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Introduction

The life of only those people in the world is purposeful
who are able to dedicate a part or whole of their life in others’
good and service. Such great people have made special
contribution in constructing the world’s history. Service-oriented
people have been born in every country of the world, but it has
been a high point of India, by which it has been able to preserve
and sustain its history over such a long period of time. Other
places cannot match the illustrations brought to the fore in India.
The greatest name in this respect is that of none other than
Maharishi Dadhichi. One devoted time and another youth, one
gave up wealth and splendour and another faced the turmoil of
imprisonment. The land of India is great, the Dharma here is
great, and the gods here are great who inspired a seer to donate
his entire body in order to destroy the demons. Go to a king
and ask for land, and he will willingly give it. Go to a scholar
and ask for learning, and he will teach you for twelve years. Go
to a cloth merchant and ask for cloth, he will give you cloth to
cover the body and money to sustain. We all have heard of
donation of wealth, learning, cloth, land and even good deeds
by the scholarly Brahmins, but nobody has ever heard of an
individual who could donate his body, his life itself. Maharishi
donated each part of his body, in all his sense, in all delight, to
destroy the demon Vritrasur and other demons. It is hard to
find such a strange renunciation in the world.

In these difficult times of modern age, this flow of tradition
has not been impeded. With the blessings of the Almighty, a
great person came to the fore, which is well known by people
of the country. He is none other than the Man. Dr. Keshav