Infinity to Eternity

Something which Remained....

2010-10-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

It was the Journey which I started two years back, yes the time when I decided to drop everything in hand which included my so called IT life, my wonderful friends, some mouth watering opportunities, my fat salary job; simply left everything and went out of the way to Goa for MBA!!! (No wonder my dad calls me crazy at times.) Faith which actually made me to choose the way, the path which was not that straight that it was looking.:)

Actually it’s being few months now, I am back to Poona (Physically!!! Though something in me is still there in Goa). I surprise, at times we go out of home to learn something and we learn so many things. Some things merely drop in without any intension but seriously put us in tension. We go out to change our world and we factually create our own world there. Some Bitter friends and some lovely experiences, some selfish people and some always ready hands to just be with, which make all the difference.

Two years is a big time to create own world. Create it and one more time simply drop everything and come back to the square one. If we check the outlook, everything seems same, but the inside might have gone through churning. The whole personality changes, we internalize so many experiences, that changes us. Things which disappears and things which still holds on to tickle the consciousness somewhere …..

Goa!!! It is a paradise… One of the beautiful places, of course I took privilege to explore many places there which are not known to many people. The best time pass ever there was to go to the beach in the evening find out good place in shack, order finger chips along with tea; and enjoy the Sea. A blue sea which has many shades depending on the time and place too. Blue sea turns slightly reddish when sun is about set. I-tea and Sea with setting sun was the kind of scene… It is more awesome to be on beach in the middle of the night either No Moon or Full Moon, listen to the sound of waves specially silence between two waves.

I remember my first day in college, I met two people in first ten minutes, among them one became my close friend and by end of two years we (I) chose to leave the second one. Then I met one more very nice and lovable person and fate made me leave that person too (so many inside stories). Strange one place I had choice and other place no choice one place I choose to leave one, other place someone else… Rests of the things were normally abnormal. Adventures were part of my life there; at times by chance and at times by choice.

I used to think I can change things, but forgot that even things can change me, even situations can impact me. If I look at individuals as situations then they were simply outstanding, like a sequence of events, one after another happens and disappear; then one more comes in. One wonderful thing I learnt from the Sea there in Goa is; one should be able to listen the silence between two waves. It was the pause when time used to kind of stop for me. It was music of the life, understanding was important, freedom was important, whenever every situation (i.e. individual) disappears the Pause remains forever and here comes another situation.

Trip To Chandreshwar...

2010-02-15T01:45:00.001-08:00

My stay at Goa is becoming very very exiting now as I have started exploring interiors of Goa, which are also very beautiful, its being long time I have not visited Beaches (I mean more than a month now).. :)

Last place I visited was Chandreshwar BhootNath, its a Temple with very lovely nature. About 6 Kilometer bike traveling from ground to top of the hill where the temple is. Temple seems to be very old, kind of vibrations in that temple were really nice, felt so good.

Best part of the place is, there is one big stone near by valley, somehow we manage to reach there and took privilege to enjoy the beauty... It was one of the amazing SMALL TRIPS (like less than 4hrs, I was back)... We had a rocking time there sitting on the rocks, watching Setting Sun, a range of mountains and the sea at horizon and reflection of sun in that sea water.....

Tough Times don't last, tough people do

2010-02-11T08:26:00.000-08:00

Wonderful YES!+ DSN experience first time in Goa with Salil Bhaiya. Every one of us were waiting for the momebt to meet Bawa and Dinesh bhaiya in Goa, and the day came when we met him. We had amazing time with bawa and dinesh bhaiya, of course every time the love and respect for both of them keep on increasing, every time I learn something new, something different by being in their presence...No need to talk either, learning just happens.

Bawa's TEDx Talk was simple superb, he spoke about the Indian knowledge and about OM....

After this DSN work started booming at full speed, it was like racing car running on last gear with full speed.

I did my DSN with bawa some years back, but doing DSN and volunteering for DSN are totally different things. Now I feel to understand meaning of DSN one should be part of an organizing team. The actual essence of DSN in doing it or organizing it??? I feel both are totally independent questions, or two different levels of answers for same question.

Experiencing DSN and being part of organizing team is something which actually shakes you inside out, its like expanding the horizon, comfort zone and expanding the happiness....

DSN SIMPLY ROCKS....

"Act according to reason; others accordingly to emotion. Some wait for events to happen; others make them happen. Some act primarily out of self-interest; others acts selflessly. All are creatures of habits; only the habits differs. Some can think clearly through shocks; most cannot. All act on the basis of what they believe the situation to be- not necessarily on what the situation is. Most are influenced by what they want to believe..."

DSN IS SIMPLY DOING RIGHT THINGS, whether you like to or not....
Salil Bhaiya Rocks....

तुम आना कभी...

2010-02-11T06:36:00.000-08:00

तुम आना कभी उसी जगह, जहा मिले थे
हवा बनके आना तुम, लहेरे बनके आना तुम
आज भी वो है वही जिसे हम छु ए थे कभी
वो चाँद वो लहेरे, वो टिमटिमाते तारे,
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

वो पूल जहा सुरज डूबता है, पूछेगा हमें,
तुम आना कभी उसी जगह रोशनी बनके,
डूबते सूरज के साथ मुस्कुराना कभी,
वो मीठी बातें, वो पलकों के इशारे करती ,
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

तुम आना कभी हमारे साथ, वक्त से पहेले,
वो आती लहेरो के साथ मुस्कुराना तुम्हारा,
वो झुकती निगाहों से गुनगुनाना तुम्हारा ,
हलके से पास एके समझाना, हलकेसे दिल को छु जाना,
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

वो पहाडी जिसपेसे, लेहेरोंको देखाथा हमने ,
वो डूबती शाम में, बिखरे रंगोंको समेटना तुम्हारा,
वो बदल, वो पंच्छी , वो खुशबू, वो लम्हे,
तुम आना कभी उसी जगह, खुशबू बनके,
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

वो धीरे से आके मुस्कुराना तुम्हारा,
गुस्से में थी तुम शायद कभी,
जब बाद्लोने पानी बिखेरा था हमपे,
वो छत्ता , वो हलकेसे भीगना, तुम आना कभी बारिश बनके...
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे|

वो गुस्से में आके झगड़ना तुम्हारा ,
झगड़ते झगड़ते मुस्कुराना तुम्हारा
वो सिडियोंपे बैठके बाते बनाना,
उन सारे पलोम्में इंतजार करना, तुम आना कभी वक्त से पहेले ...
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

याद आयेंगी वो सारी बातें तुम्हारी,
वो गलियां, वो रास्ते जहा गये थे कभी
तुम आना कभी उसी पत्थर के पास,
जिस पत्थर के दिल को खिलना सिखाया
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

वो सागर की लहेरे, वो सूरज की किरणे,
वो लहराती हवा छु जाती थी आँचल तुम्हारा
वो कश्ती, वो पल, वो चांदनी रात,
वो हलकेसे हाथोंको हाथोंपे रखना, तुम आना कभी वक्त से पहेले....
सब ढूंढेंगे तुम्हे वही साथ हमारे |

तुम आना कभी.... हम धुंडते ही रह गये.
एक हवसी आयी तो होश आया और तुम्हिमें हम फिर खो गये...
तुम आना कभी, इंतज़ार रहेगा...

Ashish....

Lessons From 3 Idiots

2010-01-24T00:20:00.000-08:00

One of Our Professor at SSIMS sent these lessons to us. I found these lessons pretty useful in life.

Never try to be successful, pursue excellence

Success is the by product & the result.
Excellence always creates Success & it is a process of continual improvement.
Never run after success.
Let it happen automatically in Life

Freedom to life is beautiful

Don't die before the actual death.
Live every moment to the fullest as if today is the last day.
Life is gifted to human kind to live.
Live and live happily towards happiness.

Passion leads to Success

When your hobby becomes your profession , the passion becomes your profession.
You will be able to lead up to excellence in life.
Satisfaction, Joy, Pleasure & love will be the outcome of the passion.
Following your passion for years , you will surely become somebody one day.

