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UK PRASADI YATRA Guidebook UK PRASADI YATRA Guidebook UK PRASADI YATRA Guidebook UK PRASADI YATRA Guidebook BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha 8. CONTENTS Lambeth Palace 1. 9. Heathrow Airport Embankment 2. 10. Petersham Meadows St James’s Palace UK PRASADI YATRA Guidebook 3. 11. Porchester Hall Buckingham Palace Inspirer: His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj 1st Edition: September 2015 4. 12. QPR Football Stadium House of Commons Copyright: © BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form of by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. 13. 5. Dahyabhai D. Royal Albert Hall Meghani’s Office Published & Printed by 6. 14. BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, UK Lambeth Town Hall Trafalgar Square BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir 105-119 Brentfield Road Neasden, London NW01 8LD, UK 7. 15. T: +44 (0)20 8965 2651 Putney Bridge Piccadilly Circus E: [email protected] W: londonmandir.baps.org | baps.org 34. 16. 25. Harrow Leisure 43. Bible House Prahladbhai’s House Centre Wesley Hall 17. 26. 35. 44. Durning Hall Dollis Hill Middlesex University Leicester Mandir 18. 45. Manubhai Patel’s 27. 36. Leicester Mandir Warehouse Ealing Road Luton Mandir (Second Mandir) 19. 28. 37. 46. Fantaseas Water Park Brent Town Hall Woburn Safari Park Trinity Church Hall 29. 38. 20. Copland Wellingborough 47. Nazeing Community School Mandir Centre Parcs 21. 30. 39. 48. Friends House Manor Drive Rushden Countryside Nottingham University 22. 31. 40. 49. Islington Mandir The Methodist Church Bodleian Library Ashton Mandir 32. 50. 23. Wembley 41. Ashton Mandir Alexandra Palace Conference Centre Birmingham Mandir (Second Mandir) 42. 24. 33. Birmingham Mandir 51. Fourways Residence Wembley Arena (Second Mandir) Preston Mandir 35 34 24 23 26 17 28 30 33 18 31 27 29 32 3 21 22 251513 16 4 9 1014 11 5 12 8 7 1 6 2 51 49 50 48 46 43 44 47 45 41 42 38 39 36 37 20 40 19 Introduction In 1970, Brahmaswarup Yogiji Maharaj and a group of 12 sadhus arrived in the UK from India. It was the first time that BAPS sadhus were visiting this country. During their one- and-half-month stay, Yogiji Maharaj inaugurated a mandir in Islington, North London – the first ever BAPS Swaminarayan mandir in the Western hemisphere – and also visited many parts of the UK to fulfil haribhaktas’ wishes. Between 1974 and 2007, Pramukh Swami Maharaj visited the UK 19 times. During these visits, he sanctified thousands of haribhaktas’ homes and visited centres around the country. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of London Mandir, we are pleased to publish this booklet highlighting some of these places sanctified by Yogiji Maharaj and Pramukh Swami Maharaj. We pray that this guide will help you and your family complete an educational and enlightening yatra of these historical places to learn more about our inspiring gurus and Satsang in the UK. 11 Heathrow Airport Porchester Hall 1 Nelson Road, London TW6 2GW 3 Porchester Road, Baywater, London W2 5HS Yogiji Maharaj graced Europe for the first time on In his blessings during the sabha here on 31 May Saturday 23 May 1970, landing at Heathrow Airport 1970, Yogiji Maharaj said, “One should do darshan at 4.44pm. of God and his Sant. Then one would gain the merits of performing an Ashwamedha Yagna with Pramukh Swami Maharaj has also used this airport each footstep. Therefore, do his samagam after on many of the occasions that he has visited understanding this mahima. Such an opportunity the UK. One particularly memorable time was won’t come again. Understand this otherwise you during his departure in 1988, where hundreds of will regret it later.” haribhaktas, young and old, had gathered to see him off. The airport guards were astonished to see such reverence and emotion as everyone sang and jostled to get a glimpse of Swamishri. Eventually, an impromptu farewell sabha assembled in the terminal lounge, much to the continuing amazement of the airport staff. Petersham Meadows 2 River Lane, Richmond, London TW10 7AG On Sunday 29 September 1974, Pramukh Swami Maharaj celebrated the Jal-Jhilani utsav on the River Thames in the presence of 1,200 devotees. Swamishri touched the water of the Thames five times with the image of Ganapati and performed five artis. After bathing Harikrishna Maharaj, Swamishri said: “Yogiji Maharaj has sanctified the River Thames by bathing Harikrishna Maharaj in it. Doing darshan of God is a festival. Listening to holy discourses is a festival. Seeing the efforts of everyone, Maharaj will become pleased.” 2. Petersham Meadows 12 13 QPR Football Stadium 4 South Africa Road, London W12 7PJ The Suvarna Tula Mahotsav of Pramukh Swami Maharaj was held at Queen’s Park Rangers football stadium on Saturday 20 July 1985. The weather forecast was for rain. When the devotees prayed to Swamishri to bless the occasion with good weather, he said that he would pray to Maharaj. As it turned out, rain poured down around the whole area, except over QPR stadium. 