Life Mission, USA - Swami Kripalvanand
Swami Kripalvanand
On the day following his eighteenth birthday, broken by disappointment and determined to commit suicide, Saraswatichandra, the young man destined to become the great saint Swami Kripalvanand, stood in worship during the evening prayers at his favorite temple near the pigeon house of Bhuleshwar. It was the festival of utarayan. All other devotees departed on completion of the evening arti. Saraswatichandra lingered there. An unknown saint in ochre robes approached him and asked him to come to his ashram the next day. The boy did as he was told and thus, on 15th January 1931, placed himself within the folds of the disciplic tradition of Lord Lakulish, of which he would in future become the third Kulguru of the Lakulish lineage. The unknown saint was non other than Lord Lakulish, himself, in disguised form.