Dehradun, March 10 -- A God illumined Guru cannot be destroyed by mortality. He exits from the human body in complete awareness at the time of death, a phenomenon called Mahasamadhi.

March marks the Mahasamadhi of two unparalleled saints of Kriya Yoga lineage - The author of the spiritual classic, "Autobiography of a Yogi", Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, on 7 March 1952. And his Guru, Sri Sri Yukteswar Giri, author of "The Holy Science" on 9 March 1936.

But the two Gurus did not leave the bodies without the vow of their omnipresence to their disciples, both present and the ones to come in the future. "Unknown I will walk by your side and guard you with invisible arms," Yogananda wrote in a poem ninety-seven years ago, and on to the hear...