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experience the secret of Ayurveda - Nadi Pariksha @ Brigade Millenium (Outside Magnolia Lobby) on 28th and 29th Jan

2012-01-21T05:34:00.002+05:30

Nadi Pariksha in association with Art of Living

Nadi Pariksha (Pulse Diagnoses) is time-tested ayurveda technique of diagnosis. It can accurately diagnose mental and physical aliments.

Sri Sri Ayurveda doctors are specialists in the vidya of Nadi Pariksha which is unique to us. With this expertise, our doctors detected your prakriti

(body type), forewarn you of potential health risks and effectively treat exixting aliments.

Accurate and Detailed Diagnosis

Reaches the Root Cause

Avoid Painful Surgeries

Diet and Lifestyle Consultation

Holistic Health Through Natural Medicines

Forewarns You of Potential Health Risks

~~Venue: BMS Hall, Brigade Gardenia, JP Nagar 7th phase~~

~~Dates: 21st and 22nd Jan, Timing: 9 am - 6:30 pm~~

~~Response : 98 people benefited from the camp~~

Venue: Outside Magnolia Lobby, Brigade Millenium, JP Nagar 7th phase
Dates: 28th and 29th Jan
Timing: 9 am - 6:30 pm

Consultation Fee - Rs 150 - per person

For appointment contact the venue.

Important: Nadi Pariksha is done on an empty stomach or two and a half hour

after consuming food. (Only water is allowed)

To know more please visit http://www.artofliving.org/pulse-diagnosis

You can also organize a nadi pariksha camp in your locality or enclave. Leave a comment to coordinate.

Happiness is all you get at end of Upanishad Discourse

2012-01-11T10:16:00.002+05:30

You go to school and college. You get a job.

You listen to Upanishads. What do you get?

You know, your every act, your every thought is towards getting happiness.
You earn so that you get a comfortable lifestyle.
You take up a project on your own because it appeals to you and promises to give you happiness in end.
You have progeny to get happiness.
You become a householder to get happiness.

Happiness is single most vital motivator behind every thing that you do on this planet.

The master too says that at end of upanishad discourse the only thing you get is happiness of heaven. Your mind settles down in knowledge. The striving continues but feverishness stops.

You self is getting wedded to infinite soul every moment. Your body is a miniature of entire universe. The finite body is becoming one with infinite universe.

In India there is a tradition of doing the marriage of Radha and Krishna. You dont get caught up in that, you move on to higher planes. For one, there was no character of Radha in श्रीमद भागवतम. धारा का प्रवाह जब लौट के आता है तो उसे राधा कहतें हैं.

Radha was a character created by a devotee poet somewhere in 11th century. But it signifies the longingness for the infinite in the finite krishna.

You know, after mahabharata, Arjun asked krishna to repeat Geeta. He said he was busy in the war and lost in the chaos and questioned him too much and too many times. Now he was in better mood and more inclined towards knowledge. But Krishna refused. He said that was Shiva or the formless infinite speaking through me. You remember that before the war I asked you to chant ॐ नमः शिवाय and you chanted for a very long time. Through the chanting you acquired a shield or कवच for your consciousness which strengthened you and protested you through the war.

That is what mantra do at the subtle level. They protect your soul and enhance your prana.

In western countries people go to the beach in plenty whereas in India they are happy being inland. Do you want to know why?

Because the water element contains and is enriched with devas pranas देव प्राना. So in pristine clean beaches you get the rich energy. The same energy is depleted in beaches with drugs/liquors.

Same way when you enter into Art of Living international ashram in Bangalore there is shift in consciousness for many. Your jet lag goes, your tiredness goes and you relax.

You dont have to get into all the vedas and drink tonnes of vedic literature. Guruji said he was reading kena upanishad for the first time and as you would have noticed the grace just flows , not too high, nor too low but ok. He would read a few slokas and then get lost in meditation with them. Now is the time for चिंतन और मनन.

There is no point searching for a well when you are inundated in flood. The knowledge is overflowing in and around you. Start listening to it. Do some self-study स्वाध्याये.

You get a glimpse of infinity. You relax at the end of upanishad discourses too. So you are happy and relaxed.

Then you उपासना starts. उप और आसन. You sit in the company of the infinite.

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A heart felt thank you reaches out with tonnes of gratitude towards Sri Sri Ravishankar ji. His discourse on Kena upanishad and my buddies of morning sadhana.

That is it

2012-01-10T10:12:00.002+05:30

Every animal on this planet manifests a form of divine consciousness on this planet. Every extinction of animal loses that manifestations. That is what the string theory is also all about. They are the carriers of those energy. We, as humans, are carrier of knowledge.

A few ShivRatries (a hindu festival worshipping Lord Shiva) ago, on solar eclipse day, an incident occurred in a village temple in Tamilnadu. A cobra was climbing a particular tree ( bael ) and plucking its leaves and moving towards the Shiva Linga in the temple premise. All got scared looking at the serpent there. But he repeated the process 4-5 times and some had sense to take photos and videos. He is associated with Lord Shiva and was washing his sins on Solar eclipse according to local priest there.

Every part of our body is associated with a particular grain, a planet, a color, a flower, a god or goddess.
Like Saturn with mouth , jaws.
Jupiter with nose. Chick peas.
Mercury with forehead.

Every medicinal herb is for a particular part of body. Very specific.Without it there would be no medical science.
A herbologist will give you a herb and tell you , my dear its very nice for you and will benefit your affected part and cure it.

Krishna too in Gita, after uttering 700 slokas left it to Arjun. Now my dear its upto you. You make a choice and if you are comfortable and your conscience allows it then imbibe the knowledge.

So then continue from where we left in the last article the Lord of Mind, Indra and Divine Mother in form of Kundalini.
The compassionate mother showed a glimpse of Brahma to the mind and it settled down. The ego of devas was diffused.
You can get a flash of deva world but it only lasts for a blink. It cannot last for long.
If you need a more sustaining experience then you will have meditate and dissolve the mind into the brahman and then it stays. That is it. That is all upanishads are all about.

Universal consciousness is compared to forest. A forest left on its own is able to maintain and sustain diverse lifeforms. It is clean and it has place for all. A lion, a dear, an elephant , a frog and an ant. All live and stay in forest.

In Gita, Sri Krishna compared knowledge to inverted tree. Its roots are up there. We are all rooted up there. There are branches and leaves hanging around. Leaves dry and new one come. Branches go and new one comes. But the root only gets more robust.

Even Lord Shankaracharya said that he had come here for a vacation where as his home is up there.

The game of life. Get the BIG picture

2012-01-09T10:33:00.001+05:30

As humans you get 8 units of life.
A stone has 1 unit of life. There are male and female in stones too. Ancient traditions and sculptors know it.
Water has 2 unit of life.
Air has 3 unit of life.
Space has 4 unit of life.
Trees have 6 unit of life.
Animals have 7 units of life.

Humans have 8 units of life. We are here and we need to move forward.

Geniuses have 9 units of life. In both sense either for great political system or social change or people like Hitler.

Your spirit has 9-10 units of life. In a while when you leave your body you become more powerful. You have more access and flexibility. The constraint of body is lost.

Your ancestors have 11 units of life. In many traditions we pray to ancestors. They can give you boons according to their capability. They cannot give all the boons.

Your pitr पितृ have 12 units of life.

