Yoga has its root in ht term ‘yuz’ which means unite. Yoga traces back to the Vedic period wherein the saints who did penance and survived for hundreds of years on the strength of Yogic practices and powers.
In the present era Yogeshwar Shri Ramlal Mahaprabhuji took birth as a casual being in the hemlet of Kucha Bhai Sant Singh Amritsar, Punjab of Pandit Ganda Ram and Smt. Bhagwanti Devi in 1887, the Vikram year 1945, the ninth day of lunar fortnight. Even as the birth of many Indian saints, god men and Yogis. Shri Ramlajji was marked by mystic occurances. He was destined to save the mankind through self-acquired yogic powers with the blessings of the preceptor, Shri MahaPrabhuji.
Shri Ramlal Mahaprabhuji was credited to have done penance in the Himalayas and acquired many wish yielding powers which he used for the well being of people all over the world. There was a miraculous forecast of His birth in ‘Kak Nadi Samhita’ at Koumar Naadi Jyotishalaya, Roypet, Madras in the form of an inscription on palmyra leavnesnx. It was said to have originated from Saint Kakabhushundi (of the period of the Ramayan) who said that Kalyug will be sanctified by the divine birth of the Yogeshwar. His incarnation was to free mankind from the ills-physical, mental and spiritual. The inscription has since been preserved on a Taad Patra found on Kak Nadi Jyotishalaya of Madras. This rare phenomenon is shrouded in mystery and replete with mystic effect.
Ever since the sacred birth of Prabhujji he had grown both in scholarship getting the ‘jnana’ (knowledge) of all sastras, epics and astrology much to the amazement of all including his scholarly father. His spiritual powers were unparalleled to the powers of greatest Yogis known in the holy land of Bharat since ancient times. The Maha Prabhuji had through his own example shown that one need not be a ‘sanyasi’ to be a great ‘Yogi’ and he remained a detached saint inspite of being a householder. He had far excelled even his father true to the saying “Putraadichchet Praaajayam”. He came to be known and seen by the initiated devotees in their meditation as Lord Rama of the Tretayug and Lord Krishna of the Dwapar while being Shri Ramlal Mahaprabhuji of the Kaliyug. This vouches that he is beyond the bounds of the temporal and the spatial. He is the one who had absolute control over time and environment, and could leave alone his self and senses and attained the Absolute and got liberated. Obeissanse to His Holy feet !
He had also demonstrated his indivisible power of cosmic appearance and the multiple divisible forms of the self same image simultaneously at several places like Lord Krishna. He lifted up the fallen and raised the lowest of the low to the highest heights of spiritually with the yogic powers which were transmitted even to the widest animals of the Himalayas . This Yogi of the yogis of the Himalayas lived and attained liberation for the welfare of mankind and thus amply subserved His purpose on this earth. He continues to exist as He is timeless as non dual for those who seek him through ‘dhyana’ (meditation) though he ceased to be in our midst in his physical coil.
The chief disciple of Shri Ramlal MahaPrabhuji in the first quarter of the present century was Yogiraj Shri Mulakhraj ji Maharaj . He had his main seat of Yogic practice at Hardwar on the banks of the holy Ganges, while his mentor innovated Yogic therapy for the disease prone mortals and the ‘Jeevan Tatva’-Kaaya Kalpa ‘treatment with’ Ghrit kriya’ etc. along with the ‘shat kriyas’ of the traditional path of Yoga of and the ‘Ashtaang Yoga’ of ‘Yama’, ‘Niyama’ etc. enunciated by the great Yogi Patanjali thereby ensuring his exhortation-‘Yogah Chitts Vritti Nirodha’ for the fulfillment of the saying, ‘Yogah Karma Su Kousalam’. While Shri Ramlal Mahaprabhuji confined mostly to the North of India except for a brief sojourn to Madras in the South, Shri Mulakhraj ji travelled as far as south and visited several towns of Andhra Pradesh too. His historic visit to the District Headquarters of Machilipatnam in the mid fifties is still fresh in the memory of thousands of the devotees in the coastal Andhra.
Shri Mulakhraj ji was entrusted with the care of the people who sought material and spiritual welfare from the master Yogeshwar Shri Ramlalji who had also passed down the rich legacy of Yoga and its ‘Ansthaan’ to him. Naturally, Shri Mulakhraj ji carried his mission with the blessings of his supreme master and his yogic cure came to be much efficatious for the benefit of thousands of the suffering people all over the country.
Foremost among the disciples of Yogiraj Shri Mulakhraj ji, Swami Devidayalji Maharaj of Haveli Diwan (Undivided Punjab), has taken upon himself the enormous task of propagating the traditional path of Yoga through establishing Yoga Ashrams all over the country, training Yoga Acharyas for manning them and publishing literature for the larger benefit of the reading public. His inimitable style of serving the mankind round the clock attracted thousands and hundreds remained with him all through conducting Yoga Training and Treatment Camps leaving their kith and kin behind and even sacrificing their professions and positions. Among them are high ranking professors, Bank officials, Government officers and traders.
Swami Devidayalji has left nothing untouched and none unblessed who sought his path and perfected the practice of yoga on scientific lines. People felt elevated and elated through the ‘anubhooti’ of ‘dhyana’ and sound health. Such were the bounties of the benevolent Yoga Darbar’ of the three generations of Yogacharyas of ‘Shri Ram Mulakh Yoga Durbar’ . The Swamiji southern sojourn in the month of January every has enabled several people of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to veer round his path of Yoga and get cured of the physical, mental and spiritual maladies.
Simple in dress and simpler in his demeanour, the unobtrusive and unassuming Swami Devidayalji has successfully raised a Yoga Ashram near Gannavaram on the sprawling grounds amidst lush fields a couple of years ago and it is followed up by another in the offing at Madras through the munificence of a philanthorphist there on a larger scale. The sub centre of Yoga at Sanskar Mutt, Godugupet, Machilipatnam, Krishna even as the State Headquarters at Gannavaram(Opposite Airport) has been straining every nerve in the free service of the needy true to the mission of Maharajji whose Delhi base has all pervasive supervisor of the sixty odd centres of Yoga all over the country.
Yogiraj Swami Devidayalji has inherited all the yogic powers of his masters and his own mentor had bequeathed the trust and Yoga Darbar to him. He is out on the highway of the nation for free distribution of all his powers only for asking with a true and honest belief in the path of Traditional Yoga. A doctor to the ailing, he discards all ‘pathys’ and exhorts people to come together for the collective benefit of Yoga at the National Headquarters of Delhi (Bhamashah Marg) or the Branches in various states of India if only people have a will to live long and healthily shedding alcohol, luxurious life, anger and tendency of violence, distrust and hatred.
Let seekers join together for the divine way of living through the path of traditional Yoga.