Reflections on the Sabbatical- Growing on the path

Now to answer the second question I had posed in my previous post.  Am I growing on this spiritual path? Yoga, is not just the asanas that we do, when on the mat, it is also what we do when we are off the mat. On the mat, things are pretty easy, it is only [...]

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Smile

Two things that brough smile to my face today morning
1) This story in todays Times of India where Baligar says “Even the tenure at Karnataka Land Army as its head — which meant a 10 am to 5.30 pm job — was put to good use to learn Sudarshan Kriya.” 
2) And this lovely movie

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Reflecting on my sabbatical

Six months have passed since the time I have taken a break from my job to do seva full time with the Art of Living Foundation. There is a lot of curiosity amongst my friends, ex-colleagues, neighbours, my local Art of Living Sangha, relatives and as well as Meena’s friends too about the sabbatical and [...]

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NH-7 Bangalore to Hyderabad revisited

Updated August 19th August 2009. For some reason this post has become quite popular and I get a lot of hits of people probably looking to drive down between Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Over the last few months, we have driven down quite a few times and here is a quick update as of August 2009.

The driving [...]

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Cortisol+time=Paranoia =>Emotional Outburts & Violence!

Way back in 1995 on a cold winter Danish afternoon, my danish colleague, Flemming, dropped me and one of my colleague – Sivan – at the charming Aarhus airport in Denmark for us to catch our flight back and as got down out of the car and stepped out, a guy came screaming towards the [...]

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Most people will sit quietly in their seats and watch life unfold around them

Via acleareye , Tom’s 9 prediction for 2009. I liked this one the best.
#3 Most people will sit quietly in their seats and watch life unfold around them
A recent New Yorker magazine cartoon made it comically clear: There’s a lot that we all want to experience, but not much that we actually want to do. Most [...]

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Call: Cards against the Walls

I received this email and thought this is a wonderful gesture and we can all do our bit for this guy
From: katrien hertog 
Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:45 AM
Subject: Call: Cards against the Walls
In my first Prison SMART course in Belgium, now more than one year ago, there
was a man called Marco. Since he [...]

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Learn the True Religion

From Bachchan’ blog, a beautiful story for these times:
LEARN THE TRUE RELIGION 
An old man was visiting a city for the first time in his life. He had grown up in a remote mountain village, worked hard raising his children, and was then enjoying his first visit to his children”s modern homes.
While being shown around the [...]

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Q&A from today’s Satsang

Some Q&A from today’s Satsang.  Usual disclaimers apply. 
Q) I feel lonely on this path in this corporate world where I have to deal with issues such as greed, jealousy etc I am worried that I am losing touch with my spiritual side. What should I do?
Guruji: You have to be there and maintain your spirit. [...]

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Online Petition

I do not feel that the online petitions serve any purpose, excepting raising awareness levels on issues that do not generally get noticed, but in this case, I make an exception, for it seems to have originated from Tata group. So here we go
Dear all, 

Pl. find below the link to the petition which outlines the [...]

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