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This presentation about Master E.K. is only to give a bird's eye-view of a man who lived amidst the commons, served, healed, taught, and inspired. It cannot be taken as an exhaustive account of the man who lives in the heart of many today, for no man's life can be seen in its entirety and much less can be presented. Much remains unsaid. It is so with every man and much more so with a man that demonstrated certain dimensions which are higher than normal.
This work is also not an attempt to deify a person, but to recollect the unusual abilities, uncommon virtues and infrequently seen practicality. Master E.K. also had his share of mistakes, failures, and miss-conceptions; only then a man is complete, but they are few and are far outweighed by the other noble dimensions. He was proximate to the humans when he did mistakes. He was proximate to the Divine when he demonstrated noble and unusual virtues and capabilities. Thus, he stands as a good bridge for the human to cross over to the realms of Divinity. His strength was in his simplicity and accessibility. He was not difficult to reach, for he reached the people. He was not difficult to be understood, for he was human enough. He carried in him the dimensions, which needed to be reached and he carried in him the hidden dimensions of every human, which are Divine. He led people to understand that part of the human, which is Divine. His life gives the message that the human being is not of the world though he is in the world.
This presentation is composed due to persistent demands on the composer by the groups in the East and in the West to give a brief biography of Master E.K. The only right the composer seems to have to do so is his intimate association with the Master for a complete cycle of 12 years and a little more (November 1971 to March 1984). A little information about the composer also became necessary for it was unavoidable. That part may be read gently and judged kindly.
This work has been done in 18 hours (spread over 5 days) as a run-on dictation to Madame Tiziana Diaz amidst other duties. It is expected that the demand of the group is met in a way.
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Master E.K. was born on 11th of August 1926 during the evening hours on a Wednesday. Master CVV, Master M.N. and Master E.K., were all born in the month of Leo. It has something to inform us, it is in relation to the Energy that has visited into this system through the constellation of Leo, the Energy of Synthesis. Master E.K. was born in Bapatla, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India at 5.30 p.m.
Master E.K's father, Dr. E. Ananthacharya, was a great Vedic scholar, and was also a healer of a very high order. He took to Ayurveda and did hundreds of miraculous cures with Ayurveda as the means. He was respected as a man of profound Vedic wisdom. When Dr. E. Ananthacharya was in deep communion with the Krishna Consciousness, he conceived Master E.K. through his lady. That was the reason why the child was named after Lord Krishna as Krishnamacharya.
Master E.K. was the eldest son to his father. When he was 13 years of age he lost his mother. But even from childhood Master E.K. felt the guidance of his mother!
Master E.K. had three younger brothers. His father did not send his children to the school. He was of a very firm conviction that the modern schools do not teach what is to be taught. The schools make the children automatons. They would mould children as per the concurrent average human thought. The children would lose all the thinking and creative potentials. They would settle down as ordinary amidst the multitudes. He wanted his children to be much more than the average food-seeking, money-making, comfort-mongering human beings. He thought that much time would be wasted. Dr. E. Ananthacharya, therefore taught the children himself and Master E.K. learnt many intricacies of the Vedas and its symbolism even as a child from his father. He was a brilliant child among the four and was showing a kind of brilliance right from his fifth year.
Dr. E. Ananthacharya was a man of great knowledge. He held with him the keys to the Vedas such as the etymological key, the grammatical key, the key of the time cycles, and the metrical key. His exposition of the Vedic concepts was revealing and unveiling. Gnostics, (members of the Brahma Samaj), yogis, Vedic scholars and philosophers used to meet him frequently and converse. He was a great source of knowledge and was also a guide to many. In spite of his busy schedule in the society, he took particular care of his four children -like mother he nursed and nourished them. Like father he initiated them into the path of knowledge.
Once, when Master E.K. was of five years of age, a few Gnostics (Brahma Samaj members) visited his father. These Gnostics discussed a lot about the Lord Absolute with Dr. E. Ananthacharya.
The Gnostics believe in the God Absolute but not the God in form. They think that to see God in a form is an inferior state of practice. After a lengthy conversation with Dr. E. Ananthacharya, the five-year-old boy was asked to show the village in which they were living to the Gnostics. Master E.K. took them around the village and showed an important landmark in the village -a temple built for Lord Vishnu. He proposed to the Gnostics to visit the temple. The Gnostics said: "No, we do not enter into temples". Then, he asked: "why?" The Gnostics replied: "God is everywhere, so we don't have to specifically go and see in a temple." Then the five-year-old child asked: "If God is everywhere, is he not there in the temple? Why should you have any objection to get into the temple?" The Gnostics were surprised and looked at the boy with great attention, as they didn't expect such an answer. It was like a beam of light hitting them straight on the face. They had no answer. When they returned home, they told Dr. E. Ananthacharya: "In your son there is some great light". Such was the stature of Master E.K. even at the age of five.
Master E.K. grew in the Vedic wisdom under the personal guidance of his father. He was a natural poet and writer. There was a grand poet of the time living in the town of Vijayawada by name Viswanath Satyanarayana. This poet was a good friend of Dr. E. Ananthacharya. One day Master E.K. wrote some poetry and just showed it to that great poet. The poem was about the seasons of the year. The poet was deeply touched by reading it because the seasons of the year were so well described and recorded in an astonishing poetry. The power of Master E.K's expression, the clarity and the simplicity surprised the poet. He told Dr. E. Ananthacharya: "Your Krishna is born with a mission. I see much light in him. He seems to carry many dimensions. I admire him". Dr. Ananthacharya smiled.
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Though Master E.K. had a good knowledge of the Vedas from his father, by soul quality, he preferred the worship of the World Mother Gayatri. As he lost his mother in his early age, he was receiving a kind of motherly nourishment during the sleep hours. This lead him proximate to the Mother's energy.
His father taught him the essence of the Veda. The Veda and its classifications, its intricate branches were made clear to him. The Light of the Veda is Gayatri. She is called Veda Mata, the Mother of the Veda. E.K. instinctively took to Gayatri. To him the mantram Gayatri was the only friend. Right from his seventh year he went on working with Gayatri.
By his eighteenth year he had the vision of Gayatri, the World Mother, in a beautiful female form and was deeply impressed by it. He relied completely upon the Mother than anything else in life. To him, the Mother Gayatri was the friend in need, the guide at cross-roads, the mother to console, and the teacher to enlighten.
As he entered the university, his worship of the Mother Gayatri had reached great heights. During those days, the university was open for five days during the week, from Monday to Friday. Master E.K. used to disappear from the university hostel on Friday evenings. He was not available to the friends and colleagues and used to reappear only on Monday morning. He used to go to the Santhi Ashram, an ashram on the seashore of Visakhapatnam, and sit under a Ficus Religiosa tree from Friday evening till Monday morning. He had only one thing to do, chanting Gayatri. He lived on water and worshipped Gayatri during the week-ends. He gained such light in his head that the students used to feel the brilliance. He was a handsome man too and the brilliance in his face added dignity and gait to his facial aura. Due to the continued worship of Gayatri, his countenance gained the female beauty. He was attractive to look at. The men and women were equally admiring him, particularly when he smiled. His smile ignited the spiritual life in many. His looks were sharp, shining and carried awakening ability. The vision in him was developed so much that he could even see the examination paper, which would come the day after in the examination hall! He could very clearly see the whole examination paper! In the beginning he was excited but he quickly shut the door on such usage of the Light. He felt it would tempt him to many more things, causing the fall. When he was young, he enjoyed a few such visions, shared them discretely with his friends, but then, thanks to his discretion, he indulged not further.
