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GURUDEV SWAMI SIVANANDA

AND

DR. DEVAKI KUTTY MATAJI

SERVE, LOVE,

GIVE, PURIFY,

MEDITATE,

REALIZE

So Says

Sri Swami

Sivananda

A DIVINE LIFE SOCIETY PUBLICATION

First Edition: 1998

(1,000 Copies)

World Wide Web (WWW) Edition: 2000

WWW site: http://www.SivanandaDlshq.org/

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.

A Love-Offering From

Matri Satsang on the Occasion of

the Amrit Mahotsava

in October, 1998 of

Dear and Revered

Dr. Devaki Kutty Mataji.

CONTENTS

Dr. Devaki Kutty—A Legend In Her Own Life Time—Sri Swami Chidananda . . . . . . . . . 1

Dr. Devaki Kutty—Sri Swami Krishnananda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

By Dr. Devaki Kutty

Gurudev’s Personality, Life and Teachings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Tradition And Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

By Gurudev Swami Sivananda

A Divine Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Gurudev’s Letters to Dr. Devaki Kutty Mataji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Glory to Thee!—Matri Satsang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

God—Sri Swami Sivananda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Universal Prayer—Sri Swami Sivananda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

DR. DEVAKI KUTTY—A LEGEND IN HER OWN LIFE TIME

(Sri Swami Chidananda)

Worshipful homage to the Eternal and Infinite Supreme Universal Spirit, the Param-Atma.

This is a tribute to Dr. Devaki Kutty, my spiritual sister due to her discipleship to our most

revered Guru Bhagavan, H.H. Parampujya Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. This special tribute is

upon her completing her 75th Birthday Anniversary on 8th October 1998. But, if she told someone

she was 75 years old, they would immediately retort, “Impossible! Don’t pull my leg! Tell me truly,

what is your age?” Because, in her appearance Dr. Kutty belies her age. No one would believe that

she is even a day older than the early sixties. She is a slim, trim and active person who even today

puts in a 5-6 hours work schedule 6 days in a week from 8 am to almost 2 pm in the women section

of her Gurudev’s Sivananda Charitable Hospital at Sivananda Ashram, on the sacred banks of holy

river Ganga near Rishikesh. She is something of a mini-phenomenon in her own personality and

daily activities.

All religions in our human world believe that God, the Supreme Universal Spirit, is an

ocean of compassion. God is the all-merciful, says the Holy Koran. He is ever gracious. He is

infinite Love. These are the terms by which scriptures refer to God. He rescues those who are in

danger. He is the reliever of pain and suffering. He removes the distress of those who are in distress.

He is solace and hope to those in grief and despair. He is all these and much more. Therefore, the

sorely afflicted beings fervently pray to the Lord for succour. He is the answer to our prayers. He is

the one Being to whom we can turn when we have no one else to turn to. This is the truth. This is

also the fact.

However, in this world of human beings the Supreme Universal Spirit does not personally

come down and attend to all our aches and pains and problems and life’s complications. It is only

upon very very rare occasions, when some extremely grave situation arises in this world, that we

hear of an incarnation taking place in order to set right such a situation by doing the needful at that

critical juncture. Otherwise it is the divine plan that He manifests His divine grace, compassion and

active help by and through chosen human agencies and instruments, that have proved worthy of

being thus used as channels by their exemplary lives and their exceptional character, conduct and

their noble and benign nature. Dr. Devaki Kutty Mataji is one such worthy person, whom the Lord

Almighty decided to make a channel and an instrument for the manifestation of His kindness,

compassion, solace and succour. He chose her as an instrument for the active expression of His

healing, curing and pain relieving grace. He made her a super person par excellence for presiding

over His work of creating new life in this human world. He blessed her with great skill in the field of

Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Thus, she became well known as a top surgeon and an expert

maternity specialist in the greater part of North India in Uttar Pradesh as well as in several

neighbouring States. Countless couples flocked to the King George’s Hospital where she worked as

well as to her residence on Jagat Narayan Road in Lucknow. They were prepared to wait for hours

together for obtaining even 5 minutes of her personal professional attention.

