mrinalini -4

Soon after meeting Paramahansaji...

the young Merna felt the call to devote her life to God and Guru as a renunciant in the SRF monastic community.

The Guru requested, that she first complete her junior high school education. Then, with her parents’ permission - on June 10, 1946 - at the age of fifteen, she came to live at the SRF Hermitage in Encinitas, California.

In Encinitas, she finished high school, while receiving Paramahansaji’s personal guidance and ashram training. The Guru’s advanced disciple Sri Gyana Mata, who was in charge of the Hermitage, was a beloved and influential mentor and spiritual mother to her during those years.

Mrinalini Mata’s own mother entered the ashram two years later, receiving the name Meera Mata after taking her final sannyas vows.

   

Keenly aware...

of the exceptional spiritual maturity of this young disciple from past incarnations, Paramahansaji personally bestowed on her the final vows of sannyas in 1947, after she had been in the ashram only about a year.

He chose for her the monastic name Mrinalini - मृणालिनी - signifying the purity of the lotus flower, an ancient symbol of spiritual unfoldment.


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