Later that evening after a short siesta, Daaji met the Sansad TV team sent from the office of the Vice-President of India. The television director, Prasun ji, and his crew Srinivas Rao were taken after sunset to the Kanha Sarovar - a lovely lake and its surrounding gardens. Daaji was seated on top of the little hillock in the gathering dusk. After greeting them, he asked them to come closer to him so that they could converse. Daaji speaks in a gentle soft tone which brings even the most active visitor to pause and poise. It is curious to see the effect it has on the visitor who has just arrived from a world of habitual hustle and bustle.
In preparation for the next day's recordings, there were various discussions as Daaji explained about spirituality, agriculture, environment as well as politics and social change. It set the ground for the next few days of recordings for the channel.
They asked him how to meditate. When Daaji learnt that they had just arrived, and had not yet had a chance to have a sitting, without any ado, immediately he conducted a sitting for them too, He never missed a chance to give a sitting. He often says that the highest service is that of being able to awaken a person to their inner spiritual potential and then encourage them to develop it. It is this opportunity to serve that he attends to, unfailingly.
No matter how tired he may be, he is ever ready to give a sitting. This is a great lesson for our preceptors. If you were to observe Daaji as he received visitors, from ministers to farmers, students to doctors, new seekers to long-time practitioners, he invites them more often than not to, “Let's meditate together.”
It is always worded as a suggestion and it works better than any instruction. As hearts melt away in meditation, there is an otherworldly stillness that is bestowed. It can easily become a turning point in the person’s destiny.
After the sitting Daaji conversed about the effect of meditation. Shri Prasun Mishra expressed that he was amazed by the sitting. He described that initially his attention was diverted to the sound of crickets chirping, airplanes flying overhead, and distant sounds from the villages around Kanha, but gradually, he had lost track of everything for a few minutes in the middle of the sitting. This made him feel that his visit was an immense success already. All through the next few days, he would continue looking for opportunities to meditate with delightfully dogged determination.
