Remembering to pray to deity of the vehicle after expressing sincere desire to do so to H.H. Dr. Athavale

     Initially, when I would try to follow the guidance of praying to the deity of vehicle before traveling, I would forget about it very often.Then one day mentally I expressed my sincere wish to H.H. Dr. Athavale that I wanted to remember to pray to the deity every time I entered the vehicle. Since then every time I step into a vehicle, I started remembering to pray. If at anytime I forget to do so, I experience that the deity of the vehicle Himself reminds me in one way or another.

Intense prayer and surrender results in qualitative improvement in chanting*

    In Sanskrut, Thursday is called ‘Guruvar’. ‘Guru’ means The Guru and ‘Var’ means day. So Thursday means the Guru’s day. One Thursday I became intensely aware of this and I prayed intensely to the Guru principle to let everything happen as per His wish. I experienced that my chanting went on smoothly without any disturbance through out the day. I also felt a lot of spiritual emotion during the collective chanting session. Since I live with four other students, it is difficult for me to chant with concentration, but ever since that day, I have found that my chanting has improved qualitatively.