All of you would have had loads of sattvic fun on this day with satsangs and knowledge. I had the same with a DSN beginning at Indore and concluded the session with mesmerizing Krishna Bhajans and a pyramid formation breaking the Matki filled with yoghurt, sweets at midnight to mark His birth.

But this morning when I came across this picture the essence of Krishna dawned, love in humans irrespective of all barriers. Love, more important than skin, personality, emotions and attachments. And as Guruji says “When the senses sleep, Krishna is born”. He is the Love living within each one of us, resting and sleeping, time to nudge Him to awaken within.

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The way one has to stir a coffee to produce that right amount of sweetness, the stirring of joy in one’s life is called Sudarshan Kriya. Joy is there in everyone’s life, it just needs a little stirring. Sudarshan kriya allows you to make life little more sweeter than what it is. And if the sugar is not stirred, one cannot enjoy it at the end, it has to be done at the start, when served, to make it that right taste which tingles the senses. Similar is with meditation, to be done as early in life to derive from life what it is meant for - happiness.

I said this in the last Yes+ at Bhopal and thought of sharing it with all of you.

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Found this very very funny and so it got upgraded to the blog.

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The school which we started in the Naxal prone tribal belt of Naugargh district completed its 7 years and 7 students completed their 10th Standard. Out of them 2 came first in 9 villages and a first class in UP Board. They have decided to take up science in the college in the city. A task which looked impossible some years back, with HIS grace has been so soft and easy that now we can say “it happened”. Walking a step towards seva, Working for it,  Worshipping and then Waiting to see the results. It works.

For earlier posts on what is Aurwan Tand :-

http://rajeshjagasia.com/?p=340

http://rajeshjagasia.com/?p=343

http://rajeshjagasia.com/?p=346

http://rajeshjagasia.com/?p=349

PS:- In Mumbai the SSRVM school won all the major awards in Maharashtra Taekwondo competition at the state level. Now they compete at national levels.

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I have thought of posting one nicely written experience of the students of my DSN’s so that all the participants can pen down their experiences for the DSN into the comments. This will keep these courses alive in blogosphere and also they can look back to these fond memories whenever desired, and ya it saves paper. The chembur DSN was awesome.

Here is the experience of Sudhir Nair

Jaigurudev!

I was a participant of a DSN course conducted by Rajesh Bhaiya in Chembur from 5^th – 8^th Aug 2010. Incidentally, this was my third DSN course, and hands down, the best experience so far.

No doubt the processes and the format were similar to the earlier ones, but this time I could go way deeper than before.

All our life most of us have been self centered and our focus has always been on “Me & My Family”. With this backdrop, it was heartening to see everybody helping people, people who were perfect strangers a day before, in challenging and overcoming their own boundaries. It was like a whole big joint family – complete with Grandparents and many small kids – but without the saas-bahu and the jaydad fights! Recognizing your barriers & comfort zones and breaking them all one by one was an exhilarating experience. And the oneness that I felt with Guruji was an unparalleled experience.

At the end of three and a half days, after going through the entire gamut of emotions akin to a Bollywood movie, the way we are transformed into a herd of tigers has to be seen to be believed.

The credit for all of this undoubtedly goes to Rajesh Bhaiya. His unflagging zeal and enthusiasm is contagious and ensured that all of us are always in the present moment. He’s very ruthless in everyone’s assessment, but at the same time he also provides us with solutions to overcome it. And his smile – that’s going to be a part of all our lives forever!

But all of this wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for the superb team of Teachers and volunteers ably led by AnuradhaJi. Right from getting people to the course to ensuring that proper messages reaches to all of us; taking care of all our accommodation, it was one smooth operation by them. I have never seen a better administered course so far. You guys really deserve a standing ovation for this! AHO!!!

All in all, it was a smashing experience. I’am now fitted with a turbo charged engine rearing to go on and on and on….

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Prisons are a place where people are punished for the past, markings of permanent guilt drawn on them and are eyed with suspicion and remorse for that act that “just happened”. I know there can be a lot of debate on this but when I visited the Korovou prisons in Fiji a month back, I found the environment still, but I knew there was a lot of movement within them. They were not imprisoned by the authorites but were their own prisoners of emotional trauma and ignorance of the self. They were searching for help, praying and questioning. When someone calls out, on the other side there is an ear which listens. The Guru heard.

Help arrived in the form of the Prison Smart Courses which I conducted inside, thanks to Ajai Punja who co-ordinated the entire course with the authorities. After two courses, the authorities were very happy that their search to change the life inside the prison had a full stop now, since they could see visible tangible changes in their life styles and behavior. The course is part of the correctional therapies in Fiji under the Yellow ribbon project.

Nuwan, who became an immediate friend helped make this video and after weeks of editing, here it is for your thoughtful viewing. Places where everyone wants an exit from, AOL enters. Inside the prisons…Opening their hearts.

Do forward it to everyone to remind them that the AOL does field work at the ground level, to create a society which is peaceful for everyone to live in.

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Manu Kanchan, an iitk student who did the Banares DSN penned his experience of the DSN. I enjoyed reading it.

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In four days 80 more people who travelled through the journey named YES!+ DSN, changed. What an amazing course! People can just say everything changes (even people), we have experienced it. How it happened is really a mystery, like God..:) This course was like a soulful and heart-warming A R Rahman song with his original score (obviously). Well, here the composer and director is our sweet and cute Guruji.

