Daaji took the morning off for a much-needed rest and did not have any engagements. That evening, he met a couple and their eighteen-month-old baby girl from Thiruvananthapuram at home. They had come for the first time with their baby and were very happy to meet him.

Daaji came to his office in the stage building at around 5.35 p.m. A few members from the Dosapadu village group currently visiting Kanha met Daaji and requested that he make prasad that they could distribute to the villagers upon their return. Daaji offered the prasad to Babuji Maharaj and then handed it to them. Later, a few guests from the "Majhe Gaon Heartful Gaon" group also met him. They discussed ways in which the heartfulness movement could be taken to the 24000 villages in Maharashtra.
 
During the discussion, Daaji said he would visit the villages in Maharashtra soon. The group shared that they had brought a bullock cart to present to him. Daaji was surprised and thought it was a real bullock cart. When they said that it was a small bullock cart model and not the real one, everyone started laughing. Daaji smiled and asked, ‘Bail nahi leke aye kya?" (Haven’t you brought a bullock along with it?) They told him that they had brought a Pagadi (turban) for him as well, which was a large size and would certainly fit him. They then asked permission to felicitate him in the meditation hall, to which he agreed.

Daaji conducted group meditation from 6:00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in the meditation hall. Around 1189 practitioners were present, including the Majhe Goan villagers, Dosapadu villagers, and those from Kanha. After the meditation, they felicitated Daaji with a shawl, pagadi, and bullock cart. This was followed by a Q&A session in which Daaji addressed questions from the group.
 
Q1. Most of the participants are farmers. They believe that mindfulness meditation is suitable for spiritual progress, but can it also be suitable for farming and material progress?
 
Daaji: Meditation is a part of yoga. Lord Shri Krishna says that for one who is replete in yoga, every work that they undertake is successful. When one becomes stable in yoga, a kind of skill is also added to their actions. Those who have a focused mind, whose heart is focused, on one thing that is God, along with that, if they do farming, study, do business, or do cooking for home, if they perform their duty in remembrance, then that work will always be good. When we meditate in the morning, while meditating, we receive some inspiration about the duties we should or shouldn't perform. We keep receiving new types of messages internally. So I believe that meditation brings success to us in everything we do, but we don’t meditate to become successful. A time will come when we will surrender to God and say, "I have performed my duty; now it’s on you." We had to sow seeds; we had sown. We had to water the fields, and we did it. Now it’s in your hands. One feeling of refuge comes from within. The heart becomes content.
 
And I have also seen that when I stayed in Gujarat, in a village near Narmada, for 10–12 years, there would be no water. Even after that, whoever remained in godly remembrance wouldn’t be troubled with any problems. Yes, there was scarcity, but nobody became strong because of it. Even in such situations, they remained joyful, doing Kirtans and moving forward. Suppose you are farming but not meditating, and the crops fail. Who will you blame? If you become successful, what will you say? Who gave it to us? So, it is our duty in this human life that we keep performing our duty, our Karam.
 
I don’t say that one should not hope for success. For what we have sown—seeds, cotton, or wool—we will be able to harvest them in good quantities. We share the new research that we have done and spoken about. One of them is coal and phalsa, which is saturated with cow dung or buffalo dung and gaumutra (cow urine) or bhainsmutra (buffalo urine). We keep it inside a pit underground for 7 days. Later on, when the coal is put in the soil at the farm, your yield will increase by more than 50%. So, this research was also done here at Heartfulness. We will keep sharing the new techniques as and when we progress with our research.
 
Q2: Our youth do not want to stay back in the villages to do farming and are attracted to city life. For this, please guide us on what to do.
 
Daaji: For those who are educated, it is natural that they will get attracted to city life. But a new trend has emerged: those who have studied IT (information technology) and visited foreign countries are returning to farming. Not the farming that we have been doing traditionally, but they are doing farming with new techniques that are yielding more production and generating greater income. Those who want to go, let them go. Those who stay back and want to do farming in a better way, send them over to Kanha Shantivanam to show them the way we are doing our farming.
 
On the way to his car, there were many practitioners waiting to meet Daaji backstage. Daaji met all of them patiently and then left for home. Later, he went for a walk around the forest at Gokul Point. During the walk, a few students from KCC met Daaji and sought his guidance on what to do next after the exam results. Later after dinner, Daaji had a discussion with Sr. Ruchi and Br. Manish Pandey (CMO) on the RV bus requirement for the upcoming MP project. Thereafter, he retired for the day.

Meditation is a part of yoga. Lord Shri Krishna says that for one who is replete in yoga, every work that they undertake is successful. When one becomes stable in yoga, a kind of skill is also added to their actions. Those who have a focused mind, whose heart is focused, on one thing that is God, along with that, if they do farming, study, do business, or do cooking for home, if they perform their duty in remembrance, then that work will always be good. When we meditate in the morning, while meditating, we receive some inspiration about the duties we should or shouldn't perform. We keep receiving new types of messages internally. So I believe that meditation brings success to us in everything we do, but we don’t meditate to become successful. A time will come when we will surrender to God and say, "I have performed my duty; now it’s on you." We had to sow seeds; we had sown. We had to water the fields, and we did it. Now it’s in your hands. One feeling of refuge comes from within. The heart becomes content.

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Daaji began his day by meeting a couple with their eighteen-month-old kid, who were overjoyed to see him.A few persons from Dosapadu village who came to Kanha met Daaji and asked him to produce prasada for all the locals.Guests from "Majhe Gaon Heartful Gaon" met daaji and discussed how the Heartfulness movement may be spread to Maharashtra's 24000 villages.Daaji then answered questions from the audience during a Q&A session.

Kanha Shantivanam 8th May 2023

It was a Sunday, with a large number of practitioners present in Kanha for the weekend. Daaji conducted morning meditation from 7.34 a.m. to 8.10 a.m. There were around 2,254 practitioners present in the meditation hall, including the team from "Majhe Gaon Heartful Gaon" (My Village is a Heartful Village) from Maharashtra and villagers from 22 districts.

Present on the occasion were:

Shri Popatrao Pawar, Padma Shri Awardee; Smt. Sarika Dafare; Shri Gunwanta Dafare; and Shri Kishore Dube, Maharashtra State Coordinator for Heartfulness



After the meditation, Daaji solemnised eight weddings.
1. Savita Shriya from Hyderabad and Chaithanya from Madanapalle
2. Shivangi and Mayank from Thiruvananthapuram
3. Natasha from Goa and Lokesh from Atlanta
4. Swetha and Anay from Toronto
5. Pooja from Lucknow and Mugundan from Chennai
6. Pulkita and Vishnu from Gurgaon
7. Pranjal from Chandrapur and Varun from Nagpur
8. Praveena and Omkar from Pune

After the weddings, Daaji met many seekers on the way to his car. One of the couples asked him to perform the Annaprashan (rice-feeding ceremony) for their baby boy. Daaji performed the Annaprashan and, looking at Nanak, his grandson, said, "Nanu, look, this baby is having food for the first time." After meeting and greeting all the waiting practitioners, Daaji finally left for home.

