Sports is all about breaking limitations!

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An Isha Home School Teacher shares what she experienced on the School Sports Day:
"Personally, it was during these three days, I truly understood the meaning of the cliché- “In a real game, there are only Winners”"

Read the full post here: http://iutkarsh.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/something-i-wrote-after-our-sports-day-at-isha-home-school-in-2009/

Thank you!

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Vani shares her experience after her Inner Engineering program.

"I have completed my online inner engineering program with Sadhguru. It has been an inner roller coaster ride. Certain revelations of life have greatly helped me live joyfully and peacefully. Inspired by Sadhguru's words, a poem has flown out of my heart."

TWILIGHT ON THE GANGES

It was the moment of twilight on the Ganges
When the sun was just below the horizon
I stood across the river immersed in golden darkness.

In oneness with the presence around,
An awareness awakened from deep within
To explore my belief of the horizon and go beyond the brim.

With my being full of will and might
And the yearn to cross the realm.
I embarked a little boat on the shore of the Ganges.

I rowed and rowed with faith and fervor
While the sun travelled its course.
The scenery blossomed from dawn to dusk with colors all vibrant and
new

I seemed to have travelled a long way
With the changing visions of life
But the horizon was still far from my reach and reason.

I had blinked not once all this while
Lost in the magnificence of life
But just to ensure my chosen path, for once I looked behind.

The illusions dropped all at once as I turned towards the source
My boat was moored to the earth and it never left the shore
O’ my belief had propelled only as far as the rope’s length would go.

At once I plunged into the depths of the river
Where layers of earth were deep asleep
And From the clutches of rocks down below, I jolted the anchor free.

The oars dropped
For their purpose was served
And my boat now drifted by its own nature.

It was twilight again on the Ganges
When the peripheries ceased to be
The Ganges took my boat along, all the way to the sea.

Thank you so much for all that you have given to me.

They're all shining!!

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Alison shares her Anaadhi experience:
"I am a person without problems – everything is just a situation to enjoy or manage, if necessary. That is all."

Read the full post here: http://www.alivingmystic.com/2010/10/anaadhi-this-past-summer-i-had.html

Never experienced anything like this

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Cheryle shares her experience of attending Inner Engineering Online program:

I really didn’t know what to expect. But I can
truthfully say that the class far exceeded any expectations that I
could have possibly had. I certainly didn’t expect to feel such
emotion with an online class. The love and passion was easy to feel.
Sadhguru kept my attention with every word. I laughed; I was amazed
from time to time; I had feelings of relaxation, and the wisdom of his
words made me feel powerful. But the real unexpected emotion came
during the last class. I sat there listening to his words, and seeing
in his eyes a true love of his work. As he described it in so many
words, this is not a flirtation, this is a love affair. I saw how much
he wanted us to have a joyous, blissful life, and how hard it was for
him to end the class. I began to cry, and cry and cry. It was so
amazing. I felt like I was saying good-by to an old friend. I have
never experienced anything like this.
– Cheryle

The Journey Inward

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Raj shares his experience of Inner Engineering program:
"I don’t want to call it an ending rather a start to a new dimension of life- A journey towards the inner world." 
Read the full article here: http://raj-arora.blogspot.com/2010/08/inner-engineering-journey-inward.html

He who gives

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Elgar shares his Anaadhi experience:
"
Such a Being He is---This One who gives.
To let Us ride His wave, climb on His back
Hold His hand, and sit on His Lap.
Everything He is---He gives and gives.
"
Read the complete article here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/elgar-richards/he-who-gives-for-all-the-anaadhis-who-requested-me-to-share-this-online-enjoy/430524913873

It wasn't her!

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Abinaya shares her experience of Dhyanayatra
"It felt like somebody was taking me. The experience of climbing Kedarnath was so overwhelming and the moment i reached there, i was so touched and broke down"
Read the full article here: http://ishabangalore.blogspot.com/2010/08/its-not-me-who-was-walking-and-climbing.html

Nothing could disturb him...

