sure sure more t́áne Man ná máne kono bandhana. [2] Please draw me (unto You) With melody after melody Of Your flute My mind refuses to accept any bondages. Through the gap and gap of Your smile O what an invocation! My mind refuses to accept any bondages. It calls me through flower pollen When flowers bloom, Layers upon layers. O how can I remain Without answering it I rush in haste Towards His Feet. My mind refuses to accept any bondages. He is mingled in the air and the sky And goes on floating In the ether of the heart. The peacock of my mind Spreading it tail Dances in song Upon receiving Those vibrations. [1] Hrdákásha means literally the ether or sky of the heart. This can refer to the anaháta cakra (centre of the chest) or to minor cakras on either side of it such as the holy hrdaya cakra (physical heart). This can also refer to Nirguna Brahma that is the heart in which the first yearning stirs that results in the manifestation of Taraka Brahma. [2] Prabháta Samgiita 1816 From the book Babas Boyhood Days by Ac Devatmananda Avt.
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