Mar 12
To Bangalore
I simply couldn’t wait for the exam to get over… I still had more than half the paper to answer but my mind was somewhere else… Focus Focus and yet my heart would give little leaps of delight when it contemplated what would happen in the evening… somehow or the other, i finished off that paper and almost skipped out of the class room… One more grueling semester was over, but more importantly i was going to Bangalore tonight… in 24 hours, i would be in the Paradise called the Bangalore Ashram… A few blessed weeks of Guruji and Advance courses and Knowledge awaited me and this time i was taking with me a bunch of my students all friends from IIT B, about 15 of us were going to soak in the Bliss… Almost all of them coming for the first time!
I was hugging myself in delight… what fun it would be to take them around… show them the Ashram, watch them when Guruji would meet them, dance and sing with them in Satsang… for the first time, i could share this wondrous world of the Bangalore Ashram with so many of these people who i loved and who were so dear to me…
Suddenly we all were rushing to catch the evening train from Kurla… What a fantastic journey it was, we all did Kriya in the train… talked to anyone and everyone who cared to hear us about Art of Living and Guruji, ate all sorts of junk, sang loudly just about everything from bhajans and hindi film song to rock and andrew lloyd weber, admired the beauty of the passing landscape, had long discussions about all sorts of stuff… i now wonder exactly how we managed to do all this in the meagre 24 hours that we had on the train… and then the train chugged into Bangalore station… it was fairly late at night and as we disembarked, i still remember the excitement i would have when i would look up at the sky and see the stars. At that time, Bangalore was relatively clean, unpolluted and the stars would be brighter than anywhere else i had been… Those stars told me i was in Bangalore with just 20 kms and 7 hours between me and Guruji…
None of us had much money back then, and no rickshaw would anyways go all the way to 21st Lm, Kanakapura Road at that time of the night… so, we would go till Banashankari and then hitch rides to the Ashram in any vehicle going that way… trucks, milkvans, or those suffocating private buses… As always when we reached the Banashankari temple almost within seconds we got rides to the Ashram… In that rattle and shake, and noise and heat i would tell everyone to wait and watch out for their first glimpse of the Bangalore ashram… and about 20ish minutes into the ride, we crested a small rise, went around that now so familiar bend and the Ashram, cool, serene and with little pin pricks of light burst into view…
My heart sang. I was home!
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Wow Bau. I almost relived some of my journeys through your post. We recently went to Kollam for Mahashivrathri and I could connect the eating junk, singing parts
But it must have been quite different those times
wow… i want more of it… JGD!
Wow ! Wonderful description…!
And the exam part is so beautifully described… Its almost as if I am going through this
Ah….Home…reminds me of my first visit to the ashram …Feb 18th 2006 – the day before the life kriya with Guruji during Silver Jubilee….that first glimpse….love at first sight…indeed I was HOME. No idea when I can be back though
Jai Guru Dev,
yes bau we all feel like that and the things we do to get to the ashram.. hitching rides with othjers, autos, the crowded bts buses but ultimately we do get to paradise whenever he calls us and i cant wait until june when i get back 2 bangalore from sydney…
wowwiee
i dont know what to write bawa .. just missing ashram and guruji terribly
lots of love
tanu
ps- for the millionth time- thank you
Lesson for me bao, if i am not able to travel comfortably then i skip the journey, if i am not able to comfortably travel and do seva.. in the past i have skipped it…the amount of love for the master, the deeper the longing more committed you are on the path…isnt it…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….
i miss Home terribly..now im counting the days to my final FINAL exam..beauty Bau..as always
Now if we travel through the same roads, we find that we are losing the green cover and gradually its becoming a concrete jungle. Thanks to the development and industrialization in bangalore!!
it’s a nice bawa sir surely everyone experiences the same when they visit first time the ASHRAM amazing place to be in I still remeber the day i entered ashram It was navarathri 2006
Jaigurudeva
Sudha
Ahhhhhhh……… Bau….
Now m allll nostalgic want to be there right now.
love
jai gurudev
Minnie
thanks for the post
Poetic – Wonderfully expressed true emotions – For the uninitiated, this may be banter; but for those who know better; this is classic poetry…
Cheers!!!
Sriram
Hmmmmmmmmm.I can feel the breeze of excitement.
JGD
after SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long Bau, a wonderful wonderful post. my heart melted after reading this one. thankyou so much.
Hey Bau, I know the last exam is so exciting…while studying for it also I used to plan for the day post exam.While writing the paper…the enlightenment, that the exam will be over within few minutes used to bring more and more enthusiasm…really cannot forget those days of college!!!It was wonderful reading this post Bau.
Love,
Jaigurudev!!!
JOY…LOVE…BEAUTY…LOVE…JOY…..
FEEL AMAZING… GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
JAI GURUDEV!
APU
so when are you coming out with a book?or is it already there that I am unaware of??!:-)
JGD!
in some time … its definitely on the cards
Thanks a ton for writing such amazing stuff…it really helps me to not meander from the path
…and whenever I feel the connection wavering, I am here …
JaiGurudev
Anyone wondering what 21st Lm is, its a typo for 21st Km.
My friend might be..
hey really nice one……. u made ma heart melt….. love ya bau!!!!!!!!!!!
soooooooooooooo beautiful description want to be in ashram now itself
Great description! It is really a heaven on the earth.
Love
Meghana
YESS really nice description..want to see the Ashram so badly!
n Bawa u writing a book? great!! please let us know about it!
Me a little inquisitive..what is it about? your experiences with Guruji? or your life story?