$150,000 pledges to boost Akshaya Patra efforts

Akshaya Patra team with Honorary Guest

and Keynote Speaker. (Left to Right)

Dr. Desh Deshpande, Piyali Dutta, Jaishree Deshpande,
Dr. Sam Pitroda, Sunil Kumar

CHICAGO: The Chicago Chapter of Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) held its annual fundraiser recently at Intercontinental O’Hare, Rosemont, a north side suburb of Chicago and received overwhelming community support for its great cause.
A live auction was conducted where several donated items were sold to the highest bidder. Pledges amounting to $150,000 were made to support schools where meals are delivered. The event hosted over 200 attendees from the Chicagoland.
Hunger is a problem that over 50 million children are battling silently in India. It keeps these children out of school and forces them to take menial jobs to bring home food for their families. Hunger also impedes their ability to learn.
The Foundation is one of the world’s largest NGOs which runs school meal programs serving over 1.3 million children daily in over 9,000 schools from 19 kitchens in nine states in India.
A public-private partnership, Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunches at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. The APF is the world’s largest non-governmental organization that feeds children. The Global Journal also ranked Akshaya Patra 1st in the world for NGOs working to improve the lives of children and youth.
This event was chaired by Parminder Sawhney who in her welcome speech exhorted everyone to get involved and provide a chance to change the lives of underprivileged children in India. She credited her team members Jasneet Edke, Lubaina Raj, Neha Patodia, Ragini Shekhawat, Anu Aggarwal and Tanu Singh for working hard to ensure the success of this event.
Dr. Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Chairman and Interim CEO of APF USA gave a complete overview of the organization right from its inception to its current operation in 9 states of India. The guest speaker at this event was Dr. Sunil Kumar, Dean of Chicago Booth School of Business. Special dignitary who graced this benefit was Dr. Sam Pitroda who serves as Chairman of India’s National Knowledge Commission
Dr. Pitroda remarked that Akshaya Patra is an excellent public/private partnership model benefiting a large number of children in India.
He added that the Govt. of India is not equipped to solve all the problems facing the country unless NGOs like Akshaya Patra take an active role to address the needs. Through technology, innovation, management, entrepreneurship and business skills, APF has wrought wonders.
Following his speech, Ashley Singh sang “Tumhi Ho Bandhu “. There was a video presentation on the Foundation’s work in India showing the kitchens where mid-day meals are prepared for school children and the process involved in doing this.
A beautiful Bollywood dance number was performed by Infinity dancers – Anika Gupta, Shivani Shah, Pooja Venkit, Ravisha Saini, Radhika Patel, and Jasmine Merchant. Vote of Thanks was given by event chair, Paraminder Sawhney.

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Jayapataka's Ghost Busting Scam

Oh oh, ghosts are haunting the acharyas, watch out!

