Chakratirth Baba

Chakratirth Baba

It is my experience that our Media are totally committed and dedicated to spread our Sanatanadharma on its dark side created by gullible Babas and Gurus and seldom tell about the two prominent religions whose commandments are par beyond logic. The pity is we the followers of this Dharma, blindly follow the scribes without any reason as sheep in the herd. Let us come to know about a great man who stuck at the behest of his Guru for 15 long years surviving with only a few wild herbs and touching no other food.

98 year old sadhu Brahma Chaitanya Das, who is known in Odisha as Chakratirtha Baba is a man of worth to know. Baba spent his entire life alone in the remote forests of Orissa doing sadhana as ordered by his guru.

One day his guru lit an akandha dhuni (sacred fire burning eternally) and told him to watch the fire as he went out. He told him he would be back in 15 days time.

This sadhu sat alone in the forest waiting for him to come back, with no food or possessions. At the time, this was one of the most remote places in India, deep in tiger infested forests of Odisha. Even today it is one of the largest tiger reserves in India.

He lived alone in this forest with no house, no food and no one else around to help him. He sustained himself by collecting wild roots in the forest, which he knew from his tribal background. He kept waiting for his guru to return, and finally one day his guru did return, but it was 15 years later.

He kept the sacred fire burning alone in this remote forest for 15 years without questioning why his guru had not returned on time.

There is a saying in Oria among sadhus, “bara varsha korile seva guru kohile kichi debha”. The meaning is that, “After performing service for 12 years, my guru said he will give me something.” This indicates that the guru first tests the disciple for twelve years to see if he is sincere. After passing all the tests of the guru, when the guru is convinced and pleased with the disciple, he gives him something that is the real guru diksha which leads to siddhi. Thus Chakratirtha Baba got what he wanted from Guru. He preaches the same to those who trust him.

His Guru before passing away permitted him to have Char Dham yatra viz. Puri, Dwaraka, Badrinath and Rameshwaram. He now at the age of 98 started to go round the shrines.

Swasti.