Maharishi Mahesh Yogin (tuolloin Bal Brahmachari Mahesh) puhe vuodelta 1952:
# 1952
The Great Saint of the Himalayas is Coming
to Shower His Blessings on the Metropolis
The Statement issued by: BAL BRAHMACHARI SHRI MAHESH JI.
Press conference convened by Shri Shankaracharya Reception Committee, Delhi on the 15th October 1952 at 5 p.m. in the Young Man's Tennis Club, Queen's Gardens, in connection with the visit of HIS HOLINESS SHRI JAGATGURUSHANKARACHARYA MAHARAJ OF JYOTIR MATH.
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It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you all and have your company here this afternoon. It gives me enough encouragement and support to acquaint you with the details of the mission for whose fulfilment His Holiness Shri Jagatguru Shankaracharya Swami BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI MAHARAJ will be visiting your city about the 12th of November 1952 and stay here for about a month for Dharmopdesha.
Swami Brahmanda Saraswati Maharaj, the present Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math Badarikashram (in the Himalayas) is a magnetic personality with a sweet amalgam of High Wisdom and Love of humanity. He combines in himself the Knowledge of the self with the mysterious powers -- the siddhis arising out of yogic perfection and hard penances, which he has undergone throughout his life. He is a great living yogi and scholar and is revered by millions of Hindus as their Supreme Religious head.
This great Saint of the modern age was born in Uttar Pradesh in a well to do and renowned Brahman family in 1871 and was enthroned to the seat of His Holiness Jagatguru Shankaracharya in 1941 at Banares, during the ninth session of the All India Sanatana Dharma Maha Sammelan convened by the Bharata Dharma Mahamandala in conjunction with a countrywide support of almost all the ruling princes and different socio-religious institutions all over the country. It may be recalled that it was a long persuasion of about twenty years which could convince Param Virakt Swami Brahmananda Saraswati to accept the great responsibility of the Shankaracharya at the age of seventy.
From the tender age of nine when he came out of his home in Search of God, till this time, his life was mostly spent in the lonely hidden regions of the Himalayas, Vindya Giris and the Amarkantakas which are rarely frequented by men and are chiefly inhabited by wild animals. For years together he has lived in hidden caves and thick forests where even the midday sun frets and fumes in vain to dispel the darkness that may be said to have made a permanent abode there in those solitary and distant regions.
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