Like the lineage, Sri Maharshi has been absent from a direct worldly role for most of his life, preferring to work indirectly to raise consciousness. However, given the extraordinary circumstances that humanity is undergoing today, he is selectively making himself available for those who are genuinely seeking to play a leading role in the great transition of the coming decades.

 

Sri Maharshi was born under miraculous circumstances in an area which is almost equidistant from the birthplaces of both the Buddha and Mahavir. Not a coincidence of geography, his various family members are descendants of these two luminous beings.

 

Despite several attempts, his mother was unable to bear a child. She performed intense austerities and after a few years received a blessing from a saint for a child. However, he proclaimed that this child will leave the house once she leaves her mortal body.

 

Sri professed all the qualities of a highly evolved incarnation from an early age. As little as four, he was meditating in places where Shiva had dwelled. He was just as mischievous as Krishna - playing and teasing his fellow villagers. But his affinity for both the Buddha and Mahavir was profound - a sense of deep belonging. He relished various opportunities with his mother to dwell in their same environs which fall in modern day Bihar today.

 

As he matured as a child and as his realisation of his own incarnation deepened, he started to recall more about his earlier connections. One day, at the age of thirteen, as he was walking past a bookshop, he saw the cover of 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. He couldn't stop staring at the cover, wondering why his photograph was on it. His social circle also counted various people who were in the tradition of Paramhansa Yogananda.

 

By the time he was seventeen, he knew that the time was coming near for him to leave his parental home. A few months later, his mother decided to leave her body and had a yogic death. Sri Maharshi, who had a very strong connection with his mother, felt a deep sense of detachment from worldly matters, and decided to leave for the Himalayas.

 

He spent the next seven years in various parts of the Himalayas - deepening his austerities and realising his life's purpose. Subsequently, he came down and as is customary among renunciates, roamed various parts of the country visiting sacred places and encountering other sages. Some of these sages referred to him by his older names - as either Paramhansa or Goraksh (short for Gorakshnath or Gorakhnath). As these incidents grew, he himself gained full clarity of his older incarnations.

 

Sri Maharshi is widely considered as a 'Kriyavatar' or a full incarnation of the timeless tradition of Kriya Yoga. Mythical yogis like Agastya Muni and Matsyendranath were directly initiated into Kriya Yoga by Shiva. Both the Buddha and Mahavir are also considered as Kriya Yogis. Mahavatar Babaji is considered the last divine incarnation and proponent of Kriya Yoga in the lineage. Gorakshnath, who was deeply connected to Babaji and this lineage, was the one entrusted to bring this to the world. And in recent times, it was Paramhansa Yogananda who fulfilled the same mission.

 

This lineage is sometimes also referred to as the Siddha lineage or tradition. Siddha Yogis, or Maha Yogis (great yogis), are those who have reached the culmination of the combined paths of Gnana (Knowledge), Bhakti (Devotion), and Yoga. Similarly, Kriya Yoga is a culmination of these streams of spiritual unfoldment and begins often where other methods are concluded. 

 

Hence, it is common to see Siddha Yogis as those who excel the greatest in Kriya Yoga as an advanced form for facilitating perpetual inner progress. Siddha Yogis are completely realized to Shiva consciousness. At any time, there are seven to eight Siddhas always on the planet ensuring that humanity is cradled in a suitable atmosphere of consciousness so that evolution can continue.

 

Hence, Sri Maharshi is a unique being, a realized Siddha, who carries within the same potential as that of the Buddha, Mahavir, Gorakshnath, and Yogananda. He is a unifier of the three ancient streams of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism in the form of 'Sanatan Dharma' or the eternal truth. And it is his life mission to offer a contemporary interpretation of this eternal wisdom for the benefit of humanity at large.

 

Today,based in Vrindavan, the heart center of ancient India, Sri Maharshi chooses to live enveloped by the love of Krishna with a longing to blossom into Krishna consciousness. Here, he is constantly exploring the dimensions of yoga as propounded by Krishna and how this will someday fulfill the possibilities of Kriya Yoga and add to the already exuberant yogic lore.