Aho Niranjan !!

The Ashtavakra Gita is a great Indian Scripture and referred to as the highest knowledge by Guru g. Fortunate enough my journey has been in the Art of Living that in less than a year of my joining the family, I have been graced with the supreme knowledge. How my life was almost a year back would be a different story altogether. But how a part of this year- the last few days, when I got a chance to hear Ashtavakra, brought a transformation in me, is what I will put in this post.

The whole process of listening to the CDs, spread over some 25 days, was magnanimous..or to better put it..so enlightening. As I heard to each verse, something was dropping in me simultaneously, something whose even existence I had never felt off, which was..I don’t know where in me.. But then, I was getting rid of it. And there was a huge sigh of relief every moment I realized it. There was this memory of the past stupid notions about things and then immediately dropping them, as Guru g’s words were touching me. When there was a desire to be an actor of Guru g’s words, the realization of already being one suddenly boomed up. Further, as the days passed, I still remember, when I wished to hold those moments of knowledge forever, how delicately Guru g would talk about being in the present moment. His words had an instant effect that time. There was no dearth of grace, there never is, and now I could realize.



Every time, the “Aho Niranjan” he spoke, would create a vibration in my heart. I was in love. And what a love! Moreover, what a scope of this love! Yea, it was the dawn of better days. Everything did appeared beautiful, so different since then. Every moment was bright, no mood swings- only one mood! But even special was that I could clearly, more closely relate to Guru g. There was a smaller distance now visible to me between me and the people around me. I was behaving like being a part of people around me those days. I could clearly see, the more I can expand into this love, the more I can merge into everything. So deeply was this love imbibed into the moments of my life that neither the question of the purpose of creation nor the storm of emotions could shake my this state.

Such strongly has the content been expressed and versed by Guru g, I really cannot put the feeling into words, of “how it feels after having this divine bath” ! Not really a good idea to write a post and then put it onto your blog. I mean, yea, I did not do a justice, perhaps.

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Jai Gurudeva,
Lots of Love,
Bhanu

Let me..

When people are short of words, they become poets... that is just how I think, no need to be serious. But I am, and here are few lines I penned down..

For a day let me be a child

that I can live in the present always..

For a day let me be the tranquil breeze

that I can gift a gentle smile my own way..

For a day let me be the sky so vast

that I can fulfill what all you pray..

For a day let me be the sea shore

that I be the witness to creation's best each day..

For a day let me be the God's wish

that I be one with whatever you say..

For a day let me be the gleaming moonlight

that my radiance can flourish away..

For a day let me be the ocean wave

that I don't resist to find my own way..

For a day let me celebrate life

that I become one with my SELF..

I already had its review done from Ashu - The Cruel Critic! So now, only praises are welcomed and be4 doing so, please remember...its my FIRST poem ever. OK?

Loads of love,
Bhanu

Right Wrong, Good Bad, Positive Negative....

The topic of this post is the crux of what led to a half-left discussion with my friends. I was having lunch with them when a sudden intellectualization of their thoughts began to come out in words. Just putting forward this parable as QnA, thereby, completing that discussion ;) and that would be one of the reasons how my love for this blog nurtured surreptitiously :)

PS: There are two answers to each ques. The first one was my instant reaction in words and the second one, perhaps was going at the back of my mind!

Q: How can you justify every teaching of your Guru?
A1: I dont judge it as right or wrong! Right or wrong is nothing but an allegory of the mind and may vary from person to person.
A2: To whom to justify, to me or to you? If its to me, it becomes easy coz my mind never asks for one. It is one level, up or below, whatever you take it as! It digests all, what is positive of discrimination. If its to you, it becomes easier even. There are two ways. Either accept me as I am, but that would be hard for you bcoz you need to judge and intellectualize that. So the only left option is repeat the YES!+ to intertwine your innocence and this time do some more warms ups so that you shall be able to take it complete and not leave it in between !!

Q: You are being a diplomat ! Don't you need to judge what is good or bad?
A1: How does rigidity of thoughts help? Hard bounding everything is nothing but a sign of limited conciousness of your years on earth.
A2: Being a diplomat is gud, no? (dictionary meaning: a person who is tactful and skillful in managing delicate situations..lol). Perfect judgement, either u accept it or not, will corroborate only in case you are God. When there is doubt, only then the stage of judgement comes and then the categorization to good or bad. And when you know, u do !! You can always put it safely as 'good for you' or 'bad for you' coz that is when you are limited to your definitions.

