The significance of the using the word "We" instead of "You" .

This word "We" is really magical. If someone commits a mistake and if we have to point his mistake to him, we usually say that "You are the cause of all the turmoil because you handled things carelessly". Certainly, at this point, his ego will be on full alert and will not be able to listen what we were actually saying to him. Again if we make a simple replacement of word "You" by "We", the whole thing changes. For eg."We are the cause of all the turmoil because we handled things carelessly". Now, there is no blame game. We are enquiring together, if something has went wrong. So nobody is left out and there is ample space and time for us to introspect ourself. - Fidarose Isha.

I never imagined that Today, being such an ordinary day as my birthday, could turn out to be a special one. Thanks to all the visitors of this blog.

I never imagined that with such a ordinary day as my birthday, could turn out to be a special one. One thing that has made it special is the love and blessings I am receiving from you. The other thing is Today is the Day I will be receiving the Goddess Temple of Linga Bhairavi at my home. She will be gracing my home with her Presence. I never planned it that way. Just a week earlier I paid for Linga Bhairavi Gudi and they informed me that I should come on Monday to collect it. And Today is the day, I have been waiting for, so eagerly. Existence plays such mysterious moves. Also it turns out to be a Auspicious Pournima Day. Thanks again, to each and everyone of you, for making this a special day.

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I love this friend of mine for his innocence and his stupidity. Always find wonderful people in Isha.

I have a beautiful friend of mine. Don't know how to say about him. Whatever I say, will fall short of what I want to say. I take a great pride and happiness that he is my friend. I had an opportunity to work with him during the organising of Isha Yoga class. He, having already done the class, also wanted his wife to take the class, has he was dreaming that someday, they can shift permanently to the Ashram.
So the venue, where the class was happening was almost a 2 hour journey from his home. He also had a girl child of 3 years, so he would take care of her daughter outside the class, while her wife was engaged in the class. So he maintained this schedule of dedicating almost 7 hours of the class everyday.
I love his intensity. MORE THAN THAT, I AM ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH HIS STUPIDITY. STUPIDITY SOAKED WITH INNOCENCE. When he first went to see her wife for marriage, he told her in clear terms that he is of a spiritual kind, he is more prone to doing volunteering work, he loves to visit the ashram every now and then, he hates tea, onion, garlic, etc. Listening to it, he said that his wife was so happy that her happiness had no bound. SO HE HAPPILY AGREED. I cannot stop laughing but to say that just yesterday he was complaining that she is doing exactly the opposites of what she promised. She loves tea, onion, garlic. Not only that, she tries in every way to discourage him from being involved in volunteering activities. I LOVE THIS FRIEND OF MINE, WHEN HE STUPIDLY KEEPS ASKING ME "WHAT TO DO ? WHAT TO DO ? I AM HELPLESS." I am dying of laughter, while I am writing this.
He was adopted by a couple and he inherited some 3 crores worth of property. The way he is made, if he works has a businessman he will work crazily and when he is in volunteering he will forget business and work crazily has a volunteer. Seeing this kind of scenario, his brother-in-law took a chance when he went to ashram and transfered all the property in his name. Again the same stupid question he would ask me "WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO? HE SHOULD HAVE ATLEAST GIVEN ME 1/2 OF THIS PROPERTY?"
There is one more thing I cannot afford to leave it. Often when he visit my home, my mother and my wife would start complaining that they and the society are not happy with the way I have been living my life, the life of joy and rebellion. This friend of mine will give me a long lecture that I should behave myself and should not make others unhappy.
When we were walking down the stairs, I asked him sarcastically "How many percentage of people from the society are happy with you" ? And he would reply, without any break of time, "5%".
I SAY IT WITH PRIDE THAT I FEEL SO SMALL IN FRONT OF HIM AND LOVE HIM FOR HIS INNOCENCE. He always leave a benchmark, where I can strive to break my limitations. There are so many things that I could have shared about him, but it would go, on and on. Truly blessed to have him has my friend. My most prized possesion.

We were able to succeed in the first phase of 2nd Freedom Struggle because we forgot our caste, our religion, our name and we came together has ONE SINGLE DIVINE ENERGY.

