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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
APRIL 2015
A JOURNEY SO FAR ...
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything," says The first simple thing was receiving calls from Shakespeare in one of his poems. For me so far, April people for the passes- they give me their names, has turned out to be a month in which I have felt address, number of passes they need and that is energetic and youthful because it has meant when I dissolved and the Karta or doer was HIM. ideating, planning, delegating, deciding – for a It was all His Grace. three day event scheduled in May when my Guru For skeptics, His Grace can be translated as random who means the world to me is going to be giving a things coming togather like magic, maybe sheer cospiritual discourse.
incidence or serendipity or maybe karma or just an Why is it so special that I feel like writing an entire page omen. devoted to it? Every event, big or small, saansarik or After the first five calls I knew that my insides were adhyatmik requires planning, every minute just like the going to churn and I had to simply keep my eyes days and minutes in our life.
and ears open and drink in and be receptive to the Besides the major logistics, there are other various gentleness, humility, simplicity of a person who might aspects attached to it like fears, anxieties, nervousness. not have heard Gurudev's discourse at all or were an apprehension about how it will all pan out just a tad familiar and were a bit unsure of how to eventually. The hope that everything not only goes well proceed further. and obstacle less but supersedes expectations; an OC- The first call was from a woman whose voice had a casional desire for acknowledgement, appreciation, tremor and almost a slight disbelief- She asked in wanting to score brownie points; Sometimes just the Gujarati, Reshma ben, may I please get two passes? sheer feeling of accomplishment within oneself, When I answered yes, of course, her gratitude to me reaching one's own parameters.
was almost as if I had just promised her the moon. But all of this gets multiplied tenfold when an event is the second call was from a man in Ahmedabad- He held for someone you love and not on a human level asked if there were arrangements to stay since Sant but at the level of a 'Master'- with feelings of awe, was going to be there and such a big event would surely adoration, worship- a kind of madness. And that have a few yaatri accommodation sponsors. I sadly is where things change...
said No and he hastened to say "no no, ben dont worry, It has been 15 days since I am into this planning
I have a cousin in Dombivali - I can stay there for three
days".( Dombivali is almost two and a half hours away slicing, altering, adding, subtracting, delegating, improvising- and I want my dear friends who read
from the venue.) this to walk with me through this process. Here
The third call was from a woman in America who goes:
sounded very excited and asked if she could get three Venue was decided by the committee-Birla Matushri.
passes and if they were available she would pre-pone
her tickets and asked me 'Have you ever met Gurudev Vakta was decided by them too- Pujyashri Gurudev ? I just said yes' and she said "you have no idea just Rakesh Bhai Jhaveri.
how blessed you are"! Co-ordinator was decided by them too and that was - The fourth call shook every ounce of me as it was from Me.
a very irate Muni Shriji. He asked me -" How can you This is when I glided in unaware of the nitty-gritty, the invite and ask a non- Acharya for a discourse on the fine details that need to laboured over, thinking it is all Aagam? What kind of person are you people child's play.
promoting? | ‘પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવનને વીસ હજારનું અનુદાન આપી કોઈ પણ એક મહિનાનું સૌજન્ય પ્રાપ્ત કરી. |
' સ્વજનને શબ્દાંજલિ જ્ઞાનકર્મથી અર્પી જ્ઞાનપુણ્ય પ્રાપ્ત કરો.
