Trip to Vasad Ashram

A Trip to Our Home

We started from SSRVM, a nice cloudy day with mercury not more than 33 degrees Celsius (In Ahmedabad this is said to be decent cool weather). We had just reached outskirts of the city n all of us felt like 90 minutes of journey can’t be done with empty stomach.

Tushar bhaiya pointed at one place saying “Batata wada yaha pe aacha milta hai”. So we had hot batata wada with two hot chutnies, this time chutnies were hotter than batata wada for a change. Soon we left for the heaven in Gujarat. On the way Tushar bhaiya started guru pooja chanting. Me(Ronak) and Divyesh at the back seat, Tushar bhaiya at my favorite shotgun front seat and sunil driving the car. Before starting the pooja Tushar bhai said everyone can close their eyes and sit comfortably. Thank god Sunil didn’t close his eyes.

On the way to ashram we asked people for directions, we noticed there were so many names for the same place, like Vasad Ashram, The art of living ashram, Gujarat ashram, Aklawadi ashram, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ashram and many more. Finally we were at our home. The energy in the air was so high. Lush green everywhere, clouds slowly aggregating in, calm cows, sounds of birds and yet amazing silence in the atmosphere. What a place…!

Since we were only three people Tushar bhaiya doubted for having long kriya. I thought it would be great if we did long kriya in ashram. We then went to Gokul hall where Lavkesh bhaiya was taking YES!+ course. The course reminded me of my YES+ and Lavkesh bhaiya reminded me of BAWA who was teacher for my course. We also joined them and did some of the processes. This is the most amazing thing about YES!+, all processes are so much fun to do and no matter how many times u repeat the same process, you will enjoy it as if you have done it for the first time.

Tushar bhaiya soon found one more person for long kriya and finally it was happening. We felt so lucky because not every one gets chance to do long kriya in the ashram.

We went to nandi’s lobby for long kriya. Before we start it started raining. First time in my life I had a rainy long kriya, amazing experience. When we opened our eyes it was just a mesmerizing feeling. Everything looked so beautiful . All of us felt hungry. There was still time for lunch. We went to divine shop and got something to eat.

We went back to YES!+ course, shared our YES!+ experience with participants and then we had to go for saatvic lunch in Annapurna. Sunil said food will be masalaless. But above our all expectations, food was awesome, puri, chole, kadhi, rice, sheera and my favorite buttermilk too. It’s even worth traveling so long just for food. After lunch Lavkesh bhaiya invited us all to his room. All the participants were doing yog nindra. A perfect process after having awesome lunch.

We began our discussion with Lavkesh bhaiya, nice interactive session, that time I knew that he was a model before coming to Art of living. Of course we all learned a lot as well. Then we soon went to the YES!+ participants with Lavkesh bhaiya. We were about to leave, Lavkesh bhaiya said us to wait for 15 min as last group was to perform a dance on “dekha jo tujhe yaar” song from the movie apna sapna money money. It was a spontaneous performance. Soon every one joined them. When we felt we were short of dance move, all started doing garba. Garba and Bhangra are such a nice things that you can do it in all dance songs.

It was then time to leave. With a promise to return . On the way back we had a nice jamming up of bhajans with Tushar bhaiya and sunil on vocals, Divyesh with the base, me with tabla. On the express way journey looks very short and with satsang on the way even shortened.

It was a perfect vacation. Guruji says a vacation is which makes you relaxed and not tired. With so much of energy from the ashram one can only get energized. If my friend you missed this time , there is always next time. Do not miss the opportunity of a trip to ashram. Jai gurudev. (Above Experience shared by Ronak)

check out the video of Vasad Ashram Trip, click on the below link...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvoYbQ2iiuc