                                                                   It has been hard for me to find people who could support this movement of India Against Corruption".  Looking at the way the Corruption has evolved in this country, they believed that "It is simply wasting its own time and energy" and "Nobody can change the fate of the country.  Its Doom", things like that. It was really hard for me to tell them that People are awakening from their sleep.  People have experienced the power they have in their hands, thanks to the Platform laid down by Anna Hazare and India Against Corruption Team.
                                                               Look at the Imam of Jama Masjid telling Muslims that they should not join the fight against corruption since shouting slogans like "Vandemataram" goes against their religion.  An attempt to divide the country along the caste lines.  Had they approached the problem as a simple humanbeing, they would have dealed with it effectively.  My God, when will people wake up out of their sleep. 
                                                       I have never looked for company to make things happen.  I start doing things, which I believe is right.  More than anybody else, I believe in myself.  I started attending rallies, started working on the blog to awaken the people, to inspire people who were already in fast, things like that.
                                                                  Now with the Parliament bowing down to the People's Wish by agreeing to refer the 3 main demands of Jan Lokpal Bill to the Standing Committee, IT WILL BE REMEMBERED IN THE HISTORY THAT IF PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER HAS ONE ENERGY AND WORK TOWARDS THE GOAL WHICH WILL BENEFIT  EVERY HUMANBEING, THEN IT IS VERY EASY TO FORCE THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS TO MEND THEIR WAYS.  It is really very unfortunate that Anna had to go on Fast since nobody was ready to enact a law in the country which could root out corruption.  ANNA GOING ON FAST ONLY INDICATES ONE THING, THAT THE POLITICIANS OF THIS COUNTRY LACKED COMMITMENT TO COUNTER CORRUPTION VIDE THEIR VESTED INTEREST BE HARMED DUE TO THE PROCESS.
                                  We can only hope that in future, these politicians will not force Anna to go on fast by their weak-willed efforts of curbing corruption.  WHETHER IT BE CORRUPTION OR ANY OTHER ISSUE, THIS MOVEMENT HAS BROUGHT FORTH THE PEOPLE'S POWER, THAT THEY CAN CHANGE ANYTHING, IF THEY WILL.  BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

My encounter with the Divine Sound - My experiences

Just got awakened by the buzzing sound, in the middle of the night.  I am sure that it was coming from inside.  Guessed that the Divine is trying to send some message to me so kept my eyes closed, maybe he wants to send me a message on what I should do next in the 2nd Freedom Struggle.  Opening my eyes, could stop the continous buzzing Divine sound to disappear.
                       But even a divine voice in life, if it continues to drive on for too long, it becomes a boring thing.  So decided to open my eyes and find it for myself from where is it coming from.  When I opened my eyes, I could not believe it.  Yesterday night when I and my wife slept, we were sleeping 2 feets apart because we had a fight.  But has it always happen, She hates me, She loves me, but she cannot ignore me, found her very close to me, with that Divine-God-Damn-Snorting-Sound.

Gratitude has become the very way of my life - Sharing my experiences

Some 10 years back, when I came across the words of Osho "Living Life, Moment to Moment", I could not really make out How could living this moment beautifully, can make bring the next moment beautiful? I always wondered how could my life change, if I can live this moment intensely. But in the deepest recess of my being, I felt that there is something invaluable being said, and I will pursue till the very end of my life until I understood its significance.
After pursuing spirituality intensely, I can say that something has changed very fundamentally inside me. Today I find, that just interacting even with strangers, it doesn't take even a moment to befriend them. Life is Beautiful. People here, often term me as "Atheist" because they never see me going to temple. They have their own definition of being religious. Personally, for me, I have never felt the need to go to temple, to thank God. As life as turned up, after joining Isha Yoga, today I can say, that my whole life is filled with Gratitude. Every day, every moment I remember God, for showering me with a gift to see life, with beauty and grace. After more than 3 years of practicing Kriya Yoga, I can feel the very flow, the very way the energy is moving inside me. It has such grace, such flow, that I wish that it happens to everyone.
We have the choice of confining our life just to temples and church or you can carry the very temple inside your heart.

Not succumbing to the pressures of the society

If we are truly intelligent, we should not be doing what people expect us do; we should be just doing what is best for ourself and for everybody around us even if it is at the cost of being very unpopular.

I have always made Guru Pournima, a special day in my life - My experiences

Personally, I have made this day, a very special one in my life.  Whatever addictive limitations i have discovered in my life, this is the day I will abandon it.  For eg. I love tea.  It has occupied the major portion of the things I drink.  But it is also taken a bad toll on my health.  Instead I could have choosed a better drink for myself.  But it is difficult to leave tea just like that.  Sadhguru, is everything, that I have experienced in my life.  So I will make a Choice on Guru Poornima Day, whether will I choose Tea or will I choose Sadhguru ?  So it has always been a easier choice for me to choose Sadhguru, against whatever things it may stand against him.  And I have never regretted the decisions taken on this day.  I have always discovered that nothing is missing in my life, whether it be Tea or anything.  I have this whole bliss of being in love with Sadhguru.  I have neither taken this idea from any book, neither I have emulated it from anyone.  It just came up from within myself.  So, I would caution people against emulating. 

