And in Bulgaria it is.
Grace just flows and flows and flows.....
jai guru deva.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Kak šte kažete ... na bãlgarski? (How do you say......in Bulgarian?)
And in Bulgaria it is.
Grace just flows and flows and flows.....
jai guru deva.
When I see my dream turn real....
Sometimes, dreams happen.
they become so real and take you off to an entirely different world...
These are some clips of mine which prove the above.
Love you so much, guruji.
and love you all.
Jai guru deva
they become so real and take you off to an entirely different world...
These are some clips of mine which prove the above.
Love you so much, guruji.
Jai guru deva
Friday, February 11, 2011
the rishikesh connection..!!!
When the whole concept of blogging came to my mind, i had planned this post to be the opening one since this is about my special moment with Guruji and
it is very obvious for the people who have done the art of living course , that getting to spend that extra special time with Guruji (perhaps alone) is something we all look foward to... hehehe and i am no exception.
i was teaching my 1st course in dehradun where i met these two amazing people Shweta didi and Nimmo (mother and daughter),and in there presence one feels so much at ease. in some manner they reflect that unconditional love which Guruji always speaks about. they are in Art of Living since 11 years and have spent some real quality time with Guruji ( i mean those times where there were very few people around Guruji, in single digits ) ... ya nimmo is like cornucopia of Guru stories. feels so much at home at there cute house in dehradun...since then i have been teaching regularly in dehradun and its obvious that i stay at there place and most of the time apart from teaching course and giving intro talks or volunteer sessions goes in listening to guru stories .
some years ago Guruji used to spend some good amount of time in rishikesh, 2 months in a year were allocated for rishikesh one during holi and other during diwali ...He just loves the ganges and u can feel that excitement in ganga when he is around so people from all over the country mostly from northern part of India flock in rishikesh, nimmo and shweta didi being the torch bearers have spend some really precious moments with him in rishikesh and they used to narrate those tales of Him being in Ganges and like handful of people around him. i mean i know how to do bowing down technique in the direction of west(direction of jealousy) but there is a limit and i just started blaming Guruji that why he gave me birth so late. not my fault that i was not present in those times and this thought that i want that exclusive time with Him started troubling me.
After coming back I was teaching a Yes!+ course in north delhi and had gone to palika bazaar to buy cover for my ipod , appox 2.50 pm I got a call from shweta didi . she in a very mysterious tone asked me me do u know where am I ? obviously the answer was no ..then the words which I heard from her made me go crazy .. she said I am following guruji's car from dehradun to rishikesh.i told her don’t joke around coz guruji was in Europe for the corporate culture and spirituality.she asked me to come asap and cut the call. I just was not sure whether that was a joke to make a fool of me or was it true ? but i believed that it was true..suddenly usain bolt's (the worlds fastest athlete) spirit came in me and I ran towards new delhi railway station to catch 3.25p.m. jan shatabdi for haridwar(closest train station to rishikesh). Reached ticket counter at 3.10p.m. and asked for a ticket the guy on the window said that there was only one ticket remaining before he could complete his sentence i had kept the money on his table , didn’t wanted to miss out on this. the ticket came in my hand I felt like it was a lottery ticket which I had won(worth a million bucks ) .the volunteers with me swati rawat , shatakshi had never seen me behaving like this and they were somehow managing to match my speed of running.as i stepped in the train i felt i have have conquered a battle. tt came and asked for my ticket, i very confidently showed him the ticket. as he looked at the ticket he had a confused expression on his face, he asked me where did u get the ticket from and answer was from current ticket counter. he was looking at my ticket and at the list in the most astonished way, he told me its very strange that even the last ticket booked from the counter has its name in the list but your name was not there.i told him u will not find how the name has entered because somebody else only has booked it and i smiled. it was a veery clear sign that paths were being made for me to reach Him. i reached haridwar took a bus to rishikesh and akash(yes!+ teacher from chandigarh and a very goof friend of mine) accompanied me and here i was standing at the gate of gurujis kutir and to my surprise there were just 15 people waiting outside.then came a message that all the people who are waiting can come for darshan we went up and saw guruji siting with very few people around him . his smile had that peace calmness and serenity. its a different him when he is in rishikesh so much at ease otherwise also hes like that but there is some thing about rishikesh . as he gave us prsasad he asked me 'are u happy?' ... and i was blank ( as usual he used his defense mechanism of making people go blank). He asked all of us to sleep .shweta didi had booked the hotel next to guruji's kutir and we were around 15 people in one room .the mood in the room was just like that of a marriage, everybody in that celebration mood with nimmo telling her guru stories(with guruji in next kutir) hehehe.. just waiting for the next morning to come fast ...
next morning brought some special surprises and most cherished ones
baki break ke baad ............continued in the next post..
it is very obvious for the people who have done the art of living course , that getting to spend that extra special time with Guruji (perhaps alone) is something we all look foward to... hehehe and i am no exception.i was teaching my 1st course in dehradun where i met these two amazing people Shweta didi and Nimmo (mother and daughter),and in there presence one feels so much at ease. in some manner they reflect that unconditional love which Guruji always speaks about. they are in Art of Living since 11 years and have spent some real quality time with Guruji ( i mean those times where there were very few people around Guruji, in single digits ) ... ya nimmo is like cornucopia of Guru stories. feels so much at home at there cute house in dehradun...since then i have been teaching regularly in dehradun and its obvious that i stay at there place and most of the time apart from teaching course and giving intro talks or volunteer sessions goes in listening to guru stories .
