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RETURN TO MUNGER
Sri Ramananda Brahmachari
Today's date shall be written in golden letters in the history of Munger. I was sent here from a distant place called Fatehpur by our Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanandaji. On my arrival at Munger, Paramahamsa Niranjanananda guided me to Baijnath Dham to meet Paramahamsa Satyanandaji. At his gates he very energetically welcomed me saying, "Ramananda how have you come? I am happy to see you." I told him that I had come for his darshan and I saw in him not a man of seventy years, but the warmth and energy of a young man of twenty. He told me, "Now I have renounced Munger, I have no attachment to it and I am not going to go back there. I have given my whole property, my whole ashram to Paramahamsa Niranjananandaji." I was astonished by his sense of non-attachment. Nobody in the world today can be a greater renunciate than him. His voice still rings in my ears.
I met Paramahamsa Niranjananandaji accidentally. Once I was standing on my terrace, supervising some construction work. He was travelling in a boat on the Ganges. From the boat he greeted me and I greeted him back, simultaneously extending an invitation to come to our Agni Akhara. He then came to our Agni Akhara and since then we have been friends. He requested me to organize Swami Vidyanandaji's visit to Munger for this convention. I feel myself honored to be instrumental in this effort. I personally want to congratulate Paramahamsa Niranjanananda for his simplicity and for the organization and arrangements which are so tidy and meticulous.
I was in Munger a long time back in 1942 when I was jailed here. I was barely ten years old when I hung to the British Collector's neck, abusing him and telling him to leave our country. "India is ours, you go back." I was pulled away and jailed for two years. Today I have come back with the great honor of being along with Swami Vidyanandaji. I congratulate
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