Divya Diksha Divas Celebration at Shanti Mandir, Magod
August 13, 14 and 15, 2006
August 13 - Sunday

Sunil singing a bhajan
Padmaraj, student of Shanti Vidya Mandir speaking for the first time
Padmaraj said - I do not have a topic, nor is my lecture hard to understand so I do not have to tell a story since stories are told only to explain a hard topic.
In any case he told a story. Once there was a person aspiring to learn how to fly an aircraft. He went to the plane but did not sit in the pilot's seat and quickly ran away as he was very afraid of falling down/dying..... So how can he learn to fly the aircraft? First he has to learn to sit on the pilot's seat. Similarly first he has to learn to stand to speak without fear, then will come the topics, stories and so on.
With his humorous and humble debut he made everyone laugh and laugh.
Shanti Vidya Mandir students reciting Vedic mantras
August 14, Monday
Bade Babaji's abhishek in the early morning as is done everyday
being clothed after abhishek
Rudrabhishek on Mondays- students chant Shree Rudree
Rudra Havan as on every Monday
Dinesh - the yajman
Om Rudraya svaha
August 15, Tuesday
Babaji's Divya Diksha Divas and the Independence day of India
The mantra continues after abhishek
Offering dhoop, deep, naivedya
Shanti Vidya Mandir students
Guru Gita
Chanting and seva
Om Namo Bhagavate Muktanandaya and Poornahuti chants
Hemraj the program conductor
Vedic chants related to the Independence (of the country)
all singing together
The first two have become Acharya thru SVM
Jawahar singing a song for the nation
Celebration of the Independance day of the nation and ...
Naresh talked about Babaji and read from Play of Consciousness
Noon Poojan
Singing Aarti
Ready to serve lunch
15th chapter of Bhagavad Gita
recited daily while prasad is served at noon

If you wish to visit a holy place,
go and bathe there
with faith and trust,
with a proper attitude.
Be unconcerned with expenses.
Distribute food and clothing in charity.
With love, endure turmoil.
Never fail to perform your duties.

Babaji

In silence, O dear one, eat without haste.
With peace, delight, and one-pointedness,
thoroughly chew your food.
Don’t eat merely for the pleasure of taste.

Babaji