About this book
Śrī Mahendra Mahārāj — called Śrī Charaṇāśrit, “he who has taken refuge at the feet” — was born at Maṇikā in the Darbhaṅgā district of Bihār and renounced the world at twenty. He walked nearly every province of India and made the pilgrimage to Tibet, Nepāl, Mānasarovar and Kailāsa many times over. Of Śrī Haiḍākhāṇḍī Bābā, the “old” Haiḍākhān Bābā, he was the wholly single-minded devotee, and it was he who made that worship known: he had āśramas and temples built, consecrated the images, and put the practice within reach of ordinary householders. He passed at Vṛndāvan in June 1969.
This volume was published fifteen years later by the committee formed in his memory. Twenty-one people who had known him wrote down what they remembered — among them Ambālāl Īnāmdār of Bombay, Gopāl Prasād Pāṭhak of Mathurā, Revatī Prasād of Lohvan, and Viśvācārya Śrī Viṣṇudatt Miśra of Rājgarh, whose Śrī Mahendra Charitra runs to more than two hundred pages on its own.
It can be read here in full, in English or in the original Hindi, or downloaded as a PDF in either language.
The Hindi edition is set from an OCR reading of the 1984 printing and keeps the volume’s own spellings and its misprints. The photographs in both editions are originals supplied for this library, not reproductions of the printed book’s plates.