Virajaananda

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Virajanand lived during the 19th century. He was born in Mathura, the birth place of Lord Krishna. When he was a year old he lost his eyesight as he became a victim of Small-pox. It is said misfortuness do not come in singles. Before he turned five, he lost both his parents. Thereafter he came under the care of his elder brother who was married. His wife did not take to Virajanand kindly. One good thing that happened to Virajanand was that Upanayanam was performed to him at the age of seven and he was initiated to Gayathri practice. When he was only eight, the inhospitable atmosphere at home made him leave for Rishikesh, the holy town at the bank of Ganges at the foot of Himalayas, along with some pilgrims. There he took refuge in an Ashram. And “Loveâ€, he experienced there for the first time. The Ashram mates were very kind to him and he completely forgot about his home town. Now and then,

he had chances to listen to many discourses in the Ashram, some of them referring to the significance and glory of Gayathri. He could not see, he could not read or write and the only recourse left for him, he thought, was to take to Gayathri Japa and listening to advices of elders and spiritual discourses.

 

He used to go the Ganges in the early morning hours, take bath in the holy river and started chanting Gayathri, standing in chest-deep waters. Initially he was chanting a thousand times and slowly he increased the chanting to three thousand times a day. After a lapse of about four years, Vedamatha Gayathri blessed him appearing in the form of lightning. Though he was blind, he could sense the light internally and with the blessing his inner blindness disappeared and he was illumined.

 

 

 

 

Gayathri Devi blessed him with Divine knowledge and enormous capacity to grasp and retain knowledge on any subject. What ever he used to listen to, once only, got entrenched in his memory permanently. He listened to reciting of “Vedas†once and thereafter he became authoritative on it. At the age of fourteen he took to Sanyas and was henceforth known as “Swami Virajanandâ€. Once, Swami Virajanand was having bath in the Ganges when he heard a Kerala brahmin reciting “Panini Ashtadhyayi “ (Sanskrit Grammar), like a Mantra. He invited the brahmin to the Ashram and requested him to recite the Panini once slowly. The brahmin kindly obliged and with that Swami Virajanand’s study of Sanskrit Grammar was over. Later, he contributed to Sanskrit Grammar in a great way. At the age of forty he was acknlowledged all over Northern India, as a great scholar in Sanskrit and Vedantic studies. His

fame reached his home town Mathura and the people of Mathura, feeling proud of him wanted to bring him back to Mathura. They built an Ashram for him in Mathura and requested him to stay there. He also agreed. Lot of pupils got admitted to the Ashram for studying , Nyaya, Vedas, Vedanta and all related subjects. The famous Dayanand Saraswathi, who established the Arya Samaj, searched for 8 years and finally found in Swami Virajanand the proper Guru and studied under him for four years. Thus a virtually born-blind person achieved so much greatness, which even well-sighted persons could not. Is there more proof required for the efficacy of Gayathri.?!

 

Yours Yogically,

 

Shreeram Balijepalli

 

 

 

 

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