Having had the privilege of observing Mohanji very closely for the past two years, I have seen him evolving and changing at an incredible speed. I have seen him communicating with Masters, downloading messages or meditations, transferring data, performing healings, imparting profound experiences onto others, and yet, on the surface, remaining the same. I was present with him when he had a profound 4-hour- long communion with Mahavatar Babaji and was blessed to talk to this great immortal Himalayan Master through him. I have encountered his NDE (near-death experience) and understood his stature in the higher realms.

Therefore, attempting to describe Mohanji without reducing him to any of the "frames" known to the human mind is a real challenge. I will take the liberty of quoting from some of his writings, hoping the reader will thus be more able to catch the unique flavor of his being and expression:

"It has been a real privilege. This life, this existence. I have dared many storms and literally walked the path of thorns and scorns. The privilege has been that at one point I understood WHY it all happened. There has been absolute clarity.

Nothing happens by accident. Everything has a deeper purpose, a deeper meaning. All the uncertainties, loss, thorns and scorns that I faced, were understood as karmic trashing, purification, and essentially, a preparation for something much higher, much more meaningful and divine.

Each time something was taken away from me, it reinforced my spiritual well-being. Consistent removals, burning and churning, polished the sharp edges of my ego. No hatreds, no complaints. My visibility expanded with shedding of every burden that I knowingly or unknowingly carried in life. These experiences, these understandings, while everything, even the very existence was falling apart around me, I consider as a great privilege. I am truly grateful to Divine for this grace, this privilege."

From the very first moment I met Mohanji, what impressed me the most was an unusually strong PRESENCE within him, a piercing sparkle in his eyes which reaches the soul instantly, followed by his effort to downplay and conceal it all, remaining unassuming, easily approachable and one amongst the many. However, the richness of his inner world and purity of his heart is easily recognizable to those who have "the eyes to see", who are sensitive enough to perceive the subtle.

Mohanji operates from the "being level." Love continuously expresses itself through him in various ways: through the wonderful cleansing meditations that he conducts, connected with the Masters; through his beautiful writings, "downloaded" straight from the higher realms; through distant or direct healings that he performs whenever required; through answering people's endless queries, which he does with utmost love and patience, free of cost and any expectation. Furthermore, Mohanji's love overflowed through two charity organizations - Ammucare (www.ammucare.org) and ACT Foundation, which he continues to run successfully, while at the same time working as a top executive in the shipping industry in the Middle East.

Combining the two worlds of beingness and doingness is a real challenge, but is very much so possible because Universe always gives us abundant energy once service to others and expression of love becomes one's priority. As Mohanji explains:

"We all travel along with time. We live in the world of dualities, even though someone or something may have made us feel that there is a deeper unity somewhere. Often, we do not consider that the root of that unity lies within our own "infrastructure." We are remotely aware. We cannot be sure. Thus, we search outside to find the answer, and we fail to understand that nothing but beingness really IS. Once you realize this, you will be floating in timelessness, even while you are active in time. Is this too difficult to fathom? All you need is a small internal shift. A tiny realization that there is only NOW. When mind drags you to the future or past, get back home and look at the NOW. When you are in the ocean of NOW, every vibration will be tangible to you. Realization blossoms there."

While talking about his life and his mission in life, Mohanji always stresses an important point about image-making not being his cup of tea:

“I have no personal agendas. I stopped existing in this body a long time ago. My identities have changed time and again. I am just like water taking the shape and color of the available container. I am also like fire burning the chaff that blocks the karmic paths of people. I am like the shifting wind, belonging to everywhere and nowhere. I am like mother earth, brimming with compassion. I am the space-less space. I am only an instrument of the Almighty, just like many others. My aim is not to bind or blind people, but to liberate all those who are ready and receptive. I am glad if my existence helped a few people to get liberated. I am just doing my duty. Not conforming to any image is my way of staying liberated. All that matters is what you can do in the present. No image matters.

Images are highly perishable. People are too eager to create frames and put one inside. People would like to look at two dimensions and ignore the third dimension of an individual which is in fact much more real.

People like finite objects while true personalities are infinite. Even our own life is infinite. Soul is infinite. Every moment, we are changing. Every cell is changing within a period of time. Body changes, mind changes, emotions change, situations change and beings die and take new births. Change is the truth of terrestrial existence. Amidst all these changes, what image can we keep? What for? Why don't we just let the changes take place and be an impartial witness to all those changes happening within and outside of us?

Images are often created out of insecurity. Some people are afraid to change their image because others might get disillusioned with them. Some are afraid of any changes, whatsoever. A life of conformity is very easy. A life of non-conformity and fearlessness is very difficult. Therefore - my image? Whatever you think I am, I am that. It does not matter what I actually am. I am a mirror, reflecting your mind. I never impose my image over you. For you, my image does not matter. Your image matters. This is where you have to start your journey.”

The above-stated insights are purely experience-based. They blossomed in Mohanji's inner space only after life jolted him out of his comfortable reality and made him endure numerous hardships, as briefly described :



     Left to right- Marina, Mohanji and Biba

Originally from India, Mohanji spent last 20 years of his life in the Middle East countries. His comfortable life and worldly roles of a loyal husband, father to a 4-year-old brilliant girl Ammu, a successful Country Manager of a reputed shipping company in Dubai, all ended in one piercing second - on August 23rd 2000, when a truck ran over his daughter's little body.