He continued to meditate upon Gayatri in a manner, which was really unique of him. His love for Gayatri was beyond boundaries. He carried in him the characteristics of the Mother, he was very loveable, serviceable, patient and understanding. People felt great comfort in his presence.
When he was to write his post-graduation examination in literature, he was to pay money for the examination. His father sent him a money order, which did not reach in time. He was studying in Visakhapatnam and his father was staying 300 Km. away from the place, Vijayawada. Though the money order was sent, it did not reach in time. He was very unhappy because he could not appear for the examination. He went at once again into the shade of the Ficus Tree, and ardently worshipped the Mother. He prayed to her and said: "I cannot afford to miss this examination. I could not pay the fee in time. You are the only solution and solace to me". The Mother appeared to him again saying: "Your fee is paid, do not worry. You will get your hall ticket". He was surprised and asked: "Who paid?" The Mother said: "It is paid". The next day, when he went to the University office, his name was on the list of the students who had paid the fee!
Master E.K. came out of the post-graduate examination of the University with flying colours. He stood first in the exam. That concluded his collegiate education. Soon he was given a job in a college at Guntur as a lecturer of Telugu. He was married to the lady Appamma, arranged by his father.
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When he set up his family in the town of Guntur, the first thing Master E.K. did was to buy a picture of Gayatri and prepare a shrine room in the house for deeper contemplation. He had a good profession to support his family life and he thought that he should grow more into the Light of Gayatri. He decided to meditate upon the Mother Gayatri and therefore set up her picture in his shrine room, and started worshipping daily. He used to worship the Mother in the morning hours, study scriptures for an hour, have early lunch and proceed to the college. In the evening also there was the worship, followed by talks on theological issues to friends and acquaintances.
Some days passed by, he was looking for the appearance of the Mother, which he had experienced two times before, but instead he started seeing something else! He started seeing a figure, a squatted figure. The figure was revealing from below upwards gradually, day after day. He was wondering: "I am contemplating upon the Mother Gayatri and someone else is making way into my vision". In the beginning he thought that it was an aberration, but it was not leaving him. The moment he started chanting Gayatri in the morning and evening hours, there was a little more detail of the figure appearing to him in great light. In a weekdays time, he had the total figure appearing in his vision, and that is the figure which we have as the colour picture of Master CVV.
When Master E.K. was contemplating upon the World Mother, Master CVV appeared in his vision! He did not know who he was; he had never heard of him before, not even heard his name. Master CVV was appearing when he was meditating upon Gayatri. He was surprised. Each time he contemplates in the morning, only the figure would appear to him, and smile at him. He was a bit perturbed. He was thinking: "Who is this boxer that appears to me? Where is my Mother?" (No Mother, only Master CVV). He started recollecting in his memory and thought: "Maybe it is one of those old friends of my father", but he was not getting the answer.
Master E.K. was known to be a very good speaker; he was a natural speaker, teacher and poet. He was frequently invited by people to speak upon various concepts of wisdom. One good morning he received an invitation from a nearby village school, where he was asked by the principal of the school to speak upon Rabindranath Tagore in the evening at seven o'clock. Master E.K. went to that village at about half past five in the evening to spend some time with the principal of the school. The principal invited Master E.K. to his house, offered him a cup of coffee, and around two minutes to six o'clock, he said: "I have a duty of fifteen minutes. Please spare me". Master E.K. asked him: "What is the duty?" The principal replied: "I have to do my prayers". Master E.K. said: "Please go ahead". As the principal entered into his prayer room, Master E.K. got the idea: "He could have invited me also for his prayers". Just at that moment the principal came out of the room and said: "If you don't mind, you can also join me in the prayer". So, they went in and sat in the prayer room. There, Master E.K. saw the same figure which was appearing to him every morning and evening, in the shrine, during his hours of prayer to the Mother. He was just thunderstruck. The strange man who was appearing in his visions was just over there in the picture! The principal did the prayer, but Master E.K. was just in a different state; his joy knew no bounds, because the one whom he wanted to know was just over there. The prayer was over after fifteen minutes; then Master E.K. asked the principal: "Who is this Master? He is disturbing me quite a bit. I chant Gayatri and he appears to me daily in the morning and in the evening". The principal was equally surprised. To the principal only the picture of Master CVV was known, but here is a man who has seen him in his vision in the form of Light! The principal explained about Master CVV to Master E.K. -that the Master lived in Kumbhakonam, a temple town of the then composite Madras State, that he was a great Light, and that he initiated a new path of Yoga -the Yoga of Immortality, that he initiated many during the 12 years period from 1910 to 1922 and that he departed in May 1922 -four years before Master E.K. was born. Then Master E.K. asked: "Would you kindly arrange a copy of his photograph for me?" The principal said yes and arranged a photograph for Master E.K. from the city of Madras. From then on Master E.K. started meditating upon Master CVV.
From the moment Master E.K. consciously came to know of Master CVV, the Master appeared and started speaking to him in the vision, saying: "You are chosen by me for a grand work. I shall teach you from within your being. Do as I say, do as I instruct you daily in your meditation". Master E.K. agreed, and wanted to know more about the Master. Master CVV said: "You will know as much as I reveal. As much as I inform you, you will know. From time to time you will be guided. Do as I say, if you wish to. There is no compulsion. I am pleased with you, so I have chosen you".
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Master CVV started teaching Master E.K. Master CVV had his contact with the Theosophical Society when he was in the physical. In tune with the Plan, Master E.K. was invited by the Theosophical Society in Guntur to speak upon the symbolism of the Mahabharata. After the lecture was over, Master E.K. went into the library hall of the Theosophical Society and his eyes were attracted to the book " The Secret Doctrine" written by H.P.Blavatsky, a big volume. He inquired of the book. The members of the Theosophical Society said: "It is the toughest book one can ever face. We only respect the book, we don't read it". The next day Master E.K. was invited again to give a lecture in the Theosophical Society. After that he gave many more classes to the members of the Theosophical Society on Mahabharata. When he went to the Theosophical Society on the second day, the president of the Society also came to the class, because the members had informed him that the one who was speaking on Mahabharata was speaking in such a manner that he seemed to be knowing many things. After the class, the president introduced himself to Master E.K. saying: "I am the president of the Theosophical Society and I am glad to meet you". Master E.K. replied: "There is a book titled 'Secret Doctrine' in your book shelves. Can I borrow it for a while?" The president said: "You are most welcome. No one opens that book, including me, because we don't know what is in it. We know that it is very great; more than that we don't know. Do you want to read that book? Please keep it with you". He took the book 'Secret Doctrine' home, and straight-away started reading it. There are so many new terms relating to various theologies that are used in the book and he was finding it a bit tough. It was already one o'clock in the night but he did not give up. He just kept the book on the table and went out to have a cup of coffee in a canteen just round the corner. (He was fond of coffee. Master CVV, Master M.N. and Master E.K. had one common thing besides Yoga, they never refused coffee when offered; they had such a liking for coffee).
