‘Mr. Kamlakar Tapasvi’ was the one who added colors to our ‘Swāmi Parivar’. He gave us direction. The devotional songs written by ‘Mr. Uddhavrao Aarole’, ‘Mr. Dada Joshi’ and ‘Mr. Madhukar Kulkarni’ were composed by ‘Mr. Kamlakar Tapasvi’. In fact he too wrote many devotional songs. He used to sing them melodiously in the form of ‘Ragas’ (Indian classical method of singing) from bottom of his heart. People who still accompany him while singing the enchanting songs are as follows; ‘Suhas Petwe’, ‘Ratnakar Tapasvi’, ‘Uday Shahapurkar’, ‘Gopal Kadam’, ‘Anil Baglane’, ‘Atul Page’, ‘Bindumadhav Joshi’ and ‘Dhananjay Devale’.

On the path of spirituality, music helps a lot. In this sojourn, ‘Mr. Kamlakar Tapasvi’ with his music is still helping us a lot. ‘Shree Gurudev Dattatraya’ and ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ adore music.

We had completed 25 years of serving ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ as a ‘Swāmi Pariwar’. Many of my friends suggested that on this Silver Jubilee occasion, let us arrange a function at ‘Bālgandharva’ theatre in ‘Pune’. But I personally thought that ‘Bhāgwat Saptāh’ would be more beneficial. During ‘Dasharā’ festival on Saturday the 3^rd June 2000, ‘Shree Digambar Kulkarni’ Guruji’ started the ‘Bhāgwat Saptāh’. Before the ‘Saptāh’ started I was expecting some cash to come to me from my business which was long over due. I was rather worried about the financial situation. One day early in the morning, I heard some sound and I woke up and to my dismay I saw ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ was giving a mild, charming smile. ‘Shree Swāmi’ turned his head and hence I too turned mine in the same direction and saw a wonderful scene of, ‘Riddhi’ and ‘Siddhi’ standing on either side of ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ ( ‘Riddhi’ is goddess of prosperity and good fortune and ‘Siddhi’ is the goddess who grants supernatural powers). ‘Shree Swāmi’ said to me that both the goddesses were more than willing to give me whatever I wanted. ‘Bhāgwat Saptāh’ is a big function and requires a big amount of money, but with ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’s’ grace, everything went on very well and there was no dearth of anything. For ten days there was a festive atmosphere in our house similar to that of ‘Deepāwali’ (Festival of Lights). On the very first day of the ‘Saptāh’ a miracle took place, early morning I could hear sweet notes being played on the flute and it was accompanied by tingling of small bells, ‘Shree Swāmi Samarth’ was smiling in his photograph and suddenly I witnessed a herd of cows surrounding him. There were so many cows that, their horns and heads were touching each other. Then I saw ‘Lord Shree Krishna’ standing amidst the cows and playing the flute. I still remember that beautiful form of ‘Lord Shree Krishna’ and feel I should be immersed in that memory of that beautiful experience at all times and keep on remembering and visualizing the innocent face of ‘Lord Shree Krishna’.

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