Learning is very simple- Never Stop

Be humble.
Teachers do fail, Learners never fail.
Learning is never complicate or difficult.
Learning is always possible whatever rule you apply.

Pressure at head

Current education system is developing pressure on students head
University intelligence is useful & making some impact in the life , but it cannot be at the cost of life.

Life is management of emotions & not optimization of intelligence

Memory and regular study have definite value and it always helps you in leading a life.
You are able to survive even if you can make some mark in the path of the life.
With artificial intelligence, you can survive & win but you cannot prove yourself genius.
Therefore, in this process genius dies in you

Necessity is mother of invention

Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent something or to make it happen or to use your potentiality.
Aamir Khan in this film, 3 idiots, is able to prove in the film by using vacuum pump at the last moment.

Simplicity in life

Life is need base never want base. Desires have no ends.
Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly stresses on simple living and high thinking, and this is the way of life: ‘Legs down to earth and eyes looking beyond the sky’

Industrial Leadership

Dean of the institute in 3 idiots is showing very typical leadership. He has his own principles, values and ideology, and he leads the whole institute accordingly.
This is an example of current institutional leadership. In the present scenario, most of the institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking.

Love is time and space free

Trust your partner
Love is not time bound and space bound.
It is very well demonstrated in this movie same love was demonstrated by Krishna and Meera.
Love is border free, time free, unconditional and space free.

Importance of words in communication

If communication dies, everything dies.
Each word has impact and value in communication.
One word if used wrongly or emphasized wrongly or paused at a wrong place in communication what effect it creates and how is it affected is demonstrated very well in this movie.

Mediocrity is penalized

Middle class family or average talent or average institute is going to suffer and has to pay maximum price in the life if they do not upgrade their living standards.
To be born poor or as an average person is not a crime but to die as an average person with middle class talent is miserable and if you are unable to optimize your potentiality and die with unused potentiality then that is your shameful truth.
One should not die as a mediocre. He/she has to bring out genius inside him/her and has to use his/her potentiality to the optimum level

Something From Bawa

2010-01-08T08:02:00.000-08:00

Q: What is the Sacrifice, Do you think sacrificing your choices, happiness for your parents is Right??? Is it right for me to give up on my happiness for their happiness???

Answer : NO. I think its very wrong, because you know you will do that and then you will blame them rest of your life. So please don't do that...Its better you have ALL OUT FIGHT with your parents, or you sit with them and convince them about your point of view. There is always scope for compromise, most parents will be very happy when the child is happy so it is just that your definition of happiness is different than their definition of happiness if you can get those both to coincide all your problems will get solved.

But it in certain cases of course you need to put your foot down and say "Hello Its my life and I want to live it like this and you better deal with it."; you may need to do that and please do that...

Like we say never confuse love and respect for your parents with obedience with your parents, you can completely disobey them and yet totally love and respect them that's fine. Haan and don't take it to the wrong extreme

Randomness

2009-11-07T23:54:00.000-08:00

This article is inspired by one of the guest lectures in my college.
This just an attempt to put whatever I learn...

"Randomness is a Natural Rule"

If we toss a coin 20 times then there have to be 3/4 Heads or tails one after another i.e. HHH or TTTT or TTT or HHHH... it was of course hard to believe; but when I tossed coin 20 times there was one trail of 4 tails. Then I did it again and again and I found its true. I can't get all heads or all tails or rather alternate head and tail combination or two head then two tails kind of combination.

A very simple observations I did about the events happening in life and realized something, if we think that the Particular thing should work in particular way only, then there are going to be variations... We might start with something in mind and end up with something which we never thought of.

If things work in the way we thought of then there is something to think about either something is very nice or something is going wrong somewhere.
"Nothing can go straight there has to be fluctuations, if not then there is something to look for."

I feel Randomness is what applicable for life too, if I look back whatever I have gone through was all random... Rule applicable to everywhere.

Actually not getting more words to explain in details so not typing anything more...

Water flooded in my House....

2009-09-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

Today was an Amazing day.... I realized that when I "accept problem as it is"; acting on it become more easier and rational actions can be taken.

After lunch, I get call from one of my room mate, asking me to come home as soon as possible... Voice was surprised? There was question mark ? and Confusion in his voice... Like something wrong or unknown is there.... Then I insisted him to tell, he said there is water all over the house, Washing machine's water outlet was kept outside only (While coming to college we normally put our washing machine on so when we come back we can have washed clothes).

But scene was different today, there was water all over our house, so I and krishna finally went home with total acceptance of situation... As soon as we reached we started acting on the problem, it was more like action oriented than "arguing on why this happened and how some one can be so careless in small small things and stuff" never wanted to disturbed my peace of mind so we took rational actions to find the solution than cribbing on problem .... Actually I remembered one Guru Story "Once Guruji was suppose to stay in one room and one of his devotee or someone suppose to look after room. When Guruji actually came there was water in his room, people around thought he will get angry now, but he acted fast and started throwing water out of the room, with full innocence and smile on face."

I liked today's experience... It was good learning "Accepting problem and acting on it is more easy than sitting and cribbing on it..." Cribbing is waste of time... that is what I realized today.

Back to School Days

2009-07-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

This Saturday was a day of adventure, with my School friends... Our most awaited visit to ShinhGadh (Shivaji's Fort near by Poona, will discuss about it briefly in later part of this post).

Rainy day, three bikes and five old friends, biking till we reach top of the mountain. During rains this fort is under clouds; nature is at its absolute lovable mood. I am always in love with such places. On the way there is Khadakwasla Dam (Whole Poona city drink water because of this Dam)... We specially go to sinhgadh to just chill out and have typical village food on top of the fort.

Its is really wonderful to have school friends and being able to freak out with them... Each one of us have some or other nick name (given by someone in school in some and the otherway.) .
Nikhil named nikhlya, nikhya, taklya.
Uday named udya
Rupesh named rupya, rupdya..
Ashish named ashya,ash,ashu,ashi, kashi, boo, lambu,tangya, tangs... ohhh my god so many names these people gave me during my school days...

Sinhgadh is one of THE spots for us... Whenever rain starts first thing come in our mind is just to visit sinhgadh. This place has its own beauty which I just can't explain...

Yes... this time also I was doing crazy thing there, I went up on top of some hill on the range of high mountain, to take snap of one flower... :).... Only thing is; the WIND was in its full speed and felt a big time push to valley, I was about a one-and-half foot away from valley and somehow managed to hold some small stone... Flash of time... and ... I was smiling with a wonderful WOW experience, uday with his stupid and helpless face looking at me...

Ofcourse we visit Wind Point (This point has historical back ground too...) to experience treamandous wind force and clouds moving directly on face from damn green valley... Wind point is too good place...

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Brief history of SinhGadh

Tanaji Malusare (Maratha worrior) is responsible for the capture of fort named KONDHANA from Mughals, this fort is strategically placed in the center of a string of forts of Rajgad, Purandar, and Torna. The capture of Kondana was necessary if Shivaji Maharaj was to re-establish de facto control over the Pune region.

Recognizing the strategic importance of Kondana, the Mughals had maintained a battalion of 5000 troops led by Udai Bhan, a relative of Mirza Raja Jai Singh. The fort was built in such a way that all its approaches were covered by cannon-fire. Only on turret was not well defended as it was at the top of a vertical overhanging cliff.

Tanaji decided that this was the only way, he could enter the fort. He dressed himself as a Gondhali (devotee of the Goddess Bhavani of Tuljapur) and roamed the surrounding villages. He won the trust of one Mahadev Koli who was in the service of Udai Bhan. Koli presented the disguished Tanaji to Udai Bhan, who was suitably impressed by this "devotee" and allowed him free access to the fort.

