During this long period of time we listened to many religious and spiritual masterpieces. My best friend ‘Bharat Gope’ has given religious talks on many spiritual books like ‘Dnyāneshwari’, ‘Amrutānubhava’, ‘Chāngdev Pāsashthi’, another associate of ours ‘Dr. Sir Madhavrao Dixit’ has given religious talks on books like ‘Tukārām Gatha’, 'Tukārām Charitra’, ‘SaiBābā’, and ‘Shree Krishna Leela’. Due to ‘Shree Swāmi Maharaj’s Grace, all of us (Swāmi Devotees) could listen and comprehend all above mentioned great works. We indeed benefited a lot. Sometimes even ‘Guruvarya Shree Kisan Maharaj Sākhare’, ‘Appa Ashtekar’ and ‘Dr. Ashok Buchke’ used to join the great speakers and enlighten us on various topics. All these spiritual lectures were delivered in simple and lucid language. I must make a special mention to ‘Shree Bharat Gope’, who took a lot of effort for us. To deliver these lectures, he used to come from distant places, making time for us from his busy schedule. ‘Alandi’ being not very far from ‘Pune’ he used to come without fail. But more creditable was that even if he was at ‘Latur’, ‘Pandharpur’ or ‘Bombay’, he made it a point to come just to guide us. We are indebted to him. He did not care for rains or the other hassles encountered during this travels and always had a very kind and charming smile making others feel comfortable. I still recollect that as soon as he entered the lecture hall, he was greeted by a loud spontaneous applause from the audience.

Whatever I think about his "Pravachans", I feel “How I wish, I had recorded all of them, but isn’t it better to store them deep within one’s mind?” While conducting all these functions we never accepted contributions from others nor collected funds or money. One does not need money if one does Philanthropic work selflessly. If the motive is pure one does not require funds, Lord himself takes care of everything.

When ‘Dr. Dixit Sir’ used to narrate ‘Tukārāmche Vaikuntha Gaman’, all the listeners used to weep with devotion. The day 'Dr. Dixit' used to plan to speak on this topic, 'Tukārām Maharaj' (A great Saint), himself used to appear before him at early hours in the morning and used to dictate to him as to what to speak on that day. One feels like listening to the life of this great saint over and over again. While speaking about ‘Life of Shree SaiBābā’, a mild fragrance used to permeate the room from nowhere. (A miracle) ‘Shree SaiBābā’ used to appear before him many a times. When he used to give sermons on ‘Krishna-Leela’, he used to transport us to ‘Gokul’, where all the pastimes of ‘Lord Krishna’ had taken place. We used to be spell bound, while listening to these lectures. After finishing the ‘Bhāgwat Saptah’ the lectures on ‘Krishna-Leela’ started which are going at our place even todate.

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