Shashikant Oak was born on 31 July 1949, at 1535 hrs in a middle class Brahman family in

Pune. He was the eldest with two younger sisters. Both are married and settled.

Wife - Alka. Children: Son - Chinmay and Daughter – Neha, both presently unmarried.

Parents

His father Janardan was a wholesale cloth merchant in his later part of life, in
Madhavnagar, a township known for cotton power loom industry in a old princely state of
Sangli, in southern Maharashtra.
Mother Mangala, a very brilliant lady with many arts like knitting, singing, acting, picked
up the art of performing Kirtan (It is a musical rendering of thematic spiritual discourses
with devotional songs) as a hobby later on turned in to a full time profession. At the age of
79 she is fully active.

Gurus

His parents had Guru in the name of ‘Swami Pradyananand Saraswati'. His life time
achievement was to translate great epic from Hindi “Shri Ram Charit Manas” in to Marathi.
He also rendered a commentary on the same running to 5000 hand written pages.
Shashikant also got some initiation from Guru Pradyananand Saraswati. Shashikant owes
his spiritual bend of mind to his parents. It was their upbringing and discussions at nights
had a long lasting impact on his personality.

Shashikant considers having many gurus in his life on different occasions. First being his
father who initiated him ‘Gayatri Mantra' in the sacred thread ceremony. It was confirmed
in many ways after his father's demise. In his Naadi readings in 9th and 12 th chapter by
Agasthya Maharshi mentioned you had many spiritual Gurus in the past and will have
many in years to come.

Shashikant considers him lucky to have the grace and blessings of many Great personalities
and enlightened souls. On one occasion in 1978, in Haridwar, Shashikant with his family
happened to be in the Ashram of Anandamayi Maa in Kankhal. Maaji, very old by them,
was to be lifted to place her in a seat. Out of no where, Shashikant was called to place her
into seat. ‘It was a rare and special honour' someone remarked present there.

Govind swami (Kaka) Upalekar of Phaltan, Mahadba Maharaj alias Dhulgaonkar Patilbaba
of Narsobachiwadi were the other two. Mahadaba Maharaj used to be regular visitor to his
houses in Madhavnagar. In his childhood he got initiated ‘Om Namah Shivay' Mantra by
Gokhale Guruji, It was due to chanting of this mantra, the black magic episode of Baby
Maushi (Maternal aunt) could be averted. The same was penned down in the form of a
novel titled "Apachayita " - person under evil shadow, 25 years later by Shashikant.
In between years, Yogi RamsuratKumar became yet another Guru, whose name was
mentioned in the 9 th Chapter of Agasthya Naadi. The incident of that encounter has been
vividly narrated in the book refer Chapter No. 16, 17 and 18.

Latest in the chain of Gurus is Chitale Baba from a suburb on the outskirts of Pune. Chitale
Baba is known for his mastery on the supernatural powers bestowed by the Navanaths
Sidddhars. Especially Jalandhar nathji. As per his revealing Shashikant went to Peaks of
Himalaya.

Education

Shashikant's early schooling was in a place called Islampur. There his father worked as
Manager cum owner of Mohan Talkies theatre. There they met Guru Swami Pradyananand
Saraswati, who was stationed in the premises of Dr. Balasaheb Vaidya, a leading medical
practitioner. On one occasion, in front of theatre crowd, Shashikant was made to recite
some chapters of Bhagwat Geeta which he had by hearted at the age of seven years. He
went to Seth Ratilal Vitthaldas Gosalia, high school in Madhavnagar. He passed SSC with
ordinary marks. He graduated from Chintamanrao College of Commence. While in the first
year of M. Com., he was called in, for interview in Mysore selection board. Later on, in the
Indian Air Force service, he missed to complete his post graduation due to proverbial
‘exigencies of service'. Thus the prediction that this child will not be able to complete his
education came true.

