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garden filled with flowers, creepers and blossoming trees, where the devotees come to suck like bees at the sweet nectar of religion. Veerayatan is like a lotus that, on opening, wafts a breeze fragrant with its perfume in all directions. Visitors from all parts of the country as well as abroad come to seek solace at Veerayatan.
Several years ago, some people from America visited Veerayatan. They listened to Gurudev's sermons and heard Acharya Shri's progressive ideas. They were impressed by the amount of humanitarian work done at Veerayatan. They asked Acharya Shriji to visit them in the United States. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, their efforts succeeded. For her, love, friendship and good feelings were all that mattered and the boundaries between nations were secondary. To spread the word of Gurudev to a wider audience, Acharya Shri Chandanaji left India for the first time to visit the U.S.A in 1987.
During her tour in America, she gave some magnificent talks and showered the land with sweetness and poignancy. The younger
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generation, brought up in a society inundated with images and the bright lights of Hollywood, were touched by this inspirational and energetic guru. It seemed as if they were being bathed by the triple streams of seva, shikhsa, and sadhna and consecrated in the holy Ganges of Veerayatan. Her sermons were so wellreasoned and 'of the moment' that these highly intelligent and lively young people were deeply affected by their relevance and eager to spread the word. "Every nation and every city should know about these lifeenhancing principles that you have
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