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August Vision of Sri Aurobindo -- Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan 2
Kanyakumari Mayamma
-- B.V.S. Rao
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Glimpses Of A Great Yogi--Part II -- Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan 13
Saint Poet Ramprasad--His Songs
On Divine Mother--XVIII -- Deba Prasad Basu
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Social Philosophy of
Mahakavi Bharati--IV
-- Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan 25
A Letter of Appeal:
Bharatamata Mandir and Ramayana
Darshanam at Vivekananda Kendra,
Kanyakumari

-- A. Balakrishnan

News and Notes

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July-September 2013

Vol. 30, No. 3

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Editorial

AUGUST VISION OF SRI AUROBINDO

India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and
broken freedom. At one time it almost seemed as if she might relapse
into the chaos of separate States which preceded the British conquest.
Fortunately there has now developed a strong possibility that this
disastrous relapse will be avoided. The wisely drastic policy of the
Constituent Assembly makes it possible that the problem of the
depressed classes will be solved without schism or fissure. But the old
communal division into Hindu and Muslim seems to have hardened
into the figure of a permanent political division of the country. It is to
be hoped that the Congress and the nation will not accept the settled
fact as for ever settled or as anything more than a temporary
expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even
crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new
invasion and foreign conquest. The partition of the country must go; -it is to be hoped by slackening of tension, by a progressive
understanding of the need of peace and concord, by the constant
necessity of common and concerted action, even of an instrument of
union for that purpose. In this way unity may come about under
whatever form -- the exact form may have a pragmatic but not a
fundamental importance. But by whatever means, the division must
and will go. For without it the destiny of India might be seriously
impaired and even frustrated. But that must not be.
The above prophetic words came from Sri Aurobindo, one of the
greatest patriot-saints of India on the very day the country attained
Independence, on August 15, 1947. Immediately after Independence,
innocent Hindu men and women were mercilessly butchered raped
and thrown out of the territory that became Pakistan. The rising up of
Muslim separatists in Jammu and Kashmir resulted in the mass exodus
of Kashmiri Pundits from the State which is an inseparable part and
parcel of Mother India. Sixty six years have gone since partitioning of
the Motherland and even today we are seeing the disastrous
consequences of the sad event. Mother India has been totally
weakened and incapacitated. Incessant bomb blasts and terrorist
attacks on innocent people are taking place in various parts of the
country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Aggressions on our borders
by the Pakistani soldiers and killing of our brave jawans engaged in
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the protection of our country have posed a serious challenge to our

military. Jihadi propaganda growing vigorously among the Islamic
youth of the country and springing up of terrorist cells in different
parts of the nation are threatening the unity and integrity of India.
Clandestine supply of arms, ammunition, funds to the militants inside
the country , taking them for training in terrorist activities in Pakistan
and then pushing them back secretly into our territory by the Pakistan
army have become routine activities.
It is a great tragedy that a considerable section of the Muslims who are
part of the population of our country are today sworn enemies of the
nation. They do not recognize India as their homeland. Sri Aurobindo
wrote more than a century ago about the Muslim mentality: The
Mahomedans base their separateness and their refusal to regard
themselves as Indians first and Mahomedans afterwards on the
existence of great Mahomedan nations to which they feel themselves
more akin, in spite of our common birth and blood, than to us. Hindus
have no such resource. For good or evil, they are bound to the soil and
soil alone. They cannot deny their Mother, neither can they mutilate
her. Our ideal therefore is an Indian Nationalism, largely Hindu in
spirit and traditions, because the Hindu made the land and the people
and persists, by the greatness of his past, his civilization and his
culture and his invincible virility, in holding it, but wide enough also
to include the Moslem and his culture and traditions and absorb them
into itself.
Unfortunately, in the post-Independent India, the Congress Party that
came to power and other secular parties saw to it that the Muslims
never got nationalised and joined hands with the strong Hindu patriots
and nationalists, because the very survival of the Congress and these
secular parties, moulded by western culture and ideals, and on the
divide and rule policy inherited from the British masters, depended in
keeping the majority of the Hindu community divided on caste and
linguistic basis, keeping the Muslim and Christian minorities away
from the Hindus, and appeasing the so called minorities with special
privileges and rights. They know well that the vote banks of the
minority communities are essential for their political survival as the
Hindu community remains divided on caste, class and linguistic basis.
The Muslim appeasement policy of the people who came to power
went to the extent of mutilation of the national song, Vande Mataram,
conferring special status to the Muslim majority state of Jammu
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Kashmir, creation of a Muslim majority district in Kerala, exemption

to the Muslims from the common civil code, Government subsidy for
their Huj pilgrimage and special privileges for minority institutions.
The delay in execution of Afzal Guru, the brutish terrorist involved in
the attack on Indian Parliament, the hesitation in compelling Pakistan
to extradite Davood Ibrahim, the patron of terrorists, and Hafiz Saeed,
leader of the LeT, who has now openly given a call to Muslim youth
all over the country to start Jihad in every nook and corner of the
nation, and the attempt of the Indian Defence Minister to shield the
Pakistani Army who crossed into Indian territory and killed our brave
jawans by making a wrong statement in the Parliament that it was a
group of terrorists dressed in Pakistani Army uniform who fired on
Indian jawans and later retracting his statement by admitting that it
was the attack of Pakistani soldiers, are all efforts to appease the
Muslims to the maximum extent. Emboldened by the cold feet of the
Government of India and its effort to buy peace with Pakistan by
holding talks at the Prime Ministerial level, the Muslim jihadis have
indulged in cold blooded massacre of Hindus in Kashmir. An armed
mob of 20,000 Muslims celebrated Eid by attacking Hindus and
burning their shops in Kishtwad in Jammu and Kashmir: Many
Hindus were severely injured and some are critical. While this was
happening, a big mob attacked and burnt shops and houses owned by
Hindus. Serious arson, looting and murders went on for long since the
morning Namaz.
This latest development has shocked the entire nation and opened the
conscience of defence analysts, former army commanders and the
media who now demand that the Government take strong retaliatory
action against Pakistan and not to have any vain talks and compromise
efforts. But it is of no use unless and until the Hindus, who form the
majority of the population of the country wake up from their deep
slumber and rise as one man to save the nation from the clutches of
the predators. It is for them to realize the truth that India is not just a
geographical territory, but their Divine Mother, the Mother of all the
gods and goddesses that they worship and the Mother of all sages,
saints and forefathers who built up this spiritual nation since Vedic
times. More than a hundred years ago, the patriot-prophet Sri
Aurobindo roared: For what is a nation? What is our mother-country?
It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the
mind. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the millions
of units that make up the nation, just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini
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sprang into being from the Shakti of all the millions of gods
assembled in one mass of force and welded into unity. The Shakti we
call India, Bhawani Bharati, is the living unity of the Shaktis of three
hundred million people, but she is inactive, imprisoned in the magic
circle of Tamas, the self-indulgent inertia and ignorance of her sons.
He also forewarned that, if the awakening of the children of the
Motherland did not take place, the future of the nation will be
doomed: We have to fill the minds of our boys from childhood with
the idea of the country, and present them with that idea at every turn
and make their whole young life a lesson in the practice of the virtues
which afterwards go to make the patriot and the citizen. If we do not
attempt this, we may as well give up our desire to create an Indian
nation altogether; for without such a discipline, nationalism,
patriotism, regeneration are mere words and ideas which can never
become a part of the very soul of the nation and never therefore a
great realised fact. Mere academical teaching of patriotism is of no
avail.
Whose duty is it to create this awakening among the masses? It should
be the task of the Sadhus and Sannyasins, the Dharmacharyas and
Gurus, to spread this message among the children of our Motherland
by going to every nook and corner of the country. Instead of holding
aloft the banner of patriotism and nationalism and awakening the
common masses, the so called Sadhus, Sannyasins, Dharmacharyas
and Gurus in our midst today are mlecchas not conforming to the
Hindu or Aryan traditions and selling religion, spirituality, yoga,
meditation, scriptures and gods following the footsteps of Semitic
religions to fill the coffers of their Ashrams, Mutts and Missions and
live a comfortable material life. Swami Rama Tirtha said hundred
years ago: As a green mantle gathers over standing water, so have the
Sadhus collected over India, full fifty-two lacs by this time. Some of
them are indeed beautiful lotusesthe glory of the lake! But a vast
majority are unhealthy scum. And during the last one century, the
growth of the scum is much more than the blossoming of lotuses. The
Bhoomi sookta of Atharvana Veda proclaimed: Maataa bhoomih,
putroham prithivyaah--This earth is our worshipful Mother and we are
all Her children. Lord Rama proclaimed: Jananee janmabhoomischa
swargaadapi gareeyasi--Mother and Motherland are more sacred than
the Heaven. However, our so called Sannyasins and Dharmacharyas
consider their ishtha devatas--personal deities--, and their own Gurus
whom they deify, greater than the Motherland. The Vedic seers
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proclaimed, Ekam sat, vipraah bahudhaa vadanti--the Ultimate

