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please Bhagwan Swaminarayan and Guru Pramukh Swami Maharaj children,
youths and senior devotees perform austerities, pilgrimages or other
devotional means. The spiritual endeavors performed by the devotees
during Swamishri's visit to the local centers are congratulatory and
worthy of recognition. It also reflects Swamishri's divinity for inspiring
such spiritual efforts in children, teenagers and devotees.
19 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- About 20 family members of the Shayona
group and devotees from Amdavad pilgrimaged 25 km from Amdavad to
Gandhinagar.
- Also, 85 students pilgrimaged from Pethapur,
20 devotees walked from Sardhav (20 km) and several children walked
4 km from Gandhinagar Sectors 23 and 18.
20 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Eight BAPS teenagers cycled 25 km from
Kalol.
- Thirteen women devotees performed Swaminarayan
mantra jaap while walking from Gandhinagar sectors 5, 13, 7 and 14.
- Fourteen devotees pilgrimaged 7 km by
foot.
- Twenty women devotees pilgrimaged by
foot from Sectors 3, 4, 6, Kirtidham and Hari Nagar.
21 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Sixty-two devotees and children pilgrimaged
25 km by foot from Kalol,
- 11 women devotees from GEB walked 7
km,
- 10 women devotees walked 10 km from
Vavol,
- 14 women devotees walked from Sector
29.
- Forty-two women devotees and 37 children
walked 7 km from Sector 27, and 30 women devotees chanted Janmangal
Namavali while they walked from sector 2.
- A woman devotee chanted Janmangal Namavali
25 times, performed 208 panchang pranams and did 11 malas.
- Fourteen devotees pilgrimaged by foot
from Nardipur village in Kalol region.
- Thirty women devotees walked from Sectors
1, 2, 7 and 8.
- Raghavbhai Bharatbhai performed dandvats
from Sector 21.
- Bhavik Bharat Patel of ninth grade
performed 525 dandvats.
- Jiten Parmar, a child, chanted Janmangal
Namavali 21 times and observed a liquid fast.
- Thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds Punam
Parmar, Alpesh and Sanjay performed dandvats for 4½ km from
Pethapur.
- Ashok Patel pilgrimaged by foot.
- Gautam Patel, Jivraj Patel, Gambhirji
Mistry of Gandhinagar pilgrimaged by foot from Amdavad mandir.
22 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Women devotees pilgrimaged 24 km by
foot from Mansa.
- For Swamishri’s good health 50
women devotees observed waterless fasts.
- Kiranben Mehta pilgrimaged 6 km by
foot daily from Sector 24.
- Gajendrasinh Bihola walked 45 km from
Vijapur.
- Devotees pilgrimaged 24 km by foot from
Mansa and Sector 24.
23 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Six males, eight females and two children
pilgrimaged 18 km by foot from Khoraj in Koba region, and five devotees
from Navapura.
- Eight women devotees walked 7 km from
Sector 5.
- The Gandhinagar yuvati mandal performed
12 hours of mala jap – totally doing 21,786 malas.
- Three women devotees pilgrimaged by
foot and chanted the Swaminarayan mantra from GEB.
27 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Swamishri blessed 186 children students
of Swaminarayan Vidyalay, Sarangpur, for pilgrimaging by foot from
Sarangpur.
- Thirty-three youths pilgrimaged by running
486 km in relay from Junagadh.
28 November
2006, Gandhinagar
- Twenty-one devotees of Devgadh Bariya
region pilgrimaged 150 km by foot.
- Ten devotees and seven youths of Rabod
region pilgrimaged 150 km by foot.
- Thirty youths pilgrimaged 150 km by
foot from Panchmahal, Lunavada and Naroda.
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