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2. Grandfather’s

Darling

Presented by – Dharma House

Loving God

Table of

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2 Two Calamities that Struck the Family

Kasturi sir’s schooling

Rajas of Cochin

Feeding house

High school

School Teachers

Important Incidents

Kasturi sir’s Marriage

His interests

The Two Calamities that Struck the Family 3

• Lost the managership of the temple because of an act done by an offensive boy
• Could no longer offer food to the deity nor bring it home
• Kasturi sir's aunt and cousins were not taken care of and thus the aunt arrived at her parental home
• The grandfather became hysterical and couldn't be calmed down even by the grandmother

Kasturi Sir's schooling 4

• (^) A decision was to be made whether to send the children to a school or

Sanskrit Paathshala

• (^) The sisters had differences in their opinions
  • (^) Sir's mother in favor of normal schooling
  • (^) Sir's aunt in favor of Gurukula
• (^) Cousins walked along different paths
• (^) Later, the two incidents with Swami prompted him to learn Vedas CSP 2

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Six, hard assignments

1.performing rituals to propitiate Nature and Nature’s God; 2.encouraging the performance of such rituals; 3.studying the scriptures; teaching them; 4.giving in charity to others whatever makes life happier and more purposeful; 5.living on gifts given with pure motives,

6. from out of riches earned by pure means

SWAMI ABOUT BRAMHINS:

Brahmins imposed on themselves rigorous disciplines and deprivations in daily living, family life, and social contacts, in order to promote purity, rectitude, righteous action, and humility in themselves and others.

Token of Gratitude bt RAJAS

1.shifted the palace from Cochin to Tripunittura 2.Established feeding house 3.No bramhin should starve GC-

8 v (^) .1960-Placed at Baba’s feet the first copy of the book, named “Sathyam Sivam Sundaram” v (^) happy occasion- mother, who had struggled against heavy opposition was able to witness his achievement v (^) Her son could write in English the Biography of the Divine, come as human, and offer the fragrant flower at His Lotus Feet. v (^) 250 members young, old men and women trekking to the eating shed. v (^) Wait for feats. not with mouths watering but fingers itching for lead pencils v (^) High School-1903 to 1914 teaching staff was selected from a panel of efficient masters v (^) Narayana Iyer-“What he did not know of English was not worth knowing,” v (^) Krishna Iyer-*was deeply grounded in grammar *irrepressible fan of Swami Vivekananda, v (^) Gopala Marar-personal tutor krishna Iyer GC- 2 FEEDING HOUSE

10 School library teacher Teacher Padmanabhan Pillai Headmaster

• (^) Orate and debate at the student's association - (^) Persuaded them to read books - (^) Only prodigiously hungry for books - (^) Allergy towards abridged editions Inspector
• (^) Mispronounced 'les Misérables' Grandfather
• (^) Problem lurking in every solution
• (^) Rare talent - storytelling Veda 2

Important Incidents 11 Baba utilized one of his grandfather's stories to draw him towards him

Another method to keep the pot boiling

Scholarship:

• (^) Government of Cochin – 5 Rs. For 3 years
• (^) Headmaster - every 3 months, a gold soverign with Queen Victoria on it

Unforgettable gift from grandfather

Another windfall – marriage

• (^) wife 80 year old and sir 85 year old ( at that time when he was writting the book) Veda 1

SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATION EXAM 13

• (^) Sir appeared for the exam at Ernakulam
• (^) Before every exam he prayed “Lord illumine my head, steady my hand, make my answers right and my script eligible".
• (^) Sir stood 1 st in Malayalam and History in the entire state and secured 5 th rank- got monthly scholarship of 10 rupees. AT THE MAHARAJA’S COLLEGE , ERNAKULAM (JULY 1914)
• (^) Sir offered the History of Greece and Rome, the History of India, the Constitutional History of Britain, English as 1 st language and Malayalam as the 2 nd language Anju 2

PASSION FOR ACTING ON STAGE Anju 3

• (^) Sir played the role of Brutus in the Shakespeare’s play – “Julius Caesar”.
• (^) In school, he acted in stage thrice.
  • (^) Poem recitation at the parents gathering
  • (^) A year later, Sir sang a Malayalam ballad
  • (^) Few scenes from the Shakespeare’s Tempest, as Prospero

1916, Trivandrum 16 University of Madras

Lorem

ipsum

It was a faraway dot on the map, 150 miles and 32 hours away, whereas Madras, which was three times that distance afar, was only 26 hours away. They had to be carried over wide backwaters, shallow lagoons, and narrow canals by paddle boats, pushed and pulled when they had to negotiate knee-deep patches, and dragged mercilessly through tunnels scooped 1916, Trivandrum  (^) An Honors course in History lasting for 3 years had just been initiated at Trivandrum by the University of Madras. Prof. Rangaswamy Iyengar took him into his fold.  (^) He was eligible for the Grigg Memorial Fellowship, valued at twelve rupees a month for three years, since he was on top of all the freshmen, who had joined the College.  (^) supplemented the emaciated menu meted out by the Maharaja at the Temple, with a few ounces of yogurt and a spoon of hot pickles, sold in shops near the Temple. Professor's Library - a veritable gold mine^ He was allowed to browse on the shelves as long, and as often, as he liked.  (^) His friend and Neighbour was an Engineer, a Benerji, gave bundles of printed appeals and a few receipt books to him.  (^) He and his friend spent a few hours, every week, to collect three figure piles as donation for the Ramakrishna Mandir at Aruvikkarai, on the outskirts of the City.

Teaching of Professor and Sir Kasturi's time with Professor 17 Professor stressed on the values laid down by the sages for the living of all kind of people. He also had a care in the students future. While their travel sir Kasturi would nudge his professor with lots of questions from Vedas, The Upanishads, The Geeta etc. Professor uesd to take sir Kasturi along with him while going to sea shore with the desire that sir Kasturi should be spritually benefited. And now sir Kasturi mentions about another two his professors one is Prof. Schloss and the other person is Prof. Sahasranama Iyer.

1916, Trivandrum This Damodaran Potti was a kind of person who had more love towards his country. Because of which he had spent money and came to Salem along with sir Kasturi to meet Mahatma Gandhi. In Salem they stayed with the Principal, of the Salem Municipal College, he was a teacher at Trivandram. Skills of Sir Kasturi 19 It was the venue for a Swadeshi Exhibition. Sri C. Rajagopalachariar (Rajaji) was there, supervising the arrangements. After the meeting when they returned to their place they were fully exhausted. And now sir Kasturi's mother was affected with small-pox and he had to appoint a nurse to look after her. Even at such difficult times he was able to manage both is High School and the Law College. In school, he found many students with talents. Then he put an English play which was written and directed by him, called “Shah Jehan”. He has also enacted as Aurangazeb, though Shah Jehan was the person around whom the drama rotated in the Law College. And in Puttaparthi, when Baba wrote plays for the students, sir Kasturi would share with Him the pleasant task of watching and advising the actors during rehearsal sessions.

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