How are you doing?

Sri Sri…

Mulla Nasaruddin had an accident. There were bandages all over. His legs, hands shoulder, face everywhere! So someone came to see him. And asked "How are you doing"? You know people ask this question out of habit! They are used to asking. Do you ask this question to a person who you are seeing in front of you eyes, not well! So this man asked Mulla, "Mulla how are you doing"?

Mulla also out of habit, you know we have this habit of saying, 'I am fine'… even though we are not doing fine!(Laughter!!!). So Mulla answered, "You know its only hurting when I am laughing!". This man who came to see Mulla was startled! He said what do you mean? You can even laugh now???

Mulla said, "If I don't laugh now I can never make it to laugh in my life!".

Tumko ho pasand wohi baat kahenge...

Hope you had a wonderful Diwali vacation. I enjoyed my Diwali staying at home doing some gardening, cleaning up my room, keeping my stuff in right place and avoiding unnecessary phone calls :)

Well I was fortunate to attend Art of Living 'Diwali Pahat' satsang in presence of Swami Pragyapad ji. Amol ji led everyone into beautiful satsang with his enchanting voice. After the satsang Swami ji was asked to share few knowledge tidbits. Smiling, He said being Advanced Meditation Course teacher He is happy being in 'Maun' (silence). But how could we let Him off the hook so easily, with our due persistence, He shared few Guru Stories which were never enough!

I would like to share one of the stories He mentioned, hold on, here it goes...

He said few years back when Guruji used to have free time, Guruji was humming a Hindi movie song, and I guess most of you will know this one. 'Tumko ho pasand wohi baat kahenge...' Swami ji said Gurudev was continuously humming only the first line of the song and all the other teachers with Him were singing the next line in their mind. This went on for 10-15 minutes.
Then suddenly Guruji asked everyone 'Do you know the next line of this song?', before even Guru ji could say anything everyone went up together 'Tum dinko agar raat kaho to raat kahenge...’ And Guru ji said NO, it is not like that. I have made a new line, and He continued it is 'Humko jo ho pasand wohi kaam karenge...!' And everyone burst into laughter :)

Swami ji said, through this Guru ji stressed on coming from the space of yes mind. Coming from the space of acceptance and then doing SKILLFULLY whatever has to be done at that moment.

Swami ji said most of the problems in life are there due to our talking (words) whether someone likes or dislikes it. So He said always come from the space of yes and then skillfully getting the things done the way we want, instead of getting into conflict. He went on giving few more beautiful examples...but as you know 'Tumko ho pasand wohi baat kahenge...Humko jo ho pasand wohi kaam karenge...!'

Love,
Satyajit

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Say YES

I remember listening to one of the Guruji's talk, where Guruji narrated an incident that happened during the time He was with Maharishi. Guruji said, often Maharishi would give the instructions put all the chairs this way on the left side and after a while He would say why is it on the left side?

No one could argue saying You only told us to put it there! Maharishi would argue that He has not said so...And there was no way to win over Maharishi...

You have to simply accept and say YES. Guruji said it was training to really say YES to whatever it is.

It was very hard training. He would get angry for having followed His instructions, He would say put the chairs on right side and you put it there and you would get scolding for nothing. In either way you will be scolded!

I have heard Guruji saying if you suffer in the ashram, you will never have to suffer outside in the world. Yes all the buttons are pushed in the ashram to make you button proof, leaving you with only YES to whatever it is :-)

It seems the purpose of Divine is to get you to the state of YES, it doesn't matter where ever you are ashram, house, office, movie theatre or on the cross!

Love,
Satyajit