My first visit to Ashram !
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