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2. Foreword
It is with deep feelings of humility that I have accepted the invitation to write this foreword to the work Anant Ki Or by Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur. When I went through the work in manuscript I felt that I was indeed ill fitted to introduce the work to the world, but since it was his earnest desire that I should however do so, I have accepted this task.
Shri Ram Chandraji Maharaj is one of the foremost, if not the foremost, of living teachers of mankind who has rather unobtrusively been training and teaching the path of recondite yoga of the most ancient times to worthy seeking souls. His great and worthy Master, Samarth Guru Shri Ram Chandraji of Fatehgarh had taught him the path of direct achievement of the highest or ultimate state, and had indeed granted him that most sublime and ultimate state of perfected yoga. The most important part of this yoga lies in the supreme function of the guru, one who has attained the highest state described as the Ultimate or Anant (Infinite or Endless). It is a pity that though philosophers do speak of the Infinite, they immediately give up the endeavour to realise It by curious escapisms ofintellectquotingtheVedantictext, thatfromwhichspeech returns, mind returns and senses return, “Na vag gachati no mano” or “Na tatra suryo bhati na sasankah” and so
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