Q: We always put things as good or bad and then accept. We dont even listen to our parents in one go. You cant keep accepting blindly whatever he says ?(oh, i dint even reached the level of sanity of this one)
A1: I do listen and consider my parents words in one go. No more negativity please ( I m on diet. No heavy things@lunch) ! Lets go.
A2: Isn't love blind? It is. lol.

Q: How can you classify positivity and negativity? You said there is no good or bad.
A1: There is a difference between positive-negative and good-bad.
A2: Did your ever hear your medical reports saying you are good or bad, its always positive or negative! Sounds weird logic? Best remedy is dont go by logic.

Q: What is the difference between good-bad and positive-negative?
A1: Good Bad relates to when you are rigid in categorizing them according to your optimum level of intellect. While, Positive Negative is not at the level of judgement, but at the level of energy, vibes, intuition.
A2: Good question finally. Postive and negative are more born out of emotions and emotion is Energy-in-Motion. It is a way of expressing oneself in life. It is the quality of how one relates to life. It should more be understood as a description of the main action. Judging and putting it either as "good" or "bad" isn't very helpful. Doubt is what opposes confidence. Once you eliminate the negative, you will see that the positive has already happened and that is how you tackle your emotions !

PS: Not forgetting to mention, I love them both though ! (This clarification go's only for people exceptionally bad at discerning things )
PPS: Do comment, it encourages me to write more :)

Lots of Love,
Bhanuja

Plant a tree..

The world war III, if so, would be after water. That water would ever be sold, was out of question a decade ago. You could quench your thirst with much ease in those earlier days. Its no far that the earth would be in such dearth of water that there will be survival of only the fittest.

We need to take responsibility asap. I always had a notion that how would my planting one tree make a different to the earth's resources. Until I did my first DSN course, hardly did I ever realize how supportive people are when once you are in hegemony of doing something good. I still remember the fruit wala in Kishangarh taking ownership of the sapling we planted near his rehdi. He said," I will take care of this." We planted almost 200 trees as a part of our seva project in DSN and would again be gathering on 31st to own some more saplings and get attached to their lives till they grow independent.

And still 'dialectically' what I found:

If not Earth, where?
If not Now, when?
If not You, who?

Think global, Act Green :)

Guru g always makes it easy :) By Mission Green Earth, what a beautiful platform he has provided to serve our motherland! Mission Green Earth is a global programme to fight global warming with a target of 10 crore tree plantation. This is a part of UN sponsored Millenium Developement Goals Programme and in now called mission green earth standup take action 08 program. To get more details about this programme, visit http://www.standuptakeactionaolun.com/take-action.html

Contact your nearest Art of Living volunteer in case u r geared up for some plantation :)

Love,
Bhanu

The Emotional Garbage

How to deal with our emotions? Big problem! Although we have grown older - beyond the ‘teenage’, we more often fail to grow beyond ‘teenage’ mentally. You know, our body grows in a particular sequence. In the first seven years, the physical body grows but the intellect does not grow; then up to fourteen years, the intellect grows. The period from 14 to 21 years is for emotional maturity. So the general belief is that you become physically mature, then intellectually mature and finally, you become emotionally mature.

However, many do not grow to that maturity at all. Lack of emotional maturity is always worrying about your emotions - feeling as though you are a victim of your own emotions: “Oh! I feel like this! I feel like that! What to do?” What will you do? Who cares about your feelings? Why do you worry so much about your feelings? Your feelings keep changing. Sometimes you feel bad; but the bad feeling doesn’t stay with you forever. It changes and you start feeling good once again; but even that ‘good’ feeling does not stay forever. Nobody can feel bad or good ALL the time; the good and bad feelings come like waves. You can’t stop a wave that has already arisen; nor can you make a wave rise just like that. Just as waves come and go, clouds come and go, so also emotions come and go. Waves of different emotion come. And they disappear. But we make it such a big issue: “Oh, I feel good! Oh, I feel bad! I feel this way, I feel that way, nobody cares for me…” - all these complaints keep bombarding our minds. This emotional garbage is so useless; and it is also a sign of emotional immaturity.

