My experience- A beautiful dream and His darshan
Read the previous part- The Grace of Baba Neem Karoli- 1
April 6, 2023 (Hanuman Janmotsav)
So, finally I found His name- Baba Neem Karoli or Baba Neem Karori, but now what? It wasn’t enough for me to just know the name and that he was a saint, so I started looking out for his stories. I wanted to know more about Him, I wanted to know everything about him. I wanted to know who this shabbily-dressed man is taking over all my feed of social media account despite not even searching for him! Whenever I looked at the phone, it was Him. He had given up his body in 1973 but his leela was here still!
I hopped from site to site to know and read about him and came across many stories by his devotees and when I fell in love with him, I myself don’t know! Three days had passed and I was just reading about him. I no longer saw him shabby or weird instead I revered him. I was a person who would look at every saint being as questionable being and here I was reading non-stop about a saint whose name I got to know just three days back.
A beautiful dream
After continuously reading about him for three days, I planned to read more on the fourth day too and that night, I received the grace and blessings of Babaji.
It was a beautiful dream. In my dream, I was sleeping, suddenly awakened by a warm, comforting bright light. That light was intense and looming large, I sat up and saw Baba Neem Karoli walking towards me. He was wearing his white dhoti and check blanket, smiling widely as he walked majestically towards me. The intensity of his loving light (tej) was so mu8ch that I wasn’t able to open my eyes to look at him. Infact, my body was engulfed in his love and light. He wasn’t saying anything, he kept on walking towards me from afar radiating nothing but peace and love. That light had nothing but love and, in my life, I had never ever experienced so much love! I thought, his body isn’t made up of bones and flesh but love and tender care. He was packed with light, love and compassion and I was melting. I stood no chance in front of the fire of his love and the closer he came, more overwhelmed I became and he was emitting so much of love-energy that each cell and atom of mine was filled with nothing but love! I felt my body will burst in thousand milli-parts! My cells, my body, everything was filled to brim with his warm love. Nothing but love!
Then, quietly, smiling widely, he sat near me. Not knowing anything what to do and what not to do, I wasn’t able to even look at him midst all his looming bright light of love and care. He was smiling widely, looking at me tenderly and I said- Babaji, you are like my father. Let me sleep on your lap. — And I kept my head on his lap. He lovingly caressed my head and never in my life, I slept so peacefully!
On waking up
Suddenly, I woke up to the chaos of the house. Things were messy. My father wasn’t able to find something and all were in a hurry, all noisy and I was on the bed, drunk in divine love. I was literally in a sweet hangover of love and then my dad came in front of me and asked for something. I don’t know what he said, but the moment I looked at him, I felt that he is a part of me too! Till now, I had heard saints saying that all humans are a part of the self but that day, for a few seconds, I felt like there is really no difference between my body or any other living body! One just melts in grace and everything becomes one. I am reminded of an incident- when a fisherman was whipped by his owner, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa shrieked in pain and he felt his whip even on his own body!
Then, I stared around the room. I felt it to my bones that each thing- living or non-living deserves nothing but love. I felt sad looking at a chair that nobody cares about its base! Was I going bonkers, I don’t know!
That feeling of grace prevailed over me for about 3–4 minutes and then it faded out. Spiritual practices make one stay longer or forever in a spiritual state, but I was a newbie and that feeling soon faded away and again, I came back to my state of I am me and others are others. But for a little moment, I had a taste of what Divine Love is like, what considering one as your own feels like, what being drunk in ecstasy of Divinity feels like! I don’t know why I was given such a huge blessing, I don’t even consider myself worthy of darshan of such a great saint! That day, I totally melted for Baba Neem Karoli. There is no power greater than love and hence, Babaji would often tell his disciples to-
LOVE ALL. SERVE ALL. FEED ALL.
That experience and a little taste of the Divine Love brought me back into the arena of spirituality and Divinity.
NOTE- I had this experience about 3–4 years back. It is totally personal to me. And you, my friend, are free to dismiss all this as imagination or fiction in case you are finding this Divine Grace hard to believe.
Ram-Ram!
