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.