Welcome Warning: Our strict yet funny teacher Rajesh bhaiya gave a warm rather hot welcome with a warning. That was enough to increase our acceptance (of anything and everything) or leave the course (everyone went for the first, obviously). Like an AOL course it had everything, mantra, yoga, discussion, processes (games) and seva. Mantra for this course was a simple, powerful YES, not just a word but a state of consciousness.

Padama Sadhana: The yoga part consisted of a powerful tool of Padma Sadhana, Padama for Lotus and Sadhana meaning a wealth, which lasts forever. Padma Sadhana an everlasting wealth which blossoms one like a lotus, with 108 petals and a covering of wax saving it from the dirt of surroundings. Padma Sadhana was like the wave which comes and washes the seashore of its filth, making it ever new, traveling from the body to the mind, and then to the self, touching each of the seven layers of existence.

Discussions were really long, but most intriguing to a sadhak. Discussions encompassed the topics of Commitment (double commitment), seva, criticism and above all God and Gurutatva. Commitment had an enlightening effect on every one of us. The revelatory connection between commitment and support (in return of it) gave us a good start for us to be committed. But the real obstacle was that ‘I don’t know’ about the process, people (anything) towards which we are committed. Bhaiya became the catalyst in converting this ‘I don’t know’ from a weakness to strength. The seva part was less of a discussion more of a practical, with (Anantarang) passes getting away from us like the same poles of a magnet. And God/Gurutatva was the realization we all had through the processes of gratitude, I belong to you. The process of gratitude made everyone cry, but this time not out of pain out of love (for Guru, Divine, infinity, God). This gave an Ahoo experience.

Well the course being fully residential made food, sleep and everything else a part of the course. The Rudra abhishek on the last day of the course (coinciding with auspicious and Guru Poornima) made the satisfied contented: contented with love (of Guru). The course started with a bang from Rajesh bhaiya and ended with the sweetness of yummy Blue Berry cake.

Oho, aisa course bhi hota hai!

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It is Guru Poornima today, a day when a devotee feels grateful for all that he has received in his blessings bowl from the Guru. The juncture at which you stand today, wherever in the world you are, just be grateful and filled with devotion for the Guru. Collect this mind memorabilia of yours so that you have memories to remind you of days when you espoused gratitude over grumbling.

And as Guruji had once said “”Let surrender be in each and every cell of your being. Feeling(of surrender) is itself God(Bhaav hi Bhagwaan hai).It may take time to pluck a flower but it does not take time to reach God.”

Happy Guru Poornima.

JaiGurudev

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This was a long pending movie to be watched and my ipod had carried it for many months now. A 10 hour flight from Nadi, Fiji to Hongkong and I feel honored now that I decided to see it. Usually melodramatic movies are not my choice, but this turned out to be filled with devotion, sacrifice, love and truth.

Meera, hailing from the princely Rathod Rajput family, had her mind fixed on Lord Krishna right from the days that she remembered. The circa is around the century when Akbar wants to rule over the entire India and the only resistance he found was from the Rajputs. But here the rajputs are divided between the Rathod’s and the Sisodia’s. So the Rathod King decides to give away his daughers hand to the Sisodia family and thus cementing a bigger army alliance. But things take a turn and Meera gets wed to the Sisodia family and her struggle to balance her devotion with her marriage begins.

Hema Malini has justified her role as Meera though at times she looks dull and dry without the flair of devotion. Vinod Khanna was superb as Rana and in the end when he discloses how he relates to Meera, was an acting par excellence. I wish someone remakes this for the modern generation and gets Lata Mangeshkar to sing all those Meera Bhajans. I almost soaked my eyes in the flight watching her sing “Mere toh Giridhar Gopal”, she is totally wet in devotion and love for her lord, I found her to be one of her kind, alone, yet not lonely.

Watch it once for sure after you have meditated.

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I conclude Fiji today and fly back to India tomorrow. It was a overwhelmingly wonderful trip and I soon realized why I had to be here missing the Ashtavakra back Home. With 14 courses and hundreds of people having received this knowledge, Fiji looks re-born again with divinity. The Yes+ took birth here and is soon blossoming into a solid youngster with the recently concluded course for the Miss/Mr Fiji of the Hibiscus Festival.

The Hibiscus Festival is the mother of all festivals in Fiji with around a hundred thousand people attending the finale which happens in August. But before that the Hibiscus Committee decided to upgrade their participants with internal beauty and unfold it from within. It was a naughty bunch of the most beautiful people in Fiji, but I had a very nice time with them. I bid Moce (good-bye) to this beautiful island nation and it’s lovely beaming people.

I shot this video while teaching the course and then edited it and here it is for your viewing experience. Happy Viewing. Let me know your feedback and comments.

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As I wind up Fiji, I took a cruise to the Yasawa Islands, breathtakingly beautiful and passionately peaceful. Pristine beaches, corals, snorkeling, kayaking and lots of food made a trip totally unforgettable. It was my first ship tour and the ocean has so much to offer unconditionally.

I shot this entire video with my Canon 500d and edited it yesterday night. It is the first video also shot by me, edited and created. Music was such a difficult thing to choose, so I browsed a lot and found what i was looking for. It starts with the fun and frolic, but I wanted to end it with a thought and spine chilling music by Clint Mansell, totally worth a watch. Do allow it to stream fully and then sit back, tighten up and happy viewing.

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