If you are in Sangha for atleast an year, you would have come across, terms like, “Ondhu Jeevana, Ondhu Dhyeya”, ‘Sangha Kendrita Jeevana’ etc. My “Shradhanjali” to Mohan ji would be to have glimpse of these terms with MohanJi in context.
‘Ondhu Jeevana, Ondhu Dhyeya’
Few years back in a ‘karyakartha’s shibhir’ in Hassan, Manya Shri. Krishannappaji had inspired us in a Bouddhik varga about “One Life One Dhyeya”. Call it my inability to grasp such great ‘vicharas’ but I never understood what it meant practically. Honestly speaking, I could not relate this to a Prachaarak’s Life as I always felt their’s was a different way of life. Mohanji, a person who was ‘not’ a pracharak but not anything less than that, came out as an example of what Krishnappaji had said the other day in Hasan. He resigned a “Lucrative Job” (That’s What The Hindu had to say) and worked only for the ‘dhyeya’ he believed.
‘Sangha Kendrita Jeevana’
If you see his journey from a Bhaga Karyavaha (The Then Nagara Karyavaha), to BengaLuru Mahanagar Karyavaha to the Prantha Karyakaarini Sadasya, he made his Life ‘Sangha Centric’ as the days went by.
MelPankthi
Something wonderful about Sangha is this – ‘Drawing Melpankthi’. My, NagraKaryavaha (Jayanagara) Guru was recollecting his recent conversation with Mohanji.
Guru: Mohanji, Dharma JagaranaHegidhe
Mohanji: Dharma Jagarana tumba chennagi naditha idhe…aadhre… enrayya, yaaru Shaakhe henge naditha idhe anthane kelalvalayya….
In this small conversation, he indicates how much importance he gives to Shakha, even though his priorities were different. Guru told me that later in the conversation, Mohanji said that he still attends the Shakha twice a day. This is what Inspires me. The person who brought Mohanji to Sangha, Manya Shri. V.A Gopal, he also used to attend the Shakha everyday without fail.
Some People, Some Time, More People More Time Theory
If you have ever attended a “Sangha Shiksha Varga’ you definetely would have heard these phrases. Mohanji not just preached these in his Baitaks. But did it. His journey from ‘Some Time’ to ‘Full Time’ is his Life.
Well, we woke up on Friday, 16th Feb 2006 to hear the sad news of Mohanji departure from this world, the world that he strived his entire life to make a better place. When I look skywards, I can hear his ‘typical’ laughter ringing in my ears and can see that ‘ThunTa Nagu’ on his face, as though he is looking all of us from there how we are progressing. As Santoshji explained, it is not just a person who died, 100’s of Dreams died, 1000’of Yojane’s died with Mohanji. That day one person was lamenting how will we ever get such a person again. The thought of this makes me go into a deep thought.
Sometimes, I feel why should someone had to convey me the news. Just the thought of Mohan hale and healthy, travelling around and doing Sangha Kaarya would have been so good. May be the Lord Venkateshwara was so happy with his work at Tirupathi that he wanted him there so soon.
All Said and done, the right Shraddhanjali for Mohanji is not words But Action.
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