Reality is One, but the men of wisdom call It by different names.
However, the gods of worship of our Acharyas are jealous gods like
the Semitic gods. For each of them the god worshipped by their
respective sect is greater than the gods of other sects and sampradayas.
And these spurious religious preceptors do not want their followers to
mingle with followers of other sects. They want to keep their sheep
safe in their pens. They also do not want their followers to grow into a
larger brotherhood embracing the entire Hindu society. In their
Ashrams and shrines, there is no place for the idol or portrait of Sri
Bharatamata and the saints and savants of other sampradayas and sects
however great they may be. In their prayers and bhajans there is no
place for singing of the patriotic national song, Vande Mataram. The
net result is that the Hindu society is in smithereens and when there is
attack on one section of the Hindus, the other sections remain totally
unconcerned.
What our country needs today is a class of Spiritual Preceptors who
teach the people the worship of Motherland as the visible God, the
Mahashakti. Swami Vivekananda gave the clarion call: For the next
fifty years this alone shall be our keynote this, our great Mother
India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds.
This is the only god that is awake, our own race everywhere his
hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers
everything. All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go
after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the
Virt? When we have worshipped this, we shall be able to worship all
other gods.
Sri Aurobindo in his Bhavani Mandir scheme envisaged the setting up
of an order of Sannyasins on the lines of the Sannyasins of the
Sannyasi Rebellion which took place in the last decade of the
eighteenth century, depicted in the Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra
Chatterjee. Sister Nivedita, the illustrious disciple of Swami
Vivekananda strove to train up a dedicated cadre of revolutionary
patriots for the emancipation of Motherland, and brave and
courageous patriots like Bhupendranath Dutt, younger brother of
Swami Vivekananda, and Barindra Kumar Ghose, younger brother of
Sri Aurobindo, stood by her. Today, once again we have to create
such a cadre of Sannyasins for whom the object of meditation will be
Motherland and whose life and mission will be to save Her from the
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clutches of marauders from across the border and their agents within
the country, and spread Her glory far and wide elevating Her to the
pedestal of the preceptor of the world. What Sri Aurobindo said more
than hundred years ago is once again the clarion call to our nation
today: The Mothers feet are on the threshold, but she wants to hear
the true cry, the cry that rushes out from the heart, before she will
enter. The Mother asks us for no schemes, no plans, no methods.
She herself will provide the schemes, the plans, the methods better
than any we can devise. She asks us for our hearts, or lives, nothing
less, nothing more. Let us keep aside all mutts, missions,
sampradayas and cults as subordinate to the worship of the
Motherland and be true Hindus as per the definition of the word
Hindu--Aa sindhu sindhu paryeta yasya Bhaaratabhoomika,
pitrubhoo, punyabhooschaiva, sa vai Hinduriti smritah--All those
who adore and worship the land stretching from River Sindhu in the
north to the Indian Ocean in the south, known as Bharatavarsha, as the
land of our forefathers and our holy land are known as Hindus. Let us
strive to create once again the Akhand Bharat--the Hindu Rashtra-- by
undoing the partition of our Motherland. Like the brave soldiers of
Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, who were inspired by the sacrifices
of the heroic warriors of Indian National Army under the leadership of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and rose in mutiny against the British
empire, bringing it crashing down, the present sacrifices of our brave
jawans on our countrys border will certainly arouse our soldier class
to rise up and give a crushing blow to the aggressors and augur the
advent of Akhand Bharat. Mahakavi Subramnia Bharati, the great
Tamil patriot-poet, sang in his song for the little child, Paappaa
Paattu--Cchedamillaata Hindusthaanam atai deivamenru kumbidadi
paappa--Dear child, worship the undivided Hindusthan as the
Supreme god! Vande Mataram!

These hollow worm-eaten outsides of Hinduism crumbling so

sluggishly, so fatally to some sudden and astonishing dissolution,
do not frighten me. Within them I find the soul of a civilization
alive, though sleeping.
-- Sri Aurobindo
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KANYAKUMARI MAYAMMA
B.V.S. Rao
[Gnaanikalin Irainilai--God-consciousness of Great Saints--is a
wonderful compendium, in Tamil, of biographical sketches of
great saints of modern India and their thoughts and works,
written by Sri B.V. Subramania Rao and published by Sri Ananda
Nilaya, Chennai, in 2006. Written in the form of dialogues
between an aged head of a family and his family members on selfrealized gnanis, it presents soul-stirring pen portraits of great
spiritual savants, Sri Seshadri Swamigal, Sri Lingi Chetty
Swamigal, Srimat Pamban Swamigal, Sri Ramalinga Swamigal,
Shirdi Sai Baba, Kanyakumari Mayamma, Sadashiva
Brahmendra,
Sri
Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa,
Yogi
Ramsuratkumar of Tiruvannamalai, and Bhagavan Ramana
Maharshi. The author also discusses about spiritual matters like
meditation, temples erected by saints and their inspiring
messages.
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Sri Rao has been a close friend of Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan for
more than four decades and in this article on Mother Mayamma
of Kanyakumari, extracted from his book, he narrates his
personal experiences with the Mother and Sadhu. --Editor]
Easwara Iyer resumed his discourses after two days. Lakshmi did not
leave the grandfather. Everyday, she was imploring him to tell the
history of great saints. It was Wednesday and the lunch was over as
usual by 11-30 in the morning. It was also holiday for the school.
Therefore Iyer acceded to her request. Lakshmi, Parvati Ammal and
Nallakkannu--all of them assembled and Iyer continued his narration.
What I am going to tell you today is something that really happened
in my life.
Parvati, please try to recall. I am going to tell the story of Mayamma
who lived for many years in Kannyakumari and attained
Mahasamadhi at the foot of Yercaud hills, at Salem. Before that I
should speak a few words about, Sri V. Rangarajan, who fits into the
description as my close friend, counsellor and spiritual guide.
We were staying in Big Street, Triplicane, at Chennai. I was
working as a teacher at that time. I had close contact with the
family of my friend, Sri Rangarajan. He was also in close
contact with our family. Daily evening I used to go to his
house and spend time in conversation without aware of the
passing of hours. Sometimes it will go till 12 in the night.
One day, he spoke about Mayamma of Kannyakumar and
asked whether we could visit the place. I also agreed and
started our journey with family to Kannyakumnari. While
staying at Madurai on the way, he told me: We are going to
meet a person at Kannyakumari. He is waiting for us. I asked
him, Have you got any prior information? He replied, No,
but something sprang up in my mind suddenly. I do not even
know who he is.
We met the person at Kannyakumari after three days. He was a very
rich person. He owned many industries. He belonged to Sivakashi. My
friend was surprised when he said, I have been waiting for you.
Later they conversed about the work of Mayamma.
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It was the first time that I had gone to Kannyakumari. It was the good
deeds in our past birth that we got the darshan of the Mother,
Mayamma. I will tell about her. Listen carefully. It was on that day
that I saw a woman who happened to be a great saint. Nothing could
be said about her age. When enquired with the local people, they
replied that, for the last two or three generations, from the days of
their grandfathers and great grandfathers, they have been seeing the
Mother. In any case, she must be more than two hundred years. It is
rare to see someone living at this age.
Mayamma was very emaciated. There would always be ten or fifteen
dogs around her all the time. Wherever she goes, they will accompany
her. Mayamma was staying in a hut by the side of the temple on the
sea-shore of Kannyakumari where three seas meet. Even at that age,
she used to go alone without anybodys help to the mid-sea and take
her bath for long hours in the middle of the rocks. She will pick up
the sea weeds which she could lay her hands upon and throw them to
the shore. Sri Rajendran, who was all the twenty four hours by her
side to attend on her, will be collecting them and spreading them on
the shore for drying up. After bath, Mayamma will swim back to the
shore, dress up and take the dried sea weeds and lit fire. It was a daily
routine. There was significance in what she did. What she was doing
was a Yaga (sacrifice). It was the Yaga that she was performing every
day for the welfare of the world. Even the local people were not aware
of it. Later, she will distribute the food that was ready to all the dogs
with her. She will partake of her food after distributing to other
devotees too. We stayed with Mayamma for about ten days. When she
was passing through the market road, she would enter into any
roadside hotel, pick up foodstuff and distribute to her dogs. The owner
of the shop would not say anything. He would have a good business
on that day.
Grandpa, you have told earlier that Sri Seshadri Swami of
Tiruvannamali used to do like this, Lakshmi recalled.
She was dressed in rags. No one could understand what Mayamma
was talking. She would speak in many languages. She would never
reveal herself and her powers. She would cast a bewildered look at
devotees coming to her. However, she knew very well who were
coming to her. Tourists coming to her presence would leave confused
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after seeing Mayamma and her dogs. Jivan Muktas (like Mayamma)
will never reveal themselves. It came to be known that she came from
northern India in her younger days itself and that she stayed with the
fishermen, doing the work given to her by them and eating the food
that they offered. Observing her looks and hearing her talks, it
appeared that she was mentally disturbed, but the truth was different.
Very interesting facts about this were revealed to us by Sri Rangarajan
at the seashore of Kanyakumari.
Sri Rangarajan said that in his intuitive consciousness, he received the
revelation that Mayamma was an incarnation of Kamakhya Devi of
the famous Kamakhya temple in Assam.
She was a little girl (may be ten years old), when she came to
Kannyakumari in a tourist bus and settled down there. Some of the
local people say that Mayamma is none other than Devi
Kannyakumari.
It was after many years that the local people came to realize who
Mayamma was. When a tourist car ran over one of her dogs, the
intestines of the dog burst out. When the dog was in dying condition,
Mayamma rushed towards it, pushed the intestines into its stomach,
picked up some straw and bandaged its body and then patted on its
back. The dog got up and started running. During the ten days when
we were staying there, one night we went to see Mayamma in a
friends house. Sri Rangarajan, I, my wife and sons went together. At
that time, Mayamma had inserted her finger into her nose and was
churning it repeatedly. Looking at one of my sons, she continued to do
it for about half an hour. I could not understand why she was churning
into her nose looking continuously at my son. Mayamma used to chew
tobacco with betel leaf. We were amazed to see that many people
were waiting to receive in their hands the tobacco spat by her and to
swallow it.
Sri Rangarajan fell ill. Slowly he started becoming weak. With the
help of friends, he approached a doctor, and when the doctor who
examined him said that one of his lungs was not functioning and must
have been infected with cancerous germs, he was upset. Immediately
he rushed to Kannyakumari and met Mayamma. Did not Mayamma
know why he had come? The next day being Amavasya, Sri
Rangarajan had a dip in the sea and participated in the Yaga of
Mayamma. The very day he felt that he was regaining health. After
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returning to Chennai, he continued the Yaga for 108 days. He used

some herbs as Samit (sticks for havan) and performed the yagna
thinking of Mayamma. After 108 days, the cancerous infection had
totally vanished. At that time, doctors had told that he will live only
for six months. Today, even after ten years, Sri Rangarajan is hale and
hearty.
Jovially, but at the same time with deep devotion he says: Mayamma
has given me a new lease of life. I will live for another 15 years. This
is an event which I myself witnessed and knew personally. How could
it be false?
Can we dismiss certain things as lie if we could not believe in them?

