People from many countries and different walks of life, joined his endeavour to investigate ways to live in harmony with nature. Guruji Sri Vast’s urge to explore and understand life on earth continued. He started to get invitations from around the world, travelling to different places to give talks. In the year 2000 Sri Vast started an International Center for Ecology and Spiritual Studies and many spiritual teachers and sadhus came to share their experiences.
At the age of 32 during a longer visit to a snowy winter Sweden, Guruji Sri Vast fell down in the middle of the forest while meditating. “I saw my body lying there, as if it was dead. The whole planet Earth became very small, and then the whole galaxy became small; there was no fear, no pain, no questions, no separation, no form. The whole existence started to breathe together as in one single breath and I was totally in bliss. It was a great journey. When I came back to the body I experienced so much heat and I was sweating. I could not move my body; I started to crawl like a newborn child. At first I had no memory of the past and no idea of what was happening, but everything was taken care of by itself. The body was weightless, the breathing was changed, the amount of prana that went inside the body was very high and it felt like floating on the air. For three weeks it continued like this and during this time I went out of my body several times. At one point I lost my speech.
This state was so full of bliss - all the questions were answered. The total purpose of living revealed itself. This experience brought a discontinuity from the past, and it changed everything. Every moment in life became so wonderful and precious. Life became open, endless, ageless and goalless. There was nothing to reach anymore, just a great silence inside. For me, that moment revealed the truth that everything is enlightened in this world; whatever I see and whom ever I meet. When a person becomes enlightened, not just that individual is enlightened. But that person’s whole world becomes enlightened. To me, you are all enlightened. Enlightenment is not something that happened one day in the past through a particular experience. Enlightenment is experiencing every moment as an enlightening moment. Enlightenment is happening in this very moment, in every step you take, in every choice you make. It is an endless freedom and a completely effortless living, a sense of oneness and a constant flow of love. Everything in life becomes very much grounded and all comparisons disappear".
After this profound experience, Guruji Sri Vast, who has never had any particular teachers himself, started to give talks on “Naturalization of Mankind” and “Enlightenment”. Guruji Sri Vast developed and shared the practices of Inner Yoga – a unique set of nature exercises, meditation and movement, which were transmitted during Guruji’s samadhi experiences. Guruji shares a unique self-inquiry process, an inward journey. Here we are challenged to meet our ideas about ourselves and life, in order to get closer to our true inner being. The Teachings of Guruji Sri Vast are provocative and revolutionary in their approach towards life, questioning our fundamental belief systems and the concepts of Man and God. Thousands of people have been inspired by the Teachings of Guruji Sri Vast, sharing their joy, wisdom and devotion with others.
During recent years Guruji is teaching four months in the Ashram in India, where devotees from around the world come to experience the presence of the living master. During the remaining period of the year Guruji travels with a team of devotees to share and spread the wisdom of joyful liberation. Many ecological movements are initiated and inspired by Gurujis practical Teachings, advocating a personal and global transformation and sustainable future for all. At present Guruji is actively engaged in the campaign called: Global Cooling Campaign – a call for positive changes.
Sri Vast: “For me there is no East.
There is no West.
Its just one people in one planet.
For me there is no past.
There is no future.
There is just this moment which is now.
I am the bridge
Between you and this moment.
My whole effort is to bring you,
to connect with this moment naturally.
So that you can experience
The wholeness of your existence."