Dear Puranjana Prabhu,
I was not questioning because I don’t know about the money these people have wasted, I was just interested to know if they went to that hospital as it is connected to mind control by the Illuminati.
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[PD: So the question is, are the GBC controlled by the illuminati? No, the illuminati theory is that their members try to blend in and hide their identities, by conforming to the organization they are infiltering, then they gradually sneak in their agenda over decades of time.
These GBC guru people did not bother to even TRY to hide their bogus activities and try to “blend in” at all. Jayatirtha was taking LSD and he was singing like an out of control insane fool with his cracker pot kirtans, right in public, on his Vyasasana, and this was right out of the box in 1979. He was not trying to blend in at all. He was making huge public waves immediately. The rest of the GBC defended Jayatirtha, because they were not hiding their agenda that they wanted mad fool drug addicts on the Vyasasana in ISKCON.
Jayatirtha was also giving drugs to his inner circle of people, having illicit sex, and behaving in public like a buffoon. No blending was even attempted. That is not blending in. Kirtanananda’s people were being arrested for selling drugs, using underage teenage girls as drug mules, and so on, and this was in all the newspapers. Blending in? No. Making huge public waves? Yes.
Hansadutta had his people stealing credit cards, and his farm was busted by a Federal raid in 1979, not blending in at all. Ramesvara’s PDI (drug selling) pals were busted and the Laguna Beach temple president was arrested also in 1979. Federal agents were involved again. And we could give countless examples of this, for example that the entire ISKCON was sued in Syracuse Federal court for fraud, for selling candles and calling that samkirtana, for using bogus charities for the blind and poor to collect money, etc. and this was in all the newspapers in the USA, and they lost the case. Again, FEDERAL cases, NATIONAL newspaper coverage. Even the pornographic magazines made by Larry Flint were carrying articles about the cheating of these leaders. In other words, even the editors of porn magazines were appalled at the evil behavior of these leaders. 
The Syracuse case was started in 1979, so right out of the box they did not try to make a blending in of anything, they made huge public waves — after waves — after waves — of giant public problems that were in all the newspapers.
Apart from that, had these people really been organized criminal conspirators, I never would have got “the will,” the letters, the July 9th letter, the May tape, and especially — the poison tapes and so on. Not only that, I never would have lived long enough to obtain any of these items if these were actually organized conspirators.
Nope, they are a bunch of hippie do-dah space cadets, they bungled almost all their crimes. And that is why they were constantly in the newspapers. They were amateur criminals by any standard. That does not mean that amateur crooks are NOT dangerous of course. The police around here say that these amateur crooks are their worst problem. The “crooks in learning” do not even know how to shoot guns properly. So they often kill innocent men, women, even pregnant women, and children, even babies and toddlers, … in short, the innocent by-stander is much more likely to die than the people they are shooting at. Amateur crooks, they are not hardly organized, but very dangerous nonetheless. ys pd
Hari Bhakta says: Thanks for your comment Puranjan Prabhu. Yes, I agree, they should not spend so much money. It’s a shame. Maybe they are amateur criminals on purpose to bring the Mission of Lord Caitanya down? Well I’d also like to say, that Citeswar Prabhu is actually a really good ghost buster. He helped me with a serious issue and through his yagnas, he helped me a lot.
http://www.pagalbaba.net/home.php?ur=historiaig&bt=botig
Although it is a material science, it can help those who are struggling and not on the pure devotee platform, free from the effects of the mind and modes of material nature.
Haribol!
Puranjana das says: Right, well Chitesvara thinks that acharyas are full of ghosts. That means, he is in illusion. I was in Badger when Chitesvara came there to milk all the devotees for money with his ghost busting program (pagal baba means “mad man,” no kidding), and he may have known about me being his worst critic.
So I sunk down in the seat of my van, and waited till he was right beside my van window, then and I popped my head out and said, “Hey Chitesvara, its your old pal Puranjana”! I have never seen anyone run away so fast in my life. He looked just like — he had seen a ghost. Hee hee. ys pd
Hari Bhakta says: What exactly did he say about the Acharyas? Wonder why he said that? Did he say that Prabhupada was full of ghosts? He will get a lot of bad karma if he is actually ripping people off. What more do you know of his program?
Puranjana das says: Chitesvara supported the GBC gurus in 1990 when they were trying to explain all their fall downs. He said — the reason these gurus are always falling down is — they are haunted by ghosts. I cannot remember the exact numbers he gave but he said something like, Ravindra has 14 ghosts, Hrdayananda has 23 ghosts, and so on and so forth.
Prabhavishnu was the only slightly sensible person here, he protested the whole thing saying — this is all foolishness. And so Chitesvara said, that is because the ghosts inside Prabhavishnu to not want to be taken away by his ghost busting technique. So Prabhavishnu was ordered to be ghost busted, and he was.