                                                         To give an example, My brother is an alcoholic person.  He will go to some holy temple and will take some vow never to drink alcohol again under some Goddess or Deity.  Within a month or 2, he will start drinking again.  For him, the choice between Goddess and alcohol, was alcohol.  But it was easy for him to break the vow since there was not really any relationship between him and the Goddess.  The relationship just came up because of the traditional upbringing.  When any vow is not soaked with Love, it becomes difficult to sustain it.  I wished, he could have known something of the unconditional love.

                                    Like this, I have been quitting things one by one, to enhance my spiritual growth.  And what better way will it be to make an offering to the Guru I love.

                                    I have not made making vows into a serious business.  I have left a hole, which can be filled.  I have attached a string to the vow.  The condition is, if I am in process of volunteering, which means when I am not, and If i am offered a Tea by someone, will I take the tea. I have left the act at the will of existence.  But till day, the conditions that I attached, have not met.  I just hope, that I do not have a fight with my wife, on the Guru Pournima Day.  :---)

My adventures with my wife

                                Today, it just happened that I was experiencing some back pain.  My wife's weight is almost the double the weight, of what I am.  So, I thought that i will make a good use of it.  I asked my wife to sit on my back, while I lay on the bed, so that I could get some relief from pain.  While she was sitting on my back, she asked me that "Don't you think that I have losed some weight ?"  There was hardly any kind of voice I could make out of my body.  My wife concluded my silence has the approval of what she had said.

People who inspired me to break my limitations

                                                         Automen.  This is the last word that people would expect anything from them.  And here in this part of the world, they are infamous, for charging exuberant money from passengers, infamous for tampering with meters, rude behaviour etc.
                                                         Recently, when the isha yoga class was conducted, there was shortage of volunteers to organise the class.  At that crucial time, I came to know that there was a group of Automen who have done the Isha Yoga Classes and were eager to partake in the organising of the classes.  What was surprising is that, these automen, who come from low income group, forsaked their prime time of earning money (Saturday Night) and got involved in Banner pasting.  I could see the joy in their eyes that how much they loved Sadhguru.  Really, this man can inspire anybody.  Even today, one of the Auto Volunteers came and gave me 2000 rupees, which they have collected from people towards donation for Isha Yoga.  I have also seen these Automen volunteering in the management of the parking area. when Sadhguru attended chennai for Mahasathsang.  Now, this is the last place, where anyone would want to work.  One thing is that, this place is far from, where all the exciting things are happening. You just name it.  Whether it be to watch Sadhguru live or to witness the hussle & bussle of all festivity that is going on, in the ground.  Only a person, who has experienced of being in love with Sadhguru, can work in that area without any restlessness.   Its truly inspiring to see them working selflessly.

                                                          Again, in this new episode, during the Mahashivarathri Celebration, our group was given the job to look after the cleaning work, which means one should see that the toilets are clean or the grounds are clean where people are throwing foods at all corners of the place.  Many volunteers forsaked this cleaning job and turned a blind eye to it, not getting involved with it.  I myself was quite unwilling to do it but more than my unwillingness was my deep desire to be with this man, Shakthi, this volunteer, who single handedly took on the work to keep the whole place clean.  He was not worried about what people may think of himself, if they see him cleaning the toilet or cleaning the left over food.  His whole concern was that if they leave the place dirty, then the ground management will never give the place to Isha Foundation again. He inspired me to work along with him.  The most inspiring image which I will remember all my life was that, where on one side people were shying away from doing this job, this man, who had two buckets of waste bin in each hand, started  dancing crazily to the tune of Sound of Isha.  Just visualize the situation and imagine to what extent this man has experienced the egolessness.  It was such a joy to work with this volunteer for whole night and we enjoyed our time together.  Its really a blessing to find wonderful people in Isha.  I bow down to this wonderful people who have inspired me to break my limitations. 

Street play - The most playful way of bringing awareness to people about Yoga

Shout it from roof top.  Isha has come with the new way of bringing awareness to people about the presence of Isha Program.  I will call it the most playful way that one can imagine.

                                                                    I first witnessed it when I attended this Mahashivarathri in March 2011.  I witnessed that people were more receptive, more attentive, more joyful to it, on what was being said through this street play.  It became more attractive when I saw that even aged people to the age of 80, were being involved in this play.  It was so wonderful to watch them act in the play.  What was unbelievable was that I came to know that they have been performing this in the streets for almost a month to enable people to join the Isha Yoga Program on March 25 - 27 where Sadhguru himself is taking the class.  Its such a joy to watch the vibrant energy on play.
                                

