Thanksgiving Week Celebrations Begin At Sadhu Vaswani Mission   - Feb 17, 2006

The Annual Thanksgiving Week Celebrations began at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission early this morning (18th February). The sacred havan fire was kindled, and the Jap Sahib recited with great piety, fervour and devotion, as grateful devotees offered Thanksgiving to the Lord for their Spiritual Guru, Rev. Dada J.P.Vaswani’s miraculous recovery from a quadruple by-pass surgery in 1998.

Rev. Dada has been indisposed with a recurring muscular pain and there has been continuous recitation of the Maha Mritunjaya mantra since 24th December. This has only added to the fervour of the devotees whose effort and energy have been focused on prayer to make their beloved Guru better. Rev. Dada has been under prolonged medication and rest, but is responding to treatment. Thousands of Puneites look forward to hearing Dada’s Hindi Discourse tomorrow (Sunday 19th) at 6.00 p.m. in the Mission Campus. Dada will also deliver a Sindhi discourse on Thursday, 23rd February.

On the evening of 18th, a grand Fun Fair (Dada Mela) was organized was organized at the Mission Campus. The special invitees for the Mela this year, were 80 nurses along with their children, and over 800 boys and girls from the city crèches run for the benefit of construction workers’ children. They were served delicious snacks, and watched a Cultural Programme put up specially for them. The Nurses were given Napkins & Towels, and the children were given a stainless steel thali, katori and glass each.

Throughout the week special recitations and prayers will be held at the Mission Campus. Volunteers will visit Homes for the Blind and Institutions for the mentally retarded to offer the inmates snacks, biscuits and Sholapur bed sheets/ blankets.

The Sadhu Vaswani Mission’s Inlaks & Budhrani Hospital, Morebai Nariandas Cancer Institute and Kripalani & Kundnani Eye Institute will be organizing special diagnostic camps free of charge. Needy patients will undergo free/subsidised Cardiac Surgeries under the Thanksgiving Week special service programmes.