Its me and my world

Gurupurnima celebration in Rang Kol on 5th July 5, 2009 – Team work rocks !!! Rang Kol Slum in south Kolkata is one of the slums we are working in , spreading the knowledge of Guruji and helping them in various ways to become self sufficient. One of the self sufficiency schemes that we are running for the women is making of bags of bio-degradable material which can become the replacement for the harmful plastic bags. We decided to celebrate Gurupurnima on the Sunday just before Gurupurnima , 5th of July. The program consisted of a free medical camp with free medicines followed by a satsang & a dhyan session. The core team which is working at Rang Kol slum are Malini, Padma, Debarati , Soma and Myself, each one of us contributing in our unique ways. For the free medical camp, we had the one & only pair of Parthasarathy da & Anup bhaiyya. Parthasarathy da is a wonderful medical doctor and Anup bhaiyya is the perfect person handling the free medicines and handing them over

The night when I could not enter my own house Something very mysterious yet hilarious happened to me a on a night, a few days back. I was staring at the key hole of the familiar door, door of my own house and it would not simply open. I kept on trying the keys over & over again but the door would not simply budge ! I was just too flabbergasted to go through that experience. Like any other difficult time, I was simultaneously praying to Guruji to sort out the matter and scolding Him to allow it to happen in the first place ! I mean how come the Guru just sit & watch when one of his loving and doting disciples could not open the door of her house !  But strangely I was not scared, a little frustrated and tired but mostly I was simply laughing at the whole situation in my mind, unable to believe such a thing can happen! After sometime I called in my Guru bhai Prasenjit who happens to be living in the next lane. We both tried for the next half an hour each pleading to Guruji in

After going thru the “beautiful straight from the heart” piece from Madhu, I could not resist writing about my own first time visit to Ashram. Very contrary to Madhu’s grand event of an Advanced Course with the Master Himself, the time I went to Ashram, there was no course, it was dead at night and there was no Master !!! But there was something remarkable about that visit that it is etched permanently in my memory. It was Dec 2006. I had visited B’lore for some office seminar and I had this deep almost uncontrollable desire of seeing the Ashram. One of my good friends, Mukul (to whom I had only talked over phone so far !) came to see me in the office guesthouse for some work and I simply told him, I just want to go with you to the Ashram. It was quite late in the evening and he was worried about my safety. So he told me to stay back at the Ashram only for the night, the proposition to which I readily agreed. Looking back, I realize that I was simply in a different state of mind altog