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Vel shares his Bhava Spandana experience:
"The experience was so beautiful... so beautiful that I started regretting for the way I was living. When life could be so beautiful, all that I was doing just seemed stupid to me."
Read the complete article here: http://ishabangalore.blogspot.com/2010/08/came-out-of-cage-bsp-sharing-by.html

The birthday Gift

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Ramsi shares her birthday gift: (Incidentally our first post about Anaadhi)
"another year just rolled off
but the realm of the timeless cares less!"
Read the full poem here: http://erramya.blogspot.com/2010/08/pre-anaadhi.html

Notre premier poste français

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Dev shares a poem on Sadhguru
"Sadhguru, mon dieu,
Votre présence est suiffit,
Je dis mille fois et plus,
Vous êtes seule parmi"
Read the complete poem and more articles here: http://devsurabheeyaduvanshi.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/sadhguru/

In the Mother's lap

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Divya shares her experiences of volunteering for Isha...
Volunteering at Isha is like crawling back into the comfort of a Mother's lap. Once I enter the space, all the hustle and bustle is forgotten. Packed away. Into the oblivion. I slowly breathe in the music, sounds, silence, glowing faces, warming smiles and the underlying sense of connectedness. Immediately, my insides feels like wet earth after the first few raindrops. Fresh and Pure. Cleansed of all that modern living can heap on me.

Then I settle down to watch the games my mind play. As I move along to the rhythm of setting things up, I see all that my mind is capable of. Or not capable of. Some moments, I helplessly play along. Few moments, I managed to stay nonchalant. One or two moments, still. Just still. Like a flash of lightning, it occurs in the tumultuous of thunderstorms. Occasionally, here and there. Near and Far.

Its been a year and a half since I attended my first introductory talk. After many such programs, I am not looking back. Not even to share my journey. Not anymore. I grab every single volunteering opportunity I could get my hands on. Like it was the last time I am fortunate enough to participate. I plan, plan and re-plan to work around my personal situations. In lunch breaks and after office hours. In the comfort of the home fire and the laptop. In the mad chaos of cosmopolitan train journeys. With a loving obsession.

Some say volunteering is a way to grow. Others say its beautiful to make it happen for others. I don't know about all that. For me, it quenches my thirst. And makes me want more. After all, what is me? What is not me?

Thanks,
Divya R

It beckons from within...

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Shibani shares a poem on 'Shoonya':
"Once what was opaque and blocked my vision,
Now many of the veils have been lifted...
I can see through now --- the Reality across!"
Read the complete article here: http://shibanimanchanda.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-darkness-of-night-i-seek-to-love-you.html

The day came

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Meera shares her thoughts about her mom doing the Inner Engineering program:
"She has been regular with her practices. And in just 2 months time, the family doctor has reduced her sugar medication to almost nil. While I wait for the day it actually becomes NIL, I am so relieved, satisfied & grateful that this has happened."
Read the complete article here: http://mjaishankar.blogspot.com/2010/06/day-has-come.html

Isha happened. Truth happened. Is happening. Constantly happening(Well you get the drift...)

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Yuri shares her experience of the Kailash-manasarovar yatra (..amongst other things!)
"Since then it’s been a true roller-coaster, a psychedelic drug, the most potent substance yet the intoxication comes with complete clarity, no hangover, and the deepest sense of fulfillment I have ever experienced in my years of seeking, urgently, desperately, around the planet"
Read the complete sharing here: http://yuriawanohara.blogspot.com/2010/08/isha-kailash-manasarovar-sojourn.html

Watching the air in the water...

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'Soul' shares in delirious banter the impact of Samyama:
"To able to experience this in water, my place of fear, my place of no control, that jus show how much my inner engineering has changed my Being.
So much laughter that tears of gratitude came. Thank you, Father."
Read the full article here: http://sufferingisblessing.blogspot.com/2010/04/samyama-definitely-got-something-5.html

Hooked!

