The Inspiration

"The Inspiration never ends for the seeker."

There is a saying in India, "Everyone could be a teacher for the person with learning attitude." Even though learning is a mindset, there are some  persons that inspired and influenced my life in the strong and holistic ways. I pay my regards to all of them who helped me in many seen and unseen ways to chisel my life. 

My Lovely Father - Dr D. P. Tomar:

My father who left us in 1989 when I was merely thirteen with two younger brother and sister and my mother. He ingrained Spirituality and Yoga to the core of my soul. He was unparalleled as a doctor as told to me by dozens of his patients even eleven years after his demise and twenty two years after he left the place.

He is 'one of the best doctor to his patients' in my view with all the objectivity and indiscrimination in me. I want to thank him for all his love and the inspiration and I still love him just the way I loved him when he was with us.

Paramahansa Yogananda:

Paramhansa Yogananda is the founder of YSS (Yogoda Satsanga Society) in India and SRF (Self-Realizaton Fellowship) in USA, the author of ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ is already a renowned name to many people.

By his teachings and through his books, I get the inspiration and try in the most humble way  to  practice Yoga. I love, yes love more than I regard, the entire Kriya yoga lineage – The Great Mahavatar Babaji, The Lahiri Mahasaya, Swami Shri Yukteshwarji and all his disciples. They are the ever present inspiration.

Shri Madabusi Subramaniam or Mani Sir:

Shri Subramaniamji or Mani Sir initiated me into Reiki Grandmaster and Shatipata  tradition. He had been a General Manager at IGI Airport, New Delhi and despite that he is an advanced practitioner and teacher of Kriya Yoga, Reiki and Shaktipata tradition.

His most impressive quality is that anyone can instantly be at ease with him and his ability to  share the most profound of spiritual matters with  great practical authority, simplicity and with scientific precision. He is one of the inspiration.

Dr K. Shashidharana:

He is one of my Ayurveda mentors from South India, who shared his (read South Indian) approach to Ayurveda. On my first visit to the Hospital where he was Medical Superintendent, he forwarded his prejudice that North Indian people were bad and asked me to  roam here and there and denied to tell me anything.

Dear friends, all this happened within one hour after reaching the town after completing 75 hours journey by train! Tears rolled down my eyes. I was in hospital like unattended guest for few days.

After full one week, during noon time the big Doc indulged in a discussion about Yoga and Spirituality and Ayurvedic principles. I joined him and we ended up talking for full three hours! Always, I feel a High when I talk about these topics.

Next morning, he asked the other junior doctors where Vikrama was. I was just there waiting and he asked me to follow him for the morning visit to patients' cottages. 

Thank God, he opened fully with me and exchanged freely the wisdom of Ayurveda. I never had any trouble after that in South India. I regard him as a very kind hearted and knowledgeable person in the field of Ayurveda.

(Later on, I came to know that few doctors from northern states of India who got trained under the doctor had behaved very irresponsibly and this might have caused the temporary apathy of the doctor.)

Swami Sadashiva Tirthaji:

The founder of www.ayurvedahc.com, is  one of the earliest person who brought the light of Ayurveda in the West. I couldn’t still believe that a monk can even have chants about Ayurvedic principles and living.

And you should know that he was already singing the Ayurvedic health chants with his Madeline when I met him for the first time in 2003! It feels so great that a US native person after becoming a monk in India can do so much for the cause of Ayurveda. He is superb in all regards. He is a walking example of Ayurveda Holistic Living! 

Besides above mentioned persons I wrote about, there had been many many instances when so many of my friends, colleagues, writers and saints thrilled me with their simplicity, their blessings, with that great moments of passionate glimpse of holistic living in the moment. Big Thanks and Regards to all of them.

I love to thank all the past writers and scientists – both from material and spiritual sciences, who contributed to the development of mankind (read, all of us). 

I join with  you to thank them and seek their and God’s blessings so that we could contribute to life with their zeal and spirit.