Sri Prasad

His childhood

His first lesson in spirituality came from his father at the age of 5, who was a practitioner of BKS Iyengar Yoga who had then introduced him to Hatha yoga, having quested a long way he was actively involved in civil community services throughout his adolescence such as Scouts, NCC and has staged various Street plays to protest and bring awareness to the general public.

Having born to a Hindu family he would perform religious practices with his mother, being brought up in an Islamic neighborhood he had learnt and practiced Islamic teachings, gaining insight into the knowledge of Quran, his involvement in Christianity came from his schooling in a Christian institution where he would attend Church gatherings to gain knowledge from Bible. His mother was an orthodoxly religious person while his father a practical man who mostly believed in social service than performing rituals. Being born a Hindu and having experienced diverse religions he had learnt to selflessly serve humanity from his father and found the inner meaning and purpose behind the religious rituals from his mother.

On one such occasion during his summer holidays after he had completed his 10th grade examination he gets a call from his NCC and Painting master who instructs him to head to Kaveri Ashram while he was living in Veerajpet, Coorg that he go a paint a logo of Sri Ramakrishna Mutt in the ashram's podium and after he finishes the ashram chief greets him and asks him to come back to the same place on a particular date and they have planned to honor him with a gift, he arrives back at the ashram on the said date to witness scores of people in the ashram and soon after a program takes start and the young boy Sri Prasad will be called on to the stage and will be presented a Bhagavat Gita book, after the program the chief of ashram a Swamiji of highest rank speaks of a discourse from chapter 4 of Bhagavat Gita, there he speaks of what a god is like, he says at every interval in time he will be born again and again, even Lord Krishna is one such avatar and as per Bhagavat Gita Krishna himself says that he will born back as Kalki which is another avatar of the Lord Vishnu, he further quotes how Krishna tells Arjuna that he has propounded the Gita to Brahma, Surya, Manu, Ikshvaku and so on, then Arjuna ask Krishna how could you do so when they were in existence several 100s and 1000s of years ago, for which Lord Krishna replies that though I am born now, I remember all of my previous births and that is not possible with you Arjuna. The chief of the ashram interprets this as, this universal consciousness is born as Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Moses, Ibrahim, Guru Nanak and even Mahatma Gandhi, now after listening to this Sri Prasad had gained real gift of his life, it was a grand opening to his quest for truth, which otherwise he was convinced that Jesus is true messenger of god who is the son of the Lord as per his Christian learnings, another message had put him in great dilemma which is from Islamic teachings that there is no other that befits a god other than allah and more so when he came home to see several pictures of deities in the puja house. He started learning from the Gita and in BG he comes across Prasthana Triya which says how a spiritual aspirant must know 3 scriptures, they are 10 Upanishads, Bhagavat Gita and Brahmasutra, after reading these carefully he comes to know of what is Parabrahma, Jeeva-Jagat and Brahma and about what the scriptures are actually trying to tell, so later he comes to a conclusion that Bible and Quran are nothing but smritis as compared to several in our Hindu culture and these books are nothing but constitutions of the past and the people spreading it are spreading the thoughts which are so limited as compared to our Santhana Dharma.

From here on and with the previous practice of yoga and other yogic related practices Sri Prasad quested a long way seeking from several yogis and siddhas and the fruit of which was to be borne later.