Sunday December 7th, 2025
The Power of the Words of an Enlightened Being
This year the sangha in New York celebrated Jayanti, the auspicious day of Shri Mahayogi’s birth, at our sister disciple’s cozy apartment. Among different activities, we viewed a few short video clips of Shri Mahayogi coming from some very precious recordings that were taken earlier on in Japan.
In one of these video clips, when Shri Mahayogi was talking about his thought around the time he was in India for the first time, he mentioned that he believed that, “Awakening is not something that is unique to himself and that people are equally equipped with It in the same way, and that this is something that can come to manifest in anyone.”
When Shri Mahayogi made this statement, I was awestruck by it, because of the casual tone and natural demeanor that was emanating from him. I might have heard Shri Mahayogi say similar things before, but somehow, this time it hit me deeply. Seeing Shri Mahayogi say this with such ease sent an invigorating feeling throughout my being, and my mind started to flood with all kinds of thoughts and emotions.
My first thought was that there is no way that somebody can say this with such ease without knowing and experiencing it fully. Then I thought, “how many people can make this declaration?”
Before I met Shri Mahayogi and started to learn Yoga from him, I wasn’t particularly a religious person. Most of the memories I’d had that were related to the potential one has to find the Truth, had to do with everyone being a sinner, and our chance of happiness being only somewhat guaranteed, albeit only after leaving this body and being judged by a God that sits somewhere up in heaven. I do remember reading a few sacred scriptures that said that finding the Truth in this life was possible, and that the Truth is within us; but this time, this open declaration from Shri Mahayogi, that the realization of Truth is something that can happen to anyone, gave me a strong conviction that the Truth is probably closer to us than what we think, and that it is possible for everyone to experience It.
Shri Mahayogi says that we have to listen to the words of Truth, to think about them and then to meditate on the Truth. I feel that he showed me through this experience that the Truth in his words has the power to penetrate through time and space, and that hearing or reading his teachings goes beyond our minds and touches a part of our being that we ourselves are probably not yet in touch with. And just like how the light of a star, which, even without its physical presence being in the universe anymore, continues to touch objects throughout space indefinitely, Shri Mahayogi’s teachings continue to touch our hearts.
By the end of the Jayanti I was filled with joy, and somewhere in my being I felt strongly, and finally acknowledged, that Shri Mahayogi came into this world to show us and lead us back to our natural state again, the state of being one with the Truth.
I am forever grateful that Shri Mahayogi made it possible for us to come into contact with the Truth through his Existence and his teachings, and I will continue to strive to remove any part of my mind that does not let the light of Shri Mahayogi shine and manifest fully, through the whole of my being.
Ekanta