Trivedi is currently in India to meet his parents and to find out a Shivling from the Chanod on the banks of river Narmada.

“This Shivling will be installed at Indreshwar Mahadeve temple, that is coming up at Houston,” he said.

Speaking about the ‘Creator’, he says there is only one creator, who is called by different names.

“I have not met Maharshi Maheshyogi but then we are separate souls who show the right way to people through yoga and meditation,” he said.

Currently, he is moving with his mission to spread awareness among people about purity of heart for achieving spiritual heights.

“In future, my efforts will be towards further strengthening of my spiritual progress,” he said.

He said the gyaan came to him a couple of years ago but by then he had achieved a lot in terms of his career as a dancer, drama performer, puppeteer and above all, a strident campaigner against drug abuse. No doubt, the US authorities have showered him with commendations in the past fifteen years since he has been settled in the US.

Born in 1947 in Dahegam near Ahmedabad, Trivedi has seen it all and done that all. Having trained at Darpana Academy of Performing Arts here, he went on to become the first Kuchipudi dancer in Gujarat.

But it was his foot painting magic that worked wonders for him and took him to new heights of popularity in the US.

In his campaign against drug abuse in 1996, he painted a “snake eating its own tail, analogous to drug abusers destroying themselves”.

He said this live performance earned him his first landmark recognition in August 1996 by the Houston Chronicle.

Having shifted to the US on invitation from the local Gujarati community, he started his Jhankar School of Dancing in Houston but prior to that he undertook a world-tour in 1990 on his bike along with wife Avantika.