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Sadhanapada – A Journey of Life Time

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First Visit

On June 15th 2021 I went to Isha Yoga Centre for the first time to attend a 7-month long program called Sadhanapada. A program, extensively based on Yoga, Seva, Meditation and Internal Growth. This program changed the view of my life.

Since I was initiated into inner engineering in 2016, I wanted to go to Isha Yoga Centre but couldn’t go because of many reasons. But this time I took a leap and grabbed the opportunity. I had to leave my job and hear lot of backstabbing but I managed to reach the ashram for the program.

All my life I was a dumbass introvert persona because of which I was restrained to experiment new things. But when you come across the so-called bigger picture the miraculous Sadhguru, you wouldn’t want to mess up with anything and with his grace I could make few good-hearted friends whom I could accommodate in my bigger family.

So, this program starts with an orientation program and the content of this 5 days program was surprising to me. And on the occasion of Guru Purnima, we were officially called the “Sadhanapada participants”

Every year during Guru Purnima Sadhguru keeps a satsang and take us through meditation. But this time due to pandemic I was not fortunate to get the opportunity and we could avail only online darshan. But when he arrived near the hall for the event he went from my side and that sight of him made me crazy for him, he was joining hands and saying Namaskaram to everyone he comes across. and he saw me and did the same. Finished. I was lost then and there. Just like a magic I felt the energy.

Start

So during Sadhanapada we must wakeup early by 4.30 am and by 5.30am we have to start our practices with guru pooja. So, in My initial months, I was doing my early morning practices without fail. But after a month due to my skin problems and health issue I was not able to do my practices early in the morning. But whatever hurdles came I made sure I never miss my Shamabhavi Mahamudra practice even once.

The beautiful thing about being in this type of energy space is if you give totally into it, many things change within you and you start seeing life in a beautiful way. For understanding this you must at least perform one yogic practice which you have been initiated into and most importantly you must not be judgmental.

So, when this was going on the Sadhanapada team asked me to perform Guru Pooja in our practice area not daily but they used to call me on intervals. So the Gopi Anna who was the coordinator assigned me guru Pooja coincidentally only on days which were special like Sadhguru’s birthday, Pournami’s etc. When he used to call or come to me saying that I have to do guru pooja the previous day I would say no but he will say Sadhguru wants so you do. And truly it was his grace.

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When I was in ashram, temple was not a daily thing because most of the time, we have to run to perform Seva(volunteering) and are busy. So, whenever I get a gap, I used to go and visit. And in the initial phase of my Sadhanapada the temples would be closed for the outsider on Friday, Saturday and Sunday so those time I used to sit for longer periods in Dhyanlinga as the temple will be still and silent.

During this time, we were advised to eat our meals only twice a day… but my compulsion was such that I have even visited the famous “Pepper Vine” restaurant to calm my taste buds… but tried to control on a later stage.

This was also the time when we had to undergo through various advance program like Anna Seva (only for Sadhanapada participants), BSP and Shoonya, which was a different experience altogether (If I want to share the experience, please comment below I will do it in my next post). I did my first fast during Ekadashi in the ashram which was tough and during Ekadashi we had to go for pradikshna from Dhyanlinga to Adiyogi statue and back to Dhyanlinga. But due to my skin issue I did the pradikshna till my extent possible.

During these days in the ashram, I made sure that I come in touch with earth and because of my companions who made me go on the grass without footwear I experienced Soil in a totally different way. Also, the best aspect of being in ashram was that I ended the 2021 year with a Sadhguru darshan and Nada Aradhana – a Sound offering in Dhyanlinga temple.

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The last months with the preparation of Mahashivratri particularly being in the Devi Procession was the best part. Definitely I had the skin issue, but I kept all my excuses away just for Devi and Sadhguru which really led to a change. If you have kept yourself away from your ideas and prejudice you will experience the grace.

All the pains and suffering will transform in love and bliss. The kind of love and bonding with people who were there with me in my surrounding was indefinite. I stopped thinking what they will think if I act crazy, and in return we all become crazy and stable bunch of people.  

