WHAT A PORTRAIT !

WHAT A PORTRAIT !

True it is that I had mistaken this portrait of Swamiji to be a photograph and was duly informed by Swami Ekarthanandaji that it was but a painting of the prophet. But what a painting it is ! A rather life-like one full of the representation of his imposing personality, the stamp of his regal greatness which made many an unknown one, getting to know him for the first time, mistake him to be an Indian prince, as in Paris at a premier hotel where a waiter would simply not believe that he was not one such.

Verily was Swamiji the Rajarshi of the modern times through whose bearings we get an inkling of the royal sages who gave utterance to the Upanishads. In truth, therefore, it may be said that Swamiji was the rightful heir to Krishna, Rama, Buddha and Shankara, himself embodying the best synthesis of their teachings and realisations which he, adding to them his own original discoveries and methods, delivered unto humanity in his dazzlingly brilliant way.

When once quizzed as to why he was so frolicsome despite being a man of the Spirit and when reminded that he ought not to be so, he became solemn and said that he was not a dharmic but was himself Dharma.

Indeed, Swamiji encompasses within his being the gamut of India's spiritual and cultural inheritance from the past and adds on to it a vast library of spiritual thinking and a magazine of spiritual powder that will detonate in due time in successive phases to revive and revitalise the Sanatan Dharma and rejuvenate a spiritually emaciated world of floating consciousness and undiscovered roots.

May Swamiji bless us all to become worthy recipients of his power and precepts !

Written by Sugata Bose

71Swami Ekarthananda Puri, Sharmistha Chatterjee and 69 others

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