'Being away yet being with HIM...Feeling Full yet Empty..!'

Remand Home children meditating after the lecture on Swamiji. 

It has been months that i opened my own blog and even peeped into it. It is a wonderful feeling of - 'Being away yet being with HIM...Feeling full yet empty...with so much of gaps in writing yet feel Complete..!! Isn't it amazing..!'

This is absolutely unforgivable that I didn't have time to write my blog, about my journey with Swamiji. But once I tell the experiences in this one year of marathon journey with Him you all will love it. Just to remind you readers – Last year I had a Sankalp, a resolution to deliver 150 lectures to commemorate the 150th birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda in 2013.

The aim was to reach those places where no one goes, especially the interiors of Maharashtra and other places. Of course I reached such places but I also visited many schools & colleges in the metropolitan cities and what I found was surprising. I also took Him along with Thakur and Ma to Remand Homes, Rescue Home, Ashram Shalas, villages, literates & the learned,  hostels & offices, where ever He felt like taking me.

People were hardly aware of His life, forget knowing about His mission, His work, His message. Almost none knew anything about Swamiji. The Youth kept Him away thinking of Him as a mere Spiritual leader & can be thought of or to be read in a later age. The middle aged & elders were ignorant because they never have time after they start getting entangled in the web of job, family & commitments.

My goal was simple and clear from the beginning. I wanted each one where ever i go to feel love for my 'GuruSakhaa' and make Him their friend for rest of their life. I think i have succeeded in at least converting nearly 50,000 and more number of people to love Him. 

It is like Ida Ansell had said, "Swami Turiyananda used to say, 'Mother can make the mouse a lion'."

I truly believe that Swamiji made me do all this, in fact He got it done through me. I am humbled during this year as i travelled the length & breadth of my motherland receiving the love from unknown people at unknown places. My favourite slogan became 

- "Unknown becoming Known and then my very Own"! This will be my next blog, telling about these my very OWN people in Unknown places.