some years ago Guruji used to spend some good amount of time in rishikesh, 2 months in a year were allocated for rishikesh one during holi and other during diwali ...He just loves the ganges and u can feel that excitement in ganga when he is around so people from all over the country mostly from northern part of India flock in rishikesh, nimmo and shweta didi being the torch bearers have spend some really precious moments with him in rishikesh and they used to narrate those tales of Him being in Ganges and like handful of people around him. i mean i know how to do bowing down technique in the direction of west(direction of jealousy) but there is a limit and i just started blaming Guruji that why he gave me birth so late. not my fault that i was not present in those times and this thought that i want that exclusive time with Him started troubling me.
After coming back I was teaching a Yes!+ course in north delhi and had gone to palika bazaar to buy cover for my ipod , appox 2.50 pm I got a call from shweta didi . she in a very mysterious tone asked me me do u know where am I ? obviously the answer was no ..then the words which I heard from her made me go crazy .. she said I am following guruji's car from dehradun to rishikesh.i told her don’t joke around coz guruji was in Europe for the corporate culture and spirituality.she asked me to come asap and cut the call. I just was not sure whether that was a joke to make a fool of me or was it true ? but i believed that it was true..suddenly usain bolt's (the worlds fastest athlete) spirit came in me and I ran towards new delhi railway station to catch 3.25p.m. jan shatabdi for haridwar(closest train station to rishikesh). Reached ticket counter at 3.10p.m. and asked for a ticket the guy on the window said that there was only one ticket remaining before he could complete his sentence i had kept the money on his table , didn’t wanted to miss out on this. the ticket came in my hand I felt like it was a lottery ticket which I had won(worth a million bucks ) .the volunteers with me swati rawat , shatakshi had never seen me behaving like this and they were somehow managing to match my speed of running.as i stepped in the train i felt i have have conquered a battle. tt came and asked for my ticket, i very confidently showed him the ticket. as he looked at the ticket he had a confused expression on his face, he asked me where did u get the ticket from and answer was from current ticket counter. he was looking at my ticket and at the list in the most astonished way, he told me its very strange that even the last ticket booked from the counter has its name in the list but your name was not there.i told him u will not find how the name has entered because somebody else only has booked it and i smiled. it was a veery clear sign that paths were being made for me to reach Him. i reached haridwar took a bus to rishikesh and akash(yes!+ teacher from chandigarh and a very goof friend of mine) accompanied me and here i was standing at the gate of gurujis kutir and to my surprise there were just 15 people waiting outside.then came a message that all the people who are waiting can come for darshan we went up and saw guruji siting with very few people around him . his smile had that peace calmness and serenity. its a different him when he is in rishikesh so much at ease otherwise also hes like that but there is some thing about rishikesh . as he gave us prsasad he asked me 'are u happy?' ... and i was blank ( as usual he used his defense mechanism of making people go blank). He asked all of us to sleep .shweta didi had booked the hotel next to guruji's kutir and we were around 15 people in one room .the mood in the room was just like that of a marriage, everybody in that celebration mood with nimmo telling her guru stories(with guruji in next kutir) hehehe.. just waiting for the next morning to come fast ...
baki break ke baad ............continued in the next post..
Friday, December 17, 2010
a courageous and adventureous PANGA .......my debut into this world of blogging....
this day has come after a lot of tapasya ....more than a year back this concept of blogging came to mind with a lot of push by bawa so i really got excited and i told my friend to make my blog..and she made a very amazing one on wix.com..and then came a time to write hehehe...suddenly my creative side kind of intervened and i started giving a new look to the blog (very wrong move )...and realised that after some changes the blog had taken taken a full circle and reached state zero(where nothing exists)....again she took this Herculean task of making my blog now on blogspot which is much easier version to handle blogs .....but the real issue was of posting .well this post was suppose to be posted 2 months back ...finally all the cosmic conditions have fallen in place..
.but what has really inspired me to write is my inspiration of life...... whose everything in my life, who has given a direction to life , because of whom life has become a celebration , who actually made me realise who i am .....its very obvious His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji whom we lovingly call as GURUJI......
mydebut into this world of blogging just happens after we finished TRM (teacher
refreshers meet) with Guruji at our Bangalore international center . i reached 2 days before and what i saw was something which really blew me off....our Bangalore ashram was hosting around 500 religious and political leaders from different faiths for the Inter Faith conference against AIDS.....the scene was just mesmerizing ...saints from all religions , political leaders had united to fight against one cause ..i was just fascinated with the humility of Guruji , how he welcomed each guest and came to kitchen couple of times to make sure the arrangements were alright and also served food to all the saints.....sight was something which will never ever go off from my memory ....and again made me realise that how Guruji is bringing people from different backgrounds and beliefs together and reinforcing that his vision of ONE WORLD FAMILY is not far away..and on 29th TRM started this time of the year is so awaited for all teachers as it just teachers and the master ....the purpose of the TRM was very clear, how Guruji is so concerned about each one of us , and how he takes care of even the smallest need of ours . and said how spirituality will be necessity for every human being and how our role as teachers is so important.
and it becomes our responsibility to spread the good word to masses .
so this blog will be an amateur attempt from my side to share my experience of life
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