a great solace after ....
Re : 5 links on Sri Vijay Baba ( 1938-2008)
Dr. Anita bhatnagar <I am regularly reading your mails and as Piyush Bhai rightly puts it , personified diaries of our Boboji
Dr. Anita bhatnagar <I am regularly reading your mails and as Piyush Bhai rightly puts it , personified diaries of our Boboji
are great solace after poojay Vijay Baba has left all of us so suddenly. Kindly share remaining diaries .
11 am to 4 pm diary 6 of Divinity personified - Great Saint Ushaji at http://hari-vrinda-dham
In continuation of (sometimes ) 10 am to 11 am diary 5 of Divinity personified - Great Saint Ushaji , let me mention Great Saint Ushaji 's activities after 11 am daily at holy Dham Vrindavan.
11 am is lunch-Bhog time to Her Thakurji or Lord Sri Radha-Krishan . As Pushtimargis do( ancient Acharya Vallabhachryaji on GITAJI ) , Saint Ushaji 's sewa was of Highest order taking care of minutest details . Bhog was always important and NOT what She would take Herself. For example, She was diabetic because of hereditary reasons but never failed to offer sweet in Bhog . Similarly , on Ekadasi would serve Chapati / Parantha etc in dinner saying we are on fast , not Thakurji ! Similarly whether tea is too hot or cold for Bhog or other items have proper combination of salt etc , She was very particular. In May-June , me and various nephews-nieces of many Aunties (6 am to 10 am diary 3 of Divinity personified - Great Saint Ushaji) would be there but no discrimination in food-serving were Her strict guidelines. Like 2008 those were not easy money / Dollar days so many children's parents were really poor. But rich parents' kids would have SAME food like other children. Thus She was a sort of Head of this Gurukul , for we kids and total impartiality and transparency was observed in every thing.
Around 12 , Saint Ushaji will shift to Meditation Room for 3 hours and do strict Sadhana. Most of Her poems as mentioned in 21st book is ........ are written during these 3 hours only . And if you know what exactly was this Meditation Room , you will laugh ! Any not-required place would become Her Meditation Room ! For example , bathroom ! In May-June , we cannot sit without fan but She will lock Herself in bathroom , full of sweat & heat . Very reluctantly , She will accept , Chatai , water-Surahi or torch from Vijayji as for writing She needed light and some water. You can remember Roop Goswami of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu or Lord Gauranga era for Her extreme sacrifice & Tapas. She was a rare Mahatma I have ever seen and tears would flow if I go further into how She had controlled Her body & mind. I have no words o describe all this --only inconsolable tears can do some justice.
While Saint Ushaji used to be in Meditation Room , poojya Sheela Bahinji would offer water and fruits to Thakurji at 1.45 pm. At 2.00 , Sheela Bahinji would read Gitaji , Narad Bhakti-sutra , Gospel ( Swami Ramakrishan Paramhans (1836-1886) etc to kids and explain their subtle meanings. I bow to Her as my First Guru. In 1972 when I was hardly 9 year old , Saint Ushaji's mother Mrs. Shyama Bhatnagar ( and my Dadi ) explained whole Goswami Tulsidassji's Sri Ramcharitmanas which was really stepping stones for write-ups like " BALKAND 's 88-103 on divine Bhagwan Shiv -Parvatiji vivah " 36 years later in 2008 . All kids are indebted to trio-Guru Saint Ushaji -Sheela Bahinji and Manoharji for creating such divine atmosphere in Vrindavan for all round development. Gayaprasad Panditji also contributed to this sublimity ..from 25th Feb to 4th March 08 at Gayaprasad Panditji's Samadhi
Actually as 12 noon to 3 pm Saint Ushaji used to be in Divine leelas of Lord Sri Radha-Krishan , most of us used to wait for Her very impatiently at 3 pm . Often , Her face would be glowing with Divine experiences and for few minutes , She will be just silent ( Maun ) and keep on having Darshan of Her Yugal-sarkar. Often I would bring back Her Chatai , water-Surahi, Torch , pen & Diary . I noticed that generally She used Gitapress , Gorakhpur's yearly diaries that have Gita-verse on each page. So as I compiled GITAJI for busy people in 2008 , maa Gita 's grace on me was since childhood ..... Adi Shankracharyaji says Amba twaam i.e. O Mother Gitaji .... .
All of us would patiently wait at 3 pm , what will be Her first words ? Often , She would ask " Dak " i.e. various letters received from devotees . Many of replies written are in book-form now .... books as basis for BOBOJI's site .At about 3.15 tea -bhog will be there and She would behave like an ordinary Sadhu though for past 3 hrs She had Divine experiences only . She was really Daksh ( expert ) indeed as Lord Krishna calls His devotees in Gitaji what are most important 41 divine verses of Gitaji ??? . Taking tea , reading letters , replying to them would make it around 4 pm after which activities , let me take in Diary no. 7.
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