For the most part of the day, there were many visiting seekers who wanted to meet Daaji and take his leave to return home.


In the evening, around 5 p.m., Daaji came to the meditation hall office to meet some guests: Dr. Vikas Bhatia, Director, AIIMS, Hyderabad; Manoj Solanki, Adhyaksh-Akshay Bharatiya Krishi Parivar, RSS India; Dr. B Gunakar, General Secretary, Bharatiya Krishi Parivar, RSS; and Shri Suresh Ganpatrao Wagmare, Member of Parliament (MP), Wardha, Maharashtra.

 

Dr. Bhatia informed Daaji that it was his first time on campus and experiencing meditation, and that he had just been touring the campus since morning. He also expressed that he is feeling peaceful and calm within. Daaji said it was because of the mediation that he had. Later, Daaji spoke about Dr. Srinivasan, Director, AIMS, Delhi, and how he keeps coming to Kanha, is part of the family, and has taken on some research projects.

 

Later during the discussion, Daaji mentioned, "I’m more towards prevention than cure."

 

Dr. Bhatia updated Daaji about his plans to adopt a few villages and help them in medical health, research, and so on. He also wanted to teach meditation to all the students, the youngsters, the housekeeping, and the entire staff, to which Daaji said,

"You have to make it mandatory, actually. Otherwise, they won’t do it. The moment they come, at least for 10 minutes, they should close their eyes and meditate, and later on reflect on what they are going to do today."

 

Daaji gave an example from AIMS Delhi and how Dr. Srinivas ji was informing them that all the security people and the ancillary staff, who used to tell people, Hey, go there, go here, etc." in a harsh manner, are now doing Namaskaram (respectful greeting) to people and have grown softer. This was after they started meditation.

 

Later, guests from Krishi Parivar spoke with Daaji about Bhumi Suposan (soil enrichment), the techniques they are using for cultivation, and several other things. Daaji suggested that they start using biochar to yield more crops and increase soil fertility. Later, they said that they are trying to turn their villages into model villages but are facing a few challenges and looking for some changes.

 

Daaji then said, "There is nothing to change. Suppose there’s a doctor who wants to move towards spirituality; will he leave his profession? It’s a mental attitude. Whenever you do your work, connect with God, and your work will become spiritual. That’s all."

 

Daaji then asked if all who were present could sit for meditation and conducted a group meditation session from 5.15 pm to 5.34 pm. After the meditation session, Dr. Bhatia invited Daaji to visit the AIIMS Hyderabad campus and interact with the students and staff. Daaji asked Dr. Bhatia to start the meditation sessions and programmes, and once everything was settled, he would surely visit the campus.

 

When Dr. Bhatia expressed his interest in teaching yoga and meditation to the villagers, Daaji asked him to send 2-3 individuals from every village to Kanha, where they would be trained in yoga, pranayama, and other techniques that they could pursue in their respective villages.

 

The conversation moved towards science-related topics.

 

At the mention of fMRI scanning, Daaji asked the group present if they had seen the Brighter Minds demonstration and went on to say that he had been listening to some courses on memory and the neurological aspect of various memory centres. Daaji: "We know the cognitive part is the frontal cortex, but it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to find the centre for intuition. And what these children are doing is based on intuition."

 

Daaji then said, "You know, once you put them in there in the tunnel (fMRI scanning tunnel) and then make them do the exercise, automatically, that part of the brain that is related to intuition will shine, and you are headed for a Noble Prize." To everyone’s astonishment, Daaji was serious about the Nobel, as nobody in the history of the world has ever found the centre for intuition so far.

 

Dr. Bhatia expressed that sitting there at that moment, he felt so vibrant, and his entire body was feeling vibrations—of a kind that is totally different and which can only be understood when people visit Kanha and meditate. He wished for his entire team to visit Kanha.

 
Daaji said, "And if they continue their practise, when they go back and see daily changes, observe, it is fascinating, actually. And imagine the trajectory after 40 years of meditation: they become super-human beings."

 
Dr. Bhatia then said that he had seen the beautiful conference halls in Kanha and wished to organise programmes for all the doctors from AIIMS on the holistic approach of meditation.

 Daaji later spoke about polarity and asked everyone to undergo a polarity session. He said it’s almost magical and that polarity instantly changes the aura of a person, and he asked Dr. Sangeetha Sampath to take up research on polarity along with Dr. Natwar, who was already working on this subject.

Daaji named a baby girl 'Mamta' and then took leave from all and left for Kanha Sarovar. There, he walked for a while and then returned home around 7 p.m. During the walk, Daaji mentioned how grace flows towards preceptors while they conduct a sitting and that the preceptors would receive immense benefits from the sittings if they did their cleaning properly.

After dinner, Daaji joined a Zoom call to address practitioners from the Hindi-speaking belts on the ‘Ekatm Abhiyan’ and motivate them to register and participate in this initiative. Daaji then inquired if he had any commitments in Kanha after May 15, 2023, and then said that he himself would travel to MP for one and a half months after May 15, 2023. The detailed discussion can be viewed at the following link:

In the evening, around 5 p.m., Daaji came to the meditation hall office to meet some guests: Dr. Vikas Bhatia, Director, AIIMS, Hyderabad; Manoj Solanki, Adhyaksh-Akshay Bharatiya Krishi Parivar, RSS India; Dr. B Gunakar, General Secretary, Bharatiya Krishi Parivar, RSS; and Shri Suresh Ganpatrao Wagmare, Member of Parliament (MP), Wardha, Maharashtra.

Dr. Bhatia informed Daaji that it was his first time on campus and experiencing meditation, and that he had just been touring the campus since morning. He also expressed that he is feeling peaceful and calm within. Daaji said it was because of the mediation that he had. Later, Daaji spoke about Dr. Srinivasan, Director, AIMS, Delhi, and how he keeps coming to Kanha, is part of the family, and has taken on some research projects.

