The course at chandigarh began with a bang and ended with a bang!!

O what a batch  of YES!+ this was!!! ...Every single participant was awesome! I remember only a few names but together they all rocked!! ...and they did it literally:-) We went to Rock garden for some cleaning on saturday!... It was nonstop fun from beginning to end with a couple tough moments for a few inbetween!
Overall am in love with the batch for their sheer innocence, fun and devotion.
I will be writing more about it in a later post. I am in the ashram on teachers refresher meet which will end on sunday night. Till then it may be very few/short posts.

Next week of fun with me begins in Patiala on YES!+ starting from 20th Aug!!.. The volunteers there are targetting 200+ new participants. The hall has a capacity of 500 people. So you still have a chance to fit in there, even lying down, if you intend to make yourself happier by attending some/all of the sessions( if you are a repeater), and attending all if you are a first timer :-).

I clicked some fotos of the sky from the plane. Shall be posting them on the blog soon.
even some of the chandigarh course pics will also be seen on the blog soon!

till then
good night.

love
jaigurudeva!
Ramnik

ps:- its past midnight and the session in the morning is at 6am. I dont want to miss it. SO now you also goto sleep! new people - if you are reading the blog, do post in your comments!

YES!+ in Chandigarh has a rocking start !!!

The YES!+ in chandigarh began yesterday with 136 new participants and about 25 volunteers-cum-repeaters! Superb teamwork and perfection-at-work were visible from all the arrangements that had been taken care by all the volunteers !! :-) . The course organising was LED by a team of new-to-organising set of vounteers. They did everything on their own with inputs and help from the oldies!!

From decorating the hall to welcoming the participants everything had a classs to it!

I will be posting more on the course tomorrow!

love

jaigurudeva!

Ramnik

The Article in Hindustan Times !!

HT profiled me on 4th Aug on their HT city's "not just another brick in the wall" column!! Here it is for U. Enjoy reading!! They have goofed up where they have mentioned IIT delhi, it should have been IIT mumbai. I have enlarged it from its actual size for better readibility.

love
Jai Gurudeva!
Ramnik

The secret of two weeks spent at Infosys, hyderabad ! Revealed!

Technology runs in the DNA of my spirit which belongs to Guruji. Incase you didnt know this, Guruji is a B.Sc in Physics! So naturally if I meet some of my old techie friends I talk to them about stuff thats happening around and stuff they are doing. 

Nandu (aka Nand aka Nandkishore) was hanging around in the ashram alternating with hyderabad during the YES!+ TTC. From the starting of his software industry career around 2001 to 2008, he has transformed himself into a SAP trainer for the corporate biggies like Microsoft, Infosys etc. A cross-country runner maverick from IIT bombay, Nandu was one year junior to me.  He had become my fan on the kopran project I spend a few months with him in 2001. He had caught my incurable passion for loving, developing, respecting and promoting supreme quality genius intelligent software in those months. I moved on to become full time Art of Living teacher but the intent of my software heritage had been passed on, even almost unknown to me! Nandu went to the US, did some kick-ass stuff with his software skills and soon he was in heavy demand as a free lance SAP consultant.  But his greatness was that though he could do it all by himself he did it under the banner of Sumeru software.  About a year ago he returned back to india and his home town hyderabad. Now to don another role. Of an SAP trainer. He was such good a trainer, his 1st batch students gifted him a colorplus shirt at the end of the training :-) To get a gift as personal as a shirt for training someone software is RARE!

I started talking to him about SAP. ( The foto above is nandu's). He gave me a quick one hour session and I was already hooked. He was super good as a trainer. I said , "Can you come to chandigarh while am there and train me all this stuff during the day and I will have you sit in my YES+ in the evening ! :-) " . He had to check his schedule. Few trainings in india were in pipeline and then he was supposed to leave for Dusseldorf, SAP headquarters in Germany. He was not sure of the pipeline though. I said to myself , O maybe sometime later. Next year maybe. And then the next I know is he is ON for a training at Infosys hyderabad. Not only this he had invited me to be with him and attend the training. Stay taken care on the infy campus. Being on the training would mean I postpone two of my scheduled YES!+ courses. I have rarely postponed on cancelled my courses in the past. But this time I did it! Chandigarh was postponed by 2 weeks and Avinash took the Gurgaon course!