JAYAPATAKA swami then ordered that ALL the GBC’s gurus must be ghost busted by (his disciple?) Chitesvara. Shortly after that, and all through the early 1990s, Chitesvara was given the job by the GBC gurus, to be flown all over ISKCON to ghost-bust gurus, temples, devotees and so on. Which he was doing worldwide.
So yes, Chitesvara not only says acharyas are full of ghosts, he says, only he has the potency to save acharyas who are full of ghosts. That means, he thinks acharyas are being overwhelmed by ghostly hauntings, and that the “pagal baba ashram” has to save the acharyas. Notice the word “pagal,” Chitesvara is saying that the acharyas are mad men (pagal) who are full of ghosts. That means, he is saying the acharyas are in the lowest modes of tamasic guna. I still have one of his business cards somewhere which says “pagal baba ashram ghost buster, Chitesvara das.”
I do not really blame Chitesvara so much, he was simply a tool the GBC used to explain all their fall downs. Of course he will get some serious karma for his supporting and helping the main GBC idea that the Lord’s acharyas are ghostly haunted mad fools who are engaged in debauchery,
This is very sinful, to juxtapose such low level material contamination with the acharyas. Even the ordinary karmis are not ghostly haunted debauchees, so for the GBC to say the Lord’s successors and acharyas are on that odious tamasic level means, they are saying the acharyas are much lower class of people than — the ordinary hamburger eating man on the street? This is what they have said all along, the ordinary man is more advanced than the acharyas, because the ordinary man is not falling into illicit sex, intoxication, criminal activity and so forth. To say the Lord’s successors are mad fools who are chasing intoxication and illicit sex is an insult to pure devotees everywhere, and its an attack on Krishna by saying His direct servants are mad debauchees.
Chitesvara will be karma implicated in all this, and if you think about it, for their saying the successors to God are pagal baba ghostly haunted debauchess is — just not going to win them any favors with the Yamaduttas, lets face it. They have not figured this out yet, but fighting against Krishna like this is just messing with the wrong person, they won’t win this war. Do they say Prabhupada is full of ghosts, well indirectly yes, when they say acharyas are full of ghosts, that could be any of them. This also means, as soon as we become purely attached to Krishna, ghosts will make us behave like debauched criminals, that means, the worst thing you can do is to surrender to Krishna. This is very offensive. ys pd
Acchedya das says: When reading comment above I remember when this Chitesvara was sent to our newly constructed temple around 1983. As soon this temple was ready built it was announced that “powerful ghosts obsessed the building and an expert would arrive soon to solve this problem”.
Then Chitesvara arrived in great pomp with a team of assistants. Of course all this fund-raising was paid by -- sankirtan laxmi. It’s easy to be wise after the event, but it’s hard to believe that Chitesvara considered this exorcism ritual to be of any value. They placed a few pumpkins in front of the temple and started chanting mantras. At one point Chitesvara declared that he can see that all ghosts are hiding now in those pumpkins because they were terrified by Chitesvara’s powerful mantras.
Then he told the devotees to smash those pumpkins at the concrete temple stairs. This would shock these ghosts so much that they would never return. He told the devotees to bow down and pay obeisances in honor for being rescued from these ghosts. Chitesvara received a check and asked for immediate transfer to the airport because there was, “another urgent exorcism to be performed in Italy”.
Quite amazing how naive we were at that time. The whole thing was nothing but pickpocketing?
Hari Bhakta says: Thanks for the information Prabhu, seems like Chitesvara Prabhu was used as a puppet by Jayapataka in a bid to explain why the “Acharyas” were so pagal. Guess he made some good money out of it. So sad. Do you think he actually has the ability to remove ghosts and see past lives? According to him he has a mystic siddhi to obtain this information. I guess you can have these powers, but still be mislead by others. Was I duped by this guy? Is there anyone in the world that is trustworthy?!
Puranjana das says: Yes, as soon as I saw the business card “Pagal baba ashram,” I said, this shows how desperate the GBC gurus are, they have to explain their “guru failures” as being “caused by ghosts.” We had a comedian here in the USA named Flip Wilson, and that was his main punchline “The Devil Made Me Do It.” So the GBC borrowed almost the same idea and came up with “The Ghosts Made Me Do It.” Yes, anyone who accepts this is being duped, its a scam.
This is now a big problem here in San Francisco. Old Chinese ladies are being told to collect their valuables — including taking their money out of the bank — and to put the valuables into a paper bag under their bed to remove evil spirits, so their house will be ghost busted. Problem is, the ghost busters change the women’s paper bag with their own, a bag filled with useless newspapers, and they steal the old ladies money and jewelry. Its the same type of criminal cheating as the GBC. Preying on people’s sentiments. ys pd