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Daaji began conducting meditation on Sunday, with approximately 2,254 practitioners present in the meditation hall, including the "Majhe Gaon Heartful Gaon" team. Daaji solemnised eight weddings after the meditation. On his approach to his automobile, Daaji saw a number of seekers. One of the couples that came to meet Daaji requested that he conduct Annaprashan for their kid. Daaji performed Annaprashan. Daaji visited Dr. Vikas Bhatia, Director, AIIMS, Hyderabad, and a few other guests in the evening at the meditation hall, where they discussed science-related topics. Later, speakers from Krishi Parivar discussed with Daaji Bhumi Suposan (soil enrichment), farming practises, and other topics.

Kanha Shantivanam 7th May 2023

The day began early, with group meditation conducted by Daaji from 7:35 AM to 8:18 AM. After the meditation, Dr Jitendra Jamdar, Shri Naidu, and Shri Dhirendra Kumar Pandey who are working for the Jan Abhiyan, met Daaji and updated him on the preparations for the one crore sittings program. Daaji gave specific directions on the detailed organizing of the program. The discussion was elaborate and lasted over thirty minutes. He invited them for breakfast, where the discussion continued. He spoke about how the model of the Jan Abhiyan was wonderful, one that could change the entire country. The fundamental thing for the project was “apnapan” - belongingness. If any of us thought that the project was of X, Y, or Z, it would not work. We all need to feel ownership of the project, then alone could things change. “Apnapan” is the key. Once a relationship is established with the village people, they would come willingly. The work is like that of adopting a village.

He then clarified the time of departure for Omkareshwar and then went in to rest for a while. He departed for Omkareshwar at 10 AM and reached the Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation (NHDC) Guest by 11:45 AM. He was pleasantly surprised to note that it took such a short time! Upon arrival, Shri Nimesh Pandey, tehsildar of the place met Daaji and had a short discussion with him. Daaji then went to rest.


When it began to pour heavily at 3 PM, Daaji got up and had lunch. He later sat outside on the balcony, enjoyed the rain for some time and then again went to rest.


Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan arrived at Omkareshwar at 6:30 p.m. and went for a few meetings. In the meantime, Shri Jamdar and Shri Naidu met Daaji at 6:45 PM and continued the discussion on Jan Abhiyan. Daaji spoke about a village community model in Gujarat where all the members come together and eat, creating peace and positive vibes. Daaji also gave his suggestions on how tribal areas can be developed by encouraging children there to participate in sports, as physical activities are their natural strengths and they can do wonders in them. He spoke of the need to sensitise schoolteachers before they go there to teach.

Shivraj ji then came to meet Daaji at 7:10 PM along with his wife and son. He felicitated Daaji with a shawl and a traditional coconut, which Daaji reciprocated. During the ensuing discussion, Daaji discussed the various initiatives already put into place by Heartfulness and the progress of the work happening at Ratlam and Shivgarh with respect to the environmental park and water bodies. Daaji gave his suggestions on a sandalwood plantation project across thousands of villages in MP, which would eventually bring economic prosperity to the community at large. He thereafter called Br Raja Amarnath to brief Shivraj ji on some ongoing successful telemedicine projects of heartfulness in other states.

After a few more discussions, Shivraj ji took leave of Daaji with a promise to meet him the next morning. Daaji then met more guests who had come to meet him. He informed everyone about the Jan Abhiyan movement, saying that the beginning of this movement was just the foundation stone of spirituality being laid. He asked everyone to be prepared as this did not mean that the one crore sittings program would end on 21 June. Once the foundation was laid, the building was remaining to be constructed and the work would need to be continued. He encouraged all preceptors to utilize the weekends to move around to different villages and conduct group meditations, not worrying about empty ashrams on Sundays. He spoke about the best Sunday group meditations being ones happening on Sundays in villages. He urged all the preceptors to go from village to village and devote full time to this work. He also encouraged those who were not trainers to use the Heartfulness app to take up the work. Every Heartfulness practitioner must take up at least one or two villages and nurture them. Daaji’s inspiration must serve to fire us from within to fulfill His vision. He then conducted a meditation session for all present, from 7:31 to 7:51 PM.


After meditation, many more practitioners came to meet him. Daaji continued the conversations and discussions and then went to his room by 8:30 PM after which he had a late dinner. There was an amusing part during dinner where a sister practitioner requested him to give permission to her for preceptor work without her having to appear for the exam. Daaji laughed and jokingly asked her what she was willing to give in return for it. When she named a figure, there was laughter all around. He then told her that he would give her permission the next day but she would have to later undergo the training and examination as well. He also included two more practitioners, making it a total of three people to be prepared for preceptorship the next day - Br Atul Agarwal, Sr Meenu Agarwal, and Sr Banica Bharadwaj. They were overjoyed at Daaji’s decision and promised him that they would do their best in serving as preceptors.
After dinner, Daaji retired for the day - a long and tiring one, but well spent and fulfilling in many ways.




Dr. Jitendra Jamdar, Shri Naidu, and Shri Dhirendra Kumar Pandey, who are working for the Jan Abhiyan, met Daaji and updated him on the preparations for the one crore sittings programme. Daaji gave specific directions on the detailed organisation of the programme. The discussion was elaborate and lasted over thirty minutes. He invited them for breakfast, where the discussion continued. He spoke about how the model of the Jan Abhiyan was wonderful, one that could change the entire country. The fundamental thing for the project was "apnapan," or belongingness. If any of us thought that the project was about X, Y, or Z, it would not work. We all need to feel ownership of the project; only then could things change. "Apnapan" is the key. Once a relationship is established with the village people, they will come willingly. The work is like adopting a village.

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Daaji began his day with group meditation. After meditation, he met some people who were working for Jan Abhiyan and updated him on the preparations for the one crore sittings programme. He also discussed how the fundamental thing for the project was "apnapan" - belongingness.A few people, along with Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, met Daaji at Omkareswar and continued discussion on the Jan Abhiyan.

Omkareshwar 4th May 2023

Daaji’s day started as usual. He met the well-known Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri in his office in the stage building at 9:15 AM. He interacted briefly with him and his partner, Br Vijay, from Mumbai and gifted him a signed copy of The Wisdom Bridge. Ravi Shastri shared with Daaji his plans for training girls for the women’s cricket team and the scholarships planned for this initiative. He also offered to open two training academies in Chennai and Hyderabad for the training. Daaji met a young couple with a baby boy and named the child Shubham.
Daaji took Ravi Shastri on a short tour of the area from his office to the conference hall, showing him the complete Bhagavad Gita and Sahaj Marg literature engraved on stone. Thereafter, he went to the concluding session of the programme for High Court judges of the state of Telangana on the Art of Mediation and Negotiation in Dispute Resolution Process: Concept and Technique of Meditation, organised by Telangana State Legal Services Authority Hyderabad. There, he conducted a short meditation session from 9:39 AM to 10:09 AM. After this, he posed for a group photograph with all the judges and Ravi Shastri, and he interacted with many of them on his way out.