Sadhu Rangarajans family and friends with

Mother Mayamma

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GLIMPSES OF A GREAT YOGI

Part II The Deekshaa Guru
as Seen by the Shishya
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan
Chapter 11
THE DESCENT OF THE DIVINE GRACE
When the grace of the Divine Master descends on the disciple, it starts
showering like a torrential rain. Like the Eternal Ganga who comes
down from the Himalayan heights inundating hills and dales and
nourishing and nurturing the lives on the planes and carrying the
devout souls taking dip in Her water to the ocean of bliss, the Grace of
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the Master carries the disciple to heights of bliss and success. The
setting up of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Youth Association and the starting
of the World Ramnam with the grace and blessings of Yogi
Ramsuratkumar became a turning point not only in the life of this
sadhu and the history of Sister Nivedita Academy founded by him, but
also inspired immensely a number of devotees who came
spontaneously from every nook and corner of the world to plunge into
the movement. The humble and simple abode of this sadhu in a double
room, rented, apartment in the backside of the top floor of an old
building bearing the address, 118, Big Street, Triplicane, Chennai,
started receiving a stream of visitors day and night from far and near
to meet the sadhu and join hands with him in the sacred task he had
taken up in accordance to the command of his Master, Yogi
Ramsuratkumar. People from different walks of life, like doctors,
engineers, educationists, advocates and IAS, IPS and IRS officials
serving in the central and state governments started visiting the place.
It was indeed a strange experience for Bhagavans devotees, like Mr.
Lee Lozowick, Miss Catherine and other members of the HOHM
Community in Arizona, to walk through the narrow crowded street
and wade through slush and cow-dung to reach the house of the sadhu,
but they never bothered about the inconveniences. There was regular
Ramnam chanting in the house every evening and there was Akhanda
Ramnam from morning to evening on one Sunday in every month.
There were no furniture and the devotees, whether from the upper
class or from the poor and downtrodden sections, had to squat on
grass mats spread in the room. Once, when this sadhu complained to
the Master about the inconvenience faced by the devotees visiting this
sadhus abode, He said, My Father will take care and do the needful
at the appropriate time. At that time Bhagavan Himself did not have
an Ashram apart from the house in the Sannidhi Street of
Tiruvannamalai, where He used to receive devotees either on the
verandah of the house or in front of an adjacent vessel shop.
Therefore, He was right in advising His disciple, who had given up all
jobs for the service of the Master and had no permanent source of
income to maintain his dependents at home, but at the same time
carrying on the work assigned to him by His Master, to wait for His
Fathers grace. Bhagavan Sri Krishna tells in Bhagavad Gita,
Ananyaas chintayanto maam ye janaa paryupaasate, tesaam
nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham--Those who
totally surrender unto me without thinking of anything else and
worship me--to those with fixed devotion, I take care of their
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welfare. Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar has proved the statement

true by taking care of His humble disciple in every stage of his life.
Swamijis like Rakhal Chandra Paramahamsa and Kalpakkam Siddhar
used to frequent the house of the sadhu at Triplicane very often. Not
only Bhagavans devotees, but devotees from other Ashrams and
spiritual groups also started visiting the sadhu. The devotees from
sister spiritual institutions like Satya Sai Organization and Meher
Baba Ashram invited the sadhu to give lectures in their congregations
and more and more participants came into the Ramnam Movement.
Every activity under the auspices of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Youth
Association and events in the abode of this sadhu were promptly
reported to Master and His blessings were sought.
As the Ramnam Movement started growing in leaps and bounds, the
need to produce enough information material, note books to write
likhit japa and pictures of Lord Ramnam and Bhagavan Yogi
Ramsuratkumar was felt. Tulasi malas were obtained from
Anandashram, Kanhangad, for distribution to devotees doing regular
Ramnam Japa. Pamphlets in English and Tamil explaining the
importance of Ramnam and about the World Ramnam Movement
were printed. On May 20, 1989, Prof. Devaki of Sarada College,
Salem, (now Ma. Devaki of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram) called on
this sadhu. Pamphlets, Malas and some negatives of Bhagavans photo
were handed over to her to enable her to carry on the campaign. Sri
Hemadri Rao, a devotee who had taken initiation from the sadhu on
Buddha Poornima Day also came to make offerings on the occasion of
the anniversary of his initiation. The very next day, this sadhu wrote
letters to Poojya Swami Satchidananda of Anandashram and
Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Sadhu gave the latest developments
about the Ramnam movement to Bhagavan:
Poojyapada Yogi Ramsuratkumar Maharaj,
90, Sannidhi Street,
TIRUVANNAMALAI-606 601
Poojyapada Gurudev,
Vande Mataram! Aum Namo Bhagavate Yogi Ramsuratkumaraya!
Aum Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram! My humble salutations and
prostrations at your holy feet!
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By your grace and blessings, the Ramnam Japa has reached today
23,22,177 (23 lakhs). We are yet to receive information from many
places like the Nilgiris where the japa is done in full swing.
My talk in the Satya Sai Organization was a grand success. I spoke
about your holiness and the Ramnam Mahayagna that we have started
and many devout young men and women have come forward to join
us in the Yagna. Smt. Ranganayaki Srinivasan, Sri Srinivasan, Sri
Nagabhushan Reddy (Regional manager of Food Corporation of
India), his daughter Kumari Anita and her cousin also attended the
lecture. Chi. Vivek accompanied me.
Kumari Devaki of Sarada College, Salem, was here yesterday. She is
very enthusiastically campaigning for our Ramnam Yagna and many
are doing chanting and likhita japa under her inspiration.
I have received a telegram from the Nilgiris informing me that they
have fixed programmes in various parts of the Hills for the Ramnam
Yagna campaign. I am leaving for the Nilgiris tomorrow morning by
Kovai Express. Kumari Nivedita is accompanying me. After a week or
ten days in the Nilgiris, we intend to go to Anandashram, Kanhangad,
to report to Poojya Swami Satchidanandaji about the progress that is
made. We will be back here in the first week of June, and as soon as
we return, we intend to visit Tiruvannamalai to report to you.
Sri Nagbhushan Reddy and family are coming to Tiruvannamalai to
have your darshan on 26-5-89 and they will meet us in the Nilgiris on
Monday, 29-5-1989.
Enclosed please find the Tamil version of our leaflet. We pray for
your benign blessings for the success of our humble endeavours.
Chi. Vivek, Kum. Nivedita, Smt. Bharati, my mother Janaki ammal,
Dr. C.V.Radhakrishnan, Sri A.R. Rao and all our brethren here want
me to convey their prostrations to you. Sri Lee Lozowick has written
from Arizona that he is coming here on Nov. 25. He will visit
Tiruvannamalai on December 7. We intend to arrange his programmes
under the auspices of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Youth Association in
Madras.
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With Pranams,
Yours in service,
(Sd. /-)V. Rangarajan
Encl: a/a
On May 22, 1989, this sadhu accompanied by Nivedita left for the
Nilgiris via Kovai and Mettupalayam, and reached there in the
evening. A grand reception was arranged at Manieetty village and the
Ramnam Propaganda Campaign in the Hill District had its colourful
beginning. The villagers enthusiastically took up the Ramnam
chanting and took the sadhu to their individual houses also. The next
day, the programme was in Oranally village. On May 24, the
campaign took place in the village temple at Thangadu and Nivedita
also addressed the gathering on the Divine Name. The next day also
the campaign took place in the same village. On 26th the programme
was in Manihatti village. On the next day, we reached Kanneri village
and on Sunday, May 28, the programmes were held in that village and
at Manthanai. Nivedita also addressed there. Received a message from
Sri Guruswami of Swami Omkars Ashram in Kothagiri and wrote a
letter to Mother Jnaneswari, the Head of the Ashram, who had reached
there from the headquarters at Sankavaram in Kakinada of Andhra.
There was a grand function under the auspices of Satya Sai
Organization at Kothumudi in the evening. The devotees were
inspired by the talk of the sadhu on the lives of Bhagavan Satya Sai
Baba and Yogi Ramsurtkumar and they spontaneously came forward
to participate in the Ramnam Movement.
On Monday, May 29, Sri Nagabhushan Reddy received us at the
Guest House of Food Corporation of India at Ooty. He narrated about
his visit to Salem and Tiruvannamalai. Though he could get the
darshan of Mother Mayamma at Salem, he could not meet Yogi
Ramsuratkumar at Tiruvannamalai. This sadhu advised him to make
another visit to Tiruvannamalai after their visit to the abode of Koti
Swami in Puravippalayam, Kovai. Then this sadhu and his entourage
proceeded to Nundala where we made house to house visit to spread
Ramnam. In the afternoon there was a big gathering of villagers and
this sadhu, Sri H.M. Raju, MLA, and Kumari Nivedita addressed the
gathering. Thangadu Mohan, the Convener of Ramnam Movement in
the Nilgiris introduced us. In the evening there was a gathering at
Katteri and the Maniakkarar of the village presented one and a half
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lakh likhit japa of Ramnam. The next day, we visited the Hindusthan
Photo Films factory at Ooty and an industrialist devotee, Charandas,
and his wife, entertained us with lunch in Hotel Tamilnadu.
Mother Jnaneswari of Swami Omkars Ashram received this sadhu
and other devotees of the Ramnam Movement at the Ashrams branch
at Kothagiri on Wednesday, May 31, 1989. Mataji, an embodiment of
renunciation, service and humility, herself served lunch to all of us. In
the night, there was a talk at Kallakkorai. The gathering, the last and
one of the best in the Nilgiri campaign, went on till midnight. The
sadhus talk spiced with tales from Upanishads was taped by the
devotees. The next day, we took leave of the devotees in Thangadu
and Ooty who gave us a warm send off and left for Coimbatore by
bus, and from there to Chennai by train. The moment we reached our
abode, very happy news was waiting for Nivedita. By the grace and
blessings of Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Nivedita had secured
930 out of 1200 in her plus two examination. She immediately sent a
message to Bhagavan conveying the news.
Devotees started coming as usual for our evening satsangs. Among the
visitors to our abode were Swami Vimalananda of Divine Life
Society, Madurai, and Brahmachari Advaya (now Swami
Advayananda) from Reunion Island. A miraculous development
occurred in our Ramnam Japa Yagna. On June 23, 1989, when we
were sending our Ramnam counts to Poojya Swami Satchidananda of
Anandashram, by oversight, an addition of twenty three lakhs of japa
counts got repeated. We noticed it only after sending the report. We
prayed to Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar to pardon our error and to
enable us to make up the shortage in our next report. Our prayer got
an immediate response. Prof. Devaki of Salem came to our abode in
the afternoon on June 24 and she had brought 23 lakhs of Ramnam
counts of oral chanting and likhit japa from devotees in Salem. It was
indeed the Divine Leela of Bhagavan Yogi Ramsuratkumar.
Dr. Sujatha Vijayargahvan, a Professor in Pondicherry University, a
close friend of Prof. Devaki and an ardent devotee of Bhagavan,
visited us on June 29. The All India Radio recorded the sadhus talk
on Value Oriented Education. The sadhu was invited to Cochin for a
devotees shatabhishekam and a visit to Anandashram, Kanhangad,
was also finalized. This sadhu wrote to Bhavgavan on July 6, 1989:
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Poojyapada Yogi Ramsuratkumar Maharaj,

