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1. Art of Living Matrimony SWYAMBAR 27 Feb, 2011
2. European Youth Headquarters in Bad Antogast
3. Wisdom from Sri Sri....
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From: Sri Sri Ashram - Communication <communication@srisriashram.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Subject: Thanksgiving Silence course @ Sri Sri Ashram
To: esatsang-request@lists.artofliving.org, esatsang@artofliving.org
Cc: geeragh@gmail.com, Purnima Sastry <sastryjgd@gmail.com>, poornima sharma
<poornimaaol@gmail.com>
The Sri Sri Ashram in Uvalde, Texas heartily welcomes you to be in the midst
of pristine nature to discover yourself.
The Art of Silence course is an invitation to dive deep into the Self and
enjoy a perfect vacation for mind, body and spirit. Increased awareness and
an unshakable sense of stability come into our lives and stay for long
periods of time after the course. Wholesome vegetarian food is provided. The
instructor leads the group through sessions of yoga, deep, guided
meditations, and profound processes that cleanse and renew, and lead to an
experience of inner peace and freedom.
Come and experience the fresh air and the morning dew kissing your feet as
you walk through the grounds. In the evenings/nights, beautiful stars
brightly decorate the vast sky. These luminaries are spectacular and you
become spellbound gazing at them. All of nature conspires to bring you peace
and take you deep within. You will absolutely LOVE it!!
Course Dates: Wed, Nov 23rd - Sun Nov 27th 2011
Venue: Sri Sri Ashram,
7802 Ranch Road 1051, Uvalde TX 78801
Contact: courses@srisriashram.org
Geetha Raghavan: (512) 461-6994 Registration
Link: http://secure.artofliving.org/course_details.aspx?course_id=10939
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From: Art of Living European Center <info@artofliving.de>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:48 AM
Subject: European Youth Headquarters in Bad Antogast
European Youth Headquarters
International Art of Living Foundation
The Art of Living Europe is creating a new Youth Headquarters in Bad
Antogast and will be:
1. Launching a new program entitled YES!Plus & Sports: next course from
18th till 23rd of October 2011.
2. Developing and enlarging service & training programs for youth: YES!-We
Can, World Youth Forum, Mission Green Earth, Stand Up Take Action!
3. Launching a European YES!Plus website
4. Applying for European subsidies
5. Developing formal presentations to European institutions
6. Registering The Art of Living Europe Youth Organization
Some of the elements of the YES!Plus & Sports program
. Mountain biking, hiking, swimming, paragliding
. Indoor & outdoor Sri Sri Yoga
. Ayurvedic massages
. Learning powerful breathing techniques such as the Sudarshan Kriya which
increases energy and revitalizes the body, mind and spirit
. Enjoying healthy home-grown organic food
. Music, photography and video techniques
. Community based service projects in surrounding cities and villages.
.Team building exercises and life transforming interactive games and
processes.
IALF - International Art of Living Foundation
European Youth Headquarter
Camille Abgrall
Mob.: 0049 176 325 749 18
Landline: 0049 780 497 396 506
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From: Vinay Girotra <girotrav@shriamba.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:08 AM
Subject: Wisdom from Sri Sri....
Everything changes, but inside us there is an element that does not change.
Just know this and accept all the changes.
September 24, 2011
(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch
the Live webcast of future satsangs)
Q: Guruji, after meditation I usually have a headache. What should I do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
After meditation you feel headache! Do you have a headache now? Were you
trying to shove the thoughts away? You should not suddenly come back, you
should slowly come back. See from deep meditation suddenly you come back it
is like when you are deep in sleep someone wakes you, suddenly you wake up,
what happens? Headache comes, right? Like that, so take little longer time
to come back. Take a little deeper breath, relax and drink a lot of water.
Q: (A member of the audience asked a question and it was audible) Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar: 'Swaastika' symbolizes the cycle. 'Swaastha' means established
in the Self. 'Swaastika' means that which is healthy for humanity; that
which contains all the four aspects that puts you into yourself, 'Dharma
(righteousness), Artha (desires), Kaama(means), Moksha(liberation).'
Unfortunately, 'Swaastika' symbol was taken by Hitler. He put it upside
down. 'Swaastika' represents peace actually, but when he put the whole thing
upside down, it became war; the reverse. That's how it is! Time passes very
fast when we are happy and it seems to be going very slow when we are
unhappy and when we have to wait for somebody, right? So mind and time are
connected.
