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Impact of the

Inimitable Master

SMT. KAVITA CHANRAI:
INTERVIEW BY SWAMINI KAIVALYANANDA

Please tell us about your lectures inspired me. I had
first meeting with Pujya never heard anything like that
Gurudev. in my life before. I wondered
how he knew what I felt and
Gurudev had come to Nigeria
what was going on in my mind.
and everybody was talking
That was the impact he made
about how great his lectures on me when I first met him. He
were. I was not really interested,
is my first and only Guru. It is
but owing to peer pressure, I said that the Guru looks out for
decided to attend his talks with you and chooses you. The way
my friends. After the lecture, I
Gurudev has literally picked me
went up to meet him and made out, I firmly believe that he is
a half-hearted attempt to bow
the one for me. I had to wait for
down. He said, “You don’t re- him to come to Nigeria.
ally have to bow down. I can
see that you really don’t want In those days, the morning
to.” I replied that I was meet- classes were held in somebody’s
ing him for the first time and house and the evening classes
felt I should pay due respect, as were held in a common hall. I
everybody was talking very couldn’t attend the morning
highly about him. He said, “Al- classes, because the driver was
ways do things from the heart. not available at that time. I
If you don’t want to bow down always attended the evening
to me, you don’t have to. Its classes and would go to the
perfectly okay. What do you house where he had dinner to
want to say? ‘Hi’?” I told him meet and observe him. That
‘Hari Om’ was good enough! visit of his had stirred my
Right from day one, his interest, but after he left, I got

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