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Topics
1. Guruji's Gayan Satsang - This is a new policy; don't try to make anybody
happy, you can't
2. Blessing Course in Kolkata with Chhayapati Ji
3. Sri Sri Yoga Level 2 course with Krishanji at Bangalore Ashram
4. SAHAJ SAMADHI COURSE IN EAST DELHI FROM TODAY 5TH AUG 2011
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From: Vinay Girotra <girotrav@shriamba.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Subject: Guruji's Gayan Satsang - This is a new policy; don't try to make
anybody happy, you can't
Bangalore, May 18:
I have seen that swamis, sadhus and people in ancient times would not like
to listen to any conflict anywhere. If someone came and complained to them
they would just plug their ears and say, "You deal with it."
See, if you are part of the solution, your energy is high. But if you are
talking about problems and problems, your energy comes down.
In the world there is always a play of positive and negative; some problems
come, some challenges come and solutions also come behind it. The ancient
people would simply focus on keeping their energy high. If your energy is
high then when people come to you their problems will get solved.
Usually what happens when you talk to people? You get stooped into their
level of problems. They talk to you about their problems and what happens?
You get carried away into the problems. So just try this: one day let
everybody come and complain 100 things to you, you simply keep your energy
high, your sight inward, your mind inward as though nothing has happened.
You will suddenly feel there is a freedom within you.
You try this: at home your mother-in-law will complain, your husband will
complain, anybody can complain about anything, let the world go topsy-turvy,
but hold onto the idea - I am going to keep my energy high. You just take
one such step and see, because problems and challenges come so that you can
turn your mind inward.
Instead of turning our minds inward when problems come, what do we do? We
chase the problem and when we chase the problem we get totally drawn in that
direction, dragged in that direction and then our energy goes down and we
collapse. Isn't this what happens?
Many times, in the name of compassion and sympathy you get drowned. Your
compassion does not really help at all in solving the problem. It may be
very shocking because in compassion the problem multiplies, and it doesn't
get solved.
Any problem comes so that a person can turn inward and look inside, get into
a state of dispassion and calmness. Instead you give reasons and try to
pacify the person. Pacifying a person in a problem is the worst thing. You
should not pacify them. Let everybody bear their own cross. Bear your karma.
If you are miserable it is your karma, if you are happy it is your karma. So
you change your karma. This attitude makes a person more independent.
You show compassion and then they want more attention. You feel more
compassion and give more attention and then neither compassion is there nor
can you give any more attention. Only tension remains. It breeds tension in
you, 'That poor person is so upset and I have to make them happy'. Making
someone happy is a big burden. Don't try to do that at all. This is a new
policy; don't try to make anybody happy, you can't.
There is a Sanskrit proverb that says 'Kashtasya sukasya nakopi data'.
Nobody gives happiness or misery. It is created by one's own self, one's own
mind. When someone says 'problem', just turn and run in the other direction.
Say deal with it, you deal with your own problem. Then you see independence
comes, interdependence comes in people and that is how you make yourself
self- sufficient.
I am talking about this to sadhaks, to all of you who are already on the
path. But don't use this when someone in the street is crying and they want
a lift and you say, 'Guruji said let them deal with it, I am out.' If you
have space in your car you should go attend to them. That compassion is
needed there, but not in relationships. When you are relating with people,
random acts of compassion are essential. To someone whom you do not know, be
compassionate.
Be passionate about dispassion.
Just see your own mind keeps getting bogged down by that person's feeling,
that person's tension and this lady's misery and this person's unhappiness -
what can you do and where have you gone? What has happened to you? You are
completely shattered. That is why they say cut all these cobwebs around you,
all these strings around you, only one string to the Divine, only one
string.
Even there, don't say, 'Guruji didn't look at me, maybe God is angry with
me', this and that, no! Everything is prasad, if I am kicked out, it is a
Prasad. If I am scolded, it is Prasad. Everything is prasad, This attitude
is the best attitude. So: no attention, no tension. Good!
Q: Guruji, if we do that people will think we are so insensitive.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Let them say what they want. That is what you are
trying to do, please them. 'No I am not insensitive, I am sensitive.'
As I said, you do your job, whatever you should do you do, but don't sit and
listen to their problems, and don't get carried away by it, got it!
Q: In the Part 1 course they have explained the three sounds and when they
are put together they sound 'Om', 'Amen' and 'Ameen'. I don't understand how
the three sounds form 'Amen' and 'Ameen'.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: No it's similar, 'Aa' and 'Ma', two sounds are
definitely there, it's very similar.
