Happy New Year

This is what Guruji spoke about the New Year (last year) in a conference:

In this new year, make sure no event, no instance, no situation can put down your enthusiasm, your joy and your commitment. Many events may happen that may try to put down your spirit. Like a candle when it is lid, it keeps its spirit always up. Even if you turn the candle up-side down the flame will always go up. Like that don’t hold any grouch against anybody. Be flexible flow with the events. Pleasant, unpleasant things happen in life. So let this New Year teach us whatever lesson it want to teach us. With this strength, confidence move ahead. Not wishing that only nice and goody-goody things should happen to us. Whatever happens in this New Year, one thing we are not going to loose is our enthusiasm, our strength and our commitment to truth and knowledge!

With Love,
Anurag

The invitation...

One more creation in Microsoft Publisher! Look at this new year celebration invitation, I like the color combination and Gurudev's message on it:

Last December Gurudev's pearls on New Year in a conference:

A candle when it is lid, it keeps it’s spirit always up. Even if you turn the candle up side down the flame will always go up. So let this New Year teach us whatever lesson it want to teach us. With this strength and confidence move ahead, not wishing that only nice and goody-goody things should happen to us. Whatever happens in this New Year one thing we are not going to loose is our enthusiasm, our strength and our commitment to knowledge!

-Gurudev

Learing in potatoes cutting

Finished my 10th Advance course today, after doing it only I realized how badly I needed it. I promised to my self to sit in an advance course every three month. Afterall the deeper peace, joy, and the unbounded freedom is what we are doing everything for.

Let me share one incidence of the course with you. I was cutting potatoes with few other course participants. I was struggling little bit as potatoes were big in size and I did not realize that my knife wasn’t shape enough. The lady sitting next to me realized this she offer me another knife, which made my job really easy and smooth. Suddenly I was producing chopped potatoes at a very fast rate. After 5-10 minutes another course participant joined me with a vegetable cutter and starting chopping potatoes at a much faster rate. This continued for 10 minutes and then two other lady participants got interested in our service and took over completely. Hence I was free to take some other work.

Now this sounds like a strange story, what is there in it and why I’m telling this story to you?

There are subtle learning and messages in this whole set of events. First “Lady helped me with sharper knife”. There are two messages in it; first if things are not working for you, you aren’t facing the challenges of life with smoothness. Know that you need to sharpen your instruments, which in case of our life is our own mind. Second, if you don’t realize that the very instrument you are using has a problem and someone else realize it for you. Accept their help.

“Another course participant joined with fast chopper”, if someone better than you join you. Welcome them in, and be a team and work together. It helps you become better and grow.

“two other lady participants took over”, message is, once you become brilliant in doing something. Look for your replacement, support them to replace you so that you can move on and take on other assignment.

-Love Anurag

Unconditional Enthusiasm Personified: Sharda Ji

It was her birthday on 6th of this month. Although I missed it, but I don't want to miss on her praise that she thoroughly deserve. Anyone who worked in UP know that it not the easiest place to do social reformation and transformation work. It is actually challenging. Despite all this, she is coordinating whole UP from last around 5 years and her conviction and enthusiasm never goes down, infact everytime I talk to her, I find her more energetic.




Sagar me ek lahar uthi tere naam ki,
Tujhe mubarak kushiyan aatm gyan ki!

Our dearest Sharda Didi.

With Love and Regards,
Anurag Arora

Fun in doing some creative stuff: Course Poster

First time I used Microsoft Office's Publisher. I found it really handy. Although some of the stuff I had to do Word and copied it to Publisher.
Guruji says that everyday we must find some time for these creative activities. Like writing a poem, painting, some creative art work etc!





With Love,
Anurag

Now its our turn to restore!!!

LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 2 FEBRUARY



173 years they are working on this....

Love,
Anurag Arora

Fundoo software to learn and perform Agnihotra

This is an amazing software that makes it very easy for you to learn and perform Agnihotra!

It takes your location as input and based on that prompts you at exact Sunrise and sunset time everyday.

At the sunrise and sunset time, the software actually plays mantra for you.
It also has an amazing tutorial to teach you mantra!



So no more setting the watch and looking at the chart.

So if u have interest in performing Agnihotra, take a look at this software
"Agnihotra for Windows" from Vedic Society.

To view the item click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your web browser:
http://www.vedicsociety.org/agnihotra-for-windows-p-99agnihotra/share/.html

Vedic Society
http://www.vedicsociety.org/

When Master steps in...