14 15 Royal Albert Hall Putney Bridge 5 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP 7 Putney Bridge Approach, Wandsworth SW6 3JD On Sunday 22 June 1980, over 5,000 people gathered at the Royal Albert Hall to attend the Bicentenary Celebrations of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. Pramukh Swami Maharaj was welcomed by various dignitaries and in his address to the audience, he said, “A simple and pious life free from addictions and vices, engaged in honest and noble pursuits, with love for mankind and devotion to God is the message of Bhagwan Swaminarayan.” Yogiji Maharaj learnt that the River Thames passes Lambeth Town Hall through the middle of the city of London. From that point, he had a desire to bathe Harikrishna Maharaj 6 Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW in the Thames and purify the river. Yogiji Maharaj said, “The River Thames has been performing austerities for many years.” Yogiji Maharaj said in his blessings here on 2 June 1970, “We want the entire universe to engage in On Sunday 28 June 1970, Yogiji Maharaj together Satsang. It is the great fortune of this Brixton Town with Thakorji and 300 devotees went to the bank of Hall. All the sins from anyone who has spoken the River Thames near Putney Bridge. Seeing the wrongly here have been washed away.” dirty water, Ishwarcharan Swami said, “Bapa, what if we bathe Thakorji outside in clean water and then place that water in the Thames?” Swamishri said, “We want to bathe him in the Thames itself. There can’t be dirt in the water.” 16 17 Lambeth Palace St James’s Palace 8 Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU 10 Marlborough Road, London SW1A 1BS Pramukh Swami Maharaj met the Head of the Pramukh Swami Maharaj met and blessed HRH The Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Prince of Wales, Prince Charles at his home in St Ramsey at Lambeth Palace on 10 September 1974. James’s Palace on Sunday 9 November 1997. Embankment Buckingham Palace 9 Villiers St, London WC2N 6NS 11 Buckingham Palace Road, City of London SW1 1AA The Nagar Yatra for Islington Mandir began at Pramukh Swami Maharaj met and blessed and HRH 9:45am on Sunday 14 June 1970 from Speaker’s The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip at his home in Corner in Hyde Park. Devotees from all over the Buckingham Palace on Monday 10 November 1997. country participated. A 40-strong band of the Royal Air Force accompanied the procession through the streets of Central London. Dancing yuvaks followed the chariots, followed by Yogiji Maharaj and Pramukh Swami carrying Harikrishna Maharaj in a decorated car. The procession proceeded through Oxford Circus, Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus and Charing Cross before ending at the Embankment, from where Yogiji Maharaj and the devotees headed to Islington to perform the murti pratishtha ceremony. 18 19 House of Commons Dahyabhai D. Meghani’s Office 12 St Margarets Street, London SW1A 0AA 13 Leicester Square, London WC2 On Thursday 28 April 1988, for the first time in On arriving in London, Dahyabhai Meghani, history, an Indian religious leader, Pramukh Swami Mahendrabhai ‘Barrister’, Chandubhai, Maganbhai Maharaj, was honoured by Members of Parliament and others started to meet on a regular basis in in the House of Commons. A 75-minute assembly Meghani’s office in Leicester Square. Before a simple was held in which Swamishri’s work was praised by murti of Akshar-Purushottam Maharaj, they did several distinguished MPs, thanking him for blessing katha-varta and goshthi. That, in effect, became the UK with spirituality and culture. the first Satsang sabha in the UK, having formally established the UK Satsang Mandal on 1 June 1953. Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons, said, “I am the speaker of the House, but Swamishri is the Speaker of God.” 20 21 Trafalgar Square 14 City of Westminster, London WC2N 5DN Upon seeing the fountains at Trafalgar Square in 1970, Yogiji Maharaj said, “Maharaj please bathe! Swami please bathe!” Once, during the katha, Yogiji Maharaj said, “There are fountains everywhere, but one cannot find fountains like the ones they have in London.” 22 23 Piccadilly Circus 15 City of Westminster, London W1D 7ET On Friday 18 August 1995, over 12,000 devotees gathered at Hyde Park Corner for the Nagar Yatra to mark the opening of the new shikharbaddha mandir in Neasden, London. Meanwhile, Pramukh Swami Maharaj graced a high decorated dais under the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus from where he could bless the entire procession. The devotees who had no inkling of this arrangement were elated to see him as they passed. Swamishri’s presence added joy to an already ecstatic Nagar Yatra.
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