Snaps'09

And here are a few great snaps Bawa didn't put on his blog! These were given by the winter break team in a cd among other cool snaps and videos!

Below are a few snaps from the upgrade 2(upgrade1 not a prerequisite!)

Don't ask me why these guys are acting this crazy :P

This marks the starting of the advance course

The Awesome & mesmerizing duo of Bawa and Dinesh!

After the advance course have a tour around the ashram!

This one's at 'Sumeru Mantap'

The beeeeeaaaaaaauuuuutiful lake side

This is the Vishalakshi Mantap where the course happened below are views both inside and outside

Back to the lake side

B&D up close!

And for the finale none other than the man himself :)

Na na na na!! You missed out nothing you can do :P!! Anyways make sure you are present this June to witness one of the biggest spiritual congregation of the century with 10,000 YES!+ participants turning up for the SUMMER MAGIC!! The winter break as it turns out was just a trailer for something HUGE!!!!!!!!


jaigurudev
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rahul

A bitsian story!

Here is the article link...

http://sandpaper.bitsaa.org/thinkpad/lifeinsocial.htm

If you still haven't read it... read it now!(it was the sm of Harshad Bhaiyya for many days).

jaigurudev

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rahul

A few good ones

Its been about 10 months since I've started blogging and it has been largely liberating and a vastly learning experience so far... it has helped me keep in touch with myself! So here are a few good ones among the many posts I've written.I think they'll make up for a good read.

My first

Spirituality

Feelings

Please... don't smoke

A late night post

A few more dry weeks

Power of the MIND

Its Children's day!

Let me know what you think of them :).and since the net in the rooms is working great guns you might also wanna check out

Sound of Music

jaigurudev

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rahul

Rashmin Pulekar

It was just yesterday, I opened rashmin bhaiyya's blog and saw yet another masterpiece... he doesn't write very often, but when he does he just rocks! Well I felt,anyways I'm going to share this piece here... and why not share something about him as well .And that's how this post has taken shape! :-)

Rashmin bhaiyya, one of the first YES!+ teachers is famous globally among the AOL family for his brilliant communication skills among the many other facets of his admirable personality!Bawa himself says... " If I give to talk to a crowd of 5o people say 49 or even 50 might register but if Rashmin gives the talk then 150 would register these 50 would go and spread the word to 2 other friends!"


There are even many many tales of his talks(will tell some of them in case you're interested) and experiences!And just recently he got married to Priyanka(also known as Piyu didi... sweet,loving,and also a teacher herself! ) at heaven on Earth the Bangalore ashram!

You can check all of it out @ Rendezvous with Rashmin and make sure you read every single post right down from the start... all of them are truly legendary!

jaigurudev
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rahul

Delhi blast!

Pavan & I have decided we'll have a blast in the Oasis week,and what could be better than staying with a YES!+ teacher and that too of all of them its Saleel bhaiyya!!! :-)

And so here we are right here in the national capital... Delhi till Nov3rd.I know all of you would be enthued about what the hell(or say heaven) we're up to but for you'll have to wait for our return and a wonderful post!

jaigurudev
love
rahul

PS I'll post something in between as well but would totally be irrelevant to the trip here! :)

Satyam Param Dhimahi...

Well... its been quite a bit of time since the last post and will make up for that by posting regularly from now on, part of which would be from knowledge sheets(from 'Intimate Note To The Sincere Seeker'-by Guruji) considering the fact that very few people on campus have the book.

Now i come straight to what this post is aimed at.All my life I've lied a lot regarding various things for example, be it giving the list of expenses to dad (or) denying politely a request from a friend to borrow something(and of course many other reasons not to be proud of :D).

Ever since joining AOL and starting my spiritual journey I've lied for various other reasons... sometimes with friends about my YES!+ activities(when i was new to our YES!+ group and didn't fully implement the football sutra!), but its been mostly to my parents(i hope my mom doesn't read this :D) about my activities and volunteering in AOL to avoid hurting them and more than that just to divert conflicts!!

But that's only a thing of the past, before i had this wonderful experience... i don't remember the exact incident when it happened, but the experience itself is fresh in my memory. I was about to lie to my dad on a call(obviously about AOL) but i 'chose' to face the situation boldly and decided that let me tell the truth!This in spite all the exact words i had planned to convince him( i managed to convince anyways). I cannot express the amount of joy and contentment i expressed in that single moment. I fell in love with 'truth' and i wondered with a smile the reason why Gandhiji loved truth('satya') so much!

Its very easy to lie in uncomfortable circumstances and get away... but just give this a shot. CHOOSE to tell the truth when otherwise you wouldn't have.It'll spark something in you... each and every time you would choose truth over comfort,or something else for everything else would seem trivial!

And to this was added a brilliant realization... just a few months back it dawned on me that when I'm seeking enlightenment(mind you its a loaded term), the highest reality that would dispense all darkness and reveal all secrets... how will this highest knowledge(truth, reality call it whatever you like) come to me if i myself don't honour and speak the truth at all times!



And that is precisely what the shloka Satyam Param Dhimahi means... literally translated as " Let the Ultimate truth dawn on me"

jaigurudev!
love
rahul

p.s. 22nd was bawa's 40th birthday and there is a wonderful post about him at www.bawandinesh.name