After this realization dawned on him, young Nanak Chand dropped all other occupations and went into solitude, leading the life of an ascetic, in search of the complete truth. After prolonged meditation and silent introspection, he felt that he was ready to begin his work. He delivered his first discourse in Ambala Cantt in Punjab in 1968. Since then, he has used every religious function as an occasion to spread his message of oneness with the universe. Thousands flocked to listen to his spell binding, emotional and, at times, piercing discourses which flowed straight from the soul. During the following 20 years, he traveled from one end of India to the other, touring and lecturing, staying wherever he was invited. His discourses are laced with stories and anecdotes from both ancient Indian and contemporary texts.

In 1971, he founded the Adhyatmic Sadhna Sangh, a spiritual organization, at Delhi, which started from humble beginnings and is now a full fledged three storied ‘‘ashram'' in Naraina Vihar, New Delhi, devoted to the propagation of spiritual thought and yogic meditative practices. He has recently added a health center, where systems of alternative medicine such as meditative healing, reiki, pranic healing, acupressure and magneto-therapy are available for the benefit of the general public.

Yogiraj Nanak also got the Maluk ‘‘Sthal'' at Kada, where he acquired his first insight, reconstructed and renovated from its ruins. He is the present day ‘‘Mahanta'' to the seat of saint Maluk Das at Kada, Allahabad. He has collected all the available scripts and writings of Baba Maluk Das and got them compiled and translated--a voluminous task.

To describe Yogiraj Nanak and his work completely is very difficult. Sometimes, he appears totally present, speaking animatedly and soulfully about some spiritual or philosophical subject, and then, suddenly, he withdraws completely into another dimension. There are times when the silence is even more poignant and meaningful than words. Strangely, one somehow seems to communicate better through the silence.

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