Saturday, January 19, 2013

Katyayani temple re-opened after 22 yrs

Kakran (Kulgam), Oct 17: All Parties Migrants Coordination Committee (APMCC) reopened the historical Mata Katyayani temple after 22 years here in south Kashmir on Wednesday.
 A spokesman of the APMCC in a statement here said Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, MLA Kulgam  M Y Tarigami, , BJP National Spokesperson Minakshi Lekhi and Shyama Sondi attended the Puran Ahutiand Murti Sthapna.
 “The temple which was completely damaged was reconstructed by APMCC with the two Murtis being installed which were gifted by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who was expected to visit the shrine but could not attend the function   due to his preoccupation,” he said. “Shyama Sondi a close aide of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar represented the Art of Living Organization and attended the Puran Ahuti and Murti Sthapna.”
 Speaking on the occasion APMCC Chairman Vinod Pandit said the reconstruction programme was initiated on war footing so that the pristine glory of the temple is restored before the onset of winter.
 He said that APMCC was committed to reopen and reconstruct all the damaged temples of the Kashmir Valley adding next year APMCC would start the historical Mahadev Yatra in Srinagar.
 The idols of Mata Sheranwali, LordGanesha were installed while the temple of Lord Shiva and MataKatyayani were refurbished and a yagay shalla reconstructed.
 The Havan started on October 16 and culminated on October 17 after installation of the idols.
 Prominent among those who attended the function included Capt Narayan Singh, the person who had originally constructed the new temple three decades back, King C Bharati, senior journalist, Chairman RK Bharati Foundation, & KTT, Swami Kumar, Swami Nityanand from Gujrat, Yoginder Singh, Sandeep Bhat, APMCC Kashmir In charge, Chand Ji Bhat,Ashok Singh, Mahinder Singh, Sohan Singh, Vinay Koul, Bita Gosain, JL Pandita and Shashi Bharati.

Practice yoga to stay calm

Here is an excerpt from artofliving.com where they explain how yoga can help you stay patient. 
 
When a rug is shaken just before a floor is cleaned, all the dust flies up into the air. Taking time away for some gentle yoga allows the dust to clear when one goes through any disturbing incidences. It’s a good time to soak up peace and bring the mind back to stillness. With yoga breathing techniques and some tips to calm your nerves, stay centered in the peaceful eye of the storm.
 
Practice yoga breathing techniques called pranayams
 
Yoga breathing techniques, or pranayams, build the life-force energy in the body. A simple yoga breathing exercise called Bhastrika will help you smile and laugh off tension after a fight. The ‘Bellows’ yoga breath vigorously pushes the breath up and out through the lungs, building up the oxygen in the body. The result is a more calm and clear mind. It is best to learn pranayams from a certified teacher.
 
Precautions to note: Those with coronary ailments and glaucoma should perform yoga breaths slowly and gently. If there is pain during menstruation, one can also breathe slowly. Pregnant women should avoid doing bhastrika; they can take long, deep breaths instead. Contact your local teacher to enquire about special precautions you need to take.
 
Keep a journal
 
Writing in a journal is a great way to calm the mind. Here is a place for expressing emotions, thoughts and creative ideas. Your journal will accept them all. Here is an exercise: Write what comes to your mind, freely without stopping yourself. In a journal, you can speak candidly about the issues you are facing and your experiences after yoga breathing. Write freely. You may find that a thought or idea develops itself into poetry or even a short story.
 
Find the creative muse with art or music
 
Learn a musical instrument, or play some soothing music. Paint and draw while the music plays. Listening to positive, uplifting music can instantly transform a stormy atmosphere back to sunny skies. A research study investigated the effects of different types of music on flowering plants. The flowers grew twice as large after hearing three hours of soothing jazz and classical music a day, while plants exposed to rock music grew sickly.
 
Sit and sing in a space of yoga and reverence
 
Finding a yoga community, called a satsang is a chance to surround yourself with good vibes. In a satsang, yoga practitioners gather in a group to sing spiritually uplifting songs. This could also be a gospel choir, neighborhood chorale, or a satsang at your local yoga studio. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, “Satsang is the resting place for the mind and the spirit.” The word ‘satsang’ in Sanskrit means ‘the company of the truth.’ Bringing along the person with whom you had the fight can help with mending the friendship. Locate a satsang group near you.
 
