The Fine Art of Living...!!!
When was the last time we thought about ourselves...?? Not as individuals... we do that all the time... We are a set of selfish hyenas... we all are... But have we ever thought of ourselves as an amalgam of Body and Soul... About the energy that flows within... About the life that runs through all the cells, veins, nerves... I’ll tell u when... NEVER... So when a program of Art of Living was introduced on our weekly schedules... a few eyebrows rose... But then we had already faced the three demons as mentioned in my earlier blog(For those who came in late... I’m talking bout Yoga, Aerobics and Dance...)... this was another BCI... so there we were... Atleast I was... in a classroom waiting for the Artist to walkin... On a personal note I don’t like to stretch my body beyond a certain physical limit...( I am a big guy... Apparel size (X)nL size... where n >2... Boy do I love Math... Anyways)
So we were all waiting patiently for some BABA types to walk in and give us gyan bout Spirituality n stuff... Instead walks in a lean guy not more than our age... Along with his co-instructor... These were Virat and Vasudha... He did tell us a few things about the course... about quitting some of our mortal pleasures... don’t wanna specify those... for the time period of this course... Once he was done with that... the real deal began... We were first supposed to meet any and everyone in the class, shake hands and tell them... ‘ I belong to you’... Trust me... this was the most awkward moment of our lives... we felt funny, weird, surprised et all... but we did it... felt good later to own so many ppl and in returned being owned by them... Then came the second game... A simple profit and loss question... Sent the entire class into a tizzy... we were to work out a solution and... Convince each other of our solution in case they have a different opinion... Chaos... At the end we all got different answers... Needless to say... We were all wrong... But we did realise something... We always want to speak... No one wants to listen... Now u know why all the ‘good listeners’ get the hot ones... We need to listen... This was followed by a couple of more listening and sharing exercises... Then a small break... Then came the mega-event... *drum-roll*... MEDITATION... but with a difference...
We sat and did some breathing exercise... Inhale Exhale... But on a certain order... certain pattern... certain rhythm... A record was playin in the background... We were breathing according to it... 5mins passed... 10 passed... 15... 20... but a strange thing was happening... Instead of getting restless... we were calm... The tranquil cannot be expressed in words... It was divine... then we lied down on the floor... Oh BTW we had our eyes closed all this time... So it was just dark... Thats when it happened... I felt Me... We felt US... it was amazing... Too good... Never was such a thing experienced before... We were feeling the energy running through... We actually felt it... The vibrations, the churning, the LIFE within... Entire session took 4hrs... Meditation being for the last 50mins odd... when we walked out of that room... we could feel the stress busted... we could feel our head light... we could feel the tension relieved... we were ready for the assignments to come... we were ready for the studies to come... we were at the next level... period.
When was the last time we thought about ourselves...?? Not as individuals... we do that all the time... We are a set of selfish hyenas... we all are... But have we ever thought of ourselves as an amalgam of Body and Soul... About the energy that flows within... About the life that runs through all the cells, veins, nerves... I’ll tell u when... NEVER... So when a program of Art of Living was introduced on our weekly schedules... a few eyebrows rose... But then we had already faced the three demons as mentioned in my earlier blog(For those who came in late... I’m talking bout Yoga, Aerobics and Dance...)... this was another BCI... so there we were... Atleast I was... in a classroom waiting for the Artist to walkin... On a personal note I don’t like to stretch my body beyond a certain physical limit...( I am a big guy... Apparel size (X)nL size... where n >2... Boy do I love Math... Anyways)
So we were all waiting patiently for some BABA types to walk in and give us gyan bout Spirituality n stuff... Instead walks in a lean guy not more than our age... Along with his co-instructor... These were Virat and Vasudha... He did tell us a few things about the course... about quitting some of our mortal pleasures... don’t wanna specify those... for the time period of this course... Once he was done with that... the real deal began... We were first supposed to meet any and everyone in the class, shake hands and tell them... ‘ I belong to you’... Trust me... this was the most awkward moment of our lives... we felt funny, weird, surprised et all... but we did it... felt good later to own so many ppl and in returned being owned by them... Then came the second game... A simple profit and loss question... Sent the entire class into a tizzy... we were to work out a solution and... Convince each other of our solution in case they have a different opinion... Chaos... At the end we all got different answers... Needless to say... We were all wrong... But we did realise something... We always want to speak... No one wants to listen... Now u know why all the ‘good listeners’ get the hot ones... We need to listen... This was followed by a couple of more listening and sharing exercises... Then a small break... Then came the mega-event... *drum-roll*... MEDITATION... but with a difference...
We sat and did some breathing exercise... Inhale Exhale... But on a certain order... certain pattern... certain rhythm... A record was playin in the background... We were breathing according to it... 5mins passed... 10 passed... 15... 20... but a strange thing was happening... Instead of getting restless... we were calm... The tranquil cannot be expressed in words... It was divine... then we lied down on the floor... Oh BTW we had our eyes closed all this time... So it was just dark... Thats when it happened... I felt Me... We felt US... it was amazing... Too good... Never was such a thing experienced before... We were feeling the energy running through... We actually felt it... The vibrations, the churning, the LIFE within... Entire session took 4hrs... Meditation being for the last 50mins odd... when we walked out of that room... we could feel the stress busted... we could feel our head light... we could feel the tension relieved... we were ready for the assignments to come... we were ready for the studies to come... we were at the next level... period.
Waiting for the next ‘Encounter of Our kind’....
Bhushan Vishwasrao
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A proud MBsite.
the last 1 hr is the best...
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