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Synopsis In ‘Pilgrim of the SKY’ the mystical East travels half-way round the earth to meet the West. Sri Vitthal Ramanujaa, a holy personage, travels from India to the U.K. following in the giant footsteps of Swami Vivekananda and Paramhansa Yogananda. Among the accompanists are the dear disciples and die-hard loyalists. And world-renowned musicians from Bengal, singers, sitarists and other versatile performers who render beautiful devotional hymns in the form of Naam Kirtan. And writers and publishers! Then there are the marginally spiritual and inevitably, those who are devotees by proxy! This band carries luggage quite unusual to a group of tourists. There are none of the ubiquitous video cameras, or the other trappings of the average run of eager tourists. There are a whole lot of musical instruments. There are cartons of precious books carrying material that would enrich the inner life of a disciple and provide rare insights to any researcher in comparative religion and metaphysics.

An incident that draws compelling attention is the innovation of SKY by the Guru. The SKY dawns on Sri Vitthal Ramanuja in a divine inspiration. He is transported into the SKY as its first pilgrim. The second pilgrim is Raj Supe who meticulously transcribes His Guru’s vision. What is SKY? SKY is an integral concept of Yoga. Siddha Kundalini Yoga consists of pranam asana, pranayama and meditation sequentially.  Each is joined to a potent mantra in a remarkable way as to increase efficacy incalculably, while protecting the practitioner against untoward effects. Clearly the practice of SKY is self-sufficient and revolutionizing. Interestingly, ‘sky’ or ‘akash’ is the tattva or essence of the ‘vishuddhi’ or purificatory chakra, which lies on the way of the kundalini shakti’s ascension to the junction of the ‘ajna’ chakra. The dawning of SKY and its revelation marks the pinnacle of triumph of this unusual pilgrimage in which Guru and all others are rendered ‘pilgrims’!