Guru Siyag, the 84-year-old simple and humble guru from a Jodhpur ashram who prefers reaching out to seekers always only on a Thursday, holds his Shaktipat initiation classes in maidans, in hospitals, and even in jails so that the common man can be initiated into spirituality. The benign-looking Sadgurudev, Ram Lalji Siyag of the Adhyatma Vigyan Satsang Kendra, Jodhpur, says his ashram bears the cost of these initiations and he seeks no sponsorships.
A special mantra
His is a household name in the western Rajasthan belt of Kota, Jodhpur and Bikaner and in most of Gujarat where he travels frequently and extensively. What he advocates is Siddha meditation, with a mantra that he gives you. Thereafter, the path is simple. Meditate on his photo with the mantra. Fix his image on your agya chakra as the centre of dhyan for 15 minutes. The meditation should be done every morning (and evening) preferably after your morning ablutions. It is best done on an empty stomach or a couple of hours after food. The mantra is chanted silently, without lip movement.
Practitioners of Guru Siyag's meditation claim they have been cured of diabetes, blood pressure, and from all manners of addictions; some say they have been cured of AIDS and cancer. Women say their husbands have given up addictions and turned sattvic just on hearing the mantra playing in the background on TV or YouTube .
Guru Siyag, who was born in Palana village in Rajasthan was only three when he lost his father. Because the family was very poor, he ended up in an orphanage, finally joining the Indian Railways as a clerk in Bikaner.
"But although I constantly got spiritual signals, I couldn't find time for Ram - not till 1968," he says.
That's when he got the siddhi of Gayatri Mantra in a dream, meditative state. Soon after, he started reading the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and realised that he needed a guru. So off he went in search of a guru, quitting his railway job. He joined Baba Gangainathji Yogi at his Bikaner ashram. It was only after the death of his Babaji, while at a meditation session, that he received his shaktipat initiation in the form of a siddhi of Lord Krishna. As Sadguru says, he was lucky enough to get both a nirgun nirakar siddhi and a sagun sakar siddhi, all in one lifetime. "And this prasad," he found, "had to be distributed to all."
Science of vibrations
"It's scientific too," claims a follower, development media specialist, Kuldeep Ratnoo who was initiated into this meditation 15 years ago as a student in Jodhpur. The Sadguru instructs him to read out a passage from a book on the positive vibrations of mantra chanting. These can awaken the kundalini shakti of a spiritual aspirant. Sadguru Siyag gives shaktipat diksha through a divine sanjeevani mantra.
During spiritual meditation, the awakened kundalini induces some automatic yogic movements and pranayams to purify the body. "The air that travels upwards from your base to your crown chakra will move to that part of your body that has a bandh or blockage, which will automatically clear," says Sadguru Siyag. "If your kundalini is awakened, there is a transformation in your body cells as an awakened kundalini stimulates and controls your whole system."
"Moreover," he says, "your prana, shareer, man, buddhi or breath, body, mind and intellect - all are then in your control." Not too hard to believe. Scientific studies have also proven chemical changes in the body after just two months of regular meditation. The Dalai Lama has been funding such studies in US universities since years proving that meditation brings about positive changes in the mind.
Guru Siyag is currently holding free Shaktipat diksha ceremonies and Siddha Yoga programmes in the Capital every Thursday.
A special mantra
His is a household name in the western Rajasthan belt of Kota, Jodhpur and Bikaner and in most of Gujarat where he travels frequently and extensively. What he advocates is Siddha meditation, with a mantra that he gives you. Thereafter, the path is simple. Meditate on his photo with the mantra. Fix his image on your agya chakra as the centre of dhyan for 15 minutes. The meditation should be done every morning (and evening) preferably after your morning ablutions. It is best done on an empty stomach or a couple of hours after food. The mantra is chanted silently, without lip movement.
Practitioners of Guru Siyag's meditation claim they have been cured of diabetes, blood pressure, and from all manners of addictions; some say they have been cured of AIDS and cancer. Women say their husbands have given up addictions and turned sattvic just on hearing the mantra playing in the background on TV or YouTube .
Guru Siyag, who was born in Palana village in Rajasthan was only three when he lost his father. Because the family was very poor, he ended up in an orphanage, finally joining the Indian Railways as a clerk in Bikaner.
"But although I constantly got spiritual signals, I couldn't find time for Ram - not till 1968," he says.
That's when he got the siddhi of Gayatri Mantra in a dream, meditative state. Soon after, he started reading the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and realised that he needed a guru. So off he went in search of a guru, quitting his railway job. He joined Baba Gangainathji Yogi at his Bikaner ashram. It was only after the death of his Babaji, while at a meditation session, that he received his shaktipat initiation in the form of a siddhi of Lord Krishna. As Sadguru says, he was lucky enough to get both a nirgun nirakar siddhi and a sagun sakar siddhi, all in one lifetime. "And this prasad," he found, "had to be distributed to all."
Science of vibrations
"It's scientific too," claims a follower, development media specialist, Kuldeep Ratnoo who was initiated into this meditation 15 years ago as a student in Jodhpur. The Sadguru instructs him to read out a passage from a book on the positive vibrations of mantra chanting. These can awaken the kundalini shakti of a spiritual aspirant. Sadguru Siyag gives shaktipat diksha through a divine sanjeevani mantra.
During spiritual meditation, the awakened kundalini induces some automatic yogic movements and pranayams to purify the body. "The air that travels upwards from your base to your crown chakra will move to that part of your body that has a bandh or blockage, which will automatically clear," says Sadguru Siyag. "If your kundalini is awakened, there is a transformation in your body cells as an awakened kundalini stimulates and controls your whole system."
"Moreover," he says, "your prana, shareer, man, buddhi or breath, body, mind and intellect - all are then in your control." Not too hard to believe. Scientific studies have also proven chemical changes in the body after just two months of regular meditation. The Dalai Lama has been funding such studies in US universities since years proving that meditation brings about positive changes in the mind.
Guru Siyag is currently holding free Shaktipat diksha ceremonies and Siddha Yoga programmes in the Capital every Thursday.
SourceL:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/Learning-focus/articleshow/7700678.cms
