• 16 April, 2000 (Chaitra Sud 13, V.S. 2056) Sunday, Surendranagar
  A large Swaminarayan Mantra rally was carried out on the main streets of Surendranagar from 5.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. More than 2,500 devotees chanted the Swaminarayan Mantra under the auspices of the Swaminarayan Mahamantra Bicentenary Celebration to be held in 2002. The rally concluded into an assembly on the mandir grounds.
• 18 April, 2000 (Chaitra Sud 15, V.S. 2056) Tuesday, Surendranagar
  In the evening assembly the small murti of Harikrishna Maharaj was honored.
• 20 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 2, V.S. 2056) Thursday, Mahesana
  While having lunch this afternoon Swamishri emphasized the principle of honesty to the hostel students while appearing for exams: "You should not dream to 'steal' or copy in exams. Study and read daily. Don't think of passing by copying. Because when you come here (in the hostel) then you will not make efforts. If you have this motive of stealing then when you grow you will steal, and take bribes, be dishonest in your business or at work. What will you gain by stealing? You will not get peace of mind. So at present remember God and work hard…"
• 22 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 4, V.S. 2056) Saturday, Mahesana
  Swamishri inaugurated a computer center in the mandir hostel.
• 26 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 7, V.S. 2056) Wednesday, Kherwa
  At 10.30 am Swamishri travelled 20 km from Mahesana to the village of Kherwa at the site of a new college campus called Ganpat Vidyanagar Complex. After a brief assembly at the Pharmacy auditorium Swamishri sanctified the campus, showered flowers on the 6 acre plot donated to the BAPS for a planned students' hostel and blessed the trustees.
• 27 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 8, VS 2056) Thursday, Mahesana, Vadu
  Swamishri performed the murti pratishtha of a canvas painting of murtis of the guru parampara at the Swaminarayan Mandir in Vadu.
• 28 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 9, VS 2056) Purushottampura
  In the evening assembly, Lord Harikrishna Maharaj was honored.

26 April, 2000 (Chaitra Vad 7, V.S. 2056) Wednesday, Mahesana

       The Hard Fact of Life

• A Satsangi student called Mitul was still pained by his father's death due to cancer 1½ months back. Mitul expressed his anguish by saying that his dad was a dedicated devotee and had been doing bhajan of God, never had he taken any bribes or done any wrong to anyone. And yet why did he have to suffer and die painfully?
  Swamishri consoled the broken-hearted Mitul, "It's natural to feel the pain of your father's death, but that was how he was destined to die. Tell me why do even the holy Sadhus have to suffer pain? Why did Shastriji Maharaj and Yogiji Maharaj have to suffer pain? To show us that the human body is prone to disease and one must thus bear it.
  "But there must be some reason for his painful death?" Mitul asked sobbingly.
  Swamishri replied, "His sins may have not been of this birth but of previous births. We have taken infinite births! So one suffers the sins from past lives in this birth and because he was a devotee he had to be made pure. So God made him suffer in this birth and freed him from his sins and thus redeemed him. There are many ways a person dies, like death in an aircraft accident, or of a disease…So your dad was destined to die in that way but his work is over here. He has gone to God's abode and now he is happier than what he was here."

• The reason for conflicts in society and the nation is the lack of self-control in speech.
• The roots of a tree are not a bondage. It is because of the roots there are branches, leaves, flowers and fruits. But if the roots are severed then the tree will fall down. Likewise, if the roots of character are severed then the individual will collapse.
• If one works with discrimination then one reaps an infinite progress that is peaceful, joyful and blissful.
• With the help of technology you will be able to see and hear that which is far but we fail to look at ourselves.
• By having faith in our scriptures, God and His holy sadhu and accepting their teachings in the work we do, you will attain absolute success.
• Through the confluence of one's efforts, God's grace and blessings of a holy sadhu, one achieves success in any type of work.