Based on the migratory experiences that came down generations by Shruti and later in written scrolls, we Bhanaps always believed that we are the decendents of the Saraswat Brahmins who lived on the banks of the sacred river Saraswati that once flowed in northern India. Today, though the Saraswati is not a mighty flowing river of glacial waters, whose spate cut across mountains into deep gorges as she made her way down to the plains and into the sea, she is no longer a myth or a flight of imagination. The disappearance of river Saraswati is not a mystery any more. Research done by educationists and historians with the support of ASI & ISRO has revealed evidence beyond doubt that a part of river Saraswati is extant in Haryana.
The Guru Sankalpa:
It was the Guru Sankalpa that initiated this Saraswati yatra. It was providential that we Saraswats set out on a yatra to find our roots just before the start of the tercentenary commemoration in 2008. Our Adi Guru Shrimat Parijnanashram Swamiji gave us darshan 300 years ago at Gokarn and saved us from being outcast. On 1st Nov 2007, we received the darshan of our “mother”, the river Saraswati, at the Udgam-Sthala in Adi Badri, near Yamuna Nagar in Haryana. Now, at last, with the grace of our Guru Shakti, we have found our roots.
