This feverishness of fame, of pride, of social recognition is immaturity. Just
wake up and see there is nothing much in it. Its an empty bowl.
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Topics in this edition
1. Ashram for a week - Register by 15 July for £50 discount!
2. Guru Purnima Celebrations in Abu Dhabi, UAE
3. Part II Course with Pankaj-ji Jul 23 - Jul 26 2009
4.Celebrations with Prisons Smart Programme in Mauritius...GRACE
5.Are you going for the next SSY TTC?
6.MEGA PART I in Ghatkopar with VIKRAM BHAIYA
7.PART II WITH TANU MA [TANUJAJI LIMAYE]
8. Seva Opportunity at Triveni Ashram: Accounts Seva
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From: Annabel Broom <broomish@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Subject: Ashram for a week - Register by 15 July for £50 discount!
Come and join us for our summer magic in London where a beautiful location is
transformwed into a mini ashram for a week with the grace which accompanies so
many Art of Living activities happening simultaneously in one place.
R egister now if you haven't already. REGISTER BY 15 JULY FOR £50 DISCOUNT -
spread the word!!
Residential courses 12-16 August 2009:
Part 2
Part 1
Sri Sri Yoga
YES!+ (ages 18-30)
YES! (ages 14-18)
ART Excell (ages 8-13)
Also on offer:
ANGELS (Child minding for the under 8s)
VASTU (Indian Feng Shui)
Making simple adjustments to your environment can bring about positive changes
in your life: Enhance your relationships, create more abundance, feel an
incredible sense of peace and well-being at home or at work. These are just a
few of the results that some of our clients have expressed after implementing
the suggestions we have advised. Your in-depth, personalized analyses – for a
variety of home or workplace settings – can show you exactly what you need to
do.
AYURVEDA (a holistic approach to natural health)
Ayurvedic consultations and treatments (including massages) to help you to find
inner peace, joy and love. Ayurvedic treatments are mostly cleansing therapies
which help you to come back into a balanced and healthy state of being. They
support the cleansing and restorative qualities of the courses and have been
fully booked at this event for the past two years. The Sri Sri Ayurveda team is
coming over from Bad Antogast, the international AOL centre in Germany.
DIVINE SHOP
An opportunity to get your own copy of the music and knowledge of the Art of
Living. You'll also find yoga mats, yoga chairs and bottled water to support
the physical body too!
TO REGISTER
The registration forms are all available for downloading, just follow the links
under the red text on this page: www.uk.artofliving.org/courses_inyourarea.htm
If you have any queries contact me on +44 791 778 7768 or broomish@hotmail.com
I'm looking forward to seeing you this August!!
love
Annabel
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From: TheSudhakarans <sudhakar@eim.ae>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Subject: Guru Purnima Celebrations in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Just a small update on the Guru Purnima Celebrations in Abu Dhabi, UAE
While planning the celebrations about a month back, it was decided to fly-in
one of the well-known and renowned AOL singers from India, which is the usual
practice while organizing such mega celebrations over here. However, with the
green signal not coming from Ashram – we realized HIS play. HE was reminding
us of HIS teachings – "many a times we forget the value of what we have and
the mind always longs for what we do not have". So, we started looking at our
backyard and it was finalized to give an opportunity to three of our young,
devoted and talented singers from our very own Chapter.
The day began early in the morning with Sudarshan Kriya (long) at our Centre
and Grand Celebrations were scheduled for the evening. The Seva angels made the
venue so lively, colorful, pleasing and inviting; the entire hall was
beautifully decorated with flowers, balloons, rangoli, etc. and our Master was
'smilingly' sitting there in a specially ornated stage.
The evening celebrations began with the Guru Puja followed by the Guru Paduka
Stotram chanting. It was so, so vibrant that we were in tears, expressing our
gratitude to HIM, for giving us this knowledge, for making our lives so simple,
etc. etc. etc. We could really feel HIS presence.
The young team of singers (Pramod, Apurva and Prajesh – guided by Avanish)
went rocking straight away and we were already on our feet. Bhanu akka had once
said, "when your heart becomes light, then you go up on your feet and
dance". At the end of the programme, a few of them commented that there was
no need to bring singers from India in the future (singers beware?). Amazing
isn't it? It was mind-blowing experience that we even forgot about time.
The rocking satsang was followed by Full Moon mediation and Guruji's video
session "Finding the Master" - though we have already found HIM. Then
several SEVA projects were launched.
For the last few years something very unique happens in our Abu Dhabi chapter.
It is the honouring our Abu Dhabi based AOL teachers, because it was through
them we got to know of our Guruji. They were the windows to our Master. Our
gratitude was expressed by felicitating all the teachers who were present (some
of the others were on vacation in India). (May be the other chapters to take
the cue?). It was so really amazing to watch all our teachers being honoured.
After a few more rocking bhajans, it was time for a sumptuous prasad (dinner)
late in the evening.
