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Blessed devotees,

 

Here is the writeup of our Chaar Dhaam trip.

I will try to make this into a HTML page with links

to all the photos and cut it into a CD. It may take

a week more for that. As I am having to do this in

my free time, please bear with some delay. Sorry

for the inconvenience.

 

With regards,

Gokulmuthu.

 

 

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04 June 2006, Sunday

 

There was Puja and Homa at the house of Sri Janardhan Reddy in Delhi.

We had nice discussions with the Pujari (a Doctor) related to Vedas

and with Nareshji.

 

Nareshji explained that the first naama of the Lord in

Vishnusahasranaama

is " Vishvam " . The world is a manifestation of the Lord. Everything

in the

world is filled with the Lord. This is what the story of Prahalaada

shows. The asura employed various means like fire, water, earth, wild

animals, serpents, murderers, etc to kill Prahalaada. But as Vishnu

resided

in all of them, the devotee was saved. The asura did not expect

Vishnu to

be in an inert stone pillar. The Lord was there too !!!

 

The blessed house of Sri Janardhan Reddy was like an ashram. Anyone

who

comes to the house did not go without being fed well. I have heard of

such hospitality, but here I was seeing it with my own eyes.

 

The group that went on the pilgrimage were

1. Sri Gopi Krishna - An officer in ILO from Delhi

2. Sri Raghava Rao - An educationalist from Hyderabad

3. Sri Prasanna Kumar - An MBA student from Hyderabad

4. Sri Anjayya - An officer in an insurance company from Karim

Nagar, AP

5. Sri Radha Krishna - Anjayya's friend from Karim Nagar, AP

6. Br. Hari Sharanam - A parivrajak brahmachari from Vrindavan

7. Sri Gokulmuthu - A software engineer from Bangalore

 

Gopiji was the organizer and coordinator of the pilgrimage. He knew

a lot of ashrams in the area and arranged accomodation and prasad

in those places.

 

The aim of the pilgrimage was to visit the Chaar Dhaam and other

interesting people and places enroute - mainly sadhus and ashrams.

The group was very devoted. They chanted Vishnusahasranaamam atleast

once everyday. They did japa and sang bhajans whenever possible.

 

We left Delhi at night.

 

05 June 2006, Monday

 

We reached Kailash Ashram, Rishikesh in the morning. We had darshan

of

Swami Medhananda Puri. He made coffee for us. As the next day was

Ganga Dusshera, we were adviced to go to Gangotri first. The usual

Chaar Dhaam trip is to visit Yamunotri first and then go to

Gangotri. We planned to visit Gangotri first to wish Her

" Happy Birthday " .

 

We left Rishikesh to Uttarkashi. We reached Sivananda Ashram,

Ganeshpuri,

UttarKashi in the evening. We had dinner and participated in the

evening

Bhajans. The rooms were very good and the hospitality was excellent.

We had a nice sleep.

 

06 June 2006, Tuesday

 

We started from Uttarkashi towards Gangotri. On the way, we saw

a mountain with snow on the top. By coincidence, the shape of the

white snow seen from the van looked like the letter OM. The devotees

were thrilled.

 

We took bath in the hot spring at Ganganani.

 

We reached Gangotri in the midst of a major traffic jam. We were 2km

from the Gangotri temple. We decided to get down and walk. No sooner

than we had walked half a kilometer, when suddenly we saw a familiar

person coming towards us. It was Sri Sri Ravishankar. We bowed down

to him and made pranams. He greeted us with a smile and quickly went

on his way. We were standing wondering at our good fortune.

 

We went further and we found a very old lady accompanied by two other

ladies slightly younger to her, trying hard to walk towards Gangotri

with her heavy bag, etc. We took the bag from her and helped her to

the temple holding her hand. We felt blessed to be able to help them

at the holy place.

 

We offered prayers at the banks of Ganga at Gangotri. We had darshan

at the temple and started back to Uttarkashi.