Ammu meant the whole world to Mohanji. She was an extraordinary, charismatic and angel-like child that touched many people's lives during those 4 brief years on Earth. Deep pain and a drastic inner void that her absence created brought about transformative experiences to Mohanji. Inspired by her purity, he founded Ammucare in 2003, a charity foundation that promotes unconditional service and care across all man-made barriers. He indeed had a lot of convincing to do to form a charity organization with no membership fees and no compulsory payments of any kind. Ammucare functions only from Mohanji’s personal income and voluntary contributions. Time is the witness that things just fall into place and funds for the charity activities come because it is the nature of love to attract and expand…

After Ammu left this world, life continued to put Mohanji through further severe tests. His marriage broke apart in 2003, his company transferred him to Iraq where he underwent a near-death experience and almost lost his life twice. At the same time, he lost all his investments, most of his belongings in India got stolen in 2004, and throughout the year 2005 he was jobless.

All the agony and suffering reflected on his physical body in kidney stones and skin rashes with often unbearable burning sensations – life became a living hell. However, from the higher perspective, things looked completely different. His isolation, agony, pain and suffering eventually lead him into a deep inner exploration and genuine search of the very meaning and purpose of life. As he himself beautifully explains:

“One by one, God removed everything that I was probably attached to, and placed me firmly on the path of spiritual evolution. We must lose a lot to gain somewhat.”

The inner shift has happened and he soon started receiving guidance from Shirdi Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Mahavatar Babaji and several other Masters, some living in the body, some operating from other planes of existence. He made Himalayas his second home, and found solace in the wisdom and unconditional love of the Masters. Slowly, the inner channels opened up fully and continuous telepathic communication with the Masters became his inner and outer reality. Despite all this, Mohanji remains introverted and unassuming. It is so amusing to observe him arriving to a gathering organized in his honor wearing jeans and T-shirt, disappointing many who expect him to fit into their golden frames and glorified images (that human mind simply loves to create so that it appears even more impossible to "the ordinary me" to reach the same state).

Being in communion with the Masters and operating from the being level is not something that mind can easily grasp. And yet, Mohanji explains the experiential side of it in a beautiful and straightforward manner:

“When self-realization happens, doing-ness gives way to being-ness and universal consciousness. All data are available in that. You no longer require terrestrial materials to satisfy your need for knowledge when you exist in knowledge and bliss itself. Acharyas (spiritual teachers) use the knowledge from books because they need it to train their students. Once or if they achieve the bliss state, the "Master-ship" stature, they also drop the accumulation of book knowledge and dissolve into being-ness. After enlightenment we often see drastic shifts in attitudes. We could see many Masters resorting to silence and non-doing. Many become hyper-active, in the non-karmic, self-less plane. Many behave like mad men. Many leave society and goes into recluse. It depends on the innate nature of the seeker how they will express themselves after enlightenment. Mostly only an enlightened person can recognize another. Others can only guess. Some pretend to be enlightened, but please understand that it is for their survival or their emotional need for recognition. Usually, with enlightenment, all the terrestrial needs also slowly vanish and the enlightened Master will operate from the Universal Love aspect. There will be nothing conditional in his approach. He will not need anything from anybody. He will become self-sufficient in his supreme being-ness, where everything is within his command. This is one visible sign of enlightenment.

Enlightenment means giving in to everything in perfect equanimity. Nothing affects you anymore. Giving up is renunciation. Dissolving is realization.

However, if you give up consciously, while the desire still exists in your sub-conscious, that will not work at all. You have to exhaust your desires and evolve further. Then it will stay. No desire can be suppressed and moved forward by the seeker. Circumstantial suppression is not elimination. The seeds are still there. The desire is still there. It will sprout when the right environment is created and when the time is right.

Furthermore, enlightenment means complete giving in to the rhythm of the universe. A total tuning in. Individual gratifications get converted into existence in a bliss state which means SELF- SUFFICIENCY (Self is sufficient). Externalization of the senses and mind will shift to internalization. The man achieves self-sufficiency within himself. Then it's not giving up, but dropping off. Automatically, all that is unwanted in one's sub-conscious gets burnt away or dropped off and that space becomes filled with pure bliss of cosmic consciousness. You can also call it blissful emptiness or supreme awareness.

In short, we cannot give up anything, unless that space gets filled with something higher in nature. Karma cannot be deleted unless fully exhausted. It must wear off. Enlightened Masters can definitely dilute one's karmic trash. However, they usually let the disciple walk the path, experience and exhaust. Desires should be replaced with higher awareness. This means, when you got a bicycle, you lost the interest in your toys. When you got a motor cycle, you lost interest in your bicycle. Therefore, something higher replaces the seeming lower. In the case of spirituality, EXPERIENCE SHOULD REPLACE KNOWLEDGE. Then evolution happens. The higher the experiences more will the lower drop off. The need for doing anything ritualistically will drop off and existence in bliss will provide tremendous strength and equanimity. You will not be affected by any regular storms of life. You will stay afloat in all conditions and turbulence.”

And finally, to all those whose lives have been touched and inspired by Mohanji, or are yet to be touched, he expresses the following:

“I love your prayers, good vibrations, and your deep sincerity. Above all, I love your truthfulness to yourself, existence and your unconditional love. I prostrate at the divinity that is reflected in all of you. I love you all deeply, wholeheartedly, and this will never change because it is unconditional. Sincere thanks to all those who prayed, are praying, and all those who are keeping in touch or not keeping in touch. It has been a great privilege. May you all remain blessed today and forever.”