One of our teachers in the US got asked this question on a course: What does Sri Sri think of his picture being displayed so prominently with a candle as it if were a religious shrine? Here is my answer to it Its an Indian tradition to honour the One who has given us this [...]

Dinesh wrote a beautiful article about Seva, i edited it and made it even more beautiful ‘Love expresses itself as Seva (Selfless Service)’. ‘Its impossible to know what true love is until you have done something selfless for others’. When I did my first few Art of Living courses, I heard these lines, but never [...]

We had a fantastic few days with Guruji at Poona. Antarnaad saw 2500+ Hindustani classical singers on stage together, the world’s largest such gathering (its got into the Guinness Book) performing for over 80,000 people who had gathered in Poona’s S P College grounds to listen to them. It was a superb program, with the [...]

Winter Break 2009-10 was the best YES!+ program we have had so far. 1382 young people from many parts of India and the world had an absolute blast. We started with the Challenge of the seven levels – a super fun bonding activity on day one, masterminded by Priya Mani and Gowri Shankar with plenty [...]

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. More [...]

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 twister). Since I [...]

… 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 [...]

… 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 [...]

Q. I no longer have the blind faith I used to have for Guruji. I have many questions, which I asked my sister. She got fed up of me and asked me to ask you. So I am doing it… a. I feel Bangalore Ashram is fully like Hindu domain (with names of kutirs as [...]

When Adi Shankaracharya asked for directions to the house of Mandana Mishra, who was a highly learned scholar and ritualist, he was told the following… “You will find a home at whose gates there are a number of caged parrots discussing abstract topics like — ‘Do the Vedas have self-validity or do they depend on [...]