He reached home along with Ravi Shastri at about 10:30 a.m. There, he spent some more time with him and also showed him the short video of Phil Jackson and the Chicago Bulls:
 
Daaji told him about the world-class badminton courts facility created at the Heartfulness International Sports Centre at Kanha. He then took him on a tour of the complex, showing him the various sports facilities there and also the different parts of the ashram. He showed Ravi Ji the hydroponics and forest area at Gokul Point and gave him various leaves and fruits to smell and taste. Ravi Ji was amazed to see everything. It was a most fruitful visit, with discussions on various areas of common interest between them.

After sending him off, Daaji went for lunch. At lunch, he mentioned that the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh was keen to start the programme at Omkareshwar with the ladies. He affectionately invited Pratima Ben to join him and remembered the talk given by her in the year 2000, which had drawn huge rounds of applause. He then went to prepare for his departure for Indore. Before starting for the airport, Daaji asked for a few copies of Basic Heartfulness Practises to be kept along to present to airline staff.

On the way to the airport, he directed a brother practitioner to manufacture two new beneficial drugs that would be developed and marketed by Heartfulness as per a business plan. He started for the airport at 12:48 PM and arrived there at around 1:30 PM. After the security check, he did some shopping and met some practitioners and their young children. The flight took off at 2:36 PM, and on the flight, Daaji took a picture with the air hostesses on their request and gave them the books of Basic Heartfulness Practises, inviting them to come to Kanha. The flight landed in Indore at 4 p.m. On his way out of the airport, he was welcomed by many practitioners who had come in large numbers to receive him. Also there to receive Daaji was Shri Vibhash Upadhyay, Vice Chairman of the Jan Abhiyan.

Despite the scorching hot summer that had been prevailing in the city of Indore for the last few days, Daaji’s arrival was like the harbinger of blessings from the rain gods, as welcome showers poured down from the heavens, bringing the temperature down considerably. He left for the Indore ashram and reached there in about 45 minutes. Seeing the welcome showers, he shared that during the one crore sittings programme in MP, we all should give the suggestion that Babuji’s grace is raining down upon all and that all are developing cravings for Brahma Vidya. A brother practitioner spoke about the number of trainers who had registered for the programme. Daaji suggested the procurement of RVs, keeping in mind the needs of travelling trainers, especially from overseas. He also suggested that those who have been imprisoned for a short term of one to two years could be deployed for afforestation projects as part of their service requirements for the prison term to be served and inquired about their numbers. This could be a revolutionary step in rehabilitation measures as well.



While entering the ashram, Daaji observed that many plants were not doing well in the nursery and asked for them to be looked after better. He went to the cottage and offered Prasad. After distributing it to those present, he spent some time meeting practitioners. He then saw the initial Omkareshwar project plan and inquired about the mean sea level of the place. While going through the report, he suggested that along with the names of the plants being used in the plantation at various locations of the project, their historical significance from various spiritual texts should also be indicated for ease of reference. He then rested for about ninety minutes but still felt drowsy. Giving the analogy of his granddaughter, he shared about her sensitivity to sleep needs.

Later, Daaji conducted a meditation session from 7:02 PM to 7:34 PM in the meditation hall. Thereafter, over dinner, he mentioned that Babuji used to say that meditation has to be done with full attention, like the cat waiting for the mouse. After dinner, many practitioners came to meet Daaji, and he patiently listened to each of their issues and offered his guidance. He then went to rest after a long, full day.

From the scorching hot summer that had been prevailing in the city of Indore the last few days, Daaji’s arrival was like the harbinger of blessings from the rain gods, as welcome showers poured down from the heavens bringing the temperature down considerably. He left for the Indore ashram and reached there in about forty-five minutes. Seeing the welcome showers he shared that during the one crore sittings program in MP, we all should give the suggestion that Babuji’s Grace is raining down upon all and that all are developing craving for Brahma Vidya. A brother practitioner spoke about the number of trainers who had registered for the program. Daaji suggested the procurement of RVs keeping in consideration the needs of traveling trainers, especially from overseas. He also suggested that those who have been imprisoned for a short term of one to two years could be deployed for afforestation projects as part of their service requirements of prison term to be served, and enquired about their numbers. This could be a revolutionary step in rehabilitation measures as well.


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Daaji met the well-known Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri in his office, and both discussed valuable insights. Ravi Shastri also shared his plans for training girls for the women’s cricket team and the scholarships planned for this initiative. Daaji took Ravi Shastri to different places and showed him various parts. Daaji took a flight to Indore,then left for the ashram, and suggested that those who have been imprisoned for a short term of one to two years could be deployed for afforestation projects as part of their service requirements for the prison term to be served. This could be a revolutionary step in rehabilitation measures as well.

Kanha Shantivanam 3rd May 2023

It was the perfect setting for the most auspicious beginning of the 124th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Pujya Babuji Maharaj. Since early morning, the rain gods have been benevolent with their blessings upon Kanha, with lightning, thunder, and a cool spell of rain around 5 a.m. The weather changed to welcome the celebrations, and as the yoga session got underway at 5:55 am, practitioners began to fill the meditation hall despite the chill in the air.

Daaji arrived at his meditation hall office quite early (5:55 a.m.) and conducted a few discussions on upcoming projects. He then conducted meditation from 6.32 a.m. to 7.12 a.m. for around 2600 practitioners present. After the meditation, he returned home and went for his regular walk.

After breakfast, Daaji's day was filled with many meetings on upcoming projects. He also found time to meet many seekers, who eagerly poured into his office one after another. Around 10 a.m., Br. Ashok Bhargava gave a presentation on the Vadnagar project.

Later, Dhaval and Dhananjay met and showed him cashew nuts that had been grown in Kanha itself. Daaji was pleasantly surprised and expressed his wonder and happiness at the harvesting of cashews from trees here in Kanha. He inquired about the trees and their location, and it was a joy to see him happy. They showed him many other grains harvested in Kanha, e.g., coriander seeds, chana, and rose leaf powder. He went to rest soon thereafter.

The evening marked the official start of the Bhandara. Daaji arrived early at the meditation hall and met many guests, including Shri Somesh Kumar, Dr. Chandrashekar (Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology,  and Dr. Vipin (Director of the National Innovation Foundation, Ahmedabad), in his office around 5.30 pm. There was a fruitful discussion on taking technology to the grassroots level for rural employment. They discussed the various innovations at Kanha Shanti Vanam and how they can be implemented across India. Daaji then took them outside to the meditation hall and showed them how water conservation has been implemented in Kanha. He also explained how the pits are connected to one another and to the water bodies. He presented the concept of bio-charcoal, explained how it is extensively used for many purposes, and then recommended using it to improve crop yield and soil fertility. Barkha Sharma, a famous author, designer, and classical danseuse, joined them in his office. After the discussion, Daaji invited them to the meditation session.

