Shivabalayogi his Tapas

Shivabalayogi experienced samadhi (enlightenment) at age 14. For the next eight years he meditated 23 hours every day, then at least 12 hours every day for another four years. There were periods when he did not return to ordinary consciousness for months at a time.

Such spiritual austerity is called "tapas." He emerged from his 12-year tapas on August 7, 1961, a fully Self realized yogi.

For the next three decades he traveled trhoughout India, and from 1988 to 1991 in the West, guiding millions in meditation and giving physical, mental and spiritual healing. He dropped his physical body in 1994, but his presence even today has a profound effect.

This video is about his 12-year tapas and includes rare photos of him during tapas and color film taken of him in March of 1963.

For a complete list of online videos of Shivabalayogi, see http://www.handloom.org/Video_Shivabalayogi_Online.htmlFor more information on Shivabalayogi, see www.shivabalayogi.org

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[GCHILE]

What is the music at the beginning?!?!

I must know or else this life is not complete!

Help please!

[tpalotas]

@GCHILE It's music created by Madhu Murthy in Seattle on a guitar that he modified with sympathetic strings like a sitar. It's so beautiful, I've used it a theme music on several Shivabalayogi videos.

[Zagreanel]

what is the significance of facing different directions?

[tpalotas]

@Zagreanel It has to do with completion and perfection, but to be honest, I haven't a clue.  Swamiji would say that it would be like playing a vina (a very refined Indian classical instrument) before a water buffalo. I.e., we wouldn't understand.

[tpalotas]

@rolfeder Oh, just a person who spent twelve years in samadhi. In other words, a person who knows from direct experience and not from reading stuff.

[yogikanna]

Hi Hyrshau, Their working are internal. THey raise the consciousness level of whole humanity through their meditation. THeir help cannot be gauged in external level and is unseen, but their help in silence is greater than millions of people giving charity and lecture. Its immeasureable. Peace

[19792403]

@umaanand123 That is quite true..............

[GCHILE]

@tpalotas

Can you please tell me where I can find specifically that one you used in this video?

[GCHILE]

@tpalotas it is beautiful.

I will use it for sitting meditation also so that I may merge with it. It is divine!

[umaanand123]

When you dissolve your ego you become enlighntened. Normal sleep is unconscious but enlightement is conscious sleep.

[umaanand123]

Enlightment in nutshell - we are currently controlled (or) our perception of things are, by our five senses sight, smell, taste, touch, hear [ Basic human tendecies ]. Only if you go beyond those senses, we will be able to see (or) feel things which we cannot talk about now. Now, how do we go beyond senses? Seek a guru - he can guide you.There are lot of fake guru's in the world, so don't use your mind to choose guru, but your intellegence. Read Good books like " autobiography of Yogi" No Space

[megamandroid]

@rolfeder what is enlightenment

[umaanand123]

I see people are discussing about things which are not in their experience, even talking about samadhi & so forth does not give you knowledge about that, so it is best that we practice and experience and then discussing would definetly help the forum. Now, how do we know that we are in samadhi? Sages say that we will KNOW!! How? Only through personal experience. This remains my opinion.