Visit to Dapoli orphanage(Pune)

It was a beautifull sunday all set to try new things and relax.Saturday was a bit hectic with Oracle 9i certification scheduled and as usual i didnt study, went to try my luck.Luckily i passed with flying color according to me(Just passed got 73%, 3 more than the pass percent).I Started with an enthusiastic morning playing sqaush my new love.It was all going well suddenly i checked my bag to find my second love Music and to my surprise my I touch was not there in my bag. I guess it fell somewhere , i was sad but i didnt want to miss the visit to orphanage due to lost I touch as it was already 11:00am till that time i reported the lost item at all places possible in the club house and left it to god to take care of it.
I started for Dapoli in Pune to explore and to play with unknown people, I just forgot to mention that my project mates had cancelled the quaterly project party and contributed the money toward enjoyment,fun and lunch with the so called underpriveleged children.I rode on my bike to the place through sangvi and somehow reached the place by asking multiple auto drivers.
When i reached the place my mates had already arrived and i felt bad as i was not able to see the place where they lived.My mates told 36 children lived in 2 small rooms of around 400 sq feet in total.Few thoughts came to mind as i was living in 1500sq feet of an appartment with 4 people having all amenties.We took the children to a garden where we could spend soem quality time with them and play games.
I wanted to spend good time and have fun with them not with a feeling that they are underpriveleged and a good few hrs would make them happy.According to me many might have done like that and they would feel as if someone is doing a favour to them.I wanted to be one of them to laugh with them, to play games with them and share whatever i could with them.
We started with few Games like passing the parcel, few other games which tried to involve all of them and us too.Many a times while playing i had to tell and convince the children that "Mere sath khelo ge na" and someone would say yes , some would not react at all.The real feeling of oneness came when we formed a chain holding hands for a game, i felt really good that time.( dont know why?).I didnt like many of my team mates behaviour as they didnt try to mingle at few times and were involved in some so called chit chattering with Mangers and Senior managers.I wanted to shake few of those but its thier call i guess, i went back again to the happy mood and just fell in love with all of them.
I also wanted to share knowledge and teach few children to take pics, not just clicking it but with zooming and other few functionalities.They loved doing it and i loved they doing it :) .We did all did crazy stuff and taking pics in all wierdest of positions.Finally it was around half past two in the noon and was tired but happy.We got food and ate with them, Have to mention my favourite Gulab Jamun was also there in the menu(Thanks to Amol for that) folowed by a round of Ice cream.
Finally time had come to leave and return to our daily routine.In the mean time few children told "bhaiya mujhe ghar tak chod doge tumhari bike pe?" I thought seniore didnt like the idea as it might be a risk but i didnt find and few of us took double and triple's on bike.The children were so happy sitting on the bike and overtaking others. I guess the feeling is better and more satiusfying than the first ride with your Girl friend( I guess so :) ).So slowly we parted with lots of good memories and resolution's which i am keeping with myself.


I would upload few pics soon!Thanks to all my office mates (Amol,Venki,sarath,jeyshree,hemanth,rahul,divya,yash,kalpesh and all of them)for letting us explore the other side of life which we forget so easily!

Meditation becoming a passion

I am trying to make a habit now to atleast type in a few lines about what i feel and it cannot be better when you are getting paid for it in office on a saturday(Getting a free comp-off).

Yes+ did change me and its after effects are even more effective,I was following strict rules to do kriya everyday and now the rules seems to be have become passion.Due to my office timings and overloaded work combined with studies i have been doing kriya at around 3:30am in morning before i sleep which is by 4:15am.It sounds weird but it is actually really great to do kriya before you sleep.The body and mind becomes empty and it feels as if you throw away all of the day's tension,pressure and go off to different world of yours.A world where you have no thoughts with you and your breath easing your mind to blankfull sleep.

It is a testing time for me and i know its going to be for next 4 months.I use to feel stretched before meditation when i use to analyze my day but now if feel satisfied and relaxed.Its the time to strike now and i know meditation will help me to strike hard.

Thanks everybody who gave me this beautifull knowledge and gift.

