3 years!

It was d day,when i was studying @ discrete stuctures sem 4..A fair guy banged my door.I welcomed him inside as he told me that my mum had send him to talk to me!N It was something @ an art of living YES!+ Course...
n yeap..my mind was not at all ready 2 listen anything apart from d discrete math.still i couldnt say no to him..he kept on speaking speakin speakin speakin.... n i was Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

Days passed on n it was 1st week of January 2008,i used to get calls from this guy daily for d above said funny workshop!i ignored his phone calls daily!Ultimatelty,he landed up at my home wid a form n said me to fill it up!I just did it for my Moms sake as it was a vacation time with nothing 2 do!
But spirituality is something what i neever wanted to be wid me!i was almost an anti-spiritual person...
I did d workshop!N yeap to be very genuine n honest "I DIDNT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING"
But yeap i liked to be in this group of enthusiastic Guys!n it continued..............................................................


Thanks Amol Ghuge for really giving me dis path... Thanks 2 mum 2....
Thanks 2 Sachin,Ashish,Mitali,Rahul.. U guys made it real special ...
n big thanks to Anjana di for giving me dis knowledge...truly greatful 2 her for all!The time when she supported me n blasted me when i was goin wrong somewhere..The time When all my doubts where handled by her........

Dats all for tonight!Indepth what happened in these 3 years in the next post...
interesting stories.... kissas.....The true Mentors in my life.....

Shubhratri
Jgd
Jayesh!

My Gurustory

well after many many days i m posting somethng n yeap i am very happy 25  youths r yes!+ graduates now!

Well alot of gurustories happened i mean series of gurustory n i am very much eager to share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

will share in d next post!
Ambarish da n RBK rocking Kalyan wid few superb things!
Till den
ps:i dont know if pranay's reading dis blog,i am waitng for his post @ bau;s stay wid some lovely pics
have a gr8 day
jgd
Jayesh

Time to get Crazy!

There were three monkeys n a master!Whenever the master used to give bananas to any one particular monkey the other monkeys would beat n bash the other monkeys.This continued for a period of time..
The master decided to replace the monkey with another one..So here came a new monkey.Again the master gave the banana to a particular monkey -same thing happened other two started beating n bashing up the other monkey.The monkey which whas being beaten up had no clue @ what was happening??why it was getting beaten up!!!!!!!!!1

So finally the master  decided to change all the monkeys and here came a new set of 3 monkeys--result :::Same thing happend....

So the Master asked the monkeys finally ""why you guys are fighting??'''

The monkeys had no clue too(lol)..They absolutely had no idea!
So one monkey replied"its a trend that other monkeys gavee it to them"

TREND::
wow!soo many people feel WOW after doing their first sudarshan kriya.They get blissed out after doing the yes!+ courses!But again it becomes a trend.."If my friend comes for follow-ups then only i will come"
"If my friend does the course then only i will do"
Time to get crazy now!
Rashmin da said""do crazy to make a difference"
We all know Guruji's coming to mumbai on 13-14-15 january!
So we all really cannot afford to follow any particular trend which someone has set it!(lol)
Also we are having a mega YES!+ wid bawa n dinesh from 9-12 Jan @ Mumbai

So time to gear up !

Hope u guys had a great Diwali time

In love wid service

Jayesh

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to all of u

Regards,Kalyan YES!+ team

Chuck n Chilll!

So after the blissful Navratri celebrations d entire team is back in action!:)
We had a YES!+ Re-Union last sunday with more dan 35 people
Rbk N Ambarish bhaiya rocked it...

In d meanwhile,read something on bau's blog... new mantra by dinesh da...
Chuck n Chill-sab kuch chodkar vishram karo...
whater botherations/worries just drop it n relax
But did doesnt mean running away from d situations or ur responsiblity
Face it , but wid a smile...compete wid uself!

Many Many n Many things to be shared by our vollunteers.. Awaiting post by
Pranay on his Bau's stay @ his home during bhakti...How sreedevi landed up in cognizant??....Barkha's exam stories...n yeah mine own guru-story but all after tuesday.

Have a biggie YES!+-6 DAY comin up from 11 nov...
n regs r ON!.

Also diwali special YES!+ satsang on d cards!


