Girish's Blog

MAHASHIVRATRI – 2020 21.2.2020, Dandi Ashram I left for Dandi on 19 th morning along with Sridhar Mani from Bangalore whom I picked up from Mumbai domestic airport at around 7.30am. It was a very peaceful drive and we stopped for breakfast at Silver Miles restaurant. After breakfast, we again drove on peacefully till we reached Vapi around 9.30-9.45. The bridge at Vapi was being repaired and half the carriageway going towards Gujarat was blocked. There was a massive traffic jam as people tried to squeeze in from the left in their vehicles. I too was in the left lane as the right lane was not moving at all – as I edged towards the top of the bridge, I realised why – one of the workers had blocked the road with a red plastic barrier and was just letting one vehicle at a time pass by. We reached that point and were waiting for him to either remove the barrier so that we could go on or for the traffic on the right to move. On my right was a huge trailer truck and there was a...

24.7.2018 I left for Kutch Samarpan Ashram, Bhuj on 24 th July by the morning flight. My stay in Bhuj was till the 30 th and thereafter I was to leave for Saurashtra Samarpan Ashram along with Vibhavji and Paiji on 30 th morning. I was travelling alone as Sureshji who was coming from Goa and who was to take the same flight came pretty late - after security clearance I met Binythaji and other German sadhaks who were also on the way to Bhuj who were also waiting to board the aircraft. The flight left on time and landed at 7.10am. Sureshji came to say hello as I had messaged him my seat number. After getting my checked-in bag I called Muljibhai who was to come with his Scorpio to pick me up. Veereshji and his wife from Canada were also to travel with us. Binythaji was waiting for her vehicle – we too waited with her to help in bridging the language gap. We spoke to the taxi owner and informed him that it was more than half an hour since the flight had landed and there was...