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​I was born and raised in India, am married to a Brit and self-realized here in the UK. I have had the unique vantage point for an in-depth understanding of Indian as well as Western energetic essence. Unlike most Indian gurus or Western seekers/ teachers who visit either culture briefly, catching a fleeting glimpse, I have a unique, if not a one-off, perspective on understanding the Indian and Western programming of the mind.  I am an insider in both societies. This embracing of two very different ways of life profoundly affects what I do. It reflects in how I ignite your awareness of the deepest subconscious obstacles for transformation. I am in a position to synthesise the beauty of both and glean out the pitfalls of either culture.

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Over the past two decades, working with Western clients and students has exposed the collective Western conditioning, revealing subtle nuances within persona, family dynamics, emotions, aspirations, and covert ancestral patterns held within the collective DNA. 

Western spirituality reflects a self-absorbed and confident outlook. The unassuming spirituality is intertwined in daily life in India. Spirituality is a stand-alone thing here in the West, focusing on self-improvement. For thousands of years, India has embraced life as a sacred, integrated process. Whether it’s the ancient Vedic wisdom, the development of mathematics and science, Yoga, Ayurveda or cultural practices, or rituals, everything expresses the eternal truths of existence, inner exploration, and the connection between the mind-body and material and spiritual realms. 

 

The West naturally relies on Indian wisdom for spiritual guidance. The global spiritual narrative has been hijacked by the West, making spirituality a global trend instead of a quiet private quest. A dish that has been cooked slowly over thousands of years is freely available to all. The Internet has floated the illusion of fast-forwarding consciousness, and people have bought into this narrative. The essence is overlooked and rushed here. This pretentious and showy approach has added to the veneer of wisdom, causing more inner chaos and confusion. We now have a spiritual culture without any solid foundation or roots. Humanity must nurture growth from the roots upward.

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 Healing Systems

India has an elaborate ancient healing system that detoxes physical, emotional and subtle energies via breath, diet, physical movement, healing herbs and other methods. But India doesn't entertain the need for healing as such. People are not damaged. Indian tradition understands that people suffer because of the forgetfulness of their Real centre.

Here in the West, there is a real need for emotional catharsis before any real spiritual progress can happen. Western Spirituality has got lost and confused with self-help, therapies, and hands-on healing. No matter how holistic it may appear, healing oneself and others focuses on the damage and shortcomings of the person. The therapy work is all right for specific problems, but it should never be mistaken for a spiritual journey.  It is counterproductive by default. The therapist is looking at lack, damage, and loss, and so is the healer. YouTube is full of videos about attracting clients. Pause to ponder. Keen to attract damaged folks whom they can help. Healers and therapists are vehicles of suffering. They need clients with emotional issues so that they can heal them.  It's the problem-consciousness doing energy work. 

Spirituality and therapy may look the same, but they are polar opposites. Therapy can never take you to peace. 

India's age-old antidote to suffering is to initiate people to remember God and wake up to HIS glorious grace, or invest in Self-enquiry.

 

Self-growth or Self-Rememberance

Forgetfulness of Self causes suffering and darkness in the mind. The programmed mind can never get to a point where it is light and free from suffering. DIY spirituality is concentrated on improving oneself. There is nothing to improve. The programmed mind suffers not because of its inherent darkness, but because it only remembers the programming, and not its true source. There is nothing wrong with the mind, except that it is forgetful of Self.  Millions engaged in self-work should have done the trick. People get deeper into the maze. One has to start remembering. One who knows can remind you, can fish you out of the mind-maze. Knowing yourself does not involve free will, right choices, etc. It just needs a willingness to be free, It needs receptivity to the right guidance. 

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Enlightenment or Dissolving

Although there have been and will always be enlightened beings in India through the millennia, Most Indians do not hanker for personal awakenings. People live a lifestyle touched by grace and progress quietly within their worldly circumstances. Western seekers aiming for Awakening, enlightenment, etc., express their individualistic personality and the ''can-do'' collective mindset that seeks personal achievement in spiritual life. Indian essence is about dissolving the drop into the ocean, rather than the drop becoming special, powerful or awakened.  India leans towards devotion. All personal glory is false and delusional. 

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Living Guru- a portal to higher consciousness

India has a beautiful and benign phenomenon called the Guru. A guru is your innermost core, in the form of a human. A Living guru is humanity's most incredible and effortless transformational force.  Indian spirituality is all about transmission. It is an effortless giving from one who has arrived to the one still seeking. There is no spiritual jargon or spiritual circus involved. The conversation with a true guru is often purely about day-to-day life, Transmission is hidden in the mundane. People go and sit in the presence of a guru, and life starts to simplify. Everyone receives according to their inner inclination. Darshan (beholding their living form or photo, their remembrance or even a mention of their name) causes practical solutions in day-to-day life. Prayers are heard, the sick are healed, marriages are sorted, court cases are judged favourably, new possibilities open, old long-standing problems dissolve, miracles happen, money comes, odd synchronicities, spiritual experiences, People progress in their sleep states. It sounds extraordinary, yet it's common around a living guru.