Shubhratri

Jgd

Homas...

Homas orYagnas is acolective practice and involves many of the  Heritage school teachers and students. Each yagna also has a Yajamana (the performer of the yagna) the priest being present, merely to facilitate the process. Sitting in the sacred atmosphere with a calm mind, when the yagnas and poojas are being conducted and the mantras being chanted, further helps us to go deeper within.

So You can also be part of the Yagna.Homas and Poojas are Performed during Navratri at the Bangalore Ashram with Pujya Gurudev.But If you cant go to Bangalore then Art Of Living Mumbai Team have arranged Navratri celebrations in Mumbai at Ghatkopar for all those who cant make it to Bangalore Ashram, where all types of Homas and Pujas are performed same as in the Ashram.so do come and Join us.

Venue: Acharya Atre Maidan, Near Shivaji Technical School, Opposite Pantnagar Police Station, Ghatkopar(East), Mumbai 400 075.

Lalitha Sahastranama, Rudrabhishekam Puja, and Satsang are daily performed from 6.30pm onwards.Homas and Pujas will start from 13^th Of Oct.

More on Navratri n Homas on the next post...

Stay Connected

Jaigurudev,Parag

Sat-sang

Today We had Blissfull Navratri satsang at Dreemas Place with Sachit,Jayesh and Gang. The Satsang was awesome.Every one enjoyed a lot.Every One felt blissed by the bhajans.We sang more of Devi bhajans as these days are of Navratri..As Guruji says that first 3 days are of Tamas so satsang was one of the way to get rid of the tamas.While singing Especially Jago Jago ma song I could realy felt the energy. The energy was very much high. Could felt awakening of divinity which we all had in us.So Navratri is one of the festivals where you can kindle the divinity inside you by doing Sadhana,Seva and Satsang. So Utilize these days of Navratri to awaken the divinity in you.




Have a blissfull Navratri to all Of You



Jaigurudev,Parag

Navratri...

A very beautiful post regarding navratri is on d way!

Till den have a look regarding the Navratri-Mumbai celebrations.....


http://www.mumbainavratri.org/


Keep Rockin!

Jgd
Jayesh

Acceptance!

Sitting at "KATTA" in my college i just thought to write up something...

4 years of travelling experinece to Karjat has taught me many things.The college is above a hilltop n during d summers or after the rains it heats up like anything..Its almost like a THAR desert...Green in d rains n dry grass in the summers..Life is a hell out here.. No good food to eat,dopers n smokers all around.Really i am not used to such environment till now...
During my second year of engg,i had to stay in my hostel for 15 days odd for some obvious reasons and i leant d importance of "accepting the situations as they are and take right actions"..
The hostel guys were all smokers big time,, Really had a tough time in dealing with them wid d fumes of cigars all around...Still managed to move on...

4 years of torcher by various professors in college has bought a great sense of acceptance in me..Again Accept people as they are....

Writing the assignments(really no meaning of writing them)but still write themmm.....Again Accept the situations........

Normally people give up easily to such situations in life.They start grumbling.Accepting the things are very important so that ur peace of mind is not disturbed.Again just accepting n just doing nothing @ it is not good,we need to take right actions..Its just not passive..

Thanks 2 d YES!+ i am learning many new things@ life.. dealing wid differnt situations....

Off for now!got a meet to attend here...


Jgd,Jayesh

Ek Aur.....

Kalyan+Dombs team had a Rocking weekend YES!+ course..

Ravi n Dattaraj Rocked d course..

Upgrade Next sunday n few exciting things comin up


Stay Connected..

Jgd

cont.......

Emotions ....make you weak and strong at the same time!!!
Jai Gurudev,
 Om Namah Shivay. 



 I wonder and I am sure so must be you guys that, how I could manage to stay away from blogging for almost 18months when I had so many things to share! Anyways the important thing is I am back to it!!

As I promised in my last post that I will post something on the Emotions that we human beings go through. Here I am doing precisely that….

It’s often said that it is not good to be emotional. But people often forget that emotions are nothing but some feelings that everyone goes through, irrespective of the sex he or she belongs to. If you are a human being then you are bound to feel some emotions or the other. This is a fact!

Google might define Emotions as –

 “Emotion is the complex psycho physiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences.”

