🌺Swami Akhandananda Tithi Puja Today 🌺
Satyen (Swami Atmabodhananda) of Udbodhan Math used to sell books from a small book-shop in College Street, Calcutta, when he was an inmate of the Advaita Ashrama. He would take a simple meal at 10 a.m. and spend the whole day in the book shop.
One day I chanced to visit him there, and standing just in front of the shop I gave him a good lecture which Satyen remembers even now. He told me, 'Maharaj, that inspiration is still driving me!' I told him: 'It is not an easy task you have taken up. How much of renunciation and service and Tapasya (austerity) is involved in this work! This is real Sadhana. In the morning you come here after a bare meal. Others enjoy a full meal at noon-this is renunciation. Then you have to stay seated in this small room—this is Tapasya. Then again from the books sold here, people are getting the ideas of our Master and Swamiji. It is through your hands that they are reaching the people. This is a great service to the Master. Do you think that only the service done in the shrine is service to him?'
- Swami Akhandananda (The call of the Spirit)
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