Soul Connections with Shivabalayogi
Stories and Articles on
Shri Shri Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
and His Devotees
About Shivabalayogi — in Brief
Swamiji, as he generally referred to himself, meditated in
samadhi (enlightenment) for twelve years. He emerged in 1961 with all the
powers inherent in Self-realization. For three decades he traveled
throughout India and Sri Lanka, then from 1988 to 1991, he visited England and
the United States. Everywhere he gave darshan (the transforming effect of
his spiritual presence) and taught meditation.
He gave no lectures and
wrote no books. Instead, he taught through experience, encouraging all to
know the truth directly. By his own count, he gave his gift of initiation
into meditation to over ten million people. He healed bodies and minds and
generously evoked various states of divine ecstasy during spiritual song.
When asked what his mission was, he typically answered that it was to reduce
tension in the minds of people.
He dropped his physical form on March 28, 1994, and his sacred body is interred a few feet from where he sat for almost all of his twelve-year meditation, in the ashram in the small, south Indian village of Adivarapupeta.
He is in mahasamadhi, the great samadhi without a mortal body. Devotees and disciples continue to experience his presence in dreams, meditation, visions, spiritual trance and all the various other ways he was present physically.
Shivabalayogi on Puget Sound, 1990.
This is among my most favorite photos. As I took the picture, Swamiji suddenly lunged
towards the camera
and gave this beautiful smile.
Shivabalayogi has a soul connection with devotees. He said we are like his children. Get to know some of your spiritual brothers and sisters in Soul Connections. Reading about their experiences with Swamiji is having him in your presence.
Shivabalayogi’s own life is an example of what it means to be Self realized without any sense of personal ego, what Swamiji called an Agent of God.
Bhava, bhava samadhi, and spiritual trance are part of the path of devotion, bhakti. Swamiji’s own explanation, when he gave one, was that bhava is through the presence of higher spirits.
A description and some comments on the Yoga Vasishta Mayaramayana, the spiritual treatise that Shivabalayogi recommended and Ramana Maharshi often quoted.
Shivabalayogi is in mahasamadhi, the great samadhi. The Living Yogi explores many ways in which a yogi continues his mission of evoking spiritual experiences, enlightenment and understanding.
Detailed information on Shivabalayogi is available at the websites devoted to him:
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The Shiva Website |
The Shivabalayogi Website |
Shivabalayogi Currents |
Handloom Publishing |
Books on
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