Dada Piyusananda

Today Ácárya Piyushánanda Avadhuta passed away at age 67. He became a worker in 1963 when he was only 16 years old. After the Emergency period ended in 1977, he was posted in Kolkata as the editor of NOTUN PRITHIVI (New World), a Bengali Prout daily newspaper. Then in 1978 when Baba came out of jail and moved to Kolkata, Dadajii became Press and Printing Secretary, working hard to print BABA’s books.

Dádá Vijayánandajii used to make the transcriptions of BABA´s discourses by hand and BÁBÁ wanted to see those transcriptions in printed form immediately. In those days there were no computers or cars in AMPS India. Dada Piyushánanda used to come early in the morning by bus to get those transcriptions and in same the evening or early the next morning he returned with printed transcriptions. Dada Vijayánandaji used to correct the errors immediately and Dada Piyusánanda had to run back to print them so that they could be presented to BÁBÁ. It was a big tension. Sometimes there was no money to print the books, so he had to ask for loans from somebody. A few years later printing machines were installed at our Camp HQ of Tiljala. BABA was giving talks and discourses on different subjects and immediately HE liked to see the books. Dada Piyushánanda completed HIS desire.

After Baba's physical departure, Dada Piyushánanda supervised the construction of “The Marga Guru Memorial” at Tiljala, Kolkata, and he started Prabhat Library, a publishing house at College Street in Kolkata. He worked tirelessly for Baba's Mission until his final breath.