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A MESSENGER OF PEACE AND WISDOM

SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

AMRITA MAHOTSAVA (75th BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY)

COMMEMORATION VOLUME

—25TH APRIL 1997—

Sri Swami Sivananda

Founder of

The Divine Life Society

SERVE, LOVE, GIVE,

PURIFY, MEDITATE,

REALIZE

So Says

Sri Swami Sivananda Sri Swami Krishnananda

A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION

First Edition : 1997

(2,000 Copies)

World Wide Web (WWW) Reprint : 1999

WWW site: http://www.rsl.ukans.edu/~pkanagar/divine/

This WWW reprint is for free distribution

Published By

THE DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY

P.O. SHIVANANDANAGAR—249 192

Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh,

Himalayas, India.

PREFACE

The Divine Life Society felt it an honour and a privilege to celebrate the 75th Birth

Anniversary of revered Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj in an adequately befitting manner,

commensurate with the services being rendered by him to the Society for over half a Century, with

singular devotion, dedication and spirit of undiminished renunciation. Though Swami

Krishnanandaji Maharaj initially was not at all in favour of any such Celebration, true to his spirit of

renunciation, he was gracious enough to accede to the wish of the senior monks of the Ashram,

thereby leaving very little time for the Swami Krishnananda Amrita Mahotsava Committee for

planning its various projects.

One of the projects of the Celebration Committee was to bring out a suitable Souvenir on the

occasion, in addition to re-printing some of Swamiji’s books, as well as small booklets for free

distribution.

We record with great satisfaction that, in spite of the lack of time, the response from

devotees, admirers and disciples of Swamiji, has been so spontaneous and immense that the

Souvenir has become larger than what we had hoped. It is because countless in number are those

who have received an awakening, an inspiration or a total transformation in their lives by their

association with the revered Swamiji, who came forward to pen their feeling of gratitude. So

profound and deep are Swamiji’s love and wisdom that no one who had an occasion to meet him,

ever left without being ‘touched’ or ‘affected’ by his thoughts. A perusal of the articles in this

Souvenir—outpourings of the contributors’ experiences and feelings—will reveal the depth and

profundity of the Saint in Swami Krishnanandaji. Yet, the Wholeness which is the Real

Krishnananda, stands beyond anyone’s grasp—both of the intellect and the heart. Truly, therefore,

Gurudev said: “He is a wonder to me!”

We wish to express our gratitude to the numerous contributors for their feelingful write-ups

which portray in different colours, the multifaceted resplendent personality of the Swamiji; and the

value of the Souvenir is enhanced by the Swamiji’s own scintillating articles and poems.

It is, therefore, with joy and satisfaction that we are releasing this Commemoration Volume

on this auspicious occasion of the Amrita Mahotsava of revered Sri Swami Krishnanandaji

Maharaj, with the earnest hope that no sincere reader of this Volume will go ‘unaffected’ by one or

the other of the articles, thus bringing a true transformation in his or her inner being.

Sri Swami Krishnananda Amrita Mahotsava Committee

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CONTENTS

Preface ..............................................iii

Message Of The President Swamiji Maharaj ...........................v

He Is A Wonder To Me!......................................2

Message ..............................................3

The Making Of A Scholar-Saint..................................4

Sri Swami Krishnananda “A Spiritual Stalwart Of The Current Era”...............9

Humility—The Hall-Mark Of True Wisdom...........................10

One And The Same Star .....................................12

The Vedas And Their Message To Humanity ..........................12

Swami Krishnananda, Silence And Dynamism Combined ...................16

Gurudev Was All Appreciation For Swami Krishnananda....................17

Swami Krishnananda As I See Him ...............................18

The Royal Swan Is Seventy-Five.................................19

My Guru—An Embodiment Of Fathomless Love ........................22

Swami Krishnananda: A God-Man................................27

In Search of Peace ........................................29

An Embodiment Of Total Dedication ..............................31

A Living Gita In Sivananda Ashram ...............................32

The Divine Diamond .......................................34

A Tribute .............................................35

The Ecstasy Of God-Love ....................................37

Swami Krishnananda—A Conundrum ..............................39

My Experiences With Swami Krishnananda...........................40

Swami Krishnanandanan Embodiment Of Love .........................43

Swami Krishnananda: Divinity Incarnate ............................44

The Path Of Divine Devotion ..................................47

Swami Krishnananda, The Shining Light Of Sivananda Ashram ................51

Real Spirit Of Greatness And Grace ...............................52

My Guru: Compassion Incarnate.................................53

Sacred Hearted Swamiji .....................................56

Arise! Awake! ..........................................57

The Divine Ambassador .....................................59

Contribution Of Swami Krishnananda To The Revival Of Indian Education ..........66

