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16-8-86, Sunday, 7.45 a.m. The Shangar arti was completed. Swamiji had as usual circumambulated the mandir and a few minutes later was seated in his personal puja on the stage. On the mandir lawns and ground, covered by a canopy to keep out the monsoon rains, sat more than a thousand people, having darshan of Swamiji. Swamiji, facing the sadhus seated on the right of the floodlit stage made the mark of tilak and chandlo on his forehead and then sat in quiet meditation. The sadhus sang kirtans. After a short while, Swamiji took his rosary and began to chant softly to himself the Swaminarayan mahamantra. But then he stopped and signaled to a nearby sadhu to come to him. "Switch off the light above me." The sadhu scurried over to the switchboard. A few sadhus were present with him. Swami addressed them, "Change the lighting on the stage because during puja, due to reflection from the surfaces of the murtis, I cannot have darshan of the Lord." The mystery was solved. Swami was not bothered by heat or the reflection on his cataract-operated eyes. He longed only for the darshan of his Lord. Swamiji sees the Lord eternally within his heart, but frequently shows us the method of devotion. |
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