Thus, at one o'clock in the night he went to the corner of the street where there was a restaurant. He took coffee and was walking back home. Suddenly, he met a very old man on the road who asked him in English: "Would you mind offering me some food? I am hungry". The meeting was so sudden. Master E.K. looked at the man. He was a very old man, not properly dressed, with a pen in his shirt pocket. The marks of ink were all over the pocket. He had grey long hair and a barb. The old man asked him for the second time in English: "Would you mind offering me something? I am hungry". Master E.K. said: "Sure, please come with me, Sir". They went back once again to the restaurant, and Master E.K. asked the old man: "What would you like to eat, Sir?" He replied: "Chapaties". The chapaties were ordered and he was eating. Then, Master E.K. looked at the old man with greater attention. He saw that he was a very old man, very hungry, and thought: "God knows when he had eaten last! What a luck I have that I could offer something to eat to this old gentleman at this late hour of the night". He was also surprised that this old man, who was looking like a beggar, was speaking in English! Master E.K. was in a kind of thinking process while the old man was busy eating chapaties. Suddenly, the old man looked at Master E.K. and said: "So, you are reading Secret Doctrine". It was a shock to Master E.K. How did this old man know that he was reading Secret Doctrine? He looked at the old man with great astonishment. Then, the old man asked again: "So, you are trying to read Secret Doctrine?" Master E.K. immediately felt great veneration for the old man and said: "Yes Sir". That is all. Then, the old man said: "Get me a cup of tea". So, the topic changed. He took tea and then both of them came out of the restaurant.
On the road, as they were walking, the old man instructed Master E.K. by saying: "Before you read Secret Doctrine you read Bhagavad Gita". Master E.K., right from the childhood was reading Bhagavad Gita. He knew all the 700 slokas by heart and had given many lectures on the Gita too. So he answered the old man: "I have read Bhagavad Gita and I know all the 700 slokas by heart". The old man replied: "Before you read Secret Doctrine, read Bhagavad Gita". It was like an order. Master E.K. was surprised and thought: "Who is this man that instructs me like this? How does he know that I am reading Secret Doctrine? And with what right is he instructing me so strongly to read again Bhagavad Gita?"
He was thinking so while they were walking together. He decided to read Bhagavad Gita, and wanted to convey it to the old man. He turned aside to tell him that he would do so, but when he looked aside the old man was no more and that was another surprise. Someone came, took two chapaties and tea from him, instructed him to read Bhagavad Gita and then disappeared! Master E.K. decided to read Bhagavad Gita.
Master E.K. went into great focus to read The Bhagavad Gita. He read it once again, continuously without interruption till midnight of the next day. The family was not at home. He was therefore free, alone, there was no one to disturb him. While he went on reading Bhagavad Gita he had a grand vision of the Plan, the Divine Plan, which is being worked out by the Inner Government, the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom, and the Plan of Lord Krishna for Kali Yuga. He was thrilled.
The next day, during the midnight hours, Master E.K. went again to the same restaurant to see if he could meet the old man again. He had his cup of coffee and was loitering on the road, but the old man didn't show up. A bit disappointed, he started proceeding towards his house. Then, all of a sudden, someone from behind gently placed his hand on Master E.K's right shoulder, saying: "How is Bhagavad Gita?" He turned back and was thrilled to see the old man. He had all veneration for the old man. Immediately he touched his feet out of respect and said: "I am very grateful to you Sir, for I have found something in Bhagavad Gita". The old man replied: "Bhagavad Gita is everything; you may have found only something". Then Master E.K. asked: "Would you like to eat chapaties Sir?" The old man said: "You should not propose anything to me. Did I propose to you yesterday, or did you propose to me? Don't propose to me. You listen to me". (Tough man!). Then he said: "Now read Secret Doctrine."
In a weekdays time Master E.K. read The Secret Doctrine. When he was reading Secret Doctrine, there were many entities coming into the house and again going out of the house. He was surprised and thought: "Who are all these entities that enter into my house and go out of my house without my permission?" He gained a good understanding of the scheme of The Secret Doctrine.
As he completed reading the book, the old man visited him again by walking into the house through the wall! He was not looking shabby anymore but brilliant and handsome. All that you can visualize about someone like Master K.H. and if you multiply it by one thousand times in brilliance, that was the figure Master E.K. saw. He walked through the wall and came towards him asking: "How is Secret Doctrine?" Master E.K. joined his two hands in respectful salutations saying: "Namaskarams". No more talk. Deep silence prevailed.
After a while Master E.K. asked him: "Can I ask a question Sir?" He said: "Yes". So Master E.K. asked: "How could you walk through the wall?" The Master replied: "You can also walk through". Master E.K. asked: "Can I?" Then the Master said: "Yes, in my presence you can". Then, he arranged a cot between him and Master E.K. and asked Master E.K. to walk through the cot looking at him. He said: "Just look into my eyes and walk up to me". Master E.K. did so and walked through the cot up to him! Master E.K. was surprised. Silence prevailed again for a while.
After a while Master E.K. asked again: "What for are you gracing and blessing me so much Sir?" The Grand Master said: "You are chosen for a work. The degree of purity you have and the devotion you have to the World Mother pleased many in the higher circles. Above all, Master Jupiter started functioning through you and we need you to work for a Plan, which I will reveal to you from time to time. It will be a very hard work for 30 years. It will not be a path of roses but a very thorny path. If you wish you can join us. The freedom is yours. But if you once accept and later deny, you will have consequences. Please remember that the Path is full of thorns. It is working for the Divine Plan, and it is not easy. It is like walking upon the razor's edge. You will have many crises. If you are willing, I will come back to you again". Master E.K. replied: "I am ready". Then the Grand Master said: "Don't be in a hurry. Take a weekdays time. Ponder over. You have a family, you have a vocation and you are well settled. You have the inspiration of the World Mother. Everything is comfortable in life to you now. If only you wish, you can get in". Saying so the Grand Master disappeared. After one week he reappeared and asked: "Are you ready?" Master E.K. replied: "I am ready as I was a week ago".
Thus, the work started in 1953 with Master E.K. and concluded by the end of the calendar year 1983. Thereafter Master E.K. lived for three more months, and in March 1984 he departed. It was a 30 years work of teaching, healing, writing and moulding the lives of people in tune with the Plan. That is how the whole work started. He received instructions from time to time from this Grand Master to accomplish the work.
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Master CVV is the Aquarian Master popularly known as Master Jupiter in the Theosophical circles, who resides in the Blue Mountains. He is also known as the Master of the Nilgiri Hills. The Indians know that there is an Ashram of Agastya in the Nilgiri Mountain Range.
Master CVV had a special mission to carry out for the speedier evolution of the Planetary Being and the beings of the planet as well. He received from higher circles the energy relating to Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, which enabled him to transmit the Aquarian energies to the planet and to the beings of the planet. The use of uranium in spiritualism was not yet revealed by the Masters of Wisdom, even to the disciples of higher initiations, till 1910. Master CVV, whose mission is located in the sign Aquarius, had a spark of the metal uranium emanating from his Heart Lotus. He caused the liberation of the activity produced by it into the cosmic plane of this earth. He thereby gave stimulation to the planetary principles of his disciples. He linked up the activity of the cosmic Kundalini of the planet with that of his followers. He achieved a double purpose by doing this. He created a possibility of hastening the spiritual evolution of man without any disturbance to the existing laws of Nature. He also established simultaneously a spiritual channel to invoke the cosmic Prana principle to aid the working of its vehicles, namely the vital body and the etheric body (body of golden light).
The Master laid out a specific plan to initiate the seekers of Truth into the Path of Immortality and cause speedier progress in relation to transmutation of the bodies and unfolding of the soul awareness. He gave the discipline as a triple formula: a) Morning and evening invocation of the given sound b) Dedicating life to service c) To stop working for self profit.
He promised immortality to his followers; that is, transcendence of death in a cycle of 12 years, provided the related triple formula of discipline is accepted and worked out without compromise.