 

On the way, Gopiji was having interesting discussions with our driver

Sri Prabhakar. Prabhakar was a young naughty youth with a good sense

of values, but short temper. Sometimes he gets calculative and tries

to get more money (natural). Overall he was a nice and interesting

person.

 

We reached Uttarkashi at nightfall. We had dinner at the ashram and

went to sleep.

 

07 June 2006, Wednesday

 

We got up early in the morning and went to the banks of Ganga. The

devotees chanted Vishnusahasranaam. The sun rise from behind the

mountains, the sound of Ganga flowing mixed with the melodious

chanting of Vishnusahasranaam was enchanting.

 

It was the day of Nirjala Ekadasi. As we are not used to it, we

were served some snacks at the ashram. We had satsangh with

Swami Premanandaji Maharaj. Raghavji asked the Swamiji to give us

a message. Swamiji said " Be thankful to the Lord for whatever

that happens in life. It is by His will and judgement that things

happen. Don't complaint against or reject His will. " He took some

annaprasad of Puri Jagannathji and gave to Radhakrishnanji. He

asked Radhakrishnanji to eat it. He ate it. Swamiji said, " See,

today is Ekadasi. But he did not think, 'Why is Swamiji doing a

foolish thing? Today is Ekadasi and still he is asking me to

eat rice. I will not eat it.' He thought, 'Swamiji knows today

is Ekadasi. Still he is asking me to eat this. So it must be fine

to eat it.' This should be your attitude. You should rely on the

judgement of God.

 

He also said that it is the Lord who has become everything in the

world. Learn to see the Lord everywhere. At the same time, use

your intelligence also. He told the story of the Elephant God and

the Mahout God.

 

We took leave of the Swamiji and went towards Yamunotri. We reached

Hanuman Chatti at night.

 

08 June 2006, Thursday

 

We started in the morning. We went upto Janaki Chatti by a local

jeep and started trekking to Yamunotri. The village houses were

interesting. The horses, the palkis, etc were a new experience.

The trek was steep. It was compensated by the beautiful scenery.

We were in no hurry. We reached Yamunotri. The water in the

river was cold. Some of us took a dip while others just sprinkled

the water on the head. We took bath in the hot spring water.

 

There was a Hanuman and Rama temple near the Yamunotri temple.

Thanks to Hari Sharanam Maharaj, our afternoon prasad was arranged

in the temple. After prasad, the devotees chanted Vishnusahasranaam

outside the temple. Then we started trekking down.

 

Gopiji's arthritis gave him a tough time, but he beared it all with

cheer. We reached Hanuman Chatti in the evening and stayed there

for the night.

 

09 June 2006, Friday

 

In the morning, we started the long drive towards Kedarnath. The

devotees chanted Vishnusahasranaam and sang some bhajans in the van.

On the way, the spring in the van got broken and we had to spend a

few hours at Barkot to get it repaired.

 

We had a nice satsangh while waiting for the van to get repaired.

Gopiji told us about the plans of the purohit, who did puja in

Reddyji's house. The purohit wanted to start a Veda Patashala, but

his plans did not materialize fully. He had spend lakhs of rupees

on it. With Gopiji's support, they are planning to revive it. We

also had various discussions on spiritual life.

 

When the van got fixed, we continued our journey. We reached

Shrinagar (Uttaranchal) by night fall. We stayed there in the

night. As this falls on the way to Hemakund Sahib, there were a

lot of Sikh pilgrims in Shrinagar and on the roads.

 

10 June 2006, Saturday

 

We started towards Kedarnath. We stopped at Guptakashi. We went

to Sri Srividhya Dhaam. It is a residential patashala and a

charitable rest house for sadhus and sadhaks. We left our luggage

there.

 

We went to the place where a friend of Gopiji - Sri Ramamoorthyji

- is leading a secluded life. There is a shiva temple where Nala

had worshipped. There is a place where Nala did tapas. We also

saw the samadhi of Damayanti from a distance. There were rice and

potato fields all round. There were rows of mountains one behind

the other in all directions. The place was very beautiful.

