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Swami
Tapovan Maharaj
Swami
Tapovan Maharaj
Swami Tapovan Maharaj of
Uttarkashi was the "Source" wherefrom Swami Chinmayananda (The
Founder of the Chinmaya Movement) acquired the Knowledge of
Vedanta (Science of Religion). Swami Tapovan was himself the
ideal who had personally understood (through deep study,
dispassion and contemplation) the relationship between the
biological processes of the body and the human psyche. In a
spirit of deep renunciation, the infinitely gentle poet in
him, saw Humanity and Nature as one vast "plant", needing only
"Love" for its highest fulfillment. Intimate communion with
Nature (while he walked peaks and valleys of the Himalayas for
countless years), gave Swami Tapovan the boundless spiritual
reverence. He revealed Nature's secrets in his "travelogue" in
two Sanskrit masterpieces, "Himagiri Viharam" and "Kailasa
Yatra". The masterpiece, without a doubt, is "Ishwara
Darshan", which is his autobiographical "sketch" - it is an
absorbing account of a search for the Truth .. Its scientific
clarity is subtle, because the treatise gives insight into how
the saints of the East attain self mastery. |
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