Service in Indian Air Force

Shashikant joined defense service as ‘Pilot Officer', in Non- technical, Non-flying, the
ground duties “Accounts branch” in 1971. This is a unique branch only in Air Force. The
nature of the duties was some what mixture of Bank manager cum Chartered Accountant,
cum Stores Inventory controller. In higher posts, the role was of Financial Controller. The
service is in regular uniform with full duties of ground defense in the times of hostilities.

Shashikant served in different parts of nation. He served three times in Srinagar, J & K Air
field, twice in New Delhi, Chandigarh and Pune, once in Kanpur, Sulur (Coimbatore),
Tambaram and finally in Halwara (Ludhiana - Punjab).

While in Tambaram he got accidentally introduced to The Naadi Predictions topic. In his 32
years long service, many instances of his helping nature came to light.

He was in the working group, which recommended and implemented shifting of pension
services for Air Force personnel. In ‘Ops Pawan' times of Srilankan Peace keeping
operations he served at ground base. His paper on ‘Making of Wills for defence personnel'
was well appreciated. His evidence as an expert prosecution witness in one of the Court
Martial proved to be fatal. The same was referred while reading the Naadi Leaf.
Auto writing

While getting many responses from the people on Naadi Predictions, one Ramesh Natu
from Sangli sent some books on autoweriting by Bhavnagris, Parsi couple from Mumbai.
He was fascinated with the idea. However he had to wait for years to get to know of it from
another Parsi lady. When Shashikant went to learn Auto writing to Nan Umriger, a Parsi
lady form Pune, she told that Avatar Meher Baba had the blessings to enter the spirit world
through his father (Dada as Shashikant used to fondly call). Janardan, his father (expired on
10 Jan 1981), was the main person who acted as “medium” for Auto writings.

Shashikant picked the auto writing very fast. In just two weeks the sentences started to
getting formed. His father told that he was ordered by Avatar Meher Baba to get connected
to you through auto writing. However he warned that autoweriting is not to be equated as a
fortune telling. Please do not ask for any solutions or remedies for your or any others'
worldly problems. The topic for the auto writing was ‘autowriting' itself. {More about the
Auto writing in the chapter on Auto writing.} In the subsequent auto writings many masters
and great personalities had done the auto writing.

Presently based on the instructions from the masters the imparting of training, solving the
problems of the needy by autowriting for others has been suspended for the time being.

Naadi Predictions

On one fine day, some time in Jan 1994, he happen to go to Naadi centre located about 4 -5
Kms from his Tambaram air base.

Like other Naadi seekers he also was zapped by the accuracy of past events and divination
of future course of events.

First in disbelief, on many occasions with the help of his Tamil friends, he undertook all
sorts of detective work to catch the culprits of Naadi Centre persons' bamboozle. He
examined and checked and rechecked the evidence on the leaf. Verified statements made by
rationalists. Lastly came to conclusion that the matter which is revealed as written on the
palm leaf is in fact written and the present day lot of Naadi readers merely read as per the
ability they acquire by practice. He started to make written nothings of this near relations.
While doing so he felt that this fund of knowledge should be brought to the notice of all
strata of the Nation and if possible to all interested individuals irrespective of religion,
nationality, language etc.

In his endeavour to verify the authenticity of the palm leaf writings, many Naadi centre
were unhappy in the beginning. However after some time they cooperated to their ability.
Many stated, "It is good that a person like you from armed force background should come
forward for investigation of Naadi palm leaf. Now there will not the any blame on the part
of Naadi centres that they are blowing trumpets of Maharshis work of their own."
He started with an article in Marathi which soon transformed to the form of a book in the
shape of a periodical. As per the demand of Naadi centres, later it got published in Tamil.
On demand, its Hindi and English versions got published from one of the leading and
prestigious Publishing house from New Delhi - M/S Diamond Publication Books.

Now as a global activity he has undertaken “Naadi guru on web.org” website as domain
contributor. With this website, we want to create a databank of many many persons with
credentials and experiences to go to the forum of the scientific fraternity. This web site is
will act as facilitator and will not charge any money from the Seekers or from Naaadi
centres.