 

Sri Ramamoorthyji showed us Bhoj Patra. It is the bark of a tree

and is like paper. It is used to write sacred texts. He also

gave some Kedarnath prasad. He gave Gopiji a magnetic knee cap to

alleviate some knee pain.

 

We reached Gauri Kund at the base of Kedarnath before noon. We

took bath in the hot spring and started trekking up. The place

was very crowded. Horses and palkis were plying in the service

of pilgrims who could not or did not want to trek by foot. We

heard there were more than 20,000 horses in service there. There

is helicopter service also. The trek is not as steep as Yamunotri,

but it is twice as long. It started raining as we neared the

Kedarnath temple. We reached the top in the night. We took a

room and slept.

 

11 June 2006, Sunday

 

We got up in the morning. The sun rising over the snow clad peak

of Nilakanta was an enchanting sight.

 

We had arranged for a priest to help us worship the Lord. He wanted

us to tell lies and cut the queue, etc. We told him that it was ok

with us to stand for a couple of hours in the queue, but we did

not want to spoil our spiritual mood by telling lies and fighting

with other righteous devotees. The queue moved fast. After a short

wait, we had a nice darshan of the Lord. We worshipped Him to our

hearts satisfaction. We blessed the Lord that He soon gets freed

from the corrupt pandas and priests.

 

We had a brunch and started trekking down. We reached Gauri Kund

in the early hours of the evening. We sprinkled water from Gauri

Kund on our heads and proceeded.

 

We went to the temple of Triyuginarayan. The tradition says that

this is where Shiva married Parvati. Lord Narayana was the priest

and the homa kund is being kept akhanda since then. We worshipped

the Lord ignoring the modern day priests, who tried hard to help

us lighten our purses.

 

On the way back, Sri Prabhakar shown us a temple with a golden

color dome like structure, on the distant slope of a mountain.

He said that it was the place where Shiva cut of the head of

Ganesha, who did not let him in on the orders of Parvati. We

did not have time to visit that temple.

 

We reached Sri Srividhya Dhaam at Guptakashi at night fall. We

had prasad there and spent the night there.

 

12 June 2006, Monday

 

We had darshan of the Vishwanath temple at Guptakashi. There was

a huge trident, which was supposed to have been used by Shiva.

 

Then we reached Chopra, the base of Tunganath. We decided to

visit Sri Tunganathji after long deliberation. It is a three

kilometers steep climb. We took the services of horses. Anjayya

was very frightened to climb on a horse. He walked all the way

up to the great appreciation of the rest of the group. The

scenery on the way up was very beautiful. Its beauty was

excelled only by the scenery on the top of the mountain, where

the temple of Sri Tunganathji was situated. It was a very calm

place. There were not many people. We had a nice darshan and

sat quietly for sometime facing the vast stretches of open

meadows. This place was too high up for the pine trees to grow.

We could clearly see the line above which the tall pine trees

dared not to set their foot. Only humble ferns, grass, and some

small plants and creepers grew in this place. Most of the plants

had beautiful small flowers. This seemed to teach us the attitude

we should have when approaching the Lord.

 

Upon enquiry, we found that accomodation is available at the top

of the hill with all facilities for a very low price. We decided

to plan to come there and spend a week or so, in solitude sometime

in future. It is a very good place to test your nerves on a

solitary life.

 

We reluctantly came down from Tunganath. We started towards

Joshimath. We reached Joshimath at night. We had a darshan of

Swami Swaroopanandaji Maharaj, the Shakaracharya of the Math.

Gopiji and the other devotees had the priviledge of rendering

some personal service to the Swami. They felt very blessed. We

had prasad in the Math and our accomodation was also arranged

there.

