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Tree Plantation Drive by YES!+: June 5, 2010

When Art of Living Bangalore's YES!+ team took charge in different parts of city, with AoL teachers, BBMP, and other responsible organizations like Vee Technnologies, the outcome was more than 100 new trees in a few hours, across parks!

FAQ: On an average, a human being utilizes resources of 16 trees in a lifetime.

Have you adopted your tree yet? :-)

Contact your Art of Living city coordinator and get started now.

www.artofliving.org

YES!+ Program

What keeps NASA astronauts and Asia’s best cardiologist stress-free?

How do Google employees at PaoAlto balance life and work?

What gives the world’s best snooker player an additional edge over competition?

Do I have to struggle to become successful in life?

Do I have the ability to handle any situation in life…with a smile?

Welcome to YES!+ Program and Upgrade your life skills.

YES!+ stands for Youth Empowerment and Skills Workshop for students and working professionals between the 18 to 30 age group. It’s a one of a kind, life skills workshop which is specially designed to give deep relaxation and easy-to-practice, practical tools to lead life with success.

· Do my relationships handle me?

For a change let me learn to handle my relationships.

· How can I give 100 per cent to life in the right direction?

· How to cultivate intelligence in my life without losing my innocence?

· Take a break from the madness of the world outside…Re-live life in your terms!

Whether you are a busy corporate, an ambitious student, or simply in need of a shift, YES!+ will leave you feeling lighter and ready to face any challenge with greater clarity and ease.

It enhances excellence and health in ALL ASPECTS of life: professional, personal, academic, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.

CORE COMPONENTS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM:

v Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY): A rhythmic breathing process that brings clarity to the mind, enhances creativity, kicks out personal mental barriers, gets rid of unhealthy habits, and increases focus and concentration levels tremendously.

v Challenging sessions to strengthen and energize the body and increase stamina

v Interactive Processes that are fun and provide practical wisdom to dealing with unpleasant situations at work/life

v You’ll learn Ancient techniques:

ü To enhance focus and concentration without stressing the mind

ü shortcuts to time management

ü for enhanced productivity at work

v A 20-minute daily breathing and meditation practice upon completion of the program

The upcoming YES!+ @ Bangalore:

Trainers: Smriti and Sahil Jagtiani. (Sahil is an International trainer for the Art of Living International Foundation, an Entrepreneur, and an International Singer and Musician.)

Dates: 11- 13 June

Timings: 8:00 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Where: ManandiSamskruta Sadan Hall, Jayanagar 5th Block, Bangalore
Age Criteria: 18–30 yrs + "those Young at Heart!"

Contact Us: Krishna 09884761590, Gaurav 9886279368

Email- smritisahilyesplus@gmail.com

Visit www.yesplus.org For testimonials: http://www.yesplusevents.org/testimonials/

Strangely, over-saturated intellectuals today need testimonials from organizations to believe good things, so here goes...(bcos nothing should stop you experiencing the most freeing experience you can have, in life) Please check the testimonials of various Organizations.

Also, share this link with your friends, family and colleagues. You never know whose life you may help Transform!

A new series of universal knowledge

Just browse through "your" topic...you will find something that clicks :-)
Knowledge from the Source

What Sri Sri Said July 4th 2002 Austin USA Public Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSfXjBS8Rw

Sri Sri Conducts a Meditation - June 28th 2002 Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w86_4zTTvXQ

What Sri Sri Said June 28th 2002 Chicago, USA Public Talk, Q+A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u155UokpJXU

What Sri Sri Said July 19th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - The Significance of Yagyas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50G8jJ_Tzo

What Sri Sri Said July 19th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang and Knowledge - Desires and Shraddaa(Faith)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMtBg-DaE4

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang Q and A and Birthdays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNnhWcymJiE

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - Speaks on Overcoming a Broken Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LuXJ2ucDE

Sri Sri Sings a Bhajan Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QG6-609VM