Tanaji carried out a careful surveillance of the fort and at that very night when he was told that at the overhanging cliff Udai Bhan and all his senior commanders would be celebrating a usual party with an alcohol and dance orgy; Tanaji decided that he should seize this opportunity.
With almost all his troops, Udai Bhan had a roaring party on top of the overhanging cliff. Unknown to them after midnight, Tanaji and his brave followers who numbered 300 scaled the cliff using ropes tied to a reptile called Ghorpad. The Ghorpad can stick fast to any surface and a number of adults can use this force to scale a vertical cliff with the help of a rope, one end of which is tied to the Ghorpad. Silently Tanaji and his comrades slunk up to the top of the cliff.
On the other side his uncle Shelar Mama and his brother Suryaji had moved close to the other gates of the forts with another 300 Mavalas (Maratha Soldiers). On a signal from Tanaji, all his comrades who has taken up strategic position all round the celebrating Mughal army, broke into the party and mercilessly fell upon their enemies. They started slaughtering the surprised and ill-prepared and drunken Muslim soldiers.
When Udai Bhan saw that Tanaji - the leader of this invading band of Marathas was no other than the devotee whom he had given permission to visit the fort, he flew into a mad rage. On seeing Tanaji, Udai Bhan rushed at him and we are told that for a few fatal seconds, Tanaji started dancing in the same fashion as he had done as a Gondhali (devotee) when he had met Udai Bhan earlier in the day. The enraged Udai Bhan lunged at dancing Tanaji and cut off the arm with which Tanaji was holding his shield. But undaunted Tanaji used his turban to ward off further thrusts from the blade of Udai Bhan's sword and continued fighting him for 2 hours in this state with his wristless left arm bleeding profusely. It is for this feat of Tanaji, that he is called Narvir - Brave amongst Men.At the end of this ordeal, the exhausted Tanaji fell to a fatal swish of Udai Bhan's sword. But Udai Bhan too was throttled by Shelar Mama and thus lost his life.
When Tanaji was in midst the festivities of his son's wedding and he was summoned to fight and recapture the fort of Kondana. All the guests persuaded him not to leave until the wedding of his son was over, but he was determined to fight back and he said the following words in Marathi," Aadhi lagin Kondanyache, mag lagin Raibache", (Marathi: आधी लगीन कोंढाण्याचे, मग लगीन रायबाचे) which means"First the marriage of Kondana(Fort) and then the marriage of Raiba(his son). By the statement, what he meant to say was that first priority was to recapture the Kondana Fort and then attend the wedding of his son Raiba. Due to his bravery and courage and his selfless devotion towards Swarajya and Shivaji, was he able to leave his son's marriage and die a martyr's life for the Maratha kingdom. So deeply moved was Shivaji by his devotion, that Shivaji himself quoted, "Gadh aala pan sinh gela", (Marathi: गड आला पण सिंह गेला) which means,"The fort is ours but we lost a lion". and this was the time when Fort Kondhana became SinhGadh, in the honor of great Tanaji Malusare. He was the Lion (सिंह) and Gadh (गड) means fort.

WIND POINT is the exact place from where Tanaji and his soldires came to Sinhgadh, top of the cliff... (How they would have manged to climb in Midnight.?????)...

I feel really proud to know so many things about the Great Marath Shivaji Maharaj and his loyal army, who were always ready to build Swarajya for Shivaji. Somewhere in the English literature I have read that, if shivaji would have lived for more 5-8 years, british people whould not even looked at India to cpture it... They were so much scared of Shivaji so Mughals too...

Affection that matters not perfection.

2009-07-03T02:22:00.000-07:00

After being in banglore for such a long time, some of the really wonderful things and learning experiences happened... Some of the learning (sweet and bitter but pointing straight to the situation) are here...

Never being dependent on anyone though there is a direct confirmation from the other person or a friend; they may not be ready to go out of the track for even few moments.

People say, "give more and expect less", I feel you only give don't expect anything thats the best sutra.

When you have nature of giving,caring and sharing, never think that things wont go wrong,right intentions may lead to wrong result... At times its a happy realization "Ohh!!! I Never thought of it???"...

I wonder about this city, people who are not supposed to be stressed out, are under stress, then what will be the state of the mind of other normal people... It's a big city, but everyone here is alone... How can people live here without being affectionate with each other...???

Some evening one may have a really big fight with very close friend, but can both of them are affectionate enough to just drop whatever is happened; that matters...? Just like fight between two small kids... They fight and next moment they are together...

Nobody is perfect (I never understood, what is exact meaning of PERFECTION...???)... Mistakes, miss-understanding, miss-communication and miss-behaviour are part of any relation. It should be like that only right?

Never take anyone for granted, you never know, what the individual must be going through, be bit sensitive and non judgmental... Just let go.

Some days are just better and some are not so good... So what???... Just be calm...
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There was one day in banglore when I was sitting on a foothpath(on a stool); when I went to stich my formal shoes(Formal sucks), that cobler was so calm and happy in his work, he was giving 100% and i was just observing his work.(After a very long time I was sitting under a huge,green tree.) Sitting there and obersving people like me was again a fun part.
On the same day evening I was in a big 5-star or 7-star hotel with my friend for dinner, waiters there were also very happy and giving there 100% in work. we both were also giving our 100% while talking, shraing and listening... I felt, whether I am on footpath or in a big palace, nothing is going to change inside. The person inside remains same...
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Some days back I got a SMS on one of the perfect moment saying, "If you trust some one trust till the end; whatever the result may be, in the end either you will have very good friend or a very good lesson..." And this was THE moment when such kind of thought was required. It was the perfect timing for this sms...

Come what may what finally matters is the affection and not the perfection, no one is perfect...

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

2009-06-10T02:24:00.000-07:00

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…

Not many photos to post .....

It's My Birthday....

2009-06-08T23:02:00.000-07:00

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….

There Exists Better World Few Breaths Away

2009-05-28T22:08:00.000-07:00

"There Exists Better World Few Breaths Away" this is by BAWA, my teacher... He said this yesterday when I attended one of his session in Banglore.

In Art of Living, what we do is just “Sit, meditate and Breath...."; ofcourse we do lots of fun.
The most important thing in our life, which is our breath, is something which we are least bothered about... and after coming to Art of Living, understanding the breath, really make huge difference to me….and whatever is a problem, there is always a better solution for it... there is always a better way to live life and it becomes even more simple when it comes to breathing...

Seriously a better world exists just a few breaths away...

Something to Say or Say something

2009-04-18T10:58:00.001-07:00

I wonder at times - it happens that, when you desperately want to do something, or say something to some one, or you are in a such a condition that you really want to share it with your very close friend and then some how you can't do so....?

At times others are busy or you are busy and time just flies!!! forget what you wanted to say.... Many times you wait, wait and wait for the other person to get free or situation to change so that you can still go ahead and share what you wanted to share.... But you keep on waiting ......
All small-big things remain unsaid-unanswered and intensity of sharing just diminishes..... Deep down.....

I think and thank for all those moments I were able to share with all my close friends things from mid-night Maggy to long long chat on mobile, small-small things and huge differences... Some times just a simple voice call of friends make huge impact and at times just a smile works.... Wonderful experiences and... now.... I wonder....

They say "Just Be silent when you can't do anything..."; I say "Other than being silent what else we can do? when we know that we can't do anything..." We can bang and bang, but not necessary that door will open, person might be wrong or just a wrong door....

Some Fun - Some Pain

2009-04-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

This is the time of slogging for almost all of my college friends, as there is good amount of work each one of us has to finish before going for internships...

"Wow" Feeling (HERE WOW is a feeling) comes to me when I am very tired and in the night or mid-night I go home to take some rest... As soon as I go home, there is happy realization that I am suppose to wash my cloths; It would be easier for me to sleep actually but wet cloths in the bucket are waiting for me only... And I smile... Then again smile... now I start washing my cloths, such a fun to wash cloths in mid-night.. :)

Its a bliss to go home after a good working and studies, in pursuit of happiness to happy realization of having some cleaning and washing work at home...

