Googles auto complete results!!! Funny

My office colleague pointed this out.  Found it very funny… then was a bit hurt

and entire world follows America…may be thats why the world is the way it is.

For India

For Pakis you try it out…

Day of reckoning !!! Day of Faith

In Art of Living foundation there exists an quote :

” We dont depend on miracles”                 ” We rely on them”

I was teaching a yesplus  course in Vellore for Vellore Institute of Technology students.  I was a full time teacher and course was coming to an end, so was the month. I was again reminded about 15k educational loan emi i had to pay every month. Thought to myself, 3k i will get from foundation for my last 2 months expenses. What about the remaining amount. Heart was filled with guilt, what am i going to tell my father who would be waiting to issue a cheque on my behalf to the bank. Who can i ask for money, what should i do.

At this exact moment i got a SMS from ever reliable VVKI ( Legal Entity of AOL). It read ” Dear Teacher amount **** transferred to your account.” Looking at the amount i was shocked, was like no way no way, this was not the amount i had submitted, maybe the message had come to the wrong person.  Feverishly i went and checked my icici account.

It read               from VVKI        RS 15000.

Had tears in my eyes. Silently prayed, felt grateful

How could i not.

I have heard Guruji say this a couple of times

” you do my work ” ” I will take care of yours “

Well i experienced it.

Cricket finally !!!

I have been blogging for more than a year, my wordpress stats show 52 posts; i believe i have surprised myself by not posting about cricket.

The sheer thrill of watching sachin bat, with bated breath, increased heart beat, i have been one amongst the billions of Indian fans who prayed that he takes a single and goes to the non striker end. I have also been the guy who the moment sachin got out switched of the TV with dejectment and walked away. After seeing sachins 175 in you tube ,the urge to play cricket is so great. 1.5 months back i played 2 matches as part of inter department cricket tournament held in college. First match did keeping and bowling, made a cheeky stumping and took a diving catch down the leg. [ i actually dived , the ball got stuck into my glove ]. The second match went one down, for the first time i wore a helmet,  it was so uncomfortable. I managed to score 60 odd runs in 35 balls, not bad for a guy who is lean and stands at 5.5 feet. Think i scored 12 – 13 boundaries.

Opponents had scored  110 in 12 overs. I had no idea of our score, i just kept hitting  and scoring runs. In 2 consecutive overs i scored 3 boundaries each. Man i was tired, hands were paining, legs were cramping up. [It feels cool to type the last sentence, as i compare myself with sachins 136 in chepaulk]. Only difference was i had been totally in the field for 24 overs which roughly translated to over 1.5 hrs in nice Cozee bangalore weather. I hit one more four people shouted 50 runs scored, first person to do it in tournament. Then in between overs somebody told me, only 28 runs required in 2 overs, i was like …..what we can actually win it… then the voice said not 28 but 38….. i was like oh my god impossible.

The next 2 overs i scored 9 runs, wasted balls… That one thought had changed the game, my confidence had taken a beating, i had played so freely till then. My mind started playing all its tricks again, you cant do it, you are so tired, dont strain yourself tommorow.

Then when match got over, everybody was raving about my innings but i was hurting inside. The only thought which  kept coming in my mind was “i should have given my 100%”. Two more interesting cricket stories coming up.

Wish i could play the shot.

By the way guys did you know that sachin had done the Part 1 art of living course just before his 2 magical innings in sharjah against the aussies. I am told he was spoken to for 3 minutes and he decided to do the course immediately. Wish more people were like that. Did any of you see the pummeling of England by south africa in Twenty 20, Loots bosman and Graeme Smith 173 run partnership in 13.1 overs. Can you send me the link.

JGD

What have i been upto

Played 2 games of cricket, Particpated in 3 games carnivals ( Had awesome fun), took a couple of sessions in Bawas course, been travelling more frequently to ashram :) [ mind feels so relaxed, so energized], been more involved in seva, suddenly life seems to be perfectly balanced.

Have a big smile on my face as i am typing this post.

Started group sadana in my house, feels so good to get up  at 5:00 AM, students come at 6 and we all do surya namaskars and kriya, meditate till 7:30. Then Q & A till 8. Every day we resolve to apply one course knowledge point.

oops i forgot, i recently used my mind to control minds of 40 people at a distance of say 2-20 meters. I made them do things which i wanted to, obviously for their benefit. Was fascinated by this, had no idea that the human mind could be so powerful, so beware of me . I recently became a star wars fan and hence now i can say i am a Jedi Knight. If you want to do the same, i can share with you but of course you need to be a yesplus teacher or atleast a jedi padawan or a yesplus volunteer.

