Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 6

For the benefit of those who want to read previous related entries : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5

Day 6 was the final day of the basic course. We were little upset that this beautiful course has come to an end. Nevertheless we were all happy that we had a great course of life. We were asked to bring some fruits and a gift. They had not revealed the reason to bring the gift. This day started bit early as there were few other things to cover this day. We all came on time. They had a small book exhibition where I purchased few books - "Celebrating silence" and "Celebrating love". Both these books are very nice. Turn any page, you will learn something that is worth for your life.

Day 6 also started with some warm up exercises and yogasanas. Then we had a brief knowledge session. The knowledge session started of with asking answers for 3 home work questions asked on day 4:

• Who are you?
• What are you?
• Where are you?

Again very cryptic questions. I will leave it to you to think it over. I am in search of those as well. These are some questions which we all need to think daily to understand our true purpose of life.

After this we all did Ujjayi Pranayama and Bhastrika Pranayama in Vajrasana. These were the prerequisites for Sudarshan Kriya. On Day 6, I had come with the determined mind that I will experience the short kriya with the same enthusiam. Sudarshan kriya started and this time as I had made up mind, the short kriya was equally amazing. I experienced the unique thing in this as well. The energy flow was amazing after the kriya.

We then had a small satsang where we all did some bhajans which was good. Then we were all told to laugh for sometime :). This was very good relaxing stuff. We were all laughing continuously for some 15 or 20 minutes. Whole body was relaxed after this. Then we were asked to take out the gift that we had brought to the class and start running and randomly exchange the gifts with the person next to us and we did that for few minutes and finally our teacher told us that the gift that you got is for you :). By this time volunteers had prepared fruit salad with the fruits that we had got. A small pooja was offered to guruji and the fruit salad was distributed to us. We all ate the delicious fruit salad and thanked others which was the logical end to the course.

All in all a great course. I recommend this to everyone to experience this once in life time. Go to the course with the open mind. You need not have any expectations. Just go with the curiosity to experience something you wouldn't have experienced otherwise. People even with the age of 75 years are doing this daily and getting a lot of benefits. I sincerely thank Guruji for this great gift to the society. I am feeling blessed now :).

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 5

For those who want to read previous related entries : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4

Usually during basic course, there will be one day ashram visit. But for us as Guruji was not in ashram and also as they could not find any vehicle to take all of us to ashram, on day 2 they had told that we shall visit ashram some time later. Fortunately mass guru pooja and group meditation got organized in ashram and a message was sent to our teacher to take all of us to ashram. So they decided to take all of us to ashram on Day 5. We were excited to see ashram. A military vehicle was arranged to pick all of us to ashram which is in Kanakpura road. As it was saturday, we did not face much traffic and reached ashram comfortably.

The ashram's ambiance was simply superb. It was very calm and beautiful. Unfortunately we did not get much time to spend in seeing everything in ashram as it got started raining and the guru pooja was about to start. The full day ashram visit is still pending. I also wish to go there and stay for a week in ashram and complete advanced course. This is also on the cards. Hope everything works out well and I get a chance to do that soon :)

We went inside the auditorium where guru pooja was about to start. It was really cool to see that the auditorium in ashram was full. There were many people who have completed many advanced courses, many teachers who help others to experience these great courses, lots of blessers who are eligible and willing to bless others to come out of their problems. It was really great to see the charming faces who have dedicated themselves to help this society.

All teachers started to perform guru pooja on the stage. I was really impressed with the way the guru pooja was taught in Art of Living by Guruji. He has really reduced the barriers to perform pooja. Although I like to perform the pooja in the traditional way, I appreciate this technique as this attracts more and more people towards spirituality due to less difficulty in learning yet has all the important steps in offering pooja. It was amazing to see the involvement of people in performing the pooja.

After the pooja, group bhajans started. It was good to be part of those bhajans. Once turned around to see how people were performing bhajans. Nice to see that they were all very much involved :). Then group meditation started. Although it was good experience, my mind was still not trained to get full benefit of that. It was a good experience overall to visit the ashram. Hopefully I will visit ashram soon and see Guruji in person and take his blessings :).

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 4

I should have written this blog entry some time back. That time I got busy with some things and thought that this would be again repeating the great experience. Now I realised that the series should not be incomplete.

For those who want to read previous related entries : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3

The fourth day of the course started with some warm up exercises and yogasanas. Then we had a brief knowledge session. The knowledge session started with asking answers for 3 home work questions asked on day 3:

• When have you come to this planet?
• How long you propose to stay here?
• What do you intend to do in the time you stay here?

These were probably very tough questions for me. I could not answer these questions and was not convinced by the answers given. Hence the answers to these questions are still in search.

After this we all did Ujjayi Pranayama and Bhastrika Pranayama in Vajrasana. These were the prerequisites for Sudarshan Kriya. On fourth day they taught us the short version of sudarshan kriya. This was also a good experience. I should agree that I felt that short kriya was not as amazing as the long kriya on that day and was little disappointed. This is something that was taught so that we can practice daily. The long kriya has to be performed with Guruji's voice only and it should be performed only once per week under a guru. On fourth day we basically practiced what should be performed daily.

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 3

At the end of Day 2 we were told strictly that we should not miss the next class of Sudarshan Kriya as it is the continuation of previous one. Instructor explained us that is is like the half surgery is done and you have to come on next day to complete the surgery :-). No one in our batch missed third day of the course.

