82. A Turning Point

Thousand Full Moon:  Shri. Govind Mukund Nitsure

Contributed By: Dr. Raghunath Boradkar

Shri. Govind Mukund Nitsure is 82 plus. He was born in a small village, Pimpalner District Dhulia . a part of Khandesh. His maternal Grandfather lived there.

At 82 plus he is quite healthy. He used to suffer from Asthma till he was fifty. Then he started practicing Yoga and Pranayam and was completely cured. Even now he does not suffer from any ailments like Hypertension or Diabetes very specific to this age.

After his Matriculation he opted for a Diploma in Civil Engineering and served in the Irrigation Department of Government of Maharashtra. He feels everyone gets what is destined for him and so has no regrets.

Here he narrates two incidents in his life that have great significance for him . Lets have them  from him in his own words.

 The first incidence I would like to narrate occurred when I was about eleven years old. It happened two days  before Ganesh Chaturthi.  We used to collect sand from the river bed for decoration, a day before. At night when I was sleeping I dreamt and saw a well built  man with a long beard and a very bright face telling me to collect the sand without waiting as the river would be flooded after two days. I told my friends about the dream and insisted that we collect the sand immediately. They did not believe and were not keen but I was  so adamant that they agreed and we collected the sand the next day. The river actually got flooded as the man in my dream had said.

The second incidence I wish o narrate is really a turning point in my life. I retired from service in 1989. In 1990 we left Sambhajinagar[Aurangabad] to permanently settle in Pune.

I had nothing to do in Pune. One of my friends suggested that I should join a consulting firm started by a Chief Engineer. I agreed and decided to join in a couple of days. But it so happened that the next day a person whom I consider to be a Yogi Purush came to our residence. During our conversation he came to know that I was R.S.S. swayamsevak and was jailed during the 1948  Sangh Satyagraha. He was a dedicated worker of Vishva Hindu Parishad and he asked me to help him in his work. So I collected some more information about his work and learnt that he used to go from door to door  and collect funds for starting a nursery school for lower income group children [Balwadi], and had succeeded  in getting a place to do that. I was so impressed that I decided to decline the offer in the consulting firm and dedicated myself entirely to the work of Vishva Hindu Parishad. From 1991 I have been selflessly working  for this and other organizations sponsored by the R.S.S.

Shri G.M. Nitsure has found his happiness in this selfless work.