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and exhorts all His fellow beings to benefit from the divine grace so abundantly made available to mankind through the prayers offered by His Master to the Holy Divine.
Spiritual renaissance has been ushered in and in due course of time every one will come to realize the truth and adopt spiritual ways of living.
History of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
The Master goes on to describe the advent of His Master, Samarthguru, Sri Ramchandra of Fatehgarh, who was born on the Basanth Panchami day, the 2nd February 1873 as Great men are not accidentally born but when the world is waiting for them in eager expectation.
India, the home of spirituality, was groping in darkness and had forgotten the age-old system of yoga and the technique of yogic transmission had become foreign to the very originators of it. Solid materialism had taken over and spirituality was tottering hopelessly and some great personality was needed to set things right for the upliftment of mankind. The import is that the methods for achieving the real yoga or connection with the Ultimate and the science of yoga proper had gone into oblivion. Even such avenues as available were closed to the common man who was kept in the dark regarding the real situation as to what constituted yoga, the goal of life and the proper means to achieve the same. Yoga for all practical purposes meant the Hatha and Kundalini yoga types involving tedious and time consuming practices of breath control, complicated postures, bandhas and mudras and was in the custody of the sanyasins or the monks who wove a curtain of mystery over it and generally discouraged the householders from entering the yogic path saying that the path was extremely difficult and not meant for them. Liberation was a far cry indeed attainable only after janmas (lives) upon janmas (lives) what to talk then of realization. The householders were ordained by the holy scriptures to serve the sanyasins and this service was all and enough to confer upon them benefits here and in the hereafter. They should satisfy themselves with chanting the names of Hari, hear the lofty discourses of the Mahatmas on the scriptures and the Puranas and support the activities such as performing yagnas and purificatory rites of the mahatmas and give them the annual gurudakshinas.
The advent of the Great Master Sri Ramchandra of Fatehgarh, the Adi Guru of our system ushered in a new era of spiritual awakening promising a practical solution to the problem of human existence which has been eluding even the greatest of sages so far. This divine personality was born in a respectable kayastha family. His mother was a noble and pious lady and due to her He received inspiration at an early age. One day when He was playing with His mates some divine force aroused in Him the feeling that He had not