When Gandhi was in South Africa, he heard of Srimadji’s passing away at the young age of thirty four. Srimadji had taken samadhi. Wrote Gandhi feelingly: “I loved him dearly…so I mourn out of selfishness.” Had Srimadji lived long, perhaps he would have been better known. His contemporaries were, by any account, some of the greatest spiritual leaders the country had ever known, men like Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886), Shirdi Sai Baba (1838-1918), Sri Narayana Guru (1856-1928), Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), Ramana Mahrashi (1879-1950) Swami Ramdas (1884-1963) and Sadhu Vaswani (1879-1966). That he should have passed away so early in life made India that much poorer...Home > 2007 Issues > May 27, 2007 Bookmark The man who inspired the Mahatma By M.V. Kamath Atma-Siddhi: In Search of the Soul; Translated by Chandrika: Vakils, Feffer and Simons, Mumbai; pp 347, Rs 340.00
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