How to be a SWAMI with a Girl friend

Preface:
For those who don't know Who is a Swami.
In Art Of Living, we have two senior teacher posts which guruji himself assigns, one is Swani and other is Rishi. Rishi is with a SHE, means he can marry, but Swamies are those who don't marry and keep busy with social services throughout their life, it sounds miserable but i tell you, they live a super calm and beautiful life.

Here we Start:
We often compare our love with the Love others getting and that's where my problem starts. Expressing love is an Art, some says true love doesn't need to be expressed & some says true love have most beautiful expression ways. Well now who knows, love is most abstract thing that everybody has or do or give but nobody have clue about what is it?

Sri Sri most beautifully defines love as YOU. Yes you are the love, the true form of human is love. The GOD is love. Every thing is love. Well that was very easy to understand SRI SRI!! :)
hehehe.. jokes apart..  seriously to know love you really need to have good spiritual knowledge, I don't think science could ever explain it.

Now here my story starts,
I have most beautiful and amazingly talented Girl Friend. I learned so many things from her, she been an inspiration to me. The time between the day I proposed her & the day she said Yes, was super awsum time of my life. Believe me It had the most EGO breaking tasks for me & on the other hand i was growing in my life very fast. And the day she proposed me I thought, thank god it's over, But NOO!!..  it was just an start...

And till now after approx 2 years, my growth still going on :)

The changes I felt in me during these days is I became a Man out of a boy (no not that way, I mean work & thoughts wise :P). My way of working, handling my emotions, my discipline and devotion increased to a good level. Obviously The Art Of Living played a very big role in it, I give the 60% credit to my GF as because of her I was being active with the AOL.

The change I observed in people around  during this time is: before she said Yes, everybody used to say 'yes yes she loves you', except her!, and now everybody says 'she don't loves you', except her! :)

You must be thinking what exactly she was doing these time. Well nothing much, just don't allowing me to come close to her. One Arm Distance every time we meets, easy no? :D In short She kept me eligible to become a pure SWAMI :)

So every time I used to met her I didn't get any Hugs or kisses, i used to get Aashirwad :D and that was actually working.

When I Took First Sudershan Kriya Followup

Its been approx 4 yeas for me in Art Of Living, I be doing Sudershan Kriya for 4 years under the guidence of different teachers, but Yesterday it was ME who going to take care of others who are going to do Sudershan Kriya under my guidance.

As am now a Art Of Living faculity, a happiness program teacher, am now eligible to take happiness programes and the followups.
Frankly when I returned back from TTP, am not feeling like some special or I don't have any feel of being a teacher( no super power i got as other teachers have ). I was wondering there may be some problem with me.

So yesterday only I took the first followup, And I felt like...  I cant tell you, I felt like am really blessed, something really blossomed inside me. Suddenly I started to feel Love and Care for each person in the room doing kriya. It was a really really good experience. I took the followup like I been training for months for it (didn't made any mistakes). From today My belief in grace is more solidified and i want to explore much much more about it.

Before taking the followup my days was like okok... boring.. , but after that i don't know what changes, everything around me is like stated praising me, loving me. i tell you there is something changed. I love you SRI SRI for making me your instrument. Now I can feel how these awesome art of living teachers get there power.
 

Holi with Sri Sri

This holi I was in Art of living banglore Aashram attending my Ttp (Teacher Training Program). I uesd to feel not much conneted with sri sri, though am going to become a teacher but still I was not like other people who are very much connected to him. For me he is just a gud guy who spread super good knowledge so that nobody remains unhappy. This holi he made me his biggest fan when he sat and played holi with minimum 5000 of his followes, who loves him very much. I was one of them though am not that close to him.

In start he started applying colors to the sevak sitting close to him then some teachers, I was watching from behind and was thinking it will end soon, only those who close to him work hard for him will get chance to go close to him.

But with time,  I saw a queue is formed up having all Ttp participants and participants from other program too. I was very sure its not gona happen, they never gona reach sri sri, and just to check I also joined the queue. To became stable in a queue, it took me near about 20 min, queue was becoming huge with time, as am in queue now, I was watching sri sri applying colors to every person's cheek who comes in front of him, one by one with super beautiful smile on his face. And I was just thinking that now they going to end the queue, its almost most an hour and sri sri was applying colors without a min stop.

Then suddenly he  stood up and I was just 30-40 meters away from him in queue, an I said in my mind that Ohh I was knowing its going to end soon. And you know what sri sri shakes a little bit and continued applying color while standing for 1 min and then sit again. He got this never ending smile, the people around him was somehow loosing  there smile but he was sitting with all enthu being available for all his lovers.

Then I got the chance, there was only me and him, he applied color to my face, I felt like am the first person whom he played holi with today, there was no sign of tiredness on his face. He looked into my eyes and that was the movement I will never forget, it was something I can never forget. Then I moved out of the que and what I saw is the queue is 3 times of what it was when I entered the que. Somehow it seems to be never ending as more and more people are coming out of nowhere and joining the queue.

I said in my mind, sri sri how you gona make it?? I dont know may be it took 3-4 hours for him to complete the whole queue but he did, nobody in the aashm left with whom he didn't played holi. Everybody got his own time with him, nobody was left with any complains and sri sri was there with that same beautiful smile which was there when he started applying color to first person.

That day he actually taught me what is 100% and what is true love. That day I got to know how sri sri is heartbeat of the million of people around the world.
I love and respect you so much sri sri, please always be my side.

Jai Guru Dev