What Sri Sri Said Jan 15th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang - Dealing with negative Emotion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPzs17OBE3c

What Sri Sri Said January 7th 2001 Canada Eve Satsang Q & As

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrhKr1-g3SA

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th, 2001 Canada Q and A - Speaks on Same Sex Attraction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EektMq5mVwU

What Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Said Jan 4th 2001 Canada Q and A: Sex & Spirituality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYanZqJ9zg0

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th, 2001 - Speaks on Dealing With Loss of a Loved One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlSoCgxhcv4

What Sri Sri Said Jan 4th 2001- Canada Q and A Sessions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaoeLWOiJnA

Love,
Gaurav

Bangalore's Mall Culture!

THE MARKET

...is awash with rotten apples which go unnoticed to most consumers...most of us look forward to THE Sunday, and when its here, we waste half the day sleeping late (which topsy turvies the biological clock and metabolism...wow! what a dumb thing to do...), and one third of the other half, we waste inside a supermarket....especially if you walk into one of those noisy Big Bazaars...I compare the confusion to what probably chickens feel when they are crammed into cages inside factory farms! Loudspeakers babbling away about last minutes discounts...and frantic mothers trying to parallely manage crying kids and shopping carts @ same time...! and you'll find the local boys loitering inside...passing comments at so-called babes....!

The experience becomes worse when you are more aware of the air inside...its cluttered with thoughts, thoughts, thoughts...all thoughts of confused, weekend-starved professionals...who end up buying junk in that confused state of mind...and the air inside is stiffling! You know that when you step outside........

Personally I feel the shopping mall culture is killing off the good old Bangalore....and another chain of "environment and health" side-effects are on the way because of these malls, the same way that IT has done to Bangalore in the past!

The reasons most people go to malls:

1) Because suddenly you have nothing better to do...

2) You want to meet your friend, at a mall...and once you meet him/her, you both are clueless what to do

3) If your friend is same sex, and you are straight then you'll both stare away at the opposite sex...this is similar to what we have done when we are at home...stare away blindly at the TV..while eating, while studying, while entertaining guests, sometimes even just to fall asleep!!

4) If your friend is same sex, and you both are gays/lesbians, you'll stare at the same sex...LOL

5) If your friend is opposite sex, then you'll do either of the following:

   a) You are "just friends" with her, so she'll point out all the so-called hot guys, and you'll point out all the so-called hot girls

   b) You "friend" is your girl friend?? Oops...then you'll probably peek glances at the babe who just passed by...a subconscious fantasy will probably make you take a second peep!

6) You want to shop for yourself....apparel...food products...home needs...and in the process you will take home one or more plastic bags which you will dispose irresponsibly! You will fight for your currency change with the autorickshaw wala who drops you home, but you will not fight for the planet nor educate the rest of the zombie shoppers who are also taking plastic bags by the dozens!!

7) You want to eat at McDonald's (or KFC if your love towards your own body and environment is lost!) and feel good about all the goo that's going into your delicate system. And if you are one of those fast-food young mothers who use toilet papers (yuck!), then you will definitely pump your little child's system with generous doses of unhealthy McVeggies, McChicken...I promise you that your child has higher chances of:

   a) getting early puberty
   b) becoming dumber and dumber at studies
   c) becoming more aggressive with age
   d) getting chronic diseases: including gastritis, obesity (most common), heart diseases, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, Type 2 diabetes and worst of all, WEAKENED IMMUNITY!

If you tell me, "Oh, but I just take my son/daughter to eat junk "once in a while"."

I tell you, Every weekend is NOT "once in a while"!

Real communication has become passe, with more and more malls, and their fast food joints spreading like cholera...in fact most conversations nowadays are very focussed....on MONEY or GRATIFICATION. Gratification includes DOING NAUGHTY THINGS ON BED!

Definitions are also changing:

X Love for this funny cult of people is not love any more. It is "making love".

