Daily Upanyasam, at Chennai
During the four months of his stay in Chennai, Swamigal completed his puja in the evenings, sat in a throne and gave rare lectures every day to the scores of people who gathered there to listen to his words. Thousands of people including common folks as well as geniuses like T.R. Venkatarama Shastrigal, Judge Kumaraswamy Shastrigal and Sir P.S.Swivaswamy Iyer all gathered daily to listen to Swamigal’s upanyasams. In spite of such a huge crowd, there would be an astonishing silence and everyone’s eyes would be on the sparkling and compassionate figure of our Swamigal on the stage. Swamigal would maintain silence for a few minutes and then start his speech. Nobody would know beforehand what that day’s topic of the speech would be. Swamigal’s ability to attract the
attention of the audience could be seen within a few minutes of his beginning to talk.
Everyday, Hindu and Sudesamithran carried the text of the previous night’s speech. R.Narayanaswamy Iyer, publisher of Mylapore Law Journal, took upon himself, the task of collating and publishing Swamigal’s speeches into two six hundred and fifty page volumes of Sankara Vijayam Upanyasam. He also accepted the responsibility of selling the books to the general public at a concessional price. The preface to the book was written beautifully by K.Balasubramania Iyer.
The third volume of the compilation of speeches was published by the Mylapore Kamakshi Firm at a low cost irrespective of the loss and had one hundred and fifty six pages in it. As the first edition of the print was sold out fast, Kamakoti Gosh published the next edition of fifty upanyasams again.
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