The Spiritual Life of Sri Jagatguru Satyam Mahakaleshwar
This brief autobiography is intended to give the reader a glimpse into the life of Sri Jagatguru Satyam Mahakaleshwar, from the time he started his spiritual search up until he was given the task of helping others to find God.
Chapters
1. Kundalini Awakening
2. I find my Guru
3. My experience of Singularity and a spiritual test
4. I am given a penance to do
5. The Yoga of Lord Shiva
6. Meditating with the great gurus
Chapter 1 – Kundalini Awakening
It was at the age of twenty seven that I experienced the Kundalini awakening. Up until then I had read just one book on the subject of spirituality, and so my understanding of the spiritual life was virtually non-existent.
I woke up that morning and whilst lying in bed slowly coming to, to my surprise I felt a very strong sensation of energy in my tailbone. This energy then proceeded to creep up my spine like a thick snake. I had never experienced energy before and this energy was very strong to say the least. I didn’t know what to do, so I thought ‘what’s the best thing that I can do now in this situation’. The thought came ‘why don’t you put some relaxing music on and try to meditate’. I had recently bought a cd with beautiful meditation style music on so I put that on. At the time I had never meditated before and had no knowledge of how to do it. However, the need was quite urgent so I sat on a chair by my desk, closed my eyes and listened to the music. After a couple of minutes of sitting there, suddenly a flash of light came up my spine, around both sides of my head and up to the top of my head and above. I felt like someone had pulled me up by top of my head by about a foot or two, and then my whole body dropped into a deep state of complete relaxation. Bliss* then filled my whole body, which words cannot describe. I went into the lounge, sat on the sofa and tears flooded from my eyes as the experience I was having was so indescribably beautiful.
As I walked along later that day, I felt like I was two feet taller, floating on air. The Bliss slowly faded away over the following days and I was left with a body that felt very different indeed, as the spiritual energy system in my spine and chakras had been awakened.
I decided to try and find some people who could tell me exactly what had happened to me, so I went to some meditation centres to ask them if they could help me, but I didn’t have much luck with them. One said that what had happened to me happens at the end of a person’s spiritual search and that they didn’t know what to do. The people at the other meditation centre said that I had had a powerful spiritual experience, but after spending some time with them I didn’t find a solution there either.
After this experience I was of course very interested to carry on until I found the answer as to what had happened to me, and I became very interested in meditation. I read a number of spiritual books to try to find my answer, but none of them provided it.
*Bliss is the highest aspect of God that man can experience. The initial experience of God is Peace, which eventually leads to Joy and unconditional love, and then finally Bliss.
Chapter 2 – I find my Guru
For the next year I searched for meditation practices, but it wasn’t until the end of that year that I finally found something that sparked my interest. It was a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda. I scanned through the chapters, read the overview and thought to myself, this person must have the answers about Kundalini that I’m looking for. I bought the book and read the whole thing in a matter of days. I was spell bound by the stories of yogis, and by the feeling that came from reading the words of the Guru. When I read about the meditation that He taught I desperately wanted to learn it, so I wrote off to apply to learn it using the small application form that came in the book. What I didn’t realise was that I bought the Indian publication of the book and so the address that I sent it to in India was for Indians to learn it not Westerners. I waited thinking that the yogis at the ashram in India must be very busy and that they’ll reply when they have a chance. Months went by and I received no reply, so I thought let me see if this organisation exists in the West. To my delight I found a place in London that they gather together to meditate every week, so I went there to see if they could teach me how to meditate. I found myself at a very beautiful and peaceful meditation hall where people were quietly meditating. After the meditation meeting, I asked one of the devotees there if they could teach me the Guru’s meditation techniques. I was told to apply for the written lessons which contain the meditation techniques. The lessons were due to take some time to arrive, but luckily some monks were coming to the London meditation centre to give some talks and teach meditation. I met one of them who was a very nice guy. He told me that as I had applied for the lessons, I could join in with the meditation techniques classes with them and learn them, which I was delighted about!
Very quickly after practicing Guruji’s meditation techniques every day, I found that I was blessed with the presence of God’s Bliss inside me again. This experience grew deeper as time went on, until it was constant. There was never a time that I didn’t feel It, and It was my greatest treasure. I enjoyed meditating for about two hours twice per day for years, as well as practising bhakti yoga as taught by Guruji, which is singing to God with devotion using the harmonium, and through Guruji’s grace my inner experience was expanding.
