About

I have been a management professional for 35 years.

I was a young man with an interest in science and sports. The family culture was like that of a normal Hindu family in north India and there was nothing overly religious about us. Worldly ambitions were the same as of an average man in a middle-class family.

In 1984, just before starting my professional career, I met a serious accident and was bedridden for months together. A close friend of mine gave me a book to read to kill my time. The book (What religion is) was on Swami Vivekananda, about whom I had no great interest or knowledge till then. In short, the very introduction by Mr. Christopher Isherwood ( I hope to remember clearly) was so enticing that it got me curious about Swamiji. That was the beginning of my new life.

Despite being in responsible positions, I always took out time almost on daily basis to read philosophical literature. With time my curiosity expanded to other exponents of the field like Osho, Swami Chinmayananda,  Swami Prabhupad, and many others. The topics covered also varied drastically to understand the truth behind all these pieces of literature which were not only different but also sounded contradictory at times then. It went on for years.

Certain extreme upheavals in life made me compare the facts of real-life with the philosophical teachings I had gone through till then. It was a difficult choice but I persisted without budging from the truths of philosophy,  only to assess the validity of the teachings I had learned so far. It was tough going for years at a stretch.

Maybe destiny had something different for me in the store. In 2005,  at the peak of my sufferings, I came across my Guruji who not only cured my all physical ailments (I was about to die) but also answered all my accumulated curiosities and unresolved questions of life I had spent. It was a new beginning.

 But I took him to be only a learned man who had certain psychic powers. I was impressed and at the same time confused to understand the way he handled problems of all kinds for everyone who visited him. He never wore a religious garb and lived the life of a householder as a perfectly normal man. But there was something mysterious about him that kept me in his company for 12 years. I was still active in my professional life but mentally I was more inclined towards extracting as much as possible about the scientific basis of religion and spirituality from him. It was still a knowledge-based exercise and nothing more for me. 

Then a fresh phase of life-shaking events started. The shattering of family ties, drastic emotional upheavals, job loss, sale of the parental house, acute physical ailments and whatnot, continued for a long span of time. He was the only ray of hope at that time to sail over the situations. He would always talk about my problems jovially as if he was aware of the reasons for such things (but never told me not to scare me).  All along there were prescribed ceremonies and activities which I performed sincerely.

He passed away in August 2017. The roller coaster of life was at its peak at that time. I felt like an orphan with lots of physical ailments like sciatica, obesity, knee pains, and much more. There was no one to come by. I was left alone in life. But his last words were like inspirations and insights for me about my future life. 

Suddenly, within months in the year 2020, I lost around 35 kgs of weight and became physically agile like a young man at the age of 57 years. To my surprise, the things, especially the medical complications I had, vanished in course of time without any medical aid or physical exercises. All emotional issues also subsided without medication and my mind became quiet and cheerful without any reason. I was beginning to live a new life.

Possibly, I was being made to read the facts simultaneously on the internet all along. I could correlate the symptoms with " Dark Night of the soul" and with kundalini's awakening. But the verification of those facts took place in late 2020. 

I had never thought of writing or sharing anything with anyone. But the onset of "Covid-19" restricted me to home and made me think of doing something different and creative. The result is this blog through which I am trying to share, in layman's terms, whatever little I could understand in life.  

Giri