SAMARPAN CHAITANYA MAHADHYAN SHIBIR – 2016
7, 8, 9 November, 2016….Samarpan Ashram, Dandi,
Navsari, Gujarat
We had decided to leave for Dandi at 6.30am on
7th but postponed it slightly as Sridhar Maniji’s flight from
Bangalore was to land at 6.50am. I left home at 6.30 and first picked up Prabha
Rao from Vakola and then Harish Rao from the domestic airport. While I was at
Bandra Sridhar called saying his flight had landed. After picking up Sridhar, I
called Deepaliji and told her that we were leaving and should be at Borivali by
7.15am. We reached there at around that time and within a few minutes Deepaliji
also arrived. With all on board we left for the holy land and for Divine
Birthday Celebrations…… 3 days of bliss. We halted at Datta’s for hot kanda
poha and thali peeth accompanied by tea. After a 40-minute halt, we
left for Dandi and reached comfortably by 11.15am. We registered and went to
the meditation hall where our sleeping arrangements were made. After leaving
our bags we went and got fresh and went to meet and greet the sadhaks who were
coming in. There were meetings lined up for various events……we attended one
meeting at 1.30pm before the start of the main event. We had our Prasad, got
ready and left for the main event tent at 2.15pm and took our seats. The event
was registered for about 4500 sadhaks.
Event Calendar
The event was being compered as efficiently and
entertainingly as ever by Dr Paras Bhatt and Ms. Ketki Parikh. Dr. Paras Bhatt
is a fountain of information and knowledge and always pitches in very
interesting tidbits with a great sense of timing! We were all seated with the
chant playing on the sound system ensuring that we went into a silent quasi
meditative state. Her Holiness Guruma arrived on the dot at 2.30pm to the
blowing of conches and loud applause followed a few minutes thereafter by His
Holiness Swamiji again to the blowing of conches, applause and shouts of Babaswami
maharaj ki jai and Vandaniya Gurumaiyya ki jai! Ramkaka then announced the
lighting of the lamp and the mantra was chanted as His Holiness lit the lamp
and offered His respects to Shivbabaji. He then took His seat – Guru Ahavan
took place in collectivity. Then the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by
religious leaders representing different religions took place. As the names
were announced one by one the religious representatives came on stage – 1) Shri
Mohammad Suved Rampoorvala representing Islam, 2) Shri Khurshid Desai representing
the Parsis, 3) Shri Sajjan Singh – Sindhi, 4) Geetaben and Mukeshaben – the
Brahmakumaris, 5) Shri Ramdasbabu – Arjun Ashram, 6) Shri Ram Prasad – Krishna
bhakts, 7) Shri Alex Preta – Catholics, 8) Rameshbhai Patel – Gayatri
Parivar-Surat, 9) Sarpanch of Dandi – Shri Parimalbhai Patel, 10) Ashishbhai Shah
– Bar Council of Navsari, 10) Shri Ankurbhai Patel – Executive Engineer,
Navsari – all these delegates were escorted by Shri Sundeep Sharma (Mg Trustee
– SSSAT), Smt. Sharmila Patil (Mg. Trustee – YPBSST) and Shri Umedbhai Tandel –
President South Gujarat Ashram Committee. After lighting of the lamp, each
representative was welcomed and felicitated with a small gift and memento by
the Trust representatives.
At 3pm new sahitya was launched at the
hands of Her Holiness Guruma – a) Guru-Poornima 2016 Q&A DVD, Calendar 2017
– both table and wall, and a keychain. Guruma then took the mike and said that
the lamps have now been lit and this light should be taken within with this
feeling – if both the northern star and the southern star then there will light
on the whole of the earth. The calendar will remind you of your journey and the
destination you have to reach from here.
At 3.10pm Shri Tandelji gave the welcome
address and beautifully explained the importance of donation. Then he said that
one should take whatever has to be taken and one should not unnecessarily focus
one’s attention on the arrangements and food, etc. He mentioned that the focus
should be to go within.
At 3.15pm His Holiness followed by Her Holiness
leave the tent. After they leave there is a break for tea and time given to
visit the exhibitions on display. After tea, we strolled around the exhibitions
– the Chaitanya Mahotsav exhibition displayed all the main points of His
Holinesses discourses right from the first CM held in 2000 to 2016 – details on
where it was held, the dates and the highlights were depicted both pictorially
and in writing. The exhibition on donations was one of the most unique and
wonderfully conceptualised exhibitions I have ever seen. It was so powerful
that it induced sadhaks to donate on the spot on their way out. I requested
Hemanginiji to explain the slides to us as Sridhar Mani could not read Hindi –
and she did so with great passion and feeling. It started with Swamiji’s 2005
September message in Madhuchaitanya issue– Daan se Atmadaan (from
donation to soul-donation). It explained the concept and importance and meaning
of donation as explained and understood in different religions. It had a
section on research results on the beneficial effects of donation. There was a
section on the nobleness of donation through the ages right from ancient times
starting with the incident concerning Rishi Dadichi who donated his bones to
Lord Indra and the Vajrastra was created to kill the demon Vrutrasur, then Bali
Raja from which the concept of Balidaan (sacrificing one’s life) came
into being. It continued with examples from different religions right upto the
Gurushaktidham and its importance. The exhibition concluded with Swamiji’s
message ‘Yoadaan’ dated 1.2.2012. The exhibition was compactly shown in 26
displays.
Her Holiness Guruma's note on the Donation related exhibition
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| Guruma's blessings on the beautiful depiction of feelings through display of colours |
We reconvened at 4.30pm and shortly thereafter
Guruma and Swamiji arrived to the sound of conches. Ramkaka requested His
Holiness thrice to shower His divine nectar in the form of His discourse.
Swamiji then started His discourse:
My salutations to all pious souls present
here!! The CM is one such collective festival in which I present a few things
which I want to say and listen to some things you have to say – this is a
festival of mutual communication. Hence I am in front of you today to share
with you my life’s stories and experiences and how on that basis I have reached
a definite place. The opportunity to tell all this is now and as your spiritual
progress commences, you will find your way forward – this is my own experience.
The Guru-energies are telling their secrets, and maybe it is happening now
because you have reached that spiritual state. In the Himalayas sages meditate
in secluded places where no human is there for miles around. We perform
whatever rituals, but none of this was there, no yagna, no mala, no temple – in
spite of that each monk, rishi, sage was connected to Paramatma. How did they
reach that state?! You will have to understand that. You get this opportunity here
because of the collectivity of thousands of pure souls. In my recent visit to
Singapore 200-220 people on an island called St. Johns. It was a secluded place
– we were dropped there in a boat, and we carried out an experiment on my aura
and then the experiences of sadhaks was called for. After the experiment,
sadhaks from India asked my when you are overseas you give us the experience of
your aura, why not to Indians in India? Why the difference? Why are Indian
sadhaks deprived? I told them that the sadhaks overseas are poor and those in
India are rich. The wealth of collectivity which the Indian sadhaks have, the
overseas sadhaks do not have that. If a mother has 3 daughters, then the
mother’s chitta goes to the one who is poor. You have the power of collectivity
– you focus on that – they are poor, you are not as they do not have that
collectivity. Increase your circle, increase your contacts, the more you
connect with collectivity the greater will be your progress.
On this path, nothing has happened suddenly,
everything has happened sequentially and slowly – my grandmother used to tell
me that Paramatma exists – he was there yesterday, is there today and will be
there tomorrow. Paramatma is not a person, of that I was sure. I had decided as
a child that if I find Paramatma I will distribute that knowledge to all. I am
going to tell you the secret of Paramatma. My Nani used to worship Lord Krishna
and my Nana used to worship Lord Hanuman – there cannot be 2 Paramatmas –
husband-wife they lived together but they believed in two different Gods, this
means it all depended on accepting/believing Paramatma and that this depends on
one’s belief. A sadhika will be someone’s mother in law, daughter in law,
sister, wife – but she is a soul, this is all at the physical level – which the
soul has taken on, that is the body. You can call Paramatma God, Allah, Jesus,
but Universal Consciousness is the same. You give it names, but it does not
become different. Water is water whether it is in a bottle, lake, river, tap, etc.
Similarly, Paramatma is one – it is how you address it, hence there are
differences in the religions – but Paramatma is one only. My Nani increased my
curiosity – why whole world was Nani – my first Guru was my Nani, she said
Paramatma was there, so I believed that Paramatma was there. She could not
prove it but she believed in Paramatma. When I started searching, I realised
that you cannot believe or accept any form as Paramatma – my slate was
completely empty – I was willing to find Paramatma in any form. The doors to my
heart were open to anyone, to any language, religion, person, form.
Dissatisfaction was awakened within me – I was not happy – I found some
happiness in temples, in mausoleums (samadhis), etc. Everything in my life was
okay, but there was no satisfaction. I was successful in life but there was no
satisfaction. Everything was fine – education, job for an ordinary person – I
had everything but no satisfaction. My search was on, but there was no inner
peace. I was looking everywhere, but I kept feeling that I should go to Nepal.
