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AOL – Day 3 – Don’t be a Football of Others Opinion
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Now begins the knowledge for today. The aphorism for today is ‘Don’t be a Football of Others Opinion’. The teacher tells us that we are all the time shaped by other’s expectation of us. He also told story of Aesop about a man and his donkey. How due to opinions of others he started changing his stances and finally instead the donkey carrying him he was carrying the donkey. The teacher asked us to review the situation in our lives where we have been the football of other’s opinion. We reviewed. All of us have some thing or the other. Social interactions demands from us in many ways to comply and dance to the tune of others. I am aware of it in myself how I have allowed other’s opinion in my self and how it has shaped so many of my behaviour. Good learning.
The teacher recaptulated the AOL aphorisms once again – Present Moment is inevitable, Accept everyone and every situation as they are, Expectations reduce the joy and Don’t be a football of other’s opinion. The four aphorims are good. I think I should internalize these things. Its dinner time now.
We start preparing our raw food, cutting vegetables and of course the older folks have brought in already prepared salads. We mix all of them together and have a feast. We also talk and gossip. Teacher also talks about his Guru Ravishankar and his profound qualities and miracles.
Teacher says tomorrow is Thursday and time for weekly satsang with Ravishankar which starts at 6:00 PM and he asked us to come at 5:00 to do pranayama and sudarshan kriya. Then we can attend the Satsang. He mentioned that Guruji is revealing secrets from the Saivaite text Shiva Sutra. He says first time in history anyone is talking about these secrets. Obviously he does not know or thinks we do not know. There are several commentaries on Shiva Sutras avialable. And from what I heard Ravishankar speak last week his is not so original. The narration and structure of his discourse has a clear and distinct influence from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Osho. Maybe they should add another aphorism to Art of Living – Do not imitate. Or maybe I should accept them for what they are. So I do.
Day 3 is over and I walk back to my Hostel room. Sudarshan Kriya had been quite relaxing and I am a smiling. Not much different from many of the breathing meditation techiniques I had done earlier. When I had done the dynamic meditation of Osho I had gone ecstatic. Maybe Osho is my Guru and that is my path. Expectations reduce the Joy.
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- Sudarshan Kriya takes us beyond our thoughts and emotions, and allows us totally experience our feelings
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- I have attended a 6 day course on Art of Living recently. The Course was taught by the local representatives of the Art of Living Foundation set up by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The Course was for duration of three hours on the first four days and there after it stretched to 6 hours on the last two days.
The instructors told us that the breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between
the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment. There are seven layers of existence: body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, ego and the Being. The Course tries to bring an effect from the level of Being to the mind. We found the Course quite useful, especially the Prananyama Yoga exercises. They also made us learn about Sudarshan Kriya. Sudarshan means right vision; Kriya means purifying action. Sudarshan Kriya takes us beyond our thoughts and ...
- emotions, and allows us totally experience our feelings. The duration was for 30 minutes. We had to do some rhythmic breathing exercises to the tune of the voice of the Guru through a cassette. It was an exhilarating experience. Many participants had some strange experiences like involuntary twisting of arms, fingers, involuntary dancing or tapping etc. The instructors told us that during the Kriya, every cell of the body becomes so alive and releases all the toxins and negative emotions it has stored from the past. Some of the fellow participants reported that they felt renewed physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
In addition to the Yoga and the Kriya, the instructors also taught us various meditation techniques and told us many good things about leading an active and peaceful life, the importance of ‘giving’ and about the types of food that is good for our body, etc. We found the course quite useful and are determined to practice it every day.
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| riki says :
You can contact your nearest Art Of Living center and inquire that when the next batch is starting. They have got frequent new batches, so you can join the next one. I have too attended this course and I have found it wonderful. I am sure this course will help you to fight the depression and will provide you new energy. For further information about courses, you can contact Art Of Living helpline on 91 7676 440044. It is open Monday to Sunday 8 am - 8 pm IST. They will provide all the information you need. You can also get further information on their website which is artofliving.org. |
| Prem Sagar says :
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| | Soundar says : I practiced AOL few years ago(7 yrs), it was a vry good exp learning and practicing it for 30-40 days felt vry calm cool mind and vry relaxed all the time.my confidence level also good increased, but later on after certain period of time i felt like a different person and some time i felt lost not able to speak well to people around not able to handle even small suituations and become physically weak and some time even dont know wat to do(even will forget close relative friends name). will not be able to prolong a conversation and reply back to the word spoken by opposite people all these problems i was facing. I slowly stopped doing yoga and started drinking heavily since i was felling a bit relaxed when doing tat.then years past slowly my mental abilities got improved not to fuller extend.Then once I started menditation by joining sagaj marg that was the moment after few days my condtion was vry worse i was not sleeping well for more than 3 week continuely and vry disturbed mind not able to wrk properly in office, even i thought of suicide few times. when i consulted a doctor he suggested to take a phychartist option and said may be a dpressive disorder.now i have consulted a phchartist and undergoing treatment for that(moderate depression,stress and anxitey).Doctor advice normal meditation and breath cleaning is sufficient for helathly living.these practices can give u a vry good result or vry rarely a bad 1 also just thought of sharing my exp’es with yoga and meditation. |
| soundar says :
pls reply for my above post if any remedies are there for my current suituation, thanks in advance…. |
| Galega says :
Hi Sounder, This website isn’t related to Sri Sri’s Art of Living. I would suggest you to directly contact the local office, or have a visit to their main office which is located in Bangalore. As I know, the entire fraternity of Art of Living are quite supportive and takes care of any issues of its followers. |
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