Archive for the ‘Travel Experience’

  • Day 4 – Niagara night and Corning Museum of Glass
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    Day 4 – Niagara night and Corning Museum of Glass
    All ready to drive through bus to Niagara falls, we reached right on time at China Town sharp at 7’0 clock in the morning. Getting up at morning 5’0 clock was quite a difficult task, but I nearly enjoyed the fresh breeze outside the house. I was amazed looking at the cars zipping by, on the roads early morning 6’0 clock that just goes on to show the dedication people have for work here. Although the climate seemed nearly cold, we were feeling cozy inside the bus. The local police helped us stay on the road, awaiting for our next bus arrival. We were nearly a group of 30 people, so we enjoyed the space inside the bus leisurely. Most of them were from Chinese so our tour guide spoke both the English and Chinese languages simultaneously. The name of the tour guide was Michael, he spoke at length about New York City and the important  [...]
    Posted at March 12th, 2010 at 02:03 am
  • Day 3 – Fascinating New York City Tour
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    Day 3 – Fascinating New York City Tour
    A lovely morning, with a dash of wintry winds, blowing by the sides of the roads, we walked down the lanes of floral park taking our bus to 179 st, Broadway and from there taking a E train to Times Square, Manhattan downtown. People here reach office early in the morning right at 8’0 clock, morning hours are lively with people rushing down from uptown to downtown. To work at Times Square is one of the greatest dreams of youngsters around the world to be associated to offices here, people love to work here in the financial districts of Manhattan. The open city tour bus took around the streets of Manhattan covering statue of liberty, WTC, china town, Macy’s, NY post office, Empire State building, Wall Street, Rockefeller Centre, FBI headquarters, and many other known important places. As we moved around the financial districts,  [...]
    Posted at March 10th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
  • Day 2, The Detroit – Manhattan Episode
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    Day 2, The Detroit – Manhattan Episode
    So finally we entered the US boundaries, all set to go through immigration checks. I was seriously impressed by the security here. The separate immigration security queue for non-US residents was at the other side. After interviewing us, we collected our luggage and headed towards taking our local flight from Detroit to New York. Visiting NY has always fascinated me because of the town planning and being financial street here. It was almost 2 hours from Detroit to New York but we reached a little late as it was a local flight and there were hardly any people in the flight. After reaching NY, we were in for a surprise as we had lost our luggage. We lodged a missing luggage complaint with the officials here and they assured us that they would try their level best to deliver the luggage. Ramesh uncle had come to pick us up at the airport,  [...]
    Posted at March 9th, 2010 at 09:03 pm
  • 24 hours to USA – Mumbai – Amsterdam – Detroit – New York
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    24 hours to USA – Mumbai – Amsterdam – Detroit – New York
    Finally, it just stuck me the other day that I have to leave for my next tour to USA. I hardly got any time to even prepare; the days seemed to just fly by! Well, this time around I am even more excited to take my wife along for my next Business Tour to US and even more destinations to explore. Going to USA might not sound a very interesting topic for some of you as most of you guys belong to that country but for me it’s my final business destination. I am going to take you down my personal trip to USA not just counting on the destinations I will cover, but you will get to read about my experiences. The last time I came here in the year August 2008, I had some beautiful memories meeting beautiful and friendly people here. I will cover my whole trip in 35 days. Right now I have boarded Amsterdam – Detroit flight. It would be  [...]
    Posted at March 9th, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 6
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 6
    Today being my last day here at Brahmakumaris I was a little excited and a bit too nervous too, as I would be back home tomorrow boarding my night train Ranakpur express from Abu road station. We were supposed to visit all major famous destinations of Mount Abu including the oldest Jain temples that were built up centuries ago. The first we started in the morning was meditation class and then spend some time in solidarity at Baba’s room. All of us were ready by 7:00 am in the morning, all refreshed and raring to go, our Scorpio driver came right on time and we arranged our luggage inside the vehicle. As we drew outside the main gate of BK I looked back upon the memories, the first time I entered these gates of peace and happiness. It was seriously a blessing to be here, as we were godly children, baba loved us and he got us the  [...]
