ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the experience of becoming more actively involved in the early years of the developing movement, followed by a discussion. It develops themes of active involvement by those who discovered Siddha Yoga after it had become firmly established. The chapter focuses on the experience devotees brought back to their home country in early years and the resulting development of intimate meetings and eventually household centres. Considering that many in this study at the time of their initial involvement were young, travelling to India, living in ashrams and at times changing their names, it is appropriate to consider what their non-involved parents made of their involvement in Siddha Yoga. Siddha Yoga in its formal incarnation appears to have developed out of an interchange between what devotees initially discovered in Muktananda and his India ashram, and how they began to interpret and share this discovery. This chapter reports that active involvement was often in relation to growth of Siddha Yoga.
