#DelhiGangrape fix the roots

#DelhiGangrape is really painful for every sensitive citizen of the country; she is a daughter, sister, and friend. And we all have friends, daughter or sisters in our own spheres of life! Such decay in human and moral values, respect for women! Our culture has been to worship women! We got freedom but many of us are still slaves to the animals inside us, as our culture has not been nurtured, spirituality has not been nurtured in our schools n society.

Out of 65 years of independence, country has been in hands of Congress for 60 years and human values and Human values, culture, worshiping women we can be an example for the world and we Indian has it in our roots. Let our values, our spirituality, our true culture flourish in our education system, in our society. Cultural education here does not means by fanatic education. Jihandi education is NOT at all correct! Cultural education does not mean fanaticism, which in fact inculcates animalistic tendencies. It is simply about making meditation, pranayama and spiritual values part of modern education from primary level. Meditation is a means for one to free his/her mind from ones' negativeness, its a mean for one to be free from the animalistic tendencies inside us. If such values are given at right time (3-10 years of age), our youth will have strong character! Youths with such roots will never ever get into crime, corruption, rape or whatever. They will live life from higher level of consciousnesses...

Art of Living have been successful in doing that with many many people including many young Tihar Jail Inmates.... 

I am completely convinced that politician will not and can not bring this change. As politicians can never do reforms, reformers will do it. Politicians have to enable and support the reformers to bring the change. Unfortunate part is that our countries' leader themselves are biggest impediment in reform work from last 65 years. For this we need right people with vision in power, 65 years of rule Government has spoiled so much! They need to be changed, we need throw them out completely!!! culture has gone down and has gone down drastically in last 2-3 generations of this country. This party leader has taken country into wrong direction by not imbibing our cultural values and spiritually in our education system. In fact these leaders from 60 years or so have been opposing spiritual education.

The best speech ever...

On 15th August, I was lucky to witness one of the most moving speeches of my life. Swami Brahmtej ji was invited to address around 2000 people in Ashram from all over the country. He took mike in his hand and said "This is why I did not want to come here to speak because today is the day every year I have tears in my eyes". He said this and his throat was chocked and the drop of tears started flowing from his eyes. 

Swami Brahmtej ji (we call him Bharat bhaiya with love)

Sorry for poor quality picture but I this is the only picture which can be arranged quickly

Most of us present in Ashram Amphitheater had their heart full and eyes wet. He did not say anything further and he communicate everything what had to be communicated!

amphitheater picture for some of you who have not visited the ashram

So many of our ancestors sacrificed their everything for us to celebrate this day :)... and he reminded and inspired all of us to work with double force to create the country what our ancestors had dreamed of!

-love Anurag

The solution...

Wrong understanding of oneself is a major cause of pain and misery in life! 

The answer of the question “who you really are?” is something really worth searching for. 

 

If you have started your search in this direction, you have taken a meaningful step towards real growth in life. Otherwise your life a going waste!!! 

Every Art of Living course takes you to the answer of this question only :-)...

Happy Searching.

Love Anurag

Life stock exchange

I see myself in a huge stock exchange around me. Where individual souls are constantly trading. Mind constantly calculates and ask "what is in it for me"? Okay if i give this what will I get back? Will I be getting benefited or not? Even in relations minds are trading. This person is better or that is better for me? Okay if I do this to my brother, I may get this from him! If I do this to my friend this is the benefit! or If I don't do this, may be I loose her, so let me just do this. Oh my teacher was giving me this only, this one looks better, let me be with this one now. Even in service, this way more credit can come to me.

This business is there, transactions are constantly happening in everything and with everybody. This exchange is inevitable, even in purest of relations like of mother it comes, I am growing up this son will he take care of me at my old age? It is fine to do this in businesses and that is how you earn in business but this business is not stopping at shop, it is coming to home as well, it is happening in relations as well, it is happening with master as well. The lustiness in mind constantly looks for more in return. Wherever I see more of this, the minds are unhappy, life is miserable.

