Brahma Rishi Siddha Guruji Gurudev interview with ITV Gold

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Brahma Rishi Siddha Guruji Gurudev of Shri Brahmarishi Ashram, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India, was recently at the ITV Gold Studio. In an interview, ITV Gold’s Piya Jyoti Kachroo talked to him about his early spiritual experiences, about how to reduce stress, about the journey of the body and soul, about the difference in lifestyle in India and in America, about his ashram in Tirupati and about how to live a productive life. The following are excerpts from his interview on ITV Gold.

 What was your early spiritual journey?

I don’t remember much of my early spiritual journey because I came to my guru and the ashram as a child at a very young age. My Siddhis were all gained under the guidance of my guru and of one advaita baba. Baba used to say that I already had four Siddhis from birth. My education took place under his guidance. I have done B.Tech (Electrical) from IIT, the best university of India.

 What difference do you see in the lives of people in the US and in India?

No matter where a person is, he can have some shortcomings and some good qualities.

America has a lot of human values. Family values ​​are a little less. There is family value in India because it has been a spiritual country, the country of Ram and Krishna. Even today, divine spiritual powers are more there.

More people here in America are into worldly things. This country is developed more. There in India people progressed more in spirituality. More people go there in search of spirituality, meditation, siddhi, sadhna etc. Here, people search more for material things and they found more money and material things. But I think there should be a balance between both.

 What would you say to the people who have many complaints?

I say live life with harmony, not with complaints. Let us live such that our life becomes an example for this humanity, for the next generation.

We have two journeys; one is the journey of the world in which we are living. Secondly, our inner spiritual journey. Many times we are not able to balance the two and we live life on the outside, due to which our inner journey does not happen. Then our soul becomes weak. And whenever the soul is weak, there will be complaints, there will be illness, there will be problems, there will be no goodwill, there will be no gratitude. Therefore, when we make our soul powerful, then the complaints will definitely stop.

Mostly the one who complains is the one who is dissatisfied. Whoever is satisfied, his complaints stop. A healthy person has no complaints about his health. So, when we become healthy from within, when our soul becomes powerful, then this complaint will gradually end.

 Tell us about your ashram in Tirupati.

I am a sanyasi. A Sanyasi has nothing of his own. But an organization has been formed, created by everyone. I have a slogan there that service to humanity is the best work of life.

I am a sanyasi. I come and go. I have kept one condition. Don’t keep anything chargeable in this ashram. Everything there is free, unconditional. Your stay, food, worship, my darshan, meeting, everything is free.

We have a very beautiful program going on here.  Siddheshwar: The Power of Soul. It is free of cost. It is a seven days program in which your soul is uplifted, made powerful, and your subconscious is completely transformed.

What is your message to the Indian diaspora here?

Life is a journey. I did sadhana for about 54 years. I have found that if human beings have to be completely successful, then we have to balance both our wordly life and spiritual life.

And one must also live in peace. Everything is happening around us, negativity, nature, positivity.  Being sick, illness, unhealthy is nature. But if you want to be healthy you have to choose, you have to select health. Failure is nature. Success you have to choose, you have to select. So we will have to choose good things. The effort and energy we spend in choosing good will never die.

(Translated from Hindi by Archana Adalja)