Letter Number - 71

Universal Mother’s Grace for Jeeva

Om

                                                                                                                    Math

30-4-1329

(August 14, 1922)

O my loving one,

Parama shubhashirastambishesah–

(My ultimate holy blessings distinctively remain bestowed upon you.)

                I became aware of the news after receiving your letter. From materialistic point of view, it is true that you seem to be somewhat ill-fated – even though there are hundreds who are more unfortunate than you are – however, I also can greatly feel the grace of the universal mother on you.  Even though you don’t understand that now, one day you surely will, and you will consider yourself fortunate. In what way Maa’s grace showers upon Jeeva is incomprehensible with general intelligence. Maa’s grace is always being revealed though misery. One has to accept happiness and sorrow equally with humility thinking of them as Maa’s gift.  Carry on your duties with patience; then you will be able to comprehend her grace quickly.

Soon I will go to Puri via Kolkata.  We will discuss all these when we meet. I am well.  * * * My blessings to you all.            

Well-wisher

                                                                                                                Shri Nigamananda

YA Reading Material

Jayaguru

Chapter 6 (Continued…)

The learned saint was Paramahansa Srimad Swami Sachchidananda Saraswati.  He was a saint from Maharastra.  Swami Sachchidananda had a hermitage sprawled over a vast area on the top of Savitri Hills at Puskar near Ajmer.  Nalinikanta went with the saint to his hermitage.  He began staying in that hermitage as an inmate and was engaged in various manual services.  Swami Sachchidananda in the beginning was hesitant to keep Nalinikanta in his hermitage as he thought that the easy going cozy people from Bengal were generally not fit for monastic life. But though a Bengali, Nalinikanta was firm in his resolve to acquire true knowledge for which he was prepared to pay any price and undertake any hardship.  He smilingly accepted the untold hardship of the monastic life and sincerely performed whatever he was directed to do by his Guru Swami Sachchidananda.  The hermitage had horses and cattle.  Nalinikanta brought grass for the horses, took care of the cattle, brought firewood for the holy fireplace of the hermitage, cut firewood for cooking and prepared food for Swamiji and others.  However, he did not consider physical hardship difficult for him.

Subsequently, Swami Sachchidananda became extremely pleased with Nalinikanta’s devotion and sincere service rendered to him and the hermitage.  He initiated him into monkhood and named him ‘Nigamananda’. ‘Nigam’ means the Vedas and ‘Ananda’ means divine joy.  Since Nalinikanta understood the inner meaning of the Vedas very easily, his Guru named him ‘Nigamananda’.

Question:

Try to see where is West Bengal, Rajasthan and Maharastra in the map of India presented below.

India is a country in South Asia. It is the 7th-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.21 billion people (2011 census), and the most populous democracy in the world. India is surrounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the neighborhood of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share marine border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has seashore of 7,517 kilometers