Calm the mind with yoga wisdom
 
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of The Art of Living, gives insight into why we fight. Sri Sri says, “Some feeling came into you, an unpleasant feeling, and you said, ‘This should not come, it should not come!’ ” Two unique and special human beings will often have different expectations on the same subject. When there is resistance to an idea, often we tend to want to escape the situation, or become aggressive. “When you resist, it persists,” says Sri Sri. “Just observe. See, ‘Oh!’ Go deep into it.” Dropping the resistance to a new, differing idea can avoid a fight.
 
Just remembering to accept imperfections, we can agree with ourselves to allow room for imperfections, and for the fight. 
It is allowed to happen. And everything will be okay afterwards. “Life is a movement from imperfection to perfection,” says Sri Sri. “A seed contains the tree but the seed has to cease to be a seed to become a tree. The seed is not perfect. The sapling is not perfect. So in life you can either see imperfection at every step, or you can see a movement from one perfection to another perfection.”
 
In areas frequently affected by hurricanes and cyclones, beautiful palm trees dot the coastline. Here is something I call “the swaying palm tree” exercise: Imagine yourself as a palm tree that sways in hurricane-force winds. The palm tree bends, but doesn’t break. With yoga and meditation, over time, the mind can stay as beautiful and pliable as a palm tree. So the next time a storm brews before a fight, with yoga, you’ll be able to smile through it. Things may bend, but they don’t have to break.
 
A last bit of yoga wisdom about love: “Love is not an emotion, it is our very existence,” says Sri Sri. “At any time you feel your love is shaken by some conflict, brush it aside. Be indifferent. Indifference takes you beyond the opposite of love and hate.”
 
With a little insight and yoga, we can put these wise words into practice. The next time the clouds threaten to darken before a fight, through yoga, we learn it is possible to smile through it. And that may be just enough to transform a fight into a hug. 

Saturday, December 1, 2012

How to deal with Anxiety

 Today many are anxious about how to deal with their anxiety! Here are some of the ways you can manage your anxiety:


  • Sing, dance and celebrate. The very intention to celebrate will pull you away from anxiety to a more harmonious state.
  • Think about what you can do for others rather than just about yourself. Energize yourself with some service activity.
  • Combined practice of yoga, breathing and meditation.
  • Know the impermanence of the world.
  • Having faith and surrendering to the Divine and knowing that there is a supreme power who loves you. The supreme power is behind you and accepts you totally. The sense of security comes with the sense of belongingness.
  • Valour/courage: Invoking the lion within you and having an attitude of sacrifice will rescue you from anxiety.
  • Reminding yourself that you are committed to a greater goal will keep the anxiety away.
  • Being unpredictable for a while. Anxiety is always related to some anticipated action. Do something completely irrelevant and unpredictable.
  • Readiness to face the worst will leave you with stability in the mind.
  • Remembering a similar situation in the past when you were able to overcome your anxiety.

Chanakya: If none of theses work just come and be in the presence of the Master. (laughter)

Ayurvedic Immunization Progrmme for Kids this december

SRI SRI SUVARNAPRASHANAM
(A special Ayurvedic Immunization Progrmme for Kids)

What is it ?
Suvarnaprashanam is one of the comprehensive immunizer mentioned in Ayurveda. It is a safe Ayurvedic combination which is beneficial for normal growth and development of children.

What are ingradients ?
It is prepared with pure gold in its bio-available form and other Ayuvedic Immunomodulators and brain tonics.

Who should take it ?
Children (Birth to 10 years)

What are benefits ?

-  Increases immunity
-  Increase intelligence
-  Helps to maintain health by preventing common recurrent infections, asthma and other allergic conditions
-  Reduces temper tantrums, attention deficits, bedwetting and other Neuro psychosomatic problems
-  Improve speech, hearing and visual acuity
-  Improves digestion and tones up skin colour

When to be given ?
Pushya Nakshatra of Every month to impart greater efficacy.

Coming dates :

  03-12-2012 Monday
  30-12-2012 Sunday
  27-01-2013 Sunday
  23-02-2013  Saturday
  22-03-2013  Friday

Any side effect ?
No side effects have been noted so far.