Love is giving more and taking nothing or very less in return in these transactions. I see the spirit grows in such transaction, love flows in such transactions, beauty glows in such transaction, heart touches heart in such transactions and my heart wants more and more people to operate in such a exchange of giving more.

with love
Anurag

Renouncing...

When everything in life looks to be going haywire, the thoughts of renouncing everything comes to this mind. There seems no meaning in relations, even closest of people around, even in seva projects. A thought of leaving and running away from everything comes, changing this and that and the confusion of doing what then. But what do I renounce and where do I go, wherever I go this mind is going to be with me, what work I take these people, situations and events are going to come, the world is like this only.


If it’s in my mind I have to renounce everything here only. Not by running away from it, facing every bit of it, looking it from a close corner and knowing that there in absolutely nothing in it. Every pain is empty, people, relations, name, fame, my doings, undoing and wrong doings, all are empty and there is nothing in it. Not hiding away from even a bit of it, facing all of it with courage and smile. Letting it dissolve, sets me free and renunciation happens. I return back to my center, I return back to my source, my strength and inspiration. No complains, no explanations to anyone, this is where I have been longing to be. Only desire now is to be firmly established in here, such a connection that nothing whatsoever can shake it!

With Love,
Anurag Arora

Stress Free Teaching in Muzaffernagar...

13 Feb-2010

Doing service to this divine’s world gives immense satisfaction to my heart. Happiness and bliss in my true nature. My meditation and sadhana makes me realize this but it’s the selfless service which makes me feel like a worthy candidate to dive deep into my meditation. It makes feel like being a worthy candidate to meet my divine guru dwelling deep in my heart. It reminds me the state of mind of my childhood days when at times I used to be very first in a long waiting queue for prasad in our neighborhood temple. The state of being very confident that I will definitely get it and will get the best!

                Sonia organized Stress Free Teaching sessions in two schools in Muzaffernagar . First one was of around 30 teachers at Morning Glory school at 9:00am. Finished my Kriya at 7:30AM and started driving from Meerut at 7:40AM, 50kms drive, highway is in half cooked state, and my passed record of reaching in the programs in Muzaffernagar was actually poor. Sonia called me twice to make sure that I reach in time, don’t know how but to the surprise of Sonia and Vidushi, I was there on venue at 9:05AM. I shared many ideas on student handling from Murli Bhaiya’s presentation (which teachers found very practical and useful) plus some sukhsham yoga, pranayama and finishing with a 15 minutes meditation which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. After the session we had (some) herbal leaf tea with school owners Mr. and Mrs. Swaroop in the big lush green garden of their mansion. Mr Gautam Swaroop is a very interesting person, he is running a business of making artistic furniture and home utilities goods from the dead tree woods. He gifted me some of his creations. He has many others business, but this he is doing out of his love and interest.

 

This picture actually is of washbasin in their garden which he has designed from dead tree trunk.

Second session attended by around 70 teachers of Girdhari Lal Memorial Public school also left everyone inspired. I had to rush back from Muzafffar nagar at 3 PM as I had to reach Modinagar  before 5PM for a meeting and then back to Meerut  to consolidate on YES+ work, which I could not because of a tire puncture on my way back J… Writing with heart filled with gratitude for my Guru for blessing me with another beautiful day to meditate, serve and sing.

With Love,
Anurag!

Spanking Vs No Spanking

"Spare the rod & spoil the child”, 5^th Jan’s Time of Indian published this article advocating the spanking of children at early age.  The article is based on the study which found that kids smacked up the age of six were more likely as teenagers to perform better at school.