Hailing from Kerala, graduating from Madras Medical College, destiny made North India

the field of her work. To her parents she was one among three sisters and two brothers, she being the

eldest among the sisters. Her career took on a dual capacity as a member of the teaching staff of the

Lucknow Medical College and at the same time as a member of the medical staff in the King

George’s Hospital. Soon she became well known both for her academic as well as for her Hospital

work. Her parents decided to live with her, because she had determined to be single in order to

dedicate herself totally to her dual work as mentioned above. While living thus, a wish arose in her

to take her parents on a pilgrimage to holy Badrinath in the Himalayas during her annual leave. In

those days Dr. Kutty used to have an annual leave period of about 40 days. Little did she know that

the wish in her mind was prompted by the Divine Indweller, Antaryami Bhagavan. For, the time

had come for a transformation in her life. It was a moment of destiny in which she was to be blessed

by a glance of grace from a towering spiritual personality of this Himalayan location. This great

soul was no other than the saint and sage H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj of Muni-Ki-Reti,

Sivananda Ashram, a couple of km further from Rishikesh on the road to Badrinath Dham.

You might have heard about the brief Latin saying “Veni, Vidi, Vinci”, ascribed to Julius

Caesar, implying “I came, I saw, I conquered”. Similar was the experience of Dr. Kutty but with a

slight difference. Namely when she came into the presence of H.H. Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj,

she came, she saw. But here the similarity ended. She came, she saw, but she DID NOT conquer.

Instead she was conquered by the magnetic divine personality of worshipful Gurudev Swami

Sivanandaji within moments.

She had the feeling that she was not before a stranger whom she was meeting for the first

time in her life. She felt that she was in the presence of a person whom she had known all her life.

After making kind enquiries about her and her professional work, Gurudev said: “Remain here. We

have our hospital in this Ashram. Do some Seva there for some weeks. Then have a period of

Satsang and study before you return to Lucknow to resume your duty after your vacation. I shall

give you some books. You can study them while here. This is a very sacred place. You can go to

Badrinath later. Badrinath is always there. You will not miss the darshan.” Thus, a link came into

being between the famous doctor from Lucknow and this Himalayan saint and sage who was soon

to become her spiritual preceptor. This meeting was like the resuming and renewing of a

relationship that had already existed in a previous birth also. Very soon the Sivananda Ashram and

the radiant personality of worshipful Swami Sivanandaji himself were to become her Badrinath,

Kedarnath and all the other Himalayan Dhams. Added to it was the pleasing knowledge that Swami

Sivanandaji himself was a practicing doctor in his pre-monastic days. Here she was not only before

a Swami, but also before a very senior professional colleague. She felt she was on familiar ground,

professionally at least. Naturally, the first conversation touched upon medical matters as well.

Dr. Kutty postponed her trip to Badrinath. Her parents were also fascinated by Gurudev’s

cheerful, friendly and enthusiastic personality. Dr. Kutty was soon to discover that the work at the

Ashram hospital was not merely a professional technical functioning, though a relationship

between doctor and patient was there, but it was a spiritual process in which one encountered God.

Swami Sivanandaji’s approach to all activity was WORK IS WORSHIP. He approached the world

seeing God in all beings. Any act of service was an act of adoration to God in man. This was the

opening up of a new vision in Dr. Kutty as a result of her meeting with this renunciate Himalayan

sage, who still occupied himself with ceaseless selfless service unto all beings with the inner

attitude of worship. For him everything was spiritual. Nothing was merely secular and worldly.

When the time came for Dr. Kutty to return to Lucknow, Gurudev presented to her a whole lot of

DR. DEVAKI KUTTY—A LEGEND IN HER OWN LIFE TIME

books and also some Chyavanprash, Himalayan honey and Brahmi-Amla cooling oil etc. He said:

“When you go back, this is how you must work. This is your Sadhana. Do it with devotion and

dedication. You will simultaneously achieve both ends, the secular as well as the spiritual.”

His idealistic approach revolutionised the life of this Lucknow doctor. His simple yet

sublime teachings proved to be the commencement of a gradual subtle inner transformation in her

lifestyle. God had prepared her for this. Because, she had the right background in her upbringing as

both father and mother were deeply religious persons. Their piety, their intense faith in God and

their daily devotional practices at home had made a deep impression on the daughter’s mind.

Gurudev imparted a spiritual impulse to her life and set into activity her latent spirituality. The

devotee in her also became a Sadhika. She returned to Lucknow with this spiritual gift and

Gurudev’s charming invitation, “Ojee! Come again!” She did not need this invitation! She had

already decided that she would return to this wonderful spiritual environment during the next year’s

annual leave. Then onwards every year, year after year, she would depart from Lucknow the

evening of the very day her annual leave commenced and arrive in Rishikesh the next morning and

immediately start her Bhakti and Karma Yoga Seva at the Ashram for 30 days. After a month’s

Seva the last ten days were quiet days of Darshan, Satsang, spiritual Sadhana, Japa and study etc.

