Mother Divine’s Power Object in Bukkapatnam

Nityanandaji:

Many years ago, Swami took a process group seemingly to see Mother Divine. It was a group of ten men. We had been basically living together upstairs in the Jesus temple with Swami, doing our process, grinding our blocks of sandalwood, lots of things. We didn’t leave the upstairs Jesus temple day or night, which is really an amazing experience. But it’s a little claustrophobic too. Casually one late afternoon, Swami said, “Would you guys like to get out? Let’s go to my farm.” We were happy to go. We came downstairs to the cars which were already prepared and ready, as if by magic. We piled in and we went to his farm. It was really a magical setting, the late afternoon sun was setting, the dusk was coming and everywhere was beautiful greenery and groves of coconut trees. Swami was very nonchalant, not letting on about anything. He had his staff serve coconut water to us, we were just chit chatting. When the stars came out, he said, “The stars are blooming. That’s the perfect time. There’s a Mother Temple nearby in a little place called Bukkapatnam,” which it turns out is the village where Swami grew up. There is an ancient Mother Divine temple there where he did a huge amount of sadhana. He had had conversations with Mother Divine there many times. That Mother Divine statue is an in- credible power object linked directly to the energy of Mother, “Let’s go take darshan of the statue then come back to the ashram.” Before we left the farm, he said maybe there’s a chance some of you can get Mother Divine darshan tonight. Ooooh! Then my heart rate and interest really went up. “Okay, okay, now we’re on our way!” When we got there, it was in dilapidated condition, repairs needed seemingly everywhere you looked. The inner sanctum where the Mother statue sits is very cramped. You enter by ducking through the single, small entrance. Inside the tiny inner sanctum, the statue is huge. It fills up the whole space. You cannot walk on either side of it, or behind it. Stepping inside, there is just three to four feet in front of Her to stand, The statue of Her is massive. She’s sitting down in a half lotus position. It’s a form of Kali and She is holding a sharp sword, the priests always put a lime stuck on it. In a sitting posture, She is seven feet tall and four feet wide. Arriving, we all went into the outer sanctum, where Swami had everybody sit down. He told us to meditate with our process mantra. Then Swami went inside the inner room and was there for a while. When he came out. He said, “Sorry, the energy is not cooperating. No chance for darshan, but anyhow, I want to give shaktipat to you guys.” He called me and two other men, an American and a Japanese, to follow him inside. We went through the little curtain that covered the tiny doorway. It was dark by now, the only light two small oil lamps burning. Swami gave the three of us each a handful of yellow powder - sugandam - and told us to say our personal mantras silently while we threw pinches of sugandam powder at Her head. Swami did this with us too. We were standing around Her, wildly throwing this sugandam towards a place on Her head. Then he said, “Go faster! Faster!” Suddently a gust of wind came in the room and blew the lights out, which is a bad symptom during divine energy processes. “Uh oh.” I didn’t know what was about to happen. Swami quickly relit the lamps, and we continued our process, throwing the charged yellow poweder at Her head again and again.

Then Swami sai, “That’s enough.” We stopped. Her head was covered with our yellow powder. Her crown is a kind of corrugated steel, and it is sloped. There was a mound of sugandam built up on it. Swami took his bare hand and put it on top of that spot, seeming to hold the powder laying on Her head. Then his hand turned opened to reveal a large, intricately multifaceted crystal, two inches in diameter. It appeared from the powder on Her head in his hand! He said, “You see that?”

“Yes, yes!”

Kanaka Durga Mother Divine Murthi Penukonda, India

He said, “Did you see what happened?” We said, “Well, we think so. Yes!”

“No, definitely you missed it.”

Ok. But we didn’t miss the whole thing, because there was a crystal in his hand. He was very happy driving on the way back to the ashram. As soon as we got back, he said. “Choose a handful of women in the ashram. Call them and tell them what’s happened” After we shared the story, we passed the new crystal power object around. We were like children, “Oh, oh, oh.”

Swami asked us all then, “Do you know how that happened? How was it created?”

We all agreed that Swami had done it. He said, “No. That’s bhakti. The devotion energy of the thousands of people who worship that statue is what formed that crystal.”