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A 'village guy' shares his experience of the Inner Engineering program:
"The first day, after the intro, I got hooked actually liked sitting in the class."
Read the post here: http://varakalpet.com/?p=108

"Weekends - bookings are a must"

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Never thought we would feature a restaurant review on this blog...But here it goes:
Deepak shares his experience of dining in the newly opened Isha Mahamudra restaruant:
"First, the place is a premium outlet since it is a "for profit" unit. There are no pretensions about it. If you get that out of the way, you can see it for what it is."
Read the full article here: http://deepakktsnapshot.blogspot.com/2010/06/isha-life-mahamudra.html

Novices on Guru Poornima...

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This is the novice speaking.


I am the weary traveller on the first step of a narrow steep mountain path. I look hesitatingly and longingly at the next step. I want to touch the peak. But the climb could be long and hard. With no one to keep me company. The firs whisper and beckons me. The calm of the thick forest pulls me in. So I shall go. I might falter and fall down. As long as I can rise after every fall, there is hope.

My name is the beginner.

I am the daughter and wife. The doting sister and the spoiling aunt. I command and cook. I manage and make money. Through the day I sing, dance and don my many acts. I smile and cry to suit my role. I wish and re-wish. When the dawn approaches, I drop it all down.

In the twilight hour, I sit at my Guru's feet.

He close his eyes. And I close mine.

He disappear.

And I disappear with him.

Into the dark abyss, I explore in impatience. As if to find some treasure. He holds me back gently. Showing only that I am ready to behold. Like a child, he leads me in. Putting up with my tantrums. And my inquisitive mind. Forgiving my occasional lapse of trust and discipline. Nudging me on when I hold back with gripping fear. Filling me with such strength and energy, that I want to burn.

On this Guru Poornima day,

Should I offer my tears? Should I offer my gratitude? When I am his, what is there to offer?

Aman-ki-asha!

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Anupama shares her yaksha experience:
Read the full article here: http://thechroniclesofa.blogspot.com/2010/02/rapturous-night.html
P.S: Sorry this took a while to appear on our radar!

Exuberant, protective, furious, wild...and more...

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Srividhya shares her expeience of the Linga Bhairavi consecration:
"When Sadhguru revealed the Devi’s form, I wax exploding! An overwhelming frantic desperate longing to merge and dissolve in her.. nothing else mattered."
Read the full article here: http://decembertrance.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/she-has-come-alive/

The Other Side

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Eleanor shares her experience of Bhava Spandana program:
"By the end, I never wanted to leave. When it was time to go home, I bid farewell to my dear, new friends and started thinking about what was next for me in the world of yoga. All in all, it was an unusual, wonderful and worthwhile experience.."
Read the complete article here: http://itsnotacult.com/bhava-spandana-program/

The Unique Trinity

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Sudhakar Ram shares his experience of the educational initiatives of Isha Foundation:
"We visited many government run and private schools, but what struck us in schools Isha was the atmosphere of fun, curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Teachers were committed and well trained to support children to help them learn at their own pace. "

Read the full article here: http://www.child-education.net/isha-vidhya-three-unique-models-of-education/

On Anti-retro and Maybachs

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'Baba' shares his experience of meeting Sadhguru
"It was hosted by an Indian Yogi called Sadhguru http://www.sadhguru.org/ whose sole purpose on this occassion , it seems, was to confuse us about the meaning of life in the 21st Century."
Read the full article here: http://emc3experiences.blogspot.com/2010/03/sadhguru-hosts-clien-event-at-asia.html

The incredible fortune

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Shibani shares her experience of Isha Yoga:
"No longer am I a part of it... I was for so long, and it seemed endless... So fortunate am I, that life is becoming more and more effortless... So deeply grateful am I, that I am being taught to move beyond it all..."
Read the full article here: http://shibanimanchanda.blogspot.com/2010/04/incredible-transformation.html

Blooming and Blossoming like flowers around!

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Samia Khoreiche shares her experience of teaching in the Isha Home School:
"All I could think of during my first term of volunteering was, “How happy those children are!” Their smiling faces and their twinkling eyes drew me closer to them and I couldn’t think of a more worthwhile place on earth where I would want to be"
Read the full article here: http://ishahomeschool.org/blog/my-experience-at-isha-home-school

Walking trees in the 'shram..

