Saint Mira

Author(s): T L Vaswani
Publisher: Saint Miras English Medium School

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A PILGRIM OF
ETERNITY
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one.
From the beginning of his days, he was filled with the spirit of compassion which moved out to all who were in suffering and pain.
At night, he would sit on the housetop and, for hours together, gaze in silent wonder at the moon shining in clear, cloudless skies. On one such occasion, as he sat out in the moonlight, he saw, as in a "vision," a white figure with silvery hair and flowing beard. The figure called out to him: and he answered the call, and was lost in silence, out of which he was awakened by his mother who carried him into the house. That was his first "vision,"-his first link with the unseen world and he was only eight years old. Ever since, till the last day of his earthly life, he felt he was always under the protection of an unseen force.
As a school-boy, he was brilliant at his studies and rarely missed the first rank. At the matriculation examination, he secured a scholarship which took him to the College. His classmates in the college often wondered at the unsullied purity of his life and utter guilelessness and they all loved and respected him as one belonging to a world remote from their own.
He became an "Ellis Scholar" and a Fellow of the D. J. Sind College, Karachi. And soon after passing the M. A. Examination, he was appointed as Professor in a Calcutta College.
He was thirty years of age, when he went to Berlin as one of India's representatives to the Welt Congress, the World Congress of Religions. His speech there and his subsequent lectures in different parts of Europe aroused deep interest in Indian thought and religion and linked many with him in India's mission of help and healing.
"I saw a few of the great cities of Europe," reads an entry in Dadaji's "diary" recording his impressions; "I did not feel