Thursday, December 29, 2011

HIS Grace!!

Jai guru Dev !

I always feel Guruji's presence all around .Just yesterday after I read Guru story in my email , I felt I should atleast share one.So here is the one just after a day I would like to share with all.

Today 2nd Dec 2011 ,my sister inlaw ,brother's wife was admitted in the hospital in New Delhi in the early morning hours for second delivery . She had labor pains right from the morning and was induced also.Whole day I kept praying for the mother and baby and was sure Guruji's Grace is with all of us. I was so sure of Guruji's love and Grace that I got a cake in advance even before the news came. I was having dinner with a few friends but my mind and heart was waiting for the news from Delhi. When the news was not coming till 9 pm, I send Guruji's picture and a message 'Jai Guru Dev "with it to my brother thru my mobile and guess what ...just after 10 mins ,I got the news that baby boy bearing a weight of 3.5 kgs delivered normally and Mom safe.

Tears of joy and love and Gratitude filled my eyes and heart.
My humble pranams at Your Lotus feet.
Thank You Guruji.Guruji has already blessed the baby.

Anita kaul
Shanghai/china

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Change of Plans

Change of Plans

Many stories heard and also experienced which bring back the gratefulness and reminding us how lucky we are to be on this path and to be with Guruji , 2 stories though I would like to share.

1. I did my First Art of Living course about 9 years ago after finishing my studies in UK and was immediately drawn into it, many other courses followed ( Advance course , DSN etc ) and Satsang was the most relished thing, my Dad observing that I am getting too immersed in such activities, he insisted that I should get married and I found myself married at the age of 24 ! I still continued with my journey in the spiritual path and the time came that I really wished I could do TTC 1 but was reluctant to talk to my Dad about this and leave the family business for 15 - 20 days and go to the Ashram , I prayed and left it to Guruji , Few months later before the next TTC 1 in the ashram, Bhanu Ma ( Guruji's Sister ) happened to conduct Sehaj Samadhi ( meditation course ) in my city which me and my wife attended and after one of the sessions we casually invited her for lunch at our place and she agreed immediately... after lunch when she was gone, to our utter amazement , the first thing my Dad asked me if I would like to go the Ashram for the TTC 1 !!! ( I had not mentioned about my wish to Bhanu Ma at all but what I came to know later on that she had a brief talk about art of living activities and seva projects and about TTC with my Dad when I was away for few minutes !)

2. We moved to Australia 5 years ago from India after a big loss in the business which had a huge set back on us financially , I immediately got a job in a call centre and things started flowing smoothly for myself and my wife ( she found her first job a year later we moved to Australia ) but last year I was feeling a bit down and I wanted to start something on my own as I had enough of doing a call centre Job, this feeling got intense and I happened to visit aAshram in July 2010 ( once again I offered my desire to Guruji ) , I came back to Australia and 7 days later I got a call from my friend who just started a new internet business and asked if I would like to invest as a partner !! I took this as a sign and immediately said yes and left my job and started working from home for the new company , but there was one condition that I had to move to a different state as the head office was there and my friend wanted me to handle the office while he stays in US , this was a big step and we were not comfortable with this move, It was time to surrender to Guruji again , I went alone for few months to set up the office but while I was working there I was all the time praying that a miracle happens and that we dont have to move and guess what ? it did happen ! couple of months later my friend decided to move the head office to US and shut this office down ( which means I could go back and work from home ! )

All this and many other incidents in our life has made our faith stronger and stronger and made me realise that there is a higher power taking care of everything and that all we have to do is surrender and Miracles will happen.

Jai Guru Dev !

With Love

Amit Taneja

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

My Booking!!!

I booked my KF flight Delhi Pune on December 06th, 2011 at 4PM. On December 05th, 2011, I got SMS from KF that your flight has been delayed by 1 hour. I thought its ok and did not tell my parents who were going to drop me at Delhi Airport. On Dec. 06, 2011, when we were going to Delhi, I again got sms that your flight has been delayed for 3 more hours i.e. now the flight will depart at 8.15pm. I got so scared that after reaching Pune @10.30pm, it would be difficult for me to reach my flat. I still did not tell my parents in the car and I just prayed to Guruji and said, "Please Guruji, do something".

After reaching Delhi airport at 2.30PM, the moment I entered airport, I came to know that one alternate flight was there at 3.30PM. I checked in and did security check in 10 minutes and boarded the flight in total 15 minutes as the boarding time was 2.50PM and reached Pune 5.50PM safely.

It all happened because of Guriji.

Thanks Guruji for being with me always.

Regards
Bhawwna Aggarwal


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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Guruji is taking care

Jai Gurudev..

Here's a Guru Story from my side:

I met with an accident recently when I was driving home from office at 9 pm. The traffic was a regular moving traffic (no jams), then suddenly the car that was in front of me slowed down a lot and without giving an indicator, started taking a U-turn. I was totally unprepared for this, applied a sudden brake, to avoid any mishap. As all the vehicles were moving at a certain speed one following the other, my car could not come to a sudden halt at one go, due to the speed and in the process my face and stomach banged against the steering wheel 3 or 4 times with tremendous impact! My nose started bleeding, my lips immediately got swollen and the skin got torn- I was so scared that some of my nose bones may have got broken and I started imagining what would happen if this is the case, as the nose area cannot even be plastered. I was in tears actually, and then I saw that some people had gathered around me seeing me crying.

