1st June is P.P.Pappaji’s realisation day, Pappaji, you are the life’s breath of the whole Samaj, It may seem that you have physically left us, but you have not gone, In every step and occasion we experience your guiding hand, So, you are always present with us. Rest of article on

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28th May 2008 marks the 2nd Anniversary of our beloved Guruhari Param Pujya Pappaji’s physical departure from this earth. Despite this fact , the whole Samaj feels His presence in their lives. Day by day the Gun-atit Samaj continues to grow in strength in terms of unity, harmony and spiritual friendship; this was always Pappaji’s motto. Pappaji is still doing His work through His great swaroopo and today we are able to witness and realise the fruits of His labour with Param Pujya Didi’s Golden Realisation Day and Param Pujya’s Jyotiben’s 75th Birth-day celebrations. Param Pujya Ben has given Her blessings on this divine occasion and prayers to Param Pujya Pappaji: Guruhari Pappaji Maharaj ni Jai, Jai, Jai,

P.P. Pappaji's Picture

of the Month

A Tribute to P.P.Pappaji, P.P.Jyotiben & P.P.Didi

F r e e G u n a t i t M i s s i o n N e w s l e t t e r

Volume 1, Issue 2

June 2008

495 - Hu Deh ma avvu to-(extract from: “Pappaji na Sanidhye”)

Sabha Times

-1st June Celebrations Sabha will be

held on June 8th at: St. Helens School

from 10:30am - 12:30pm.

-The “Guru Purnima” Sabha will be

held on July 20th at: Vyners School

from 10:30am - 12:30pm.

-The 1st September Celebrations will

be held on August 31st at: Vyners

School from 10:30am - 12:30pm

devotees who is remembering me is physically in America or here in India - whether it is daytime over here and perhaps even night time over there, I need to ensure his request for help and guidance is answered and I have to en-sure Maharaj is ever present to help and safeguard him. That is why I am never

One day, Pappaji's sevak re-marked to Pappaji "Pappa, even for a second, you are not consciously in your human body" Pappaji replied "If I were to consciously remain in my hu-man body, I would not be able to respond to all those devotees who are pray-ing for help and guidance. Whether the

consciously absorbed in my physical body.

Also Inside this is-

sue:

Article Page

Experiences 2

A Tribute to P.P.Pappaji, P.P.Jyotiben & P.P.Didi (continued)

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What would you like to see in the newsletter

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Photos 4

A Note from the Editors

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Don’t Forget to send in

your ideas to us!

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1st June 1997 – Atlanta, GA, USA

P.P. Pappaji, P.Neelamben, P.Bhartiben,

P.Shobhnaben, P.Deviben, P.Nimuben,

P.Sushmiben, P.Bhavnaben arrived at the

home of Amrutbhai, Sheilaben & Family

in Atlanta, GA, USA on the 1st June 1997.

We celebrated P.P.Pappaji's Divine Day by

starting with poojan and welcoming every-

one. Sheetal and Seema presented a fresh

date cake to P.P.Pappaji.

P. Vimumasi Akota and family joined us

as they too were living in Atlanta. During

the evening P.P.Pappaji did P. Vimumasi’s

Grandson’s balmoral. (hair cutting cere-

mony for toddlers).

P. Dineshbhai Patel and Family joined us

too. We as a family met them at the

B.A.P.S. Swaminarayan Mandir in Atlan-

ta.

They stayed with us for 5 nights and 6

the mountain and gardens. We all sat on a

steam train that took us around the moun-

tain. We also visited the Coca Cola head-

quarters in Atlanta.

Nimben Sakaria performed a Maha Pooja

at our home and P.P.Pappaji did a

sankalp. (special prayers for our family)

Sheetal drew a sketch of Yogi Bapa and

P.P.Pappaji wrote on it “Bhagwan sau nu

kalyan karo”

All in all, it was the most amazing and

memorable experience we had as a family

in a time of need.

I would like to take this opportunity to say

thank you very much to all our Beno and

Samaj for their prayers, help and support

during our time of need. “You are always

in our prayers”.

Jai-Swaminarayan

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A Tribute to P.P.Pappaji, P.P.Jyotiben & P.P.Didi-

(continued)

The article quote in this

newsletter is;

“the whole Samaj feels His

presence in our lives. Day

by day the Gunatit Samaj

continues to grow in

At this moment this is his

only service.

Ben’s Jai Swaminarayan.

Dearest devotees!

It is not possible to under-

stand the full glory of Pap-

paji.

We only have to stay sub-

merged in his glory.

We have to serve him by

living by his wishes and

By understanding the

greatness of his devotees.

there is no doubt.

So dearest devotees!

Keeping our devotion to

God we should serve her.

And by doing this we will

become selfless like her.

Ben’s Jai Swaminarayan.

Ashish to

P.P.Jyotiben

Today it is Swami Swaroop

P.P. Jyotiben’s 75th

(Amrutparva) Birthday.

Jyotiben is worthy of being

worshipped.

We all should understand

her glory.

Jyotiben has immersed

Akshardham.

From her depths, Didi cre-

ates such bhajans that by

taking

Those spiritual words we

able to live in God.

You are the support of the

whole samaj.

So hey Didi keep your di-

vine eyes on us.

Ben’s Jai Swaminarayan.

Ashish to P.P. Didi

Swamiswaroop P.P. Didi’s

Golden Realisation Day

Anniversary.

P.P. Didi, may the Lord

give you a long life and

keep you in good health.

Didi is the eternal example

of living by Pappaji’s inspi-

ration.

Pappaji has brought (Didi)

with him from

May we become your serv-

ant with our whole being.

May we spread unity, spir-

itual friendship and one-

ness.

Today I desire my whole to

be lost in you.

May you fulfil this prayer

with your divinity.

With lots of faith in your

stillness.

Ben’s Prayer at the

feet of our living God

Hey merciful Lord, our

support.

Your kindness is limitless.

Our hearts are overflowing.

This is my constant prayer.

We are yours, your light.

May we portray ourselves

with our actions and words

Such that we spread Gun-

atit virtues.

This newsletter was started to encourage our

input for improving our understanding of

Gunatit Jyot , the importance of seva and

some of our beliefs and traditions.

As this is still one of the first few newsletters,

we thought that you may like to have your

say in what goes into the newsletter and help

make it more about what you want instead of

us choosing.

Suggestions are always welcome. To contrib-

ute your suggestions you can either email us

at: PGDell5100@aol.com or speak to Sunil

or Paavan Gandhi at a Sabha or any other

Hi there, this is Paavan Gandhi—one of the main editors for the

GM newsletter. Well, first of all we hope that you like this news-

letter, the idea of this one was to be revolved around P.P.Pappaji

as it is his 2nd anniversary since he has left us, and also

P.P.Jyotiben’s 75th birthday and P.P.Didi’s 50th Divine day.

Once again, it has been really hard to get this issue out as we are

running out of space!

We would also just like to say a really big thanks you to Sheetal Somel for sending in her experi-

ences (see page 2), and Sunil Gandhi & Vibha Gandhi for translating the poems from the Gujarati

Newsletter for this one (see page 3) .

Thanks for reading!