Swami Krishnananda Shashtyabdapurti Mahotsava Commemoration Volume

A Souvenir released on Swami Krishnananda's 60th Birthday

A Rare Personality of Remarkable Wisdom

by B. Rudre Gowda

There can be no doubt that the formative influences in the life of Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj are threefold. First, his own deep education in his early years under the care and direction of his family elders and school teachers. His erudition in Sanskrit and English flowered even during those early years of his life. The second phase is that of the great influence he was singularly fortunate to receive from his close discipleship under the worshipful Master Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, which has moulded him into a lucid thinker and a great Vedantin. Thirdly, it is his own dedicated and austere living—the main motto of it being simple living and high thinking—which has ingrained in him the Vairagya Purusha. These three influences have combined to make Swamiji what he is today. Every word of his utterances marks him out as a rare personality of remarkable wisdom.

May Almighty God and Holy Master Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj keep our beloved Swamiji amidst us for a very long time with perfect health, so that he could continue to guide and administer the affairs of this great spiritual institution to bring peace and spiritual awakening to all corners of this world.