The website about Shivabalayogi today
The yogi is a guide to the inner guru
He experienced
samadhi (enlightenment) at age
fourteen.
He
meditated in samadhi for the next twelve years.
There were periods when he did not return to ordinary consciousness for months
at a time.
He emerged from his meditation
on August 7, 1961,
a fully Self-realized yogi.
Shivabalayogi completed this unusually severe spiritual austerity (tapas) not for himself but for the sake of others.
For three decades he traveled throughout India and Sri Lanka, then from 1987, to England and the United States.
Everywhere he gave public programs consisting of
initiation into meditation and
bhajans (spiritual song).
There was never any charge or obligation.
He never lectured or wrote books.
He transformed people by his mere
presence.
He taught in silence.
He often explained his mission as simply
helping people reduce the tensions in their minds.
Although he dropped his physical form in 1994, he remains
The Living Yogi.
His astral presence remains, giving initiation,
deepening meditation,
evoking spiritual trance during
bhajans,
and generally being present in all the ways he had been in his own body,
except that his embodiment is now only us.
Photos of Shivabalayogi during his twelve-year tapas.
“The outside guru guides and shows you the path. The internal guru gives you visions. It is the guru inside who appears to you and gives you darshan. The outside guru is a yogi. The inner guru is God, Shankara Bhagavan. If you pray to Swamiji and then you meditate, God will appear and give you darshan. Swamiji is the agent of God but he is not God.” -- Shivabalayogi
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Quotes from the Source - Shivabalayogi's Teachings A Shivabalayogi reader, arranged by topics, taken from conversations with
Shivabalayogi. Perspectives on the Shivabalayogi Mission Today
An examination of Shivabalayogi's continuing presence |
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Swamiji sends you his blessings.