The morning began with preparations to go to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, where Daaji had been invited as Chief Guest for a felicitation ceremony and for a Distinguished Guest Lecture on Navigating Higher Consciousness: Nurturing Spirituality Beyond Genetics at 10 AM. The venue for the lecture was the Dr Ramalingaswami Board Room at AIIMS New Delhi.

Daaji arrived at the venue and was welcomed warmly by the Director of AIIMS Dr M Srinivas; Dr Kanwal Preet Kochhar, Professor of Physiology; Dr Rima Dada, Professor of Anatomy and other doctors from AIIMS. The board room was full and all were eagerly looking forward to his talk. After a welcome address by Prof Kochhar and Director’s address, there was a presentation by Dr Rajiv Mehrotra on research that has been conducted so far on Heartfulness interventions in the medical field and proposed research areas in the future. Daaji’s guest lecture on the theme of the event was an eye opener for the doctors present there. "Your own consciousness will reveal to you that 'Look, I can experience the divine presence to the extent of purity of my heart and simplicity of my heart'. The more you experience, the more you will be tempted to further purify and simplify yourself so that you could accommodate more and more of that Infinity. So to the extent this purity and simplicity are infinitesimally purified, simplified - to that extent that Infinity will descend in your heart and change your awareness."

After his talk Daaji conducted satsang for the couple of hundred audience present there. It was then time for yet another distinction for Beloved Daaji and the mission as Heartfulness Institute made a landmark partnership with AIIMS by signing an MoU with them. The MoU was signed between Daaji and Dr M. Srinivas – Director AIIMS, New Delhi.

The purpose of the agreement is to make Heartfulness meditation and relaxation techniques specifically related to Health and Medicine a part of their system. They also agreed to put to best use and apply each organisation’s infrastructure and capabilities to conduct research, education at universities, institutions, corporate houses, schools and colleges, government departments, medical professionals etc, and other related activities in collaboration. The aim of education and research activities with Heartfulness is to bring meditation and sciences into day-to-day life and impact various aspects of human health and wellbeing. Collaborative research will also include the field of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and other diseases, catering to the areas of preventive, curative and palliative care with an objective to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Research will also involve areas like epigenetics, intuition and infertility related issues. Both the organisations will also submit joint proposals and white papers to the government or private agencies or organisations when the opportunities arise and present final research papers at events and seminars organised jointly.

In the near-term, Heartfulness Institute and AIIMS have agreed to jointly organise a conference on “Consciousness based Medicine” later this year as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations. The MoU also opens the door for investment for both organisations in in-house research initiatives. Any patent resulting from research shall be applied jointly with joint claim on ownership of any invention, discovery, knowledge or copyright arising thereof. A specific Proposal or Statement of Work (SOW) shall be drafted and signed by both the organisations for the work taken up and outline the financial commitments.

The vote of thanks for the event was delivered by Prof Rima Dada. Thereafter, the director Dr M Srinivas took Daaji to his office and in a sign of humility and respect, offered Daaji to take his chair. It was a most poignant moment for all present. watch below video for the session.

The second half of the day was yet another significant engagement for Daaji. At 5 PM, the Salwan Education Trust in association with the Directorate of Education, Govt of NCT of Delhi had organised a huge event at the Thyagraj Stadium where all the school principals and teachers of Delhi Government schools had been invited for an interactive session with Daaji. There were more than 4000 members of the audience present for the session for Daaji to lead the school leaders Toward Living A Heart Centered Life. It was a surprise to see the large turnout at the event. The Minister for Education, Govt Of NCT of Delhi Ms Atishi Marlena; Director School Education Shri Himanshu Gupta; Chairman Salwan Educational Trust Shri Sushil Salwan; Director SCERT Shri Rajanish Kumar Singh and other senior officials from the government were present on the occasion and felicitated Daaji on receiving the Padma Bhushan. A group of school children from one of the Salwan schools sang a beautiful prayer song that melted the hearts of the audience.

Daaji addressed the audience, guiding them through the relevance of meditation for school leaders. He spoke about how happiness, inner peace, focus and excellence in work are all related. He took a few questions from members of the audience and guided them through developing an understanding of meditation and its benefits. Thereafter he conducted a short meditation session and after having tea, departed from the venue at about 7:45 PM.