Om Swami | |
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| Born | (1979-11-30)30 November 1979 (age 45) Punjab, India |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Notable work | If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Website | www |
Om Swami is a spiritual leader and a bestselling author[1] who resides in his ashram in the Himalayan foothills. He is the founder of the Black Lotus App[2] and os.me,[3] a writing platform. Beforerenunciation, he was a successful tech entrepreneur.[4] Swami is the bestselling author of more than fifteen books on meditation, wellness, and spirituality, such asKundalini: An Untold Story,The Wellness Sense, andIf Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir.[5][6][7] He has also documented his experiences on meditation for over 15,000 hours in his well-received bookA Million Thoughts.[8]
Showing a deep inclination towardsspirituality[9] from an early age, Swami studied a range ofVedic andastrological texts. He quit his job as a part-time editor for a weekly business newspaper to pursue graduation and post-graduation degrees from Australia.
Swami graduated with a Bachelor of Business fromUniversity of Western Sydney in 2000 and with a Master of Business Administration fromUniversity of Technology Sydney in 2002. Later, he started a software business in Australia and expanded its operations to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and India over the next six years.[10] He became a millionaire owing to his IT company.[11] Later, Swami moved back to India.
On 15 March 2010, Swamirenounced hismaterial wealth[1] and left for his spiritual journey quietly. Heading straight toKashi, he wasinitiated[12] into the path of renunciation by a Naga saint in a little village some eighty kilometers fromVaranasi.[13] After spending four and a half months there, Swami left for the Himalayas where he spent the next thirteen months in intensemeditation in complete isolation andsolitude. During the days of his intense practice, he claims to have meditated for up to 22 hours every day including straight 10-hour stretches.[14] Researchers and Scientists fromIIT studied the effects of his intense spiritual practices (tapasya) and published the findings in 2019 research papers.[15]
Swami gives his own perspective onenlightenment on his website[16] and in his bookIf Truth Be Told. "Enlightenment does not mean you have to live like a pauper. It does not mean you have to subject yourself to a life of hardship andabstinence. On the contrary, to be enlightened means to live in the light of love, compassion and truthfulness".[17]
If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir is his memoir, published byHarperCollins in December 2014.[18][19] The book was listed as number 6 in the top 10 non fiction books in the country as reported byThe Financial Express (India).[20] His fictional novelThe Last Gambit was translated asLa vie est un jeu d'échecs in French. It won the Chronos Prize for Literature (2019) in France.[21]
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