3/21/09

Guruji Visit to Mumbai

A Sadhaka Reports:

The Mumbai chapter of Sadhana Sangama organized two programs in Chembur. One for the general public of Chembur and the second for the residents of the Staff Colony of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

The First Program was on Dhyana Yoga at Saraswati Vidyalaya, Chembur. This program has now become an annual feature and the School Management is very helpful for holding such programs. We take this opportunity to thank the Board of Trustees of the School Management for giving this facility absolutely free to Sadhana Sangama Trust for conduct of the program for 5 days.

We had the morning Satsang with Guruji at Mr. Raghuram Kamath’s Residence and Guruji spent this time with the core group to evaluate the progress made by sadhakas in the spiritual arena and give his guidance for the future conduct of activities. Mr. Niranjan Hemmady also took a lot of interest and expended several hours of dedicated time to ensure success of the programs in Chembur.

Mr. Kannan, Sri Vidya Teacher, arranged for Gayatri Mahamantra Program for three days at his residence at Mulund.

We had arranged a retreat at Karla 1.5 km from Lonavala with Guruji. This provided the core group members an opportunity to spend time with Guruji informally and clear their doubts encountered while practicing the concepts of Meditation and Yoga.

Dr. B.K.Das, a Research Scientist with BARC arranged for a 5 day Program at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, a Government of India Organisation at the residential colony Anushakti Nagar. We are very thankful to the entire management of BARC and the Committee Members of the Yoga Club for creating such a conducive environment for the conduct of the programme.

There were 10 yoga teachers attending the program and about 150 other participants. All the yoga teachers were from the Scientific Fraternity who attended the programme with their families. The vibrations of the program were so positive that Guruji commented at the end of the program that he was delighted to get such a positive vibration from the intellectual participants. Dr. G.A. Rama Rao, the Convener, on the last day said that they were ready to host such a program as an annual event, which was very encouraging and heartening.

In all these programmes Guruji insisted on the importance of being in ‘ATHA’ i.e. NOW. He said past is gone and buried, present is the time we have to live in and future is yet to come. Nobody knows what is in store for us in the Future.

HE SAID IT IS NO USE PLANNING AND HE DOES NOT PLAN FOR THE NEXT DAY LEAVE ALONE FOR THE FUTURE.

He said think if a child is trained to become an Electronics Engineer, but his calling is Yoga and he took yoga. Think what will be the state of the parents. He then pointing to himself said that he is giving his own example.

Then Asked the Question – Now You Tell me what all the planning did. Did it Help?

He said, do not plan for your children what you could not achieve in your life, we all try to plan for our children our unfulfilled desires. If we cannot do something in life we try to fulfill through our children. He suggested please do not do that. Let the child decide for himself what he wants and guide him in that direction with best suggestions and facilities he can be given. He said if you do not throw the child in water how will he learn to swim. He said look at your child as a gift from God and that he has been sent here with a mission -- let him find his way – everything has meaning and the expression, everything is for our good.

There are incidents that strike us only when Guruji highlights to us. He kept repeating ‘Atha’ in his Lecture for full 5 days and we were interpreting it as normal phenomena but he stirred us with his comment – I do not plan for the next day. THIS SENT OUR MINDS RACING TO THE CONCLUSION HE WANTED US TO REALISE.

There is another instance of Guruji’s insight into Sadhakas mind – He said there is an area in all of us, which we need to free from negative vibrations and link us to the divinity. Meditation is the process where we free our conditioned mind from the negative vibrations.

That means no success can be achieved without MEDITATION and every inventor must be meditating on the concepts to make an invention and that is why all Scientists do RESEARCH – They Search for the solution by searching again and again, only when they empty their minds do they get the results which are already present in the universe but it is not realized by any of them till that time.

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