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MEMORIES OF SWAMI CHIDANANDA
A picture painted by his devotees
Table of Contents
About This Book (Back Cover) Inside Front Cover Inside Back Cover Dedication Publishers' Note Devotees 1. Ananda Ch. Puhana 1 2. Anjali Singh 2 3. Arati Lata Das 6 4. Arpana (Joan Engle) 7 5. Australia, Radhakrishan Sharma 8 6. Australia, Maitry 10 7. Australia, Amit 11 8. Australia, Ardent Devotee 12 9. B.Satyanarayana Achary 13 10. B.B. Choudhuri
14 11. Babaji Charan Dass 16 12. Balayogi Kirtikumar 17 13. Bhagirathi Mohapatra 19 14. Bijayini OM 22 15. Bishan Sarup Sharma 22 16. Bishnu Prasanna Mohapatra 24 17. Bob Zwicker 25 18. Bhudimanta Rout 28 19. C. Venkata Seshaiah 29 20. Carolyne K. Barkley 30 21. Chandrasekhar, Architect
31 22. Chidananda Charan Vandana 33 23. Chinchin Mataji 34 24. Chittaranjan Das 38 25. Col. A.C. Sharma 40 26. Craig Stehr 44 27. D.N. Naresh 45 28. Damayanti Patel 47 29. Debesh Kumar Patnaik
48 30. Debi Prasad Mohanti 49 31. Deepak Kumar Bisvas
51 32. Devendra S. Vyas 52 33. Deepak R. Bhatt 53 34. Dheeraja, Canada 57 35. Dinesh KantSoni 59 36. Dr. K. Janardan Prusty
60 37. Dr. Amit Sharma
60 38. Dr. Jayant B. Dave
62 39. Dr. M. N. Rastogi 65 40. Dr. Nilakanta Panigrahi 66 41. Dr. S. Sivasundaram 68 42. Dr. Krishna G. Moharir 70 43. Durga Chellaram 71 44. Eloise Divya Prakasha 73 45. G. Ranga Rao 75 46. G.L. Anand 76 47. Gita Ravi Kapur 77 48. Gopalji Nagarkar 78 49. H.D. & Usha Sharma
79 50. H. Sequeira 81 51. Harbanslal 82 52. Hareshchandra Thakur 83 53. Harihoro Korosudha Pattnaik 85 54. J.M. Sur 86 55. Jagadish Prasad Pati 87 56. Jaishree Mogi Naidoo 89 57. Jatindra Nath Das 91 58. Jayavarapu Ramakrishnaiah 91 59. K. Rajeswara Patra 93 60. K. Ramaswami 94 61. K.J.A. Gunasekar 95 62. K. Kandasamy 96 63. K. Laxman Rao 97 64. K. Subhadra Rao 98 65. Kalpabata Sahu 99 66. Kamal Kumari Kaul 100 67. Kanhu Charan Dash 101 68. Krishna 102 69. Kanta Baweja 104 70. Krishna Chandra Achary 105 71. Krushna Charan Pati
106 72. L.M. Peter Ram
107 73. L.S.P. Rai 110 74. Ladubaba Pradhan
112 75. Lopa Mishra 113 76. Loren Jones/C. Valentine 114 77. Lt. Gen. Shiv Ram Mehta 116 78. M. Manihar Singh 116 79. Mahant Ashok Prapannacharya 117 80. Mahendra Buch 119 81. Maithilee Sharanji 120 82. Mary Alice Dean 122 83. Meera Patil 124 84. Marianne Uhrendorf 124 85. Melissa Schnirring 125 86. Mohan Lal Agrawal 128 87. Giancarlo Gaudiuso 130 88. Isabella Gaudiuso 131 89. Marino & Cristina Pinto 132 90. Stefano Roca 133 91. Moo Briddel 134 92. Mukesh Patel 137 93. N. Amuyaima Singh 139 94. Nagabushan A. 139 95. Muthu Raman 140 96. Nagesh Talgery 142 97. Narayana Kiekens 143 98. Neeru Mahajan 144 99. Neelam Dewan 145 100. P. Kunjo Singh 146 101. P. Lakshmaiah 148 102.P Prabhavathi 150 103. P.K. Sharma 151 104. Padma (Siva Jyoti) 153 105. Padma Charan Mohapatra 155 106. Paul