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Basic Course – Principles

AOL course teaches the timeless spiritual principles like being in the present moment, accepting everyone and accepting all situations, not being carried away by other’s opinions and not to resist things but accept things as they are.

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The four main principles of Art of living are

Present Moment is inevitable

This is one of the first principles and it has been spoken about by all the great teachings from the Buddhist to new age. The art of living teacher keeps repeating ‘What’s happening now’ every few minutes to drive home the point of coming to the present moment. For a better understanding of being in the present moment read ‘The power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle. Also read the discourses of Osho Rajneesh and J Krishnamurthi to have a good understanding and practice of this aphorism. In fact many of the AOL teachers do not understand the purport of being in the moment and just get a lot confused while explaining this.

Expectations reduce the Joy

Expectation is futuristic and will make us get out of the present moment.

Accept everyone and every situation as they are

This is an important spiritual teaching taught in many different spiritual schools. It is important to understand that we should not blame people for all the ills plaguing us. There is also no point just going on about the negative qualities of people. Instead if we accept people as they are our miseries caused by our prejudiced and biased opinions will subside and we will feel calmer and more composed. A calmer and composed mind creates a relity which is also peaceful.

What you resist persists

We become fixated on things we resist and hate. Prevent this from happening by awareness.

Don’t be a football of other’s opinion

Be on your own and don’t worry too much about what the other people think about you. Most people don’t have time to think about others and they all will be thinking about what other people are thinking of them.

Smile and be unconditionally happy

Even if it is artificial initially it will become second nature after some time. Fake it till you make it.

Third Satsang With Ravishankar

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People have settled down now. I am sitting bang in front of Guruji Ravishankar. The bhajans start – Om Namah Shivaya and then Om namo bagavathe Vasudevaya. Then we sing the other bhajans on the Guru, on the Godess, Shiva, Rama, Radha, Krishna. Finally the singing stops with a sign from Ravishankar. He begins to speak. He asks us how we are doing. I say we are doing great. Having a nice time – laughing, singing and dancing. He says good and asks any questions. People are silent. He says if there are no questions then we have either understood everything or knows nothing. People laugh. One person asked a question that he is very confused in life and has become indecisive. Guruji replied if you are confused then take a pillow and go to sleep. At this very moment Pitaji enters the Kutir dramatically.

Pitaji is Mr Ratnam the father of Ravishankar and co-founder of veda vigyan mahavidyapeeth. Ravishankar welcomes pitaji by standing up and doing Namasthe. Pitaji sits on the throne next to Guruji. Ravishankar asks pitaji to speak. Pitaji is silent and he says let us all chant OM. We all chant OM a few times. Pitaji leads and we follow.

Now Guruji Ravishankar speaks to me in Kannada and asks me specifically how I am feeling. I tell him I am feeling great. The ashram is out of the world and its so serene and peaceful to be in his presence. Ravishankar says ‘hmmmm’and asks me what do you do. I tell him I am studying engineering. Then he says hmmm and ‘good good’. He turns his gaze to some other folks who have come from Mumbai and asks them when did they come. They reply and Ravishankar says ‘hmmmm good good’.

Some of the visitors from Bombay have brough chocolates and offer it to Ravishankar. He touches them and it is kept near him. He puts his hand on the chocolate box and starts throwing the chocolates around. People are catching the chocolates and are happy. He throws away all the chocolates at us and we catch and keep what comes to us from the Guru. He threw a couple at me as well and I kept it in my pocket.

THe bhajans begin again and go on for about twenty minutes. Ravishankar leaves the Kutir. Pitaji follows. We the people are sitting here. The time is around 7:30 PM and it is all dark outside.

Teacher now tells our group that it is time for Dinner. We go walking to the dining room. We have dinner and wash our plates. Once again a nice light south indian vegetarian dinner.

I go to the dormitory with the other folks. A little bit later I again go out for a walk and meet teacher on the way. Teacher says at 9:00 PM he is going to take our group of fifteen people to Guruji’s Kutir where we can meet Guruji in person. I am looking forward to it. I go to fetch the other people in my group.