Sunday, February 22, 2009
DELHI 6
Thursday, February 19, 2009
conversation with RISHI JI
So he started the conversation with some brilliant jokes let me see if i can remember
" ek aadmi uske gaon me dadagiri ke saath sher ban ke ghumta tha to ek din ek aadmi ne
usse poocha ki tum yahan to bade sher bane ghumte ho ghar par kya ho jata hai ,
to usne kaha ki sher to main ghar par bhi rehta hoon bus ghar me "DURGA MAA" sawaar ho jati hai."
Q. What is enlightenment?
A: Enlightenment is doing trivial things. Enlightenment is letting go, like a child. Choti choti baate karne se badi cheeze hasil hoti hai means when you do the small things you get big results. For e.g. your parents/school teachers taught you to read/write and learn the tables etc., and so you have the educational qualification that you have today.
Q. Too many thoughts and cravings come to my mind. How do I handle this?
A: Two prominent things that influence the mind are food that you eat and the company you keep. Sadhana, satsang and seva lead to perfecion at 3 levels:a. Sadhana purifies the thoughts and feelingsb. Satsang purifies and cultures your speechc. Seva brings perfection in actionQ. Rishiji, you look tired today!A: How can I be tired? Because I am just a witness, I don't do anything.
Q. We are organizing The March Against Corruption and Terrorism on 1 Mar at Parliament Street, Delhi. How should we increase our speed and effectiveness in reaching out to more youth and enrolling them for the event? We are not happy with the results we have got so far.
A: Do you guys sit up till late in the night?...haa ...see thats not a good habit. What do you do till so late in the night? Discusions, planning? Why do you plan so much? Everything is already planned. You just have to do it! And whatever you plan in the night, will most likely not work out. Night time is not auspicious for making plans/sankalpas. Always do planning in the morning. Its more shubh (auspicious).
Q. Yoga Vasistha emphasizes a lot on self-effort. So if everything is planned then what should our effort be?
A: You effort is to keep the mind in the present moment.Rishiji said your entire focus should be on increasing your satva. Satva badhao.
And while Ram and Kapil were soaking in the Rishi's presence, I was enjoying being a witness to Bawa answering questions by some IIT Delhi YesPlus students at our adda (A1-266 Safdarjung Enclave, South Delhi) of the The March core organizing team. Ya ya, I know you would like to defnitely hear what Bau said. You will see it soon on my blog.Love & Jai Gurudev
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
IT'S A MIND GaMe ..........
Saturday, February 14, 2009
GOD( SRI SRI) IS MY VALENTINE FOR THIS LIFE TIME
KOLKATA: "Make God be your Valentine. We will never be ditched, deceived or deprived," said Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at a Satsang in Kolkata on Saturday
when the city was in the grip of the Valentine's Day fever. The Art of Living founder said the world is so distraught because of the absence of love.
"Even if there is love, the problem exists. Because, there is wrong expression of it. Love without wisdom (gyan) can also bring trouble. If love comes with wisdom, there will be joy, satisfaction and benediction," he said addressing a crowd at the Rabindra Sarovar stadium.
On the attacks on people celebrating Valentine's Day, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said: "The extreme reaction comes out of fear. Our culture, heritage is not so fragile that one celebration would destroy it. There should be due respect to decency and decorum. But if you apply force against the violators, they will only increase. Force is no solution. Let it happen, if something is bad, people will reject it automatically."
The Art of Living Guru prescribed five steps to get out of sufferings. First, you have to understand the time you are in. Secondly, do some Yoga and Sadhana. Yoga will stop bad things from happening in your life. Thirdly, think that you have overcome many a problem in your life and will eventually also overcome the problem causing you suffering. Next, you must understand that there are people whose suffering is much worse than yours. Put yourself in the seva' of that person. Finally, have complete faith in nature's law no suffering is perpetual. Suffering will come and go.
"There are two modes you can be in participating and witnessing. We apply both wrongly and end up being unhappy. You must participate in joy and witness suffering. Whenever there is happiness, participate no matter whose happiness it is. When there is suffering, observe it. But what we generally do is that we only participate in suffering, whoever's it is. But when there is real cause of happiness, we become its mere witness," .
JAI GURU DEV
Friday, February 13, 2009
Kapil's latest song for the march against corruption and terrorism
BiG CHiLL
Thursday, February 12, 2009
different people are different in different cities
i guess im back after 5 months .... i guess i feel different these days cause im in delhi . I have come to delhi to organize the MARCH against corruption and terrorism .. But we have been doing mini march ourselfs shiting from one house to another :) almost every alternate day ... but its fun cause im with the best team in delhi , im wit saleel da , upi dee , kapil , rupal x , rohit , nikhil .....
Right now we all r staying at nikhil's house , His family is so sweet ... i love them a lot nikhil's mom is the sweetest of all ...anyways today i was in one of the most famous colleges in delhi called the IP unversity with few volunteers and a baloon (pri.....) . So i spoke to almost 70 students frm the college , telling them how imp it is for them to participate in this peace march , but non of them showed any interest .. everyone looked so dull and life less ... Here im standing in front talking to them very enthusiasticly , but non of them showed any reaction .. it was SHOcking that no one here wants to do something for their country .. i guess people here are DIFFERent ....