Upasni Maharaj

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Upasni Maharaj
Upasni Maharaj

Upasni Maharaj (May 15, 1870 – December 24, 1941) was considered by his disciples to be a sadguru. He lived in Sakori, India and is said to have received God-realization from Sai Baba of Shirdi. Sakori is located in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra. Shirdi is about 15 kilometers.

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[edit] Life

Upasni Maharaj was born a Hindu in a Brahmin family of priests in the village of Satana, India, in the district of Nasik on May 15, 1870. His father's name was Govind Shastri and his mother's, Rukhmini. After a career as an ayurvedic doctor and three marriages he began to hear a singing voice that he could not explain. This troubling sound, along with various other difficulties, led him on a difficult quest that finally culminated in him meeting Sai Baba of Shirdi who is said to have given him God-realization. Sai Baba then claimed to be the one who was calling him inwardly. Upasni was very fiery and once said, "Unless you are ready to eat crap, how can you aspire for spirituality?" He died in Sakori, India on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1941, at the age of seventy one. [1]

[edit] Teachings

The principle teaching of Upasni Maharaj was that there are three things that make life worth living: [2]

  1. Don't trouble others
  2. Become useful to others, even if it costs you suffering.
  3. Always remain content and in the state of Be as it may.

[edit] Master to Meher Baba

Upasni Maharaj was the principle teacher of Meher Baba. Baba lived in the Sakori ashram with Upasni for seven years, starting at the age of 20, from 1914 until 1921. According to Baba, Upasni Maharaj gave him divine knowledge after he received God-realization in 1913 at the age of nineteen from Hazrat Babajan. [3] After an absence of nearly 20 years Meher Baba and Upasni Maharaj met for the last time on October 17, 1941 in Dahigaon, a small village in Niphad Taluka in the Nashik District of Maharashtra, just two months prior to Upasni's death.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba, Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation, Inc. 1986.
  2. ^ The Talks of Shri Sadguru Upasni Maharaj. 1950
  3. ^ The God-Man, C.B. Purdom, London Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1964.

[edit] Further reading

  • Shepherd, Kevin R.D. Gurus Rediscovered: Biographies of Sai Baba of Shirdi and Upasni Maharaj of Sakori. Anthropographia Publications 1986.

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