Ramtek - Nagpur trip: Part 3: Bye Ramtek, Hi Nagpur.. Back to Bangalore

Lets continue from where we left but before that let me remind you the cast and crew of this story.

Actors:: Mayank,Ajay,Nitin,Neha,Lavish,Mohit... in sab ka role to dekh hi chuke ho
Actors in supporting role:: Abhinandan.. is se bhi mulakat ho gayi thi
Special Appearence:: Mohini, Aditi... Mohini ka role khatam... Aditi ka role aana baki hai ;-)
Naam hi kafi hai:: Nishikant ... Naam aa gaya

Quick recap:

'masti ke mastane' were enjoying each and every bit of the trip they were able to reach Ramtek after all the hurdles, had darshan of all the temples and Acharye shri 108 'Vidya Sagar' ji maharj. After bhakti on first day they went out to see the Ramtek place. They covered dam and now there were at Ram temple.

Photo session and 'Langoor aur chane'

While moving back from Ram temple it was time for photo shoot, also there we saw people were offering 'chane' to 'langoors' which was very good to see and guess what we all tried the same :D:D Mayank initiated this. We tried many different poses and here are few for you all :)

Above is the scary one... I remember Neha saying yahi baithe rehna... :D :D . But heads off to all of us for trying something like this ;) :P:P 

Anubhuti, Monika vala pose ;-)

Guru Aarti:

We were back now in the temple, it was time for Aarti of Guruvar. Again this was the first in my life to be part of such an event. Many people were there and it was nice to be part of this event. Here is a pic of Gurudev.

One interesting thing happened here 'apne bhai' Abhinandan pointed at a lady and said she is a IPS or IAS officer as well as she is a doctor we said she might by Phd doctor not the medical doctor but Abhinandan said that she is medical doctor and use to conduct some shivir. Mayank use to suffer with back pain and we finalized that we will approach her and get some tips from her. Mayank and Nitin went to her and came back to us, we asked did you got some tips... guess what they replied 'wahi hua jis ka dar tha' she was not a medical doctor but was Phd doctor :D :D


Vaiya vraiti

Now it was night time and we approached for 'Viya vraiti' of Maharaj ji. There was a queue for the same and it was our luck that there were very few people standing in the same. Organizers were allowing only 1 min per person and we got the chance for the same..... yes we got the chance.

Here also some fun was there when we first stood in the line witin 5 mins they changed the gate of entrance, here Lavish who was ahead in the queue got out from the queue because of shifting and got disappointed. Others went in the queue. When I came back I asked Lavish no problem go now and he went. I thought this a good chance as people were less i again got added in the queue ;) And second time too i got chance for Vaiya vrati.

Next day :

Abhinandan left last night.
In the same day we did many things, darshan in morning, leaving Ramtek, visiting places in Nagpur and catching the train. Lets start from the start of the day


Morning:

This day we wake up early then the previous day and we were able to see 'Guru Bhakti' in morning. Awesome view... the Guru(Acharaye shri Vidya sagar ji) was sitting in middle and all the shishye(muni maharaj) were sitting in the front in three rows. It was a beautiful view I was feeling happy and blessed to be part of this trip :):) Today we also tried like yesterday, I was standing with Nitin at the place where Acharye shri will come for washing his feet, as he came he understood and told me 'Yahi Khade rehna' . I didn't expected the same.

Except me and Lavish all others participated in Chauka and I heard that it went well :) After the same we ate some food at chauka only as Neha's aunt insisted us to eat there. It was good to eat good food.

