HH Pramukh Swami Maharaj's Vicharan

Despite physical weakness due to illness, Swamishri expressed a wish to go to the Sunday assembly this evening. When Swamishri entered the assembly, he was welcomed by thunderous clapping from the devotees. After Thakorji's darshan, Swamishri sat on a sofa and listened to the spiritual discourse for a half hour. When the discourse concluded at 7.30 p.m., Swamishri returned to his residence and said, "I have obeyed Yogiji Maharaj's instruction (by attending the Sunday assembly). We had the opportunity of having the darshan of the devotees and in pleasing them."
Even in such a debilitated state Swamishri obeyed to the wish of Yogiji Maharaj by attending the Sunday discourse.

This morning a devotee introduced his friend to Swamishri and said, "His father was highly respected and famous in Gandhinagar. The people of Gandhinagar had attended his father's funeral procession." As the conversation progressed, Swamishri learnt that the well-wisher had an addiction to liquor. Swamishri advised him, "You should preserve the values your father lived and was famous for. Alcohol is a sin. You must get rid of it..." The well-wisher pledged to give up his drinking habit.

This evening, Swamishri was on his way to the assembly hall. The procession to honor Lord Harikrishna Maharaj was all ready. Four teenage members were holding a palanquin in which the small murti of Lord Harikrishna Maharaj had been placed. On seeing the murti, Swamishri immediately turned towards the palanquin, took off his slippers, touched the feet of the Lord and placed a flower at His holy feet. Devotion and affinity for the Lord is a natural, fluent part of Swamishri's life.