Girish's Blog

7, 8, 9 July 2017 – at Kutch Samarpan Ashram - Punadi Village, Bhuj, Kutch Guru-Poornima  Darshan I had booked flight tickets to Bhuj in March itself. I got a call from a sadhaks saying that his sister is travelling from the US to take diksha and could she come with me from Bhuj airport to the Ashram. I said of course, no problems at all. I had web checked in and was waiting at the airport. Ramnath Kamath joined me at the airport and after he checked in, I got a call from Mr. Patil saying that his wife had just entered the airport and he described her dress etc and I tried to locate her. I did a couple of rounds of the check-in area and not seeing her there, both Ramnath and I left for security check. I was sure that the Guru-energies will look after her. I did not find her after security check, boarding started and the aircraft was filling up, when I saw her come in the same smiling face which had been whatsapped by her brother. I asked her where she got lost, and she...

The first time we applied for the visa to Germany in April 2017 it was rejected saying that the purpose of our visit was not clear and there was no certainty that we would return to India. We were really shocked as all our papers were absolutely clear and we had booked non-refundable Air France return tickets in January 2017 itself thinking that our visa was a sure-shot thing. Just goes to show how paranoid Europe has become over the refugee crises!! We got the visa rejection letter on May 3 and thereafter Vallari’s exams were to start and get over on May 25. Vallari said we could take appointment with VSF for the 23 rd as her last practical was on 25 th , which we did. The line this time was much shorter (first attempt we were in visa office from noon to 4.30pm though our appointment was for 12.15pm). After we filed our application, we got an sms the very next day that the application had been processed – this was due to the mail sent by a sadhika’s husband who is a member of parlia...