Submitted
by: S Viswanathan
Miracles in my Life:
Someone
calls you Ram, someone calls you Shyam, someone
Allah, someone Jesus but for the Devotees of Abu Dhabi and me, Swamiji is, all
in one, called Vikrama Ram. Under the banner of Unity
of Universe, Swamiji has been urging everyone to come under one umbrella and
realize God through any form. Indeed we are blessed to have the divine contact
of the Living God... Modem God... the God approachable, see able, touchable,
and affectionate and ever acceding to our needs, however trivial the need may
be. Swamiji, we are the blessed and fortunate to be under your divine grace.
We
met Swamiji in 1999 at one of Abu Dhabi devotee’s house, after several vain
attempts, to solicit his blessings. Swamiji, with his uncanny abilities to
sprint names of relatives/friends, birthdays and other mundane things like
clothing, mixie etc caught us in an awe inspiring and
spell bound attention. His inimitable and simple ways of pooja
attracted us in that no slokam/homam
was preached and imbibed/ performed. Luckily we were caught in the divine web
of Swamiji's devotees spun through utter dedication selfless approach. In order
to assure and assuage the new devotees, his nonchalant approach of telling the
currency notes /God's photos was awe-inspiring. One has to realize that he/she
is facing the Para Brahma, the triumvirate Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and Lord
Brahma, the unfathomable and timeless Infinite. My attempts to ink few of my
experiences will wane into nothingness without his divine blessings and I
invoke the same to translate thoughts into something readable for the devotees:
In
the year 2000, somewhere in March, Swamiji before proceeding to USA, informed
me that I should be ready to proceed on leave in October to Chennai to attend a
marriage. Non-plussed, I said that there was no plan
in Chennai for anyone's marriage. While returning from USA in May, he repeated
the same and I pleaded ignorance. Later in October, I visited India to perform
the obsequies of my Father who had a natural death. Swamiji during his December
visit asked me whether I attended a marriage and I narrated about my Father's
death. Swamiji said that I had distributed new clothing in celebration of his
soul reaching its heavenly abode. I was stunned and stumped at
the lucid explanation of the phenomenon. Little did I realize that Swamiji
coined the allegory of marriage for the heavenly abode?
During his visit to USA, I spoke to him over
phone to seek his blessings. While saying that there is no problem, he said
that there is some small problem and that He will take care of it. I relayed
this to my wife over phone from my mobile and on the spur of moment saw
speeding Pick-up (truck) approaching my car while being stationed before a red
signal. I yelled saying" that's the end of me "while having a
fleeting glance over the rear view mirror. Swamiji performed a miracle in that
the Pick-up, at the last moment, swerved to the right and passed the red
signal. I was saved from a certain catastrophe.
In one of the Poojas
a devotee asked me to play the Jhanak instrument and
I accepted it without a clue of its euphony. I started
playing to the mellifluous voice of Swamiji while rendering the Namashivaya song and I was transported to another world. On
seeing this, Swamiji ordered that I play the jhanak for all future poojas.
Indeed this gave me an opportunity to be near this Deity.
I
used to write some bhajans and Swamiji said that I
would write English bhajans also. Inspired by the
chat session we have in the internet, I wrote the Bhajan"
Chat chat chat, it's a holy
holy chat, Ram Shyam here,
Baba Hanuman here; it's a holy holy chat, Vikraman
Swamiji's chat; it's a holy holy chat Vikraman
Swamiji's chat. It was an instant hit and Swamiji liked it so much that the Abu
Dhabi Bhajan Group sang it at all Poojas
concluding with the Guru Poomirna celebrations held
at the Emirates English speaking school. In fact I was
blessed to get the blessing of Swamiji the last, somewhere at 3 pm on Friday. It was
a pleasant gift to be by Swamiji's side from Thursday night till the next day
counting to almost 18 hours. Subsequently, during the Birthday celebrations
held at the Ambassador Hotel, we staged a Das Avatar show, depicting our
Swamiji's avatars rendered by the children and it was a fabulous show. This was
followed by a song ... " Vikram jai jai, Vittal jai jai; Das avatari meri Swamiji ki jai and then goes
on to narrate each avatar and its purpose, concluding with the Kalki avatar."
Afterwards,
Swamiji blessed us to enact the miracles of various devotees in the form of a
skit performed by the children. We wrote the script on the basis of actual
experience of the devotees and trained the children to enact the scenes. The
children gave memorable performance and we were asked to stage several such
miracles at several subsequent Poojas. The prelude to
the miracle show was a song rendered by a Bagwathar
attired in saffron clothes and it goes thus
………..Suno Suno Bhai Suno Suno,
Vikram Swami Ki Katha Suno; Jisne Bhi Vishwas
Kiya, Uska Beda Par Suno. Needless to
say the skits were a super hit.
I was
blessed to write the bhajan....
Someone
calls you Ram,
Someone
calls you Shyam;
You're
my Vikrama Ram, SWAMY
You're
my Vikrama Shyam.
The
rendition of baby Karishma was super and it became an
instant success too. Staging the miracles of the Lord itself was a miracle...
We
were dilly-dallying about our Son's marriage as we felt that the girl was not
compatible to our son. Swamiji said that everything will be fine and that the
marriage will be a success. With his blessings we performed the marriage and
his words have come true. Thanks a lot Swamiji for guiding us once again.
My
daughter although a good student, was nervous when she was to face her 12th
exams. Swamiji comforted her saying that she will get the first Rank. True to
his blessings, she not only came first in UAE but in the entire Gulf. Thank you
Swamiji once again. Subsequently, when Swamiji visited our house to light the
lamp, said that my daughter will study very well and her papers will appear in
the international magazines and will do research for the good of
human race. Recently I was informed that her paper on Electronics and communication
was accepted in an International Magazine and she is the only student whose
paper has been accepted this year from her college.
During
one of the Poojas Swamiji said that I would appear in
the Asianet T.V. programme. I was
perplexed as to how I, being a Tamilian, would appear
in the Malayalam TV Asianet. In fact I did
appear in the Asianet TV while on a talk show
relating to NRI Investments of Gulf Malayalees. Miracle again.
For
the past two years, I have been pestering Swamiji to relieve me from Abu Dhabi!
Bank, as the work place has not been conducive enough to be at peace, sequel to
the management change. He has been advising me to hold on, as there will be
light at the end of tunnel. In fact his words on the sacking of my Boss came
true. I am hoping for the silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud
of office.
We
are living in the age of Living God" Vikraman Swamiji" and I pray
Lord Hanuman to bestow best of health and make Swamiji's pursuit" Unity of
universe" a resounding success.
Bolo....
" Shri Vikraman Swamiji ki
Jai "
SViswanathan
V Sasikala
VVivek
VHiranmayi
VVibha