Kinnars have 13 units of life. They bless or curse with wealth. You will have great wealth but you will not be happy with your progeny. Your children will cause much distress within three generations.

Yokshas have 14 units of life. They bless or curse with special talent like singing. If you think the singing ability is their individual achievement then you are mistaken. A yaksha spirit is behind them. They make many happy around them but their own life is miserable. Unless they are on a spiritual path with a guru. Every city has a yaksha.

Gods and Goddesses, देवा और देवी have 15 units of life. There are 33 different variations of them. Creator loves variety and thus he has 33 variations of god and goddess for you.
Where are they stationed?
Are they in the skies between the clouds? No they are in every cell of you. A single cell multiples and some become eyes, and some legs and nose.
How to manage them?
Through sounds and mantras. Pray and they are happy. Their happiness is reflected in your state of being. Like the filters of camera. You enhance a color by filtering it. You only see green but the light still has rest of the colors. A prism.
In heaven there are all the comforts but there is no love. For that even a deva has to take the human form and come on earth once in a million years to realize love, our existance, the thing which we are made up of. Sometimes we feel it and sometimes we dont, but its always there. Just like in yoga you take attention to a particular part of body and you are there, it does not mean that other parts of body do not exist.

A सिद्दा या सतगुरु Guru has 16 units of life. All the devis and devtas are around him, asking what can they do for him. But he has known the brahman and he does not ascertain that he knows the brahman. He moves on. चलती.
जहाँ गुरु नहीं वहां गति नहीं. Where there is no Guru there is no movement. Even in hindu pujas Guru comes before invoking the devas.

Hold your breath as I now narrate a Yaksha incident, not my interaction. I am still to develop the capability of communicating with the ethereal world. But Guruji's own incident.
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Once the Yaksha of New york came to Guruji in middle of night and asked him if he could do anything. Guruji said, No, thank you. He was disappointed. Next day morning other people woke up and told Guruji that they felt a beautiful presence last night.
The same day Guruji had panel discussion in UN and in the room of 500 only 15 were around. Guruji realized it was work of Yaksha and he acknowledged it. The next moment the door opened and the room filled up.
Later Guruji thought I should have at least asked him to open a center a New York, or something so that he was not disappointed..
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So ladies and gentleman we enter the ethereal world where the spirits are more powerful and have their own game plans. You and me are mere pawns being moved around in this game of life. We think we have control. How foolish of us?
In fact the same player is there on both sides of chessboard? The same brahman.
So drop your doership and enjoy the game.

You are like bubbles in coke bottle. You feel you opened the cap and are bubbling to go outside. How long will you last? The bubble has to burst.

There is a greater permanent council out there who is playing the game. They are more powerful. They have better reach and have been there for a very long time. Think you can challenge them or worst still ignore them and continue to relish in your make-believe world. Poor you.

Hold on to a Guru else you will be thrown around like a ping pong ball and never realize why the smacks in the bottom are getting harder and harder in life.

Because at the level of spirits you are nothing.

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If that is not enough. Here is one more phenomenon. Remember even though its being narrated as a story below its not an event of past. It can happen everyday to some, to some on some days of life and for others in no days of life.

Once the pride of power got into the heads of devas. A yaksha came to meet them. Indra sent Agni ( form of energy ) to check out who had come. He came around and asked. The yaksha questioned back, Who are you? Agni was displeased and narrated his powers to burn anything and everything. Yaksha gave him a straw of grass. He just couldnt and went back.

Next came Vayu, the atmosphere which has all living beings. Same story.
Then the Lord of Mind, Indra came along. By this time Yaksha disappeared and turned into a beautiful lady, the Mother Divine, Kundalini. Indra asked her who was the yaksha?

Hold on to your breath as tomorrow we will reveal the secret of Yaksha from mouth of Mother Divine.
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Time for thanking
Sri Sri Ravishankar ji mentioned as Guruji above.
His discourse on kena upanishads.
And ofcourse the aol buddies who make this possible every moring at 5:30 AM. Can you believe it? Nor do i. The time I mean and not the spirits.

From the world of death to immortality

2012-01-07T20:30:00.000+05:30

You know yet you dont know.
Know that and assimilate.

If you cannot manage that knowledge in this lifetime even after hearing it then its a great loss to you, the greatest of losses. You will yet again gather bundles of miseries and carry on to next lifetimes.

Like the man behind the projector sees only the light. The people in the cinema see only the movie.
There is only one bulb that throws light on the film reel and all characters are projected into the big screen. The single consciousness flows through one and all, through the hero and the villain, through the heroin as well as the side-kicks. It does not discriminate.
Its you who has the visceral experiences and get lost in the characters. The characters around you are the reflections of you. And if you extend that vision and project your identity on environment around and still wonder why there is so much negativity around you, why people shout at you, why do they spit and why do they turn away from you? Is it them or is it you?

Its simply your ego getting projected outside. Turn around and take the vision on the man behind projector. Then you will see the single light flowing through all. Then you will realize that people around you are there to tell you that you are like that and you may have to change.

Then you transcend the world of death and move on to the realm of immortality.

There are two worlds, the ethereal and the practical.
In ethereal world there is single consciousness, single light flowing through the universe in and around you.
In practical world you exercise free will and use intellect to be in satsang सत्संग. Avoid and dissociate from bad company.

Its how nature functions too. You get 20 apples and you wonder at the beauty of nature in creating them, but you will also witness a rotten apple. You do not hold on to rotten apple and consume it just because nature has created it. You throw it with a smile.
Same way if you have 20 people and there is one which is a nuisance then you calmly and with a smile ask them to shut up and get lost.
A destined event will cause the interaction with unhealthy minds and body but use your intellect to drift apart from them. Do not let them hang around in the back of your mind with "Oh I should not have told like this", "Oh Poor guy , he is not educated" , oh etc., Every soul is taking its own route and time and do not get stuck up with them.

If they elevate well and good otherwise move on. Your mind needs to have peace at any cost.

This is the greatest form of bravery.
Being brave does not mean flying around in hot air balloon, with hundreds in rescue team and many family members with heart in mouth, praying to lord to save the poor guy. But its in striking the right balance between the knowledge and people/events around you.

सबसे बड़ा वीर्य अध्यात्म और व्यवहार जगत के बीच मैं समन्वय बनाने मैं है.

Its the highest and greatest loss if you are not able to cultivate this skill, build this courage.

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Creativity is the product of intellect using the intuition, memory and experience/perception from the mind. It is the output of intellect. A poem comes out of intuition. Every invention, discovery has roots in this invention. Yesterdays Rishis are todays Scientists. They knew it then and these are discovering today.

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Thanking Sri Sri Ravishankar ji for the kena upanishad discourse and friends and family.

I am unique. How?

2012-01-06T09:59:00.000+05:30

Self-effort, a holy person's grace and knowledge can take you to immortalilty

Consciousness has four faculties. They are one but still for the sake of understanding we can divide.

