Guruji: Life and Spiritualism

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A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIFE OF A MAHAPURUSH!

Explore the life of Guruji and the miracles he performed throughout his blessed existence on Earth. Written by one of his trusted devotees and closest disciples, this book takes one through the early life of the Leading Light and how he helped and cared for not only his dutiful Sangat but also the people around him.

The author takes great pains in this book to not just enumerate the various miracles that Guruji performed, but also the principles and ideas that the enlightened soul lived by and tried to inculcate in other people. Come, read this beautiful tale of a life spent in the service of the world and its countless inhabitants.

Dr Chhabilendra Roul, a former officer of the Indian Administrative Service, was a secretary to the Government of India. He is an alumnus of Ravenshaw College (Cuttack, Odisha), Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi) and School of Public Policy (University of Birmingham). He got his postgraduate degree in economics from the University of Delhi and holds an MBA degree from the University of Birmingham.

Dr Roul began his professional career as a lecturer in economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. Subsequently, in a span of more than 35 years in the civil services, he has served both in the state and central governments dealing with multifarious subjects crucial to public economic management and welfare. Under his leadership, the team at the Department of Governance Reforms, Punjab, was awarded the Prime Minister's Excellence Award in Public Administration for the year 2012-13 for outstanding work in functional governance reforms.

Dr Roul has authored two books: Bitter to Better Harvest: Post Green Revolution Agricultural and Marketing Strategy for India (2001) and The International Jute Commodity System (2009). He has published several research articles in reputed national and international journals. For his seminal contribution to the civil services and research, he has been inducted as a senior visiting fellow by the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, adjunct professor at Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology and visiting professor (management) at Amity University, Noida.

Humanity does not come across highly spiritual sages, avatars or puran gurus (true gurus) quite often. Even if there is one, very few people recognize him/her as an enlightened soul. As Nitin Joshi, a devotee of Guruji, says,

If you could penetrate the worldly façade he presents, if your gaze can see beyond it to Him, then you shall be blessed with an all-encompassing shelter... Guruji's mannerism and speech are such that they make us believe that He is just like us (they are part of the façade) until the gravity of what He says sinks in. It takes a while for that understanding to develop.

Such recognition of a true guru comes with your karmic earnings and spiritually intelligent perception. When an elevated soul mingles with you and lives the life of a normal human being, it is far more difficult to recognize the higher and finer spiritual attributes of such a soul. Moreover, one becomes a true spiritual seeker when graced by the true guru or almighty, then only one can recognize or find such a puran guru.

Guruji, while living in flesh and blood, never gave any indication of his highly elevated spiritual standing. However, there were plenty of subtle hints and numerous events which provide ample insight into his divinity and spiritual philosophy. His aphorisms, being terse but short utterances, show deep philosophical principles that are neither entirely new nor break away from the spiritual tradition of this great land but are rather a reiteration of core philosophical principles. Simultaneously, he had abjured the obscurantist and out-of-date socio-cultural-religious practices, ordinarily and wrongly touted as core principles of the spiritual and philosophical essence of such a tradition.