Reminiscences on Sw. Prabuddhanandaji -Part 3 - DFW Vedanta Society Early Sessions

Reminiscences on Sw. P- DFW Vedanta Society Early Sessions 

3  OUR EARLY SESSIONS

During the sessions all the devotees came and a mart of joy flowed. Dollydi and Kalyanda (Kalyan & Dolly Basu), Aniruddha Duttagupta-mashima and Pat, Souri (Bhattacharya) da and Animadi, Dr. Debosmita and Ruby mashi, Rekha and Avi Nangea, Mahendrababu, Aloke Das, Alpana and  Monidip Sengupta etc. Initially the sessions used to be in Sarada Cottage (our home) and later sessions were distributed in different devotee’s homes.

In the following picture from L-R: Arundhati (Houston) in blue, Kantaswamy behind her, myself behind maharaj, Pat, Devosmita, Dollydi and Uday.

3.1    REFLECTION of STATE of MIND

In those (early days) our attention used to be on how many items we can cook and to the best of our ability. While cooking we used to end up using lots of utensils unnecessarily and thereby the kitchen would be piled with dirty dishes. Thus inspite of having a huge kitchen we had not yet learnt to utilize it properly. The day maharaj went to check out the garden, instead through the front he walked into the house through the kitchen and glanced at the piles of dirty dishes. It was so embarrassing that, that very day all of us learnt a very valuable lesson. Use just what is needed and cleanup immediately afterwards. I realized at any given point, what we do reflects the state of our mind. Scattered environment reflects a scattered mind.

From then on the food used to be served on the kitchen counters and devotees would sit around the swami at the table.

Nandini Mitra Banerjee

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