Everything changes

Well it has been quite a long time since I wrote the last post..... 17th August 2010 was a real memorable day of my life.....I became an art of living teacher that day...and after that life has again taken a new turn....it was not even 2 complete years since I did my YES!+ and I was teaching the secrets of happiness to youngsters......it was an altogether amazing experience..... after taking the course, I was having a hollow and empty feeling like the one we get after the advanced course......it was my first course as a teacher and of course I had no volunteers.... so had absolutely no idea at all whether or not the course will even happen........ but as I came out on the road after the first session, Guruji showered his blessings.....it started drizzling..... and I knew it was his wish because of which all the things happened.....after that, I took 2 more courses of youngsters.....indeed the best thing that one can do is to bring a smile on every face......so much learning and unlearning has happened while taking the courses.....while sitting on the vyas peeth, I can just feel that I am not myself while taking the course....or may be I am myself only when I take the course.............thanks to Guruji and all the instruments of my Guru in my life till now....... it has been such a wonderful journey.....at the level of the organization, you just become stronger and stronger.......I badly needed this strength..................the divine always takes care of all the things once you start a good thing in your life.....indeed I have experienced this and all the miracles.......at times the miracles just make me laugh..............it is a new world and a new life that I have experienced ................Thank you Guruji.........................................................Jai Gurudeva.......

My true love

Often I have seen many of my friends falling in love with stupid guys. Even i had attractions sometimes but of course I was too shy and timid to have an affair, hang around with someone or flirt. I kept on waiting for that true love to happen in my life and finally it happened when I met my Guru H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankarji. The love is so deep, so unconditional and so vast that I feel like saying "What is the need to FALL in love with some silly stupid guy, when I can RISE in love with the divine?" Wow! Thats a nice line....isn't it?
One doesen't feel like looking anywhere else when he is there in front of someone. During the Navratri, he is a devi, on mahashivratri, he is Shiva, on Janmashtami, he is Krishna......all in one.......hahahaha. I am so lucky to get a living master in my life. Thanks to my parents who gave birth to me at the right time...........
Even before I have to say something, he understands. On my art of living birthday this time, when he entered the VM and looking at me asked "Dhyan yoga ya dance karna hai?" I had exactly wished for the same thing. And he fulfilled my wish. How silly I was to doubt his divinity in the first meeting............
He knows everything. Listening to the Guru stories and sharing them with my friends has become a hobby now.....

The yes+ course(27th July-2nd Aug)

It is a real big fun to do seva for the yes+. Of course every course of Rajesh bhaiya ought to be dynamic, I was quite anxious for this course because I entered the Art of Living because I had entered the Art Of Living with Rajesh bhaiya as Guruji's first messenger in my life. The participants thoroughly enjoyed the course and I am very sure they will become volunteers for the course soon. Almost 6-8 were my students from MIT. Next yes+ is about to happen from 31st August and I am looking forward to it.
Nothing much to write.
Jai Gurudeva!

The satva

On 27th of April, it will be one month for me in which I did not eat onion garlic at all. On 27th March, it was Gudipadwa and it is the new year start for the hindus and especially auspicious day for the maharashtrians. So, I took it as a new year resolution not to eat onion, garlic even, so as to increase my satva level, and by akshay tritiya, when I would have finished my second advanced course, it will be complete one month with Meghana Wagh not eating onion and garlic. It is really nice because once you completely attain this satva, I think you gain the true spiritual bliss, the eternal happiness.
It may be the case for some that they in spite of eating onion and garlic and even taking tea and coffee may gain satva. But at least I have felt that the thoughts in meditation become negligible when you stop taking all these things. The eternal happiness increases and once you gain that eternal happiness, or as it is called the spiritual bliss, you just don't feel like leaving it.
I really miss the satsangs a lot. It has been a long time since I attended one. So, let me pray to Guruji that he will make me attend one soon.
Jai Gurudeva!

Memories

As I wrote in my last blog, life has really become so good after entering the AOL, still sometimes I just get nostalgic. One of my friends used to say"Ise beech beech me nostalgia ke attacks ate rehete hein". So, today, I think I am having another attack.
So, yesterday night in my dreams, I saw my lovely Big Madam. She was so cute, so loving, caring and affectionate lady. Now, since I have a GURU in my life, I can say that many things of the Art Of Living were already taught to me in my childhood, for e.g. being smiling and happy, being considerate for the feelings of others, etc. Big madam always loved kids in fact any kid as her own. This had perhaps developed in me that feeling of belongingness for the entire world. Her love was really unconditional. She used to love the weakest student of the class and at the same time the most brilliant one, without any discrimination. I have seen such unconditional love in the eyes of very few people in my life. Some of them are Guruji, Big Madam, Dinesh dada, Savita didi, etc.
I sometimes just wonder how al these people can have so much unconditional love. But I have the answer to my own question. "True love is always unconditional and it is never for one or two people, it is for the entire world". Guruji loves even a terrorist. once when someone asked him"Guruji, do you love everyone equally?", he said "No, I love everyone uniquely". Guruji's words are really so much meaningful. Big madam also used to love each and every child in a unique manner. I sometimes just don't believe that she is not there on this earth. Still, whenever my college bus crosses that Agrasen chouraha, I feel as if I will see the black fiat of Big Madam somewhere around it.
And I know that she is always with me. Because I love her and because she loves me UNIQUELY.
Jai Gurudeva