And the best part of whole journey was serving in Bhiksha hall, Sadhguru darshans, Velliangiri Yatra ( Southern Kailash) and Mahashivratri. When I was there in the ashram, I had these wonderful opportunities to be with Sadhguru. But his presence for me is there whether he is physically there or not.

When it was time to leave, we all became very desperate and sad. Not able to control our tears as by the end of the program we all united and gelled up so well. And the last few days I spent my whole time in Devi and Dhyanlinga temple.

Mahashivratri was insane thing, from carrying Devi and dancing and a night fully covered with sand and dancing whole night with sadguru staying awake and dance like there is no other tomorrow…

These 7 months was a ride from intensity, pain, bliss, love and devotion. Frankly I don’t know what had changed but something within me is transformed; the way I approach the life now is totally different.

Sadhanapada

Thousands of seekers

Came into his lap,

Some to find answers,

Some to find their path,

Some to get clarity,

Some to get dissolved,

And so on,

But when he opened up the doors,

All became one,

Which left them into the raptures of ecstasy and bliss,

How to say Sadhanapada is over,

When it has just begun for us.

Shambho

My Spiritual Journey and My Guru

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I don’t know whether I am the right person to write this blog, but I am just sharing my experience of my spiritual journey with this great being called Sadhguru.

My journey of life can be divided in two parallels till I met my Guru. One was totally physical person, who saw life as physical and another was this tinge or a light breeze of something more than life around me. In my house my mom has been a devotee of Shiva and Krishna, and being with her made see something beyond life.

I never believed in some god above, as I was more curious to know about the temples, science behind it and to see life in more depth. But as I read and saw places of worship were thousands of people came every day and cried, I started to have questions who are these peoples who created this spaces, from where they had this knowledge and from whom they get this knowledge. And the answer for all this was GURU. Guru, this one word has fascinated me from my childhood but never found one till everything screamed for him within me.

To know all this, the science behind the temples, the subtle nature of life and a way to become a being of immense capability I started to search Guru. I don’t know from where this was instilled in my life that a Guru is not someone with whom you shake hands with or walk with your chest held high. I started to read about great beings like Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Vivekananda and many more. But all this happened till I was 12 or 13 years after that I forget all this and got involved into the material life.

But once you know that you know nothing about life, life will come and slap you on face. So this happened to me.

I was going through this phase where I was lost within myself. Outside I was fine but within me I was lost I didn’t know what I am doing with my life. And when you lose yourself then it’s an eternal search and most people take another route.  But as I said, there was a breeze in my life which had made sure that I cross all my barriers. But this time I couldn’t find that breeze too and again I started to search someone who can help. I started to see help in friends and family, but they did what they can do.

So, when I lost hope within me and I was about to give up in my life. I just thought of giving a try by doing some meditation. Because it is said that when you are lost, you close your eyes and sit, then you will find something which can’t be lost. And I started to do meditation, but when I closed my eyes thousands of things would pop up and I will lose my track. So one morning I went on Youtube videos watching spree listening to Ramdev baba and many others, but no use as I didn’t understood a word which they spoke.

But after a long search there comes a white bearded man and a turban on his head talking about Inner Engineering with a fluent English identifying himself as Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev . Fascinated by the idea of inner engineering, I attended his program and got initiated into a process called Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya on Sep 2016. In the end of the program 95% people were crying blissfully and here I was having a headache.

Once you do this program you will be told to do this Kriya for atleast 40 days twice daily. So as I was doing that I could see no difference within me but, people who were with me were having beautiful experiences. So I thought something would be there and continued doing that (Ya, I left the whole Inner engineering thing for 7 months that was a different story but restarted after that).

Till 2019, I didn’t have any big experience and the search for guru was still on. But where to go, whom to ask etc all this question was wandering in my head.  At the same time this person called Sadhguru was giving me answers through his Youtube videos but, I wanted to see him physically and see whether he really has answers for all this. So on June 4, 2019 I got to know that Sadhguru is visiting Mumbai to meet the meditators. So I thought of going and that was end of my long search.

When he entered the hall many people started to cry and I was literally irritated by that, but something within me said that “Leave this entire people, you just focus on him, let’s see what he holds”. And by the end of the meet I was yelling and crying, it was like I broke out from a jail or something. I don’t know the tears were of pain or bliss, but I cried like a baby.