After a couple of years, my Kundalini started coming up again on its own accord. It was a very strong experience each time, very different to the experience of my normal meditation. On one occasion the Bliss that came from it was so strong I could barely walk.
So rich is the devotee’s life that years went by of happy living. I was completely fulfilled, never wanting for anything, except for one thing – to be able to work for God. I had this strong feeling inside of me that this is all that I want to do and yet this wasn’t available for me to do. I kept thinking that I should be a monk, but it was never something that I felt to apply for at the time.
Chapter 3 – My experience of Singularity and a spiritual test
I decided one day that I would like to go and live by my guru’s ashram in a seaside town in America called Encinitas. I was lucky to have some friends there and was invited by one of them to stay with her.
One day, just before I left to go there, I got a feeling that I should go into my meditation room, which contained the pictures of my gurus and a statue of Sri Ganesh. I sat down and then beheld the presence of my guru Paramahansa Yogananda coming out of his picture. He said that he was going to give me a boon (a Divine gift) which would be a way to help people in their spiritual lives. I felt the blessing that he gave me go into my right hand it and it lit up in a strong Bliss. Then each of the gurus individually blessed me. I left the room and looked down at my right hand to see if I could make the special feeling in my right hand come back again, and I found that I could whenever I wanted to. I found that when I put my right hand on someone and asked for the blessing to happen, a strong energy would pour through my hand into the person and finish after some time. Afterward receiving the blessing people would say that they felt very peaceful for the rest of the day. I started giving this blessing to people at the same time as when I gave them spiritual healing and I still do to this day. This blessing is Divine love, which goes into people to transform them, helping them to advance spiritually.
To go back in time a little before I leave for America, something unexpected started happening to me and Guruji gave me a sign to show me beforehand. Prior to this happening a devotee friend walked up to me one day and said that ‘you need to be strong as steel.’ As this happened in quite an unusual way, I took it to heart as Divine guidance, which turned out to be a saving grace in the coming years. How it all started was; I was sitting in my meditation room with my eyes open and Guruji’s face appeared in front of me very clearly, and so I thought that He must be telling me something. That very day in the meditation room I suddenly felt like I was hit with something strong and very unpleasant. It was negative energy that seemed to come from nowhere and enter into my body, somewhat like I was being attacked. It was of course a shock at the time, but I had been on the spiritual path for enough time to trust that whatever happened to me had been sanctioned by my guru for my own good. A devotee can’t only expect only ‘good’ things to happen to them on the spiritual path, otherwise how would they ever grow and get rid of their karma. I was already blessed with being able to call upon the Divine in the form of the gurus and angels to help me with healing, so I was able to ask them to take the negative energy out of my body and it happened. This ‘attack’ became a daily occurrence most of the time and sometimes multiple times in day. It was also joined by some other difficult experiences that aren’t necessary to go into detail about here, but needless to say it was a difficult time and I had to be strong.
Even though I was experiencing all of these difficulties, I was still inwardly absorbed in the Bliss of God. I learnt that a devotee can go though many difficult things but at the same time still be in a high spiritual state and thus be less affected by what’s happening to them. The difficult experiences that devotees have, must be understood very differently from the usual worldly view, which is often as being a victim of circumstance. The devotee is to understand that everything that happens to them comes from God and guru, and that it is all from their own karma and for their own good to grow. The devotee must have complete trust and faith in this. Nothing can happen to the devotee without the sanction of God and guru. All the devotee needs to do is to keep strong and positive during difficult times and the difficult time will pass after it’s allotted time. Nothing is permanent and so the devotee must keep this in mind when they are struggling with difficulties. When one can’t do anything about a difficulty it is best to ignore it and keep the mind on God. One’s experience is chiefly led by the mind. If you can keep your mind unaffected by your difficulties and concentrate on God then you will not suffer, or if you are not able to do this completely, your suffering will still be greatly reduced.
I carried on with my life as usual, regardless of these things happening to me. It was a period of about two and a half years that all of these difficulties lasted. After some of the other difficulties that I mentioned (which were similar in nature to the one that I have already explained about) lasted for quite some time, I of course wanted them to end so I asked the Divine for help with it. I sat down in the lounge and went into meditation. After some time, a man with white hair and a beard came who I was in fact Sri Yukteswarji, my paramguru (guru’s guru). Deep peace was flowing from Him and Sri Yukteswarji said that this part of what I had to experience was now over. These other difficult experiences never came back after that day thanks to my paramguruji’s blessings.
