A walk with P. Samirdada from Happy Home to Shri Harigurugram

Hari om

Today was an indeed a unique day, Today Samirdada called few of us for some office work and while discussing various things regarding Shree Harigurugram dada casually asked us wheather anyone of us had gone to Shri Harigurugram by walking.

Amitsinh Katwankar, my collegue has affirmatively replied to dada and after that dada was asking about how do we go to Shri Harigurugram by road, Dada also discussed about how the time taken by vehicle to reach the pravachan place is increasing due to increasing traffic congestions on road, and while discussing this, Dada has expressed the desire that he himself wants to come to Shri Harigurugram by road, i.e. by walking.

(The Route)
Amitsinh explained the entire route to Samirdada, Firstly we have to walk to Khar Station, then we take the over-bridge which takes us to Khar East, then we have to manage our way through small roads and then through narrow lanes and gullys that run through the small houses (slum area), after that we reach Western Express Highway, then after taking an underground pedestrian tunnel (Subway), we reach near Shri Harigurugram.
Samirdada was very excited to hear this and to our surprise he immediately said that he wants to come with us throughout this walking route.

(The journey)
We started at around 5.45PM from Happy Home when Dada got down from his office. He was walking like any other simple common man, he did not carry any person from security or Bal group to accompany him and in a very simple manner he started his journey.
On the road, dada obeyed all the traffic signals and waited for all signals to turn red before crossing the road (Unlike us who often like to dodge the vehicles to cross the road to reach on time). He also instructed us not to hinder the path of any person just because he is coming in way of dada. It happened that many times people came in his way, even slightly bumped on him, we were seeing all this but dada was firm on his descision that he wants to walk like a simple common person even through the heavily crowded streets.

At around 6.00PM we reached Khar-East area and between 6.10 to 6.15 we reached Shree Harigurugraam. 

Samirdada's view behind this walk was very simple, he told us that after a certain limit, we must not become dependent on the vehicles. We must be ready to walk a certain distance without any hesitation. Also considering the ever increasing traffic and ever increasing pollution we must reduce the use of vehicles wherever it is possible. Parampoojya Sadguru Aniruddha Bapu always teaches us the importance of taking a walk, Bapu insists that if we have to stay physically fit we must walk for atleast 1-Hour per day. Bapu tells us that by taking 1-Hour walk helps maintain physical as well as mental balance in our life.
So, all these purposes are fulfilled while taking this walk.

We thoroughly enjoyed this walk with company of P.Samirdada, all the while dada was telling us how our behavior should be while walking on the road, or even while walking on the path shown to us by our beloved Sadguru Aniruddha Bapu. Dada was discussing with us in a very casual and friendly tone with us(just like we discuss with our friends while walking on road). In dada's company we did not even realise how and when we reached Shri Harigurugraam. 

P.Samirdada has set another wonderful and unique example of becoming independent as well as the stressed on the importance of walking.

Shreeraam and Ambadnya to P. Samirdada

and Shreeram and Ambadnya to Bapu for giving us such a unique opportunity!!

Hari om
I am Ambadnya!!!!