Hume 156 107. Prakash Chandra Sahu 156 108. Pravanjan Tripathy 157 109. Prof. N.P. Shukla 159 110. Prof. Padma Charan Jena 160 111. Prof. V.D. Ramdev 162 112. Puneet Wahi 165 113. Purnima Zweers 166 114. R. Ramesh 168 115. R. Narayanan 169 116. R.B.S. Mani 170 117. Rabi Narayan Panigrahi 171 118. Rabindranath Acharya 172 119. Ramana Veerasingam 174 120. Ravi Kapur 177 121. S.B. Dash 178 122. S.B. Gosh 178 123. S. Baburao Achary 180 124. S. Kesava Rao 181 125. S.N. Nayyar 182 126. S.N. Rajyaguru 185 127. S.K. Chand 186 128. S. Prahallada 187 129. Sahadev Dash 188 130. Sanjna Malpani 190 131. Sarala Mishra 190 132. Sankarsan Mangaraj 191 133. Sri Sarat Chandra 192 134. Sarbeswar Mati 193 135. Sasidhara Padhy 193 136. Shakun Narain Kimatrai 195 137. Shanta Subba Rao 196 138. Shanti Ananda 199 139. Shivcharan (Charles Kangai) 201 140. Sivananda Matri Satsang 205 141. Birendra Satpathy 206 142. Somnanath Lenka 206 143. Sonu/Samta Malkani 208 144. Vidya Swaroopananda Giri 210 145. Srinivas Bhardwaj 211 146. Subhash Nanda 212 147. Subhadra Rao 214 148. Subhash Garg 215 149. Surendra Kumar Saini 216 150. Surendra Wahi 218 151. Swami Atmananda Udasin 219 152. Swami Bhagawatananda 221 153. Swami Durgaprasadananda 222 154. Swami Guhabhaktananda
223 155. Swami Jitamohanananda 226 156. Swami Jnanananda 228 157. Swami Nityananda 229 158. Paramahamsa Prajnananda 231 159. Sw. Kailas Vishwanantanandji 233 160. Swami Pavitrananda 234 161. Swami Sitaramananda 236 162. Swami Poornabodhananda 237 163. Swami Ramabhaktananda 239 164. Swami Satyavratananda 240 165. Swami Sivapremananda 242 166. Swami Sivashankarananda 243 167. Swami Sivanandadasananda 246 168. Sw.Sivananda Gurusevananda 248 169. Sw. Sivananda Nityarupananda 251 170. Sw. Smaranananda Giri 252 171. Swami Swarupananda 252 172. Swami Vivekarupananda 255 173. Swamini Chandrananda 257 174. Swayamprabha Mataji 257 175. T. Narayan Rao 258 176. T.R. Ramanathan 259 177. T.C. Patnaik 260 178. Tejpal Thakker 262 179. Trinath Pradhan 263 180. Tripathi Margi 264 181. "Tui" 265 182. U. Narayana Rao 269 183. M. D. Vaghela 270 184. Vidur Khanna
271 185. Flowers for All
272 186. Prayers for All 273
About This Book
H.H. Swami Chidananda was born in South India in 1916 and surrendered to his Guru Sri Swami Sivananda in 1943. From then on he dedicated his whole life to the service of his Guru and the dissemination of his teachings till his Mahasamadhi in 2008. He experienced God in everything and everyone, and therefore his love and care was for everything and everyone—from the most insignificant to the most important, from the poorest to the most glorious. He had thousands of devotees and disciples all over India and the world. To be in his presence was a unique and indescribable experience and to listen to his words of wisdom and his singing stirred an awakening in one’s heart.
