Mahashivratra - A divine evening

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The spiritual group that was established three years ago online is now well known in Germany and slowly getting attention in Europe. Due to the background of establishing and running the group, someone had approached me to check if Adhyatmavari group could host a lecture of Mr. Atul Dixit who is a disciple of Swami Madhavanand (Nath Sampraday) who was visiting Germany for a conference. I had offered to do an online session because we mainly meet online and there are not many group members in Karlsruhe to form a sizeable group to meet offline. So that lecture happened in Frankfurt where Marathi Katta arranged a session on a Sunday evening. I was not able to go but my dear friends Mr. Mahesh and Smita Parkhi had attended the session and they had loved it. I had missed the session unaware of what I had really missed until I heard Shri Dixit in person at my place on the occasion of Shivaratri at my place in Karlsruhe along with 15 other people. 

It was a great experience to hear such a humble, intellectual and learned person slowly elucidating the concept of Arpan Bhakti in the Advaita Vedanta Philosophy referencing from Dnyaneshwari, Tukaram's Abhang, Bhagwad Geeta, Surdas, Meerabai, Gopis, Bhagwan Shri Krishna and The eternal Bholenath. It was as if he was weaving a simple yet elegant carpet of concepts that we all know and are aware of and made us laugh and introspect and nod in agreement. It was a free flowing Nirupan on a concept that seems so elusive and difficult, yet is the ultimate destination of every soul that is born on this planet. 

After being on a flight from India to Frankfurt, jetlagged, tired, Shri Dixit was there sitting with us for three hours smiling and elaborating the concepts with easy to follow meaning, singing of Abhang and putting the philosophy of life into our perspective. An hour and a half just flew past and no one really knew that the session is over. We concluded with a session on Dhyaan Sadhana and he gave us some important tips to do Dhyaan Sadhana in our everyday, yet busy life. He also got us books written by Swami Madhavanand that would help us on our path of self-learning and self-exploration 

His dedication, Sadhana, self learning and Guru Krupa was evident in every way and we were truly blessed to have him personally at home for a group session.

The audience was mesmerized at the end of the session and they asked questions to which Shri Dixit in his calm and composed demeanor replied to every single of them. 

Special thanks to Mahesh for making this program possible, sadly he couldn't remain present due to a family emergency. But his wife very promptly helped me out with the preparations. Also thanks to Monika Deshpande for making tea to start the session and thanks to one and all who decided to attend the program though there were "many" other things to do than attend a spiritual session on a Sunday evening. Two people from the audience came from Stuttgart to attend the session and I really salute the dedication of those two girls. 

Last but not the least, a special thanks to my husband for picking Shri Dixit from Karlsruhe station and dropping him to the location near to Freiburg. He loves arranging the table (snacks and drinks) for the guests which he is extremely good at and was a great host to the audience. 

Bholenath blessed us all with the chance of meeting a great personality and being an audience and Sadhak of the simple yet profound philosophy of our Sanatan Dharma. 

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