Q: Guruji, should one keep on trusting the ones who have betrayed you? How
many second chances does one give? What is the difference between acceptance
and forgiveness?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Forgiveness is from the heart, it is an emotional one.
Acceptance is from the mind, from the head. So both are essential, you
accept and you forgive. If you don't forgive you will suffer with all the
emotional heavy load of garbage inside you. If you don't accept your mind
gets all agitated.
Q: Guruji, how to handle parents? Even after becoming a YES+ teacher, I
still find it difficult. I have taken them to Seva and Rudra Pooja, but my
dad tends to oppose everything. Please help!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Thank him because he is increasing your patience.
Q: Guruji, my thoughts and dreams are mixing up, and not so good ones. What
to do?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Never mind! Clouds come and some are dark clouds and
some are light clouds, so what! They come and they go, you carry on.
Q: Guruji, why, in this new age have relationships changed so much that to
find love, people have to believe in Romeo and Juliet? Has love changed or
have we changed so that we cannot understand love anymore?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, one thing is constant in this planet that is
change! Change keeps happening in every field. So, accept the changes and
know that there is something that is not changing deep inside you.
Everything changes, but inside us there is an element that does not change.
Just know this and accept all the changes. Okay!
Q: Guruji, which do we attend to first, the mind or the body?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Okay between ears and eyes, which should be used
first? When watching television, do you use both simultaneously or one after
the other? It is not as though we decide, 'I will watch first, then I will
listen.' Similarly, we will need to attend to both body and mind.
Q: (A member of the audience asked a question and it was audible) Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar: This influence of karma affects body and mind. But, what was
said in the Ashtavakra, in reality these are all external things. The effect
of karma does not touch you at all. This matter is one step ahead; so both
are true. See, do you ever feel that, 'I never grew old, or aged, I am the
same?' Isn't that true? Ask any elderly person, no matter how old, he will
tell you that he doesn't feel he is going to die and poor fellow dies. And
he looks at someone else and says, 'Poor fellow died, I am not going to
die'. Doesn't it feel that way? It does! There is something within us which
never dies. That is why we feel that we are permanent. All others will come
and go. And then there is another thing that is true, that according to our
karma and time, old age creeps into the body. Hairs fall off. In the past it
used to take me one hour to comb my hair, then half an hour, and now, not
even one minute! Maharajji doesn't have to do anything! So some changes
occur with time, we should observe that. On one level, if we observe,
everything is changing, our thoughts are changing, and we are no longer the
person we were yesterday. Isn't that so? The person you were five years ago,
and the person standing here today, are they different or not? Is that true
or not? Yes! Yet it is not the same person who used to be; this is on one
level. On another level, the same person is standing here who was here ten,
twenty or twenty-five years ago. Isn't it? So both are true, this is true
and that is also true. Everything changes, this is true, and some things
never change, that is also true. Ashtavakra emphasises on that which never
changes. Gita also emphasises on that which is changing, such as karma, how
to manage it etc.
Q: Guruji, can you speak about Yoga Vasistha?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, Yoga Vasistha is a very big thing. If we take
it up, it will get very late. Yoga Vasistha needs to be read again and
again, reading it once won't work. If you read it every two to three years,
something altogether different will come up. Okay! Read and ponder on it.
You will gain new understandings. You will not understand it straight away.
Q: (A member of the audience asked a question and it was audible) Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar: You know Part I course has a good effect right and everybody
enjoyed and there are more people who want to learn! So teachers' training
is meant for that. So, you can take a teachers' training. Only then you can
teach.
Q: Guruji, I have learnt the principle, 'accpet people and situations the
way they are', but I am not able to apply it in all my situations.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: No, see! When you learn this principle you don't have
to apply everything immediately. You will see automatically this will start
getting translated. Yes, impact will be there. You know, if you are getting
upset, the mind will say, 'Accept the situations' and you will become calm.
There will be a tape recorder inside you, a program inside you which will
help you to become really stable and happy.
Q: (A member of the audience asked a question and it was audible) Sri Sri
Ravi Shankar: See love is not an emotion; it is just your state of being. So
you don't have to be wiggly, wiggly, goody, goody in order to be in love.
You can be very straight-forward, strict, to-the-point and gentle and
caring. So you don't have to worry that this is not there in the corporate
field. Suppose, you are a corporate person, someone treats you like a
machine. Would you like it? No! After all you are a human being and you
would like to be treated like a human being, right? So we think, 'Since I am
in corporate, I must treat everybody like machine. No, no, competitiveness
is good. Let it be there. You see what I am saying?
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