Paramahansa YoganandaMahatma Gandhi Swami ChidanandaJ. Krishnamurti
The Mother of PondicherrySwami RamdasSwami SivanandaDaya Mata
Sri Mohanananda Brahmachari
Neem Karoli Baba
Lakshman Narayan Sharma was born around 1900 in U.P. India of a Brahmin family. He was married at age 11, and left home afterwards as a wandering sadhu. He later returned to live a normal family life, having 2 sons and a daughter. He later left home again in 1958 wandering through northern India. Two main ashrams were built, one in Brindavan and one in Kainchi, Uttarkhand, where he mostly stayed for the last 10 years.
He passed away in 1973 at a hospital in Mathura, and Sw Chidananda of Divine Life Society, just happened to be there at Mathura Station when he collapsed, assisting in getting him to the hospital – where he expired. His final words were Jai Jagadisha Hare.
The evening before Mataji’s Tithi Pūjā, Pt. Parasuram was telling us that Baba Neemkaroli Maharaj, who had promised to visit Almora during this function, had not turned up. At that very moment Neemkaroli Babaji shouted loudly from the road above that he had come. We were all taken by surprise. Mataji did not approve of what Pt. Parasuram had said and warned everyone not to make such statements about the behaviour of saints in future. Neemkaroli Babaji went back and passed the night in Almora town. The next day he did not arrive at the Ashram at midday as promised, to take his meal prepared by Kanti Bhai Munshaw’s wife. The Munshaws felt greatly disappointed and finally reluctantly took their meal late in the evening. No sooner had they finished their dinner, than Babaji appeared at Pataldevi, just as Pt. Govind Prasad Pande was remarking to some devotees that Babaji had not kept his promise. Mataji rebuked Govind Prasadji for talking about Babaji in this manner. Babaji told Munshaw Bhai that the Gujarati dish specially prepared for him by Srimati Munshaw had really been quite delicious. Everyone present felt puzzled as Munshaw Bhai had said nothing about that particular dish to Babaji or to any of us. Thereupon Mataji indicated to us indirectly that even without being physically present, Babaji could partake of the food specially prepared for him. He had obviously enjoyed the dish in his subtle body.
Above taken from the Ma Anandamayi Lila, Memories of Hari Ram Joshi. (Ch 9, May 1944).
One morning Maharajji said to the people at the ashram, “You people can’t feed me or take care of me. I’m going to Ma. She’ll feed me.” And he left for the ashram of Ananda Mayee Ma, a great woman saint of northern India. During the entire trip he was saying, “She’ll feed me. I’m going to see Ma. She’ll feed me.” Then he burst into the darshan room like a child of five, with his blanket flying in all directions. She was sitting there and he was saying, “Ma! Feed me. Feed me, Ma!” She exploded in laughter. A huge meal was brought to him and the two of them passed it out to all the devotees.
Above taken from “Miracle of Love” by Ram Dass.