Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj

He was now around sixteen years of age. He resumed his natural Divine nature, and, at that time, whoever had seen him, would have glimpsed the true form of Radha Krishn love, appearing in its fullest charm of highest ecstatic excitement… Remaining in that state of absolute engrossment, he walked to Chitrakoot and Sharbhang and Graced the deserving souls living there. Shri Maharajji then moved towards Sharbhang and Graced a devotee of gopi bhao who was deeply longing for Krishn’s vision. In the same state of Divinely-absorbed-consciousness he moved towards Mahoba and then to Jhansi. People of this world could not see the Divineness of Maharajji’s body, but still they saw the physical expressions of his Bhao. The pious people who saw him were amazed to see his Bhao state and thus they took the privilege to invite him to their houses. In this way, there were a number of families in whose house he stayed, somewhere a few hours and somewhere a day or two, but he was constantly twenty-four hours in Bhao. Day and night made no difference for him. In those days people used to call him Paramhansji because he was always in an absolute state of Radha Krishn love. For about two years he stayed in that state.

Around 1940 he came to Vrindaban. Swooning while he uttered ‘Krishn, Krishn’ dancing in ecstasy, and loudly laughing in ecstatic excitement, his presence in Vrindaban excited the hearts of the devotees who saw him. News about him spread around and a few devotees with a longing heart came from Mathura to invite him to their house. Shri Maharajji now decided to introduce the true Braj ras to the souls of this world as Radha Rani and Shri Krishn gave about 5,000 years ago and Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhuji showered the same nectar of Krishn love about 500 years ago. Being always absorbed in the ecstatic states of Radha Bhao, it was hard to communicate with the people. So, for the good of the souls, he subsided his Bhao state to some extent and decided to reveal the leela Bliss of Radha Krishn to the people in general through regular satsang which mainly contained the chanting (sankirtan) of the names, virtues and the leelas of Radha Krishn. He started his satsang in the houses of the devotees in Mathura, and then in Agra and Allahabad, and so on.

On the request of the devotees, Shri Maharajji documented the devotional philosophy of Krishn love “Prem Ras Siddhant” in 1955. He called for one of the devotees and dictated the whole book with Sanskrit quotations of scriptures (although he had never read those scriptures). The devotee was incredibly amazed at the scriptural omniscience of Shri Maharajji.

In October 1955 he organized a religious convention in Chitrakoot in which the prominent spiritual leaders of India and the Jagadgurus participated. Mahamahopadhyay Giridhar Sharma, President of Kashi Vidvat Parishad, had also come and was thrilled with the Divine dignity and the Divine knowledge (of the Bhartiya scriptures) of Shri Maharajji. Another convention was organized in 1956 in Kanpur. In the Kanpur convention the chief secretary of Kashi Vidvat Parishad, Shri Raj Narain, Shat Shastree, who was a great learned person and a popular scholarly figure of Varanasi, happened to come and listen to Shri Maharajji’s discourse. He was also overtaken with the unparalleled scriptural wisdom of Shri Maharajji. When he went back home, on behalf of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad, he invited Shri Maharajji to Grace the scholars and the pandits of Varanasi with his Divine speech.

And thus, Shri Maharajji went to Kashi in 1957. His speeches went on for seven days. The congregation had almost all the scholars of Varanasi and also many others who came from other provinces of India. They had never seen such a Divine personality who is absolutely well versed in all of the scriptures (Vedas, Upnishads, Sutras, Upvedas, Vedangas, Darshan Shastras, Puranas, Itihas, the philosophies of the Jagadgurus and the writings of the rasik Saints etc.), and, at the same time, he was humble, kind and absorbed in Radha Krishna Bhao, which radiated from his personality. Now, the learned pandits of Kashi Vidvat Parishad took the privilege of honoring Shri Maharaj Ji with the flowers of their appreciation  and praised their fortune to have the opportunity to worship him as the Supreme Jagadguru of this age. He is thus the fifth original Jagadguru in the last 5,000 years. Prior to him there were only four original Jagadgurus: Jagadguru Nimbarkacharya (before 600 BC), Jagadguru Shankaracharya (509-477 BC), Jagadguru Ramanujacharya (1017-1137 AD) and Jagadguru Madhvacharya (13th century).

Through countless lectures, Jagadguru Kripalu Ji Maharaj  has explained the most complex teachings of Hindu scriptures in a simple, practical manner that can be understood by people of all ages and backgrounds. He emphasizes roopdhyan (actively engaging the mind while meditating on the form, virtues and Divine actions of God) to be the most important part of any form of Bhakti and considers Bhakti without roopdhyan lifeless.

To help one easily engross his mind in God, he has revealed a sea of devotional material including Prem Ras Siddhant, an exemplary masterpiece that references hundreds of Hindu scriptures and establishes Bhakti as the easiest and the surest path to God; 1,008 original pads (devotional songs) that surpass the writings of great Saints and reveal both the breadth and depth of Braj Ras, the highest form of Divine bliss; and thousands of other Radha Krishna bhajans and kirtans.