If you see, English is a distortion of Sanskrit. Lots of words in English
are derived from Sanskrit; I would say nearly 50 percent; brother: bhratru,
sister: svasa, mother: mata, etc.
When the language changes usually distortion happens.
In Bengali, there are a lot of changes that have happened, 'Vishnu' become
'Bishnu'; 'Vishwas' becomes 'Bishwas'. The Bengalis say 'eat water', 'jal
khabe'; 'khabe' means eating but they say 'jal khabe'. 'Jal' becomes 'jol';
'jol khabe'. Every language has got its own characteristics, isn't it?
In English also they change the pronunciation; instead of 'West Bengal' they
say 'Best Bengal'. Don't 'baste' food; for 'waste' they say 'baste'. That is
how it is. You have to accept it.
'You like bhite, you always bear bhites'; they are actually saying you
always wear whites. 'Guruji always bears bhites' - that is the typical
pronunciation. In Gujarat 'lawn' becomes 'loan' and 'hall' becomes 'hole';
'the loan is in front of the hole.'
Q: We always perform Tarpana on Amavas in reverence of the departed souls of
the beloved ones, is it really something scientific or just a ritual?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well, Tarpana means 'to satisfy.' 'Tarpa' comes from
'tripti', which means fulfillment. Your ancestors had some wishes.
Fulfilling them or taking them to be fulfilled, don't crave for anything.
That is exactly what Tarpana is: remembering the people who have departed
once in a year.
In Christianity and in Islam also they do this for departed souls,
particularly once in a year. So in India, in the ancient days, on amavas
(moonless night) they kept remembering all the ancestors and they kept the
full moon day to remember all the different manifestations of the Divinity.
It is not only that every amavas you have to do something, but remembering
them and doing some good work in their memory is good.
Q: Guruji, you have told us that the Guru's work is to confuse the
disciple. Then who will we go to for answers?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Where else can you go? Anywhere you go you will get
more confused, isn't it? From where the confusion has come, the answer will
also come.
Q: Guruji, sometimes we are in a free state of mind when we can talk to
anyone and sometime we are not. How to get that state of mind back?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You mean at home with the wife? It does happen and
people complain, at home my husband does not speak, but when some guest
comes my husband speaks a lot. When I am alone with him he doesn't speak at
all; this is the problem, right? Your mind is such - sometimes you want to
speak and sometime you have spoken so much that you have exhausted
everything. You don't feel like talking and so the prana has to go up for
you to feel like talking more. That is nature. You don't have to force
yourself to talk, so be free.
Q: Jai Gurudev, you are so attractive, is this the bondage in my path? If I
get stuck in your form what should I do to see beyond the form?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: So that you get detached from everything else - and
then this will also automatically dissolve. You will see me more, much
different than the form.
Q: Guruji, please talk on angels, what is their role and purpose. Does
everyone have a guardian angel that looks after them?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, angels are just positive energy.
Q: What is Swara Yoga, could you please articulate on that?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: First do alternative nostril prayanama and then go
more deep into pranayama then you will see how the breath in the nostrils
change throughout the day.
Q: Guruji, can we do Tarpana for ourselves when we are alive?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, become contented through meditation. That is
Tarpana.
Q: Tell us something more about prarabdha and sanchita karma.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Sanchita karma can be reduced by devotion, whereas for
prarabdha karma some of it will have to be undergone; you have to experience
it.
Q: Guruji, my boss wants me to be diplomatic and feels it is very important
for communication but I am a very straight forward person and cannot be
diplomatic. What is the right thing to do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why do you put a label in your head 'I am a straight
forward person' and why should a straight forward person not be diplomatic
also? A straight forward person need not be rude all the time. Now you hide
your rudeness behind that fact that you are straight forward, no you cannot
justify the rudeness that way. Straight forwardness is necessary and
diplomacy is also necessary, you have to have both. When you meet someone
who is blind, you cannot tell that person, 'You are a blind person'. You may
say I am just straight forward, I am just saying the right thing, but you
shouldn't do that. So diplomacy is part of life; that is a skill you need to
have. Diplomacy need not be that one is not being straight forward because
it is not the opposite of being straight forward, not at all. These two
things should go together.
Q: Guruji, how do you come to know what is going on in our minds even though
we are thousands of kilometers away. How do you fulfill all our desires?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: That is my secret. If you attend the blessing course
you can do that as well.