Gurudev asked her to open a Branch of the Divine Life Society in Lucknow. Her house at Jagat

Narayan Road itself became the venue for the spiritual gatherings and Satsang and Bhajans for the

devotees of the Lucknow DLS Branch. One year her pilgrimage to Badrinath and Darshan and

worship of Lord Badrinarayana was also achieved. Her name became a by-word all over this hill

area. Countless patients eagerly awaited her annual arrival. During the years from 1953 to 1963 she

became a regular “visiting doctor” at the Ashram. She was looked upon as a ministering angel

bringing healing and relief to eagerly awaiting patients. Gurudev was full of appreciation and

admiration for her expertise and her untiring service to the sick and to the ailing. After Gurudev

attained Mahasamadhi in July 1963, Dr. Kutty’s dedicated work at the hospital continued without a

change as her Guru-Seva. Meantime her parents gradually became old, and her old father began to

feel a little anxious about his favourite daughter’s future. Because, his other two daughters were

both married and well settled with their spouses. The elder brother made his career in England as an

expert Neuro-surgeon. The younger brother got good service in the city of Madras, South India. Dr.

Kutty’s old father was determined that when he passed on, his daughter should no longer continue

in Lucknow. He used to tell me that Lucknow was not a good city. He said that Dr. Kutty must settle

down in the Ashram permanently when he is no more. He approached me with a sense of urgency,

requesting me to identify some suitable location where he would arrange to have a cottage

constructed for the comfortable stay of his daughter. He very much wanted to see the completed

cottage with his own eyes before he departed from this world. He had the immense satisfaction of

seeing this accomplished in his lifetime well before his departure. As he felt his end approaching, he

suggested to Dr. Kutty that she might take voluntary retirement. But, this was not so easy, because

the governor of U.P. would not allow this step. The Medical College where Dr. Kutty worked was

part of the Lucknow University. According to the government act pertaining to the universities, the

governor of any province (state) was ex-officio the chancellor of the university. The

Vice-Chancellor was the second in status to the governor or Rajyapal as they used to refer to him.

He turned down Dr. Kutty’s request to relieve her. Things were at a stalemate. The old father was

insistent. Then matters took an unexpected turn when the chief administrator of the hospital was

soon due to retire, having reached the ceiling age of government service. The governor sent for Dr.

Kutty and informed her that he had decided to make her the chief administrator. Dr. Kutty was taken

GURUDEV SWAMI SIVANANDA AND DR. DEVAKI KUTTY MATAJI

aback. As much as she liked her teaching work in the college and her medical and surgical work in

the hospital, she was quite against entering into any administrative function. She politely refused to

succeed the outgoing administrator. The governor insisted. Not wanting this confrontation to

continue, Dr. Kutty applied for long leave, left Lucknow and went away to the South. Her leave

could not be refused. Because, she had never taken leave and as such she had accumulated

considerable leave which was her rightful due. On his part the governor could not keep the

administrator’s post vacant when the incumbent retired. So he was obliged to appoint the

administrator’s immediate subordinate next in status to her. Thus, Kutty Mataji was able to

circumvent this distasteful situation. At the end of her leave period, Dr. Kutty submitted her

resignation. This could not be rejected. At long last her secular medical career concluded.

Dr. Kutty had already made up her mind that the last chapter of her life was to be her own

sacred Guru-Sthan, i.e. Gurudev’s Ashram on the holy banks of Mother Ganga. She had made this

her “inner Sankalpa”. So when the Lucknow chapter closed, a new era began for the Sivananda

Charitable Hospital of this Ashram. Dr. Kutty took charge of the hospital, streamlined it and

plunged into the hospital work with unsparing zeal and dedication. The medical work at the Divine

Life Society got a fillip. The hospital had the great good fortune of having an expert surgeon and a

top maternity specialist at its head. The work progressed by leaps and bounds. Soon the hospital

became the destination of countless couples from all walks of life and all strata of society. There is a

old adage “All roads lead to Rome”. Similarly it could be said with equal truth that “all roads lead to

Sivananda Ashram Hospital”. Private cars, jeeps, motorcycles, taxis, vans and all manners of

vehicles began to be parked in a long line before the hospital, long before its opening time. You

wouldn’t believe it, even as early as 4 am and 4.30 am in the morning when it was still dark, these

vehicles were already arriving to obtain priority numbers in the queue when the registration work

started before the opening of the hospital.

The Birth Centenary of Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj was to occur in the year 1987.

