Nature Cure Clinic, Tadiwalla Road, Poona
Poona, India · 1956
18.52840°N, 73.86340°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Spacious compound in a tree-shaded avenue immediately behind Poona railway station, Tadiwalla Road.
- ◆ Two buildings: a large barn-like structure with black-flagstone-paved rooms, and the smaller Bapu Cottage where Gandhi stayed in the 1940s.
- ◆ Gandhi's bed, writing table, and spinning wheel were preserved in Bapu Cottage; his stone platform for evening prayer meetings was at the rear wall.
- ◆ Sangharakshita kept a daily meditation diary from 1 February to 7 March 1956, recording experiences of 'positive peace' and visions of Amitabha and Avalokiteshvara.
- ◆ The Poona branch of the Society of Servants of God was inaugurated here with Union Minister Gulzarilal Nanda presiding; Sangharakshita gave the presidential address.
- ◆ He described Poona as 'one of my favourite places in India, and one of the principal centres of my activities'.
“Dr Mehta’s Nature Cure Clinic and Sanatorium occupied a spacious compound in a tree-shaded avenue immediately behind Poona railway station. It consisted of two buildings, one much larger than the other.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
“Poona was very pleasant in winter. It was cooler than Bombay, and much less humid… In subsequent years Poona was to become one of my favourite places in India, and one of the principal centres of my activities.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
Source: In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
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