Glorious Fifty Years of Wisdom and Service

A Souvenir released on Swami Krishnananda's 50th Birthday

Believe It or Not

by Sri Chamanlal Sharma, Delhi

That Lord Krishna of Gopies was at once the Maha Yogeshwar and the greatest Politician of the Mahabarata times.

That the Flute Player of Vrindaban became the World Teacher by dint of Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

That the Shankaracharya of Sivanadashram, whose darshans were almost impossible during Gurudev's times has to meet situations much against his nature and will.

That the theme of his pregnant discourses and writings is quite original and delivery natural and fresh.

That he feels quite at home in Eastern and Western Philosophy both.

That one wonders how this little head could contain all this.

That his 'Realisation of the Absolute' is the result of his seventeen days only, thoughts coming direct from his fertile brain to the typewriter for the press.

That Ecstasy and Wisdom shook hands on 31st December, 1968 when he danced while leading Divya Nam procession from Ashram to Rishikesh.

That while listening to a Vrindaban Yatra description from a devotee of Lord Krishna, he desires that the Lord be asked why He is teasing him with so many administrative problems.

That the Key to all these in his own words is: 'How would Sivananda have solved these'.

That he forgot his mother tongue and had to avail himself of the interpreter's help, when his aged parents visited him in a hospital at Debra Dun, whom he took just like other visitors.

That he feels when any expenses are incurred even in his illness, forgetting the long invaluable services, he has rendered to the Ashram.

That he is 'Innocence Incarnate', in as much as these Jubilee Celebrations are kept secret from him, and that he defies all descriptions just like God whom the Vedas describe as Neti Neti.