Master E.K., a man of steel nerves and steadfast determination, took upon himself the discipline and worked it out within the stipulated period of 12 years. He experienced death, resurrection, and thus gained the status of immortality, which is frequently called as the Third Initiation by the new groups of World Servers today.
During his years of preparation he was doing his morning prayers and rituals. He was attentively attending to the duties in the college as a teacher. In the evenings he was giving teachings on Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita and Secret Doctrine. During the later part of the 12 years preparation, people noticed the magical work of his worship and teaching. He was curing people during the worship of Lakshmi-Narayana and was guiding friends through their personal problems.
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The period 1953 to 1965 was a period of 12 years preparation for the work to be accomplished as per the Plan conceived by those whom Master E.K. followed. There was an intensive internal training during the nights and extensive training during the days. The Masters who chose him started giving lessons relating to occultism. Copious dictations and lessons were given to him to comprehend in the field of spiritual astrology, spiritual psychology, keys to sound, colour, number and symbol. The lessons were learnt fast as Master E.K. was brilliant, attentive, and deeply devoted to what was being taught.
He was also admitted into esoteric schools of Masonry. In the period of 12 years he accomplished most advanced rituals.
The 33 volumes of the wisdom of Pythagoras were revealed to him. The chief 18 keys relating to the grand epic Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita also got revealed. During the nights he was taught and he learnt intensely; during the day he was working intensely, as well.
He conducted daily prayers as per the direction of Master CVV, chanted the Gayatri Mantra and also performed worship to Lakshmi and Narayana (the Second Logos and His Consort). He never missed either his morning or evening prayers in spite of the esoteric work he was attending to during the nights.
During this period, Master M.N., the Pole Star relating to the Path of Immortality of Master CVV, came in touch with him. For this reason, Master E.K. was frequently visiting Ongole, where Master M.N. resided, conducted prayers and courses. He was minutely guided in all aspects of wisdom by Master M.N. also.
All this esoteric activity was conducted in utter silence and secrecy. Neither his colleagues in the college nor his friends in the society, could even have an inkling of what was happening in him. Such was the rigorous preparation. Even the family did not know a thing about the spiritual dimensions that were unfolding in him. It is interesting that it is in this period he gave birth to four sons and a daughter (later, when he was 46 years of age, he conceived the sixth child, the second daughter).
Master E.K. stands out as an example for the inner depths, outer pleasantries, strong will, deep silence and total obedience to the occult training.
CRISES:
The period of preparation was also a period of crises. The worst crisis that affected him was the ill-health of his second son which could not be cured with either the Allopathic or Ayurvedic medicinal systems. He was driven to Homoeopathy through this. With the help of a good friend who is also a Homoeopath, Master E.K. started working on his son to relieve him from the suffering of the sickness (epilepsy). Leo as he was, he carried abundant qualities of the Mother, besides, he was also an ardent follower of the World Mother. To him suffering of any being was unbearable. He was committed to alleviate suffering through this process of treating his own son. He had to make a fresh and original study of Homoeopathy to gain insight into the science. He found many dimensions which were unrecorded and consequently he could treat his son and cure him of the sickness. The crisis led him to adopt Homoeopathy as a means of healing (a therapy) for the rest of his life.
During this period of 12 years he also had the bitter experiences of betrayal, ingratitude, criticism, which he silently bore and proceeded with the process of continuous inner unfoldment regardless the outer disturbances, disappointments and attacks. It was a period of trial and ultimate triumph. It was death to personality and birth as soul. He turned out to be a good instrument to serve humanity at large. This intense period of 12 years is generally difficult to bear with, it is equivalent of picking up ones own cross and walk the Path of Crucifixion of the personality. It is here, generally, a truth-seeker faces his tests and trials to take the real initiation into the Temple of Light.
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Having gone through an intensive occult training Master E.K. was advised shift of place from Guntur to Visakhapatnam, to accomplish the Plan conceived by his Guides. In a way he was uprooted from his nativity to inaugurate the work at a place where he would meet his associates and followers. Visakhapatnam carries the unique energy of Visakha, another name for Lord Sanat Kumara. There is a temple hidden in the sea waters, on the coast of Visakha, relating to the Lord Vaisakeswara. It is believed that this temple is linked to the energy of the Visakha Valley (Vaisakh Valley) of Himalayas, where the Hierarchy annually meet. The hidden reason for suggesting to Master E.K. to come to Visakhapatnam seems to be, to work in tune with the energies of the Hierarchy, which in turn is connected to Shambala.
THE HIERARCHY:
The Hierarchy is a community of Enlightened Ones headed by Lord Maitreya and ably supported by two Grand Masters. One such Grand Master is an ancient one, coming from the Solar Dynasty, known as Maru in the Eastern Scriptures. Today he is known as Master Morya. The other Great One assisting Lord Maitreya is the one coming from the Lunar Dynasty, known as Devapi in the Eastern Scriptures. Today he is known as Master Koot-Hoomi in the esoteric books. These three form the basic triangle of the Enlightened Ones and also the basic triangle of the Teachers on this planet. They have a band of enlightened disciples, enlightened over 5000 years, working for the evolution of the planet and the planetary beings. This community of the three Masters, their associates and disciples, have been guiding the human beings into the Path of Light from time to time. The manifestation of ancient wisdom (Sanatana Dharma) happens through their guidance at various parts of the planet, giving rise to the exposition of Truth according to the time and the place. The language was also suitably modified to be able to be comprehended by the locals.
The Scripture Bhagavatha gives the clue relating to this Hierarchy in its 3rd, 9th and 12th cantoes. At the twilight hours of Dwapara and Kali Yugas, when Lord Krishna was departing from his physical, he initiated Lord Maitreya and installed him as the World Teacher to carry out the Divine Plan for Kali Yuga. Lord Krishna also hinted that he would be ably assisted by others among whom Maru and Devapi are the chief ones. Ever since, the Divine Plan relating to this earth is carried out through the activity of teaching and healing under the guidance of Lord Maitreya. The community of the Enlightened Ones is addressed as 'The Hierarchy'.
The etheric abode of the Hierarchy is in the Trans-Himalayan caves, and these caves are called the Caves of Kalapa and Sravasti (Shigatze). Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the planet, is stated to be residing in the etheric around the Gobi Desert. His habitat is known as Shambala. The Divine Plan is conceived from higher circles on a yearly basis during the months of Pisces-Aries in Shambala, and is transmitted to the Hierarchy and to the disciples of the Hierarchy, during the Taurus Full Moon, which is today considered as the Vaisakh Festival. The Plan is further transmitted to the disciples of the Hierarchy, who are working on the physical plane, during the Full Moon hours of Gemini. These disciples, who form the ultimate link of the Hierarchy to the humanity, endeavour to manifest the Plan during the rest of the nine months.