Hail Hail Krishnananda......................................68

OnMan..............................................70

Ever At Thy Holy Lotus Feet...................................74

A Project Of Education......................................76

Swami Krishnananda—A Towering Spiritual Genius ......................83

An Aspirant’s Viewpoint On The Life Of Swami Krishnananda, The Living Saint.......84

Principles Of A Higher Order Of Life ..............................87

Motherly Kindness And Ruthless Truthfulness.........................101

Incarnation Of Love Swami Krishnananda ...........................104

My Obeisance ..........................................105

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT SWAMIJI MAHARAJ

Radiant Divinity,

My beloved fellow Sadhakas treading the path of Divine Life, Om Namo Narayanaya! Jai

Sri Gurudev Sivananda!

With immense joy, I avail of this privilege of offering my salutations and my loving

felicitations to Revered Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj upon his special 75th Birthday

Anniversary, 25th April, 1997. Our long association in the sacred service of Beloved and

Worshipful Holy Master Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj spanning a half-century has made

us close and affectionate brothers-in-the spirit. This fact adds to my happiness in penning these

lines for his Amrita Mahotsava. By the grace of God and loving blessings of Sri Gurudev, we have

spent more than half a century of our earthly life in Holy Uttarakhand on the banks of Divine

Mother Ganga, in a spiritual fellowship that has been able to weather all the winds of change and the

ups and downs that are inevitable to all human relationships. Children of the same parents have

different natures, different tastes and opinions. Even so, Beloved Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj

and this servant of Gurudev have thought alike and at times thought differently too. We have basic

and fundamental similarity in our twin lives which (similarities) are of the very essence. They are

the rock foundation of our enduring fraternity. This was seen and blessed by Worshipful Gurudev

even as early as the late forties. At times we have differed in our views on certain matters. Yes, even

on certain policy and dealings of the Society matters. But, at all times I have never hesitated to

speak openly and frankly to Swamiji Maharaj. This has never affected my high regard, admiration,

veneration and affection for this incomparable Philosopher, Monastic and Spiritual Personality that

Swami Krishnanandaji is. Long may he live and prosper.

I pray to the Supreme universal Spirit and to Worshipful Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji

Maharaj to shower His Divine Grace and Choicest Benedictions upon Sri Swami Krishnanandaji

Maharaj. May God and Gurudev grant him good health, long life, progress, prosperity and success

in his life and actions. May God and Gurudev fulfil all the aspirations of his heart. May revered

Swamiji continue receiving abundant affection and love of all his disciples, devotees, admirers and

followers of both the East and the West. May he shine as a radiant and effulgent spiritual life

guiding and illumining our global human family for long many years to come. May thousands

emulate his lofty example and follow his footsteps and be benefited and become illumined. This is

my message and prayer for H.H. Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj for whom the heart of this

servant cherishes high regard and deep affection. May peace be unto the whole world. May all

beings be happy everywhere. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya!

Swami Chidananda

AMRIT MAHOTSAV MESSAGE OF FELICITATIONS

Blessed Immortal Atman!

My dear brethren in Divine Life, OM NAMO NARAYANAYA!

Loving good wishes.

It is a great happiness to me to give this message for the most auspicious Seventy-fifth (75th)

Birthday Anniversary of Revered and Esteemed Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj. He is the

leading light of Gurudev’s Divine Life Society. He is the foremost disciple of worshipful Gurudev

and a spiritual personality of towering status to whom thousands upon thousands look for guidance,

blessings and inspiration. Long may he live!

I offer my loving felicitations and prayers to the Almighty of his good health, long life and

abidance in the Self! May HE abide in the SELF at all times.

I have impressed much more in a separate letter containing a special Message for your

Souvenir in which I have put all the feelings of my heart. Read it when the Souvenir is ready. God

bless you & all. Again felicitation.

Swami Chidananda

HE IS A WONDER TO ME!

(SWAMI SIVANANDA)

It is very rare to find such a Synthetic Yogi as Swami Krishnanandaji. One may be a

Vedantin condemning Bhakti and Karma Yoga. But Swami Krishnanandaji is like myself; he is like

Lord Krishna. Integral perfection can be had only when you combine service and devotion with

Jnana. You can declare: “There is no world in the three periods of time.” But if you find a sick man

on the roadside, you must rush to relieve his suffering, giving up your meditation. That is the sign of

a Jivanmukta. Externally he appears to be only a Karma Yogi; but he views the whole world within

himself. Lord Jesus, Lord Buddha and Sri Sankaracharya—how much service they did! It is

because Swami Krishnanandaji is also a Synthetic Yogi that I have got the greatest admiration for

him.

