The days of Rajas are at an end, and the 3 days of Satva have started. Your meditations will be especially deep these 3 days… go inwards… do Yoga and chanting, do your Kriya and meditation for longer than normal… Enjoy yourself! (pun intended) Three portfolios have been given to Devi. Defense, Finance and Education [...]

Yesternight during Pooja and a swinging Satsang, Guruji started showing signs of recognizing that there are people around Him Towards the end of Satsang, He took the mike and broke His silence of 5 days saying a drawn out Jaiiii Gurudev! and smiling mischievously and beautifully… Of course all of us in the audience went [...]

Nav means nine, also means new. Ratri is night, the dark, sacred night. Night is when you rest and relax. Unwind from the hustle and bustle of the day.  So during the nine days (and nights) of Navaratri, we give ourselves rest. We meditate longer than usual, eat much lesser than normal. Do Yoga, Satsang… [...]

Back to that evening in Stavanger. Post Gaucomole, it was time for Satsang and we took the harbor route where Guruji was thrilled to see a jelly fish for the first time in the clear waters… The hall was packed by the time we reached Satsang place. After a couple of songs, taking the crowd [...]

Early next morning, we drove to Frankfurt and onto the flight for Stavanger… On the flight Guruji served us Upma and sandwiches that Urmila had packed for us… It felt so very special. And he kept asking after we were done, “aur chahiye?!” (will you have some more?!)… Reached Stavanger to a spirited welcome by [...]

Guruji truly has the knack of letting out a critical news in the most by-the-way dismissive manner. Sitting with him that evening, the topic capriciously turned to his Norway trip and he just announced non-chalantly that I should accompany him to Norway 2 days later. Now, this is not the time or place (actually never [...]

On the day (night) of Ganesh Chathurti, we are warned not to look at the moon… Mythology says that if you look at the moon on this night, then you will get blamed for something you didn’t do! So don’t look at the moon!!! This particular belief sounds quite odd… What if the rays of [...]

Last YES!+ advanced course in the ashram was a Sattvic blast! 600 young people from all over India and a sprinkling from abroad arrived at the ashram for the YES!+ advance course. The sad part was that we had to refuse a little over 200 ‘cos the ashram was stretched to capacity (acco wise) and [...]

Many charming stories about Lord Krishna are told… One of them is about His fight with the Serpent King Kaaliya. The (very) young Krishna jumps into the waters of a lake known to be inhabited by an extremely poisonous many hooded snake called Kaaliya. He emerges victorious (of course!) and is seen dancing on the [...]

Dinesh and i have been traveling like crazy for the past few days and are going to be traveling again in a few days… also at vishu’s home in bombay, there is no internet (hint hint to bombay volunteers to get that up and running) So i have not been able to write as much [...]