Master E.K. has been chosen to work in tune with this Plan and was given entry into the Festival of Vaisakh, which enabled him to conceive the Plan and work for it. He was from time to time guided by the Grand Master, Master CVV, and Master M.N. as well. As he coursed further into the work, he came in touch with, in all, nine Enlightened Ones and carried the work with great enthusiasm, spirit and humour as well. He was deep and secretive as regards the subjective experiences. He did not proclaim to be anyone nor was he pretentious of being linked to the Hierarchy. He remained simple and spread simplicity. In such simplicity he enlightened beings through the minutest and simplest deeds. He ever remained unassuming and was at all times very normal in his temperament. His main work was to sow the seeds of the Aquarian Energy, which was received by Master CVV who transmitted such Energy around the etheric plane of this globe. This would enable faster individual transformations and the consequent growth. Thus, Master E.K. worked as an effective channel for transmission of the Energy of Aquarius. With his birth Sun in Leo, ascendant in Aquarius, Saturn in Scorpio and Mars in Taurus, he was appropriately suited for distribution of the Aquarian Energies. He was ably trained for the purpose. It may be not out of context to mention that the Energies of Aquarius visited this planet through the central sun of Regulus, which is located in Leo, the female counterpart of Aquarius. The ruler of the uranian energy is Aquarius, while locationally the energy is placed in the constellation of Scorpio. Thus, Leo stands for reception of the energy, Aquarius stands for its etheric transmission and Scorpio enables the manifestation. Scorpio and Saturn have the special quality of being penetrative. It is interesting to note that in the Fixed Cross of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo and Aquarius, the Master has the important planets of initiations; that is: Mars, Saturn, Sun and Jupiter respectively in the four signs. The four significant squares in his horoscope speak of the Aquarian Cross and the related crucifixion to the Plan. The birth chart of Master E.K. reveals these aspects to those who are students of esoteric astrology.
Besides manifesting the Aquarian Energies, Master E.K. was also entrusted with the age-old teaching and healing work, which is the main work of the Hierarchy. Thus, Master E.K.'s work essentially revolves around the introduction of the Yoga of Immortality propounded by Master CVV, teaching the intricacies of the ancient wisdom and healing the people. It is for this purpose he was advised to shift to Visakhapatnam. Master E.K therefore shifted to Visakhapatnam for his Doctorate in Telugu literature. He accomplished the Doctorate in the shortest possible time (two years) and was invited to join the faculty of Telugu in Andhra University. Thus, the shift happened smoothly to continue the purposes of the Work.
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Healing: During his stay in Guntur, Master E.K was already accomplished in healing through sound, through touch, and through sight. He also got thoroughly familiar with the science of Homoeopathy. To prevent the public attraction and also the public excitement, Master E.K. chose to work through the therapy of Homoeopathy, hiding the occult powers of healing. Occult powers when demonstrated would arouse excitement in the people. This would stimulate their emotional body. When a person's emotional body is stimulated it causes not much good to the one; it causes harm, it causes imbalances in the energy system of the person. His reason gets affected, and the thinking capacities reduce to the minimum. Such an affected one would become more emotional and even fanatical to follow the personality of the teacher than The Teacher. The Teacher is the soul. The personality is the vehicle of the Teacher. Personality following, led to many religions, 'isms' and cults. It caused serious differences, and the crystallized 'isms' and religions have become a source of conflict on the planet. The Hierarchy in the New Age firmly decided to work through the main key of "impersonality". This means, no true teacher shall hereafter aggrandize himself; instead he projects the Truth, the teaching relating to it, and the path relating to it. He, as such, remains behind the activity and not before. A true teacher is expected to lead from behind, like a cowherd boy or a shepherd, but not as a warrior who leads from the front. Aquarian Age demands transparency and impersonality. The old practice of aggrandizing the personality cannot be promoted by the teacher as such. Since the major part of humanity still continues to be in the emotional plane but not in the clear mental plane, there is the personality worship to some extent relating to every teacher. However a true teacher is expected to be silent about it and, at any rate, instructed not to promote it. Master E.K., therefore, chose to do enormous healing work with Homoeopathy as a façade. His administration of Homoeopathy had many dimensions. In fact, he contributed significantly to the science of Homoeopathy by expounding certain additional qualities of the popular Homoeo medicines.
He commenced the healing work with a dispensary at home run by him and assisted by his friends. It was a free dispensary where medicine was given with love and without fee. Patients were coming and getting healed in a miraculous fashion. Slowly the word spread that he is a very special Homoeopath capable of curing incurable diseases. The dispensary grew in time and multiplied. Those who associated with him in conducting the Homoeo-dispensaries got interested to learn the science. He taught them the science and initiated them into the path of yoga of Master CVV at their instance. Those who learnt were also encouraged to operate dispensaries on their own in their localities. The Master promised visible and invisible co-operation to them, to heal the patients. As the dispensaries multiplied, he came to be known as a very generous, charitable, loving Homoeopath.
As a second and advanced step, Master E.K., encouraged even the patients who came to him to learn Homoeo and become Homoeo doctors. He is the alchemist who transformed patients into healers. He has given enormous impetus to the movement of Homoeopathy in Andhra Pradesh. Due to his inspiration, more than hundred Homoeo clinics function dispensing medicine freely to the patients today. Most of these patients, along with the medicine, were also introduced to the yoga path of Master CVV and also to the new dimensional teachings of Master E.K. The work thus unfolded chiefly through healing, while teaching and initiating work concurrently happened.
The miraculous cures done through healing are far and wide. When incurable diseases were cured, he was proclaimed as a divine person. He denied such praises and even neutralized the emotion of the people saying: "Time is the healer. When the time to get healed approaches a person, he comes to me and gets healed. The Lord of Time is accrediting me with this praise. It is not me, but it is the Lord through time. If time had not come for a person to get healed, even if he comes to me, he would not get healed. There is always a time dimension to every problem. This should not be ignored. All who do, should know this."
He was open for healing work round the clock. He did not deny giving consultations to the sick at any part of the day. His doors for healing were kept open at all times. He always kept a telephone at his bedside to receive distant calls to give advice for cure even in sleep hours. Such was his commitment to healing. His occult power of healing came to be known in times of emergency. If a distant call came to him, he normally used to suggest a Homoeopathic remedy, but if the remedy was not immediately available he even suggested that the patient should be given placebo (sugar pills without any medicine) and used to say that it would cure. Many times it cured. Sometimes, when a patient was with him and there were no Homoeo medicines readily at hand, he used to give the patient a spoonful of water, saying that it was sacred water. It cured. At other times he cured by the word.
Once, a lady came to him in great anxiety, having been bitten by a deadly scorpion. The poison injected at the hand's finger reached up to the shoulder. The Master smiled and touched the shoulder saying: "Did the pain reach up to this point?" The patient said anxiously: "Yes". The Master said: "It will now retrieve back. Sit for a while". Touch wood! The pain retrieved and the patient felt grateful.
Although he was demonstrating such high powers of healing, he was also conscious of the law of karma relating to the patient, as also the time dimension. He was doing his healing work dispassionately. When there were a few failures here and there, he gracefully accepted them and remained silent. Mostly he new the cause for the failure as arising out of the karma of the patient, but remained silent through the acceptance of the other's view of his failure. He never claimed infallibility. For this reason, he was dearer to those who followed him. Men who do great acts do not generally accept their mistakes and failures, but the great ones are even greater since they accept their mistakes and failures. Master E.K. was not hesitant to concede when the situation demanded; that was his greatness. His greatness was based mostly on the simplicity of goodness. Volumes can be written of the variety of healing he has done to thousands of people. He was even moulding and transforming people. He frequently used.
Homoeopathic medicine for cure, taught Ayurvedic principles to prevent the persons falling into sickness and gave the touch of the divinity for general upliftment of the patient.
TEACHING:
Teaching was the other important activity of Master E.K. Teaching and healing have been the two wings upon which he mounted meditation for transformation of those who followed him. In fact, every healer is a teacher and every teacher is a healer. They are the two inseparable functions of any true teacher. It was so in ancient days. It continues to be so with the teachers that found Truth. A teacher is inadequate if he is not a healer. Likewise, a healer is inadequate when he is not a teacher of wisdom. The ultimate purpose of the two is, to reveal the Path to the seekers who follow the teacher. Healing re-establishes the life forces to their natural equilibrium in the body, and the teaching would cause unfoldment of awareness. Unless the pranic forces are restituted to their normalcy, awareness does not unfold. Man is constituted of the life force on one side, and the force of awareness on the other side, the two being inter-twined. If one is disturbed the other is also disturbed. If one is set to order, the other also can fall into an order.