He then conducted meditation from 6.01 p.m. to 6.34 p.m. for around 5352 seekers present in the meditation hall. After the meditation, he and Devaki unveiled the book "Global Little Yogis" by Barkha Sharma. He then went into his office along with Barkha Sharma and Shri Somesh. Dr. Chendrashakar and Dr. Vipin took leave of Daaji and invited him to visit their campus and inspect the facilities and developments taking place. Daaji discussed the book with Barkha Sharma and then left for home along with Shri Somesh. They went for a walk and had dinner together.

At night, one of his associates read the Bhandara message released in Hindi, after which Daaji went to rest.

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At the most auspicious beginning of the 124th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Pujya Babuji Maharaj,Daaji arrived at his meditation hall and conducted a few discussions on upcoming projects. Daaji was pleasantly surprised and expressed his wonder and happiness at the harvesting of cashews from trees here in Kanha. Daaji met many guests and had a fruitful discussion on taking technology to the grassroots level for rural employment.

Kanha Shantivanam 29th April 2023

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A live journal of blessed activities in and around Kanha with Daaji

Daaji’s day started with a morning walk. While walking Daaji stopped at a Papaya plant and instructed his team of associates that this plant be provided more nutrients owing to its numerous branches.

 

Walking further, one of the associates updated Daaji about the volunteer activities being undertaken by practitioners from Madurai and Manamadurai, who had been working tirelessly to prepare the Madhuvanam Hydroponics area for cultivation and were also helping in cleaning the Karela (bitter gourd) farm. The associates informed Daaji that they would go early in the morning to the karela farm to work and continue well into the day.

 

Daaji then asked about their breakfast and was told that the volunteers usually return from the farm around 8 am for breakfast and then work in the ashram till evening; later in the evening, they go back to the karela farm to finish the day’s work. Daaji then asked the team to arrange for breakfast for all of them at the canteen and that he would also join.

 

After the morning walk, Daaji spent some time doing Yoga exercises with Dr. Kishore, while being watched curiously by his grandchildren, Nanak and Layaa. The intrigue and love in their eyes while watching their grandfather perform Yoga was a sight to see!

 

On his way to the canteen for breakfast, Daaji met some students from Adilabad, Telangana, and had a short conversation with them. After they left, Daaji mentioned, with a laugh, “These students are higher than the Adilabad center practitioners.”

 

Daaji reached the canteen around 8.30 am and had a joyful breakfast with a very surprised and thrilled team of volunteers from Madurai and Manamadurai. One couldn’t miss the happiness and love shining in the face of every volunteer, as they sat down with beloved Daaji for a hearty morning meal. When they finished, Daaji ensured that the staff created a bill for him and that it was paid from his pocket.

 

Several abhyasis came running to meet Daaji, who was startled to see the continuous stream of people, wanting to meet him and talk to him, during the entire duration of the breakfast.



After that, Daaji returned home and remained busy with work and meetings.

In the evening he spent some time with his youngest granddaughter Layaa, listening to devotional music. After some time one of the associates asked Daaji where he wanted to place the plants that he had recently bought from the Nursery. Daaji said he has already selected a place for the plants and took them to the new office area.

 

There he suggested that the Phyllodium pulchellum (two plants) and Plumeria (one plant) be placed near the entrance of the new office. He suggested covering up the entrance with leafy gardens using tropical plants instead of letting it remain a lawn and then asked to plant a Mahogany tree at the bottom of the stairs, which would give space for the creepers to grow.

 

Daaji and the associates then walked around the canal behind the house. He narrated to the associates the story of soda making by using the fruits of the phalsa plant. As they walked, they reached an area where some underground construction was in progress. Daaji had a discussion with a sister architect about the construction plan and then returned to the house. After reaching home, he headed upstairs to oversee the construction work that had been underway in the house.

At night Daaji expressed he would like to see short clips be made of excerpts from the Wisdom Bridge book as it has many valuable lessons and teachings.

In the evening he spent some time with his youngest granddaughter Layaa, listening to devotional music. After some time one of the associates asked Daaji where he wanted to place the plants that he had recently bought from the Nursery. Daaji said he has already selected a place for the plants and took them to the new office area.

 

There he suggested that the Phyllodium pulchellum (two plants) and Plumeria (one plant) be placed near the entrance of the new office. He suggested covering up the entrance with leafy gardens using tropical plants instead of letting it remain a lawn and then asked to plant a Mahogany tree at the bottom of the stairs, which would give space for the creepers to grow.

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Daaji spent time with his granddaughter Layaa, listening to devotional music. He suggested placing Phyllodium pulchellum and Plumeria near the entrance of the new office, covering it with leafy gardens using tropical plants, and planting a Mahogany tree at the bottom of the stairs. This would provide space for creepers to grow.

Kanha Shantivanam 26th May 2023 

In the morning around 9.30 am, Daaji explored different types of leafy gardens which could be created at Gokul Point. He is taking a lot of interest in creating such gardens and asked the Tool Room team to fix a garden mesh in Gokul Point which would help in growing the leafy gardens. He also suggested a few areas where plants naturally hanging with wood could be placed.

Around 10 am Daaji went to his meditation hall office. Upon his arrival, the room was filled with guests, including Telugu actors Navdeep Pallapolu, Deepthi Pallapolu, Likitha, and several practitioners. He conducted meditation from 10.05 am till 10.32 am for all present. The meditation session was deep and almost transported everyone present to a different dimension and filled them with lightness and joy. After such a beautiful session Daaji distributed a special mango sweet which had brought by one of the practitioners visiting from Mumbai, to all present there.  This was followed by a light session of conversation and laughter between Daaji and the practitioners who were thrilled to share their joys, sorrows and stories with beloved Daaji.

When Daaji was informed that the guests would be leaving soon, he asked  Deepthi where she was going. When she said she was going to work, Daaji jokingly said, “You are a slave of your work. You can say I don’t want to work today.” She laughingly replied that she truly didn't want to. Daaji then asked her who was stopping her. To this Navdeep promptly said that it was she herself. Everyone burst out laughing, enjoying the light moments with him

Daaji then said, “Work as if you have never worked, then you'll have freedom.” He then asked the guests to carry on and come back soon to visit him, unless they had any questions to ask.