Again Day 3 started of with some warm up exercises and yogasanas. Then we had a brief knowledge session. The knowledge session started of with asking answers for 2 home work questions asked on Day 2:

• What are you responsible for?
• What are you not responsible for?

Again these were tricky questions. I thought about them for sometime and had arrived at some conclusion that whatever is in my control I will take responsibility for them and will not take responsibility for the rest. Instructor then told us that we can expand our responsibility circle to whole universe if consider everything as something that belongs to us. More a particular person belongs to you, you will have more responsibility for person. Then some more stories to convey knowledge points.

After that we started the much awaited Sudarshan Kriya. Initially we all did Ujjayi Pranayama and Bhastrika Pranayama in Vajrasana. These were the prerequisites for Sudarshan Kriya. Then the Sudarshan Kriya was guided in Guruji's voice. Then entire process went for one hour.

The experience of third day was a super set of experiences of Day 2. All my body parts were filled with immense energy. My skin was stretched by the power in energy. I experienced a unique thing. My hands were lifted up without any effort from me. I was not inside me for a some period of time. I couldn't remember where I was but was definitely awake without consciousness but sub-conscious mind was following Guruji's voice to perform Sudarshan Kriya. This amazing experience can't be explained in words. I had heard in stories that people used to lift them up in the air during some kind of meditation and now started to believe in that :-).

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 2

The second day of the course started with some warm up exercises and yogasana. Then we had a brief knowledge session. The knowledge session started of with asking answers for 2 home work questions asked on day 1:

• When will you be happy?


• What do you want to do to be happy?

I had thought of these questions at home for around 45 minutes. It went on and on and came to a conclusion thinking about when will never lead me to happiness as I found one or the other thing bothering at all occasions. So I had decided to say answer as I will be happy Always and I need to do nothing except convincing myself to be happy. I did reply the same and the instructor was exited to hear that answer and she enhanced the answer and told that everyone should say you are happy now :-). Then she explained some of the stories to convey some knowledge points. Overall it was a good learning.

After that we started the much awaited Sudarshan Kriya. Initially we all did Ujjayi Pranayama and Bhastrika Pranayama in Vajrasana. These were the prerequisites for Sudarshan Kriya. Then the Sudarshan Kriya was guided in Guruji's voice. Then entire process went for one hour. It is basically rhythmic breadth control.

The experience was really awesome and I think that place has Guru's grace as it had some divine experience to me. All my body parts were filled with immense energy. My skin was stretched by the power in energy. I literally had lost control on my hands which were feeling so heavy that it was as if a heavy weight placed on it. The vibrations and energy flow in body has no words to explain them. After that my body was completely recharged. It was just amazing to experience such a blissful moment. All I can say in the end is how much ever I explain how is gulab Jamoon you cannot feel it, you should eat that to experience how good it is. In the same way Sudarshan Kriya has to be experienced :-).

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 1

The Art of Living offered a course on Sudarshan Kriya near Sanjaynagar (Close to my residence). I had the desire of experiencing this from quite some time but couldn't make it to the course. This time I decided to attend this course. This course if for 6 days. It started from 13-07-2010 and will continue till 18-07-2010. Yesterday (13-07-2010) was my first day of course. This post outlines the first day's experience.

The course was offered during 3 time slots. One starts from 5.45AM in the morning, the second one starts from 10.30AM and the last one starts from 6.30PM. Each session lasts for 2.5 hours. I had decided to go for 5.45AM and got up at 5AM after loooong time and went to that place but couldn't find that place as it was somewhere interior. Spent some 20 minutes searching and finally got into place at 5.50AM and found that the classes got canceled as I was the only person in that batch :-(. I felt something like "ಪಾಪಿ ಸಮುದ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದ್ರೂ ಮೊಳಕಾಲುದ್ದ ನೀರು" and I came back home at 6AM. As I was almost ready I decided to leave to office having early breakfast but my nephew wanted me to play with him for sometime and finally left to office at 8.30AM and thought that I couldn't make the course this time. At 5.20PM in the evening I noticed in my office calender that I had no meetings after 5PM entire week and decided to try for the course for evening batch. I again reached that place at 6.25PM. The instructors were happy to see me back and the course started. Felt very happy that finally I started the course.

The course started with a unusual but good introduction to everyone. I was thought to introduce myself to everyone by saying "Sangachatvam (Lets go together). I belong to you. I am Adarsh". Everyone else introduced themselves in the similar way. Then the instructor told us the following ground rules:

• Should switch off mobile phones


• Should not miss even a single class


• No alcohol


• No cigarette


• No non-veg food


• No tea


• No coffee


• No Onion, Garlic, Brinjol


• Have limited food but enough


• Have good sleep but not more

These ground rules were not difficult for me to follow as I almost have that food habit. Then instructor gave us some introduction about the course, its benefits. She first demonstrated about the vajraasana. It was not easy in the first shot for me to sit in that posture but got adjusted to it. Then she demonstrated 2 different types of pranayamas and its benefits. The first one is Ujjayi Pranayama. You can read more about this here. The second one is Bhastrika Pranayama. Then we were thought about doing both and we practiced for 30 minutes. Got the feeling of some flowing energy in some parts of the body. It was a good experience. Even though I had got up at 5AM in the morning and had only 4.5 hours of sleep the previous night, I was not feeling tired instead had some more energy left to play with my nephew after going home :-). The session concluded with a good 20 minute meditation guided by guruji's cassette. Overall a good first day of course. Keep watching for my experience on the reminder of the course.