Actually this is my last month for the rental house, so before I leave that house and prepare to go to some part of country for interns, Its my moral and social responsibility to wash my cloths and clean house. So every night I put some cloths in bucket to wash and promise my self that I will wash them in the morning... Now I am about sleep after brush and again I realize ohhh... "Aaaj to Sadhna nahi kiya???...!!!" This time also commitment wins and I start doing my sadhna, also doing sadhna is a "Promise"... Sometime in the night I go into deep sleep after sadhna...

Ahhhh... waking up in the morning it's and exercise for the mind and routine for the body... There is one home some distance away from my so called BED ROOM... The person staying there is fond of hindi songs rather one hindi song, daily morning I wake with an alarming hindi song "Jita tha jisake liye, jisake liye marta tha, wo aisee jo ladki thi...." on top of this I listen this song more than 5-6 times within an Hour... This is how I wake up, always late and then running to reach college on time... Trust me I reach exactly on time!!!... :)

As we are MBA students, whenever we get a chance from such hectic schedule may be in night or mid-night, we run to see a sea... Best part of this is to "Listen the silence between two waves...", all my pain simply disappears... Simply blissful moments...

Visit to Ashram

2009-03-31T05:48:00.000-07:00

Ashram Visit to meet guruji on Gudi Padwa (Ugadi), Start of the new year and meeting guruji on such a day is absolute bliss. I was sitting exactly in front of guruji, one small table was between me and him...
Guruji spend around 20 min with all of us (SSIMS students, he invited us to meet him, such a bliss).
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Actually we reached ashram in morning 10.15am, New year devi pooja were happening in VM. We ran to see him,(some of us were not interested in such stuff :( sad people). I was longing for such moments in ashram to meditate in VM when guruji is there. Of course the connection was immediate with out any effort.

Many things happened in ashram, meeting with bawa and dinesh bhaiya, allocation of rooms, etc... But meeting with guruji in Ganga kutir was something I was waiting for and we got message guruji called us to meet. No need to say we ran to his kutir. I managed to sit in front of his place exactly at Zero degree. WOW meeting guruji and it was so privileged feeling, thousands of people wait to get his glimpse, and I was able to sit in front of him and see him for 20 minutes, felt really blessed..... Again, somethings are good to experience than talking about....

Guruji spoke about many things, but I was only looking at him without even moving my eyes. After some time some one poke me, I didn't realized, then some one put my camera on my lap, and some body again poke me to click Guruji's snap [:)] I was lost actually....
Then I clicked some of his pics...

After spending 20-25mins with us, he left out to meet other devotees, who were waiting for him from long time, while going he said, "take pose for the photo, I will quickly come back :) "

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Such a blissful meeting...... some chief minister was waiting to meet guruji...

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Knowledge Point
Guruji told something special about this new year, there is a cycle of 60 years in Hindu Calendar and each year has name. Name of this year is VIRODHI, means conflict, this is the year of conflicts. Many conflicts will happen this year. So guruji advised everyone to be aware of this fact and do sandhna daily. Doing sadhna will make everyone lucky, he said we find some people are extremely lucky, this because at some point of time they have done sadhna.

He also said one person doing daily sadhna will help other 99 people around, in some or the other way.

Then he took meditation, till this time I was already experiencing THE after advance course experience....of course spending 20 min with guruji is enough for this..:)

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Next Day
Morning some time after breakfast, me, krishna went to meet bawa along with nandadip and bawa was doing something on computer, he asked us to wait out side.

He came out and asked us to come to his kitchen and we had lovely breakfast with bawa, he gave apple pickle too, bawa said some one from Switzerland always send this pickle for him. :), too good experiences in ashram....

Saturday evening (same day), we were suppose to leave and I really wanted to meet two of mine very close friends, I met one of them and made sure that he will come with me to ashram, so he did. And some how I couldn't meet my other friend as she was engaged in some work (although she managed to meet me ashram a day before for 5-10mins)... On top of this there were meeting with bawa and dinesh bhaiya so wanted to attain that meeting too. I wished I should spend some good time with my friends and attain meeting too, and some how our departure timing postponed. I had really good time with my friends; never wanted to come back...

Then of course we left ashram and came to goa next day morning.
Actually many small small things happened, but putting all of them will make this post longer....

From Infinity to Eternity

हमेशा

2009-03-17T00:51:00.000-07:00

in this poem the word pyaar indicates attraction about many things, not a typical LOVE scene...

हमेशा.....
जिसकी कोई शुरवात नही,
अंत को जिसके अंत नही,
हमेशा वो है बस; जो रहेगा,
हमेशा.......!!!

वक़त है हमेशा से,
या वक़त ही है हमेशा,
वक़त तो कभी बदलता नही ,
बदल जाता है मुखवटा ||

मुखवटे ही बदल जाते है,
प्यार भी रहा है हमेशा ,
वक़त है गवाह प्यार का ,
पर वक़त का गवाह हमेशा ||

ना जाने कबसे है वक़त,
ना जाने कब तक रहेगा,
प्यार की भी शुरवात कबसे ,
जिसका कभी अंत ना होगा ||

दुनिया से पहेले वक़त,
या वक़त से पहेले दुनिया,
प्यार की शुरवात इसी धरती से ,
या प्यार भी है हमेशा ||

एक ही है हमेशा,
दो रूप है जिसके,
वक़त है हमेशा,
या प्यार है हमेशा ||

डर...

2009-02-21T08:25:00.000-08:00

डर
डर कितना अजीब होता है,
कभी कुछ पाने का डर,
कुछ पाके खोनेका डर,
डर हर पल कुछ कहता है,
जिंदगी के लम्हों को, वक्त से बांधते हुए,
डर... कुछ सिखाता है,
खुबसूरत है डर बहोत, महसूस करने की देरी है|

रंगोंमें उलझना, और निकलने का डर,...
अपने आप में ही; चुपचाप बसा है डर...
अपना हाथ थामे दूर तलक ले जाता है डर ... ख्वाबोंकी तरह...???
पर सचाई से आगाह करता है डर, सपनों से बचाता है डर,
खुबसूरत है डर बहोत, महसूस करने की देरी है|

डर एक उजाला है, छुपती हुई तन्हाई का...
कुछ अजनबी रहोंपें बिचडे हुवे सवालोंका...
डर एक आइना है ...
कुछ सिमी परछाईओंका ...
कुछ गहरी अछाइओंका...
कुछ अनकहे जवाबोंका...
खुबसूरत है डर बहोत, महसूस करने की देरी है|

I have written this poem two years back... 1st poem on blog

Something Different to Say Today...

2009-02-20T06:04:00.000-08:00

Finally some thought stricken my mind today... Were watching one beautiful play... Hell lot of meaning about human race of understanding matters and themselves... There was one message, "we need to understand ourselves to understand others..."; this thought really made sense to me, and remebered guruji's saying, which he said during navaratri last time, "If you are finding fault in situation, then there is no fault in situation, that is you who has problem..."...

Some points I could recollect from that play, I am putting down..

People have 400-500 years of history-past, we do have 400-500 years, but of future. We take and celebrate all things which have glory, in the history of India rajput people might have lost some wars, but artist should present victorious part of that history so that in coming generation none of those people will loose war again...

Artists and art is not bounded to audience, money, glamor and borders, for artist heaven is in every moment, they do not need to search for the heaven...

Each and everything has impact some and the other way, but artist takes exactly what is made for him, what is meant for him, and this way artist grows...
We need to understand our selves, this is what they do, whatever they knows about themselves they put it in an Art, and for them 4 or 400 audience make no difference if things came from their heart.... If something is very genuine then what is boundary? and what border? No religion, no laguage can stop it, it has to reach everywhere....

Art is an journey from heart to heart and not from heart to head... Though we have so many languages, religions, cultures and etc, etc; what is more appealing and connecting is the Art... Since its the language of heart to heart...

I always wonder, we can connect to some people and not to all, but if we are able to connect ourselves then connecting to each and every one will be so easy... AND WE KNOW ONE PERSON WHO IS CREATING WONDERS BY CONNECTING TO ALL KIND OF PEOPLE...