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Vandalism forces Krishna community to rethink safety

Hare Krishna devotees worship at the Krishna Temple in Alachua on Sunday.

GAINESVILLE: Matthew Goldman was chanting in the Hare Krishna Temple in Alachua on Saturday morning when another Krishna devotee told him about a mess in the bathroom.

Someone had clogged the toilets, he said.

The damage extended far beyond that inconvenience. Someone had defecated on the bathroom floor, strewn bleach around the temple and into a fountain, broke furnishings and tossed books into the fountain.

There were only a few people at the temple because many other devotees planned to attend a festival in Clearwater later that day. Goldman said he had an idea who was responsible: Peter Bergman.

Bergman had been at the temple from time to time, including that morning. He had even stayed at the guest house.

He had struck other members as strange, but that raised no alarms. "He seemed a little odd, but we normally don't jump to conclusions about oddness," said Miriam Tassinare, president of the ISKCON of Alachua temple at 17306 NW 112th Blvd.

Sheriff's deputies came to the scene and arrested a man they say helped Bergman deface the facility, while later filing a sworn criminal complaint against Bergman.

For a community that strives for a peaceful existence — devotees generally don't kill other creatures, even mosquitos — the incident has been a wakeup call.

The Hare Krishna community in Alachua welcomes newcomers to visit the temple, Tassinare said, and that won't change.

"We're always open for people to come experience our meditation and the spiritual atmosphere here, but we'll probably look more now at having some security here," she said.

They lock their doors and have an alarm system that keeps the building secure at night, but she said they'll probably look at adding security during services and other times.

Tassinare said she also wants to talk to the Alachua County Sheriff's Office about the congregation's rights, such as whether they can physically restrain someone who vandalizes their property. She explained that devotees are allowed to restrain an aggressor without compromising their religious views or lifestyle.

This incident could have been much worse, she said. There wasn't a lot of damage, and no one was hurt.

Because he was a familiar face, Bergman's arrival around 7 a.m. Saturday didn't ring any alarm bells, she said. And devotees said they assumed the man with him, Melshizedek Reyes, was a friend of Bergman's.

"But I think very soon after he came, they began acting erratic," Tassinare said.

According to a sheriff's report, the men said the temple was unclean and threw bleach around the facility and poured bleach into a decorative fountain at the front of the temple.

They threw books into the fountain and broke vases, according to the report. A sacred plant was also broken, Goldman said, which is considered offensive to Krishna devotees.

He said Reyes seemed to be following Bergman's orders during the incident.

"Whatever that other guy (Bergman) told him, it seemed like he would do," he said.

Bergman, 54, had seemed a little strange to other members of the temple, Goldman said, but they didn't think he'd do anything like this.

"We didn't expect that, even though he was little weird," he said.

After discovering the damage, a staff member suggested that Goldman drive the men to their homes, but Goldman said no. He said they should call the Sheriff's Office and then went back outside to keep an eye on the men.

When a deputy arrived, he arrested Reyes, who refused to give him any identification and said he was not going to speak to the deputy. Each man was carrying a bag — a backpack and a grocery bag — and they refused to let the deputy see what was inside, according to the report.

Reyes tried to run away from the deputy and was shot with a Taser stun gun after turning and charging at the deputy, according to a report.

Reyes, 25, of Volusia County, was arrested on charges of damage to property/criminal mischief, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace at a religious facility.

Bergman, however, was taken to Shands at the University of Florida. He still had a bracelet from Shands, where he had recently been treated for bone cancer, said Sheriff's Office spokesman Art Forgey.

He said the deputy felt Bergman needed medical attention. Medical issues take precedent over arrests, he said.

Bergman later was charged via a sworn criminal complaint with damage to property/criminal mischief, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace at a religious facility.

Forgey said the State Attorney's Office could determine that Reyes and Bergman should receive hate crime charges, but that hasn't been done yet.

Despite the concerns this incident has raised, Tassinare said she doesn't consider this a hate crime.

"I think it was really the crime of crazy people," she said.

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Madhu Pandit Dasa on Etv Telugu

ISKCON Bangalore's President & Chairman of Akshaya patra Foundation Madhu Pandit Dasa on Etv Telugu

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Iskcon worker alleges sexual assault

THE TIMES OF INDIA: LUCKNOW: A volunteer of the Iskcon temple in Mathura on Monday lodged a police complaint accusing two members of the temple management and a security guard of sexual assault, intimidation and threat to life. While she submitted a complaint with Vrindavan police accusing a senior member and temple manager, the temple administration denied the allegations saying she had dispute with the temple authorities.

