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