It is nice to know that something we remember, something which have impact on our mind, may be a person's behavior, or something we heard, or something we read, played, liked, thought of, whatever it is...; one day one small thing make us understand so many things related to that impression, which we must be carrying almost unknowingly...

I understand why artists are so passionate about the art, every time they reach to new depth, may be doing similar kind of art, but each art if different; it is a simple variation between, SAME VS SIMILAR... When art touches me, it must be came out from with in the passion of particular artists... When there is an art, artist never need an introduction :)...

Visit to arambol...

2009-02-12T01:30:00.000-08:00

[This article is written on monday (9th Feb 09, but because internet was not working couldn't upload the post...)]
Yesterday was one most crazy day in goa...
This was mine and krishna's 1st visit to Arambol beach, one of the coolest beach in goa, and yesterday was one of coolest day in Goa though we got tired it was worth to be tired.
Biking in goa and photography are two more cool things I am addicted for, yesterday my bike ran for more than 160km, quite long if I drive 82Km one stretch. We left early in the morning by 7am or something and reached there by 9am ofcourse we lost road also in between…
And once we reach to beach it was soothing experience morning sun and beautiful beach, fresh air to breath and felt better after sitting too much on bike :) …

From Arambol

As soon as we reached beach we started walking on left side as on right side there were hill, actually there is one more beach next to the hill and that was much beautiful… The second beach is in between 3 hills with one Water Lake like, and jungle.
We took a long walk on beach and reached to next beach, actually waked for more than 2hrs and then went to the other beach, located in between hills. Lunch and then went in a Jungle…
Jungle!!! And then lost in Jungle had no idea where we were heading and which path to choose for either to reach up the hill or go back… We could locate some of the big stones and dry waterfall a big one.

From Arambol

I and Krishna were searching for the way out for long time and finally seen some more people coming but they disappeared in jungle so we couldn’t even ask how to come out… huh… Then finally somehow we were able to choose one path to go out and came out from that BHOOL-BHULAIYA….
Then we had fun on beach, lunch, enjoyed sea and came back… Many things to type but unable to put them in words….

Tempting to go again actually….

From Arambol

Photography in Goa

2009-01-31T01:03:00.001-08:00

Winter Break Dec 2008- Yes++

2009-01-09T05:33:00.000-08:00

Back form the Ashram.....
This advance course in winter break gave me very amazing experience, dinesh bhaiya, bawa and vikram hazra's satsangs were rocking; and I we were 1100 participants.

Hmmm.... Reached Bangalore two days before only, wanted to meet some of my very close friends, and best part is all of my friends whom I met have impact on my life some and the other way...Some of the best pals, I have spent with them... My stay was at antariksh's place...

1st day only I planed to meet one of my friend...Its fun to drive bike in Bangalore... Unknown city, don't know how to reach to a destination; where my friend were waiting for me... Actually I was one and half hour late to reach there... Huh and Bangalore traffic...[:(]... And have spend 45 minutes with my friend or 45 amazing minutes with 100% being in present movement... 45 min are very less actually....

Then second day I was suppose to visit two more friends' places, who are married and settled in Bangalore, old fellows.... Morning I left from antariksh's place and visited some place called ..... ufff forgot the name of place... spent many hours their and then went to MARATHALLI, name of some place where antariksh picked me up and we directly went to my college friend's place, here we stayed and had big laugh... after a very long time actually...

As next day was the day of reporting and supposed to go to ashram as soon as possible so that will reach on time, from evening only session started...

Bawa's question answer session and silent present of dinesh bhaiya and all of us in Vishalakshi Matap, very tempting situation for me, missing all that...I am back to Goa ...On that day after everything get over I got a chance to click snap with bawa and dinesh bhaiya, of course I took an opportunity to freeze that moment...

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Bawa, dinesh bhaiya and virkam hazra's satsang rocked my advance course.

All boys got accommodation in Khodays; Bangalore winter, in ashram, in khodays, and in the early morning 4-5am taking cold water bath... Water was ridiculously cold. I do take cold water bath daily but khodays cold water!!!...Being silent and taking cold water bath is one of the adventures in advance course, especially in ashram during winter break...

This advance course was more effective than those I did before... each time I feel same way... [:P]... During advance course dance of Chappals was the second most adventure for all participant, though there was one person who were taking care of all chappals, there were many people who were having same kind of chappals including me, so chapplas were getting exchanged during each break, i.e. 3-4 times a day... I lost my so call wired chappals and got same kind of much more wired chappal during the course; which I have thrown to garbage box...

My 31st dec was in silence, like most of us in ashram; bawa's guru pooja and vikram bhaiya's satasang rocked our starting of new year...

And finally the day come when advance course ended, and time came to live ashram, most of us never wanted to go back to respective cities... again same feeling each time!!!

On the 3rd Jan me and two of my Poona friends were visiting MG road, as I was suppose to stay back to my friend's place and leave for Goa on next day, and two of them had to finish up their work or meeting with people... Actually I also managed to meet one of my close friend again... Now one of my friend named shashank from Poona, were carrying my Camera in his bag, as usual his mobile was not working as well and I forgot to get my camera back from him... Uff... Then I started calling other Poona people in ashram, but none of them were picking up my call as well...
I was planning that some one from Poona or Goa will take my camera and go to either poona or Goa so that I can get it back...
Fortunately none of Poona or Goa people picked up my call, finally I went to antariksh's place and took his bike to go to ashram to get my camera, when I was half the way to ashram I realized that my train tickets are in my camera bag!!!...???

Back to ashram on bike was like a blessing, satsang started already, last chance to attain satsang to I ran to grab my place...Now this time I was wearing my Reebok shoes, I removed them and were putting them on stand and there it is; I found my lost wired chappals there... and as soon as satsang finished my camera search started and managed to get it...

Then back to antariksh's place... and good night sleep... morning left out had some work and then to railway station... Next day early morning back to Goa...

There are many things which I have not included in this article as it's hard to put everything....

Waiting for next opportunity to go back to Ashram... Or go back to HOME...

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Sea and Floating

2008-11-27T06:23:00.000-08:00

Today was a rocking day, after finishing economics paper, finally I managed to visit majorda beach, near by colva beach. I was waiting for the opportunity to visit a beach from long time, as I was busy with many of my college activities....

Actually after exam many people from my class were ready to come to beach but none of them turned up [:)]... finally Eshans and me decided to go to majorda beach with towel and costumes to jump in infinite sea and the cool blue water was very tempting for both of us; after a walk of kilometer or two on sea shore we started with preparation to go in sea (I mean started removing our cloths on beach)... as soon as we started with it one watchman came to us and said, don't go in sea; their guests ('Foreigners') have problem with this... hehe... it make me laugh at that watchman's face, couldn't control... He conveyed us to go the next place, so we did. This time as soon as we jumped into sea life guard started staring at us...??? We were enjoying sea in a danger zone;(actually it was not danger later on that life guard only asked to swim there...)

Ya, so once we started swimming in that zone, life guard and that watchman of some sea resort had fight... Life guard were saying to him, "Your resort doesn't own sea, its for all and these boys seems to be good boys...!!!", on top of this, suddenly from no where 20-25 people like us came into the same side of beach and did exactly same thing, as we did... huh... that watchman was on the top of anger and life guard was telling us to enjoy in sea.... so over all it was a fun..... to visit such beach in such circumstances...

Eshans was carrying one small cricket ball and we were playing it in a sea, looking at that watchman and life guard and craking cranky jokes... till this time there were more than 15 people in the sea with us...