 

13 June 2006, Tuesday

 

We visited the place where some of the Sankaracharyas had done

a lot of Tapas. Then we visited the temple where Sankara was

saved by his disciple from death at the hands of a Kapalika.

 

We had breakfast and started towards the last of the Chaar

Dhaams - Sri Badrinathji.

 

We reached Badrinath before noon. We took accomodation at the

guest house of Sri Chinna Jeeyar. We went to see the temple.

We wanted to take bath in the hot spring before lunch. As they

were cleaning the tank, we just wetted our mortal frames and

had prasad at the guest house where we were staying.

 

We had darshan of Sri Badrinathji. It is a staggering feeling

to even think that Lord Narayana is doing Tapas in this place.

We came back to the guest house in the evening. At 6pm, the

volunteers managing the guest house chanted Vishnusahasranaam

and did puja to Sriman Narayana in the small temple in the

guest house. It was a small devoted gathering.

 

14 June 2006, Wednesday

 

We had a nice bath in the hot water spring in the Badrinath

Temple. Gopiji and Raghavji wanted to do some puja for their

ancestors. After the puja, we had darshan of the Lord. We

got some bhog prasad of the Lord. We had lunch at the guest

house.

 

We wanted to visit some mahatmas in the areas. Gopiji had a

list of such people. We could locate a great saint. His name

was Taatambari Baba. He wore only a jute gunny bag. He spoke

in a charming rustic Hindi. He called us " kapadevaalon " .

Here is a gist of our conversation with him.

Hari Sharanam Maharaj: Babaji, we have come to see you by your

grace.

Babaji: You have come here by the effect of your prarabda. So

it is by the grace of your karma that you have come here. It

is really your grace.

HS: Babaji, give us a message.

B: If I tell you what I want to tell, you wont follow. What

is the use?

HS: It is ok. Please tell us what you want to tell. We will try.

B: Stay here.

HS: What do you mean?

B: What you seek in the world is a place to live, clothes to

wear and food to eat. I will give you all these at this place.

Just stay here and do nothing. Which of you is ready for this?

HS: How is that possible? What about our prarabda? Where we

stay and what we do is directed by the prarabda.

B: A jnani can do what he wishes. He does not have any karma.

All karma gets burnt away in the jnanaagni. A jnani is free.

HS: But we are not jnanis.

B: That is in your hands. You are just not willing to break

away. That is the problem.

Raghavji: But Babaji, we are grihastas. We have family, job

and other duties and responsibilities. Who will take care of

them?

B: See. Everyone's life goes according to their prarabda.

Just because you decide to stay here, their life will not

become anything different from what their prarabda is. Just

because you decide to stay with your family, their life will

not become anything different from what their prarabda is.

You really dont make any difference to anyone.

(Great silence prevails in the minds of the devotees.)

R: But Babaji, being in the midst of family and other

responsibilities, how should we lead our life?

B: Live like a sannyasi. Be unattached. Know that everyone's

life happens according to their prarabda and you really dont

make any difference to anyone's life.

(Silence again.)

B: Did you have darshan of Sri Badrinathji?

HS: Yes, Babaji.

B: Did you close your eyes and ask God anything?

HS: Yes, Babaji.

B: What did you ask?

HS: I asked for Bhakti.

B: Why should He give you Bhakti? Do you want Him or does

He wants you? Who are you to Him? Why should He give you

Bhakti because you asked for it?

HS: Then what should we ask, Babaji?

B: Why should you ask anything at all? Just go, have darshan,

feel happy and come back. Why should you ask something?

(Silence.)

HS: We will take leave Babaji.

(HS tries to take the rug being used to sit on by the devotees

and fold them away.)

B: Hey, no, no. You are a Sant. Why should you do that? I

will take care of it.

HS: No Babaji. You are a Sant. We are ordinary people.

B: No. You are a renunciate. You are a Sant.

(The other devotees take the rug from HS and complete the job.)