Experience - happenings in and around you, there is a complete movie that can be played even with eyes closed
Intellect - some aspects of brain
Memory - you create some but nature has it all around you - mind
Identity - your self - ego

We have five sense objects

Eyes
Nose
Tongue
Ears
Skin

We have five senses

See
Smell
Taste
Hear
Touch

Everything in Nature is permutation - combination of

Fire
Earth
Water
Air
Space

We experience the following 5 from nature

Through Seeing/Light/Fire we experience/see day/night, color of flowers, trees, heavenly objects
Through Smell/Earth/fragrant particles we experience fragrance of flowers, food
Through Saliva/Water we get the taste of food/fruits
Through hearing/air we experience music/voice/noise
Through touch/space/skin we feel the space element

In all our experience we spend energy.

Experience is spending energy.

Nature has given us sleep to rest so that we can again experience. Otherwise after a while the beautiful nature trail becomes tiring, the musical concert has to end as ears complain, you have to stop after 10th sweet/gulab jamun.

Senses have a limitation.

Sense objects are limited.

Desires are unlimited and hence cause imbalance.

The nature of the mind is to take senses to sense objects. मन

The nature of meditation is to take mind from sense objects to senses. नम

Come back to your senses.

In experience you/senses become one with sense objects.

Once with senses your intellect starts to function.

It will discriminate, analyse, understand and the summaries are stored in memory. You start to like something. You dont like somethings. You start creating identity for yourself.

You start to think that now I know. That is where upanishads says, When you start to ascertain that you know , you dont know.

And when you dont know , there is something that you know. You have a feeling that something in you knows.

Ignorance and knowledge gel together. They are not independent of each other.

If everything is all known in advance then it is already dead. Because it has already happened.

There is UNKNOWABLE, always. It is responsible for creating a new moment every moment.

Hence it is knows as UNKNOWN.

That which cannot be known yet known is your true identity.

Thanksgiving

Sri Sri Ravishankarji for his kena upanishad discourse and for art of living .

Hari for his apartment for sadhna and playing above CD.

Abhijit for the idea to play upanishad CDs, Shuchi, Bala, Abhay for hanging around.

And the readers who read and comment :)

Rejecting the infinite

2012-01-03T10:21:00.000+05:30

When you reject you miss
When you accept you blossom

Only when you water the field the seeds will blossom into beautiful flowers and huge trees
If there are no seeds there will be no tree, no matter how much you water
You have all the seeds of virtues within you
know that
The infinite has already put the seeds in every cell of you

Do not reject a child as stupid, dull
Parents, Schools and colleges do
They lose the challenge to kindle a flower
They only get whats already blossomed

A teacher may not reject a student
Just because he appears to carry a heavy weight of karma
he cannot postpone his enlightenment to few more cycles of janma and cleaning
A student may not reject the teacher
he may not doubt is he really loving and caring as talks
or is he just a walking encyclopedia

Your capabilities may differ
Some may be fair, some brown and some dark in complexion
Some may be fluent, some barely talk and some can be dumb
Some may listen clearly, some barely and some can be deaf
Some may see through the divine, some the world and some can be blind
No matter where you scale in your capability
Your ability to realize the infinite is the same

Rejection is finite
You reject something that you seem is beyond you
You reject what is unknown
The unknown is you
You reject you

Some one knocks the door, you exclaim and jump out of sofa
You are soaked in the watching television, someone pokes you
You are in deep slumber, someone puts thin cotton in your nose
You say
What was that? Who is that? How did that come here? When?
Those are the moments of wonder
You are introduced to it and then you let it pass
You need to stay with wonder more

The WHAT is a leap from known to unknown
The WHO, HOW, WHEN all keep you in unknown

The WHY generally belongs to a miserable mind
No matter how you try you can never get into that stuck mind
Therefore the journey begins with chanting of peace

ॐ शांति शांति

Only in rest
you can enquire,
you can explore

Encourage the enquiring spirit
Be with the questions,
leave any explanations aside
wonder

Behold and watch the descent
of infinity within you

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Inspired from Sri Sri Ravishankar's discourse of kena upanishad

Eternity process - a walk in the past

2011-12-20T15:23:00.001+05:30

I have been running for a long time.

I ran under wooden planks, with simmer of lights bursting on my head.
I lied down besides railway tracks on green grass with speeding trains going past.
I have been a turtle protecting my thick skin from onslaught of an hunter.
I have been a bird with white bottom and huge dark wings running away from fire and settling on a huge rock gulping a spider.
I have been a king marching on gold carpet laden steps and body with huge spear in one hand watching the moon sink into the dark sky. Slowly walking through the walls of huge palace and into it.
A huge dark man sitting on a huge rock, bold and majestic, beside a lake. Thick jungle all around. Serpents flying.
A king riding a huge chariot killing huge animals around.
A hen beside a dark and huge farm of black soil.
A child playing happily with his friends below a big banyan tree, until being marauded by a huge bully boy.
An old sadhu with big white beard floating over blade sharp grasses and thin pure streams.
I had shield on my back and we all were running away from men on horses. Finally slipped into valley and crushed through thick broken wooden parts of long dead trees.

There was slight pain in the right arm in the end. The body was heavy as log. It was middle of afternoon. And I felt light. Two hours felt like two minutes. I have a huge legacy left behind. I was not even aware of it. What a glimpse?

Gurudev had taken me onto another journey and I could only remain ever grateful and marvel.

Find balance in worldly chaos

2011-12-03T21:58:00.001+05:30

When you learn to cycle. You fall. You getup. You fall and you get up again. Some people fall 5 times and some 50 and some 5000 times. Ultimately you learn to ride bicycle. Once you learn, you will not have to learn again. Then you can only improvise.

You can leave the handle or try more stunts. You need balance. You need to earn as well as learn. You have to use head for business and heart for friends/family. You cannot mix both. You need life. You need work. You need to learn from your enemies what not to do and from your friends and well wishers about what to do. You will love some and you will not not be loved by some. Know that more people love than who hate you. God has given variety in world to let you appreciate love through lens of hatred. Observe hatred but do not fall into cycle of reciprocating hatred. Balance it with compassion and thank the hated for showing you hatred.

You are made up of spirit. Spirit consists of love, of compassion, of gratitude, of feeling connected. In the spiritual path your Guru brings you closer to these emotions and feelings. Through him you learn to ride the spirit. He gives birth to your true self.

Your biological parents give you the body. Your mother is your first Guru. Your Guru is both mother, father and more. He brings the inner peace in your life, your eternal connectedness. He brings the knowledge that you are being taken care of and you will get what is most appropriate to you at the most opportune time. He brings back the life into you. He makes you feel eternal.

He makes you feel unique as well as one with the rest. When you pluck a hair from your head, you feel the pain and you know that a hair is being plucked. But if I ask you, How many hairs you have? You will not know the answer. Same way God knows at the same time he is ignorant. The beauty of the game of life is that result is unknown till it happens. If it was known in the beginning there would be no fun, neither to you nor to God.

When you meditate you aspire for a quiet environment. You think its not possible to meditate in chaos. You have this concept in mind. Like you have concepts about religion in mind that you should only utter only Om sound or some other sound or something else. You know the priest in temple/church/mosque may be uttering Gods name all the time but he could be very stiff and hard from inside.

The primary goal of spirituality is to being inner softness, an innate confidence that you are untouched and pure. Then it does not matter if you are in chaotic environment or in peaceful environment. Nobody can disturb your king like demeanor. Relax and let the lion in you walk with the softest of heart.

In satsang parents used to the wailing kids keep their attention on Guruji's voice. But other keep their attention on wailing of kids, they are not used to them. The parents listen to the kids for whole day and are used to their crying. You were also crying and wailing before you joined and came into Art of Living. One day even these kids who are crying outside Vishalakshmi will come in and settle down in life, becoming quiet.

