Samadhi Practice in The Gospel of Thomas, The Apostle of India

Vasyl Vernyhora graduated with honors from the Vinnytsia
Polytechnic Institute (since 1994 it is the Vinnytsia State Technical University), Ukraine, in 1993 with a degree in computer science. Having a strong aspiration to study the methods of self-development of and yoga Buddhism, he quit his job as a bank programmer and visited India since 1997, living there for a total of more than 7 years, including being in India continuously from 2001 to 2006.

In 2004 the author, perhaps the first among residents of the
CIS, received individual sannyasa diksha from Somnath Giriji, mahamandaleshwar (one of the chairmen) of the Hindu monastic lincage of Sri Panch Dashnam Juna Akhara, in his head Himalayan ashram. He also studied Buddhism by living in Buddhist monasteries in Dharamsala, Bylakappe and Ladakh and interacting with Tibetan Rinpoches and Geshes. You can find a comprehensive guide to meditation practice in his book "Meditation in Raja Yoga, Buddhism and According to
Neurophysiology: A Practical Guide".

In 2004, he became interested in the stories of Jesus' visit
to India during the "lost years from the age of 14 to 28 and after the crucifixion, and translated Fida Hassnain's book "A Search for the Historical Jesus" In 2005 he also came to visit Fida Hasanain at his home in the Indian city of Srinagar, where he also visited the tomb of Jesum, Rozabal, then Jammu & Kashmir state.

He also visited the Church of St. Thomas on St. Thomas Mount
in Chennai, as well as Little Mount of St. Thomas in Chennai (Madras).

The author, continuing to live in Ukraine, shares in the
book his experience.