With a lightened burden I carried on my life happily, although I was still experiencing the ‘attacks’ that I related about earlier. Before continuing I would like to mention that it is common for devotees to expect nothing but good things to happen to them when they enter onto the spiritual path. Whilst God is all light, Love and Bliss, one still has karma to get rid of as well as lessons to learn and tests from God. When a devotee advances in awareness of the Divine within themselves and has a good grasp of the teachings of their guru, they are much better equipped to handle these necessary experiences. God never gives the devotee more than they can handle. So, if you find yourself in the position as a devotee where something is happening to you beyond your expectation, don’t lose faith in God and guru, simply pick yourself up, make your mind a fortress of strength that doesn’t accept any fear or doubt, and accept that what is happening to you is in the hands of God and guru and that it will be ok. This will be the time where you will really need to keep your mind and heart with God and guru, and they will be there even more so than usual to help carry you through the experience. However, you must keep your faith strong.
I travelled to the sunny seaside of Encinitas, where Guruji’s beautiful ashram is, that he lived in toward the later years of his life. Golden lotuses tower above white washed external walls of the ashram, which is situated on the coastal road right by the ocean. I spent a number of months there enjoying meditating in ashram gardens, visiting the beach, giving people spiritual healing and spending time with other devotees. It was a beautiful place to live, full of healthy eating places and almost constant sunshine. During this time, I went to the ashram grounds to meditate with a devotee friend who was on a short visit from England. We were sitting around a tree in a special area for meditation. Whilst I was meditating my consciousness was pulled up from the duality of the world to what can only be described as singularity. I experienced that there is only one existence and that I was that existence. Then as I came down from the experience I was able see how my friend and I are both that same existence, not the separate entities that we think we are. This experience was life-changing for me. It is one thing to read about the oneness of all things, but to experience it is a very different thing. When the experience finished, I was still very ‘high’. We walked to the local café and went up the counter to order some tea etc. I went to ask for some tea and I started laughing for no reason and I couldn’t stop. My friend proceeded to start laughing as it must’ve been catching. I felt so bad for the poor girl behind the counter because there was no rhyme or reason for our laughter. I was in such a high bhav (Divine mood) after the experience of oneness, feeling such inner happiness that laughter just came spontaneously. For a few years after this, I used to get into such jovial moods where I would find some things so funny, (mainly with my friends) that I would start laughing and I wouldn’t be able to stop for a long time even if I wanted to. What a blessing it is to enjoy such laughter.
During that time in Encinitas, I was still experiencing the ‘attacks’ which by then I had gotten used to, but they were still very unpleasant and disturbing and it had been quite some time by then that I had to put up with them.
On one sunny day I was meditating in the ashram grounds facing the ocean, when I was mulling over in my mind the ‘attack’s that I was having and how difficult it was experiencing them for so long. I decided then and there that ‘no matter what happened to me in my life I will continue my search for God.’ I finished my meditation and walked behind towards the way out of the meditation garden. On my way a gentleman who I had never seen before walked up to me, stopped me and said “We have been watching you for some time and we want you to know that you have passed the test.” Without saying anything further he then walked off and I didn’t see him again. For me this was clearly a message from my gurus. It couldn’t possibly be anything else due to its incredible nature. I was overjoyed to hear this and was so thankful to hear this from them. After this the attacks stopped and I decided to go back to live in the UK.
The series of difficulties that I had gone through were the final test that I had to go through. God and gurus wanted to see that I wouldn’t give up carrying on seeking God in spite of all of the difficulties that I was experiencing, difficulties that I have greatly underplayed in my explanation of them here.
Once I had returned to the UK I experienced a new connection with God, whereby I felt everything around me as myself. I could feel everything that was moving around me, such as people, cars, elevators etc as a part of myself. My consciousness had become more expanded and Bliss was coursing through me continuously. The identification with the body and mind had been severed by the grace of my guru. Such identification is the cause of all human sorrows and suffering.
