Stand out!

Hmmm.... STAND OUT - its not only my name on dc, its also something I've started to believe in after coming into AOL... frankly not immediately after my first YES!+.I kept doing kriya, slowly started to volunteer and then came the time for my first advance course!Looking at Bawa and Dinesh bhaiyya and of course Guruji(He was there only for a session) I was in sheer awe. It inspired(and still does) me to the core!

And getting to know many extraordinary figures like Rashmin bhaiyya, Vikram bhaiyya made me more and more determined that I don't want to be just another guy with good job, a 'well settled life' even if spirituality is a part of it!!

I decided that i want to STAND OUT from the rest of the crowd... I've learnt to DREAM BIG and have a vision for myself(well... what 'my' vision is a secret lets see if we manage to stick together you'll know it anyways), most importantly support it with action! Cause in AOL we just don't talk... we are among the good people who actually go out and ACT!

By and by as i watch my friends and others speaking and worried(actually terrified) of jobs and placements i laugh to myself! I feel they're still stuck in small little things not realising their true potential...

I don't want all of you to commit the same mistake! All of us having done the YES!+ and having Guruji by the side... should dream big, achieve big... without losing the knowledge,wisdom and STAND OUT from the normal crowd!

love

rahul

Jaigurudev!

JAI GURU DEV :)

Jaigurudev!!

My name's Rahul(of course a student of BITS-pilani)... I'm forced to follow this formality of introducing myself cause i see one follower who seems to be non pilani... correct me if u are!(do it by commenting).I'm here to add onto the good work Vishesh has been doing by creating and contributing to a YES!+ blog.

I think its a great platform where all of us(the YES!+ participants and volunteers) can keep in touch. Its fairly obvious with the number adding up its an uphill task to keep all of them included and make them feel a part of the group.... so its not necessary that only 2-3 of us contribute and the rest read. Let this be more of a space where everyone of us can share our thoughts,experiences and most importantly some knowledge(knowledge sheets or summary of some talk... lets not become teachers!).

So... whoever wants to contribute(on a regular basis) to this blog just place a comment/contact us and Vishesh will make u an author.

Celebrating Life! Now to be honest though i like the name it somehow seems incomplete and fails to describe the YESPLUS gang and our spirit. We do celebrate but we do much more than that isn't it? We're achievers, we've got knowledge, and we've got GURUJI,AOL, BAWA & DINESH and that ultimate aim that the general crowd hasn't got and i don't think that even among us many have realised that!

Sorry Vishesh... thats just my 'opinion'. Anyways Celebrating Life is just fine and is good in a broader sense.

And now its obvious that along with Vishesh I'll be contributing to the blog... more often than not and i hope i do good work... and I've got a blog of my own and u can visit it at REACH OUT .

And i hope that more people come forward and contribute to the blog, and look forward to more posts from me.

love

rahul

jaigurudev!

Delhi Adventures

This post marks the beginning of a series ... a series of posts about the adventures me and Rahul have had, when we went from pilani all the way to Delhi (a 6 hour journey) to volunteer for YES!+ ...

After the third YES!+ course here at Pilani, I got a call from Saleel bhaiyya saying that a volunteer training session is to be held in Delhi for the upcoming Utsav, and asking me to come ... so I asked around other volunteers in the college ... none of them were willing to come ...

Soon it was 11 PM on Saturday night (the session was on Sunday morning) and I decided that I didn't want to go alone ... but then I found out two friends of mine are going to Delhi (for a different purpose) ... still I was apprehensive about spending a day alone in Delhi (how laughably childish that looks to me now !!) .. with an uncertian mind, I asked Saleel bhaiyya what exactly will happen there, how far is the place from the bus stop etc.. .... Saleel bhaiyya patiently explained everything ... I told him I wasn't sure that Ill come ... then he said "Aye Vishesh, aaja na !!"

That did it. Now I could not say no. So at midnight I decided to board the 1 o clock bus, without asking permissions, secretly jumped a college gate ... and set out for the bus stop ...

To be continued :) ...

The Meaning Of Mahabharata

Me, Mohit and Rahul had gone from Pilani to Jhunjhunu at attend a satsang by Swami Pragyapad ... and it was there he explained the Meaning of Mahabharata :

"Dhritraashtra" (father of Kauravas) means a person who conquers a country ("raashtra") by the wrong means ... i . e. ... an unethical person ... such a person is blind because he cannot see what is right and what is wrong ... cannot see what is good for him ...

Gaandhari represents our conscience ... which though can see, blinds itself in a person like Dhritraashtra ...

So when there is an unethical person with a blinded conscience, Duryodhan (the bad guy) is born ... the politicians of today are all Duryodhans/Kauravas ....

So how can Duryodhan be defeated ? He can be defeated by the five Pandavas :

YUDHISTHIR : Yudhisthir means "Yudh mein sthir" or "stable in war" ... it is that quality which enables us to be calm and cool even we are having an argument or an uneasy conversation with someone ...

BHIMA : Bhima represents strength, unshakebility, acceptance ... whatever is thrown at you ... you don't get affected ....

ARJUN : means concentration, one pointed focus, giving 100 % ...

