Life Sketch
Gurumaa was born on the 8 April 1966 at Amritsar in Punjab, India. She was educated in a convent school and did graduation in arts. In her childhood she used to accompany her mother to spiritual discourses, gatherings, satsangs. She would also have assemblies of sadhus coming home. Some of the friendly mahatmas would pick her to speak to.
Gurumaa is said to have attained enlightenment at age 16. She says she didn't put in years of austerities for enlightenment and she was a normal girl who used to enjoy all games, sports and extra-curricular activities, which she continued after college.
Gurumaa's discourses started coming daily on Sony entertainment television in the morning in 1999 and her popularity started increasing. Her followers started organizing meditation camps in rishikesh twice a year. She established an ashram in ganaur area of sonepat district in Haryana. Since the ashram had limited residential capacity of around 500 people, she started conducting different meditation camps for people of different regions.
Gurumaa conducted series of discourses on various spiritual texts of Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, budhists like Bhagavad Gita, japji sahib, rehraas sahib, jaap sahib of Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Gita, Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatkam and Bhaja Govindam, Narada Bhakti Sutra and poetries of sufi mystics like Baba Bulle Shah, baba farid and Rumi. Sony discontinued airing Gurumaa's discourses in 2007.
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