Life update

Wow I have been writing so many blog entries lately! I think I am subconsciously trying to make up for not writing sometimes. OK so today’s entry is a life update. I don’t know if there are at all interesting to you guys. But I feel I should write them. Starting from today.
This weekend we are conducting the first ever-online LBP. It is the first LBP conducted by Swamiji, alone, not in Inner Awakening. We are just finishing up day one of the program. The participants are doing a death meditation, guided by Swamiji to start to reduce their fear of death. In my life I am both quite busy and I feel like I have nothing going on. I know that doesn’t make much sense, but I am just telling you how I feel. I am currently doing my regular high school, which is evolving more and more homework as we are closer to the end of the year and final exams then ever. I am taking horseback riding lessons, which is one of my favorite things, I feel I am improving by leaps and bounds on a weekly basis, a feeling I have never had before. I am volunteering at Equi-Valent riding center to help with Barn Buddies the class for disabled kids. My only vegan friend and I are working on starting an informal vegan bakery on the campus of the near by collage. I have weekly goals for my increasingly more difficult baking projects (goal for this week croissants, and when that is mastered pastry) Last but not least, and the biggest thing in my life Swamiji’s mission. Now not only am I helping with nightly rituals I am also the eN TV correspondent. Which means in a nutshell I take lots of pictures and video clips, edit and make short videos out of a lot of them and then send to India via email, where they are put on the daily news which you can watch at http://nithyananda.org/en-tv. So yep lots going on. My band in high school is going to contest in March; lets keep our fingers crossed for States!! Sivrathri is coming up March 2, come one come all to the Nithyananda Vedic Temple of Ohio to celebrate!!! And that’s about it! Don’t forget to comment!

Terminal TPS

realized a few days back, I don’t know exactly when. I have a speculation it was at mad River Mountain when I went skiing last Tuesday, but it could easily have been before that. Well I realized that my TPS, or thoughts per second, has gone down drastically. I am having a lot less thoughts on a daily basis. Actually this really surprised me because; lately I haven’t been very diligent about my meditation or anything. I have no been doing eN Kriya or Nithya Dhyaan, or even intense yoga, and everything else have stayed the same, but for some reason unknown I have been wonderfully blessed by existence. I shall see if this lowered TPS is just something in the past week, or if I have achieved a slightly higher level of spiritual existence.

Thia coconut I am about to eat in the picture is terminal! hence then connection ... get it?

Illegal Arrest

The title of this blog is not a play on words, or a joke. It is the truth. A great hurt has been made to my wonderful Swamiji, and the mission I am part of Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam. Today four four people of the Nithyananda Mission where arrested illegally by the CID. I can't explain the whole thing, but can only tell you the hurt and injustice this is doing to me, and what I believe in. I can't believe anyone could be so cruel to do this to those innocent peace-loving people that I know. I know the people that got arrested, they are all wonderful and where physically hurt for defending what they think is right. Many started to fast as soon as they heard the news, I hadn't watched the actual video of the event yet and thought it was horrible, but to me, was just another issue. Well just now I sat to watch the morning message, and for some reason it wouldn't go to the morning message, it would only play the video of the arrest. It looks horrible, I don't mean the actual video, the event, I can't believe this injustice. Please protest against this, and other religious persecution, even if things are fine for you, please, help someone else! Tomorrow I will fast for the end of this religious persecution along with thousands of others from around the world. This will be the first time I have ever fasted and I am a little nervous about it, but I feel I just have to do it. Please watch this video now, don't wait. You need to see what I and thousands of others are up against, and help us fight, not with guns, with peace, but please help stop this persecution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv04dfPFBdQ

Sucess of the Bliss Project

Hey everyone!!!
Sorry I have not written, I don't want to make excuses but I have been very busy lately. Last week was science fair, I spent the whole week in a hurried rush to get things done. (Somehow I didn't realize science fair was coming up until almost two days before the actual event) So he big day came. Got to school at about 7:15 as usual and got ready for departure. There where about 10 of us from two honors physical science classes we went with my science teacher. In the end the actual three hours we where there was pretty much just hanging out and waiting. The group of us (minus our teacher) visited our old Spanish teacher, and the Frenchies just had to tag along! The actual judging went very well in my opinion. My judges where quite nice and at the end one of them said "well maybe I should check out meditation!" which in my opinion qualifies the project as a success. Besides that scientifically it was a succses out of the 14 people who did the project the total amounts of in each criteria had a positive increase such as stress, relationships, and so forth. So that was really great. At the reception that night more then one person got more then interested in meditation after reading my report and looking at my poster, so that was really great. For all of you out there that arn't doing it ... try meditation, it works!!!