NAKUL : 'Kul' means family ... 'na' 'kul' means one who just dosen't think about his own family ... but takes responsibilty for the society around him also ...

SAHADEV : means company of good/wise people ... "dev ke saath" ...

So in order to eradicate evil from the world ... you must use these five qualities which you have ... but these five qualities are not enough ... along with them you must have Krishna (faith/devotion to God) :)

When you are expressing these qualities 100 %, and are devoted to God, God will take care of everything ... He will do all the manipulation that is required ... He will make your enemies commit mistakes (like asking Duryodhan to cover his thighs when he is going to see his mother) ... and He will create miracles ...

So if you are cool even in an argument, are unshakeable, give your 100 % to whatever you do, think not just for your family, be in the company of the wise, and have faith in God, you can eradicate all negativity, all evil from your life and from the world .... that, is the essence of the Mahabharata.

Crazy Kriya Adventures : The high without the hangover !!!

Thought this blog is getting a bit too heavy :) ... so I'm posting this incident from my 2-1 ... just look what a long kriya can do to you ... !!!

I had a crush on this girl in college ... and I wanted to 'make' her my girlfriend :) ... she was responding too (atleast i think so) ... all was going well ... until this incident happened and blew everything up ...

Avinash bhaiyya (YES!+ teacher, Delhi) had come to campus to give an introtalk and conduct a long kriya. That day had been a bad one for me ... I was pissed off and frustrated ... things had not all gone my way ...

After the introtalk, there was the long kriya in the evening ... and I enjoyed it thoroughly ... It was, as long kriya always is, intoxicating bliss ... after the kriya I was completely blissed out and highly energized ... "drunk" in divine love ... :) They say when you are drunk all your inhibitions are broken and you go completely crazy ... all 'andar ki baatein' come out ... well .. something similar happened to me ...

That night I was in the mood for doing something crazy ... and I saw the said girl online on gtalk, and started chatting with her ... this is how the chat went ...

me : hi
she : hi ... how are you ?
me : handsome
she : he he ...
me : you know what ... i love you !!
she : what ?
me : yep. serious.
she : is tht u vishesh thr ?
me : yes
she : stop the prank right thr
me : vishesh jain who was in ur chem and probstat tuts ...
she : yea i remember tht ..
me : ok
ill stop it
but its not a prank
she : cn u cut the crap n tell me what r you upto ?
me : nothing ...
and its not crap
:)
she : k
me : :) :) :D
she : i dont know what r you upto bt let me tell u tht i don hav anythin special for anyone on campus ...
me : aaaahhhh ... ok !
me : k ... anythin else to say ..?? .. else plz dnd ... im watching movie ...
she : ok .. well nothing more .... gn
me : gn :) :) !!
she : seriously tum mera mazak uda rahe ho na
me : k ... choose what to believe ... gbye !
she : bye ...

HA HA HA ... after the incident for a few days i was regretful that I had blown everything up (Uss raat maine bina soche samjhe kya keh diya ... !!! ) ... a feeling which completely converted to hilarity and amusement over time !!! :) ... especially when I told about this to my friend Harsha (YES!+ volunteer from BITS Goa who stayed with me during PS-1) ... he said even he will definitely tell "I love you" to a girl on campus ... just for the fun of it !! :)

Its so liberating to do something just for the fun of it, and no logical reason ... :) I feel everyone must do something totally crazy once in a while ... it makes life worth living yaar ....!!! (Harsha agrees with me.)

Very soon word of my 'proposal' spread to other college mates ... they asked me what was i upto ..? why did i do this ..? ...........

How to explain to them the intoxication and the ecstacy of the Sudarshan Kriya !!!

JaiGuruDev,

Vishesh

ps : No I'm NOT going to reveal her name ...

Swami Pragyapad

An IITB aluminus, he came to BITS right in the middle of our comprees (final exams) ... gave a talk ... Then me, Rahul and Mohit went to Jhunjhunu to attend his SATSANG. Both the experiences were absolutely rocking ... here is a collection of some nice things we heard ...

1. IMPORTANCE OF A SMILE : A smile activates nerves in your cheeks which send a signal to the pitiutary gland (between the eyebrows), which in turn signals the adrenal glands to secrete adrenalin in optiml amounts (neither too less nor too much), which means, we can be focussed, yet relaxed .


2. We can move from a "thinking more, acting less" kind of person to "thinking less, acting more" kind of person through concious effort.


3. SIGNIFICANCE OF JANEU (THREAD CEREMONY OF BRAHMINS) : The 'janeu' has three threads, which remind you of your three responsibilities - yourself, your family and the world.

Thats all I remember !!! But he explained the meaning of Mahabharata in a totally different and refreshing way ... thats up for the next post !!!

Love,

Vishesh

Some very important links ...

You must read the two below and pass on to everyone you know :)

http://bawandinesh.blogspot.com/2008/04/inconvienient-truth.html

http://bawandinesh.blogspot.com/2008/04/102-reasons-to-go-veggie.html - read as much of it as you can ... even the comments :)

This one is vintage Bawa :) :http://bawandinesh.name/answers-for-an-ignoramus/

Do keep checking Bau n Dinesh's blog regularly !!!

Smiles :) n JGD,

Vishesh