A Trip to Vasad Ashram on 26th Jan

I am so fortunate to describe you all my experience to visit vasad ashram. i love cricket and usually i put all my study stuff aside and play cricket only on Sundays. but then our ahmedabad yes+ team decided to visit vasad ashram on sunday. As I had never visited vasad ashram before , i was forced to come there on "sunday" . i got into the bus by putting stone on my heart and trust me after such visit , my opinion was changed .




On the way to Vasad ashram



After a journey of around 3 hours(yes it took us 3 hours as our bus broke down on the express highway), we finally reached the vasad ashram . we all have had experienced peace when we opened our eyes after the first sudarshan kriya , the same feeling i had when i entered in the vasad ashram . we were directed to kitchen as we were hungry. i have never " enjoyed" such " simple food" ever before. While i was going to kitchen . a beautiful river passing by vasad ashram took my attraction . i have never seen such a beautiful cum peaceful place . at that day india was playing against westindies and i was trying to see the score through net but guruji wanted me to experience peace completely so he took out network of my mobile. We also had satsang under guruji's kutir , which was one of the pleasing experince of mine . it was full moon night and the shadow of moon covering one part of the river was delighiting to watch . i do have a habit of giving nicknames to people and places i know . i would love to give vasad ahram a nickname too , and that would be " peace palace " ....

Entire YES!+ gang at Ashram nr. river side

i hope you all would have visited "peace palace" and if not then do not miss the chance even on " sundays"... jai gurudev .....( The above experience was shared by RAUNAK PANDEY, 1 of our YES!+ volunteer from Ahmedabad)

YES!+ ~ With Bawa & Dinesh ~ in the presence of H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

About the workshop:

This one's our flagship course! It's a one of a kind, life skill workshop which provides tools youth long for!


What's in it for you? Through this fantastically engaging workshop, you can skillfully break through personal barriers, unhealthy habits, or inhibitions that might have otherwise held you back. Being a fun inspirational leader, kicking out stage fear, ability to flush out stress whether from family, fr...iends, education or your job! These are just the by products of doing YES!+. And all this in just 5 days!

So after you are polished, you naturally get inspired to contribute to society through your careers and service.

Of course the brownie point is that you will sport a happy shiny face and take your buddies by a surprise!

About the Teachers:

Mr. Khurshed Batliwala (fondly called as Bawa) and Mr. Dinesh Ghodke (fondly called as Dinesh bhaiya) are the Directors of WAYE (The World Alliance of Youth Empowerment). They both are an alumni of IIT Mumbai and, are two of the most incredible Senior Teachers we have in the Foundation. They teach thousands of people all over the world. And, they do it in a style of their own. Fun, down-to-earth, and wise, they are brilliant leaders! 

 
Highlight of the course:
All the participants get to attend a session with the Founder, H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Dates

30th october to 3rd november

 Timings

8:00 am to 12:00 pm

A Day with Virat Bhaiya

I got a sms saying that Virat bhaiya, a yesplus teacher is coming from Mumbai for a 1 day visit to Ahmedabad and there is a YES!+ meeting with him. I had no idea who this Virat bhaiya is and why he wanted to meet Ahmedabad team. In fact I didn’t knew why Ahmedabad team arranged a meeting with him. Since the meeting was in evening 7 pm, I decided to attend it thinking that anyways at home I would watch TV or gossip with friends on phone, compared to which a YES!+ meeting was much much happening.

It’s not that we do not gossip at YES!+, we definitely do. But its is little different. Go in Sanskrit has four meanings, out of which 1 meaning is knowledge. So we people at YES!+ do have a SIP of knowledge(GO SIP).

I reached at SSRVM, where the meeting was held, There were some more volunteers along with me and some YES!+ teachers discussing about the Guruji special YES!+ course. We got a message from Gaurav bhaiya(who was with Virat bhaiya) that they wil be late by half n hour. We did our favourite timepass till then, chanting OM NAMAH SHIVAY. By the time we finished chanting and settled down, Virat bhaiya came along with Gaurav bhaiya.