What is the purpose of emotions? What do they do for us? They certainly have a significant effect on us, but what is it all for?

First of all, motivation is 'e-motions'. They act to motivate us. Without emotions we would probably not do very much and hence would not survive - at least in the evolved form we are in now.

Motivations are felt in the body. Our muscles tense or relax. Our blood vessels dilate or contract. When we feel emotionally, we also feel physically. Our emotions can thus make us feel uncomfortable or comfortable, sending us signals to do something urgently or to stay in our comfortable state.

 Internally, for example when we are trying to make understand something or make a decision, we use our emotions to deduce whether what we have concluded is a good idea. When we think about something that contradicts our values, our emotions will tell us that it is bad. When we think about something that could hurt us, our emotions will tell us that this is not a good idea.

You can use emotions to motivate people. Connect good emotions with what you want them to do, and bad emotions with what is not wanted.

Also watch your own emotions. They are signals that tell you something about what is happening in the inner you. This can be very useful as we often do not realize what is going on in that deep, dark subconscious inside of us.

There are more negative emotions than positive emotions. We can feel fear, anger, shame, hate, more easily than happiness and joy, a reason for this is because most emotions are designed to keep us alive. They signal warnings and prompt us to act, from running away to avoiding others to fighting back.

In real sense emotions are associated with mood, temperament and personality on an individual. Every human being who takes birth on this planet wishes to be happy in his or life. No body wants to be frustrated, dejected, unhappy or obsessive. It’s just because we give too much importance to people, situations and things around us these emotions come up in us.  This leads to total imbalance of the mind, which is always swinging between the past and present! Isn’t it? How to deal with it is the skill that one needs to learn.

First of all one needs to understand that no emotion can stay for more than 2.5 days (Line by Rishi Vidyadharji!). So there is absolutely no need to make any fuss about you being sad some day or you being low someday and also no need to go over board when you get good news. Being in your core, center is the key to maintain your peace of mind! This state of mind cant be achieved over night, one needs to go through a lot of practice and implementation of the knowledge that the Master offers on every step of life.

When one gets this knowledge one has to apply it in the right sense, as I said earlier, we often end up giving too much importance to people, situations or things in our life. Let’s take it step by step.

What happens when attaches too much importance to Things in life? Nothing much one ends up becoming greedy and selfish. If these tendencies are dominant in anyone then you should be able to guess it that they are attaching too much importance to things in life. Things can be bought, sold, again bought and also stolen. The thing that we feel is important today may not have that much importance few days later and definitely it will be irrelevant over the period of time. As everything that is made comes with an expiry date. Even the creator of that thing will die some day so forget about the thing itself.

          For example, one attaches too much importance to car, clothes, property, or jewellery. All these are classic examples of things which people want to posses in their lives. They feel if they have a big house with a swimming pool and a posh car parked outside their house then the purpose of their life is done. Where as they forget the simple fact that one has to die one day and when this happens all these things are not going to go with him / her! People will be more interested in who takes over the property and the other stuff after one dies!! So the intelligent thing here is to not to get too attached to Things in life, as they leave oneself greedy and selfish.






          Then we end up attaching ourselves too much to the situations around us. Again there is no point in doing this. You take any situation in your life, has it not changed over the period of time? And has it not taught you something very memorable? Yes it has isn’t it? The very fact that God creates situations in our life is because we can learn and grow from them, not to get caught up and sink into them. If one attaches too much importance to situations he or she become lazy and dull. They start blaming the situation in life for their life not working as they want it to. So the intelligent thing here again is to not to attach too much importance to any situation that comes up in life, be it your birthday or break up day!!!

 One has to do an analysis of giving too much importance to people too. One has to ponder over this question is it really worth to give some person more importance than what he or she deserves? Or more than your own existence? Most often than not you will get a negative response. Right? Very rarely the answer to this question is in the affirmative.

Lets look in depth of this, what happens when you give more importance to people around you? Often they start taking undue advantage of you, they start taking you for granted. Most dangerous is that you start blaming these people when anything in your life goes haywire. We often end up forgetting the simple fact that nothing remains same forever, not even our own body so how can we be rest assured that the people around us wont change over the period of time? Isn’t it? It’s the law of the nature that all have to undergo be it a human being or an animal!! The bottom line is EVERTHING CHANGES!!