So you see the cycle. Water in raindrops come from cloud. Cloud comes from rivers and oceans. Oceans are made from rivers. Who is God and how did he become God? Its like asking "Who is sun and how did it become Sun?"

You are spirit and matter. Matter is amino acids, proteins etc., Your food and yoga practices brings the balance in your matter. If your body is relaxed your mind will expand. If mind expands the body will relax. Guru is one who brings right meditation into your life. He is there to make you feel light and weightless. He is there to make you aware that

Dont struggle.
Dont resist.
Dont make other people miserable.

Become aware of your true being and allow life to blossom.

Art of living satsang update

2011-09-07T13:29:00.000+05:30

Make your anger very expensive, very precious. Nobody should be allow to buy it at any cost.
Make your smile cheap. Just let it flow without being asked for. It is the only expression which is closest to your core nature.

अपना गुस्सा बहुत मेहेंगा कर दो. दुनिया मैं कोई उसे नहीं खरीद पाए. वहीँ अपनी मुस्कान इतनी सस्ती कर दो की वोह यूँही प्रकट होती रहे.

ज़िन्दगी मैं तृप्त रहो. यही सबसे बड़ा गुण है.

हम भिखारी की तरेह सबसे कुछ न कुछ मांगते रहते हैं. जब कोई भिखारी हमारे सामने आता है तो हम क्या करते हैं. हम चुप चाप रास्ता बदल रहते हैं या फिर गाड़ी की खिड़की ऊपर कर लेते हैं, उसकी तरफ देखतें भी नहीं हैं. प्रकृति का भी व्योहार कुछ इस तरेह से ही होता है.

कहते हैं जो ध्यानस्त होते हैं, वेद और ज्ञान उनकी तरफ ही अग्रसर होते हैं. जैसे पंडित मंदिर मैं दिन भर वेदों का उच्चारण करते हैं लेकिन फिर भी दुखी दिखतें हैं, उनके चेहरे पर न तेज होता है न कोई चमक. ज्ञान मांगने से या फिर दोहराने से नहीं मिलता है.

Knowledge comes to those who are in meditation. The chanting of old mantras in rudra pooja then becomes familiar. You may not understand the meaning of sanskrit slokas but you get a feeling that you have heard them some where before. They have been part of you.

Nature gives to those who do not demand and are in continuous state of contentment. Nobody likes a beggar, not even nature. It runs away with its resources when you beg in front of it. It releases abundance to one who has stopped asking and is in grateful state.

अगर कुछ माँगना ही है तो परमात्मा को मांगो, उसको मांगते मांगते कोई कामना नहीं रहती. उसकी कृपा होने से ही वोह मिलता है और एक बार मुलाकात मैं तुम .ठहर जाते हो. फिर कहीं जाना नहीं होता है.

क्या परमात्मा दुसरे नंबर पर तो नहीं है. जैसे की दूध गैस पर रखा हो और तुम ध्यान मैं बैठे हो. ध्यान तो परमात्मा पाने के लिए है लेकिन मन मैं अगर यह डर है की कहीं दूध न उबल जाये तो दूध नंबर एक और परमात्मा नंबर दो पर चले गए न. इसी प्रकार ज़िन्दगी मैं हमारी छोटी छोटी . मांगे नंबर एक पर आती रहती हैं और वो पूरी होती रहती हैं. हम बीमार होते हैं तो स्वस्थ मांगते हैं और किसी तरेह ठीक हो ही जातें हैं, लेकिन फिर हम बीमार पड़ते हैं और यह प्रक्रिया चलती रहती है. लेकिन जब हमारी परमात्मा की मांग पूरी होती है तो फिर वो पूरी ही रहती है.

एक बार एक बालक अपनी परछाईं मैं अपने सर को पकड़ रहा था, लेकिन उसका सर उसके पकड़ से दूर भागता रहता था. वह रोने लगा. एक संत वहां से गुजर रहे थे, नज़ारा देख कर समझ गए और कहा की "बालक, अपने सर पर हाथ रखो." बालक खुश हो गया क्यूंकि अब परछाईं का सर भी उसकी पकड़ मैं आ गया.

Respect and honor the thief too because of him the police,judge,jailor and teachers have employment. Honor the people who fall in the ditches around you to show you that there is a ditch, beware.

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Satsang happens in Art of Living ashram on kanakapura road in Bangalore everyday from 6:30PM. You can have dinner at ashram and then come back to your city house.
Satsang means the company of divine. There are many people but if you are a devotee then only you and the divine happen at satsang.
Special thanx to Bala for the free ride to ashram.

Fake income tax officer from Aditya Birla Group

2011-09-05T17:25:00.000+05:30

I was sick and resting on this Eid, a day before Ganesh Chaturthi, with blanket over my head. A call came on land line for me and my daughter gave the call to me.

He : I am from Aditya Birla Group.

[ I guessed he must one of those agents selling health insurance/ financial planning/ mutual funds or my latest relationship managers ]

I : Quickly tell me.
He: I am from Income Tax department.

[ By now I got confused and his temper went up in well rehearsed manner. I hope Aditya Birla is not training their troops to indulge in scaring unresponsive prospects.]

He: I am SK Nanda, a senior income tax officer. Is this the way you talk to me? I am coming to your home. Is this your address? Is this your name? Tell me your house nearest landmark.

[ I was really confused with the income tax stuff as Income tax department has recently sent notice for no reason, Our CA explained that with computerization the frequency of notice sending has increased and response is also expected online. This just added to the confusion created my Mr. Aditya Birla guy. He continued to lambast and I was not sure what to respond with. ]

I: Can you tell me in what context are you calling and want to meet me? I am sick and in no position to talk extensively.

He: You will be more sick when your neighbors find us at your door this evening. We will come at 4 PM.

I: OK

[And the call was done. Fortunately I was not a heart patient otherwise fear of IT raid would have killed me then and there. I called up my CA and she assured me that

Its a holiday for 2 days
IT department does not raid with prior appointment on telephone.
There is no one by name SK Nanda in IT department.

I thanked her for her assurance but was still confused with the call. It was on land line and it does not have caller id.
]

How can we make police complaint against agents who scare the life out of common citizen if we don't give a damn to their useless and interrupting call?
Will Police listen to you and pursue your case?
Will telephone company register a complaint and ban calls originating from such numbers coming into their networks?
Did any of you had similar experience?

How to move the great Indian middle class but?

2011-08-22T09:51:00.000+05:30

We have been talking about the Indian youth and Indian middle class for so long. With the advent of diverse career opportunities we have really transformed our lifestyles from being localized to government quarters to freely spending money.

We have been lazy to vote. Thus, there was no love or affair with the political class. We were happy to pass the days until Anna Hazare pricked our nerves.

He took an issue which has touched all of us. Its like the air around. We don't complain about air whether its stale or fresh or polluted or sticky. We have to breathe. Same way we paid bribe from traffic cop to post man to policeman to government bureaucrats to either get our work done or to escape punishment. An issue that did not pinch us much. We talked about it in isolation, over the tea/coffee and went back to life.

Anna Hazare sat on a platform called as India against corruption. He was visible. He was on empty stomach. He was clean. He made us wonder. Why is he wasting his time? Why cant he chill out in his village?

