Author biography · page i

1Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj

2Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj was born in 1922

3on the auspicious night of Sharat Purnima into a highly

4respectable Brahmin family in Mangarh, a village of

5district Pratapgarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh, India.

6He completed his early education in Mangarh and

7Kunda. Later he studied Sanskrit grammar, literature and

8Ayurveda at Indore, Chitrakoot and Varanasi.

9At the tender age of sixteen, he retreated to the dense

10forests near the Sharbhang ashram in Chitrakoot and

11then to the forests near Vanshivat in Vrindavan. During

12that period he was deeply engrossed in the divine love

13of Shri Krishna and whosoever saw him in that state of

14trance, was astonished and felt that he was an

15embodiment of love and bliss. Nobody at that time could

16have thought that he had unfathomable and

17immeasurably vast ocean of jnan (knowledge and

18wisdom) hidden within him. Immersed completely in

19the ecstatic bliss of love he forgot to pay attention to

20his physical state and the world around him and