“How can you lose when I am with you”

“How can you lose when I am with you”
I was blessed to do the Blessings course a couple of months back at the Bangalore Ashram , and that too in the presence of Guruji !!! The Blessings course is a profound course by itself and it makes the virtues like innocence, naturalness, simplicity and humility shine forth in the participants. It forces you to break your own judgments about yourself and other fellow human beings. The feelings of purity and total freedom that I felt on the last day left me with a rapturous sense of ecstasy and bliss ! It is very very difficult to put into words anything about the blessings course as it transcends any kind of human expression and logic. I will recommend all of you doing this course as soon as possible (prerequisite : 3 advanced courses). It makes us realize how very very fortunate we are , amongst the 6 billion human beings inhabiting this planet. It also gives a little glimpse as to what Divine has in store for us and and we are in reality (perhaps a little ambitious statement here :-)) I was left with a sense of total awe and astonishment when the course ended and frankly I could not really understand, what all transpired on those last 4 days. But slowly it has been sinking in over the last few weeks.

On a more "gross level", the course helps to overcome limitations of the ego and intellect like arrogance, rigidity, shyness, fear, judgments making us like small children. It gives us the joy that true freedom can bring. During the course we all felt it was raining "divine grace". We were immersed in our Guru's love.

There is a story which Swami Pragyapadji (our teacher) told us which I want to share. Few years back, when Swamiji was working on a very challenging project in AOL, he was going through a lot of disappointments. One day he decided he could take it no longer and went to speak with Guruji about changing his project. When all the people had left the room, and he was alone with Guruji, Guruji looked at him and said "If tomorrow all the people of the world turned against you, will you be able to handle it ?" Swamiji got very scared at such a question and was thinking in his mind "Ok I will not ask you to change my project, but pls do not ask me such questions!" Guruji then said "How can you lose when I am with you!"

This was the most inspirational Guru story we heard during the Blessings course. Swamiji told us no matter how bad the situation is, how hopeless it looks know that Guruji is always with you. There might be many setbacks in life , but you will not lose, since GURU himself is behind you!

Hope those of you who have not yet done the Blessings course, will go for it as soon as possible. After this course, it seems , every step , good or bad, is led by the Divine.

Jai Guruudev
Sujala
Photographs of the Blessings course

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