Courage and concentration

Exercise: yes, did the warm-up and the sun salutations

Meditation: yes, Padma sadhna + sahaj+ sudarshan kriya

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For electricity which makes my life very comfortable
2. For audio, be it songs or meditations or lectures. It is just an amazing technology
3. For my smile which makes me and everyone around me happy

The gratefulness for today:

Today I am grateful for my concentration which has improved drastically since I started meditating. The time just flies away and I am totally engrossed in the job I am doing. This has effectively increase my efficiency and productivity. I am very grateful.

Also, I am very grateful for my courage. I have the courage to take the most difficult decisions required. I feel this is the only reason I have progressed so much in my life. The courage to accept that everything I know about life can in fact all be an illusion has brought me closer to my master. This is a virtue I cherish and have in abundance. Thank you!

Lots of love 🙂

 

 

Love and equanimity

Exercise: yes, did the warm up and the sun salutations

Meditation: yup, did the long sudarshan kriya at our local Art of Living center. (there’s nothing like it!)

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For the bliss I experience when I meditate.

2. For the tree who gave up its life so I can write.

3. For the game of cricket.

The gratefulness for today:

Today, I am grateful for the equanimity I experienced throughout the day. There was no sign of any stress or anxiety. My day started off great and is about to end great. Little things here and there did went wrong but I was not moved. Its amazing what being in FLOW can do to you. Just accepting the circumstances with both hands gives you the freedom to  be unaffected by them.

Also, I am grateful for my mother who loves me very very dearly. For some time now, I have been noticing small incidents and gestures, every now and then, which make me realize how loved I am. No love in the world is as selfless and unconditional as her’s.

I am grateful for all the love and joy that surrounds me! very Grateful! 🙂

Lots of love 🙂

 

 

I am taken care of :)

Exercise: NOPE! missed this one today but will continue tomorrow 🙂

Meditation: yup, did the Sudarshan Kriya + sahaj

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For all the money that comes in my life and make me more and more comfortable.

2. For my fingers. They make all my work so efficient and simple.

3. For the oxygen I breath, all day long.

The gratefulness for today:

Today, I am grateful for the feeling of being taken care of. My morning was not good but as the day progressed I realized that no matter what happen the almighty is tending to me. I expected today to be a disaster but instead it has been one of the most beautiful days in recent past. After my kriya I just left all hope and started thinking of today as a buffer between the more important yesterday and tomorrow. As I was letting go, my day started readjusting itself and I was in an awesome mood throughout the day.

Also, I think my sense of humor today was just exquisite. Both my classes were hilarious. All this is magical for me. I am very grateful for all the joy and blessings that are flowing into my life.

Its only when I forget that the master is watching over me that I feel depressed. But today I know, I am taken care of!!

Lots of love 🙂

Ask and It is given!

Exercise: warm up + 12 rounds sun salutations

Meditation: padma sadhna + sahaj + sudarshan kriya (loving it!)

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For my mother who loves me soo very dearly.

2. For my cell phone which connects me to all I want to be connected with.

3. For my patience which is one of the most important virtues for me.

The gratefulness for today:

Today I am grateful for manifestation. I had only heard that when you become hollow and empty, all your desires start manifesting themselves without your effort. Today I experienced it and it was mind boggling. Its as if the universe was noting down everything I was asking and delivering. Most importantly once I get the hang of it, I can use this to have, do or be anything I want in this world. It will be that simple!

I am very grateful that I am on the right track and prospering towards the ultimate knowledge where all sorrow ends and infinite bliss dawns. This is going to be a heck of a year!

Lots of love 🙂

Breaking the habit pattern

Exercise: light warm up + 12 rounds sun salutations

Meditation: padma sadhna + sahaj + sudarshan kriya

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For friends who seek me out even when I should be ignored, who invest more in the friendship than me

2. For dancing because there is no joy like it

3. For the smiles I see on faces I come in contact with

The gratefulness for today:

Today I am grateful for the knowledge of my habits and the courage and will power I have to break them. As my consciousness is expanding, I am finding more and more habits (or repetitive histories) that I am stuck in. The mirage of pleasure conditioned on the fulfillment of a desire arising out of habits has, time and again, left me dejected. All the running after contentment has brought nothing but inertia. The bliss that I have been chasing has only moved farther and farther away. It is only recently that I have realized this and am putting an effort to change this wiring in my brain.

Its so amazing that what I was seeking all along is rite here withing me. All I really have to do is relax and let go. Let go of the unruly cravings, the vicious ignorance and the constantly chattering mind. It is fascinating, how all my desires aim at fulfillment in spite of being the cause of the unfulfillment in the first place.

I am grateful for this knowledge which is dawning on me. I am grateful for the support and care the universe provides me. I know that no matter what, I am taken care of.

Another realization today was that everything is a step by step process. I have, like the majority, always focused only on the end result and never on the journey. It is for the first time that the journey is becoming important for me. I am grateful for the little developments that take place during my day. Breaking a habit can again become a burning desire leading to exhaustion. The anxiety, the feverishness it can create is thus the same boat, just a different name. The incredible understanding that ‘everything takes time’ is extremely important.

My life has taken a sharp turn for the good. I can’t really put into words what I truly feel inside me. Its just  a whole mixture of love, joy and gratefulness. And I wish everyone that!

