Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Suyog Mangal Karyalaya

  Priya Nathji decided to celebrate the birthday of Shri Babaji Bhagwan on a grand scale and booked the Suyog Mangal Karyalaya at Nagpur for the function. It was a large hall usually given for marriages.
 Shri Nathji and Priya Nath went to the hall in a procession, which consisted of the devotees dancing to the rhythm of the brass band that accompanied them.

Shri Nathji's sermon at Suyog Mangal Karyalaya attracted a huge crowd on the birthday of Shri Babaji Bhagwan on January 21, 1978. There was Shri Nathji's voice saying with urgency:
"Do not be so hasty that you accept the wrong thing," Shri Nathji said, "and at the same time do not delay to such an extent that the real thing eludes you!"

Itnee jaldi naa karo ke ghalat cheez ko pakarr lo, aur itnee der bhee naa karo ke achhee cheez haathh se nikal jaaye!”

About Priyavari and Priya Nath, Shri Nathji would say repeatedly:
"She will go where her husband goes, and her husband will go where his father goes, who in turn will go where the devotees want him to go and together we shall all go towards God!"
The son of the proprietor of the Karyalaya, Raja Deo Sarkar, a young man who had been an agnostic since long, was instantly converted. "My life has found fulfilment," he said. Thereafter he enlarged the large Viraat Roop portrait of Shri Nathji and hung it in his hall, for all to see in the months and years to come. His hall became a favourite place for marriages like never before.


 The  Suyog Mangal Karyalaya was located in S/1, Rani Laxmi Nagar, Nagpur - 440022. I was able to speak to Nikhil Sarkar, the son of Raja Deo Sarkar. He told me that his father Raja Deo Sarkar passed away in 2020 and Suyog Mangal Karyalaya closed down in 2018. He did not had any old photo of the hall. I was able to find an old visiting card of Suyog Mangal Karyalaya which is posted here.

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