After a short silence,  Navdeep shared that since the beginning of the interaction he had been trying to understand how a person could be in a room full of people looking at him and waiting for him to give them some answers,  without even knowing the questions!  Laughter ensued at this innocent question. To this Daaji replied “Whenever I was with my Master, my answers came from inside. Very rarely to keep him busy, you would ask, keep him busy, just for fun of it. Then later on you regret, why did I do that? You go to silence, which is more enticing than answers. And how much can you be taught? The teaching is very specific to time and place, situation, and they don't repeat ever. So, what is the gift of the Master is ‘awareness’. If you have that all your answers can come, under all different situations.”

Daaji then asked the video of the thief and his daughter to be shown to them: https://youtu.be/mxB6y6vokqw

Later when Daaji was about to leave, Mani Shankar (Bollywood Director), came to meet him to discuss the upcoming World Spiritual Conference planned to be hosted in Kanha Shanti Vanam. He explained a lot of concepts & ideas to Daaji. Later Daaji discussed many spiritual concepts on Consciousness, Chakras, Genetics and more with him.

Speaking on genetics Daaji said, “Babuji gave a message once, sometime in 1981, when I was visiting him in Shahjahanpur, for me it was an aha moment, and he said I'm changing the genetic pattern of the human race. I was a pharmacy student, so I said what are you talking about, how are you going to change, and then he left. We had no further discussion. He just came to me, he was just walking towards his bedroom, I was just sitting in one corner and he just leaned down and he said, ‘I'm changing the genetic pattern of the human race.’ And then started walking again. And many years later, he conveyed the same message after he passed on through a medium, and that message is, when the consciousness of the human race will achieve egregore, it is this egregore that will trigger the mutation, the genetic mutation. So, I could connect how he is going to achieve that state. Because today the science says that genetic mutation can happen through changes at the external level, which is called epigenetics. Epigenetics is how the environment, I am not talking of heat and cold environment, but the vibrations in the family, for example, when Dr. Bruce Lipton, he conducted the study on epigenetic changes in mothers who live in tough neighbourhoods, Brooklyn, for example, Brooklyn, NY, versus mothers who live in Long Island suburbs. He studied their lives. And in a tough neighbourhood, mothers-to-be who are pregnant, right, they wait for their partner to arrive home. God knows when he will be coming, 10 o'clock, or maybe not at all, and if he does come back home, he’ll be sleeping with a gun under his pillow and so on.”

“She will be always under stress (threat). And whenever you are under stress, your sympathetic nervous system kicks in. Our nervous system is two parts, mainly two. Sympathetic and parasympathetic. Sympathetic is all about to protect yourself, to preserve yourself, to secure yourself. Suppose you are fighting with someone, what will happen when you are fighting with someone? You know, your hands will go up, you become angry. If you are not able to fight with your hands, you will think of running away. Right? So, your legs will become active, more active. So, what happens then? More blood flow will be there in the limbs. and it comes at a cost, there is lesser blood available in your visceral organs like lungs, liver, digestive system and the impact remains for some time. When you are angry, you feel less hungry, if you noticed, it’s because of the sympathetic response. So now when the mother is under a sympathetic response where epinephrine or adrenaline or noradrenaline or cortisol, which are all stress hormones are released massively into the blood stream and this blood also reaches the embryo, all of which has nothing to do with the guy who is sleeping with the gun.
So that blood also creates a sympathetic response in the embryo. The blood will be more in the limbs at the cost of the visceral organs so that the embryo’s digestive system will remain weaker and that will reflect later in life also. Though he has received very perfect genetic things, both husband and wife, their good health has given good chromosomes, but because of the environment, the digestive system is compromised. Sympathetic response means, reptilian response, animalistic response, where the blood supply is more in your occipital area. Hind brain they call it. It is very basal, animalistic. And this diversion of blood flow comes at a cost. Just as limbs receive more blood at the cost of visceral organs, this part of the brain receives more blood at the cost of reaching the frontal brain. The frontal brain is all about your cognition, intellectualizing, thinking, pausing, things like that. So, this is well developed, and this is underdeveloped. So, children born under such environment will have a different genetic expression.”  

“That's why in our culture, in Hinduism, mothers-to-be are sent to their parents’ home. The moment you know that my wife or my daughter-in-law is pregnant, we offer rituals. We invite relatives, group homam(fire ritual), and very respectfully, very reverentially, we send her to her parents' place, where she can spend time in peace, in a familiar environment. She can spend time in various rituals also, read books, maybe do more tapasya (austerity/practice) at home. So that is the reason behind why we do what we do, rituals. The environmental impact, vibratory impact, I think it changes the genetic pattern.”

“And when many human beings coexist and create such an environment that will trigger mutation at the genetic level and it should be irreversible – spiritual epigenetics.”


After a long discussion, Daaji took him along to show the meditation hall and left for home around 11.50 am.

The evening was a quiet affair with little activity, offering him rest.

Speaking on genetics Daaji said, “Babuji gave a message once, sometime in 1981, when I was visiting him in Shahjahanpur, for me it was an aha moment, and he said I'm changing the genetic pattern of the human race. I was a pharmacy student, so I said what are you talking about, how are you going to change, and then he left. We had no further discussion. He just came to me, he was just walking towards his bedroom, I was just sitting in one corner and he just leaned down and he said, ‘I'm changing the genetic pattern of the human race.’ And then started walking again. And many years later, he conveyed the same message after he passed on through a medium, and that message is, when the consciousness of the human race will achieve egregore, it is this egregore that will trigger the mutation, the genetic mutation. So, I could connect how he is going to achieve that state. Because today the science says that genetic mutation can happen through changes at the external level, which is called epigenetics. Epigenetics is how the environment, I am not talking of heat and cold environment, but the vibrations in the family, for example, when Dr. Bruce Lipton, he conducted the study on epigenetic changes in mothers who live in tough neighbourhoods, Brooklyn, for example, Brooklyn, NY, versus mothers who live in Long Island suburbs. He studied their lives. And in a tough neighbourhood, mothers-to-be who are pregnant, right, they wait for their partner to arrive home. God knows when he will be coming, 10 o'clock, or maybe not at all, and if he does come back home, he’ll be sleeping with a gun under his pillow and so on.”


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Daaji spent the morning exploring various sorts of leafy gardens that may be developed at Gokul Point, as well as suggesting a few spots where plants naturally hanging with wood could be placed. When Daaji returned to his meditation hall office, it was packed with visitors, including Telugu actors Navdeep Pallapolu, Deepthi Pallapolu, Likitha, and other practitioners. Daaji had a good and enjoyable conversation with them. Mani Shankar (a Bollywood director) later came to visit Daaji as he was about to leave to discuss the impending World Spiritual Conference.