Back to Nagpur @ with a kamal driver: 

It was time to leave Ramtek after all bhakti, our daily life was calling us back. We booked a sumo till Nagpur. Our train for Bangalore was at 10.30 pm from Nagpur and for pune guys(Lavish and Mohit) they had to catch a bus at 4 pm from Nagpur. We reached Nagpur around 2-2.30 pm. Our plan was to visit 'Motha Mandir' where Achareye shri 'Vishudh sagar manaraj ji' was staying(chaumasa hi tha vaha) with his full 'sang'. But our driver didn't knew the inner of the city nor we so just roam like anything and even some people misguided us. As well as it seemed that our driver was a new guy he took like 15 mins for a U turn and our Mohit was cracking jokes on him while Lavish was in full tension(kahi bus na choot jaye) Finally our luck came back and we asked for route from an aunt, she sent one boy with us who lead us towards the 'Motha Mandir' and finally we were there. By the time we reached there 'parvachan' were going on in a near by hall so we went there. Just after the darshan of Maharaj ji with sang Lavish and Mohit left they took an auto to reach the place of pick up.

Roaming in Nagpur:

Mayank was on call with his friend(yes one of Mayank's friend is from Nagpur and his name is Girish we met him earlier on the station when we reached Nagpur from Bangalore).
In the mean time me, Nitin and Neha had some good snack which includes 'Bread pakoda', Gulab jamun etc.

Now we decided to get the darshan of 'Motha Mandir' which was like 5-10 mins walk from the hall. We reached there by 4.45pm but temple's opening time was 5:15 pm. We insisted the Maali, actually credits goes to Neha and finally he agreed to open the door.

I admit its a must see temple(bole to Nagpur jao to darshan jarur karna yaha ke). It looked like very old temple with beautiful architecture. It was 2 storied and there as temple in basement too, the way for the same was inside the temple.

Check out few pics:

From ground floor:

Basement:

At first floor:

Movie @ Nagpur:

Now we were free for say 3-4 hours and nothing to do. Mayank's friend was with a car. They planned to go for a movie in a near by mall which was near to station. Bonus for us thanks to Mayank and Girish(Mayank's friend.) We went for 'Once upon a time in Mumbai doobara'. It was overall good movie with 'vajandaar' dailoges. So we enjoyed each and every bit of trip till now without wasting any single minute.

Back to Bangalore:

We reached the station on time and after few minutes train arrived.

This time our tickets were confirm not like while coming :P:P. Again thanks to Girish for arranging the same in tatkal. It was time for entry of our next special appearance actor Aditi. We knew she was coming from the same train(Karnatka Sampark kranti). Her seat was in 3rd AC while we were in sleeper. Neha and Mayank said they will not be eating in night so now it was me and Nitin who will be having dinner. We went to Aditi's compartment i guess B2 and got the food(Tamatar ki chatni mast vali, aalo ki sabji, poori and achar).
We ate few of them saving for next day and had some namkin.

There was an uncle sitting on side of a seat, his seat was not confirm, now we were able to understand his situation so we offered him mat while we were sleeping :).
I use to do two things in train journey eat and sleep. Next morning I woke up only when Aditi said 'Ajay bhiaya utho' I don't how many times she tried.

Colgate ka add

And later whole day went in chit chat discussing and planning future trips of KTJH. Like this time passed and we came back to Bangalore.

Every single minute of the trip was fill with fun or adventure. I guess I will never forget a trip like this. I use to say 'Ise acha kuch ho hi nahi sakta tha in chootiyo mein'. Poore paise vasool karane vali trip, thanks to KTJH :):)

'Yeh kisssa yahi khatam hota hai'. 'Hope that you also enjoyed the the trip as we did. :):) Thank you for reading. 

Good bye.

Ajay Jain

Ramtek - Nagpur trip: Part 2: First day @ Ramtek aur Nitin ke jalwe

Lets continue from where we left but before that let me remind you the cast and crew of this story.

Actors:: Mayank,Ajay,Nitin,Neha,Lavish,Mohit
Actors in supporting role:: Abhinandan
Special Appearence: Mohini, Aditi

Naam hi kafi hai: Nishikant

Quick recap:
Until now you saw how these 'masti ke mastane' somehow planed a trip and started their trip without any idea of how much adventurous it is going to be. And their advanture upto now includes reaching station in rain from various places in bangalore, train journey without ticket and finally a journey in tempo.