 

We were so enchanted and amused by the dialog with Taatambari Baba

that we were recollecting and discussing his words again and again

throughout the rest of the pilgrimage. We were trying to imitate

his unimitable rustic Hindi and other mannerisms. Hari Sharanam

Maharaj decided to visit him again during another trip to Badrinath

when he had more time to spend with Babaji.

 

In the early evening, we visited the village of Mana in our van.

At Mana, we visited Ganesh Guha and Vyasa Guha. This was the

place where Mahabharata was written. The good natured priests in

both the caves explained tirelessly to the pilgrims the history

of these caves and made us feel edified and happy. There were a

lot of pilgrims visiting these places and everyone felt very

happy with these priests and donated happily and generously. Oh,

how different were these noble priests from those at the temples

we have visited before.

 

These caves are on the banks of river Sarasvati, which is said

to vanish into the ground shortly downstream and reappears at

Prayag (Allahabad). The river forces its way violently through

a narrow gorge and tumbles down a steep fall. It was a nice

scene to watch. There were some boys taking the risk of collecting

some water from the top of the fall for a few rupees. There is

a natural bridge called Bhim Ful (Bhima's bridge) over which

we had to cross to reach the Sarasvati temple. A short distance

further on the path is a small temple of Tripurasundari. We

paid a visit to the temple too.

 

All along the way, there were villagers selling woollen ware

made by themselves at their home.

 

On the way back, we met an old woman who was doing some farming

on a patch of land overlooked by a huge steep cliff. It was

an enchanting sight to see the puny little figure of the old

lady tottering before the majestic mountain. It was impossible

to say who was greater - Nature or Man. Nature and man seemed

to be made for each other, as long as they respected each other.

It reminded us of the verses in the Gita where Krishna tells

Arjuna - " You offer to the Devas in sacrifice and the Devas will

reward you in plenty. Thus you support each other and live

prosperously. "

 

We came to know that the old lady had trekked to Swargarohan,

Gomukh, etc several times. We bowed down to her and she blessed

us with motherly affection. We wondered at the simplicity and

cordiality of these people.

 

We spent the night at the guest house at Badrinath.

 

15 June 2006, Thursday

 

We left Badri early in the morning and reached the kutir of

Swami Swayambodhanandaji at the village of Jakhwadi in the

evening. The Swamiji is the guru of Gokulji. Swamiji has been

living in that Kutir for the past ten years. It is a very

calm and picturesque place with paddy fields on the mountain

slopes surrounded by higher mountains. There is an ancient

small Shiva temple besides a perennial spring of crystal

clear water flowing ceaselessly making a gentle murmuring

sound. This seems like the mountain's unceasing japa of

Shiva naama at this ancient temple. In the vicinity of this

temple is the small kutir of the Swamiji and another small

kutir that serves as the guest room. The place does not have

electricity. The villages nearby have electricity supply.

The Swamiji said that he did not want electricity and other

modern amenities to keep away casual visitors. Only sincere

sadhaks who are ready bear a lot of hardship are welcome to

his small ashram, which is called " Sanathana Jnanashram " .

 

Gokulji had told earlier that the Swamiji had told him once

that an ashram is not made of brick and mortar, but of

sincere sadhaks. We were all reminded of that statement and

seemed to understand the meaning of that sentence.

 

Swamiji asked us if we were planning to spend the night there.

We told him that we would like to, if it was not an

inconvenience to him. He replied that it was no inconvenience

to him, but it was we who should be ready to bear with the

inconvenience of the place if we want to stay. We were more

than willing to face any inconvenience to spend more time

with this great sadhu. We decided to spend the night at his

" ashram " .

 

Gopiji asked the first question, " We went to the Chaar Dhaams

just now. We had to face a lot of physical hardship to have

darshan of the dieties. To come here too, we had to face a

lot of hardship. This place is very deep in the mountains,

with bad road access, across several mountain streams, etc.

