TULSI MAHARAJ, THE FORGOTTEN APOSTLE OF RAMAKRISHNA ... 2
Tulsi was not admitted to a school till the age of ten. The family had two establishments, one at Kolkata and the other at Varanasi. When Tusli was ten years old, his mother died at their Ganesh Mahalla house in Varanasi on 30 December, 1873. The boy, like everybody else, was devastated by the bereavement and, to get over it, was at last admitted to the Bengali Tola High School in Varanasi under the care of his maternal uncle.
Here in school Tulsi immediately started excelling in studies and secured multiple double promotions over several years to rapidly advance through the classes. He befriended a boy called Hariprasanna Chatterjee who was his classmate and who later became the great Swami Vijnanananda.
Tulsi studied Sanskrit at home and gained a sufficient mastery over it to be able to conduct conversations in the language in later years with scholars in southern India and to be able to conduct classes in the scriptures as well, especially when he taught the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Geeta to the brahmacharins at Belur Math. He learnt Hindi as well during this period.
This early proficiency gained in the languages facilitated his later flourishing into an excellent propagator of the message of his future spiritual Master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, who totally transformed his life and converted him into a dynamo of spiritual power that was to set the world alight with the message of the Vedanta freshly interpreted and made practical in the light of the lives of the divine duo, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. Tulsicharan would then emerge as the leonine monk, Swami Nirmalananda, the carrier of the spiritual flame of his divine Guru to southern India where he would then lay anchor and establish a string of monasteries in Karnataka (then, Mysore) and Kerala and awaken the sleeping masses 'to life and action'.
End of Part 2
To be continued...
Written by Sugata Bose
Bibliography : Swami Nirmalananda The Unique Apostle of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Vishadananda (Tulasi Books)
Tulsi was not admitted to a school till the age of ten. The family had two establishments, one at Kolkata and the other at Varanasi. When Tusli was ten years old, his mother died at their Ganesh Mahalla house in Varanasi on 30 December, 1873. The boy, like everybody else, was devastated by the bereavement and, to get over it, was at last admitted to the Bengali Tola High School in Varanasi under the care of his maternal uncle.
Here in school Tulsi immediately started excelling in studies and secured multiple double promotions over several years to rapidly advance through the classes. He befriended a boy called Hariprasanna Chatterjee who was his classmate and who later became the great Swami Vijnanananda.
Tulsi studied Sanskrit at home and gained a sufficient mastery over it to be able to conduct conversations in the language in later years with scholars in southern India and to be able to conduct classes in the scriptures as well, especially when he taught the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Geeta to the brahmacharins at Belur Math. He learnt Hindi as well during this period.
This early proficiency gained in the languages facilitated his later flourishing into an excellent propagator of the message of his future spiritual Master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, who totally transformed his life and converted him into a dynamo of spiritual power that was to set the world alight with the message of the Vedanta freshly interpreted and made practical in the light of the lives of the divine duo, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. Tulsicharan would then emerge as the leonine monk, Swami Nirmalananda, the carrier of the spiritual flame of his divine Guru to southern India where he would then lay anchor and establish a string of monasteries in Karnataka (then, Mysore) and Kerala and awaken the sleeping masses 'to life and action'.
End of Part 2
To be continued...
Written by Sugata Bose
Bibliography : Swami Nirmalananda The Unique Apostle of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Vishadananda (Tulasi Books)
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