When Time Stood Still...!!!...

When time stood still….
There were some blissful moments when time stood still for me… This is just an effort to recollect all those moments.

• Sitting on the edge of a fort and watching never ending valley… Everything remains the same except me… time just stop making its presence, no one is around only I and the valley- full of silence. Wind is the only one who was touching my existence…
• Getting very tired, doing tough hard physical work… Coming back to home and taking cold water bath. The very 1st drop on the body and that ahhhh!!!! Feeling….. That very moment, for a fraction of second time stood still.
• Sitting on the top of hill and looking at setting sun… dance of colors in the sky…
• Mid night, no moon, sitting on a beach, listing the silence between two waves and watching the sky- full of stars … Time stood still big time…
• Playing a piece of music and all notes touches at exact point … music just flows with in… Time stood still…
• Closed eyes, body is still, sitting for meditation… time stood still…
• Going close to nature, looking at a big waterfall, only I and that waterfall… Sound of falling water and movement of white color… Time stood still…
• Early morning, open eyes, lovely sea in front of me …. Time stood still…
• Rainy season, going for a long ride on bike, getting wet and looking at beauty of three parallel rainbows… Time stood still…
• Floating in sea water, looking at sky and relaxing the body on moving waves… listing to sound of breath… Time stood still….
• This one is Scary… Going in a Jungle with full of enthusiasm, going in and in; and at one moment I realized “I have lost the track, don’t know how to go out, no one is around, all directions look exactly same, mobile but no range battery was about to die, look up and look down, listening to the sound of wind, leaves of trees, some voices and sounds…. Body feels cold and breath becomes hot…” TIME STOOD STILL… This was a big time stillness I have ever experienced…
• This one is more Scary… During trekking there was one cliff almost vertical with very less ups and downs to hold while climbing and I had no equipments to climb, Somehow I managed to climb half and there was nothing to hold on, neither I could climb up nor could go down, nice cool wind was moving in the deep valley… I was in between couldn’t even float in air… I looked down green jungle and nothing was moving everything stood still….. !!!...

For me time always stood still whenever I came across something which is very vast either inside or outside, may it be a silence, music, water, personal experience or a Big Scary Jungle…. Time stood still is a very beautiful phenomenon I always loved to experience…

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It's My Birthday....

Yesterday was a charismatic day; I was waiting for this day from last many years, to meet Guruji on my birth day. Yes it was my birth day and I was in the ashram to celebrate it. I experienced a shift of mind in some moments.

“Feeling normal!” Actually it’s a state of mind I was missing from the day I came to Bangalore. Many things were buzzing my mind for no reason. uff.... I was observing my mind at times and use to tell myself "chill this will also pass, and there will be shift in mood of my mind." during these unstable days I tried to be quite. I was waiting for my birth day; I knew that there is going to be change in the state of my mind.

On Saturday only I went to ashram for stay, and got a very good accommodation. In the morning I woke up after breakfast timing. No breakfast!!!... In night many calls on mobile to wish happy birthday, so couldn’t sleep on time (feels good to receive so many calls on birthday). I got ready by the time of 10.30am and Kriya starts at 11.00am. I had decided that, “come what may I am not going to do kriya, I am not feeling well so I am going to canteen to have hot milk.” I convinced my 4-5 friends that I am not coming for kriya. Around 10.50am one of my close friend called me for birthday wish, asked me to come for kriya, “Now this voice was like an angelic voice for me and message I got was, Birthday Dude what are you doing come for the kriya….” This was really like an angel talking to me, my ego of not going to kriya just melted and evaporated in atmosphere. Now I just can’t resist the kriya and ran to do sudarshan kriya.

“After kriya” experience was the special effect of THE KRIYA and THE CALL to get me back to the normal mood. Yes form that moment I am feeling absolutely normal. Exactly same way I use to be, I just came back to my original nature and feeling more stable. It’s like a transition from one state of mind to another state of mind. I feel that, this one month was a time required for transition and my mind was wondering big time… After being in Art of Living for years, handling mind and situations in the utterly pathetic conditions was a fun for me. Just apply all the sutras learnt and get ready for the magic, yes it is magic just breathe, and there is better world in front of you.

Once I came back to normal, there was a treat in kitchen; I was very hungry, happy and normal… I hogged. It was like my birthday and whole ashram was celebrating it, food was delicious- chapatti, subji, rice and dal along with curd rise and khir (Of course everyone around me was happy with food). Wow food I really hogged big time. (Actually in Banglore all the time, what I ate was Dosa or some food belongs to Dosa family.)

Canteen people were waiting for me to order a cake, almost all people in canteen knew that it’s my birthday. I ordered cake, the chocolate one! Now I wanted to buy some gift for myself so I bought one nice kurta (I was missing one kurta, I am very bad in choosing good cloths. My friends helped me out for it. Everyone also liked the Kurta.) No need to say that I was missing my family people there and some of my old friends who always use to be around for my birthday…

During satsang time I was waiting with my cake for Guruji to call all birthday people on stage. I prayed that “there should be only one person who have birthday today” there were some 3-4 people with me, he blessed me and gave garlands…

After I met guruji some small kids came running to me for cake, I did give cake to all the people around and managed to keep some cake for my near and dear friends. ..
This birthday was really different one- Lovely atmosphere in ashram, the call, sudarshan kriya, delicious food, meeting with guruji, and extra ordinary presence of my absolutely lovable friends (there were more friends of mine than expected, feel good to get birthday wishes from few hundred people)…

This was a real transition for me… Yes I am back to the normal mood…. Feeling Normal….