YES!+ Ahmedabad: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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

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

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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#!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Get Motivated

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

Plus, minus and multiplication

We all have learned Multiplication when we were in Pre-primary school. Today we will learn it’s actual meaning. So innocently read it further (just like a small kid).

1. + * + = + (plus multiplied by plus is equal to plus)

2. + * - = - (plus multiplied by minus is equal to minus)

3. - * + = - (Minus multiplied by plus is equal to minus)

4. - * - = + (Minus multiplied by Minus is equal to Plus)

Ø + * + = + (plus multiplied by plus is equal to plus)

This means ‘ Jo kaarya(action) aap ko karna chahiye woh agar aap karte ho toh result positive aayega’.

Ø + * - = - (plus multiplied by minus is equal to minus)

This means ‘ Jo kaarya aap ko karna chahiye woh agar aap nahi karte ho toh result negative aayega’.

Ø - * + = - (Minus multiplied by plus is equal to minus)

This means ‘Jo kaarya aap ko nahi karna chahiye woh agar aap karte ho toh result negative aayega’.

Ø - * - = + (Minus multiplied by Minus is equal to Plus)

This means ‘Jo kaarya aap ko nahi karna chahiye woh agar aap nahi karte ho toh result positive aayega’.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

YES!+ Experience(27th july 2010)

A new crowd came on 27^th July to get empowered. They did not have much idea about what was going to be there in the course, nor did we as volunteer knew how the course will progress. But there was a difference between participants and volunteers. They were puzzled. We volunteers (Mohit, piyush, Hiren, Sneha, Divyesh and myself Ronak) had “shraddha” that things will go well. Dinesh bhaiyya says that Faith cannot replace the beautiful word “shraddha” (in Sanskrit).

First day was something like this. Participants sitting alone and not talking to others. Some looking at guruji’s photo and giving strange looks, and Some reading the instruction receipt. Some were feeling odd sitting down on the floor. Some were staring at the registration desks, trying to figure out what’s happening there. Finally their journey started, not just of the course!

With great enthusiasm, Tushar bhaiya started the course. If you want to give light to others, first you should have your own. All YES!+ teachers are full of enthusiasm. Sometimes I wonder where they get all this from! As volunteers one of our job was to organize things. When things organize, they become beautiful. Right things at right place at right time. To do so much of right you need your left logical brain to function properly. Apart from participants, even we all volunteers were also learning during the course. Actually we were learning before and after the course as well.

During the course we had many YES!+ teachers who came and shared knowledge with participants. Gaurav bhaiya, Harsha didi, Tejal didi and some other teachers came and added value to the course. On the second day, even participants were amazed seeing how breathing techniques works fantastically well.

We volunteers had fun taking yoga, suryanamaskara and Pranayam counts. We felt alert, responsible, relaxed and joyful at the same time. Making people copy you, in yoga, warm up and suryanamaskara feels great. Satsang was fantastic with manjira and dholak. We missed Sarthak’s Guitar this time. Those 60 minutes of satsang with everyone passed very fast.

Official timing of the course to get over was 2pm on 1^st august. But it went till 4pm. Participants had a glimpse of art of living family. Finally we pushed them to their home knowing that they will not go by their own. After that we had volunteers meet. There were 2 reasons. First was friendship day and second was planning for forthcoming courses. We realized that we should have such meetings regularly. When you talk about your ideas with people who have similar intentions, your ideas take shape and become implementable with the help of others. Bawa says it’s a good idea to implement a good idea. With a vision to improve, we all volunteers ended the first series of our meeting. It was perfect YES!+ meeting. With lots of fun, learning, people listening to each other and interacting. Can’t have better friendship day than this ! (The above experience was shared by YES!+ volunteer Ronak pala).

Here is the video of 27th July 2010 YES!+ Course. Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yAx_wdpeM

Jai Gurudev...