He is very quick in his work. He has a vast and deep knowledge of Vedanta. It is all God’s

grace. It is not merely due to study in this birth. It is all due to Purva-Samskaras. His knowledge is a

treasure for those aspirants who care to learn, study and imbibe the knowledge from him.

Krishnanandaji is a wonder to me! He has excelled me. He has excelled Sankara. He has

excelled Dakshinamurthy. He came a few years ago. As usual, I asked him to stay in the Ashram.

After six or seven days, he told me, “I know the Gita a little.” I asked him to recite the Gita. And he

recited a chapter of the Gita beautifully. Then, gradually... how he evolved and grew in knowledge

and wisdom is a wonder to me!

Swami Krishnanandaji is a master of Western philosophy also. This is because of the

intense thirst for knowledge that he has. He wants to compare Western philosophy with Indian

philosophy. It was because he was proficient in both philosophies that he was of great help to Prof.

Edwin A. Burtt of the Cornell University, when the latter was here. We should study Western

philosophy also and find out the grandeur of that philosophy. Of course, Western philosophy

cannot satisfy an absolute idealist like Krishnanandaji. People are stunned by his knowledge. With

poor nutrition, ill-health, and many inconveniences, how Swami Krishnanandaji has done so much

is a wonder; it is all due to God’s grace. It is all due to his Purva-Samsakras. One lecture of his is

quite sufficient to inspire and elevate you.

Not a single harsh word he has spoken. He never becomes angry. He never complains. I

think there is none in this Ashram of his type. These are all divine attributes. He has more divine

qualities than are mentioned in the Gita. Lord Krishna was in a hurry; therefore, He enumerated

some major virtues only, and we have to add to them the virtues that Krishnanandaji possesses.

He is the proper man to go to the West. But if that is not to be, even his mere presence in the

world is sufficient. His books are treasures for us. I am sending them all over the world. A man

remaining in his own Kutir can send powerful thoughts that would stir the whole world. It is not

necessary to go here and there, delivering lectures; it is not necessary even to write books. It is good

that a great man remains in his own place; bees will come when the flowers bloom. Swami

Krishnanandaji is silent dynamism.

HE IS A WONDER TO ME!

Krishnananda’s Scripture-Capsules.....1

The earliest statement of the Nature of Reality occurs in the first book of the Rig-Veda:

Ekam Sat-Viprah Bahudha Vadanti. “The ONE BEING, the wise diversely speak of.”

The tenth book of the Rig-Veda regards the highest conception of God both as the

Impersonal and the Personal: The Nasadiya Sukta states that the Supreme Being is both the

Unmanifest and the Manifest, Existence as well as Non-existence, the Supreme Indeterminable.

The Purusha-Sukta proclaims that all this Universe is God as the Supreme Person,—the

Purusha, with thousands of heads, thousands of eyes, thousands of limbs in His Cosmic Body. He

envelops the whole cosmos and transcends it to infinity.

The Narayana-Sukta exclaims that whatever is anywhere, visible or invisible, all this is

pervaded by Narayana, within and without.

The Hiranyagarbha-Sukta of the Rig-Veda declares that God manifested Himself in the

beginning as the Creator of the Universe, encompassing all things, including everything within

Himself, the collective totality, as it were, of the whole of creation, animating it as the Supreme

Intelligence.

The Satarudriya or Rudra-Adhyaya of the Yajur-Veda identifies all things, the high and

the low, the moving and the unmoving, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, nay, every

conceivable thing, with the all-pervading Siva, or Rudra, as the Supreme God.

MESSAGE

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA, JAI GURUDEV

It is a great sense of joy to note that the auspicious Amrita Mahotsava of Sri Swami

Krishnanandaji Maharaj is to be celebrated in the month of April, ‘97, commencing from the 11th to

25th. It is in the fitness of things that this function will be celebrated for about two weeks and that

the disciples and followers of Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj in particular and the public in

general who will take part in the august functions. There may be many Mahatmas and

Mandaleswars taking part and sharing their knowledge with the Sadhakas and general public and

they will be certainly stand to gain by attending the various functions.

Great religious souls are born for reinstating the religion. With the passing of the time the

vitality of a religious movement is lost because of unworthy life of the followers. Then comes the

time for the advent of another great teacher. In accordance with the needs of the time, he preaches

the highest ideals and spiritual discipline to realise them. All great teachers are right for all of them

promulgate their views ordered by God Himself. This is possible because through mystic

realisation they are attuned to Him and He becomes real to them. But then why is there so much

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difference in their views? To this it may be pointed out that difference is apparent and not real. It is

mainly the difference of emphasis and not content of the goal.

