The story behind the name RKMG – “Radha Krsna Mai Gurukul.”

Saibaba was a name that was not known to the world back when I was a child. I grew up learning all about God only from my parents and grandparents, having no idea about the word ‘Guru.’

When I was eight years old, I shifted to St.Meera’s High School, and since then, I would walk to my school every day. On the way to my school was a Sai Baba Temple in Cambridge layout in Bangalore. I did not know about Sai Baba then but would bow down to him every morning on the way and back home from my school.

Later in life, in the year 2000, I was searching for a job and became friends with an ardent devotee of Sai Baba, in whose company I had applied for an opening. Listening to my troubled times, she introduced to me Sai Baba and took me to his temple near my school. It is only through her did I get to know about who was Sai Baba and his divine glories. Since then, I also became an ardent devotee of Sai Baba and started to worship him with my heart and soul with absolute conviction that Sai Baba would solve all my problems and bestow upon me his grace and fulfil all my wishes.

In November 2001, Sai Baba did answer my prayers. Just before the Diwali festival on a Thursday, I was sitting for a Bhajan in the temple profusely crying and asking him to bless me with a job. A flower from his garland fell on my lap; Sai Baba answered my prayers. In a week, I landed my very first job, which made my faith in him unshakable to eternity. As I evolved and grew in my career, I was disillusioned with life, given that my values did not meet with reality. My dream of going to America was the breakpoint in my life when the pink colour glasses broke, and it was at that moment when I did not get the answers I decided to go to Shirdi in Jan 2009 after returned India from the USA.

It was my first ever visit to Shirdi, which was the most awaited one till then. I was standing in front of Sai Baba in the main shrine, and suddenly everything around me became blurry, and nothing existed except Saibaba and myself. I was profusely crying and said these words, “If my faith in God and whoever you are is true, then I want you to come in person and save me. I don’t know what is this life all about and my existence in this material world.” At that moment, Sai Baba’s lengthy hand touched my head, telling me that everything will be alright and God is coming to save me.

After that, I came back to Bangalore and started to search for my next stint at IBM. I used to read the abridged version of Sai SatCharita at that time. Every time I had a question, I used to open a random page and read. I would get the answer from Baba, and that was my faith. Since then, every time I opened any page, the only page that opened in which it was mentioned, “Go To RADHAKRSNA MAIs’ SCHOOL.” I wondered who is this RadhaKrsnaMai; where do I find him or her? Is this an organization where I can become a member, etcetera, was the questions that kept rankling in my mind constantly.

Sometime in the month of June of 2009, I met my preceptor – ‘KrsnaGuruji’, who I knew as a family from 1995 onwards when he relocated to Bangalore. During our meeting, I recognized he is not the same person I had known from the past. He heard me out and asked me to call him anytime if I needed any answers or solutions to my problems. On Friday, August 14th, 2009, on Shree Krishna Janmashtami, I went to meet him. He offered me some blessed food offered to the Lord, and there was one Bhagavad Gita book in his hand. He blessed me and handed the last copy of the Gita he had with him and offered to teach me the Bhagavad Gita. The moment the Gita came in my hand, I witnessed love, peace, and a sense of bliss within my heart, which is indescribable.

It felt as though Lord Shree Krsna had come into my life, finally answering all my prayers which I had asked with Sai Baba in Shirdi. My Lord Shree Krsna has come in the form of my KrsnaGuruji to answer all the questions I had and impart the most esoteric knowledge about the Truth and teach me how to live Lord Shree Krsna’s Way of Life. I went home and started visiting my KrsnaGuruji every day to learn Bhagavad Gita. As I journeyed in my Spiritual path, and at times when I wanted some answer, I would still go back to Sai Baba’s book, and every time I opened any page, the instruction I received was, “Go to RADHAKRSNAMAI’s SCHOOL.” That was the Eureka moment. My KrsnaGuruji is my ‘Radha Krsna Mai’, and under his tutelage and in his Gurukul, I need to learn. He is my ‘Guru Dev.’

After few years in my spiritual journey with my Guruji, I had a divine vision in which Lord Shree Krsna instructed me to establish my KrsnaGuruji’s Ashram and bestowed me with the blueprint. The effort to search for a place has been on since 2012, but it was unsuccessful. Finally, in 2016, a divine vision of how the place would appear was conferred to me just before the Guru Purnima by Lord Dattatreya, but the exact location was unclear. In 2017, I went to my village called ‘Andiappanur,’ near the Tirupattur district behind the Yelagiri hills. In that small patch of land, I could connect the location that I saw in my vision and instantly decided to establish my KrsnaGuruji’s Ashram. However, the journey of doing that has not been easy at all. I have been fighting the Mahabharata war since then with Bhagavan Lord Shree Krsna himself driving my chariot. When my Guruji asked, “what would you name the place,” spontaneously I answered – ‘Radha Krsna Mai Gurukul’ which is where I began my Spiritual Journey with my ‘KrsnaGuruji.’

Radha Krsna Mai Gurukul is dedicated to the service of my KrsnaGuruji’s teachings to the HumanKind and establishing the way of life following the path of – Knowledge, Duty, Love, and Devotion is the objective and purpose of RKMG.