Okay apart from this I was lying on water on my back, I was floating in sea with eyes closed and facing sky, it was so lovely, waves were coming and going and I was floating up and down on waves... It's like a meditation, floating on sea on your back and looking at sea, keeping your body lose in water, this is the time when you can hear your breathing... Smile and close your eyes..."My party begins, the moment I close my eyes..." this time it was in sea...
Eshans was inspired by my such floating action and he was trying hard to float like me on sea, he was really pushing hard to do so, and I was telling him, take it easy and keep it simple then only he can float...and etc. Comedy part of this is whenever he manage to float wave use to come and water use to go in all possible holes of his face... After trying hard he gave and said he will do it next time... Till this time water was already inside his ears and head...

End of the day we decided to go out of sea and the same life guard was waiting for us and said hi and smiled at us... as if he was asking, "So you people enjoyed?", I said yes using my head and hand... he smiled and left. But that watchman was still staring at some people who were playing with sea sand and throwing it to each other...

Tempted with the concept of beach, a blue and clean sea shores with beautiful nature is calling me again and again, now once again back to the square one, "Waiting for next opportunity to go to some other beach.."

Then we had Dosa and Special tea at Krishna's near my college it's our normal hangout place for Tea (I like that tea..)

Again came back to college library and searching for information to present in my next presentation (Next time I will upload photos as well..)

Mission Green Earth

2008-11-01T23:49:00.000-07:00

Why should each one of us plant trees........

it just takes 16 trees to actually give the total amount of oxygen that you use it in your life time.

A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

Shade provided by trees can also reduce your air conditioning bill by 10 to 15%.

some of us are really working for this cause?.

your small help would mean a great contribution to something REALLY BIG...

Check this out

Watch this video!

From Bawa's Blog

2008-10-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

Just gone through the most awaiting latest post by Bawa...
As I keep on waiting for his new post and as my longing for new post start increasing, bawa post some of the really nice articles....
His experience about A Broken Pipe is the best one to read... And especially what guruji said to bawa "Enlightenment is not simply knowing everything… Enlightenment is knowing everything and then forgetting it!"

And the way he has explained his guru experience is amazing to read....

Back from Navratri

2008-10-11T22:49:00.001-07:00

Experience matters! Navratri in ashram is THE thing every one of us should experience.
This times navratri was having special effects on my mind with Guruji's talk, Devi bhagwat and Extra ordinary presence of one of my very close friend.

Navratri was rocking all the way in full mood. This time some things which guruji said were stricken directly to me, and then after talking he gave an angelic smile.

Some points which I remeber.

1. As you know that, whatever you are asking is getting real, then ask for something good. Ask for something which has real value. Don't ask for craps.
2. All situations are right, if you are able to find fault in situation, then there is something wrong in you not in a situation.
3. Everything happeing around is right.

I will add some more points if I remeber any....

Every time when I am suppose to leave ashram there is a pinch in side, this time I am still feeling that pinch...

Lots of fun I had in the head quarter of Art of living... If time permits will add more....

Reason And Faith

2008-09-19T07:22:00.000-07:00

Reason is reeling in the known. Faith is moving in the unknown.
Reason is repetition. Faith is exploration.
Reason is routine. Faith is adventure.

I liked this though so much...

Rudra Pooja in college

2008-08-25T05:11:00.000-07:00

Yesterday our College was blessed by rudra pooja. Rushi vidyadharji were in SSIMS for Rudra pooja.
He explained us what rudra pooja is is all about. I knew that Pooja Means Purna Jagriti (All in Sanskrit) but yesterday I came to know great meaning of rudra pooja.
Universe is made up of 5 elements and so that our body is. And among 5 of these four elements have opposite.
1.Air can be used to breath, but air can be responsible for Hurricanes as well. So air has opposite of giving life and taking life and destroys.
2.Water element also has opposite, can give life and can take life.
3.Fire can be used to get heat and light. Fire can be destroying everything.
4.Earth is stable but earth quake can destroy everything.
But Ether element, space element, Shiva Tatwa doesn’t have any opposite…
And rudra pooja is surrendering to Shiva tatwa. Space element occupies more than 99% of the universe.
Our body is also made of 5 elements and among them four elements can have opposite effects. Chanting of Sanskrit mantras in rudra pooja stabilizes these four elements and has special effect on Space element.
Just being present during rudra pooja can align all elements of body.
Rudra Pooja is a very special ancient vedic practice.
Rishiji also talked about surrender.
My question : Rushiji how spirituality and management are related?
Rushiji : (Smiled) There is no term need of management, we just need to manage our mind and he went on explaining what is mind management. He said “ Look at guruji he has not done any mangment course, but managing so many minds, he has not even done Basic course….”

This is a new day with new experience

2008-08-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

3^rd Aug 2008

This is a new day with new experience. Yesterday was full of bliss, but after returning to home in late hours, there were something for me to bother about, I had some calls and then no sleep till 2 am. And today I had to be on time for Long kriya; as one of my best friends was suppose to take the kriya and I didn’t wanted to miss it at any cost. This was her 1^st long kriya after she became teacher.

I was fully into the utter process of thinking when I reached for kriya. I took time to settle there. Yoga was going on so I had some time to sit and relax. It’s was a real bliss when 1^st of her sound hit my ears, Time stood still and I was experiencing some expansion inside. It’s like some essence of gurutatva was dissolving in my mind. Such thing happened first time. I was only able to hear her voice and nothing else. After few moments I did not even understand the words but some vibrations were penetrating in mind and I was relaxing more and more.

That voice had too much depth in talking and I was able to connect immediately. My ego, self and whatever, were simply dissolving in the nature. I remember some rounds of Pranayama and bhastrika. After that some rounds of natural rhythm with guruji’s voice, and done.

Actually my back and legs were paining; I remembered dinesh bhaiya’s voice “Accept it”; I did and pain simply disappeared.

All stress started vanishing and I was coming back in my natural mood. Wow one moment and two voices, yes one more thing to add, in between I forgot to breath, and someone again reminded me to breathe, and I started again.

This is all about the teacher being a friend or friend being a teacher. All things can’t be put into words; some of them need to be experienced.

After kriya I wanted to be in silence so I avoided to talk much, now as well I want to be in silence, but there is a fresher’s party, my seniors have organized it for us. Let’s see how I keep it up.

My party begins the moment I close my eyes.

2008-08-01T01:09:00.000-07:00

My party begins the moment I close my eyes.
Huh finally got time to type something after a long time. All set to Goa other than studies, planning to start with it soon; actually I don’t have any choice either so I have to start studies. But just thought to put some thoughts about the Headline of this article.
“My party begins the moment I close my Eyes”, this line was just scratching my head from last 2-3 months. It was actually a common thought of mine and one of my friends from AOL. Many times I have decided to write about this wonderful thing I am experiencing in my Experiences; but I was able to find some and the other reason for not to write… or rather type it.
The word PARTY…

What it means was my question; whenever I was thinking about it. Well well well, and I concluded that, it is something people do to either come out of their tensions or to do something before tension starts… Bit confusing haan….

Like some people do party after they have achieved something, like most of the people or corporate, some people do it before they start something new. I don’t believe in such things. Uff what I am typing… Here I am supposed to type about the Party which begins when I close my eyes. But I think the word Party is not suitable for such thing which is very great to experience in life.

So I thought about it. And I got it; well I will change my Lines at the end of this article. I think, people think of or do the party because there is a need for expansion. Mind is forced to do same kind of work for a week or two, and then finally there is some need to get relaxed, give some time to the mind, to expand. Amazing naa… But does it all about..?... I do the same process daily or at least once in 24 hours. And tension doesn’t accumulate at the border of my mind.

That doesn’t mean I don’t get tense but I know how to get rid of it.
At times I really don’t understand why people always keep sad faces or some unnatural facial expressions. Yes it’s very funny to observe people, especially in Local trains or in the Local Buses. Wow I remember my 11th and 12th Use to go to college in Local buses and making fun of such sad faces. If anyone gets time please do it, observe people and their expressions, a very good time pass….

Ok Jokes apart. I think we try to find happiness (happiness only what else…) outside and simply forgets our selves. I do spend some time with me, I love to do that. Finally I too want to expand. And my way is different. Why to follow other’s way when I have the Best one?

