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Topics
1. Art of Silence Course on Oahu September 27-30

2. Advance Course in Rishikesh from 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2012-Few seats left

3. THE ART OF LIVING PART-1 COURSE WITH SENIOR DSN & ADVANCE COURSE TEACHER

4. Next Pre TTC dates for Delhi NCR: 22nd, 23rd & 29th, 30th Sept 2012

5. Sri Sri talks about the recently discovered God

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Subject: Art of Silence Course on Oahu September 27-30
From: adria.estribou@artofliving.org

Art of Silence
Residential Meditation Retreat
Sept 27 (Thursday evening) through Sept 30 (Sunday afternoon)

An Art of Silence course is an amazing experience - it refreshes and rejuvenates you on every level and gives you the deepest rest. You are taken care of in the most nurturing way with deep practices, inspiring knowledge and delicious vegetarian food.

The course will be held at Kahumau Farms on the Leeward side of Oahu. You can view the facility at www.kahumanufarms.org. They grow organic food that will be served to us. The location is green and quiet, and the facilities are very pleasant. The total cost including all food and course expenses is $425 for a shared room (2 people per room) and $455 for a single room.

Prerequisite: Art of Living Course (Part 1)

How to Register

There is a two-part registration process:
1. Pay course fee of $200 early bird, $300 after Sept 12 online at http://www.artofliving.org/us-en/program/13011
2. Pay the course expenses (includes housing and food) of $225 by check to Pauline Sheldon, mailed to: Adria Estribou, Art of Living, PO Box 3371, Honolulu, HI 96801


Early Bird Price Ends Sept 12
After Sept 12, course fee will increase by $100.

Register Now


Art of Living Oahu

PO Box 3371
Honolulu, HI96801

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From: Hemant Kundra <hemantkundra@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Advance Course in Rishikesh from 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2012-Few seats left.

Thanks for your overwhelming enthusiasm for registering for Rishikesh Advance Course with Gaurav Bhaiyya. The course is now almost full with a few seats still left. The details are once again given below


COURSE DATES- 29th Sept 2012 (Sat) to 2nd October 2012 (Tue)
REPORTING- 28th Sept 2012 between 4 pm to 6.30 pm Please note that orientation session of the course will be at 7.00 pm on 28th Sept 2012 followed by satsang and dinner.


DEPARTURE- 2nd October 2012 by 1 pm
VENUE- Omkarananda Ganga Mata Mandir Ashram, Triveni Ghat,
Rishikesh


COURSE CONTRIBUTION- Rs 3200/- (excluding accommodation)

ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

1. Four Sharing room (total for all four days)- Rs 400/-
2. Triple Sharing room (total for all four days)- Rs 500/-
3. Double Sharing room (total for all four days)- Rs 600/-





SPECIAL FEATURES



-> Daily evening Ganga Arti at Triveni Ghat (right outside the venue)



-> Morning Sadhna will also be conducted by Gaurav Bhaiyya himself!



For registration please contact
Hemant-9410391231, Madhulika-9412050627


Jai Guru Dev
Hemant

Part-I, Art Excel & YES Teacher &
State Media Coordinator-Uttarakhand
Mobile No- 9410391231

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Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:09 AM
Subject: THE ART OF LIVING PART-1 COURSE WITH SENIOR DSN & ADVANCE COURSE TEACHER

THE ART OF LIVING PART-1 COURSE WITH SENIOR DSN & ADVANCE COURSE TEACHER - "SAMPA DIDI"

Date: 11th Sep - 16th Sep'12. Time: 6.00 - 9.00PM. (Evening Batch)
Venue: BALLY LIBRARY, 383, G.T.Road, Bally, Howrah, West Bengal.

Limited Seats. Register Now..!!
Bimal More - 9831173242. Chandan Prasad - 9804148148. Satwick Dan - 9933128168.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Chandan Prasad
+91-9231861886
+91-9804148148

संगच्छध्वं - Let's move together
Visit: www.artofliving.org
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Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:07 AM
Subject: Next Pre TTC dates for Delhi NCR: 22nd, 23rd & 29th, 30th Sept 2012

My dear Teachers and "Aspiring Teachers"

Finally the wait is over!!!! With Blessings of Poojya Gurudev, we are set to launch the second Pre TTC for Delhi NCR.