I was in the state of a lost child – you give him a chocolate, anything but he
will keep crying for Ma. My search was like that, I used to go to the banks of
the Ganges and listen to bhajans, the sound of the river flowing, I felt this
river will reach the sea at some time, but when will my search end. I did not
know this! My search was on – a deep desire awakened and because of this it
became possible to reach Shivbaba. A Satguru is a pure soul, who goes within and
has attained Paramatma and if we want we can attain the inner state, the inner
journey can start in His proximity and we can attain that state. Do not take it
at a physical level, do not use this opportunity for material gain, the more
you use it for going within so much the better. You obtain Satguru’s darshan
because of your past births good deeds. You will keep getting till your past
good deeds get spent after which the proximity/darshan will also go, because
you do not use the opportunity for going within. When you use it to go within,
then Satguru’s need also does not remain. It is like a mirror – make use of His
proximity to go within – make use of His proximity to go within. A person is
praying to Vaishnodevi mata with his rosary, if you want to go to Vaishnodevi
you will ask a person who has already gone there even though he is not a
devotee. Choose a person who can show you the inner path based on his own
experience. With Shivbaba, I did it to go within. Once I became one with Him
there was no regret. Guru-karya is a flow of Guru’s Grace. It is like a cow and
its calf. If you want to catch the cow you cannot but if you catch hold of the
calf the cow will follow you. Similarly, if you catch hold of Guru-karya the
Satguru’s will grace will shower. For example, during my recent trip to
Singapore retreat I was watching from my room. A sadhak was pushing a trolley
with sadhaks bags up the hill and when I looked closely he was the President of
that event – at that very moment Guru’s Grace showered on him. Our thinking is
limited – a Guru always thinks of the progress of His sadhaks. As meditation
progressed, more and more knowledge came to the fore – 15 years ago doctors did
not believe in the aura, but now through kirlean photography you can see the
human aura. I sat on a chair for about 6 hours in Singapore and asked the
sadhaks to enter my aura which has seven layers from a distance of about 200
feet. I asked them to walk in a straight line with their eyes open and palms
upwards and note down their experiences. Sadhaks felt that they were entering
an energy field, and as they moved forward they felt the energy changing and
becoming full of love, some had tears flowing from their eyes. Scientific
proof, temples, chakras, other people’s knowledge – I cannot teach and nobody
can learn what I have to give – you need to become one with the Guru to
receive. I am leaving all this behind. Anyone capable who comes after 200 years
– he will receive it. Samarpan meditation is free which in itself is unique,
this is in a pure form because it is pure, you maintain and increase its purity
– meditate without expectations. I do not even expect people to meditate, I did
not have any benchmark – I just distributed equally to all. Meditate without
expectation and meditate regularly for 30 minutes. Compulsorily sit down for 30
minutes, it is possible that all obstacles will come – donate 30 minutes to me
for my birthday. It is a small thing, but you will see the results in your
lifetime. When you meditate alone you become capable and strong and in
collective meditation you get control over your chitta. If you have no control
over your chitta you become a garbage dump as you will attract negative
energies of others. When bad people come you will have to have control, at the
centre you cannot scratch around and hence you sit quietly with focus. Meditate
regularly and collectively without expectation. You have received in pure form,
do not mix your expectations in it and make it impure, keep it pure. I ask my
Guru, I am giving them as I have received from you then why are they not
progressing. This will benefit you in all spheres. I was sitting with a diamond
trader. He told me a new kind of artificial diamond has come into the market
with the exact same properties of a real diamond at the fraction of the cost
and it is almost impossible to make out the difference. I told him I will find
out the difference, we will carry out an experiment. I asked him to bring me
both types of diamonds in two separate packets. I told him to ensure that he
does not know which diamond is in which packet. So he told his employee to
bring these diamonds and separate packets and keep them at home. The next day
when I went there he removed both the packets and gave them to me. I took out
the diamond from the first packet and held it in the palm of my right hand,
placed my left hand on it and squeezed it really hard. As I applied pressure I
could feel the catches in the diamond of the people who had polished it and
after the diamond was purified, it started pulsating in my hands. I kept it
aside and then got the other diamond and carried out the same process. I felt
the same things as earlier but this diamond was not giving out vibrations, so I
told the trader that the first was real and the second was artificial. Then I
explained to him how to make out the difference. He experimented and he too
learnt how to differentiate between the two. I narrated this story because this
is knowledge of the soul, the knowledge of vibrations – if you acquire this
then you can use it in all spheres of life. I did not only want to learn the
difference between a real and false diamond, it was my desire that he should
also learn.
What I am going to tell you now – I have
attained Paramatma – next listen to what I am going to say very carefully. I
want to make you stand on your own feet, I want to make you self-dependent. In
the intervening period I have made a deep study and the time has come to tell
you about it as you now also have the state for me to tell it. I knew when I
was 5 years old that my birth was not ordinary, it is special – I kept getting
this feeling from within that I am a holy soul, I am a pure soul; the inner
being inspired me on a path to look for Paramatma. It took me to temples,
samadhis, pilgrim spots, etc. I went to a temple in a village where Ramu Bhil
has full faith in a Lord Hanuman temple, for years he has poured his faith into
the idol, and he feels good in that temple. He feels good in Paramatma’s
proximity – in a temple we get darshan of the idol and feel good – who feels
good? The soul! If you get physical comfort in a temple, there is nothing, if
you get pushed and shoved but you still feel good – who feels good? The Soul!
Do you feel good because of the idol? A saint has put his vibrations in the
idol – you felt good because of the idol or because of the vibrations? You feel
good because of the vibrations put by the saint who has gone within. When we
get darshan of such an idol, we too go within for a fraction of a second. We
felt good because we went close to our own soul and became inward looking.
When you go to a mausoleum, here a Satguru who
has no re-birth leaves his subtle body at the Samadhi. The subtle body is there
– it takes 30/40 years for the subtle body to develop. My Samadhi took place in
1980. Nothing happened till 2010 – 30 years! Once I got free from my physical
feelings my subtle body developed. As we reach a saints Samadhi we feel those
vibrations and we feel good. Collectivity of lakhs of souls is connected to
that saint – all who have turned inwards, then we too turn inwards and feel
good. We feel good in the presence of a Satguru – He is inward looking (antarmukhi),
we go close to our soul and hence feel good. It is not his body, not his
presence, it is his vibrations which make us feel good, we go close to our
soul. It is a mirror. We can find out our state in front of a mirror and thus
realise our state. We make use of such places for our material benefit – it is
misuse. Once you go close to your soul and learn to stay with your soul then
you will be in masti – you will be in your own blissful world. My soul
is my Paramatma – Paramatma is within, this Paramatma whom we have attained –
do not search outside, no temple, no Samadhi! Go to a temple or Samadhi and use
the opportunity to go within, do this to go within. When you go in nature, you
feel good, you become thoughtless and you feel good. This is not what I am
talking about. Use this opportunity to become antarmukhi. As far as
Samarpan Meditation is concerned, the deeper you feel about your Satguru, that
much more you keep yourself clean, your mirror clean. Keep cleaning the mirror
– faith and the feeling of complete and unconditional surrender cleanses your
mirror. Cleaner the mirror the better you feel. You go to a temple and ask for
something, that appeal goes to your soul and the soul takes it to Paramatma.
You need to go within – Satguru is the highway – the highway will not go to
your house; a lane goes to your house. Proximity to the Satguru is the highway
to become inward looking – but to reach your own soul you have to take the lane
and you have to walk yourself. The Satguru remains on the highway. You have to
walk on that lane which takes you to your soul and then you will realise that
Paramatma is within you and that there is no need to search outside. To go on
this journey, no religion, caste, country, colour is a barrier – any person who
wants to reach his soul, who has the desire, can do so. For such a person – no
one can stop him, there is no obstacle – the only thing which is there is
solitariness, solitariness and more solitariness! The Himalayan sages became
stabilized there in the Himalayas and they do not need temples, samadhis, etc.
These are all prams – you should be free from these prams – mind, intellect,
temple, Samadhi. ‘Mujhko kahan dhund rahe ho re bandhe, mai to tere pass hi
hoon, tere pass hi hoon, tere pass hi hoon’ (where are you looking
for me o brother, I am near you, I am near you, I am near you). This subject is
new. Experience it yourself. Walk on this path and see what you experience. The
places where you go and you feel good – actually it is your soul which feels
good. If you have to become inward looking, then there will be no itching, no
thoughts, we will do this meditation day after tomorrow. Do not have any
doubts. Whenever we feel good we go close to our soul, we feel good for
ourselves, we do it because we feel good from within. Do one such deed which
makes you feel good. Pray once without selfishness, these are all the paths to
go within. You have received in purity; it is necessary for you to go within in
purity. Do something that makes you feel good, do it without expectations. The
soul is your father, do something which makes your soul happy. For 20 years I
did work selflessly hence it spread so wide and so fast! It is very difficult –
but the more stay on the path and go within the better. Darshan happens through
happiness, you experience peace within, then you attain that state for which
you were born, which is moksha – the state of liberation, nothing more remains
to be done. Then whatever you do, you do for others (Swamiji is saying this
from a very high state with tremendous vibrations) and keep on doing for
others, your life is then devoted to others. Some karmas are of this birth and
in Guru’s Grace they get extinguished, but some karmas are of your past births
which you have to endure. You have to endure because this is your last birth;
you have to experience your bad karma, make use of your bad karmas to go
within, do not try to run away, and after that everything is good. Use those
occasions for Guru’s proximity, go close to your soul, make your existence
small, and you will not realise when your bad karmas have passed by. The more
you make good use of your bad karma the better. Namaskar!
After the divine, vibration filled discourse,
His Holiness Swamiji leaves the tent at 5.55pm followed shortly thereafter by
Her Holiness Guruma. We were asked to reconvene at 8.00pm post dinner for the
cultural programme. We had a meeting with Ambareeshji for planning a musical
event in Rajkot from 8.30 onwards and hence I could not watch the cultural
programme. I was informed that I had a small cameo role to play in the
Madhuchaitanya skit and it was the first of the cultural programmes scheduled
for 8.30pm.
After dinner, I reached the tent for the
programme and sat in the front row in the audience. When my turn came, I stood
up and performed my 5 second role which I am sure no one would have noticed as
the main players were on stage and I do not think the cameraman had been
informed to focus the camera on the sadhaks playing roles from the audience. In
the end Her Holiness also stood up and performed her role, though originally it
was to be only her voice. It was a pleasant surprise for all of us and the
thundering applause she got was much more than the applause received for all
the other performers put together. All in all, it was a good performance and a
different way to disseminate information about Madhuchaitanya and its benefits.