"Prana Treat, Yoga Teach" is the ancient-most concept of every teacher, and Master E.K. followed the same. He taught with patience. He taught relentlessly. He taught repeatedly. He taught with love and, when needed, he taught with power. There was humour and also hammer when he taught. He was magnetic. He was absorbing the listeners into the Buddhic state, and sometimes even into the state of Bliss. The smiles he spread while teaching were sending magnetic vibrations around and the looks were radiant to uplift the people who repeatedly looked into his eyes when he was teaching. The teaching was so attractive that people even developed listening to him as a vice. He was directly appealing to the conscience of the audience and thus was inspiring the listeners to fall into the Path of Light.
He frequently used the etymological, astrological, metrical, and cyclical keys to interpret the World Scriptures. Such usage enabled unfoldment of the hidden aspects of the scriptures such as, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatha, the Old Testament and The Secret Doctrine. He was fluent in his speech either in Telugu or in English. Many a time he was critical about the orthodoxy of the religions and the crystallization of the traditions, which according to him carried fragments of Truth but not the Truth as such. He was of the strong opinion that man should approach the Scriptures afresh but not through the interpretations of the religious authorities. He was respecting the interpretations of the Scriptures by the seers, sages and saints. He was also exposing the interpolations in the Scriptures. His teachings were generally for 90 minutes; they were shorter only if the time demanded so. He never taught without a prior invocation and he never concluded the speech without the 'Peace Invocation'. He held the audience spellbound!
Another aspect relating to the Master's teaching and healing was that he never volunteered to teach or heal. Teaching and healing were done by him only when asked. If persons asked him casually, he was equally casual in his response. If people were ardent, he was equally ardent. According to the approach, his response was. He was arrogant to the arrogant, intelligent to the intelligent, escaping to the escapist, silent to the manipulative, and highly disciplining to those whom he knew as his followers.
The teaching and healing was carried out for 30 years. He not only taught the hidden side of the Scriptures but also taught to his followers the occult sciences, such as spiritual astrology, sound, colour, number, symbolism, Tantra, mantra, and even such Middle-East sciences as Ramala. He was a spontaneous teacher as and when a situation arose. He taught regardless the numbers present for the teaching in the evenings. In his work of 30 years there were hardly any days were he did not teach in the evening hours. He was frequently saying that invisibly also persons attended for their refreshment, when he taught. He also said that it was a matter of great encouragement to him when he perceived those beings. In such occasions his speech was touching very sublime states. His teachings never had a prior preparation. Each time it unfolded itself according to the need of the audience, the energy of the place, and the energy of the planetary configuration of the day. He was never seeking opinion upon his teaching. He was strictly instructed so and, hence, did not look to the opinions of the audience.
It was his style that he did not live up to the social opinion. To him, the social opinions are too shallow and temporary, and the work he needed to do was profound and therefore, many times, was not understood. Hence, his attitude to teach was one of in-forming the keen listeners (meaning, causing normalcy in the energy system of the listeners). The audience frequently expressed that many of their doubts were cleared and answered. Some expressed that they found the right guidance, others expressed that they were healed of the heaviness of their problems. The Master used to listen to them, remaining silent.
He conducted special classes during the late nights, between 9 p.m. and 12 p.m. in Homoeopathy, Astrology and other occult sciences to the young groups who were seeking intensive training in those sciences. He also taught Sanskrit with the etymological key and yoga asanas during the early morning hours.
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Master E.K. amidst the hectic activity of teaching, healing and imparting yoga, also carried out the writing work. He wrote more than 50 books ranging from commentaries on Scriptures to Homoeo- science and health. His books gave a deeper insight into Srimad Bhagavata, Bhagavat Gita, Astrology, Vedic hymns, Patanjali Yoga, Rituals, and other facets of wisdom. He also conceived four booklets for initial training of the children by the parents.
The method of his writing was not ordinary. It was unlike the authors of the present times. The writings were all inspirational writings. The novels that he wrote upon the life of Lord Krishna stand out as a good example of inspirational writings. Writings came through him. He never proposed to write anything. This was a dimension of impersonality in relation to writings. Such impersonality was also demonstrated in his work of teaching and healing. Many of his followers are witnesses to his writings. In fact, he never wrote; he dictated. Whenever writings approached him, he used to become suddenly very alert and ask the ones around him to pick up a pen and papers; he would start dictating and that would result in a book for the benefit of the truth-seekers. Until the subject exhausted itself, the dictation continued. The books Spiritual Astrology, Mandra Scripture, Music of the Soul, Man Sacrifice, commentaries on Srimad Bhagavatha, are all outstanding examples of this process of inspirational writing. When asked, he told the associates that in the Buddhic plane he gets a sudden call and his apparatus (Antahkarana Sarira) gets alerted and oriented, then he sees a script running in the ether, which he reads out for dictation, or, he sees a running movie and he describes it. This is how he dictated books. He never claimed them to be his.
Inspirational writings are not new in India. Originally, the Vedas and the Upanishads were so conceived. Scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Bhagavata, and Ramayana, were also similarly conceived. Initiates are the fit instruments to receive wisdom from the Akashic Records to be given to the mortal beings. The decision, for the books of wisdom to manifest, happens in higher circles and through fit instruments they are transmitted. The most recent example of such transmission of wisdom has been Madam Alice A. Bailey to whom a Grand Master from Himalayas transmitted wisdom to her in New York. Today, these books of wisdom, inspire more than 3000 groups all over the planet. In the community of Initiates and disciples, clair-audience, clair-voyance, etheric movements, inspirational writings, are daily events.
While he was giving commentaries anew on Srimad Bhagavatha, he was also diverting into other books and other areas of work. As a consequence the commentaries on Bhagavatha did not come through as expected by the groups around him. Many people had a question as to why he should not complete the commentaries on Bhagavatha and why should he get into other works of writing. When his close associates asked him for clarification he smiled and said: "People receive what is needed for the time. I am only a transmitter. I transmit immediately when it is sent to me. I do not venture to author any commentary. If it is not decided in the higher circles I prefer to wait. I do not have the habit of questioning the Ones whom I follow. As and when I receive the commentaries I would give. When it came I gave it out regardless of the time (day or night), the place (at home or on travel) and the work (while at rest or even while at work). People need to practice what is already given. Wisdom is for practice and not for information. The human mind has a mania for information, and has no inclination to practise even the fundamental steps of wisdom. To those who question for further commentaries you may emphatically tell them to practise what is already given. To you, I tell you that I am not the author. If I wanted to author books I would have given out hundreds of books arising out of my scholarly knowledge of the Scriptures, but such work would not last long. Any work conducted in tune with the Plan only survives the cycles of time."
Master E.K. always had around him, day and night, youngsters to work for him. That helped him when he was giving dictation even during the night hours. Sometimes, the dictations were lasting for hours together. In all such cases, the youngsters were used by the turn, so that they would have adequate rest. The work went on in this manner.
The books of Master E.K., today are translated into other languages and are doing the work of self-transformation of those who are studious in the real sense of the word. There is enough guidance in his books to set up a life of aspirant and to follow the Path of Truth. In a way, the literature he gave is complete by itself though appears incomplete for the superficial mind.
