Homage To A Spiritual Guru: Vijay Kumar Deutale!
We call him Bhaiya
that means ‘Brother’; his official name is Vijay Kumar Deutale, originally from
Nagpur in Maharashtra. He was tall, lithe, bespectacled and bearded with a predominantly
grey tinge. He had a baritone that was always pleasant and soothing to the ears.
I don’t remember him ever getting angry or raising his voice. He was always
smiling, at times bursting out with free-flowing and pure laughter and
merriment. Bhaiya had been known to us since the year 2003, and all these years
he had been our spiritual guru, family friend and philosopher-guide in
everything he chose to speak about us or we requested him to provide answers to
our inquisitive questions. It wrenches away a part of our heart and soul to say
that he is no more.
Vijay Kumar
Deutale was working as a civil engineer in the government of Maharashtra. On a
quest to explore life and meaning of life further he took voluntary retirement
a few years back and started doing his personal work more intensively along
with a stint in a private construction firm in Dubai for some time. Then he
came back to India, and around 2017-18 he began experimenting with the medicine
supply chain. He had been progressing well in this line, work mostly done online,
keeping only a very limited number of close associates. During the lockdown
period too, he was going ahead with his online activities, only perhaps missing
his daily outings, mostly to his closest friends who had been his beneficiaries:
in terms of spiritual advice and guidance.
Like Gautam
Buddha, Bhaiya too left his family and kin very young in age, took the course
to meditation and spiritualism, and made his life a success on his own; only
that he never got married. His parents and siblings never approved his ways and,
in a way, disowned him completely. Bhaiya had been living alone since then, and
making a success of his materialistic career as a civil engineer as he bought
his own flat in a central Mumbai suburb a few years back, and had been living
alone there since.
He was all in his
divine elements, like a live god, and was actively counselling and guiding his
limited friends/associates/colleagues when a common friend introduced us to Bhaiya
in Mumbai. In the days after the introduction we used to feel his presence
constantly with us, and particularly during the nights I felt him treading
around our home, perhaps to study us in all details. He confirmed his
out-of-the-body experiments when I asked him about his nightly rounds. Aided by
my rather intuitive nature and active alpha thinking I started having experiences
of the ethereal type: Bhaiya helping me to delve into people’s, the ones
concerned to us, minds or even bodies to find what was wrong, reading wordless messages
emitted by living people in various ways, feeling the presence of good or bad
spirits at times and find what the immediate future holds for us or our friends
and kin. Whenever we queried him about our future or the justifiability of certain
future plans, he used to close his eyes partially, his eyelids flapping, and then
embark on a non-stop counselling and future-telling, never readymade solutions,
but ways subject to severe conditions or dedicated efforts. Truly spiritual, he
never recommended stones or jewels or talisman or anything to wear.
Vijay Kumar Deutale
initiated his own technique of spiritualism and meditation thanks to his relentless
forays into this mysterious and invisible sphere. His utmost thrust was on removing
negativity from body and mind, making the body and soul pure. He never bothered
what people eat or wear, but emphasized on proper meditation to rid negativity.
His meditation technique consisted of selected mantras, depending on the people
in consideration, that had to be chanted for a designed time-period, preferably
every day. Chanting can be loud in the beginning; with the practitioners
gaining command chanting then can be through only moving of the lips, and at
the final desirable objective chanting must be done silently, without even
moving the lips. As per the goals in life of the practitioners there can be
objectives like health or success in work/projects or in relationships assigned
to the mantras which means that the positive energy emitted through the
chanting can be channelized for the accomplishment of the goals. The said goals
can be materialized by making certain pledges to be assigned to the mantra-chanting.
His technique was
fraught with grave dangers. Bhaiya used to tell us that if someone manages to
remove his/her negativity the whole of that negative force bounces back on him,
the originator of the process. We were appalled by this fact: the kind of
negativity he must be bearing on himself thanks to all his beneficiaries. Of course,
at his supreme level of spirituality he was very much capable of throwing off
such forces with ease. However, one other fact remained. The negative forces
did impact his physical body. For a couple of years, he was tackling with a persistent
problem on his left leg up to the thigh, constant swelling and pain. He said
this was due to all the forces he had been welcoming on to himself. Perhaps,
this integral part of his method partially explained why his physical body ceased
to exist so suddenly.
Vijay Kumar
Deutale knew about this probability too. On various occasions he told us that
his divine guru, somewhere in the Himalayas, used to send him errands, what to
do or whom to enlighten next. Coming to us, he said, was a divine message and
this perhaps was one of the last few errands left for him. As is proved by
happenings a few years after our initiation, Bhaiya started reducing his divine
practices/counselling gradually, stopping it almost completely after his
voluntary retirement and his stints on various earthly jobs. On many occasions
too, he used to warn us that he might vanish suddenly anytime and therefore, we
or all the people enlightened by him must try utilizing his knowledge fully and
fast.
Yes, we were
astounded by his immense knowledge of almost about anything. Without any formal
stint in music he used to tell my wife Ragini about the most profound and intricate
things in music: in all forms, from the purest classical to the most modern, theories
or practice or anything. He also wrote devotional lyrics to be tuned and sung. Unfortunately,
like most normal human beings, we had not been able to gain from his acquaintance
fully: on many aspects we were not able to follow his path devotedly and on many
practical jobs we could not proceed as he desired. However, only his physical
self has gone, we still hope to go on acquiring the knowledge and wisdom from his
ethereal self.
On the evening of
13th June 2020, he felt unwell with a severe stomach pain, and
informed his closest associate, a lady doctor residing in Nagpur. As per the
doctor’s instructions a neighbor admitted him in a hospital in Mumbai. The doctors
there reportedly found a hole in his intestines, and a septic that was
spreading throughout his body, affecting all the organs. He had to be given
ventilator support, a day later. He passed away on the 16th June
2020. No clinical theories can explain his demise. He left his physical form on
divine errands.
And, we came to know
about this four months later, through the same common friend who introduced us to
him in 2003. It is believed now that he issued instructions not to inform
anyone, except for a certain family, about his demise. This was most probably
due to the fact that he sensed the misery of his close people going through during
the prolonged lockdown, and he never wanted to distress or depress them further
as long as possible.
Vijay Kumar Deutale, Bhaiya, had been a down-earth-person, never resorting to the luxuries of life and always living as a common man. He never made a living out of his divine prowess nor earned money from it; he traveled to everybody’s house whenever requested on his own, taking the local trains or the city buses. And, he had always been publicity-averse, requesting us never to create any form of publicity about his activities and powers. This directive from the spiritual guru put me in an existential dilemma: to tell people about him or not. I wanted to tell his story, desperately. Perhaps, in my meditation one morning, after a very long break, there was an abstract communication with his soul which seemed to permit me on my objective. People, maybe a limited number of them, must know about him and get inspired by his life. He is a celebrity in the field of spiritualism, a silent crusader, and I am privileged to be able to let people know about him.
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