A Living Messiah

Himalayan Yoga Maharishi Swami Dev Murti Ji

By: Jack Boulton, John More

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This "A Living Messiah" book was written by Jack Boulton and John More, to record their experiences with their Master, Swami Dev Murti Ji. Jack and John were Students of Swami Ji for over 25 years. In the 1980s, Bhavin Desai arranged 1000 copies of this book to be printed, using the printing services of Nottingham University, during his MPhil degree in Mathematical Logic. During the 1960s, Jack & John wrote a "Yoga in Daily Life" booklet and a "Yoga in Practice" book, which are available as Kindle books. This Kindle Edition was produced and published on 5 December 2018 as a memorial for Jack's birthday. We hope that this Kindle Edition is useful to anyone interested in The Yoga of Swami Dev Murti Ji. Apart from the format and presentation, and the front page photograph in colour, the actual content is unchanged from the original (apart from a few necessary but minor typographical corrections). Swami Dev Murti Ji was the Great Grand Father of Yoga in recent times. Although he chose not to be well known and famous, he taught many Students who then set up their own Ashrams, Gurukuls, Associations, Groups, Societies, and Commercial Schools. (He once said in a lecture that his target was 1%, which we assumed meant 1% of the whole world population, not just India or UK or Germany.) Swami Ji was responsible for teaching most of the "big names" in Yoga for at least the past 60+ years, in India and in the rest of the world. He was a Teacher of Teachers and our Grand Teacher. He was relatively unknown to the world media, although when I was with him for a year (1987) in India, everyone seemed to know him wherever we went and they often talked about the "good old days". Swami Ji had often taught three or more generations in the same family! Swami Dev Murti Ji researched and developed the original Kundalini Yoga over a period of at least 25+ years in India and designed it for the ordinary person living today (rather than a Yogi living a few thousand years ago; which is the time scale of the classical Yoga literature). However, until recently, most people did not know about Kundalini (and some people did not even know about Yoga), so we generally referred to his system as just Yoga rather than Kundalini Yoga. It is our honour and privilege to be able to bring Swami Ji’s eternal timeless knowledge to everyone who is interested.