Jai Gurudeva :)

Chak de fatte...

Yes!! That was how the youth of 6th Aug batch of Yes Plus was! Kudos to their effortless happiness and undeterred childishness :) The fluctuations of hallelujah and silence in the hall kept phenominally ecstatic and austere ambience throughout the course. The hall was blooming with the charming eyes of blithful spirits. It was all together a different level of energy, with Ramneek bhaiya in the full flow!
The last day of the course, and people did not want to leave the hall. I can remember people sharing their experiences with bubbling joy. "I was in a marriage and I danced like I have never danced before. My friend asked me 'kehdi peeti aa'?", remarked a boy and vowed not to consume alcohal the rest of his life. Another pretty doll was all excited when she told that she can be with this knowledge for all the rest of her life. People also shared how they feel like a miracle has happened when they have shed their negativities in the meagre span of 7 days of their life! I still visualize the glitter of those innocent eyes when they shared their belongingness to each other in the last moments of the course!! It is really amazing to experience heaven on earth when you such a play of love!

The infy junta at the course was elated, much as others, to have learnt the "Art of Living" ! I saw Sarv smiling with full enthu which had never happened before. The feeling of togetherness was so visible in them. Vikas seemed to have touched a high of his life :) In Vaibhav I could see a sense of satiation. Neema was already dancing in joy! Laveen got her form back, and big way this time :) We missed Sabharwal though ;) Saurabh was all the time sighing to have a camera click with bhaiya, and finally I got him the success with my Nokia N 73. Here are the cheerful infy smiles for you......

It was already 10:30 when we were dancing outside in rain with Ramneek Bhaiya. Munish showered the litters again for the last time before bhaiya left for university. We dropped Vibhore and Rohit to the hostel and set out to find a food venture in Chandigarh at 11:30 in the night. To our perfect delight, we were to taste those yummy paranthas that the food ventures of the entire city were closed and we landed up at ISBT, Sector-17. Saurabh brought a great sense of relief to the hungry souls by enlightening us about the fame these paranthas had in taste. Earlier in the day, me and Saurabh were both missing to have catched up with Rohit. But ah! We got a pleasant surprise when we met Rohit at the bus stand. We all had our tummy-full dinner and Gaurav's tummy satiated with 3 paranthas! Making it clear before hand though, it was no induction.

All in all an eventful day ! Also, an amazing completion of two years of Yes Plus in Chandigarh :)

Energy on heights !

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance :)

YES!+ Chandigarh begins today with Ramneek Bhaiya. Some more lucky Chandigarh youth is ready to drench in knowledge. The energy wrapped days are back again!! The masti, khapp, raulla is back with a bang to enhance the inner silence...

I attended my first Youth Empowerment and Skills workshop 2 months back, thx to Amitesh bhaiya and Tanu di. It changed my outlook to life and turned me inwards. I could better handle my emotions and stabilize my mind. I came close to myself. I could observe things more keenly and with clarity. The discrimination became easy and the goal became clear :) I arose more confident and came out of the course bubbling with joy. The traits of childishness are back. No longer do I need to say....If I were a child !...haha..Its back in me, I can feel the energy, joy, expression, committment, free-ness and natural-ness of a child ;) I can now relate better to my brother, parents, friends ,colleagues. Love was already in the air but I grabbed it just after the course. So, I am in love with almost everyone and everything on this earth. Made some great friends during the course: Paras g, who is a wonderful person and an Art of living teacher too!...and Saurabh and Gaurav are the gems I discovered during the course. These two guys are also from infy and before I met them at the course I had no idea that they belonged to the same department in my office :p Will let you know some interesting Saurabh Gaurav stories later. Another beautiful gal I met was Radhika, who can cook the most delicious meethe chawal I ever had! Then there was the ever cute Hrishi with great photogenic capabilities.

The world seems a One World family :):)..Vasudeva Katumbhakam !!

Go and do the next YES!+ now! :):)

Lots of love,
Jai Gurudeva,
Bhanuja