Dear Sri Gajanan Maharaj Bhakta Parivar
Jai Gajanan!!
We all accept the fact our beloved Sadguru Sri Gajanan Maharaj's love and affection towards is His devotees is unlimited and unfathomable. In this regard I share my experience with this group.
It was Feb 23rd 2007, and there was a marriage function in our house scheduled for 24th Feb 2007 hosted by me and I was to do the "Kanyadanam" .(How Sri Maharaj brought to my mind this "Kanyadanam" idea, I will share some time)
I had a strong desire and was praying Sri Maharaj that I should have His darshan in our Baroda Mandir before and after this Project - Marriage. I was a bit restless as I was the host and how I will make it. But at about 6.30 pm on 23rd Feb '07, I told the guests to 'pardon me' as I would be out from the house for about 1.5 hrs. And when I reached the Mandir and took darshan then the devotee (A pious lady) who was / is managing the affairs of the Mandir told that "It was Sri Maharaj's - Janmadin" and that's why He created such a strong desire in you to take His darshan, and brought you to the Mandir in spite of your other commitments. I just could not stop my "Ananda Bhashpalu - i.e. tears in the eyes due to happiness".
To the utmost satisfaction of the both the parties, the marriage was successfully completed with His grace on 24th Feb '07 and He blessed me with the opportunity to do the "Kanyadanam" as otherwise I have no daughter of my own.
Now as per my wish I must take His darshan the next day i.e. 25th Feb '07. My younger sister from Andhra Pradesh also attended this marriage as the "bride" was better known to her than me. As per the tradition on the next day of marriage there was Sri Satyanarayana Pooja" followed by lunch at the bridegroom's house and we all were supposed to attend that. It was 9am and since the Pooja was over and we took the "Prasad", as some leisure time was there, "I said to my sister let us go Sri Gajanan Mandir", so that she also can have His darshan. We were about 4/5 persons who went to the Mandir and to my utter surprise and disappointment we found the Mandir was locked, and we all had to return without His darshan. I don't know about the others state of my mind but from that moment onwards my mind was there at the Mandir though physically I was present back in the group and doing the formalities most mechanically. Even after coming back home I tried to contact on phone and check whether the Mandir was opened or not. 3 or 4 times there were no reply for my calls and I kept on trying. At last at about 7pm I could connect and the same lady took the phone and I could clearly hear the "Evening Arati" for Sri Maharaj was going on. When I said I wanted to come to the Mandir, she said come immediately as other wise it will get closed as it was not a Thursday. I just jumped out of the chair, informed my wife that I was going to the Mandir, engaged an auto to and fro, reached the temple and when I went up the lady was alone and just waiting for me only. After I had the darshan of Sri Maharaj I told her about what all happened since morning then she said that she was attending to her daughter who gave birth to a baby girl on that day hence the Mandir was closed during day time and also it was because of Sri Maharaj's blessings that I was able to take His darshan at that time, as if my call would have been late by a couple of minutes she would have closed the Mandir for the day.
I really felt OBLIGED for the affection Sri Maharaj showered on this meek creature.
Jai Gajanan!!
Swamy
Friday, July 31, 2009
Maharaj On Internet By RAM
Jai Gajanan!!
I have collected the maximum available resources of Maharaj on internet..
Here is the list (links) of the sites + blogs + articles + songs + gajanan vijay on Gajanan Maharaj, all in 1…
You can not browse all in a single day, so read and listen at your leisure time….
Websites on Maharaj:
http://www.gajananm aharaj.org/ index.htm - Official website of the temple trust (The site loads very slow and doesn't load at times and not updated from a long time - The site should be redesigned)
http://www.gajanan- shegaon.com/ - A site on Maharaj, few pages in marathi has the font problem, site can be tweaked for some pages, overall a good site..
http://www.gajanank anhor.org/ - Website of the kanhor temple, design is good but content is too less, because it is only for the kanhor temple.
http://gajananmahar ajindore. com/ - Website of indore madhya pradesh temple (The site is poorly maintained)
http://www.dattatre yalotus.com/ tag/shri- sant-gajanan- maharaj/ - some good information + a nice aatri video here (browse this site for other datta gurus as well)
http://shrigajananm aharaj.com/ - Very poorly maintained site.
http://www.gajanan- maharaj. com/ - Again a very poorly maintained site
http://shri. lefora.com/ 2008/09/05/ biography- of-swami- ji/page1/ - This page is about swami Narendra maharaj who was a devotee of Gajanan Maharaj
Blogs on Maharaj:
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Gajanan_Maharaj - Official information of Maharaj to the world
http://4shailesh. blogspot. com/2009/ 02/gajanan- maharaj-shegaon. html - A blog by shailesh Joshi
http://shreegajanan maharaj.blogspot .com/ - A blog by Pranaav Jadhav our group member..
http://www.travbudd y.com/travel- blogs/279/ Shegaon-India- 1 - one person who had travelled to shegaon in 2005, a good read on sansthan and anand-sagar.
http://www.shreeswa mi.org/shri- gajanan-maharaj- of-shegaon. htm - Some good information Here
http://www.networkc omputing. in/Show-case- 001Nov008. aspx - some good information about the sansthan
http://www.jyotisha shastra.org/ 19101.html? *session* id*key*=* session*id* val* - some good information
http://archives. amritapuri. org/amma/ 2006/602shegoan. php - this is about mata amritnandmayi' s visit to shegaon
Listen Online Songs :(Few of you might have the below audio casettes but can be useful for many people who listen online, like me.. )
http://www.box.net/shared/ 8ye7oi50i3 - Gajanan Vijay all 21 Adhyay's.
http://www.dhingana.com/search/ gajanan-watwe/ songs-music - Bavanni is the 5th Song
http://www.4shared. com/file/ 68198288/ 62048afa/ 18_AARTI_ GAJANAN_MAHARAJ. html - Aarti
http://www.raaga. com/play/ ?id=120112 - Listen online by Ajit kadkade
http://www.wayango. com/sanjeev- abhyankar- sadhana-gajanan- maharaj-% C2%96-shegaav- album/ - Listen online the album called "sadhna" by Sanjeev Abhyankar
http://www.raaga. com/channels/ marathi/moviedet ail.asp?mid= MAD000072 - Gajanan Mantra by suresh wadkar
http://www.dhingana .com/smartlist/ gajanan-maharaj/ 104749 - A big list of songs on maharaj
http://www.mypopkor n.com/music/ gana-gana- ganat-bote- marathi-movie- shegaavche- sant-gajanan- maharaj.html - a small movie clip from the movie Shegaavche Sant Gajanan Maharaj
http://www.raaga. com/channels/ marathi/moviedet ail.asp?mid= MAD000084 - songs by ajit kadkade
http://www.esnips. com/doc/4055d6f7 -2536-4468- 9947-6a06a22ca2e a/Gajanan- Maharaj-Aarti - aarti
Photos :
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ mskadu/8696299/ - Entrance photo - (I feel like I am entering the temple after seeing this photo)
http://www.hinduped ia.com/en/ Shri_Gajanan_ Maharaj_of_ Shegaon - A good photo Here
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ mskadu/sets/ 215818/detail/ - some temple photos on flickr
Jai Gajanan-Sri Gajanan!!!
Ram
I have collected the maximum available resources of Maharaj on internet..
Here is the list (links) of the sites + blogs + articles + songs + gajanan vijay on Gajanan Maharaj, all in 1…
You can not browse all in a single day, so read and listen at your leisure time….
Websites on Maharaj:
http://www.gajananm aharaj.org/ index.htm - Official website of the temple trust (The site loads very slow and doesn't load at times and not updated from a long time - The site should be redesigned)
http://www.gajanan- shegaon.com/ - A site on Maharaj, few pages in marathi has the font problem, site can be tweaked for some pages, overall a good site..
http://www.gajanank anhor.org/ - Website of the kanhor temple, design is good but content is too less, because it is only for the kanhor temple.
http://gajananmahar ajindore. com/ - Website of indore madhya pradesh temple (The site is poorly maintained)
http://www.dattatre yalotus.com/ tag/shri- sant-gajanan- maharaj/ - some good information + a nice aatri video here (browse this site for other datta gurus as well)
http://shrigajananm aharaj.com/ - Very poorly maintained site.
http://www.gajanan- maharaj. com/ - Again a very poorly maintained site
http://shri. lefora.com/ 2008/09/05/ biography- of-swami- ji/page1/ - This page is about swami Narendra maharaj who was a devotee of Gajanan Maharaj
Blogs on Maharaj:
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Gajanan_Maharaj - Official information of Maharaj to the world
http://4shailesh. blogspot. com/2009/ 02/gajanan- maharaj-shegaon. html - A blog by shailesh Joshi
http://shreegajanan maharaj.blogspot .com/ - A blog by Pranaav Jadhav our group member..
http://www.travbudd y.com/travel- blogs/279/ Shegaon-India- 1 - one person who had travelled to shegaon in 2005, a good read on sansthan and anand-sagar.
http://www.shreeswa mi.org/shri- gajanan-maharaj- of-shegaon. htm - Some good information Here
http://www.networkc omputing. in/Show-case- 001Nov008. aspx - some good information about the sansthan
http://www.jyotisha shastra.org/ 19101.html? *session* id*key*=* session*id* val* - some good information
http://archives. amritapuri. org/amma/ 2006/602shegoan. php - this is about mata amritnandmayi' s visit to shegaon
Listen Online Songs :(Few of you might have the below audio casettes but can be useful for many people who listen online, like me.. )
http://www.box.net/shared/ 8ye7oi50i3 - Gajanan Vijay all 21 Adhyay's.
http://www.dhingana.com/search/ gajanan-watwe/ songs-music - Bavanni is the 5th Song
http://www.4shared. com/file/ 68198288/ 62048afa/ 18_AARTI_ GAJANAN_MAHARAJ. html - Aarti
http://www.raaga. com/play/ ?id=120112 - Listen online by Ajit kadkade
http://www.wayango. com/sanjeev- abhyankar- sadhana-gajanan- maharaj-% C2%96-shegaav- album/ - Listen online the album called "sadhna" by Sanjeev Abhyankar
http://www.raaga. com/channels/ marathi/moviedet ail.asp?mid= MAD000072 - Gajanan Mantra by suresh wadkar
http://www.dhingana .com/smartlist/ gajanan-maharaj/ 104749 - A big list of songs on maharaj
http://www.mypopkor n.com/music/ gana-gana- ganat-bote- marathi-movie- shegaavche- sant-gajanan- maharaj.html - a small movie clip from the movie Shegaavche Sant Gajanan Maharaj
http://www.raaga. com/channels/ marathi/moviedet ail.asp?mid= MAD000084 - songs by ajit kadkade
http://www.esnips. com/doc/4055d6f7 -2536-4468- 9947-6a06a22ca2e a/Gajanan- Maharaj-Aarti - aarti
Photos :
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ mskadu/8696299/ - Entrance photo - (I feel like I am entering the temple after seeing this photo)
http://www.hinduped ia.com/en/ Shri_Gajanan_ Maharaj_of_ Shegaon - A good photo Here
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ mskadu/sets/ 215818/detail/ - some temple photos on flickr
Jai Gajanan-Sri Gajanan!!!
Ram
Sunday, July 19, 2009
An Experience
Jai Gajanan!!
How the Saints safeguard His devotees and fulfill our good intentions, just read my below experience: It happened to my wife's 3rd sister who is also a great devotee Sri Gajanan Maharaj:
It was in the year 2006: Four of us I, my wife, my wife's sister and her husband went to Shegaon in early March 2006 to fulfill one of our "Owes" as their daughter got married with Sri Maharaj's blessings. After that in the later part of the month at about 11am or so, my wife's sister while going to attend to her office on a scooty, rammed in to a Military Vehicle from behind. She was not wearing safety helmet, and as a result she had multiple fractures to her face, but not even a single scratch any where else to her body or to the scooty she was driving. When I went to see her in the ICU, I felt and said to myself that, it was Sri Maharaj who saved her life. Her face was totally covered with bandage except for a pipe for artificial ventilation. She was operated up-on 2 days later which took about 5 hrs. and she could be discharged after almost a month. Even now her voice is not as clear as it was earlier. But with His grace she recovered and latter again attended to office for about 2 years and then retired.
In this connection how Sri Maharaj had given me an opportunity to do "His Seva" please read:
As the scriptures say "Manav Seva is Madhav Seva". When she was to be operated, the doctors wanted blood from close relatives (as now a days the doctors want to be surer that no complications post operation like hepatitis, AIDS etc) and her blood group was B +ve. Many of our relatives were present there before I went to the hospital in the evening, and when I understood the requirement I just walked to the blood bank which is very much in that hospital itself and offered them to take my blood which is of same group. Immediately the nurse on duty took my confirmation that I had not donated blood within last 3 months, tested my blood and confirmed that the blood group was correct, no other above said diseases and started taking the blood, all this was just less than 1/2 hr. All my other relatives who were so far seeing this were puzzled and for them it was a like a dream, as they were sure that I will not stand even a simplest of chance to donate as I look very thin and fragile. None of their requests for donation of blood were accepted by the same blood bank till my offer, on some pretext or other. A younger relative of ours even asked that nurse on duty, as what made her to accept blood from me who looks most fragile among the present lot. Her answer was that the spirit and the confidence on my face and words have made her accept my offer without any hesitation and further checks.
A few days later when I was on an annual Company medical check-up I was found to be underweight (which I too knew very well) and the Doctor was puzzled as how the blood bank has taken blood of a person who is underweight, which is against medical regulations.
Then I realized that when your intentions are honest "The God within You" will take care of all other rules and regulations which are framed and maintained by some one else.
So if we have good intentions let us not think too much and go ahead with it and God will complete the rest, though the task may look impossible in the first place.
Jai Gajanan!!
Swamy
How the Saints safeguard His devotees and fulfill our good intentions, just read my below experience: It happened to my wife's 3rd sister who is also a great devotee Sri Gajanan Maharaj:
It was in the year 2006: Four of us I, my wife, my wife's sister and her husband went to Shegaon in early March 2006 to fulfill one of our "Owes" as their daughter got married with Sri Maharaj's blessings. After that in the later part of the month at about 11am or so, my wife's sister while going to attend to her office on a scooty, rammed in to a Military Vehicle from behind. She was not wearing safety helmet, and as a result she had multiple fractures to her face, but not even a single scratch any where else to her body or to the scooty she was driving. When I went to see her in the ICU, I felt and said to myself that, it was Sri Maharaj who saved her life. Her face was totally covered with bandage except for a pipe for artificial ventilation. She was operated up-on 2 days later which took about 5 hrs. and she could be discharged after almost a month. Even now her voice is not as clear as it was earlier. But with His grace she recovered and latter again attended to office for about 2 years and then retired.
In this connection how Sri Maharaj had given me an opportunity to do "His Seva" please read:
As the scriptures say "Manav Seva is Madhav Seva". When she was to be operated, the doctors wanted blood from close relatives (as now a days the doctors want to be surer that no complications post operation like hepatitis, AIDS etc) and her blood group was B +ve. Many of our relatives were present there before I went to the hospital in the evening, and when I understood the requirement I just walked to the blood bank which is very much in that hospital itself and offered them to take my blood which is of same group. Immediately the nurse on duty took my confirmation that I had not donated blood within last 3 months, tested my blood and confirmed that the blood group was correct, no other above said diseases and started taking the blood, all this was just less than 1/2 hr. All my other relatives who were so far seeing this were puzzled and for them it was a like a dream, as they were sure that I will not stand even a simplest of chance to donate as I look very thin and fragile. None of their requests for donation of blood were accepted by the same blood bank till my offer, on some pretext or other. A younger relative of ours even asked that nurse on duty, as what made her to accept blood from me who looks most fragile among the present lot. Her answer was that the spirit and the confidence on my face and words have made her accept my offer without any hesitation and further checks.
A few days later when I was on an annual Company medical check-up I was found to be underweight (which I too knew very well) and the Doctor was puzzled as how the blood bank has taken blood of a person who is underweight, which is against medical regulations.
Then I realized that when your intentions are honest "The God within You" will take care of all other rules and regulations which are framed and maintained by some one else.
So if we have good intentions let us not think too much and go ahead with it and God will complete the rest, though the task may look impossible in the first place.
Jai Gajanan!!
Swamy
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