At evobis front, things are looking very positive. Had a very very cute time teaching kids of ACTs school science concepts, through learning by doing approach. Took classes for 6th std, my god these kids are anything but 6th standard. The confidence, attitude the kids exude, every engineering college student must see. They walk, talk, think like they are masters of the universe. Kids were enthusiastic, eager to learn and ready to take on whatever challenge was thrown to them. Iwas suddenly reminded of the other world i live in, engineering college world. On one side i saw these amazing enthusiastic, innocent,fun loving kids and on the other hand absolutely unenthusiastic, perennially stuck in doubt and comfort; not even wanting to have fun, ignorant engineering students. Wish the students realize how much much potential they have. Wish they could see how they were a couple of years back. They have become like :

Grand pas and Grand mas would be definitely more enthusiastic than engineering college students.

Wish they could all go to school any school and just recollect how amazing they were …. If you would like to come and see when i take a session, just let me know. Drop in a mail vprasv@gmail.com or message me at 9243875871

jgd

Obama Noebl Prize not so Nobel

I am sure after seeing the below cartoons, obama would want to return the nobel prize which was bestowed upon him. :

Layers of Awareness – My kollam experience

Very very heavy post.If you are regular with sadana, seva and satsang then you will be able to relate to this or else will be full of bouncers.

For 4 years i have been doing my sadana, seva and satsang.

Say on an average of missing 100 days in a year, missing 250 days of seva, missing 40 weeks of satsang / year.

In meanwhile have managed to do 10 advanced courses, 2 dsns, 21 days of TTC. Of course after TTC i have been very regular with my sadana

What has happened to me because of the remaining days of sadana, seva and satsang is increased awareness, or the realization of how unaware i am. Also the realization has dawned to me that there exist layers of awareness, in one layer or one dimension there is one apparent truth, the moment you go deeper say another layer or dimension another truth unfolds, which completely contradicts the earlier truth or realization.

Often we wake up or suddenly realize that we have fever. Around 2 years back was studying in night, suddenly i observed there was something flowing through my spinal cord, then a twitch happened ( best way to describe it), next moment i had fever. Was fascinating to observe this.

Yesterday i was bombarded with thoughts. I could literally see the thought pulsations. It was a fascinating, scary experience.

I have had a couple of amazing fascinating experiences reminding me again and again to just follow his Holiness sri sri ravi shankars instructions and not to put my brain into it. One such experience

Gurujis instructions for shivarathiri were ( my interpretations or my version) dont sleep in the night.Its very auspicious and do Om Namah Shivaya chanting.

The questions which usually came into my mind was, i dont feel any difference, how does he know, ayyo all night i have to stay awake, what is this Om Namah Shivaya chanting;

For 3 years i used to do it half heartedly. Last year for Maha Shivarathri celebrations were held in kollam, and Guruji was going to be there in kollam. I grudgingly went there, and hmm had the most fascinating time during the days of Maha Shivarathiri. Around 20 to 30 chennai yesplus volunteers were there, we were roaming around kollam, doing some masti, gossiping eating as much junk food as possible, in whatever wrong times possible. We were staying in a room in a bungalow infested with mosquitoes. On top of all this the heat and humidity of kollam was unbearable and food with onions served in kerala ashram. On day of Maha Shivarathiri i would have expected to be dead tired, irritated, frustrated because of irregular eating, irregular sleeping, continuous gossip. On the contrary what i got was a vision of absolutely clear crysal clear mind.

Such Laser focus, such clarity i had never experienced before. Thoughts were coming in slow motion or were non existent.

It was an absolutely bliss for nearly one entire day and then the celebrations which followed were heavenly. I didnt have to close my eyes to meditate, i already was meditating.

The next shivarathri is going to be in kolkota Feb 14, i am making plans and preparing to be with my valentine

So simple instruction, truth is so simple, that you already know it, just need to keep doing sadana, seva, satsang and be greatful these layers of truth start unfolding.

Blue makes one feel blue :(

Went for the movie yesterday with lot of excitement. Halfway through it felt like catching my throat and making myself turn blue.

The entire audience am sure were in the following state within minutes of the movie

Blue makes one Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykdx-Hx5jls

The above is a review of the movie, saw it after i came back from theatre. Differ with the guy only on the following counts.

a) Rahmans score hmmmm below par

b) How come they spend 100 crore for the movie – well would like to attribute that to shooting entire film outside india, atleast 30 % of the movie would be spent on under waters.

