  I was 21 when I fell in love and at the age of 22, I decided to take the relation to the next level and get married. But my parents retaliated and did not want me to get married with this guy. They just couldn't accept him, even though he was from a well to do family, and was working in Jet Airways as an Engineer. I never wanted to hurt my parents, but I just couldn't get married to someone else, ruining three lives in the process. I tried all the possible ways to convince my parents, but in vain. Then one day, when I was going to the Bangalore Ashram with my parents and siblings in the train, I made a prayer to Gurudev. I just said in my heart that if Guruji would meet me as soon as I entered the Ashram, I would consider that I have made the right choice for marriage. But then this mind thought that this condition was very easy; so I added a condition that Dinesh Dada should also be there with Gurudev at that time. When we entered the Ashram, I saw a sea of people running towards the VM, as Guruji was coming there, walking from His Kutir. Hence, my first condition was met. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev!        Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Each Breath is HIS Miracle
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Faith & Surrender
 Though there are many miracles happening with Guruji’s presence in our lives, I would like to share something which I recently experienced. It was April 2011 before TTC, when I did a DSN with Vinod Menon. I had a blissful experience while on the course, and felt a lot of peace and serenity. I was doing my Seva (Service) and Sadhna (Practice) regularly and also was attending Satsangs regularly. I have embedded the words of Guruji, Sri Sri Ravishankar - “Everything is being taken care of” in my heart and soul, and this gives me the confidence and faith to leave aside all my worries and just relax. This incident happened with me in the Regional Transport Office, opposite Mico Factory, Electronic City, Banglaore. My two-wheeler License needed to be renewed, and I had to get a new plastic card driver License for my four-wheeler as well; so I thought of getting both the jobs done at the same time. With a very positive frame of mind, I reached the RTO office, and went straight to the Enquiry desk. An old gentleman was on the counter, I asked him how I could get the license renewed, he frowned and said, “It’s not possible here, go to Mysore (a 4 hour drive away) and get it done.” I then recalled that I had got the license from RTO Mysore in the year 1993. I requested him to help me find any other way this could be done here. He was kind enough to respond to my words, “Go and talk to RTO.” I requested him, “Can I talk to the Head, RTO now." He gave me a scary look and said that he would also say the same thing. I gave him a smile and asked him where the Head sits. As directed, I followed him. Inspite of a huge rush, he took me to the regional transport officer, Uma Shankar. He was on the phone at the time. Meanwhile, I looked at Guruji’s photo which was on the wall paper of my HTC windows Smartphone during those days, & said mentally, “GURUJI KUCH KARO” (Guruji please do something) and smiled. The Officer looked at me, and asked, “What’s the problem?” in Kannada, I smiled back at him the AOL way, and explained my problem. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Guru’s Unlimited Grace
 It was my birthday the next day when my Art of Living friend Uma called and asked me to come to Ankit bhaiya's place (Aol volunteer). There where around 10 people at his place. At midnight they called me and wished me singing the famous AOL Birthday song "sagar mai ek leher uthi tere name ki...." and they invited me to do Long Kriya together in the morning. However when I went in the morning everyone was sleeping and I had to wait for everyone to wake up and then have bath. When all were done, the art of living teacher Saleel bhaiya came in, wished me and sat beside me. It was an honor to do Kriya beside him. All the volunteers were around and we did our Kriya. When I opened my eyes I saw Guru ji's picture in front of me where I could notice Guruji's eyes looking towards me. After some time I saw a volunteer reading "Celebrating silence." I asked him whether I could also read it. Without asking too much he gave me the book and continued his other work. I had always heard that this book is never supposed to be read from the first page so I randomly opened a page. I could only focus on the right hand side bottom part of the page. And then it all happened. It said Guruji has made songs for birthdays. There was some information about the importance of birth and the complete song which was made specifically for birthdays by Guruji. My heart fell out but this was not all. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Monday, January 20, 2014
Saving Grace
 My name is Lakshmi and I am an AOL teacher from Bangalore. I would be pleased to share one of the miracles that occurred in my life, and truly made me realize the power of the Divine. Three years back, my son was driving his car from Hyderabad to Bangalore, with his wife and child also present. They were coming down to Bangalore to celebrate my grand-daughter’s first birthday. He started at 1 am from Hyderabad. At about 8 am in the morning, the car hit against a divider. The car toppled thrice and then caught fire. It turned into ashes and all that was left over was the name board. Listening to this, one would think that there could be no way that the passengers of this car would have survived such a deadly accident, right? But here’s what followed. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Mysterious Keys
 This was on the day after finishing the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the ART OF LIVING at Jakkur aerodrome in Bangaluru. My mom and dad were travelling back to Gulbarga in the Udyan express. It was a night journey, so the train stopped at a particular station after a few hours from the departure time. So my father stepped out of the train in order to stretch a bit, as one tends to become very stiff just sitting through a train journey. In just a few minutes, the train blew a departure horn, and dad stepped inside the train, but as he did so, a bunch of keys fell down from his pocket, onto the tracks. That bunch included our home keys, locker keys, office keys, and bike keys. But dad did not realize it. He did not notice the fact that the keys had slipped out of his pocket. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Effortless Happenings
 My husband and I are Basic course teachers, currently living in Bangalore. We’ve been part-time, then full-time, then part-time again, and we’ve had our share of a roller coaster life. It so happened that once we were sitting with Gurudev in His Kutir and He asked us to “travel for 2-3 weeks and develop an area”. He sweetly asked, “Chhutti toh mil jaayegi na?” (You’ll get leave from the office, right?) My husband was a little hesitant, but didn’t want to say No to Him, and hence said “Yes Guruji, we will get it”. We came out of the Kutir thinking that maybe Guruji doesn’t know how difficult it is to seek even 1 day off in an IT job, and here it was the matter of 2-3 weeks! We were also pretty sure with our past experience that 3 weeks is just the warm-up time to understand a new area – leave apart ‘develop’ it! Even the NTC office had told us that a minimum of 6 months time is needed to properly develop an untapped area. Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Bag of Blessings
 It was the 21st of December, 2013. I went to Pathankot (Punjab) for an official training and after attending my training seminar, I was on my way to Ferozepur. I took a bus at 3 pm. Since I was very tired of travelling, I decided to take a power nap. I put my bag on the top shelf of the seat and slept. After 2 hours I woke up with the bus horn and when I opened my eyes, I saw that there was no bag on the shelf. This left me terrified. I was in an unknown city, and my wallet and all other necessary documents were in bag, which had now gone missing. I was feeling very unlucky about myself, and thought as to why such kind of things always happen with me. With that thought in mind, I took a long breath and closed my eyes. I prayed to Gurudev from the very depth of my heart "Guruji I want my bag, I really need it!". Click here to continue reading this wonderful Guru Story.......... Wish to share YOUR Guru Story with the whole world? Mail it to us at mygurustory@artoflivinguniverse.org and we will share it with everyone. Jai Gurudev! Note: Unable to see the above images? Please click on 'Display images' in your mail Art of Living Universe: Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus | YouTube | Pinterest |