From Swamiji's life: Inspiration on Taking Refuge

Swamiji recited the entire Chandi Path in the morning while sitting in the hot springs. Then he performed yoga exercises. By dawn he returned to the banyan tree and organized his puja. At first he performed his puja with whatever he could find: leaves, grass, grains of rice. Later, once we got to know him, the village children delighted in bringing him flowers for worship first thing every morning.

His worship lasted until 9:30 or 10:00. Then he took a short break for half-hour or so before sitting down to sing the Chandi again. It was usually sometime after sunset that he rose from his seat. Then he took the two bells, one in each hand, and rang them so loudly you could hear them resounding all the way across the village, while he sang the songs of arati. Soon the whole village came to recognize the sounds of Swamiji's evening arati, and it became a topic of conversation around the whole village. Simply through his own constant, pure and unwavering private daily worship, this lone Sahib sadhu had begun to change our lives. - from "Sahib Sadhu".

With the blessings of our Gurus, we continued to make japa of the Sharanagata Mantra in 2008 and have offered more than 250,000 mantras. Thank You! The Japa totals as of February 29th 2008 are as follows:

Ambika	3,240
Ananda Kaanta	90,396
Aparna	6,804
Brindavanshakti	3,888
Devi	36,072
Eric	2,484
Jennifer	8,100
Jun	5,508
Kalachandra	5,724
Kaliananda	3,888
Kanda	4,536
Leela	5,832
Morningsong	5,508
Nanda	1,080
Parvati	5,724
Ramya	5,400
Rosario	4,860
Sivakumar	3,132
Srini	5,724
Tapomayi	1,080
Usha	41,424
Total	250,404