Rajadurai shares his experience of volunteering for the Wholeness Programme conducted by Sadhguru.
I got an opportunity to volunteer for Wholeness program that happened at Ashram last week. It was a seven day program with Sadhguru. My wife attended the program and I volunteered. It was an amazing experience to narrate in words.
I had attended wholeness program in Aug 2006. The volunteering experience this time was quite different. We had Sadhguru Darshan all the seven days. The program included Hatha yoga, Kriyas, Shoonya and sathsangs with Sadhguru twice a day. Swami Ullasa was the teacher. Sadhguru initiated the participants into Shoonya. Volunteers were allowed inside Spandha hall for all the evening Sathsangs. We were also allowed to participate in the Guru Pooja by Sadhguru prior to Shoonya initiation. That experience cannot be explained in words. Spandha hall was a different world with Sadhguru’s energy.
There were evening walks with Sadhguru into the forest and also to a nearby tribal village on another day.
There was also a trek to Velliangiri first hill top. While participants started climbing at 8.30 AM, we volunteers started at 6 AM carrying about 10 kgs of load each to prepare food for the participants at the hill top. We had a 1.25 hrs trek. I felt almost broken carrying the load. But it was unbelievable when I reached the hilltop in 1.25 Hrs. I still remember it took 2 Hrs when I climbed last year as a participant yet with no load. We were again carrying huge barrels of water on the hill top with an ease which I can’t even dream of doing on my routine day at home. Sadhguru works in different ways! There was a Sathsang with Sadhguru at the hill top. There he sang “Nadha Brahma”. One of the celebrity participants Sudha Ragunathan sang a classical song in praise of Shiva which brought out tears to quite a many. Our downhill walk was much more exciting. It started raining when we were at the hilltop. So the entire path became very slippery with mud and it was quite risky. It took more time to reach Ashram than our morning trek. Participants belonging to all age groups completed the trek joyfully and safely in spite of the rain.
Grandeur dinner was arranged for the participants on three evenings (twice in the lawn in front of spandha hall and once inside the dining hall). With the live music of Sounds of Isha soothing the ears, it was an ethereal atmosphere in Sadhguru’s presence.
I belonged to decoration team through the entire program. It was a nice experience to decorate Spandha hall in a different way each day and also the lawn for dinners. We had two wakeful nights too. Yet it did not feel so in our experience. We worked the next days too.
In Ashram, time does not exist. It stood still. Yet seven days went past like a small dream. The closing ceremony of the program happened on Saturday morning. Thankfully, volunteers were also allowed inside the Spandha hall. It was an emotional 2 hrs. There was a meditation and chanting towards the end of the program. When Sadhguru chanted the 3 songs (including Nagendra Haraya), we all burst into a world which was totally Sadhguru’s! No eyes were left without tears. When Sadhguru blessed each participant with a lotus flower, they played “Deva Devasya” by Pandit Jasraj. It was all tears of love. We were totally drenched in Sadhguru’s grace. Participants and volunteers began dancing in joy when they played Sounds of Isha tracks.
After lunch, the Participants parted with pain. We bought the book “Encounter the enlightened” and got it signed by Sadhguru.
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