Q: There are prophets and false prophets – how do you make a difference?
A: Only a false prophet will proclaim himself a prophet. We have a saying in India: respect is commanded, you can not demand it. If your actions are respectable people will automatically respect you. You can not walk around ...
One day my cousin, a retired military officer, came to visit me. At the time I was employing almost 100 people to clean up the area. He calculated day and night, trying to figure out how much it cost to pay for all of this work and kept asking me questions.
Once in the evening he called me aside ...
Man: What is an ideal relationship between a guru and a disciple?
S: There is a shloka in Sanskrit about a disciple and a guru. A disciple is like a son and a guru should treat him as a son. A guru is also like a son, because he also is a human being and he also needs help from time to ...
Guruji: I teach yoga. People study yoga and come to me if they have any problems. I’m glad to show them the right way. I’m happy to help them. I help only those disciples, who are really interested in investigation. I can’t help everybody, it’s just impossible.
We study yoga in all its variety. ...
1. Childhood, youth, college (till he began practicing yoga) (1957-1978). Bhopal, Gwalior
1957, 10 July – Shailendra Sharma was born in Bhopal, India.
1968 – The family moved to Gwalior, India.
1971 – Having a vision: Shiva was looking at him from the ...
It happened near Agra at 1989 approximately. My youngest son and I and some friends came to visit a spiritual act taking place at a thirty-five kilometres distance from a small village of Fatehabad. That village experienced troubles with water, so one man suggested bathing children at ...
I visited Lahiri Mahasaya’s room many times. His great grandson was my friend Bhee Lahiri. He is no more now – he died at the age of more than 90. The vibration in this room was very peaceful. I think he was like that. Very powerful.
We would just sit there for hours. Sometimes we would be ...