Swami Pranvananda Saraswati was a representative of Vishnu consciousness of a civilisational revival. He practiced yoga and meditation under the strict tutelage of Swami Muktananda Paramhansa. Then, he retired to a dense forest tract in Ajanta-Ellora forests and practiced deep meditation for 12 years. His forest Ashram was situated next to the ancient Devi temple shrine of the Patne Devi. He was a forest sage in true tradition of the Atharvans, sages who had compiled the Atharva Veda. His profound Sadhana gave us a remarkable Vedic perspective to the Kundalini Phenomena. Everything in this universe is conscious. There is no such thing as sentient or insentient. The Cosmos per se, is a vast ocean of consciousness. To touch that ocean within is to experience great ecstasy and happiness. The plants give us peace. Peace deepens to bliss, bliss to euphoria and euphoria leads to that supreme ecstasy of Soma. That was the simple philosophy of Pranvananda.

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