Art Of Living works !! Simply fun..

Miscellaneous scribblings for fun....
//Ya, First dialog is BEFORE Art Of Living Couse ,,
and the Second dialog is AFTER Art Of Living Course! //
//Feel the difference.. All thanks to the Great Master..

Before AoL and After:
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Sri Sri says, generally when hearts break in relationships, people cry... Here
in AoL , when heart breaks- love flows...! In the presence of Master every
relationship becomes complete.
Here are some comic examples of applying knowledge...

Before
................ After
"My gf says,``there is nothing between us now''." Sob Sob.
........................After: ``wow, my gf says there is nothing between us,
which means we have finally become One, now no more artificial walls between
us!" Big Smile.
"Oh my God, She is not taking up my calls..." Sob Sob.
..................After:`

`Thank God, She isn't taking my calls, my mobile bill
is saved!"{more money in pocket.}
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AoL / YES!+ has some "other" side effects/ after effects. Have a look at these:

"Before AoL/YES!+, there was no problem in getting sick leave."
.............After: "Even if I am sick, I am smiling and pleasant. So they
think I am lying if I say that I am not well!"

"I am all alone, there is no one with me." ...............After:
"I am the one and only one, there is nobody else in the world! Its all my
reflection..."

"Nobody cares for me." ...............After: "I am
happy for no reason, so people think why to care about him!"

"I am not getting any ideas. Life is so boring.Nothing is ``happening''. "
.............After:"Oh God, there are so many things to do, so many new
thoughts... There are so many events coming up. God, how will I manage all
this!"

"He/She said so and so thing to me- I will never forgive him/her. Let me just
meet. I will @#$%@#$@ !"
....................After:"He/She is so stressed... Can't
even speak properly to me. That's why... I told him/her to do the course...
Didn't listen to me!"

"I am going all alone to movie theater."
........................After: "Wow, there are 300 more people with me to the
movie theater, all belong to me!"

"I am having the worst time in my life."
.............................After: "wow, I am having the worst time in my
life, now whatever comes after this will be better and better still! opposite
values are... "

"Nobody likes me." ..................After:"aha,
nobody dislikes me either!"

"Hi, would you please give me your camera/ bike/ badmington racket/ TV/ ...
this weekend." ................After (with all belongingness and
love in heart) "Hey I am taking your camera/ bike/ badmington racket/ TV/ ...
this weekend, you can collect it later from me!"

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And then there is this newly found concept/idea of next lifetime:

"I dont think I can become Prime Minister of India. "
..............After:" Don't worry yaar, next lifetime hai na."

"Will you marry me?" - "No. I have someone else in mind. "
..................After:"Yeah sure, why not. please be in
the queue, and come early in next life time."

"I don't want to do this job. I feel stuck in my workplace."
.............After:"Let me finish this job in this lifetime only. Otherwise the
pending karma will get me back to this workplace in next lifetime also!"

"I think I have seen you somewhere.... Dont know when."
...............After:"aare hi, bahot lifetimes ke baad mile ho! kahan the itne
janam!"

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And then there is this most wanted thing in the world, that everyone should do
this course, and live like taught in the course. THEN, I would be able to enjoy
MY life to fullest! (even though I need not live the way it is taught!)
e.g.

"When my project work is not over, how nice it would be to have a Boss who
accepts me as I am, accepts the situation as it was one week ago, and then say,
continue the work, but more importantly, ponder over what is the purpose of
life- it is definitely not doing this job! "

"Or the Auto drivers, how nice it would be if they come running from their
autostands , when you just wave a hand, and then they go to any place you want
go - and not the one they want to go to - and finally they don't ask for extra
10bucks and give the remaining change too!
And they won't smoke on the way..."
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Then there are volunteers, volunteer meetings and so on. I think volunteers
need to have different different ringtones, that will save some conversation.
So depending on the ringtone itself, the caller will get to know what's
happening in that person's life. Here are few ringtones:

"This volunteer is currently out of service. Please dial after some time."

"The Volunteer you are trying to reach, is busy on another seva project, please
wait for it to finish, or call later."

"Jaigurudev, What can I do for you!"

Jaigurudev!

(Hey, thanks to Sujeet N C !! <sujeet.charugulla@gmail.com> )

Free Your Mind - Guruji on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

Free your mind
--- Commentary by Sri Sri on Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Is practice alone enough? Patanjali says “No”. There are two oxen, which pull a cart. The two wheels of this cart
are abhyasa (practice) on one side and vairagya (dispassion) on the other.

What is vairagya?