He persisted and few of us believed in his movement, his methods and his power to change. Democracy is after all for people and by people. We the people ignored all the sectors which thrived on bribes. We got our salaries and businesses going on and we did not care.

We saw the Indian national flags. We knew it was about our country. It was not for an individual. It was an issue which would decay our nation and prosperity as whole. Sooner or later even we would be subsumed by it. We would demand bribes too sooner or later, we have been giving it as "Poor policeman, how can he run a family with such a meager government salary?", "I dont have time nor patience nor leave to come here everyday".

The movement could not have been sustained it was started by some political party. BJP would have meant to be a Hindu movement, Mayawati/Yadav etc., would have been casteist movement and same for regional parties it would have been driven by language or local caste etc., But this movement was apolitical. Something new for great Indian middle class. The political protests have mostly been violent in India with loss of life and property. Here we saw non-violence been regarded and respected again. A new Gandhian movement of 21st century.

The other day Bhuvi, based out of Gurgoan mentioned. The employees across companies had discussion with transport department to arrange buses to Ramlila Maidan (the kurukshetra of India against corruption ) on a daily basis. Every team in his company on different project was taking leave on rotation basis, so that they can participate in anti-corruption movement. People in Mayur Vihar walk on the streets on protest every evening. No one cares about Cricket or Kaun Banega Crorepati.

We just want a glimpse of Anna. We just wish him success. We give him support. We love him for bringing back hope and trust in the society, for showing us that protests can be peaceful and protests are necessary to shake the government of the day out of their slumber.

Democracy after all is run by people. We need to cleanse our system, from the self to the society we need to give a good wash now. Now is the moment. Capture it. Participate in it. Feel the passion that drove us to independence.

Who is Guru? Why I need a Guru?

2011-08-11T11:58:00.000+05:30

I was experimental in my youth. We had the attitude of tasting everything indiscreetly and then learn from them. We believed that you must see, hear, touch and feel everything. The emphasis was on sensory pleasures. Nature was outside. Treks and hiking were the norms. Mountain peaks were location of peace.

I went around believing that nature was the best teacher. Keep your eyes and ears open and move your fingers around and mother nature will take care of your learnings.

We never realized why we felt so exhausted at the end of each trip of senses. We just wanted to get rid and drop dead to rest. Anything that led you to deep sleep was considered as cool. But again, the next few days would be tiresome and hangover would continue to haunt us. We would really not understand why our experiments with senses and objects were failing miserably.

The hills were always lush green after monsoon. We cherished them and captured the moments on camera. We created printed photo albums. I dont know where those albums are lost along with the memories and friends with whom we participated in the adventure.

The confusion continued from school to college to multiple job changes. Nature somehow missed to teach us. We were left stranded. What happened to mother nature and all the Gods we prayed and singed prayers in all the temples for? What happened to the peaceful photos of Gautam Buddha and Swami Vivekananda. We read reams and reams of text they had created. There were so many photos of the enlightened ones of past and of Gods. There were so many stories narrated by many.

We saw. We listened. We read.

But still we missed something. Still the pit in stomach remained. You wondered if it remained during sleep too. Still the hesitations remained.

Something like a love was missing. It was not the love based on needs, neither physical nor emotional nor out of boredom or convenience. A love without demand. A love without control. A love in which you simply give and continue to give and still do not exhaust or feel the loss. A love minus transactions.

We dont know if such love exists until we witness the grace of Guru. Only love exists. We are born again out of this different love. Initially you are confused with this sort of loving in which the Guru is only giving and asking about your well being only. He does not have any other question or demand or judgement.

The Guru comes with a name. He walks, talks and move around just like any other normal human being. You are confused at times looking at the frail body moving around, sometimes blowing in the napkin and clearing the nostrils.

I call him Sri Sri RaviShankar and he says "Guru is like a window. When you sit in a room. It has walls and windows. The sky is always present. When you look through the wall you see concrete. When you look through the window you see the beautiful sky, vast and endless, full of stars and moon, a cool breeze touches you. You look at infinity. Infinity is longing to give you love and a Guru is a transparent Window through which you can witness such unconditional love. The window may have glass or might have bars. Despite the presence in bodily form you will experience your true nature via the enlightened Master.
It has no name but still you know.
It has no form but still you can touch.
You experience unknown.
"
A Guru gives you living love. A love which is real. A love that begins in the human form and leads you to formlessness. A love full of feeling. A love that helps you to blossom into the most beautiful flower that you were meant to be. When in the space you and Guru are in separable. The plastic gift wrapper around the bud breaks and the flower blooms into the space.

A Guru will give discourses and answer to your doubts and questions. You will listen and feel nice about it. But if you leave it at feeling nice level only, then you have done a lot of damage. You lost the reason why those words were given to you. Until you experience the meaning of the word your journey/hearing is no better than the trek on top of mountain. At the end of trip/hearing you will be where you came from.

An enlightened master can never make mistake. Mistakes happen in unawareness. A master is aware all the time. He has become witness to the laws of nature. He is connected to the infinite love.

Enlightenment is journey to the unknown. Knowledge will take you on the path. But knowledge will not give you enlightenment. Knowledge will take you to garage but to go home you have to get down from the car and walk the steps to reach home.

There is an unknown force that has transformed Earth otherwise it would have been another Moon. You see so much of science and concrete and development. Who is behind all this? If you think that this is discovered by so and so or invented by so and so then you are limiting the beauty of the unknown.

The Guru is window to this unknown, infinite love. A living Guru can only give living love. Statutes/Photos rely too much on your imagination. Words and sounds can only take you so far. In Guru's love you have a chance of dissolving into the infinite.

PS: Most of the content is derived from Sri Sri RaviShankar's talk on Narada Bhakti Sutra (The aphorisms of love) listened at Hari's place today morning at about 6:30 AM.

Car head light on?

2011-05-01T11:48:00.001+05:30

It was raining hard. I came back into the car. Something fell on top of car from above, not heaven. I wondered lightning and dared not to open the door. Is it safe to be inside or outside of car if lightning strikes on the tree under which your car is parked?

After few secs opened the door and checked, found the tree shedding some dry weight. I was still twisting the key. For the first time in 5 years the twisting key did not start the engine of Maruti Swift. I had no clue in the world. I twisted some more. The wipers moved in slow motion. Stopped them.

I ran to the security at the parking entrance seeking help.
Do you have any cab driver around?
Do you know somebody who can fix a car?
Do you have umbrella?
All negative.
"Today is Saturday, Sir, Nobody is around, rest of the days there are hundreds of cab around". Somebody from behind quipped in "There's a Hyundai showroom on the main road, why don't you go and check with them for mechanic?"

It was still pouring hard, I thought to give it one more try and came back to the car through muddy car parking lot. It looked like a playground converted to car parking. No luck again.

A neighboring car was about to be driven off. I pulled the guts and went and knocked on his window. He said he would not mind dropping me to the main road. Meanwhile I called the 24 hours helpline of Mandovi Motors. The guy disconnected and said he would call back. I thanked the person who helped me with the lift, he had come for the SPIN meeting. Guess some quality initiative in software services world but definitely meant a lot of quality support to me at the right time.

