SWAMI AMAR JYOTHI
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PRABHUSHRI SWAMI AMAR JYOTHI WAS BORN ON MAY 6, 1928, IN A SMALL TOWN IN NORTHWESTERN INDIA, NOT FAR FROM THE BANKS OF THE INDUS RIVER. MUCH BELOVED BY FAMILY AND TEACHERS. HE SHOCKED EVERYONE WITH THE DECISION TO LEAVE HOME A FEW MONTHS BEFORE COLLEGE GRADUATION, SAYING, I WOULD LIKE TO READ AN OPEN BOOK OF THE WORLD FOR MY EDUCATION, AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN, WITHOUT MONEY FOR MY EDUCATION, AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN, WITHOUT MONEY OR ANY PARTICULAR DESTINATION, HE TOOK THE FIRST HE FOUND, EVENTUALLY ARRIVING IN CALCUTTA, IT WAS 1948, AND THOUSANDS OF REFUSES FROM EAST BENGAL (NOW BANGLADESH) WERE POURING INTO WEST BENGAL EACH DAY. LIVING ON A RAILWAY PLATFORM NEAR THE BORDER OF INDIA AND BANGLADESH, HE SOON HEADED THE ENTIRE VOLUNTEER CORPS THERE, WORKING TIRELESSLY TWENTY HOURS OR MORE EACH DAY. AFTER ABOUT TEN MONTHS, THE FLOOD OF REFUGEES SUBSIDED AND HE RETURNED TO CALCUTTA. THERE A GOVERNMENT OFFICER WHO HAD WITNESSED HIS WORK AT THE BORDER OFFERED WHO HAD WINESSED HIS WORK FOR REHABILITATION OF REFUSES, BUT HE TURNED IT DOWN.
HE LIVED IN CALCUTTA AND LATER ON THE OUTKIRTS OF THE CITY IN A QUIET ASHRAM. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT VISIONS BEGAN AWAKENING IN HIM. HE BEGAN TO MEDITATE, DO YOGA AND ATTEND PUJA (TRADITIONAL WORSHIP) AT A NEARBY TEMPLE OF A WELL-KNOWN SAINT, IN A SHORT WHILE HE KNEW HIS LIFE WORK. AS HE DESCRIBED IT, HE PICKED UP THERE FROM WHERE HE HAD LEFT OFF IN THE LAST BIRTH.
VERY SOON HE TRAVELLED TO HIMALAYA WHERE HE LIVED PRIMARILY IN SILENCE AND PRACTICED MEDITATION FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS, ONE-POINTED ON THE GOAL OF LIBERERATIO. MANY PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE WERE VISITED DURING THOSE YEARS, WALKING ON FOOT MILES EACH DAY. BUT A SMALL CAVE AT GANGOTRI, THE TEMPLE VILLAGE NEAR THE SOURCE OF THE GANGA RIVER, WAS THE PLACE OF HIS GREATEST SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES, AWAKENINGS AND , FINALLY ILLUMINATION.
IN 1958 HE TIIJ VIDYUT SANNYAS INITIATION AT THE HOLY SITE OF BADRINATH, TAKING THE NAME SWAMI AMAR JYOTHI. LATER HE DECENDED INTO THE PLAINS OF INDIA FOR HIS GOD-GIVEN LEAVING HOME, HIS MOTHER HAD NEVER CEASED SEARCHING FOR HIM AND AWAITNG HIS RETURN. IN ANSWER TO HER PRAYERS, HE SETTLED IN NEARBY PUNE, AND THERE FOUNDED JYOTHI ASHRAM.
IN 1961, GURUDEVA ACCEPTED AND OFFER BY DEVOTEE TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES. AGAIN HE TRAVELLED UNKNOWN, THOUGH SOON ATTRACTING MANY WHO HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A HOLY MAN. EVENTUALLY HE WAS PERSUADED BY THE SINCERITY OF AMERICAN DISCIPLES TO ESTABLISH SACRED MOUNTAIN ASHRAM IN 1974, FOLLOWED IN 1975 BY DESERT ASHRAM, BOTH WITHIN TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS, A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT SERVES A VEHICLE FOR GURUDEVA'S WORK IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING ON EARTH THAT GURUDEVA REVEALS IS THE GLORIOUS DESTINY OF MANKIND, ONCE FREED FROM OUR LIMITED IDENTITY OF EGO AND SELF. LOVINGLY AND CEASELESSLY. HE CONTINUES TO UPLIFT AND PURIFY EACH OF US FOR THIS AWAKENING, FOR HIS WAY IS THE ANCIENT RELATIONSHIP OF THE GURU TO THE DISCIPLE, THE CANDLE IT DIRECTLY FROM THE BURNING FLAME OF TRUTH, PRABHUSHRI REMINDS US THAT WE ARE AT A BREAKTHROUGH INTO A NEW AGE WHERE RELIGIOUS WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO DIRECT AWAKENING AND COMMUNION WITH OUR HIGHEST SOURCE. LIKE A MOTHER WHOSE LOVE KNOWS THE DISCIPLE ON HIS OR HER OWN PATH TO PERFECTION, REVEALING IN HIMSELF THE ATTAINABLE REALITY OF GOD CONSCIOUSNESS.
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AFTER FOUR DECADES OF CONTINUAL WORLD-WIDE TRAVELLING, GIVING SATSANGS (SPIRITUAL WISDOM AND INTRUCTIONS ) AND RETREATS, ESTABLISHING ASHRAMS AND GUIDING INNUMERABLE SOULS TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS, GURUDEVA TOOK MAHASAMADHI - CONSCIOUS RELEASE OF THE MORTAL BODY- ON JUNE 13, 2001, LOUISVILLE, COLORADO. ACCORDING TO HIS WISHES HIS ASTI KALASH WAS BROUGHT BACK TO JYOTHI ASHRAM BY DISCIPLES FROM INDIA. WITHIN A YEAR A SAMADHI SITHAL, A TEMPLE IN THE FORM OF A PURE WHITE MARBLE PYRAMID, WAS CREATED FOR PERMANENT CONSECRATION AND WORSHIP. TWO YEARS LATER, IN MAY 2005, HIS WHITE MARBLE LIFESIZE MURTI (SACRED IMAGE) WAS DEDECATED IN THIS SAME SAMADHI STHAL. GURUDEVA BIOGRAPHY IN HIS OWN WORDS, IMMORTAL LIGHT. THE BLISSFUL LIFE AND WISDOM OF SWAMI AMAR JYOTHI WAS PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2004 AND IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE ASHRAMS AND AT TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS ORG, AS WELL AS HIS OTHER BOODS RECORDED SATSANGS, AND THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL, LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
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