Mahasatsang on occasion of Guruji's 50th birthday - its celebration
Art of Living Columbus events are always planned at last moments. Few people from the whole Columbus family have big enthusiasm for the organizing such events. But still when we are done with the event I get the complete satisfaction, as one gets after doing a service to needy. What is that makes all the events so fulfilling? What turns around these functions from poor start to a great end? I feel there is some magic that happens during the event. People get energized and coordination happens faster. They do not complain and focus on getting things done. I sometimes feel that there is some external cohesive energy that bonds our thoughts together and things fall in place. A guru magic!
Mahasatsang to celebrate Guruji’s 50th birthday and AOL’s 25th anniversary was such an event. Since the idea of organizing this event and first planning step, we changed venues and menus and ended up at Powell City Hall as venue and with Annapurna’s menu. We invited people from all cities in Ohio and from nearby states where AOL had presence and quite a few people did show up. In fact there were comparatively less people from Columbus. I don’t know why not many of them come to AOL events. I agree that after hectic work week they would like to spend time with their family and sometimes it’s hard to manage things when you have kids but such events are not organized every now and then. Frequency of such big AOL events in Columbus is not more than once in 4 months. If I do simple analysis, it takes only 0.14 % of our time assuming we come only for 3 hrs, including travel to venue. Please know that your presence would make any event livelier, bring in more positive energy and eventually help AOL become bigger in its work. We want nice people like you to come, share your happiness, and make this society much better place to live in. We want your love.
We first did Maha Kriya – it was good for me. I think that most people had deep kriya. Hall was big and there was peace amongst all although neighboring hall some children party going on. Later I went to pick up Arun and Mayaji while all other played games. By 6.45 pm we started dinner. Food was good except I found Bhendi ka sabji little oily. Gulab Jamuns were just awesome. Overall, I feel that good food and timely dinner made people happy. It was all well organized by Prasad, Shikha, Nina and all others who were involved in managing refreshments, including egg-less cake
Later we started ‘Satsang’. Satsang in literary terms means ‘company of truth’ and according to me idea behind it is to be in present moment. We sing bhajans, play music, do some chanting, some meditation. I always like satsangs. The AOL bahajans are not typical old typos and that’s what I like the most about it. Anyone can sing these bhajans with ease but in our group Paresh, Prasad and Munish are ‘the’ people who have good voice and have kept the music going and are building it further through ‘Kirtan Ensemble’ music group. But today was special day – Preeti opened the satsang with ‘Aaa le lu ya’ and then Prasad sang ‘Krishan Manohar’ and then he also sang ‘Durge Nandini’ and they all joined in. Dayton people came forward, so did Cincinnati and then Mrs. Nath sang ‘Tu hi’. See that magic – we discovered that Arun invited himself to play table. Man, he is real good. Debu, our master musician plays excellent guitar, although this time we did not give him enough opportunity to show his talents. When all this was happening, I took an opportunity to capture the ‘sat-moments’ in video. People well all drenched in this divine music in serenity. I love this kind of environment, especially in the evenings. Anyone there could feel presence of divine soul - our beloved Guruji.
We ended the function with one beautiful Guru Aarti. Since Kavi was not there I asked Nina to hold my hands as I was praying offering aarti to Guruji. I missed Kavi all along the event. We cut the cake - it was delicious. I liked the spirits of people from other cities who came so long to make this event a success. They are great. They are true guru souls.
Jai Guru Dev
Mahasatsang to celebrate Guruji’s 50th birthday and AOL’s 25th anniversary was such an event. Since the idea of organizing this event and first planning step, we changed venues and menus and ended up at Powell City Hall as venue and with Annapurna’s menu. We invited people from all cities in Ohio and from nearby states where AOL had presence and quite a few people did show up. In fact there were comparatively less people from Columbus. I don’t know why not many of them come to AOL events. I agree that after hectic work week they would like to spend time with their family and sometimes it’s hard to manage things when you have kids but such events are not organized every now and then. Frequency of such big AOL events in Columbus is not more than once in 4 months. If I do simple analysis, it takes only 0.14 % of our time assuming we come only for 3 hrs, including travel to venue. Please know that your presence would make any event livelier, bring in more positive energy and eventually help AOL become bigger in its work. We want nice people like you to come, share your happiness, and make this society much better place to live in. We want your love.We first did Maha Kriya – it was good for me. I think that most people had deep kriya. Hall was big and there was peace amongst all although neighboring hall some children party going on. Later I went to pick up Arun and Mayaji while all other played games. By 6.45 pm we started dinner. Food was good except I found Bhendi ka sabji little oily. Gulab Jamuns were just awesome. Overall, I feel that good food and timely dinner made people happy. It was all well organized by Prasad, Shikha, Nina and all others who were involved in managing refreshments, including egg-less cake
Later we started ‘Satsang’. Satsang in literary terms means ‘company of truth’ and according to me idea behind it is to be in present moment. We sing bhajans, play music, do some chanting, some meditation. I always like satsangs. The AOL bahajans are not typical old typos and that’s what I like the most about it. Anyone can sing these bhajans with ease but in our group Paresh, Prasad and Munish are ‘the’ people who have good voice and have kept the music going and are building it further through ‘Kirtan Ensemble’ music group. But today was special day – Preeti opened the satsang with ‘Aaa le lu ya’ and then Prasad sang ‘Krishan Manohar’ and then he also sang ‘Durge Nandini’ and they all joined in. Dayton people came forward, so did Cincinnati and then Mrs. Nath sang ‘Tu hi’. See that magic – we discovered that Arun invited himself to play table. Man, he is real good. Debu, our master musician plays excellent guitar, although this time we did not give him enough opportunity to show his talents. When all this was happening, I took an opportunity to capture the ‘sat-moments’ in video. People well all drenched in this divine music in serenity. I love this kind of environment, especially in the evenings. Anyone there could feel presence of divine soul - our beloved Guruji.
We ended the function with one beautiful Guru Aarti. Since Kavi was not there I asked Nina to hold my hands as I was praying offering aarti to Guruji. I missed Kavi all along the event. We cut the cake - it was delicious. I liked the spirits of people from other cities who came so long to make this event a success. They are great. They are true guru souls.
Jai Guru Dev
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