Of course he said he had reserved accommodation in the hotel, but Gopalda told him he could not possibly stay in a hotel.Īn impasse ensued. He was to have been Gopalda’s host at Madras, but he said he was staying in a hotel because no quarters were yet available to him. He was the son of Pran Gopal Mukherjee, elder brother of Govinda Gopal, and cousin of Mohananda Brahmachari. He accompanied Gopalda to Ramanasramam and was with us during Gopalda’s trip to South India.Īt this point, Tapo Gopal Mukherjee, Postmaster General of Madras, came to meet Gopalda. In due course, Gopalda alighted from his compartment and was joined by one Upadhyaya who was then attached to the Rice Research Centre in Orissa and had boarded the train at Cuttack. I was waiting on the platform for ' The Mail' train to arrive from Calcutta on the scheduled date. As usual, the Maharshi nodded and said ‘seri po’ (All right.
I would repeat that I gave no reason for my intended visit to Madras, no, not even to the Maharshi. The evening I left for Madras I made my obeisance to the Maharshi, just after the evening chanting of passages from the Vedas and Upanishads, and begged his permission to leave for Madras. The only person who knew was, of course, Miss Merston. I said nothing about Gopalda’s intended visit to anyone. As Dr.Syed was then away and the keys of the house were left with Miss Merston, I contacted her and kept one room ready for Gopalda’s sojourn.
I was then occupying a couple of outhouses with thatched roofs, attached to the pukka building of Dr.Syed. He mentioned the date of his arrival at Madras and asked me to meet him at the station.
From there he intended to visit a few other pilgrim spots. Now that I was staying at Tiruvanamalai, Gopalda said that he would like to come for Ramana Maharshi’s darshan, and then would proceed to Pondicherry for Sri Aurobindo’s darshan. He wrote to say that all his previous plans to come South went wrong for one reason or another. In 1948, when I was staying at Ramanasram, I got a letter from Gopalda (Sri Krishna Prem). While engaging, the author presents us with genuine insight into the intriguing personality and devotional character of a Western devotee who embraced orthodox Vaishnavism and yet, by the intensity of his devotion, was enabled to experience the essence of Bhagavan’s true nature. It was written by the Bengali devotee who arranged Krishnaprem’s South Indian pilgrimage and enumerates the many ways in which Bhagavan singled out Sri Krishnaprem to extend his grace. The following narration appears to be a far more detailed and credible account than any of the others previously published.
Many have read Dilip Kumar Roy’s description of Sri Krishnaprem’s visit to the Maharshi.
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