Imagine 127 children from all over the country let loose in a 150 acre ashram and all that you have to do is to gather them together and make them do suryanamaskar, pranayama and meditation!
I was quite sympathetically listening to Ankush Bansal, the Art Excel teacher, as he was telling me about his utter helplessness [...]
Archive for October, 2008
127 wishes fulfilled
Posted in L.A.U.G.H., from the Heart on 30/10/2008 | Comments Off
MGESUTA08 records and figures
Posted in Media digest, Seva on 29/10/2008 | Comments Off
From: harshal jadhav <harshalpjadhav@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:19 PM
Subject: Global Report : Mission Green Earth Stand Up Take Action : it rocked the world!!!!
This is a GREAT News for all of us and I am sure you will be PROUD about it!
This shows the spirit and passion of AOL volunteers, the inspiration of [...]
MGESUTA08 – Press Note
Posted in Media digest, Seva on 26/10/2008 | Comments Off
Mission Green Earth STAND UP TAKE ACTION 08
Asia Press Note
22nd October, 08
MORE THAN 116 MILLION PEOPLE – NEARLY 2% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION including more than 73 million from Asia – STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY
GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR MASS MOBILIZATION
CITIZENS DEMAND THAT WORLD LEADERS KEEP THEIR PROMISES TO ACHIEVE THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS [...]
Happy Deepavali – the Festival of Lights
Posted in Celebrations and Festivals, Deepavali, Events, Knowledge digest on 26/10/2008 | Comments Off
Happy Deepavali – the Festival of Lights
Today is Deepavali – the Festival of Lights. The streets and buildings are lit up with colorful lights. The four aspects of Diwali:
1. The lights: Symbolic of spreading the Knowledge.
2. Fire crackers: When the explosion happens outside, the explosion
inside is diffused.
3. Gift exchange and distribution of sweets: Sweets dispel [...]
If you want to come to me
Posted in Knowledge digest, tagged celebration, enthusiasm, god, gratefulness, gratitude, guruship, hollow and empty, idol, path of knowledge, Shiva, worship on 22/10/2008 | Comments Off
If you want to come to me
Sri Sri
Praising me is not enough. I am not satisfied by your praises, gratefulness and gratitude. Do not just keep me on the stage, on the altar, put flowers and say, `jai gurudev!’ Keep me in your heart. When you are grateful, there is also a lot of gratitude [...]
Lighter Part of NavRatri!
Posted in L.A.U.G.H. on 22/10/2008 | Comments Off
One inspector went to a school for inspection. He decided to ask few questions to the students of the school to evaluate the quality of education provided by the institution. So he started with a question – “‘Hara Dhanus’ ko kisne toda tha?” (Who broke the ‘Bow of Shiva’ in Ramayana).
Not a single student had [...]
QA with SriSri – spirituality, astrology and cosmology
Posted in Knowledge digest, tagged amazement, awareness, commitment, compassion, consciousness, cosmology, cosmos, dream, emotons, indian astrology, intuition, meditation, paradox, science, vedic astrology, vision on 22/10/2008 | Comments Off
Q:If modern life is like a dream, then what is real? And if you have a bad dream, how do you get rid of it?
Sri Sri:You know, first question is what you should be having. I would want you to have that question. I dont take away good questions from you. These good questions [...]
A Broken Pipe
Posted in L.A.U.G.H., from the Heart on 22/10/2008 | Comments Off
This is a story from about 12 years ago…
A few of us were sitting with Guruji and He suddenly said, oh… I need to go to the city, Raghu, go and see if the car is there or has it already left… (This was the time when there was exactly one car in the Ashram [...]
