More about the Thapar course

A vast majority of the students on the course were 1st year freshers! Also there were 8 students from Government Medical College and a few from other colleges. GMC students will now be pioneering YES!+ organising at their college. This would spread to other medical colleges in the state as well. This course was the first time that Thapar volunteers had a venue outside the campus. And the venue was split into two halls and two corridors for 200 people. During surya namaskars and sudarshan kriya, repeating students and volunteers used to occupy one of the corridors. And new students used to settle themselves in the other three regions in turns ! All of them were into total masti right from day one! At the same time they all were very sharp and picked up all the learnings effortlessly.  On the 5th day of the course I went to the 1st year batch hostel and we played a YES!+ game past midnight! a very typical engineering college hostel environment. The night after the course we ( I and some of the volunteers) also watched one of the episodes of Planet Earth, a set of 5 DVDs on the planet made by BBC. Planet Earth is awesome. Its a must watch. a 6-Star for sure!!! We watched it using a projector in my guest room 1 of H-hostel! You must watch it on a big screen using a powerful projector and not merely on your laptop!

Yesterday I came back to chandigarh. I will be spending the week in the city at P.U.

love

jaigurudeva!

Ramnik

Thapar is Rocking!!! Biggest YES!+ in Punjab so far!

The course at Patiala started yesterday with a total of 188 participants and 13 volunteers!! . That makes it a 200+ course!. The crowd is 95% Thapar engineering college with 8 youth from the medical college. They had a great time yesterday! They dont have a choice but to have a great time. They are all very bright and their teacher is the brilliant :-)!!!

I will post more on this course little later.

now its time to get ready for the course!

love
jaigurudeva!
ramnik

YES!+ Patiala 21st - 27th August, 2008. Group Photos

Here are group photos of the YES!+ at Patiala. Group captains please note down the image number of your picture in the sequence here. Email me the name, mobile , and email id of the group members in the sequence as they appear in the photo from left to right.

love
jaigurudeva!
Ramnik

 

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

 

Back from the Teachers refresher meet! Be a teacher!

Jai Gurudeva!!

It was a quick week at bangalore for Teachers refresher meet on the ashram. It was just half the teachers as the TRM for teachers working in the southern indian states will be held seperately. VM was paaaccckked!! This is just the beginning. Guruji had once said He wants a teacher for every postal pin code in India. Thats around 33000 teachers! Going by that we are about 5000 now and quite a few generations of teachers are yet to come. Generations seperated by when they do their TTCs!

The last TRM had Guruji's physical presence in most of the sessions. This time He was doing the job thru Swami Pragyapada! And we used to have 100 teacher TRMs just a few years ago! Given that more than 70% of India and a large part of the world is in the YES!+ age group, lots more YES!+ teachers are needed to cover the whole globe. AS of now we are just 2 generations of YES!+ teachers. The first ones are handpicked by Bawa from among Part-1 teachers. The 2nd generation is the first ever YES!+ TTC that happened on the ashram! These 100 odd teachers should be starting to teach soon. A few have already started. Every year there shall be a YES!+ TTC somewhere on the globe! Most likely Bangalore ashram ! We would like to reach a target of stationing one teacher at each institute of the world! You guys would be lucky to choose YES!+ teaching as a career option. Its going to be a big hit in the years to come. It already is! Like Infosys was a big hit even when it was just about 100 people strong. just that not many knew about it. Today with 100000 people in the company the whole world knows.

Typically you spend 2 years and lots of your parents money slogging to get into an enginnering college,  medical or an MBA college. You have to think of training yourself to be a teacher also on these lines. You should be ready to set a plan of atleast 2 years of intelligent consistent dedicated effort. Just like people take a drop for an year to slog for CAT, with no guarantees of getting in anywhere, you should be ready to take out an year if you wish to be on the fast lane to be a teacher. And then dont sit idle. Work atleast 12 hours in a day! Learn new skills, put yourself in difficult situations, be ready to experiment with your life, do unconventional things, take responsibility. Strengthen yourself in the areas you are weak at by taking up challenges.

all the best!!


lots of love
jaigurudeva!
Ramnik

The Sky of our planet from a plane!

Here are two pics of the sky on my flight from delhi to bangalore!!..when you see this you want to jump out and play on the cotton :-)...

 

The vast infinite sky merging into nothingness!

 

layers of clouds hanging in the air!

love
jaigurudeva!
Ramnik

Moments on the August course captured in my camera!

While the earlier post was fotos of different groups on the course, this one is moments captured during the course at various occasions!

  

While playing Fire in the mountain!

The gang @ Rock Garden !

Some of the volunteers!

Cleaning full swing at Rock Garden !

 The joy of dancing together !!

 

Waiting for satvik lunch !

finally the wait is over!

 

Ecstasy at display!

Dance dance dance !

Bale Bale !

Full focus! Collage making in progress...

Handling with care. The collage making continues...

Creators. One of the collages.

Fruit Chat! yumm...

Singh is Sweetheart!

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Smiles going miles !

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The last session. Experiences being penned!

Thats it for now!

I am reminded of the moments spent with you all as I finish posting these two sets of pictures. The journey ends in about 15 minutes and the train halts at Sirhind for about 3 minutes! So I rush now!

See you all!

lots of love

Jai Gurudeva!

Ramnik

ps:- All my students please enter your data at  http://yespluschd.youthunited.in

Please do it NOW!! And post your comments .  Bye!

The Freedom Batch at Chandigarh 6 Aug to 12 Aug. Some of the pics!

I am on my way from delhi to patiala! in shatabadi. There is a power plug on every seat! And with the reliance datacard catching the signal almost everywhere, i'm net connected virtually everywhere in india!:-)

So here are the pics from the course. Enjoy after a long wait !!!

Below are various groups. Its not all of them as a few groups missed out coming over and getting their foto clicked! or rather i missed out shooting them.

 

  

Above are a little more than half of the groups. If the missing groups send me their fotos I'll put them up on the blog!

The remaining pics are in the second post.

love
jaigurudeva!
Ramnik