YOGA - For the pleasure of Sri Sri Gaura Hari!

Dear All,

I am writing this article on the request of dear Aman Prabhu :-) He is one of the wonderful devotees who stay in the Aundh Yoga! I plan to soon write a nice and long article on the Yoga. It is there in the heart, just not manifested yet on this blog :-) This particular entry will serve as a precursor to that long one.

As usual, I reached the Yoga at around 0515. The resident devotees were already chanting. They start their chanitng (preceded by the Chaitanya Shikshashtakam) at 0430! Phew! After chanting till 0630, we heard a Prabhupada lecture on the Srimad Bhagvatam! Jai Prabhupada! The ecstatic Mangal Arati starts at around 0715 followed by the ecstatic Narasimha Pranam and the Tulsi Vandana. That brings the morning program to an end. Technically. One most important part is still left. Ya, you guessed it! Prasadam!!! :-) While the morning program is going on, some devotees cook foodstuff for the pleasure of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha KunjaBihari and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai! After the morning program, these preparations are lovingly offered to Their Lordships, after which the devotees eagerly honour and relish them!

Today, while we were honouring the Prasadam (Rajma, Kadhi, and Rice), sitting on the floor comfortably while other devotees were lovingly serving us Prasadam, we were discussing about what eatables to offer to the young corporate boys who would be coming today evening to attend our seminar! Aman Prabhu was really touched with this scene. In the background a beautiful Hare Krishna Kirtan was being played. All the residents of Yoga were planning for the seminar in the evening. Well, its not quite that simple. Actually, all these "Youth Of God's Abode" (YOGA) were participating enthusiastically in the great movement of Sri Chaitnya Mahaprabhu! They were trying to propogate it to more and more people. How to present it to the "outsiders" so that they also become "insiders" ;-) Superficially it might seem that they were trying to please their guests by taking care of all their needs like dinner, transportation, comforts, etc. But actually all this they were doing only with one desire in their heart -- to please The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri GauraHari!

Thus, in the midst of the very materialistic locality of Aundh, there is this miraculous lotus like Aundh Yoga! Where young devotees, including graduates from the best educational institutions, come together and try to practice very seriously, the transcendental and sublime process of Krishna Consciousness which is so dear to Srila Prabhupada and Lord Sri Gaura Hari!

Let us all come together and applaud these beautiful Youth Of God's Abode and pray to Srila Prabhupada that we can also get the dedication and Krishna Consciousness that these young devotees have developed!

Jai Srila Prabhupada!

Yours in the service of Krishna, Abhijit.