20th july I was on my 11 hours sitting Volvo bus night journey to hyderabad from bangalore:-) Since it was the last available seat on this bus it was the middle seat on the last row. My back soon started to hurt from all the jumps of the bad road. I just walked up to the driver and told him I can't sit there. He said, " ok then sit on the empty seat next to me." I graciously accepted. Atleast my back would not get any jolts. But it also meant i stayed awake the WHOLE night journey with headlights from upcoming traffic straight into your eyes! And this seat doesnt recline back! Its not meant for sleeping!.:-)

Ajit, the marketing and sales star of Sumeru training division picked me up from the bus station. His wife served one of the best idlies for breakfast after I had my bath followed by a drop to Infosys city by Ajit. The training began soon after I reached. I did no blink an eyelid of sleep till 5 pm of the training. and my left brain was ON all this while!! I know you are amazed!!. Even I am amazed !:-) 

The next 2 weeks I was in the world of a technology student! I love to learn. And if I have a great teacher to teach it to me I dont want to miss on a moment's learning! Nandu was amazing. He knew his subject so well he did not open the powerpoint presentations for almost any of the sessions. He was downright honest about stuff he did not know. And he was pointblank confident about his teaching abilities for the stuff he knew. Even as a trainer myself, I learnt a lot from him.  Now the infy guys around me had been 2 to 5 years into the industry without a break! And for me it was almost 8 years of gap! I realized it doesnt matter if you start writing code after such a huge gap, if you are good you will soon be on top! And its true for everything !! On the 4th day Nandu gave an assignment for which he gave a time period of one hour to finish. 10 minutes and 3 ( yes 3 ) lines of well thought code and I was done! The class continued to the next topic after one hour :-). You have no idea how it feels to be on top of something which was your passion, after such huge time gap! Infact this inspired me to begin with making my blog in the avtaar you see it now :-)

On friday evening 25th july I started reading about blogs, what they should be, what are the best places to make blogs, what are the pluses and minuses of different locations and styles and various other things. Finally the blog was ready for informing to the world in the next 4 sleepless , foodless, no-moving-away from-the-laptop days!!

Two weeks in the technology energy space, am now trained on SAP's programming language  and have a rollicking blog!!! The rest of the story you know!!

Another great learning that was reinforced was whatever you give to the world will come back to you many folds in future !!

love,

Jai Gurudeva!

goodnight!

Ramnik

Dooor kahin jab din dhal jaaye...!!

A sunset is the most spectacular moment of the day. The vast universe with its different colors conveys so much. It takes the spirit into a different plane. It conveys the end of yet another miniscule day on the planet! Here are a few pictures of sunset at different locations. 

First two are in the ashram at the lake  :-)... The first one gives a blue tint to the lake and the sky. The second was clicked a little later. Far away you can see the lights at the entrance of gurukul inviting you!

 

Tranquil lake at the ashram !

 

Gurukul gate inviting you!!

Sunset from train delhi to chandigarh

 

Again delhi to chandigarh from train !!

 

Yet another one !

love
Jai Gurudeva!
Ramnik.

Guruji - My first photography teacher!

It was YES!+ teachers' exclusive meet with Guruji in His kutir on 23rd July 2008. We sat there infront of him for almost the whole of afternoon :-). As ever He was at his coolest best. Sitting on his chair adorned with a beautiful peacock feather! He did not talk to us much individually but infinity was getting conveyed every moment. When bawa asked , "Guruji anything you would like to say to the team", his only message was "Take bigger courses!" Bawa later said He did not say anything because all of us together are doing a great job! 

I captured this picture of Guruji with my canon D400 DSLR with a Tamron 2.8, 17mm-50mm lens mounted on it, my only lens so far! Notice the peacock feather, the chair, Ganesha's murthi decked with flowers, bananas on the left, and his mobile !! I can go on writing about those micro moments with Him but will come back to the title topic!