After my role, I went to the library for the meeting which went on upto
10.45pm. After the meeting, I retired for the night.
I requested Sheila Makadiaji for the list of
cultural programmes and she was kind enough to provide me with the same. After
the Madhuchaitanya performance, sadhaks from Thane, Mumbai performed Omkar Dun
– Om sarve shyam swastina bhavatu dance. Sadhaks from Virar-Mumbai perform Ganpati
dance to Ganpati dhun. Thereafter, Surat zone-I sadhaks performed Hanuman
dance, then Bharuch sadhaks, Ram dance; Surat Zone-2 performed Saraswati dance;
Rajkot sadhaks perform a dance on Lord Jesus; sadhaks from Navsari performed
the Lord Krishna dance and finally sadhaks from Goa performed the Shiva dance.
8.11.2016
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| His Holiness Gurudev's message on Donation |
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| His and Her Holiness performing havan at the inauguration of the new Yagnashala |
Ramkaka led the group meditation which began on
the dot at 6am. After the meditation those sadhaks who had registered for the
havan left and those who had not, sat in the tent and watched the DVD of the
question and answer session of Guru-Poornima 2016. At 7.45am there was a break
for breakfast after which we were requested to reassemble in the main sabha
mandap at 9.30am for the main celebrations. The chant ‘Shivkrupanand Swami Namo
Namah, Karuna Swami Namo Namah’ was playing. The comperes were telling
everybody to take their seats and go inwards while waiting for the Master to
take the stage. Ramkaka then announced that Swamiji, Guruma and family were at
the opening ceremony of the new Yagnashala followed by the bhoomi pujan and
khat muhurat for the new permanent meditation dome which will be ready by
Mahashivratri. It was announced that the opening ceremony of the new Dome would
be at Mahashivratri. This Dome would have a seating capacity of 15-20000 people
with room for expansion at a later stage. The entire ceremony was telecast live
and we watched it in the sabha mandap. After that it was announced that His
Holiness would arrive in the sabha mandap shortly. In the interim period the
main cake and lots of cakes for being vibrated for the participants were being
brought and kept backstage.
A huge mechanical lotus flower was on the left side
of the stage. Her Holiness Guruma, Anuragji, Ambareeshji and Shaswatiji came on
stage. After that Swamiji made a grand entrance as a life took Swamiji up into
the mechanical lotus and as its petals opened Swamiji came on stage to the
continuous non-stop shower of red rose petals from a machine and then fireworks
commenced with sparklers being lit above the stage, then those lining the stage
and then those on the aisle, sadhaks were squealing in delight shouting their
heads off as the joy and delight and the uniqueness of the entry took everyone
by surprise (Later Tandelji said that Swamiji had requested him to do something
different this time). The sadhaks who had been given small packets containing
two balloons, a candle and a toffee earlier – all had blown their heart shaped
balloons and they started bursting them with the popping sound coming from all
directions. The entire mandap was in a very jovial and happy mood as their
Paramatma’s birthday was being celebrated. The birthday song started playing
and everyone sang along, after which Swamiji cut the cake and took a bite, then
the family partook of the cake. There was a short break after this and the
sadhaks were told to reconvene at 11.20 for the Deep Yagna.
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| Swamiji's birthday cake |
At 11.20am we again reassembled and Ramkaka
said that the young girls (18 of them) were to be our representatives for the
Deep Yagna. Ramkaka chated the purification mantras and the purification ritual
then took place. The Gayatri mantra recital commenced during which time
Ambareeshji was requested to go and place a garland on the subtle body, apply
tika and then the kumarikas were asked to tie a red thread to each
other’s right hands. After which a sankalp was made for a long life for
Swamiji. The deep yagna then commenced with the recital of the gayatri mantra,
ganesh vandana, mahamrutyunjaya mantra, Guru maha mantra and ended again with
the gayatri mantra. After the mantras, the Aarti commenced as we all stood up
and lit our candles for the aarti. The scene was beautiful as diamond-like dots
of light lit up the huge tent. For the entire duration of the aarti His
Holiness Swamiji stood up with eyes closed blessing all those present with His
right hand raised in blessing and left palm raised up parallel to the ground
symbolic of receiving universal energy and showering it on us through His right
hand. After the aarti, Ramkaka led the Jay-gosh – first in Swamiji’s name, then
in Guruma’s name, then for the successful yagna, then in the name of all
Ashrams and finally for today’s joy – the ‘jays’ resounded with the collective
sound of 4500 sadhaks and am sure would have heard in Dandi village!
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| Deep Yagna in progress |
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| Kumarikas representing sadhaks for the Deep Yagna |
At 11.30am Ramkaka announced that Her Holiness
Guruma will leave the stage after which the Namaskar programme started with all
the volunteers at various counters being requested to come for the ceremony,
while the others were requested to remain seated and enjoy the bhajans.
Repeatedly, the comperes were requesting the sadhaks to take this opportunity
to turn inwards. At around noon our turn came and we offered our prostrations
and left for lunch. We finished lunch at around 1.10pm and Sridhar had this
urge to go back to the tent for watching the namaskar vidhi and listening to
the bhajans. This was because during Guru-Poornima we had missed out on the
shower of divine energy which Swamiji emanated from Swamiji as we had to leave
immediately so as to enable Sridhar to catch his flight. Also, this time
because lots of sadhaks had missed the energy shower last time, the namaskar
vidhi was held on the second day – extremely thoughtful of the organisers to
whom we are all eternally grateful! At around 1.20pm we came back to the mandap
and sat down in the aisle. Just as we sat down Ramkaka started singing bhajans
and he started singing with such devotion that Swamiji stood up and to our
great joy the energy shower started! We got up from our seats and went into the
main mandap, all the sadhaks were on their feet – the faces close to me
radiating with joy, as some danced, some cried and others started clapping in
rhythm with the bhajans. The next one hour or so was totally magical as
Swamiji, while standing, kept continuously showering energy – my hands were
raised and I was clapping and swaying in the energy field. This went on and on
and I subsequently noticed that even though I was clapping with raised hands
for more than an hour my hands were not aching – it was like everything had
been numbed up or we were all beyond body state for that stunningly, amazing
magical hour. Our timing in returning to the mandap was absolutely divine as
Ramkaka took the mike moments after we reached the mandap. At 2.30pm or so
Parasbhai then asked Swamiji whether we should recite shanti paath and Swamiji
said okay! But just as the shanti paath was about to start one of the bhajan
singers said let me sing one last bhajan and Swamiji said okay – and then this
bhajan too went to great heights and Swamiji continued showering energy for
another 7 odd minutes extending our state of bliss! After this, Shanti paath
was chanted and we all left at around 2.45pm with a request to reconvene at
3.30pm for Guruma’s session.
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| The bhajan maestros led by Ramkaka |
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| The ecstatic gathering totally enraptured and bathed in energy |
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| Namaskar Vidhi in progress |
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| The Divine Master in inner bliss |
We reconvened for the afternoon session at
3.30pm and Her Holiness Guruma arrived to the sound of conches at 3.45pm and
took her seat. Ketkiji requested Guruma thrice to shower her divine nectar in
the form of her discourse. The discourse commenced at 4pm.
My salutations to all souls who have come here
on this occasion. Jai Baba Swami! We have gathered here on the occasion of CM –
I will start with an inspiring incident. Once upon a time a temple was being
constructed in a village and the work of laying the flooring of the temple and
installing the idol remained to be done. The temple authorities had decided to
have a marble flooring and also wanted the idol to be made of marble. So, they
all went to Rajasthan to source the marble stone and idol. They gave the order
for the marble stone and the idol as required. They then called for a truck and
loaded the marble tiles and packed the idol to protect it and then loaded it
into the truck and started on the return journey. The truck was moving at its
own pace and a discussion started between the marble tiles and the idol. The
marble tiles were a bit upset, they said what is so unique about you as we are
both made of the same marble. The tiles said that people will pray to you while
other people will walk on us. One marble tile was very jealous and he said that
you are very lucky but it is an injustice to us – you will be offered flowers
and incense sticks and people will pray to you. The idol said I do not know
anything about injustice, but I can tell you my story. Lots of blocks of marble
were removed from the mine – out of which one part is me and another is you. A
sculptor tried to make an idol out of your block but you could not endure the
pain and your block started to break up and then it was kept aside. I was cut
and chiseled and unwanted parts of me were removed by striking the block with
hammer and chisel – there was so much of pain that I did not know whether I would
survive! Then I surrendered myself to God, and as I surrendered to God, I said
do what you want with me and then from that block of marble this idol was
created. You could not bear the pain and hence you were made into tiles – I
became an idol and you a tile. Our life is also like that, everyone has some
suffering, and this is your last birth so this suffering will take place. We
should have no problems as our Paramatma is with us. Samarpan is very important
– samarpan, samarpan, samarpan! It happens slowly and then it becomes our habit.
Some of us may be of such a state where we don’t get disturbed. Our objective
is to attain a goal and we have selected this body, our parents, our relatives,
religion and country. There should be no question in the mind. The selection
has been done by the soul but the mind is disturbed. Any dissatisfaction which
we have and our progress slows down. When so much of divine energy flows and
you are still dissatisfied then your progress starts slowly. Always remember
why we were born. What is important is what we did, what we did to progress on
the path to moksha (liberation). This body is like a machine. I will tell you a
story, if a small insect can do such work, why can’t you?
I was playing with Chaitanyaswami after the Guru-poornima.
