Visions of Champaklal

Wonderful Lion-shaped Figure - Night at Delhi Ashram Branch

1978-06-08

It was a vast expanse. Far far away, there were many mountains with several waterfalls cascading down. It was a superbly beautiful place, the like of which I have not seen in any part of the Himalayas I have visited.

All the mountains were snow-covered, but their peaks were invisible. Sunlight was falling on them, but it was strange to note that the peaks were out of sight. How and from where the golden sunlight was coming was a question.

There was seen a superbly grand figure without any garment like that of Vishnu lying on his serpent-couch. I have no idea, on what that grand figure was lying, but I felt that there was no such thing, the figure was in the air.

A lion-shaped figure also was there before the reclining grand figure and that lion was expressing affection for him in various ways and even biting him with love.

I, Kamalaben and Nirod were there, standing at a distance of about fifteen feet, observing very intently all that. Suddenly the lion's eyes turned towards Kamalaben and he moved towards us. I thought he was coming towards Kamalaben but instead he came to me. I saw that but for his face the lion's body was almost like that of human beings. He came and bending did pranam to me and then stared at my face, moved his hands over my body from all sides, smiled beautifully and performed various Mudras, gestures of inner expression. I simply stood without any movement.

Then he went towards Kamalaben, moved both his hands on her whole body from all the four sides and then placed them on her head. Then bestowing upon her a beautiful smile, he passed over to Nirod and did to him all that he had done to Kamalaben.

This had a marvellous effect on me and there are no words to describe it.

The entire scene disappeared and my eyes opened. But for hours the effect remained. The vision is as it were still before my eyes.

Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Though indescribable, I have made an
effort to put it in words.

And it is impossible to write anything about that superbly grand figure.

I had many visions while in Tapogiri, but I do not remember them all. Out of them, two were very interesting, and they present themselves before my eyes as soon as the memory of the place awakes. Both of them were visions of the same night.