Tuesday was a big day. We had a yagna at Kothavalla and 7 brahmin priests from around Maharashtra came to Ganeshpuri to perform the ritual for us. A yagna is a fire ceremony which is meant to remove karmic blocks or negative karma from the past. Gopi and Krishna were selected to participate and the [...]
Monday moring, Iqbal had arranged for us to go to Abishek as a group, and we had paid for the pooja which allows people to participate. Maria, Alan, Chandana, Carly and Michael were selected, and Alan was the one who led most of it. They went through the entire ritual of bathing the deity in [...]
After our huge day yesterday, we took it pretty easy on Saturday. We had hoped to get up in time for Guru Gita at 5.15am at Gurudev Siddha Peeth ashram but didn’t make it! At Satsang on Saturday, Swamiji read from Volume one of ” Satsang with Baba”, a collection of Q&As recorded in the [...]
Friday 16th was Sivaratri – the Hindu festival devoted to Lord Shiva. Dey and I dragged ourselves out of Yogini’s by 4am so we could get to the Samadhi Shrine by 4.20 for the Abishek. Abishek is a ritual bathing and dressing of the statue in the shrine. It was pretty incredible, especially when you [...]
We had visions of going to Abishek at 4.20am but realised Yogini locks the outer door so we couldn’t get back. Once Lakshmi unlocked the door, we headed down to the Chai stand and as we sat there, a small woman called Viju was hurrying towards us with an excited cow in tow, nuzzling her [...]