There are a lot of questions about swamy deeksha which you can't get the answers immediately, because this deeksha is not like other deeksha's and this deeksha deals more with guru tatwa and needs a guruswamy to guide you and answer your questions and clear your doubts. We will try to analyse and understand the various dimensions. Basically we can categorize people into two categories namely believers and non-believers of GOD. We call believers as aasthikas and non-believers as naastikas. Then we can see the common thought process of believers and non believers towards swamy deeksha.
Non-believers dimension:
The people who never believed that God exists. For them when they see people who take swamy deeksha, it is like the people are doing a drama in the name of God. The same people who do all sorts of nonsense such as eating non-veg, drinking, cheating people, telling lies etc, how come become all of a sudden pure, pious, disciplined etc for 40 days. This is all bull shit and just a drama they are doing to showcase to others. And even they don't believe the people who are taking swamy deeksha, that they are going to be transformed and transformation is happening in them, their families and the places where they stay and indirectly to the country and to the universe.
But, for non-believers, if they can observe the known people who have been taking swamy deeksha and visiting sabarimala, they can surely see the transformation in the lives of people over the years. Transformation will be gradual, it is not like a channel changed when we press the remote control of a television. Yes, but the transformation will be from from internally which will reflect in their lives rather than externally. So, if they known someone, they can compare their lives like before taking swamy deeksha and after taking swamy deeksha. For sure, they can themselves notice the transformation. Atleast, then they can believe what is the power of swamy deeksha.
Believer's dimension:
People who believe god is there will generally approach swamy and take his deeksha for various reasons. According to Lord Krishna in Bhavad Geeta, there are four categories of people who worship GOD namely Artha, Artharthi, Jignasu and Gnani. So people take swamy deeskha being in any one of the four stages.
The first category people (Artha) are totally dependent on God and totally surrender to him and seek his help to bail them out of their problem. They just have blind belief and faith that God exists and God will bail them out of their problems They are like the innocent child who just believes his mother and doesn't know anything else. For example- people of this category prayers will of this sort -Oh, God, please help me, I am helpless, my child is suffering with this disease, other than you no one can help me, please save my son and help me out of this difficult situation.. O God, please bless me with a child, Oh God, please bless me with a job etc.
The second category of people (Artharthi) are a little bit of business minded, they make offers to the god and agreement sort of things. God, you help me, I will complete this for you. For example, if you help me with business of 1 Crore turnover, I will construct temple for you, If I get this job, I will come walking to your shrine by climbing all the steps of your hill, If I get married, I will make your temple painted with new colors etc.
The third category of people (Jignasu) are more of inquisitiveness to know how, why, when etc. They approach God to get answers to their questions. They are not concerned with the problems of life and they dont make deals with the God, but they approach him to get all the knowledge to satisfy their questions and get the answers. For example, Why this ritual should be followed, what happens if this is done in that way, etc.
The fourth category of people are like the first category of people but with complete awareness. They have the awareness about the God and with full awareness they approach god and they doesn't have desires for themselves, rather god uses them as his tools to run his divine plan. In essence, they will be the guides for the people to reach god. They show the path, they help people and guide them.
Whether a person is believer or non-believer, one can get answers to their questions, when they take the deeksha and experience the power of deeksha. Because, if someone eats a sweet and ask them to explain about sweetness, it is quiet difficult because what a person had experienced or undergone when he ate a sweet is beyond words, if someone had to understand it, they also need to eat the sweet. Other than this by listening to the mere words about the sweetness feeling, wont make him understand or experience what it would be like eating a sweet. Similarly, if someone had to understand the power of swamy deeksha they had to experience themselves by taking deeksha, undergoing the viratham and doing sabari yatra, without which, they can never understand it.
I hope, whoever is reading this article understand this and by the grace of swamy he will be a transformed person, helping himself, his family, his country and this universe.
Om Guru Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa
