During my college days, when I went home, I would fill Dada’s pipe for him. My principle was that whatever I did, I would do openly, without concealing anything. My uncle suppressed and killed his desires (vruti), thereby becoming very ill and he eventually died. I decided that I would never suppress the urge to do something that I wished

Continue readingChapter Five – Vocational Era of My Life

Every morning I would leave for school at 7.30 am and would come home for lunch at 12.30 p.m. Mummyji would especially prepare my favourite meals. My mind was always pre-occupied with thoughts of the ideal sadhna, which I had read about and I was inclined to lean towards the principles of the “Gitaji”. Mummyji did not approve of my

Continue readingChapter Six – Married Life

My search and hunger for the inner soul was gradually leading me towards Yogiji Maharaj. Whenever I sat in meditation, I turned towards Yogiji Maharaj. The spiritual discourses, which I had read about in the literature of Shri Arvind and The Vachnamritam, were very similar, the only difference being that Shri Arvind’s literature had a greater effect on my intellect

Continue readingChapter Seven – Quest to Realise God

At that time in 1952, Yogi Bapa had granted Dadubhai the experience of sakshatkar, in Gondal. Due to this fact, he had renounced all family ties. I had to take leave from work at short notice and had returned to India to take up the family responsibilities. Prior to my return, Maganbapa had summoned me in Mombasa and told me

Continue readingChapter Eight – Bapa Illuminates My Soul

At the beginning of 1953 Bapa organised a “Special Train ” – a pilgrimage for devotees aboard a train. He had delegated the responsibilities for arranging the whole pilgrimage, costs, tickets etc. to me. This was to be known as “The Special” as the whole train was hired for this purpose. The 21-day pilgrimage was at a cost of Rs.

Continue readingChapter Nine – The Tardev Years

The year of 1953 passed by in this way. Dadubhai, Chaganbhai and Harmanbhai had accompanied Bapa on his first trip to Kenya in 1953. At that time Chaganbhai was also seeking a suitor for his daughter Purnima. Bapa assisted him in this search and Purnima was married. In January/February of 1954, they all returned from Africa and the Agri Orient

Continue readingChapter Ten – The Court Case

The years of 1954 and 1955 passed by in this manner. Taraben and Jyotiben began their sadhna to devote their lives to God. During 1955-1956 Hansa-Didi joined them followed by Deviben in 1959.   In 1957 all our efforts to earn money had deemed fruitless. There wasn’t any business that we could start. Even Kantibhai could not find work. Eventually,

Continue readingChapter Eleven – Total Purification of My Being

The furnace in which our entire world was disintegrated and which aided the process of purification of our soul, pride, ego, emotive mind, intellectual mind began in 1952 and lasted until 1965. Bapa instigated various incidents which granted me several spiritual experiences and also led to my lok, bhog, déha, paksh, vasna, swabhav and anga to become totally dissolved. My

Continue readingChapter Twelve – Gunatit Jyot is Established

Bapa must have drawn my inner soul towards him and since then I yearned for something which seemed to be missing from my life; a longing to achieve something and a very powerful aspiration developed. I have always been introspective and would only put into action that which I considered to be beneficial to me. I never took part in

Continue readingChapter Thirteen – Notable Events of My Life