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Topics
1. ***Internships and Job Opportunities with Rawsome Food at Canadian
Ashram!!!***
2. Sri Sri Natya these 2 months
3. Assisting basic course - 25th to 27th Nov - HAL Kalyana Mantapa
4. Sahaj Samadhi with Rishi Vidyadharji 12-14 December at Rohini
5. PART 2 Advance course
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From: Jeff Paquette <japaquette@hotmail.com>
Date: 2011/12/5
Subject: ***Internships and Job Opportunities with Rawsome Food at Canadian
Ashram!!!***
Download the job descriptions and the application and send it to
jobs@eatrawsomefood.com
Rawsome Food, an up and coming enterprise, is seeking dedicated
individuals to contribute to the continued success of this company. We are
currently reaching a tiny fraction of the potential market for our products
and are looking to build our core team to expand our reach. We seek
enthusiastic people who believe in our mission and are committed to
realizing our vision of becoming an international organic raw snack food
manufacturer and distributer.
"Our mission is to provide people with convenient and affordable high
quality snacks that are unbelievably delicious and nutritionally superior to
the vast majority of products currently available on the market. Our
products are made with love and mindfulness using the best organic
ingredients that we can find; we strive to educate consumers about the
importance of making wise choices when it comes to how we fuel our bodies.
About Rawsome:
Rawsome Food is a 100% organic, raw, vegan, snack food production
company situated in the beautiful Mauricie region of Quebec at the foothills
of the Laurentian Mountains. We create innovative, original recipes that are
healthy and delicious, a thought to be rare combination! Production is done
by hand with mindfulness to maximize nutrition and digestibility, at our
facility in the North American International Art of Living Centre. We have
been distributing products in Ontario and Quebec and plan to expand further
throughout North America in the coming year.
Available positions include Rawsome-ologists (production), sales and
marketing, finance, regional distribution.
Thank you for your interest in joining the Rawsome Food team! Jai
Gurudev!!!
Feel free to contact me directly:
Jeffrey Paquette
Founder - Rawsome Food
(613) 293-9662
13 chemin de l'Infinité
Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc
Quebec, Canada G0X 1N0
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From: Sri Sri Natya <srisrinatya@vvmvp.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:09 AM
Subject: Sri Sri Natya these 2 months
Dancing to the lilting Bhajans using mudras or speaking through hand
gestures that form the language of a dance, executing the graceful feet
movements and feeling the joy well up inside....
Expressing this joy through dance and offering it, like innocent little
kids, to the Divine - experiencing fullness and contentment all within a
span of a few sessions.....
Welcome to Sri Sri Natya.......
Duration - 5 days; 2 hr daily
Dance, asanas, meditation
Eligibility - anyone above 10 yrs
Non - AoL persons also can join
For both men and women
Upcoming courses -
Lucknow - Dec 21 - 25 Contact - 9335927200/
9839123800
Kolkata - Dec 22 - 25 Contact - 9830723325
Allepye - Dec 24 - 27 Contact - 9745222730
Idukki - Jan 12 - 16 Contact - 9447068082
Purulia, West Bengal - Jan 24 - 28 Contact - 9332507161
If you would like to organise this wonderful program in your city, please
contact Neeru @ Sri Sri Natya Desk.
Happy Dancing :))
Jai Gurudev!
Neeru
Sri Sri Natya Desk
+91 9916035018
P.S: Sri Sri Natya Yoga is renamed to Sri Sri Natya.
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From: ashok menon <ash.menon1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:20 PM
Subject: Assisting basic course - 25th to 27th Nov - HAL Kalyana Mantapa
The enthusiasm was infectious and the 3 days went past in one joyous
celebration with every one contributing to make the experience for the 170
participants a memorable one .
Despite the complexities involved with changed timings and venue change , I
felt everything went very smoothly . Assigning the key tasks under 3 senior
volunteers and each member of every team willing to pitch in their 100%
helped very much .
The large turnout of volunteers for this course made it easy to distribute
the work load .
The opportunity to be part of a course with 6 teachers was something amazing
. The nuances that each of them bring in while conducting the course has
been a great learning for me. The course points and method of delivery being
the same .
Very interesting learning also in observing the way the various queries from
participants was addressed .
Cannot but feel the grace of the Master in how things eventually turns out
despite the hurdles .
And above all the opportunity to participate in the course and reinforce the
profound teachings of the basic course for myself .
