Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft …….
Zweiggesellschaft Remscheid
Bergische Morgenpost dated 30, June 1994
Indian Swami the guest of Lord Mayor Ulbrich
His life offered to the service of the poorest
By Dirk Wustenhagen

Lord Mayor Reinhard Ulbrich was pleased: "Whenever do we have the opportunity of welcoming a genuine Swami?" His wish has come true since the India monk, Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari, as the guest of the German-Indian Society, of which Ulbrich is the 1. Chairman, payed his respects to the Head of Remscheid in the townhall.

"I bring you the love and the greeting of about 850 million people", said the Hindu thanking the Lord Mayor for the invitation in perfect English. Ulbrich being impressed replied diplomatically : "It is up to me to be pleased having such rare guests in our tool town." The Swami presented him a sculpture of Krishna, one of the most known deities of Hinduism.

A bridge between the nations.
"I did not come to Remscheid as missionary", emphasized the Swami. His visit were rather meant to build a bridge between the nations and the religions. "All religions – independent of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism – have one thing in common, it is to achieve love, harmony and peace. If mankind all over the world dedicate their life to these goals, that means to think and to live with your heart, there were no more place for jealousy, hatred hostility and war."

"We are on our way to the 21th century and I am confident, that people will recognize these values." An opportunity to create positive awareness is offered in the meditative Yoga. " I will talk in my lecture about the various forms."

40 villages founded

What Swami Shuddhananda Brahmachari tries to impart on a theoretical and religious level he verifies in his everyday life. He was born in Kalkutta in 1947 as the son of a distinguished Brahmin family. After his studies of economics with the degree ‘summa cum laude’ and having taught at the university of Kalkutta for several years, he decided in the age of 27, called and inspired by the great Indian saint Baba Lokenath, to devote himself entirely to the spiritual life and the social service to the underprivileged in the slums of Kalkutta. He founded 40 villages with schools and kindergartens as well as a mobile hospital, in which the "poorest of the poor" get medical treatment without expense. His chief concern is the instruction for hygenie and thus the prevention of diseases.

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