Saleel Pulekar

No, I am not referring to His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, definitely not Mr. Manmohan Singh;-) Embodiment of Excellence Mr. Vinod Menon, my TTC (Art of Living Teachers Training Course - Phase 1) teacher; and I take great pride for having done TTC with Vinod bhaiya. I was lucky enough to meet him on Thu evening. Some snippets: ....Apply the spirit. Many times the mind, intellect, memory or ego come in the way of the objective of the spirit. For eg. If you want to meet another volunteer to discuss some seva project, the ego may say, he should come to me, why should I go to him? Excercise your awareness and make the intelligent choice of honouring the spiritual objective by overriding the objective of the ego. Fri, 10 Apr, 12 noon...Vinodji was scheduled to conduct a session for YES!+. We were to finish showing a 20 min video ' Shashi Tharoor interviews Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on CNBC '. At 1150 am we were still struggling with the projector cable and laptop...when he arrived ..10...

Hello my dearest embodiments of love, enthusiasm and joy! So hows ur breath these days? Surprised! Amused! ?? ppl ask about health, nobody asks about breath! :-) hows ur mind these days? Is it adding to the stress in others minds or relieving them from it? and hows ur intellect doing? r u finding reasons why good things cannot happen OR r u finding ways to make them happen well, hows ur memory ? is it clinging on to negative events, or the memory of blessings is so strong that u r sailing in an ocean of gratitude! and ur ego ? r u clinging on to me and mine and my problems and my family and friends or is it vasudhaiva kutumbakam? and ur speech ? is it ading to the noise in the atmosphere and to the turbulence of feelings or is it creating silence? Hows ur presence these days? Does it radiate love, enthusiasm and joy? And hows ur :-) ? Is it spreading like wild fire on to other faces? And hows ur .... AWARENESS Whats happening now? Whats happening NOW? NOW? NOW? What r u doing si...