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Home School students musing about the 'walking trees' in the ashram:
"From an adult to a child, whoever looked at the trees on the move, a smile escaped their lips."
Read the full article here: http://ishahomeschool.org/blog/the-walking-trees

On String theory, quantum mechanics and Patanjali

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Ravindra watches in bemused amazement as Sadhguru chats with NSF people about fundamental physics..
"Now I am all ears, I had never seen sadhguru speak about fundamental physics like quantum mechanics and theoretical physics so deeply. Now sadhguru goes deep into this and starts explaining how certain aspects of string theory are flawed and the man agrees..!! I am totally at shock...Well my imagination ran wild and I started imagining what would be the effect if Warren buffet or Bill gates became realized people?"
Read the full article here as shared by Ravindra in his facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/notes/ravindra-kempaiah/what-am-i-doing-with-my-life/386577009867

Inner Engineering in the 'Real World'

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Manoj of The Chennai Business School shares his experience of being introduced to Inner Engineering:
"All his words are of utmost clarity. He was right in saying “be human first”- forgetting humanity, divinity is just farce. No two humans have the same capability, if you function to your full potential you are a fortunate being and would always be blissful, and inner engineering is a starting point to realise your full potential. Mr. Ravi Venkatesh asks in the video, “If you are unable to manage yourself, how could you be a manager managing others?” This made all us future managers to think."
Read the full artcile here: http://chennaibusinessschool.blogspot.com/2010/04/enhancing-our-spiritual-quotient.html

Eleanor on the IE Train....

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Eleanor shares her Inner Engineering experience:
"It was all a little strange to me at the time, but after hearing him speak and reading the book, I found him to be funny and endearing, and everything he said made a lot of sense."
Read the complete article here: http://itsnotacult.com/inner-engineering/

What she REALLY wants...

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Srividhya muses about what she really cares about and what she really wants to do:
"How I long to be in that pure atmosphere, where everything is done out of love and offering.It is where I truly understood and experienced love, which is so different from the context it is used in the society today."
Read the full article here: http://decembertrance.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/what-i-really-want/

Crescendo in the hills of Tennessee

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Desh shares his experience of Bhava Spandana Program:
"The flowering of the beyond, however, creates a perfume that invades every corner of your being and the existence, where nothing seems any different. You start feeling the pain of even a small grain or a leaf. Sunlight becomes part of you. You become the wind that blows."
Read the full article here: http://drishtikone.com/blog/one-spiritual-step-death-self-hills-tennessee

Innocent Joy in the Fifth Estate

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It is with mixed feeling that we would like to share on what can only be termed as inevitable..The Isha Home School Blog! While we have been scouting the Internet for Isha Bloggers, an oasis of innocent exuberance has been blooming. The Isha Home School Blog has articles written by both the teachers and the students.
Starting off, here is a haunting poem from..hold your breath..a junior student from IHS.
"The cool breeze made me wish I were back on the tree snuggling with all my friends, but I had to leave them"
Read the full article here: http://ishahomeschool.org/blog/i-am-a-leaf

Anachronisms Galore!

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Jonathan Daniel Harris of the Huffington Post shares about his interview with Sadhguru:
"Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a powerful character -- but wholly unintimidating. He frequently cracks jokes upon meeting a new group of people and his BlackBerry seems quite anachronistic given his appearance."
Read the entire article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/national-volunteer-month_n_538108.html
P.S: It is heartening to see Project Green Hands featured in the home page of the Huffington Post!

The leap from Austerity

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This is a guest post from Clare Dakin, UK coordinator for Project GreenHands. It's her sharing about the Linga Bhairavi consecration. This was shared in Facebook by Clare.