Sadhna Seva Satsang

In our question-answer sessions with Bau and Dinesh dada, when someone had asked the question to Bau that, "How can one remain happy throughout the day?", he had replied "Only by sadhna, seva and satsang". Now, when I am practising these things(frankly speaking, only sadhna and seva, as I have not attended the satsang for a long time now), I can feel that I am happy from within all the time.
After the college, I can feel the happiness when I enter the YES+ office for the telephonic followup. Repeating the same dialogues over and over again might sound boring to some people, but I realize how much satisfying it is. Although, I was little bit sad about it when Garima didi told me that Rishi Nityapragyaji will not be taking the course of April end due to unavailability of dates, still I am looking forward to the course, because now, I know that every course is ultimately taken by Guruji. Only the thing is that you have to feel his presence there in the form of his messengers(the teachers).
Definitely, it is the effect of the Art Of Living courses that I did not cry after I came to know that my 2000/- rupees were stolen at the college, otherwise had it been the previous Meghana, I would not have digested the food for 3-4 days(!). Of course that does not mean that I have become careless, but now I really know how to handle my emotions.
Life has become so much fun after joining the Art Of Living. I have developed a totally unexpected hobby these days and that is READING. That may sound odd to some because by profession, I am a lecturer. But, seriously I never liked reading so much that it would have been my hobby. But reading Guruji's books is a real fun. There is so much knowledge, that as we say in Hindi "Gyan ka sagar hai, jisme doob jane ko dil karta hai".
Well, nothing much to write now, so Jai Gurudeva!

One World Family-The Art Of Living

Jai Gurudeva!
It is really one of the most beautiful things that have ever happened in my life. My entry into the Art Of Living. It was indeed Guruji's call for me. Because after Rajesh bhaiya gave the intro. talk in my college, there was just one registration from MIT and that was Meghana Wagh(!).
So many miracles have happened since then. I don't know what kind of energy I gained from the YES+ course(thanks to Pavan bhaiya, my yes+ teacher), that I was able to act out how my HOD shouted at me(of course for no mistake of mine) in front of the director. The director shouted at him and called me bitiya(so sweet!). The very next day, the HOD apologized in front of the whole department as well. Hahahaha, can't believe it. After that, came the beautiful course of DSN(I still miss the bananas and karelas), as I had enjoyed eating them! Thanks to Manoj bhaiya who taught us how we are human beings first and after that a male or a female. At the YES+ I had met many brothers and sisters, in DSN I met many moms and dads.
With this spirit of one world, when I was going to the ashram to do my advanced course, I was little bit worried(because when I asked Sunil Bhaiya "Hamare sath responsible bada kaun ja raha hai" and he said "aap"). I was literally taken aback. But I said Jai Gurudeva and was much scared when someone in the train said that adv. course to bohot difficult hai, you will have to clean even the toilets(I actually dreamt myself cleaning a public toilet and after that dream could not sleep in the train). But I thoroughly enjoyed the entire course, infact was one of the last ones to come back from the ashram(frankly speaking, I didn't want to come back, but when Dinesh dada said" Meghana, now you have to make your college a second ashram", and I said "Yes dada I will", I got a new aim in life. The adv. course was really a nice one, especially, I liked meeting with Guruji, question-answer session with Bau N Dinesh dada. I got many answers to the questions even without asking myself.
After that, everything has been so beautiful, whether it is Vikram bhaiya's satsang at Emrald Heights or the UNAIDS conference at the ashram, or Anubhuti with Rajesh bhaiya or the UTSAV. I have been learning lots of things out of all these experiences and now I am looking forward to the adv. course with Rishi Nityapragyaji that will be at the end of April, and also the next adv. Yes+ again with Dinesh dada at the end of May.
All is never goody goody. Many times I see that even those who claim to be Guruji's true followers do not actually follow all the knowledge points of Guruji(sometimes even the teachers and the most active volunteers of The Art Of Living), but as Guruji says, "Keep your focus as me and not my disciples". Indeed Guruji, you are very true.
Thanks to Guruji(H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankarji) and his messengers in my life who have given me the tips to be happy from within all the time.