Drishtanu shravikavishaya vitrush’asya vashikara sanjna vairagyam (Sutra 15) meaning “dispassion is that state of supremacy of consciousness in the one free from the thirst of the perceptible and celestial enjoyment”.

The mind gallops towards the world of passion. You just keep quiet, close your eyes or open your eyes or do anything. Where does your mind go? It travels towards the sense of sight. You want to see something somewhere.

Or the mind runs towards he sense of smell, taste, sound and touch. Do you see that? Or it gallops towards something it has heard. It has never seen but it has read some thoughts. This craving for any of these experiences in the mind can stop you from being in the present moment.

Vairagya is that, when, for a few moments, however beautiful a scenery is, you say: “I am not interested at looking at it right now”. However good the food is, you say, “This is not the time. I am not interested in it”.

Even a few moments of retrieving our senses, the craving or thirst for objects and going back to the source is vairagya. Are you getting this? This is another basic requirement for meditation. Whenever you want to meditate, your mind should be in dispassion. Without dispassion your meditation is no good and cannot provide you the rest that you are longing for.

Your mind is tired and bogged down by galloping through desires. It is so tired. Just turn back and see all the desires you have had. Have they given you rest? No. They have only created a few more desires and the few more desires, which come, have they given you rest? No. They have given you more, for you to achieve more and have another trip on the merry-go-round. You are not just here, you just go round. You know, the merry-go-round has horses, which do not go anywhere. They just go round in the same place.

Stuck in this illusion, you travel miles and miles but go nowhere. This is what desire does to you.

There are two types of arguments even in this. “The sage has said that you should not have desires;
so I will not desire anything” is one argument. Now, saying “I do not want any desire” becomes another desire. Some people do this and that is beating around the bush. Some people are on a trip to destroy their desires.

Vitrushnasya vashikara sanjna vairagyam. The mind that gallops is an obstruction. An expectation in meditation is an obstruction. You have heard somebody’s experience of light coming and somebody coming from heaven and taking them by hand and you see it with your eyes close. All these ideas are the construction of fiction.

Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy. You examine whenever you are unhappy or miserable. Behind that is your wanting to be happy. You got it? Craving for happiness brings misery. If you do not even crave for happiness, then you are happy. You crave for happiness and you invite misery. When you do not care for happiness, you are liberated and when you do not even care for liberation, you attain love. The first step is when you do not care for happiness. The second step is param vairagya or supreme dispassion when you do not even care for liberation. Then you are free. You are liberated.

Happiness is just a mere idea in the mind. You think that if you have this you are happy. If you have whatever you wanted, then are you happy? Vairagya is putting a stop to craving for happiness. That does not mean you must be miserable. It is not that. It does not mean you should not enjoy yourself, but the craving for joy, only when you retrieve your mind from it, only then can you meditate. Then yoga happens.

Your dreams and fantasies, just shatter them. All your dreams and fantasies, offer them to the fire. Burn them. What great happiness do you want to have? How long can you have it? You are going to be finished. It is all going to end. Before this earth eats you up, become free.

Free yourself from this feverishness that is gripping your mind.

Free yourself from this craving for happiness.

Look into every craving you have closely and remember you are going to die. Your craving for sweets, sugar, food. Ask yourself if you want to keep eating them. Ok, eat for as long as you like. See consciously, what can they do? Nothing. What else do you crave for? Beautiful views? Keep on looking at the view. How long you can go on looking?

Sex. How much sex can you have? Then you will see that there is nothing in it. How long? Few moments later, the body looks like styrofoam, that which was so attractive before.

What other thing? All these substances you see have limitations, but your mind is not ready for limitations. It wants unlimited pleasure, which the five senses cannot give you. It is impossible. You simply get burnt down, over and over again.

Skillfully handling the objects of senses and bringing it to the self is dispassion or vairagya

Being close to the Master

There is only one thing worth in this world and that is being close to the master...
And you know that 'closeness'!
Nothing really values more than that..
And Yes,
Everything is valued much in that 'closeness'!!
Else is fake, ending in delusion..

Its beautiful to be ..

This document was sent to the printer ..

In spite of a lot of work given continuously to our little comp, how with full courtesy it conveys the messages with in-depth details ..
"This document was sent to the printer .."
Hey,
I want to thank it..
Tirelessly it has been performing my tasks ..
Of any sort...
"Your file has been copied"
Never a beloved would speak with such love and respect,it seems!
:-)

wow - he is the new teacher !

(continued from the last post)
And his name is Yusuf and he's from Lebenon.
And today, he was showered.. Guruji had called him in Kashyapa, and made him The Teacher for Handicapped people in Lebenon. He was sitting on the steps of Kashyapa today after satsang, , and was feeling BLESSED ! I just went to him and sat with him ..
He was telling - "I was trying to leave from last 7 days ,but due to some ticketing issues, wasnt able to go .. today i realize - why so ! My Guru wanted to give me this."

