The Visionary

H.D. Paramhansa Omkarananda Saraswati

H.D. PARAMHANSA OMKARANANDA SARASWATI is a God -realised Saint, Mystic, Sage, Philosopher and Writer. Already at the age of thirteen and fourteen his life was flooded with numerous spiritual experiences of the omnipresent and omniscient God.

Under the dictates of these experiences, he left his home city in South India for the Himalayas, where the world-renowned Sage Sri Swami Sivananda recognised in him an embodiment of the high spirit of renunciation, profound divine wisdom, touching purity of heart, made him known as Bala Yogi, Bala Jnani, title him as Adhyatma kavita-Bhaskara and crowned him with Sanyasa-Diksha at the age of seventeen.

In his shortes autobiography in the world Swami Omkarananda Saraswati writes:-
"Purity is the soul of my strength. Truth is the source of my power. God is my life, and I have no existence apart from Him. His Conciousness is my Light. His all-sustaining and all-creative Beauty constitutes my joy. Prayer is my breath and meditation form the bread of my Life. All humanity is my family. The Forces of Nature are my Friends. The Godhead in all of you is the object of my adoration."