Chapter 4 – I am given a penance to do
The first few years after I found my guru and his spiritual path were extremely blissful and joyful. Learning about the spiritual life and living it was a joy incomparable. After this however, even though my inner experience was still most wonderful and I found the Divine was opening up to me more on the outside as well, difficulties started came into my life. These difficulties I found out later were the start of my penance, and it started around the time when I started spiritual healing, which is going back a little further in time to where we are now in this chapter. All of the difficulties that I have described up until now were a part of this penance, even though I didn’t know until later on.
As the title of this chapter depicts, I was given a penance to do. The purpose of this penance was to help to reduce the mass karma of the world and thereby slightly lighten the difficult conditions that the people in the world are experiencing. As already explained, I had already gone through quite a lot for this penance, but what was in store for me at this point in time was unexpected, as these things mostly are.
I was happily living in my flat, just outside of London for a couple of years, after getting back from America. During that time is when the new conditions of my penance slowly started coming on. The main part of it was that my body very slowly started getting very small tension points in it, which started with my big toe. It meant that my consciousness started very slowly locking up in the body where the tension was. This tension was impossible to release and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it. It slowly started happening in very small places over time, so I became more and more tense. I couldn’t meditate the same anymore as the tension in the body stopped it from completely relaxing. As the years went on the tension spread all over my body, deep inside to the point where some parts were tense like a rock and it made life very uncomfortable to say the least. As a result, I couldn’t relax properly at all as I was continuously tense, and I couldn’t even smile properly as the tension stopped natural expression. This experience lasted for about sixteen years and contributed to the bulk of the penance that I was to undergo.
One day I was walking along the road near where I lived and I got a strong intuition that there is something that I need to know and that I should go into meditation and ask. I did this and as soon as I asked this question a vision of a city was put in front of me. I was positioned far back from the city in the countryside looking at it from a distance. I was told that I needed to buy somewhere far away from the city in nature. I accepted that I needed to do this and kept it in my thoughts. Around that time, I was cashing in an investment which was good timing as I could use it as a deposit for a place. I spent weeks searching online for properties in the countryside. I narrowed my search down to Wales, Scotland, the French Pyrenes and Italy. I found one or two online in France and Italy but in the end it didn’t feel right. I found one in North Wales that looked like it was nestled into a mountain, as there was no normal road at the front or any sign of civilization. This really appealed to me because I was looking for something that felt really immersed in nature. This property was the only one that I kept coming back to in my mind, so eventually I decided to go and see it. I had never been to North Wales before, and so I didn’t know anything about its terrain or much else. I took my mum along for a second pair of eyes and of course some nice company. Much later, after this trip, she told me that she only came with me to talk me out of buying the property. As we drew closer to the property the landscape completely changed. We were deep in the Welsh valleys where there were mountains, lakes, forests and grass everywhere, which I was immediately very taken with. We reached the property after a bit of help from the owner, as it really was what most would consider right out in the sticks. After driving up a steep drive, we reached there and found ourselves in an idyllic spot. There was an incredible view of a lake right ahead of us and the whole property had a 360-degree view of forest, hills, fields and mountains. There were two buildings; a barn and a cottage. The cottage was a pretty building that was just one big shell with no facilities. It had a huge inglenook fireplace in it which was stunning. The barn had a cobbled floor in the main area and another area that had a makeshift kitchen in it with beautiful large Welsh flag stones on the floor. There was an incredible view from the windows overlooking the lake and mountains, but the whole place was uninhabitable. It was essentially an animal barn still. I could really see the potential though and I fell in love with it straight away. Within a week I made an offer on the property and it was accepted. Living there and renovating it was to be my life for some years ahead and it was where I would carry on my penance and also build something beautiful for the future.
There are certain things that have the power to reduce or eradicate the effects of bad karma, and in my case help to help to ease the conditions that had been put on me with my penance. Some of these things are gemstones and pure metals. I was at the London meditation centre one day when a devotee walked up to me, whom I knew but not that well, and he said that I needed to upgrade the inexpensive astrological gemstone bangle that I was wearing at the time. He took his off his very expensive gold and precious gemstone bangle and said “here wear this for a while.” It’s very unusual for someone to lend you an item that would cost so much to buy in such a relaxed manner, especially when they don’t know you that well. I was quite taken back at the devotee’s kindness and proceeded to wear it. Upon wearing it I immediately felt uplifted due to the power of the high-quality gemstones in it. Not long after, my intuition kept telling me that I need to get a new bangle and so eventually I did. It was similar to the one that I had borrowed in that it was gold with the nine precious gemstones in it that represent the planets in the earth’s solar system. This bangle was to help minimise the effects of the penance that I was to experience over the coming time and I was very grateful for it.