Sri Krishna came and prescribed unselfish work as a major means of realisation. But with

the passage of time people forgot the goal and began to work without any purposiveness. As a result

the work became meaningless from the spiritual standpoint, because for religious growth it is not

only religious action that is necessary, it is religious thinking that is more essential. Then came

Buddha. He saw the futility of action without thought and hence rejected it. This created a stir and

saved men from callousness to higher mooring.

On this auspicious occasion, I pray Lord Almighty and Sadguru Dev to Bless Sri Swami

Krishnanandaji Maharaj SATA-SAMVASTARAM the Upanishadic age of one hundred years with

robust health and happiness and continue the present Guru Seva, and to this fine sentiment, I add my

own.

HARI OM TAT SAT

Sivananda Ashram

Dt. 26th, March, ‘97 Swami Madhavananda

Vice-President

***

THE MAKING OF A SCHOLAR-SAINT

A MINI BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

(SWAMI CHIDANANDA)

Great is my happiness to express my homage and high regards to our most revered Swami

Krishnananda Saraswati, my beloved spiritual brother and fellow-disciple at the feet of our most

worshipful Guru Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, upon this joyful and auspicious occasion of his

Platinum Jubilee Jayanti Utasv.

Sri Swami Krishnanandaji is the foremost spiritual personality of our Gurudev’s holy

Ashram, who has inspired, guided and enlightened countless spiritual seekers ever since his advent

at the headquarters of the Divine Life Society in the year 1944. He has drawn to himself

innumerable fortunate spiritual aspirants by the sublime spiritual quality of his life and his deep

knowledge and rare wisdom.

Today, Swami Krishnanandaji is enshrined in the hearts of countless Sadhakas and students

of Yoga and Vedanta all over the world by his loving disposition, his kindness to them, and his

genuine keen interest in their spiritual progress and welfare. Thus, it is not only we, at the holy

MESSAGE

Sivananda Ashram, but also many thousands of spiritual people in many countries all over the

world who will be rejoicing upon this very happy occasion of his Platinum Jubilee.

Beloved Swami Krishnanandaji shines as the leading light of our monastic brotherhood at

Sivananda Ashram, and as the foremost amongst the spiritual teachers of the Divine Life Society,

whom worshipful Gurudev left behind to carry forward his spiritual work. That he is a man with a

mission in this modern age becomes clearly evident by the way in which he grew up in his young

age and showed unmistakable signs of what was to come right from the very beginning of his life.

Birth And Infancy

Swamiji physically hails from the South Kanara district on the Western coast of South

India. In his Purvashrama, he was the eldest son of a family of six children, four of them being his

younger brothers and one a sister. Known by the name Subbaraya, he was born of orthodox

Shivaralli Brahmin parents. The forefathers of Swamiji belong to one of the respected Brahmin

families settled in the Tuluva Desa or South Kanara district by Maharaja Mayura Verma, ruler of

Banavasi. This family was well-versed in the performance of religious rituals and in the knowledge

of Tantra-Sastra and was one amongst those authorised by the above ruler to practise Paurohitya

and Tantra as their services to the religious life of the community. As such, devotion and worship of

God was very much a tradition in the family.

As a child of two years of age, Subbaraya was taken on a pilgrimage to Tala-kaveri in Coorg

district. This is a very holy place at the source of the sacred river Kaveri in South India. In those

days, during the first quarter of the century, there were neither good roads nor motor bus transport

services available. So, the pious parents trudged on foot the entire distance of the pilgrimage,

carrying the little child Subbaraya. The very next year, the parents took him to the famous

hill-shrine of the Lord of the Seven Hills at Tirupati. Little Subbaraya went once again in the

company of his grandfather to holy Tirupati and had Darshan of Lord Venkateswara, when he was a

child of five years. From then onward, he started his school career.

School Days At Puttur

In the educational field, he surpassed all of his classmates in every class. He had early

education at St. Francis Xavier’s School at Darbe in Puttur town. He studied upto 5th Standard in

this school. His subsequent education was in the Board High School at Puttur. At this time, the

family was financially passing through a difficult period. But, thanks to young Subbaraya’s

brilliance in studies, he was fully exempted from school fees and similar dues by the school

authorities who were highly pleased with his great proficiency in studies. Subbaraya used to score

the highest marks in the class. He used to take part in the school debates which were being

conducted in English. Once during the annual inspection, the District Educational Officer was

stunned by the forceful oratory of young Subbaraya and was deeply impressed by the power of

expression evidenced by the young scholar.

Subbaraya had great liking for the Sanskrit language and took keen interest in the study of

Sanskrit. Not satisfied with what was taught in the class-room, young Krishnananda took to earnest

self-study of Sanskrit with the aid of the Amara Kosha and other textbooks. He eagerly took

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