The five-day-long 2003 ceremony was in fact a festival in which all the pompousness and luxurious attitude of the ashram was reflected. |
The permanent residents of the ashram included a couple of rich Marwari widows. |
Once, during my 11th year of living at the ashram, a Hindu-style spiritual retreat, I actually experienced that transcendental state. |
It was many decades later that his devotees built a small ashram for him to live. |
Around the ashram has developed a 1,000-child school and a charitable hospital. |
Ghani's life takes a turn when he falls in love with a medico, Indu, living in an ashram there, run by a baba. |