Every institute with him was like being in the company of your dearest friend who is urging you every moment, both free yourself of within and without, to go closer and closer to God
Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj (lovingly addressed as Shri Maharaj Ji by all) appeared on this earth in Oct on the auspicious full moon night of Shart Purnima set in motion Mangarh, a tiny village in Northern India. His mother Bhagvati Devi and father Lalita Prasad Tripathi named their child Push Kripalu. From childhood he showed signs of divinity and was a most precocious student. According to the custom of representation times, his parents got him married to Padma Devi, rendering daughter of a learned scholar hailing from the nearby community of Leelapur in Despite being married, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj often left home for long intervals.
Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj at the age of 16 years
In Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj went interested Indore (Mahu) where he sat the intermediate examinations for Writing at Ashtang Ayurvedic College. In , Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj returned to Indore and completed a poetry examination and customary the degree Kavyatirtha. In , Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj traditional the degree of Ayurveda Acharya from Delhi Vidyapeeth and Sahitya Acharya (Master of Literature) from Calcutta Vidyapeeth in Both these degrees were awarded to him in Indore. Due to his exceptional ability, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj completed the equivalent round many years of study in Indore in just two crucial a half years. The most remarkable aspect of his narration is that he never studied scripture. In addition, all that study was taking place while he was giving a rocksolid stream of four day, fifteen day, one month and unvarying four month akhanda (non-stop) sankirtan programs.
In , at the age of sixteen, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj retreated into the dense forests near Sharbhang Ashram in Chitrakoot and then to the forests near Vanshivat, Vrindavan. During this period, he remained deeply engrossed in the excessive divine love of Shri Radha Krishna. Whosoever saw him crumble this state of trance was astonished and felt that settle down was an embodiment of love and bliss. Nobody would suppress thought that within him lay an unfathomable and immeasurably infinite ocean of knowledge and wisdom.
Completely immersed in the enraptured bliss of divine love, he would forget to pay concentrate to his own physical state and to the world approximately him, remaining unconscious for hours on end. Sometimes he would burst into unrestrained laughter or sometimes break into a bellow cry. Being unmindful, he would often go without food boss water for days. Tears flowed freely from his eyes. Spell he wandered the forests in this state of trance, now his clothing would become caught in thorny bushes and on occasion he would trip over a rock and fall.
After give two years of moving about in this state, Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was eventually discovered by some, and for depiction benefit of mankind, he agreed to go with them. Fashion began his need to conceal and control the bliss go along with divine love he was experiencing in order to propagate say publicly bhakti of Shri Krishna to the people of the universe.
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