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personality of swami Damodaranandaji

Swami Damodaranandaji mharaj is a great karma yogi.here is little information abouthim for the devotees who wants to read about the swami ji .I have taken thisinformation from vijay badhwar so thank you .however it is edited and updated by me.Some comment on his skin being as fresh as that of a child, some talk about the glowon his face; Swami Sridharananda at the Vedanta Centre says that you have to pokehim as in a beehive to enjoy the sweetness of honey pouring out. I see the simplicity oflove in him – no twists, no turns; a whole-hearted love pours out when someonetouches his feet and there is ringing of bells in the laughter he bursts out in after everyshort sentence he speaks.That’s Swami Damodarananda.And, it’s with a heavy heart we learn that he’s called it a day of his Australian fellowshipto return home at the age of 94, to be at Belur Math where he had made a newbeginning for his life as a teenager.It was many years ago, he recalls with a memory that’s now fading, that he had runaway from home to join the Ramana Ashram in Tiruvannamalai. “Inspired by a bookletabout Ramana Maharishi going around among students I wondered that there wereBrahamapurushas like him. What was I doing there; I should be with him at his feet.Aroused by Shukata Samskaras, immediately I took a train, not even knowing whereexactly I was heading.

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“A family in the train advised me where to get down from the train. Otherwise I had noidea that I had to change trains on the way to reach Tiruvannamalai. Hungary andexhausted, I reached the Ashram and sat for a darshan of the Maharishi.“Maharishi’s prolonged gaze, looking straight at me, sent me an inner message whatlife had in store for me. I stayed for several weeks at the Ashram helping in the kitchenand stealing every opportunity to listen to Ramana Maharishi, even daring to ask him‘the shortest path to salvation’.“In my spare time I read lot of scriptures, among that about Swami Ramakrishna, MaSarada and Vivekananda. I had found my path in life and felt very happy about it. But itdid not last long as my family had found out where I was and they forced me to returnhome.“But the home coming did not last long. There was a Ramakrishna Math close to myhouse and I started visiting that often.“One day I was reading the works of Swami Vivekananda when a particular passagestruck me. Swamiji had written, “You have devoted innumerable lives to family andmaterial concerns. Can you not offer one life to God.“Immediately, a voice rose inside me: yes, I can do that. I decided to join the order andwas initiated several years later by Swami Virajananda,” Swami Damodarananda said.During this time he travelled a lot – in the Himalayas, to all the holy places likeBadrinath, Kedarnath, Mt Kailash, a journey on foot in those days. “I joined a group ofshepherds and went with them through the high passes.”“One day they asked me to turn around for some time as they killed a goat. It shockedme but realised that it was their way of life. I had my ‘sampa’ tied in a piece of cloth, apart of my survival kit,” he said laughingly.Immediately afterwards at the Ramakrishna Mission the foreign postings started –1954-60 in Rangoon, 1961-76 in Singapore and immediately afterwards to Nadi, Fiji,where he stayed until 2000. During those 24 years Swami Damodarananda visitedAustralia and New Zealand often, a guest of Mr and Mrs Ramakrishna in Sydney, andcrystallised the Mission’s activities in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.Devotees recall Swami Damodarananda carrying a pile of books with him wherever hetravelled and distributing them among curious spiritual seekers, encouraging them tostudy the scriptures and inculcate the message of Sri Ramakrishna in their lives. Thisperiod marked the beginning of Ramakrishna Mission in Australia.Swamiji briefly returned to India in 2000, only to be sent to Thailand in 2004. FromBangkok he also co-ordinated Mission’s activities in Hong Kong and also reached asfar as Perth where he stayed from 2007-09. He has been in Sydney since spreadinghis love among keen devotees.Now at 94, he’s still keen to be among his family of followers in Sydney. “But it wouldbe better if I returned due to my health,” he thinks aloud.“Has ever a stray thought come in his mind that he could have chosen another path inlife,” I dare to ask.“What path,” comes a brief but stern retort.What was the ‘shortest path to God’ for people in family lives, I redirect the question hehad once asked Ramana Maharishi?“Sarveshu Kaleshu man anusmara yudhya cha – he quotes from Bhagwad Gita andexplains: engage in the war of life valiantly doing your required duties. But offer it all toGod.” ‘Kaam karte raho, naam japte raho’, is his simple message.Swami Damodarananda will visit all the centres in Australia before he leaves theshores in November, and complete a full circle returning to Belur Math where he hadmade a beginning some 70 years ago.he was staying in the ulsoor math bangalore till 15 oct, 2012. now he is staying inramkrishna belur math. soon he will come back to bangalore. he says -"if the ticket oframkrisna come, i will go to ramkrishna lok and if not then i will come back tobangalore math in march 2012."

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