           The Indian spirituality has given this revolutionary tool for mind handling, simple yet very profound concept, “The opposites values are complimentary”. Where coexistence of opposite is to be very artistically accepted, where loving and slapping go hand in hand, challenging situation and learning coexist. In subtle creations of nature it is there. Like in our breath, there is energy and activity associated with in-coming breath and relaxation and rest with out-going breath, opposites do coexistence. Coexistence of alertness and calmness together leads to high productivity. It is a method and as well as result of many meditation techniques here in India. Without imbibing this sutra in life the handling of this ever so tricky, canniest of all, entity called human mind is not at all possible. This applies to the child handing as well, spanking and at the same time elevating them love and care has to coexist.
          The article does touches upon the opposites “Spanking at early age and better performance at teen age”. There is definitely a chance of parents and teachers missing on the subtlety into the message and justifying their violent at home and at school towards their wards. Many schools of thoughts mainly in western world stuck to their rightist or leftist ideology. Which is why they are struggling not only at human mind level but also at countries level. The net result is these result-less wars and killings!

With Love
Anurag

खेल तमाशा...

This is one of the poems that came to me during my last Advance Course in Rishikesh. Enjoy...

खेल तमाशा जीवन सारा, क्या कोई जीता क्या कोई हारा।
वो सबको है खूब नचाता, दुख की सुख की भूमिका कराता।
सुख की भूमिका तू खूब निभाता, पर दुःख तुझको है ज्यादा सिखाता।
खूब खेल है उसने रचाया, ज्ञानी बोले इसको माया।

जो न जाने वो घबराया, इस माया में पाँव फंसाया।
गुरु ज्ञान तुझे मंच दिखाता, पात्र हो तुम यह बोध कराता।
मस्त खिलाड़ी तुम्हें बनाता , खिलाने वाले से भी मिलाता।
खेलो तुम ये खेल निराला, खिलाने वाला खुद मतवाला।

हर परीस्थिति में तुम मुस्काना, पात्र निभाकर बढ़ते जाना।
दुःख के पत्थर से जो टकराना, मुस्काकर तुम बड़ते जाना।
बहता जल ही काम में आता, जो रुक जाता वो सड़ जाता।
बहता जल ही काम में आता, जो रुक जाता वो सड़ जाता।

With Love,
Anurag

I'm...

This mind once tasted the highest, the purest, the ultimate joy, the bliss and the unconditional love. The deepest silent center, the nothingness of my core, the source that "I'm", the source of all inspirations.

Reposing in this nothingness, in this unbound freedom is the only longing of the mind, is the only thing that the mind desire for. Craving n desire of mind for any Name, Fame, Money, Power, Position doesn't matter, they all look immaturity of my own mind. They all have a cost attached, the cost is pain. None of these comes without the tinch of pain attached. So does the pleasures of five senses pleasure of taste, smell, sight, hearing and of touch. Falling even a bit for any of these false charms makes this mind so week and fragile.

Being in this "I'mness" is my lordship, being in this "I'mness" makes my all peripheries to merge into my center, every pain, every pleasure, everything dissolve into that nothingness. Which has infinite capacity to accept and consume everything. Which make every cell of my being so full of joy, which makes my every cell to resonate love and peace.

With Love,

Anurag Arora

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.

Five sutras for getting out of any misery in life!

Five sutras given by Gurudev for getting out of misery in life:

THE SUTRA OF CHANGE:

Know that everything is changing. In ones’ life so many difficult situations come but all have passed so this will also change.

You have faced many roller coasters while rafting in the river of life. Just remember that you have came out stronger from those bumpy rides, this too will change!

THE SEVA SUTRA:

Think of those who are more miserable then you and help them. A group of nurses in one of my talk in Barriely mentioned that they forget about all their problems of life when they work with sick and poor people in hospitals. They said that they forget all their problems in serving the patients. One lady in Part-I course in a town named Haldaur (near Bijnor district in UP) was telling me that her going to temple and serving food to leprosy patients gives her relief from the depressive state of her mind.