Sadhguru has said in one of the video that “The day you experience me more than my body and my words, that day I will be your guru till, then I am just a person”

That day he did nothing, He just said ‘Just be with me’ and focus on your breathe. That’s it, this two things broke everything and I found my GURU in him. From that day till today my life has been a roller coaster ride, but, when you have a guru of his proportions accompanying you then what else you need in life. 99% of my life within me has been fulfilled once he arrived, rest 1% it’s on me now.

I have understood one thing now that a Guru doesn’t come easily, atleast in my life it happened like that. For many people it takes lifetimes of journey to find a guru, and here I am fortunate to have him. I won’t say blindly believe in him but if you are lost, If you want to know the truth and experience life in it’s depth then he has the way, he has the tools.

Sadhguru

A being of immense proportions,
Came to my life,
Taking me out of the pit,
The pit where I lost myself,
And showed me a path to find myself again,
Making me experience life in its true essence,
 Oh beloved,
Don’t you ignore this being,
As he won’t be coming back,
One more time.
Shambho

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Relationship

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When you see life from a moment to moment basis and start living life in this way, then suddenly you will experience the sweetness in everything around you, especially in the people around you. These people hold certain relationship with you, but the judgement you carry with your past experiences will make experience of this relationship either sweet or nasty or full of hatred.

When I opened my eyes in the world and started to grasp life I saw people judging other’s even if they don’t know them, creating hatred within, bullying for their own needs etc. So I started to see people like this with full of idiotic judgement and opinions, making myself into a negative nut which threw me into the pit called depression.

When you go into this pit then you, suddenly stop relating with everything around you and then there are only two choices either to end everything or start over. Both are a tough decisions to make but starting over is a good one. When you start over then you start seeing life in a different perspective, leaving all the past impressions aside. And this will start affecting all the relation that you hold. You will see everything is just for this moment and once you get into the next moment the last moment is just past.

Same thing happened to me, I saw all this relationship that I hold with everything around me is just momentarily. This moment I am with them and next moment puff, I am Dead this will be a possibility so then I started to enjoy everything and did best what I can do for them. When you taste this moment then you will understand, what the other people who is with you in this moment mean to you. Because there are 7.9 billion people in the world and they are with you here at this moment. It doesn’t matter what they think and experience, but how you are within you is your decision.

So when you experience this then dealing outside become easy, someone told some nasty thing about you then you can respond or not respond it’s your choice. But what’s within you won’t be changing and you will see them as a clear mirror. So when you see them as they are, then every relation will become a way for liberation your friendships, your love, your siblings etc just a door for the liberation. Whether you want to make the relationships as a barrier or a door its upon you.

Relationship

This Sweetness of life,

Shared makes my bond with others strong within,

Oh beloved,

Come and see the life with this sweetness.

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Love

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Is it something that happens when someone holds your hand or sleep with you or, is it something happens when you find yourself ? Love has been a topic of wonderment to me, as I saw people finding love outside of themselves. Ya, I agree the situations you live in and people you stay with makes some difference but whatever the case may be any emotions that happens, happens within you and you have the choice of choosing whether to choose love or hate.

I am very lucky to be with people who loved me in my all bad and good times, be it be my family or my friends. But for me to experience love was a bit hard, as I always saw love as physical thing. If you do something to someone its love, If you hold someone’s hand its love etc etc, ya all that’s love, but just a small part of love. What’s true love you can’t express you can be it, but you can’t express.

A person become unloving or don’t experience love within them, when they are too much invested into themselves in their own thoughts, ego and what not. So this was my case few years back, a person totally invested into myself. But when you see life within you is not alive totally and you have missed on something then, you see for a path or someone who can help who can show you the way, so when I was in this confusion of death or living, love or hate etc.

My guru entered my life, Yoga entered my life and when I sat in his presence he just broke everything, the walls that I had built for myself to get suppressed and not feel anything alive in this world all those were shattered within me. The experience I went through that day was like immense pain from my heart and from my being by just letting loose everything that I was and what I held precious within me gave me, a sense of love within my being. This sweetness which I experienced was not of an emotional sort but pure life, just taking an inhalation is enough to become loving now.

