The Light of the Century

Master EK
Master E.K. Kulapathi Ekkirala Krishnamacharya known popularly as Master E.K. was born on the 11th August, 1926. He was sent into humanity from the Great Masters of Himalayas as a world teacher. His work and teachings are so immense that many columns will be covered in this and coming issues of the magazine. The main work for him was 1. Spiritual fusion of East and West 2. To combine the 1st ray of Master C.V.V. and the 2nd ray of himself for planetary, solar and cosmic initiation to the accepted disciples 3. To establish sanatana dharma 4. To make way for reappearance of Christ. Now we understand the significance of August to some extent. Those who are born under its influence should try to realize its majesty to its fullest expression. Others can work out to find how the other months bestow the fullest expression of man through their own fields of action. l Born at Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh on 11th August 1926, to the pious couple, Smt. Bucchamma and Sri Anantacharya. Sri Krishnamacharya (now reverentially referred to as Master E.K. by everyone) from an early age used to impress onlookers by his extraordinary intellectual perspicacity and his remarkably loving disposition. In addition to formal education, he learned Vedas and scriptures from his father and with his innate capacity to synthesize the best of traditions from the oriental and the occidental, Sri Krishnamacharya grew up into the legendary figure he was to be - a liberal minded traditionalist. Unbothered by considerations of fear or favour, he always did what he felt was right. What struck people most about him was his unruffled equanimity. The key to his charismatic personality may be said to be the aura of love experienced by everyone in his presence. He never neglected his duty to his family. By treating the entire society as an extended family and by spending every minute of his life in selfless service, he achieved a rare objectivity that helped him to operate from universal consciousness rather than from ego controlled attachments. As a true disciple of Master C.V.V. (who said Prana Treat, Yoga Teach) he too made it his lifes mission to help people by curing their bodily ailments and edifying their minds through instruction in the yogic path. A healers objective, unlike that of a doctor, is not merely to remove the immediate cause of pain but to set right, to make whole the impairment to the psyche caused by the onset of disease. As mental aberrations and emotional disturbances play an important role in disturbances play an important role in affecting the psyche as physiological imbalances, Master E.K. believed in diagnosing and treating the sickman, not just his current symptoms of sickness only. He established "Master Homoeo Clinics not only at Visakhapatnam but in many other towns in Andhra Pradesh and made annual visits to all of them despite his busy schedule. The way he could stretch the twenty four hours to make room for his varied activities classes, lectures, dispensing medicine, going on national and international tours, authoring hundreds of articles and books besides bringing out every month three journals - two on spiritual matters and one on homeopathy is really amazing. His students consisted of men and women from all age groups and all racial and

religious denominations. His mode of teaching was more in the nature of initiating and awakening to a higher plane of consciousness than a mechanical imparting of information. His explication was always of inner significance not of outer facts. Discerning readers rightly see his writings, not as books but as keys to the hitherto hidden esoteric truths in our scriptures. Master E.K.s Mandra Scripture, a retelling of the Bhagavad Gita as a symbolic rendering of the cosmic drama of creation, of Nara---man-in God, receiving divine succour from Narayana God in man, can be cited as a typical illustration of this. Equally revelatory is master E.K.s spiritual Astrology that explains the mystic link between man and universe and their synchronic emergence as the micro and macro manifestations of the same background divine consciousness. As a highly evolved soul chosen as a Channel by the Himalayan Masters, Sri E.K. had mastery of many occult powers. The recorded evidence we have of his distance healing, of his accurate prediction of events ranging from the construction of a hydroelectric plant at Srisailam to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the knowledge he had of peoples lives in previous incarnations, his uncanny ability to work tirelessly without food and sleep and yet appear fresh prove beyond doubt that he is no ordinary man but a great soul who has taken human form for a specific purpose. Master E.K. was acknowledged to be an expert astrologer whose accurate predictions were made against the backdrop of transjanmic cause - Effect cycles. His greatness lies in suggesting appropriate prayers to ward off bad karmic carry overs from earlier births. Eyewitnesses recall how, a householder, heartbroken at the early death of all his children implored Master E.K.s help and was told that he was a hunter in his previous birth and had mercilessly killed a pregnant deer. It was that deers curse, Master E.K. explained to him patiently, which was responsible for all his children dying with the entry of Mrigasira in their horoscopes (Mriga means deer). Master E.K. made the man perform poropitiatory Homams that eventually bestowed on the man the boon of fatherhood he had been yearning for from a long time. Even after his discarding the physical body on March 17, 1984, Master E.K.s benign presence is still experienced by hundreds of his devotees during meditation time and in the hour of need when they call out to him. A competent teacher, a kind hearted healer, a dedicated educationist, Master E.K. was a nationalist without chauvinism, spiritualist who knew how to be highly religious without yielding to any particular dogma. Master E.K. not only gave Homoeo medicine free of cost in his clinics, he never hesitated to visit patients unable to come to him. His smiling face and caring concern soothed his patients while the medicines he gave cured them of their physical as well as psychological disorders. Fearless championing of the best in Indian Tradition, its sanatana dharma in particular may be said to be the crowning glory of the multifaceted personality of Master E.K. What is of interest to note however is that Indian thought being so all embracing and Indian world view so magnanimously tolerant, a true citizen of India cannot but be a loving citizen of the world. That is why master E.K.s masterly fusion of national spirit and cosmopolitanism have rightly made him win wide acclaim not just as an eminent

Andhra Man or an Indian but as the native of a world without borders, a radiant ray of God, the universally beloved Cosmic Man. l