The wave of sweet devotion originated right in front of Ulsoor Police station at 5.15 pm on 25 Jun 2009. There were not many volunteers, no other teacher than me, when the Mitsubishi Lancer carrying Poojya Swami-ji stopped right in front of the police station at one of the busiest junction in Bangalore. With the most graceful smile, which I have never seen on a face other than that of the master, Poojya Swami-ji came out of the car. There were less than 10 volunteers of art of living. Volunteers started taking blessing from Swami-ji. One of the volunteers just broke and started weeping when Swami-ji touched his head… The crowd was silently watching. Our Snehasanjivani Padayatra was supposed to start at 5.00 pm and reach a temple that was almost 2 km away from the police station. I requested swami-ji to start the Padayatra. Everything changed then… One of the ladies from the crowd came to him and took his blessings. I did not know that, my Padayatra dream was just going to remain as a dream… Like insects flying towards a lamp, people started flowing towards Swami-ji… Within no time, Swami-ji was surrounded by a crowd of more than 50 people, all seekers of the grace of the divine… What followed was nothing but miracle…
Some policemen came out of the station. They inquired about him. WE informed them that he is the Swami-ji from Ravishankar Guruji’s ashram; they voluntarily came forward to provide him security. We had neither informed the police about the event nor did we take the permission to conduct such an event. It was a nice scene to see the men in khaki standing in queue and taking blessing from Swami-ji.
The small crowd had already grown into two long queues automatically. Swami-ji was standing still like a statue, with the most graceful smile on his lips, with half open eyes where the devotees could see the unconditional love of the divine.
Our volunteers who were waiting for us at the destination of the padayatra were worried, for all were waiting for Swami-ji to start the satsang… But they did not know that the divine had some other plans already.
Time passed… The length of the queues before Swami-ji was growing! Transformations and miracles were waiting for the devotees.
There was one lady in green saree, in the queue for ladies. Like any other person in the queue, she also received the blessings from Swami-ji. After some time, she came to one of our volunteers. She asked the volunteer whether she could take blessings of Swami-ji once again. She had a miraculous experience! She explained it to us. She had a very blurred vision. She could never read the letters on her mobile phone. After receiving the blessings, when she took her mobile phone for making a call… It was a wonder… she could see the letters very clearly… She could see things very clearly… She wanted to thank Swami-ji. We permitted her to meet him again. She stood in the queue, met Swami-ji and took his blessings again. The divine master did it again…
Time passed… 6.15 pm… 7.15 pm… 8.15 pm… But Swami-ji was standing in the same posture blessing all the lovers of the divine, who approached him for blessings. The queues were still growing… People who got the blessings ran to their home to bring their kith and kin…
The queue came to an end by 9.30 pm. Still people were coming by run to meet him and get blessed. Even when he entered the car, people were waiting for the blessings… Like the master, he was very kind enough to ensure that each and every person who was waiting received personal attention and blessings of the divine.
At 09.50, Swami-ji left to the Ashram. For almost 5 ½ hours, Swami-ji was standing in the same position and blessing the people. It was unbelievable. No Padayatra happened as we have planned. We could not reach our destination – But we were blissfully happy, for we could become the tools of the divine for distributing his love and blessing to thousands of people.
Jai Gurudev!
JAI GURU DEV,
ReplyDeleteDear Souls,
Where is god ? It is big question for all of us. Am I correct ? We always seek for god grace. God will never come in his own form & give us blessing. It always comes through messenger.
Life is full of troubles, tensions…… During your tough time, blessings works as a healing for all your troubles & tensions. Who is blessed, need not to worry for anything because Guru & God grace is always there.
Let me speak about my experience of “Snehasanjivani Padayatra”. On day1 started from Ulsoor police station. I reached at approx. at 5.45 PM as a volunteer to support. I called teacher Sureshji to know the location. I was shocked by knowing that Swamiji was blessing everyone 20 steps apart. I thought that Padayatra might have reached very far. Scene was amazing. People were coming to take blessing without saying to them. That was power of holy divine. A auto drivier, a flower man, household wife with her kids, students, service man, policeman, ……….. everyone were coming to take blessing. We have to reach 7.00 PM to Ganesha temple for Satsang. Queue was not ending. You can see from photos. Till 9.45 PM, Queue was not ending.
Sri Swami Jyotirmaya was standing with a smile on face & giving blessing to everyone continuously for approx. 5 hours. I was amazed to see continuous smile & continuous blessing happening for 5 hours. The atmosphere was having so much power which could not be described.
I will write to you on other day experience next time till then
JAI GURU DEV.