Introduction
A great soul incarnated on this planet on 2nd March, 1919 in a Parsi family of Mumbai. Named given to the child was SOLI. Surname of family was Tavaria.
Right from the childhood, the boy was mischievous so his parents sent him to a boarding school in Mumbai. As he said, there he met his Master at the age of seven years. His Master taught him the science of Rhythm and study of the scriptures. Once at the age of five, he spontaneously started chanting Gayatri mantra. He found that the Almighty has bestowed Grace upon him.
The boy came with spiritual powers so he started predicting. Once a man was seated with the school Principal and this boy was there. This Man was talking about the ill health of his son. The Boy heard and said, but he will be no longer!! And this happened. This saying continued for life time. Many a times he was jokingly telling that he had swallowed a colour T. V. So he can see anything.
Since last past many lives he was practicing Yoga under Maharshi Patanjali’s tradition. So he started his Yoga practices at the age of seven. He completed his school study and then engineering study. He was electrical-mechanical engineer. He started his job in the Bombay port and reached as a vice president. Ten thousand workers working under him and many of them were mavali type porters. In his career he never preached sermon to anyone. But due to his pious vibrations many left vices and became good men. This was the power of spirituality.
He didn’t want to be married but his Master forced him to get married. He brought two souls on the earth as his pious duty. After leaving his job he started business but because of forgery by his colleague he had great loss in the business. He had a fiery aspiration in the life so no loss could stop his spiritual practices.
In 1981 he started giving lectures on Yoga system to a small group once in a month till April, 1994- his passing away year. The huge amounts of notes have been published as Discourses On yoga part- I to III. Moreover he explained a journey of soul – from the first birth to last birth, of salvation- moksha in his great book “The Purpose of Birth and Death” ( A big volume of 415 pages ). And his classic work was Yoga Sutra of Sage Patanjali because he rearranged all 195 sutras in 5 books (chapters) including practices of every stage. So he said it- Exposition & practices.
He did not go out of Mumbai for preaching of yoga till 1988. He went to Mysore twice and then started to come to Gujarat – beginning from Madhavpur. His teaching was simple and based on Nature’s rhythm. He discovered the ancient technique of breathing with rhythm which he called “3 step rhythmic breathing”. One has to maintain 12 breaths per minute for 24 hours as natural breathing so that mind can be restrained and one can live peacefully. This is a great technique to reach the stage of pratyahar. Moreover, he has given 6 exercises of fast breathing ( 36 cycles ), each for one minute. This is called “Refining exercises” and one spiritual practice called Gold nugget. So 7 minutes a day – the shortest course of yoga in the world.
Shri Tavaria ji had completely developed his body biologically so he could survive with only one meal in two days. He never ate before 48 hours. With the empty stomach he was active whole day.
Every year in the May he used to go to Sangli (Maharashtra) where chess national competition was held, to encourage participants as he too was a good chess player. In May 1994 he went there and he left his physical body on 29th there. Before this happened he was telling frequently that now I have very less time. If you want to know anything, come and learn. And suddenly on 29th early morning he left this physical world for celestial home (Mahakal) consciously.
He showed the true sign of achieving yoga is conscious birth and conscious death. Conscious death is a stage where a Yogi leaves his body with total awareness and consciousness. If one becomes unconscious during death, then he is not a Yogi. Means after death he knows where he is going with awareness which is not possible for a lay man.
This is a short story of a great soul.
His motto was-
Breathe in love, breathe out forgiveness.