I told him (while he was taking my support to stand up) - "Now you are more powerful .. "

He smiled (was full of gratefulness for the master) "My Guru has given me the power " and he starts walking..

I'm so happy for him .. Dont know why but , i'm feeling so much love for him ..

wonderful !

He's showering ..

Only such divine blessings ..

I was entering into VM , satsang was started with one of my most favourite song (that too vikram bhaiyya singing ) .. 'Narayana Hari Om ,Satya Narayana Hari Om ..' and Guruji was about to come ,so breeze was seeming divine ..

And at the entrance gate , the fellow who is from Iraq i guess ,was sitting on the chair. .
I used to smile at him everyday whenever i see him and same was in return. . Something was there that was making me to respect and love him ..
He is handicapped and was with crutches to support .. He is around 40 years of age.

Yesterday also the same , and in reply he asked me to take care of the chair he was sitting, along with his bag which was there, as he wanted to go to washroom. I said yes . I was waiting ,singing and enjoying outside. . and he came back in 5 mins or so ..
I saw him climbing with great difficulty , as always he walked with crutches. . yet he doesnt look helpless.

But he came and Hugged me. . His eyes were full of compassion and maturity .. He just kissed me on my heart .. was of immense love . Such a Fatherly touch. .
And with tears in his eyes, he joined satsang , with a pich of pain of departing form the connection which we had just from last 15 mins or so ..

And that was so immense, that i broke into tears as i entered into satsang. .

What I felt , not our small little wishes and desires can fetch such contentment within , , not at all possible . . The fulfillment of our small little mind's fabrications is never capable to touch the chord of the being .. for which we're always thirstful of. .
The fulfillment , contentment which i felt was un parallel to all the wordly pleasures ..
Only such divine blessings..
Oh , I'm so thankful !

Isn't it ??...

The silence is , In every breathe ..
Listened when attended .. Else all is noise..

The joy is in breathing in and out,
Experienced when attended .. Else all is noise..

The Enthusiasm sourced with serene steadiness ...
In every heart beat..
Flowered when attended .. Else all is noise..

In Love !

Rom Rom Piyu Piyu Bole ...

Soun so sapne me mile ,, jagu to Jag maahi ..

A walk to the other side, of the Ashram ..Anoop & Me!

He wrote like this at his blog "http://amazedsaint-intutions.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-solitude-with-self.html"

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The soft yellow light spreading to infinity through the lamp shades combined with the light green shades of the leaves to weave magic around us, as me and Ishan unusually decided to take a walk to the other side of the Ashram for almost no reason. The nature stood so alive in front of us, with all its glory, just like an extension of our own body. I felt the liveliness in each moment.The serene silence of the night was spreading through us, and we were listening to the sound of our own footsteps with great interest, with a child like innocence. The impact of that silence was so profound that my mind was transcending itself, to take me back to a joyful, blissful realm which was so familiar to me – something that I mislay at times.Solitude is best when celebrated with the Self! Perfect!



..

And I commented on that ,

I s h a n said...
Stepped in..

From a day-to-day "reasons driven world" ,

To the "No Reasoned space" ..

Each step was Full of Silence

And

Silence was driving the steps further..

Realizing each moment - This Path is So Beautiful..

Really,

This Path is So Beautiful..

Witness were those calm, yellow lights,

Like those old Saints of the path,

Illuminating light on the path,

And

Inviting Us -

"Come,Merge into this Silence!"

..

As This Path is So Beautiful॥

It just happens..

In those moments..
which are very intimate, the silence dawns..You are stilled out in the nothingness,where one realizes that Life is nothing except HIM . Those moments are very precious, One finds the significance of the life with HIM. Each moment is beating with life..

In that deep union with the master, one doesn't see any barriers anywhere, just everything is clear. Surrender has just happened .. and one is in so much intense longing , so he has no other option than offering his existence to the one to which he really belongs to, The Master!

"What I can do for you, master? " And indeed we can not do anything for the divine, in fact It is HIS LOVE for US , that He's somewhere allowing us to find that 'We are doing something for him' ...

Oh those moments are so alive and fulfilling when one is one with the master. . Nothing is to be asked for.. The 'Me' from everything just get absorbed in HIM, by itself and just what remains is 'HIM'.

Not borrowed from bookish words ,from one's own inner space , where the flowers of gratefulness have blossomed, one sees that -What to ask for, so much has been given already ,so much that the urge for EveryTHING just vanishes..

