Shri Radhashtami
Even on Ghanshyamji's
vehement refusal Shriji forcibly sent him to Gorakhpur. At Gita Vatika everyone
was stupefied to see him alone and asked where Maharajji was? When Ghanshyamji
told them about all that had transpired everyone was very dejected.
Shri Radha Baba
“ Maharajji hasn't
come?” Shri Baba asked.
On Ghanshaymji's replying
that he hadn't Shri Baba remarked, “You are looking incomplete without him!”
Panchkula
At this end, Shriji went
back to Panchkula after seeing Ghanshyamji off to Gorakhpur in a train at
Ambala.
He wrote a letter to
Ghanshyamji in Gorakhpur from Panchkula: ' Don't come here before the fifteenth.
By that time I will roam around somewhere and come back.'
After
consulting Harish Chadda, Shriji reached Delhi in his car
Shri Ranchodraji Temple, Dakor
and left for Dakor
from there.
What shall I say when
everyone will ask me about your whereabouts?” Harish asked him,”
A passenger train was
standing at the railway station. Pointing towards it Shri Maharajji said, “
Tell them that I have gone to Kosi by the passenger train.”
Harish Chadda told the
above sentence to one and all. Everybody was very dejected on hearing this and
began accusing Harish of being such a foolish person.
“Shriji does not keep good
health and he never travels except by an air conditioned coach. Even on being
aware of this fact Harish has behaved so unwisely. Shriji must have had to bear
such inconvenience in the passenger train,” they moaned.
Shri Deviji
Shri Deviji sent Kusumji to
Delhi to find out about Shriji's whereabouts. Bhagwan also went along with her.
On reaching Faridabad they got the same information which had been conveyed by
phone to Vrindavan. All of us were very dejected. We sent Vrindavan
Das to Kosi, Nagaria but could find no trace of Shriji. Once again, we lost the
gem we had chanced upon. Everyone missed their meals and did not eat a bite.
Telegrams were sent and phone calls were frantically made to far off places,
once more.
At this end, Ghanshyamji came to Ambala on the eleventh, earlier
than the date which had been decided upon. He learnt about everything that had
taken place from Harish. Soon after, Ghanshyamji was pained to the core and
came to Delhi. He talked to us about all that had taken place on the phone.
“ You come back to Vrindavan,” suggested Deviji.
“ I will not come to
Vrindavan. I will try once to find Shriji. In case I fail I will don
the guise of an exile and go to live in some small village of Braj,”Shri
Ghanshyamji responded.
Shri Lalji managed to stop Ghanshyamji
somehow, asking him to wait for three to four days in accordance with Shriji's
letter. Shri Ghanshyamji got ready to go to Panchkula once again when a phone
call of Kuldip Chadda's neighbour came to Lalji's house saying that Shri
Maharajji was there for the night and was about to go somewhere in the morning.
He could probably come to Delhi. So Ghanshyamji stayed back.
Rasa Lila
Shri Ghanshyamji rang up
Vrindavan and disclosed, “Shriji has come back. Resting here for a couple of
days and staying at Shiv Kumar's place in Khurja for a day he will be coming to
Vrindavan.”
Venu Vinod Kunja, Vrindavan
Everyone got a new lease of
life on receiving the telegram. Shriji came to Vrindavan at the determined
time. Once again the Kunj was full of delightful joy.
During this period a couple
of letters from Shriji had been received from some unknown place, in which it
had been written: 'I have not left for some worldly reason but to fulfil my own
purpose, which I hope to accomplish in six months and then I shall return on my
own.'
However, Shriji stayed for
merely six days in seclusion at Dakor instead of six months and returned in
just eight to ten days.
On questioning he did not say anything clearly but one
could infer from Shriji's talk that Lord Krishna had fulfilled his desire in
six days in place of six months. It was a matter related to the transcendental
world which had got realized.
Lord Krishna
A few days later, members
of Shriji's parikar asked him out of curiosity, “ Maharajji! How did you
reach Dakor? Where did you stay? etc.,”
He kept evading the answer
for a few days and then revealed one thing after another in quick succession,
which has been summarized below as follows:
Shriji reached Ratlam by
train from Delhi. He went to an old devotee Utsav Lal's place because of being
very tired. Taking refreshments he rested there for some time.
Travelling via Dahod he reached Dakor between 10:00 and 10:30. Journeying constantly without having meals had made him very exhausted. Dakor is about two miles away from the station. No tonga or rickshaw was available at that late hour and Shriji did not have the energy to walk.
Travelling via Dahod he reached Dakor between 10:00 and 10:30. Journeying constantly without having meals had made him very exhausted. Dakor is about two miles away from the station. No tonga or rickshaw was available at that late hour and Shriji did not have the energy to walk.
In the meantime a cart
pusher offered to help out, “Sit down in my cart.”
Sitting down in that push
cart Shriji reached the 'Vallabh Bhavan Dharamshala' near Rancchodraiji Mandir.
He called out to the manager who refused to give place to a stranger at that
unearthly hour.
In fact, Shriji had many
loving devotees in Dakor at whose houses he had stayed for as long as two months
off and on. But this time neither did he want to put up at anyone's place nor
did he want to meet any known person.
Thus a problem loomed in
front of him. It was burdensome to walk even a single step due to extreme exhaustion.
Meanwhile, a man standing
in the dark piped in, “hun maharajji ne aulkhon chhon (I know
Maharajji!)”
Soon after, the manager
confirmed, “ tum aulkhon chhon ! (Oh, you know him!) and opened a room
instantly for Shriji to take rest.
Thakur Ranchodraiji
It need not be said that Shri Rancchodraiji[7]
Himself had intervened, in the form of that man in the dark, for the well-being
of Shriji. In the morning Shriji went to Puneet Ashram which was a mile away
and stayed in a room for six days. He would have only half a kilo of milk in a
day.
One fine day Shriji was
going to have darshan of Shri Rancchodraiji when he met Tara Behan, Rukmini
Behan and Ranchhodasji's son Kanhaiya on the way. They were the ones who
spotted Shriji and insisted that he come home with them.
Saying, “ I will come
again,' Shriji excused himself and left for Panchkula the very next day. Shri
Shuklaji and Vidyadharji had gone from Indore to Dakor to search for Shriji but
he could not be found.
All the devotees of Shriji,
who lived away from Vrindavan were sent messages of his safe return to
Vrindavan. With the coming of Maharajji who was the icon of delight, the breeze
of happiness began blowing in Venu Vinod Kunj once again.
[3] Shravan: Śrāvaṇa
is the fifth month
of the Hindu year,
beginning in late July
and ending in the
third week of August.
[4] Bhadrapad: is
a month of the
Hindu calendar that corresponds
to August/September in the Gregorian
calendar
[6] Annakoot: is
celebrated in observance of
the episode in Sri
Krishna's childhood, in which He
gave protection to the cowherd
clan of Vrindavan from
the wrath of Indra
and humbled Indra in
that process. The cowherds,
their wives, children and
cattle jubilantly surrounded Sri Krishna. They
were awed by His
superhuman accomplishment and celebrated Sri
Krishna's feat with a
sumptuous feast. Thus began
the tradition of Annakoot.
[7] Shri Ranchhodraiji: The
main idol of Lord
Ranchhodrai is in the
form of Lord Vishnu,
bearing the conch, lotus,
discus, and mace in
his four arms. The
idol is incredibly attractive,
made of black stone
and lavishly decorated with
gold and silver ornaments.
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