Something which Remained....

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...

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

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...

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

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 

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

Freedom to life is beautiful

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

Passion leads to Success

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

Learning is very simple- Never Stop

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

Pressure at head

1. Current education system is developing pressure on students head
2. 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

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

Necessity is mother of invention

1. Necessity creates pressure and forces you to invent something or to make it happen or to use your potentiality.
2. 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

1. Life is need base never want base. Desires have no ends.
2. 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

1. 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.
2. 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

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

Importance of words in communication

1. If communication dies, everything dies.
2. Each word has impact and value in communication.
3. 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

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

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....

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

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.

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...!!!...

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....

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

"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

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

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

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 :) "

From Infinity to Eternity

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

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...

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...

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...

[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.

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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….

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