Travel and Service

Param Poojya Swami Chetanananda Saraswati on HIS travels and serving HIS Guru...

"As a boy of twelve or so, I visited Tibet and had darshan of Mount Kailash. I met a Tibetan monk named Bhaskarananda, who showed ME Tibetan manuscripts describing the experiences that I had after meeting Baba Nityananda. Bhaskarananda used to stay just 5 kilometres from Kailash. He carried ME around the holy mountain on his shoulders. I had darshan of Lord Shiva and Parvati. All the fabled places described in the scriptures are on this earth itself. Mount Kailash in Tibet is the Kailash of the scriptures. Kshirsagar and Vaikuntha are also on this earth. Amravati is near the present-day Nagpur. The tapobhoomi of Vyasa was in Punjab. But the paths of rivers change every few hundred years. The Ayodhya and Mathura of today are not the same as those in the Puranas.

"Baba Muktananda was staying at Trayambakeshwar near Nasik for several years after some unpleasant incidents with the devotees of Bhagwan Nityananda at Ganeshpuri. He was observing silence. When I was staying with Bhagwan in 1959, He called Swami Muktananda back to come and stay at Gavadevi Ashram at Ganeshpuri.

"Bhagwan introduced Muktananda Baba to ME and said, "He is a Paramahansa. You should serve Him after You return from the Himalayas." This was MY first meeting with Baba Mukatananda. As per these instructions, I subsequently joined Baba Muktananda on 9 June 1973 and served as Administrator in the then Sri Gurudev Ashram of Ganeshpuri.

"Muktananda Baba used to set timings for job completion, one after another. I was thus engaged from 1959 to 1971. I drew up plans for all His ashrams and got them built all over the country and the world. During all this, I found time to go to Mt. Abu, Girnar and other places for sadhana."