Shriprakash has written this beautiful poem after his advance course in German Ashram
enjoy!




When Master steps in,
through the corridors of mind,
into the heart,
it is said,
seeking stops and blooming begins,
and i say,
blooming stops and completion happens ...

When Master steps in,
with a flower of Love,
the bee like i,
stops buzzing forever,
and intoxication happens ...

When Master steps in,
with the fire of Truth,
to ignite the candle of Being within,
the jewels of knowledge and ignorance fade away,
and i say,
everything is burnt into Silence ...

When Master steps in,
the cosmos have no value,
and i say,
there is no room for myself anymore,
as there is only the Master,
and nothing else ...

And so it happens,
when Master steps in ...

Petition to the Prime Minister

Dear All,

Lets come together to save the nation. This petition not only affects the trekker or rock climber or birder or photographer but to every common man. WE all need to act immediately.....and tell the politicians 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". We need ACTION NOW !!!

Pl. find below the link to the petition which outlines the minimum action that is expected of the government. Idea is to present a humungous amount of signatures (minimum 1 million, if the media participates unitedly, this no. can go upto even 20-30 million)

A group of people from cross-section of the society (hopefully backed by a large rally and media coverage) will present this petition to the Prime Minister around the 15 December asking for a formal reply from the Government to the action expected by the public and the time frames within which the action should be expected.

Requesting not only your signature on the petition but also your support to forward this to all your friends. Should your organisation be maintaining any email databases, request your support to mass email this petition request to all on your database.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/26novAct/petition.html

Many Thanks,

Hapy and Healthy Family Sutras

Last Saturday 29^th November, It was my younger brother’s marriage. Lots of time was spent in family events and it me think about our our marriage system(specially in north of India). Current system has really become very stressful and uninteresting. Hundreds of variety of generally unhealthy food which most of my relatives (with list of diseases) were eating with total indulgence. Very loud noise of local DJ which most guests say “music required for dancing” was actually very unfriendly to the ears and heads. Both bride and groom families spent their hard earned money in useless and unwanted things and ways.

Any ways… it made me think about a set of guide-lines that a family must follow in order to be a happy, healthy and peaceful family. Here is a formula:
1. Every member of family must practice asanas, pranayama, sudershan Kriya and meditation for 30-45 minutes everyday, preferably after bath in morning. More specifically:

• Youngsters below 18 should practice for 20-30 minutes
• Youngsters above 18 should practice for 30-40 minutes
• Married people above 18 should practice for 45-60 minutes

2. 7-10% of total family income should be donated to the people and organizations doing social and spiritual upliftment work. More specifically, at least one person of the family should actively contribute by devoting his/her time and mind to such work of service.

3. All family members should get together for 20-30 minutes in evening and sing the Sanskrit hymns from Vedas or very simple songs glorifying the divinity. Chant and sing with feelings and heart to glorify that higher existence within. Simply rejoice the singing and not to get into to many words and asking favors for God etc.

4. Deep belief and faith in divinity, in saints and wise masters should be nurtured in every member of the family. Practicing 1, 2 and 3 will help in developing the deep faith and belief.
5. Ayurvedic life style is to be adopted in eating and living habits:

• Every family member to know their prakriti (basic body-mind constitution) and vikuriti (current distortions in basic body-mind complex). Eating patterns is be in accordance with your prakriti.
• Allopathic medical system is to be kept away and avoided as much as possible.
• 70% satavik (fresh vegetables, fruits, pure vegetarian and home cooked food) and 20-30% rajasik (sweets, spices, cakes etc) foods is to be consumed. Tamsik food like Tobacco, alcoholic drinks, non-vegetarian food including eggs and cold drinks are NOT to be consumed at all.

Love, Anurag

Healthy Food Fundas: Is chemistry of your body right?

• Balanced body chemistry is of utmost importance for the maintenance of health and correction of disease. Over-acidity in the body tissues, is one of the basic causes of many diseases, especially the arthritic and rheumatic diseases.

• All foods are "burned" in the body--more commonly called "digested"-- leaving an ash as the result of the "burning", or the digestion. This food ash can be neutral, acid or alkaline, depending largely on the mineral composition of the foods. Some foods leave an acid residue (Acidic Foods) or ash, some alkaline (Alkaline).


• The acid ash (acidosis) results when there is a depletion of the alkali reserve or the diminution in the reserve supply of fixed bases in the blood and the tissues of the body.
  It is, therefore, vitally important that there is a proper ratio between acid and alkaline foods in the diet. The natural ratio in a normal healthy body is approximately 4 to 1 -- four parts alkaline to one part acid, or 80% to 20%.
  