Virat Bhaiya

Virat bhaiya introduced himself and we all also introduced ourselves to Virat bhaiya. His introduction was impressive.Highly qualified(in art of living as well as in prosfssional life too), He is a soft skill trainer, Personality development trainer, Yes!+ teacher and much much more. He shared his experience of Mumbai YES!+ team and his experience with Bawa. It was awesome. 

He also gave tips on intro talks, enrolments, marketing strategies, and many other things. It was fantastic to hear him. I wonder how mumbaiyya teachers are so skilful .Our Bawa and Dinesh are also from Mumbai. We got many important things to learn from him. ‘Aur bohot kuch chamka bhi’. We had a nice 2 hours session with him. We were suppose to finish the session by 9:00 pm, but it went upto 9:45 pm. Finally we all went home carrying lots of sattva with us.

Knowledge session with Virat Bhaiya

Next day morning around 8:00 am, some of YES!+ volunteers and teachers took Virat Bhaiya to Akshardham temple at Gandhinagar. We had great time. Visiting temple (or any pilgrimage place) in morning is just amazing experience, especially when you have done your Kriya and Sahaj. After that we left for Gandhi ashram at Ahmedabad. For the people who don’t know, Gandhiji use to Meditate daily and use to do Satsang daily. We all too Meditated at Gandhi ashram. It was wonderful experience. By 11:00 am, when half of the city just started its day, Our day was rising with so much enthusiasm. Finally we all had to go to our respected work. Of course Virat Bhaiya also had work in Ahmedabad and soon he left. Some of us met him in evening at some seminar.

The entire experience was super enjoyable with Virat bhaiya. All volunteers and teachers enjoyed a lot. We hope to see him again soon.(The above experience was shared by Ronak pala)

 Jai Gurudev  

Beautiful Bhajan...

Longing and Creativity

Is there a connection between the feeling of longing and creativity? Can a sense of longing affect the level of creativity in a person?

This was the question that was bothering me since the day when unable to sleep, I got up and wrote a bhajan at 3 in the morning! In meager 15 minutes time! To find out the answer, I read up (a little) on what Guruji has to say about ‘longing’ and ‘creativity’ and also consulted my YES!+ teacher. Reading one of Guruji’s quotes sent by this teacher and connecting to something that G had said in one of the Geeta Paths, I came up with a simple, child like understanding of the whole thing.

So here are the two of Guruji’s quotes that I connected-

“Longing- the pain of separation- increases love in you and that increases prayerfulness in you”

                                                           

                                                and

Something that comes out of the heart, is Geeta (probably not exactly in Guruji’s words)

Hence I reached to the conclusion that- longing ness increased prayerfulness and love in me- when I called out to Guruji with this love, the words that came out took the form of a song!

I don’t know if I’ ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but it doesn’t matter as I’m happy!

(Guruji please correct me if I’m wrong ;))

As for the bhajan I wrote, read and sing along!

Nand ke lala

Masti ka tu pyala

Teri shararto se 

Bana sabka tu pyara

Tarsa na ab aur

Aaja Gopala, Aaja Gopala

Aaja Gopala, Aaja Gopala....

Karna ho karna

Radha ke mann mohna

Mor mukut dhare tu

Lage hai sohna

Tarsa na abb ajaa- ajaa

Radhe krishna , ajaa ajaa radhe krishna

Hey Murli wale

Shyam rang nirale

Aas bhare naino se

Tujhe thaku na nihare

Tote sa mann mera rate

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

krishna radhe radhe

(The above experience and Bhajan was shared by YES!+ volunteer Manisha Yadav).

Guruji's fantastic video

Could not resist to upload this video, Amazing video of Guruji...!!!!enjoy

Name of video: SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR- A VOICE FOR PEACE AND HUMAN VALUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRNMCLTPdno&feature=player_embedded#!

A poem by Mother Teresa( on her 100th Birthday)

Do it anyways

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are successful u will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today, prople will forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and never it may be enough; Give the world the best you have got…anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and god; it never was between you and them anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuU36AOnfFE

Get Motivated

If fate means you to lose, give it a good fight anyhow....!!!!