It was really an evening of masti, it was an evening of expression of our
gratitude, it was an evening to experience HIS grace. As Guruji always says
"Guru Purnima is not the day of the Master, it is the day of the Devotee".
Truly it was.
Thank you Guruji for everything...
Jai Gurudev!
With Love and Pranams,
M. Sudhakaran
Abu Dhabi Chapter
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From: AOL Triveni Ashram <srisritriveniashram@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:56 AM
Subject: Part II Course with Pankaj-ji Jul 23 - Jul 26 2009
Last month there was a record breaking response with 241 participants for the
Part II course by Rishi Nityapragyaji.
Please, click on the link below to read the experiences shared by participants
of that course,
Here is your chance to experience the bliss.
We invite you for the Part II (Advanced) Course by Pankaj-ji at our Triveni
Ashram!
The Art of Living's Part II Course guides one on a journey deeper into one's
self.... enabling the spontaneous integration of life with wisdom.
Rest and rejuvenate the mind and body in the best way possible.
Below are the details of the course duration, donations and
registration process.
Dates : Jul 23-26, 2009,
Reporting on : 22 Jul Evening
Departure on : 26 Jul 5 PM
Donation : Rs 2,500/- per participant
Course contribution includes stay and food during course dates and the program
cost.
Pre-register as soon as possible as only limited seats are available.
Pre-requisite: Art of living Part I course & 21 years old.
Payment either by Demand Draft or cash ONLY. 'No Cheques "
DD should be in name of "Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth", payable at Pune.
For Registrations : 020-25411821 / 9765999127 / 9765999123
Looking forward to hosting you at Triveni Ashram.
--
Jai Gurudev,
Triveni Ashram Team,
+91-9765999123,+91-9765999127
http://groups.google.com/group/srisritriveniashram
http://srisritriveniashram.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-reach-triveni-ashram.html
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From: kidskills ltd <asvade@intnet.mu>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:34 AM
Subject: Celebrations with Prisons Smart Programme in Mauritius...GRACE,
Dear All
Its just amazing to see transformations happening in the attitudes and minds of
Prisons Inmates. This was my 2nd Prisons Smart after two months. The first one
ended with 15 inmates on 13th May ( Guruji's Birthday ) and was my first course
after becoming Teacher in the April 2009 batch at Ashram. The 2nd Prison Smart
ended with 27 inmates on Guru Purnima. It just happened on these days with no
planning. In fact, I am running one Prisons Smart every two months and these
transformed souls are bringing new inmates while doubling the numbers to the
next course.
Yea they are singing, laughing, dancing, happy and also very grateful to our
Beloved Poojya Gurudev for this profound knowledge which is coming to them in
the Prisons. They could never ever believe that this knowledge would simply
make them understand what life is about; that it is not worth living a life
with regrets, anger, frustrations, hatred & waiting for revenge. They are
learning to be compassionate, peaceful and live the rest of their lives with
responsibility and celebrations. All the different faiths: Christians, Muslims
and Hindus sang with hands in hands together; dancing to the rythm of the Bible
Chants and to the bhajans..I taught them to sing " Your Home is My Heart,
Amazing Grace, Give Me Joy & Jai Jai Radha Raman ".
And when they are totally relaxed and calm in their minds, you will never see
them as culprits but as human beings who have been victims of situations and of
ignorance. They are as innocent as anybody else would have been. They need our
support and the skills taught by Gurudev to live their lives fully in
celebrations. Please be available for them.
Am attaching one photo taken on the last day of the course. See how much smile
they have also but are suppressed with their emotions. We need to bring them
the smile back as Guruji says.
With luv n smiles
Varma
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From: S.Vedavalli Chakrapani <vedachakra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Subject: Are you going for the next SSY TTC?
Do you have any regrets missing the yoga lessons from the Saint Patanjali, the
author of Yoga Sutras?
If so , existence is giving you another opportunity to do that with our new age
Patanjali, who is none other than our dear Kishenji. That too, you don't
have to wait for too long. Just be on the look out for the announcement of the
next SSY TTC for AOL teachers in Bangalore during Oct/Nov 2009.
The experience of doing yoga, learning to teach yoga, the practical lessons on
being a yogi etc., during the 9 days of sadhana (SSY TTC) with him recently
in the Bangalore ashram had the ability to move one from the unreal to the
real, moment after moment.
It is not that he is against the experiences of the world. He said "be
established in the Truth and keep playing . Even after enjoying the world so
much you are still not happy, it means the world doesn't have the ability to
satisfy you." Simple words but profound truth.
We learnt that there are totally 8,40,000 asanas. Many will be happy to know
that a flexible body is not a pre requisite for this TTC. Jokingly Kishenji
said , "no matter how flexible the body is, it will still leave you one day.
Even if you don't do the practices, you will die one day. So why don't you
do and die? With yoga, move inside the temple, body is the temple.
If pain is your concern, while doing the asana , know that it is not due to the
asana, but only an indication that something is wrong with that part of the
body.
