My haridwar trip-May 2009

Well....I wanted to write this blog in hindi but it's not so easy to write hindi blogs as the system is not always able to convert all our hindi words(spelt in english) perfectly into hindi fonts.

So.....I want to share some of my precious moments which I spent in Haridwar with all of u.........actually haridwar is very beautiful place, specially because of the river ganga. I like all those places where we can view the wonders of the beautiful nature but I like haridwar because of two reasons first my 'Ganga maiya' and second u know......the religious reasons.

I nearly always get a chance to go to haridwar because of my bapuji's satsang.I reserved tickets for haridwar train 15 days before the day of our journey which was 7th of May. There were many people (sasangi i.e. bapuji's disciples who attend satsang) from haldwani, taiji along with mausi from almora and of course mummy & me. Later i also booked a journey ticket for bhaiya. So.....at last the day came. At 8 pm our train left for haridwar. among all of satsangis there was a girl of my age-group named Pooja. Any ways.... I don't know what the other people of my compartment talking about but I climbed up on the upper berth & fall asleep.We reached haridwar at about 3 am on 8th May.We had already reserved a dharmshala named 'Ekta bhawan'.we stay in the same dharmshala most of the times as it is always clean , 'satwik' and also because it is near satsang-sthal , ganga beach & from haridwar market.

After steping into the room the first thing I did was to call up my cousin-sipi with my cell-phone, as we had always enjoyed together during haridwar/delhi satsang.then we went to 'har ki pauri' to take a dip in gangaji.Wow!!!!! I enjoyed that moment specialy in those morning hours.

We reached satsang-sthal at about 11 o'clock. That day sipi was not with me but......... don't forget.....pooja was there to acccompany me. She is also enthusiastic about satsang and all.......so we had a good tuning there.There is always a crowd of lacs of people in our bapuji's satsang so it's difficult to see bapuji from the last row. We do a lot of struggle to reach the first row....come on yaar !!! this struggle has it's own fun.... In satsang, bapuji gives answer to all of the questions and confusions that come in our mind during whole of the year. We all, the disciple of Bapuji feel that Bapuji keeps on looking us at every moment and saves us from all mishappenings.

We also contacted mamaji (who lives in Delhi but now had come to attend satsang and who had taken a room in some different dharmshala) by our mobile after which he reached at our room at night with mausijis (ratna mausi and sipi's mom), mami ji & my sweet cousins....sipi's mom told us that sipi is coming with her brother at midnight 12 o'clock that day to our dharmshala ....so we had to say it to dharmshala's owner to order the guard to open the gate at mid night.Mummy had to do all this work as i again fall asleep.

Next day mom woke me up at 4 o'clock as we had to go to har ki pauri to ...........wow!!!!........to take a dip........oh !!!!!!......... as I remember those moments , a breeze of happiness and fun blows in my heart. Though sipi had taken rest for only few hours, she got up on mummy's first call. we all viz. taiji,mausi(almora wali), sipi ,mummy, pooja and I took bath in gangaji at har ki pauri with a shlok told by sureshanand ji(bapuji's head disciple). the shlok was : 'aum namo gangayai vishwa-rupinyai narayanyai namo namah'.After it we all went to haridwar aashram. It was poornima that day and mummy,taiji and mausi had fast. any ways....we 3 kids were hungry so we went to a shop and ate aalo ke paranthe. In the day time we listened to bapuji's satsang and took darshan of bapuji. at 3pm we left for satsang-sthal i.e. 'pantdweep'.

That day too we enjoyed a lot in satsang some years ago Ratna mausi used to accompany me in satsang to reach at the first row.......now we were crazy- 3 ie pooja, sipi and I. SATSANG is really a very nice place. there is always a lot of rush but all r satsangi's so no fear and we feel ourselves very free there.those crazy moments are really unforgetable which we spent there.The pretences pooja used to make"hey ma'm....plz let me go,..my aunty is in the first row waiting for me ....that one.....wearing geen sari.hai na shruti?" while returning from satsang the crowd at the bridge and the view of river below....wow!!...............In the evening, we went to market. Getting tired we fall asleep at night.

Now it was 3rd and the last day of haridwar. We got up at 5 am, went to'har ki pauri'and enjoyed together. Then we searched a clean place at the bank of river gangaji...to sit and to worship. we all sat down and did our daily routine of jap , praanayaam. We offered jal to surya-devta with ganga jal.It gives a feel of peace in heart.then we left for satsang, there was a 'deekshaa/naam-daan karyakram' that day. We decided to do sewa in 'rasoda' (i.e we all volunteers cooked food for all satsangis). Mom ,taiji & mausi decided to sit in satsang for bapuji's darshan first. BUT we crazy-3 decided to eat something first to get energy for the whole day so we started going to stalls to eat something but right then we saw a crowd going for darshan of bapuji.

Again by her clever pretences, pooja made it to get into first row in darshanarthis. Sipi and i also didn't miss the chance to go with her in the front row. A man started singing a bhajan 'jogi re ham to lut gaye tere pyar mein' we also started singing it loudly and enthusiasticly and started clapping loudly. Suddenly bapuji's car came when we all had a glance of bapuji. Then we went to sat-saahitya stalls to buy some books but there was a lot of rush so we missed pooja there. Now sipi and I decided to go to 'rasoda' to do sewa. we distributed food among ladies till 1:30 pm and then we went to satsang pandal and listened to the satsang in which bapuji was telling that we are separate from our body. We are the supreme soul. If at the time of death, we are able to make the question to ourselves " if I am this body , which is lying down then who am I viewing this scene?" then we can get our sole aim. After that sipi and I returned to our room and had lunch. It was very tasty.

After some rest we again went to the evening session which was very deep meaningful. Bapuji told that we don't have only one body but we have 5 bodies in ourselves. I can't describe all what he told because neither I m so profound nor every one can understand that brham-gyan. But i was really drowned into that satsang.

After the satsang we three decided to go to market via 'har ki pauri' while we were walking on the bridge it started light rain .....so we three started running on the road......now we were at the bank of gangaji near har ki pauri....and pooja wanted to take holy ganga water with her in a bottle........but was not getting the way to fill it...i also came down to help her. sipi also came with me......river ganga was looking extremely beautiful that time........lights of different shades was making the water of ganga colourful...i took some water in my hands and splashed it on my face.......many guys were enjoying there in ganga river......they were jumping into ganga from some height and were making noice.then we ran away from that place too ......as now we had to go to market as i had to buy something for sipi........after going in many shops she selected a light pink gown for herself.then we took a rikshow for ekta bhawan.it was still raining.

returning room we had our dinner and now it was the time for our departure..........sipi had to stay there with her mom for some more days.....we had to catch the night train whose timing was 12:15 at night ....so i got asleep just after getting my seat in the train..... i had to join my office in the morning.

so this was my haridwar journey for just three days.....the time, we felt was too short but was long enough to enjoy with nice mates.