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day. Swami Niranjan even rejuvenated my mala by blessing it for me. I also visited the Chandi Temple where Karna (Radheya) of the Mahabharata worshipped Chandi every morning. Then he would go back to Karna Chowra (where he was staying) and distribute the daana (charity). The Karna Chowra is the spot on which Swami Satyananda meditated many years ago and had a darshan to build Ganga Darshan there at that very spot, and now the jyoti is there. I meditated in the Jyoti Mandir. It was another blessing.
It was also a great opportunity for me to go to Deoghar, Rikhia where Paramahamsa Satyanandaji now lives, and to have his darshan, satsang and blessing. I was even able to do pada namaskar (touch his feet) and he blessed me by putting his hand on my head.
Om Tat Sat G.S.B.
Hari Om,
What I learned from the convention was 'Patience!" When the storm came, I saw Swami Niranjan being so patient. When something comes to us in life, we forget that, “Man proposes and God disposes' and we get worried about it. We can learn a lot about patience from how Swami Niranjan handled the storm and the aftermath for two days. We should think that we cannot control our day to day life, it is in God's hands. If we have this kind of attitude, we won't be suffering from stress and tensions. All our diseases, high B.P., asthma, diabetes etc. originate from stress and tension. I saw that even when it was raining heavily, people were not moving out of the pandal because Swami Niranjan, the leader, was being patient and his patience was influencing others. Because they saw him as the leader, people also became patient by his example. So, we should all have a leader in our life (not only in the convention) and that leader is guru.
I also learned "shraddha" (faith, devotion). I saw shraddha in people from abroad, who didn't understand English. I saw that they had spent a lot of money and time and
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