Sujit Guru

Sujit Guru is a highly realized sage, accomplished meditation trainer and wise spiritual mentor. His consciousness is endowed with in-depth experience and intimate understanding of the spiritual-awakening process. He is especially skilled at translating his wisdom and insights into interesting and impactful meditation techniques.

While pursuing higher education at some of the world’s best universities, he realized that material progress alone could not lead to a meaningful & joyful life. His deep thirst for spiritual exploration brought him back to Nepal and took him to the caves and forests of Shivapuri Mountain, just outside the northern edge of Kathmandu Valley. There he dwelt for about one decade, practicing intense meditation and self-inquiry, which brought him profound self-realization and genuine experiences of higher spiritual dimensions.

Sujit Guru’s Spiritual Journey

Sujit Guru’s life has been governed by one passion- a continuous yearning to understand himself. From his early childhood days Sujit Guru began to realize that of all the things he did, the only thing that brought him happiness and a sense of being free was when he used to sit down and try to make sense of his own experiences. Over the years that passion for self-understanding found expression in various pursuits and endeavors, to finally culminate in a life dedicated to meditation and self-inquiry.

Sujit Guru began to learn yoga in his early teenage years and over time he attained mastery of almost all of its physical practices. Before going to university, he participated in a ten-day Vipassana course, which was his first but profound experience of meditation. He also learnt dynamic meditation and other meditation techniques of Osho and practiced them for many years. Although there were episodes of intense experiences and revelatory glimpses, he was not yet convinced that spirituality was the thing that would provide right answers to his questions regarding the nature and causes of his own experiences. Rather, his greatest hope lay in the academic world, which appeared to him much more systematic and scientific than the mystical and unsystematic world of spirituality.

Sujit Guru spent his youthful years as a casual spiritual explorer while giving his primary attention to university education. With great hopes of finding answers to the fundamental questions regarding human nature and behavior, he devoted himself to the study of social sciences and Western philosophy and completed university level education in India, America and Europe.

However, intellectual quest and knowledge based on logic and reasoning could provide neither answer to his questions nor any kind of satisfaction. Joy of living was diminishing rather than being enhanced. Able to find neither happiness nor answers to his questions in academic pursuits, he began to realize that true knowledge and happiness could be found only by exploring and understanding oneself. Then came the U-turn of his life; he left his home and everything in the world and went to dwell in the caves and forests of Shivapuri Mountain, just outside the northern edge of Kathmandu valley. Dwelling most of the time alone, he went through a legendary solo-sadhana consisting of intense practice of meditation and self-inquiry, averaging 15 hours a day, for about one decade.

The first phase of his sadhana was all about confronting the dark forces which lay hidden deep in his being and the empty abysses of his consciousness, an intense almost insurmountable experience of dread, hopelessness and uncertainty. However, despite the unbearably unpleasant nature of those experiences, Sujit Guru was able to remain stable and persevere with his practice. Although this was a very difficult phase to go through, it brought to him a highly significant realization- that stable awareness was something totally different from pleasant awareness, and meditation was not at all about seeking nice experiences. He discovered that deep in his consciousness there was a quality that could be touched neither by happiness nor by sorrow.

Next phase began with a breakthrough transformation which came to Sujit Guru like water coming to a man about to die from thirst. After a kind of total breakdown that ensued from almost-continuous meditation for several weeks carried out in frenzied desperation, he collapsed in his bed, to wake up next morning to a totally new and unknown dimension of experience. He saw that everywhere all around him as far as his vision could go there was showering of golden light and everything was dancing in an ocean of golden pellucid luminosity. An inexplicable serenity descended upon his heart filling his consciousness with the first-ever experience of pure bliss. That dreamlike lucid perception has become established as a permanent quality of his consciousness; and it only increases with further sadhana, revealing to him so clearly the illusory nature of all phenomena and taking him closer and closer to ultimate liberation.

Many phenomena pertaining to higher levels of consciousness came to Sujit Guru in the form of blessings and rewards for his unwavering dedication: vivid recollection of past lives, intense experience of what is called “Kundalini Arising”, the rising up of sexual energy and its flow upwards to higher centers of energy, perception from beyond the senses, understanding from beyond the mind, clairvoyance and so on. Those experiences were very intense and totally unexpected. Rather than going to the world to brag about his out-of-the-world experiences, he tried to make sense of them in a systematic way. His excellent analytical skills helped him to clarify things, and his scientific approach led him to design spiritual experiments that could be replicated in controlled settings. He found that it was possible to practice spirituality in a systematic and scientific manner, without making recourse to any kind of mysticism.

After dwelling on the Peak of Shivapuri Mountain for more than half a decade, Sujit Guru came down to settle in its foothills, making a hut close to the forest. There he continued his sadhana, which grew by leaps and bounds. After some time, some young boys from the nearby village began to visit him. As they listened to him regularly, they began to be curious to learn yoga and meditation. Sujit Guru started to give experimental meditation sessions consisting of some novel techniques which he had developed based on his personal experiences and study of classical scriptures. Those meditation sessions proved to be an outright success. The boys reported experiencing interesting immediate effects as well as long-term positive changes within themselves.

From these experimental sessions Sujit Guru felt confident that meditation could be explored, taught and practiced in a systematic and scientific manner. Its practices and techniques could be learnt and taught in a systematic way. Its effects could be observed and measured accurately. Its principles could be formulated precisely. Its experiments could be replicated in controlled settings. He then began to have a vision of establishing a spiritual institution which would be fully devoted to systematic and comprensive exploration of meditation as a genuine science.

With strong encouragement and support from his childhood friend Rajeev Swami, also a dedicated meditation practitioner living in America and Dinesh Yogi, a committed practitioner and teacher of yoga and meditation, he started on the journey to create a spiritual center that would be devoted to systematic, comprehensive and scientific learning and practice of meditation. With integrated mutual effort, the place is gradually developing into a thriving school where people from all over the world are invited to learn, practice and explore meditation as the ultimate science of life, being and experience.