One bonus for you all: I forgot to mention this in "fun @ train" and it is when everyone was trying to understand how Abhishek missed his Rajdhani. He said train departure was at 8.20 pm I(Abhishek) started at 7 and then.... someone(guess who?) stopped him here only and asked again what time you said your train was? ... he replied at 8.20 and what time you left ?? reply was 7 .... then she(yes Neha) said '8 baje ki gadi ke liye 7 baje nikale the hmm to nikale hi kyo the ghar pe hi reh jate'. :D :D Everybody stated laughing like any thing and I am sure Abhishek must not have expected this.

Now let continue ;-)

Accomodation @Ramtek: We reached Ramtek somewhere around 9 pm. And we decided that Neha will be staying with her 'buaji' and we all boys will be staying in a room(i guess it was a banquet hall type something) 1.5 - 2 km away from temple.


Hoshiyar Nitin: We reached our room, now we all were doing some masti and all then i don't remember exactly what happend but it ended with this

"Nitin agar hoshiyari na kare to Nitin Nitin kaise??"
Acharaye shiri ke Darshan and Nitn to Nitin sagar: We wake up early next morning i.e the first day @ Ramtek though we were late for 'Guru bhakti' so missed the same. Everybody got ready in the minimum time(ab yaar bando ko konsa time lagta hai tayiyaar hone mein :P). We started for the temple, we all were barefoot though the roads there were in good condition but it was rainy weather there so roads were wet but this can't stop us :) .

We reached temple, actually in the same premises there were many temples. After darshan of 1-2 temples we came to the place where Acharaye shri were supposed to come. Many other people were also there and all were waiting for them. After some time we heard 'Jai Jai Gurudev' and other slogans.


I remember Mayank tried to touch Gurudev's feet when they were coming and they just didn't allowed him(by moving their feet). We were standing there and then suddenly I said(don't know if others heard me or not :P) where is Nitin?? then I looked here and there and ..... there is Nitin he was there where Acharaye shri went to wash their feet.

Only thing came to mind was 'Ok he might be at right place' so I quickly went to him but in the same time he moved near to Maharaj ji and guess what he started washing their feet. I was like(don't have words) from here Nitin's started becoming 'Nitin Sagar'.

Muni Sangh: This was first time in my life that I visited some place where there was so big Muni sangh(Jarur koi punay kare honge). I saw how classes are conducted for them.

Sundar or bhavye mandir:

Now it was time for darshan of all the temples. I must admit temples were so beautiful and the environment there was full 'Bhaktimaye'. There were temples with number written on them and one was under construction. The main temple was of 'Shri 1008 Shantinath bagvan'. That statue was found under a tree in the earlier times and then there only this temple was build. This statue is in Almond's color.

Here are some pics for you.

Tumhara vichar kya badla meri to kismat hi badal gayi:

We came to know that around 9:00 am there will be puja of 'Acharye shri' which will be done by all the didi(Bhramcharni didi). So we were waiting there then Nitin said come with me we all boys went along with him he took to a room where Muni shri 108 'Anand sagar' was there. There we saw a kshama yachna talk between a Guru(Anand Sagar) and sishya(another muni). We all sat there for some time and there he told us one story which two of our friends(Lavish and Nitin) has described as below:



In Lavish's wording: विचार की महिमा .

एक बार एक क़ुमार ने मिट्टी से कुछ बनाने का विचार किया . वो कुछ मिट्टी खोज कर लाया . फिर उसने मिटटी से कंकर को अलग कर दिया . इस पर कंकर रो कर कूमार से बोला की तुमने मुझे मिट्टी से अलग क्यों कर दिया .कुमार ने बोल की तुम कठोर हॊ, तुम्हे पिस भी दिया जाये तो भी तुम्हे आकार नही दिया जा सकता, वही मिटटी बहुत नरम होती है, मिटटी को कोई भी रूप दिया जा सकता है .
फिर कुमार ने मिटटी को आकर देने लगा तभी उसकी पत्नी ने आकर पूछा की आप क्या बना रहे हो ?
कुमार ने उत्तर दिया मै चिलम बना रहा हु . थोड़ी देर में मिटटी ने कलश का रूप ले लिया'. तब पत्नी बोली आप तो चिलम बना रहे थे, पर ये तो कलश बना गया .तभी कुमार बोला मेरा विचार बदल गया था .
इतना सुनते ही मिटटी बोली की तुम्हारा विचार क्या बदला मेरा तो जीवन ही बदल गया .अगर मै चिलम बनती तॊ मै खुद भी जलती और लोगो को भी जलाती . ऒर अब कलश बनकर मेरा जीवन ही बदल गया