As we were sitting Prashant got in fresh coconuts from our organic farms in the ashram. Guruji's picture above pic was when he was conversing with prashant about the size of the coconuts. As i was taking His pic, I was told to picture the coconuts as well!. I took a few shots on my own without any divine interference! But that was not to be. He started telling me who should be holding the coconuts, where the subject should be standing, where I should be standing,  about too much light or too little light, what should be the background, guiding alpa also to hold the coconut in a the way its visible properly!. Almost everthing about photography was taught to me by him in this quick lesson!... Ofcourse I was nervous - I did not want to miss out on any single instruction He was giving and I am totally new to photography. Its my first professional camera and I am just an amatuer at it.  He knows how to stretch your limits to make you shine out in every single thing you are doing!!!

I am sure I will go a long way with my photography with such a shubh mahoorata to my photography lessons :-)

btw do you notice the SHEER SIZE of the coconut!!! It HUUUUGE !! It has become this huge listening to vedic chants which are put thru a speaker system in our farms!!! Its maybe enough from one small family to drink from!... There was also another vegetable in His room which was i think a ghiya. It was 10 times the normal size. I am not exaggerating!  Just imagine what we can do to our agriculture with vedic farming !!! People, if you are into farming go get the fundaes from the ashram and apply them in your farms.

love

Jai Gurudeva!

Ramnik

ps:- Please do add your comments when you read an article. It inspires me to write more you see. I read them all, and even reply back to them at times! Also I have this top commentor of the month contest ON! You sure want to win it!

My train journey begins in 6 hours !! C U all !! Wait for the next post!!

Tonight is the last here at infosys campus at hitech city of hyderabad. Just 4 hours more in this room that became home to the making of my blog, almost non-stop from friday night 25th july to friday morning 1st Aug. I think it could have happened in the energy of a technology packed place like this only where I would have come back to my techie energy all out!.

The journey from Hyderabad to Delhi on train is 27 hours. chandigarh journey another 5-6 hours. and then local travel and wait times amount to another 5-6 hours. A total of about 40 hours! I have a couple of good books to read on the way.

But you dont worry about your daily dose of an article from me. I have already written one. It will be on the site at 4 pm on friday 1st august while am on the train! magic u see!! ..Its one of those which has Guru moments. So I know you cant wait but you dont have a choice. Just 4 pm and its there!!... btw its solar ecllipse today between 12 noon and 6 pm. Normally its best not to eat anything at this time. I would be following it on train. You might want to , too.


goodnight!
love
Jai gurudeva!
Ramnik
(Bye bye infosys. Thankyou for all the care.)

YES!+ course organizing Full swing at Chandigarh, Patiala, Jalandhar!

So there are three YES!+ lined up in three different cities for the month of August. Volunteer teams at each of the cities are organising the courses full swing! 

Chandigarh is from 6th Aug to 12th Aug. The team has touched about 100 registrations and they are targetting 300! With 5 new YES!+ teachers Tanu, Himani, Akash, Vinay and Smriti in chandigarh, the city is glowing like a sun. It has a festive mood ! This was a 100% hit ratio. 5 people from chandigarh went for the YES!+ TTC and all are back as teachers! And including me, amitesh and shruti we are now a team of 8 teachers in chandigarh!. The highest YES!+ teacher - youth population ratio anywhere in the world! Yet another record :-) I know:-) I know:-) we YES!+ers in the north have a penache for setting world records! :-).

Send your friends, their friends, neighbours and anyone who is a human being and is between the age of 18 to 30! Get involved. Contact Hrishi 9417993916 or any other YES!+ volunteer in chandigarh!

The course in Patiala is at Thapar Engineering college. This course is from 21st August. Again the team there is targetting about 200 to 300 Thaparians to have a blast of a week! There are many volunteers to contact .Few of them you may contact are deepak 9876827979, Vidit 987692171, Ankur 9988297670, Aman 9872694212, Mayank 9915105094, Deven 9463680850, Madhav 9316802960 or Neha 9463680590. 

