SWAMI Paramananda Saraswati, whose pre-monastic name was Mrinal Kanti Das (1915-80), was a poet, a seer, a sage, a saint; and to his close disciples who witnessed his daily miracles, an Incarnation. He had a frail body, but his activities ranged over a wide field; what prompted him to carry this strenuous burden was disinterested love- -a stray pariah dog would equally receive his kind attention. Healing the sick, even the terminally ill patient stricken with the dreaded carcinoma, was one manifestation of this overflowing compassion. Some of his disciples had the inestimable privilege of watching this strange phenomenon that gave them some insight into the secret correspondence between the two worlds, nature and supernature.
Swami Paramananda was not a mystic in the sense with which we ordinarily associate the term, and since daybreak he attended to various activities that are normally described as mundane. The load was heavy; yet he was an outsider in a very special sense; and he would find time to record his unusual experiences, his dialogues with the divine, in rhythmic idiom colloquial and esoteric.
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