The Mandovi guy called back and said I would need to call another number. He started to give the number. I was out of the lift car, in front of Hyundai service center and in the rain. How in the world could I have noted a number and called it back. He was generous enough to send the number as SMS.

Meanwhile I chatted with the Hyundai service guys and they offered their own help line number. He expressed his inability, he and his branch managers and all. He also mentioned that do not describe your car as Maruti otherwise they will not come. You have a full fledged Hyundai service center within 300 meters of a broken car and they refuse to help because you are a Maruti owner.

I called the Delhi number and here are few questions which the Delhi helping hand of Maruti asked.
Which color is your car?
Which year model?
What make?
Where are you stuck? I explained him the location. He could not get Domlur properly. I asked him to let a local mechanic give me a call and he would be able to understand address better.
Is it under warranty?
You will be charged Rs 300 for a visit.

Finally I got a call from on road support of Pratham motors on inner ring road new Domlur. I got a message from Delhi Maruti help center number that the help will be in 40 mins.

I waited. The rain stopped. Finally the glimpse of the Maruti van. The first question the authorized Maruti mechanic asked was "Did you leave any lights on?" I could not understand the question as the voice was as muddy as soil below soaked in rain.

We reached to the broken car at Sasken car parking lot and he found the headlight open. He switched it off. The car was started, jump-start, 2 mins. The mechanic said it was the most common reason they get a call. The IT professionals park car in dark basement with lights on. They forget to switch if off because they have remote lock.

I said why don't you paste a warning and train novice driver with the advisory that "Your battery will drain off if you leave your lights ON for more than 2 hours". He said everyone knew. Did I? Did you?

I got a call from Delhi helpline after 3 hours. Two questions.
Was your complaint attended to?
How many kilometers has your car traveled?

Why Anna Hazare is a role model?

2011-04-08T21:47:00.000+05:30

We look up to him. We seek his words. We seek inspiration and get from him.

We did not witness Mahatma Gandhi. We are witnessing Gandhi incarnate.

His humility, honesty and courage stands out. He decides to move and the nation follows him. He decides to fast and nation is with him.

He brought in Right to information act. He is bringing corruption to death.

He is not a sports star, not a business house, not a film actor.

He has single focus. He will live and die for India and its people. A social activist.

No accumulation. No money. No cars. No airplanes.

A simple life. A simple house. A simple village.

A former soldier who is shaping India of tomorrow.

Issues he takes are the issues that hurt us all.

Healing he brings will soothe us all.

The beauty of his protest is that you don't have to do anything. Just be there. Just pray. Just sing. Just dance. He will carry the pain of thinking, planning, execution.

In a society in which we seek nook and corner for role model, you have clearly emerged as the one.

We are and always will be with you.

Anna Hazare create self-belief in hopeless Indians

2011-04-08T15:24:00.000+05:30

A nation which had given up.
A nation which had no hope in the system.
A nation which believed in nothing.

कुछ नहीं हो सकता ,

क्यों वक़्त बर्बाद करते हो,

सौ रुपये दो और आगे बड़ो,

ज़िन्दगी मैं और भी गम है,

यह सौ रुपये बचा के क्या करना,

फालतू की कीच कीचक क्यूं करना.

Senior citizen narrated their times of less corruption.

Youth wondered was there ever a time of less corruption.

The common man sweats and burns his blood everyday of his life.

He wants a little money to buy some bread.

He wants a little money to buy some education for his kids.

We created a generation of whales who learnt only to gulp big money.

Huge monsters.

You dare not raised your voice against them.

They were your representative.

They were your killer too.

Murderers.

More than the money they made you hopeless.

More than the society they forced you indoors.

You just bothered about your life.

You just cared to meet both ends meet.

What can I do?

Who will support?

My voice is so weak even a kitten will not move.

A generation low on confidence and high on consumerism.

We don't care what happens in the common area.

We care only what happens in my 1000 square foot.

Give up.You.

One man thought otherwise.

He could dare at age of 72.

He did not fear death.

He loves India.

He made the move.

Take my life but give me belief in the system.

Punish the corrupt.

They belong to jail.

Release the common man from his 10*20 flat.

Give him freedom.

Give him hope.

Show him power.

No force on earth can stifle a people's movement.

You never know when the waves may turn into tsunami.

An earthquake has shaken our belief system.

Now is the time to ride the wave.

Move.

Rise.

Outdoor is beautiful.

Outdoor has like minds.

Feel the power of democracy.

Its more than elections and vote banks.

Its about you and me and how we can change.

Believe.

IAN Bootcamp at Bangalore 2011

2011-04-08T10:26:00.000+05:30

A unique exposure.
A unique game.
A noisy venue.

The day started with car washer taking away the car keys but not returning them in time. I had to scout for him in Brigade Gardenia campus. One of his supporting staff had the key. When I got into the car, suddenly he appeared from nowhere. Wish househelp on android market could send reminders to forgetful casual contractors (aha! a new term).

The road was silken. The traffic was non-existent. The day was Sunday 3rd April 2011, fresh from India World cup Cricket Victory.

No one in embassy golf links knew where Microsoft Signature Building was. Parked the car in basement. Loitered here and there. Finally stumbled upon the building.

I was late. The organizers were late in starting the first session. So got a chance to hear Sharad Sharma, a pleasant speaker who insisted that we were in cusp of another IT revolution in India. Here is our chance to grab it and live it.

Did you know that Indian Angel Network is a group of individuals from diverse background of society to help startup environment in India?

It was followed by panel discussion. The first speaker insisted that we highlight our challenge in the next 6 months. I did. I got generic response. One speaker said it was a personal issue. The point of the question was

"How do angels figure in the life of an entrepreneur who needs to earn his bread as well give justice to his ideas, to his dreams?"
The response summary was "Have real customers to validate your idea, use up your friends and family money and then get angel". How is that different from approaching a VC?

Two startups who benefited from angel funding got to present their point of view. It is important to have a single voice in the angel community to take up your cause, he will gather more angels for you. Angels can take you to places and contacts whom it might be harder to get to in normal life.

We got to pitch our ideas. Thanks to all friends and their friends and their friends who liked the idea of househelp. I could present the idea, had nice lunch on Sunday afternoon, meet some nice people and did not even pay for it. If you have ideas you do not have to pay for attending events.

Lunch was with college students. Two final students from PESIT were present on their own account. Thank you Microsoft citizen chapter. Did you know that even Freelancers can become part of bizspark programme too? You need not be a company but you have to be in products space. You can also pitch in for bizspark startup challenge.

The game. Post idea presentation we were given form. Get as many money from the audience for your idea. Everybody was given Rs. 20000 fake currency. Listeners had to act angels and distribute their fund to ideas that they believed in. We had to go around asking for funds and elaborating on our idea. Fun.

Post game was presentation from three startups stories from yourstory.in. Nice.
The last session was from embrace. Inspiring.

Thank you springboard ventures and Indian angel network for a wonderful Sunday.

Corruption unites India

2011-04-08T09:16:00.000+05:30

India has got a single voice in form of Anna Hazare.

Corruption has eaten into development and shaken the morals of Indian society. We know it for a long time. Political parties have known it for a long time. There have been mild protests now and then. Numbers have been thrown in tonnes of losses we incurred due to corruption. There have been instances of whistleblowers losing their life.

