Dec 10
So we followed Guruji’s car as He was taken around the 1000 acre property by its owner Mr. G R K Reddy. I am sure there must have been a running commentary in Guruji’s car, we just followed from one dusty place to another with the semblance of a few buildings coming up… I had to admit though, the place other than where the construction was happening was very pretty … There were places where we would drive on a road that would have been submerged in the sea during the rains …
After about 45 minutes of some pretty pointless driving around (at least according to me), we drove for another half an hour or so, to another lovely property, full of ready made villas (Rs 1 crore and upwards) called tapovan. I was staying in the room across Guruji’s along with Vinod. It was almost 12 noon when we reached here and Guruji was of course meeting more people… I was quite hungry and went off to find food… yummy yummy yummy food, wonderfully authentic south Indian food, sambhar, rasam, rice, dahi vada, ghee, 3 or 4 different types of veggies with unpronounceable names… served on a banana leaf… i ate and ate and ate utterly oblivious to the fact that i had to goto that management institute to give a talk in the next hour…
Utterly satiated, i went back to my room and slept. Someone woke me up, i went and freshened up in a daze, somehow managed to stumble into a car and went back to sleep for the next 40 minutes as we drove through more beautiful countryside to the Great Lakes Management College. We were just in time for our talk… There were two other speakers besides me and Vinod and they talked somethings about carrier and management and other boring (at least according to me) stuff, then it was my turn…
I talked about Spirituality, meditation and some other nice stuff… If they ever send me the video i will post it and you can see for yourself… it was a pretty good talk, after which Vinod got up and talked some more and lead us all into a nice peaceful meditation… Then Guruji appeared and wowed everyone with His sheer presence and some superb answers…
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 do it, and that one should move through failure calmly and sensibly…
Guess what Guruji replied …
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
ps after that there was a very nice Satsang where this guy called “guitar” Prasanna played hard core carnatic music on an electric guitar and Guruji must have said some amazing stuff coz everyone was laughing and nodding… but i didn’t get much of it coz it was all in tamil… but there was also something that happened before that, will tell you in the next post 
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If intuition is not in proportion then failure in innovation occurs more often.
Is vinodh , the Sr teacher Vinod Menon ?
yup
hmm thank you.. Thursday posts are specially good
What could have Guruji said? hmmm Man.. its difficult!
I guess i will have to wait.. for the next post!!
bau! this is like dangling a whole bunch of grapes!! I some how knew my patience would be tested today, please post what guruji said really soon
hey baus my comments are being flagged as spam every time i post. can you look into it?
Bau…
Waiting again..
Patience is a virtue..
This is also longing..I guess..
Jaigurudev
Bau, comon be quick , cant wait 4 next few days for the next post.
You make us keep visiting this place many times a day.
JaiGurudeva.
Bawa this is not fair you build up the anxiety and then drop it like this.
what is this “carrier and management” or is it ” career and management”? purposely done it?
ya ya its carrer … umm carreer.. no carriierr … you get it dont you
Nice description of the day Bau.
Loved your answer as well..
and Bau ..Learn Tamil
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comment to be continued…(I learnt that from you
this is what guruji replied:”Failure is a part of the process. Meditation will help you to go ahead in spite of failures. Innovation without failure is possible if you are able to use your intuition perfectly. Both should act perfectly to achieve zero failure in innovation. If intuition is not in proportion then failure occurs more often”
i read his every wisdom post.its amazing n keep my energy high like your posts bawa:)our AOL family is just wonderful:)n i love u all:)
Hi Bau,
I am dearly always reading all your post for long time now.
How do you manage to keep the suspense? and why you always do this
Lots of luv
Deepak
any reason for naming the post as “Swarnabhoomi”.
name of that place is swarnabhoomi?
yes
Hmm, whats the prize for guessing exactly what guruji told. Bao want to see your Tedx talk. Post about it no.. plz…
going back to those wonderful memories.
Waiting 2 cu at ASHRAM
JGD
Sudha.P
bauuuuu…. this is cheatingggggggg
BTW is this reddy related to the mining reddy’s
This is not fair ……..Please write soon
JGD Bau!!!!
Superb post.. and I am in so much wonder that you are keeping a BIG suspense in the story and it has increased more after your second post….
I will not guess what Guruji must have said on the question.. coz I dont think I could reach HIS thoughts and will be waiting for your next post to get an answer…
you know please dont make me wait so long.. please send the next post as quickly as possible….
Love you sooooooooo much!!!!
You will never fail when Guru is on your side
Is this what Guruji said, bhaiya.
seriuosly dude.. its waaaaaay too much of suspense.. well may be Guruji spoke abt nishkama karma or something…
Lol. Its not carrier. Its career.
And please send full posts via the Feeds. There is no point coming to this slow site and then read the same post which one could very well read in his Google Feed Reader. Unless you are trying to increase the web traffic for this site(I can see the empty “advertisement here” slots on this page for quite some time).
Thanks.
JGD
I knew my last message is not going to be published.
What sadness.
Oh Cmon!
You can’t expect us to guess what Guruji replied!! 
We just can’t !! 
And I am curious, by whatever you’ve written, all you keep doing is sleeping or cribbing 
or eating 
, then how come you went and gave a talk!! 
That’s absolutely rocking Bau! 
Waiting for the next post
p.s. The word should be ‘career’ at the end of the third para from top
Jai Gurudeva
Jai Gurudeva Bau!!!
next post pleeeease … everytime you build up this suspense…
@Aditya…: I agree with you buddie..nice reply…
Excellent post Bawa..!!
really looking forward to d next post!!..
Love,
Neha
Bawa Bhaiya
JGD
Thanks for sharing ur experiences with us …keep on doing it ….Guruji must have said “the first step is not to take any decision and not to experiment at all but if you have lost that opportunity then go ahead and give ur best no matter the outcome is ” I would like to thank Adity a for sharing the link http://bawandinesh.name/gurudev-speaks/
Jai Gurudeva Bau!
:-d
Do u like K-serials? …door opens..,you the legs or shoes … you see the man upto his chest… and before you can see his face.. “To Be continued…” …
same here…
but i enjoy this too much here…
Why such cruelty Bau? Pleeeeeaaase complete the story. Can’t wait to hear the rest of it.
Also the idea of posting the video of your talk is great. Can you please post more such videos. It would be nice to see how you give talks so that we can learn and it can be a guide when we want to organize talks for people ourselves.
…..and the mystery continues yet again….nice!!
Bau….Waiting for next post…………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!………….???????????????????????????????/
Hi Bau
i thought n thought n thought…just unable to guess what Guruji would have said…Running outta patience….tell us na….
Waiting in bated breath Bau….:)
JGD
Kumar
I think, Guruji said the same.
JAI GURUDEV!!!
BAAAAWAAAA!!!!!!!!
ok, here is a deal. you post all such incidents in one shot, you can skip the next 3 ‘posting-days’. DEAL????
don’t break it up into 3-4 postings just bcos it is difficult to get content. NOT FAIR. NOT FAIR
what a devotion!!!! fantastic you are.
Whatever makes you happy my friend. Now breathe. Jai Gurudev.