Lots of love 🙂

I create!

Exercise: yup, did the warm up and the sun salutations. 🙂

Meditation: yes again, padma sadhna + sahaj + sudarshan kriya

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For the teachers I have had.

2. For MTS broadband service and their super cool advertisement.

3. For books.

The gratefulness for today:

I am most grateful today for the super awesome classes I took. Two classes, two hours each. Both of them in the best of my moods and excellent communication with my students. I am grateful for the confidence I had in the classes today. It was something else entirely. I truly felt like I owned the room I was teaching in. The students love me and I love them.

Secondly, I am very grateful for the adaptability I showed today. Mind blowing! I handled very smoothly the events which, on any other day, would have made me stressful and rebellious. I was very comfortable with myself and everything happening around me. There was a hint of grace in my day and I loved it. 🙂

Also, I am grateful to that power which is taking care of me. I know its there. I can’t see it but I feel it.

Every step I take, every decision I make,

Its there making sure I am strong and Free!

In the sky and the trees, the sun and the breeze

Its there tacking care and watching over me! 🙂

 

Lots of Love 🙂

 

A simple day for a better tommorrow

Exercise: did a light warm up followed by 12 rounds of sun salutations.

Meditation: Padma Sadhna + Sahaj + Sudarshan Kriya (If you don’t know what these are, join the next Art of Living workshop and change the world around you)

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For the internet which makes all the knowledge in the world accessible to me and lets me connect to the rest of humanity, effortlessly.

2. For my friend Mayur. He is a true best friend. He was there with me when even I was not with me. 🙂

3. For my intelligence which is very sharp and (self-praising) above average.

The gratefulness for today:

Today, I am grateful, first and foremost, for my afternoon nap which was extraordinary. I slept like a baby. Just WOW!

I am also grateful to find Teach For India. I first heard about it some time back. Although I was interested but there was too much ambition and wanting which held me back from applying. Today when I came across it again, I felt like this is what I really really want to do. I am very excited to join in the near future. Fingers crossed.

Another amazing thing today was my daily read of Yoga Vashistha. I felt like it went through me. I read it last year but was too naive to understand it. In the last year I have matured enough to comprehend what is being said. This is truly amazing. I am very grateful.

Lots of love! 🙂

 

And The Gratitude continues!

3 things I am grateful for:

1. For wordpress which allows me to keep and maintain such a beautiful blog.

2. For my awesomeness. I know its a little vague but I feel I have an innate awesomeness which projects itself at times and I am very grateful for it.

3. For the joy of teaching.

The WOWness of today

I heard it first some 7-8 years ago. I thought I understood it a couple of years ago. But the depth and vastness of the phrase ‘Live in the present moment’ baffled me. In my case it always ‘happened’. It was never the result of a conscious choice but merely a coincidence. For the first time in my life, I feel like I might be entering into the domain of people who, by choice, can live in the present moment. This is so huge that i cannot even begin to describe it. I get to be happy, NOW!

Today was awesome. In spite of a bumpy beginning, it turned out to be one of the most amazing days. All the credit goes to accepting the people and circumstances around me as they are; Being here, now, this moment! I noticed that in the past I was very much absorbed in the repetitive cycle of postponing my happiness on to the future and making it dependent on a certain outcome. My perfectionism made sure that this outcome was so high that I would rarely achieve it and thus rarely be happy. 

Having big dreams and goals is not contrary to happiness. But subjecting my happiness to the realization of these goals was the mistake I was making.  I learnt that even my chances of success and productivity, both, increase drastically when I am happy.

This is life transforming. I am very grateful that this knowledge and understanding is dawning on me. I feel like its nothing but sheer grace. I could not have done anything to deserve this precious precious wisdom.

PS: Today, I enjoyed the riverisation of the roads due to heavy rainfall like a kid. It was all a game for me. There was no sign of stress. Very grateful!

Lots of love! 🙂

My first day of gratitude!

3 things I am grateful for:

1. This knowledge that gratefulness leads a happier and more content life.

2. For being born in a religious cum spiritual family. I somehow believe that its this family’s samskaras that have led me to this amazing knowledge.

3. For my parents who have always been there for me.

Journal entry for March, 23rd, 2014

The best thing about today was the beginning itself. I continued with my practice of doing 24 rounds of surya namaskars or sun salutations daily. It has been some time now. I am grateful that I am able to keep my commitments. This is so much growth! No doubt that the salutations in themselves are a huge benefit but I am astonished at my ability to continue. It has started ‘happening’ now-a-days i.e. less and less effort is required every day to carry on. The momentum keeps me going. I’m loving it.

After the sun salutations I went on to do the extraordinary Sudarshan Kriya at our local Art of Living center. It was absolutely amazing. I experience such peace and contentment and that too, Every Single Time! The sudarshan kriya is THE only thing in the world which can get you there. It just doesn’t come by any other means. I am very grateful, very very grateful to have a guru in life. It can not be expressed, the joy, love and gratefulness I feel everyday of my life. I have received sooo much. My life now is nothing but an offering in his feet.

Also, I am grateful for the courage and determination that I found to start this blog. I am grateful for today.

Lots of love! 🙂