Why do you sadhus and other places of pilgrimage are always

located at almost inaccessible places? " Swamiji gave a very

detailed reply to this question. The jist of his reply was,

" I am a rejected person in the society. I came from a middle

class family. So the poor people, who form majority of the

population rejected me. At work, I was an honest person. So

I was always a suspect in the eyes of my peers and was rejected

by them. As I was an officer, I was rejected by the workers

too. I wanted to lead the life of a Brahmacharin. I was

rejected by my family and the soceity for that. I did not

find any place in the social circles of the people of my age

group. Even in the ashram of my Guru, I was a rejected person.

My aim in life is Jivan Mukti. I was not interested in any

power or position or name in the ashram. As most of the people

in the ashram are after these things, I was rejected there

too. I had to leave the ashram. In this world, anyone who

follows the path of Truth has to face this rejection at some

time or the other. So, it is not that we choose to stay in

inaccessible places. It is the world that rejects people like

me and these are the places where we land up in. " Gopiji

said, " But Swamiji, we have come in search of people like you.

How can you say that you are a rejected person? " Swamji said,

" Tell me what percentage of the society wants a person like

me? "

 

Raghavji asked, " We are Grihastas. We have a family, job

and other duties and responsibilities. In the midst of all

these and along with all these, how can we strive for God?

What is the way for us? " Swamiji replied, " God is the goal.

Your wife, children, job, bank balance, and all other things

are good only as long as they are not obstacles to your

spiritual life. If you are serious about spiritual life,

you should not hesitate to forsake anything that is an

obstacle between you and for God. Prahalada forsook his father.

Vibhishana forsook his brother. Bharata forsook his mother.

Mahabali forsook his guru. The goal is God. You will get

Him only if you are willing to drop anything that is an

obstacle. Keep this in mind and use your own intelligence

and make your life. "

 

Swamiji talked to us about various things. During the

course of our conversation, he told us this. " Our mind

has various layers - like the conscious, sub-conscious,

unconscious, etc. The aims and thoughts in one layer

contradict with those in another layer. Sadhana is nothing

but bringing the contraditions in the various layers of

the mind to the conscious realm and making the choice

that leads us to God. The objective of all the various

yogas - Bhakti yoga, Jnana yoga, Karma yoga and Raja

yoga - are the same: to bring out the contradictions

in the mind into conscious vision. When you are conscious

of the contradiction, you have to make the right choice

and move forward. Keep doing this. It is not the job

of a single lifetime to remove all the contradictions.

It may take a few lifetimes. But this is the spiritual

path. You have to do this. There is no other way. You

have to face it. "

 

Swamiji talked about giving in charity. He said, " Even

from the common sense point of view, you should give

in charity to reduce the tension between the rich and

the poor. The big gap between the rich and the poor

creates jealousy. This leads to a lot of problems in

the society. To balance this, the rich have to give in

charity to the people whom he faces everyday. This has

to be done by the rich to save his own life. This is

simple common sense. "

 

Swamiji made herbal tea for us in the early evening.

He made kichadi for the night. He gave each one of us

a small part of the task of preparing kichadi. Some

of us washed the vessels. Some of us fetched water.

Some of us cut vegetables. It was fun. Then Swamiji

led us to sing some bhajans. He played on the harmonium.

We all clapped our hands to keep the beat and sang

with him. He sang the song " hey roma roma mein vasane

vaale Ram " . We were all thrilled by the deep meaning

of the song.

 

Gopiji and Gokulji slept in Swamiji's room. The others

slept in the guest room. The toilet in the guest room

had more facilities than the one in Swamiji's room. For

example, the toilet in the guest room had a door which

can be locked. We had a nice sleep in the night.

 

16 June 2006, Friday

 

In the morning, Swamiji gave a leaf of a plant to chew.

He said that chewing that leaf had a better cleaning

effect than the modern toothpaste and toothbrush. We

had some herbal tea in the morning and left. Many of

the devotees donated jackets, shawls, biscuits and

dry fruits to Swamiji, which he promptly distributed

then and there among the villagers. He was truly a

great example of renunciation. He seemed to know

each person in the village intimately and knew who needs

what.

