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To
please Bhagwan Swaminarayan and Guru Pramukh Swami Maharaj children,
youths and senior devotees perform austerities, pilgrimages or other
devotional means. The spiritual endeavors performed by the devotees
during Swamishri's visit to the local centers are congratulatory and
worthy of recognition. It also reflects Swamishri's divinity for inspiring
such spiritual efforts in children, teenagers and devotees.
14 April 2006, Gadhada
- Mansukhbhai Vataliya and Arvindbhai
Parmar observed a liquid fast for 120 hours, and 45 hours respectively.
- Everyone of the 17 youths performed
85 malas, 85 pradakshina and 85 dandvats daily, till Swamishri’s
arrival. Fourteen teenagers observed fasts to please Swamishri.
15 April 2006, Gadhada
- Twenty-six female devotees and 20 male
devotees of Gundalia pilgrimaged 10 km by foot to Gadhada.
- Forty women devotees and 30 male devotees
walked 15 km by foot from Ningala.
- Five female devotees from Padvadar,
- 84 female and 10 male devotees from
Raliyana,
- 13 female devotees from Lakhiyani and
- Six male and 14 female devotees pilgrimaged
25 km by foot from Sangavadar.
18 April 2006, Gadhada
- Thirty-six girls and 10 boys pilgrimaged
six kilometres from Raliyana,
- 16 female and six male devotees walked
45 km from Chogath,
- 18 women, three men and two boys pilgrimaged
17 km from Kalatalav,
- 12 female devotees walked from Dadva,
- 18 female devotees walked 12 km from
Padvadar,
- Manubhai Savani and family walked 15
km from Malpara,
- Five male and 12 female devotees pilgrimaged
by foot from Anida and
- 15 children walked from Chiroda.
19 April 2006, Bhadra
- Thirty devotees pilgrimaged by foot
from Jamnagar.
21 April 2006, Bhadra
- Devotees from Jaiwa walked 25 km to
Bhadra.
22 April 2006, Rajkot
- Kaumil Bhavsar and Siddharth observed
a fast for 85 hours,
- Avinash Buddhdev and his wife observed
dharna-parna,
- 10 female youths observed a waterless
fast for 85 hours,
- One female youth observed a liquid fast
for 10 days and
- Five female youths observed a liquid
fast for 85 hours.
23 April 2006, Rajkot
- Ashokbhai Soni performed 1500 prostrations
from his house to the mandir.
25 April 2006, Rajkot
- Three hundred devotees pilgrimaged
by foot from the suburbs of Raiya Road,Chandan
Park and Gandhigram carrying 85 potfuls of sweet items and 22 baskets
of fruits.
- Sanjay Chavda performed 1800 prostrations
to please Swamishri.
26 April 2006, Rajkot
- Sunil Jotangiya and Amit Kakkad performed
1350 prostrations from their homes to the mandir, covering a distance
of four kilometres.
- Prashant Tank, Hitesh Kacha and Pragnesh
Kacha (6 years old) performed prostrations for seven kilometres by
taking five steps, doing one tapni mala and then a prostration, thereafter
repeating the cycle. In this way they performed 680 prostrations and
651 tapni mala.
- From four suburbs of Rajkot 550 devotees
pilgrimaged by foot carrying 100 potfuls of sweet foods.
- From the village of Kagdadi nine devotees
walked 30 km.
27 April 2006, Rajkot
- Twenty devotees walked from Movaiya,
- 33 devotees cycled from Morbi,
- 721 devotees from the suburbs of Gunatitnagar,
Akshardham and Lakshminagar pilgrimaged by foot carrying 86 pots of
sweet food items and 11 kalashes.
- Thirteen-year-old Darshan Makwana performed
885 prostrations,
- Karan Baraiya, a child, performed 574
prostrations,
- Ghanshyamsinh Jhala and Yogesh Rathod
performed 2035 prostrations,
- Covering a distance of 4.5 km. Dipak
Raval performed 784 prostrations,
- Nitin Virani performed 755 prostrations
and
- Gautam Virani performed 1006 prostrations.
28 April 2006, Rajkot
- Fifty devotees and children performed
prostrations from their respective homes to the BAPS mandir.
- From five suburbs of Rajkot 550 devotees
pilgrimaged by foot, carrying 86 potfuls of sweet foods and eight
kalashes.
- Eleven devotees and ten devotees pilgrimaged
by foot a distance of 105 km and 30 km from their respective villages
of Modpar and Jaliya.
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