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

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

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