 

We reached Kailash Ashram in Rishikesh in the evening.

Anjayya and Radhakrishna wanted to go to Delhi soon

and decided to carry on.

 

We went to Paramartha Niketan and saw the Ganga Arati

in the evening. It was a great show. There was great

pomp and grandness. The puja was not impressive, but

the music was good. We left the place after the main

arati. We went to visit some old sadhus living in

Rishikesh. Gopiji knew them personally. We could meet

two of them.

 

We came back to Kailash Ashram in the night.

 

17 June 2006, Saturday

 

We went to Vashishta Guha. It is about 20km from

Rishikesh on the way to Badrinath. The cave is supposed

to have been used by several great sages to do tapasya.

It is believed that many sages are doing tapasya there

in their astral bodies. Recently Swami Purushottamanandaji,

a disciple of Swami Brahmanandaji (Rakhal Maharaj), the

spiritual son of Sri Ramakrishna lived there for several

years. After his mahasamadhi, his disciple

Swami Chaitanyanandaji Maharaj is managing the place.

He is an old sadhu with a soft nature. The cave has a

shivalinga. We worshipped the linga and sat in the

silent atmosphere of the cave for sometime.

 

We spent some time at the banks of the Ganga in the

ashram. Gokulji had a nice bath in the Ganga. We spent

some more time in the cave and then had prasad at the

ashram.

 

We reached Kailash ashram in the evening. We went to

Sivananda ashram. We took part in the evening bhajans

and arati. The Ganga Arati at Sivananda was a small

devoted one. It was a big contrast with the arati that we

attended the pervious day. We enjoyed this arati much

more than the previous day's. We spent some quiet time

on the banks of the Ganges at this hallowed place, where

the great Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj lived.

 

We spent the night at Kailash Ashram.

 

18 June 2006, Sunday

 

Raghavji and Prasannaji left for Delhi early in the morning.

Gokulji had decided to go to Vrindavan with Hari Sharanam

Maharaj. Later they decided to stay back and visit

Swami Jnanananda Giri, who lived in Musoorie and Dehradun.

Gopiji knew the Swamiji personally. The old Swamiji was a

Swiss national, who has been living in India for more than

50 years. We visited him at his kutir in Musoorie. He was

more Indian in culture than most of us. We visited the

temple built by one of his disciples nearby. The Swami

was on his way to Dehradun. We decided to drop him at

his place in Dehradun. Thus we were able to spend some

time with him.

 

Gopiji and Gokulji started back to Delhi in the afternoon.

Hari Sharanam Maharaj joined his other friends in Rishikesh.

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Dear Gokulmuthu,

 

 

My name is Chandru, from Bangalore.

 

I am truely impressed by your writeup.

 

Can I have a copy of your CD onyour trip.

 

I am extreemy impressed by the interviews of holy men

 

May I have your contact Phone/Mobile No.

I wish to meet you.

You are truely blessed as you developed liking to spiritual life at a young age.

 

My Contact Mobile No. 9448014054

 

 

In His Grace,

Chandru

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Dear Gokulmuthu,

 

 

My name is Chandru, from Bangalore.

 

I am truely impressed by your writeup.

 

Can I have a copy of your CD onyour trip.

 

I am extreemy impressed by the interviews of holy men

 

May I have your contact Phone/Mobile No.

I wish to meet you.

You are truely blessed as you developed liking to spiritual life at a young age.

 

My Contact Mobile No. 9448014054

 

 

In His Grace,

Chandru

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Gokulji,

 

kallaku kattinattu chepparu. very informative and a

very nice feeling. I dont know how to thank you. The

conversations with the yogis were very informative. I

feel that you told us every thing without missing.you

made us also blessed by narrating everything to us.

Thanks a lot.

 

Om SaiRam,

Ramesh.

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