Jalandhar team is super solid and liquid one which organised the biggest ever Art of Living course in the world, Utsav-Act 1, in the month of April with 2500 people on it!. They will be organising a course at NIT, Jalandhar. The team has already met the director and the course in on 28th Aug.  Contact Dr. Jasminder at 9815510937, or Vicky and Saloni at 9872834134.

Ok guys now listen :-)

Its always a blessing to be able to get involved in organising a course. Not only a BIG blessing its sheer FUN and loads of learning. You come out as a leader in the society in the true sense. apart from all this its our world, our country and cities. You know it very well that getting someone to the course is the best thing you can do for that person in this life!

So what are you waiting for!..Get Set GO! 

C U in chandigarh on 3rd Aug. Will be boarding AP Express form Hyderabad tomorrow morning. Travelling sleeper class!:-) Its has fresh air and is cheaper!

Lots of love

Jai Gurudeva!

Ramnik

ps:- Do post your comments. I write for you and when I read your comments it inspires me to write more. :-) if you are one of the highest commentors your name comes in the top commentors list! I will declare top commentor of the month for the month of Aug on 1st Sep! And please do click on some google ads. it fetches us some $$!

I created the blog banner on my own!! First time!

I am quite happy with the way my blog looks now. It has a new banner I made on my own using GIMP, a freeware Mac OS based software. It took about 3 hours of playing around with the software before the simple banner was complete!

And I have also changed the code for top commentators. 'Anonymous' author of comments will not get counted ! . So you people better post with your name. I also figured out a way to change the color scheme for the blog in an easy manner. But I am quite satisfied with this color scheme overall. Also I have added an RSS feed from another blog which is completely about Guruji.  My schedule is also on the blog. Check it out!...

 
Did you check out the tabs below the banner. I added them today!. They take you to different categories of my articles or different websites based on what you click.

In a couple of days I shall be informing everyone about my blog. Till then I will spend more time setting it up.  I want a way to have more of my students and their stories too on the blog. Any suggestions are most welcome.

Its 2:15 in the night. Way past the time to goto sleep.Am very very hungry. Have been sitting on the blog making since 5 pm today. even missed my dinner. When I am on a computer I dont know where time flies. just my back hurts.!  There is nothing in the hotel room to eat. I drank some hot water a while ago. Will do the same again before hitting the bed.

Good night!

Love and Jai Gurudeva!

Ramnik

Is your name in the top commentators list?

Well finally I have settled for this template. The coolest widget coding that I found and modified today was about Top commentators. So people do not post as anonymous. If you post with your name and you are the top commentator on the blog your names comes right up there!

And how do you like the site visits counter. I tried quite a few colors before choosing this one for the time being. its not very flashy unlike some other colors and so does not draw undue attention.

Do keep putting your comments. And ofcourse do you like the title. If you have better suggestions comment me.

Love and Jai Gurudeva!
ramnik

Making the blog!

I am in the process of making this blog! . After a long time am able to take out free time to myself :-). Sitting here in a hotel ( its named hostel though) at Infosys Hyderabad, I have been making this site since yesyerday morning!... Do visit everyday!

love and jaigurudeva!
ramnik

About this blog

I had been wanting to figure out a way to be in touch with my students in the best possible way. Email is just plain text. smses are too short and painful to type. phone calls hurt my ears and pockets in a big way! My website and blogging I figured is the most creative and in thing to stay connected:-). And hence this blog. I will be sharing most of my life’s happenings, viewpoints and stuff around me on this site. So keep reading it.

And do care to post your compliments/comments. It my blog but its 4 U, just U !!

love
Jai Gurudeva!
Ramnik

My First steps into teaching

I first taught my own classmates way back in 1990 when I was in class 10. I taught a few classes on english and geography. All I remember is I had loved it. Maybe teaching was in the genes. My mom used to teach in a school (or was it a college) before she got married and moved from chandigarh to muktsar. Relatives and neighbours sometimes used to come and learn music from my father.

