Girish's Blog

I woke up at 2.30am on this holy day to get ready for departure. We had decided to leave early so that we would not get stuck in traffic as had happened last year.   Hotel Royal Regency had made a marvellous gesture this year and kept a complimentary breakfast for all sadhaks leaving for the Ashram to attend the Mahashivratri function. I had a breakfast of ‘poha’ and jam sandwich along with a cup of tea. We checked out and left the hotel at 3.30am for the Ashram. This was the first time that I drove through the road in the city as I followed other cars which had left just before we did. Actually almost the entire hotel was packed with sadhaks from all over – I saw some sadhaks from Singapore too. I had to go back to Sadhak Niwas to pick a sadhika who had requested for an early morning pick up. After she sat in the car, I drove down towards the Ashram on a road (usually empty) which was busy with traffic going to the Ashram. As we neared the ashram volunteers guided us on to the...

Orange/Saffron Om at Newasa Mahadhyan Link to OM photo - Shri Khamankar's Picassa Album https://plus.google.com/photos/115731945062107049727/albums/5816890836469138305?authkey=CNPprZuHtdGhTw&banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/115731945062107049727/albums/5816890836469138305/5816891708201523362 After the Mahadhyan at Newasa on 28th November, 2012 Ramnath Kamath, Anant Khamankar and Girish Borkar had stayed back after the Mahadhyan and after visiting the Pais temple at Newasa and a trip to Devgad we returned to the Trimurti Pawan Pratishthan school dormitory. We had planned to meditate at the lake side during the sunset. It was around 4.45pm and after freshening up we were to go for meditation. At this point Ramnath Kamath said he wanted to have a bath. By the time he finished the sun was already setting and Anant Khamankar started taking photos from the dormitory balcony of the setting sun. In the meanwhile Ramnath Kamath dressed up after his bath and we left for the lake si...