In Nitin's wording: तुम्हारा विचार क्या बदला मेरी तो ज़िन्दगी ही बदल गयी
एक बार एक कुम्हार ने मिटटी और कंकड़ को अलग कर दिया!
कंकड़:- रोते हुए कुम्हार से पूछता है तुमने मुझे मिटटी से अलग क्यों कर दिया!
कुम्हार:- बड़े प्यार से कंकड़ से बोलता है की तुम्हारा जो स्वभाव वो कभी भी नहीं बदल सकता अगर में तुमको पीस भी दूंगा तो भी तुम मिटटी जैसे नहीं बन सकते तुम्हारा स्वभाव कभी बदलेगा नहीं तुम हमेसा कठोर ही रहोगे!
एक बार कुम्हार मिटटी का कुछ बना रहा होता है तो कुम्हार की पत्नी कुम्हार से पूछती है!
पत्नी:- तुम क्या बना रहे हो!
कुम्हार:- में चिलम बना रहा हूँ!
पत्नी:- दोबारा कुम्हार से पूछती है तुम क्या बना रहे हो!
कुम्हार:- बड़े प्यार से में चिलम बना रहा हूँ!
चिलम बनाते बनाते कुम्हार का मन बदल जाता है!
पत्नी:- तुम तो चिलम बनाने वाले थे और तुमने ये क्या बना दिया!
कुम्हार:- मेरा विचार बदल गया!
पत्नी:- लेकिन तुम तो चिलम बनाने वाले थे तो तुमने कलश क्यों बना दिया!
कुम्हार:- मेरा विचार बदल गया!
मिटटी:- हे कुम्हार तुम्हारा विचार क्या बदला मेरी तो सारी जिंदगी ही बदल गयी!
मिटटी:- कहा तो लोग मुझे जलाते और खुद अपने शरीर को भी!
हे कुम्हार तुम्हारा विचार क्या बदला मेरी तो सारी जिंदगी ही बदल गयी! और आज सभी जिंदगी भर मुझे अपने सर पर रखेंगे!
We missed the poojan but this was a good lesson for us so we were happy. Here onwards our 'Nitin Sagar' was in form :P :P

Nitin Sagar Continues:
Nitin took us to each and every room for darshan of all the 'muni maharaj'. Thanks to nitin :):).

We were able to see all together a different Nitin who was actually leading us, heads off to Nitin. Here is an example for you:: he was talking with one muni maharaj and they were reminding him after how much time he has came for darshan. So we concluded that he is 'Nitin Sagar' for us :):)

Aahar and Chuke:

Now it was time to get ready for aahar of maharaj ji. Neha's aunt was hosting the chuka(place where 'Muni maharaj' can come for aahar). Neha was ready already. For boys we were having 2 dhotis and other two we arrannged some how. Now were standing at the entrance of temple and it was like two parallel very long queues on both end. People were standing in groups for padghan.

Bas aa hi gaye 'Acharya shri' humare chauke mein:
We all were standing there with some fruits, kalash in our hands, here comes the Guruvar, and the environment was filled with slogans jai jai guredev,

namostu namostu
atro atro
tristo tristo
When acharye shri 108 Vidyasagar maharaj ji was coming we felt like he is looking in our eyes and he is about to come but then he took turn with a smile :)

One by one all maharaj ji went. Then we all went to see 'acharye shri's' ahar.