Ashok
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From: Vinay Girotra <girotrav@shriamba.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:29 AM
Subject: Wisdom from Guru Ji
To: Vinay Girotra <girotrav@shriamba.com>
Truth is one but it has many flavors and many facets
December 02, 2011
(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch
the Live webcast of future satsangs)
Q: Jai Gurudev Guruji, what is the difference between attraction and love?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Attraction is for a short period of time but love is
our true nature.
Attraction is related to pleasure and it will come and go, whereas love is a
compulsion, it stays with us. You can't be without love.
Q: Guruji, what is the importance of charity? What is the highest form of
charity?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Charity brings purity of mind and purity of heart.
Charity means sharing.
But charity is also not considered the most noble act because you always do
charity to someone who is not your own. You never say, 'I did charity to my
daughter or my son'.
So the first step is compassion. Second step is charity, giving what you
have to others who need it and then the third step is simply a sense of
belongingness where you share because you can't but share. You don't think
that you are doing charity and yet you do charity. That is true charity.
Real service is doing service without asserting that I did service.
Suppose you find a girl has fallen down, you go and you lift her and put a
band-aid on her and take care of her. After that you don't say, 'Oh! I did a
great service to the girl!'
You did it because as human beings you can't but help. You can't just walk
away when someone is hurt. It's impossible.
So service should be like our nature.
Q: Guruji, how do I make myself such that I do only that which God wishes?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: For that become empty and pray to God, may thy will be
done.
Q: Guruji, does a devotee find the Guru or does the Guru find a devotee.
What is the meaning of a Guru?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The word 'guide' comes from the Sanskrit word 'Guru'.
Guru means the one who removes ignorance and teaches you knowledge. A Guru
teaches you how to live by example and not just by books.
Mother teaches you by example, she is the first Guru. Then you have your
Gurus who teach you mathematics, music, football or cricket. Then comes the
Sadguru who teaches you spiritual knowledge, to make you see that you are
consciousness.
Q: Guruji, I am disturbed by thoughts of lust. How can I get relieved of
this?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Read the book, An Intimate Note to a Sincere Seeker.
I have spoken about how to control feelings of lust, anger, greed and
obsession; all this is mentioned in the book.
Q: What happens to consciousness when one goes into a coma?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The consciousness remains but does not have any means
of communication with the outer world. Just like when you have a telephone
but the connection line is cut.
Q: Which to follow, the head or the heart?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Sometimes your head and sometimes your heart.
When you do business follow your head, and when you are doing service then
follow your heart.
When you are enjoying your life, follow your heart, don't sit and calculate
at that time. It is okay to calculate when you are with a customer. But if
you start calculating with your friends or family, you'll make them
miserable.
Q: Guruji, the motto at IIT Bombay is 'Gyanam Paramam Dhyeyam.' What
knowledge should we aspire for?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: All types of knowledge are essential, so you should
learn everything.
There is an old proverb in tamil that says, one should even learn how to
steal and then forget it.
Usually kings or politicians are supposed to learn 64 disciplines and one
among them is how to steal, so that they can understand the mentality of a
thief and give him the right punishment with compassion. So don't pick and
choose while learning. You should learn from everybody.
Learn from the wicked, learn from the noble, learn from a child and learn
from an elderly person.
There is another proverb in Sanskrit, it says 'Durjanam Prathamam Vande",
first thank the wicked for he has taught you a lesson at his own cost and
then thank the noble man who walks a path and shows you the way to
happiness.
Q: I have done eight advanced courses but still the level of my awareness
slips often. How do I keep some degree of awareness all the time?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Listen, don't examine yourself too much. If you
awareness is slipping that's ok, it will come back. Just be natural and
simple. It is not the count of advanced courses that's going to keep your
awareness.
Meditate again and again; listen to the knowledge again and again and then
after some time it will happen. I can't tell you when it will happen or what
will happen. But you will see there is a natural growth in you. There is a
natural progression. You feel happier and more relaxed.
It is like learning to ride the bicycle. When you are first learning you
slip many times and then you gain the balance. The things that used to
bother you five years ago don't bother you anymore now. How many of you have
experienced this? Those things that used to push your button don't bother
you anymore. Someone criticizes you it doesn't bother you anymore, you still
walk with smile. My feelings are mine and it cannot be tossed around by
anybody else. Nobody can shake my joy, my happiness, my state of mind.
That inner freedom is what is desirable.
Q: Dear Guruji, Adi Shankara propounded Advaita. Does that mean enlightened
masters prior to him had different levels of truth revealed to them? Isn't
truth supposed to be one?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Truth is one but it has many flavors and many facets.
Those facets are revealed by different masters in the tradition.
