Technique is Supporting Life, not Hindering

We started something new on our website: Jaisiyaram Live Online support. You can see a button on top of each page on our website which tells you if the live help is online or offline. By clicking on it when it says ‘online’ a chat window will open and you can ask us about our activities, about the Ashram, about Yoga, about me, India, our workshops… It might be the first spiritual website with an online live support. So if you have a problem finding something on our website, just ask!

I am not allergic against technology as many spiritual people seem to be. They use it but they tell everybody that they hate technology. However they like to be informed about what is going on and for that they use the Internet. It makes things easier as I said the other day. I am modern and I like to keep up with the times. Why can’t we combine our spirituality and modern science?

When I came out of the cave in the end of the year 2000, I saw a computer for the first time in my life. In that time I also could not speak English as I had not learned it in school. That is why I could not really use the computer but when I went out of India for the first time in 2001, I made my first e-mail account and started using the computer and the Internet. Internet and chatting was how I learned the basics of the English language. I gave my first lecture in English in November 2002 in Trinidad. Soon I got more and more busy and did not have the time anymore for chatting but then my English improved by talking with people. However chatting, the Internet, the computer, this all helped me to learn English.

Technology can also do good things and now it is possible with it that we have a live support on our website. Friends and my family will be there to assist you with any kind of question. Some of them also speak German, if that is easier for you. Sometimes you may find me there, too. You know that I am very busy with my work but if I get a chance, I will love to be there and talk online with visitors of the website from all over the world. This will be fun and I do not see this as work. So you never know whom you can talk to at different times of the day, but maybe I will be the first Swami chatting with his friends over his website.