Kanha Shantivanam 24th May 2023

At around 9.20 am that morning, a few members of the youth team came to meet Daaji and present him with a booklet of the recent proceedings of the Youth Seminar held from 12 to 14 May 2023. A young boy from Madurai who had eagerly been waiting outside the house to meet Daaji, also came in with them and wished him. Daaji lovingly called him forward, asked his name (Giridhar) and then took a picture with him. At the time of leaving the boy said “poren” (meaning I take your leave, in Tamil) to which Daaji replied, “poitu vaanga” (meaning come back again, in Tamil). This sweet and affectionate exchange between the hearts was a treat to behold!


Daaji then got busy with meetings with the architects of Kanha. He took them to the Star Building, inspected the area and asked them to prepare some good designs for it. 


In the evening, Daaji went to the Karela (bitter gourd) farm and provided inputs on the Moringa and Karela farm fields. While walking around the fields, he suggested an area for Bamboo plantation, another area for Coconut, and in between the two plantation areas (Bamboo and Coconut), create spaces for cultivation. While walking, Daaji asked the team to keep a watch during monsoons, on the flow of water in certain areas. He returned home soon thereafter and was informed of the progress of the work taking place in the site behind Madhuvanam.


After dinner, Daaji stepped out around 9.15 pm to visit the plantation work near Madhuvanam. Some construction work is going on in Daaji’s house, which has picked up pace with the labour force working late into the evening. With the heat rising, they are trying to accomplish more in the evening, thereby avoiding the afternoon heat. 


While walking to his car, Daaji saw one of the workers and called him to inquire if they had had dinner. The labourer replied, 'no'. Visibly concerned, he told them that going forward if they worked till late hours, to let them know in advance so they could plan dinner for them. Then he asked how much longer they planned to work. The worker mentioned they would wrap up in half an hour. 


After inspecting the work progressing near Madhuvanam, Daaji returned home. He observed that the workers were still going strong and instructed Br. Kannan to provide the workers some water and dates. His humility in compassion is a lesson to learn.


While walking to his car, Daaji saw one of the workers and called him to inquire if they had dinner. The labourer replied, 'no'. Visibly concerned, he told them that going forward if they worked till late hours, to let them know in advance so they could plan dinner for them. Then he asked how much longer they planned to work. The worker mentioned they would wrap up in half an hour.

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A few members of the youth team came to meet Daaji and present him with a brochure of the Youth Seminar's recent activities.A little lad from Madurai, who had been waiting outside the home for Daaji, joined them and wished him.Daaji thereafter became preoccupied with talks with Kanha's architects.Daaji went to the Karela (bitter gourd) farm in the evening and provided inputs on the Moringa and Karela farm fields.

Kanha Shantivanam 23rd May 2023

Daaji’s day began with some morning yoga.
 
At around 9 am, he was researching on different gardening techniques and was very impressed with one of the techniques from Thailand. He asked the in-house team to create a garden using the Thailand technique in the walking zone in Gokul Point’s forest area.
 
The garden was created using a variety of leaf plants such as Philodendron, Anthurium, Colocasia, ferns and many other varieties that provide a lush green display. Inside the garden, there will be a small water pond and some trees.
 
Daaji liked one of the trees used in the Thailand gardening technique – Alstonia pneumatophora (Marsh Pulai, a rare tree found mainly in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand) – which was growing inside the water body and asked the team to procure it if we do not already have it. 
 
Later in the day Daaji was busy with the meetings with the HeartyCulture team and then with the architects of Kanha.
 


Daaji then joined an online interview with the Khaleej Times (a leading English newspaper across UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait) via Zoom. Daaji was introduced to the Khaleej Times anchor, Somya Mehta, by a few Heartfulness practitioners, and who reached the KT’s office to watch Daaji’s interview. The interview will be published by Khaleej Times in their upcoming 02 June 2023 edition along with information on Kanha Shanti Vanam.
 
The interview lasted for more than an hour and was vibrant, energetic, and full of humorous conversation between Daaji and the KT team. It mainly revolved around Heartfulness meditation, Daaji’s journey into meditation, science & spirituality, how meditation will be beneficial to society, the book Wisdom Bridge and other such topics. The interview was filled with many pearls of wisdom from beloved Daaji.
 
A few quotes from the interview are as follows:
 
“Heartfulness is all about going by the feelings of your heart. The decisions that we make have to be followed by the heart's permission, and sanction. Often, we overrule the heart, and we go with the whimsical mind that we have or the emotions that drive us. So, in one way, you can define Heartfulness as following your life every moment with (using) the signals of the heart. And in order for us to follow the heart in a very pure way, the heart has to also be pure and simple. So, the Heartfulness Way of practice asks us to meditate on the presence of divinity that is already there in the heart so that we remain purer and simpler. And the decisions that we make will also be influenced by this purity and simplicity. So, we meditate on the heart and that's about it.”
 
“… God is not an entity that can be seen or felt with our five senses. He has to be experienced with the heart. You know all religions, be it Islam, be it Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, we all believe in one thing that God is love. And love can't be seen, it can only be experienced. So, we close our eyes, all senses withdrawn into the heart and say okay let me experience the presence. So that's Heartfulness.”
 
“The very first thing that develops because of meditation is the ability to discriminate. Discriminate between what is right, and what is wrong. What is beneficial for me, what is beneficial for others. Which business to run, which one to avoid. Whom to marry, for example, and I think how to raise my children. You are able to see clearly with the eyes of your heart and it is not that you're blocking everything from outside, nothing is to be blocked, but your heart becomes louder and clearer.”
 
“You can have everything healthy, but if your spiritual health is suffering, nothing in the world can make you happy. You can have all the things in the world, physical, mental, emotional, great, spouse, etc. but without spiritual wellbeing, no one can be successful. That's one fundamental thing that really, really happens because of a spiritual life. So, when the heart gives you a signal, it's always correct. And that has always been my experience (Daaji’s experience).”
 
One of the members of the Khaleej Times asked ‘What if your heart is not talking to you? Like how, what if you're not able to listen to that voice?’
Daaji said: “You know, the heart always speaks, always speaks. We don't listen because we don't want to listen. Because the thing is when the heart is telling us something, we say shut up I want to do this no matter what, right, and then you put a stone on the heart (deliberately suppressing your feelings) and then we regret later, oh I shouldn't have done that, I should have listened to my heart, the regrets come in. So, it is regrets that occur time after time, time after time, by not listening to the heart. One ends up having anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia even. So, meditation, in a way, is to vaccinate against your emotional health. It improves because you are not there to make wrong decisions. You are immune. Your immunity has developed not only physically because of a good lifestyle but because of meditation you are very clear about things in life.”
 
