Science Will Wipe Out Science

Madhobima is for most appearances just another Indian housewife, living out a frenetic existence in a dusty corner of Delhi. Her house is perpetually full of people - family members, visitors and servants. Her courtyard covered with a fibre glass canopy is crammed with a small temple, potted plants and a cage full of singing birds. All signs of domestic contentment. Yet, beneath this obvious mudane exterior, Madhobima hides a mysterious profundity. This housewife is an ordained Tantric guru, cloaking awesome mystical powers. Her true self glimmers when visitors ask her about the Tantric path to self realisation and the myriad inexplicable things in this universe. Her answers suggest that here is a formidable intellect, groomed not some much in mere logic but in a tradition that is coherent and compelling. She grows animated as she expounds her beliefs.

"Our earth is one of the many inhabited worlds in the universe, which is undergoing constant flux", she says."Mother Kali is the creator, she takes entire brahmandas (worlds) in her hands, constantly creating and destroying them. She wears a garland of skulls, each representing a brahmanda. She is dark like infinity. She is the infinite power of the universe from which all worlds, suns and life emerge and return to. She is fearsome because the terrible power of the universe appears fearsome to mortals. But in truth she is infinitely kind, she is the Mother of all beings."

What makes a yogi or tantric different from an ordinar person? Quite a bit, according to Madhobima. For instance, people like her realise in a very palpable manner what time is. "It is the fourth dimension of our world," she says. "Time is everything - it is in its unravelling that matter and energy find form and meaning. Time even has everything to do with life and death. We are time capsules contained in one sperm and ova. Time spins out a life and at different phases makes us different things - starting from turtle to fish, infant and adult. When time runs out we meet death."

The yogi can control many things including time. They key to this control is through the control of breathing. Madhobima points out that through pranayama (the science of breath control), the yogi begins to control the effect of time on her body. Great yogis can even suspended time thereby negating its very effects and perceiving things in a profoundly different way. One of these ways is perception through the astral body, which according to Madhobima, knows no physical bounds and can soar through the universe perceiving the various brahmandas and at times the strange beings that inhabit them. She speaks without reserve about her astral travels and what she has learnt in them.

"In our particular system there are 7 brahmandas that have living beings in them," she says. This could mean that in our particular galaxy there are 7 inhabited worlds. "We are the least developed of the beings in all these worlds. Some of the beings are so well developed that they can change form at will," she remarks. "They travel to earth from time to time but we are not ready to accept them. They help us in many ways - they can cause changes by implanting ideas in our minds."

Madhobima speaks of fantastic things in a very matter of fact way. To her it is clearly not important whether you believe her or not. She says she talks from personal experience and believes in what she has seen, heard and felt. She believes that theoretically anybody can develop these powers, if they follow practices starting with prayanama. However, it is important that people who seek powers be of high moral stature and have good karma. Otherwise, these powers once acquired could be misused. This is one reason why yogis are extremely strict about the kind of disciples they acquire. The guru is the repository of all knowledge and that knowledge is passed on to deserving shishyas (disciples).

"The guru is bigger than god," says Madhobima. "There are 33 crore gods and each is the lord of one object. They know only about their own department. But a guru, who is a rishi (sage), has all the knowledge in the world. Only he can be the teacher. It is the rishis who give life to gods. It is the rishi who can be a true guru and he keeps his knowledge secret, giving it out as necessary and to the correct people. Western science on the other hand is not discriminating, all its powers are open secrets. This is one of the most dangerous things about science and the ultimately science will destroy science. Mankind has acquired terrible powers, which are in the hands of even the most immoral person. These are therefore bound to be misused. That time is fast approaching."

Madhobiama predicts terrible times for this world beginning 2002 AD. "Millions will perish in the years to come, entire civilisations will pass away but mankind will survive," she declares. Why this disturbing destiny for mankind? Simple, says Madhobima: "The natural order of things have been greatly disturbed and nature has to seek a way to restore this world's fundamental equilibrium." Her predictions include great destruction in the Garhwal Himalayas, the complete destruction of Japan, a great war between Christians and Muslims and considerable but not complete destruction in India. In the new world that will emerge, great rishis will once again come to release their secrets, develop science once more and use their mantras to create seeds and new species. An awesome worldview coming from an apparent housewife. But then Madhobima is not just another housewife.

She was ordained and more than 30 years ago had promised her guru that she would build a temple that he wanted in the banks of a mountain river somewhere in the Himalayas. She has started building the great temple he wanted at Tanakpur at the banks of the sacred Sarada river. She has been guided by her guru in her dreams and has conceived of their complex architectural details in these dreams. Today, she has some idea why her guru wanted that temple be built. "It is a temple for the enlightened beings from all worlds. This is a place for celestial congregation and is urgently required for the times that are fast approaching," she explains. She has already built one temple and the main one is under construction. She is confident that she will succeed in building the remaining temple. Once that happens her work in this life would be over. She would have the supreme satisfaction of carrying out the most important task given to her by her departed guru. Thereafter, the great cycle would continue and with it the cycle of endless creation and destruction.

For more details about Madobima, please contact either Mr A.Ghosh or Mr. D.K.Ghosh at New Delhi at the following phone numbers: 6987679 and 6987303.