The people of Chandigarh received a Christmas gift in the form of Sri M's visit to the city beautiful on the day of the Christmas.
Sri M, a social reformer, educationist and spiritual guide, addressed a packed house at Bhavan Vidyalaya auditorium, Sector 27, on the the potential divinity that resides in all of us, albeit veiled temporarily by egotistical thought processes.
An engaged audience indulged in an enlightening Question and Answer session with him after his talk on Meditation and the Spiritual Path.
Replying to a question, he stated that "The resonating syllable Om had the power to transform the body from within... It was the Primal sound, not the property of any language or religion. It empowers all those who practise it," he said.
"The path of the seeker is nothing but an act of seeking a fine balance between aspirations for this world and those for the next." Sri M stated.
Replying to a question about the search for a true Guru, he said that the the seeker only needed to observe whether the Guru was the same person in public and private.
Two short movies, one on Sri M's life and the other on the Walk of Hope were also screened. Under Project My Tree, an initiative of Sri M's Manav Ekta Mission, honoured Ramji Jaimal of Village Dabri, Sirsa with the Baba Maheshwarnathji award for the environment, for his path breaking work in the distribution of 1.5 crore Floral saplings free of cost to help protect the environment in Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, UP , Rajasthan & HP.