It is important to mention that Master E.K. also gave a grand poetic expression in the form of the book titled "Goda Vaibhavan", which is today considered in Telugu literature as a classical master- piece of poetry. In the circles of aspirants, this poetry is considered as unfolding volumes of spiritual practices that an aspirant can take to. It is further considered as an experience of bliss when read with devotion. The entire writings were in tune with the Plan, commenced with this book. It speaks of the spiritual practices of a fiery aspirant and her experiences of the splendour of the Truth. In a away they are the experiences of the Master himself in relation to Truth. One needs to learn Telugu to experience the bliss that this book bestows. There is no other way, as it is impossible to bring the beauty of such poetic expression coupled with profound spiritual insights and blissful experiences.
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Master E.K. was frequently invited to various places, either for teaching wisdom or for healing through Homoeopathy. Sometimes he was staying for a week in a place and sometimes even a month. Wherever he went, taught and healed, groups emerged to follow the Path, which the Master was indicating, both through teaching and healing. At the end of every camp, a small group of persons urged him to guide them and also to keep the continuity of teaching and healing. The work of group building commenced in a very significant way from 1977. More than 50 groups emerged through his tours in Andhra Pradesh. Essentially, in all these groups the work of the Hierarchy has become familiar. The groups meditate, conduct healing work through Homoeo-dispensaries, and teach the wisdom either from the books of the Master or from the Scriptures or from the teachings of other Masters of India. Thus, groups emerged that work with the age-old formula of meditation, study, and service. The service activity of the groups also diversed into education and alleviation from the suffering of the poor. Service was promoted and was encouraged by him in every possible way. In all this activity of teaching, healing, and group building, Master E.K. remained impersonal. He did not specifically initiate or propose any action. To respond to the proposal but not to propose, was the chief tenet of his work.
He remained a witness to all manifestations of the work. Many a time he proclaimed: "I did not propose. I did not commence. I did not initiate". Such statements were little understood by people who have no knowledge of the qualities of Poise. He was living in the One and consequently the One Plan, of which he is a part, came into manifestation through him. It is the quality of a true Yogi "to Be but not to do". If you align your being with The Being, the work of The Being happens through the being. Such is the state of an Initiate. He allows himself to be a channel for the Divine Plan to manifest. The will individual attunes to the Will Divine. Consequently, the Will Divine functions through the individual. "Father, Thy will be done", is the Path of the disciple, the Initiate and the Master. Master E.K. was a good demonstration of this status. He never proposed. He responded to the proposals that came up to him. He never initiated any work. He was only tuning up to the work, which was already initiated in the higher circles. He was unperturbed of the results of the work and hence never sought the fruits of such work. He went on and on manifesting the work that was steered by the Guides through him.
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Master E.K. was synthesizing every aspect of life. There was little for him to negate or exclude. He was ever inclusive. He saw the different paths of wisdom as different branches of the one Tree of Wisdom. He saw different sciences of medicine and therapies also as the different branches of the one Tree of Life. He did not stand for any particular 'ism', yet he upheld the Truth relating to every 'ism'. Normally, people polarize to an 'ism' and tend to criticize other ways. He neither hugged one nor rejected the other, but remained in Truth and visualized the fragments of Truth in the multitudes of 'isms', cults and thoughts. He encouraged his followers to respect other teachers, to study their teachings, and even to hold their photographs in their respective altars at home.
It is an unique feature with Master E.K. that he encouraged people in every possible way and did not discourage. He urged his followers to be open enough to receive varieties of teachings, to assimilate them, and synthesize them into the One Truth. In this aspect he was a great devotee to Lord Krishna who also stood in synthesis and synthesized all branches of knowledge that were popular at that time. Master E.K. was born in a family of Vaisnavits. Normally, Vaisnavits do not accept the school of thought of Shivaits (the followers of the Path of Siva).
In India, there are chiefly 5 schools of theosophical thought. One category follows the God Absolute (Brahman), they do not accept any secondary manifestation of the God Absolute. They are the Brahmo Samaj. They contemplate upon the nameless, formless, God. The second category belongs to the Path of Siva, the third to the Path of the Mother, the fourth to the Path of Ganapathi, and the fifth to the Path of the Sun. There are many other paths and schools of thought. Hinduism has the unique feature of multiplicity of paths to the Truth. Those who follow a school of thought deny the other schools and their thought.
The original comprehension of an Aryan Hindu was, that all paths emanate from the Lord (Truth) Himself. No path can emerge and exist without His Will. When the Lord Himself has no objection or reservation to a path, why should the mortals have? Depending upon the inclination of the souls, they may take to one path or the other, they may polarize to a path. But that does not demand negation of other paths and much less criticism of the other paths. It is this inclusiveness of the Hindu theosophy that invited and accepted Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam. As the human mind narrows down in its comprehension, the varieties of the One Path are less appreciated. Missionary zeal to promote one's path and to be militant upon others is the work of the ignorant mortals who need to elevate themselves to see the fitness of others and appropriately include them. When this is lacking there is religious disharmony and the consequent conflict. Even before Islam and Christianity entered into this holy land, there were serious differences between the Sivaites and Visnavaites and sometimes leading to provincial wars. Wars and bloodshed in the name of concepts of God only depict the height of human ignorance. It would be so as long as humanity does not learns to include and continues to exclude.
Master E.K. demonstrated this synthesis in his life. He encouraged the path of worship of Vishnu along the path of worship of Siva. He conducted rituals relating to the two paths with no bias. He conceived a daily worship ritual "Nitya Puja Vidhana". In that, he gave a formula of synthesis including the worship of the Parabrahman, the Siva aspect, Vishnu aspect, Sun aspect, Mother aspect, and the Ganapathy aspect. He did not pay ear to the criticism of his fellow Visnavaites. He was living above such criticism and was uncompromising in such issues.
Master E.K. was also frequently quoting in his teachings from the Old and the New Testaments. His knowledge of the secrets of the Old Testament is unparalleld in recent times. The 93 meditations that he gave in the book 'Spiritual Psychology' speak of the profoundity of knowledge he carried relating to the Old Testament. To him Master Jesus was very dear. We frequently encounter the inner life and dimensions of Master Jesus in the writings of the Master. There is a meditation he gave, which speaks of the veneration that he held for Master Jesus:
"All names together utter the name of God. A prophecy thinks form darkness to light. Prophecy is fulfilled. Abraham, Moses, Isiah, Jacob put together, form Jesus." (From the book 'Spiritual Psychology' page. 112)
His 'Spiritual Astrology' speaks of 'the White Robe', 'the two fishes and the 5 loafs of bread', 'the fisherman', 'the star of light', and such other profound symbols of wisdom. In him there was the synthesis of the Teachers of all times, from Veda Vyasa to Jesus the Christ. He had ready solutions and answers to every theistic paths, Indian or non-Indian.
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It is difficult to narrate the life and the qualities of an Initiate, but justice would be done to the reader if some of them are narrated to enable the reader to pick up and follow, if inclined. Here are some of the qualities narrated but not elaborated:
* Inclusion but not exclusion. * Purity inside and outside. * To be in the Presence. * Passive to the problems of life. * Unaffected by the results of action due to absence of personal motives. * Neutral to favourable and unfavourable situations. * Nothing is seen as auspicious or inauspicious. * There is neither complaint nor request. * Simplicity and equanimity in all situations. * Transmission of loves regardless the social status of the surrounding persons. * Unmindful of physical comforts/discomforts. * Spontaneity in action. * Obliging but not obligated. * Nonchalant to the arrogant. * Kindly to the simple. * Indifference to intellectuality. * Fiery to the emotional. * Readiness to serve at all times.