General Information :

To monitor monthly progress, a card will be maintained for every kid who is undergoing immunization.

Contribution :
Rs. 225/- per month which includes Immunization drop and follow up powder

Where can one take (in Hyderabad) ?

1.      Sri Sri Ayurveda Wellness Centre, St. No 8 (Adj. LG service Centre), Habshiguda

Ph: 8121460231, 9441188206  (Dr. Prachi)

2.      AOL-L.B. Nagar Centre, Flat Bo. 82, 4th Road, Chandrapuri Colony, L.B. Nagar

Ph: 24110024, 9441205054 (B.P. Murthy)

Healthy Child – Happy Family – Strong Nation

gurupunch 29dec

Learn to make people your own. They already belong to you. They come from the same soil and breathe the same air which you expel. You are connected - so much connected. ~ Sri Sri

wisdom from guruji

Q. There is insecurity at the workplace and a lot of tension about office
assignments. Even when I am at the satsang, I am thinking about office. Why
is it so?
Sri Sri: Ok, tell me have you been stressed before- were you stressed last
year? You have lived through it, you didn’t die! Look back at your life- so
many times you have gone through stress. Remember all that you have gone
through and this will seem small in comparison. Have a look at yourself,
you will understand that you have experienced this before. Don’t fear.

Q. In the Ashtavakra Geeta (an ancient scripture which documents the
dialogue between Sage Ashtavakra and King Janaka), Sage Ashtavakra gives a
lot of knowledge to Janaka but doesn’t clearly answer his question about
what is real and unreal. Please explain.
Sri Sri : There are some questions that cannot be answered in words.
Ashtavakra answered Janaka in silence.

Q. I am not in control of my mind. I am afraid becoming a teacher is
taking me away from naturalness, humbleness. What should I do?
Sri Sri: That is a prayer more than a question. Prayers will always be
answered but not in words.

Q. Despite awareness I am not being able to do whats right because I lack
will power. What must I do?
Sri Sri: If you think I have no will power, you will never have it. You
have locked your own hands, put a label on your forehead that you are weak.
Invoke the valour in you, take a pledge. You have all the force available
for you when you need it. You have all the strength and energy.
If someone were to tell you that if you do pranayama for thirty days you
would get one million dollars. You will not miss a single day. You may
forego sleep, food but not the pranayama. Greed can bring in that power
within. Similarly fear- if someone says you would fall sick if you don't do
pranayama, you would not miss it.
Love, fear, greed- any one is good to increase will power.
To know intellectually what is good and should be done, you may take it
easily and remain in your comfort zone.
Then will power goes down. So enhance your valour or love something with
all your heart. Dedication to the cause, fear or greed- these can increase
your will power.
Egoistic people are much better than other people because egoistic people
have a sense of valour. It is easy to make them commit, get out of lethargy.
People with no ego have lot of love, surrender, its easy for them. Someone
who has neither ego, nor valour, nor love, nor devotion, nor greed has no
will power. Either become greedy or fearful. But these are very low
category. Other one is enhance the love, surrender, true knowledge and
enhance your valour.

Q. What is it about praise that even if it is false it makes us elated and
happy and criticism even if real, pulls us down? Is it vanity?
Sri Sri: This much realisation, you are already out of it!

Q When I get angry, I feel lot of energy and burnt inside. If I let it out
I loose complete balance. What can I do?
Sri Sri: Do bhastrika that time.

Q. When I am in silence or otherwise, a voice in my head keeps talking. The
more I ignore it, the more it stays. Is it a normal phenomena?
Sri Sri: Talk to your teacher and ayurveda doctor. If too much words going
in the head, there is pitta imbalance, vata derangement. When there is too
much impurity in the system then such things happen. You can go for
panchkarma

Q. What is character?
Sri Sri: Character is that which you expect from others - faithful, loyal,
integrated. Do you want others to keep their word? How do you feel if they
don't? Character is that, 'do not do unto others what you would not want
others to do unto you'. Character is that which is solid, strong, stable
and makes you and other happy.

Q. I have feelings of absolute isolation and find myself alone among
friends. There is no feeling of belongingness.
Sri Sri : Do not sit and worry about feelings. They keep changing. Who
cares? Why bother? One minute you feel very good, the other moment you feel
bad. Put your life energy into some useful, social work, commitment, some
direction. Bring some result in the world. You may suddenly feel good,
suddenly very bad. The world doesn't care for your feelings nor does God.
The Nature, world will ask you what have you done?

