On the day of my sannyāsa, I felt that Sri Maharaj was vibrating with a wonderful spiritual fervour. After the homa etc., when I paid my obeisance to him, he put his hand on my head and I immediately had the experience of a vast Presence as if he, the world and myself were merged in an infinite existence. He graciously gave me an idea of what a guru really was. Then I realized the truth of the hymn ‘Salutations to the guru who has made it possible to realize Him by whom this entire universe of movable and immovable objects is pervaded’.[1]