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In Master E.K., depending upon the need of the situation, a fighter used to emerge. He was rebellious when someone tried to be intimidating and imposing. While he was generally very obliging, if the others think of imposing them upon him or demand the services, suddenly he used to turn rebellious. He was against arrogance, only to neutralize such arrogance in others. He was harsh on the negligent and the indifferent ones. It would be appropriate to give, among many, just a few instances to show how he functioned in such situations.
EPISODE 1:
Once Master E.K. was attending to the marriage of one of his trainee, in a temple. While the marriage was in progress a man came with the insignia of the servant of a high placed politician. He approached Master E.K. and inquired: "Are you Sri Krishnamacharya?" Master E.K said: "Yes" The servant said: "You are required by our Minister, who is in a guest house nearby. I have come with the car. Please come with me". Master E.K. replied: "I am now in a marriage ritual. I cannot talk to you now." After a while, the marriage was over and Master E.K. was found leisurely. The servant approached him and asked: "Would you please come now?" Master E.K. replied: "Where should I come?" The servant said: "To the guest house to meet the Minister of the State." Master E.K. asked: "What for?" The servant replied: "The Minister wants to talk to you." Master E.K. asked: "What Minister?" The servant answered: "The State Minister for municipality". Master E.K. asked again: "What is State Minister?" The servant: "Don't you know what State Minister is, Sir?" The Master smiled and said: "Is he a man or just a minister? And who are you?" The servant: "I am the servant" Master E.K. asked: "Are you not a man? Are you a servant? Is not your minister a man? I believe in meeting human beings but not their titles. I prefer to meet you but not the servant in you. I prefer not to meet your Minister. Tell him so." The servant was shocked, that a simple person like a university teacher denies to come to the State Minister when invited. The servant waited for an hour. In the meanwhile the Master cooled down and told the servant: "Please come; sit by me and have the tasty food of marriage. Forget your minister. If he wants to meet me, he should meet me here. I would not go to meet him in the guest-house." The servant hesitated. The Master gave him some sweets prepared in the marriage and sent him away.
He told his associates: "I don't care if someone is a minister or a beggar. I care for the human. I respond to the human if the approach is humanly. If the approach is veterinary my treatment is also veterinary".
EPISODE 2:
Once, when Master E.K. was at Radhamadavam in his chambers, a telephone call came. The question through the phone call was:
"Is it Krishnamacharya speaking?"
Master E.K.: "Yes".
Caller: "I have four charts of my family which need to be seen. I am sending them through my chauffeur. Please, verify and give advice".
Master E.K.: "There is no astrologer here."
Caller: "Is it Krishnamacharya speaking?"
Master E.K.: "Yes"
Caller: " I am told that you interpret the natal charts. I need your interpretation."
Master E.K.: "There is no astrologer here"
Caller: "Is it not Krishnamacharya the astrologer speaking?"
Master E.K.: "No doubt you are speaking to Krishnamacharya, but there is no astrologer here".
The associates who were in the room were amused to listen to these answers. The Master told them: "The caller is the managing director of a local star hotel. He thinks that I am here to interpret the natal charts of Tom, Dick and Harry. More often, the successful people in society that occupy high positions do not deserve these positions. It is not because of their brains that they occupy these positions; it is due to some good deeds of the past that they are there. Most of these fellows lack common sense. They want to frighten people with their positions in the society and placements in politics and government. They forget that they are human beings and that they are dealing with human beings. It is a pity."
A month later the managing director came with folded hands, apologized for his arrogant approach, and requested the Master to guide him and his family members.
EPISODE 3:
Once, the Master was giving a Homoeo seminar in a prominent town of Andhra, Vijayawada. He was teaching throughout the day, giving the scriptural wisdom in the night and conducting Homoeo dispensary till late hours. One day, in the evening around 10 p.m., a well dressed person came in a brand new imported car and stood before Master E.K.
Master E.K. looked at him and inquired of the purpose of the visit. He was not known to Master E.K. The person introduced himself as under:
"I am the son-in-law of our state number one industrialist Sri -"
Master EK: "So what?"
Son-in-law: "My mother-in-law is hopelessly sick in Hyderabad. The Allopathic doctors said that the sickness is reaching such a state where they are helpless. My father-in-law's friend spoke of your special ability to cure through Homeopathy. I therefore came rushing to you from Hyderabad to take you this night by the road, so that my mother-in-law gets the right medicine."
Master E.K.: "I am committed to a seminar here. I cannot disappoint a hundred people here and respond to your call. You better bring your mother-in-law here if you want my treatment."
Son-in-law: "No sir, my father-in-law wants that you go to Hyderabad and treat her there. I suppose you know him"
Master E.K.: "I do not know him".
Son-in-law: "He is a big industrialist. He wields a lot of power and influence. He can be of great help to you in your works."
Master E.K.: "I seek no help from anyone. Help comes to me unasked. You have come to seek my help and you say that you are in a position to help me. Neither you, nor your father-in-law have such positions to help me. If you need my help you may bring your mother-in-law here. Inform your father- in-law my suggestion and also the following message as he is a businessman, a successful industrialist as you say. Businessmen know how to get their things done. They unhesitatingly go to any place when they need help, and if people need their help, they make them wait. If your father-in-law is a good businessman he should learn to come to me to get the profit. If not, he may close this issue here and now."
The son-in-law was amazed at the brave attitude of Master E.K. and said: "What shall I do now? What should I inform my father-in-law now?"
Master E.K.: "Inform him about the conversation between us and tell him that if he wants medicine from me for his wife he should come. That is the minimum responsibility he should demonstrate as an act of love towards his wife. Please do not waste your time. You are a businessman; time is money to you. My decision is very clear."
The man left. The next day in the afternoon a phone call came from the industrialist seeking profuse apologies. He cried on the phone and requested Master E.K. to treat his wife. He said he would come right now with his wife if the Master was still willing to treat his wife. The Master cooled down and with a pleasant smile on his face told the industrialist: "It is enough. You have done the minimum required for me to respond. You don't have to come. Console yourself first and tell me clearly the symptoms of your wife's sickness". The industrialist narrated the symptoms. Master suggested the medicine and said: "Report to me after 24 hours." After 24 hours the industrialist telephoned with joy that his wife recovered from the seriousness of the sickness and inquired if any further medicine was to be given. The Master said: "The one dose given will take care of the sickness in its totality. Unless you find any cessation of recovery you do not have to telephone". The industrialist then inquired how much he had to pay for the treatment. The Master replied that nothing needed to be paid. He also told the industrialist that he is no one's paid servant. After a few days, when the industrialist visited Master E.K. in Visakhapatnam, he again inquired if he could be of any help to Master E.K. Master E.K. said: "Help yourself. You are the one who needs it." But the industrialist did not understand. After a few years the industrialist had many problems and came down the ladder of his social position. Such was the steel-nerve attitude of Master E.K. in dealing with the headstrong people of the society. At the same time he was very cordial and very sympathetic towards the poor and the suffering.
EPISODE 4:
Once, at the midnight hour, he heard that a poor man was suffering from a poisonous fever and that the family was in deep sorrow. He immediately moved out of his bed, took to a two-wheeler driven by an associate and went to the hut of the poor man. He gave him medicine and stayed in the hut till the next day morning until the fever came down and the patient became conscious.
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