No one had.
No one could.
No one dared.
We took it as part of our existence. An unnatural truth.
Now.
One man stood up.
One man held his head high.
One voice shook the nation.
A single voice has taken the imagination of youth.
A voice of a 73 year old gentleman who lives in village temple somewhere near pune.

He decided enough was enough.
The simmering have led to flames. Now the jungle is witnessing wildfire.
Corrupt will burn. Corrupt will be sentenced to jail.

A hope is born for a society. A movement is shaping up. A revolution to clean.
Beware.
The new Gandhi is marching.
Join.

When will you be happy?

2011-03-28T22:46:00.000+05:30

The more memory you have the less you will be happy.
The more you relive the past the less you will live today.
The more you correct the world the less you will see corrections.

There are three aspects. Nature, Maya and Money. Nature is composed of five elements. Maya is composed of five विकार vices like anger, lust, greed, etc., Money is the object.

Maya causes corruption in your nature, both within and outside. You blame money.

Can money be the cause of happiness or unhappiness?

Money is the instrument. If you play well you will produce soothing rhythms. If you are anxious you will break strings.

Can money influence your feeling? Can money help you with your mental strength? Can money create courage, faith, love?

How you feel is how you think?

Your thoughts are pure, your feelings are pure.

Your thoughts are reckless, you feel chaos.

In reality you are not performing any action. You are dull, lethargic.

Your mind is racing. Your body is still.

Imagine the bleeding it will cause to your mind.

Your body is hurt, you can see the cut, you can see the blood, you can feel the pain.

Your mind is hurt by continuous onslaught of waste thoughts.

You put ointment to cure the body. How will you cure the mind?

Do you realize that your mind is hurt? Are you aware of the hurt your thoughts have caused to your mind?

A pill can relieve your physical pain. A pill can distract and calm your mind for a while.

But how will you make your mind calm and your body active?

You take the body to gym, swimming pool, badminton court. You jog. You walk.

Where will you take the mind? How will you exercise it? How will you keep it energized? How will you disallow waste negative dissipative thoughts?

Can you ?

PS: Most of the thoughts are derived from Sister Shivani, Dadi Janki and Sri Sri Ravishankar ji. They belong to Brahmakumaris and Art of living.

What does your daughter want?

2011-03-28T22:27:00.000+05:30

I saw a parent hitting a the back palm of a girl child aged about 5 in front of sweet shop, beside SLV in RBI Layout.
Her offense.
She was holding a pole that must have gathered dust during the day. She was merely playing with it. Of-course her palms would get dirty. She may acquire infection. But does that justify the swift hard movement of an adult arm to distract and hurt her.

She managed to go into her mother's arm. Mother then changed attention of father to the sweets that they had to buy. The girl looked at the Frootie in the cold storage. Her mother followed her gaze and offered to buy her. The father would have regained his senses as he relented.

Then we moved on to Everfine, a supermarket. Second floor has gift section. A girl aged about 6 was urging her parents for a fancy item.
Her mother "Beta, you have so many of them at home, you have not yet opened them, play with them first and then we will think about this".
Her father "Behave yourself, I don't like your whimpering, you have so much still you want more, let us go".
Their faces were grim as they tried to discipline their child.
Just then a friend appeared, both faces converted to grin as they dragged their daughter out of the kids section.

How did you treat your daughter today?

Life without judgements

2011-03-19T10:06:00.000+05:30

How many times do you judge yourself?
How many times do you judge people around you?
How many times do you form opinions on situations that affect you?
How many times do you form opinions on situations that do not affect you?

You are not this.
You are not that.
She is like this.
She is like that.

I wish she could behave better.
I wish my situation improves.

Why is she shouting at me?
Why is she doing this when I stopped her from doing so?
How many times do I have to remind you not to do that again?

I want you to improve. That is why I shout at you. I cannot tolerate you doing mistakes.

How dare the auto whisked past me?
How dare the auto driver is asking me for extra 10 rupees?
How dare the auto driver refusing to go where I want to go?
Doesn't the bus conductor have minimum courtesy?
See, the cop stopped me to take a bribe.
See, the clerk across the counter is smiling and talking about everything else except my file. Smells like bribe.

STOP
Just be in the situation without judgement.

Tell me a situation in which you smiled and did not pass judgement. Think.

If you are still thinking then please participate in a situation without judgement and tell me about it.

I am waiting to hear...

Please do not over-judge and maul your lovely being.

Situations are puppet shows

2011-03-14T23:40:00.000+05:30

Do situations throw you left and right?
Do you treat every situation as tsunami? You become and let it overwhelm you.

Did you know that contentment leads to stability? Stability builds a protection layer around you. This stability allows you to witness situations as puppet shows. This stability allows you to impart positive assurance in your surroundings. It gives hope and support to your spouse, children, neighbors, colleagues and bosses.

Stability is your energy state. If there is noise in your surroundings. If there is dissatisfaction, discontentment you will be engulfed in a tsunami of negative emotions. If your level of energy is lower than your surroundings then you will be swept away, blown apart and become hundred broken glass pieces. Your remaining life will be left for gathering the glass pieces.

But if you are protected then you will nullify the chaos. You will bring stability around you. Your contentment will survive.

How do I get stability? How do I get the protection layer? How can I be content?
You ask who you are.
You ask who is your father.
You ask where are you from.

You meditate for the answers. HE will answer. In one form or other. It will not be FAQ. Heres the question and heres the answer below it. You will float the question to HIM and he will let you know when you are ready.

You are peace.
You are born out of ocean of love and peace.
You are from above where all souls originate.

When you break up human behavior. Rip them apart from their body consciousness and expose their soul. You get to meet the same you. All souls by nature are peace loving, powerful being. You are too powerful and peace loving. Be in soul consciousness. Drink this knowledge everyday with every sip of water that you take.

God's love is in you. You are love. The more you allow HIM to be near you , the more you will feel safe and protected. The more energy flows from HIM to you. You become reservoir of energy. Surroundings and situations will sap energy out of you but you will get your refill with every sip of water. HE becomes the shield around you.

Imagine the energy rays coming towards you, filling you with GOD's love. The more the fill , the more it will brim out of you. Your face will glow. Your body will shine.

Its all been taken care of. Remind yourself of your true nature. You too will LOVE you.

THANK YOU NOTE - Sister Shivani - Awakening with Brahmakumaris - Aastha Channel - 7:10 PM today and everyday

What is your belief system?

2011-03-13T23:14:00.000+05:30

Anger is needed to get work done.
You shout on the cook and he makes better food tomorrow.
You show aggression to the pizza delivery boy and he waives off the cost of pizza.
You honk madly at the car in front of you and he moves aside.
You shout at your kid and he starts to study.
You express dissatisfaction at your staff and their future delivery improves.
You have seen it since childhood. You have responded to it. When people are angry around you only then you do work.

You have achieved the honor of glorying anger as a tool to get work done.

Now, Can you change your belief system to "Love is needed to get work done."
You will be smashed with withdrawal symptoms. You will feel an irresistible desire to scream. This is not how it is done. People around you will not care about your soft manners. They can ignore you. They will not accept you as their boss, spouse,father,child. You will lose your relationship.

Do you feel the grip of fear yet? If I change my belief system to something which is closer to my natural being I am bombarded with fearful thoughts? Another belief system "Negativity is natural".

You want the whole world to treat you like a baby doll. Love you. Hug you. Like you. But you do not want to give them the same want.

