The Enlightened – Trailinga Swami – Part 4
Nature follows Her rules and regulations strictly and does not stop for anyone or anything. Life, birth, death, pleasure, pain, sorrow, bliss, sicknesses all comes in our lives one after another. These are the results of our present and past karma. Karma or law of justice is same for all creation and never changes. The entire cosmos is suspended in space by the Dharma of God. Men of God like Trailinga Swami take birth and live among us to teach us to that even laws of karma can be transcended by a Man of God and nothing is impossible for one who is One with all Creation and Creator.
After his guru gave up his body, Trailinga Swami stayed in Pushkar for some more years doing sadhana, he travelled to Nepal and continued his sadhana there. Nepal has witnessed numerous miracles and people there till today speak of Trailinga Swami with awe and respect. There is an incident of the King of Nepal, a tiger and Trailinga Swami. Once the King went on a hunting safari in a forest abound with tigers. He was skilled hunter and located his prey quickly. But he was unable to aim and shoot the tiger. He kept missing his target and started chasing it. The tiger ran with the King chasing it and halted at a place where a yogi sat under a tree. The tiger went up to the yogi and the yogi stroked the frightened animal while the King looked on in amazement. The yogi gestured to the King to come to him and gave him this marvelous advice: O King, give up your fear. This tiger will not harm you. God has created everything. Give love and He will always give you love. Always remember this.
Trailinga Swami demonstrated the great power of love through this incident. The King returned back to his kingdom and spread the news of the great yogi and the tiger. Many people travelled to the jungle for the darshan of this great saint and received numerous blessings and healings. Trailinga Swami’s fame began to spread. Trailinga Swami had the habit of blessing and helping people and walking away without a word to a new place. He moved away from the forest towards the city of Nepal where further miracles happened.
One day, the princess of Nepal went to the Pashupatinath temple of Lord Shiva at Kathmandu for worship. She conducted a special puja for her getting an excellent husband and a happy marriage. She garlanded the Shiva Linga with a special garland which she had herself strung. When she came out of the temple, she saw surprised to see a naked sadhu wearing the garland she had offered Lord Shiva. He pointed out to the garland and shouted aloud: You should marry me! She felt humiliated and accused the sadhu of stealing the garland from the Lord inside. The sadhu asked her to go in and check. When she went inside, she found the garland still draped over the Shiva Linga. She came rushing out and found the sadhu wearing the garland. She was astounded. How was it possible?
The sadhu raised his hand in benediction: Go home. I accept your offering of worship. You will find a good husband! The princess returned home and told her father, the King of her extraordinary experience. The King replied: It must be Trailinga Swami. While you were praying in the temple, we received an excellent proposal for your marriage. The princess was married and had a blessed life with her husband.
There is a beautiful example of how mother nature provides for the enlightened master who is one with all creation. Trailinga Swami stayed for some time at the Markendeya Ashram in Northern India on the banks of River Narmada. There he met a powerful saint of that region called Kaki Baba. One day Kaki Baba saw the river water turning into milk and Trailinga Swami drinking it. He understood that Trailinga Swami had the power to turn water into milk and also that Mother Narmada wanted to show Her love for the saint by providing him milk. He dipped his hand into the milk to drink it as prasad and found that the milk had turned into water in his hand!
There is no goal higher than enlightenment and having received the gift of human birth, we should work hard and achieve this goal. Let us be inspired by the lives of great saints like Trailing Swami and continue with the practices of SitaRam mantra, meditation and following the teachings of the Guru till we are overflowing with Divine Love and become One with it.
