We call him Bhaiya which means ‘Brother’; his official name is Vijay Kumar Deutale, originally from Nagpur in Maharashtra. He was tall, lithe, bespectacled, and bearded with a predominantly gray tint. It had a baritone that was always pleasant and comforting to the ears. I don’t remember ever getting angry or raising his voice. He was always smiling, sometimes bursting with pure, flowing laughter and joy. We had known Bhaiya since 2003, and for all these years he had been our spiritual guru, family friend, and philosopher-guide in whatever he chose to talk about us or asked him to answer our probing questions. It rips a part of our heart and soul to say that it no longer exists.
Vijay Kumar Deutale worked as a civil engineer in the Maharashtra government. In a quest to further explore life and the meaning of life, he voluntarily retired a few years ago and began doing his personal work more intensively alongside a stint at a private construction company in Dubai for some time. He then returned to India, and around 2017-18 began experimenting with the drug supply chain. He had made good progress in this line, the work was done mainly online, keeping only a very limited number of close collaborators. Also during the blackout period, he went ahead with his online activities, only perhaps missing his daily outings, mainly to his closest friends who had been his beneficiaries: in terms of advice and spiritual guidance.
Like Gautama Buddha, Bhaiya also left his family and relatives at a very young age, took the course of meditation and spiritualism, and made his life a success for himself; only he never married. His parents and siblings never approved of his ways and, in a way, completely disowned him. Bhaiya had lived alone ever since, and had succeeded in his materialistic career as a civil engineer when he bought his own flat in a central Mumbai suburb a few years ago, and had been living alone there ever since.
He was all in his divine elements, like a living god, and he was actively mentoring and guiding his limited friends / associates / colleagues when a mutual friend introduced us to Bhaiya in Mumbai. In the days after the presentation we used to feel his presence constantly with us, and particularly at night I felt him walking through our house, perhaps to study us in all the details. He confirmed his out-of-body experiments when I asked him about his night rounds. With the help of my fairly intuitive nature and my active alpha thinking, I began to have ethereal-type experiences: Bhaiya helped me delve into people’s minds, the ones that concern us, or even find what was wrong, by reading messages. speechless emitted by living people in various ways, feeling the presence of good or bad spirits at times and discovering what the immediate future holds for us or our friends and family. Whenever we asked him about our future or the rationale for certain future plans, he would partially close his eyes, roll his lids, and then embark on non-stop counseling and prediction of the future, never ready-made solutions, but forms subject to severe problems. conditions or dedicated efforts. Truly spiritual, he never recommended stones or jewelry or talisman or anything to wear.
Vijay Kumar Deutale started his own technique of spiritualism and meditation thanks to his incessant forays into this mysterious and invisible sphere. His greatest endeavor was to eliminate negativity from the body and mind, purifying the body and soul. He never cared about what people eat or wear, but he emphasized on proper meditation to get rid of negativity. His meditation technique consisted of selected mantras, depending on the people under consideration, which had to be chanted for a designated period of time, preferably every day. The song can be strong at first; With practitioners gaining command, chanting may be only by moving the lips, and in the desirable end goal, chanting should be done silently, without even moving the lips. Depending on the life goals of the practitioners, there may be goals such as health or success in work / projects or in relationships assigned to mantras, which means that the positive energy emitted through chanting can be channeled for the achievement of goals. These goals can be realized by making certain promises that will be assigned to the chanting of mantras.
His technique was fraught with grave dangers. Bhaiya used to tell us that if someone succeeds in eliminating his negativity, all that negative force bounces back on him, the creator of the process. We were horrified by this fact – the kind of negativity he must have about himself thanks to all of his beneficiaries. Of course, at his highest level of spirituality, he was quite capable of getting rid of such forces with ease. However, another fact remained. The negative forces impacted his physical body. For a couple of years, he was dealing with a persistent problem in his left leg up to his thigh, constant swelling and pain. He said that this was due to all the forces that he himself had received. Perhaps this integral part of his method partially explained why his physical body so suddenly ceased to exist.
Vijay Kumar Deutale also knew this probability. On several occasions he told us that his divine guru, somewhere in the Himalayas, used to send him errands, what to do or who to enlighten next. Coming to us, he said, was a divine message and this was perhaps one of the last errands he had left. As events show a few years after our initiation, Bhaiya began to gradually reduce his divine practices / counseling, stopping him almost completely after his voluntary retirement and his stints in various earthly jobs. Also on many occasions, he used to warn us that he could suddenly disappear at any moment and therefore we or all the people enlightened by him should try to use his knowledge fully and quickly.
Yes, we were amazed at his immense knowledge of just about anything. Without any formal period in music, I used to tell my wife Ragini about the deepest and most intricate things in music: in all its forms, from the purest classical to the most modern, theories or practice or whatever. He also wrote devotional lyrics to be tuned and sung. Unfortunately, like most normal human beings, we had not been able to take full advantage of his knowledge: in many respects we were unable to follow his path with devotion, and in many practical jobs we were unable to proceed as he wished. However, only your physical self is gone, we still hope to continue acquiring the knowledge and wisdom of your ethereal self.
On the night of June 13, 2020, she felt unwell with a severe stomach ache and reported to her closest associate, a doctor who resides in Nagpur. According to the doctor’s instructions, a neighbor admitted him to a Mumbai hospital. Doctors reportedly found a hole in the intestines and a septic system that was spreading throughout the body, affecting all organs. He had to receive respiratory assistance a day later. He passed away on June 16, 2020. No clinical theory can explain his death. He left his physical form on divine errands.
And we learned of this four months later, through the same mutual friend who introduced him to us in 2003. It is now believed that he gave instructions not to inform anyone except a certain family about his passing. This is most likely due to the fact that he felt the misery of his close people during the long confinement, and he never wanted to further distress or depress them for as long as possible.
Vijay Kumar Deutale, Bhaiya, had been a down-to-earth person, never resorting to the luxuries of life and always living like an ordinary man. He never made a living from his divine feats or made money from them; He traveled to everyone’s house when requested on his own, taking local trains or city buses. And he had always been averse to publicity, asking 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: tell people about him or not. He wanted to tell his story, desperately. Perhaps, in my meditation one morning, after a very long pause, there was an abstract communication with his soul that seemed to allow me to achieve my goal. People, perhaps a limited number of them, should know about him and be inspired by his life. He is a celebrity in the field of spiritism, a silent crusader, and I am privileged to be able to let people know it.