Tiruvannamalai.
Poojya Sri Gurudev,
Vande Mataram! Aum Namo Bhagavate Yogi Ramsuratkumaraya!
Aum Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram! My humble salutations and
prostrations to you!
By your benign grace and blessings, Kumari Nivedita has got
admitted in B.Sc. (Maths) with computer Science (ancillary) in
Valliammal College, Madras. (Later she moved to Queen Marys
College). Smt. Ranganayaki Srinivasan and Sri V.R. Srinivasan took
all the trouble to get her admission. Dr. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, who
was here last week, has sent with love and wishes, books for Nivedita.
We pray for your blessings for the success in her educational career.
Prof. Devaki came here a fortnight ago with accounts for 23 lakhs of
Ramnam when we direly needed it. Only on the previous day, while
sending accounts to Poojya Swami Satchidananda, an addition of 23
lakhs got repeated. We noticed it after sending the account and when
we were praying for your grace to make up the deficit at the earliest,
Prof. Devaki brought likhit japa notes and accounts to the tune of 23
lakhs. We are sure it is your benign grace that has saved us in time
from committing a blunder. Likhit japa and japa done by our devotees
have crossed one crore. Now the Ramnam campaign is spreading like
a wild fire. Our devout brethren from the Nilgiris, led by Sri B.
Mohan, have crossed 20 lakhs likhit japa. Sri Mohan and three others
have come from the Nilgiris. They will be coming there with me to
have your darshan and to report to you our progress, on Sunday, 9th
July, 1989. We will reach there by noon.
Sri V.R. Srinivasan and I will be leaving for Cochin on 10th July, to
attend the shataabhishekam of Sri V.S. Narayanaswamy Iyer of
Kasargod on 12th and 13th. We will visit Anandashram, Kanhangad, on
14th or 15th and stay there for a couple of days. Poojya Swami
Satchidananda is expecting me there. He is very happy about our
work. Rest in person.
Your loving disciple,
(Sd. /-) Sadhu Rangarajan
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On July 8, there was a meeting of all workers of Ramnam Movement

along with the devotees from the Nilgiris. A detailed plan was chalked
out to speed up the Ramnam work. An ardent devotee of Bhagavan,
Sri Chellayya Thevar, arranged to print photos of Bhagavan for
distribution among devotees.
On July 10, 1989, in the early morning, this sadhu, accompanied by
Vivekanandan, Nivedita and devotees from the Nilgiris, started for
Tiruvannamalai to meet Bhagavan. We reached his abode in the
afternoon and spent two hours from 1-00 PM to 3-00 PM with
Bhagavan. When we reached there, seven or eight devotees were
sitting with Bhagavan. We placed before Him some bananas which we
had carried with us. We all chanted Ramnam for some time. Then He
took some bananas and distributed to the devotees sitting there as
Prasad and saw them off. This sadhu introduced the devotees from
Nilgiris. He was happy to know about their work. He then made us
chant two new mantra gathas--Jayatu jayatu, jayatu jayatu.
RamsuratkumaraYogi, Ramsuratkumara Yogi and Rama rama,
rama rama, rama rama, rama rama; Rama rama, rama rama, rama
rama, rama ram. He asked Nivedita to practise this regularly. This
sadhu reported to Him about the progress of the Yogi Ramsuratkumar
Youth Association activities. He was very happy to receive the report.
This sadhu read out a letter from Poojya Swami Satchidananda and
Yogi was very happy that Nivedita got swamijis blessings for
eternal happiness. He permitted this sadhu to send the accumulated
likhit japa sheets and note books to Omprakash Yogini of Ramji
Ashram, Kumarakoil. He told the devotees from the Nilgiris,
Rangaraja has taken up the Ramnam campaign on a very big scale.
Before December 1999, at least th of the target of Mataji Krishnabai
must be completed. By the twenty-first century, we will see
Ramarajya here. When we promised Bhagavan that we all will strive
to fulfil His command, He raised His hands and blessed us. We all
chanted Ramnam. Bhagavan spoke on the efficacy of Ramnam
chanting. He spoke about the effect of Ramnam on Bharata who
stayed in Nandigram and, after fourteen years, got darshan of Ram, on
Sita who was constantly chanting Ramas name sitting in Ashoka
Vana, on Samartha Ramdas and on Papa Ramdas who chanted the
name constantly.

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This sadhu apprised Him about the planned visit to Cochin and
Kanhangad and sought His blessings for all. He advised this sadhu to
stay continuously for 72 hours in Kanhangad and to cancel if any
other programme came in. This sadhu promised to do so. He blessed
all the devotees. He told Vivek categorically that he will become a
great Civil Engineer like Visweswarayya and will link Ganga with
Kaveri, a dream of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati. He advised him
not to go in for purchasing a seat in Computer engineering course. He
also blessed Nivedita to become a great mathematician like
Ramanujan. He also asked her to experiment on Ramnam. He wanted
her to write to Him about the visit of this sadhus mother to His abode.
He asked this sadhu to read Swami Satchidanandas letter on Ramnam
in THE VISION. He gave permission to our project of setting up the
branches of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Youth Association and World
Ramnam Movement everywhere and print Ramnam likhit japa note
books, pamphlets and photos of Bhagavan for distribution. He made
this sadhu read his article on the Badugas of the Nilgiris, published in
MAKE HISTORY journal. He blessed all the Baduga devotees,
especially Susheela who was not keeping good health. He blessed her
for early recovery and gave her His medicine--fruit and water-- and
assured her that she will soon be alright. He asked her to write to Him
after fifteen days.
Bhagavan introduced this sadhu to Sri Anbazhakan, son-in-law of Sri
P. Ramachandran, former Governor of Kerala, who had come for
Bhagavans darshan. He told Bhagavan that he had already seen this
sadhu and had attended the Yogi Ramsuratkumar Jayanti function
organized by YRYA at Triplicane, Chennai. A set of publications of
Sister Nivedita Academy including GLIMPSES OF A GREAT YOGI
was given to him by Bhagavan to be handed over to Sri
Ramachandran with Bhagavans blessings. After he left, Bhagavan
spent some more time with us. He was all the time holding this
sadhus hand and stressing the importance of Ramnam movement. He
was happy that devotees like Prof. Devaki, Dr. Sujatha, Dr.
Radhakrishnan, Prof. Ranganayaki and Sri V.R. Srinivasan had taken
interest in the Ramnam work and called the team a High Power
Committee. Nivedita told Him about Sujathas present of sarees and
books to her and Yogi was happy about the fraternity. His stress was
all the time on the completion of at least 1/4th of the target of Mataji
Krishnabai. He assured that this sadhu will be able to carry the
message far and wide and peace will descend by 1999. Turning to
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Vivek, Bhagavan reiterated, We dont want Military Engineers, we

want Man-making Engineers. He asked Vivek to concentrate on Civil
Engineering now and study computer science later in any institute if
he wants. Father has destined you to become a great civil engineer.
At 3 oclock, he left us all. This sadhu had experienced immense
peace and happiness in His presence and was elated by His blessings
that our mission will meet with a grand success. This meeting of
devotees of Ramnam with Bhagavan was indeed a most significant
event which gave tremendous hope and encouragement for the
International Ramnam Movement. After meeting our friend and wellwisher, Swami Narikkutti, we returned to Chennai.

Sadhu Rangarajan performing paada pooja of his Master,

Yogi Ramsuratkumar Maharaj

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SAINT POET RAMPRASAD

His Songs On Divine Mother--XIX
Deba Prasad Basu
Song 44
Kali namer gandi diye achi daraye
Sonre saman tore kai, ami to atashe nai
Tor katha keno raba soye.
Cheler hater moya noi ,je khabe humki diye
Katu balbi sajai pabi make diba koye
Se je kritanta dalani shyama bara kshepa meye
Sri Ramprasad koi shyama guna geye
Ami phaki diye chale jabo chokhe dhulo diye
Translation:
I have got protection of Kalis name surrounding me. Listen Saman, I
am not a weak person. Why shall I tolerate you? It may be easy to take
sweets from a child by threats. If you tell wrong things, I shall tell
Mother, who will punish you. Mother Shyama is destroyer of demons
and is very eccentric also. Sri Ramprasad speaks while praising
Mother Shyama that he can throw sands in the eyes of Saman to run
away.
Notes:
Ramaprasad has told Saman (Death) that he is protected by Mother
Shyama and Saman cannot threaten him. Saman- Death. Atashe- Born
in eight months. Moya- weak. Humki- Sweet. Kritanta- demon.
Kshepa- eccentric.
Song 45
Bhuter begar khatbo kato,
Tara balo amai khatabi kato.
Ami bhavi ek hoi ar, sukh nei ma kadachito
Pancha dike niye berai, ei deher pancha bhuta,
Oma sada ripu sahaje tai, holo bhuter anugato.
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Asia bhava sansare dukha pelam jathachito,

Oma jar sukhete sab sukhi se man noi go maner mato,
chini bole neem khaoale ghuchlo nako mukher tito,
Keno bishale prasad mane bishad hole kalir saranagato.
Translation:
How long I have to do useless works? Mother Tara, how much you
want me to work? I think one thing, but what happens is another thing.
I am never happy. The five elements of the body are taking to five
directions. Mother, six ripus (enemies) become loyal to the five
elements. Coming to this world I have suffered extremely. I dont like
that mind which finds happiness in worldly pleasures. In the name of
sweets, you (Mother) have given neem. That bitterness is not going. I
have taken your refuge, but I am unhappy to take medicine of the
Ayurvedic physician.
Notes:
Ramprasad laments that even after taking refuge of the Mother, he is
not getting proper happiness (of spiritual life). Begar- Useless works.
Panchabhuto- Five elements (earth, water, fire, wind, and sky). Sada
ripu- six enemies (desire, anger, greed, vanity, illusion and jealousy).
Bhishak- Ayurvedic physician.

IS MY MOTHER KALI REALLY BLACK?

