SRI SRI YOGA in Meerut

Sri Sri Yoga is the best and most amazing way of doing Yoga... It doesn't only takes extra weight away from your body, It eliminates the extra weight of mind as well.

3rd of July, I became Sri Sri Yoga teacher :-) and my first Sri Sri course is in Meerut. So do send all you friends and relatives in and around Meerut for SSY.

With Love, Anurag

Wait, I'm Giving!

The most of the Gods, the mudra in which right hand is up near right solder fingers pointing upward and left is down near waist, and generally there is something flowing out of left hand. look this beautiful lord Ganesha picture...

In Narad bhakti sutra Gurudava explained this mudra very beautifully, he says Upper hand's mudra depicting “Wait, don’t be impatient” and lower hand is saying “I’m giving na!”. God says "Wait I'm giving". Here is an experience of my last two birthday's :-), enjoy...

June last year, I went to Banglore Ashram, two days before a program that I had to attend, to celebrate my birthday with Gurudev :-). I reached ashram on 15th, did my morning sadhana on 16th morning, dressed myself with a nicely washed and pressed Lucknow chiken kurta-paijama and reached the secretariat office (Kashchapa in front of Vishalakshi Mandap in Ashram) . Full of expectation, I sent an appointment request through Shabnam in secretariat “Guruji it’s my birthday today and I just want to be with you for sometime”. With a thought that I should get it (after all I’m a full time teacher doing so much service :-)), I was in waiting queue with other few 5-6 people on the pathway to Ganga kutir in Ashram. As my waiting had a touch of impatience into it, every time someone comes down from the pathway to the Kutir, I use to look at them with a hope. My hope started turning into disappointment as someone else use to get the call. This continued for around two hours and cumulative sum of disappointment was beyond my capacity :-).

With mind already started grumbling I went back to my room. Birthday celebration in evening satsang looked usual to me as many people went on the stage myself and Ujjal (another fulltime teacher who also has his birthday on the same day). Guruji did not even paid much attention and it went just like that :-). I started my next day applied my part-I course point (You can guess which one I should have applied :-)) , evening my mind got real clarity when Guruji shared in the satsang that “Agar main tum ko laat bhee maru aur tum phir bhee vaapas aao to tume Guru ke paas aana aya” (Even if you feel that I insulting you, I’m treating you badly and you still you come back to me, them only you have learn to come back to Guru).

This year June, I again happen to be in Ashram for an Advance and SriSri Yoga Teachers Training Course did not have any expectations or desire whatsoever on my birthday. I came to know that Guruji is meeting people in Badri Vishala in afternoon, I went in darshan line, had a very good darshan and little chat with Guruji. Shardaji from back shouted "Guruji, its Anurag’s and Ujjal’s birthday today". “Oh yes yes, we will celebrate.” Said Guruji. As Guruji prompted that, secretariat people allowed us to be I Ganga kutir with Guruji after darshan.
Few of us got to spend around few hours in Ganga kutir in His presence and you ask anyone who had experienced this, it is a lifetime experience. In the evening satsang, he pointed me and Ujjal in “Ha ha both of you come…”. And after cake cutting a group of teachers with us moved to the Ashram canteen for further celebration. And end of it, I was thinking this somewhat I desired last year and now I’m getting exactly in the same way. As I was thinking this, Abhishek a teacher from Rajasthan came running to me and said that Guruji has sent a message for you that he will you birthday gift tomorrow. Icing on the cake, more than what I expected. Next day more time with Him in kutir. He asked “Tumhari Jaroorat kaya hai” (What do you need?)”. Word came out of my mouth, “Guruji meri jaroorat to app hi ho” (You are my one and only need). He said “Oh mai to huin he naa…”, he came out with two kurtas. One for me and one for Ujjal. “Will it fit you?”. And this Kurta is made for my fitting, I love it!

And I was remebering "Wait I'm giving na..."
Love, Anurag

Lessons in traffic jam

A TATA ACE small truck was stuck in the middle of the road on my way back to home. The front of the van was stuck into a boundary wall and on the back was a slope, so driver was trying to take the truck backward as truck was loaded to its capacity it was pushed forward again because of the slope and the load. It was hitting and causing damage to the boundary wall in front. This vehicle caused a big traffic jam as my car was in the front as I could witness the whole drama.

People around got this idea of getting together and pushing the truck back so that it could cross the slope on the back. We all pushed the truck backward and after few unsuccessful attempts people started looking for other solutions. Suddenly I got an idea. To overcome the impediment caused by slope behind the rear tyres, I started placing the bricks in from of the tyres. So as truck moved little back these bricks stopped it from moving forward again. In few rounds of this brick dropping the truck actually crossed the bigger slope behind. Everyone including me got a sign of relief and traffic moved forward.

So what’s big deal into this whole matter?

There are revealing aspects which stuck me as I drove away from the jam!

I realized:

1-“Boundary wall in front and big slope on the back of a loaded truck”

Is actually like we in our life, load in the truck is the responsibilities that we carry. Boundary in front is the conditioning and boundaries created by our mind and slope in the back is the tendencies and negativities that we carry in life. Because of these tendencies and boundaries the truck of our life gets stuck at times.

2- “We all pushed the truck back and with few unsuccessful attempts”

We apply efforts in our life to fight with the situations and try to come out of it and generally effort only does not work!

3- “Bricks stopped it from moving forward again”

Same means which was as impediment, which was a stopping the truck from moving backward when applied from opposite direction it solved the problem. Same tendencies and negatives in our life when used in other direction actually becomes the catalyst of growth for our life.

And this is how I see Guruji is transforming our lives by devising the techniques which gets us out of the imaginary boundaries, limitation and tendencies created by our own mind.

A TATA ACE small truck was stuck in the middle of the road on my way back to home. The front of the van was stuck into a boundary wall and on the back was a slope, so driver was trying to take the truck back because truck was loaded to its capacity it was pushed forward again because of the slope and the load. It was hitting and causing damage to the boundary wall in front. This vehicle caused a big traffic jam as my car was in the front as I could witness the whole drama. People around got this idea of getting together and pushing the truck back so that it could cross the slope on the back. We all pushed the truck backward and after few unsuccessful attempts people started looking for other solutions. Suddenly I got an idea. To overcome the impediment caused by slope behind the rear tyres, I started placing the bricks in from of the tyres. So as truck moved little back these bricks stopped it from moving forward again. In few rounds of this brick dropping the truck actually crossed the bigger slope behind. Everyone including me got a sign of relief and traffic moved forward.
So what’s big deal into this whole matter? There are revealing aspects which stuck me as I drove away from the jam!
I realized that
1-“Boundary wall in front and big slope on the back of a loaded truck”
Is actually like we in our life, load in the truck is the responsibilities that we carry. Boundary in front is the conditioning and boundaries created by our mind and slope in the back is the tendencies and negativities that we carry in life. Because of these tendencies and boundaries the truck of our life gets stuck at times.
2- “We all pushed the truck back and with few unsuccessful attempts”
We apply efforts in our life to fight with the situations and try to come out of it and generally effort only does not work!
3- “Bricks stopped it from moving forward again”
Same means which was as impediment, which was a stopping the truck from moving backward when applied from opposite direction it solved the problem. Same tendencies and negatives in our life when used in other direction actually becomes the catalyst of growth for our life.
And this is how I see Guruji grace is transforming our lives by devising the techniques which gets applied from opposite direction and gets us out of the imaginary boundaries, limitation and tendencies created by our own mind.