With the advent of Buddhism in India, for many, many years, the Vedic lore of performing Poojas and Yagyas was lost. Buddhism said that all these rituals didn’t make any sense, and that all you need to do for Enlightenment was to meditate and drop everything else. For many hundreds of years there was hardly [...]

An extremely simple, very tasty, Japanese soup… A small broccoli washed and chopped into medium sized florets 1 medium Zucchini cut into medium sized slices 2 small carrots scraped and cut into chunks A packet of oyster mushrooms, washed and cut into big pieces Half a packet of button mushrooms, washed and cut into 4 [...]

A farmer got in his truck and drove to a neighbouring farm and knocked at the farmhouse door. A young boy, about nine, opened the door. “Is your Dad home”? the farmer asked. “Sorry mate, he isn’t” the boy replied. “He went into town.” “Well,” said the farmer, “Is your mum here”? “No, sir, she’s [...]

We have had an interesting week … 500+ young people did the YES!+ course all over Bombay city, and then converged to the Vasind Ashram on Sunday morning for a session with me and dinesh. Mulund, Thana, Dombivli team had managed to get a nice canopied very make shift meditation “hall”… Nice Knowledge, deep meditation [...]

There is a very mysterious line in one of the ancient texts. Says that God is a Forest. Worship the Forest. Now, why would God be a forest? In a forest everything has it’s place. From the mightiest and most ferocious of the animals to the most innocuous little bugs. Every creature lives in balance [...]

On a whim i picked up this book called Wings by Aprilynne Pike from the children’s section in crossword. (secret: I get most of the things i like to read from there ) … It’s about Laurel a rather strange (by american standards at least) girl. She is vegan (i love books about heroines who [...]

We are in Mumbai … While Dinesh and i are teaching a YES!+ course in Goregaon, all the other zones of the city are having their own YES!+ courses … around 500 people are doing the course all over Bombay and everyone will come to Vasindh to the ashram on Sunday for a group session… [...]

Jai Gurudeva! love bawa

There are so many, many people who have commented and written emails to me about wanting to contribute to our Youth Ashram… Thanks a lot If you are from India, please make a cheque(s) or DD(s) out to WAYE. On the back write “for the Youth Ashram”. You could even send post dated cheques. Post [...]

It’s a fairly big open piece of land in Vasindh, on the outskirts of Bombay, a quick 20 minute drive from Thana,  generously donated to Art of Living by the Jindals. It’s going to become the first Art of Living Ashram, made specifically for young people! Right now, its flat, green, sunny and open. Guruji [...]