Is my Mother Kali really black?
People say Kali is black,
But my heart doesn't agree.
If She's black,
How can she light up the world?
Sometimes my Mother is white,
Sometimes yellow, blue, and red.
I cannot fathom Her.
My whole life has passed trying.
She is Matter,
Then Spirit,
Then complete Void.
- Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1769-1821)
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SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF
MAHAKAVI BHARATIV
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan
5. BHARATIS VISION OF EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE
The Land of Knowledge and Wisdom
Bharat is the Land of Light and Wisdom and long before the dawn of
civilization in other parts of the world, this holy land of ours has
produced the greatest men of wisdom who attracted people of other
nations to seek enlightenment from the preceptors of this land which
has been rightly glorified as the Loka Guru--the preceptor of the
world. Mahakavi C.Subramania Bharati, coming in the lineage of
those great preceptors, sang the glory of the land as the land of highest
knowledge and wisdom. Eulogizing his motherland as the best land in
the world, the poet sings,
Gnaanattile para monattile--uyar
Manattile anna daanattile
Gaanattile amudaaka nirainta
Kavitaiyile uyar naadu85
wa[tftiEl pr Ema[tftiEl--uyaf
ma[tftiEl `[f[ ta[tftiEl
ka[tftiEl `Mtak niAbnft
kviAtyiEl uyaf naD
--This is the land that is at the top in wisdom and higher selfrealization, in highest self-respect, in giving alms, in music and poems
full of nectar!
True to his vision of the land as the land of knowledge, he wanted
every house, every street and city to be seat of learning.
Veedu torum kalaiyin vilakkam,
Veeti torum irandoru palli;
Naadu mutrilum ullanavoorkal
Nagarkalengum palapala palli;
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Tedu kalviyilaatator oorait

Teeyinukkiraiyaka maduttal
Kedu teerkkum amutam en annai
Kenmai kolla vazhiyivai kandeer.86
vIDEtaRmf k^lyi[ fviqkfkmf
vItiEtaBmf ;r]fedaR pqfqi
naD MbfbiLm f uqfq[ v>afkqf
nkafkeqgfKm f plpl pqfqi
EtD klfviyilat EtaYRArtf
tIyiNkfkiAryak mDtftlf
EkD tIafkfKm f`Mtem[f `[f^[
Ek]fAm ekaqfq vziyiAv k]fGaf
--Exposition of knowledge in every home, one or two schools in
every street; many many schools in the villages and towns in the entire
country; setting on fire a place where there is no seeking education,
these are the means for the beneficent attainments of my mother, the
nectar for all ills.
Stressing the need for education, Bharati says,
Vayittrukkuc chorida vendum-- ingu
vaazhum manitarukkellam;
Payutrip pala kalvi tantu-- intap
paarai uyarttidal vendum87
vyibfBkfKc fEcbid Ev]fDmf--;gfK
vaZmf m[itRkeklflamf;
pyibfbipf plklfvi tnfT--;nftpf
paAr uyaftftid Ev]fDmf.
Food is to be provided to all people living here; by training in various
fields of education, we have to raise this world.
National Education--Need of the Hour
Bharati, like all other national leaders of his time, wanted a pristine
national education for the people of his country. Macaulays education
introduced in the country by the British was eating into the vitals of
culture, heritage and nationalism of the country and the Missionary
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Schools spread all over the country were playing a prominent role in
destroying the spiritual and cultural values nourished and nurtured by
the great preceptors of our land. He was also deeply disturbed by the
deliberate British distortion of national history and the subtle
propaganda against Hindu institutions carried on by foreign
missionaries in the country. Bharati laments, Our youth in the
schools grow with denigrating thoughts about the great men of our
nation. Especially in the Christian schools there is no limit to the evil.
They do not hear at all about thousands of great incarnations like
Vyasa, Yagnavalkya, and Shankara and great heroes like Arjuna,
Karna, Vikrama and Shivaji. Even if they hear about them, they hear
that all these people were mad men unaware of modern civilization.
The youth are not imparted the knowledge that though these great men
were not aware about new things of the modern period, they must
have been great in different fields. Because Kamban had not heard
about Railways, Telegram, and Motor car, would it become a lie that
he was a divine poet? Because Adi Shankara has not accepted the fact
that earth comes round the sun, will it be falsified that he was a great
Vedantin? Are there not thousands of our students who have not heard
about the life of Thayumanavar and Shankara?88
Bharati was also deeply disturbed by the deliberate British distortion
of national history and the subtle propaganda against Hindu
institutions carried on by foreign missionaries in the country. In his
autobiographical poem, Suya caritai, Bharati sings about the ills of
English education:
Kambanenroru maanidan vaazhntatum,
Kaalidaasan kavitai punaintatum,
Umbarvaanattuk kolaiyum meenaiyum
Orntalantator bhaskaran maatchiyum
Namparuntiralodoru paanini
Gnalameetil ilakkanam kandatum
Imbar vaazhvin iruti kandunmaiyin
Iyalpunarttiya sankaran etramum,
Ceran tambi silambai isaittatum
Deiva valluvan vaanmarai seytatum
Paaril nallisaip paandiya cozharkal
Paaralittatum darmam valarttatum
Perarurcudar vaal kondasokanaar
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Pizhaipadaatu puvittalangaattatum
Veerar vaazhtta milecchartan teeyakol
Veezhtti venra sivaajiyin vetriyum
Annaiyaavum arintilar paaratat
Taangilam payil palliyul pokunar;
Munna naadu tikazhnta perumaiyum
Moondirukkumin naalin ikazhcchiyum
Pinnar naaduru petriyun terkilaar
Pedikkalvi payinruzhal pittarkal,
Enna koorimatrengan unarttuven
Ingivark kenatulam erivate!89
kmfp e[[febaR ma[id[f vazfnftTmf
kaqitac[f kviAt p<^[nftTmf,
umfpaf va[tfTkf Eka^qy<m fmI^[y<mf
OafnftqnftEtaa fpasfkr[f madfciy<mf,
nmfpRnftib Ela edaR pa]i[i
wal mItilf ;lkfk]gf k]fdTm,f
;mfpa fvazfvi[ f;Btik]f D]fAmyi[f
;ylfp<]aftftiy cgfkr[f "bfbMmf,
Ecr[f tmfpi cilmfAp ;ActftTmf
etyfv vqfQv[ fva[fmAb ecyftTm,f
parilf nlfliAcpf pa]fFy Ecazafkqf
parqitfTtf tafmm fvqaftftTmf,
EprRdfCda fvaqfEka] fdEcak[aaf
piAz pdaT p<vitftlg fkatftTm,f
vIrafvazftft miElcfcaftnf tIyEkalf
vIzftfti ev[fb civajiyi[f evbfbiy<mf
`[f[ yav<mf `binftilaf parttf
tagfki lmfpyilf pqfqiy<df EpaKna;f
M[f[ naD tikzfnft epRAmy<m f
YM]fF RkfKmin fnaqi[f ;kzfcfciy<mf
pi[f[faf naDB epbfbiy<nf Etafkilaaf
EpFkfklfvi pyi[fBzlf pitftafkqf,
'[f[ Pbimbf ebgfg[ffu]aftfTEv[f
;gfki vafkfek[ Tqfqmf 'aivEt!
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-- Those who go to English schools do not know that there was a man
called Kamban, do not know about Kalidasa who wrote poems, about
the greatness of Bhaskara who measured the movements of stars and
planets in the sky, Panini who presented with great ingenuity grammar
in the world, the greatness of Shankara who saw the end of existence
in this world and proclaimed the Supreme Truth, the brother of Chera
king who wrote Silappadikaram, Divine Valluvar who gave eternal
scripture, the great Chozhas and Pandiyas who nourished
righteousness by their rule, the great Ashoka who protected the
country without blemish using the sword of spiritual power, and
victory hailed by the brave of Shivaji who destroyed the misrule of the
mlecchas. These insane students of hermaphrodite education do not
know the greatness of the nation in the past, the present degradation
and the future form that the nation has to take. What should I say and
how could I express my heartburn to these people?
Writing on The Boycott of Mission Schools in the INDIA journal on
August 18, 1906, Bharati says: Though we have a glorious ancient
history, the people who forget it will be doomed. Should we write
about the fate of the people who, in spite of a glorious past history,
denigrate it and feel ashamed about it? The parents who send their
wards to Christian Missionary Schools and make them learn that
Shivaji is a murderer, Vyasa an ignorant fool, and Sri Krishna a
debauchee, are traitors to their own wards. Because the youth who
imbibe such ideas become incapable of finding anyone as an example
for character, progress, and energy, and fall in character, the parents
who send their children to mission schools are also traitors to their
nation. Dont think that we are unnecessarily opposed to Christian
religion. We believe that Jesus is one among the greatest benefactors
and saints of the world. Great Hindu preceptors like Swami
Vivekananda say that the statement of Christ that I and my Father are
One, whatever it may mean to Christians, means to the Hindus that
he proclaimed the great Advaitic doctrine of Sivoham. Therefore,
we are not enemies of Christian religion. We only oppose the method
of teaching in Christian schools.90
Setting Up of National Schools
The great Tamil poetess, Avvai, said, Do not stay in a place where
there is no temple. Bharati says, Do not stay in a place where there
is no school. He wanted schools, colleges and universities to be set
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up in every nook and corner of the country to impart knowledge of our