This does not mean that we just sit back and don’t act when people start taking undue advantage of you. One has to ACT and not REACT. There is a big difference in this. Normally we end up reacting to people and in doing this we forget to act rationally. This leads to negativity, hatred and stress. So intelligent thing to do is first of all, don’t give too much importance to any person in your life, be it your boy friend / girl friend / father in law / mother in law / boss / friend or anyone. And if you have ended up giving too much importance to anyone then act on it by taking right action about it!

Story time again!!!     

 

It’s easier to say than to do it. I myself was finding it extremely difficult to do it. Rather I thought at one point of time that I was finished completely, loosing confidence that I had in me and was in my shell. My condition was exactly like fish without water. Gasping for breath and survival. Al though I was managing to smile and interact with all, I knew inside I was completely shaken. Thank God I became aware of what a blunder I was doing by going away from my nature which is to be happy and spread happiness to all.

Thank to the lovely Master and HIS Grace (a few quality friends and volunteers in my life) I at least started to realize what I was doing and what I wanted to do.  Not blaming anyone as I am thankful to this person for teaching the fact of not to attach too much importance to any one in life.  

As the title of the post indicates Emotions make you weak and strong at the same time!!!  ONS!!!

Love,Jai gurudev
Ravi....

Selfless people needed in the times of Selfish acts around…..

High time I get in to blogging again right?!!

Here is my latest post…

Selfless people needed in the times of Selfish acts around….
Yes this is what is the need of the hour and so does my small post after many many days rather many many months!!

So as all are aware that Guruji himself has told all to take care of health and hygiene for past one month almost.
When this news reached me, I was a bit shocked that how straight forward the instructions were from the Master this time around. Normally HE tells to remain happy and give away a smile to all. But this time was different.

Without wasting a second the awareness dawned in. The 5 senses along with the 7 levels of existence started to feel the need for attention!!!!
Just a couple of days back I came to know that why HE must have told these instructions so precisely this time. Read an article in the DNA which praised the seva efforts taken up by YES!+ volunteers taken up across the country.

That time I realized the value of Master’s words. I mean if we only don’t take care in our acts then who will? As it is there is loads of negativity and crime happening around because of stress and tensions so its time that we YES!+ warriors stand up and make the good work count.

We have learnt the importance of being selfless and serving people around, irrespective of the caste, creed or religion to what they belong. So it’s our prime responsibility to take care of our health and hygiene, so that we can serve better.The entire week went by in the wait of the most awaited verdict from the Indian Judiciary. Because of some selfish people around, the judiciary is not able to function as smoothly as it should.

This makes the topic of the post more relevant, if we have more people in the system itself who are not corrupt, who know what it is to take responsibilities in life and who can handle stress with a relaxed and focused mind, then wouldn’t it be a great thing?

But this has to start with ourselves first. We need to become aware of what’s going around us, in our college, society, office, housing societies, etc. When we know what we are in to and what we need to change then ideas flow in automatically.

I mean a very basic and simple thing we can do is just go and talk to more and more people about AOL bring them on to this path. That’s the only solution to everything that’s happening around.

                        
So I gave the caption to the post as need of Selfless people to stand up and high time their efforts are taken in to action.

Story Time…..my experience over past few days, rather months….

I personally have been seeing people around me and who are not around me, going through a lot in their lives. Just because of the Guru Grace Things are a bit easy in my life.
Things meaning the events and activities that I am into!! It all started on the 2nd August, 2010 with the Ashtavakra Geeta at one of our very committed volunteer Burma’s place. It was a fantabolus experience to listen to HIM all over again. More on it in my next post!



But the point I want to bring out is, if I would have been not into AOL and YES!+ in particular I would not have been able to manage and juggle my office
and knowledge sessions timings so easily! It’s the skills which I got after practicing the techniques taught on my YES!+ course!
In the end it so happened that I used to only wait for the clock to show the time as 5.30pm! That’s it I was off and away from my office to catch train, as a cat running after mouse!!!
The session ended on a high with a satsang and some good Prasad by Divya and Pathakji family!