X Contributing to the planet means building software for foreign monopolies, that become cash cows for the already-rich foreign tycoons.

X As children, we played with toys, now most of you have stopped playing with toys...and started playing with human emotions

X Doing a random act of karmic kindness means helping the beggar woman (who will in turn give the money to her drunkard husband)

X Music means loud, metal, anti-Christ bands who exhibit suppressed emotional imbalances at rock shows, and invite a couple of alcohol brands as well to heighten the short-term madness

X Quality time with parents means dragging them to the nearest mall to buy you that latest watch or jewellery or gadget.

Bangalore and its mall culture (includes fast food, rock bands, smoky pubs) are drugging the minds of promising youth...

...Software code is more poetic than Rabindranath Tagore's poetry

...Bloody Mary and McDowell's is more refreshing than healthy herbal juices

...Junk food is more gratifying than home-made organic food

...Singing about heartbreaks (followed by getting drunk) is more soothing than spending time meditating or helping someone

...Urban Agriculture means Farmville on facebook

...Higher grades in high school mean a promising engineer or doctor or lawyer (as if we don't have enough unemployable ones already)

What is the purpose of your life?

To get into IIT? To get out of IIT? To get into Infosys? To get out of Infosys? To get married and create a generation of fast-food dependant children? To leave a huge property behind that has your younger generations spilling blood over?

Is the purpose of your life to struggle?

Is the purpose of your life to:

lose health working for a foreign MNC?
lose self-esteem by becoming a successfully "placed" MBA?
lose the priceless wealth of Vedic scientific knowledge that has survived millenniums, and inspired scientists and world leaders since the times of Archimedes?
lose the spirituality that has held together the magnanimity of the Indian civilization: the most prosperous, the oldest and the most welcoming of all civilizations?

If you want to break the chain, and do something worthy of becoming a legend...start with something very simple. And the simplest thing is to love yourself more, enrol for an Art of Living YES!+ workshop, do good to this planet, and care for more and more people around you. You will live a regret-free life that will inspire many lives around you.

YES!+

Living is truly an Art, which teaches the Science of Living!

http://yespluspunediary.blogspot.com/2009/01/hinjewadi-november.html

Re-living Life

Are you a college goer?

A fresher?
A corporate professional who picked up smoking during college days and the peer pressure of "acting" cool?
A rebel who rebels in all the wrong ways that cause long-term damage to your own health?

I am sure after reading this blog by Jitesh, you will re-think why you started smoking in the first place. And why not meditation?

Simply because it is a sincere and innocent request to stop smoking and start re-living! :-)

And for the intelligent people like me and you too (if you are a non-smoker and you meditate everyday), we know what a HIGH meditation gives to the system! It is intoxicating.

By meditation, I mean the real meditation. Cos most people have this misconcept about meditation:

"close your eyes and imagine toony lights...concentrate..Concentrate...CoNcEnTrAtE! cOnCeNtRaTe! ConncennnTrAAteee!!! Boom! Bang! KaBoooommm! "
I'm sure you'll wake up with a splitting headache and disappointment because you didn't see disco lights going zigzag with eyes closed...No! thats not meditation. Meditation as GuruJi says, is "DE-CONCENTRATION"! and the EFFECT of meditation is "CONCENTRATION".

So simply relax, call any Art Of Living volunteer, and register for a YOUTH EMPOWERMENT and SKILLS (YES!+) WORKSHOP (if you are young at heart!). I promise You, it'll be the best investment you'll have ever made in your life.

Time to Re-Live the few beautiful remaining years of this life in the Best Way! Let's learn the Art Of Living!

The Master is a Garbage Collector for the World

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The changing face of Bangalore music culture

http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/21 Feb, 2010:
Palace Grounds, Gayathri Vihar:
Evening: 5pm

Enter a host of Indian and international music bands, who set the tone for Richard Marx and the Backstreet Boys to hit the stage...