I was talking to him and I told him a story. I showed him a pearl and he asked
me where it came from. Original pearl is created in an oyster and I told him
the story of how a pearl is formed. I told him about the oyster and how a worm
is there inside the oyster shell and then when a particle of sand enters the
shell then the process begins with the worm slowly secreting gum which over
time wraps itself around the sand particle and creates a pearl. Then he asked
what happens to the worm, I told him it dies. Then he asked what does ‘dies’
mean? I explained to him by giving example of a pant – I told him what happens
when the pant tears? Mommy gets me a new one. I told him that this body is like
that, it becomes old, tears and dies. You are young and you can run around and
play, but I cannot run, this body is becoming old and God gives us new clothes
and one is reborn, this is called death. Accha, the worm will be reborn, okay,
he said. What we learn from this story is what all we can do with this body. If
we can do something good, then what is wrong! Our family responsibilities have
been fulfilled, then what about obligation to society? Why don’t we do
something for society, ashrams, others? Why don’t we give something to the
Ashram – time, money, etc. I also keep talking with strangers when I am
travelling and I keep sharing with them. Instead of talking nonsense why don’t
we share something good, so they too feel like meditating. One incident – I am
a chatterbox and so is my daughter. In the recent trip to Singapore she was
travelling by taxi and she started talking. She told him that she had come for
a meditation event and asked him also to come. She told him that it was free of
cost – to which he replied nothing is free in this world. She then invited the
taxi driver and told him to come and see for himself. There is no compulsion,
if interested, he will come otherwise he won’t. Another incident - a person
called for some reason, a person I did not know, I did not know him. It was
while booking the hotel for the Mahila Samellan to be held shortly in Ahmedabad.
I casually told the person that I was coming for this event and his curiosity
was aroused. He asked for details – which trust, which temple. I told him no it
is about meditation, I asked him to come, he said he will not feel good but my
mother will definitely like it. You can easily propagate in this manner; you do
not have to do anything special. Any work you do is Guru-karya, even keeping
your lane clean is Guru-karya. This is like making sandalwood into coal! I will
tell you another small story. There was a king who was travelling in the
forests and he felt very thirsty. A woodcutter gave the king some water to
drink. The king thanked him and told him to ask for anything in return. The woodcutter
said you give whatever you want. The king called the woodcutter after 10 days.
Now this was a woodcutter who cut trees as a means of livelihood. The king
thought I will give him a sandalwood forest and did so. Now this woodcutter
used to cut the wood convert it into coal and sell the coal – he started doing
the same with the sandalwood forest. Every day he used to cut some trees, make
coal and sell it for his daily requirements. In a short while he had cut more
than half the forest. The king came after some days to see how the woodcutter
was faring. The king was surprised to see that half the forest had disappeared!
He saw the cut sandalwood and the coal which the woodcutter was about to carry
to the market. The king immediately realised what had happened and told the
woodcutter not to convert the remaining wood into coal but to go to the market
and just sell the wood. The woodcutter was not convinced, but as the king was
telling him, he had no choice and he went to the market. To his pleasant
surprise he made 100 times the money from sale of the sandalwood as compared to
the sale of coal. He returned to the forest and told the king what had
happened. The woodcutter was ashamed and said sorry to the king for destroying
his forest. The king told him not to worry and asked him to slowly plant more
trees and to cut only enough for his requirements so that his life could pass
by comfortably. Are we too not making sandalwood into coal! If we do that then
we will not progress spiritually. You need to have complete faith – you have
faith but not complete faith. If you are worried, then you should realise that
it is time to meditate. If you are worried, then understand that your state is
not good. Meditate. It is possible that you relations with your parents is not
good. Parents are connected with the heart, hence they worry, if they do not
worry then you get blessings. You need to improve your relations with your
parents now, immediately! I can show you the path to liberation but you have to
improve relations with parents, if they die you will not be able to do
anything. If they are already dead – then pray. If your parents are alive, keep
them happy – if they ask for 10 things, say yes to 5. A girl recently asked me
about marriage. She said she does not know how to select a boy. She was an NRI
and she asked for advice. A boy too asked me the same question in Singapore. It
is simple – I am just expressing my thoughts – my view is that parents will be
the best people to select your partner for you. Whether son or daughter – if
you are late in coming home who is worried? The parents see that their child is
worried and out of this worry they start questioning you. Those parents who
cannot bear to see their children unhappy how can such parents select someone
bad for you?!? This experiment is for girls in the age group 22 to 25 – you
place all your bets on how the boy should be and see if you can get someone
with all your preferences. If not, then when you are in the 25-28 age bracket
cut your expectations to half, if still you don’t find someone, then in age
bracket 28-30 keep just 25% of the expectations which you think are a must,
after that when you are more than 30 years old marry whoever you want to.
Whether the parents select, you select or Gurudev selects. If you are your
parents select then there is no difference – wherever karmic debts are there
then such relations take place. If you meditate then everything takes place. If
Gurudev is given one choice he says yes – it is your choice, go ahead. If you
give Him a choice, then He will select a person who is good for your spiritual
progress. For a good sadhika – it took 4-5 years to settle down. Even after 5
years she was still sad. She told me about her problem and I was so worried
that I asked Swamiji. He told me to keep quiet. He said she has to bear the
sufferings of her past birth – you wait for two more years and she will come
and tell you that all is well. We have to endure the effects of our past karmas
the end will be good. I get to know a lot of good stories from Samarpan Vivaha
and then I feel good. In Singapore, I wrote a song on Swamiji. With your
permission, I will sing it and all of you join me in chorus. Maa starts singing
– moksha marg pe hume chala do Baba Swamiji (make us walk on the path of
liberation Baba Swamiji). After the song Guruma asked the sadhaks that she
would answer whatever questions they had in mind.
Questions and Answers with Guruma
1. Swamiji keeps saying that he goes
very high in meditation like a kite and it is only Guruma who brings me down.
How does this happen?
Guruma: It is very simple, don’t think that there
is a string with which I pull Him down. It is just my deep emotional feeling
which brings Him down.
2. Why do some ladies have to keep
adjusting after marriage right till the end?
Guruma: Even males have to make adjustments. I
believe that after 4-5 years they adjust – once one accepts the change then you
start ignoring things that cannot change. After marriage, Gurudev used to pull
my leg. He always told people that I did not know Marathi. One day one of his
relatives came to our house and said that it is sad that you cannot speak in
Marathi. I replied in Marathi saying who told you I don’t know Marathi. He said
Gurudev and I realised that this was one of his jokes. When I asked Him, He
said I told him as a joke, don’t tell me he took it seriously! I could have got
angry or laugh – I chose the second option. He makes fun, and I choose to
accept it and laugh it off. Some karmas are there which you have to endure and
we make mountains out of molehills. Just make sure that you are not doing it.
Housewives may have problems. They are at home, then those incidents are
compounded. Talk to friends and try to get it out of your mind. Gardening is a
good hobby and helps to calm your mind, touch with soil is good.
3. Between office and home there is a
lot of spare time, how to maintain one’s spiritual state in this time?
Guruma: Do something creative to occupy your mind,
this will give you happiness.
4. How do you encourage creative
children to go forward?
Guruma: Ask them to make their recordings on the
phone or create a raw CD and send it to Jayeshbhai, Jayeshbhai along with the
Editorial Board will decide what to do with it. A child made a poem on me based
on a poem which I had recited once.
5. Why do bad events take place even
though we are connected with Samarpan Meditation? Why are things stolen?
Guruma: If anything was stolen then just accept
that it was meant to be.
6. My father died, and our mother does
not recognise us. She does not accept us, how do we get out of our guilt?
Guruma:
Forgive her from the bottom of your heart. Keep good relations with her, meet
her during Diwali and come back. You have not done anything wrong so why would
you feel guilty. She has kept you in her womb for 9 months and to get rid of
your debt to her for giving you birth, you go and meet her once a year. Pray
for her too.
7. We pray for others – but even then
we are asking even if it is for others. We are still asking is it not?
Guruma: While praying for others there is no selfishness.
When you write prayers to the Prarthana Dham – personal questions are okay. You
need to completely surrender and then write a question to Prarthana Dham with
full faith. If you do not have faith in Prarthana Dham, then no can help you.
8. When we come to events there are 3-4
questions in our mind, but we somehow get answers during these days – how does
this happen?
Guruma: Here you are at the soul level and
so you get your answers – that knowledge gets transferred.
9. You were Swamiji’s first disciple. What
was your experience in the beginning?
Guruma: It was nothing special, I felt good,
that’s all. Slowly after meditating for a long time I realised that if I do not
meditate on a particular day for some reason, then the day does not go well.
Then I realised that meditating daily keeps me balanced. Regular meditation is
the best – I feel good while meditating, if I do not meditate I do not feel
good, hence I meditate daily.
10. I
am a soldier, our soldiers are facing tough times on the border, why do we not
hold shibirs for the army men?
Guruma: Efforts are on at a very high
level, through the Ministry. We are hopeful of getting permission.
11. I
have two photos of Swamiji facing each other in my house. One is of subtle body
and one is of physical body. Someone who came to my house told me that this is
not good and the energies of both photos will clash and create disharmony. Is
this true? (there was a lot of laughter on this question).
Guruma: While laughing Maa said that
even if two photos are facing each other the energy will be good for the whole
room. How will Swamiji’s energies clash with each other!
As that was the last question, the
session ended with Shanti Paath at 5.50pm.
The lucky draw took place thereafter
in which 62 gifts were handed out to the lucky winners whose numbers were
picked by Guruma from a box and handed over to Shaswatiji for calling out the
names. This session went on for about 45 minutes as the sadhaks took their own
sweet time to come on stage and names had to be called out repeatedly. It is sad
that sadhaks do not realise the trouble they are giving their divine mother who
was made to stand for almost 45 minutes! After the distribution of gifts Her
Holiness and Shaswatiji departed and we were told to reconvene at 8.30pm for
the cultural programme.
