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Yogi of My Dreams
by Jay Mazo
Dreams still come true in Gods miraculous world. As a young boy of six in America I dreamed I was sitting
in serene meditation with a bearded, awesome looking yogi who was wearing only a loincloth. Was this a
memory of my past lives? As I grew up in New York I became automatically quite interested in the practice
of yoga through pranayama, mantra and meditation.
On June 22, 1968, a member of the Indian Consulate in New York named Shantaram initiated me into a
powerful Devi mantra. Shantaram, who is married and has been practicing raja yoga for over thirty years,
promised me that the silent repetition of the Devi mantra while concentrating inwardly on the spiritual light
between the eyebrows would attract the attention of a powerful unknown yogi who would draw me to him as
a disciple. After meditating on the Devi mantra for a year and a half, the awesome yogi of my childhood
dreams came again to me. He said that he was going to take from me everything I held dear and put me
alone to do tapas. So in February, 1970, I concluded my job as a history researcher in the City University of
New York and Air India flew me to sacred India to begin my quest of spiritual evolution through the contact of
a living yogi.
I did not know the name of the yogi in my dreams. I traveled all over India and met over twenty holy men and
women. However, it was the invisible astral presence of the unknown yogi of my dreams that drew me to
him as a disciple months before I was destined to physically meet him in March 1970.
One evening I was walking through a barren field near Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore. Suddenly some
spiritual miracle descended upon me. A terrific electric force poured through my head and its power made
me feel like my whole body was being crushed. Then after walking a hundred yards I discovered that this
force was emanating from the ashram of Shivabalayogi. I sat down in the ashram and closed my eyes to
relax, not to meditate. But to my surprise, within my inner sight appeared a vision of Lord Shiva rapt in
eternal meditation. Then within my mind the voice of Shivabalayogi said that I must do more and more
meditation to ultimately attain liberation.
From March until July of 1970, I would periodically
meditate at the Shivabalayogi Ashram in Bangalore
while Shivabalayogi was away touring North India to
spread the practice of meditation among the general
public. Even in his absence, I continued to have
repeated meditation experiences of electric energy
descending, feelings of bliss in the heart, expanding
mental peace, visions of Lord Shiva, and telepathic
messages from Shivabalayogi. At the ashram I
also witnessed bhajans during which people would
spontaneously go into either a deep meditative
trance or a dynamic dancing trance and taking the
role of various gods of the Indian tradition. This
miracle of trance transmission by a spiritual master
to his devotees can best be explained by the term
kundalini kriya shaktipat. Hence the liberated Guru
Jay Mazo, sitting next to Swamiji's mother,
by his will power can awaken the latent kundalini
being presented with a copy of his newly published book,
life force of his devotees.
Bangalore, August of 1973.
On July 12, 1970, the yogi of my dreams at last
became a living reality when I met him in Bangalore
and experienced love, peace, light and energy
vibrations radiating from the liberated saint. The
next day he initiated me into dhyan meditation with
the inner vision of Lord Shivas son Muruga plus the
feeling of the kundalini life force being awakened.
With Shivabalayogi, initiation means sitting in front
of him for an hour while keeping the mind silent and
the inner vision focused between the eyebrows. It
is the common experience of thousands of people
who have received Shivabalayogis initiation to see
lights, have visions of gods, feel the kundalini life
force awakening, experience bliss, and know
expanding mental peace while meditating before
him. With continued meditation, I experience my
guru coming within and dictating spiritual messages
to guide me on the path.

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