I came out of the car and saw that it was very badly damaged with both headlights broken, bonnet got broken and both the two front doors of the car were jammed to a great extent (I got out of the car with great difficulty due to jammed door). The car ahead of me just got very minor scratches but no one in the car ahead got hurt.

I reached out to an Art of Living Teacher angel who is a Doctor: she came to my home at that odd hour (somehow I had managed to reach home that was around 5 kms from the accident site) and gave me first aid. She suggested me to go hospital and get my nose area checked for any possible fracture and also my stomach area checked for any internal injury (as my stomach was also paining at the place where the steering wheel of the car hit me).

When I visited the Doctors for nose and stomach checkup, to my pleasant surprise, I came to know that my nose bones were intact and stomach was also fine- only due to the impact, some pain was there (that was expected), which the Doctors assured me would go away in a couple of weeks. I felt so relieved and thanked Guruji- He took care of me; otherwise looking at the state of the damage of my car, everyone (including me) was very surprised as to how I got saved- anything could have happened to me with such an accident. Then two-three days after my accident, my mother got a dream in which a man in white came and gave her Prasad and said "Jai Gurudev": she believes strongly that the Prasad was the gift of my life that she got back and I fully agree with her and I know that it was Guruji who came in her dreams. My parents and I are so very thankful to Guruji for showering His grace on me.
In gratitude always, thank you Guruji, Jai Gurudev,

Shilpa Aneja


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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Fueled By Jai Gurudev!!!

Gurudev was to be in washington DC center on Oct 20th evening to 21st Afternoon. He was traveling from Canadian Ashram to our New Boone ashram and then to DC. I was attending the TRM with Gurudev at the Canadian Ashram the past few days. TRM was to end on 20th and as I am from the DC area, my goal was to reach DC on Oct 20th ASAP so I can catch up with Gurudev and meet and greet him again ( as I had been doing for the last 5 days) !!!.

So,I along with three other teachers started our journey back to the US with beautiful chantings of Guru puja and Om namah shivaya. My first challenge/Miracle was at US customs. I am an Indian Citizen with an advance parole , which means at the US borders, I typically can expect spending close to 2 hours. But My teachers said I should just chant "Jai Gurudev" 3 times, before I hand our my passport/documents. and that is what we did. AND ....to my/our utter surprise the Custom officer returned my parole documents and our passports in 2 minutes. Relieved, Happy and Amazed .

As is the norm through out our journey, there were plenty of Guru stories told back and forth. Our journey was marked by breath taking views of the fall colors, sunshine and laughter . My fellow teachers were Hansa dave, Shailey Sharma from DC and Reena Kaushik from NY. We dropped Hansa at her daughters place in West Chester, New york. Hansa was my first Art of Living teacher from 10 yrs back. She has treasure chest full of Guru stories, which she will one day publish. After a nice light lunch at their place, we reached Reena's house in Long Island, New york.

Shailey did remind me that before I hit NYC highways I should fill my gas tank. As it was already 630 pm, We decided to do our Sahaj Meditation before Shailey and I hit the road in separate cars to DC. After a blissful meditation, I forgot all about the gas tank and hit New York City highways with an empty gas tank. My first instinct luckily was to chant "Jai Gurudev" 3 times. From Long Island to NJ Turnpike is about an hour and fifteen minutes easy drive ,so I entered New jersey turnpike but there was no sign of gas stations. Again I chanted "Jai Gurudev" 3 times. After a few miles, I saw a gas exit approximately 10 - 15 miles ahead at Exit 12, and again I chanted "Jai Gurudev" 3 times.

In the meantime, I intuitively switched of all GPS, radio, AC and I was driving at economical speed. Then I entered the gas station and exactly in front of the gas station, my Engine switched off. I was not able to put my car in park or turn my car key to off position. Luckily New Jersey is one of those states in US, where you have personnel Gas serviceman instead of self-service. I informed the serviceman my situation, he tried from windows to turn the key off, it did not work. So on his request I put the hand brakes on and also held on to the leg brakes. I handed him my credit card and he filled about a Gallon of Gas, then the car came back to life. Immediately, with the help of service man, I put the car in parking mode and switched off the engine.

It took me some time to recover from what had just happened. I was speechless. All I could do was share this Gurustory with everybody I could call or speak to . Around the same time, this happened Gurudev entered the DC center as I was following his schedule through my friends at DC. I was so happy and grateful for the remaining 3 hours of my journey. My original goal was to hurry up and attend the satsang with Gurudev but he was showing that he is with me anyways.


So next time, you need any help. just chant Jai Gurudev Jai Gurudev Jai Gurudev!! Many times to " what mantra should we chant in times of need Guruji ? " He has responded with " All you have to do is chant Jai Gurudev that is good enough" . And when we do ....Miracles abound.


Jai Gurudev
Sridhar Govindan

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