# Author biography · page i

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<a id="line-1"></a>Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj  
<a id="line-2"></a>Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was born in 1922  
<a id="line-3"></a>on the auspicious night of Sharat Purnima into a highly  
<a id="line-4"></a>respectable Brahmin family in Mangarh, a village of  
<a id="line-5"></a>district Pratapgarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh, India.  
<a id="line-6"></a>He completed his early education in Mangarh and  
<a id="line-7"></a>Kunda. Later he studied Sanskrit grammar, literature and  
<a id="line-8"></a>Ayurveda at Indore, Chitrakoot and Varanasi.  
<a id="line-9"></a>At the tender age of sixteen, he retreated to the dense  
<a id="line-10"></a>forests near the Sharbhang ashram in Chitrakoot and  
<a id="line-11"></a>then to the forests near Vanshivat in Vrindavan. During  
<a id="line-12"></a>that period he was deeply engrossed in the divine love  
<a id="line-13"></a>of Shri Krishna and whosoever saw him in that state of  
<a id="line-14"></a>trance, was astonished and felt that he was an  
<a id="line-15"></a>embodiment of love and bliss. Nobody at that time could  
<a id="line-16"></a>have thought that he had unfathomable and  
<a id="line-17"></a>immeasurably vast ocean of jnan (knowledge and  
<a id="line-18"></a>wisdom) hidden within him. Immersed completely in  
<a id="line-19"></a>the ecstatic bliss of love he forgot to pay attention to  
<a id="line-20"></a>his physical state and the world around him and

All 1008 Hindi verses, printed Roman transliteration and published English meanings from the supplied 441-page English edition, first published October 2010. The separate 291-page Hindi edition is not silently substituted or aligned to these English meanings. Supplied edition: First English edition, October 2010. Publisher: Radha Govind Samiti, New Delhi.

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