Saint Sketch -8-Swami Abhedananda By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji - Last Part

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Radhe Krishna To All, 

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    An Announcement:

 

1.A 3 minute 'Hare Rama.' Mahamantra Kirtan video is telecast on Star Vijay TV

every morning (Mon-Fri) at 5:25 am. Let us have an auspicious beginning to every

day with the viewing of the Mahamantra Kirtan.

 

2. Sri Sri Swamiji's rendered a discourse at Narada Gana Sabha on Sunday 12th

April, commemorating the birth centenary of Swami Abhedananda. Pl click the link

below to watch the full discourse ,

http://www.namadwaar.org/videos/internal/abhedananda.php    

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         Swami Abhedananda

 

Swami Abhedananda strongly believed that spirituality can bring about unity in

humanity, which was otherwise discriminated by caste, creed and race. He

prescribed singing the Names of the Lord with Bhakti and singing it aloud on the

street shedding away inhibitions (‘bheri’). The ‘Koti Archana’ program

which involves chanting the “Hare Rama..†Mahamantra a crore times offering

flowers (‘archana’) to the Lord by devotees transcending caste or creed is

being followed in various parts of the country even today.

 

Whenever there was no satsang, Swamiji preferred solitude. He would suddenly

disappear from his ashram and get away to Brindavan where he would revel in the

bliss of devotion surviving on alms. He had a great devotion to Radha Devi and

went to Barsana (the birth place of Radha Devi) on Radhashtami (the birth day of

Radha Devi).

 

Swamiji did not believe in setting up monasteries. When devotees approached him

with such a request, he would say, ‘Not one; let us establish many of them!’

Swamiji would ask them to chant the Mahamantra incessantly in their own homes

and by doing so, Swamiji’s presence could be felt and thus each home would

become an ‘Ashram’!

 

On 24th February 1955, Swami Abhedananda lit a lamp in the ‘Abhedasramam’ in

Tiruvananthapuram and commenced the chanting of the “Hare Rama..†Mahamantra

around the lamp, stringing a ‘Tampura’. Since then, the Mahamantra chanting

has been incessantly happening there - every moment of the day and year round.

The lamp has never been extinguished and The ‘Tampura’ that he held has

never touched the ground. When one steps into this ‘Maha mantralayam’, one

would instantly feel the divine bliss of the Mahamantra.

 

Once when in Hrishikesh, Ganga devi (Goddess of the Ganges) appeared to Him

seeking Hari Nama Kirtan to be performed in her banks, similar to the one that

happens in the banks of Yamuna. Accordingly, an ashram was set up in Kankhal

near Hardwar.

 

Sri Swamiji attained Maha Samadhi on 29th October, 1983. Before Swamiji left his

mortal coil, Ganga Devi permeated the body of Swamiji in the form of light after

which he shone lustrously. He instructed his disciples to let his body flow in

the Ganges after his departure and not to construct any kind of shrine.

 

River Ganga is said to destroy all of one’s sins. Mahamantra Kirtan has been

prescribed the path for this age. Swami Abhedananda lived as the very form of

Mahamantra and Ganga Devi also is said to have resided in him. So by merely

reminiscing of the divine life history of this great Saint, one gets the merits

of a dip in the Ganges as well as chanting the Mahamantra, thus getting absolved

of all kinds of sins.

 

April 12th 2009 marks the centenary celebrations of Swami Abhedananda’s

Jayanti (birth). May we pray with Mahamantra Kirtan on this great day to be

blessed with devotion through incessant chanting of Mahamantra.

 

Regards

 

Let’s Chant

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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problems in life or about dharma, please write to us by clicking here:

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