• When such an ideal ratio is maintained, the body has a strong resistance against disease. In the healing of disease, when the patient usually has acidosis, the higher the ratio of alkaline elements in the diet, the faster will be the recovery. Alkalis neutralize the acids. Therefore in the treatment of most diseases it is important that the patient's diet includes plenty of alkaline-ash foods to offset the effects of acid-forming foods and leave a safe margin of alkalinity.

High Alkaline Foods


• Below are tables of common foods with an approximate potential acidity or alkalinity, as present in one ounce of food.
  


• Most grains are acid-forming, except millet and buckwheat, which are considered to be alkaline. Sprouted seeds and grains become more alkaline in the process of sprouting.
  All vegetable and fruit juices are highly alkaline. The most alkali-forming juices are: fig juice, green juices of all green vegetables and tops, carrots, beet, celery, pineapple and citrus juices.

I'm not expert on the subject, most of this I collected from the reliable sources and research data on Internet. For further details you must consult a educated dietician!

Love

Anurag

Are u taking care?

Don't put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers,

Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it's maximum

signaling power, which is: 2watts = 33dbi. Please Be Careful. Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it may

affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.

Do not drink APPY FIZZ . It contains cancer causing agent.
Don't eat Mentos before or after drinking Coke or Pepsi coz the person will die immediately as the mixture becomes cyanide.

Don't eat kurkure because it contains high amount of plastic if U don't Believe burn kurkure n u can see plastic melting. News report from Times of India...

Avoid these tablets as they are very dangerous:

1. D-Cold
2. Vicks action-500

3. Actified

4. Coldarin
5. Co some

6. Nice

7. Nimulid

8. Cetrizet-D
They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these tablets are banned in U.S.

Cotton Ear Buds...

Please do not show sympathy to people selling buds on roadside or at Signals by buying their ear buds (instead you can give them money without taking their ear buds).....

Just wanted to warn you people not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. Those were made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals. They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud,

DON'T BUY THEM!

Love, Anurag

New look and feel

I did some changes to my blog for:
* Creating more reading space so that postings can be read easily
* All postings are organized by topic so that old postings of interest can be accessed
* QnA gadget is been added
* Changed gurudev's picture
Will be doing lot more to make it interesting for you.

With Love,
Anurag

Tallur: Sri Sri Gulabi Aadarsh Gram

Above collage is one of the satsangs celebration in Tallur village "Temple of Knowledge". It is amazing to see the reach of Art of Living to these very remote villages of Bastar Tribal areas. Our teacher Sanjay Mishra and his team of local youngsters here is doing wonderful seva work. Every member (90-95% to be precise) of this particular village named Tallur have attended the Art of Living program and they practice Sudarshan Kriya. 70-80% of the male members of other tribal villages drink their local wine (Sulfi, Landha, mahua, which they make in their homes from a local flower) everyday, some actually start from very morning itself and drink three-four times a day as well :-). This particular village people hardly consume alcohol. Some of the interesting observation about Tallur:

Local villagers are giving a new name to this village, Sri Sri Adarsh Gulabi Nagar (as every home of the village is going to be painted in pink colour in next few months). I wish every village of my country move in this direction.

With Love, Anurag

Bastar Blessed (Pictures)

No posting from last 15 days as 8 of us were in interiors villages of Bastar, so no internet and very limited phone connectivity from last 2 weeks. We covered around 50+ villages of three blocks of Bastar area. Everyday a new panchayat (one panchayat leads a group of 3-4 villages), we stayed in every panchayat for one or two days and conducted “Mass Healing Meditation and Satsang” sessions in the evening.

THE TEAM

More than 10 thousand tribal families benefited from these blessing and singing sessions.Villagers with problems and pains received the personal blessings and Gurudev’s picture after satsang. Small pains and sickness anyway disappears in our blessing but in was surprising to see long term problems disappearing on the spot.

SATSANG & BLESSINGS

There are few instances I remember, one young boy was not able to lift anything from his right hand from last few years after blessing he lifted and played one of the instruments we used for the satsang. A lady who could not sit on the ground from so many days set thrice on the ground. I don’t know the logic behind all this but one thing I could think is the faith of the people here. Tribal people here are so innocent and simple they immediately trust you. It does only singing of few bhajans for them to have faith and blessing works miraculously for them.