The uniqueness was, there were a few aunties and family folks...which was a pleasant surprise. Not quite a surprise if one knows the popularity Backstreet Boys enjoy in India-- the country where music continues to be @ the peak of excellence and diversity, since the past many millenniums.

Just two hours before the show, I had no clue I was gonna be there, but of course, I have a superb Guru...who knows what I want (I wanted to watch Richard Marx live, just the previous day...not knowing that Richard Marx was in Bangalore the next day! surprise...not anymore...I'm usd to miracles now... :-))
....and there I was, with Anjana (thx to her, I was there)...and enjoyed superb guitar work by Richard Marx...what really caught my eye, were the extra effort Richard took to change a guitar for every song..he certainly gave us the best experience...and also that he was extremely witty and bright on the stage...he was very Deva kinds :-) playful..really playful on the stage...

well he made sure, that, he plays "Right Here Waiting" for us...!

and of course another number that hasnt gone into production yet ...well, :-)

Next were the Backstreet Boys who simply set the fans (including the aunties) going wild by their mere presence...I must appreciate they did put in a lot of hard work there and did their moves right...superb dance moves, great singing, and lots of love for their fans...it all showed immensely. Given that, they have come to learn the immense impact Indian music has had on the world music scene...they did admit they were gonna come back again to India next year (yes :-) good news for the big chunk of Indian music lovers who have grown on an everyday dose of Backstreet Boys)..and they also confirmed their openness to collaboration with Indian singers.... sounds good :-)

Its nice to know, for a change we have some good music coming into Bangalore....besides the usual hard rock and gothic music...

Music is vibrations, and these vibrations affect every cell of the human body (which is 90% water) likewise...good, positive, melodious music uplifts...whereas violent, anti-Christ, metal noise simply distorts every water molecule in our bodies...thus creating more violent, negative-minded, individuals..

Life is an upward trend, not a downward spiral. Life is a celebration, not a race.

The Story of Cap and Trade

Love our planet?

   Want to do something?

   Seen the Story Of Stuff?

NOW Watch the Story of Cap and Trade

http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/

And after you watch it, come and enrol for the next YES!+ workshop in your town. Because, naturally, you'll want to do something about it, and something practical and worthwhile for this planet of ours and its beautiful people. YES!+ empowers you first, and gives you the platform for REAL social change.

And if you are just an IT pro, too busy ONLY accumulating monies for "the 3BHK and the family car" target within ten years, then forget about it.

If you are an IT pro who does his/her job well...and wants to do more for the planet and the future of this world TOO, then jump on board. :-)

Don't miss the flight to your inner self, and outer change. Come and be the change!

...oh btw, it also includes a 3BHK, family car, family care too...and more...@ the right time ;-)

WAYE to Go!

100008 Youth in the HAPPINESS QUEUE...

have you registered yet?

http://bawandinesh.name/100008/

No??? Aigo....go, register:

http://yesplusevents.org/

Testimonials? :-)

http://yesplusevents.org/?page_id=27

My WOW! Guru

That's my WOW! Guru

...and my WOW! YES!+ teachers with WOW! universal Amma :-)

Jai GuruDeva!

BT BRINJAL IS HARMFUL...WHY???

Sometimes, I reiterate over the reason why I keep a blog, and post my thoughts and share it...one of the definite reasons is, social responsibility, and an inner urge to share the best things (with universal appeal) I have experienced in life with people I know and with people I dont know yet...

Along the way, I am confident I shall catalyze some positive change for many many good people in this planet, and for the not-so-good people too...

One such issue is certainly the unfair controversy over BT BRINJAL...whereas the facts are clear:

BT BRINJAL IS HARMFUL!