To become a teacher, one will have to successfully complete the following:

1. Pre TTC in Delhi NCR
2. Post Pre TTC Seva
3. 15 days TTC in Blr ashram

Pre TTC is a unique one week process designed by Gurudev & we are fortunate enough to start the process of 2nd Pre TTC, so that Delhi NCR participants can become teachers with 15-day TTC only. There are limited seats for the Pre TTC & main TTC also(There will be a state-wise quota allocated by the Ashram and we will only be able to send that many people for TTC)

Dates for Pre TTC:

First Weekend 22nd Sep 2012 (Saturday) & 23rd Sep 2012 (Sunday)
Second Weekend 29th Sep 2012 (Saturday) & 30th Sep 2012 (Sunday)

In between these two weekends, through the five working days 24th Sep to 28th Sep (Monday-Friday), the candidates will need to complete specified Seva Activities, as an integral part of the Pre TTC training.

On the last day of the Pre-TTC, there would be a first level evaluation of the Candidates by the Pre-TTC Teachers, conducting the Course. And based on this evaluation, the selected candidates will compulsorily be required to complete the specified and time-bound interim Seva Projects and report the same in a specified format. The minimal time allotted for this will be one month and the maximum six months. Following this, the interim Seva Report would need to be submitted by the candidate to the Delhi NCR TTC Desk. The same will undergo a second-level evaluation and in accordance, the recommendation for the TTC will be sent to the TTC Desk.
The purpose is to have aspiring teachers groomed and supported in the best manner through experienced teachers. The candidates who have successfully undergone the Pre-TTC Course and completed the interim sewa also, shall be eligible depending upon seats available for 15-day TTC at Banglore from 11th Dec 2012 to 25th Dec 2012.

Eligibility criteria for Pre TTC candidates to apply:


a. Completed at least one year with the Art of Living after the Part 1 or
YES!+ Course
b. Two Advance Meditation Courses (1 preferably with Guruji)
c. One Sri Sri Yoga Course (level 1)
d. Sahaj Meditation Course

e. DSN Course

The application form for Pre-TTC to be filled by candidates is attached & shall be submitted complete in all respect to their recommending teachers in Soft copy by 31st Aug, 2012 (Friday evening).


The recommending teachers & respective AC's should fill recommendation form in Soft copy and email to delhincrttcdesk@gmail.com by 5th Sep 2012. All AC's should also compile the applicant data of their area in specified format.

The venue & Fee for Pre TTC will be informed later on.

The recommended form to be filled by Teachers & AC's will be send in other email separately.

Please call Rajendra Singh 9818756760 in case you have queries.

ADHERANCE TO TIMELINES IS A MUST . WE WILL NOT ENTERTAIN ANY NON ADHERANCE TO TIMELINES.

Jai Gurudev !!!
Rahul Gautam

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Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM
Subject: Sri Sri talks about the recently discovered God

Sri Sri talks about the recently discovered God Particle

July 10, 2012



The scientists have discovered the God Particle; that is what they are saying – Higgs Boson. And they say that the entire universe is made up of this. It is a field, and this field is energy. It gives shape to the planets, stars and everything.
This sounds so familiar to someone who has studied Vedanta, or someone who has experienced deep meditation.
The whole universe is made up of consciousness. It is a play and display of one consciousness. The Vedic Rishis also said the same. They said first know the elements; they called even Brahman, the Ultimate, as a Tattva. Tattva means Principle. Like God Particle, they said Brahman Principle.

What is the first principle? They said the Elements; Earth element, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, and then the Mind, the Intellect – the subtler and subtler you go, you reach there.
Subtler than space is mind, subtler than that is intellect and knowledge is present there. And subtler than that is ego, and hundred times subtler than ego is the Mahat Tattva – The Principle called Mahat, field called Mahat.
Ego itself is an atom, but finer than the ego, beyond the ego, that point, that particle is a field called Mahat Tattva, and finer than that is Moola Prakurti – the primordial energy.
And beyond that primordial energy, is Brahman, of which everything is made, which is the substance of the whole creation. Brahman is infinity, it is neither born nor will it ever die.

