A few moments with Paramacharya N.A. Palkhivala The Senior pontiff of Kanchi is one of the jewels of modern India. His is not a life to be described in words, nor be measured in years. He presents some elemental moral force of a type which only India can produce and has produced over the centuries. A tremendous moral force, a man who combines a knowledge of various languages - he knows Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Marathi and I dont know how many other languages - he is a man of the utmost humility and total simplicity, not a self-styled Rishi or Maharishi, but a quiet man, a frail man. But this frail human being pits his personality against the brute-force which rules over the world today. Adi Sankaracharya was once asked, `Who is the true Guru? His answer was that the true Guru is the man who has realised the truth and who is intent all the time upon the good of his disciples. That definition is totally fulfilled by the Acharya of Kanchi. He became the Pontiff of Kanchi at the age of 13 in the year 1907 and since then he has fulfilled his mission as the Guru and sense of dedication which has never been surpassed. he made a tour of India for 21 years mostly on foot between the years 1919 and 1939. On foot he had been going around the length and breadth of this country. He represents the highest aspirations of mankind. He embodies the noblest instincts of the human race. He is of course beyond all honours and titles. It would not make the slightest difference to him even if the 700 millions all together celebrated his birthday. It is precisely because the man is beyond all honour by trying to revive and bring to the surface of our mind the memories of a man who has devoted his entire life totally, absolutely for the good of the country and for the good, in fact, of mankind.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:12:31 +0000
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