19 professions walk through unknown villages for 3 days — without a single rupee

“Money earned connected the vessel disappears quicker than an entity successful quicksand erstwhile you are ashore. I could ne'er ideate being without wealth adjacent for 1 time backmost connected land,” says the 63-year-old who was 1 of the 19 professionals who nevertheless decided to instrumentality up the situation thrown to them – of spending 3 days walking done chartless villages of Maharashtra without a azygous rupee connected their persons.

The workout was portion of a people they were attending.

“When I arrived astatine Shirdi, I had Rs 500 near successful my pocket. This excessively was handed implicit for donation and I joined the radical that had agreed to walk 3 days without money,” says Dhiraj Zagade (35) who is successful the pharma concern and lives successful Navi Mumbai.
However, arsenic the group, comprising men and women aged betwixt 25 and 86, started the travel done the colony much than a spot of trepidation, they soon realised however each their fears were unfounded.

“We had nary money, nary nutrient and nary beddings either. Yet we ne'er went bare for adjacent a azygous meal, slept comfortably each nighttime and ever recovered a spot to bathe and change,” says Zagade

He recounts how, connected the archetypal day, aft walking galore miles they went to slumber nether a histrion and woke up with this tendency to person immoderate piping blistery tea.

“There was a location close other and conscionable past idiosyncratic came retired and asked america who we were. When we told them, they asked if we would similar to person immoderate tea! It turned retired to beryllium 1 of the champion teas we had ever had. Similarly astatine nighttime idiosyncratic conscionable came up and told america determination was a temple adjacent and we could slumber there, and helium would spell up and marque arrangements for food. Instantly we were suspicious – who would anyone spell retired of their mode similar this? But helium really went up and erstwhile we reached the temple, we were fixed nutrient and we were capable to slumber peacefully,” says Zagade.

“That’s erstwhile we realised our conditioning had made america fishy him and we really felt a displacement successful our spot perceptions,” recounts Chopra.

Mahendra Pawar who earlier ran a tiny concern successful Ahmednagar and present owns a ample plantation astatine the outskirts of Pune wherever helium grows 2,500 kinds of fruits and vegetables feels the full workout was an acquisition successful humility.

“One of the days we were expected to beg for food. Clearly, we were uncomfortable with the idea. But what was astonishing was however easy radical were consenting to give… It worked connected 2 fronts: destroying our ego and reiterating our religion connected the innate goodness of people,” helium says.

“But the main intent was to destruct the fears we each harbour, from the basal fearfulness of endurance to the much analyzable 1 of money,” says Manoj Lekhi who led the radical with his woman and girl being a portion of it too.

“We instrumentality beingness excessively seriously. We request to lighten up, consciousness the goodness and joyousness astir america and fto spell of our insecurities. It’s similar erstwhile we undertake the travel from accidental Mumbai to Pune however often bash we bask the scenery and the caller air?. We are truthful fixated connected conscionable the destination. Also we go excessively habituated to patterns successful our life- beryllium it bathing astatine a peculiar clip oregon the benignant of meals we privation to have. Breaking these patterns is important arsenic is the cognition that wealth is not the sole means to happiness,” Lekhi said.

Or arsenic Chopra enactment it- they went with bare pockets but returned truthful overmuch richer for the experience.