Vidyavox biography of mahatma
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Bhaktisidhanda Biography
Bhaktisidhanda Biography
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja
His Appearance, Childhood, and Youth
Even before Sarasvati Thakura’s appearance in this world, his great-grandfather, while on his death-
bed, spoke about a great sadhu, famous in the whole world, who would take birth in Bhaktivinoda
Thakura’s house...
Indeed, Bhaktivinoda Thakura himself predicted in the Caitanya Siksamrta that a powerful acarya
would appear in this world to establish daivi-varnasrama-dharma. Bhaktivinoda Thakura wanted this
daivi-varnasrama system re-established to supplant it’s decayed descendent — the caste system: which
is based on one’s birth rather than qualification.
The astrologer, called at the time of Sarasvati Thakura’s birth, also proclaimed how the child would
become a great devotee. And so it was then that, on February 6 th, 1874 AD, Sarasvati Thakura
appeared in this world in the karkata-lagna, or the astrological lagna of the Cancer.
One time, when he was only five or six years old, he accompanied his father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura,
on a visit to one sadhu by the name of Svarupa Dasa Babaji, in Puri. When they met, this babaji told
Bhaktivinoda, “You have no neckbeads and no tilaka. You are not a Vaisnava. You don’t even have
any Vaisnava dress.” Bimala Prasada (as
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Vox Olympia Audiobooks read by Citizen Zero of India
Namaste to my fellow Indians & Hello everyone, This is a 90s' recording of an interview of Sri J Lingaiah, my grandfather ("tatha") (1915-2007). This is an account of a time in our nation's history of highly energetic resourcefulness, single-minded purposefulness, honesty, courage, idealism & high expectations of its peoples, of who my grandfather being as such never forgets to mention everyone he knew personally who contributed to the course of its history and to the littlest act of the kindness of strangers he experienced on the way. This interview conducted in Kannada by Sri Raman Gowda, who a dear friend of the family & colleague of my grandather Sri J Lingaiah, accounts for the time in his life from 1931 to 1958. In the first half of the interview, we are told of a time during which my grandfather had first migrated to the then Bangalore City of the Mysore princely-state of British-India, about the years he spent as a day-wage labourer in the first cotton mills of the city, about the inception & spread of labour-rights movement in the Indian provinces & states leading up to the second World War, the years from 1942 onwards of Quit India Independence movement against the then British Colonial Empire;
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Room Conversation revive Dr. Copeland,
Professor of Contemporary Indian History
May 20, 1975, Melbourne
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