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In addition to his advanced yoga sadhana of the past forty years, Swami Rajarshi Muni is also wisely and skilfully administering the Life Mission Trust in India and abroad. Discerning readers will realize that at the foundation of both these aspects lies his professional administrative experience and the seeds of yoga sown in his childhood.

Swami Kripalavanandji was a farsighted and good judge of men. That is why, forty-four years ago he gave his disciple Yashwant yoga initiation and named him 'Rajarshi'. 'Rajarshi' means an ascetic King, a Kshatriya Rishi or Sage. Two names of those in the past who were both Kings as well as Sages which come immediately to mind are those of Maharshi Vishvamitra and King Janak. Seeing his arduous penance, Brahmaji called Vishvamitra 'Rajarshi'. In the Srimad Bhagavat, too, Shukdevji addresses Parixit as 'Rajarshi'. (1-4-7). According to Kautilya's 'Arthasashtra', Rajarshi means a wise King well-endowed with many gunas or good qualities. The Greek Philosopher Plato has given a very appropriate definition of 'Rajarshi': "States will never become happy until rulers become philosophers and philosophers become rulers'.

This, then, is the prologue of disciple Yashwant's chronologically advancing extraordinary story or prologue of Yashvantsinhji Jadeja 'Jayubhai's 'fore-story'. Without getting snared in divine siddhis (accomplishments) attained through most arduous yoga practice and Guru's infinite grace, Swami Rajarshi Muni is a yoga adept and siddha of modern times pursuing his sadhana for the divine body alongside of pursuit of the divinely ordained task of social enlightenment. In modern times, no yogi is known to have reached the culminating stage of spontaneous khechari mudra on the strength of spontaneously functioning pranic energy. It is a different matter if there is any such unknown yogi in the Himalayas. This story narrates the pre-sannyas life of such an ascending yogi advancing towards the supreme state. It includes events from the time of his sannyas initiation to the stage of the story of his lineage as narrated in his book Infinite Grace, the Story of My Spiritual Lineage.

It is our good fortune that he narrated that story; equally is it our good fortune that he consented to also narrate to me the known and unknown events of his days preceding the days covered by Infinite Grace. Normally one does not easily ask a Mahatma about his life, nor, if asked, does he easily reveal it. But, to the good fortune of disciples and the world, and preserving the dignity of his saffron robes, His Holiness did narrate to me the events of his pre-sannyas life. This is only my compilation of what he said; there is nothing here that is mine, only my faith. Whatever else there is, belongs to the Merciful Lord. My task was merely to bring all this before you, that is all. God merely sent me the command to stand humbly with a plate in my hands; as Sant Gyaneshwar said: "My humble person has been blessed to take this matter from one heart to the other." I also take ownership of whatever flaw my effort may have left in the narration.

Generally, everyone seems to have some curiosity about the life and activities of film stars, heroes and heroines. In the same way, I entertained a great amount of curiosity about the head of our Lakulish lineage: what was he like when he was small? What did he read in College? What were his experiences in his Government job? When and how was the foundation of his present-day yoga accomplishments laid? Other disciples must surely have had these, and other, similar questions in their mind about him.

In the Skand Puran, in a conversation between Bhagavati Uma and Lord Shiv, the latter describes the importance of the twelve jyotirlings and eighty four other jyotirlings besides. Describing the eighty-second of those, Shivji describe how he took birth in Kayavarohan as Lakulish. This Kayavarohan Tirths is renowned among India's sixty eight tirthas as a Shiva Tirth and Shaktipeettha.

In the Shatrudra Samhita of the Shiv Puran, Bhagavan Shiv tells Brahmaji: "In the twenty-eighth Dwapar of the seventh Manvantar of the Varaha Kalpa, when Dvaipayan, Son of Parashar shall be Vyas, Bhagavan Shri Vishnu shall appear as the son of Vasudev in the form of Purushottam Shri Krishna. At that time, through yogamaya that amazes all, I shall appear in the body of a celibate. Through resort to yogamaya, I shall enter a well-preserved body lying on the ground. My name in that body shall be Lakulish and the exalted land of my incarnation shall be called Kayavarohan. This siddha domain shall be renowned so long as this earth shall last."

This event of the interregnum between Dwapar and Kali Yuga took place in Maharshi Vishvamitra's Meghavati City when a child was born on the midnight of Chaitra Shud 14 in the home of Vishvarup and his wife Sudarshana, a Brahmin couple's in the lineage of Sage Atri. He held a staff (lakut or danda) in his hand, so everyone worshipped him as Lakulish. This Medhavati City was named Kayavarohan from the time that Bhagavan incarnated there with a human body. The Brahmeshwar temple is the main temple. The Shiv Ling here is a Jyotirling, made of black meteorite material. It was established by Maharshi Vishvamitra. The twelve Jyotirling temples were also under Bhagavan Shri Lakulish and they were administered from Kayavarohan. In a short while, Kayavarohan became a great centre of Shiv Bhakti in all India. Now Bhagavan Lakulish felt that the task for which he had taken human incarnation had been accomplished and thus he wrapped up the divine play of his incarnation.

For the revival of yoga and Sanatan Dharma in present times, Bhagavan Lakulish has revived the Lakulish lineage which had disappeared since the last four and half thousand years.

In 1913, Bhagavan Lakulish gave yoga initiation to Bankim Babu, resident of Calcutta and named him Pranavananda. In that same year, the child Saraswatichandra was born in Dabhoi.

In 1931, after Swami Pranavananda had left his body purified by yoga, Bhagavan Lakulish himself entered that same body through par-kaya pravesh and gave yoga initiation to nineteen-year-old Saraswatichandra and named him Kripalavananda. In that same year, a son was born at Porbandar in the home of Devisinhji of Sapar. He was named Yashvantsinh.

Now, in 1971, Yogacharya Swami Kripalavananda, gave sannyas initiation to Shri Yashvantsinhji Jadeja of Sapar and named him Rajarshi Muni.

Swami Kripalavananda established the Lakulish Yoga Vidyalaya in Kayavarohan.

In 1993, his chief disciple Swami Rajarshi Muni had darshan of Bhagavan Lakulish and accepted from him the three-pronged mission of 1. Proclamation of the spiritual principle of Monotheism; 2. propagation of the Sanatan Sanskriti (Eternal Culture) and 3. Revival of Indian Culture.

In 1996 Life Mission, established by Swami Rajarshi Muni, took up this task with enthusiasm.