Swami Somendra Tirthji Maharaj is a sanyasi and a Great Guru of Shaktipat and Siddha Maha Yoga Lineage. He has mastered over Maha yoga, Pranayam, Meditation and Mysterious Vidyas like Shri Vidya, Ashirwad Vidya, Crystal Vidya, Matra Vidya, and Yatra Vidya. He has done profound research in the above areas and also has developed practical realizations of them. He explains the deep secrets of Vedic Rituals and Meditations in reference to Physiology and Energy System. He unifies Religion and Science.
Gurudev was born to a very rich and spiritual family in India. His Father was a Yogi himself, who taught him yoga and meditation since seven years of age. Also keeping the vow of silence for two hours in the evening was a necessary part of their daily spiritual practice. Every night his mother used to read the Vedic Scriptures. Guruji used to study Ramayan, Mahabharat, Srimad Bhagvat and Bhagvat Gita for many years, and even now he remembers them by heart. Along with that, his mother made him eat only one meal per day for 21 days in a year, to practice mantras and meditations. This one meal consisted only of fruits.
Gurudev's parents were devotees of Great Shaktipat Guru Kripaluji Maharaj. As his parents were blessed with Shaktipat, Gurudev used to watch his parent's kriyas curiously during the sadhana. Since childhood Gurudev has lived in Shaktipat tradition and remained in connection with the divine power.
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Radhika Tirth took birth in a small village in Hosangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. Her parents are very simple and honest. Her farther is a teacher and mother is a housewife. Being a single sister among three brothers she has been taken care with lot of love. Her parents are religious and devoted to saints. They came in contact with Swami Somendra Tirth in 1997 and blessed by Shaktipat initiation. Radhika Tirth used to go to Ashram together with her parents and used to meditate with Guruji.
Radhika Tirth had her school education in a very simple government school. Her education and spiritual journey continued together. After completing school education she came to Bhopal city to complete her studies in college. During this time she started to work in a software company. As she completed her college education she got an opportunity to get a job in a multi-national company in Pune. Although she was too much occupied in her job, but never left the path of spirituality.
One day she had a strong out of body experience. She was conscious and living a usual life but was detached from the body. She was living in the witness consciousness. The world around was the same, the people were same, from outside she was the same but inside she changed completely. There was a deep supernatural peace inside. This continued for 3 days all 24 hours. Even during sleep her consciousness was awake and could see the body sleeping. From this incidence onwards she got completely dedicated to spirituality. In 2011 she left the job and came to live with Guruji in Ashram.
She prayed to Guruji for blessings for spiritual elevation. Guruji, as an elevated soul, could recognize that the seed is ready to become a tree. By his blessings Radhika started to get many deep divine experiences. She devoted herself for service to Guruji and spiritual practice. Also she used to take care of the people who used to come to Ashram.
On the auspicious day of Shiv Ratri in 14 February 2018 she was blessed by Guruji and the Gurus of Shaktipat lineage with the master-hood of Shaktipat system. Although she is in household life but by blessing of Guruji she became the medium of spiritual elevation of many seekers.
Now she is responsible for taking care of Kalapgram Gurukulam. She manages her spiritual practices and service to Ashram and Guruji efficiently. In her views everything is happening because of Guruji`s blessings. Only very fortunate ones get the opportunity to receive this blessing.
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Swami Ishan Tirth was born to Brahmin parents as Sandip Kumar Mishra on the July 2, 1981 in a small village named Brajaballav Pur in the Nayagarh district of Orissa in East India. Even as a child, he was very much inclined towards spirituality. He completed his academic education with great success and received many awards for his accomplishments. He graduated as an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineer in 2003 from Utkal University, one of the biggest and finest universities of East India. After graduation he started working as a system engineer in Bangalore. While building up his career, his spiritual interest did not diminish. He felt that he was born to reach self – Realization. For this reason he started to study Vedanta philosophy with Swami Niranjanji Maharaj in 2007. His spiritual studies didn’t stop him from climbing up the ladder of corporate life. As a career switch, the young engineer started working in Hewlett Packard as a project leader.
The year 2009 brought a great turnabout in his life. He could sense some profound transformations occurring in him. These changes were happening on the physical, the psychological and the energy levels. The urge to renounce from materialistic life was growing stronger and stronger. Without his knowing, his destination was already in the hands of Shakti. Ishanji gave an example of this: ‘In the area where I was living in Bangalore, I always had to pass a restaurant where they served delicious chicken curry. Quite often, I used to have my (vegetarian) dinner there. But suddenly one week before I was initiated into shaktipat, I was passing through that restaurant and the smell of non-veg food became unbearable for me. Shakti was already purifying my body and mind for the initiation that was about to happen.’
Thanks to the direct interference of Shakti, suddenly on March 16, 2009, young Sandip Kumar left his professional life and started for Ujjain to meet the Swami Nardanandji.
He got initiated into deep spiritual awakening of Kundalini by Swami Nardanand on March 19, 2009.‘The awakening was very strong. I was drenched in divine ecstasy and divine spiritual experiences so much so that for a few months, I totally lost my awareness of the material world. When I returned to a somewhat ‘normal’ state, I went back to Odisha and continued my sadhana for a few months.’
In thefall of 2011, while residing in Brazil, something momentous happened:
‘I had my first experience of samadhi on October 9,2011. It lasted a little less than two hours. But it changed everything in me. It's difficult to explain what changed and how, but afterwards this world became like a dream. I was feeling myself spread out over time, this means that past, present and future were no longer discreet; they appeared to be contiguous. For my mind, it took time to accept all these transformations. I just remained a witness. It's difficult to give a more adequate description, as this is an experience which was not collected by the mind or the intellect - I don't know how to express this - When I try to conceptualize it, my mind fails. . . .’
Even more, since that moment he lives in full surrender to Shakti.
On the auspicious day of Kartik Purnima, 4 November 2017, on the bank of the sacred river Narmada, he got initiated into Sanyas by Swami Somendra Tirth Maharaj. Swamiji also blessed him with the masterhood (gurupad) of Kundalini Shaktipat and Shri Vidya. There and then he completely renounced his worldly life. He received the monastic name of Swami Ishan Tirth.
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