We then took the opportunity to
visit the Nandini Gowshala exhibition which had on display, with sadhaks
explaining the beneficial effects of milk, curd, ghee. Also, the medicinal
properties of cow products were explained in detail. After the exhibition, we
went and had our dinner and relaxed for some time. As tomorrow’s meditation was
crucial, we decided to skip the cultural programme, as it is I had got just
about 3.5 hours of sleep the previous night!
At 8.30pm the cultural programme
commenced. There were 8 performances – they were: 1) Ambe-Maa dance performed
by Kandivali, Mumbai sadhaks; 2) Allah dance performed by Surat Zone 1 sadhaks;
3) Sai Dance performed by Dombivali-Mumbai sadhaks; 4) Wahe Guru dance
performed by Ahmedabad Zone 3 sadhaks; 5) Bhagwan hai kahan re tu dance by
sadhaks from Surat Zone 2; 6) Jab jab yug parivartan hota dance by sadhaks from
Mumbai Yuva group; 7) Mukti made ken a made dance performed by sadhaks from
Ankleshwar and finally 8) Sach sukh hai Samarpan me dance by sadhaks from Surat
Zone 2. The cultural programme ended at 10pm.
9.11.2016
I woke up at 3am and got fresh, had
an ice-cold water bath and sat for meditation in the lawn. After meditation, I
checked my phone and saw whatsapp messages which were full of news about the
cancellation of Rs 500/1000 currency notes. I was absolutely thrilled and
happy. At last we had a leader to take tough decisions to strike at the root of
corruption. I was so happy that I rushed to the sleeping hall to give
information to Sridhar Mani, Harish and Khamankarji. Everybody was completely
overjoyed by the surgical strike on black money.
At 5.30am we left for tea and then went
into the meditation mandap for the experience of a lifetime with the Divine
Master. We took our seats by 5.40am and I focused my chitta on the crown chakra
and shut my eyes while listening to the chant which was being played. Exactly
at 6am the conches started blowing announcing the arrival of His Holiness who
paid His respects to Dada Guru, lit the lamp and then took His seat. We then
collectively chanted the mantra invoking the Guru-energies with Ramkaka leading
us. Thereafter Ramkaka requested His Holiness thrice to shower his nectar
filled words on us. Swamiji then started His discourse:
My salutations to all the pious
souls present here!
Samarpan Meditation’s objective is
make one dependent/reliant on one’s soul. He should not depend on any other
person because in society there is a tradition of depending on others. We have
always used different means of worship for personal gain, selfishness – our
prayers, yagna are all used for solving personal problems, selfish
purposes…..fasting, rosary beads……..actually all these paths were used for
going within, to go within – deeper and deeper. Secondly, after seeing this atmosphere
in society, many sages started methods of worship which were based on
meditation, but after the passage of time slowly, meditation has been left
behind and only the rituals remain. Your Gurus started this for meditation.
They too say that these rituals lead to meditation – morning, afternoon,
evening – this was a medium for meditation; but in society, meditation went
away and rituals remained! All these means of worship were a means to let go of
physical feelings and go within, but all this has been forgotten and we all try
to do this here too. Meditation also has become a means for personal gain.
Water will come and fill the hole, you don’t have to invite it. Today you give
it a try, forget that you are a body and sit without expectation, become empty,
void. If you are not a body then there is nothing, become empty and it will
fill up - energy does not need to be told where there is a hole – your chitta
should be on the energy. In Samarpan Meditation we tell people not to focus on
problems, if your physical feelings end then there is no problem. Freeing one’s
self from physical feelings does not mean death, it means getting free of
physical feelings. As you reduce your physical feelings all your ailments will
disappear. Everything is controlled by the brain, so just relax your brain,
your chitta should go within. Next, wherever you go you feel good, it is not
because of the place, but because of the energy of some saint, you go to such a
place and feel good just by taking darshan; if you stay in that state for 24
hours it will be so good. I have told you to go within for the last 24 hours
because you should know yourself – you are a soul. Know yourself by going
within, then all the illusion will go, all suffering will go, there problems
are there all because you have taken on a body – your soul has no problem, it
is strong by itself. By taking on a body you have the illusion of trouble. All
the energy you get from meditation you use for solving external problems and
all the energy is spent on the problems – the root cause for all your problems
is within. You solve one problem through meditation, then another will crop up
as the root cause of the problem is within. Do not waste your energy in solving
external problems You need to focus your energy on solving the problems within.
It all depends on how you use your energy. Today, in meditation your entire
focus should be to go within, then your external problem will get solved.
Wherever I have gone, I have only talked about meditation. I have not wasted
energy outside - all this has changed in front of you. You are witness to the
change in my life. This is going to become very big, mark my words. Just as a
small seed takes root, when it takes root it has small energy and it does not
waste it in fighting big stones, it is not afraid but makes its way around the
stone and spends its energy in progressing slowly and taking deep root and
growing into a sapling, then plant – goats come and eat its leaves but it ignores
the pain and focuses its energy on taking deeper root and then grows into a
plant and then it slowly grows into a tree; the goats which used to eat its
leaves come and rest in its shade, the stone appears small in comparison now
and remains where it was. You put your energy into problems and enhance them.
Use your meditation to go within and grow. A villager from Uttar Pradesh comes
to Mumbai to free his father from debt, his land from debt and after coming to
Mumbai he forgets all about the debt in the jazz and razzmatazz of Mumbai. You
will also realise why you were born and reach a state to know why you were
born! You need to meditate regularly in collectivity – regularity makes your
chitta strong and collectivity gives you control. A strong chitta without any
control is dangerous. Meditate without expectation. Next, if you meditate and
maintain its purity then only you progress. Expectations are connected to
physical feelings. Meditation is a way to attain Paramatma. You are going on a
path from which the soul goes to Paramatma, and if you bring your problems to
meditation then it takes you outside instead of within. Last year in Australia
I asked sadhaks why they were watching a football match, what is the benefit to
you – they said they enjoy it. So, make meditation your hobby. You start
expecting from meditation – marriage, recovery from illnesses, etc. You have
many hobbies in life, car driving, games, kite flying – you don’t get anything
from it, you just enjoy it – so make meditation your hobby, don’t expect
anything, if anything happens then it is not natural and you are not making
good use of meditation, and problems will recur. Meditation means becoming free
from everything – relations, country, religion, gender. When you sit for
meditation feel that you should not even realise how you are sitting. As you go
higher and higher, even the feeling of gender should go – the feeling of gender
remains till the last as it is the strongest. The body is free but the feeling
of gender remains. Hence it has a shape – you need to free yourself from that
too. Go so high that you should forget whether you are a male or a female – all
other matters will go – your chitta should remain only on – I am a holy soul, I
am a pure soul. I am not anyone’s father, mother, uncle, aunty, brother,
sister, daughter, son. Soul is not anyone’s father……soul is a pure part of
Paramatma. To reach that phase only one thing remains – the feeling of
complete, total, unconditional surrender (Samarpan) – the greater the samarpan
the lesser the physical feelings. Focus only on your soul….you will be free of
the body. Today you will go…..if you don’t then it will be different…..place
your hand on your crown and press down and rotate your hand clockwise three
times….. ( Swamiji was saying this very slowly from very high up and the energy
was unbelievable) …… the meditation started. The meditation was very blissful
and the only thing I recollect is getting the same divine unearthly fragrance
twice during meditation which I had got while taking diksha at Pushkar in 2009.
Suddenly Swamiji said let us pray : it is my pure wish to know myself…. My eyes
were not opening, the feeling of let this session continue was all over within
me. But then, sadhaks around started moving about, I opened my eyes and it was
7.30am – just over an hour had passed, no cramps in the feet, nothing – I can’t
express in words the divine session. We chanted the shanti paath and were asked
to reconvene after breakfast at 8.30am for the final session.
As I was returning from the
meditation session and as we entered the ashram office area I noticed a man in
a rich brown kurta pyjama talking on his cell phone – he was very disturbed and
cursing away on the phone – the talk was about the cancellation of Rs. 500/1000
notes and he must have been hit hard because the tone was very harsh and
disturbed. I passed him and moved on, but a thought crossed my mind, that this
sadhak probably did not have his chitta on Swamiji’s discourse or on the
awesome meditation – he missed the whole crux of the discourse on going within
and was stuck on his perceived loss. A small prayer for him came automatically
and I moved on. After breakfast, I changed, packed the bag and got ready to
leave immediately. A meeting had been arranged with Ambareeshji at 1.30pm so I
informed the sadhaks who were returning with me accordingly. Veenaji had come
and requested to come with me as she needed to reach home early for some
personal reasons.
At 8.30am the final session started.
I had been called for a meeting, hence I reached at 8.40am, but Sridhar and
Harish had kept a seat for me which I occupied. The Managing Trustees of both
the Trusts were jointly informing the sadhaks present about the activities of
both the Trusts along with the developments which were taking place in all
Ashrams.
Her Holiness Guruma made a quiet
entry and took her seat. Mr. Sundeep Sharma, MT of SSSAT then started his vote
of thanks speech giving thanks to all the agencies involved and a special
thanks to Umedbhai Tandel and the South Gujarat Ashram Committee for a
wonderful job done. Mrs. Sharmila Patil mentioned that we Trustees only look at
the legal aspects of the Trusts functioning but the real people who are at the
front and working hard all the time are the Ashram Committees (Pujya Guruma
appreciated this comment and clapped). After the vote of thanks Saurashtra
Ashram Committee members came and made an appeal for sponsorship for the
proposed Kailash Kher musical concert to be held in Rajkot on January 8, 2017.