Q: Guruji, during amavas and Diwali we are told not to wander about at night
and not to use sharp tools, what is the reason behind that?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You know, the moon has an impact on the mind. On full
moon days, you feel different; new moon days, you feel different. In the
ancient days they used to say, since amavas is such a dark night, not to use
sharp things as you may hurt yourself. That is what they said in the past
but today with electricity that doesn't apply.
Q: Guruji, what happens to the letters that are sent to you?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: They all come to me, don't worry.
Q: Guruji, some people say that you must not go to funerals and some people
say you should go to funerals. Which is right?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes, we can go for funerals; there is a social
responsibility. There is no problem in going. Usually, once you return from
a funeral, you take a bath because the energy changes.
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From: Prasenjit Saha <Prasenjit.Saha@itc.in>
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:53 AM
Subject: Blessing Course in Kolkata with Chhayapati Ji
Hamein Raaston ki Zaroorat Nahin Hai.....
Hamein Tere Pairon ke Nishan Mil Gaye Hain !
~~ Wanna feel the presence of Guruji ALWAYZ with U ???
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!
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VENUE : Jyotirmoy Hall, Garcha Road
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There is a story of Swami Pragyapadji, which he narrated to the participants
during a Blessing Course......
Few years back, when Swamiji was working on a very challenging project in
AOL, he was going through a lot of disappointments. One day he decided he
could take it no longer and went to speak with Guruji about changing his
project. When all the people had left the room, and he was alone with
Guruji, Guruji looked at him and said........
"If tomorrow all the people of the world turned against you, will you be
able to handle it ?"
Swamiji got very scared at such a question and was thinking in his mind "Ok
I will not ask you to change my project, but pls do not ask me such
questions!"
Guruji then said.........
"How can you lose when I am with you!"
Swamiji told us no matter how bad the situation is, how hopeless it looks
know that Guruji is always with you. There might be many setbacks in life,
but you will not lose, since GURU himself is behind you!
Hope those of you who have not yet done the Blessings Course, will go for it
as soon as possible.
After this course, it seems, every step, good or bad, is led by the Divine.
Get Connected to the Divine.......Instantly !!!
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From: Sri Sri Yoga Information Desk <info@srisriyoga.in>
Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:52 PM
Subject: Sri Sri Yoga Level 2 course with Krishanji at Bangalore Ashram
Wonderful opportunity to do Sri Sri Yoga Level 2 course with our Beloved
Yogacharya Krishnaji at Bangalore Ashram.
Reporting Date 7th Oct.2011
Starting Date 8th Oct 2011
For online registration :
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For more details contact:
Email: info@srisriyoga.in Phone : +91-80-26080291
Sri Sri Yoga Level 2
Description:
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Format:
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Prerequisites:
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Phone : 080-26080291/28432112 Ext: 291
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From: N.M. Gupta <nmgupta01@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:25 PM
Subject: SAHAJ SAMADHI COURSE IN EAST DELHI FROM TODAY 5TH AUG 2011
SAHAJ SAMADHI MEDITATION COURSE WITH MANJULA BANGA JI
(5, 6 & 7 August, 2011)
{5 and 6th aug-6 to 8 pm and 7th aug-9 to 10.30am} @ DAV SCHOOL, SRESTHA
VIHAR, NEAR ANAND VIHAR EAST DELHI REGISTER WITH - 9650996011-14, 9650991162
ABOUT SHAHJ SAMADHI MEDITATION COURSE:
Sahaj is a Sanskrit word that means natural or effortless. Samadhi is a
deep, blissful, meditative state. Sahaj Samadhi meditation is a natural,
effortless system of meditation.
Regular practise of the technique can totally transform the quality of one's
life, by culturing the system to maintain the peace, energy and expanded
awareness throughout the day. These meditation techniques combined with
yogic practises can ensure good health and a calm mind.
Meditation allows the conscious mind to settle deeply in the Self, giving it
rest When the mind settles down, it lets go of all tension, making one
healthy and focused
How does Sahaj Samadhi meditation work?
The participant is taught to use a simple sound mentally which allows the
mind to settle down and go within. When the mind and nervous system are
allowed to repose a few moments in the profound silence, the blocks that
clog the system and our progress gradually dissolve.
How does reposing in the Self help in day-to-day life
When a river is calm, its reflection is clearer. When the mind is calm,
there is greater clarity in the field of expression. Our powers of
observation, perception and expression improve. As a result we are able to
communicate effectively and clearly.
Why do I need a mantra?
In Sanskrit, a mantra is described as, "Manana trayate iti mantra.". Iti
Mantra is that which saves you from repetitiveness. A repetitive thought is
a worry. Mantras help to free you from worries.
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