With Love,

Anurag

Bastar Blessed

No posting from last 15 days as 8 of us were in interiors villages of Bastar, so no internet and very limited phone connectivity from last 2 weeks. We covered around 50+ villages of three blocks of Bastar area. Everyday a new panchayat (one panchayat leads a group of 3-4 villages), we stayed there for one or two days and conducted “Mass Healing Meditation and Satsang” sessions in the evening. More than 10 thousand tribal families benefited from these blessing and singing sessions.


Villagers with problems and pains received the personal blessings and Gurudev’s picture after satsang. Small pains and sickness anyway disappears in our blessing but in was surprising to see long term problems disappearing on the spot. There are few instances I remember, one young boy was not able to lift anything from his right hand from last few years after blessing he lifted and played one of the instruments we used for the satsang. A lady who could not sit on the ground from so many days set thrice on the ground. I don’t know the logic behind all this but one thing I could think is the faith of the people here. Tribal people here are so innocent and simple they immediately trust you. It does only singing of few bhajans for them to have faith and blessing works miraculously for them.

With Love,
Anurag

coexistence of opposites

One who don’t see the co-existence of opposites in world will not progress in life. Understanding the co-existence of opposites in life is such an amazing knowledge, a great realization. Complete freedom, being totally spaced out, having no bondage on one hand and completely committed and totally responsible on other hand do co-exist. They seem completely opposite but one automatically contains other.

One, who can realize this, can only establish in the center of ones being. It’s a big dilemma for lot and lots of people faces in their life.

There are people who are dynamic and extrovert they end-up being very aggressive in nature. They are hardly relaxed, they are restless, and it’s difficult in being the company of such people.

There are people who are calm and introvert, they don’t take responsibility and complain, end-up being inactive. They are relaxed to the extent of being dull, their company is uninteresting, not much happens around such people. Being dynamic and calm looks opposite but their co-existence makes one the complete personality, being dynamic in action and calm inside in heart.

Completely accepting the people and events happening around and still taking proactive action, sounds opposite but one comes automatically complemented with another. One who has realizes this can be centered both in ups and downs of life. One who knows this can smile even in worst time of the life. One have experienced this will not crave for the comfortable world and will not be averse to the unpleasant event around.

And spirituality is a path to achieve such state of being.

Love

Anurag

Blessed Bastar!

In my last post I promised to send some more pictures from the Bastar trip, here u go....

Today I finished a course in a beautiful village named darbha 15 kms from these teerathgarh water falls, another beautiful must visit site near jagdalpur!


These falls are much more approachable unlike chitrakota, you can even sit very near and meditate or even can take a shower. Silver in color (as you can see), chitrakota falls are golden in color and generally little muddy also.

Now! this picture of a green land with some trees and fields is heavenly place blessed by Guruji to be Bastar Art of living ashram(meditation and training center):


Love,
Anurag Arora

Blessed and Beautiful: Bastar

Just coming back from a refresher program of 100 odd people in a remote village area, 45 kms from Jagdalpur district. What an experience, I was amazed to see the reach of Art of Living to these very remote villages of Bastar Tribal areas. Every member of this particular village named tallur have attended the Art of Living program and they practice Sudarshan Kriya. Most of the male member of tribal families drink their local wine (which they make in their homes from a local flower) everyday some actually drink three times a day as well :-). This particular village people hardly consume alcohol. They have an Art of Living meditation hall, in which I conducted the program today. Local villagers are giving a new name this village, guess what, the new name name is Sri Sri Gulabi Nagar (as every home of the village is going to be painted in pink colour in next few months).

Their simplicity (bholapan), devotion and participation was simply inspiring. Going into meditation is effortless for these people. They do daily evening satsangs in near by 20 villages. I'll post some pictures in my next posting. Its very easy for them to merge into the singing. They start swaying and dancing from the first bhajan itself.

These tribal villages are simply beautiful, they homes (mostly made of mud, grass and bamboo) are unbelievably clean. They really maintain their homes, the fencing of their gardens, gobiri (cows dunk used for layering the floor), everything very neatly organized. Villages are generally very small in size (500-1000 people) and there are tons and tons of lush green forest. So water may be red in color (undrinkable) but lots and lots of high prana, high oxygen, clean and fresh supply of air everywhere.

With Love,
Anurag

Defining Health!

