Böcker av Madhuri Mandava

A Kriya Yogi's Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas takes us through the spiritual quest of a dynamic and accomplished Indian woman, Madhuri Mandava, who first set off, in 1987, for the Himalayas as an 18 year-old college student in search of adventure, and soon found herself inspired by the sight of sadhu yogis chanting around a fire. A day later as her team approached Gangotri Glacier and towering Mt. Shivling, at 6,543 meters (21,456 ft.), she grew so transfixed that she lost all sense of "me" or "I" and became one with her surroundings, not knowing that the wrath of nature would soon assert itself with frigid winds and piercing snow as she got lost on the glacier, as her team was forced to retreat blindly to base camp, in a state of uncertain desperation. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. By 1996, she had moved to America, earned a Master's in computer science, and was professionally established in Silicon Valley in California. It was then that a severe case of influenza brought extreme fatigue and despair that intensified her longing to awaken, which left her with an intense desire to run off to the Himalayas and sit on a rock until she achieved Enlightenment. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. By 1996, she had moved to America, earned a Master's in computer science, and was professionally established in Silicon Valley in California. It was then that a severe case of influenza brought extreme fatigue and despair that intensified her longing to awaken, which left her with an intense desire to run off to the Himalayas and sit on a rock until she achieved Enlightenment.

A "Kriya Yogi's Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas" offers readers a deep trek not only to the Himalayas but to an extraordinary woman's spiritual awakening. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. She began reading books on quantum physics and metaphysics, and found no answers, before eventually stumbling upon Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), where she learned that the path of Kriya Yoga had been given to humanity to realize our immortality through self-realization and the evolution of consciousness and got initiated into this science by Baba Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri, a direct disciple of Sri Yukteshwar and a peer to Yogananda. She experienced her final Awakening. where she became ONE with the Universe at the cave of Mahavatar Babaji that Yogananda cites in his book. She took the treacherous Siddhartha Road to Awakening that spanned over 25 years of her various spiritual practices