In the Rig Veda, there is a Sukta called Nasadiya Sukta, in the 10th Mandala, 129th Adhyaya, there, around seven verses are written. In the seven verses of The Hymn of Creation, it is so striking how these aspects which we now know through quantum mechanics and through quantum physics were present then and there.
What scientists call as Dark Matter and Dark Energy which is everywhere, and which is what we are talking about, the Nasadiya Sukta says the same thing.

Nasadasinno sadasittadanim nasidrajo no vyom paro yat
Kimavarivah kuha kasya sharmannambhah kimasid gahanam gabhiram

Beyond the space, then, in the beginning, there was neither existence nor non-existence; neither birth nor death. It was all only energy. And it also talks about, 'Darkness enveloped by darkness. ' In the third verse it says, 'Darkness was all wrapped around by darkness.'
So these verses strikingly indicate what today's scientists talk about almost in the same language.

Let me read the translation:
At first was neither Being or Non-being. There was not air nor yet sky beyond. What was it wrapping? Where? In what protection?
Was water there, unfathomable and deep?
There was no death then, nor yet deathlessness; of night or day, there was not any sign.
The One breathed without breath, by its own impulse. Other than that was nothing else at all.
Darkness was there all wrapped around by darkness, and all was water indiscriminate. All was energy indiscriminate.
Then that which was hidden by the void, the one emerging, stirring, through power of Ardor, came to be.
In the beginning Love arose, which was the primal germ cell of the mind.
The seers, searching in their heart with wisdom, discovered the connection of Being in Non-being. A crosswise line cut Being from Non-being.
What was described above it, what below? Bearers of seed there were and mighty forces, thrust from below and forward move above.
Who really knows? Who can presume to tell it?
When was it born? Whence issued this creation? Even the Gods came after its emergence.
Then who can tell from whence it came to be?
That out of which creation has arisen, whether it held it from or it did not; He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He surely knows or maybe He does not!

That is very interesting – He surely knows or maybe He does not – because even the knower is part of the phenomenon.

The three types of space are described. One is the space in which we see all the matter that exists; the outer space – Bhutakasha. Then there is the intermediate space or inner space, where all thoughts and emotions float. This is called Chittakasha - the space of the Chitta (consciousness). And then Chidakasha, the space of pure consciousness or energy, which here and there appears to have consolidated and appears to be matter. What appears to be matter is really not matter, it is all One energy, and that One field is called Brahman, and that is what everybody is, that is what everything is.
Doesn't it sound very similar to the Higgs Boson?
So the Brahman or God is not a He or She, they say it is a field. It is a field, it is a space, the basis of everything, and everything is just its own reflection. Everything forms of its own reflection. It is neither a thing, nor nothing.
And they also said this will be known by the scientist of the past and the scientist of the future.

Rishi means one who discovers. The scientists of the ancient times and the scientists of the modern times, in coming years will explore this. And even those, they may not know it. Who knows whether they will know it, or not know?
So further they go, they see it is unknowable.
It is very interesting – Higgs Boson, the concept of it, has come from the past.

Actually, these verses, when people use to say, 'Darkness is enveloped with darkness', it wouldn't make much sense, and Sanskrit and Vedic scholars were struggling to give some meaning to it. It appeared to be completely a meaningless – neither this nor that; it exists or it doesn't exist.
These sorts of words are good enough to confuse a person. I think with the discovery of Higgs Boson, you are able to understand these verses better, because this itself is called The Hymn of Creation. And it is not very straight, like there was a man and a woman and they fell in love, and they brought forth a progeny – it was not like this. The Hymn of Creation here is so mystical and so mysterious.
The mysticism in it is that it is said in the beginning there was neither Being nor Non-being. Neither Matter or Non-matter, and everything was beyond the space.
So, first of all, you should know space, and then you can know beyond the space.
Always they have said that the Brahman is Parame Vyoman (beyond space). You have to go beyond the space. And space is permeating the entire creation.
They have also said about the three types of space – Bhutakasha, Chittakasha and Chidakasha; dissecting the three types of space and then finding.
The scientists never conclude things as an ultimate thing but they will always leave room for further research. They keep the things open-ended and so do the Vedas. They leave it at that. Maybe somebody will discover, somebody knows or somebody doesn't know. It is absolutely fascinating and interesting.
So we need to look at these Vedas, not from a traditional point of view but with a scientific temper. You need to probe into it with a scientific mind. Perhaps you may get some more ideas from this, or maybe not.