Senior superintendent of police, Mathura, Pradeep Yadav said action will begin once the allegations are verified. The woman has alleged that she was not being allowed to enter the temple by the management, but Iskcon representatives said there were no restrictions and that she was stopped only from venturing into the area where saints live.

SSP Yadav said the two sides have been involved in dispute for sometime. "Investigations have revealed that after a dispute, the temple management denied her entry into the temple compound. But she approached the court which ordered that she must not be denied entry for prayers and meditation. After which she was allowed entry into the premises," said SSP Yadav.

"She has accused the temple management of making lewd remarks and sexual assault. She has also accused a temple guard of physical assault. We have listened to what she had to say about her complaint in detail and are getting the specifics verified. Since there is a court history of dispute between the two sides, malafide intent on the part of either or both cannot be ruled out," SSP Yadav told TOI on phone.

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ISKCON's Bangalore temple offers 1,200 sattvic recipes to a higher plane

Many worshipers stay back for the lavish buffet
at The Higher Taste, the temple's restaurant.

Business Today: Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, has moved with the times. He no longer thrives on just butter or yogurt stored in an earthen pot dangling from the ceiling. That would be outright boring, with a global gastronomic explosion afoot. The Lord's feast now includes Italian pasta and bruschetta, Chinese stirfried noodles, Russian salad, American burgers and French coffee walnut mousse.

That is just a sampler of the offerings at the Bangalore temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also known as ISKCON or simply the Hare Krishna Movement. After being blessed by Krishna, the food finds its way to the lavish buffet at The Higher Taste, the temple's fine dining restaurant, where bhajans play in the background to remind guests of the food's higher purpose. Here, eating and divinity are closely related. As the restaurant's name suggests, the lipsmacking food is aimed at helping diners reach a higher level of consciousness.

Various centres of the movement run 100 such restaurants around the world, all of which promote what ISKCON calls sattvic vegetarianism. Sattva is Sanskrit for 'pure'. ISKCON's cuisine includes no garlic, onion, highprotein pulses and caffeinated drinks.

"Sattvic food eliminates chemical reactions that generate negative energy," explains Chamari Devi Dasi, Division Head of The Higher Taste. "To generate the best consciousness, to nourish the mind and soul, eating sattvic food is important," she says, a little wrinkle in her forehead marked by a tilak made with mud from Krishna's childhood home of Vrindavan. Onion and garlic, she says, generate tamas, the state of ignorance.

The Higher Taste employs 280 people, and can cook up to 1,200 dishes. The kitchens at the Bangalore temple - one of the largest ISKCON temples in the world - use 400 kilos of nuts, 250 litres of milk, 150 litres of oil, 500 coconuts, and more than 150 kg each of sugar, rice, potatoes and flour daily. All these ingredients go into 20 types of laddoos, dhoklas, rice dishes and 2,000 samosas.

On holidays, some 20,000 people visit the Bangalore temple, and many stay back to partake of its sattvic fare. If ISKCON were a commercial organisation, its food business would be one of the largest in the city rivalling top restaurant chains - through sales from temple counters, its restaurants, stores and catering, it generates revenues of Rs 16 crore a year.

ISKCON's kitchens hire professional chefs and bakers who are trained in eggless and meatless cooking

For several years, ISKCON's Govinda's Restaurant, at Juhu in Mumbai, has been engaged in a tussle with the Maharashtra state incometax authorities, who say it should be taxed as a commercial operation. The Bangalore restaurant, however, is under no such pressure.

ISKCON says it is not a commercial outfit. It is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 1966 in New York City by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada to preach Bhakti Yoga, or "the science of devotional service to Lord Krishna". Today, it has 400 centres worldwide. Its restaurants are typically run by a trust. Profits from the sale of food mostly go into preaching or charity. ISKCON is the world's largest vegetarian food relief organisation.

The Rs 4 crore annual profit that ISKCON Bangalore makes is used to print religious texts, youth programmes and sometimes for free meal programmes.

Govinda Datta Dasa (left) runs the revenue-generating kitchens (not all of them generate revenue) at the Bangalore temple, with fellow-devotees Chamari Devi Dasi and chef Kaivalya Pathi Dasa

Cooking 1,200 dishes daily is a complex operation, and professional chefs and managers, overseen by devotees who are passionate about food, make things smooth for those who pay to get their minds and souls nourished. The revenue-generating kitchens alone have 60 chefs. The food must be offered to the Lord before eating, which means chefs cannot taste it while cooking. This is why they must perfect ISKCON's version of molecular gastronomy - a scientific cooking method that requires strict adherence to temperature and proportions of ingredients.