Over the next 10 years I lived at the property initially in a caravan for two years and then a further four whilst I slowly finished getting the barn renovated inside. The last four year were mainly living just outside of London. During this time my body got more and more tense as time went on until it became uncomfortable to say the least. One further incident that contributed to my penance was that one day, during the time that I was living in the caravan, I was driving back there from a visit to London. I stopped off at a service station and when entering a bathroom there I felt an unpleasant energy enter my body which was immediately very uncomfortable. I left the service station and l parked my car somewhere nearby to see if I could get rid of it. I managed to get it out but it kept coming back in. After a couple of weeks of trying, I resigned to the fact that this experience was my lot for a while. Having a very tense body with a very uncomfortable energy in it was constantly uncomfortable, which affected me both physically and mentally due to the mind and body being so interconnected. When someone is tense their mind is not relaxed, but the saviour of the situation was that the presence of God as Bliss was always inside of me. I couldn’t enjoy it in quite the same way, but nevertheless it was still there.
After about six years of living in Wales I was told by the Divine that the difficulties of my penance were going to start slowly going. From then on, the tension gradually eased over a period of about seven years. The unpleasant energy also left my body in stages. I was very glad that I had managed to bear the experiences that had come from this penance and of course happy that it had gone. Even though I have described it in a simple way, as with the difficulties that I had previously, I have understated the actual experience of it. It was long and hard, but I found that if you just keep a positive mental attitude and accept what God gives you without complaint, you will be fine. During that time, I decided that I would enjoy my life regardless of what I was experiencing, so I can look back at that time now with mostly smiles, which I am very grateful about.
Two wonderful things were given to me during the time that I was living in the barn in North Wales. The first was to do with healing: One day I was in my lounge and I got an intuition that the Divine was going to give me a new way to do spiritual Healing. More specifically distance healing. Distance healing is where you send healing to a person who is not with you. As mentioned in the earlier chapter entitled Spiritual healing, to do spiritual healing was somewhat of a process for me to do, as it involved going up to a higher level, bringing the person there, asking the gurus and angels to come and heal the person in an operation like fashion, which would take up to an hour. When I sat down this time to find out what I was being given, I was told to simply think of the person that I wanted to send healing to and then say that the healing is going to go to them and it will. The same applied to writing it too; I would simply need to reply to a person who asked for healing and the healing would automatically go to them. I tried this method first on a friend called Chris who had severe back pain that was preventing him from being able to move around properly, and within a short amount of time he told me that to his surprise his back was much better. Not long after, I found that I could also use this method of healing with people when I was doing one to one in-person healing with them. I just needed to say what I wanted healed within a patient and the energy would come through me and heal the person’s physical, mental and emotional problems. With distance healing I decided to do it free of charge and set up an advert on social media for free spiritual healing. I tried targeting a few countries in Europe first and there wasn’t much response, and then I tried India soon after and the response to the advert went very well. I believe that it is because healing is something that is accepted in Indian culture much more widely and so it is appealing to many people there. In the West we are a culture that has been dominated by the pharmaceutical industry and so not as many people are familiar with spiritual healing. I would receive up to about thirty distance healing requests per day from the amount of money that I spent on the advert, and so I sent healing to those people from India every day for years and still do to this day.
The second wonderful thing that was given to me was the ability to give a new spiritual blessing to others. I was at home in the house in Wales, when I was told that I was being given a way to help people with their spiritual lives. It was a spiritual blessing to give to others that will purify their spiritual heart (Anahata chakra) allowing them to advance further on their spiritual path. When I started giving this blessing to some of the people around me, they all had their own experience, but it had a commonality to it. They felt the energy working on their heart, some saying they felt emotions coming out of their heart one by one and then disintegrating, being able to love more freely after receiving the blessing, and some people going into the state of samadhi whereby their consciousness was drawn inside and they experienced complete stillness. It is a wonderful blessing which I give to people in groups online and in-person now.
Guruji had told me many years ago that there was something that I needed to do before I could do the work that I was here to do, but at the time I didn’t know what that something was. It turned out that what I needed to do was to go through the spiritual test that I was given and undergo the penance before I was able to move onto the next stage of my life, which I will describe in the next chapter.
