Charged Balloons!

Towards the finishing of the course, on the last day of Aligarh Part-I course, the participants were sharing their experience. Every course participant was given a balloon. As participants were sharing their experience I rubbed one balloon on my head and as you must have observed the balloon get charged after rubbing and because of this charge it sticks. While playing with balloon this balloon sticks on my hand and by lifting my hand the balloon was rising up against gravity. I have taken some pictures afterward to share it in a better way...






After some time the charge reduced and balloon was falling down on the stage. Even if my hand was above the balloon it wasn’t holding on to my hand. Then I rubbed it again and holding on and rising continued. Suddenly I realized many students in the class also got involved in this play and many of em doing the same :-)…




From one angle it looked so childish game in a class of around 50 students. Suddenly a realization dawned and I shared with the class…

Our life is like this balloon and the hand is the grace of master always there to lift you up. Now a charging your balloon is like doing the Art of Living course, Seva, and Sadhana. A charged balloon hold-on to the grace rise the way master wants you to rise :-)

With Love,
Anurag

Back to Srisrigarh!

Sorry for not posting from last 6-7 days, in Aligarh internet availability was very limited. Both morning n evening courses and visits to Numais (local mega fair) kept us really busy.

After finishing a ‘YES’ and ‘Part-I’ course in Greater Noida on 2nd Feb Sunday, what better treat Monika and myself could have expected then getting to see Gurudev in Delhi on Monday morning. That too just after finishing one hour of deep meditation and Rudrapooja. Gurudev's as ever beautiful glance, lovely pat on the face and my few seconds rest on his soldier. Heart got filled with tons and tons of love and mind got charged with enough energy to spread the knowledge for next few months :-)

The same day I was on my way to Aligarh and Monika back home to Meerut. After conducting few courses in Noida and Greater Noida where I observed better discipline and commitment, back to same lack of time discipline and commitment of west UP courses :-)

Volunteer did a great job as it was first course in Aligarh organized completely by newly charged-up DSN team without any involvement from teachers. I stayed at Antriksh’s home and seeing the room of this youngster was really inspiring. He is working as a fresh software engineer with TCS in Mumbai. With his engineering study material, stylish goggles and usual stuff, his room is decorated with pictures of Gurudev, Paramhansa Yogananda, Leheri Mahashaia (Paramhansa’s Guru), Ramakrishna paramhansa and lot of other spiritual literature.

Amidst traffic noise, typical Aligarhy inertia and challenging group composition (as half of the group was housewives and business people and other half were AMU medical students) the first 5 days went through but last day of the course was such a deep experience of each one of us. Each participant’s eyes were filled with the tears of love and gratitude. I remembered the Gurudev’s knowledge in one of the Teacher’s Refresher Meet “Unseen is doing much more”.

One participant’s terse comment made everyone laugh and laugh “Art of living course is like Tata Sky Ad, Isko kara dala to life jhinga lala”. Will write more on last day experiences in next posting…

With Love,
Anurag

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