Girish's Blog

I had to put this down in writing as I realised that it was a play of consciousness. Let me start by giving a bit of background. I had bought a Bhagvad Gita about 15 years ago from ISKCON by Swami Prabhupada, and then someone had taken it and not returned it - who I do not recollect. A thought used to always play at the back of my mind that I need to read the Bhagvad Gita and I should find time to go and get one. But somehow this never happened over the passage of time. Yesterday, after meditation, as usual I was going home when the car halted at the Kherwadi signal. The traffic stops at this signal for quite some time. I was listening to Osho's discourse on the Ashtavakra Gita with my eyes closed when i heard a knocking on the window. I saw someone with books and I assumed that it was one of those hawkers who peddle pirated novels and I ignored him. After a few moments, the gentleman gain knocked on the window and I looked up at his face and noticed he was in a tonsured state, t...

I had told our Acharya on Monday April 1 to inform the Ashram that five of us would be visiting the Ashram on Wednesday, 3rd April, 2013. There were last minute cancellations and additions and ultimately seven of us left for Dandi utilising the full sitting capacity of the SUV. I had requested our Acharya to inform the Ashram that the sadhaks would be 6, but with one last minute addition it was seven of us who ultimately left for Dandi at 6.30am. As usual I took my mother's blessings and prayed to Swamiji for a safe to and fro journey. I picked up Bharati (her first visit to the Ashram) from outside her residence at Shivaji Park at 6.30am, then waited for Haren and his wife Bina near the Milan subway on the western express highway. They joined us at at about 6.50am and then we left for Borivali for our next pick-up. During the conversation, I lost track of which flyover I was to halt after at Borivali and inadvertently crossed the Borivali National Park flyover and stopped. I reali...