Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!

Namaste!

In True Bharatiya Tradition...
by Sri N. Ananthanarayanan

It was a sunny winter afternoon in the Barabati Stadium grounds in Cuttack. Enjoying that sunshine and moving about in colourful groups were thousands of eager and enthusiastic men, women and children, high and low, rich and poor, literate and illiterate. They had come there not to attend a circus or a fun fair, nor to watch a game of cricket or football. The occasion which drew them in such large numbers was the All India Divine Life Conference and the centre of attraction was Swami Chidananda.

On the last day of the Conference, as the leading guests were gathered for a photograph, General Cariappa, who was seated next to Swamiji, leaned over and exclaimed, "I am amazed at the complete confidence and trust which these people repose in you!"

That comment gives us the measure of the man. Swami Chidananda, who like the soft and luminous Kartik moon, fully reflects that dazzling spiritual sun called Swami Sivananda, and today commands the complete confidence and trust of a large number of spiritual seekers all over the world. His followers and admirers belong to the meek and lowly as much as to the high and mighty.

It is common for people to go to the banker for funds, to the doctor for medicine, to the advocate for legal aid. But when they come to a saint they seek solutions for all these and much more. The saint is a complete man, with ready access to God, and there is no problem no matter what its colour, shape or size, that he cannot deal with. Moreover Chidananda, having risen above likes and dislikes, above the raga-dvesha currents that plague normal human relations in this world, always has a ready word of objective counsel and of fatherly advice to offer to whosoever may care to go to him for that guidance. Swamiji gives his sage advice not only to those who visit him at the Sivanandashram in Rishikesh, but himself goes out to people wherever they may be, as many times as they may need him; and that, despite his frail physical frame.

But then, was not Gandhiji a frail man too? And Ramana Maharshi? And Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi? What about that living saint Vinoba? Many of the true ascetics of Bharatavarsha have been frail without and powerful within. Their eyes have glowed with spiritual warmth and their faces have shone with spiritual radiance. People who live in God, who abide in the Spirit, are a class by themselves. Their physical frame may move in this world but their essential being is yet apart from this world and far above this world.

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September 24th is the 104^th Birthday Anniversary of Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj.

 

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Chidanandam: The Joy of Knowing Him

This book is in fact a blue-print for [an aspirant to become] a Jivanmukta. In it is contained a clear description of the characteristics of a great saint, an ideal Yogi, a para-Bhaka and great sage.

The reader cannot fail to be inspired to cultivate some great virtues, to take to intense spiritual practices, to plunge himself in selfless service of humanity, and in every way to be a better citizen of the world, actively working for human weal and radiating peace and happiness to one and all....

The above words appeared in the inside cover of the ‘Swami Chidananda - His Life and Work (Thirty-Ninth birthday Souvenir)’. Fifty Five years later, even as we publish this book, on the Holy occasion of His First Punyatithi Aradhana, the words remain as appropriate an expression to highlight the purpose for this Publication.

For more information, please see: Chidanandam: The Joy of Knowing Him

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"While the Pandit of the religious extreme is likely to profess a God who despises social service and the extremist have a tendency to hold all religious ardour in contempt. Sri Swami Chidanandaji succeeded not merely to hold aloft in both hands the banner of religion and service but to live and to teach the identity of these two human ideals as a single flame of the soul's march to perfection." – Swami Krishnananda

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