It was decided by the Trustees of the Ashram to observe this great event for a full year with 12

month long on-going programmes in different parts of India. Gurudev’s disciples and devotees

were all over India. Nationwide programmes had to be planned and celebrated. A Swami Sivananda

Celebration Central Committee was constituted in Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh. The unanimous

choice of the General Secretary for this Committee was Dr. Kutty. She was the chief executive to

direct all the plans and programmes. This dimension of her work commenced from September

1985. The big hall next to her residence upstairs of Sivananda Bhavan became her office. With the

active assistance of many colleagues taking up the responsibilities of different aspects of this

eventful work, Dr. Kutty was able to make the Centenary Celebrations an admirable success. This

experience made her the right person to function in a similar capacity when the Amrita Mahotsava,

the 75th Birthday Anniversary of Pujya Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj took place in 1997.

Naturally, as was expected Dr. Kutty rose to the occasion once again and fully proved her worth by

making it a wonderful success, as everyone saw it for themselves as they participated in this event

of last year. We have in Dr. Kutty “a gem of purest ray serene”. Thus, I drop my cap and bow down

in obeisance to her upon this present most auspicious event, her own Amrita Mahotsava. Long may

she live and prosper and be an inspiration and light to many many aspiring souls. May God and

Gurudev shower their grace and blessings upon her. Hari Om! Jai Vishvanath! Jai Sri Gurudev!

DR. DEVAKI KUTTY—A LEGEND IN HER OWN LIFE TIME

DR. DEVAKI KUTTY

(Swami Krishnananda)

When I was in the Roorkee Cantonment, living in the house of a Lieutenant Colonel who

was the Chief of the Military Hospital of the Cantonment of Roorkee where I went for medical

treatment many many years back, I received from the Ashram a small magazine called Wisdom

Light, on the front cover page of which there was a photograph of Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji

Maharaj with an unknown lady doctor, whose name was inscribed there as Dr. Devaki Kutty. From

the way she was described in that magazine, I felt that she should be some important person. After

the treatment was over, I came back to the Ashram. This Doctor was a Reader/Professor in the King

George’s Medical College and Hospital Lucknow, associated with the University of Lucknow. She

used to come to the Ashram regularly, now and then, and meet me whenever she happened to pay a

visit to the Ashram. What I gathered from people in Lucknow is that she was a strict disciplinarian

in the Hospital. I also heard that she was a kind of fear to people working under her or with her, due

to extreme strictness and punctuality. I came to know from stray reports that she was an experienced

Doctor.

Those days Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj was all in all and no visitor would visit

personally any inmate of the Ashram. All visitors would go straight to Gurudev since he was the

central spiritual figure and the inmates in the Ashram had nothing to do with the visitors. But Dr.

Kutty somehow seemed to have come to know that I am a person of some significance in the

Ashram and so, she used to have some Satsanga with me very often. All the talks between her and

myself were totally spiritual, pertaining to different aspects of spiritual life.

During that time, Dr. Swami Hridayananda Mataji was the Chief in the Hospital. Later on,

Dr. Hridayananda Mataji left on visit abroad and Dr. Devaki Kutty who was here, was requested to

take charge of the Hospital, to which she very graciously acceded.

Dr. Kutty became all in all in the Ashram’s Hospital—though she is specially qualified in

Gynaecology and Obstetrics. The other Doctors in the Hospital worked under her instruction and

guidance. During the occasion of my 75th Birthday Anniversary which was vigorously proposed by

Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj, Dr. Kutty Mataji voluntarily took up the charge of a chief

organiser of the function, which she did so excellently and so perfectly that one may say that she

exhibited her Administrative capacity. The role she played by bringing out a beautiful Souvenir on

the occasion, revealed her many hidden capacities, both literarily and executively. Dr. Mataji has a

special regard for me and considers my opinion on any matter as practically conclusive. As a person

with a conscience of responsibility, she makes it a point never to go out of station without informing

me through a letter. She would not even go to Hardwar or Dehra Dun without giving me intimation.

I asked her one day why she writes a note to me whenever she goes to Dehra Dun, her answer was

“How will anyone in the Ashram know where I have gone? I did not want to cause anxiety to

anybody.”

At the present moment she has given up the responsibility of managing the Hospital, though

she is doing the service of Gynaecology. At present, the Chief of the Hospital is Dr. Samatvananda

(Dr. B. Babu). Dr. Mataji is a non-interfering person, does not come in conflict with anybody. On

GURUDEV SWAMI SIVANANDA AND DR. DEVAKI KUTTY MATAJI

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