One additional comment – First thought Bollywoood was encouraging incest relationships, and promoting it. Looking at sanjay dutt and lara dutta anybody could have mistaken it to be a Father daughter relationship . Sanjay dutt better remove his belly, put on a wig, brush his teeth, may be make some machines stretch his muscles ( i meant facial ones )

Verdict a could have been awesome movie, in turn made every one blue because of poor direction, over acting and pathetic screen play.

jgd

Prasanna

After long time :)

So much to write, so much has happened in the past 1 month.

Navarathiri celebrations in ashram, Attended student college culturals,  did very intelligent work for company, did awesome mind blowing seva, Lost my temper in class ( thanks to skipping lunch and acidity ). These were  interspersed with bouts of laziness, self blame, late night gossip,moments of  sheer awareness, wanting it even more and more.

Will write about all of this. The following post is about a realization which i had.

In Life the “simple things are the hardest to do.“

Following , a list of such simple absolutely straight forward things which one does not do. They are Not in any particular order.

a) Folding the bedsheet after getting out of bed. b) Switching of fans and lights while leaving room. c) Eating the right quality and quantity of food. Not having the extra morsel d) Washing feet and hand when we come back to our houses e) Eating ice cream when one has a running nose f) Appreciating/praising/complementing someone. g) Getting up, brushing teeth and not reading newspaper h) Not visiting that porno site i) Doing kriya infact just starting the first stage pranayam j) shaving [for me regularly] l) prefering to read newspaper, watching TV and farting instead of going to loo m) Coming back home and watching tv, changing channels aimlessly n) Rushing to office, and checking forwards 0)Doing a spell check, grammar of mail/document before you send it. p)Checking air pressure of vehicle weekly……….and on and on and on and on ……..

If you would like to add to the list, do add it as a comment. One more ” Reading an awesome blog and not commenting on it . “

I realized that postponing or not giving importance to such simple simple things really prevent us from doing the bigger things in life. Not being able to do these activities just shows how much garbage is accumulated in the mind.

I wish i had this boon, for every rational thought, the power to take an immediate rational action. Please dont even ask for the same boon without the word rational.

Eagerly waiting for your simple list of things which you dont do.

JGD

Prasanna

Prasanna bond – 007 – Part 2

You can read part 1 in the following link.

http://vprasv.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/prasanna-bond-007-part-1/

Though Part 1 was a light hearted post, it pained me to see students copy, not realizing the consequences of there actions. Well the question did i realize it when i used to do it when i was studying, nope i didnt. In fact i used to be expert at copying. The answer i used to give myself was

” dude i know its wrong, but you need to get marks now, next time improve, its after all only a class test, not the final exam “

A tinch of guilt used to pop up, “what if you get more than your friends who have studied, worked hard for this  ?”

” My amazing mind used to give me the answer ” Copy, but be just ensure you dont attempt all the questions “. In fact sometimes i have corrected the mistakes of peoples notebooks i used to copy from. Again my mind would go,

see you did a good job isnt it.

Anyways why is this such a big issue.

Reason no 1: – It makes you weak.

Have you ever seen anybody copying confidently or have you copied confidently. When you are looking into other person paper, a simple observation of your actions would show that your eyes, heads are all down.

If by mistake you get caught, the first thing you say is a lie.

whats wrong with the head going down, big deal just another lie isnt it.

It makes you weak, next time you are given a challenge in real life, you refuse to use your head, your own intelligence, fear drives you. You are mentally conditioning your mind to be weak, your intelligence to be unused.

Reason no 2 – Root cause of corruption

Corruption happens because of the attitude nobody will know, i can do it and get away with it. When the biggest of politicians, leaders do wrong things, take money its simply because they believe nobody is going to catch them. They can get away with it. There is a tremendously huge flaw in this argument. You dont feel good do you when you take a bribe or do not do your duty. So fact of the matter is that you know. When a person gets caught he or she again lies, same as the case with copying, makes them weak. Now would you like to become a leader. A weak one or a strong one.

“That which elevates one is Dharma.”

Indian spiritual knowledge is so pertinent for todays world.

Are your actions ensuring your head is held high, spirit is elevated or ….???

How you want to be is in your hands

I drew this in paint, drop in nice nice comments about it.

I have learnt this the hard way, never will i do an action that will make me put my head down. If i do it i will accept it. Never to repeat it. Am i there yet, not really but my entire life i know what i will strive for.

All this becomes so much easier when you have a Guru in your life.

Simply stunning

Hi

My room mate bhaskar, told me the following on a sunday morning.

Just couldnt resist posting it. After this will come the part II of prasanna bond – 007.

Its very difficult to find happiness inside.

Its impossible to find it elsewhere.

:)