culture, heritage, spiritual values and our ancient secular wisdom too.
He says, Did not students assemble in forest hermitages in Vedic
period, in places like Nalanda and Takshashila in Buddhist period,
and, even in our fallen period, in the verandah schools and Vedic
schools? Why not we boldly declare that even now we will set up
similar universities and nourish them with our life force?91
Sister Nivedita, the illustrious disciple of Swami Vivekananda and
Gnana Guru of Mahakavi Bharati wanted the educated youth of the
country to go to villages with magic lanterns and map of the country,
gather people by the side of temples or in groves, and educate them
about the history, glory and greatness of the country. Bharati echoes
her message when he says, Go in groups and travel into villages.
Make it a mission to go to every place, setting up schools. Set up
everywhere verandah schools and cottage schools go on appointing
capable people as teachers. 92 He considered setting up of institutions
of national education as more important than setting up institutions for
providing food and water to the poor. He appealed to all sections of
the people to come forward to take up this sacred cause of
worshipping the goddess of wisdom, Saraswati. He sings,
Innarunkanic colaikal seital
Iniya neert tan sunaikal iyatral
Annacchattiram aayiram vaittal
Aalayam patinaayiram kattal
Anna yaavinum punniyam kodi
Aangor ezhaik kezhuttarivittal
Nidi mikuntavar porkuvai taareer!
Nidi kuraintava kaasukal taareer!
Atuvumattravar vaaychol aruleer!
Aanmaiyaalar uzhaippinai nalkeer!
Madurattemozhi maatarkalellaam
Vaanipoosaikkuriyana peseer!
Etuvum nalki ingevvakaiyaanum
Ipperuntozhil naattuvam vaareer! 93
;[f[Bgfk[ic fEca^lkq ecyftlf
;[iy nIaftft]f C^[kqf ;ybfblf,
`[f[cftftirmf ~yirmfAvtftlf
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~^lymfpti[ayirmf nadfdlf,
pi[f[Rqfq tRmgfkqf yav<mf
epyaf viqgfkieyaqir niBtftlf,
`[f[ yavi{mf p<]f]iym fEkaF
~gfEkaa f"AzkfekZtftbivitftlf
niti miKnftvaf epabfKAv tarIaf!
niti KAbnftvaf kaCkqf taaIaf!
`Tv<mbfbvaf vayfcfecalf `RqIaf!
~]fAmyaqa fuAzpfpi^[ nlfkIaf!
mTrtfEtemazi matafkeqlflamf
va]ip>AckfKaiy[ EpcIfaf!
'Tv<mfnlfkiyig fekvfvAk ya{mf
;pfepRnf etazilf nadfDvm fvaaIaf!
--Providing education to a poor student is more meritorious than
growing gardens of nourishing fruits, building sources of sweet water,
setting up thousands of kitchens for distribution of free food,
constructing ten thousand temples, and promoting various righteous
and charitable deeds.
Let the rich contribute gold, the poor pennies, and those who do not
have even that give their blessings. Let men of efficiency give their
services. Let women of sweet and nectarine tongue speak what is
needed for the worship of Goddess Saraswati. Giving whatever is
needed and by any means, let us establish this great work.
Bharati echoes Vivekananda when he stresses that the goal of
education is spiritual realization, faith in God is its shield, and good
conduct, justice and love are its means ever. He wanted schools to be
converted into sacred places: Pallittanamaniattum koil seykuvom94
--pqqitftlmA[tfTmf Ekayilf ecyKEvamf--Will convert schools
into temples (of wisdom)
Education through Mother-tongue
Bharati wanted the mother-tongue to be the medium of education in
our educational institutions. He says, Our main argument is that
ones mother tongue is the only natural and human medium for
imparting instruction. If anyone should doubt this, let him go and
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make enquiries of educationists in Japan, Scandinavia, England, Italy,

Mexico or any other land where human beings are human being.Of
course, we have no objection to teaching English as a secondary
language in our schools and colleges.95
He wanted that national education in Tamilnadu should stress the
importance of Tamil and all-out effort must be made to make Tamil
prominent. He writes, If national education is to be established in
Tamilnadu, then akaram to nakaram (A to Z) everything should be
done only in Tamil. .The inaugural publicity should be in Tamil.
When the schools are set up, not only teaching of books should be in
Tamil, but also the words in Tamil alone should be used for
palakai(slate) and kucchi (pencil); English words for these should
not be used.96
He curses, Those who do not learn their own mother-tongue will be
born as monkeys in their next birth.97
Love of Tamil Language
His intense love of Tamil finds expression in his song for the child:
Sollil uyarvu Tamizh solle;--atait
Tozhutu padittidadi paappaa!98
Ecalflilf uyafv <tmizfc fecalfEl;--`Attf
etaZT pFtftidF papfpa!
--The greatest among the tongues is Tamil language. Worship it and
learn it, Oh my child!
His love of Tamilandu was no less than his intense patriotism and
adoration of Motherlad Bharat. He sings about Tamilnadu:
Kalvi ciranta tamizh naadu-pukazh
Kamban piranta tamizhnaadu
Palvitamaayina saattirattin -manam
Paarengum veesun tamizhnaadu.
Valluvan tannai ulakinukke - tantu
Vaan pukazh konda tamizh naadu- nenjai
Allum cilappatikaaramennror - mani
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Aaram padaitta tamizhnaadu99

klfvi cibnft tmizfnaD--p<kzfkf
kmfp[fpibnft tmizf naD-- nlfl
plfvitmayi[ catftirtfti[f--m]mf
paergfKmfvICnf tmizfnaD
vqfQv[f t[f^[ ulki{kfEk--tnfT
va[fp<kzfeka]fdtmizfnaD--enwfAc
`qfQmf cilpfptikarem[fEbaaf--m]i
yarmf pAdtft tmizfnaD
--Tamilnadu that is great in education, Tamilnadu in which Kamban
was born, Tamilnadu which spreads all over the world the fragrance of
various sciences.
Tamilnadu which attained heavenly glory by presenting to the world
Valluvan, Tamilnadu which created a pearl ornament called
Silappadikaram which steals the heart!
Bharati wanted the nectarine Tamil language spread all over the
world.
No a Fanaticism
Bharatis intense love of Tamil language, however, did not descend to
the level of blind linguistic fanaticism and unhistorical claim of
Dravidianism as a separate race as was found in the Dravidian
political movements that were born in his own time in Tamilnadu. Ma.
Po. Sivagnanam, a staunch advocate of the cause of Tamil language
and people, who once spearheaded a separate political party for the
Tamils, points out that, while advocating that Tamil alone should be
given the supreme position in Tamilnadu, Bharati wanted that he
should never be mistaken to be a supporter of the anti-national forces
who, in the name of Dravidianism, opposed Aryan (Sanskrit)
language.100
Renowned research scholar, Sri V. Satchidanandan rightly points out:
Bharati had equal love for both Tamil and Sanskrit. Though he
reconciled the regional Tamil civilization, with the pan-Indian
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civilization by calling the Tamil race the eldest child of the Aryan
(synonymous with Indian family), in one or two of his early poems he
could not help sounding chauvinistic in his exaltation of his language
and literature:
Among the languages I have known, there is nowhere a language
sweeter than Tamil.
Among the poets I have read, there is none in the world to excel
Kamban, Valluvar, and Ilango.101
Prof. P. Mahadevan, in his biography of the poet says, Bharati did
not make a fetish of anything, but his love of Tamil was an expression
of his love of culture-patterns through which the questing human spirit
finds varied expression for its abiding pre-occupation with the
supreme Reality. He was quite well aware of the danger of such an
impulse degenerating into mere lingualatry. His own outlook was
admirably catholic and inclusive, for he loved Sanskrit, English,
French and Hindi along with Tamil.102
Sanskrit--the National Language
Bharati recognized Sanskrit as the national language and stressed the
need for the study of that language to preserve the culture and heritage
of the nation and to promote national integration. He proclaimed: Let
Tamil be prominent in Tamilnadu. Let Sanskrit grow all over the
country as usual. To make the integration of Bharat complete, let
teaching of Sanskrit grow higher and higher. However, let Tamil be in
the forefront in Tamilnadu.103
He points out: Swami Vivekananda has said that Sanskrit being the
treasure house of Hindu civilization, all those in our country who want
to acquire wisdom should strive to attain scholarship in Sanskrit.104
Bharati points out the intense relationship of the language of the
people with human life: Are not human languages born and grown
with human life? The language that is spoken by generations of a
country for hundreds of years becomes one with their life. Language is
a mirror that reflects the growth of human knowledge. As much as the
knowledge of the people of a country grows, the language of the
country also widens.105

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Bharati expressed the hope that Sanskrit will once again be the
common possession of the whole of India. He says, Once we find
that Sanskrit is going to be the common language for the whole of
India in the future, it will be clear without mentioning that the
common music for the whole of India will also be in Sanskrit. The
foremost son of the goddess of Indian music, Sri Muthuswami
Deekshitar has already rendered many wonderful lyrics in Sanskrit.
Once Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, who listened to Deekshitars song
proclaimed that he had never listened to such a song full of poetic and
musical grandeur anywhere else in Europe or India, since his birth.106
Bharati also spoke about easy ways to master Sanskrit language. He
points out: Anyone who reads Panchatantra three times
understanding its meaning could speak Sanskrit fluently without any
difficulty.107
He also noted with disappointment, Panchatantra, a treatise on
political science incomparable all over the world and which is a
symbol of Hindu wisdom and glory, has not yet been naturally
translated into Tamil.108
It is said that Bharati himself came forward to render in Tamil,
Kalidasas drama Saakuntalam. He also planned to get
Srinivasachari, V.V.S Iyer and Bharatidasan to act in the drama.
However, the Tamilnadu of that time did not extend sufficient support
and Bharati gave up the idea of writing drama.
Scientific and Technical Education
Living in the age of science, technology and industrial advancement,
Bharati never lost sight of the importance of importing advanced
scientific wisdom and technology from countries outside. He said:
Enlightened knowledge is of two kinds--worldly knowledge and
spiritual wisdom. Our race is best in spiritual wisdom. In worldly
knowledge, there are many other countries that are superior to us.
The best way as far as possible is to send our children to Japan and
make them acquire the knowledge of science and technology and
return. It is of prime importance to us to become equals to other races
in technology and science.109
He sings:
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Piranaattu nallarignar caattirangal

Tamizhmozhiyil peyartal vendum
Iravaata pukazhudaiya pudu noolkal
Tamizhmozhiyil iyatra vendum110
pibnadfD nlflbiwa fcatftirgfkqf
tmizfemaziyibf epyaftftl fEv]fDmf
;bvat p<kZAdy p<T N\lfkqf
tmizf emaziyil f;ybfblf Ev]fDmf
--The scientific works of foreign scholars must be translated into
Tamil. New works with eternal glory should be written in Tamil.
He expressed the hope: When the people of a country are imbued
with real enthusiasm, courage and glory, there occurs a great
renaissance of art and culture.111
He stressed that the thirst for knowledge should not be confined to
attainment of spiritual wisdom, but should cover all other aspects of
human life like scientific wisdom and social welfare:
Mantiram karpom vinai tantiram karpom;
Vaanai alappom, kadal meenai alappom;
Cantiramandalattiyal kandu telivom;
Canti terup perukkum caattiram karpom!112
mnftirm fkbfEpamf vi^[tftnftirm fkbfEpamf;
va^[yqpfEpamf kdlfmI^[ yqpfEpamf;
cnftirm]fdlt ftiylf k]fD etqiEvamf;
cnfti etRpfepRkfKmf catftirmf kbfEpamf.
--We will learn prayers and spiritual practices; we will scan the sky
and count the marine life. We will see the nature of the moon and will
get enlightened. We will learn the science of cleaning the streets and
road junctions.
Education of Women
On the occasion of the Indian National Congress session in Calcutta in
1906, Bharati made use of the visit to the city to call on Sister
Nivedita who opened his eyes and whom Bharati accepted as his
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spiritual preceptor. The event that opened the eyes of Bharati was a
short conversation he had with Sister Nivedita on the position of
women. When she questioned him why he had not brought his wife
along with him to attend the Congress session, Bharati gave a blunt
reply that it is not usual in his community to bring the women-folk out
for such things. The Sister gave him a severe shock when she asked
him, What is the value of your education if it does not help you to
bring up your women-folk to your own level? Right from then,
Bharati became a staunch advocate of womens education and rights.
He realized the importance of the work of Sister Nivedita in opening
school for woman in a conservative Bengali society. In Tamilnadu,
Bharati echoed the voice of SisterNivedita when he sang:
Pennukku gnaanattai vaittan--puvi
Peni valarttidum eesan;
Mannukkulle sila moodar--nalla
Maatar arivaik keduttaar
Kankal irandil onraik- kutti
Kaatchi keduttidalaamo?
Penkal arivai valarttaal-vaiyam
Petamai attridum kaaneer113
ep]f}kfK wa[tfAt Avtfta[f--p<vi
Ep]i vqaftftiDmf :c[;f
m]f}kfKqfEq cil YMdaf--nlfl
matrbiAvkfekDtftaaf.
k]fkqf ;r]fF[ilf o[fAbkf Ktftikf
kadfci ekDtftidlaEma?
ep]fkqbiAv vqaftftalf--Avymf
EpAtAm ybfbiDgfka]Iaf.
--The god who protects the world gave wisdom to women; some
fools in the world destroyed the intellect of good women. Is it right to
pierce one of the two eyes and destroy vision? If the knowledge of
women-folk is grown, the world will get rid of ignorance.
In a short span of life of just four decades, no other poet-patriotphilosopher in any part of the world had covered, through his or her
profuse prose and poetical works, all aspects of individual, social and
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national life of the people of a nation as Mahakavi C. Subramania

