TULSI MAHARAJ ... 1

TULSI MAHARAJ ... 1

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GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY 

(Duly registered dated 25th October, 1914, granted by His Holiness Swami Brahmananda Maharaj in favour of His Holiness Swami Nirmalananda Maharaj)

"TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come I Swami Brahmananda chela and disciple of Thakur Paramahansa Ramakrishna of the sect of Sanyasin at present residing in Ramakrishna Advaitya Ashrama Mohalla Luxa in the city of Benaras in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh send Greetings WHEREAS I can not personally transact all business in connection with the Ramakrishna Ashramas situate in Southern India and more especially in Madras Presidency and in Bangalore I am desirous of constituting and appointing a General Attorney on my behalf NOW KNOW YE and these presents WITNESSETH that I the said Swami Brahmananda do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Swami Nirmalananda chela and disciple of Thakur Paramahansa Ramakrishna at present in charge of the Ramakrishna Ashrama Bangalore city to be my true and lawful attorney for me and on my behalf to ask demand and sue for and receive and recover from all person and persons whomsoever any sum or sums of money which may be due to me on any account whatsoever and to draw receive and recovery monies which may be payable to me by or from Government or any Court or Municipal or other Board or any corporate Body or Bodies in British India or elsewhere in any Native State in Southern India or in Mysore or any office of the Government or any other public

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Author's (Sugata Bose's) note: 

The above legal document is conclusive proof of the fact that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur Paramahansa Ramakrishna. This has been here testified by none other than Swami Brahmananda, the first President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, himself a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. 

(To strictly adhere to the original text, no changes, grammatical or of punctuation, by way of editing have been effected.)

Appended below is the photograph of the photocopy of the relevant legal document.