When you are angry you are hurting yourself? Anger is negative energy. Everytime you shout you create it in your being. The person shouted at gets hurt, he may be incapable of responding but hurt also gives back negative energy. And if you have shouted successfully at 10 people in a day you have deteriorated your health by more than 20 times. You fall sick. You dont know the reason. You are addicted to medicine and hope the tablet will keep you alive.

It is not your body. It is your mind which is corrupted by the belief system. It is at core. Your thoughts. Your behavior. Everything else is simply responding on basis of your belief system. Change your belief system, change the blueprint of your being. Your existence.

You dont speak to your child. You punish her. She is sorry for her mistake. She is begging for attention to pardon her. You are quite. You think "Look you have made a mistake, Now mama will not talk to you". You are giving guilt to your child. She is getting hurt. Her guilt is negative energy. It is depleting her. You say "I do everything for my child, I have been through so much pain just to bring her to this stage and now how can she hurt me in this way". You count your sacrifices.

Your GOAL is to empower your child. Make her strong. Make her fountain of positive energy. But what you give her is GUILT. Your GOAL is GUILT. Please talk it out with your child, forgive them, do not develop the belief system in them that "If I punish you then you will not do that mistake again."

You only have a body. There is only one size of clothe that will fit your body. Your mother comes with one sized clothes, your father with another, your siblings with another, your spouse with another, your friends with another, your children with another. Can you shrink and expand your body to best fit all? What will happen to you if you simply expand and collapse your body everyday of your life? Will you tailor your body or will you tell the tailor "Look heres my body and this is the size most suitable to it".

You have to be IN-DEPENDENT. When you are OUT-DEPENDENT you exhaust your energies in trying to please all, make everyone happy around you. Be grim with friend who likes you to be quite, Be cheerful and humorous to the friend who likes you that way. But when you go to sleep how do you feel about the day. Could you be yourself? Did you take good care of yourself? Did you live up to your expectation of yourself or did you let yourself be measured and curated by your tailor?

When you are healed, you will be able to heal others.
The only one who is giving you unconditional and pure love is within you. You have created layers of belief system over it. They have guised his appearance. Unpeal. Remove the layers of onions. You will cry but when you reach the core there will be only one belief system.

You are peace
You are love

PS- Notice there is no full stop after both above sentences.

Thank you - Brahmakumari Sister Shivani, Suresh Oberai, Aastha Channel.
Thank you Mona didi and Roma for letting me know about "Awakening with Brahmakumaris" every sunday at 9:30 PM on Aastha Channel.

Hit by a meru cab

2011-03-03T22:48:00.000+05:30

First it cut through in front, coming from the side. Then I was stuck behind a stationary broken truck and was slowly turning to right of the road. It continued to honk. I heard a thud noise. The road was full of noise so I ignored the noise. Spouse wondered "Did something hit the car?". I said No.

Then it allowed me to go to the right side. I crossed to left side after crossing the broken truck. It raced beside me to send me a message. The driver of the Meru cab was gesturing and waving. Even I got animated and told him "You did not see the broken truck or what?". He pulled down the windows and threw few abuses and went past. Again in super speed. I did not realize then that he had the guts to be aggressive post a deliberate hit.

I am sure he would have graduated from auto and recruited by Meru. The cab has distinct identity from outside. I thought they recruited professional drivers but post this ugly incident I really doubt. In the business of making quick bugs you speed past creditable employees.

When I reached home I saw the dent beside the side of rear door. And a long scratch till the door. When someone hits from behind you really know how desperate they are to own the road space.

If you are hit by a Meru Cab, You can leave a feedback at http://www.merucabs.com/customer-support/commentsfeedback.php Dont hope that Meru would come down and apologize but be happy that you have spoken your word.

Happy driving on Bannerghatta road between Ranka colony and Mandovi motors. Desparate cabs generally come from 16th main road from BTM layout and rush in to capture the Bannerghatta road in Bangalore. The time would be around 8PM, today and on most days. When you see Meru, give the same respect as you give to the Auto. Nothing less.

Post coverage in Bangalore Mirror for househelp on android @ourhousehelp - 3

2011-02-10T11:41:00.000+05:30

Photo is print media continues to inspire me to give a third in this series of posts. Hopefully trilogy end here.

So lets get rolling.

Mahesh kale , a college alumni left a message on linkedin.com. Harshal Gaikwad and Milind Deshpande have liked the blog post on Facebook.

Priyank and Bhuvnendu have also liked the status on Facebook.

Geeta ji who sits diagonally behind me. You don't notice when she comes, when she goes or when she is having her lunch. Her presence is quite.
We share office space. The space is provided by elagaan.com. Navin at elagaan put out a notice in bangalore coffee club and we took the opportunity. If you are nearby Arekera Mico Layout, Bangalore then do check out this place. There are few more seats left.

But yesterday, she came over and whispered to me.
"I saw your photo in paper. I told all my people. "
"I reminded them that its the same person whose application I had described some days back. "

Few days back I had given demo of househelp to them. They used to wonder about what I could do sitting in a chair for whole day long facing a dell laptop.

Pre-photo days in Bangalore Mirror, friends, family and relatives too wondered. What I was upto? You get the general recognition. You are not taken seriously. You could pass as fake.

Post-photo days. People call back. Send email. Send SMSes. Post on linkedin. Send tweets. They think you are genuine. You have potential. You are worth talking too and saying hello.

So lets come back to the roll call.

Venu from E306 in Brigade Gardenia sent SMS. "Congratulations, I read Hindu, came to know from Prime (we covered him in the part 2 of this series) and your blog is quite interesting to read, lot of stuff in your blog, very informative, came to know of only today.Its amazing. Keep up ur good work. "

So guys if you have come this far do check out this blog too for other posts.

This should have been said on the first day but let me compensate for the lapse. In the previous version we have seen how our Security class is educated. They can follow you through print media. Make them realize their potential. Give them opportunity. Go.

We were lost in the post media glare when Manjula, our housemaid commented.
"Call up your Mother. "

Its just a four word sentence but the power of it says it all.
You are because of your parents. Reach out to them in your days of glory.
They would be the happiest of the lot. My mother immediately called up her brother in Orcha and he call me back immediately. We call him Papa mama.

My father struggled with the internet links and came back from office. Called me to find out why he could find househelp coverage. With some phone support he managed to view
http://yfrog.com/hs10309574j
http://bit.ly/h5D13p

While coming back home, a lady rushed into the lift. Sonia Bhandari who lives on fifth floor, wondered
"What machine have you made
Saw your photo in paper
Congrats"
I went into typical demo mode
"Yeah, its a simple phone based application on google based phone."

(Android is a term for developers, general pubic knows Google for its search and thus a Google powered phone is not Google phone but Samsung's Phone. Quite a mouthful. Hope Google recognizes the efforts we are putting in to educate the masses one by one. )

"It is used to track people like cooks and housemaids."
"Do you use it?"
"Yes."
Then my floor came and the demo was abrupted. She promised that she will come to know more about it.

Let me know if you need to promote househelp on android to your friends and relatives. Few videos and screenshots are kept here.

Final Word:
Media can be powerful medium in making you interact with your neighborhood. Impact of the photo is unimaginable. Words speak but can get lost in the tonnes of pages that are there. But visuals like photo and video stay. So go shoot.