Different Moods of Vishalakshi Mantap.

The Vishalakshi Mantap at the Art of Living Ashram has, in the past few years attained iconic status. The photos of which has been used extensively for its great creativity and structural genius. How can a building be so big and yet so aesthetically pleasing, architechturally stable and radiate such grace unmatched by any other building in its league ?
The answer could perhaps be in an ancient secret best described in This blog.
Here are a few photos showing the different moods of the Vishalakshi!

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Ashram on a cloudless day.


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Afternoon View. Its relavively empty.

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After the Rudra Pooja. Bright sunny monday morning.




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The Angels show themselves.
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Rise of a new dawn.

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Relaxed in the evening.

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Pristine white. Washed in milk.
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Mid-day:
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A cloudy morning.


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 Time for Satsang.!

MAGIC

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Reminiscing Blogging Days - The 101th post on this blog.

Yes! You read it right. This is the 101th post on this blog. It took some time for me to get here, Time which was interspersed with regular blogging days in between long periods of silence. I started this blog on August 2008, and the First Post I wrote was about my native place Sikkim. And without any prior intention, I just realised that my 100th post was also about Sikkim. It's a little spooky. But happy too.

The best part of Blogging so far was that it has been a big opportunity for me to know new people, connect with poeple whose ideas I like, make friends all over the globe and also an opportunity to give something of value to my readers. Just like my real life, I have spent most of the time in this blog writing articles about the Art of Living foundation, Yes Plus and it has been an immense pleasure to share my mind with all the Jai Gurudev-ed souls, many of whom I have deeply come to cherish.

 Two Articles in particular have been a large success with regard to this, on both of which I have spent considerable time and energy and it has been worth the work, I think.

The Art of Living Blogs post has garnered attention from sincere seekers all around the globe and a lot of AOL content on the WEB has reached to the searching souls through the links in this post.
Satsang - Art of Living Bhajans Lyrics is another post which I think has helped many people and which will continue to reach and make it easier for all Satsangis to rock to AOL Bhajans.

I thank all the people who have taken the trouble to subsribe to my blog!  The number of people subscribing here has gone up to 63 as of today which is inspite of my long absence from here. Thank you again all the subscribers.

Special thanks to all the people who take out time to leave a comment. You should know that you make my blogging time all the more sweet and worthwile .
So keep the encouragement coming and wish me luck that I may keep writing.
Jai Gurudev!

Sikkim - Some Fresh Photos.

It's been quite some time that I have written about Sikkim, my native State. Without exaggeration it is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Let the pictures do the speking for themselves.

Sikkim - A mountain view from the home.

Young buddhist monks having a chat.

This tea garden is just 2 kms from my house in Sikkim... So cool heh?

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Teesta -The main river of Sikkim. Notice the small road running along it.

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The majestic mountain Kanchenjunga in the morning.



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Tsangu Lake. Half Frozen.

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Don't you wish your study place was like this..?


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The Bell.

A town in Sikkim.

So you drive well heh? Take that.

Temi Tarku - This is my village . Can u believe that.

The only tea garden in Sikkim - Temi Tarku, my home town.

Observe the Tranquility of the Water.

Sikkim - The Switzerland of the East.


So your next holiday destination - SIKKIM.

A Fresh Start to Blogging

For the past few months I was very irregular in posting to this blog. The reason (very lame) for that was I didn't have internet at home. But nonetheless I posted a few posts, released the Satsang Lyrics book  . But back with a bang, now I will be posting regularly talking my mind out about things in general and Art of Living (and all its associated paraphernalia) in particular.

By the way I got a Brand New Computer, assembled with my own hands, 4 gb RAM, 23" Monitor and the works... so making the best use of it to Blog.

The things that happened till now.... we had a series of Bhakti concerts, I travelled for a few satsangs in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Warangal etc.., I (along with 29,999 other people) had a mesmerizing Navratri celebration in the Ashram with Guruji, my pet grasshopper died....etc

Want to write about all these things and more...

And also you might have noticed that the template has changed, let me know your feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Spreading Positivity - Amazing video...

Check this video ...

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/553223/spreading-positivity.jhtml