My quarrels with my wife - Isha effect on my life

In the past, the gaps of physical relationship between me and my wife were growing. For me it was just spontaneous happening but not for her. Though the quarrelings happened only on occasions, We ended up with lot of quarrelings on this issue. The problem with quarrelings is, one's whole concentration is just focused on hurting each other. Neither of us were interested in finding the solution to the problem.

The practices of Isha Yoga has brought a stability to my wavering mind. It has given me a choice, whether I should involve myself in the situation or not. There is so much clarity and sense. Also the quarrelings, which were looking like hell in the past, now it all seems to be like a cosmic joke.

Though there are very few quarrels with my wife now, but it happened yesterday on the issue of widening gap between our relationship. She started all the tantrums with her aggressive behaviour.

I watched all the proccedings with a witnessing attitude. I did not get involved in the argument. Believe it or not, all her outburst were looking really funny to me.
There was no relationship between one statement and the other. Where there was uprising of anger inside me in the past, there was a sweet feeling of gratitude for Sadhguru. This dignified feeling is always with me and is self evident when you attend the Sathsang.

I began to understand on why she is behaving like this. Has for me, my whole energy is directed towards Sadhguru, but for my wife, I am her whole focus of attention. She loves me tremendously but with a childish attitude. Finally she concluded that just because it was my mistake, I had been silent all through the 1/2 hr argument. She was happy. When she emptied her anger, she just slept beside me, holding me with her loving arms.
She is beginning to understand that just being together is bliss and it need not be backed by physical relationship.

She is almost double my weight. It is good for me that she does not realize her enlightenment on the physical plane otherwise she could very easily throw me out of the room.

Sadhguru says that if you can observe this world with a witnessing attitude, the whole world will look like a cacophony of confused sounds, voice and energy. Ultimately, everyone is longing for Divine merging. May it happen to all of us.

Anger - Expression of Disturbed Mind

Today as I was coming back home on my motorcycle, I saw a autorickshaw farway, immobile. When there was a space to crossby, I thought that I could passaway. All of a sudden, the man came out of auto and I collided with him. The vehicle and myself were hit on the road. But strangely there was no upsurge of anger inside me. I find that the more I am focused to Sadhguru, the less there are chances of being disturbed. Only my body was hit. And the mistake by the man was not intentional. I and the autorickshaw, just parted our ways without looking at each other.

I remember a event few months back. I was sitting in my shop with few of my friends. My motorvehicle was just parked outside my shop. In India, the bullock carts are unpredictable vehicles of transportation. They don't have a brake. So all of a sudden, it hit my vehicle. I just stood up, as if nothing as happened. It was only the vehicle, not me. These meditations have dis-identified myself with all the outside objects. The friends, who were enraged, encouraged me to fight with the bullockcart man. The first thing, my consiousness was searching for, was, my chappals. Feeling embarrased at what I was doing, I enacted a argument with the man outside. But when I came back in the shop, my friends told me clearly that all my anger was a cover-up and it seems that your Isha Yoga Practices might have loosened the anger within you. I wonder that I have been introduced to only the basic exercises and am optimist on what the future holds for me since there are many advance programs, which I have not done yet.

Life incidents with a mark of Isha

Very recently I was coming with my son from a library on a bike. All of a sudden I witnessed a loud sound of collision. What I saw that a elderly man of around the age of 85 was lying unconcious, gasping for breath while her daughter of age 60 was crying for help. Almost a group of 30 people gathered around the accident victim, to get him to the hospital. But everyone forgot about her daughter who was also in a state of despair. The first thing that came to my mind is that since she is alone, she needs to talk to her close ones by phone. Then a bypasser helped this couple to get on his car, to drop them in the hospital. All those 30 people felt that they have done their job. But what I felt that since the lady was crying inconsolabaly, she might be unable to handle the procedures of the hospital. So I rushed to follow the car. Since it was a goverment hospital, the work was not organised and I helped the lady with all the necessary procedures. Felt that I got in at the right time, right place. The greatest gift I have got from Isha is putting yourself in others place and then decide on where your awareness of the situation takes you. I left the scene when her husband reached the hospital. I could see the tears of gratitude in the eyes of the lady.

In the beginning, When the victim was to be transfered from car to a stretcher, the guards kept shouting at me to make effort to bring the victim out of car. But there was a invisible laughter inside me since the victim was weighing 120 kg while my weight was 35 kg. So i knew how much I could do.

Why be limited, when we can live unlimitedly ?