The first time I taught an Art of Living course I still remember the dimension it had opened in me. I had taught a navchetna shibir to the mess workers of IIT. Pragati aunti had organised it. Right into and after the session I felt an immense coolness in the eyes. A very soothing feeling. As I reached back Andheri ashram Bawa took me into a room and was very curious to know how it was for me. He is the one who made me into a great teacher that I am. Seven years since then, teaching has become my life. From teaching my first part-1 courses in Belgaum in 2002 to YES!+ since 2006, life has shaped and refined every day as a teacher. I remember telling Guruji once, “Guruji aur kuch nahi karna hei bas teaching karna hei.” ( I dont want to do anything else, only teaching).

I am lucky to be teaching. And super lucky to be teaching Art of Living. I teach with my heart and soul. My students learn with their heart and soul. I have had some of the most amazing youth as my students in the last two years of teaching YES!+. As the first YES!+ teachers training begins from 23rd June, its a very fulfilling feeling to have 8 of my students on it. Once they become teachers, much more can be done for the youth.

love & Jai Gurudeva!Publish Post

Ok so why this life for the planet...?

As such this life clearly is mine. its free, its youthful and its wise. But the need of the hour or should I say century is that we revive spirituality on the planet. In this day and age where more emphasis is given to an iron piece stuck on the front middle of ones car and caring about the environment has become a social fad, LIFE inside needs a complete overhaul! We need to know thy neighbour from scratch before God, if he chooses to say it again, says “love thy neighbour”. Athiti devo bhava (Guest is God) will take much longer but we certainly need to get rid of the “Beware of dog” signs on the house doors. A reverse gear from dog-inside to god-outside is needed. But in between there is an intermediate step. Thats “God inside”. And this, the planet seems to be forgetting in its hurry to reach nowhere. Well I was super duper lucky to do Art of Living course way back in 1992. Bawa was my signboard, binoculars, reading glasses, eyes and ears in my search for immense, unconditional love in life. (more on bawa will come in seperate writeups). Guruji had entered this life. Rather His entry made it a life!

Obvious choice, which is a non choice if you are a little intelligent, is to do what Guruji is doing. Knitting the world into one big family. There are a few things Guruji said today in the satsang. He said, “we ( india) got our independence because all the youth including pitaji ( Guruji’s father) jumped into the freedom movement dropping their careers and studies.” I take it this way. its a reminder for us to do something similar to be able to revive the human values, and establish dharma on the planet. we, the youth, need to begin with our country.

When someone asked him what Shiva and parvati must be doing and thinking in this current age, He said, “ They are thinking about the planet, and the foolish people on it”. Again to me this means a lot needs to happen for this planet before its back to its acceptable form/shape for Gods! Anyways Guruji is doing it all. But it would be sheer lazy not to join in!

There was another botheration by someone that he has not done anything worth being proud of this lifetime. Guruji replied “you have already done it. you have come here.” He said if we wait for something big to happen in our life before we start smiling, then we might take too long or it may never happen. A three month old child cannot even take care of itself and still is smiles all the time. what would you say to that. he said, “we need to be humble, simple and natural.”

If anyone who cares about himelf and hence his planet, is to ponder on these three answers, a simple conclusion is - just get involved in the seva activities full speed. do ensure you have good control on the steering and brakes though !! Your life for the planet is the best thing you can do with it, unless Guruji asks you to do something else!

love, JaiGurudeva!

About Me: A life of my choice !

Hi!!!! :-)

So you want to know about me! 

I live a life focused on spreading the knowledge of Gurudev! I am blessed an lucky to be one of his teachers. It involves quite a lot of travel! I live out of a suitcase. Since I am teaching YES!+, a longer duration course, it means getting to eat dinner after 10 pm almost every week there is a course to teach. Last seven weeks had six of them packed with courses back to back. Teaching courses involves meeting new youth almost every week. It also involves mentoring youth on a long term basis empowering them to shoulder bigger responsibilities, and eventually becoming teachers. I get back to Bangalore ashram almost every few months to rejuvenate myself. Overall, a very very fulfilling life.

