Saleel Pulekar

Check this exciting photo album which says it all, take your time to read the captions carefully!! Watch it as a slideshow to Enjooooyyy! http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ask.saleel/AurangabadYESDevgiriTrek Cheers! Saleel

Football in the rains. Water levels are going up not only in the lakes in Mumbai but also the gutters, nalas, drains, streets, grounds etc. It has been raining almost continuously from last 3 days. On Sunday (yesterday) our dynamic YES!+ teachers of GHATKOPARRRRRRR, Upasana and Manisha decided to get into action. They were quite high after attending long kriya conducted first time by brand new YES!+ teacher DHARA ( also from GHATKOPARRRRR. 2 hours of non-stop action, with bricks as goal posts, middle of a road as the football field, gutters as boundaries. Yes we did have injuries, fowls, red cards and the peak of excitement was when teams levelled scores in the last minute of the second half. So, yes, you guessed it right - Penalty shoot out. Upasanas team won 3-0!!!

Hellooo.. everyone! So with that previous post (about Guruji in New York), I am back on the blog after a long hibernation. One month in the ashram in Bangalore was a 'knowledge-thirst' quenching and a 'satvik-soaking' experience. Though I was all set to be on the YES!+ Advance course from 18 June, I decided to pull out and be with Bawa and Dinesh in the organising of the upcoming first ever YES!+ TTC. Basically it was an excuse to spend time with them, having retained the freedom to talk (avoided the silence of advance course ;-) ). Though I didn't do much, just being with them and observing them steer, engineer, alter, enhance, fine tune, improvise, guide and finally conduct the TTC was a great learning. It was very gratifying to watch 111 young stalwarts emerge stronger and confident to take on the challenge of empowering the youth at large. Late night feedback and planning discussions, sudden changes, running noses (mine even had clots due to excessive sneezing a...

An anonymous article of 2002, Gurujis visit to New York, US To see for myself what it was all about, to find out why this frail, young man with the deep, dark eyes was so popular, I decided to go to one of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s talks in New York. The huge synagogue on Manhattan’s west side was already filled to the rafters when I arrived. An enthusiastic group of young people sang bhajans and the audience swayed and sang along as though they were at a rock concert. There were people of every nationality, color and age group, dressed in a variety of clothes from blue jeans to silk saris and kurtas. Many had already done the Art of Living course, a program of breathing, meditation and yoga that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has put together to “relieve stress, improve communication, develop leadership skills, increase vitality, expand awareness and increase enjoyment of life.” Very soon, the guruji bounded up the steps to the stage, dressed in gleaming white silk, his long, dark hair forming a h...

Jai Gurudev, It feels great to be in the ashram (in Bangalore) after a long time. I was here this holi in March, but that was for advance course. This time I am not on any course, no fixed schedules to adhere to, just being to myself, chilling out with Bawa, Dinesh bhaiya and Vishwas bhaiya and other YES!+ ashramites Rashmin, JD, Devang. And the highlight of course is satsang with Guruji. The last time I spent like this in ashram was in 2006. Yesterday the satsang happened in VM - Vishalakshi Mantap. @ 3000 people . There was no place to sit, many were standing. After a rocking ' Narayan Narayan Jai Jai Govind Hare ' Guruji started answering questions. Yesterday I was feeling ill and also worried about an issue. But when Guruji started talking it was as if layer by layer he removed the worrisome thoughts. He spoke about being alipt , meaning being untouched like the lotus though floating in water does not get wet, the water does not stick on to it, similarly we can stay in the ...

मराठी बाणा बर्याच दिव्सान पासून हे बघायच राहिल होत Its a stage show. Yday we saw it finally at Kalidas Mulund. What a brilliant presentation of Marathi folk music and dance, of marathi culture and tradition, the heritage of Maharashtra. Its a must see even for non-Marathi speaking people staying in Maharashtra. It was sheer energy and intensity. Wish we had taken some pics.

Well...I have nothing to write about my first lesson....as all I could get the violin to do was screeching sounds of car breaks and horns of trains and a lil bit of puppies barking. Actually, I think its not all that bad....could well be a voiceover for animation movies ;-)