At the feet of the Universal Master in the meditation cave.
At the feet of the Universal Master in the meditation cave. I have known the cave since my youth, since the mid-1980s, but for reasons unknown, I never visited it again, because I used to stay as a hiker and speleologist in that slope massif in the Údolí Říčky nature reserve in the vicinity of the caves called Pekárna, Kůlnička, Trampů and Slezákova díra. In fact, the cave called Adlerova seemed relatively uninteresting to me in my caving youth, as it is considered – together with the nearby lower situated cave called Křížová – to be just a clogged paleo-resurgence of water from the nearby Kamenný žlíbek valley. But the situation is completely different now. I recognized, as a monk and hermit in my meditation, that it was a holy cave, consecrated by a prehistoric man who resided there in complete seclusion when the main tribe lived in the cave Pekárna. From that great seclusion, the very difficult accessibility in the rocks, and also from the morphology of the underground space, I conclude that holy men, shamans, lived there, for they seek solitude, which is a universal principle of all of us spiritual people in the Universe. Adlerova cave is therefore very likely a shamanic cave; it is quite small in size, sufficient for only one or two inhabitants. Currently, with the approval of the Administration of the Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area, I am beginning to devote my solitary meditation, prayer, mantra japa, as well as other yogic spiritual sadhana in this sacred ancestral cave, for there is what I call “Himalayan solitude”. This is a symbolic tie to the holy men – shamans who probably lived in this cave. I will hopefully be able to reach their Universal Soul imprinted in that inaccessible underground space in the form of an aura. It is also an interesting cave in terms of archaeology. Archaeologists reported the discovery of Magdalenian finds in the cave in the loess with two carbonaceous layers, with Holocene finds in the overlying strata. Of the animal bones, the reindeer predominated, followed by the bear, fox and hare. Two mammoth metatarsi are also reported. The signs of settlement were mainly found by the entrance. Burins and blades with blunted sides were found to predominate over end scrapers, followed by borers (53 formal tools in total). Also found were a chisel-shaped spear base, a smoother, cut stalk and antler splinters, a Tertiary shell and a pierced animal tooth. This is all that has been discovered by archaeological research, which has focused primarily on the tangible aspects and failed to take into account the spiritual dimension of the occupation of this alleged shamanic cave. Nowadays, this remote and hidden cave is visited only sporadically by backwoodsmen, scouts and hikers, with occasional cavers wandering in, who can find what they rarely find anywhere else; a glimpse of the eternity of natural mysticism, woodcraft – forest wisdom and romanticism. I ask you, who read these lines, to respect this seclusion of mine, which I speak of publicly, in the good faith that no one will take advantage of it against me, and that you do not visit me out of mere curiosity to see a holy man. I am not interested in any publicity. Otherwise, I would have to move to another more secret place, probably outside the Moravian Karst. So please do not ever visit or seek me out in Adlerova cave, for I have nothing to offer you. I am not in hiding as some might think, as evidenced by the fact that I provide information about the results of my psychological research. I seek only observation in the cave – that is, solitude for my meditation at the feet of my Universal Master, and of those shamans who lived in this sacred nature reserve in prehistoric times, which nobody knows much about these days. I hope, then, that no one will visit me in the cave.
© Swami Gyaneshwarpuri
E-mail: yoga@gyaneshwarpuri.cz
Web: www.hermityoga.cz
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SWAMI GYANESHWARPURI POUSTEVNÍK