Q: (A member of the audience asked a question spontaneously which was inaudible in the recording)
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes because God Particle is in Dark Energy only. Nothing is out of Dark Energy. Dark matter and Dark energy is what exists, and all these light bubbles are like drops on a sheet of paper.
Suppose you have a plastic sheet and you put a few drops of water, it forms a round shape. Why is that? It is because of the sheet. In the same way, this whole universe is enveloped by Dark Matter and Dark Energy and that is what it says, 'Tama Asitamasa Gudhamagre.'
In the beginning the darkness was in a mysterious manner enveloped with another darkness, and all this what you see was all energy - Salilam.
Salilam in simple translation means water, that which is fluid. But another meaning for it is energy that moves. Water moves, that is why it is also called Salilam. Air moves, that is why air is called Sameer.
So, Salilam means that energy that is not stagnant, but which is dynamic; moving. And the entire universe was just energy which was dynamic.
Unfortunately people who know the Vedas know nothing about science, and people who know about science know nothing about Vedas. There is a big gap. It will be very difficult for Vedic people to graduate in science. What would be easier is for scientists to learn a little bit of the Vedas. If they go into the books a little bit, even as a pass time, they may be able to explore and get ideas which may be of some use.

It is also said that every particle of the space is filled with knowledge, information. Chittakasha – the space is filled with information; Akashik Records. All that happened in the past; whatsoever anybody or everybody has spoken in the past is all present in the Akasha (space). And what is going to happen and what someone will speak in the future is also present in the Akasha. This is what they say, if you get access to the Akasha.
People who are psychic and those who get premonitions, clairvoyants, all this can be answered with this one field of Chittakasha.
And superior to Chittakasha is Chidakasha - the operator.
Chittakasha is simply a store house; like you type a text message here and press the send button and electronically it goes and delivers to the number you sent it to. Similarly, when you send and receive emails, they all remain in the space, and you are able to download it. That uploading and downloading that happens is in Chittakasha - the space of Chitta. But one step higher than that is Chidakasha.
Chidakasha is the field of intelligence.
Chidakasha is the designer and Chittakasha is the design. And when you do yoga and meditation and go deep into it, then you go into these three spaces. Bhutakasha, where first you find nothingness, and you think that this 'nothingness' is everything, no! You go beyond that, it is Chittakasha, and then beyond that you see Chid-atma - The Self; the Chidakasha, and that is Shiva Tattva - Chidakasha.

See, when you sit for meditation, the first thing you experience is thoughts, and from thoughts you experience emptiness. And then from emptiness you further experience the energy – tremendous energy, isn't it?! How many of you experience energy in deep meditation? (Many raise their hands)
Yes, that is Chidakasha.

So someone asked, 'How is The Self?'
It is empty like the sky and full like the ocean.

Q: What karma determines what bodily elements one gets? Example if someone has eye ailments does it mean it is because they gave eye troubles to others in their previous lifetimes?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: No!
Gahana Karmano Gatih – it is very difficult to fathom the laws of karma. Don't go into it, just don't worry. What types of karma brings what problem with it is a huge thing. Its better you don't go into it. It will only create more paranoia.
Whatever karma is there, knowledge can burn them all, you just drop them all and move on. Otherwise it will be like picking on the garbage can, which garbage is from the morning and which is from yesterday or three days ago. How does it matter? Drop all the karmas and just move on.

Q: Guruji, why did God give us the five sense objects when all the wise people ask us to control them?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: So that you can express something even better than that.
You know, cotton candies are given to babies, but when they grow a little older, nobody goes for those toffees or candies. They go in for some higher joy, some higher experiences.
See, our ability to enjoy sense objects is limited; but when the desire is unlimited there is an imbalance. That is when you have to watch out!
For example, take Bulimia, how much food can you eat? This much (cupping his hands together), bulimia is when you eat but then also you are not satisfied. Then you say, 'Come on, have control over your senses', because if not it is going to harm your own body.