Bharatiyar and attained immortality as he himself predicted. Bharati is
indeed the poet of the world and of the entire humanity.
References:85. Bharata naadu, BharatiyaarKavitaikal, Poompukar Prasuram, P.20
86. Vellait taamarai, BharatiyaarKavitaikal, Poompukar Prasuram, P.158
87. Murasu, Bharatiyar Kavitaikal, Poompular Prasuram, P.207
88. Namatu Kalvimuraiyil oru Perungurai (A Gret Deficiency in Our
Education System), Bharati Pudayal, Ed. R.A. Padmanabhan, P. 118-119
89. Suyacaritai, Bharatiyar Kavitaikal, Poompukar Orasuram, P. 251-252
90. Bharati Darisanam, Part I, Ed: Ilasai Manian, New Century Book House,
P. 219-220
91. Kalvi karpikkum bhaashai, Bharati Tamizh, Pe.Turan. P.609
92. Bharatiyum Bharata Desamum, Pe.Turan, P.146
93. Vellaittaamarai, Bharatiyaar Kavitaikal, Poompukaar Prasuram, P.159
94. Bharatadesham, Bharatiyar Kavitailka,P.21
95. AGNI and Other Poems and Translations & ESSAYS and Other Prose
Fragments, C.Subramanya Bharati, P.120-121
96. Bharatiyar Idayam, Maniji , P140
97. Bharatiyar Idayam, Maniji, M., P.139
98. Paappaa paattu, Bharatiyar Kavitaikal, Poompukar Prasuram, p.203
99. Sentamizh naadu, Bharatiyaar Kavitaikal, Poompukaar Prasuram, P.44
100. Bharati Kanda Orumaippadu, Ma.Po.Sivajnanam, P.72-73
101. Whitman And Bharati, V.Sachithanandan, P.137
102. Subramania Bharati--Patriot And Poet, P.Mahadevan, 146
103., Bharati Kanda Orumaippadu, Ma.Po.Sivajnanam, P. 68
104. Bharati Tamizh., Pe.Turan, P.82
105. Bharati Pudayal-I, R.A.Padmanabhan, P.109
106. Bharati Pudayal-I, R.A.Padmanabhan, P.117
107. Bharati Pudayal-I, R.A.Padmanabhan P.116
108. Bharati Tamizh., Pe.Turan, P. 283
109. Bharatiyum Bharata. Desamum, Pe.Turan, P.141
110. Tamizh, Bharatiyar Kavitaikal, Poompukar Prasuram, P.47
111. Kalai (Art), November 23, 1906, INDIA Journal, Bharati Darisanam,
P.346
112. Bhaarata Desam, Bharatiyaar Kavitaikal, Poompukaar Prasuram, P.23
113. Murasu, Bharatiyaar Kavitaikal, Poompukaar Prasuram, P.205
[Social Philosophy of Mahakavi Bharati concluded]

Force, Life and bright-eyed Hope

Be the gifts of the Mother to Her chosen.
Mahakavi C. Subramania Bharati
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BHARATAMATA MANDIR AND

RAMAYANA DARSHANAM
AT VIVEKANANDA KENDRA,
KANYAKUMARI
A letter from the Vice-President of Vivekananda Rock
Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari
18-6-2013
Dear and Respected Srimat Sadhu Rangarajan,
Sashtanga Namaskars,
Hope this letter will find you in good health and cheers.
Couple of months ago I had told you over phone that we have planned
to construct a double storey building for the Ramayana Darshanam
and Bharat Mata Mandir in our Vivekanandapuram campus.
In this two storey building, the ground floor will depict important
episodes from the Ramayana, in the form of pictorial exhibition in 108
panels in mural paintings. The work is entrusted to Sri Bhaskardas,
whom you have already acquainted with, while you were in Chennai.
In addition, there will also be 3 panels of 18 X 12 sizes, depicting
Ananthasayanam posture of Sri Padmanabha, Srimat Bhagavad Gita
Sandesh and Sree Rama Kalyanam.
In the second floor, we shall have a Pancha loha Idol of Bharat Mata
installed. Besides, an exhibition highlighting Matru Devo Bhava
concept of Motherhood Personification of Hindu Dharma and Value
system, from ancient times, in 31 panels, will be displayed.
In addition a granite statue of Veera Hanuman, 36 feet height will
adorn in front of the Ramayana Darshanam building. The work of
designing, construction and carving and molding of statue of
Hanuman and Bharat Mata, are entrusted to Stapathi Dakshinamoorthi
and Sri Ganeshmoorthi, sons of Sri S.K. Achari, Stapathi, who was the
Chief Architect of Vivekananda Rock Memorial, who worked under
Eknathji.
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The estimated cost of the project is Rs.15 Crores approximately. We

have approached TTD for part of the financial support. Let us see
what happens we totally rely on Sree Balaji Venkateswara, whose
temple will be constructed by the TTD very shortly in our campus, for
which we have gifted 5 acre land.
We have started approaching our friends and well-wishers for their
support for this project. I am sending by separate post Kendra booklet
and brochure of Ramayana Darshanam and Bharat Mata temple.
Kindly go through the same and offer your valuable suggestions for
the financial support from some of your close friends.
We hope to complete this project during the centenary of Swargeeya
Eknathji Ranade which will be observed for one year by all our branch
centres from 19th November 2014 to 19 November 2015.
With reverence, Yours respectfully,
(A.Balakrishnan)
Vice-President
Encl: a/a
To
Sri Sadhu Rangarajan
Shri Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram & Yogi Ramsuratkumar
Indological Research Centre, Sister Nivedita Academy, Shri
Bharatamata Mandir, Sri Guruji Golwalkar Hindu Resource Centre,
Srinivasanagar, Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore 560 036

APPEAL
We appeal to all devotees of Sri Bharatamata inside the country and
abroad to extend their wholehearted support to this noble cause by
sending their valuable contributions directly to VIVEKANANDA
KENDRA, Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari, 629 702, INDIA.
(Phone: 04652-246261, 247012, 246250. Fax: 04652-247177; E-mail:
info@vkendra.org. Website: www.vkendra.org
--Sadhu Rangarajan

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NEWS AND NOTES

Mutthappan Tiruppavana Festival
Sadhu Rangarajan performed the flag hoisting of Mutthappan
Tiruppavana Festival at Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore, on Saturday,
March 2, 2013.
Sri Mutthappan is the presiding
deity of Sri Mutthappan temple in
Parassinikkavu
in
Northern
Malabar, worshipped by millions
of devotees and is considered to
be the combined incarnation of
Shiva and Vishnu. People of
Kerala settled in Bangalore
attended the festival. Music
troupes and traditional drum beaters from Malabar came to participate
in the festival.
Sivaratri Celebrations
Sadhu Rangarajan participated in the consecration of Kala Bhairava
and Kumbhabhisheka at Om Shakti Temple, Kammanahalli,
Bangalore on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
Addressing the gathering on the
occasion, Sadhu spoke on the
worship of the Divine Mother in
Vedic civilization and its spread to
various cultures and civilizations
all over the world.
Sadhuji
addressed
Shivaratri
Celebrations at Kasi Viswanatha
temple at Vivek Nagar and Shivaratri Mela at Vasant Nagar,
Bangalore, in the evening. Sadhuji narrated his experiences when Dr.
Cyril Hromnick, a Czech Indological Research Scholar, took him to
the top of Table Mountain at Cape Town in South Africa where a
Surya Linga and a Soma Linga have been set up, and to Karoo in
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Cape Province, where Lingas

have been set up to mark the
directions of sun rise in
different seasons by Suris,
priests from southern India,
about thousand years ago. He
also pointed out that at CERN,
the European Centre for
Research in Particle Physics in
Geneva, the idol of Shiva
Nataraja, symbolizing Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction, representing the dance of sub-atomic particles, has been
unveiled in 2004. Sri Nirmal Kumar Surana. Former MLA, welcomed
Sadhu at the Vasant Nagar Shivaratri Mela. There was a lively Bhajan
programme also on the occasion.
BJP Malayalee Cell Inauguration
The Bharatiya Janata
Party, Bangalore, opened
a Malayalee cell at a
colourful
function
at
Tippasandra, Bangalore,
on Sunday, March 10,
2013.
Delivering
a
benedictory talk on the
occasion,
Sadhu
Rangarajan recalled the
founding of the Bharatiya
Jan Sangh,
by great
patriots and stalwarts like Dr. Shyam Prasad Mukherji, Pandit
Deendayal Upadhyaya, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Balraj Madhok and
Nanaji Deshmukh. He remembered his association with the Bharatiya
Jan Sangh as a candidate of the party from Tiruchirappally
Constitutency of Tamilnadu Assembly in the 1967 general elections
and pointed out how the party established a reputation of a party of
principles and integrity. He wanted the Bharatiya Janata Party, which
is nothing but a revival of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, to imbibe those
noble ideals and principles for which the great leaders stood and
establish itself on the principles of sacrifice, patriotism and dedicated
service to the Motherland and the people. Sri Surendra Pai, General
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Secretary of BJP, Kerala, and Sri S. Raghu, MLA, also participated in

