Autobiography Of A Kriya-Yogi by Tarashis Gangopadhyay

Autobiography Of A Kriya-Yogi

     By Tarashis Gangopadhyay

Preface 

  By Sri Bipul Kumar Gangopadhyay 

By the infinite grace of Sri Sri Tara Ma, the Mother of the Three Worlds—the creatrix, sustainer, and dissolver of the universe—everything in existence stands ordained by the supreme Divine Will. Whatever unfolds in this world is woven by that Eternal Design. It is through the merit of noble thoughts and selfless deeds in lives gone by that one is blessed in this life with the company of saints, holy discourse, and the vision of sacred places.

Through the compassion of Trilokeswari Tara Ma, Tarashis too has been the receiver of that divine fruit. The spiritual treasures gathered through his past austerities, saintly association, and pure intentions have ripened into this life with joy. From childhood itself, as if guided by an unseen hand, he came under the sanctified presence and blessings of many perfected beings—graces that few souls encounter even once in their lifetime.

What is wondrous is that these great saints, at the mere sight of little Tarashis, would take him into their arms, shower him with love, and utter words of prophecy touched with divine insight. Once, the hundred-and-thirty-six-year-old Sri Sri Ramanath Aghori Baba, chief of the Nath Sampradaya and a direct disciple of Sri Sri Bamakhyapa, the living incarnation of Shiva and the presiding saint of Mahapith Tarapith, took Tarashis into his lap and said to me, “Bipul Babu, this little Tarashis will one day shine resplendently in the spiritual world.”

Similarly, the two-hundred-and-twenty-five-year-old Sri Sri Bahera Baba, the renowned Mahayogi of Gyanganj, the Guru of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, (father of the world-poet Rabindranath Tagore) fondly embraced the two-year-old Tarashis and said, “Yogi Baba, your son Tarashis too shall one day become a yogi.”

During the twenty-five long years of writing my five-volume work, “Mahapith Tarapith,” hundreds of realized saints and accomplished beings visited our Tarabam Sevashram, drawn not by invitation but by divine will. Each of them, in their own illumined way, blessed Tarashis and uttered predictions radiant with spiritual light. Among them were saints from every stream of Indian realization—Shakta, Shaiva, Vaishnava, Brahmavid, and even the mystic Bauls and Auls. Thus, Tarashis grew up in an atmosphere charged with sacred vibration, nourished by the fragrance of the Infinite. Gradually, through his life, the words of those seers began to take living form.

Today, Tarashis is known both in India and abroad as a writer of luminous depth, a yogi, and a spiritual philosopher of international repute. His disciples, devotees, and admirers are countless. At their earnest request, he has now begun to record, in this work—“Autobiography Of A Kriya-yogi”—the sacred memories, prophecies, and blessings of those realized beings.Written in serene, flowing language and with gentle continuity, this book shall become, for countless seekers, a lamp of guidance, solace, and awakening along the path of the spirit.

May, by the infinite grace of Tara Ma, Gopal Sona, and Sri Sri Bhamakhyapa, Tarashis’s life blossom into the Life Divine—becoming a radiant flame to illumine the hearts of countless men and women. With this prayer, I bow in blissful devotion at the lotus feet of the Supreme Mother, Sri Sri Tara Ma, the ever-joyous, ever-compassionate sovereign of the Universe.

—Shri Bipul Kumar Gangopadhyay

A Few Words

Every human life is a single act in the vast cosmic play—a brief descent from the eternal realm into the flowing stream of time,

a momentary sojourn in the world of change,

and then, the return once more to our Divine Source.

Yet behind this fleeting drama lies a divine intent—

a hidden melody in the Creator’s own Lila. For we are all children of the Supreme Self, offspring of immortality. We come into this world carrying within us the essence of that eternal Being. But upon our arrival, Maya veils our true nature, and we forget who we are. Forgetting the Divine, we become lost in the perishable and mistake shadow for substance. We forget that we are neither body nor mind, but the ever-pure, ever-conscious, ever-blissful Self.

Thus, the purpose of human birth is to awaken from this dream of illusion—

to reclaim the forgotten radiance of our own true nature. When we know the Self, we know God; for the Self, the Divine, and the universe are one. Then the individual soul unites with the Supreme—and that journey of union is what I call the path of the Divine Life: the pilgrimage from life entangled in illusion to life awakened in truth.

We descend again and again into this mortal plane to continue that journey— from birth to birth, from life to life, through timeless ages.

In this lifetime too, I have come as an eternal traveler, resuming the path from where it was left before. On this road I have gained and I have lost,

but what I have gained outweighs all loss;

and in that gain, my being has found fulfilment.

From the dawn of this life, by the grace of my Guru, I was guided toward the goal for which I was born.

Along that sacred path, I discovered my own Self—and with it, the sweetness of my beloved Deity’s boundless grace.

For long, my dear readers have wished for a book that would reveal the inner story of my spiritual journey. They have asked what unseen power or divine wonder could so transform an ordinary life with such waves of grace. Moved by their love, I now take up my pen to share the luminous experiences that have marked my passage from the mundane rhythms of life to the luminous realm of the Life Divine.

I know that some truths are beyond words—many visions are too subtle, too sacred to be expressed. Yet there are still those experiences

that have shaped me into a pilgrim of the Infinite, touches of divine grace that lit my way toward immortality. If the fragrance of those experiences can awaken even a single reader to the joy of the Great Life, then I shall know this offering has found its fulfilment.

—Tarashis Gangopadhyay

(To be continued)

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