attitudes and thoughts ; Pujya Gurudev

Sowing the seeds for sublimation of attitudes and thoughts

(Autobiography of Poojya Gurudev Pt. Sriram Sharma Acharya)

There were great tangible benefits from this yagya. A huge organisation of Gayatri parivar was formed within no time. An infrastructure of a moral-reawakening movement was built up for basic transformation of thoughts and attitudes of the society through mass moral education. Later, after two decades, Pragya sansthans and Svadhyaya mandals were formed at places where branches had been established after the Mahayagya.

A dedicated, whole time group of workers also emerged from this yagya, who later took full and independent charge of the press, publication and publicity at Mathura, after I had shifted to Shantikunj, Haridwar, for good. Thus this Mahayagya and subsequent celebrations throughout the country had played an important role as a background for the selection of volunteers and permanent workers at Shantikunj.

My own organising capacity was further honed and developed. Several camps of one week, nine days and one month were organised in the limited campus of Gayatri Tapobhumi, Mathura. After Sahastra-kundi yagya and shat-kundi yagya, panckoshi sadhana, kayakalpa and jivan sadhana camps were organised at Mathura for integrated spiritual upliftment, holistic health and life-long pursuit of self-awakening respectively according to the instructions of Gurudev. 

The love of parijans who visited Gayatri Tapobhumi and feelings of mutual intimate relationship with them gave birth to the huge organisation known as Gayatri parivar. Each member of this Gayatri parivar turns to me as a father figure, counsellor, guide and healer in his/her personal and domestic problems. In response to their affectionate invitations I visited several places from where people had come to Mathura for the Mahayagya. I attended several yagya celebrations, seminars and conferences in which several awakened intellectuals participated. When I decided to leave Mathura and shift to Haridwar, 1 toured almost the entire country for about two years. 

At Tatanagar, Mahasamund, Bahraich, Bhilwara and Porbandar, huge Sahastra-kundi yagyas were performed on the same scale at which the Mahayagya at Mathura was performed. I used to visit three places in a day and toured thousands of miles before I left for agyatvas (seclusion). As a result of these extensive tours I could lay my hands on several dedicated workers. Innumerable persons who had lived like Rishis in the past births came in my contact. I judged their capacity, enrolled them in the parivar and thus a huge organisation was set up. Gurudev had directed long back that I would have to go to the Himalayas again and stay there for six months.

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma