Uncle Lewis & the 3 Magic Words

Uncle Lewis & the 3 Magic Words


Uncle Lewis and Nandhi in London at the time of his MBA graduation.

London and this upcoming event heralding consciousness as on Dec 21^st, the movie premier of 3 Magic Words & Declaration of Consciousness holds a special circle of completion for Nandhi.

When Nandhi was little, around 9 years of age, he longed to meet a “Guru” who could guide him. He was studying in a boarding school, Lawrence School, Lovedale, in India. Nandhi was a loner and he preferred to spend much of his time by himself with nature in the nearby forests within the campus of his boarding school. Deep in him, Nandhi knew that the loneliness he felt was the intense craving to meet someone who could open the doors to another world- a world of completion, stillness and vastness.

This dream would come true soon. Aged 15, during his school holidays, he finally met his “Guru”- Lewis Parker, from London. Lewis had been travelling once or twice every year to India. The object of his travel to India was not very clear even to himself but in part it was a seeking to connect an immense spiritual awakening Lewis had had when he was a child and Lewis felt an strong bond with India through the  travels, through the persons he met and through the ancient connect he had for the mystical wisdom that was in India. It was on one of those trips that Lewis was introduced to Nandhi while in India.

For Nandhi, connecting with Lewis, whom he called “Uncle Lewis” was a turning point in his life when for the first time he could ask philosophical questions and receive profound answers that would point out to a deeper truth that Nandhi had always been seeking. As a “Guru” Lewis enjoyed every moment with Nandhi sharing his knowledge on mysticism and the yogic wisdom that he had always wanted to share and he found an eager student in Nandhi.

Shortly after they first met, Lewis sent to Nandhi a book titled, 3 Magic Words written by U.S Anderson. Lewis and Nandhi would write letters to each other with a perfect chain of immediate replies and the communication was exciting to both due to its philosophical nature and mystical wisdom Lewis had to share and for Nandhi to delve into with more questions and thoughts while having to confront a challenging environment in school.

The book 3 Magic Words, however, for reason Nandhi still cannot fathom until today- was laying unread. Reading was Nandhi’s passion even at that early age and yet, Nandhi cannot understand why he did not read that book given to him by Lewis with so much love and caring.

When Nandhi completed his undergraduate studies in India, Lewis welcomed him to London to do his Masters. Nandhi was happy to do his studies in London where he could see and spend more time with Lewis and experience a newer reality as an adventure. The three years Nandhi spent in London went fast. The deep moments with Lewis; the thrill of being a college student; the inspiration to be a ‘man’ by starting his own business with Lewis as a senior partner mentoring him;  the excitement of experience in being in a new country and meeting; and making so many new friends- made time fly.

It was time to return back to India. For the first time, Nandhi had mixed feelings at the thought of leaving London as he knew he was not going to spend more time with Lewis. Lewis, though sad, did his best to not express it. Instead, he told Nandhi, “A vast new life waits for you. Just be yourself and experience all the great realities you will create!.” Uncle Lewis was like a foster father, a Guru and a mentor to Nandhi and parting ways with Lewis and London was sentimental for Nandhi.

Back in India, Nandhi started his business of exports in granite. He got married to girl chosen by his parents. He was now stuck in his mundane world of a human rat race. He did keep in touch with Lewis by way of letters and phone calls. About two years after his return to India, Nandhi began to sense despair in Lewis’s voice. Lewis had told him over the phone, “You have much to do. You can take as much failures and you will rebound. My life is nearly over.” The phone conversation was followed by a letter he wrote to Nandhi saying, “When I met you, from the first moment I knew you were to do great things for humanity. You are resilient and you will never give up. You have a great future ahead of you.” The tone of Lewis’s message was not normal.

A month later, Nandhi was given the news that Lewis Parker had committed suicide by hanging himself in his home in London. The reason for his suicide was that Lewis felt his life was wasted in London distanced from spirituality and human companionship. He told those around him, “I am wasted in this circumstance. I want to be reborn in India pursuing a life of a yogi”.

The suicide was more than a shock for Nandhi. It broke every foundation of spirituality Nandhi had. Nandhi felt betrayed by life and its illusions. Lewis’s death for Nandhi was a painful awakening that everything about life was unreal and all the philosophy and faith was now meaningless.

