Shaktipat Vigyan Jyoti

Nardev Kothariji was born on December 23, 1951, in the village of Jokhani, located in the Uttarkashi district of Uttar Pradesh, North India. His father, Sri Abhay Ram Kothari, was a well-known priest in the area, and his mother, Srimati Soni Devi, was a housewife. From a young age, Nardevji was quiet and introspective, preferring solitude over socializing. He often spent long hours walking alone, lost in self-reflection and deep thought.

At the age of 14 or 15, Nardevji began having vivid dreams of kilometer-long snakes on either side of the road, spraying milk onto his uppermost chakra (Aagya Chakra). In these dreams, a white horse would take him to a dense forest where he would receive a yellow mango from a penancing saint under a solitary mango tree. This recurring dream, which often put him into a meditative state upon waking, was later understood after his Shaktipat initiation.

Due to the restraints imposed on his passions in a previous life, Nardev entered into marriage at the young age of 19. After many years of family life, he finally found his Guru at the age of 32.