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VANCOUVER, CANADA, October 31, 2004: Devotees of the Lakshmi Narayan temple in Surrey, British Columbia, have been flocking to the temple to hear Shri Charu Chaitanya Ji Maharaj speak about the Hindu scripture Bhagwatam Puran. What is so special about this yoga prodigy is the fact that he is only nine years old. Born in an ashram in the Indian Himalayas, Charu Chaitanya Ji’s father, Bramarishi Premachyut Maharaj, has devoted his life to teaching yoga and meditation. Premachyut Maharaj says, “Yes, I do meditation, and he has followed me in that. But when he was two years old he was chanting very difficult Vedic mantras. Very easily he spoke these. So I was thinking at that time that he was a very special child. One time at my Ashram there was an annual religious function. Many gurus and rishis were there, and one chief guest was the forest minister. He was delivering a lecture, and my four-year-old came to me and said ‘Papa throw him out. I want to deliver my lecture.’ I told him, ‘be quiet — he’s a minister,’ but he insisted, so I told him ‘okay, just wait.’ So he delivered his first lecture at the age of four, and people were very surprised.” The article adds, “At the tender age of seven, he is said to have declared that he would like to go all over the world to enlighten people about spiritual knowledge, love, peace and happiness. Word of this wonder-boy has spread steadily in the Hindu community, and on this tour of Canada and the USA, he has been greeted by thousands of admirers along the way. In Montreal close to 2,000 people flocked to see him at a temple only designed to seat 250.” Devotee Anu Mehra says, “At such a young age he has great divine knowledge and ability to conduct katha [interpret religious stories] in front of a large number of people. You feel mesmerized by him, and spellbound. By the age of five, Charu Chaitanya Ji was a master in Asan Prayama yoga. This form of yoga is a far cry from the trendy, celebrity-driven power yoga of the Western world. It is closely tied to spiritual practice, and mastery of this form is something that many students ‘can never achieve’ over the course of their lifetime.” In conclusion this news release sums it up, “A child prodigy like Charu Chaitanya Ji is proof-positive for many Hindus that the theory of reincarnation is correct. His extraordinary knowledge seems to have sprung from nowhere, and so the conclusion many of the faithful arrive at is he must have brought some of it along from a former life.”

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