Excerpt on Hinduism from a talk Guru Siyag delivered in 2000:

“What is Hindu Dharma? If someone were to ask us this question, we will simply say we are Hindus. But we can’t explain what being a Hindu really means. Being a Hindu means being a completely evolved human being. I am aware; this is not the case today. But this is how our religious philosophy interprets the meaning of one who follows the Hindu faith. This is the Advaita (non-dual) philosophy that only we have gifted to the world. All the other religions have evolved on the basis of duality which means God and man are two separate entities. They say that it is impossible for man to experience and realize God directly. But experiencing and realizing God directly is precisely the ultimate goal of Hindu philosophy. Without realization of God, human life cannot be complete.”

“The question is: if Advaita philosophy offers the scope for complete evolution of man, what could be the process or the method to practically realize it? It is only the Hindu religion that lays down this process. It says that man is born twice in the same lifetime. Man’s biological birth through his parents is his first, physical birth. When he meets a Guru and is initiated by him into spiritual life, it is man’s second, spiritual birth. (The spiritual practice under the guidance of Guru marks the process of practically experiencing the principle of non-duality). When a person receives Siddha Yoga Diksha and follows the spiritual path, the disciple eventually attains Atma-Sakshatkar — self-realization. The disciple then realizes his true self (as distinctly different from how he perceives himself as an individual self in a material way).”

“Today, bookish knowledge of the philosophical concept of self –realization has prompted almost all of us to take recourse to a Guru to practically experience the principle of non-duality. However, we don’t find any discernible difference in our mental make-up, behavior and routine lifestyle that we followed before being initiated by a Guru and the one that we followed after starting a spiritual life.

However, this does not mean that the Hindu concept of a person being born twice in the same lifetime is a figment of someone’s imagination. That concept is a reality (if the Guru is a truly enlightened person who can bring about a spiritual transformation in his disciple). The Hindu religion is truly a universal religion for mankind. My disciples are drawn from different ethnicities, castes, races, religions and nationalities. Now, people may have different backgrounds but they have the same physical composition of human body. So, despite their differing backgrounds, people undergo the same spiritual transformation. Hindu philosophy does not believe in religious conversion or proselytizing. It speaks of bringing about an inner change, transformation in a person (and not an external change in identity as it happens when a person shifts his loyalty from one faith to another). I tell people from the other faiths who come to me, ‘Don’t give up your religion but follow the practical method I show you to awaken your inner energy and transform your life’.”