the function.
Rashtrottana Vidya Kendra, Kalyan Nagar
Sadhu Rangarajan addressed the outgoing students of Rashtrottana
Vidya Kendra, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore, on Friday, March 15, 2013,
administered pledge to them, dedicating themselves to the service of
the Motherland after the completion of their education. He also
distributed prizes to the best students of the institution.
Addressing the gathering on the
occasion, Sadhuji pointed out that
Mother India is the most ancient
home of knowledge and wisdom
and mother of all civilizations and
cultures. The Vedic rishis probed
into the meaning and purpose of
human existence and presented a
way of life to lead mankind from
animal existence to divine life. They expected Mother Bharat to
emerge as the preceptor of the whole world and commanded the
children of Bharat to carry the light of spiritual wisdom to every nook
and corner of the world. He called upon the students to strive to fulfil
the dream of the great rishis of this land.
Sri A.G.K. Nayak, President of Rashtrottana Parishad, Sri
Dwarakanath, Secretary of the School, and Smt.. Kalavati, Principal of
the School, also addressed the gathering.
Kumbhabhisheka of Karumariamman Temple
Sadhu Rangarajan performed the Kumbhabhishekam of Sri
Karumariamman Temple at Kammanahalli, Bangalore, on Friday,
March 29, 2013.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Sadhuji traced the origin of
Mother worship in the Veda Sooktas where Mother Nature, Prakriti,
is adored and worshipped as the divine consort of Purusha, the
Supreme Consciousness, and narrated how it went to distant lands like
Greece and Crete, where the Mother Goddess flanked by lions were
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adored and worshipped. The concept of Virgin May arose from the
concept of Kanya Kumari, the Eternal Mother, who is ever aging but
never old as Brajendra Nath Seal has said. Karu Mari is the creatrix
of the universe who is Maya, the one who is beyond the
comprehension of intellect and could be realized only in intuitive
vision. The Vedic seers also realized in their intuitive vision that the
soul of the entire universe, like
the nucleus in the atom, is
Bharata Varsha and wanted
Her to be consecrated as a
supreme deity. He called upon
the mothers who had gathered
in the temple to observe
Akshaya Triteeya as the
auspicious occasion for the
worship of Sri Bharatabhavani.
Abhisheka to Bharatamata on Tamil New Years Day
Special Abhisheka, Alankara, Pooja and Homa were performed to Sri
Bharatamata in Bharatamata Mandir, Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore,
on the auspicious occasion of Tamil New Years day, Saturday, April
13, 2013.
Sister Nivedita Academy, the parent organization of Yogi
Ramsuratkumar Youth Association, Sri Bharatamata Gurukula
Ashram & Yogi Ramsuratkumar Indological Research Centre, Sri
Bharatamata Mandir and Sri Guruji Golwalkar Hindu Resource
Centre, was founded on Tamil New Years Day, April 13, 1977.
Koti Ramnam Japa Yagna in the Nilgiris
Koti Ramnam Japa Yagna under the auspices of World Ramnam
Movement of Yogi Ramsuratkumar Youth Association was held for
the sixteenth consecutive year at Hanuman Temple, HPF, Ooty, on 17,
18 and 19, April, 2013. Swami Lokasangrahananda of Sivananda
Vedanta Ashram, Tongaat, South Africa, accompanied Sadhu
Rangarajan in his Nilgiri tour.
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan presided over the celebrations on all the
three days and addressed the gathering of devotees from various parts
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of the district. On the final day, Seetarama Kalyanam was celebrated

in a befitting manner. Explaining the significance of the function,
sadhuji pointed out that the marriage of Sita with Rama symbolically
represented the marriage of the Jeeva Atma with the Parma Atma at
the end of the journey of japa Sadhana and tapas.
During his stay in the Nilgiris, Sadhuji addressed devotees in
Karakorai temple on Wednesday, April 17. He visited Kailas Ashram
in the night and Swami Sagunananda received him. Devotees from
Kallakorai participated in the japa yagna on April 18 and sadhuji
addressed them. He addressed devotees of Muneeswara temple in the
evening. On April 19, sadhuji gave an interview in JJ TV Channel and
Thangadu Mohan interviewed him.
On April 20, Sadhuji visited
Annamalai Ashram and was
received by Swamijis Santananda
and Sivananda. In the evening, he
addressed devotees of Kalaimagal
Seva Sangh, Adigaratti. He spoke
on Swami Chidbhavananda, on
Swami Vivekananda and worship
of Sri Bharatamata.
Ramanama Yagna of Viswa Hindu Parishad
Viswa Hindu Parishad organized from April 11 to May 13, a
nationwide Ramnam campaign to create awakening among the Hindus
about the need of passing a legislation in the Parliament to rebuild the
Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. This was undertaken according to the
directions of thousands of sadhus and sants who had gathered at
Hardwar for a sant sammelan on 7-2-2013 in connection with Kumbh
Mela.
To mark the conclusion of the
campaign in Bangalore, a Ramnam
havan was organized at the
Anjaneya Temple in Marathahalli,
on May 23, 2013. Addressing the
gathering on the occasion, Sadhu
Rangarajan spoke on the efficacy
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Aum Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram--not only as delineated in our
scriptures but also demonstrated by great saints and sages of modern
period like Samarth Ramdas, Saint Thyagaraja, Sant Kabir, Papa
Ramdas, Mataji Krishnabai and Yogi Ramsuratkumar of
Tiruvannamalai. Sadhuji exhorted that this Japa Sadhana and spiritual
practices must be combined with intense patriotism by way of worship
of Sri Bharatamata who should be reinstalled on the pedestal of Loka
Guru--Preceptor of the World.
Sri Keshav Hegde, Provincial General Secretary of the Parishad and
Sri Vijay Kumar Reddy, President of Bangalore Unit also addressed
the gathering.
Parents Worship in Bangalore
Sri Asharam Bapus Ashram in Bangalore organized a Pitru-matru
pooja--Parents Worship--programme at Jnana Vijnana Vidya Peetha,
Padmanabhanagar, on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Hundreds of children
assembled with their parents on the occasion presided over by Sadhu
Rangarajan. Smt. Lakshmi Murthy, Principal of the School welcomed
the Sadhu and guests and Athish Ravikant, Organizer of the
programme explained the importance of the day.
Sadhu Rangarajan explained that the
Vedas proclaimed Matru devo
bhava, Pitru devo bhava, Acharya
devo bhava--Adore the mother, the
father and the preceptor as Gods!
Western culture and influence have
been wiping out the basic values of
life enshrined in our scriptures by
our ancestors. The introduction of materialistic and sensual
celebrations like Valentines Day, etc., are creating an erosion of
moral and ethical values. Sri Asharam Babpu is striving to introduce
once again the age-old spiritual practices to rekindle the respect and
adoration of Hindu values in the hearts of modern youth.
Ramayana Masa
People of Kerala observe Ramayana Masa in the month of
Karkkidakam (July-August) according to Malayalam calendar. Daily
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reading of Adyaatma Raamaayana of Tunjattu Exhuttacchan takes

place in every devout home and temple.
Sadhu Rangarajan inaugurated a meeting of Samanvaya workers to
discuss the plans for celebration of Ramayana Masam, at NSS
Karayogam Office in Vijinapuram, on Sunday, July 7, 2013. He
lighted the lamp and did pooja.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that the celebration should not be
confined to a symbolic ritual of reading the Ramayana, but should be
converted into an opportunity to impart the knowledge of the scripture
to our younger generation and inculcate the eternal values of life
presented therein in the hearts of the youth. Quoting Swami
Vivekananda, he said, Ramayana symbolizes the hoary and pristine
culture and civilization of the Hindu nation.
Inaugurating the Ramayana Masa
Celebrations in Ayyappa Temple,
J.C. Nagar, on Wednesday,
July17, 2013, Sadhuji spoke about
the significance of Ramanama
which is considered to be the
Taraka Mantra to elevate man
from
a
mundane
material
existence to a divine life. He cited
the examples of great saints like Thyagaraja, Samarth Ramdas,
Tulsidas, Papa Ramdas, Mataji Krishnabai and Yogi Ramsuratkumar
who rose to divine heights by chanting the Ramnam Mantra.
On Saturday, July 20, 2013, Sadhuji addressed the Ramayana
Parayana congregation at Sri Sunils house in Ramamoorthy Nagar.
He pointed out that the celebration should be an occasion to unify the
various sections of the Hindu society in an endeavour to elevate
Mother Bharat as the Loka Guru or preceptor of the world as
envisaged by the great sages and seers of this holy land.
Addressing a congregation at the residence of Sri Balraj at
Kithaganoor, Sadhuji spoke about the impact of Ramayana on culture
and civilization of people all over the world irrespective of religion,
race and continent. He exhorted the Hindus to rise up and take a
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pledge to rebuild the Rama temple in Ayodhya which was destroyed

in the Islamic vandalism by the aggressor Babar.
Rashtrottana Vidya Kendra Children at Sri Bharatamata Mandir
About 150 students of Rashtrotthana Vidya Kendra, Thanisandra,
visited Sri Bharatamata Mandir in two batches on Thursday, July 18
and Friday, July 19, 2013. They were accompanied by their teachers
and staff of the school. They sang
Vande Mataram song and held
Bhajans for about two hours. Sri
Bhaktavatrsalam, Karyakarta of RSS,
Kithaganur, also led them in bhajans.
Sadhu Rangarajan enlightened them
about the ideals of patriotism,
fearlessness, dedication to the poor and
downtrodden masses and elevating the country to the status of the
preceptor of the world upheld by the patriot monk, Swami
Vivekananda. Lunch was provided for all the children and the staff in
the Mandir on both days.

GITA IS THE ANSWER

A certain class of minds shrinks from aggressiveness as if it
were a sin. Their temperament forbids them to feel the delight
of battle and they look on what they cannot understand as
something monstrous and sinful. Heal hate by love, drive out
injustice by justice, slay sin by righteousness is their cry.
Love is a sacred name, but it is easier to speak of love than to
love The Gita is the best answer to those who shrink from
battle as a sin and aggression as a lowering of morality.
--Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo

Edited, printed and published by Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan, Founder

Trustee, Sister Nivedita Academy, Sri Bharati Mandir, Srinivasanagar
Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore 560 036. Printed at Sathyasri Printers,
Bangalore 560 026
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