Some of his devotees have written down their memories which are collected in this book. They are written in simple language, full of love and devotion and will take the reader again into the sublime divine atmosphere which was around Swami Chidananda, one of the greatest saints of India.
Publishers' Note
A few months after H.H. Swami Chidanandaji’s Mahasamadhi there appeared in the Divine Life Magazine a short message inviting the devotees to put their experiences and memories in writing and send them to the Headquarters. This message had a big response and we received almost 200 write-ups. They were far too many to be included in either the Pictorial Biography ‘Worshipful Homage’ or the Souvenir ‘Swami Chidananda - The Joy of Knowing Him’. These two books were published for the first Aradhana Punya Tithi of Swamiji in August 2009.
Now we have collected and edited all these Memories and present them in this book. They give a wonderful impression of the personality of our beloved Swami Chidanandaji—who actually had no personality at all, or a personality that was far beyond human comprehension.
May this book bring joy and wonder to all who read it.
The Divine Life Society
Inside Front Cover
May you ever be in constant and continuous remembrance of God, each second and each moment of your life! Live in God! - Swami Chidananda
Inside Back Cover
In and through His disciples the Guru lives and continues to inspire others. - Swami Chidananda
Dedication
Dedicated with love and gratitude to
our divine MastersSri Swami Sivananda and
Sri Swami Chidananda
The real Chidananda is within you
By Swami Jitamohananda, Orissa
I was fervently praying to the Lord to send me my Guru who must be a self realized saint. My devout prayer and intense aspiration got fulfilled very soon as I was initiated by Pujya Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj in 1978 at Sunabeda.
I was a beginner in the spiritual path; my devotion and faith were not so strong. I did not have the conviction that the Guru is antaryami. But one incident changed my life. In 1981, I went to Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, to attend Sadhana Saptaha with Sankarshan Mangaraj of Puri. One day, while returning to the ashram after visiting Geeta Bhawan and Paramartha Niketan, we found a beggar asking for a coin. As a beginner in divine life, I was religiously practising Gurudev's instruction of "GIVE". I searched my pockets for a coin. There was no coin and I found only one two rupee note. I was reluctant to part with two rupees for one beggar only as I could satisfy eight beggars with those two rupees, converting it into small coins. I was indecisive and did not give anything to that beggar. I was unhappy with myself. We reached Samadhi Mandir for attending the afternoon programme. Param Pujya Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj was addressing the sadhaks. We took our seats in the back. To my utter surprise, Pujya Swamiji Maharaj was explaining the teachings of Swami Sivananda on the topic "GIVE". Swamiji said, "Giving is a sadhana. It has to be performed with large heart and proper understanding. Suppose you have gone to the other side of the Ganges. A beggar approaches you for a coin; you search your pockets and can bring out only one two rupee note. Coins are not available to you. You are then indecisive and go on thinking that instead of satisfying eight beggars, why should I give it to one? This is not proper. Who is that beggar? He is Lord Narayana. If you are hungry, can you appease your hunger with a morsel of rice? How pitiable it is! While giving, it is proper only to fulfill one's need to the best of our capacity. See always the Lord in the receiver. Then 'GIVING' will be converted into direct worship of God who dwells in you and in him and who is both antarayami and sarvavyapak".
I was stupefied and confounded as to what was happening. It was beyond my intellect to understand. How the master knew everything--tit-bit of my actions- -on the other side of the Ganges? My thought process, in no time, touched the yogic mind of Sri Gurudev. Again, I was caught. In reply to the question in my mind, the compassionate master went on telling, "I am only dummy Chidananda sitting here and talking to you. You are seeing my physical form. But the real Chidananda is within you. I dwell in you as antaryami. I see everything, whatever you think and talk and wherever you are, I look after you."
This unforgettable incident was a turning point in my spiritual life. From that moment, I was determined to practise "GIVING" as instructed by Sri Gurudev. How can I express the inexpressible blissful feelings of mine! My experience is not a new experience. The world knows that Swami Chidananda is antaryami and sarvavyapak.
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