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9/11?

September 12, 2008 by Vikram Hazra 5 Comments

Yesterday was a strange but wonderful day. We started from home at 7:30am, and over the next three hours attended a Ganesh Pooja at a dear friend’s home. It was an elaborate, hour-long aarti, and we offered laddoos to a very happy-looking Ganeshji 🙂
Then we went to court and actually got legally married at last! I mean we had to complete our marriage registration formalities (long pending due to my incessant travels and inherent laziness!) Anyway, we now have a nondescript piece of paper which is now pretty much essential to prove to one and all that Tina and I are legally wedded man and wife!
Then our work took us to Bandra, so we stopped over to say Hello to Mount Mary (every Mumbaikar’s favourite place of worship)
And finally it was over to Khar to a Sindhi/Punjabi Gurdwara, where we attended the chautha of a dear friend and long-time devotee, Suresh Mirgh. A sattvik, silent gathering where I sang a few bhajans, and we all chanted Om Namo Narayanaya as the gathering met the family and offered condolences. Kavita aunty was a picture of calm and compassion, in fact it was often she who had to console others rather than the other way round!
At day’s end there was a sense of peace, of stillness, of totality — we had seen the full circle of life, against a backdrop of divinity, and come away enriched by a greater appreciation for what we have, and a purposefulness for the future.

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About Vikram Hazra

As Program Director of the International Art of Living Foundation, I travel, teach, sing, smile and serve, and strive to excel as an instrument of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, whose goal is to put the smile back on every face on this planet.

Comments

  1. Trinaa says

    September 14, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    legally married?? hehehehe..congratzzzz :))

    lovely post bro.. :))

    Reply
  2. Aparna says

    September 14, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    Wow.. Feels so great!

    Jai Gurudev!

    Reply
  3. Bawa says

    September 18, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Legal Congratulations!!
    Jai Gurudeva!
    love you both
    bawa

    Reply
  4. Vinod Raghavan says

    October 13, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Hearty congratulations Bhaiya

    i am sorry that i am posting a question here as i could’nt find wherein to ask you a question..

    I wanted to ask you about how much sadhana we should do n what all comes under sadhana. I would like to take the reference of the Law Of Success which says that 10% of our time(2 hrs 24 mins) we should do sadhana or give to our mind..Now if I do one round of padmasadhana(with sahaj) & kriya, that itself takes me 90 mins. Then surya namaskars, bowing down, ONS chanting & another round of sahaj(as we are supposed to do 2 rounds daily) takes another 1 hour. Then i want to practice singing n keyboard for which i need atleast 3 hrs a day. This way i am booked for 6 hrs a day Bhaiya. And you can very well interpret that managing this schedule is so difficult because anytime we may have to go do seva n we are just not doing just these practices too right?..We have other (less) important stuff to do too..Giving importance to one side automatically hinders the happening of the other..So what do i do Bhaiya?..pls help…

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  5. Pankaj says

    July 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    Just read this note, it showed up on the google search on dad’s name.
    3 yrs is already up. Really appreciate what you wrote. On showing it to mom she said that she clearly remembers that you had told her “YEH TOH BAZZI MAAR GAYE”. 🙂

    HAPPY GURU POORNIMA

    Reply

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