Girish's Blog

The long awaited event was at last round the corner. Because of the Diwali season railway tickets could not be booked. When I had booked the tickets, I had 8 seats available and after the payment went through the tickets were wait-listed. I spoke to the rest and we all decided to cancel the tickets. I heard that Pujya Swamiji had mentioned that “baraati sabh tayaar hue hain par dulhe ki hi ticket nahi hui hai” (the marriage party is ready with confirmed tickets but the bridegroom does not have a booking)! In this scenario I had decided to drive down from Mumbai. I had four sadhaks with me and I had promised Ramaniji that on the return trip he could join us. The Guru shaktis also pitched in and Pawan who was to originally come with us said he could not make it due to office pressure and his brother Krishnamurari would join in his place. I was okay with that – and as it happened he said he would not be returning with us as he wanted to stay back and do Gurukarya. So Ramaniji’s match fix...

_/\_ || JAI BABA SWAMI || _/\_ I left home at 2pm after taking my mother’s customary blessings for Bandra Terminus. I reached Bandra Terminus at 2.30pm. The train was at the station and one could see a lot of familiar faces boarding the train, which was probably full of sadhaks. I entered the compartment and when I went to my seat I saw that Harish Rao had already arrived. The train left at 3.05pm instead of 2.50pm. Just before it left I got a thought that should I get down and push the train, as that thought crossed my mind, I got a call from Ramnath Kamath and the first thing he said was, “train ko dhakka marne aaun kya?” (should I come to push the train). It reached Borivali at 3.30pm wherein Ramnath Kamath, Pravin Purav and Deepak Tandon joined us. We were discussing the state of the country, politics etc and then the discussion veered to spiritual experiences. A lady from Dadar center – Deepa Sawant – was sitting in the aisle seat and who joined in the discussions. As the experi...