By Om Swami
Actually: A Monk's Memoir is a good and simple account of Om Swami's existence, one of many premiere religious leaders of India.
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If fact be informed is a rare memoir of the making of a non secular lifestyles in today’s difficult, aggressive, and baffling instances. The publication unravels the existence tale of Om Swami and his trip to changing into a monk. As an 18-year-old younger boy, Om Swami headed to Australia to gain his worldly desires and aspirations. He struggled to make his ends meet yet years down the road he was once a multimillionaire incomes $250,000 a yr. He consistently had a burning wish to discover his spirituality.
As an 8-year-old he observed a imaginative and prescient of God in a dream which reworked his lifestyles eternally. This caused off his wish to meet God and he practiced astrology, meditation and tantra in his pursuit to understand God. but God was once nowhere in sight, deeply pissed off he plunged into the worldly affairs to distract himself from the restlessness and commotion inside. After spending a number of years in Australia he moved to India and led his existence in solitude within the Himalayas. He battled demise as he starved, confronted the wrath of nature and wild animals. yet ultimately his sadhana introduced him to the last word recognition – i'm what i've been looking, which turned the foundation of all his teachings. This extraordinary memoir is a must-read for these attracted to the existence and teachings of Om Swami.
About Om Swami
Om Swami is an India monk who lives in a distant position within the Himalayan foothills. He holds an MBA measure from collage of know-how, Sydney and a Bachelor's measure in company Computing from collage of Western Sydney. He based a ecocnomic software program corporation with workplaces in San Francisco, ny, Toronto, London, Sydney and India.
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The questions would come flooding back: Who made the universe? Why was I here and not on one of the other planets? Did people live on other planets too? Did God live on one of those distant stars? Where was God? Minute by minute the hours would pass and my wheezing would finally subside by the morning. Only then would I manage to fall asleep. My father would pick me up and carry me back to my bed. Often, inhaling the air outside wouldn't work and he would rush with me to the hospital. I didn't mind going because spending a night at the hospital meant getting a day off from school.
Why did people fall ill and die? Neither my friends nor my elders could hold a reasoned conversation with me, much less address these questions. Nearly a year passed as I searched in vain for answers. I finally turned to numerology, astrology and other esoteric disciplines, hoping they would bring me the clarity I sought. My mother knew a learned Brahmin, Pandit Suresh Sharma, who agreed to teach me astrology. From him, I understood the significance of the planets and planetary positions. He taught me how to draw the charts, how to normalize zodiac signs based on longitude and latitude and so on.
Standing before me was a sadhu in black robes, matted locks tied at the back of his head and a beard that reached his chest. I offered him alms but he said he had only come to see me. He didn’t mention anything about my dream though. He put his hand into his jhola and pulled out something. Handing it to me, he told me it was a siyar singhi. A siyar singhi is a little lump that grows on a jackal’s body. After it becomes the size of a betel nut, it sheds on its own. There are many tantric applications of a singhi, provided a good tantrik knows how to consecrate it well.