Krishna Ashtami - Aug 13th

I woke up with a dream. A young family wanted to have a Bhajan session as we were leaving their house. I felt that they were not prepared. No altar, no Swami's photo in the vicinity. I started walking towards the door. Rao lingered a little. Then I said to myself 'well, we can put a chair, cover it with a beautiful saree or cloth and put Swami's picture on it and that should be enough to have a bhajan'. I walked back and woke up.
Later on when I mentioned my dream to him, Rao said he also woke up with a very peaceful feeling.
The day went by, the two of us doing our own things. Rao suddenly suggested, why not we go to the Shiva-Vishnu Temple. We always have bhajans from 7:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday nights. Even if there is only one person in the house, we allocate that time for the bhajans. This, we have been doing since 1975 October. We don't attend anything else on Thursday evenings. Of course, while traveling, it is an exception. Anyway, I checked the Temple calendar and they had listed Krishna Janmashtami pooja at 9 p.m., Bhajans at 10 p.m. and Arti at 12:05 a.m. We live 45 minutes away from the Temple. I felt lazy to go at that hour. Then, a flash of my dream came - so, I decided to go.
Around 7:20 p.m., the phone rang. It was from a friend in New Jersey. Their daughter was diagnosed with brain tumor just two weeks ago and since then, the family, their relatives and friends have been praying for her health. The doctors, Radiologists, surgeons everyone (some with 25 years of experience in their field) thought it was a large tumor on the right side. Now they called to tell me that she had come home and that there it was never a tumor and what they saw in the MRI was only an infection of some kind. I have to check with the specialist in my family - my son Gopal when he returns from India next week. I got tears of happiness !!! I felt more urge to go the Temple. I thanked Baba for this miracle.
Glad I went. While Rao was driving, I thanked Hanuman and recited Chalesa 12 times. At the Temple, there was not a big crowd. Just a few familiar faces, besides those of the priests and the management. All the five priests participated in the pooja of Sri Balakrishna. There was a curtain behind the Balakrishna and they announced that it will opened after midnight and prasadam will be distributed around 12:15 a.m. I don't know what was behind that curtain.
After the pooja, Bhajans started promptly around 9:30 p.m. Three groups of people sang bhajans. A young man (pre-teen) sang solo, a Purandara Dasa's song. he had divine voice. We left at 10 p.m. There was some sweet prasadam made of sesame seeds in the hall. We were in the car by 10:06. On the way, we sang more Krishna bhajans.
I missed Geethanjali. She would have enjoyed this very much !!! But she was having lot of fun with her cousins in Atlanta !!
We saw the most beautiful sunset while going to the Temple along lake Erie. It reminded me of the Sunrises, Sunsets we enjoyed during our Yatra 3 in India. It was around 8:30 p.m.
On our way back, I looked at the sky to watch Meteor showers mentioned by the Astrology community, perhaps due to clouds, I did not see any. Or perhaps, there weren't any last night.