Swamiji Friend

There are five types of connection with the master. I was going to list them but can't remember them all, a few of them are: the guru/disciple relationship, mother/child relationship, and friend relationship. For a while (a few months back) I had, I think, a guru disciple relationship. That went on for a while, in reality you are supposed to experience all five at the same time, but I have not yet had that opportunity. So as I said, I have been experiencing that first relationship for a while, but something has shifted. I don't know when this shift happened, but I realized it today. I am now feeling like friends with Swamiji no other relationship but that. Like we are really good friends, but I can't see him very often. When I do I am excited to see him, like a friend. I don't know if this is a positive shift, a negative shift or if it doesn't change anything, but just now as I sat in meditation during eN TV (which I hope by the way you are all watching!) I had this realization and just HAD to write it. So hear it is, thanks for reading!!!

Picture credits: I took picture this is at my gradmother's house my sister is holding her [grandma) cat Ben.

Sharp Tongue Sanskrit

When I did the life bliss engineering program (LBE) one day Swamiji talked about how the language Sanskrit makes your tongue sharp. It was sort of a hard concept to understand. He was saying that when your you've is shape you are able to a) form any words so easily and b) make good comebacks or rather be able to respond quickly and smartly thanks to the help of a sharp tongue. The best analogy I can give is when you do yoga and/ or work out the body becomes supple and strong. If some one where to just take one short walk a day, yes they are using their body, but the body will not develop muscles or become very strong. That's basically like chanting in Sanskrit versus just singing any old song. Sanskrit physically makes your tongue strong, and "sharper" if your body has good muscles and is well built you could just jump up any time, take a run and it would be easy but for someone who only takes one walk a day it would be harder to just jump off the couch and take a run.
Well Swamiji explained this whole thing to us (although not with the analogy I did) but I was just a little confused and didn't understand how just by chanting a certain language your tongue could be sharp.
At the temple we do a pooja to Swamiji's paadukas, and to him on the TV screen as we are connected live (like skype) the first time we did this pooja I just happened to sit next to one of the people who where chanting the mantras. She had a mantra sheet and out of curiosity I read it and started to chant with her. Not very well of course but it was only my first time. Over the past few weeks we have started to do the pooja more and more, everyday in fact. Chanting is now one of my main jobs, I still stumble over some of the words, but I improve each day. The thing I noticed a few days ago is what Swamiji said that one day in LBE is happening to me! I can literary feel my tongue getting sharper. Stronger with each time I chant. The funny thing is I have chanted the Guru Pooja mantras for about two years and I have never had this feeling. But now I am having it, I can see the side effects too words just roll off my tongue so easily. I was good at talking before, but I feel I am improving! So that's just an interesting thing I wanted to share with you all, talk to you guys soon!

Ski Trip/ Muscle Memory

Happy February!
Well on this first day of February I had quite a day. Last night we had an ice storm and school was canceled. Many parts of town lost power, thankfully our house didn't. Well on Tuesdays a group of kids from my sister's privet school go skiing at this place called Mad River Mountain. Since school was canceled the group obviously didn't go, but my sister really wanted to go still. I have also wanted to go skiing for a long time, I used to go when I went to that school. I have had a gift card to go to that place for a long time, but never got the time, nor the driver to do it. Well as the roads where clear enough to travel. So we got bundled up (this is after I mixed up a batch of cinnamon rolls and set them to rise) got in the car and drove to the mountain.
Well I was kind of nervous about skiing, I mean I haven't skied in a really long time, about three years, and it can be a really hard sport to do. We got our passes and skis and headed to the only open ski lift. There where only a handful of people at the mountain. So we didn't have to wait in line at all which was nice. We got on and off the ski lift with no more issues and slid around to the easiest slope. As soon as we started our decent my mind was still freaking out "Ah this is so slippery! I am going to fall! What if I can't get up again?! I haven't skied in three years how will I know how to do this?!"
But as I started going slowly down Vally View I realized that my legs knew just what to do, and my arms. By the time I got to the bottom I was skiing like a pro. Ok maybe not quite that good, but pretty good. Up the lifts and down the hills, I went. We didn't go on any double black diamonds, but some pretty hard slopes. and Besides my fingers feeling like they would almost fall off (right index) cause I kept taking my glove off to get pictures. I felt pretty good!
There is only one more thing I want to tell you about there was one point where I purposefully crossed to another slope through this little trail. It was curvy and I had a pretty bad fall onto my left side. Again my body took over and totally knew what to do.

Muscle Memory is what I experienced ....