Yes+

It has been 3 months and finally i am back after i wrote my first blog :) ...My situation and state of mind was on a big time low and i had to bring some change on that.As we all know happy times and sad times are complimentary the bad phase had to wave off someday,but had to fight for it.There have been some improvements which i would want to note, Finally i have started reading and Kahlil Gibran's "THE PROPHET" was a treat to read and now i am going over works of Kahlil gibran.Ialso started with 15mins of jogging and playing pool to keep myself going toward happiness.

I had heard of something called as art of living in my childhood during school days and it become alive in my 22nd year, I again heard it and this time i was interested about what exactly it is??My previous view was it is for old people and ill people,I also had some vague idea that its about god.

So one fine day i opened my lazy eyes and made an attempt to check out the course conducted in Pune in Aug and to my hard luck it was all shut due to swine flue.There was no other option but to wait.I continued with my daily routine and got some news from a friend by mid sep that it has resumed :).I was happy with no reason and why i dont know as i still didn't knew what was it all about.I checked the artofliving.pune site and checked the contact details, called up immediately and checked out paid the money where the AOL had its cash collecting center.I paid the money the same day i got to know about the YES+ course which was designed for youth.I was all set for the course on Tuesday and i took permission from my manager to work for less hours and she agreed to it(I guess it helped as she was also from AOL).


I was sleeping as usual at 10 am on tuesday when the course was to commence and to my surprise i get a call from a person from AOL and found that i am chucked out from the course as they had scarcity of place as they had to change the venue :( .I had in my mind that i had to go this time before its late and something in me told Darshan you are going come what so ever happens.I just sat and thought whatever contact i had from AOL and called them up to help me out and somehow make it possible for me to go.I still dont know why i did this way and why i was so eager to go.I had got calls from various people in 2hrs and finally 1pm it was final that i am in.I was all set now

The story after going into the AOL class is just too difficult to describe but in a nut shell it was the best time in my life.I was i guess amongst the older group in the class but when we were out of the class all people were thrown back to age zero!The whole experience is just above and out of this world and has to be felt by the person to know what it is?.We were lucky to get bau and Dinesh on video conference and they made the class ROCK!I would someday put those experiences in words so that i can capture it somewhere for future.

Calling it off for today.Thanks Amit bhaiya, himanshu, bawandinesh and everybody who made it possible.It has changed my life and the way i look at things in 10days:).

marking an end

Hi guys let me introduce myself,Darshan as many of you call me and to many of you who dont know me.Dont want to go into any technical descriptions as i dont care nor does anyone in this world.who cares what you study and what you do,its all about how you do,how differently you do thing and how gud you are as a person when it does matter makes the real qualification of a person.

Before i start sharing things i would apologize for any rubbish i write because it a whole lot of storm in my brain going around as i have not written an essay may be for 3yrs now!I have a lost a lot of touch on writing.What i have done is writing few scripts and attending meeting on bridge.
I really go back and have to re-call when did i write something other than my name or emp no or my sign, I am in that real bad state on this.God knows what managers would do in IT barely write in a year!.Lets go back to myself(gave enough excuses with valid points to support it).

I feel there has been a change lately in me which makes me asks few questions to myself
what am i doing from 3-4 yrs?
Are you satisfied?
Are you enjoying?
Are you following your passion?
when you sleep do you deserve to sleep?

These and many more.Let me answer them one by one.
Are you satisfied?
I really have forgotten what is satisfaction.I want to recall when i was satisfied with my own doings last time.
Are you enjoying?
Sometimes i do...with friends.
Are you following your passion?
not at all...
when you sleep do you deserve sleep?
no not at all.

I want these and similar questions answered in a positive way in near future and i know what to do.Let me go back in past when i was happy bee and didnt care about this world at all but was a satisfied person.I got my utmost satisfaction in life when i studied for 36 hrs on a stretch studying in a room with no interferiance till i got the concepts of Geo Stationary objects digested in my blood.I use to enjoy getting close to nature by growing plants and nurturing them(when i grew my first plant i remember i took care as my child and felt bad when it died).Going for trekking in summers was another time i enjoyed a lot.My passion was always to think of ideas that would make a change(how can you make gold from iron thoso sort of questions and answerig them was my passion) i use to spend hours and hours thinking on that.Basically i wanted to do something out of box in a nutshell.If i am satisfied i will get a gud sleep for sure unless had a beer that eve!

I want to answer all these question in a few months to myself in a positive way and i now i shall overcome soon.