Ajmer dargah, where wishes comes true

The entire coach was nearly occupied by my Muslim brothers and sisters. Most of them would be visiting ajmer dargah. On my long 24 hrs journey with them, I tried to get pretty good idea about what to do and not to when visiting dargah.

But things were about to turn differently.

I took rikshaw to dargah crossing narrow old over populated streets of ajmer. I had 2 hrs to catch a bus again.

I took chadar and flowers. Remembering my Muslim brothers advise, I just followed huge crowd of people. Washed myself. And then I tried to get to the entrance, little did I guess, it was Friday, it was 1pm in the noon, people were sitting in the premise to offer a prayer.

I tried to go through them. But every now and then someone shooshed me about don't go from here and there, and each shoosh made my heart to skip a beat.

As I went further, someone had me sit at one place. He would later helped me to do everything properly. As I sat there, he asked, Namaj toh padhoge! and I could not do anything but nod.

Everyone seemed to be looking at me, they seemed intense, or maybe I was just overwhelmed. I sat there highly alert, sweating just to figure out what to do. And prayer started.

The first, I bowed my head, kneeled on my knees, was just to repeat what others were doing, trying not to offend anyone. The second time I bowed, just to make myself at ease. Every irani or arab movie I had seen, started flashing before my eyes.But the each time I bowed, something happened, and at one time I found myself wishing something for myself. And I kept repeating.

It was the power or charisma of that place called ' the place that makes your wish come true.'

And I was one with that place.