The discussion continued to topics of matrimony, conception, destiny, inviting the right souls into the conception process, Brighter Minds and more.
 
In the end when Daaji was asked on what’s his advice to the people living in the UAE, Daaji said, “It's very simple to me from my life's experience that we often give importance to one side of our life. We get so much bogged down with security in the material world, my house, my car, my you know, it's nothing wrong with that, absolutely fine, but I should not get carried away so much that I forget my spiritual existence; and I should not get into spirituality so much also that my material responsibilities suffer. So, my request, my pleading is only that we all should understand to balance material and spiritual life. It's a way of life. It's adventurous. It's joyful. And it's blissful. Try it.”
 
After the interview Daaji was introduced to Ms. Harjyot Oberoi, Head of Marketing, at Khaleej Times (KT). She then thanked Daaji for a wonderful interview. Daaji asked all of them at KT to start the meditation practice and then invited them to visit Kanha, before taking leave from them.


Later Daaji went for lunch and then rested till evening.
 
In the evening Daaji took his grandchildren to the Madhur area mango farm and then showed them some peacocks, who were showing off their feathers amidst the backdrop of trees swaying happily in the evening breeze, awaiting the monsoon season. The children were enthralled by the lush land and the peafowl’s cries, signifying the anticipation of flora and fauna for the first drops of rain, which, as we know, is the season for the peafowl’s monsoon dance.
 
From there they drove to the Kanha Sarovar for a walk. Daaji walked up to the top of the mountain and spent some time there. While returning there were a few volunteers from Madurai and Manamadurai waiting at the gate to meet Daaji. These volunteers worked in the Karela (Bitter Gourd) farm. Daaji stopped the car, spoke to them, enquired about each of them and then drove home.


At night Daaji invited one of the architects from the meeting this morning, for dinner, and later showed him a few videos on different types of constructions, for his reference.


Heartfulness is all about going by the feelings of your heart. The decisions that we make have to be followed by the heart's permission, and sanction. Often, we overrule the heart, and we go with the whimsical mind that we have or the emotions that drive us. So, in one way, you can define Heartfulness as following your life every moment with (using) the signals of the heart. And in order for us to follow the heart in a very pure way, the heart has to also be pure and simple. So, the Heartfulness Way of practice asks us to meditate on the presence of divinity that is already there in the heart so that we remain purer and simpler. And the decisions that we make will also be influenced by this purity and simplicity. So, we meditate on the heart and that's about it.

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Daaji's day began with some yoga in the morning. Daaji explored different gardening techniques and was really taken with one from Thailand. He instructed the in-house staff to design a garden in the Thai style. Daaji was busy with meetings later in the day. Daaji then participated in an online interview with the Khaleej Times. The interview will be published by the Khaleej Times in their upcoming June 2, 2023 edition, along with information on Kanha Shanti Vanam.

Kanha Shantivanam 22nd May 2023

Being a Sunday, it was an early start to the day with morning group meditation for which Daaji reached the meditation hall around 7.25 am. He proceeded to conduct the meditation session from 7.28 am to 8.06 am for around 1059 practitioners present in the meditation hall and returned home soon thereafter. He later got busy with meetings with a brother associate overseeing construction works at Kanha and subsequently visited the Star Building area to check the location for upcoming construction activities.

The afternoon was quiet and uneventful, bringing a much-needed respite from the flurry of activities that normally surround him. The evening was about spending time with his grandchildren listening to devotional music and introducing them to the subtle vibrations that music for the divine evokes in our hearts. Time and again, we see how beautifully he nurtures the little ones through a carefully curated outer environment to nourish the soul.

Later that evening, Daaji connected at 5.30 pm over Zoom to preside over the first virtual meeting with representatives from different spiritual organizations, yoga institutions, religious institutions, and individual researchers working in the area of self-development and spiritual growth the world over. This meeting was organized as part of a joint planning for the ‘World Spiritual Conclave’ to be held in the Kanha Shanti Vanam in the first week of August and many participants from all over the world joined the call.

Daaji expressed his joy to see so many of them at the very first meeting and read out the letter issued by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India who is jointly organizing the conclave along with Heartfulness. Daaji in his address said, “We all know and the world also knows very well that the next revolution that is to happen is a spiritual revolution. India will be leading it from the forefront and there is no doubt whatsoever about this. India is very well placed today in leading all the countries on the spiritual frontier. All the like-minded organizations who are striving to establish a unified consciousness- one level of consciousness, are working towards bringing about unity through various practices that each one of us offers. Each one of us is in a very special position to teach techniques, methodologies, know-how, and philosophies, and for all our inherited knowledge that we can share with one and all, this will be the platform.”

Daaji asked everyone to provide their input, suggestions, and ideas for the event and the discussion went on for more than an hour. After the long discussion, Daaji concluded the call with a sharing of his recent experience. “Recently, after a seminar organized and conducted by the Yogoda Satsang Society at Kanha Shanti Vanam, a lady from the Society came up to me and asked me a question. Her query was about how and why they had been invited to conduct their program here and how it was possible that we could be so open towards them and not see the differences between the two systems. I told her that we don't see any difference. All spiritual organizations are the same. We are not in competition with any organization and in fact, if we are competitive, then we are not spiritual organizations.  She was very happy to hear that many such spiritual organizations could come together.” There were many such profound ideas that were discussed in the meeting.

After the call, Daaji went for an evening walk. During the walk, the conversation revolved mostly around how we could better plan and promote the upcoming World Spiritual Conclave to involve more participants and representations from around the world. It was a fruitful end to a relaxing day for Daaji.

Daaji in his address said, “We all know and the world also knows very well that the next revolution that is to happen is a spiritual revolution. India will be leading it from the forefront and there is no doubt whatsoever about this. India is very well placed today in leading all the countries on the spiritual frontier. All the like-minded organizations who are striving to establish a unified consciousness- one level of consciousness, are working towards bringing about unity through various practices that each one of us offers. Each one of us is in a very special position to teach techniques, methodologies, know-how, and philosophies, and for all our inherited knowledge that we can share with one and all, this will be the platform.”

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It being a Sunday, therefore, the day began early with morning group meditation, which Daaji led for the 1059 practitioners present in the meditation hall. He thereafter became preoccupied with discussions with a brother associate in charge of building at Kanha. Daaji convened the first virtual gathering with representatives from various spiritual organisations, yoga institutes, religious institutions, and individual researchers working in the field of self-development and spiritual growth from around the world via Zoom.

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