Sunday, December 26, 2010

Yogini Mata and David.C. Lane - 1


Good morning Dr. David,

First of all I wish you MERRY CHRISMAS.

I am forwarding a file relating to Yogini Mata (Tripta Devi) with whom I had an hour long conversation. The file also contains a link where I have posted more details in Hindi. I have requested Prof. Kamal to bring her to temple at least once. Few days back a person from Thailand visited her. I have been told that Guru of that visitors experiences appearance of Yogini Mata. The visitor requested her to give some pieces of her hair and nail for supposedly some experiment. She obliged him but later she expressed suspicions about suspected black magic. She was assured by another lady that nothing would happen.
Bharat Bhushan
Twilight of Yogini’s Life

Tripta Devi was born in village Darangli of Gurdaspur, Punjab in the year 1940 she was a beautiful and promising child. After marriage she did not have child and as a result she got her husband married to another women. Children were born to second wife. However home environment remained turbulent. One day she went to a temple with unlocked hair and danced. The statues in temple got entangled in the hair and fell around. She had become a Yogini. Her first guru was Baba Bhag Singh. Her second master was Shraddhanand of Jammu and later she came in contact with Param Dayal Faqir Chandji. He gave her the name of ‘Yogini Mata’ and appointed her guru of women. She stayed in Manavta Mandir, Hoshiarpur for many years and worked as a guru. Here is the summary of conversation with her.

After much searching on the internet I could contact David C Lane a professor of philosophy and sociology in California, United States. In his very first email he enquired about Yogini Mata. Hence, for the past two years I had been searching Yogini Mata. I contacted Mrs. Asha Bhagat, activist of Bhagat Mahasabha, Pathankot. Luckily she had known Yogini Mata for the past many years. I reached Pathankot on 09-11-2010. Yogini lives in a room, a part of her father’s house. I saw her after almost 35 years. She met with all affection but a sort of detachment was visible in her behavior.

I introduced myself and made a mention about Bhagat Munshi Ramji and his wife Karam Devi. She could remember everything. I presented her fruits etc. She enquired about my wife and children. Then I told her the purpose of my visit. She sat in Sukhasana (cross legged).
“Do you remember David C. Lane? He came to the temple.”
“Yes, David!”
Then I further asked, “Do you recall Param Dayalji?”
“Yes.”
“Do you worship him within?”
“No, I do not do that.”
“Do you do inner practices?”
“I have left doing inner practices. During those days I saw all the three forms of Param Dayalji i.e. Dharma, the Form and the Light.”
“Sadhana (inner practice) is also Maya. I used to experience numbness in the body.”
“Do you deliver Satsangs.”
“I do not like delivering Satsang. I am fed up with Guruism. I will not give Namdan to anyone. (Here she recalled a lady). Shanti used to come to me for inner practices. I do not know what happened to her. She just lied on the railway track and committed suicide. Param Dayalji then said to me that Namdan should be given only to the righteous person.”
“Dayal Das and yourself used to instruct people for inner practices,” I asked. She said, “Yes, Dayal Das used to give instructions for very high stages of inner practices. He used to attract mystically. I used to go at his place but I always quarreled with him.”

After a few moments, I expressed my wish to ask her some specific questions about what sort of dreams she would generally see. 70 year Yogini immediately replied, “I do not see any dreams. Param Dayal Dayalji did cut them.”

I asked, “What type of visions you see during inner practices?” She said, “Nothing special. Previously I used to see divine forms, used to go to light.” She continued, “Once I was sitting in front of Shraddhanand (her second guru). During inner practices I felt as if five snakes came out of my Jun (योनि, private part) and entered into Shraddhanand. I told it to Shraddhanand. He said, “These five snakes are in fact ‘desire (काम)’, ‘anger (क्रोध)’, ‘greed (लोभ)’, ‘infatuation’ (मोह) and ‘ego (अहंकार)’. From today onwards you are free from all of them.”

I asked her, “How about your internal state now.” She said, “Sometimes I get angry. I do quarrel.”

During this conversation Yogini Mata sang and shared many devotional songs. There was intense flow of strong sentiments in her singing.

Full article (with photos) --> Twilight of a Yogini’s Life

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