    Posted at October 6th, 2009 at 03:10 am
  • Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 5
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 5
    Just last 2 days left here and I was a little nervous and excited too, as we were all set to explore the heavenly natural environment of this holy hill station. I used the word holy especially, because the place has huge historic importance, the kings of ancient times have set up so many temples and places of religious fervor and along with that it has hold atmosphere all over the place because of the serene nature around. As a group we decided to roam and explore the place on our own although the trip was taken out from Brahmakumaris too for sight seeing for the people who had come for the camp. As I wanted to visit more places then they could have, after taking permission from BK pratibha sister, we rented a Scorpio (jeep) for individual exploring. The first we went was Dilwara temple, I mentioned about this place earlier too  [...]
    Posted at October 5th, 2009 at 03:10 am
  • Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 4
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 4
    Not until now did I know the true story behind Brahmakumaris and I seriously didn’t know what was the main aim of this spiritual organization, thank you dadiji for adding to my knowledge the deep concern for Brahmakumaris. I respect all the BK members and the people who are voluntarily helping this organization in varied activities. The morning was usual with meditation (Amrut Vela) starting at morning 4:00 a.m., I was so refreshed then even after sleeping late at night, I didn’t feel a single minute of sleepiness, such was the effect here especially because of peaceful, charming environment. Meditation doesn’t require you to think over something, its just plain concentration, now after nearly 4 days being here I got quite familiar about how to meditate and concentrate. When you are sitting or talking to people you are in conscious  [...]
    Posted at October 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 am
  • Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 3
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 3
    This was the day I was really looking forward to as we were supposed to meet NikunjBhai, BK member, he joined Brahmakumaris at the age of 13 years and its been now 20 years he has been giving his services to Brahmakumaris. The morning was usual with morning meditation sessions starting at 4:00 A.M. in the morning, they term this morning meditation time as Amrut Vela. It’s been 2 days I have been practicing meditation in the morning and I am already feeling so, full of energy and enthusiasm towards life. I started feeling that I have found new meaning to life and that life has much more to offer us then actually what we have. As I have already mentioned that Raja Yoga is a mind exercise for body, mind and soul, I could sense my life moving towards more enlightened way of living, the way yogis of ancient ages used to. Meditation  [...]
    Posted at September 30th, 2009 at 03:09 am
  • Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 2
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    Meditation Camp at BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu – Day 2
    The day opened up with lovely brightened skies and chirping birds all over the campus. The beautiful smell of flowers and the breeze passing by our window made me feel so energetic and full of love for life. Today the meditation started at 4’O clock in the morning, the 2 halls specially made for conference purpose and meditation purpose were in the same building, morning meditation sessions are held in the meditation hall while the afternoon Dadiji’s (Grandmotherly figure) session are held in the harmony hall on the top floor of the building. The harmony hall could accommodate a capacity of 500 people at a time, it was red lit and people were sitting in meditation looking at the point of light on the stage area, low meditation music was being played in the background which made me feel so enveloped with positive vibrations, in  [...]
    Posted at September 28th, 2009 at 12:09 am
  • Meditation Camp At BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu
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    Meditation Camp At BrahmaKumaris, Mt. Abu
    So I am back all over again to move towards the path of enlightened living through deep knowledge of human values and soul, the teachings at International headquarters of Brahmakumaris, Mt. Abu. I was all excited since the time I heard about its meditation programs which are held through out the year. I was scheduled to aboard 3:00 pm Ranakpur Express train from Bandra Terminus, Bombay all the way to reach Mount Abu, a wonderful hill station in the morning 4:15 am the next day. Its just not about meditation that I was looking for, what made me really excited was the idea of learning Rajyog, which is one spiritual exercise of mind, body and soul taught here in groups. As soon as I alighted the train, I could see Brahmakumaris (BK) bus waiting to take us on the top of the hill around 5,000 sq. ft above sea level where we were supposed  [...]
    Posted at September 27th, 2009 at 09:09 pm
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