| Previous Incarnation As Swami Ramalingam |
| Baba Sri Siva Speaks: |
| "Why am I here on the Earth plane? |
| "I have already revealed to you my previous incarnation as Swami Ramalingam. As Swami Ramalingam I was born on October 5, 1823 and disappeared into light on January 31, 1874. My incarnation as Ramalingam was the most fulfilling of all of the incarnations I have had. During this incarnation I worked on the most difficult task of turning the physical body into light. I had precisely identified the problem of human existence during that life. I questioned what was going to give human beings liberation from pain of all kinds. I realized that one thing was fundamental for all human problems. That is this meat body. |
| You may argue that the body and the senses give us pleasure. Delicious food, beautiful clothes, music, dance, and sex, no doubt, give you pleasure. But then the pleasure is fleeting. Sooner or later you end up in pain. Just ask the questions 'Why do you do what you do? Why do you work hard?' It is because you want to buy comforts for the body. In the absence of a body you do not require anything. It is only the body that requires money, food and sex. |
| Speaking from the spiritual point of view, your true identity is the spirit and not the body. You acquire this body because you wanted to come here to the earth plane and live here until you die. You have come here many, many times. You have died in every birth. Again and again you have come back to live and die. You will come back in the future, too. |
| Why does the soul come back here again and again? Ignorance. The soul is basically ignorant. It will never be able to figure out on its own the solution for its longing for embodiment. It is simply not in the domain of the soul. Unless you understand the body and its corruption, you will never long for liberation. Jesus killed his body on the cross. It was a great event in the history of the human race. The body and the attachment it has to the world should go. That is why Jesus killed his body. While Jesus killed his physical body, Ramalingam killed his Light Body. Both Jesus and Ramalingam sought total liberation for the human soul. |
| When I was Ramalingam I worked on transforming the physical body with great diligence and discipline. I expounded a theory that described the nature of the material and immaterial body. Both the material physical body and the immaterial light body, I said, were composed of the 5 elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether. Light body is the transformation of the gross 5 elements into their subtle forms. I learned this philosophy of the 5 subtle elements from the Tamil siddhas who had acquired a light body through this method. I also consumed a lot of immortality herbs prescribed in the Tamil siddha texts. The herbs and the meditations were helpful to refine my gross body. I ate food only once in 3 months and drank boiling water. Of course I was very thin, but my physical body glowed. |
| Nevertheless, I must say that I did not get the light body through the help of the herbs or through the mediations. The light body came as a gift from Siva. Many times he appeared before me with different messages. A couple of times he hugged me, and my body momentarily turned into light. In my long poem called "Jyothi Verses" I have documented the process that my body went through. Slowly, slowly the body was disintegrating. My blood was frozen, my bones became malleable, my semen rolled into a ball and went into the third eye, my brain was glowing and oozing out nectar. I could not quite stay on the earth, and I was almost floating. I covered up the entire body with a piece of cloth. Only my hands and eyes were visible. I was mostly confined to my place. I was even afraid to look at people. Light poured out of my eyes. I had only one wish. I wanted everyone to get to the level where I was. As a light being I experienced immense freedom, joy and unlimited intelligence and the ability to do everything. |
| I prayed to Siva that he should come down to the earth plane and give the light body to everyone. I declared to everyone that He would come within 10 days. One day I saw him coming. He quickly got into my body. I said that miracles would happen after 24 hours. Siva abducted me. It was not then the right time. |
| Just before then I gave re-expression to my discontentment. I yelled at my disciples because no one wanted a light body. I told a close congregation the following: 'I opened my shop, but no one was interested in my products. I will come back again.' |
| Here I am back. This time I have learnt from my previous mistakes. I am not going to threaten people by saying that I am going to give you a light body. I have had mixed responses from my students when I talked about it. There was one guy who was damn sick. He had arthritis everywhere in his body. He could not bend his arms or legs. He moved like the astronauts. After seeing me, he had some relief from his disease. Nevertheless, he did not want to get a light body. There was another girl who did not mind getting a light body, but she wanted a slim one so that she did not have to do her work out. |
| I am writing this note because it is time that I hint at what I am going to do in the future. It is going to take at least a year for me to become serious about the light body business. Until then I want you to focus on getting your money, home, car together. You have my Blessings." |
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