Health is not mere absence of disease. Indian Science of life (Ayurveda) has given a beautiful and complete definition of health. Health is:

Disease free body
Quiver free breath
Stress free mind, living in present moment!
Intellect free of preconceptions, sharp intellect
Memory free of negative impressions
Ego that takes everyone together
And a soul free of any sorrow



With effective breathing exercises (like sudarshan kriya), some asanas and with an ayurvedic life style, each and everyone can achieve this. And this is what Art of Course teaches us!

With Love and Regards
Anurag Arora

Prestige & Honour-Your Golden Cage

Beautiful knowledge-sheet (from Sri Sri's book "An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker")
I got to read this in a mail today, thought must share it with you:

Honour reduces freedom. Your fame, honour & virtue can limit your freedom.
Nobody expects a good person to make a mistake. So the better you are, the higher the expectations people have of you. It is then that you lose your freedom. Your virtues & good actions are like a golden cage. You are trapped by your own good actions , for everyone expects more from a good person & nobody expects anything from a bad person.


Most of the people are stuck in this cage of prestige & honour. They cannot smile. They are constantly worried about keeping up their prestige & honour. It becomes more important than their own life. Just being good or doing good to retain prestige & honour is worthless. Prestige & honour can bring more misery in life than poverty.

Many desire fame but little do they know that they are looking for a cage.

It is an art to be dignified & yet not be suffocated by it. Only the wise would know this. For the wise one it is natural to be honoured, but he has no concerns even if it falls apart. Despite having fame or prestige , he will live as though he has none. A wise person can handle any fame without feeling suffocated for he too is crazy !

By doing good in society one gains prestige, then when enjoying the prestige & honour one's freedom is lost.

Question : Then how do you keep your freedom ?
Sri Sri : By being like a child , considering the world as a dream , a burden or a joke.

Love and Regards,
Anurag

Playing with picture!!!

Playing with pictures can be a real fun, yesterday late-night I got this idea of creating these collages of my daughter's pictures. Take a look:

Love,

Anurag

Blessed & Beautiful: Bastar

Dashara is a real big festival here. 100 of thousands of people of all tribal castes get together in Jagaladpur districts to celebrate the festival. They all bring the devi ki chattri (umbrella of divine mother), this chattri is a symbol of protect over their head that they get from divine mother. Representatives from all villeges gets their chattris, they come dancing and singing in their traditional outfits:

This is best quality picture I could get in night time (10PM)

They all gather in from of the local king palace and there starts a huge rath-yatra.

It's really huge, thousands were pulling the rath

Closer look of the rath:

In the mean time some more pictures of beautiful falls:

See that rainbow, it is always there. It appears at different angel and sizes from different view points.

Love,
Anurag

Bastar

40 Kms from Jagdalpur, (administrative head quarter of beautiful Bastar region) at a place called chitrakot is widest waterfalls of India. In monsson (these days) this is spectacular site to watch. I wonder why not many tourist come to see this place (may be it is not marketed properly!), I really loved it! take a look:



Here are some more pictures of near by tribal areas:



Posting from a cyber cafe in Jagdalpur, will write more I this place is full with natural beauty and tribal culture!

With Love,
Anurag Arora

Gurudev's Chhattisgarh Visit: Last

After blissful rain-satang in Bilaspur next morning Gurudev flown in his chopper to Devi temple in dongergarh and Rajnandgaon thereafter. Missing on twice his chance to fly with Gurudev, Jigish bhai finally got a chance to be with Gurudev in chopper. We joined Gurudev in Rajnandgaon and missed on Rajnandgaon satsang as we reached at 3:30PM by car. Guruji was playing (hide and seek) in chappan bhog party (56 dishes prepared by Rajnandgaon devotees) surrounded by devotees, everyone was impatient (to the extend of my annoyance) to get prasadam from his hands. Even volunteer placed to manage the crowd was first to bend down and touch his feet so it was all chaotic rush around him. A car rally moved from Rajnangaon to Bhilai, every few kilometers there were devotees waiting for getting a glimpse of the master and offer flowers.

A ten minuet break in Bhilia Steel Plant Hotel before Gurudev had to move for a corporate talk. As people were throwing flowers on him, I thought it’s a good we should remove those flower petals from his hairs. We could remove only few as he asked to move for the meeting. He unsnarled his hairs little bit and moved out with the comb in his hand. 500-600 odd corporate people in meeting, he stood up in his usual graceful style and said “I’ll talk to you while detangling my hairs, when bal(hairs) get longer (bigger) they get entangle and that is when the comb is needed, same is with bal(child) also when they get entangle the comb of knowledge is required”. What’s an opening of a talk!

