Since
the beginning of the world it has been proven on several occasions that, in
times of immense human suffering, threats to world peace or the destruction
of the environment, the power of God descends to Mother Earth to manifest itself
as an Avatar in one human being to bring salvation and deliverance from our
sins. Guru Gangeshwaranandji also came on earth to relieve many a men of their
sufferings and show them the path of life.
Pandit Ramadutta lived in Punjab. His wife Sarla Devi who also was a devout
follower of Shree Ramanandji, gave birth to a child on 27th of December in the
year 1881. This child - named Chandreshwara - later got his Sanyasin title Guru
Gangeshwaranandji Udaseen at the age of 24. Between the birth and the ascetic
initiation at 24, many eventful incidents took place. As a child, he showed
some unique brilliance. Little before the 5th year of his age, he perceived
a Vision of Lord Krishna. Shortly after that, he lost his earthly vision due
to an ailment of small pox. Guru Ramanandji visited 7 year old Gangeshwarji,
as well as his parents. He asked them to recite with devotion one thousand names
of Lord Vishnu as also the holy book Bhagwad Gita.
Unfolding of the divine took place at the age of 24 and the young Chandreshwar
became consciousness-conscious because of his hard penance for 22 hours everyday.
As an Udaseen ascetic, he was initiated in the cult and the name Gangeshwaranand
was attached to his being. On his masters advice he went to Kashi and within
3 years of his stay there he mastered almost all the holy scriptures by heart.
The lifetime work of learning asceticsm and devotion could be completed by him
in 3 years. He also got his bachelor degree of the Punjab University. With his
learned Sadhu colleagues he toured extensively the whole country several times
and started hundreds of Veda academies, temples, hermitages and allied institutions
in India and abroad. He had a vast circle of devotees and disciples.
His international fame as a savant and scholar of Vedas, all other sanskrit
lore and literature would be well perceived by layman from the voluminous work
of Veda Grantha published with phonetic symbols and marphological signs named
- Bhagwan Veda. Many scholoars from India and foreign countries flocked around
him to get the nectar of his erudiation.
He was a Dyani, a Bairagi and a Bhakta. He had in him the philosphical vision
of Shree Aurobindo, the intense introspection of Shree Ramkrishna Paramahansa,
the missionary zeal of Swami Vivekananda and the complete surrender of Shree
Chaitanya Deva.
