Experiences & Stories of Guruji: Share Yours!

ADITHYARAJ

Namaste everyone,

This space is dedicated to sharing stories, experiences, and miracles (mind boggling yet transformative) related to Guruji. Whether you’ve personally experienced his grace or heard inspiring incidents from others, we would love to hear them.

Your stories can serve as a source of faith, guidance, and inspiration for all of us on this path. Feel free to share any moment—big or small—that deepened your connection with Guruji.

Looking forward to reading your experiences!

Lavkush

The guru mantra is the one that never fails me.

If I wake up in the middle of the night, unable to fall asleep, no mantra, herb, meditation or breathing can calm me, guru mantra never fails.

If I'm going through a tough day or time, nothing can alter my state, the guru mantra is always there.

As soon as I start repeating, the energy comes to me and starts transforming my state.

A true gem, a treasure, an unfailing connection to the Divine through Guru.

Shri Gurubhyo Namaha!

nilasara

At the start of the internet there were Yahoo groups on meditation, shaktaism, and I learned alot. Especially from Shakti Sadhana, the group run by the author of the "Goddess and the Guru." I started chatting with Swami Amritananda. We covered many subjects including Buddhism.

I am insomniac. 6 AM one morning I decided to call Guruji. Amma answered. Gurji was bathing. I could wait?! I did. It took Guruji one second to come to the phone. I had the notion that if I knew the "secret syllable," then the guru would bestow the "Shodashi" mantra.

I was a bit star struck and kept repeating Shrim, the mantra. Guruji, calmed me down and gave me not Shodashi but Mahashodashi mantra. We emailed back and forth until I had it right. I didn't know what to do with it. I did japa for the next 19 years.

It's a very peaceful and pleasant mantra.

Guruji talked to me like a normal person. He also planned well and left a library of knowledge. He left me a path for when I would be able to have the knowledge to follow it.

I think of all the guru/businessmen who sell techniques. Then I think of a rare guru who bestows all knowledge for free. Who is not pretentious. That's when I know a rare guru.

This is a great parampara of most supreme knowledge. With many people contributing to educate people. Thank you all.

HRS

nilasara

Amma, when you did Mahashodashi for 19 years without the background of Mahaganpati, Bala, or Panchadasi, how did your life go?

Do you think you are self-realized now? Did you have any experiences or visions of Lalitambika?

HRS

Not just mine but I have heard this from a lot of disciples. Guruji responds in magical ways - either direct messages while meditating or in the dreams. He is ever present, and I won't shy away from saying that his power has increased manifold since he became one with Devi. Now, there is no geographical or timing difference which can hold his disciples form contacting him and Goddess mother.

Sri Gurubhyo Namah

Sri Matre Namah

Hari Priya

nilasara

I had meditated since fifteen doing Transcendental Meditation and was a Maharishi International University grad. So I spent four years doing TM Sidhis in a group of 2000 people. That was 16 years before I met Guru Amrita. I also was a student of Dzogchen Buddhism.

We talked about many things. I will admit that I was too burnt out from work to devote myself to sadhana as am now that I have retired. I feel the Goddess however and had since before TM. Which is why I sought out TM in the first place.

That all said, I am just a normal shlub, nothing special. I have bad back problems now which make it hard for me to sit. I do many of the routines standing. Or walking on a treadmill. The good thing about this is that I conducted pujas entirely within before I ever learned to do them without, and so I have a totally nondual reference towards the devata.

I didn't just spring up one day asking for Mahashodashi. I also was a initial member of the Shakti Sadhana Yahoo Group and Fairfield Life, both of which were premier spiritual forums, later copied by India Divine and other copycats.

India Divine, though defunct for some reason still has a piece I wrote on Kamaladevi who I did puruscharana on for a year.

I would never answer a question about self realization. I am realized enough to not sell spiritual techniques in the marketplace. I am realized enough to know time is of the essence and there's almost none left for the world.

I am realized enough to be glad I started meditating young because with my arthritis and other back problems I meditate mostly on pain.