At 9.20 the conches announced the
arrival of His Holiness Swamiji. As Swamiji took His seat Ramkaka requested
Swamiji thrice to shower us with His nectar through the discourse.
My salutations to all the pious
souls who have come here! From the first day of this shibir it has been my
effort to recognise the mistakes we have committed in our life, and next not to
repeat the same in life. Like when we go inside a well-known temple, well-known
meaning where our expectations are fulfilled. We go in front of the idol in
which some saint, some mahatma has established his energy by giving that idol
life-force and that saint himself is inward looking. When we go in front of
such an idol we too become inward looking for a moment and at that moment we
reach close to our soul, and we thus feel good. We reach our soul, but don’t
stay there, because we remember our problems and we pray to solve the problems.
Problem is of the body not of the soul, so when we pray we all come out
immediately. We are near our soul and back! It is like taking a horse to water
but not allowing it to drink. Similarly, we go close to our soul but are back
immediately because of our problems and this does not allow us to stay with our
soul and we come back. Same thing happens at a Samadhi – we go there where
there is a consciousness filled body, the subtle body of that saint is present
there, and because of that energy we go within in a moment and reach our soul –
we reach but come back because we remember our pledges, problems. The same
thing happens in front of a living Guru. He is inward looking (antarmukhi),
and in his aura our inward journey begins, we go inside and reach our soul, we
feel good but do not become stable. We come out immediately – so we make these
mistakes in temples, samadhis, in proximity of a living Guru! Have we learnt
anything from that? It is possible you have got rid of problems because of
that. Don’t you have any problems? You have, we have become dependent on
temples, samadhis to solve these problems. These is no place where you can go
and solve your problems, you have to come home – there is no living Guru who is
going to stay with you till the very end, it is impossible. Forget proximity,
even a Guru’s darshan is because of the good effects of your past birth. Till
balance is there it is good, once it gets over then nothing. It is like a
cheque – if your cash is over, once encashed and spent then there will be no
cheque or cash. What is the way to save – invest in a place where more cash is
generated. And that place is your soul, the more you use this proximity to go
within this will remain stable. I got proximity of 5 days, you have got for
years – I took it within in that time and I took hold of his Guru-karya and for
me he is present in that form. But we cannot physically know this changed form,
our mind will object. But if you become one with it then you will know from
within. A Guru only changes form – he is present with Guru-karya in
collectivity – you are so lucky to have got proximity for years – I had for
only 5 days, but those 5 days I am continuing to experience for so many years.
I desire that you use this proximity to go within, go to your soul, you know
who you are – ask yourself these questions: who am I? where have I come from?
Where am I going? What is the purpose of my life? Who is my Guru? What is my
relation with him? This cannot happen at level of the body and mind, you can
only understand only at the soul level. Guru-karya is only a motive, and excuse
to satisfy your ego, that you are also doing something, else the Guru-energies
are doing it subtly. You feel you are doing such great Guru-karya. Hence you
won’t understand at the physical level, many books say such things and one
feels how can one write like this! That person has reached a height and writes
at his level and he feels everyone is as mature as him, so we will not
understand at his level unless we reach that level. Hence it is necessary to
expand our spiritual state. I stress on the spiritual state because your state
makes the soul strong, then that soul does not need to pray. You become such a
soul that there is nothing to be achieved in life – you become completely
satisfied – no desire to live, you are ready for death at every moment. When I
meditate while leaving the body, saints want to learn that technique, but their
love of body is still there – and they ask what if do not return to the body?!?
I tell them there is no guarantee. Your fear of death will go when you have
achieved everything, fulfilled all desires and you do not have any further desire
to live. Fear of death is the biggest fear. There is no more desire to live,
free of desire, free of your relations, no reason to live for which you need to
take on another birth. So, if you ask today will I get moksha in this birth – I
can only say you have got it – but you need to maintain it; my experience – I
have no desire to receive anything. Even if I meet it is because of their good
karmas – I don’t take, I only give. See where they have reached. Nothing to do,
there is nothing left – it is a mukt awastha (free state). Such a state
I got from Shiv Baba. After this your life is for others. When you have nothing
to do for yourselves, you do for others. Yesterday excess vibrations were
coming during the bhajans. The more you give the more it increases. Now proof
is required for everything – what was my state earlier and what is my state
now. My aura photo was taken ten years ago and one was taken recently in
London. Where one gets what benefit, I don’t know. The UK aura benefit I got
recently during my visit to Sri Lanka. These photos had already reached Sri
Lanka before me. The Buddhist monks told me that your aura is like that of Lord
Buddha. All this has increased in your presence (Swamiji is referring to His
aura and Samarpan Meditation both). Many countries are joining and there are
many countries in line to join next year. All this progress has happened in
your presence. This sapling has become a tree, then why not me? If you are
fully surrendered, then your aura should be like mine – this is my desire. Till
that happens my purpose in life is not fulfilled. I don’t have ill feeling
towards others, you too should not have. Love is not for friends, relatives –
this love should be universal – for all sentient and non-sentient beings – it
should be open for all. Next, I am not a saint, ascetic – I am a family man,
there is no difference between you and me – Gurus have sent me as an example –
why can you not become like me?! A simple person like me has been selected and
kept in front of you. A householder can advance so much spiritually, such that
saints, sages come to his door to fetch him. A householder is not abnormal or
of a low type, he creates a new generation, he develops ashrams, an ascetic
cannot do all this. It is like a lotus flower which blooms in the muck. Its
roots and stem are in the muck but the flower itself does not allow the muck to
tarnish its beauty. You stay with your family, but keep the soul’s existence
separate. Atma is just Atma – if you can do that, only then will you progress
spiritually. Make a small place in your house your very own place. It is
necessary to have solitariness to find your own soul. Many people meditate like
that – there should be no soul within 15 feet of you. Meditate and your aura
will start expanding. As you practice your aura increases, and you will start
hearing a humming sound, and as soon as someone enters your aura field that
sound will stop. If it does not happen then go to the centre, learn to meditate
in the company of people who are not in a good state – when you do that your
energy will be donated, the centre’s vibrations increase – liberation is
donating your divine energy (Chaitanya ka daan hai moksha). Meditate
alone, become capable, go to the centre and give. Foreign sadhaks are poor,
they have low collectivity. Take benefit of your huge collectivity.
On this 23rd Gadhi sthan
is being established in Ajmer – take such opportunities for joining in the
collectivity. Meditate alone to enhance capability and meditate in collectivity
for gaining control. Practice driving at high speed with control. If you get
catches because of others, you will learn to bear the pain. Don’t let on that
you have caught something. Do without expectation, meditate without
expectation. You may now ask questions – but not at the physical level – ask
questions at the soul level. If you ask me about your personal problems then I
have only one answer – meditate, meditate, meditate. So now I have given you
the answer to your personal problems, do not ask such questions, ask spiritual
questions.
It was 10am when the questions and
answers session started.
1. You
said in today’s discourse – we reach our soul and become one with our soul –
who becomes one with soul?
Swamiji: It is your ego which becomes one with
the soul.
2. You
say keep your chitta on the crown chakra and meditate, can we use breath to
control, is it necessary to take breath to meditate?
Swamiji: This method of meditation takes you
only upto the brow chakra, we have to meditate by keeping our chitta on the
crown chakra. If we see some deity in our agya chakra, it is both good and bad.
It is good because this means that you have at least reached the agya chakra,
but you have not reached completeness, hence bad. If you have established Ram
in your agya chakra and you see Ram it means that you have recollected from
your subconscious what you have established over there. God is formless, means
you see nothing. People get stuck at the agya chakra, you do not get stuck
there, you need to go further.
3. If
we meditate does fault of our ancestors affect us? What do we need to do to
remove these faults and obtain peace for our ancestors? Please guide.
Swamiji: Pray with complete faith, nothing else
needs to be done. For the faults of your ancestors if you keep repeating the same
prayers again and again then nothing will happen. Just pray with full faith
once and then let go. If after your prayers still nothing happens, then it is
the effect of your past birth and you have to endure it. Do not repeat prayers.
4. I
experienced that the soul and body are separate. Is there any state above this?
If there is, could you please make us experience it?
Swamiji: It is nothing, just meditate,
meditate, meditate and you will experience all states automatically. The
complete/ultimate state is the one in which no expectations remain and there is
nothing further to be achieved.
5. What
is the soul? There was a video doing the rounds on social media showing the
soul which looked like human form leaving the body. What do you have to say?
Swamiji: Remember only the soul. Reach a state
where you are neither a male or a female. Research has been carried on about
the soul. When a person dies, the weight of the person reduces by 21 grams,
hence it was concluded that the soul weighs 21 grams.
Guruma then said – the video in question was
discussed on TV and the journalists found out that there was no death in that
hospital on that day. What has been captured on the CCTV is most likely the
aura of the sick person.
6. I
had this experience of a mausoleum where a samadhist Guru was interred. What is
the difference between kundalini and subtle body – does the smadhist saint take
birth again?
Swamiji: If there is no next birth only then
the subtle body develops at the mausoleum (Samadhi sthal) and if there is a
next birth then the subtle body goes with that person’s soul.
7. What
is kundalini energy? Where is it located? Is it necessary for it to get
activated for spiritual progress? Does it get activated with Guru’s Grace or
the Grace of the Guru Energies? Or is there some other process? How do we
measure our spiritual progress? How do we know we are progressing? Please
guide.
