Bairagi Baba
Shri Satya Narain Agarwal was a great devotee of Baba
Mastramji. He followed the path of Nimbarka sect and Shri Radha and Shri Krishna were his desired deities. He was a house holder but Babaji called him Bairagi Baba because of his dispassionate attitude towards worldly life. He had a strong desire for the realisation of God.
One day, after completing chanting Ramacharitamanasa 108 times in 108 days, he placed his request before Babaji that he wanted to see God. Babaji told him that it would be difficult and he should be ready to sacrifice everything if he wanted to see God. He was ready and as told by Babaji he took a vow that he would live only on Gangajal till he had darshana of his desired deities. He began his fast on the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Margashirsha in samvat 2025 (24/11/1968). The tiffin that came to him from the Gita Bhavan was given to the cows in the afternoon.
After some twenty days his son Sudarshan was told by Babaji that his father was living only on Gangajal and it was likely that his state of health might deteriorate. Besides being an old man, Bairagi Baba was an asthma patient, so it was really a difficult penance for him. During his tapasya he recited Ramacharitamanasa many times. On the tenth day of the dark half of the month of Magha (13/01/1969) when the Sun transited to Capricorn), he had darshana of Lord Krishna in the person of Baba Shri Mastramji. He was not fully satisfied and cried out “Where is Kishoriji ?” as he wanted to have the darshana of both Kishoriji and Shri Krishna and consequently he gave up even Gangajal. The next day was Ekadashi. He had darshana of both Kishoriji and Shri Krishna in the gufa (cave). As Babaji left the gufa Bairagi Baba held onto Babaji’s feet and said “Now I know who you are…”
On the following day that is the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of Magha, he again had darshana of Shri Radha and Krishna while he was worshippping Shri Baba Mastramji. With that he felt redeemed. On the night when Bairagi Baba left his body Ganga Mai had a dream that she saw him ascending the celestial regions and passing by the gates of the higher worlds until he reached the gate of Golok where he entered inside. On Mauni Amavasya of the month of Magha (18/01/1969), Bairagi Baba left his body through Brahmarandhra. A hairline split and a few drops of blood were observed in the region of cerebral plexus.
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