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

How Big I am

... this is the only poem i have ever written (till now) ... i wrote it just a few days after my first advanced course (before the course i never knew i could write poems :) ) ...

sweet is the pain

that comes before gain

dark is the night

before it gets bright

but when i realise

how Big i am

how strong, how powerful

how vast, how wonderful

omnipresent and omnipotent

that everything just is

a game of hit-n-miss

the play in the world

then how can i be affected

whether it is pain or gain

dark or bright ?

how can i be affected

by things so small

when i myself am

way beyond tall !!

jgd,

vishesh

The Knowledge Game

When I started this blog one of my aims was to share Knowledge through it … I wanted readers to learn nice things from the blog :) … but then I realized … one who truly wants to learn (how to make his life better) can learn from anything and everything … !!!

I remember Saleel bhaiyya mentoning that Guruji says there is knowledge in each and everything … (Q : Guruji, if there is knowledge in everything … what can we learn from … chocolate ?!? Guruji : Chocolate teaches you to be, at the same time, both firm and sweet :) !! Guruji is Mind-Blowing isn’t He ?? :) )

Saleel bhaiyya encouraged us to play a game … look around us and try to take knowledge from everything … fans, lights etc .. :) (This game becomes playable if you are regular with your kriya and have done an advanced course or two) … Follwing this train of thought, I decided to try my hand at this … and here is some ‘knowledge’ I have gained from simply observing the things around me :) … here goes :

GROUNDNUTS (which I bought from ANC) : negativity (undesired part) is only the outer shell … people are very good (tasty :) ) on the inside … we should look only at the positives …

GUITAR : make noises only when required :) ... be a perfect instrument of the Divine … when not required, be totally inactive, but when needed … deliver 100% !! (Like for ex. , don’t worry or think about studies when not studying … but when studying, give ur 100 % … a guitar makes a sound only if it is played :) … this one has been quite useful to me !! )

TOILET SEAT : Accept whatever shit (garbage) people throw at you … and then … Flush it away (otherwise you will stink … so do your kriya regularly !! :) )

A TREE : hide your roots and share your fruits !! (kabir’s doha : as a tree bears more fruits, its branches bend lower, so as a man becomes more successful, the more humble he should be !! )

THE MOON : be cool, calm and detached … a quiet witness to everything …

Jai Guru Deva !

love,

vishesh

nice pic!! isn't it??

Son, I am there to support u at every point of ur life... be bindaas and go ahead... that's what each father feels for his son.... give back this faith to him when ur father reaches his second childhood!!

pic: clicked at Majauda beach, Goa, date: 8th March, 2009.


Rithesh

On Emotions

Emotions...I've ransacked every nook and cranny of my brain to get a hold of just what this word means. and how much importance should be given to it in my life's lexicon.

It might sound funny, but most of us are nothing but victims of these wickedly deceiving emotions. When our emotions say be happy, we become happy. When they say show anger, we become angry. When they say be sad, we start feeling sad...theres no end to it.
But do we ever try to find out the reason as to why these emotions are coming? Just try to find out next time when you get an emotional upsurge, and you will be amazed to see how pittifully small and incongruous the reason is.
Our mind is bombarded with so many of these worthless emotions everyday, and we gratefully accept and infact even perpetuate them.

For instance, imagine a very beautiful girl comes and says to you-"Gosh! You are so hansome. I really love you!" (I said just imagine.. :P). Most of the people will react-"Really?!"
But if the same girl comes and remarks-"You are so ugly and lousy", then I doubt any of you will react the same way.

Such is the human tendency, we always tend to doubt the positive and accept the negetive. Thinking so much as to what others might think of us, we have actually become a football of others opinions. But believe me...noone gives a damn. No one has time enough to waste on you. So why do you give a shit to it.

In life, there can be just two roles we can play - either a victim, or a witness. If we opt for the former, we will be a football of not only others, but our own emotions. Yes...our OWN emotions.
Howz that?? How can we be football of our own mind?
I will tell my perception on this.
Say, we own a car, we say-"Its my car", but we are not the car. Similarly, "Its my laptop", "Its my mobile", but we are not the mobile or the laptop.
Similarly, those are our emotions, but we are not the emotions. Don't you think we are much more important than some mere chemically activated electrical signals travelling through our neurons?

Well...I know that I am.
So I've opted to be the witness.
Ive opted to keep my happiness unadulterated from the emotions I get.
I've opted to RESPOND to situations, rather than REACT to them (catch the difference..??).
I've made my choice.

Now its your decision, what role you wanna play - the victim, or the witness???

Love,
Nikhil