Girish's Blog

SINDAVADAR ASHRAM, MORBI, GUJARAT 11-13 JULY Jai Baba Swami This time we decided to fly down to Rajkot rather than drive down. We reached the Ashram early morning at 8.30pm. The registration for the event was in the region of 9100-200, and if you take a 10% dropout average from past experience we still had 8300-400 sadhaks for the event. Lots of sadhaks had already reached the Ashram and had selected their bedding slots in the available residential zones. Due to a heavy downpour a couple of days earlier some of the arrangements made had got washed out, hence under emergency mode alternative arrangements had to be made. So the eating area was converted into living quarters so that the sadhaks could be accommodated. Also the exhibition had been cancelled and this area had been converted into Sahitya, donation counter, etc. Due to this situation the beds could not be numbered and hence it was a first come first served kind of a situation. We (Anant Khamankar, Ramnath Kamath...

While we were at Dandi Ashram on 5 th and 6 th of July, during the lunch break after the morning session of the Madhuchaitanya Board meeting, Rambhai invited the entire Editorial Board to the big meditation hall. We were wondering why he had called us – thinking that it may be a bhajan session or something of the sort. Dr. Singh and I were waiting near the hall when Rambhai accompanied by a sevadhari carrying an industrial measuring tape joined us. 6 other Board members joined us shortly, of which 4 were gents and 4 ladies. Once inside, Rambhai explained that he was going to test the length of our aura using two copper rods bent in an ‘L’ shape – one foot by 4 inches or so. Along with the copper rods he had two pieces of hollow bamboo about five inches long in which he could insert the short arm of the ‘L’ shape so that the rod could move freely. He told us he got inspiration for this experiment from a place in Bhilwara, Rajasthan where he saw a similar experiment being carrie...