From then experience of my life just turned inward, this love is nothing but life and if you think you are into yoga or meditation then without love you cannot exist. Love is the “A” of life and there are different facets of life too, but if you are not in love then you will get derailed in life with the body and mind playing games.

When you want to find love then you must look inward and then you will find a way or someone who knows the way will come to you especially, if you want to start a Spiritual journey.

Love

This sweetness of life that you have given,

Is making me mad in love with everything around me,

When I simply close my eyes and just breathe,

I go into the raptures of ecstasy,

Oh beloved,

Let not miss this life,

In the ways of body,

Rather taste bounty of life.

Shambho

Be Love

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A gift that I gave to myself…

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Inner engineering, which changed my life totally

Namaskaram Everyone,

My self Ritesh Shenoy from Mumbai I did my Inner engineering in September 2016 the day I stepped onto the step to change my life.

So I had written My experience of inner engineering last time also. But I didn’t wrote everything in it so thought of writing it elaborately.

I am born in a Middle class family and when I was 6 years of age Chicken Pox invaded my body and made me suffer my whole of Childhood and Teenage. The Chicken Pox brought the allergy with it and from birth my ability to understand and articulate something was weak and also I could not understand many things in the world except martial arts movie (Bruce Lee is my favorite).

This was the most toughest thing as a child I went through to understand the life what is happening around me and why it is happening. Many questions in my head but I could not speak up. I was bullied, teased, I consumed lots of medicine etc.

So I started searching for happiness in the world.

The first thing I saw was people who were having girlfriend were quite happy so I tried to get myself a girlfriend and it was a bad idea. Because there is one thing I saw which I was unaware of is the breakup and when I saw the amount of suffering the people go through the break up made me not to approach anyone (hahahahaha).

Then another thing I got attracted to solace myself was drinks, smoke and drugs. As I grew up, i thought of trying this and side by side I was having my health medication also. So the time came when I went study out of station to study.

In the name of study I tried many things to solace my suffering of my past but everything just maximized my suffering and made me take drastic steps that is to jump to end the life. But when I was about to do something within me said don’t do it and I got down.

So after failing every attempt of bringing happiness to myself and I returned Back to home dropping the education that I was doing. So I started seeing for the videos where I could my suffering little. So started doing the Om meditations from the YouTube which was a hour long but I couldn’t sit for a minute.

So after searching long enough i started searching the meaning of meditation and how it can be used. So during the search there came the first video of some white bearded guy (A typical Indian yogi) from my childhood I didn’t believed an yogi or baba but this one intrigued me.

His English was so amazing and the logical explanation of life i started to search about him more. So i realized that after enough searching that he offers yoga programs and many people have got many health benefit and over came through stress problems (which i was going through). And so i enrolled for the first basic program called as Inner Engineering the name itself attracted me.

It is a 7 day program (I will provide the link of the program down) this was a turning point in my life.

In that program there is 21-minute meditation called Sambhavi Mahamudra kriya has been thought and after practicing it for 4 months my whole suffering went away, Addictions went away and my medication came down drastically. I started to express myself more joyfully, my speech and pronunciation became fluent. And the important thing I understood life in a different way.

Inner Engineering is a gift that i gave to myself and through my guru’s grace many things have changed in my life.

Lastly I would like to say that whoever is going through depression or stressed out or anything. If you want to know the joy of life you have to turn inward and this is the best tool.

My life before and after inner engineering.

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From my childhood my health was not good. The health problems were ranging from health issues to unable to speak any language fluently till not understanding things clearly.With many questions in my mind about life and death I wandered around.

It was year 2015, where I tried many things (smoking, drinking and marijuana ) to get out of that depression and stress from failing in exams and not knowing the answers to my questions as the year came to end, my health and education was getting even more worse. Then one day I thought of ending everything in one go. Just by jumping from the 4th floor of the building where I was staying. But something within me just stopped me. From that day onwards I searched for the methods to get out of this depression and stress on YouTube. But was not successful.

In the year 2016, I saw Sadhguru in a YouTube video where he spoke about inner engineering. And unlike other babas or sadhus what he said made sense to me. He just explained what is meditation and what he is offering to us through the program called inner engineering. After much research I then enrolled for the program in my locality just to see whether it does anything to my situation.