Prior to being a full time Art of Living teacher, I was a software professional. I worked for iFlex ( used to be called CITIL in those days) and i2 technologies totaling about 5 years. Infact also spent about an year as an entrepreneur. I had started a software consulting firm named Shakti technologies based out of chennai. I love algorithms, writing code, designing softwares. I still do! And am a genius at it! Just that I don’t have time for it now. Indian economy and stock markets also interest me equally. I did electrical engineering from IIT bombay and also an MBA in software enterprise management with a lot of courses in finance from IIM bangalore. I had a great time both at IIT and at IIM :-). IIT was home for 4 long years which flew by very quickly. I still miss IIT.

Being a teacher has made me more humane, caring and wise. At the same time it has also taken me back into childhood - total spontaneity and a feeling of freedom & joy thats stays ON!


Here's a link to my profile

Love & Jai Gurudeva!!

Ramnik

ps: Please do leave your comments on the blog. Reading them is an inspiration for me to write more :-)

A pilgrimage to Kasauli

This unforgettable picnic was decided on the last day of chandigarh Yes!+ at DAV sector 10. Paras offered to host us at manish’s cottage in kasauli hills. Soon volunteers were in action :), starting from collecting money for the trip, booking the bus, informing everyone to reach on time and finally ensuring that everyone is back in time these guys did an amazing job!! Tanmay, Gaurav, Mohit were among the new course participants who ventured into volunteering for the trip!

The way this picnic went, it was not just a picnic, it was a pilgrimage. We started from MGH at about 6:20 am. starting which bhajans which later moved to hindi songs! Just 12 kms from kasauli the bus was stuck in a traffic jam caused by the locals! this is when fun began! we decided to walk the way! then changed our plan to do short kriya in a house amitesh had taken permission for. just as we were walking to the house I saw an ancient shiva temple!! In the next 2 minutes we were all inside the temple! This is where one of the most powerful satsangs began! midway thru the satsang , Varun picked up the dhol, sajan and a few others some other instruments. there was a time when the temple was reverberating with the sound of these divine satsang instruments!! my knee had started to feel a difference. it had begun to heal! as we finished the satsang and came out of the temple the place seemed to show some signs of progress. the rock got unblocked only to get blocked again in 5 minutes! by now we had decided to walk it all. And thats when the issue got resolved. soon we were back in our bus to kasauli!

The cottage was in an amazingly quiet place. as we stepped out of the bus it started pouring heavily. Paras later mentioned that this was the first powerful rain after a long time! He led us through the long kriya followed by lunch prepared by yuvacharyas. and then everyone danced, and danced and danced!! then it was time to move on. we had a walk on Mall road, and then went up to visit Baba Balaknath ji in His temple! He sits on peacock and is said to be kartekaye’s avataar, shiva’s son!
Again we had a rocking satsang there and were directed to have prasad. Infact we had one shiva bhajan standing outside the prasad room!:-) The person incharge of serving the food wanted us to sing more inside the temple. We were getting late and so promised to come back and sing again some other day.
The return journey was quick all the way to panchkula. thats where he bus ended up with a flat tyre !!. And we then just jumped into autorickshaws, peoples friends, relatives cars and were BACK home!! O what a great day it was!.

love
Jai Gurudeva!!

Moments in Guruji's presence int the last few weeks

I left for bombay on 19th Feb, the evening Guruji left for germany. So He was there almost the whole time at the ashram since new year with a few gaps in between. As the yes!+ team meet got over, I went to amravati, Akola, back to bombay where he arrived on 5th march after midnight.
I remember him wading thru a narrow devotees pathway to the elevator at a Ghatkopar apartment he stayed in. He was sleepy yet smiling blessing and eye-contacting almost everyone! As always!
Next morning we rushed to the train at bandra station where He was also supposed to join. But He tricked us all! He went by flight to Surat. I came on a gifted 3-tier AC seat!( I had just bought an ordinary unreserved ticket in the last hour, not just for myself but 4 other friends.Two of them travelled 1st AC on that ticket!).
Surat was my first time on Gujarati soil. Though for some vague reason some people seem to think i am from gujarat when i meet them for the fist time. Infact many sometimes say, "Gujarat mein aapse kaha mile hein?!!!". Ok... maybe some past karma. On a more practical note I think Ramnik is also a very gujju name. But then to one fellow once i had not even told my name:-).