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True Spirituality is Effortless

 People with a guru don't do rituals or austere practices. They just soak up the presence and, over time, are themselves filled with that essence.  A flame lighting another flame. Their transmission enters you through casual conversations.  There is simply no need for spiritual talk, philosophies or even practices. Hanging out with a living guru, eating and having a jolly good time, and singing God's glories ( Kirtan) is the Indian way to progress spiritually. A self-realized being is naturally, by default, capable of fishing others out of suffering and instilling a sense of deep peace. People who seek a guru's grace are already deeply aware and receptive.  Even those with tight-shut hearts open up and receive. 

 

No Claims of specialness

Self-realized saints act as the faithful servants of the Divine principle. Only fools take Credit.

Guru is a uniquely Indian tradition that is practically unheard of in any other culture. A living guru is one with the Universe/God, and that force flows through them. Their presence helps and serves others, alleviating their suffering and replacing it with peace. No guru will ever mention their extraordinary capabilities, special gifts, or healing abilities because all claims are ludicrous. 

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Heart connection is the magic key

The Indian tradition stresses that true wisdom comes with an open heart, not by reading, analysing and cramming information. Lack of love, trust and a fully developed sense of self can make it tricky for hearts to open. Even a disconnected heart can learn and then regurgitate words of wisdom, but they are empty words. There is an avalanche of bogus wisdom that does not enhance life, only personal glory. We see copious wisdom on social media every day.  This small cog of heart connection makes all cogs turn. Heart connection is the foundation stone missing in most spiritual seeking.  What spiritual journey is possible with a heart that is afraid and unwilling to love, trust and receive?  Reception is impossible. Spirituality is not about learning, but receptivity. The more knowledgeable people are, the less heart connection they have. A simple heart is pure and innocent.  The lack of deep heart connections leads people to talk about love and compassion. People talk of things that are missing.  How often do you think of water? Only when you are parched. Being prosperous has served us in some ways but has impoverished us on other levels. Humanity right now is focused on personal glory via spirituality. When heart-connection is in place, outward spirituality is hardly needed. When the heart is open, humble, and trusting, it becomes mature and ripe to receive. Today's spiritual scene is progressing in the absence of a willing heart. Without a heart, it is a corpse of spirituality. 

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Wisdom is Humility

A living Guru is the vehicle of God's peace and love. Wonderful things happen in their presence. Whoever enters the forcefield starts vibrating likewise. Something at your very centre starts to awaken. A guru feels lowly within oneself. Nanak, the great Sikh Guru, and Kabir, the greatest devotional poet, refer to themselves as 'DASA,' the lowly servant to divine intelligence. That's how gurus are, should be and will be in the true essence of ancient Indian traditions. Some modern teachers seem to nurture strange ideas, rooted in individual power, etc. A true genius knows and unashamedly proclaims that they know nothing. A great Maestro knows and proclaims that they are still novices. These are not just humble words. This is the truth. The more one knows, the more ignorant one feels. The essence of true wisdom is humility. 

 True finder is drowned in the glory of God and utterly devoid of self-glory. The living tradition of India imparts these values to seekers as well as finders. Spirituality is not about shouting from the rooftops. Only A fool takes credit. A Jnani is happily drowned in the great Unknowing.

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Lack Of Guidance

In today's world, there is a growing need to embrace the core principles of India's spiritual traditions to usher in a more pro-life and hopeful environment. The Abrahamic mindset prevalent in the West often fosters a strong "can-do" and entitled attitude. In contrast, the Indian perspective, rooted in Vedic principles, may sometimes convey a sense of inferiority due to its emphasis on inclusiveness, service, devotion, and the idea of a universal human family. Both cultures need to find energetic balance and learn the beautiful traits from each other.

Abrahamic mind interprets obedience, surrender, devotion and service as submission, rather than essential steps to greater strength and freedom. It seems to worship the idea of freedom more than freedom itself.  Copious spiritual cacophony has deeply unsettled people. It was meant to bring calm and clarity. People have become more confused. Mind-guided  DIY spirituality can be dangerous. 

Spirituality is never about making oneself better; it is about knowing oneself. Suffering only stops when you know yourself. 

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​​No seeker transcends suffering without a Living guru

(except those who awaken without any seeking)

Liberation does not come through spiritual practices, rituals, scriptures, yoga, chanting mantras, or any other spiritual circus. It comes solely through the grace of a living guru.

Here in the West, all enlightened teachers, past and present, have a connection to an Indian guru directly or via a lineage to come to Self-realization and teach others. Their connection to India is undeniable. After 25 years of living in the UK, it is still a culture shock that Western spiritual teachers are reticent about the glories of the guru who bestowed on them the ultimate gift, but instead harp on about their own personal spiritual powers. Some energies can roll that way. My liberation came in 2010, from my last guru, the glorious ED MUZIKA 's grace.  Without him, I would still be seeking. 

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Inclusive

The Vedas consider the whole of humanity as one family.  Humanity will become truly human and civilized if it can evolve to a point beyond perceiving 'the other'. One who perceives Self in all beings does not entertain mine-thine; there is nothing separate from oneself. Its not a clever political cultural statement, it is a fact. One belongs to the whole, and the whole belongs to one. This perspective is the highest potential of human evolution. Today's corporate world stresses equality in terms of gender preference and body size, but it is not the same energy as the world-family of the Vedas. This kind of floated narrative diminishes or inflates people's self-importance for some ulterior motive. From a perspective of your true nature, there is no outsider, no other, and that is where love and compassion are not just words but energy in action. 

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