Inner engineering

After doing this program within a month or so I was feeling light and my health issues started fading away. Now I am way better and healthy with only minor issues left, my ability to speak clearly has improved and I left drinking and smoking up which brought a new energy in me. It is beautiful to be happy and energetic the whole day. No drinks and no marijuana can compete with this Inner engineering program. Sadhguru to me is a person which brought a new sense of life in me. His methods gave me my life back which I lost long back.

Inner Engineering is an opportunity to engineer an inner transformation that deepens your perception, bringing about a dimensional shift in the very way you look at your life, your work and the world in which you exist. It is offered as an intensive program for personal growth and establishes the possibility of exploring the higher dimensions of life, in addition to optimizing health and success.

Inner Engineering is a technology for well-being derived from the ancient science of yoga. For those seeking professional and personal excellence, this program offers key to meaningful and fulfilling relationships at work, at home, in the community and most importantly, within yourself. By fostering an understanding of your inner self, this program empowers you to handle the hectic pace of modern life with ease, experience life to the fullest and fulfill your potential – a potential modern physicists and psychologists say is almost unlimited.

This program includes the Shambavi Mahamudra Kriya, a 21-minute yoga practice of immeasurable transformative power and antiquity that Sadhguru has brought to the modern world. Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya brings your entire system into alignment so that your body, mind, emotions and energies function in harmony. It is now practiced by millions worldwide.

If you want to do this program please register yourself in the below link. http://bit.ly/IEC_with_Sadhguru_RegnForm1

Thank you for reading.

An Empty Slate

Nowadays many people say that certain things happened in their life because it was their fate.

But life happens from within and whatever happens outside cannot be controlled, but you only have choice on how you react on it.

But in a deeper sense, if you are happy and blissful in your body and mind then whatever happens outside, you won’t be effected.

And when you become conscious of life within you, you can write your destiny the way you want it. But many people go by fate and get failed in life or they don’t achieve what they want to. And when they don’t live as they want they say life is hell.

Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, its own means. Life is all.

OSHO

A Dive Into Consciousness

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Consciousness as mentioned in my earlier post is the only difference between an animal and a human being.

Devotion is not about praying to god, it is about getting involved in whatever you are doing in life without any sense of selfishness. If you do anything with enormous involvement you will become super human in-front of others. For example, we call Sachin Tendulkar as the god of cricket and Michael Jackson as the king of pop because of their involvement in their work.

Jesus said,” The kingdom of God is within you’. Yoga is a method to Experience the within.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Yoga is not about twisting or turning the body, it is about merging with universe. Yoga literally means ‘union‘. Yoga in the world has been done in many wrong ways.

Yoga propounded by Patanjali, Adiyogi-shiva and many other yogis of Indian subcontinent has made it easy. Yoga is an inner science and brings out various methods to reach the ultimate well being.

There are four types of yoga Karma yoga, Kriya yoga, Gnana yoga and Bhakti yoga.

Karma Yoga- If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come no yoga will happen!

Kriya Yoga- With the path of the realization you are not only seeking realization, you also want to know mechanics of life making.

Gnana yoga- ” What I know, I know, What I don’t know, I don’t know”.This Gnana/ Intelligence.

Bhakti yoga- If you use you emotions and try to reach the ultimate, we call this bhakti yoga.

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Consciousness, the way to be

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As a human just try to be available to that book. Reading it, is your choice but being available to it is the nature’s choice. Do not restrict it by your thoughts and emotion.

Consciousness is the way life functions around you. Everything around us including our body has been made by the five elements- Earth, Fire, Air,Water and space.

What is the Difference between an animal and a Human being ?

We all do same actions prevailing in the nature; but the difference is, we can do it by being conscious while animals cannot. If you become conscious, then many things that you never know will be in your perspective and you may feel like a super human. But it is not about being super human, but to know that being human is super!

The intelligence behind making a tree, body or an animal is called consciousness. In India, there where many wonderful being which made the use of consciousness to flourish human well being.

Swami Vivekananda and Gautama Buddha are among those people. In every person this life force is dormant and many people die like that way only without even tasting it.

How to get into that consciousness ?

Check out my next article.