Q: What is the difference between 'to surrender' or 'to give-up'?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Don't worry about surrender just relax and feel at
home. When you are angry or frustrated you say, 'I give up'.
But when you say, 'well this is very important but I can't do anything about
it. Let the divine take over. Let a higher power take care of this.'
With this feeling when you relax, you may call it surrender.
Q: Guruji, when we do an action we tend to favor our friends and family.
Does this also become an act of corruption?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: A corrupt act is an action which you would not want to
do to someone who you feel belongs to you, but you want to do to someone
whom you think does not belong to you. That is a corrupt action.
Q: Guruji, I am an AOL teacher from the United States. How should our
behavior be so that along with the Lokpal bill, we can eradicate corruption?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What we can do is, we need to take a vow. I am not
going to give bribe nor take bribe. That's it. And when you take that vow,
you will stick to it.
For an individual person it may be difficult. That is why you must gather
together and collectively put pressure to get your work done.
One industrialist cannot possibly get his work done because time is success
or failure for him and profit for him. So he gives the bribe and gets the
work done. But in an Ashram we can afford to stand on the strict principle.
What the industrialist need to do is get together. All those industrialists
who were pressurized for bribes need to get together and say 'No!'
We are not going to give bribe you have to give us a license. Then that will
do the work.
That is why the Lokpal Bill is essential. If Lokpal has been establish then
people can immediately go to the Lokpal and say this person is asking for
bribe.
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From: gaurav madan <g.madan1982@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:08 AM
Subject: Sahaj Samadhi with Rishi Vidyadharji 12-14 December at Rohini
Mind without agitation is Meditation.
Mind in the present moment is Meditation.
Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is Meditation.
Mind that has come back home, to the source, is Meditation.
Mind that becomes ''no mind'' is Meditation.
SAHAJ SAMADHI is a natural, effortless system of meditation resulting in a
blissful, settled & focussed state of mind.
Any person above 18 yrs who has done / not done Art of Living Course ca
attend the programme.
WITH RISHI VIDYADHARJI
"Vidyadhar" means the Keeper of the Knowledge .. and with Rishiji,
Knowledge from the Ancient Shastras is related - with great humour - to
everything from modern science to practical tips for everyday living.
Also ! The yoga session is a joyous musical aerobics session taken by ..
Rishiji himself !
Dates: 12th, 13th, 14th December 2011, Timings: 6PM-8.30PM
Venue: Community Hall, Sector-18, Rohini
Contact: 9873471382, 9810199776, 9891848648, 9810565331
Donation: Rs.1500/- per head
form of Sahaj Samadhi which may please be mailed back after filling up to
one of these ids.......
g.madan1982@gmail.com
sameer@precitex.com
www.artoflivingncr.org
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From: Ram Kumar <rkiyer2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM
Subject: PART 2 Advance course
Part 2 (Advanced course)
Date: 22 - 25 Dec
Time: Reporting at 6 am on 22nd Dec
Venue: The Art Of Living Centre Atma Gnana Nilayam (AGN), 1, Kamarajar
Salai, (33 Kalashetra Road), Lakshmipuram, Thiruvanmiyur, Near Sakkarai
Amman Temple (6th Left in Kalakshethra road, when coming from Thiyagaraya
Theatre, LB Road).
Donation: Rs. 2750/-
Contact: Guhamati 9791406934 / Malaji 9790922622 / Vasukhi 9444167632 /
Srinivasan 9790939701 / Sanjay 9940643263
The Part 2 Course is popularly termed as a vacation for mind, body, and
spirit! Many times when we go on vacation we return feeling exhausted and in
need of another vacation to recover from the first one! Give yourself the
opportunity to truly rejuvenate at least one week out of each year - take an
Art of Living Part 2 course. Part 2 courses are a vacation in the truest
sense of the word - they offer a chance to dive deep into rest, relaxation,
and rejuvenation.
Frequently offered as in-residence courses in retreat-like natural settings,
Part 2 courses build upon the information already learned in the Art of
Living Course.
One of the powerful processes you will experience on a Part 2 course is
keeping Silence... The practice of silence has been known throughout the
ages, in many different traditions and cultures, as a great tool for
enhancing self-discovery. Maintaining silence, even for just a few days, can
have remarkable effects on the system, reviving energy and enthusiasm and
providing deep rest for the mind and body.
The Art of Living Part 2 Course gives you the chance to Refresh, Recharge,
Renew... Return to your activities with renewed energy, greater clarity and
peace of mind.
They are designed to put the smile back on your face!
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