One doesn't need a ph.D in Biochemistry or Genetic Engineering to decipher this simple fact. In fact most ph.D. holders who support Genetically-Engineered (GE) food, have done enough harm already...by upholding "progress for progress's sake" and downplaying the long-term ethical murder that BT BRINJAL (and others, in the pipeline) bring upon farmers, the environment (air, water, land), and millions of consumers who may (God forbid!) consume potential carcinogen in form of BT BRINJAL!

I call GM food a hazardous stunt show, by politicians and Monsanto-species.

Let's uncomplicate.

Certainly, BT COTTON proved half the point with miserable failure, and complications.

No doubt farmers had a great crop for a season, and then the eco-system crashed...

soil was depleted of its capacity to grow other forms of crops!
further tests showed BT COTTON caused liver malfunction, skin allergies, and even carcinogen properties
In fact, GM food can also cause unknown mutations to the consumer or to the future generations, at any point of life...It like having dormant HIV which can appear at any time...
And the biggest flaw is that INSUFFICIENT tests were performed on BT COTTON before approving it.

Question: Who conducted the tests?

Yes, you are right...the same guys who approved it, the very corporates who created it.

We don't want human rights crushed in this bureaucrat game and political monopoly...we don't want farmer suicides...we don't want our earth to turn sterile.

And today, BT BRINJAL is contending to enter India, and through whom? The Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh!

The facts are clear, the experts have conducted 5-6 tests only! and they concluded it is safe...I didnt know we have such dishonest and conscience-less scientists too, who compromise on the ethics of their work, at the risk of health of millions of people, flora and fauna.

How can we even blame them?

These are the scientists who were taught the "BENEFITS" of GM food, not the negative ramifications, in their college. These are the very scientists who actually work for the companies that invent, produce and market GM food!

These organizations manipulate the tests, bribe their way past the regulatory hurdles, and promote themselves through the greedy pockets of the same government that WE elect! Very smart selling strategy, but it doesnt stop at that...

...have you heard of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)? This very IPR also protects these organizations, and gives them the farm to sue, and even grab the lands from the farmers who "dare" to save their own crops. Why? because IPR laws protect the interests of the one who holds the patent! In this case, it is MONSANTO and MAHYCO.

I am sure we all have got the picture here.

Remember the last meal you had? Breakfast...lunch...or dinner? you know the vegetables/fruits were bought at the market...you also know in India, there is NO LABELING of vegetables.

By "labeling" I mean, the footprint of the vegetable/fruit that you buy...where was it grown? was it exposed to fertilizers & pesticides? If yes, which fertilizers & pesticides? was it grown under organic conditions? If not, what is the level of toxicity it contains?

NOTHING! We are told nothing, and made to consume food with invisible footprints, the same way that your pet dog or a cow unquestioningly eats the food you give it!

"There is no law fixing liability in the event of contamination of non-Bt brinjal by the GM variety."

As consumers we think we monopolize the trend? WRONG! We may decide what fashion wear or movie should reach our wardrobes and bookshelves, but we are compromised on the most essential products-- our food system.

I ask Jairam Ramesh, did he put a labeling mechanism in place, before deciding to even encourage talks with GM companies? No he didn't. I am asking you, did you cast your vote in the last elections?

No? Then I am sorry you do not have a say in the government's affairs.

My friends, Europe including Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Denmark, Ireland has banned GM food, half of Brazil has done so too. In fact some of them have banned Monsanto completely, and Nestle (yes sir, they also inject GM ingredients into popular food products like Cerelac, Maggi noodles, Munch and Kitkat chocolates etc)!

I am sure we Indians are not cuckoos, or perhaps some politicians are...and greedy cuckoos at that too.

Have you decided to vote yet, now?

Perhaps we can start with a signature campaign.

You don't want your girl friend/boy friend/wife/husband, or mother or father or siblings (sisters, brothers)...anyone you love or care about developing an irreversible disease because one day when you had a chance, and you knew, still you didn't act...

I love myself, and I love my family...my extended family is you too.

And that is why I just made you aware of what's coming, if you and me don't do something right, right now.