Time to change my Lines, “My Celebration begins the Moment I close my Eyes…” Yes it is actually the celebration; I have understood difference between the Party and CELEBRATION. Celebration is the right word. Yes I do celebrate daily, just need to close my eyes and breath and definition of world starts expanding moment by moment. Few minutes of CELEBRATION and infinite moments of Expansion. This is how I celebrate… Just need a moment to close my eyes, and I love it… find some time to do that…. “Some

Moments of celebration and Ages of Bliss”… see I got one more punch line for one more article. This time I think I will try to make it sooner. This can be the Punch line for my T-Shirt as well, hmm so now I will design one T-shirt for me, and will use this Punch line… Some dumb people may not understand but that is what I want… Not everyone should understand it either.

It’s Time to sleep. I always do such typing work whenever I am in half sleep. It’s the time when I just allow my hands to type and ask my mind not to interfere. And some words come together to make sentences and then paragraphs. I am liking this also, but have to study ACCOUNTs as well, from last two weeks I am telling myself to start with this subject, but frankly speaking yet to start with it.
JGD

2008-07-15T01:54:00.000-07:00

Everything has been set to goa now.
A study as well, after a long time... huh...
Well college started and getting busy with My MBA schedule now..
I liked the subjects and the college very well...

Not got enough time to go on beaches...

Soul to Soul...

2008-07-02T22:03:00.000-07:00

Vodafone ad on Art of living

2008-07-02T05:21:00.000-07:00

I liked this ad

NUMBER 108

2008-06-28T12:35:00.000-07:00

Number 108….

108 is THE Sacred within Hinduism, Buddhism and yoga and dharma based practices.

Many times it’s very common to see Jap Mala with 108 beads.

108 Surya namaskara and 108 names of the deities.

Also in Bhagavat gita it’s said that Krishna dances with 108 Gopis (cow herd girls). Hare Krishna devotees thus hold 108 as a number of great significance.

Siva Natraja Dances in 108 Poses.

Thus if we have observed number 108 hold a very great significance

Also in Budhinism many Buddhist temples have 108 steps

There are 108 holy temples of Vishnu.

Means 108 number keep recurring many times in many Dharmas and Mythologies.

The question arises is why only number 108 keep on recurring and what is the significance of this number.

Here I am just putting my efforts to understand why this is in such away.

Pranayama: If one is able to be so calm in meditation as to have only 108 breaths in a day, enlightenment will come.

River Ganga: The sacred River Ganga spans a longitude of 12 degrees (79 to 91), and a latitude of 9 degrees (22 to 31). 12 times 9 equals 108.

Silver and the moon: In astrology, the metal silver is said to represent the moon. The atomic weight of silver is 108.

Breath: Tantra estimates the average number of breaths per day at 21,600, of which 10,800 are solar energy, and 10,800 are lunar energy. Multiplying 108 by 100 is 10,800. Multiplying 2 x 10,800 equals 21,600.

Islam: The number 108 is used in Islam to refer to God.

Jain: In the Jain religion, 108 are the combined virtues of five categories of holy ones, including 12, 8, 36, 25, and 27 virtues respectively.

Sikh: The Sikh tradition has a mala of 108 knots tied in a string of wool, rather than beads

Stages of the soul: Said that Atman, the human soul or center goes through 108 stages on the journey.

There are 54 letters in Sanskrit alphabets and Each has masculine and feminine, i.e. shiva and shakti 54 * 2 = 108

Time: Some say there are 108 feelings, with 36 related to the past, 36 related to the present, and 36 related to the future.

Astrology: There are 12 constellations, and 9 arc segments called namshas or chandrakalas. 9 times 12 equals 108. Chandra is moon, and kalas are the divisions within a whole

The diameter of the sun is 108 times the diameter of the Earth.

108 represents (1+0+8) = 9, where 9 represents 9 tattvas

Nine Tattvas (Principles):

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1. Jiva - soul or living being (Consciousness)

2. Ajiva - non-living substances

3. Asrava - cause of the influx of karma

4. Bandh - bondage of karma

5. Punya - virtue

6. Paap - sin

7. Samvara - arrest of the influx of karma

8. Nirjara - exhaustion of the accumulated karma

9. Moksha - total liberation from karma

Again 9 tattvas and 12 months ,multiplication leads to (12 * 9 ) = 108.

Followers use 108 beads in their malas. They implement the following formula:
6 x 3 x 2 x3 = 108
6 senses [sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, thought]
3 aspects of time [past, present, future]
2 condition of heart [pure or impure]
3 possibilties of sentiment [like, dislike, indifference]

Mathematically speaking number 9 stands between 0-8 (i.e. 0 to 8 , total numbers are 9).

Eight represents completeness or totality because it includes the 4 cardinal directions and the 4 ordinal directions

Zero, by contrast, represents nothingness or emptiness. It is geometrically represented by a plain sheet with no marks on it. Thus 8 is everything and 0 is nothing. 9 is the threshold number between 8 and 0. The number 1 which follows 0 represents the beginning , the root of all geometrical patterns, while 8 is the number represents fulfillment or end.

So number 108 represents beginning- nothingness- fulfillment. i.e. nothingness between the beginning and the end. Or we can say 1 stands for beginning and 8 stands for infinity and eternity.

108 Upanishads

Rigveda(10): Aitareya , Atmabodha, Kaushitaki, Mudgala, Nirvana, Nadabindu, Akshamaya, Tripura, Bahvruka, Saubhagyalakshmi.

Yajurveda(50): Katha, Taittiriya , Isavasya , Brihadaranyaka, Akshi, Ekakshara, Garbha, Prnagnihotra, Svetasvatara, Sariraka, Sukarahasya, Skanda, Sarvasara, Adhyatma, Niralamba, Paingala, Mantrika, Muktika, Subala, Avadhuta, Katharudra, Brahma, Jabala, Turiyatita, Paramahamsa, Bhikshuka, Yajnavalkya, Satyayani, Amrtanada, Amrtabindu, Kshurika, Tejobindu, Dhyanabindu, Brahmavidya, YogakundalinI, Yogatattva, Yogasikha, Varaha, Advayataraka, Trisikhibrahmana, mandalabrahmana, Hamsa, Kalisantaraaa, Narayana, Tarasara, Kalagnirudra, Dakshinamurti, Pancabrahma, Rudrahrdaya, SarasvatIrahasya.

SamaVeda(16): Kena, Chandogya, Mahat, Maitrayani, Vajrasuci, Savitri, Aruneya, Kundika, Maitreyi, Samnyasa, Jabaladarsana, Yogacudaman, Avyakta, Vasudevai, Jabali, Rudrakshajabala.

Atharvaveda(32): Prasna , Mandukya, Mundaka, Atma, Surya, Narada-Parivrajakas, Parabrahma, Paramahamsa-Parivrajakas, Pasupatha-Brahma, Mahavakya, Sandilya, Krishna, Garuda, Gopalatapani, Tripadavibhuti-mahnarayana, Dattatreya, Kaivalya, NrsimhatapanI, Ramatapani, Ramarahasya, HayagrIva, Atharvasikha, Atharvasira, Ganapati, Brhajjabala, Bhasmajabala, Sarabha, Annapurna, TripuratapanI, Devi, Bhavana, SIta.

If we go deep in any shastra, ideally each of the shastra some where leads to the number 108.

AS I WILL GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NUMBER 108 I WILL KEEP ON UPDATING THIS ARTICLE.

Sudarshan Kriya

2008-06-25T01:33:00.000-07:00

Sudarshan Kriya

The masterpiece of the "The Art Of Living" Course is a powerful
breathing-based technique called Sudarshan Kriya, or the healing breath.
(The practice goes by this Sanskrit name in whatever language the program is
taught throughout the world.) One of the breath's great secrets is that for
every feeling or emotion there is a corresponding rhythm in the breath.
Sudarshan Kriya incorporates specific natural rhythms of breath to release
stress and bring the mind to the present moment.