I credit my entire path to Mahakali. Time is everything. The Goddess has spoiled me rotten, though I have never had a penny to my name.

Without leaving my seat Sri Vidya teachings come to my home. This is unlike ever before in history. Also this is a good group, good teacher, and as a guru Amritananda was fearless, liberal, feminist, and a great lover and devotee of the Goddess. Something sorely lacking upon the entire Earth. This makes him unique. And also a hero of mine. Not just a guru but one of my heroes.

nilasara

He didn't write that about me. I didn't ask for Mahashodashi. I asked for Shodashi. I didn't know there was a mahashodashi. I had read somewhere that if you know Shrim is added to Panchadashakshari then you "Know the secret." And you whisper it to your guru and they will then divulge the Shodashi. He simply gave me the Mahashodashi.

Then he submitted years and years of work with Soundcloud files and permissions for all mantras by hearing his voice, and thus he gave me the entire path, as soon as I was ready to find it.

That said, I am a solo person and I do very much need the teachings of Devipuram, so I waited until now to pursue Sri Vidya as a routine and regular practice.

Truth told though I saw my father die on easter Sunday when I was eight, and I gave up samsaras right then and there. I never sought money for more than to get by. Even now I don't even want money. Money is a curse, and those who have it go to hell. They stay stuck in samsara and live by proxy. There is no joy in riches. Not a single bit.

vihu_vhu

nilasara

Prannamas to you amma,

Your explanation is really an eye opening i should say.

kulabhairava

I have a very long story that I should write someday in full. But I started in the Chilean patagonia and my path had lead me to Sri Vidya by the grace of Maa Anandamayi. I also connected with the personhood of Guruji by connecting with his disciples on facebook, back when I actually used facebook. A person on facebook sent me recordings of guruji chanting the mantras and in his words said "you can consider yourself initiated". I read everything I could about guruji and watched/listened to all of his teachings. I fell in love with the Gurupadukam mantra and would literally chant it all day for many months. I lived deep in the volcanos in the south of Chile (I was surrounded by like 7 active volcanos) and had virtually no neighbors. I just chanted a lot and ran in the patagonia, as I love running mountain trails. I remember one morning I woke up, opened my eyes and Sri Guru Svaprakashananda was hovering over my face with his tongue sticking out like Kali. I was very surprised by this but didn't feel any fear. I would leave my scrap food (vegan) outside for the neighbords sheep to eat, and foxes would come to visit my front door as well. I felt Kali's presence with me constantly, even though my ishtadevi is Lalita. I moved northward in Chile because I was too isolated in the patagonia. I was chanting mostly Vatuka Bhairava mantra during those days as I had been given upadesha in his mantra from a serious devotee of Kali who lived in South Africa and who had spent a night in guruji Amritananda's house at Devipuram. I am the kind of person that chants all day in my mind. I remember I got to a bus terminal and was very sad because I had nowhere to go. I sat there in my dhoti and my 80liter backpack next to me. A black dog walked up to me and I put my hand on his head and mentally chanted Vatukanatha's mantra as an offering to my lord. Immediately a man all dressed in black and a black hat on walked right up to me and said "So you speak English?" I said yes. He pointed to my dhoti and asked what this is about. I was the only person besides the Krishna bhaktas to wear a dhoti in Chile. I didn't answer. He looked at me very intensely and said "Listen, I only know three things. You must have a plan. You must think about it very good and you must do it." I responded "you know sometimes it's best to not think about things so much". He responded very intensely, "Listen, I only know three things, you must have a plan and you must think about it very good and you must do it! Only these three things I know." He tipped his black hat to me and walked away… After that I had dreams of Guruji. I wanted to approach him but I was so ashamed of my behavior. I noticed guruji had dirty fingernails in one dream and I wondered why. I so desperately wanted to approach him but my shame kept me away.

I have more stories, but I'll leave it at that. I never met him in person, but he's always been with me. I wish he would come visit me in a dream or something. It's so hard to be without him. Missing the trust and faith. I feel like we'll never have another guru again who doesn't want anything from us except to see us happy and in union with Lalitambika.