Mission Green Earth & Stand Up & Take Action -2008

Mission Green Earth & stand up take action event succesfully organized world over & in Indore by Art of Living. We in Indore planted more than 8500 trees, but unfortunately as on record send to United Nations the figure of 7400 nos. We committed to plant another 95000 trees by July 2009. In Stand up & take action event app. 25000 people participated from around more than 35 institutions/schools etc. The major success in this Mission was to plant the trees in secured area so to look after by the responsible people. Sincerely if every single person plants 16 trees in next one year, we can wipe out major problems for ever from this planet. To protect our Environment is the major responsibility today. This will eradicate the imbalances in nature & natural disasters,floods etc .

Well done Indore Team of Art of Living.

Rock - Onnnnnnn

A rock on movie is Rock on -
What is success is a big question ??
In this materialistic life lot of money is the sign of success !
Some people are lucky as they choose what ever profession in life they become successful (Lot of Money !!)
But the life's main quest is to find the power of self !! Is it not so ?? The success to find ultimate?
Are you or we doing exactly what we want to do in life ?
This is the secret & toughest question of life ?
Guruji says the "undying smile on the face in all situations in life is the sign of success ".
any way a good movie to watch.

Stand up & take action

Art of Living Indore chapter has send the food material to Bihar flood relief camp of AOL. We need to stand up & take action in this national disaster. This is the unprecedented natural /Human fault disaster in the recent history.

Stand Up & Take Action- 2008

( Students of Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering

taking Action - Tree plantation - Mission Green Earth )

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer(1820 - 1903) British Philosopher

In September 2000, 189 Heads of Nations came together to commit to work together to build a safer, more prosperous and equitable world for all by 2015 at the United Nations Millennium Summit, which gave birth to the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2007, in an extraordinary initiative called Stand Up and Speak Out, assisted by governments and NGOs all over the world, a staggering 43.7 million people spread over 127 countries stood up within 24 hours and took an oath to end poverty. In 2008, the campaign is called Stand Up and Take Action.

One of the MDGs is to “ensure environmental sustainability”. Global warming is no longer “somebody else's” problem.

Green Earth is a commitment to plant 100 million trees and have a 100 million people stand up and take the oath on October 17, 18 or 19, 2008.

Indore AOL team has already geared up for this historic event.

Prejudices Vs Broadning the vision

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate
"We take food, fashion, music and technology from all over the world; it’s time to globalize wisdom as well"
"We should deepen the roots & broaden the vision."
--Guruji
Over 100 Pakistani youth from various universities underwent a 7-day program in the age group of 18 to 25 years at the Indus School of Arts and Architecture, Karachi. Muslims, Christians, Zoroastrians, Hindus and young people of the Sufi faith participated in the Youth Empowerment Seminar of AOL by Baba ( Khursheed Batliwala) & Dinesh Ghodke recently.
The aim was to empower the youth as individuals and then enable them totake responsibility for a violence-free, stress-free society.
Strategies were also discussed to take initiatives for breaking prejudices by bringing together people through music, dance, drama, arts, sports and social service. Almost all agreed to the fact that since we take food, fashion, music and technology from all over the world; it’s time to globalize wisdom as well and not just potato chips and fizzy drinks. The youth thus have a major role in deepening the roots and broadening the vision of a nation.
Really are we prejudiced ?? Are our roots are deepen & vision is broader.
Time to think & Action.

Beautiful quotes of Gurudev about God & Mind

God is Not
God is not the object of sight; you can never see God. God is not an object of hearing. God is not an object of smelling or tasting. God cannot be perceived through your senses, nor through the mind.
God Is
God is the Seer himself. Who sees---that is God.
Seeing God
You can live God. You can be God. But you cannot "see" God, perceive God as an Object

Mind is a Field
Mind is not just in one location. Mind is a field, like an electric field. Like an electromagnetic field,it's present all over.

Wrapping Paper
Mind is that cover that is holding the Divine, the Divinity within us. Once that wrapping paper is unwrapped, you find, "Oh, this beautiful gift is here within us!" You know, it's like everyone is given a Christmas package, a beautiful package, and they live with the beautiful without even opening it.

Indian Army - Volunteer

News - The death of col Thomas, in an encounter with Millitants last week.

>>>India's army is not a mercenary army. It is poorly paid, badly armed and has to preserve the integrity of this country in some of the most inhospitable areas of the world. Yet every man in it is a volunteer. He is in it of his own free will. Every man in the army from the highest ranked officer to the new jawan is willing to lay down his life because he loves his country.
But Indians cannot take this patriotism for granted. And they cannot just leave it to the army to motivate their ranks. It is indeed the job of very Indian citizen to ensure that the jawan feels like defending this country. If you want to be protected then you must be worthy of protection.
The jawan will be automatically motivated to do his job if he finds a progressive, law abiding, prosperous country behind him. It is indeed the job of the government to create conditions that keep him motivated. To restore order and decorum in public life, to ensure law and order, to reign in corruption and to bring back prosperity."
The above paragraph I am reprinting from the column written by Admiral J G Nadkarni ( Retired). ( A very old article written in year 2001).
Really we should take the responsibility for so many things which we can change individually or in a group. Time to think & take action.

Responsibility to change the world

People don't resist change; they resist being changed.
Peter Senge-based author, researcher & educator
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) Indian Nationalist Leader
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
W. Edward Deming(1900 - 1993) Quality Guru
These are some of the beautiful quotes about change.
Recently we played a very interesting game in the Art of Living Teachers Meet at aashram on how mind behave in change & how mind adopts to change. This game is a course point in YES + ( A very powerful course for the Youths between 18 to 30 age group). Khursheed Batliwala (We call him lovingly as Bawa or Bau A very Sr. International faculty of AOL. He is with Guruji since last more than 15 years), shown interesting behaviour of mind through the game.
Guruji says that everything is changing & nothing is constant in life.
This is the very fundamental law of spirituality.
For changing ourselves - Learning ------ Retension ------Application-----Transformation.
We have to learn ,retain it ,apply it & than only transformation will happen.
As Mahatma Gandhi said
We must become the change we want to see in the world.

With Love from Russia - Shri Manoj Rao -
Sr. Faculty of Art of Living from Indore

Shri Manoj Rao is in Russia since last three months , taking 13 DSN course there.We are eagerly waiting for him he will be back by 5th Sep.
DSN Participants in Russia .

Yoga Center replaced the Dance Bar

Its heartening to hear that Sudhakar Shetty a property owner donated a 8500 sqft place at Ville Parle Mumbai to Yoga Center of Baba Ramdeo. Congratulations to Deputy Chief Minister R. R. Patil & Sudhakar Shetty for all there efforts. This place previously used as a Dance bar.All Shetty communitie in Mumbai runs the dance bars previouly, who are basically Kannadi from Karnataka this is a inspiration to all shettys to shift to some positive business.
Surprisingly this news didnt come in any of news papers, but I seen it in Yahoo News yesterday.
No papers today morning covered this news ? why ?
Media covers only Sen sational news & this news is boring ? People read / listen/ see only negative news ? Everything is market driven now in India , "Jo dikhta hai wo bikta hai".Media shows the content where expected TRP is high. Who to blame ? Yes we are responsible for this. Take Action. pl. comment.

I recently Read a talk of Guruji which is given in UN. Few sentences are as below, may not be verbatim, pl excuse.

There are two kinds of people in the life one who take responsibility but do not pray & one who pray but do not take responsibility. We need people who pray & take responsibility.



Really think how much we are responsible for everything which is going on this earth good or bad & as a responsible member on this planet earth what we are doing & also think about what is DR DKB. Comment

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