Rabi Maharaj

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Trinidadian-born bestselling author Rabi Maharaj is a descendant of a long line of Brahmin priests and gurus from the holy city of Varanasi (Banaras) in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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[edit] Biography

Trained as a holy Yogi, Maharaj went on a search for truth and eventually found Jesus Christ. Still embracing his Indian roots, Maharaj kept his great respect for the Indian culture and the rich heritage from which he came.

Maharaj trained his children to embrace the positive aspects of their Indian culture such as the Indian arts, dance, food, and familial values. Leading by example, he also taught them the importance of compassion and justice as he worked for positive changes on issues such as the plight of the Dalits (untouchables; outcastes), and the equal value of all people regardless of caste, gender, or religion.

Maharaj wrote the story of his search for truth in the book, “Death of a Guru” which has gone through a number of publications and is in approximately 69 languages. Maharaj has since spoken at thousands of colleges, universities, seminars and churches worldwide. He goes back to India on a regular basis to do developmental/charity work.

[edit] Death of a Guru

"Rabi was born into a wealthy Brahmin family in Trinidad. His father was a great yogi who never said a word to anyone, not even to his wife, during his penance for 8 years. Upon his untimely death, his young son resolves to become just like him - an Ascended Master. Rabi soon loses his mother to meditation in the temples of India...

The flavor of life as an Indian boy growing up in the Caribbean comes across well. The major portion of the book details Rabi's intensely focused journey as Brahmacharya to attain Mukti (Self-realization, union with Brahman). Some of the occult details he experienced, I have also read of by other yogis. The more deeply he meditates and travels into Hinduism, the more dissatisfied he becomes. His gods Shiva and Kali seem to be threatening and unloving.

After years of struggling with his thoughts, he realizes that he is not Brahman - he cannot be the Creator of the Universe. As a Brahmin, he despises the lower castes, especially Christians who eat the cow (a god) and do not lead good lives.

Then two life-threatening incidents happen; a snake attacks him and in danger of his life, Rabi calls on the name of Jesus; the snake flees. Some time later his appendix ruptures and he collapses; Rabi again calls upon Jesus for help. His life is saved.

After a lot of struggle, he goes to a hated Christian meeting where he asks Jesus to come into his life and become his God. He meets the Creator of the Universe who loves him so much, that He sent His Son to die for him on the cross.

Contrary to what you might expect, Rabi is very respectful towards Hinduism. However he is also frank and honest."

- Excerpt from book review written by Anil Philip, KS. USA

[edit] Comments from a reader

Rabi Maharaj mentioned almost everything about his life in his book named "Death of a Guru", and in between he also mentioned "I was confused" after struggling with different Hindu Karmkanda. I personally believe that Rabi Maharaj was very near to self realization at one point of time but he suddenly changed his way. It was the wish of GOD. I believe Rabi Maharaj knows the philosophy of Hinduism as written in the Upanishads, but somewhere something wrong or right happened, which is not mentioned clearly in the book and I think that Maharaj ji also aware of it that he changed his path when he was about to reach to his destination. All the religions are good if they say Praise the Lord or Help all living beings. Rabi Maharaj ji respects Hinduism because he knows the meaning and of it as he realized it personally and he knows in real that Hinduism is not just a fantasy but the truth itself however its a different matter that most of the people of India are not aware of it but they are just following it blindly. I don't have any hesitation to say that Philosophy of Hinduism gives the Knowledge of Knowledge and self realization and to gain it we have to surrender ourselves as we surrendered in school when our teacher taught us ABC or 123 and we never questioned like why A is A and 1 is 1. Hinduism tells us about the god in very simplest way and that is God is 0 (zero)you can't say its nothing or you can't say its something and it is complete in itself either you add or remove 0 from 0, it will remain complete in every situation.(i.e 0-0=0, 0+0=0). To understand GOD we need self realization, it’s not something which we can understand by our brain. If we will try to understand it by our brain then we will not get anything but confusion, which will divert our way to some other direction for our brain's satisfaction.

- Ashish Dabral (from India)

[edit] Source

  • "Death of a Guru" on amazon.com: [1]