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paraphrase. His repeated advice to his juniors was not to run after “the fishes and loaves

“of office”.

My wife Bhama and I had a unique and special opportunity to look closely at

Sri.Sarangapani from an entirely different angle when we shared quite a few hours of holy

communion with Lord of Melkote on the Vairamudi Seva night when Mrs.Sarangapani was
also present. Here was a different man patient and waiting for the benediction of the Lord
Thiru Narayana. The expression “intellectual arrogance” will aptly cover the man for he

wore it not with insolence but as a becoming ornament as would an emperor wear his royal
clothes which will be an affront to the rag of a commoner! For long long time his finely

chiseled features and awe inspiring face would keep me company whenever I recall my
association and listen to his soft and husky voice in my mind’s ear..

Comparisons are odious. But if one must compare, at all Sri.M.B.Sarangapani with any other
great person, he can be compared only with Sri.C.Rajagopalachari for only that will do justice
to his intellectual honesty and incorruptible integrity.

In this hour of great personal sorrow my wife, my mother in law and myself share along with
your family the pain of separation of Sri.Sarangapani from our midst.”

A thousand moons-Chapter -VIII

Does God exist?:

Coming as I do from a traditional family I have adopted the customs
and beliefs in matters of prayer and worship. The array of photos and
miniature idols of the various incarnations of the God of creation-
Maha Vishnu are testimony to our adherence to Vaishnavite cult.
Towards the end of my career , say 3 years from superannuation I
began to apply caste mark as proof of my identity with Vaishnavite
moorings. Whereas in the vast majority of adherents to any sector
caste mark will be be-all and end-all of our faith in the more elevated
case of beliefs the external expression of identity does not end with
caste marks.

A knowledge of the vast corpus of religious literature like Valmiki
Ramayana, Sri.Vyasa‘s Maha Bharath, or Bhagawat Gita of Bhagawan
Sri.Krishna Himself is a more convincing proof of our identity. Again
these literary classics are held to be derivatives of the Vedas - direct

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