Satsang: A Seeker’s Guide to Self-Realization

For over a decade, Swami Shashwat Ji has been living in Rishikesh, meeting people from all over the world, and answering their questions. The book you are holding in your hands is a compilation of these questions and his answers in an attempt to make them available not only to those who have been in his presence but also to anyone curious to know more about the meaning of life in general and about spirituality in particular.
Swamiji was born in 1985 in a small village in Madhya Pradesh in central India, on the banks of the river Narmada2. As a child, he was curious by nature, eager to know about the lives and sadhana or spiritual practices of saints like Dhruv and Prahlad, about
nature, about life and death. At the tender age of five, he began chanting Lord Rama’s name for several hours daily. At the time, he did no other practice and knew nothing else except that he wanted to unite with the Lord. His thirst for the Truth led him to
leave his home at the age of fourteen, and he started visiting different places of pilgrimage and meeting different saints along the way. Occasionally, he would stay with his guru, Baba Shri Gajanand Ji Maharaj, and serve him with love and devotion.