Queen Fredricka of Greece (1931- 1981)

[KALKI]

Queen Fredricka of Greece (1931- 1981) The wife of King Paul of Greece.

Queen Frederika had come to pay homage to her guru, one of the Shankaracharyas, following his book on non-dualism -i.e., absolute monism, also called Advaita (or Advaita Vendanta). This book was an exposition of the teachings of the ancient Hindu scriptures called the Upanishads, or Vedanta.

While the Paramacharya was in Kalahasthi, Queen Frederica of Greece, who had visited India at that time, came to kalahasthi to have the blessings of the Paramacharya on December 3rd.

Queen Frederika said that it was her advanced research in physics that had started her on a spiritual quest. It culminated in her accepting the non-dualism or absolute monism of Shankara as her philosophy of life and science.

Long before physics discovered it, Shankara had argued that the world of sense experience, that is the world of matter, was a world of appearance (maya), because at the root of each individual existence is the same energy which forms the cosmos. The human self (atman) is ultimately not distinct from the universal self (brahma). Duality is illusion. Reality is not dual, but one. Science, said Frederika, has yet to catch up with what the seers in India had already understood over 2500 years ago. Therefore, she said to the Rajmata,

‘You are fortunate to inherit such knowledge. I envy you. While Greece is the country of my birth, India is the country of my soul.’