When i joined Isha Program, the venue held was almost an half-an-hour drive from my home. It was effortless, all because of love for my Sadhguru. There are people who are interested in their well being than being inspired by spiritual guru. So when my brother asked me If i am aware of any Yoga Classes being held, I suggested him to join Art of Living despite being part of Isha Yoga because the venue was nearby and also I found the same aura of divinity in Sri Sri Ravishankar which I have seen in Sadhguru.
My brother was suffering from diabetis. He was on insulin, which suggests that he was in extreme condition. My suggestion paid off. Initially when he joined art of living, he attended irregularly and later on abandoned the Kriyas. Being the venue closer by, he decided to join again and the effort paid off. Miraculously, he was free from diabetes. Looking at his recovery, my wife and my bhabhi also joined Art of Living. I was so happy that everything is turning so well. What is important for me is somehow if I can inspire people to long for authentic spiritual master whether it be Sadhguru or Sri Sri Ravishankar. There is no conflict between me and my wife though we are aspiring for our spiritual wellbeing from two different camps. Infact, we are enjoying our spiritual journey. Life is so beautiful when you live boundlessly.

Experience 1 - Cockroaches - Life after joining Isha Yoga

I will start relating my experiences about how my life has changed since joining Isha Yoga. I have been afraid of cockroaches. A weird looking creature. It will send shivers in my spine, if I see the cockroach lying upside down, scrambling for life. The horrible spongy body. The flying cockroaches. You never know when they will come upon you.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev (From now on, I will refer to him as Sadhguru) has always advised his meditators to be playful and creative. He would say that you will have to commit any 5 playful things during the day. Every act you do, should have a quality of newness. Your life will simply grow, has life progresses. It so happened, that I decided to experiment with the cockroaches. I wanted to know, why I am resisting this harmless creature. I cannot catch the cockroach in my hand because that will suffocate him, So I simply placed my hand before the cockroach and waited till it would crawl up in my hand. But something strange happened. It was running away from me, fearing for his life maybe or maybe this act is so unusual for him to see. So, it went on. I kept running after it and it kept running away from me. I conquered my fear of cockroach. Sometimes, i would simply touch the feathers of the cockroach in front of childrens, and they would get excited. I started playing with everybody's fear. I told everyone, that the day i found any dead cockroaches, I will sprang it upon them. I came to know that such small acts can enrich one's life. If i find any new event's to be added in the cockroach blog, I will add it later................

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At the age of 26, I began reading Osho. From the very first day, I knew that I have founded something invaluable. A perfect enlightened master, maybe a little controversial. But that was his way. And it was all because of his mischievous ways, that I was in love with him. If you try to understand him logically, then you are surely going to miss him, and along with him you will also miss life. It was necessary for him to shake the people vigorously, since people are so clouded in the mind. To be in the mind means, If one is born in hindu society, than he will only believe what the hindu spirituality teaches. He will never look outside its religion, if there is any truth in other religions. But if one is adventurous, if one is alive, then one will enquire any spiritual book, which is worth reading. For a period of 7 years, I read his books but without experimenting with any of his meditation wholeheartedly. Maybe, I was not confident, since he was not alive. And most importantly, I could not find any active meditation centres in chennai. There was a great transformation in my life, after I came in contact with Osho. I could feel it virtually that I have become strong from inside. Despite being alone in the society, no one was able to shake me up. Those 7 years that I spent reading his books and hearing discources, were like spending my life in paradise. Just hearing the words of truth would run me into ecstasy. Truth is so powerful and enlightening. I was more intense in my enquiry during those 7 years period. I still remember the words of Osho, where he says that always find a living enlightened master. If everything is going well with your practices, then there is no need to find a new master. Even the past masters will work wonders for you. The important thing to remember is to get started with programs and exercises, which I have not done under Osho.



And that day came in Jan'2008, when I came across the Book Mystic's Musing's of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Immediately I knew that I have found a living enlightened master. I joined the 7 days Isha Yoga program in January'2008. From day one, these yoga programs worked like a magic for me. During the day, many times I would become joyous for no reason. I could not understand what was happening to me. I was excited about the future prospect. If this is the beginning, then what will be the end.

I feel the reason behind my success was my 100% participation in the Isha Yoga program and the grace of the sadhguru. I will do what the teachers would tell me to do. One also needs to be alert during these programs, since there is no spoon feeding business. One needs to learn life on its own feet. Isha simply provides the platform to stand.

It is the complete yoga in itself. What Baba Ramdev teaches about yoga is beneficial to your health but it is incomplete. It is only concerned with your health. Just think over it. Even if we are healthy, we still live a self-enclosed life while life around us are still suffering? What worth is our life, if we cannot enhance life around us. It is exactly at this point of time, that Sadhguru fills that space.