Jai Gurudev!!!
after doing Utsav Act I with Bawa and Dinesh da.. i very strongly wnted to go for the advance course in ban galore Ashram..... bt i alwasy felt it will be really difficult to comvince dad and mom to let me go.... my sis Kirti made this thing easier for me.. she tried every possible way and finally with Guruji's grace dad agreed to send me. I registered myself the very next day.... was soo enthralled that i could feel hundred of flowers blossoming inside me...
finally the day came.. and i was there in front of the ashram gate... i could sense my heart pounding a ten times than it usually does... it all was soo unbelievable that i am at the place where i wanted to be since how long.....
the next morning we got up did kriya in the beautiful VISHALAKSHI MANDAP it was soo serene in it.. how many people must have meditated in it .. how many courses have been conducted here and to top it all Guruji's here...
All along the way i had heard about kitchen in ashram bt i could finally see it today... it was a huge dinning hall even after so many people finished with breakfast it looked as if it was just open ... i saw many Ashramites cleaning the utensils... Sundar Anna the Annadaata here requested us to do Seva in kitchen and as we were new to the place all 40 participants of us decided to help in kitchen.. the Veggies .... my God soo fresh i could believe the size of carrots and bottle guard, beans...(couldn't take a pic or else...)
finishing cutting veggies for lunch we decided to take a tour of Ashram.. without going much into technicalities ... ashram is spread on beautiful landscape of 150 acres full of greenary and beautiful scenic ...
from Kashyapa to Sumeru Mandap all seemed soo blissful .. we also could see Guruji's Previous Kutir (shakti Kutir) wow.. we even saw Bawa and Dinesh da's Kutir(Vishwamitra Kutir)
by this it was 1 and it was Lunchtime... in my whole life time i had never had my food without masala and onions.. but here no masala no onions even then the food tasted soo Divine (as Bawa states it rightly) enjoyed the divine and soo soo tasty food ... we decided to venture out the Divine shop that is a store for cassettes Cd's and books and knowledge books by Guruji.
By this time it was time to go to the River Side.. tats a place please don't miss if u go to ashram.... along side of Radha Kunj.. its a garden designed in a peculiar fashion with roses, flowers and fountains and artificial water falls.. that a treat for eyes...
then came dinner (divine as the lunch with a Payasam)followed by Satsang.. which is another energiser in AOL Courses..
Day 1 went on blissfully it was time to sleep as the next day we had to gget up at 4.00am .. the excitement level was still more high as the main course was yet to begin and i was eagerly waiting for it....
about the course experiance will tell in next post... :)
