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Shivabalayogi on His Mission

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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?

Swamiji:   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?

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

Q:   So it’s his mission.

Swamiji:   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?

Swamiji:   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.

Swamiji:   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?

Swamiji:   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?

Swamiji:   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?

Swamiji:   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.