Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Knowledge sheet the "How to use Manual"
This is my very first post, and I am very happy to share my experience with you all people..Yesterday, I visited my Art of living teacher Amol da alias dada. He is my mentor, brother, friend everthing you can say:). I fill jinxed, whenever I meet him. It is great to be associated so closely with you dada, I feel very lucky:). Back to the point, He had called me at his place for a meeting. It was a simple get together of all us sevaks of Art of Living. I knew that this would not be that simple, because he has a knack of bringing up some really new things, which will eventually keep you going. He was discussing about the idea of making a new study circle, where all of us can meet up regurlarly and share new things, learn new things . The main purpose of creating a study circle was to break the regular pattern that we follow. We meet every course after course and then we forget each other, it is become kinda robotic. The idea behind study circle was to implement the valuable essecence of life, forgeting your identity and learning something new. So we were planning to how to make this study circle work. One idea that came up was whoever is good in some skill set, he will train 10 others in that same skill set. For eg if I am good in writing, I will give basic training to all other in the same skill set. This was a very good idea, as there will be a excitment to learn lot of new things(for free :P) and also to form a strong bonding within the group. Then Amol da suggested that one of us can the knowledge sheet on a particular day and msg all of them to read the same knowledge sheet. For starters, Knowledge sheet is a compilation of all the weekly talks given by Guruji till date. It covers different and diverse topics and almost everything under the sun. Most devotees have experience that when they open the knowledge sheet to read a specific topic, mostly it happens that the topic that is reflected has something to do with the readers current events and experiences in life. It serves like a key to a closed lock. This is the way how Guru works. So our newly found study circle would also achieve one more purpose that is everyone would be reading knowledge sheet on a daily basis. Then he asked all of us, if we have the 7 volumes of knowledge sheet at home. He was surprised by the answer, none of us had all the 7 volumes. Even, I did not have all the volumes :(....What followed was amazing. He gave us the example of all the electronic appliances. He said that every electronic appliance comes with a "How to use" manual. So, it is very important for us to go through the manual, to handle the electronic appliance in the proper way, to avoid unnecessary accidents. He continued, In the same way, the knowledge sheet is like the "How to use" manual for us living beings. It has everything mentioned in it and when bought into application(which happens automatically) our life becomes very smooth. This is the period when you experience the true essence of the word "Amazing Grace". However, it is very important for us to read our "How to use" manual daily and apply it in our life. So if you people are not doing this already, then surely all of you are welcome to our Study Circle :P. Makes sense?
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Good Start Mr AOL :)Looking forward for more posts from u ;)
ReplyDeleteNice post...Informative kindaa stuff..But the thing is i never read "How to do" manual when dad 1st purchased a tv ...It all happened automatically. i mean i learnt all its fuctionality just by a clik on the remote....
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