Gurusabha History

 

 
   
During those two years, whenever Bãpã was visiting a nearby village he would call us. We would join Bãpã and engage in sevã, for example in the kitchen catering, cleaning utensils etc. Bapa would be pleased and the youths enjoyed the chance to do this sevã.
Yogi Bãpã’s constant care flowed through his numerous letters. In these he would also instruct us in our daily activities. The letters would ask us to do satsang daily, chant dhun, eat healthy foods, drink only filtered water, abstain from watching movies and to fast if we by chance touched a lady. The letters were read in the weekly sabhã, and bound by Yogiji Mahãrãj’s love, the youth would follow his smallest instruction.

Once on the occasion of Shãstriji Mahãrãj’s centenary celebrations, Yogiji Mahãrãj asked us to gather 250 youths, prepare them and bring them ready for sevã. He was greatly pleased when the youths were gathered, all dressed in the same crisp white attire and eager to do sevã.

The dynamic of the weekly sabhã grew when Ashvinbhai, Shantibhai, Sanandbhai, Ratibhai and V.S. joined the Guruvãr Sabhã. Their strong attachment to Yogi Bãpã was the bond of the soul (ãtmã) with God (Paramãtmã). The enthusiasm and readiness with which they followed Yogiji Mahãrãj’s guidance, meant that although they were vastly different in personality and mindset, they worked together as one.

Pujya Manikaka (Mahant Swãmi’s father) would attend the sabhã and explain the Vachanãmrut to us. He was extremely dear to Yogiji Mahãrãj and having surrendered his life to the satsang, he naturally and simply conveyed the essence of the Akshar Purushottam Upãsanã.
After graduating with a Bachelors degree, I expressed my wish for further education in the USA. Bãpã had different plans for us and asked us to do our post-graduate study in Vidyanagar. We therefore enrolled to do our M.Sc.

Yogiji Mahãrãj then gave us an important ãgnã. He wished us to have a mandir in the hostel. As many of us were in the same hostel, we gave up one of our rooms (no.14) and prepared a small mandir in it. On the morning that we were preparing to have the first arti, Param Pujya Pramukh Swãmi Mahãrãj arrived completely by surprise. We were delighted and the pratishtã ãrti was done by his hand, followed by sabhã.
 
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