Pate pooja:

Now it was time for breaking the fast or i should say breakfast :P. We ended up in the first shop after the premises. We ordered kachori, chai, poha. I must accept all of these were very good aur humne bhar pate khaya. :)

Ramtek the place:


After all the bhakti it was time for some masti. We heard about a Ram temple in Ramtek as this town got it name after Shri Ram who stayed here( i guess) while searching for his wife 'Sita'. We were able to see that temple from everywhere as it was on a hill. In addition to that there was a water 'Dam' in Ramtek so we all decided to visit both the places, we booked a auto of bigger size. See our sitting arrangement in the auto cum tempo :P


The Dam:


First we headed towards the dam, it started raining we didn't stopped(jab hoslo mein ho dum to kya dhoop kya chaao kya barish :P). Driver took us to the top of that I don't know how did he though that we will be doing boating in such a rain I guess he recognised 'Nitin' not as 'Nitin Sagar' but as Rajnikant :P :D:D. Then we told him gaadi mod le bhai.

We stopped on road side for photo shoot look we all are looking good hai na...

Only boys

Mausam was awesome and fortunately rain also stopped or it was very less.

Ram Mandir:

We reached Ram mandir, guess who were there to welcome us. Ram bhakt 'Hanuman' ki saina ke sipahi yani bandar, actually langoor(ha vo hi kale face vale). It was long path to reach at the top on both the sides there were small small shops selling eatable aur har kadam pe langoor hi langoor. We reached the temple and did darshan, it looked like very old temple with statues of Ram and Lakshman.

There was a room type and people were going at the top of same. We also reached at the top..... what a view... what a view yaar . We were at the top(aaj mein upar jamana niche) and we were able to view whole city.

Leaving here for now will catch up in part3 :)

Clips in third and last part will be:

Photo session and 'Langoor aur chane'
Guru Aarti
Viya vraiti
Yahi khade rehna
Leaving Ramtek
Reaching and Ghuming Nagpur
Back to Bangalore


Ajay Jain

Ramtek-Nagpur trip, Part1: Reaching Ramtek

Date: 14th night to 18th Aug 2013

Today, I am going to narrate a very interesting fable (sachi ghatnao pe aadharit ).  Hope you all will enjoy :)

Actors:: Mayank,Ajay,Nitin,Neha,Lavish,Mohit

Actors in supporting role:: Abhinandan

Special Appearence: Mohini, Aditi

Naam hi kafi hai: Nishikant

 Background(from my eye)::

As there were holidays on 15th of August and 17-18(weekend) so one needs to take a leave on 16th to convert it into a looong weekend. For me it was already planed as we (my team) worked on 3rd of August in lieu of 16th. Mayank was also ready to take leave. We were wondering since starting of August where to go in these holidays but we were not able to decide anything. 

Random Plan::

One day Mayank came to me and asked that we can go to Ramtek(Maharastra) for darshan of shri 108 sant shiromani 'Vidya sagar ji' maharaj. I said yes as until that point of time I never had a luck to visit for darshan of Acharya shri. After that I only knew that I am going to visit Ramtek with Mayank. Mayank as usual took the charge and checked with everyone and at last we knew that Neha, Mayank, Ajay and Nitin are going to Ramtek, in addition to this Mohini was going upto Nagpur on the same date in the same train. 

Reaching Station and getting tickets::

Trip starts with fun/adventure starts. We were having only two confirmed tickets that were in name of Mohini and Nishikant(Mayank was supposed to be Nisikant in train as Nishikant's prog got cancelled). So we decided to take general tickets for remaining 3.

Neha informed that she will reach directly. So we booked cab from BTM to Yeshvantpur railway station. Mohini has to reach to BTM and then cab was supposed take to route of MG road(so that i can join) to reach station. 

But destiny decided something else though. Mayank got late from office and then same happened with Cab, also it started raining heavily (adchan aati hai kabhi kabhi achhe kaam mein bhi). So cab started after 7:30 pm instead of 7:00 pm. And roads were full of traffic so it seems to be difficult to reach station on time by following MG road route. So Mayank called me and asked me to reach station directly.