It is similar with all sense objects because experiencing them is draining. If you eat little food it gives you energy, but if you eat a little more then it tires you. How many of you have had this experience? Instead of giving you energy it has made you so tired.
So they say 'Tena Tyaktena Bhunjitha' – which means, experience it but go beyond it as well; let go. You can breathe in, but you cannot only breathe in, you have to breathe out as well, otherwise you will die, isn't it?
So when you turn inward, when you go to yoga then you are able to experience greater joy. Yoga is energy conservation, otherwise it is energy spending.

If kids spend then nobody bothers, the parents say, 'Okay, you spend.'
But if a teenager spends, or one who has grown beyond teenage, then parents say, 'Be careful in spending. Earn as well, you can't only spend.'
If you have become an adult they will tell you that you should earn too. But babies don't earn, even then parents say, 'You go and spend.'
In the same way, with sense objects, you enjoy good taste, good sight, good sound, everything, but then come and conserve your energy, go deep in meditation and realize that there is a bigger joy and greater happiness there and look at that also.

Q: Guruji, please speak about being a vegetarian.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: You know, if you go to Google and search, there are number of reasons.
'Why should I be vegetarian?', or just type, 'Vegetarian', or type, 'Benefits of Vegetarianism'.
It should run into pages and pages. You will also have many videos by doctors, scientists, nutritionists, and all that.

Q: Guruji, could you talk about Tantra and Khajuraho temples? I have been visiting these temples with different groups and each guide says different things, and I do not find truth in it.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Tantra means technique. Yantra, Mantra and Tantra - these are three things.
Mantra is the sound. Yantra is the diagram. Like the Star of David, it is one such Yantra which Judaisim uses as its main symbol. And Tantra is the technique to combine a physical diagram, or a posture with the sound; this is Tantra – the skill to do it.
Now, Tantra as I said is a technique. The ancient Rishis wrote on sex as well – Kama Sutra was written, different postures, and different theories and principles about Tantra. It is used to get rid of obsession.

Why it is on the outer walls of the temple, for that there is a reason. Pilgrims are first asked to go around the temple and look at all the statues, and if any statue, in any way pulls you to excitement you sit there and keep watching. The moment you keep watching, the excitement comes down. So when the mind loses excitement for all these different postures then you go inside. Then your mind is hollow and empty. The mind is blank and then you are able to see the inner sun. That (Khajuraho) is a Sun temple.

You may ask, 'But the Sun is outside, why should we go inside the temple to see the Sun.' Now the ancient people said that is an outer sun, there is an inner Sun - The Self.
To see The Self what is an obstruction? Excitement about the sense organs. The flow of the sense organs towards sense objects keeps your mind outward which needs to move inward.
So in the temple you go around several times and sit in front of those statues. It is like a pornography movie, but there is sense in it. Pornography movies are used to excite people, but this is used to calm people down. And so this is used as a therapy for obsession to sex.
Obsession to sex is not a new thing, it is an old disease. You can't even call it a disease; it is an old inheritance in people. And you need to skillfully go past that to see the light of the being, and so they use these things. They sit with anything that might trigger, obsess you or excite you, and the more you watch it the excitement is gone. Mind calms down.
But Tantras have to be practiced under very strict guidance otherwise it is like walking on a sword. People who fall from there they fall completely down, and it is dangerous. Usually people say it is a dangerous thing to do.

In Tantra also, there is White Tantra, Black Tantra, and all sorts of things. Yoga is the best, a safe and secure way to move forward. Mantra, Yantra and Yoga, this Tantra in Yoga is the technique of how to settle the mind down.

Q: Guruji, my family is falling apart and I am worried about my two children. The relationship with my spouse is becoming bitter with mistrust and misunderstanding. I need your advice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Certain rough times come in life, just have patience. Don't be in a hurry to take any decision. At times of dire confusion and conflict you should have some patience

Vinay Girotra

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