Chapter 5 – The Yoga of Lord Shiva
After staying in India for a number of months, I came back to finish the renovation of the second building in North Wales, which was the cottage. It was during this time that the next stage of my life was given to me.
I was meditating one day and two of my gurus; Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Sri Yuktesawarji appeared to me and told me that they will be giving me something soon. This visitation was accompanied with a strong ecstasy that confirmed that it was a real experience. About a week later, Lord Shiva appeared to me and told me that He wants me to teach meditation. This experience was also accompanied with a Divine ecstasy. Another week passed and then I was inwardly told something that I wasn’t expecting. I was told that I can awaken people’s Kundalini energy. Kundalini is a spiritual energy that lies dormant in the base of the spine of each human being. I was subsequently shown how to awaken a person’s Kundalini and I was given some meditation techniques to teach people once I had awakened their Kundalini shakti.
Soon after this I started awakening people’s Kundalini and teaching them meditation, mainly online through Zoom video meetings. People mostly all had the same experience during the Kundalini awakening; sensations of energy rising up their spine going up to the top of their head to the Sahasrara chakra, their spiritual eye (Ajna chakra) and Sahasrara chakra being awakened, and going into a state where nothing for them exists in that moment except complete stillness.
Third Eye awakening, Kundalini awakening and Shahasrara chakra awakening are the three main awakening blessings of the Yoga of Lord Shiva. During the Third Eye awakening blessing a lot of purification happens within the student. Once the Third Eye is awakened it gives the student the ability to penetrate it and become deeply absorbed in awareness of the Lord Shiva. The Kundalini awakening initiation purifies the student’s spine and chakras making them ready for the Kundalini shakti to enter into their system. Without this purification, the person’s body wouldn’t be able to take the Kundalini shakti properly. Once the Kundalini awakening initiation has taken place the student is able to raise their Kundalini themselves at will. The Sahasrara chakra awakening blessing purifies this chakra making it ready for the third initiation in which you can travel into this chakra and go deep into the awareness of Lord Shiva. The Amrit Mudra initiation is a technique that draws a Divine current through you tongue into your body to highly spiritualise your body and consciousness.
Not long after I was given this work, I was wondering how the students of this path would be looked after. I naturally assumed that my gurus would take this role and that I would simply be a teacher. However, after a while this didn’t exactly sit right me with and the question kept coming up inside me, until one day I decided to ask Guruji “who is the guru of this path?” His answer was that I was to be the guru of this path. No devotee entertains themselves as becoming a guru so I didn’t accept it. So I decided to ask Him “Is this really true?” As soon as I said that I was filled with such strong Bliss that it was overwhelming. This was an affirmative answer to my question. However, even with this clear answer I still hesitated as it still seemed preposterous. So I asked Him again “Am I really to be the guru?” Once more Guruji filled me with an overwhelmingly strong Bliss to confirm this. I couldn’t refute these two experiences so I accepted it, although it did take quite some time to truly accept. Guruji later came and gave me the name Jagatguru Satyam, Satyam in this instance meaning ‘the eternal’.
Sometime later, Guruji told me that I had been a guru in my previous life, and that I had come back in this life to undertake a penance to help with world conditions and then start my work of helping others to know God. A few weeks later, I thought something that reminded me of what a friend (who has highly developed intuition) had said to me about twenty years ago. He told me that Paramahansa Yogananda appeared inwardly to him to tell him something about me. The great guru told him that I had come on earth to do something particular and then after doing it I would go onto doing the work that I had come to do. After my friend told me this, he added that the work that I will be doing in the future will be “something that I would never of thought of doing.” Twenty years later I found myself looking out of my kitchen window pondering that I am to be a guru and I thought to myself “I never thought that I would be doing this”. I then thought how uncanny it was that twenty years ago my friend told me that in the future “I would be doing something that I would never have thought of doing.”
Around this time, I had many visitations from different forms of the Divine as Avatars, Gods and Godesses. I was told that they will all be with me whenever I do my work of helping to awaken others. Lord Shiva came to me on a number of occasions to explain how this spiritual path should be. He told me that He is the primary Deity on this path, and He will bless and awaken the students of this spiritual path. On one occasion He came to me and said “Tell everyone about Me and give My yoga to all.” Straight after this experience the name ‘Yoga of Lord Shiva’ came to me.