Swamiji: In the Dnyaneshwari – in the 6th
stanza there is a reference to the kundalini energy and this is the first
recorded reference on what is kundalini Shakti. What happens after the
kundalini energy rises – that also is mentioned in it. Firstly, all chakras
become good, they are cleansed; all illnesses are connected to these chakras so
if your chakras are good then there is no illness. Thoughts reduce, if you get
thoughts then later the intensity of thoughts reduces, the gaps between
thoughts increases. The silent gaps between thoughts become longer and you
obtain control over your chitta, once control comes your chitta becomes strong
and then a connection is established between atma-Paramatma (Soul-Supreme
Soul). Saint Dnyaneshwar asked his Guru whether he should give this experience
to others. I have written what you asked me to write. His Guru told him that
that was not his sphere and nor was it the correct time. That time will come
after 800 years when it will get awakened in collectivity. He was not
authorised. We are those blessed people who are living in the time referred to
in the Dnyaneshwari. In Rishikesh you will meet saints who live in caves and in
trees, waiting for self-realisation. You have got it easily. There are 2 types of
people – one type is those who did not seek self-realisation, but who got
because of the good deeds of their past birth. The 2nd type is those
who are born for self-realisation and they take the opportunity. The first type
got it unexpectedly and hence they do not value it and do not meditate
regularly. Those who recognise it, value it and their aim is to attain
self-realisation in this birth. The kundalini is positioned at the base of the
muladhar (root) chakra. During pregnancy if the mother has negative thoughts
then a feeling of guilt gets established in the foetus. That child is
subsequently born with a blocked vishuddhi (throat) chakra. The one who is
awakening the kundalini should be pure – it is not easy to awaken the
kundalini, if the awakened person so desires then the awakening happens. Once
the kundalini reaches the sahastrar (crown) then all chakras get energised, you
become healthy, thoughts reduce. Whether we progress or not we come to know
during our life. People who don’t like you, they start coming to meet you. You
need to maintain your state. For 7-8 months’ you meditate and make your chitta
strong, but you have no control. In such situations when you put your attention
on others you take their negative energies and become a dustbin. Your chitta
should be under your control. If you progress a little it is fine, but the
progress should be under control. If you learn this, then spiritual progress
also happens with control. All religions talk about retaining what is good and
letting go of what is bad. The process is to awaken your soul, but this is
difficult and it takes a lifetime to do so. Self-realisation means your inner
lamp is lit and once your soul lights up, you start seeing your own dark spots
yourself. Just like when you light a lamp which has spots on it, the lamp will
see it first. You will stop seeing faults of others – this does not mean that you
have climbed the first step. On the first step, you will start seeing your own
faults as they are closest to you. After meditation, it is a practise, sadhana,
it is not like you blow and it just happens! People ask me whether I awaken
kundalini. I say no, it happens automatically just like when you take a lit
candle close to an unlit candle and the unlit candle lights up in the proximity
of the lit candle. It lights up by itself. This happens in His proximity
because of power of collectivity. He looks ordinary but he is not. He has the collectivity
of lakhs of souls. When I was in UK at Penrhiew I got an experience. There was
a journalist and she asked me how do I explain to my colleagues that you are
different. You and I are alike, how do I make them understand that you are
different. I told that journalist to try and reach that hilltop alone. It is
very difficult. But if a person reaches that hilltop with 60 years of penance,
he then comes down slowly making a path for ordinary persons by removing
obstacles and then makes a gate at the bottom and waits there. If anyone wants
to reach the top, then I tell them that I have returned from there and removed
all the obstacles, you walk on this known path, if you take this path it will take
you to the top. It is my desire that every person reaches the top which is
called moksha. It is no longer a path, it is now a highway! Reaching from here
is easy, I am guiding you, but you have to reach it yourself. This body is
connected with lakhs of souls, and this collectivity will definitely benefit
you. Once I was staying in a resort in Mumbai and I was meditating below a
mango tree at 4 in the morning. A couple had come for their morning walk. They
started talking with me and I spoke with them for half an hour. The next
morning again they were waiting for me. Once I acknowledged them the man said
that he was in the Information Technology profession and a problem had been
bothering him for a very long time, but yesterday a miracle happened, as he
found the solution to his problem immediately on reaching office. This person
was sitting only for half an hour, you are sitting for 3 days! From tomorrow,
there will be great positive change in your life also. Make a note of today,
write down your experience and see the difference. Re-visit these 3 days in
times of depression.
8. Samarpan
Meditation which has come in society in which we have been told to do two
practices which operate in a subtle form – chanting the Guru Mantra and the
Guru Ahavan Mantra – how will these two practices occur in pure form? And the
pronunciation of these two mantras, the nuances which are there in these, they
are not just a group of words, so the subtle matter in them, if you can explain
these in great detail and if ‘Samarpan Meditation’ has to last till the
sun-moon last, so please give a solution for this.
Swamiji: I
meet different religious leaders – your religion is based on meditation, but
meditation is no longer practised and only rituals remain. We catch hold of
rituals very easily, we wear a scarf and take our chitta on to the sahastrar –
you wear the scarf but is your chitta really on the sahastrar? Those who cannot
meditate during meditation get a meditative state while performing aarti. Some
people who are meditating at the start of the aarti are shaken and made to get
up for the aarti. Such kind of drama occurs in all centres. While a Guru is
alive, he keeps his attention on all this. After my death, I am afraid that
only rituals will remain. My experience about the Ganpati Atharvashirsh is that
I did not learn it or anything, it just got transferred to me like in a u-tube –
from my Guru who had established it in himself to me. I don’t know Sanskrit,
but it just came to me. Sanskrit scholars will be able to point out mistakes in
my pronunciation. But when I recite the mantra, vibrations flow from it because
I have absorbed this from him. Don’t give importance to pronunciation etc.,
give importance to feelings (bhav) – you will feel its impact when you chant it
with pure feelings. A child uses a baba gadi (baby walker) to learn to
walk and leaves it after some time. These are all baby walkers – photo, scarf,
lamp, aarti, etc. Learn to walk, your entire attention, your chitta should be
on that soul, through whose medium you can reach this spiritual experience. Do
not go on external form and colour, clothes – whenever you get proximity,
whenever you come in my proximity, learn to place your chitta on that soul, who
has created me. It has an external form, go into the form within and realise
for yourself that these physical eyes are not fir for it. You will have to go
to your soul’s sanctity and look with the soul’s eyes to experience my soul.
Your and my connection is at the soul-level, experience the soul and you can do
so by using meditation as a medium. Apart from meditation everything else that
you do/use are just baby walkers – main thing is meditation and through
meditation spiritual experience. Think a bit, only one experience is happening
to all the people across the globe, whichever language, colour, race, country,
etc one belongs to. There is no difference, one kind of experience for
everybody. Your entire chitta should be on the spiritual experience. This is
because of our soul-level relationship. To get that experience, we have taken
on all these rituals. I tell all religious leaders, all the baby walkers should
go, but not meditation. Whether you stand for aarti or not, wear a scarf or
not, chant the mantra or not – the main thing is whether you connect with me or
not. If you concentrate on this, you will move towards the core. A person got a
stomachache and hence went to the doctor. The doctor gave him 3 medicines – to be
taken in the morning, afternoon and evening. He called the doctor and asked him
how to take the medicine. The doctor said take it with milk. Then the patient
asked cows or buffalo milk? Doctor said cow – he asked white cow or black cow?
White cow – hot milk or cold milk? The doctor said come and return the medicine
and do what you want! (laughter in the audience). This has happened – the relationship
should be like that of a u-tube, things should happen automatically.
Last year
I conducted a shibir with 90 Jain monks. It was a 4-day shibir. One
Gutchadhipati (top religious head amongst Jains) wrote to me saying that you
are a scholar and have read our Jain scriptures. I kept the letter in my pocket
and met him after the shibir. I told him as far as book is concerned, I have
not read any book. I have lived with Jain sages in the Himalayas, meditated
with them, we never discussed religion, and their knowledge just got
transferred to me automatically. One kind of knowledge gets transferred from
teacher to student through teaching, another kind of knowledge is that which
cannot be taught but gets transferred from teacher to student on the complete,
unconditional surrender of the student to the teacher. This happens because of
soul-level relationship. This is inner-knowledge. When you totally and
unconditionally surrender, it will happen, I cannot stop it. Beyond that there
is nothing – all rituals are nothing but roles which you play to reach that
state. These are roles for you to go within. There is a close connection
between havan and meditation. Meditation is your own havan and the best time to
meditate is 4am. You raise the heat in your body and it exits from the
sahastrar, Rambhai helps you to do that. Do not catch hold of the ritual of
havan – we create our own havan, which destroys our thoughts, illnesses, etc.
This havan is to be performed when it is cool – like in the early mornings or
late evenings. One request – you can take it to the next generation. All rituals
are roles to obtain spiritual experience, our roles should not become so big
that only rituals remain and not meditation. Every year, lots of countries are
joining, leave me free to do my work, if you keep me busy in Ashrams in India,
then I will be stuck with you. Leave me free to do my work. In Singapore, I met
a person on the beach. If I change my place, country, etc I am always with you.
The owner of 4 dogs was dragging them home by their chains. The dogs did not
want to go home, and they were busy looking here and there. They did not want
to go home! I see the sadhaks as those dogs and the owner as me. If I let go of
the leash everyone will go his own way. I have caught hold of you and am
dragging you towards moksha. The Guru catches you and drags you because of his
attachment. The difference between a samadhist Guru and me – there is no
control. Think about it. When you leave my proximity your chitta is wavering.
Focus entirely on meditation and let go of the rituals.
9. This
question related to Hanuman and him being sapt-cheeranjeevi – Swamiji said I do
not have any experience or knowledge of this so I cannot answer.
10. When
I meditate I hear the Brahmanaad and the sound keeps moving around inside my
head, sometimes behind, sometimes left, right or top. What is this sound? Is
this the sound of the universe?
