Born in the year 1947 at Shakkarnagar, Bodhan (Telangana state, India), I was raised in a typical south-Indian Brahmin household. We were a family of four siblings along with my mother, Savitri Devi a very compassionate individual and my father, P.V. Ramana Rao, an excellent academician.
Under the guidance of my elder brother, Dr P.K. Venu Vinod, I completed my academic and professional pursuit with a post graduate degree in soil science, worked as an Income Tax Inspector in Tenali and worked through many levels in the Sales department of Coromandel Fertilisers. With my elder brother’s insistence, I even learnt to play the flute and train in vocal music. I even had the great fortune of being trained by Dr Sripada Pinakapani Garu, Padmabhushan who taught me the intricate technicalities of Carnatic music.
Throughout my childhood and during my adult life I have been very passionate about books. By the age of 16 years, I had read the Indian Philosophy by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (two volumes). I was able to pursue my reading passion with great interest, when I was preparing for the civil services exams, during which time I would spend hours in the libraries of Hyderabad to read, read and read.
I got married to Swarnmala Patri, in the year 1974 and have two daughters, Parinita and Parimala.
In the year 1977, I was introduced to meditation from my then colleague and now spiritual friend, Ramachenna Reddy, who would share many of his meditational experiences. I became very interested in meditation and started doing several experiments with ‘Anapanasati Meditation’. In December 1979, I got the book ‘You Forever’ by T. Lobsang Rampa and while reading, I knew I was enlightened.
Usually, whenever a person becomes enlightened, a WHOLE NEW MOVEMENT begins all around himself or herself. Like, when you throw a stone into a pond, then the ripples will start and the ripples will spread all over the pond.
Before “ENLIGHTENMENT “, there is always an intense SEARCH FOR TRUTH.
When the SEARCH FOR TRUTH culminates into personal EXPERIENCE OF TRUTH, then that is called “ENLIGHTENMENT”.
Without a priori SEARCH FOR TRUTH, there is no posterior “ENLIGHTENMENT”.
“TRUTH” is that which transcends all limitations.. of time and space. When something is constant always.. in all places, at all times, in all situations.. that particular thing is “TRUTH”.
“SEARCH FOR TRUTH” is readily available in all situations, at all times, wherever you are. That which is an universal experience, that which is universally valid.. is “TRUTH”.
There is a saying in Zen :
“Mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. And then, mountains are not mountains and rivers are not rivers. And again, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.”
That is a classic Zen statement.
During the course of enlightenment, mountains are not mountains and rivers are not rivers.. i.e., the world is not exactly as what you see.
However, when the enlightenment is complete.. and you have experienced the whole truth in its wholeness.. you come back to square one, where you live in the world happily. Then, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.. persons are persons.. events are events .. things are things. All people and all events return back to their earlier significances.
You will live with the same persons, experience the same events.. but in a totally happy mood, a joyful mood, and in an enlightened mood.
When you become enlightened.. for the first time in life.. you acquire a state of HAPPINESS-BLISS, which is not exactly happiness, which also is not bliss exactly. It is happiness / non-happiness, bliss / non-bliss kind of state.
It is always in the “NEUTRAL STATE”.. neither moving forward, nor moving backward. In this state.. when you speak out, when you think out, when you act out.. what is exposed, what is exhibited is your IMPECCABLE NEUTRALITY, which is neither for nor against anything or any person.
When I became enlightened, suddenly everything became clear to my mind. I felt thus:
“Now, I know the purpose for which I have come to this Earth plane. Now, I know.. what I am going to speak for the rest of my life.. and what I am going to do for the rest of my life.”
“The rest of my life is meant to spread enlightenment among people.. through the teaching of the Science of Meditation.. for the common welfare of the whole world.”
Everything became crystal-clear almost instantly. And my action plan became clear:
“I have to do my minimum duty in the world. I have to stay in the family life. But, the major purpose in my life would be explaining enlightenment, spreading enlightenment, and exposing enlightenment to each and every person whomsoever I meet.. in my day-to-day routine.”
In the year 1992, I resigned from my job in Coromandel Fertilisers Ltd. and took up uninterrupted service to the whole of mankind. I have since been travelling across India and the world to spread the message of Anapanasati Meditation, Vegetarianism, Pyramid Energy and New Age Spiritual Science.
“One person’s hard-won enlightenment is everybody else’s easily attainable Enlightenment.”
When one person becomes enlightened, a whole new MOVEMENT always starts.
When MAHAVEER became enlightened, a great MOVEMENT got started.
When BUDDHA got enlightened, a great MOVEMENT got started.
When SHANKARACHARYA got enlightened, a great MOVEMENT got started.
When JESUS CHRIST got enlightened, a great MOVEMENT got started.
When MOHAMMAD got enlightened, a great MOVEMENT got started.
The PYRAMID SPIRITUAL SOCIETIES MOVEMENT also started because one person got enlightened.
When one person becomes “enlightened”, everything around that person has to change. Every event around every person has to flow into new directions.
Every other person, who interacts with an enlightened human being, becomes somehow modified. The effect has to happen, the ripple effect. Then, another significant thing happens; whoever touches a particular enlightened person, experiences two clear-cut doors opening in front of him/her:
• To become like the enlightened person
• To stay back.. for the time being.. and watch the enlightened person, a little more closely.
If the choice is number one, it facilitates the ready and easy enlightenment of that person, in a simple and smooth way.
The purpose of PYRAMID SPIRITUAL SOCIETIES MOVEMENT (PSSM) is to spread Spiritual Science everywhere, to teach Spiritual Science to each and everyone.
” SPIRITUAL SCIENCE ” is neither Jainism, nor Buddhism, nor Hinduism, nor Christianity, nor Islam. However, it gathers in its ambit, the essence of all these religions.
When the FOUNDERS of the great religions spoke in their particular times, they revealed the pure and the pristine Spiritual Science. However, in due course of time, their teachings got diluted in the public minds.. and those became different religions.
Now that dilution process has to take a ‘U ’-TURN.. and everybody has to return back to the pure and the pristine Spiritual Science which was revealed originally by all those FOUNDERS of great religions.
PSSM masters.. as all the masters of the New Age anywhere else.. facilitate people in taking that great ‘U’-TURN.
When you become enlightened, you stop eating animals, birds & fish. You understand how terrible a crime it is.. killing animals and eating their flesh. And you wonder how many such crimes you yourself might have committed.. in your past lives too.
The first thing that you do when you become enlightened is that you become a vegetarian. That is the immediate off-shoot of enlightenment.
Before enlightenment, you don’t know why you should not eat animal flesh and so there are arguments and arguments. But, when you sit in meditation and become enlightened, you understand the whole subject of compassion and the principle of karma.
As long as you are an INFERIOR PERSON.. not given to a search for truth and given only to non-stop sensual pleasures.. you cannot understand what compassion is, what helpfulness is, what NON-INTERFERENCE is.
“PSSM” invites all to come into the portals of Spiritual Science. “PSSM” inspires everyone to study the books of spiritual scientists of the world.
There are any number of spiritual scientists in the world. You just go into the market and search on the internet, and you will get all the material.
The OLD AGE is represented by religions and the NEW AGE is represented by spiritual sciences.
We are all, presently, rushing into a great NEW AGE of SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. The OLD AGE of RELIGIONS is fast receding and the NEW AGE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE is visibly on.
The cardinal principles of NEW AGE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE are to practice meditation and to adopt vegetarianism.
Do Meditation! Teach Meditation! Become a Vegetarian!