Work is divided between three units. Plant One is a huge production unit that caters to the temple counters that sell sweets, savouries, juice, and packaged products such as snack mixtures. Plant One also caters for companies and events. Plant Two makes cakes and cookies. The third division is the restaurants.

Besides The Higher Taste, there is Annakuta, a cafeteria that sells fastmoving items such as dosas and sandwiches. "We have separate managers for each division, but ISKCON has a centralised system to predict sales, receive orders and pass them on to different plants," says Chamari Devi Dasi. To handle the complexity, Plant One's kitchen is subdivided into ten - there are separate kitchens for rice dishes, snacks, North Indian sweets, South Indian sweets, Bengali sweets, laddoos, mixtures, samosas, fried fare, and a speciality kitchen that makes spring rolls, bread rolls, burgers and cutlets.

Devotee Kaivalya Pathi Dasa is a chef with a passion for experimentation. ISKCON, he says, is a master at innovation. An in-house food lab, started in 2005, is a repository of around 3,000 recipes that its fine dining restaurant draws on daily.

Cooks and devotees constantly try out new combinations in the lab to keep sattvic cuisine alive and kicking. One of the experiments was on biryani: how can you create an authentic biryani taste without using meat, onion or garlic? The result was the Kabulistani Biryani, which substitutes meat - traditionally goat or lamb - with cauliflower and potato.

mosimageContinued research and development will be necessary for ISKCON to retain its fan following. But competition is brewing. Just a few weeks ago, two former employees of ISKCON teamed up to open Sattvam, a sattvic restaurant less than five kilometres from the temple. ISKCON has to grapple with problems that other food entrepreneurs face, such as attrition.

How does ISKCON maintain quality given the staff churn? Pat comes Chamari Devi Dasi's reply: "Krishna is in charge. He's managing it."

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Tanzania Opens Its Doors for ISKCON

ISKCON News: The opening of ISKCON Arusha Centre, marks the onset of a new Krishna-conscious age in Tanzania.
Over the last decade the Regional Secretary of East Africa, Umapati Das, along with a handful of devotees headed by Draupadi Rani Devi Dasi and Venu Madhurya Das, have been persistently endevoring to open a centre in Tanzania.
For the past few decades, Tanzania has been predominated by "conveniently theistic" inhabitants. Going to the temple, mosque or church has been more of a formality for the locals than actually a spiritual gesture. However, the new Arusha ISKCON Centre still has been able to grab the attention of masses of people of different social statuses.
After a lengthy struggle, on a bright sunny morning of 29th March 2013, the Govinda's sweet shop and gift shop was inaugurated. The event was endorsed by various devotees from Nairobi, the donors, locals and Pran Govinda Das from Mumbai. The atmosphere was euphoric with the vibrant and energetic harinam sankirtan.
“The reason for a sweet shop and gift shop, is to break the ice and to break the stereotype of ISKCON being only a contemporary Asian Temple, irrelevant to local Tanzanians” - Venu Madhurya Das, Arusha centre leader explained. The Centre is sustained majorly by the sales from the sweet shop and by the grace of the donors. “We are fortunate to have a handful of the leading businessmen coming forward and financially supporting us. A generous man, for instance, happily offered to advertise our sweet shop and gift shop and various festivals for free.”
Currently, the devotees in Arusha are trying to acquire a moderately larger piece of land towards the city centre. to reduce the proximity issues. In the future, the devotees along with the East African Regional Secretary, are planning to develop the centre and spread in the rest of the areas of Tanzania

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Aasaram Bapu Imparting ‘Diksha’

Aasaram Bapu, the self-styled Godman sermonised the nation on how the gangrape victim – Nirbhaya would had avoided it all if she would had taken diksha, recited mantras and begged in front of those six beasts who were raping. Aasaram’s sermons made our blood boil in disgust.
But now after seeing this photograph of Aasaram Bapu imparting ‘Diksha’ to a disciple in his unique style, I understand where he is coming from and what kind of sermons he is capable of uttering.

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