Q. There are problems in my life, to which I know the solution. How to
apply that knowledge with a smile?
Sri Sri: Keep immersing in knowledge, you don't have to apply it, it
applies itself. Remind yourself of the knowledge. Focus on the knowlede,
don't get entangled in the people around you. Satsang is to be in touch
with the inner being. Instead you start judging, having different types of
interaction with people, this is not satsang.

Q. Why are there so many hurdles at every stage on the spiritual path.
Sri Sri: No, No. No its not hurdles, it is making your path more
interesting. Its like flowing water, little pebbles create beautiful sound
and sight, making it all the more beautiful. There are no obstacles in this
path, just a fun in the path. Move over it, don't get stuck.

Q. What is the difference between knowledge and love? Should I be a Gyani(
Wise) or Premi(Lover)
Sri Sri: What is the difference between head and the heart? Should a person
be heady or hearty? Do you watch television or listen to it first. Mind and
heart both together make a human being. Mind looks for new, fresh and
latest. Heart wants old- Preet Puraani (Ancient love). Life is a
combination of the two. Science and knowledge, love and devotion- all are
required. And you have all of these. Now you are asking as a
jigyasu(curious for knowledge). You have love that is why you are accepting
the answer. If there was no love for knowledge you wouldn't ask or won't
accept the answer. These are like four legs of a chair- pull one and all
three come along. Similary, Yog, Karma, Gyan, Bhakti, Dhyan - all are legs
of a table.
When Arjuna was confused, he asked Krishna “sometimes you praise the path
of Karma, sometimes gyan, sometimes bhakti- tell me one I am confused.”
Krishna says those who are unwise think of the paths as different, the wise
know it is One. Just practice one, others come along. If you do
seva(service) very well, you get the same merit as from dhyaan(meditation)
or gyaan(knowledge)

Q. How can one balance between, household duties, business and seva(service)
Sri Sri: How do you balance a bike? When you fall more to the left you bend
right and when you are falling more to the right, you bend left.There is no
theory, you just do it. It automatically balances. It pinches one if he
doesn't do seva at all and is always bothered about himself. If you are in
your senses it will pinch you otherwise one is not human. If you are not
touched by others' misery then you are not human but stone. Similarly, if
one is only into social service, then also it bothers.

Q. It is said that everyone's future is already decided. It is planned by
the Divine. If this is true, then what is the need of Karma(action)
Sri Sri: Everything is happening, your karma too is happening, what is the
need of an answer. Suppose I don't give an answer. When you are hungry,
what is the need of Karma, sit, let it happen. Everyday hunger comes up ,
so whats the point! Sit quietly. Can you? This is useless brooding. Man
cannot live without work- either a good deed or misdeed. If God doesit,
then God is suffering, where do you come in between?
If God made you steal, then God came as police - what is the complaint? God
told you to eat twenty rasgulla(a sweet), then God will have the pain and
God will come as doctor.
Where are you different from God. The understanding that everything is
God's is a very big thing. Then the mind silences and such nonsense
questions don't arise. Till then, they will arise.

Q. Guruji, you said tear is ego. In front of you- uncontrollable tears come
up. What to do?
Sri Sri: No, No, this is different tears. There are many types of tears-
like crocodile, then salty, sweet ones are of gratitude, love. Angels long
for it. It is very good- the mind is healed and purified.

Q There are dilemmas in life and I lack decision making power. What should
be done?
Sri Sri: Wherever there is duality(Dvet), there will be a dilemma .
Whenever you are in daily activities(vyavahar), there will be dilemma.
There is no choice, accept it.

Q. Can the liver, eyes be donated after death?
Sr Sri: Yes, you can donate them, there is no sin in this, neither will you
face any problem in heaven. Instead it will increase you prospects in
heaven. You can definitely donate them.

Guru punch Dt:30Dec

When you regain the memory of 'who am I?' all the meekness in you will disappear. You will walk with the highest spirits. 'Who am I?' I'm God's son or daughter. So why should I experience lack of anything? The whole world is there for me. What can time do to me? This sort of genuine bravery should arise in you. ~ Sri Sri