Biography is 'becoming'. That becoming can be visualized through the
sharp eyes of others. Wrinting one's own bio is beating one's own drum in finer tunes. But my drum
is without a drumhead; how then could I beat it?
Satyajit Mukherjee (b.1949), a mere name in a crowd of a billion. A man of less capacity than the
average ordinary man because he is a born child, as it took him a good fifty years to realize that
a child is destitute and dependent in the ocean of lust. Only the mother can fulfill desire if a
child is passive to others and totally surrenders to others.
Being a Hindu and after diksha in youth, the philisophical conviction grew in him that people
live their lives to fulfill sankalpa and vikalpa, desires are born, which burn the
life force. Thus the human being is chained to the cycle of birth and death. Desire for salvation
or no pain, only joy, made him aimless. On one such aimless mission, he tried to reach China through
Nepal. Joining a monastery in Katmandu, he was surprised to meet a Chinese monk who asked for solace
and guidance from him, so that he could flee the monastery. A born child returned home.
Counseling by Gurudev Sree Chaitanya Dev Chatterjee (the revivor of Sree Vidya, the Tantra
drawing process) led him to practice the search for the Mother Power through drawings. But nothing
attracted him except the nomad's life. In the meantime, he obtained a bachelor's degree, a certificate
in library science and started working in a paint manufacturing factory. As he was a wanderer by
nature, his parents got him married. He continued on occasion to set out for lonely places, crematoriums,
river jungles, sea shores, remote villages and temple shrines, all the time of course practising the
Sree Vidya, the Tantra drawings and Yogamudra. Also in the meantime, he got a
job as Librarian in a government-sponsored rural library. As the intensity of bohemian life increased,
he tried playing sitar, acting in drama and theatre troupes, pantomime, writing and choral
singing. He also made trips to iron ore mines, bicycling sometimes distances of 400-800 km. A
boul by nature, the thirst for knowing the self made him roam about remote villages and
wander the streets of Calcutta and its suburbs. He walked 130 km. through the virgin beaches of
coastal Andhra Pradesh and took part in a mountaineering trekking expeditions in Garhwal, Kumaon
and Sikkim Himalayas. He climbed the peak Vanoti (5645 meters), sometimes descended 1700 meters
beneath the earth's surface in coal mine pits. And so went his endless journey in Sree Vidya
drawing and Yogamudra meditation. One one new moon night, while on meditation, he experienced
the state of laya (non-being), and in Sree Vidya drawing, he revealed the Mother
Power as the vital, rhythmic force, who is the creator of a nomad and the universe or a child and
his mother.
Thus Sri Satyajit remains a child to understand the mystery of how a mere name in a crowd of a
billion, with less capacity than the average ordinary man, knowing nothing, almost a non-entity,
suddenly gains identity to be read by you, the great soul. Om Shanti!