I think I saw Him very very happy at Surat. Like he was happy to be back home or was it the superb arrangements for mahashivratri, PDS and advance course!! Everything else was great just that his place of stay was little amusing! As bawa puts it, Gujarat meets Europe and has an accident!..It was a huge mansion that took 10 years to complete. My theory is the sindhi fellow would have run out of money building it and so it took such a long time !!
At times we would stand outside and he would wave at us from the other side of the iron-rodded boundary wall seperating us from him. he would take out his hand from between the two rods and devotees would rush to touch it! O what a beautiful site that was!!
He was into special effects even pre-mahashivratri evening! Bhava (not Bawa!) came after the rudra pooja that day. And THE day was simple one in a lifetime days for me. the place full of devotees, lakhs of them maybe. Sea of people. They started dancing at the onset of bhajans and he went into a tandava for few moments. Such powerful moments those were. I too was dancing like crazy.The whole event was a beauty beyond words.
From next day PDS started. mornings and evenings. That was the time to be sleep deprived. We stayed in a house with 60 people and 3 bathrooms between us! and still everyone was comfortable and happy!! Jigish, our gujarat teacher, and his family were at their host best!
Geeta gyan sessions in the evening were very powerful. Infact in the night after first day's session when he was meeting all the teachers he asked something which meant "tum logon ke liye ye gyan heavy ho gya tha kya?!!". Last time he gave it only to arjun. this time microphone and big-screen technology makes it possible for him to deliver it to lakhs of people in one go!
As i am writing this i have started missing him. eyes have become little watery. He is in nasik now after his bombay PDS. I have to goto punjab tomorrow.So i stayed back. Will be boarding my train tomorrow. The train goes to both chandigarh and jalandhar. I would first go to jalandhar where a very small team of just 4 people is working on Utsav. They have 800 registrations. Our target is 2000 students minimum. Chandigarh should be on 18th evening or 19th morning. Ok now. Will write more later.
Jaigurudeva!!

A simple desire fulfilled instantly!

I was searching for some cool widgets for my mac. Also I wished for something that could pop up Guruji's quotes. I receive a mail from JD just on one such widget!!! :-)
instant wishfulfilling..
Incase you are a mac user here it is-
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/guru.html

What all I intend to blog...

Well...
almost everything about me and what I do. And when I say "me" it includes my students, friends, parents, and Gurudev!!
This should turn into my daily dairy. Just that when I am in the north I dont have such easy net access. Once I start using my new camera, due to arrive tonite, I shall put pics of different trips, events and courses as well!

My first Blog ever !

Yesterday Bawa banned me from using the mobile for 2 days due to excessive phone calls!

so today good old email was the only way to get in touch with friends and students. This gave rise to the idea of creating my blog for the first time and here I am!

Its fun:-). Its more like a daily dairy am sharing with the entire world! wow!

Today it was a day spent figuring out using Entourage as mac mail was not working on my macbook. Entourage looks cool, has more features but hangs and is erratic. I have moved back to Mail even before the day ends! I realised that the problem was not with Mail in the first place. It was the 55MB attachment that was not making my send mail work! Just got to know today that you cant send more than 10MB attachment with many free mail services!

I am sure there must be many who would have called, especially those who have got used to calling me almost daily;-). But am happy for my ears. They are well rested! CDMA technology seems to be more harmful to the ears! or maybe that just my perception. I use a Tata connection. 

This blogging thing seems addictive. I feeling like writing more and more! Lets see how long the fever stays!

Am eagerly waiting for my first DSLR, the Canon 400D!. It should arrive in india by 10th of this month! Ok am posting this now to see how it looks on my blog!

Hope you enjoyed my fresh free flowing unplanned friendly informal and happy style of writing! :-)