I did not know what Gurudeva had done to me that Janmashtami day!
Mysterious inner sounds that had bewildered me for six months suddenly transformed into a soothing echo of Omkar. I then realised this Omkar had been humming in the background all the while, no matter what I did. An inescapable energy surged up and sometimes down my spine—stealing my breath. Emerging from meditation, I would find my head locked in the yogic posture of Jalandhara Bandha.
Then began my marathon journey to the places of Siddhas: caves, shrines, mountains—the places I hadn’t even heard of a few years ago. Life veered utterly astray, control snatched away from my hands by some mysterious external force. Layer after layer, forgotten childhood memories surfaced. Trouble after trouble crashed down, making me wonder: Is this what spiritual living means?
Five years later, I realised it was a Siddha's Shaktipat (direct transmission of spiritual power) at work. Karmic seeds poised to sprout had to be incinerated in the fire of spiritual awakening. How long would this arduous, testing process endure? No one knew. Only the footprints on a snowy ridge beckoned to me with the assurance that if their walker, the Himalayan Master, could trigger Shaktipat at the blink of his resolve, then what was there to fear?
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Dr Priyabhishek Sharma
Dr Priyabhishek Sharma holds a doctorate from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, and teaches at a government college in Himachal Pradesh. A devoted practitioner of Kundalini Yoga for over twenty-five years under the guidance of Himalayan Siddhas, he weaves profound meditation and yoga insights into his acclaimed spiritual memoirs. His Himalayan Masters trilogy—The Himalayan Master and the Sixth Sense (translated into four languages), Walking in Footprints of the Himalayan Master, and Beholding in Footprints of the Himalayan Master—unveils transformative revelations from deep meditation and Kundalini Yoga under Himalayan Siddhas. Author of seven books, his works also include the mystical novel Trance: Secret Herb from Kamakhya, The UPSC Odyssey (for civil service aspirants), and An Alliance without Enemy: A Post-Cold War History of the West.
