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Mata Amritanandamayi and Dr. A.P.J. AbdulKalam

August 19,2015, 04.14 PM IST | | THE HANS INDIA

Sadguru Shishya (Student) Parampara (tradition) has been the hallmark

of India’s ancient Sanatan culture. This holy, spiritual association has

stood India in good stead whenever Indian society showed up the signsof utter destabilization. While quite a few instances can be cited tobring home this point, Saint Ramdas Swami – Shivaji Maharaj, Sri

Ramakrishna Paramahansa - Swami Vivekananda, Sadguru Shishya

relationships come to our mind instantly and help us affirm our faith inthe glorious time tested spiritual association.

And if we go by the life of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, we are pleasantlysurprised that Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam found himself caught, perhaps, unawares by Mata Amritanandamayi ji at whoselotus feet he remained to the last breath of his life. It may be a little known fact, but the fact remains that Dr. A.P.J. AbdulKalam was Mata Amritanandamayi‘s one of the staunchest disciples so much so that he was ever at the receiving end ofher Grace. It is with the spiritual association that he became more and more compassionate and strove hard to bring lightinto the lives of the poor and exhibit utmost love to the children. The heart and intellect point in almost oppositedirections, but Amma’s grace flew spontaneously into his heart. In his case while science air-conditioned the outer world,

Amma’s spiritual proximity air-conditioned his inner world. All this happened when Mata Amritanandamayi appearedbefore the world at large in 1976 in her Divine form. Out of millions of her followers who streamed to Amritapuri, shechose Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to strengthen her mission to strengthen India scientifically and technologically, in turn,revitalize India’s culture, thought and philosophy. That they amply succeeded in their mission, is a universal fact.

It is inexplicable but the fact remains, out of lakhs of her devotees, she chose Dr. Abdul Kalam for her special Grace

which made him the President of India when Vajpayee (then Prime Minister) also her ardent follower, was in search of anationalist candidate to take the reins of Rashtrapati Bhavan. In fact, it was the dire need of the hour because long afterthe tenures of Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan who made India a nation to reckon with, in the world politythrough their nobility of mind, erudite scholarship and absolute simplicity reflecting Indian cultures inherent capacity to

pervade the rest of the world, India needed a man of unusual stature. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr..S.Radhakrishnan, andnow Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the three majestic men together, it won’t be an exaggeration to mention, form the immortalDivine Trinity of Indian Presidents. They shall ever be remembered as world’s leading lights and statesmen because they

being visionaries, they projected Indian vision of ‘Unity in Diversity’.

It is indeed a glorious, illuminating example of Sadguru-Shishya relationship. To quote Avadhoot Gita, “Whoever whetherhe be ignorant or learned, attain to the full awareness of Truth through the grace of a teacher’s wisdom, becomes

detached from the ocean of worldiness” (II, 23).

Dr.Abdul Kalam is reported to have taken Mata Amritanandamayi around RashtrapatiBhavan after he became President of India and also donated one year’s salary to herAmritapuri Ashram in Kerala. What is more, Mata Amritanandamayi got Amritapuri Setuinaugurated by Dr. A.P.J. Kalam. It is facilitating thousands of people on either side ofthe Setu, day in and day out.

To quote Avadhoot Gita again, “He who is free from attachment and hatred, devoted tothe good of all beings, fixed in knowledge and steady, shall attain to the Supremestate” (II, 24).

Who can doubt A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s attainment of the Supreme State?

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