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the Home. It proved to be the one thing, the town wanted most.Children of all castes and religions receiving expert treatmentevery year number many thousands as may be seen from theAnnual reports. Swami Sekharananda instituted religiousworship of the Sevashrama, reading of scriptures and religiousclasses also in the Sevashrama. That also proved to be of verygreat help to many. The Vedanta Society's work also was takenover by Swami Sekharananda. Swamiji was pleased to see thatthe Sevashrama was doing very useful work and had becomevery popular with all classes. It was the only Hindu ReligiousOrganisation in the principal town of the District. Swamiji wantedsomething more there than a Sevashrama for medicaltreatment. There was much scope for work of different kinds.The many influential gentlemen who met him there agreed withhim in that view. He prepared the ground and returned. In thistrip to Calicut Swamiji took with him the girl disciples ofOttapalam. They were all the guests of Swamiji's ardent devoteeand disciple, Sri T. V. Krishnan Nair, who was the SubordinateJudge at Calicut at that time. For the first time in their lives thepoor girls saw the historic town of Calicut, the sea and the wideworld.His one last wish with regard to these children and his otherfemale devotees seemed to have been to take them himself tothe lotus feet of the Mother. As its external symbol, he decidedto take them to Kanyakumari. With a large party including themhe left Ottapalam in July 1937. Perfect arrangements weremade for the journey and the halts and for the stay in theAshrama at Trivandrum and also at the Cape. How he thoughtof the needs and comforts of every one of the party was worthstudy. No mother would have felt such solicitude for herchildren. He looked to every little item of their wants, even forhot-water baths for them. Every one felt supremely happy.He gave many nice little presents to the children, chains,lockets, etc. which he himself selected and purchased from the
azaar. During Dussera days he gave new clothes to all, hesent Vijaya greetings and presents to his devotees in NorthIndia; he had new and pretty frocks made for children of theAshrama servants (Panchamas). It was a sight to see him callthe three year old daughter of the Panchama servant-maid andgive her grapes, sugar candy and other fruits and sweets ofwhich he always kept a stock for distribution to the children. Hegot a tailor to the Ashrama to stitch garments for his disciplesand devotees. He explained to them various methods ofstitching and several fashions of shirts, coats and capsprevalent in various parts of India. He brought a cap from hiswardrobe and asked them what cap it was. They said Gandhicapwhich it was not. He then pointed out to them where thedifference lay. Thus did he instruct on various subjects; ofamusement he gave them enough, with many stories,humourous remarks and jokes. He also often transported theminto far-off realms, sometimes by means of his words,sometimes by melodies and sometimes by his abstractedmoods and far-away looks. Thus, in those elysian heights hekept them for months. The trip to the Cape was joy intoxicating.From Trivandrum many local Bhaktas with their families joinedthe party to the Cape. It was a very large and happy family withthe Swami as its head. Excepting perhaps at the visit of SriMaharaj, no other party was so led to the presence of theMother of the Universe. It was indescribable felicity. In thesurging sea, on the Paurnima day Swamiji was both theplaymate and the protector of the children. He played with themin the waters, he look them in his hands and on his shouldersand advanced further and further into the roaring and surgingsea. Rising above the waves with his devoted children, be wasactually playing in the ocean of the phenomenal world. Thosedays at the Cape and at Trivandrum will ever remain anineffaceable and blessed memory with all who had the goodfortune to be with him then.
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Swami NirmalanandaHis life and teac
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temple to instal his sacred relics
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editing the book. We have also to r
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The sphere of action of the old Ava
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ought his services very much in req
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to drive the boys away. On one occa
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chroniclers, in his own words and i
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to whose photo it was. He replied t
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He was highly reticent regarding pe
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Vivekananda - is, he regrets, too u
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him." (Sri Sri Saradananda Prasanga
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worshipped by a resident priest. To
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Premananda's) mother. Here Norendra
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Sadhana." "Indeed, those were memor
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and 201.) "One hot day in 1887 the
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about an hour and all the while he
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who had realised his identity with
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them. Again they would come back to
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Unable to proceed further, he sat d
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(Swami Vijnanananda) on several occ
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the power given by the Master had t
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new inmates of the Math. With his g
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was present, the same intellectual
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great leader followed by his gurubh
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Siva, went to him, sat by his side
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elsewhere, were in New York only fo
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CHAPTER IXBACK IN THE MOTHERLANDThe
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call came to him from his favourite
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On the 4th day, the 2nd of June, he
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laboured for Swamiji and the cause
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and wide, it was necessary that he
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is situate the Holy Shrine of Kanya
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terminus) on the 15th of the month.
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him to reserve it, as 'Haripad itse
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actually wept and wept for hours to
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view that a Vedantin is a cosmopoli
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and other friends with sums of thre
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CHAPTER XIVTHE FLAG HOISTED IN MALA
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ody - all of which bespoke strength
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scatter the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda
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Ramakrishna Mission and on the fact
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anyan which, Mr. Menon says "served
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castemen. But they stood firm and h
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some Manushapuja. How many are ill-
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'Religion is not abnormality, I hea
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snubbed them without remorse. A so-
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of trust or appointment in his own
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Swami, his face glowing with emotio
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President Maharaj in June 1914, and
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CHAPTER XIXTHE TIDAL WAVE OF SPIRIT
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Maharaj had just then returned from
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party changed to the Shoranur-Ernak
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choose the Guru, Otherwise, if one
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mentioned Dr. T. Padmanabha Pillai
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