Devarayanadurga

Devarayanadurga is a tiny village surrounded by hillocks and jungle near Tumkur in Karnataka. There is a temple of Durga and Lakshmy Narasimha on top of a rock. My son used to study Engineering in Tumkur and one day I landed there just to have a break with him.

Once there, I found this place quite familiar, as if I had been there earlier sometime. The hillock, rock and even the murthy of lakshmy Narasimha seemed to be very familiar. Then onwards the place started haunting me, as someone was pulling me towards it.

I met a sadhu there in front of the Durga temple and he smiled at me instantly as I know him. His look was penetrating. I felt he knows me in and out and for a long time.

I could never forget Devarayanadurga till then. It often came to my dream and thought, like a nomadic journey through the mystic hillocks of Devarayanadurga.

I know there are things beyond human reasoning and intelligence. Why did this place haunt me, why I felt I had been there earlier in my first visit, Why did the sadhu smiled at me and looked at me till I vanished from his sight. I don’t know.

Scientist like Ian Stevenson did many years of research on past life remembrance. His research book and writings are suggestive that there is a possibility of past life and reincarnation.

Dr Brian Weiss’s clinical research reveals this more clearly. His book “Many lives Many Masters” discuss that each life is a learning session until we reach the ultimate destination.

Whatever it may be I am happy to believe that we had past life and we will come back to this world again. It is more enjoyable to learn that each life is a learning lesson and it is very comforting to believe that we correct ourselves in each life in order to purify before joining the ultimate energy.

I urge my friends to read Dr Weiss book “Many lives Many Masters”