Swamiji: Place your hand on your sahastrar and centralize
the sound on the sahastrar (Swamiji was speaking with a lot of love and
kindness). Nobody should be near you for at least 15 feet. This is like the
sound of an empty pipe when you put your ear to it – this sound comes from
within you. As your aura develops you will hear it. This is your own world. We
cannot have world peace, but we can establish peace within our own small world,
this is our own personal space, if any disturbed person comes in your space, he
should find peace. Wherever you go, your peaceful world goes with you. You can
create such a world for yourself. By meditating you should be able to create
your own 15-20 feet world for yourself and you can create it for yourself and
it will be in your control. When this happens, you will not have any accidents,
no illnesses – this world is in your control. Your own protection can be
created by you, the protection of your aura. Last year in Goa, the
International Retreat took place and we had discussions on each nation’s
problems. Every citizen of every country felt insecure. If you want protection
create your own protective shield. I tell the Jain monks to do this so that no
accident takes place. Efforts are taking place for holding shibirs for the
Armed Forces so that they too get complete protection. You should free me to do
my work, don’t tie me down! Scientifically it can be proven – the soldier’s
aura before and after meditation can be seen and verified. Once you become
strong and capable you will provide security to others too. Stay clean in
society like a lotus. Your family is of 4-8 people, my family consists of lakhs
of people, with innumerable problems. The proof is in front of you. It is my
pure wish that you reach that state.
11. It
is my wish and prayer to you that the Mehudi Ashram in Ahmedabad should be
created. Please guide.
Swamiji:
We now have got so many Ashrams, there are already two in Gujarat. Lots of
development activity is taking place. Now something different needs to be done.
I am thinking of creating a girl’s school/college on that plot of land. Once we
do that then the values instilled in the children will be permanent. Their
entire life will be connected with that. From childhood to college strong
values will be instilled. But this will happen with your approval only, if you
say yes, then only it will happen.
12. How
does life change from before starting Samarpan Meditation to post Samarpan Meditation?
Swamiji: Experience
this for yourself, meditate and find out for yourself. Focus on your soul and
find out. The location of the soul
easily as that place becomes like a block of ice. Take decisions based on your
experience, many times we go and say yes based on influence of others.
Yesterday Parasbhai asked me whether we should say the shanti paath, I
said okay. Then the bhajan singer asked for one last bhajan, I said okay. When
you ask me something, it should be balanced, your own wish should not be
attached to it. The youth ask me questions on marriage. They create a
background and then ask me whether I should marry or not? I say – yes – if you
give me options and do not attach your own wishes then I can give you correct
decision else I will say yes to whatever you want. The sages in the Himalayas –
no one can go within 500 miles of them without their wish. I went because they
allowed me to – all of them used to say your container is big, your container
is big. I checked in the river (laughing) and saw whether my head (container)
was really big. The sages said your desire to give is unlimited (reference of
container was for desire to give). They came to know that immediately. This is
also true of singers, artists and other creative people – they have the desire
that their knowledge/skill should reach the maximum number of people. All Gurus
also felt the same thing – so they gave their knowledge to a medium who could
then give it to the maximum number of people. The maximum number of people this
knowledge can reach it is good. Their desire was to make their knowledge
available all over the globe, but they could not do so, so they got me. The
donations should also reach and benefit the maximum number of people. So, you
give your donations to a person through whom donations reach all people. Hence,
donations given to a Guru reaches more people. The Guru Shakti Dham is like
that. Money has no importance - this will happen and last for the next 800
years. You have an opportunity now to connect, this opportunity will not be
there tomorrow. There is no greater donation than that of self-realisation.
Clothes etc. will get destroyed. Guru Shakti Dham experience will make them
strong and self-sufficient. They won’t need donation then. You do not know the
future results, but I know them. I know how many souls the Gurus Shakti Dham is
going to benefit, you don’t. I keep telling you to donate, because it will help
others get self-realisation. Research will take place tomorrow on how people
can get self-realisation in the idol’s proximity. There is no greater good deed
(punya karma) than the donation of self-realisation. Sadhaks/sadhikas
ask me whether there is no liberation without giving birth to a male child. The
thing is, if some soul takes birth through your medium then he/she is your
child. Understand the importance of self-realisation. No work will stop because
of the lack of money. You should not go into guilt that you could not even
contribute one brick to the Guru Shakti Dham. Stay in the present and meditate
regularly. Focus on your inner experiences during meditation, everything else
is useless. Namaskar!
After the
end of this answer, the final session came to an end. As always one got the
feeling why does this have to end. But as always, one is reconciled to all good
things coming to an end. It was 12.30 and we went back to the bedding hall,
finally packed the bags, folded the sheets and kept them on the bed. We then
went for our Prasad, after which I was to attend a meeting at 1.30pm in the
library. I had informed the sadhaks with me about the meeting and had requested
them to wait for me near the registration counter. A sadhak had requested me to
get Swamiji’s gold pendant for his relative, which I went and did later. At
1.25pm I reached the office and a sevadhari told me the meeting has already
started, so I went to the library, but it was a Trustee meeting and everybody
just looked at me, and Khamankarji said come on let’s wind up it is 1.30pm. I
got the feeling that I had intruded and quietly left and waited outside in the
office. About ten minutes later, I was called and the meeting on the
arrangements for the Kailash Kher concert took place. At around 2.30pm we wound
up and I came out. Sridhar and Harish were waiting outside – they had already
brought my bag with them. I said Jai Baba Swami to all and gave the key to
Harish, he said he will get the car out as I went and collected the Prasad on
handing over the entry card to the volunteer. All of us then sat in the car and
left for Mumbai. As Sridhar’s flight was at 9.30pm we had to reach Mumbai by at
least 8.30pm. We were well in time as the traffic was not so heavy and toll on
all the toll booths had been waived due to the annulling of the high
denomination notes by the Government. We reached Fountain at about 6.15pm,
dropped Veenaji and moved on. There was a line at Dahisar toll booth too, but
here too they were not collecting toll. We next dropped off Deepaliji at
Borivali, Harish at Andheri and as we crossed the Andheri flyover, I looked at
the watch – it was 7.15pm and I told Sridhar we should reach the domestic
airport by7.45pm (don’t know why I said it because it is less than 5 minutes
from that spot). As we entered the Santa Cruz airport I asked Sridhar whether
he was flying Indigo on the return trip too. He looked at me in surprise and
said no, he was flying Jet Airways. I said, o shoot – then we have to go to the
international terminal. It was 7.27pm when we came around again and Sridhar
said drop me near an auto I will go. I told him to chill, and that I would drop
him. I also told him it’s not his fault as I had said 7.45pm meant my soul knew
something was wrong. I told him to check the watch when we reached the
international terminal – it was exactly 7.45pm. We dropped him, said Jai Baba
Swami and left for home. I dropped Prabhaji at Vakola and reached home
incident-free at 8.10pm.
One thing
I observed this time was the silence. The silence amongst the sadhaks had
increased, no useless chatter. The ambience was peaceful and filled with energy.
The organisation and management was impeccable – a million thanks to all those
who were part of this Guru-karya both directly and indirectly. May His
Holinesses Blessings shower on them always.
After the end of this answer, the
final session came to an end. As always one got the feeling why does this have
to end. But as always, one is reconciled to all good things coming to an end.
It was 12.30 and we went back to the bedding hall, finally packed the bags,
folded the sheets and kept them on the bed. We then went for our Prasad, after
which I was to attend a meeting at 1.30pm in the library. I had informed the
sadhaks with me about the meeting and had requested them to wait for me near
the registration counter. A sadhak had requested me to get Swamiji’s gold
pendant for his relative, which I went and did later. At 1.25pm I reached the
office and a sevadhari told me the meeting has already started, so I went to
the library, but it was a Trustee meeting and everybody just looked at me, and
Khamankarji said come on let’s wind up it is 1.30pm. I got the feeling that I
had intruded and quietly left and waited outside in the office. About ten
minutes later, I was called and the meeting on the arrangements for the Kailash
Kher concert took place. At around 2.30pm we wound up and I came out. Sridhar
and Harish were waiting outside – they had already brought my bag with them. I
said Jai Baba Swami to all and gave the key to Harish, he said he will get the
car out as I went and collected the Prasad on handing over the entry card to
the volunteer. All of us then sat in the car and left for Mumbai. As Sridhar’s
flight was at 9.30pm we had to reach Mumbai by at least 8.30pm. We were well in
time as the traffic was not so heavy and toll on all the toll booths had been
waived due to the annulling of the high denomination notes by the Government.
We reached Fountain at about 6.15pm, dropped Veenaji and moved on. There was a
line at Dahisar toll booth too, but here too they were not collecting toll. We
next dropped off Deepaliji at Borivali, Harish at Andheri and as we crossed the
Andheri flyover, I looked at the watch – it was 7.15pm and I told Sridhar we
should reach the domestic airport by7.45pm (don’t know why I said it because it
is less than 5 minutes from that spot). As we entered the Santa Cruz airport I
asked Sridhar whether he was flying Indigo on the return trip too. He looked at
me in surprise and said no, he was flying Jet Airways. I said, o shoot – then
we have to go to the international terminal. It was 7.27pm when we came around
again and Sridhar said drop me near an auto I will go. I told him to chill, and
that I would drop him. I also told him it’s not his fault as I had said 7.45pm
meant my soul knew something was wrong. I told him to check the watch when we
reached the international terminal – it was exactly 7.45pm. We dropped him,
said Jai Baba Swami and left for home. I dropped Prabhaji at Vakola and reached
home incident-free at 8.10pm.
One thing I observed this time was
the silence. The silence amongst the sadhaks had increased, no useless chatter.
The ambience was peaceful and filled with energy. The organisation and
management was impeccable – a million thanks to all those who were part of this
Guru-karya both directly and indirectly. May His Holinesses Blessings shower on
them always.
Jai Baba Swami
Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did reliving it. Gurudev Bless!!
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