TREE PLANTATION

Tree plantation is just a process of planting trees, but Art Of Living PCMC team is not just planting trees here we are actually taking care of trees for minimum 3 years. The Pimpri Chinchwad team is planting trees since 2015 on large scale and now in 2021 we have started planting trees in our Bhandara Dongar.

We planed to do tree plantation seva with our SEVA COMMANDOS On Bhandara Dongar , we started planting trees on every sunday .

We are watering trees every week and 100's of volunteers are joining for tree plantation with our traditional uniform Yellow T-Shirts and white caps and giving 100% in the seva.

Now a days when we go for a long drive we see that there are less trees in our City, Taluka, District and overall in the whole state . Imagine if there are no trees , there will be no oxygen, no fresh air, no birds cheerping, no rain, no ecosystem and there will be pollution every where So every individual should take a sankalp to plant atleast one tree every year.

BHANDARA DONGAR

Sant Tukaram used to visit different hills for Bhajan (Devotional song with religious theme or spiritual ideas), The family of Tukaram Maharaj was also Unaware of where he went, as he prefers not to tell anyone where he is going. One day Tukaram Maharaj is performing Bhajan with deep devotion and that day The Maratha king Shree. Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj came for a visit on the hill. Sant Tukaram was very happy to see him there. Then he asked his followers to serve Shivaji Maharaj with food but Shivaji Maharaj said how can I eat? my 700 soldiers are waiting for me downside they also not ate anything, they are also hungry. I can’t eat keeping them in hunger.

The magic happened then Sant Tukaram Maharaj said to call them all for having food. MaharajShivaji Raje said how can you feed 700 soldiers? You don’t have enough food inventory. Tukaram Maharaj said just call them here. Shivaji Maharaj called them all. All sat and empty dishes put in front of them and Tukaram Maharaj asked them to make a wish of food they wanna have. Everyone asked for different dishes and due to power in the devotion of Saint Tukaram, they all got served with food of their wish. So the process of arranging food at devotional Places is generally called Bhandara.

As on that day, Tukaram Maharaj fed Shivaji Maharaj and his 700 soldiers. So you can call it a big sized Bhandara. So from the day when great Maratha King Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had food on the hill its got its name “Bhandara Dongar” (Bhandara Hill).

Mountain of Bhambanatha

It is true that SantTukaram, who was in his twenties, was interviewed on the hill of Bhambanatha. But this revelation was not in the form of spirituality, but in the form of social justice.

Bhambnath hill is near Dehu, the residence of Tukaram Maharaj. Saint Tukaram was enlightened at this place and there are some other places of interest like Tukaram Temple - Gatha Temple.