                                         (The Pathakji's)
! I mean the real Prasadam of the 32 days was even sweeter!! We also managed to complete a YES!+ course during the Ashtavakra was on! It was a wonderful course with people of all ages doing it! Kudos to all the volunteers who gave their heart, body and soul to get the course up.
Then was a bigger challenge in front of me, another course was scheduled in Bhivpuri College, and I had to assist the course with Anjana didi! I mean this was not the challenge, the course timings were a real challenge and also the fact that it was happening in a completely different location from what I am used to!
(In action @ Bhivpuri)

As if this was not enough, Di called me up 2 days before the course and told that she had sore eyes and the fact that she could not come on the course till the last day!
That’s it this was enough to pull the trigger inside me and to act spontaneously as to how was I going to manage this again! Nothing I remained calm for sometime and ideas began to flow in again! But as this was happening GURU Grace was flowing too!!

The course was going to start on Wednesday and a day before in my office I was busy thinking of reasons to put in front of my management to leave office half day as the course timings were 4.30pm – 7.30pm!! My office madam came in office and before I could open my mouth she said something that was like a melody to my ears! She said I had to book her flight for Punjab via Delhi of the next day!! I was like wow!! This sounds cool enough! I was happy that she was leaving the next day, but as HIS Grace is unparallel, I was swept off my feat when she said after sometime that she would like to leave on the same day and would come back only after 4 days!!!! I went in my mind satva satva satva! Almost jumping off my office chair. Just like King Janaka did while He was listening to Ashtavakra!!!

That episode also was taken care off by the MASTER. I mean again in this entire episode the thing which I could learn that was how things happen the way you want them to happen when you do HIS work with that sincerity and devotion… I could not in my wildest of dreams dream of conducting a YES!+ at the time that I ended up taking it! But things were happening as I wanted them to at least on the spiritual path.This is when I realized that no matter how much effort I put into things, events or people in order to change them, it can’t happen until HE wishes it to happen. I was completely in my shell even after doing sadhana regularly for the past 7 years and more. It was because I was giving lot more importance to people, in particular to one person, and so it let down to my emotions over hauling me. More on the emotions in later posts.


Jaigurudev,
Love,Ravi

My Experience at the " WORLD of ART OF LIVING "

my journey in the world of art of living began 3 years back....


To  be frank i agreed to attend the yes + course only cz i knew that it was meant for youngsters
and i thought there would be some nice girls @ the course too :) . I just thought this course
would consist of some boring sessions of yogas which i used to hate a lot...I completed my 1st yes+ course under vivek bhiaya and anjana didi @ dombivli...


But believe me guys My overall experience at the yes + course wasn’t just good....
it was actually great....

It is a course where you  don’t have to worry about the outside world,
it is a place where you can be yourself for a moment and just kind of get to
know who you are........




I can honestly say that this course was one of the best experiences of my life up until now.
When I used to leave each session I used to feel  much better about myself...
My self esteem was certainly uplifted....

yes+ is a thing that empowers the younger generation physically and mentally.....

Today I am proud to say that the art of living course has made a HUGE difference in my lifE :)

Jai Gurudev....

PRANAY  P HEGDE 

CWG DISASTER!

Its a national shame!The bridge at the CWG village collapsed a day ahead of all when the athletes are arriving!headlines all over the media channels.

in what way the media has contributed!The role of media in todays time has been restricted only to increase their "trp's" to gain up popularity.The whole purpose in the process is completely  lost.Instead of taking up some constructive action it is just involved in making fashinable headlines.

The CWG mess is indeed an shameful act!The government too is seeming helpless(courtesy Mr Suresh Kalmadi).few days back,there were some news going on round that sports minister should retire at some mentioned age.He was the first person involved in this controversy.Shame!The preparations at all d venues are just substandard.Isnt it the duty of Mr Kalmadi to look up into this matter much earlier before?
What the government is doing???
Trying to prove that the party is very strong,..
The main focus is votes.
Its a big time that we neeed a big change in our system.
its tottaly corrupted.Starting from Mr Suresh Kalmadi to Lalit Modi all have eaten up the money paid by people as a tax.
Its time for we youngsters to rise up and do something

.Fight for our rights,to check whether the tax which we are paying are utilised properly or being eaten away by the politicians.
More n more youths should join politics for the betterment of the people,its a seva of a kind without any selfish motives.

