Art Of Living: The Ultimate Journey



My beautiful journey of Art of Living[AOL] started one and a half years back.

“We are what our thoughts are. We reflect our thoughts. We are like a mirror reflecting our thoughts.” My mirror was covered with so much dust, dirt, spider webs and what not?  It was not even reflecting anything. What else do you expect when you keep the mirror in a place unattended for years together?

The Art Of Living course[Course I] which was designed by the founder of AOL, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a blessing by itself. Sudarshan kriya was thought as a part of the course.  Sudarshan kriya was like a duster to remove the spider webs and a cloth to dust off my mirror. Regular practice scrubbed off even more dust off the mirror.

To top it, there is Art of Meditation which is like a bucket of water to clean the mirror, Now my mirror was free of spider webs, dirt and dust. I learnt Sahaj meditation to wash of the mirror. Its going to get dirty again because of the stress and nature of life. Hmmm.. what do I do? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has an answer to it as well. Its called KNOWLEDGE. I was given knowledge through guided video tapes, audio tapes, senior teachers and what not? The profound knowledge of how to keep away from stress and get out of stress faster acted as a protection layer for my mirror to keep it from getting dirty and away from spiders.

Oh, it’s not over, yet!!!!! To shine my mirror, I took Art of Silence[Course II]. It’s like cleaning the mirror with Windex glass cleaner and a clean cloth to shine the mirror. After two silence course in the past one and half years, my thoughts are so clear. I see myself so clearly in the mirror. There is so much clarity in my thoughts. These put me in a beautiful stage of peace, bliss and calmness.

Nothing is complete without service to the society. Art of living gives you so many opportunities to give back to the society. Let it be serving in the soup kitchen or packing breakfast for the homeless or adopting and uplifting a village or a campaign for a stress free and violent free society. A single person may not be able to change the society. But a group of people with a strong intention to change the society CAN. Persons with a vision to uplift of the society are welcomed.

By my opinion Kriya, Meditation and going into Silence not only cleanses our system but also brings out our confidence, talents, our passion to engage in seva, compassion,  understanding others better and lot more good qualities.

Okay, there are lots more to Art of living organization which I have not kept my foot into. Like the ayurvedha cooking, ayurvedha hospitals, Veda schools, Sri Sri Yoga, …. And much much more…….Art of Living is so complete in uplifting one SELF and the society. And it marches towards a “stress-free, violence-free world” which is the vision of the founder, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

And my ULTIMATE Journey continues towards it.

Jai Gurudev.

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