Divine Meditation during Childhood

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Saint Baba Maharaj Arvikar’s childhood was nothing like that of other children. In particular, he would wake up at 3:30 am, at Brahmamurtha, every day to meditate. 

In the context of this childhood routine, something unbelievable happened. 

Every morning, in the room dedicated to dhyaan (meditative state), on the top floor of his home in Arvi, Baba was completely immersed in his dhyaan. In that closed room, Lord Dattatreya would sit on his own asana (seat) and give spiritual guidance to Saint Baba.

One morning, Lord Dattatreya’s asana was left behind in that room. Saint Baba, considering it prasad (a blessing), kept it very safely. But, after a few days, it suddenly happened that the asan was not seen. Baba became restless, and he then went to the math (like an ashram) of a satpurush he knew and asked him about the secret behind this mystery. 

The answer he got was something like this: “It is true that you do your dhyaan behind closed doors. But you do it with a lit incense stick (agarbati), right? Then it is from that element of fire that the three satpurush [Lord Dattatreya] arrive and it is that fire they become one with again. The object of their blessings was never material, it was not composed of the five elements (panchabhautik) so that too became one with the fundamental essence.”

In his Divyamritdhara, Saint Baba Maharaj Arvikar says that through the medium of a devotee, god, becomes the light of devotion, incarnates on the earthly plane and plays there. In truth, god, the devotee and devotion are all the threefold manifestations of the light of devotion. This experience of Saint Baba’s exemplifies this.