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 :).