Sowing of the seeds for sublimation of attitude 3

I devoted four hours daily for writing work. It appeared as if the example of Vyas and Ganesh was being repeated, when Puranas were written, Vyas dictated to Ganesh. The same thing happened with me. The translation of voluminous ancient Sanskrit scriptural texts was a difficult task. Like Ganesh, I was used as a mere scribe for translating the four Vedas, 108 Upanishads, six Darsans, 24 Smritis; but the entry who gave dictation was some invisible power. Otherwise, so huge a task could not have been completed within so short time. Hundreds of looks relating to mass education through the agency of moral and spiritual instruction could not have been written in the strength of the talents of one single person. This writing work continues uninterrupted since the day it was started. The weight if my published works almost equals the weight of my body.

For publishing a press was needed. With my own limited resources I had somehow managed for a hand press. The one who had to get all this work done through me laughed at my childishness. Miraculously there was steady development of the press and treadles, cylinder, automatics and offset machines were added one after the other. Their cost and those of the publications added up to lakhs of rupees.

On my human strength, the number of subscribers of Akhand Jyoti could reach two thousands only. The Guide then gave a push and the figure has now gone up- to one half lakhs. It is likely to register a tenfold increase in due course of time. In all, about one and half lakh copies of Yug Nirman Yojana (Hindi), Yug sakti Gayatri (Gujarati), Yug sakti (Oriya) are also being published. It is an unprecedented record that magazines wholly written by one person have such a large circulation, without incurring any loss and that too without accepting any advertisement.

With a view to organizing Gayatri Parivar, Sahastra-kundi yagya was performed at Mathura by way purnahuti of Mahapurascarana. There is no exaggeration in saying that there has not been any celebration of this scale since Mahabharata times.

Hardly does anybody know about some mysterious occurrences relating to this celebration. Devoted Gayatri sadhaks, about four lakh in numbers, were invited from all over the country. They all took over charge of the work of educating the masses through, moral and spiritual instruction. All these persons were unknown to me. But invitation letters reached them and they came at their own cost. It remains a riddle and a mystery.

The number of daily visitors and participated in the yagya was about ten lakh persons. The latter were all lodged in a number of huge camps covering an area of seven miles. No participant in the yagya was sent back without food. We had provisions sufficient only feeding about twenty thousand people at one time. But the store became inexhaustible. More than five lakh persons were fed in this function, which lasted for five days. Previsions were left over after the celebration which was distrusted free of cost to deserving persons. Arrangements were so meticulous that they could not have been made even by engaging a thousand paid employees.