Satguru Dada Laxmi Bhagwan Ji

The Satguru

A Satguru, who sees us with a thousand eyes, is God living in a mortal body, with the supreme divine power to transform our lives forever with a single divine touch, like a whiff of air, when we present ourselves at the Satguru's feet in complete surrender and unflinching faith, without an iota of doubt in our minds.

The Satguru blesses us with the purity to realise the 'God-essence' that resides within all of us, unborn and undying. It is a repository of wisdom, abundance, auspiciousness and infinite strength. It is infinite bliss and the giver of 'Anand', supreme happiness. It is the invisible, infinite sky of supreme wisdom, the silent witness of everything. It is neither male nor female; it exists beyond all dualities, unbounded by time, space or conditions. This compelling presence is pure and clear like the sky, and luminous like the morning sun.

Her life

Revered Bhagwan Ji possessed and mastered remarkable values, qualities and instincts. She was committed, loving, self-realised, knowledgeable and blissful, and her life was turned towards the spirit from the very beginning. Her mother, a deeply devout woman, lived in continuous gratitude to God and often went to the satsang group, which had a very positive influence on Bhagwan Ji. The family welcomed holy saints to their home with love and respect.

As a young child Bhagwan Ji stood apart, with extraordinary skill in cooking and stitching and a knack for replicating any design. She was like the caretaker of the family. Whenever her mother asked her to come along to satsang, she replied that she would go only to a spiritual discourse that had the power to rob her of her sleep: marvellous words from a young girl, showing a strong pull towards the supreme from the very beginning.

When she first heard the discourses of Bhagwan Dadaji, she found her true divine path. Bhagwan Dadaji gave a discourse on the Bhagwad Gita every day, and Bhagwan Ji attended. One day Bhagwan Dadaji said to her, "Laxmi, don't you trust God? If you will not work (stitching), who will look after your family?" The moment she heard this, she rose from her stitching, covered the sewing machine, told her family that from now on she was dead to them, and left with Bhagwan Dadaji forever on the divine journey, never to return to her house again.

Her supreme surrender to the Guru, with great bhakti, made her blossom in divinity until she too turned supreme. She listened to the Guru Vani with such single-minded focus and absorption that her Guru said his discourse was now imprinted on her heart. Finding her committed, self-decisive and filled with divinity, he told her, "Now she will be the torch bearer to take this sect ahead." He bestowed the succession on her, and from that time she became famous as "Bhagwan Ji Dada Laxmi Bhagwan".

Bhagwan Ji remained the torch bearer of Guru Gyan always and took it to the masses. She was self-realised, a bearer of higher knowledge, radiating a divine aura and shining with deep love and affection. Seeing her, the Yogis uttered "Bhagwan" on their own, spellbound by her glowing face. She always showed the Yogis the path of divinity: self-realisation is the way, "Me is you and you are me". She told the Yogis that they found it difficult to identify themselves as souls, whereas she could not identify herself as a body. Bhagwan Dada would say, "Amar Aatma Sadchidanand main hun, Shivoham, Shivoham, Shivoham."

Today Bhagwan Ji's Gyan has spread across the entire world. She held satsang every day, all 365 days of the year, giving spiritual discourses and encouraging the Yogis to come to satsang. In every satsang the Yogis had Atma Saat, the realisation of the inner truth; they felt the presence of Bhagwan, oneness with the divine and true love flowing, connecting them with "Brahm". Bhagwan Ji said, "My Yogi is like an actual temple or Gurudwara." She flowed with love for her followers, always serving them, yet never leaving the self-realised state of her true self.

Once a Yogi asked her, "All call you Bhagwan; which avatar of Narayan, of Bhagwan, are you?" Bhagwan Ji replied, "All the Das Avatar are me. From Aadi to Anadi I exist." Hardly anyone has had the strength to make such a claim, for it was Brahm, God, speaking through her.

Though Bhagwan Ji has embraced amaratv, she is present in each Yogi today, spreading unfiltered love and blessings.

The Satguru is God-essence

The Satguru, God-essence living in human form, is the ultimate dispeller of every kind of darkness:

• the one who guides us towards Light;
• who introduces us to our True Self;
• who makes us aware of our divine existence;
• who always holds our hand;
• who gradually lifts the veil of darkness from our minds;
• who lets us glimpse our expanded consciousness;
• who blesses us with eternal happiness, a state of 'Anand';
• who lifts us out of life's vagaries, the pains of bondage, humiliation and indignity;
• who showers us with 'Unconditional love', accepting all our faults and failings;
• who expects in return only our unfailing trust that the Satguru is with us, and our unconditional love;
• who always guides us on the path of 'Love & Truth', when we are ready to walk with the Satguru.

The Satguru, in fact, is God-essence itself.