Anupama shares her experience of being in the satsang with Sadhguru in Bangalore.
" I was unable to speak for a long time and if I close my eyes, I feel a certain state that can only be described as... ecstasy."
Read her full post here: http://thechroniclesofa.blogspot.com/2010/12/sathsang.html
A milestone
Meera shares about her life one year after Inner Engineering:
"Now, I don't have a reason to get angry on anything. I don't have anger in me to share it with those around me."
Read the full post here: http://mjaishankar.blogspot.com/2010/09/milestone.html
"Now, I don't have a reason to get angry on anything. I don't have anger in me to share it with those around me."
Read the full post here: http://mjaishankar.blogspot.com/2010/09/milestone.html
The gift of grace
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev,
Sadhguru Sannidhi
Anu shares her experience witnessing the initiation of Sadhguru Sannidhi:
"Within a span of a couple of hours the place was transformed to being remarkably profound, and the energy and warmth of the place was reasonably apparent."
Read the full article here: http://anugoyal.blogspot.com/2010/12/sannadhi-gift-of-grace.html
"Within a span of a couple of hours the place was transformed to being remarkably profound, and the energy and warmth of the place was reasonably apparent."
Read the full article here: http://anugoyal.blogspot.com/2010/12/sannadhi-gift-of-grace.html
The Snake Charmer
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poem,
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev,
spirituality
An Isha meditator from Charlotte, NC shares a poem on Sadhguru:
Once, a Snake Charmer came to town,
To trample many a snakes' crown.
Some ran for cover,
Others stood in awe of this power.
Mean ones, docile ones,
Slimy ones, slippery ones,
He charmed them one and all.
They danced joyfully,
Some even bit him foolishly.
He brushed it all aside,
Never missing a beat in his breezy stride,
He charmed them one and all.
O dear snake, surrender or be caught,
With this charmer… your chances are but naught.
Once, a Snake Charmer came to town,
To trample many a snakes' crown.
Some ran for cover,
Others stood in awe of this power.
Mean ones, docile ones,
Slimy ones, slippery ones,
He charmed them one and all.
They danced joyfully,
Some even bit him foolishly.
He brushed it all aside,
Never missing a beat in his breezy stride,
He charmed them one and all.
O dear snake, surrender or be caught,
With this charmer… your chances are but naught.
Inner Engineering has catapulted her into another journey
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Inner Engineering Program,
shambhavi mahamudra
Becky shares her 2nd anniversary with Isha & Inner Engineering:
" I can also say with certainty that had it not been for this initiation, I would not have made it this long in India!"
Read the full article here: http://beckyblab.com/4-years-in-india-2-years-of-shambhavi-1-wandering-woman/1295/
" I can also say with certainty that had it not been for this initiation, I would not have made it this long in India!"
Read the full article here: http://beckyblab.com/4-years-in-india-2-years-of-shambhavi-1-wandering-woman/1295/
He stumbled on the real thing
Here's John's touching review of "Midnights with the Mystic":
It's hard to believe that something as commonplace as a book could really change one's life. Sure I've read many great books in my life from philosophy to art, from self-help to countless biographies. All of them are undeniably interesting, meaningful and insightful, but I must say they never really stick with me. Of course the reading is always enjoyable sometimes even stimulating but once it finished it's on to the next and two weeks later I could barely remember the title.
Midnights with the Mystic was totally different for me. There was an unusual sense of calm clarity that was speaking directly to me. Questions that have lingered in the back of my mind since I was a child were addressed with a such clarity that complex and overwhelming subjects like grief, death, my own divinity became profoundly simple and understandable.
It was as if for the first time I had encountered a sense of pure, unfiltered, and untainted truth that had always been there but I just wasn't aware of it. Being a die-hard skeptic, I looked at the ideas presented from every differing angle I could imagine and everything kept coming back affirmative. Maybe this really is the Truth, I thought.
Could it be that after all these years of education and personal seeking and growth, that I've now stumbled upon the real thing - truth with a capital "T", and it doesn't elude me? Could it be that it's not so far out that it's beyond me and my comprehension? Can I "get" the Truth?
I can joyfully answer "YES!" and the heaviness and scariness of uncertainty has been lifted and my life is profoundly illuminated and forever changed.
--John Donabedian
It's hard to believe that something as commonplace as a book could really change one's life. Sure I've read many great books in my life from philosophy to art, from self-help to countless biographies. All of them are undeniably interesting, meaningful and insightful, but I must say they never really stick with me. Of course the reading is always enjoyable sometimes even stimulating but once it finished it's on to the next and two weeks later I could barely remember the title.