The practice is instrumental in creating a sense of harmony in the body,
mind and spirit. After the practice, participants commonly report feeling
calm and centered, with a clearer vision of the world and themselves.

Several independent studies on the numerous mental and physical health
benefits of Sudarshan Kriya have been published in international
peer-reviewed journals and confirm what participants commonly report.

As the cells of organs such as the heart, lungs, brain, blood, muscles and
bowel get deprived of oxygen, they start degenerating & disease slowly
starts developing.

Therefore, it is important to learn correct breathing,

Benefits Of Sudarshana Kriya:

1 Greater creativity and clarity of mind
2 Reduced stress and tension
3 More ease and joy in personal relationships
4. Increase in Lung capacity utilization up to 95%.
5. Increase in the life span.
6. Improved mind and body coordination.
7. Increase in energy for day to day activities.
8. Mental peace and emotional balance.
9. Lowering blood pressure, managing respiratory, digestive etc. disorfers
with regular practice.
10. Complete rejuvenation of body and mind.

*Return To Joy*

Our mind tends to vacillate between the past and the future. We are either
regretting the past or anxious about the future. However as we all know
living in the present moment is the route to joy. Our mind is such that we
cannot control it in a direct manner. We cannot force it to be in the
present moment. But we can influence our mind through the breath. "Take a
deep breath" is an age-old recommendation for relaxation.

The Art of Living course takes this effect of breath on our minds and
applies it in a very precise and powerful manner through the Sudarshan Kriya
technique. Practice of this technique can bring our mind effortlessly into
the present moment. As this happens, we learn the ability to reduce the
effects of negative emotions and return to our natural state of joy.

* More enthusiasm and dynamism in activities
* Increased harmony in relationships at home and at work
* Increased resilience to withstand stressful situations
* A smile born from inner stability
* Experience of a new depth in life and spirituality

Music is the silence between two notes.

2008-05-18T00:28:00.000-07:00

"Music is the Silence between two notes" - Because of silence music becomes more appreciable, more attractive.
While listening to music, the silent place between two notes becomes more and more important.
What is the Breadth, depth and dimension of the music that matters a lot, if any one of it is a bit less or bit more, effect of music simply goes away.

Music is the two way communication between Performer and listener. Music is so natural that, when there is a silence between two notes, it is also known to the other, listener's mind. And that is the reason when the pause is less or more, music looses it's effect.

Each performance is always different than the previous performance.
If we play some raga say "Bhoop" in 100 concerts or "Mehfil"; then it is most likely that, we play 100 different variations of bhoop ragas.
Music is never same, it always adds its special effects. [I think this might be the reason, that each time when some famous singer or classical music players, play in the concerts though the same raga, people use to have recordings of all such concerts].... Music is always independent of anything, when it is pure, it is always different, and there can't be any comparison.

In Classical music, music is represented as a thought, the inner most true part of the self. Always try to put our thoughts in the music. And as each person is different, each thought is different, music is always different. If we have same guru for music, then also style of each Student (Shishya), for playing music is different, there can't be even comparison between students of the same guru. This is the uniqueness of music. Each one of us has to take efforts to put our thoughts in our playing, we can't be like each other and neither we can be like our guru. Don't copy the style of music, learn the music.
Music should reflect our uniqueness of thoughts.

Music- The Rhythm is always connected to the nature to our breath. Music is very well connected to our breath, where to stop, where not to stop, when to breath and when to take a pause. Each and everything matters in the music. Rhythm is natural phenomenon, we can say Music is universal and Rhythm is also universal, each and everything has some rhythm, some cycle,music should be in the same way. In Sanskrit Rhythm is called as "Lay", and opposite of Laya is Pralaya, when the rhythm is not present Pralaya happens (Pralaya means destruction of everything). If heart looses its natural rhythm, heart attack happens. Same as music, if Lay is not correct, music doesn't touches your own heart, forget about rest of the world.

Many times it happens that, there are many people who play music, but only few people make the difference, why so?
Music which lies above 100% always touches the heart of universe, music is something which is more than perfection. Music needs involvement. One should always go beyond the time,space and breadth of the music to get the real essence of the Music. Music is with us, within us, its not something which we never knew. We all are very connected to music, because it in us.Music is our nature.

There is a rhythm in the child's voice, we can observe it, when a baby cries, it goes through all swaras up and down, that also depending on the situation. If mother is not near by the baby cries in Upper Octave of the Swara Mandal, when mother is near by voice or swara reduces. Just Observe it.

Our all classical Ragas are so well connected to the nature. So all ragas represent some special time, some special season (ritu) and it's special effect at that time. If the music is so connected to the nature then Playing Malhar raaga and asking nature to Start rain is not a big thing. Only we should be able to connect us with the nature.

My teacher always says that to learn music we need two births, and that is the case, even if method is right, but person is wrong , how much hard he/she can try nothing is gonna happen, but if Person is right then even wrong methods will also make him/her to find the right track.

Thinking should be lateral and effect should be optimized

Time.... somthing never thought about....

2008-05-10T10:13:00.001-07:00

Time... It is the time which actually kills me, one moment at a time...Time , I remember some old stories, listen some where sometime back, in the history of my life. Some faces seen but unseen... some unsaid words and some never expressed emotions.
Some stories are really realistic, some of them still have impact on my mind, some stories just lived and left silently, without telling to anyone, like the secret, which has made only for me. Said-unsaid secret. Lived-un lived moments. Some thoughts, came and went away. some are still with me.
Thoughts-"the process" still in the process of getting understood by me. Long long time back, don't know from when, for what and how things started falling in terms of thoughts for me. I remember the saying, everything is Cyclic.. I do realized this???...Don't know... or really don't want to know...At some point, I found it as a truth; yes cycle is every where...In science I have learnt it, about the atoms and molecule, and same concept goes to the universe. If the rules are same for the tiniest thing in the universe to the universe it self, then what exactly the rule is? Whether you mind it or don't mind it, rule is to revolve, or is to rotate???
I really fascinate about the things which are here from long long time, or from infinite time... in some book of physics I have read definition of time, "Time is a Universal variable changing at the same rate in all parts of universe..", Do I think it is correct!. Or time is a relative term, uuhhh.. isn't it interesting,confusing...?
Is there anything for which Time doesn't matter, something which doesn't follow the rules or concepts of time? So many such questions, so many such things...
Some times I feel that "Mind Matters", rules of time are not understood by my mind, non-materialistic thing, without any physical existence, beyond words and beyond imagination.. have I ever observed, my body get tired but mind, continuously working in some and the other way..Rather something which is continuously working all the time for nothing, for something.. like time, whether I want it or not, it will keep going and going...Does there something which is controlling me , my emotions, my existence or the happenings in my life. How many years back I can go into History and how many minds I can relate with each other, how many generations are passed away and how many will still in line, an Endless process? Come on if there is a start then there should be an end, very simple thing... Yes, I am searching for the Start, Science says that man is evolved from monkeys, amazing thing to know, but is there possibility that, human is evolved from the each type of animal, our earth till have? very vauge and irrelevant question, but if this is not the case then why each human is not same, as every one is the modest form of monkey. Why do some of us have animal tendencies and facial expressions sometimes, similar to animals, other than monkey? Why my thinking is different than the other one, or why it matches with some people and not with all others.
Some thing clicks to me, something not. I am still figuring out difference between eternity and infinity, alpha and gamma, Journey and Traveling. Should I doubt about the experience or about the Existence.....

This is 2am of 6th March 2008, I don't know what I am typing on and on, some word and some sentences, with out even thinking, what to type, does it make any sense or not, just using my keyboard with to press keys... I think I have to sleep for sometime, after spending such a long day out side, waiting for one more day, it will start soon in some time, Long long time and long long day, time is falling short for nothing, too many things to do, too many questions to ask, too many words to say and too many things to happen, still searching for something... Something which is with me forever, but still unknown to it, still... Like still water, no wave on it no vibration and no variation in the molecules, but too much calm, too much silent and too much attractive....