First time I was playing the secretary of Gurudev in this talk (as he asked me to carry his black bag and asana) once this thought crossed my mind in Ashram, how lucky are these people who get do this for Guruji. I was very attentively sitting in one corner of the stage for a moment I remembered what Bhanu didi said in last TRM “THERE ARE NO PRIVATE THOUGHTS IN HIS NETWORK”.

Few of the sutras that Guruji shared in this corporate meeting “MnM i.e. Meal and Meditation for better corporate productivity, less acidic and healthy meal and daily meditation”. He said “Get out of seam (personal likes and dislikes that we develop with time), get into team and take social corporate responsibility”. “What kind of joiners you like in your organization? One who always praises you and does buttering or the one who speaks with courage what is right and beneficial from the team?”

Healthy Meal

and Meditation

“Greed, Jealousy and arrogance, these three things creeping in an organization causes the decay of the organization. That is when Guru is needed who can make everyone sit together on one platform and have a dialog”.

Complete collection on chhattisgarh visit stories is on http://anuragarora.blogspot.com/ !

Love,

Anurag

Pineapple Halwa

This halwa is not very popular in North of India. I ate in Banglore Ashram and tell you it taste simply great. I think it is more populer in south of India. I cooked it first time tonight here in Bhilai Ashram Kitchen and every one loved it (although pine apple was little sour as per my taste but jigish bhia and local team here finished all of it). So specially for north Indians, here is the recipe...

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups crushed pineapple

1 cup milk

Half cup rava/semolina/cream of wheat

3-4 tsp sugar (for Meerut and Muzaffernagar 5-6 tsp :-))

1-2 Tbsp ghee

A pinch of powdered cardamom and Almonds or Dry Fruits

Method: Heat the ghee in a pan and add the rava to it & toast it till it is done. (You can tell by the smell when it’s done.)
Add the milk followed by the crushed pineapple. Stir continuously and keep mixing well on low to medium heat for about 15-20 minutes. Add the almonds, sugar & cardamom powder and continue to cook for another 2 -3 minutes.

Serve hot or cold.

Love,

Anurag

Sweet and Straight

Being rude to anyone takes nothing! It is very easy to be rude. Rudeness is a sign of weakness. Sometime a little bit of guts are involved but mostly it is out of anger (again sign of weekness). Strong, stable, centered person does react easily, they hardly give rude reaction.

On the other hand, people are very goody-goody, very sweetie-sweetie and doing nothing, taking no responsibility. Has no straightness in their response. This is also of no use.

The Art of Living is being sweet and taking responsibility at the same time. We can be sweet, soft and straight at the same time. That is when you are at your best!

And this ART of LIVING can be learnt.

Love,
Anurag

Gurudev's chhattisgarh visit: Part III

Bilaspur satsang was really one of its kinds. Guruji was supposed to fly from Jagdalpur to Ambikapur for a 2 hour program and from Ambikapur to Bilaspur for a satsang at 6 in evening. It was raining heavily in all three districts Jagdalpur, Ambikapur and Bilaspur. So his helicopter could not fly because of really bad weather. He cancelled Ambikapur satsang and decided to go ahead with Bilaspur. Jagdalpur to Bilaspur is 8-9 hours by road. Guruji traveled by car to Raipur and by train from Raipur to Bilaspur. On his way from Raipur to Bilaspur in train he decided to go and meet people. People playing cards, eating their food, chit-chatting got surprise of their life by seeing Guruji coming and seeing them.
Three hours before satsang the ground was in deep water, organizers used waters pumps to drain the water out of the ground. We reached satsang ground at 7:30PM and it was an amazing site, around 5000 people with their umbrellas and rain coats on, dancing and eagerly waiting for the master. The backdrop all made of thermocol holograms and a beautiful and ramp was all under water. Somehow I managed to take few pictures it’s not very clear but may give you some idea.

People singing and dancing with their umbrellas and rain coats on!!!
Guruji arrived at around 8:30PM straight from 9 hours of journey by road and by train. The whole environment got electrifying and straight away he was on ramp, more enthusiastic and charged up then anyone else on the ground. Most of the time Guruji was dancing, singing, playing all in rain. Everyone on the ground was dancing and waiting a glimpse from him. He said I’ve done thousands of satsangs but this one is special. It was raining heavily in whole duration of satsang.
People of Chhattisgarh were praying for rains from long time as rice crop was getting affected. During his visit in almost every district in rained heavily. Both water and grace was pouring all over Chhattisgarh.

With Love,
Anurag