I am writing from the Ashram in India, in an attempt to describe what I have just lived through…which is the birth of a Fire Goddess; a miracle of such significance, that part of me is still unable to comprehend or get my head around it.
The incarnation of the Divine Feminine into her own temple, here next to Shiva in the form of the Dhyanalinga in his own temple, gives us a place of embodied union between masculine and feminine that is sacred in a way that I know I simply will not be able to find words for.
There really is no way for those of us who do not have access to other dimensions as the norm, to understand what is possible at the fundamental level of creation, by a Yogi who experiences everything as a part of himself, who solidifies mercury with his bare hands and sits there moulding it as if it was clay before locking energies into it at a level of power that will throw you on the ground or blast you heart open into utter spiritual devotion for the mystery of life. This man literally crafted a feminine force out of creation itself, "a woman with the man taken out", a being who would balance the silence and awareness stimulating power of the masculine Dhyanalinga with all the fire, chaos, beauty, compassion and wild raving ecstasy of the unbridled feminine. 'His' is the awareness, 'Hers' is the humanity. I don't think I would ever have believed such a thing was even possible had I not participated and literally felt her birthed into creation.
Sadhguru said that we would all be playing the role of midwife if we sat with enough intensity and devotion. 5000 of us (350 Europeans the rest Indian) chanting and meditating, calling her, accessing wild energies to add our combined force to the matter in Sadhguru's hands, all relayed to us from inside the Temple by multiple big screens. Hours of hard graft…just like being a midwife, over 3 days, late into every night with maximum 3 hours sleep and then back into the devotional process. I wish I could take what I have seen and what is in my heart and somehow place it in yours so that you could feel what I am feeling.
She, like Shiva in Dhyanalinga has her energies held in a mercury core that is behind her statue, although Sadhguru has energized the rock in such a way that its energy will never dissipate, unless, amazingly, she is not treated properly, or if a man tries to take over the temple, and then she will leave in a rage that he says you do not want to be anywhere close to! This is a women's temple, to be tended only by women, but open to everyone. The only one of its kind, ever.
You have never seen a female deity so worshiped, so bowed down to, so blessed…Sadhguru wept as he brought her into reality and then sang chants to her in a voice so filled with love and devotion it was like hearing an archetypal love song from behind the veil of time, the same song that lives hidden in the very core of our own hearts…and then it was as if the night sky just fell into our laps and became profoundly alive. Immensity just landed, throbbing, and there she was. I am in tears again just writing this. How privileged am I, are we for being part of something of this nature, to have moved it through our bodies, lived through that intensity. There she is, in her own temple, tended by beautiful women, her priestesses, who have rituals for every stage of life; colourful, vivid and very real and beautiful rituals full of dance and fire and song, so so different from the austerity of Dhyanalinga.
For myself, as someone who has done a fairly convincing job of embodying the archetype of the wounded feminine, it was a new world to be faced with levels of devotion towards the feminine that placed her back into her rightful position, especially here where women are so subjugated…but for the whole world to have such a mighty charged feminine energy being worshiped and honoured with levels of reverence, carved out the grief in so many of us all and replaced it with permission to value within ourselves, what has felt so battered and unsafe for so long; the Goddess within…true feminine power, unashamed, uncensored. My body didn't know what to do other than sob for hours, as if emptying out the old story and pain to make way for a new infusion of beautiful feminine energy.
I woke yesterday with a heart so carved out and expanded, it felt as if it filled my entire upper body. Everything I looked at broke me open. I have learnt to bow down to the mystery of life through my time with Sadhguru, but now that mystery just got filled with glorious music, flowers, fire and dance, wrapped herself around my being and called herself Mother.

He knows how to fly!

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Alison shares her experience of how she met Sadhguru:
"Despite my aversion to even the word ‘guru’, I listened to the cd. To my surprise, Sadhguru sounded rational, grounded, and practical. Much of what he said resonated deeply and reminded me of things I had read from other great masters."
Read the complete article here: http://alivingmystic.blogspot.com/2008/06/he-knows-how-to-fly-it-is-very.html

Three mad days!

