My Story & Background
The reason & purpose of sharing my life story & background is not the past, it is about the future. It is all about the spiritual vision & mission, the spiritual journey, and sharing the spiritual efforts & experiences. I have tried to keep the original content as it is, along with the mistakes of immaturity, which were written at the different age & stages of life, good & bad circumstances, and the emotions involved. I prefer not to make any extra changes but I do keep adding the words of experience and the lessons of life, from time to time.
I try to keep ‘I, Me, Myself’ to the minimum, and try to experience the larger life within and around myself. I may not have the all-inclusive spiritual-love and compassion, but I do not live with poison of negative thoughts & emotions against anyone. I know very well that each & every person is having their own weaknesses and challenges in their lives. I do not make opinions or judgements about other people instead make very sincere & honest efforts to understand others.
To be willing & open to life means that I am all empty within, I strive to be absolutely-free of any kind of self-interest & importance. It means that I have admitted & accepted my limitations & weaknesses and I do not try to hide or cover it in anyway. I do not feel bad or insecure to accept that I have limited abilities and there are many things which I do not know, I cannot do, but in this way, I have learnt to use my abilities in a better way. I am much more conscious & careful about the options & resources that I have, as I strive to improve consciously, and these words are related to the living reality of my life.
Spiritual Journey of My Life – Brief Summary
- It has been 10 years, since the beginning of a new life, and the spiritual journey. I started writing my story by June-July 2020, as a responsibility. The first responsibility towards my individual family, then a social-responsibility and the responsibility towards my parents-family, and finally the higher responsibility & commitment towards the single-goal of my life, the spiritual-yoga program RAVIYOG. I have tried to cover all the important events-experiences, as follows –
- Jan 2015 – cleared the Chief Mate exams.
- 1st May, 2015 – car accident, end of one life & career, beginning of new life
- May 2016 – Viral encephalopathy & acute psychosis
- Jan 2017 – Saturn transit in Sagittarius sign, and the beginning of 1st spiritual pilgrimage
- Mar 2019 – Imprisonment-Jail for my own accident case – accused & guilty for the death of the priest-panditji who was sitting next to me in the same car, on my sister’s marriage day.
- Feb 2020 – got an opportunity to go to Amalty, Kazakhstan, and new life & family started
- Nov-Dec 2020 – started working on the spiritual-yoga program, RAVIYOG ∙ Feb 2022 – register the NGO, RAVIYOG Foundation
- Jan 2025 – 10 years since the accident, 8 years since the beginning of spiritual life with the 1st pilgrimage, and the spiritual work & efforts…to be continued.
Some important articles & letters, as part of my life story –
- Spiritual Lessons
- Letter of Appeal, submitted in Jail, April 2019
- Open letter to Sadhguru, July 2020
- Pashupatinath Pilgrimage, Nov 2022
- The last letter of 2023 & Family Emails, Nov 2023
I will begin the story from Jan 2015 when I cleared the exams for Chief Mate and then I lost everything after an accident in May 2015. As I say it normally that I do not want any sympathy or publicity by sharing the painful experiences of my life because, in-reality, I believe that I am extremely blessed to have the grace of the Divine Mother Nature.
It is a very good method to explain the concept & principles of the spiritual-yoga program, through a real-life story and some real-life examples. The spiritual work & efforts have helped me to organize & express myself, and the deep-rooted thoughts & emotions, in a better way
Part 1 – The Sea to Spiritual Service
I worked in merchant navy from 2007-2014 as a Navigating Officer after completed the regular school education for 12 years. I worked as 3rd Mate & 2nd Mate. I completed the qualifying exams and obtained Chief Mate Certificate of Competency from DG Shipping, India in Jan 2015. In my humble experience of 7years I have travelled widely and experienced different work environment with different nationalities in foreign lands. I had all required knowledge, training and certification related to shipping career in merchant navy but I was never happy with my job and very unhappy in my life. On 1st May 2015, few months after clearing my exams, I met with a major car accident in Goa. I suffered multiple injuries including some lifelong injuries.
Part 2 – Beginning of A New Life & Spiritual Living
I am not a certified astrologer or spiritual coach for any kind of coaching or consultation. I did not have the option of joining a yoga-meditation program or to learn any astrology course. I started to learn, follow, and practice spiritual living to recover after the major accidents of life. I have learnt yoga-meditation process with only breathing, coz when my spiritual living practices started – I was bed-ridden and did not know if I will ever walk straight or live a self-sustainable & normal life. When I suffered from psychosis disease then I was given medical prescriptions to avoid fits or other mental health issues and they were supposed to be continued for entire life if I had not chosen spiritual living.
Part 3 – Pashupati-Nath Pilgrimage, Nov 2022
Let us continue the story, after I came back from Naga Pratishtha – I attended the Naga-Pratishtha consecration done by Sadhguru on Sunday, 9th Oct, 2022 – Sharad/Kojagari Purnima Tithi, Ashwin lunar month – at the Isha Yoga Centre, Chikkaballapur, Karnataka.
Part 4 – Last Msg of 2023
It is the summary of my life & work of the last 5-6 years and in simple words this article is all about creating a map of life. It is relevant for everyone at specific stages of life but it can be extremely valuable for those people, who have a certain genuine kind of spiritual longing, especially for those people who realize that our life is something more than just the survival process and would like to do something good for the humanity and future generations, including our own family & future generations.
Part 5 – Family Emails
In a way, the spiritual-journey of my life started from Jan 2017, marked by the Saturn transit in the Sagittarius zodiac sign, and 2 years after the car accident. There were many things going on at the same time in my life, but my focus & attention was stuck by something, out of thin air, that I was able to understand and I thought maybe I can do something about it. As I began paying attention to it, I became more & more not-interested about others, whatever they thought or said; to explain anything to anyone was out of question because I could hardly see anyone capable of even touching what I could see & experience, though I tried to share my feelings with a few people, including my parents family but they were so caught-up by their own perception, opinions & judgements.
Spiritual Lessons
The message & purpose of sharing the story and the spiritual journey of my life, it is just that – we can earn the freedom of life only by following the fundamental rules & principles of life, otherwise the life itself is an imprisonment, therefore, we must learn about it and I think it is the best thing that I can offer & share with everyone.