I had gone to Trichi for a conference and realized that i had no reservations on the train to get back to Bangalore… Bawa was adamant that i not travel unreserved and ordered me to fly back the next day…
Turned out to be the 4:00 am flight from Trichi to Bangalore via Chennai. [...]

He is at Bad Antogast, the German Ashram. You are not exactly there
But we have this thing called the internet…
A free Live webcast from the German Ashram: The New Year’s Eve celebrations with Guruji has been organised…
oneworld.artofliving.eu
Time: UTC 19:00, CET 20:00, IST: 00:30 onwards
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa (n dinesh)

Dinesh had written out a very cool story about his trip to Trichi last year … winter break time and somehow, it never made it to the blog… Here it is

Around the same time last year, I went to Triruchirapalli (say it 5 times in a row, its quite a tongue [...]

… made by Guruji in the last few days:
Your yes and no are based only on your perspective of the situation that moment. Wisdom is that which gives you a universal perspective. A good teacher is one who can see other people’s perspectives.
If you think you are bad, you will behave badly. If you think [...]

Guruji has left the Bangalore Ashram for His Maharashtra tour, from where He will be going on to Germany for Christmas and New Year. The TTC is over, we have 795 more teachers! The Winter Break starts in a few days, preps for it going full swing… we have a busy life
Dad celebrated [...]

Baljinder sent me this one, it was too good … for your reading pleasure, complete and unabridged!
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
By a Second Grade Teacher
I’ve been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade [...]

… i wake up and there was no one there. No one. Just a few birds hopped about. Everyone had gone off to the Bhoomi Pooja. I had woken up late (it was 6:45 am … and that was late!).
So lets practice a bit of Knowledge i thought… Accept situations as they are, and take [...]

Q. Guruji, You had asked us earlier that we should innovate, but whenever we do that there is a high risk/rate of failure… How do we avoid or minimize this?
I was thinking maybe Guruji will say all failures are stepping stones to success, that a failure just means that this is not the way to [...]