Self - Realisation At Five

The Guru is not a person: the Guru is Shakti personified. Param Poojya Swamiji’s life is filled with an amazing range of experiences. HE traveled far and wide, all over India and visited 52 countries around the world. HE is an expert in every task, because HE has not only worked but excelled in a variety of occupations.

Swamiji says that HE was born by the grace of Baba Nityananda, who brought HIM to HIS parents just as Krishna was brought to Gokul.

At the age of five, HE experienced Self-Realisation, which HE describes thus:

"I saw an ocean, on which thousands of little Krishnas were dancing, telling ME that this entire world is just a drama created by God. I cried for a whole day and a night, sad that all these relations of father, mother and so on, really meant nothing.

"In the morning, I saw a large, round, luminous yellow light outside my window. I could see two myna birds and one of them asked the other, "What is this?” The male bird replied, "This is the 'Sarva Vyapta Aatma Jyoti' (the light of the Self that pervades everywhere). And both of them flew off. This was liberation, and much later I would find its proof in the scriptures."


This momentous event took place almost sixty years ago, on the full moon night of the month of Shravan, the day Raksha Bandhan is celebrated (usually in August).