Nandhi went to England for Lewis’s funeral. Early in the cold frigid morning, at around 5, Nandhi sat near the book shelves stacked with Lewis’s books. It was painful for him to feel the void of Uncle Lewis. Nandhi held his breath with an intent, “Uncle Lewis, knowing you are here now as Spirit. You just left for whatever reason, but you abandoned me. Is there anything you want to tell me? Appear before me and I will not be frightened. Please show me a sign that you are there. What is my future? I need you to guide me!”.

Just then, Nandhi could hear an inner voice- that of Lewis- say, “I gave you the book 3 Magic Words at the beginning of our relationship. It is beyond my understanding that you never ever read it. There must be divine reasons for this. It is time for you now begin your our journey into the experience of the Divine rather than read about it or hear about it. Your Divine journey begins now.”

Just then, one of books tumbled down the book shelf. Nandhi picked up the book so see what it was about. It was a book about the Hindu Goddesses. Picking up this book to take home, Nandhi started reading the book right away.

In the airplane headed back to India, Nandhi felt a love that was comforting surround him. He started praying to the Goddess, as the various forms he had known through childhood. There was intensely beautiful comfort in this new awareness. His journey into the Divine had truly begun!

It was shortly after this, four months later, that he was taken through his death initiation by his Siddhar Guru Bhairavasekarswamy. The initiation process was through a night; awakening Nandhi through the various deaths of past births and the realization that he was the spirit/soul dwelling in the body. The experience of liberation, the pure joy, the overwhelming bliss of being One- all this was the experience Lewis would mention describing his own awakening as the ‘flash of Kundalini” to Nandhi several years ago- and now- Nandhi was experiencing this huge wake up state. After this death initiation, Nandhi became a yogi, taking the plunge into the spiritual wilderness of India- into the caves, the forests, the shrines- for the next twelve years. This was a journey of transformation that connected him to the various enlightened masters and to the inner most dance of silence and stillness. It was his  deepest desire of childhood coming true, but there was sadness that all this wonderful experience could not be shared with Lewis.

Fast forward in time- eighteen years later in Santa Monica, USA- Michael Perlin, the director of 3 Magic Movies approached Nandhi with a request for an interview for the film. For a strange reason, the name of the movie, the 3 Magic Words did not trigger any memory of the past- even as Michael asked questions pertinent towards the quest within the movie. For Nandhi, the filmed interview for the movie at that time did not seem in any way relating to his past and the name of the movie 3 Magic Words did not connect with the first book of Lewis, 3 Magic Words at all.

It was just recently, September 2012, when Nandhi had a vivid meditation experience of one of the Sages of the past whom he had encountered many years ago that woke up the synchronicities of the past and the now. That Sage had told Nandhi, during a meditative stint Nandhi was undertaking, the essence within yogic pursuit, the seed of realization as in the words- “Tat Vam Asi.

Tat Vam Asi is a Sanskrit word of the highest realization of Sages – “That thou art,” “Thou art that,” “You are that,” or “That you are”. Tat Vam Asi means, the realization of “I Am God!”. (This is another story- for more- http://www.dolorescannon.com/blog/3-magic-words-movie-2/story-3-magic-words-movie-declaration-consciousness-nandhi-yogi/) 

This Sage- in the recent meditation- was reminding Nandhi of a sacred purpose as in time that has come after all the years. The message was the reality of purpose that wasactually happening. It was  only then that Nandhi connected, remembered and realized- it was in the movie 3 Magic Words, with the meaning within the movie- Tat Vam Asi- I am God that has now turned up as an actual reality.

Nandhi also realized that this was the essence of Lewis’s teaching through the book 3 Magic Words that now had been made into the movie!

3 Magic Words, the movie:- http://3magicwordsmovie.com/

This visit to London on Dec 21^st, for Nandhi, is homage to the past as a full circle complete. This visit reckons thoughts as memories of his first Guru Uncle Lewis, the inner journey he undertook with the grace and guidance of all the masters of consciousness and the sacred defined time of awakening for humanity as that of now as realities created.

Declaration of Consciousness:- http://declarationofconsciousness.org/ 

"The intent of all realized and higher conscious beings who lived on Earth had been to plant seeds of consciousness so humanity would slowly but surely realize. These mighty seeds of intent have multiplied as the prevailing consciousness of today as the idea in time that is before us."--Nandhiji

Mastery of Consciousness Teachings, Nandhiji www.nandhi.com
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