Monday, March 28, 2011

Kak šte kažete ... na bãlgarski? (How do you say......in Bulgarian?)

From India to Bulgaria
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

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..