Midnights with the Mystic was totally different for me. There was an unusual sense of calm clarity that was speaking directly to me. Questions that have lingered in the back of my mind since I was a child were addressed with a such clarity that complex and overwhelming subjects like grief, death, my own divinity became profoundly simple and understandable.
It was as if for the first time I had encountered a sense of pure, unfiltered, and untainted truth that had always been there but I just wasn't aware of it. Being a die-hard skeptic, I looked at the ideas presented from every differing angle I could imagine and everything kept coming back affirmative. Maybe this really is the Truth, I thought.
Could it be that after all these years of education and personal seeking and growth, that I've now stumbled upon the real thing - truth with a capital "T", and it doesn't elude me? Could it be that it's not so far out that it's beyond me and my comprehension? Can I "get" the Truth?
I can joyfully answer "YES!" and the heaviness and scariness of uncertainty has been lifted and my life is profoundly illuminated and forever changed.
--John Donabedian
Shambhavi
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Labels:
inner engineering,
Isha Yoga,
shambhavi mahamudra,
spirituality,
yoga
Parul, an IE participant from Delhi shares his experience of Inner Engineering.
She's called that cos' she's feminine. I liked the way its sound melted in my mouth, so well, that it fills me up even just to say it.
Shambhavi, its a way of meditation. It is offered and recieved, in a particular way, in the presence of a guru. It can't, be taught and learnt like the usual kriyas, asanas and other forms of yoga or meditation.
That's what is said, and I believe it, at the time it is offered to me, while it is also offered to 1000 odd others present with me in the stadium on 19th of Dec 2010.
Believe it or not, it has you the first time you do it. People say they experience ecstasy. It fills you up with an energy, of a kind, inexplicable by ways of communicating that you already know. That's why, its called ecstasy I guess.
My first time, it sent chills down my spine, and every bit of me froze as if I was inside a freezing water body. As if I wouldn't breathe again, or breathing itself was effort. And without any emotion and lots of pain, I cried.
I cried as I havent cried before. As I don't wish to cry again. If I had let go of myself, that last one percent, I might have shocked those sitting next to me. And then when it was done, when everyone relaxed, stood up and danced, I was still crouching to myself, frozen, empty and exhausted. Tears wouldn't stop. Shivers won't give away.
Later, a teacher explained: Shambhavi is feminine in nature. Feminine, cos it yields easily. You don't need years of practice before she yields for you. She is tender that way. And I loved the way he explained it. Shambhavi, it made sense. It made sense suddenly.
That day, they made us do it again (twice ie.) ; tears yet again, shivers yet again and a long blank, followed by a yearning to be held, consoled, drift away in slumber. Never experienced a blank like that before, like I didn't know where I am, what I am here for, not even an emotion, just cold and the pain.
-Parul Tongaria (Corp HR) BHEL
She's called that cos' she's feminine. I liked the way its sound melted in my mouth, so well, that it fills me up even just to say it.
Shambhavi, its a way of meditation. It is offered and recieved, in a particular way, in the presence of a guru. It can't, be taught and learnt like the usual kriyas, asanas and other forms of yoga or meditation.
That's what is said, and I believe it, at the time it is offered to me, while it is also offered to 1000 odd others present with me in the stadium on 19th of Dec 2010.
Believe it or not, it has you the first time you do it. People say they experience ecstasy. It fills you up with an energy, of a kind, inexplicable by ways of communicating that you already know. That's why, its called ecstasy I guess.
My first time, it sent chills down my spine, and every bit of me froze as if I was inside a freezing water body. As if I wouldn't breathe again, or breathing itself was effort. And without any emotion and lots of pain, I cried.
I cried as I havent cried before. As I don't wish to cry again. If I had let go of myself, that last one percent, I might have shocked those sitting next to me. And then when it was done, when everyone relaxed, stood up and danced, I was still crouching to myself, frozen, empty and exhausted. Tears wouldn't stop. Shivers won't give away.
Later, a teacher explained: Shambhavi is feminine in nature. Feminine, cos it yields easily. You don't need years of practice before she yields for you. She is tender that way. And I loved the way he explained it. Shambhavi, it made sense. It made sense suddenly.
That day, they made us do it again (twice ie.) ; tears yet again, shivers yet again and a long blank, followed by a yearning to be held, consoled, drift away in slumber. Never experienced a blank like that before, like I didn't know where I am, what I am here for, not even an emotion, just cold and the pain.
-Parul Tongaria (Corp HR) BHEL
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