The full set of meditation techniques and practices of the Yoga of Lord Shiva were given to me over a period of time. Prior to teaching them to students it is necessary for me to give them certain awakening blessings such as Third Eye awakening and Kundalini awakening, amongst others. There are a number of techniques for the student to practice once they have received these blessings which purify and uplift their consciousness, two of the main techniques being the Om Meditation Technique and raising the Kundalini Shakti.
My experience from my own practice of the Yoga of Lord Shiva, as well as hearing my students’ experiences after practicing it, is that it is a powerful practice full of grace, that takes you into inner absorption of the presence of Lord Shiva when practiced regularly and sincerely.
A great saint called Haidakhan Babaji came to me just as I was preparing to advertise the Yoga of Lord Shiva on a greater scale publicly, and He told me that I am one of the few awakened souls on this earth and that I should use it to help others to awaken. To be awakened means to be one with God or Self (Bliss), whereby the limited body-mind ego consciousness has been destroyed through the grace of the guru and only awareness of the Self remains.
Chapter 6 – Meditating with the great gurus
One day, whilst I was still at the stage of preparing to teach the Yoga of Lord Shiva publicly, I got an intuitive thought that I can go and meditate with the other gurus on this earth. The way to do this was to go there astrally – that is not in the physical body, but in the astral (light) body that all of us have. Within a few days when I started my meditation as usual, I was taken there automatically. I felt myself going up and up until I reached a level that immediately felt blissful. What I saw in front of me was a circle of gurus in meditation, and in front of me was the back of a guru who was the lead guru in the circle as he was covered in golden light. I intuitively knew to move around the circle half way and join the circle where there was a place waiting for me directly facing the lead guru. I took myself there and felt such strong ecstasy when I sat down. I looked ahead and saw the form of Mahavatar Babaji sitting there surrounded in golden light. ‘Maha’ means great and ‘avatar’ means decent from Divinity. Mahavatar Babaji is the avatar who looks after all of the other avatars and gurus on this planet. It is the greatest honour to be in His presence. All around me were gurus seated silently in the depth of meditation. In the middle of the circle was a fire of Light, which I intuited to be the essence of Lord Shiva – Paramashiva.. I prostrated to Mahavatar Babaji, then to Paramashiva and to the gurus around the circle. After coming up from my prostrations I perceived the great fire of Light and It took me up and deeper into what I can describe as the different qualities of God – great Joy, Bliss and Divine love. I went deeper and higher into these perceptions for quite some time. I was greatly blessed to have this experience and felt the purity of Paramashiva. After some time, it felt like to time to leave and so I bowed to Mahavatar Babaji, Paramashiva and the great gurus all around me. I was automatically taken away and back down to where I came from. I was stunned at what had just happened, but still enraptured in the Divine perceptions that I had experienced.
From then on whenever I sat down somewhere private to meditate for some time, I was automatically taken back there to meditate with the great gurus and the The Light of Paramashiva. I perceived that the place where I was being taken to was Kailasa, the heavenly abode of Lord Shiva.
Over the course of about a week, on a few occasions I received blessings from Mahavatar Babaji when I was there. It was also at this time that a profound, life changing event took place. When I was meditating, Mahavatar Babaji filled me with ecstasy that was so incredibly beautiful and told me that He is my guru. I can’t express enough how blessed I felt to be told this, but at the same time I felt a deep pang in my heart as I was very devoted to my guru. After this experience was over, I felt a full connection with Mahavatar Babaji. At the same time the connection that I had had with Guruji Paramahansa Yogananda simply disappeared. I immediately noticed that His presence that used to continually come out of His picture had gone. I also found that whenever I went to think of Him my mind was immediately directed to Mahavatar Babaji. It took a little while to get used to this, but I was newly and divinely uplifted in the grace of Mahavatar Babaji.
By the grace of Lord Shiva and my Gurudeva, all of my students who have been initiated into the Yoga of Lord Shiva are able to go up to Kailasa, where they can meditate with me and other students around the Light of Lord Shiva. Once I have shown them how to do this during initiation, they will be able to go there whenever they wish. The spiritual perception and grace that one receives when they are there is a great blessing.
Love and blessings to you
Jagatguru Satyam Mahakaleshwar
