Swami Nand Lal ji maharaj

Brief Biography

BORN IN 1902.FALGUN SHAKUL PAKSH (TIL ASHTAMI).IN SRINAGAR AT ALIKADAL IN THE FAMILY OF PT.SHAHAJ KOUL(FATHER),BELONGING TO NOBLE AND PROSPEROUS FAMILY.HIS MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS JUST A CHILD.HIS FATHER MARRIED TO SECOND WOMEN WHOSE NAME WAS SMT.ZOONMAL.AS ANY OTHER BRAHMIN FAMILY IN KASHMIR WOULD GO TO HARIPARBHAT TO PAY THEIR RESPECT TO THE MOTHER OF WHOLE UNIVERSE MATA SHARIKA BHAWANI(CHAKRESHWAR)AS A DAILY ROUTINE.
HIS ATTACHMENT WITH THE WORDLY AFFFAIRS WERE DICARDED IN HIS EARLY AGE.AT THE AGE OF 14, HE LEFT HIS HOME AND BEGAN OFFERING SERVICES TO THE HOLY SAINTS AND SAGES.HE WENT TO JINPURA(SOPORE) AND JOINED AN ASHRAM.FOR FEW YEARS HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN ANANTNAG (GOSAIGUND) WITH SWAMI ATMARAMJI.AND AT GAUTAM NAG WITH SWAMI GASH KAK JI.
IN THE MEAN TIME HE PICKED UP BOOK BINDING BUSINESS IN CONTRIBUTION WITH SWAMI SHYAM LAL JI SAPRU WHO LATER ON BECAME HIS FOREMOST DISCIPLE AND FOLLOWER. SH.NANDLAJI LEARNED SANSKRIT FROM SWAMI SRIDHAR AT SOPORE.AND STUDIED VARIOUS SHASTRAS FROM HIM.
IN QUEST OF SELF REALIZATION HE TRAVELLED FAR PLACES AND JUNGLES.DURING THIS PERIOD, MANY PEOPLE DESCRIBED HIS PHYSICAL AND MYSTICAL CONDITION AS SUCH COMPARING WITH SWAMI PARMAHANS RAM KRISHAN,DURING HIS TANTRIK KRIYA SESSIONS. HIS NAILS GROWN UP,HIS WHOLE BODY WOULD BE IMMERSED WITH ASH AND DUST UNAWARE OF HIS NAKEDNESS.PEOPLE WOULD OFTEN FEAR WHEN THEY SEE HIM PERFORMING MIRACLES IN THAT CONDITION.HE ALSO TRAVELLED TO MANSAROVAR AND LADHAK.
HE SPENT ABOUT 2 YEARS FROM 1945 TO 1947 AT SHARDA DEVI PILGRIMAGE AT TATHWAL(NOW IN PAKISTAN) IN MEDITATION.DURING THAT PERIOD HE PERFORMED MANY YAGYAS,SANKIRTAN,SATSANGS ETC.EVERY HINDU FAMILY WHO LIVED NEAR AND AROUND SHARADAJI BECAME HIS DISCIPLES.
IN 1947 WHEN KASHMIR WAS ATTACKED BY PAK RAIDERS WITH PURPOSE OF OCCUPYING KASHMIR, AT THAT TIME SWAMI JI WAS AT SHARADAJI.ONE FEELS JOY AND ASTONISHMENTS,WHEN MUSLIMS WOULD NARRATE THE STORY OF HIS MIRICALES AND AFTER HAVING BRIEF DISCUSSION WITH HIM THEY ESCORTED THE HINDU FAMILIES TO INDIAN TERRITORY AND RELEASED THEM AT BEETPUR(KUPWARA).SWAMIJI RECONVERTED MANY HINDUS BACKIN TO HINDUFOLD IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE KASHMIR.THIS EFFORT WAS APPRECIATED BY MANY.FOR BRIEF PERIOD HE CONTINUED HIS MEDITATION IN AN APPLE ORCHARD AT GAURIPUR-BAUMAI(SOPORE).TILL THE TIME OF HIS HOLINESSES MAHA SAMADHI,HE WOULD REGULARLY SMOKE CHARAS,AT TIMES THIS WOULD CONTINUE FOR 24 HOURS.
LATER ON,HE MADE HIS ASHRAM AND DHARAMSHALA AT TIKKAR(KUPWARA).PEOPLE WOULD THRONG TO THIS PLACE TO HAVE HIS BLESSINGS AND DARSHNAS.PEOPLE FROM EVERY SECT BEGIN TO JOIN IN.SUFI MUSICIANS WOULD COME AND SING,LISTEN TO HIS WISDOM WORDS AND TAKE HIS BLESSINGS.HE OFTEN INSTRUCTED PEOPLE TO DO THEIR MEDITATION WHEN EVER THEY WOULD FIND IT CONVENIENT TO DO IT ,PERFORM YOUR DUTIES TOWARDS ALMIGHTY WITH SINCERITY LOVE AND DEVOTION. AS THIS IS THE KEY TO ACHIEVE ONENESS WITH OUR BELOVED.IN TRUE SENSE HE WAS A MAHARISHI.
