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 ..