attitudes and thoughts ; Pujya Gurudev

Sowing the seeds for sublimation of attitudes and thoughts

(Autobiography of Poojya Gurudev Pt. Sriram Sharma Acharya)

Some mysterious events at Mathura The activities, which I was directed to undertake at Mathura, appeared to be difficult in the beginning, according to my knowledge and competence, in the absence of material and human resources, experience and wisdom. Then how could such a stupendous work be done? When Gurudev saw that I was losing courage he took the reins in his hands. Only my body was utilised. The work was done by the puppeteer himself to whose tune I simply danced as a puppet.

The only credit that I can claim is that I gladly danced to his tune. I devoted four hours daily for writing work. It appeared as if the example of Vyas and Ganesh was being repeated, When Puranas were written, Vyas dictated to Ganesh. The same thing happened with me. The translation of voluminous ancient Sanskrit scriptural texts was a difficult task. Like Ganesh, I was used as a mere scribe for translating the four Vedas, 108 Upnishads, six Darshans, 24 Smritis; but the entity who gave dictation was some invisible power. Otherwise, so huge a task could not have been completed within so short a time.

Hundreds of books relating to mass education through the agency of moral and spiritual instruction could not have been written on the strength of the talents of one single person. This writing work continues uninterrupted since the day it was started. The weight of my published works almost equals the weight of my body. For publication a press was needed. With my own limited resources I had somehow managed for a hand press. 

The one who had to get all this work done through me laughed at my childishness. Miraculously there was steady development of the press and treadles, cylinder; automatic and offset machines were added one after the other. Their cost and those of the publications added upto lakhs of rupees. On my own human strength, the number of subscribers of Akhand Jyoti could reach two thousands only. The Guide then gave a push and the figure has now gone up to one and half lakhs. It is likely to register a tenfold increase in due course of time. In all, about one and half lakh copies of Yug Nirman Yojana (Hindi), Yug Shakti Gayati (Gujarati), Yug Shakti (Oriya) are also being published. It is an unprecedented record that magazine s wholly written by one person have such a large circulation, without incurring any loss and that too without accepting any advertisement. With a view to organising Gayatri parivar, Sahastra-kundi yagya was performed at Mathura by way of purnahuti of Mahapurashcarana.

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma