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Information
on the Aims and Activities of
OMKARANANDA
ASHRAM HIMALAYAS
and
its Institutions
AIM:
Dissemination of Educational,
Scientific, Cultural, Social, Spiritual Values
Omkarananda
Shanta Durga Mandir,
Omkarananda Saraswati Marg, Muni-ki-Reti,
P.O. Shivanandanagar &endash; 249 192,
Distt. Tehri-Garhwal, U.P., INDIA
9.8.1999
PARAMAHAMSA
OMKARANANDA SARASWATI
H.D. Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati
is a God-realised saint, mystic, sage, philosopher and writer.
Already at the age of thirteen and fourteen
his life was flooded with numerous spiritual experiences of the
omnipresent and omniscient God. Under the dictates of these experiences,
he left his home city in South India for the Himalayas, where
the world-renowned Sage Sri Swami Sivananda recognised in him
an embodiment of the high spirit of renunciation, profound divine
wisdom, touching purity of heart, made him known as Bala Yogi,
Bala Jnani, titled him as Adhyatma Kavita-Bhaskara and crowned
him with Sannyasa-Diksha at the age of seventeen.
In his shortest autobiography in the
world Swami Omkarananda Saraswati writes:
"Purity is the soul of my strength.
Truth is the source of my power. God is my life, and I have no
existence apart from Him. His Consciousness is my Light. His
all-sustaining and all-creative Beauty constitutes my joy. Prayer
is my breath and meditation forms the bread of my Life. All humanity
is my family. The Forces of Nature are my Friends. The Godhead
in all of you is the object of my adoration."
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