Again people say that they don't have the time. But according to Kishenji,
the Prime Minister too has the same time as the clerk in an office.
e said, yoga was taught first by Shiva to Parvati . They are not two different
people. The questioning mind is Parvati and the space withiHn you from where
the answer comes - that space is Shiva.
His talk on Pranayama is very inspiring. He said, every one is born with the
Prana Shakti. This remains with us till death whether one does pranayama or
not. It is dormant in the Mooladhara chakra. With yoga/pranayam practices, this
energy is activated to move up opening the nadis which are the energy channels.
The proof that this is happening is known from how happy you are and how much
seva you do.
He had the clue to quieten the mind. He said, all thoughts come from the past
– pool of experiences. If you want to quieten the mind, let go of the past.
When the pen drive is full , you delete what is not important, similarly keep
deleting what is not important from your mind too.
For him , each moment is very new even if everything looks the same. Your
sitting in the same spot is also not true as the earth which is floating in
space keeps moving.
Interestingly the mind too stretched, along with the muscles during the yoga
sessions and found itself in deep meditation.
Kishenji is a living example of devotion. He said, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the
Guru because He loves the world. It is not that He loves the world because He
is a Guru. There cannot be any conditional devotion. Guru will not fit into
your frame.
Enlightenment, to this yogi is not far away. Whenever you are in knowledge, he
says, those are the enlightened moments. Just as when you sing like a good
singer, you are a good singer, similarly when you live like an enlightened, you
are enlightened. The way to gain anything is to loose it. So just drop even the
desire to be enlightened.
The moment you are connected with the Master, your higher self, all karmas are
burnt. So live like a king. You may not believe it. Like a new born baby in a
rich family doesn't know that he is rich, similarly you may not realize how
rich you are on the path.
So look forward to an enriching experience and knowledge in the forthcoming TTC
in Bangalore. The experience would be incomplete if I do not mention about
Dr.Sadhana who with the loving patience taught Anatomy and Physiology. She is
too good that it is impossible for even a dumb person to fail in her subjects.
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From: Seema Lamba <kaur.seema@gmail.com>
Subject: MEGA PART I in Ghatkopar with VIKRAM BHAIYA
We are conducting Guru Poornima Month Special Art Of Living Part 1 course at
Ghatkopar
with
Vikram Hazra
Date : 14th July to 19th July 2009
Venue : R City Mall, Ghatkopar-W
Timings : Morning Batch 6.00 am to 9.00 am
Contact :9920122044 / 9322656293
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From Seema
Subject: PART II WITH TANU MA [TANUJAJI LIMAYE]
CHANGE OF DATES -23rd to 26th July,2009
Here's a chance to be with Yourself...! The Advanced Meditation / Art Of
Living Part II Course with
" Tanujaji Limaye "
Tanuja Limaye is a Senior International Teacher with the Art of Living
Foundation. She travels worldwide teaching people of all backgrounds, cultures
and religions how to effectively manage their mind and emotions, eliminate
stress, live in harmony amid diversity and bring greater peace and joy into
their lives.
Over the past ten years with Art of Living Foundation, She has taught
extensively in Europe, the Mid East, Japan, Southern Africa, Canada and the
United States.
Her specialties include training and inspiring Art of living teachers and
teaching advanced level Art of Living course designed to help participants
remove self-imposed limitations, realize their full potential and offer their
talents in service to the world.
IN MUMBAI
Art of Living's Advanced (Part II ) Course guides one on a journey deeper into
one's self.... enabling the spontaneous integration of life with wisdom. Rest
and rejuvenate the mind and body in the best way possible.
Date: 23rd to 26th July,2009
Reporting time : 6 am on 23rd July,2009
Venue: C.Chatwani Hall [A.C hall], Telli Galli, Nr.Station,Andheri east
Course Donation : Rs.3500 /-
Accommodation available on Request
Don't miss this precious gift to experience the power of silence & your inner
beauty
ALSO
SAHAJ SAMADHI MEDITATION
Date: 24th – 26th July, 2009 Time: 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm
Contact: 9821242184/9930530157/9892456529
NOTE- Cheques to be taken in name of - VVKIMIC
Courier your form and cheque to -
Disha Realtors
146/3,Chinar Bldg,shere punjab soc,
Near tolani college,off mahakali Caves Rd,
Andheri - east,
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From: AOL Triveni Ashram <srisritriveniashram@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:10 AM
Subject: Seva Opportunity at Triveni Ashram: Accounts Seva
Here is a wonderful seva opportunity to handle all account details of Triveni
Ashram.
There is a requirement of Two Accountants, who will be working at the City
Office.
Retired persons who are willing to do the seva may also contact.
For more details please call on the following number,
+91-9765999123, +91-9422004162
Please, forward this mail.
Best Wishes,
--
Jai Gurudev,
Triveni Ashram Team,
+91-9765999123,+91-9765999127
http://groups.google.com/group/srisritriveniashram
http://srisritriveniashram.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-reach-triveni-ashram.html
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