Prakritim Paramam, Abhyaam, Varadam, Narerup Dharam,

Jannata Phaaram, Sharnagat, Sivak, So today, So today we are gathered here for the birth anniversary celebrations of the Holy Mother, Shara

Devi. But this talk which I'm going to give now is going to be a little backwards.

So we'll start somewhere else, but I promise it's relevant. It's going to come back to Maharashtha. But we're going to be a little backwards. So we'll start somewhere else, but I promise it's relevant.

It's going to come back to Maharashtarada.

But we're going to start with something that happened just a couple of days ago.

And very interestingly, of course, Mother's birthday actually was a couple of days ago.

We are doing it today on Sunday for convenience, but it was a couple of days ago.

Also a couple of days ago, a senior, very senior monk of our order who was a hundred years old.

He also one of the most amazing and inspiring monks I ever knew he passed a couple of days ago.

Swami Shredharanandhi Maharaj, who was the head of our Vedantah society in Australia, in Sydney.

So he passed a couple of days ago.

And our story starts there and then we go backwards to the Holy Mother.

He was amazing for many, many reasons.

Extraordinary orator, extraordinary scholar,

an extraordinary administrator, founder of institutions,

amazing monk in so many ways, but also those who have met him, you always feel he was

extraordinary at a people-to-people level because everybody who met him, they felt like,

you know, a personal connect with him.

Everybody, and that includes me too.

He, we have a big center in Lucknow

where there's a hospital and a huge temple, all of which he did, really.

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