WHENEVER,ANY ONE WOULD COME TO HIM WITH PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS OR FOR ANSWERS.HE WOULD STUN THEM BY TELLING THEM THE REASON WHY THE HAD COME TO HIM,FROM WHERE AND WHAT HE WANTS.SUCH FEATS ARE MERE A CHILD PLAY FOR A SAINT OR RISHI OF SUCH SELF REALIZATION.WHOSE SEPERATION WITH HIS BELOVED COULD BE SELDOM FELT. HIS MIRICALES AND SERVICE TO HIS HUMAN FELLOW BEINGS ARE IN IMMENSE TO TELL.THERE ARE MANY STORIES WERE HE HAS RAISED DEAD TO LIFE,CURED PEOPLE OF HEART ALILMENTS, ASTHAMA.COWS WOULD GIVE MILK ON THEIR OWN.HE WAS CHALLENGED BY MANY FRAUDS BUT WERE SAVED BY HIM AND SHOWED THEM THE RIGHT PATH TO ATTAIN GOD.HE WOULD OFTEN CURE PEOPLE BY MEDICATING THEM WITH DIFFERENT VARIETY OF PICKLES.
WHEN HE WAS BORN OME OF HIS RELATIVES PROPHESED THAT THIS CHILD WILL BRING NAME AND FAME TO OUR FAMILY.HIS NAME WAS PT.AMAR KAUL.HE HIMSELF WAS A NOBLE AND SAINTLY PERSON.
THE GURU OF NAND LAL JI WAS SWAMI LALJI MAHARAJ OF KASHI.HE WOULD OFTEN VISIT KASHMIR ON ELEPHANT TO SPENT HIS SUMMER DAYS IN VALLEY.AT ONE POINT OF TIME HE SAID,THAT THIS BRAMCHARI NAND LALJI HAS ACHIEVED EVERY THING IN JUST SIX MONTHS WHICH TOO ME 12 YEARS TO ACHIEVE.THIS GURU USED TO MAKE ASANA FOR HIS DISCIPLE(NAND LAL JI) WITH HIS OWN HANDS.THIS COULD BE MATTER GREAT ELATION FOR ANY DISCIPLE,BUT SWAMI NAND LALJI KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS AND MAINTAINED GURU-SASHYA PARAMPARA WITH SINCERITY TOWARDS HIS GURU. HE NEVER USED THAT ASANA AND WOULD UNDER HIS FEET.
EVERY SINGLE WORD SAID BY HIM USED TO BE PROPHATIC.IN HIS LIFETIME HE ESTABLISHED TWO ASHRAMS,ONE AT TIKKAR AND SECOND AT HUSHRU IN TEHSIL CHADURA.BOTH OF THESE ASHRAMS HAVE BEEN HOLY PLACES TO TO VISIT.
WHEN THE TIME OF MAHA SAMADHI WAS NEARING IN, HE PROPHATICALLY TOLD THEM THAT HE WOULD LEAVE THEM ON GAURTRAI.AND IN 1968 AT PAMPOSH COLONY(N.DELHI) AT PT.PREM NATHJI SADHUS RESIDENCE HE MERGED WITH HIS BELOVED. EVEN AFTER HIS MAHASAMADHI THIS CHRIST LIKE MASTER STILL HELP AND GUIDE THOSE WHO UTTER HIS NAME WITH TRUE LOVE AND DEVOTION.AND HENCE,WOULD STRENGTHEN THEIR FAITH AND INSPIRE THEM TO PERFORM THEIR DUTY WITH MORE POWER AND VIGOUR.
SWAMI YOGI RAJ NAND LAL JI BRAMCHARI MAHARAJ,HAS THREE DISCIPLES:

• SWAMI VIBESHAN JI MAHARAJ.
• SWAMI KRAL BAB JI MAHARAJ.
• SWAMI MAST RAM JI MAHARAJ.

SWAMI VIBESHAN JI IS IN JAMMU(J&K) PREACHING HIS MASTERS TEACHINGS WITH DEVOTION AND SINCERITY. SWAMI KRAL BAB JI ATTAINED HIS MAHASAMADHI IN 1991 IN HIS ASHRAM AT UDHAMPUR(J&K) JAMMU. SWAMI MAST RAM JI IS ALSO IN HIS PATOLI ASHRAM(J&K)JAMMU.PERFORMING HIS RIGHTFUL DUTY IN SERVICE OF DHARMA AND HIS GURU. FORTUNATE AND NOBLE WERE THOSE PEOPLE,WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE IN THAT YUGA OF SWAMI YOGI RAJ NAND LAL JI BRAMACHARI MAHARAJ AND WERE BLESSED BY HIM. MAY THE BLESSINGS OF THE SWAMI NAND LAL JI BE ON ALL OF US.

                                                POSTED BY ; VIPUL KOUL