Tulasi Maharaj (Swami Nirmalananda ) and his association with Trailanga Swami In Benares there was then living an extraordinary person, a Mahatma, the living Siva himself, as Sri Ramakrishna described him-the great Trailinga swami. Tulasi had the good fortune to visit him several times. The Swami was a Mouni then, Tulasi and other children would often go near and look at him as a curio or assemble round him in playfulness. He used sometimes to drive the boys away. On one occasion the Swami singled out Tulasi, beckoned him to go near him and smilingly and graciously gave him some prasad. Though the Swami was a Mouni he was not dead to the world. Once there was a knotty problem which the learned Pandits wanted to solve, but could not. They approached the Swami and explained the matter to him. He ordered for a slate and pencil and gave them a written reply which satisfied them. Tulasi did not know much of the Swami or of religion and did not realise what it all meant. But he found that the Prasad was very sweet. He used to say in after years that initiation was of different kinds. One of them was through the stomach. This was perhaps his first stomach initiation. Source- Swami Nirmalananda - His life and Teachings - Chapter- II
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