Lets all pray @ this juncture that the "true national shame" exists no more at the CWG.


Love,Jayesh
Jaigurudev

Heramb was the official camera guy for the bhivpuri course.he clicked some really really amazing pics.wid some greaat ideas
The course ended on a big note.Anjana di made it finally for the course wid Vivek bhaiya  n indeed we had a blissful satsang!

Wen the paper plate process was ON,it really reminded me of my course.felt really nostalgiac sitting infront of my teacher n listening to her.

Thanks di for giving me dis knowledge...

Love,Jayesh
jaigurudev


D team

Ps:The college looks like an resort n it has a very gud n decent campus
Ganpati Bappa Morya Visarjan next week

Scenes behind!

One fine morning i received a call from one of my most favourite teacher and we had a brief conversation(cant tell ...).Appoinments were fixed and we got into the YTIET campus.Course dates were fixed but the thought in mind was how to start up the things!!!!

We had  a course in kalyan round the corner.After completing it,7-8 of us packed our bags to bhivpuri.we had no idea where to start it from.the college was a huge one(3000+ kids)
Day1:we hit d hostel.Bruma n sneha hit the girls hostel
end of day1 we had around 13 registrations.
Just before i left for bhivpuri i had a thought how to achieve the target of 40.how are we going to do it!!in 10 days time.Grace,Sadhana,Hard work payed off..havin a 38 people rocking course(last day surprises just dont misss it)

Love,Jayesh
jgd

Rocking new landss...here comes Bhivpuri

Finally we started off a course in YTIET campus wid 38 enthusiastic youths yesterday.
D volunteers did a splendid job.hats off to bruma,drema,dhiraj,himanshu,swapnil,sneha,rohit,sura,heramb.dey organised d course in a span of 9 days.

(vol in action @ bhivpuri station after introtalks)

We had a gr8 time doing seva there.Had many great experiences starting from d bhelwala 2 rikshawala......
will post d pics/stories soon
(ps:i will share how dis course came into existence in d next post)
Jaigurudev
Jayesh

Meanwhile RBK in action!

Enjoyee

A new begining ... with lot of Good newzzz

Jai Gurudev guys..... My name is Dattaraj and I am a full time Yes!+ teacher from Dombivli. Very proudly joined the combine blog of Kalyan and Dombivli. Being lazy from long time to write and post anything on the blog. Huh... enough is enough now you will get to know lot of things about Yes!+ activities and upcoming projects. 
Like the Dairy milk add says kuch accha kaam karne se pehele kuch mitha khana chahiye 
Here is one sweet sweet news for all of you

Guruji is coming to MUMBAI this january ... and one day we are going to have Rudrapooja as well. Planning one Yes!+ event as well ... will inform you soon..   Ready to rock with the Divine himself.. need to fasten the belts from 1st NOV 2010. 

Jai Gurudev

Love, Dattaraj

Experiences

Nitin Kungwani

This is what i learned from the YES!+ upgrade .

My parents, whom I am fortunate enough to have, toil for endless such hours everyday (not the same work though ) and all what I do is spend money ( many a times without a second thought).It was at that time I realized the value of every penny earned with huge amounts of efforts. It was at that time I realized how difficult it is to part up with the hard earned money, just to acquire a few luxuries, without which we can manage anyhow.At that time I felt fortunate enough to be at that edge of the social spectrum where I needn’t think of earning the second meal while I ate the first.



And at that time did I realize how mistaken I am and how much granted do I take my parents’ hard earned money for?

That particular moment, the walk till the starting point revealed the ideal path to manipulate my behavior accordingly.



Those 2 hours Have changed my attitude altogether !



I no more am the same careless, irresponsible and thoughtless child. . .instead



I’m a changed man. . .





Jai Gurudev !

Nitin Kungwani

Ulhasnagar

Ganpati bappa moryaaaa!!

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi... May Lord Ganesha bless us all with Spiritual Progress.


Dombivali+Kalyan Team bought Bappa dis year their @  the hometown.

More stories+interesting things to share coming week!
EnJoY mODaks

Jai GuRuDEV