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personality of swami Damodaranandaji

Swami Damodaranandaji mharaj is a great karma yogi.here is little information about
him for the devotees who wants to read about the swami ji .I have taken this
information 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 glow
on his face; Swami Sridharananda at the Vedanta Centre says that you have to poke
him as in a beehive to enjoy the sweetness of honey pouring out. I see the simplicity of
love in him no twists, no turns; a whole-hearted love pours out when someone
touches his feet and there is ringing of bells in the laughter he bursts out in after every
short sentence he speaks.
Thats Swami Damodarananda.
And, its with a heavy heart we learn that hes called it a day of his Australian fellowship
to return home at the age of 94, to be at Belur Math where he had made a new
beginning for his life as a teenager.
It was many years ago, he recalls with a memory thats now fading, that he had run
away from home to join the Ramana Ashram in Tiruvannamalai. Inspired by a booklet
about Ramana Maharishi going around among students I wondered that there were
Brahamapurushas 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 where
exactly I was heading.
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A family in the train advised me where to get down from the train. Otherwise I had no
idea that I had to change trains on the way to reach Tiruvannamalai. Hungary and
exhausted, I reached the Ashram and sat for a darshan of the Maharishi.
Maharishis prolonged gaze, looking straight at me, sent me an inner message what
life had in store for me. I stayed for several weeks at the Ashram helping in the kitchen
and 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, Ma
Sarada and Vivekananda. I had found my path in life and felt very happy about it. But it
did not last long as my family had found out where I was and they forced me to return
home.
But the home coming did not last long. There was a Ramakrishna Math close to my
house and I started visiting that often.
One day I was reading the works of Swami Vivekananda when a particular passage
struck me. Swamiji had written, You have devoted innumerable lives to family and
material 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 and
was 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 like
Badrinath, Kedarnath, Mt Kailash, a journey on foot in those days. I joined a group of
shepherds 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 shocked
me but realised that it was their way of life. I had my sampa tied in a piece of cloth, a
part 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 visited
Australia and New Zealand often, a guest of Mr and Mrs Ramakrishna in Sydney, and
crystallised the Missions activities in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.
Devotees recall Swami Damodarananda carrying a pile of books with him wherever he
travelled and distributing them among curious spiritual seekers, encouraging them to
study the scriptures and inculcate the message of Sri Ramakrishna in their lives. This
period marked the beginning of Ramakrishna Mission in Australia.
Swamiji briefly returned to India in 2000, only to be sent to Thailand in 2004. From
Bangkok he also co-ordinated Missions activities in Hong Kong and also reached as
far as Perth where he stayed from 2007-09. He has been in Sydney since spreading
his love among keen devotees.
Now at 94, hes still keen to be among his family of followers in Sydney. But it would
be 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 in
life, 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 he
had once asked Ramana Maharishi?
Sarveshu Kaleshu man anusmara yudhya cha he quotes from Bhagwad Gita and
explains: engage in the war of life valiantly doing your required duties. But offer it all to
God. Kaam karte raho, naam japte raho, is his simple message.
Swami Damodarananda will visit all the centres in Australia before he leaves the
shores in November, and complete a full circle returning to Belur Math where he had
made a beginning some 70 years ago.
he was staying in the ulsoor math bangalore till 15 oct, 2012. now he is staying in
ramkrishna belur math. soon he will come back to bangalore. he says -"if the ticket of
ramkrisna come, i will go to ramkrishna lok and if not then i will come back to
bangalore math in march 2012."
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