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Bala's (aka Balaji) Charity Cycle... e-Sprit: From "Mahatma Gandhi" to "Bhavik Gandhi" ...

 

November 2, 2007

From "Mahatma Gandhi" to "Bhavik Gandhi" ...

(Photo Courtesy: Ocean rowing.com)
It was in early March this year, when I came across a news article about an Indian attempting to row across the Atlantic Ocean SOLO and UNSUPPORTED. Initially I wondered, as to why anyone would attempt something like that... I started to follow the journey of the modern day Gandhi's adventure (Bhavik Gandhi) and it became a daily ritual...
Reading about Bhavik's joyful stories of him swimming with the dolphins in the open Ocean, watching amazing sunsets and sunrises, enjoying the solitude, his ordeal of pumping for hours to make a litre of water using a manual hand pump, surviving and setting right a capsized rowboat, eating uncooked cold food, surviving on protein shakes made me realise that life is too short and unpredictable to keep complaining and live in fear... and that we need to follow our heart, our inner-calling, realise our goals and live in the moment...
In short, although, it was Gandhi - The Mahatma's life, which had influenced(awed) me all throughout until now, it took another Gandhi to plunge me into action... THANKS Bhavik !!!

Bala's (aka Balaji) Charity Cycle... e-Sprit: From "Mahatma Gandhi" to "Bhavik Gandhi" ...