Still tinkering with the webpage on the Guru Dev parampara, adding little bits of info - http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand" <premanandpaul@> > wrote: > > > > Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- > > http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html > > > > > I wonder how many really catch the monumentally staggering and far > reaching evolutionary significance of what you have just shared, Paul: > > > Guru Dev's guru was a swami called Shri 108 Shri Dandi Ji Swami > Krishnanand Saraswati. What is less well known is just who his guru was, > or indeed the names of Krishanand Saraswati's other disciples. > > Well, it appears certain that Krishnanand's guru was the famous 32nd > acharya of Sri Sharada Peetam, Sringeri - Sri Narasimha Bharati VIII > <http://www.kataragama.org/sages/kadaiswa.htm> , 32nd Shankaracharya of > Sringeri (1817-1879). > > It is recorded that Paramahansa Krishnanand attended a very important > meeting of rishis in 1855, some way northwest of his ashram, at Dharali, > close to Gangotri (on what is now National Highway, NH-108 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH_108> ). The meeting of rishis was > addressed by Vyasa, who possibly addressing Krishnanand personally, > said:- > > "Holy Guardians of Dharma! Illustrious Rishis! A new sub-cycle in > this Yuga is ending. A new light of the torch of Eternal Truth is to be > ushered into the world. The West has to live according to the Law which > the Lord gave her nearly 2,000 years ago. Optimism and activity, > ambition and love of power have stifled the growth of the spirit of the > West. Now let a new era open. A tributary of the holy Ganga of the Gita > is winding its way to Angala Desha (England). Thus it has been decreed. > This holy and venerable Sage, this representative of the great Shankara, > this saint is undertaking the great task. Give your blessings, holy > Sages." > > - preface, `Shri Dada Sanghita - The Heart of the Eastern Mystical > Teaching' by Hari Prasad Shastri, Shanti Sadan, 1948 >
