Peepal Baba

Peepal Baba

We are glad to announce our fourth speaker for this edition of TEDxIIITD, Swami Prem Parivartan a.k.a Peepal Baba, Founder of the NGO - GiveMeTrees!

Swami Prem Parivartan holds the record of planting the largest number of Peepal trees in India (more than 1 crore), and thus has been given the nickname 'Peepal Baba'.

Peepal Baba started planting trees at the age of 10, inspired by his school teacher. Since then, he still works 24x7 all throughout the year, planting trees, working on organic farming, composting, manuring, and educating and motivating thousands of people to make this world a greener place. The list goes on and on.

Overall, he along with his NGO, GiveMeTrees, has planted more than 20 million trees all across the nation in the last 40 years.

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Know more about Peepal Baba and his NGO @ http://www.givemetrees.org/.

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Avdhoot Shivanand

Dr. Avdhoot Shivanand is a Master of Ancient Vedic Practices, who has been sharing the sacred wisdom of ancient Siddhas that was only transmitted from the Guru to worthy disciples, thus being protected within the lineage.

Dr. Shivanand was blessed at the tender age of 8 when a great Himalayan yogi 108 Jagannath Swami, one day called Dr. Shivanand and initiated him with a mantra and quickly left the place. From this tender age, Dr. Shivanand began his spiritual practices, all the while being guided and blessed by His masters.

After attaining His self, the Himalayan Shiv Yogi decided that he must reach out to the people at large and share these divine wisdom with everyone as he felt it is everyone’s birthright to learn and ascend. Dr. Shivanand soon began teaching these practices in mass workshops where he also taught the common man how to heal oneself and others physically, emotionally and burn one’s karmic structures that were responsible for sufferings in their lives. Soon, Dr. Shivanand came to be known as the “Father of Indian Healing”. his teaching style is Siddha Kundalini Yoga For more details log on to http://shivyogglobal.com/

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Radha Soami Beas

Radha Soami Beas Current Spiritual head Baba Gurinder Singh was born in 1954. His family is from a traditional agricultural community of Punjab, India. He was named by his predecessor as spiritual head of RSSB in 1990.

Based in Spain before accepting this position, he is now retired and lives off his own income. In keeping with the policy for all volunteers, he does not receive any money or honorarium from the Society.

As with his predecessors, he has dedicated his life to serving the Society and guiding its members on the spiritual path.

Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) along with its international affiliates is a philosophical organization based on the spiritual teachings of all religions and dedicated to a process of inner development under the guidance of a spiritual teacher.

In the Indian language, Radha Soami means ‘lord of the soul’, satsang describes a group that seeks truth, and Beas refers to the town near which the main centre is located in northern India. There are a number of other contemporary movements that use the name ‘Radha Soami’ but Radha Soami Satsang Beas is not associated with any of them.

RSSB was established in India in 1891 and gradually began spreading to other countries. Today RSSB holds meetings in more than 90 countries worldwide. It is a non-profit organization with no affiliation to any political or commercial organizations. For more details log on to https://www.rssb.org/index.php

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Dr Sunil Kale

Dr. Sunil Kale is a Spiritual Guru, Motivational Speaker and a Philosopher. He runs a charitable organisation -“Swayamprakshee Charitable Trust” that caters to the needs of underprivileged children by providing free medical health check-ups, healthy nutritious meals, food donations, clothes donations etc. His organisations also include “Sumay Foundation” which conducts discourses under name “Gurubodh” .He has conducted “Shri Gurucharitra Bodhamrut” satsangs on “Shri GuruCharitra” The Holy Grantha of Dutta Sampradaya that recounts life of Shri Dattatraya,Shripada Shri Vallabha and Shri Narasimha Saraswati , his philosophy and teachings.Under Neelambaree events : Naamdeeksha,Sparsh and Spandan residential shibirs are conducted for limited Sadhaks.His literature is in the form of public speeches (Session DVDs), divine songs (Audio CDs) which are sung by many famous singers and books .His sessions are regularly held in cities like Pune, Badalapur, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Karad, Sangli, Satara,Jalgaon, Latur and Amravati and Nashik.For Direct Contact log on to http://www.drsunilkale.com/index.html #drsunilkale #

Mooji

Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and lived in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London’s ‘West End’ as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji* by the many seekers and friends who visited him.

Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.

For the following six years, Mooji drifted in a state of spontaneous meditation oblivious to the outer world he formally knew. During these years, he lived almost penniless but was constantly absorbed in inner joy, contentment and natural meditation. Grace came in the form of his sister Julianne, who welcomed Mooji into her home with loving kindness, and afforded him the time and space he much needed to flower spiritually, without the usual pressures and demands of external life. Mooji refers to this period of his life as his “wilderness years” and speaks touchingly of a deep feeling of being “seated on the Lap of God”. In many respects, these were far from easy times for Mooji, yet there is no trace of regret or remorse in his tone as he recounts these years. On the contrary, he speaks of this phase of his life as being richly blessed and abundant in grace, trust and loving devotion.

In 1993, Mooji travelled to India. He had a desire to visit Dakshineswar in Calcutta where Sri Ramakrishna, the great Bengali Saint, had lived and taught. The words and life of Ramakrishna were a source of inspiration and encouragement to Mooji in the early years of his spiritual development. He loved the Saint deeply but as fate would determine, he would not go to Calcutta. While in Rishikesh, a holy place at the foothills of the Himalayas, he was to have another propitious encounter; this time with three devotees of the great advaita Master Sri Harilal Poonja, known to his many devotees as Papaji. Their persistent invitation to Mooji to travel with them to meet the Master made a deep impression on him. Still he delayed the prospect of meeting Papaji for two whole weeks, choosing first to visit Varanasi, the holy city.

In late November 1993, Mooji travelled to Indira Nagar in Lucknow to meet Papaji. It was to be an auspicious and profoundly significant experience on his spiritual journey. He felt it to be his good fortune; he had met a living Buddha, a fully enlightened master. He gradually came to recognise that Papaji was his Guru. Mooji stayed with Papaji for several months. During one particular satsang meeting, Papaji told him: “If you desire to be one with truth, ‘you’ must completely disappear.” On hearing this, great anger arose within his mind, full of judgement and resistance towards Papaji. He decided to leave the master’s presence for good, but later that day a huge dark cloud of anger and rebelliousness suddenly lifted, leaving his mind in a state of such peace, emptiness and a love towards the master, so intense, that he knew he could not leave. Through ‘Papaji’s’ grace, his mind was pushed back into the emptiness of source.

In 1994, with his Master's blessing, he travelled down to Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai. This is the ashram at the foot of Arunachala, the ‘Hill of Fire’, where Sri Ramana Maharshi*, the Sage of Arunachala and Papaji’s Guru, had lived and taught. Mooji felt very happy and at home in Tiruvannamalai. He stayed there for almost three months before returning to sit at Papaji’s feet once again.

A week after returning to Lucknow, Mooji received news from London that his eldest son had died suddenly of pneumonia. He returned to England. The bliss of earlier years gave way to a profound emptiness and inner silence, imparted by the Grace and Presence of Papaji.

Mooji visited Papaji again in 1997. It was to be his last meeting with his Beloved Master, who had by now become ill and frail in his movements, but whose inner light and presence remained undiminished. A month after returning to London, Mooji received news that the Master had passed away. Of this Mooji declares: “That Principle that manifests as the Master is ever HERE NOW. The True Master never dies, it is the mister that dies. The true Master, that Sat Guru* within, alone is the Real”.

Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing satsang in the form of spontaneous encounters, retreats, satsang intensives and one-to-one meetings with the many seekers who visit him, from all parts of the world, in search of the direct experience of truth. Few amongst the modern teachers of the advaita tradition expound the ‘knowledge of Self’, and the method of self-enquiry, with such dazzling clarity, love and authority. There is an energy that radiates from Mooji’s presence, a kind of impersonal intimacy, full of love, joy and a curious mix of playfulness and authority. His style is direct, clear, compassionate and often humorous. Once caught in the grip of his questions, there seems to be no place to hide. So unsparing is his scrutiny and uncompromising stance, that the ‘I’ concept is inescapably exposed as a mental construction, when viewed from the formless awareness we are.

Mooji has travelled to Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, North America, Argentina, Brasil, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and India, conducting Satsang meetings, Intensives and Retreats. He is ever open to meeting sincere seekers of truth, whatever their background. For more details Log on to www.mooji.org

#mooji #ananta

Ananta Garg

Ananta Garg shares Satsang with the blessings of his Guru, Shri Mooji. He had also attended satsang in the living Ramesh Balsekar. In Sanskrit, the word “Satsang” ("Sat” – truth, “sangha” – company) simply means being with the truth. Satsang with Ananta is an invitation for sincere seekers to come to the complete realization of the Self. In his presence, many beings have experienced a stillness of mind and an opening of the heart. Attention to thoughts reduces and the mind comes to rest. In this peace, our true nature reveals itself. Although words may be used in Satsang, communication also happens non-verbally, through a deeper transmission of the heart. All are welcome to attend. There is no registration required. for more details log on to https://anantasatsang.org/

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Pujya Deepakbhai Desai

Pre-gnan: The hidden jewel
Pujya Deepakbhai Desai was born on May 9 1953 in Morbi, Gujarat, India. One day his elder brother told him about a Gnani Purush Ambalal Muljibhai Patel (fondly known as Param Pujya 'Dadashri' or Param Pujya 'Dada Bhagwan'), whose knowledge of Akram Vignan would help him concentrate in his studies. At that time, Pujya Deepakbhai was studying engineering at VJTI College in Bombay. This soft-spoken, humble and introverted young man found worldly life meaningless and cumbersome. Little did he know that meeting this Gnani would be a major turning point in his life, transforming His life beyond imagination.

Gnan - Self Realization
On March 6 1971, Pujya Deepakbhai attained Self Realization from Param Pujya Dadashri. He was seventeen years old at the time. Self Realization ignited within him a thirst for in-depth learning and understanding of the phenomenal knowledge of Akram Vignan.

He is spreading the work of A Gnani Purush (Enlightened One) is not only Self-Realized, but also has the spiritual power to enlighten others. Only a Gnani Purush, One who is liberated from all worldly attachments, has the power to liberate others. Self Realization or liberation cannot be acquired by reading scriptures, even if the scriptures themselves were the words of a Gnani. Self Realization can only be acquired through direct contact with a living Gnani. Such a Gnani Purush existed not too long ago amongst us. His name was Ambalal Muljibhai Patel (also lovingly known as "Dadashri" or "Dada Bhagwan").

Many people asked Param Pujya Dadashri why He allows Himself to be addressed as “Bhagwan” (God). Param Pujya Dadashri would clarify that He is not God Himself. He too bows down to the Lord, who is fully manifested within Him, referred to as Dada Bhagwan. He would explain to everyone He met, “This Lord, Dada Bhagwan also resides within all living beings. The difference is that within Me, He is completely expressed and in you, he has yet to manifest.” For more details visit http://www.dadabhagwan.org/

Spiritual Glimpses of Shri #Simandhar swami..
Shree Simandhar Swami is a living #Tirthankar who is present in another world known as Mahavideh Kshetra. By praying to Him and accepting His shelter, He can guide us on the path of achieving ultimate bliss and attaining ultimate liberation (moksha).
Let's remember Shri Simandhar Swami: http://www.dadabhagwan.org/…/trimandir/lord-simandhar-swami/

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