THE DIVINE SUTRA:

Know that god is always with you and he is taking care of you. Share your misery with him, talk to him, and tell him everything. Your confidence of him being with you and telling him everything will take you out.

THE SURRENDER SUTRA:

Surrender is a state of mind which you achieve after you let go the unwanted stuff from your mind. “Surrender is deleting the unwanted stuff from your system” as Rishi Nityapragya says. Surrending is letting of that something or anything that seems wait and and burdon to you.

THE METHOD OF YOGA:

By doing yoga you become yogya (ability comes to you). Yoga not only take care of present physical or mental health but it also take care of miseries which may come in future. As said by maharishi patanjali "HEYAM DUKHAM ANAGATAM". Which means that by practicing Yoga our future miseries also reduces/disappears.

With Love,

Anurag Arora

Knowledge in numbers!!!

Long time I have been on a kind of project which gave me no time to write much. I have been writing on some topics but haven't been posting actively.

Break-time

Many of you have been asking to break this break! Here you go, I'll be posting on a very interesting series "Knowledge in Numbers" i.e.

1- Five ways of keeping misery out of life
2- Four Sources of Prana Energy
3- Five modulations of Mind
4- Five topics not worth discussing
5- Five causes of misery
6- Three steps in getting a work done
7- Five changes that happens by the presence of Guru in your life

and more....so stay connected....:-)

With Love
Anurag

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

Peace and love insurance!

Today's morning sessions after disha-pranama (honoring directions),
one participants asked a question "How can we stay ever in this joyful state of mind".

These few lines just came out!
I must share it with you.

If Guru is your priority
If knowledge is your priority
If Service is your priority....

No one can take away peace and love from your life!

With Love
Anurag

Fight out recession

What if I'm out of the job, gives rise to the mix set of negative emotions in our system. Insecurity and fear of getting lost arises. Mind gets anxious about the possibilities for the future, what will happen to my loans, what about future plans, how the payment of monthly bills will happen? what about my family? etc etc...



Especially when environment around us is of fear, and people talk about it a lot.

This does not help our mind and body in long term. In fact mind with such state attracts more down fall.
There are few things we can do:

1. Know that 5 minutes of negative talking, negative company, takes away the energy equivalent to 6 hour of hard work.
2. Keep your life energy (Parana) high. High Parana mean more courage to fight out adversities with calmness.
   This you can do by:

• Taking more high Parana food like fruit juices, green vegetable, fresh home cooked vegetarian food etc.
• Breath is great source of life energy (Parana). Art of Livings Sudarshan Kriya not only help our mind being in state of high energy, it also makes us alert and calm at the same time. Which gives us courage and creativity to find solutions to get out of such situations.

• If such thoughts still bug your mind, think about people who lost everything in there life like people in Bihar flood or in Tsunami. They have actually come out stronger, Lattur is much better established today after the devastating earth quake. Nature is there to take care!

Picture taken from internet of one of the village panchayat of Latur

Have faith and know that there is some-one up there (Nature, God, Guru whatever you call it) to take much better care of you and your family. This I can say with full authority and confidence as I'm full time in Art of Living sewa and not doing my high paying corporate job from last three years. And I tell you, myself and my family is been taken care of thousand time better then what I could have thought or would have done by my job.

With Love and Regards
Anurag Arora

Vision & Mission: Make your life a project!

“Vision is what gives direction to life energy. A mistake is an action disconnected from the vision… have a vision in your life” -Sri Sri


Here is my vision and mission statement…

* I’m a yogi, who is firmly established in his self, in his Guru.
* Wherever I go, I love people around me and people around me love me.
* I’m one of the best teachers of my master’s (Gurudev) knowledge
* Through me, this knowledge is going to reach to 60lac people around the world in this lifetime.

Make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,

Where there is doubt, let instill faith,

Where there is despair, let me bring hope,

Where there is darkness, let me show light,

Where there is sadness, let me share JOY.

With Love,
Anurag

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

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