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Megha writes about her BSP experience:

"I don't know what other people experienced and I'm sure all of us experience different things or even the same thing differently but all of us came out on that Monday with a fresh set of eyes and a sense of how one can live joyfully, without effort if we just remember the experiences we had and how much they meant to us."

Full post here.

Isha saved my life

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One of the more dramatic cases of benefits from the Isha Yoga practices:

“I collapsed twice while at work,” says Caraccia. “I used the yoga and meditation techniques I learned from Sadhguru to calm my breathing and take my mind off the pain. Both times I was able to get back up and make it to my car, and eventually to the hospital.”

Full post here: http://www.prnewschannel.com/absolutenm/templates/?z=0&a=2349

Natasha on Isha Yoga

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Nashville based attorney, Natasha talks about her Isha Yoga practices. Read the very last question in the interview.

"Of all the things I’ve ever done, practicing Isha Yoga, which I started in August 2007, has had the greatest impact on me. I literally see my life as pre-Isha Yoga and post-Isha Yoga."

Full post here: http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2010/2/22/the_opportunities_for_gsh_will_be_greater_the_more_diverse_nashville_becomes

Rajadurai attends the silence program

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Rajadurai shares a piercing poem about his experience:

Daring to sneak into your world
I stepped inside that hollow space


As a worm I crawled behind you
You took me by hand when I feared


As a child, I refused to swallow
As a Mom, you fed me with care


O' I was truly on your Lap!


Chanting in that cruel darkness,
I breathed your breath poisoned


Venomous ecstasy shaking my core,
The Serpent teased me no limit


Swaying between Bliss and Stillness,
I wept and dissolved incessantly


O' you were taking me for a ride!


You exploded me with your sounds,
And I danced to your tunes


Undecipherable, the moments were!
Unquenchable, my thirst was!


Tasting a droplet of You
Left me madness personified


Longing to take a plunge in you,
And pitiably aware of my stock,


I screamed in pain. O' you heard.
You peeled it off and freed me out.


Pot cracked; honey dripped
Wall collapsed; flood roared
O'I breathed freedom


Breathing this unknown clarity
Leaves me in tears untold


Drenched in your merciless Grace,
I see God beyond the Façade


What do I have worthy of?
To thank you with!
What am I worthy of?
To be at your feet!


When all that is, and that isn't, is you!
I know of nowhere to miss you, Sadhguru!


May I only breathe the venom,
And crawl within you, gently,
With your Grace!


AUM, Namah Shivaya!

Prabhu treks up the Velliyangiri 7th hill

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Prabhu narrates his experience of trekking up the Velliyangiri 7th hill!



I don't know how it happened and I'm going to put in words. It was his sheer grace and bliss, that made me have the glimpse of shiva.

I wished I could participate in yatra (organised by Then Kailaiya Bakthi Peravai) on 27th and 28th feb, during lingha bhairavi consecration and left the thought behind. The wish became an opportunity last friday (26th) through a telephone call from balaji asking if I could join yatra. Wow!!! It was definitely to music to ears.

I had promised my wife that we would go to shopping centre and get her something on our 3rd anniversary (though she was not willing to get it). My mom was fuming and fretting, seeing me packing the bag and looking at me as an irresponsible creature. When it's shiva's call, how can I ignore?

I began the journey not knowing if I would be allowed for yatra since I didn't register for it :)

To my surprise, swami allowed me in.

We started the yatra with an intro by swami and video by Sadhguru. Swami started his talk with a verse on shiva and inspiring stories about the sacred place and how reverential we should be in this yatra. Jaggi insisted not to miss this opportunity being born in tamil nadu and dhyanalinga is the essence of what is available in south kailash.

We flagged off the yatra @ half past two in the afternoon at poondi shivan temple, velliangiri foothills. Swami oriented us again that this shouldn't be perceived as trekking but yatra.

Though I was struggling initially and wondering if I could make it up, swami's talks at certain points, explaining the significance of those places and helping us re-gaining the focus, simply kept me going.

At one moment, energies completely drained, I decided to keep away my body and mind for some time and just be with the yatra, I felt I was being pulled up. Nothing could hold me anymore.