Gratefulness just flows ,with no source and no destination ,it seems like it is meant for whatever comes in the way, one finds himself grateful.

Grateful ,as he just looks into your eyes, or he skips just your eyes, either way, One is blissed.

That is HE !

Whose turn was it?

When we were young
Mother splayed some dung
On the wallCalled it upla
And we Put faces on,
Eyes, earsA nose

The upla with a turban
A cap
My upla
Your upla
We named them as we pleased
Chosen after our hearts

The playful sun
Spread its warmth each day
On our uple
And when the chulha was lit that night
We gathered around it and waited

Whose turn was it going to be tonight?
Who would burn to ashes?
There goes Pandit
That was Munna
This was Dhashrath
Years later
I'm at the crematorium
Tonight, I watch

As another friend is lost to the burning chulha
One more upla reduced to ashes

.. (A gulzar's petal)

Us par phool aaya hai !!

“Yaad hai,

Ek din mere meij pe Baithe Baithe,,

Cigarette ki dibiya par

Tumne cchote se ek paudhe ka ek sketch banaya tha...

Aakar dekho,

Us par phool aaya hai.”
- Gulzar. Koi Baat Chale.
Imperfectly translated in English as:
Remember, the other day while sitting at my desk,

On a cigarette pack, A tiny plant,that you had sketched..

come and see,

A flower has bloomed on it.”
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Wake Up ..

You Never Know!

Love , ReVisited ...

We intellectually know that love is something great. But we do not know the objective meaning of love. Love is subjective reality for us - it is something about possessing and about attachment.
We use the phrase "fall in love" as if it is a fall.
Should it be a fall?
Can't we "rise in love”?
Ask yourself, have you ever experienced the real, true, innocent love in your life? Did you ever love anybody? Or did anybody love you?
Before answering this question, please read the following incidents:

True Love

It was a hectic morning, about 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to see me. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.
I had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before I would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and felt a bit bad about it. If I were not busy with another appointment, I would have spent time with him.
While I was checking what he had written (he required me to read his article before sending it to the newspaper), we began to engage in conversation. I asked him if he had a doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, and continued to say that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.
I then inquired about her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer Disease (a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities).
As we talked, and I finished reading his story, I asked if she would be worried if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.
I was surprised, and asked him. "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"
He smiled as he patted my hand and said. "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."
I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life." True love is neither physical nor intellectual.
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.

Innocent Love

It happened sometime back. One day Adhrika, my 3 year old daughter took a sheet of costly decorative wrapping paper roll I bought to wrap a gift for my friend's wedding. I found she was busy decorating a cardboard box with it.
On seeing this, I was angry as the roll costs money and I was in realtime financial difficulty. I scolded the child for wasting money on such trifle things. The child sulked and hid the box under her toy table.
However, next day morning, Adhrika brought the box to me and said, "This is for you, Appa (Daddy)."
I was embarrassed by my previous overreaction.
But I became very angry again when I found that the box was empty. I yelled at her, "Don't you know that when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside it?" (I was so unconscious that I could not think that little Adhrika cannot buy anything for me on her own)
The little girl looked up at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Appa it's not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you, Appa."
I was crushed. I bend down on my knees. I put my arms around my little girl and begged her forgiveness.
I have kept that gold box in my memory. Whenever I felt discouraged, I would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there. There is nothing in this universe as precious as pure love. Nobody has ever, never, will love me like this.
In a very real sense, each of us is a parent who has been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses by innocent people.
Ask yourself did you experience it?
What I wanted to say is that Love - I believe - truly makes the life go round. Without that innocent love, I won't be able to live. I don't want to live without real love.

Love and Infatuation

Following part is a quote collected from various sources:-
Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity. You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about your beloved that you would as soon as examine too closely. It might spoil the dream.Love is the quiet understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by their presence, even when they are away. Miles do not separate you. You have so many wonderful little films in your head that you keep replaying. But near or far, you know they are yours, and you can wait.Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement. Whenever you are together, you hope it will end in intimacy.Love is not based on sex. It is the maturation of friendship, which makes sex so much sweeter. You must be friends before you can be lovers.Infatuation lacks confidence. When they’re away, you wonder if they're cheating. Sometimes, you check.Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened. They feel your trust, and it makes them even trust worthier.Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret, but love never steers you in the wrong direction.Love is upper. It makes you feel whole. It completes the circle. It fills the empty space in your heart. Love is elevating. It lifts you up. It makes you look up. It makes you think up. It makes you a better person than you were before. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you don't have. If there is no love in your life, whatever else there is has a lot less meaning.