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We have some thirty hours of recorded conversations with Shivabalayogi; some recorded on video, most recorded on a portable cassette player.

These are excerpts by subject matter taken from various different recordings.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Radio Interview by Alan Hunter
Santa Fe, May 5, 1990

Q         Now that he’s here, what is his purpose or focus of being in the world now?

SBY     He says, what I have learned, I want to teach that to the public. That’s my purpose.

Synergy Television Program Interview by Charlene Ryan
Seattle, June 25th, 1990

Q         Why would he take on something for another person?

SBY     He says it’s his duty. He has come here for that. That’s why he does it.

Q         So it’s his mission.

SBY     It’s his duty. He has been asked to do that by his master. He has come here to this world to reduce our tension.

Q         So he teaches us how to meditate, how to reduce our tensions. What else does he do?

SBY     He’ll save you, he’ll protect you from all sorts of difficulties, all sorts of troubles. Mental illness, health, body health. “Tension.” And also tension. He will help you attain the self-realization, to go nearer to God. With all these things in mind he has come to us. So much of duty to perform he has come to us.

Q         Tell him thank you.

SBY     He has not come here for himself. He has not come here for his sake. It’s for us.

Cable Television Interview by Pauline Crouch
Portland, Oregon, 1991

Q         What is Swamiji’s mission in general? What is his purpose at this point?

SBY     He says he has not started a mission. He has not started anything as such. He is just trying to reduce the tension in the minds of people and trying to show them God. That is his purpose, he says. And he is here to train people to realize God.

Q         What does Swamiji have to offer Americans that they don’t already have?

SBY     He says the Americans have a lot of tension. They don’t have the sadhana, or what we mean spiritual practice, that’s what we call sadhana. The Americans don’t have that, he says. That’s why he has come here to teach them the sadhana. And to reduce the tensions, he says.

Interview by Bojan Gorenc
Bangalore, February 1, 1994

Q         What is Swamiji’s role in the world?

SBY     It is his intention and his role in the world to see where there is tension in the minds of people, and to go there and reduce their tensions, to bring them into the spiritual line. Once they are brought into the spiritual line, their tensions reduce and they lead a peaceful life. That is his intention. That’s what he wants to do in the world.