After 3rd hill, heads started to disappear one by one. Fear of getting lost, fear of getting attacked by animals, fear of walking alone in the forest, fear of getting slipped in the valleys, I stopped creating them one by one. Journey was effortless afterwards.

I was crawling like an ant in the vast mountain, realising how small I'm, foolishly pretending to be big. Everything looked amusing that night, the rocks, the path, the moon, the trees, the grass, the breeze, the petty shop-in-the forth hill-with single chimney light, the people out there making their living in mountain. What a lovely world it is?!

Reached 6th hill and took 3 dips in frozen aandi sunai* (vellaikkara durais, translation please). Needless to say that I enjoyed the delicious dinner prepared by the volunteers.

We were ready to retire for the day in the beautiful tent, they had set up. The thin shawl that I had was helpless in the awful weather, piercing tiny holes in my body. Fortunately one anna had a thick blanket and was generous enough to allow me and another meditator (devotee) by his two sides. All of us stayed very close in bed to get warmth.

I woke up the next day with unknown experience and little excitement. We went through some process before climbing up. Just paused a moment to look at all devotees, from all walks of life, from 1st standard student to 50 year old woman (women below 12 years and above 40 years of age, are allowed), a hefty man, looking hard, whispering to swami with respect, definitely all 70 people had different flavours but only one goal: 7th hill.

Like turning pages of an interesting novel, we were heading towards the mystical kingdom. We reached place and sat under the rock, where shiva had been for a while. The place was reasonating with high decibal chanting, heart breaking devotion and unconditional love. When swami came and spoke about the place, tears started rolling down in his cheeks. One being, who didn't want to miss anyone of us, like a mother taking care of her children, cultivating devotion in ourselves, telling what we need to know and how should we be. A real possibility of how one can be as parent to all beings in the world, accepting things and people as they are and doing what is needed for the situatuon. Even my dumb mind had experienced something indescribable, happening there because of him.

Swami and volunteers are still ringing in my head than the Lord Shiva. What a tremendous world this would be, if all the people dare to hold others' well being more than their lives.



* - Literally translates to "barren creek" - obviously has a spiritual connotation to it.

PhoenixButterfly attends the Isha Yoga program

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For PhoenixButterfly, the Inner Engineering program happened at just the right time in her life:

"It is a profound spiritual experience. It is very hard to explain. It is very light and funny and deeply touching and peaceful. There is no releasing or bringing past things up. You don’t go around meeting your peers but you become one with them and at the end the connection is so huge you don’t need to know their names, you know their soul and are one with all of them. We learnt yoga poses that improve our lives in every aspect."

Full post here: http://phoenixbutterfly.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/isha-yoga-1.html

Revamped!

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Meera posts about how her life has changed after the Inner Engineering program:

"I have let go of(so many of) my mental blocks. I still own quite a bit, but it is probably a matter of time before I can let them go too. I am doing things way over my capacity. Me & G are juggling between things in such an easy manner(& with so much happiness & acceptance), that I find it hard to believe it is me."

Full post here: http://mjaishankar.blogspot.com/2010/02/volunteering-with-isha.html

Fiercely Beautiful

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One more post from a participant of the Linga Bhairavi consecration.

Rajasekhar writes:
"Linga Bhairavi devi is supposed to be fiercely and wonderfully feminine at the same time. I do not know about the fierce part of her really because all I could see was the beauty and she has certainly taken my mind & heart. Still cannot forget the first sight of her!"

Full post here: http://mrrajasekhar.blogspot.com/2010/02/fiercely-beautiful.html

Anupama a the Linga Bhairavi consecration

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Anupama shares her experience of attending the Linga Bhairavi consecration.

"For the past 3 days, I have been trying to put into words, my experience of being at the Isha Yoga Centre for the Linga Bhairavi consecration. I am unable to explain the magnificence that is the consecration process and the Devi.
Every single word to describe something much bigger than me seems too trivial, too small."

Full post here: http://thechroniclesofa.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html