Now people were coming from three different directions or places i,e Neha,me and rest. First member to reach station will arrange the tickets. We three teams were in touch(by mobile calls) while reaching station. Best thing was nobody knew that where they are i.e they only knew that they are on the way to station. Finally Mayank and team reached station first and got the tickets, 

Mean while this is how i reached:

By chance/luck one of my collegue was going the same way and he dropped(after taking all the short cuts without traffic luckily) me some where between cantonement railway station and Mekri circle. After waiting 20 mins for auto I took lift upto Makri circle and then auto to reach station. 

Tension and suspense @ Station

The suspense:

When I reached station I came to know that one more person got added. I thought some KTJH member for trip but it was Abhishek our roommate (was going to his home, unfotunately missed Rajdhani). So now we were 6 people with only 2 tickets :D.

Tension(Neha ki to train miss hui thi):

We all reached station except Neha and it was only 10 mins in trains departure, Mayank and Nitin were in mood of chain pulling to make the train wait for Neha :P. But guess what some how Neha was able to make it within time i.e she arrived 5 mins before train departure time also train got delayed by 20 mins :D :D.

Train Journey (6 ppl with 2 tickets):: Never to forget

I won't be able to describe it in one heading lets break it.

Learning for me:

Here was a change in my perspective of looking at one thing i.e the people travelling without confirm ticket. Frankly before this I never ever travelled without ticket(rather say proper ticket) and whenever I went by sleeper I use to see people travelling without ticket and thought why do they travel if they don't have ticket. But that day I was one of them and I realised how things are important for one to reach somewhere somehow on time even without comfort.

Adjustment Night:

We tried to get a seat by talking to TT(kuch de le ke karde bhai), but we didn't had a luck as many people were travelling like us(after all loong weekend sabke liye hai). We are already prepared for this as we kept mat, so we managed 4 peoples on 2 seats and other two(Mayank and Nitin) on mat.

Fun @ train:

The next day we got a free campartment(6 seats) somehow and we aquired it(mauke pe chouka :D). Then fun starts we all were teasing Abhishek on missing Rajdhani in some or other way. Even people started recognizing Abhishek and were asking are you the one who missed the Rajdhani. 

Nagpur station( Abhinandan ki kahani, Lavish's new look and Mohit's panic situation):

It was time to meet Abhinandan, Lavish and Mohit. Oh my god what happend to Lavish he is bald (kya kab kaise :O). Lavish said kya new look hai bhai. We were like hawwwww. But then ok aise bhi sahi lag raha tha ;-)  

Mohit was in full tension (look in the pic) he was getting messages like Rs 10000 deducted from your account... Rs 5000 deducted (koi bhi darr jayega yaar).... What to do we suggested him to block his card but he didn't remember his account number but luckily remembered user id and password for netbanking. Then we called KTJH members who could have access to internet and finally we got Nishikant with net access he verified no money got deducted(Kaleje wich thandak pey gayi). All happy and then Mohit's conclude that this is not is account somebody wrongly gave his number. Happy ending to this story ;-)

Advanture abhi bakki hai dost:

Today on remembering back I find adventure in each bit of trip. As by this time we were in Nagpur which means only 50-60 kms away from our destination. We had dinner(before sunset or nearly :P) @ some restaurant at station. Mayank and I went out to arrange a cab..... again one more 'Archan' no cab was available or I should correct my sentence i.e no cab available in budget, for 50-60km they were asking Rs 2500(koi tuk hai yaar ah..).

 We were searching- searching finally we reached some market there we say a line of tempos.. You are right then we went to Ramtek in a tempo :D ..... new adventure new type of masti....this can only happen with KTJH

Leaving here for now will meet in next episode(part 2).. Get the details as below ;-)

Par 2: Stay @ Ramtek and Return.

covering:

1. Acharaya shri ke darshan
2. Nitin to 'Nitin Sagar'
3. Aahar and chuka... (Ite sare muni iter sare chauke bhaktimay sama)
4. Ramtek the place
5. Sandhya Bhakti and Vayavrati

or bhi bahut kuch... next day events(including Nagpur braman) and back to bangalore...

Ajay Jain