Ich habe vor einiger Zeit bereits im Tagebuch geschrieben, wie schwierig es für unsere Schule ist, eine vollständige Liste unserer Kinder beizubehalten, aufgrund ihrer Nachnamen, die direkt mit dem Problem des Kastensystems in Verbindung stehen. Manche Kinder kennen ihren Nachnamen nicht oder wollen ihn nicht sagen, weil er ihre Kaste angibt und sie lernen, dass sie nicht wie die anderen behandelt werden, wenn jemand ihren Namen erfährt. Stell dir vor, mit was für einem Gefühl sie aufwachsen!
In Europa sagte mir jemand, dass er davon nichts gemerkt hatte, während er durch Indien reiste. Ich sagte ihm, dass er tiefer gehen müsse als sich nur die Touristenorte anzusehen. Wenn du für eine Weile bleibst und ein Projekt wie unsere Schule siehst, wirst du es verstehen.
In den letzten Tagen habe ich von einigen Beispielen erzählt, an denen man immer noch sehen kann, dass die Menschen die Gesellschaft in verschiedene Klassen, die Kasten eingeteilt haben. Ein weiteres Beispiel sind die Ehen. Vor ein paar Tagen kam Ramona mit einem Teil der Zeitung zu mir. Sie las vor ‚Suche gebildetes Mädchen für Sanadhya-Vashisht Brahmin Jungen…‘ Sie war überrascht zu lesen, dass die Menschen sogar in den Kontaktanzeigen in der Zeitung nach einem Partner aus ihrer Kaste suchen.
Ich erklärte ihr, dass das ein sehr wichtiger Faktor für Eltern ist, die nach einem Partner für die arrangierte Ehe ihrer Kinder suchen. Und auch für viele junge Menschen, ob es nun wichtig ist, weil die Familie es will oder sie es selber so fühlen. Die Spalten in der Zeitung sind in die verschiedenen Kasten eingeteilt, so dass jeder sofort findet, was er sucht und es gibt sogar Agenturen, die für dich einen Partner aus deiner Kaste finden. Man sieht also, dass das Kastensystem im alltäglichen Leben immer noch present ist.
Heute sind Jens, Regina und Celina am frühen Morgen vom Ashram abgefahren, um wieder nach Deutschland zurückzufliegen. Wir vermissen sie bereits und im Ashram wird es jetzt immer ruhiger. Suraj vermisst sie auch, besonders Celina, die jeden Tag mit ihm spielte. Doch wir hoffen, dass sie bald wieder in den Ashram zurückkommen.
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yes. i tried their course. mostly just “talk” which had me yawning in minutes, and then the really useful sudarshan kriya which is a variation of the breathwork that yogis have been performing for ever. i do that kriya regularly now, as it’s shorter than the breathwork i learned some place else. they added yoga in a big way to their routine, i think, after baba ramdev so abundantly made it available for all, for free. and what is really, really funny, hilarious rather is the fact that they call the course fee donation. so there i was, thinking that it’s donation, hence voluntary, standing 7 hrs bus ride away from home in rishikesh (i lived in delhi then), with no “fee” money (which at that time, i think 1998ish, was 2000 for the advanced course). and they told me that they cannot register me for the course if i don’t pay up. i did try to reason that if i needed to pay a free they should’ve informed earlier and not called it donation. but no, they insisted that it is donation and they insisted that i pay if i want in. i think it’s some way of saving tax. so there…sri sri sri… 🙂
what was even more interesting was that in the ashram (yes, i did get in by paying money i had got for something else) indians were hoarded in these small rooms–3, 4, sometimes 5 people to a room–and foreigners were given these bungalow-like accommodations which were a little away from our regular rooms. strange that no one either noticed, or protested about it. the rooms we were in cost rs 50 per day, and we were doing the cleaning etc in the name of seva; and paying rs 2000 per head; imagine the kind of money they made.
in early stages babas used to announce themselves as gods, later as demigods, later with media exposing scandals,scams everything they turned into yoga gurus undercurrently still as demigods. whatever swami balendu is telling is real, appreciative work, but as he is called as swami now or later devotees will charge their mobiles without chargers in front of him also. So I suggest please remove swami/baba and be realistic by let people call with the name or it will turn into another trend of being a baba/swami by showing reality but indirectly, undercurrently creating devotees and becoming demigod. I hope u understand.
Nope. Its a distorted, uniformed, view. This is what I wrote on Quora on this subject (http://qr.ae/T72CS)
Let me state this!!
I am an ardent Art of Living follower, and love my guru Sri Sri very much!
Now, let me ‘try’ and ‘interpret’ what is being asked of me indirectly via this question.
I see 2 sides of this story – The Guru side and the Devotee side.
First, lets read what Sri Sri himself says in this post:
“This is really something. Even I need a charger for my phone, and my devotee charges his phone by keeping it in front of my picture.’ See how powerful devotees can be.”
Sri Sri HIMSELF says that he charges his phone via a charger but his devotee uses his picture!
The second side is that of the Devotee:
Let me state that from immortal times, if you read the Ramayana, the Koran, the Bible, The Autobiography of a Yogi (A book I give away by the hundreds and the same one that Steve Jobs read every year on his iPad (it was the ONLY book on his iPad), Miracles of Love by Rama Dass in memory Neem Karoli Baba (The saint Steve Jobs went to visit in Ranikhet but did not find), annals and annals of stories of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Mother Teresa (I know someone personally who was a chain smoker and was cured just by her touch), and YES – hundreds and hundreds of stories of devotees of Sri Sri, you will find million of stories of miracles, ‘non-scientific’ occurrences and pure ‘unbelievable’ stuff.
Are all these millions of devotees across the ages, saints, religions, times, era’s wrong and delusional? Maybe, maybe not! Who knows?
Let me end by stating my own experience with Sri Sri:
– He surely is very very very perceptive!
– All his actions are directed to the up-liftment of society (just take a break to learn the work Art of Living is doing in villages, prisons etc – its the largest NGO in the world!!)
– He NEVER ever demonstrates ANY MAGIC or MIRACLES (much to our regret :-))
– Everything he does is based on simple, pure, yogic and spiritual principles!!
I dunno if you know – but he is a trained engineer and many of his teachers and core team members are IIT grads! Honestly, I see more science and technology at Art of Living than in normal places :-)))
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
Digital Entrepreneur
Hello Alok,
You are trying in vain to bring an argument against what is written here. Even if Sri Sri Ravi Shankar does not himself show you any magic (of which you obviously believe that he is capable), he does tell magic stories like this one – and it is obvious nonsense!
The fact that old fairy-tale like scriptures, whcih have been written in a time when science was not advanced enough to explain natural phenomena, mention miracles does not mean that they exist. People have always been fascinated and attracted by the unbelievable but it is a fact that so many of those gurus have been caught tricking their devotees and then there is the vivid imagination of the devotees, too, whose psychological state is mostly anyway already disturbed. Otherwise why would they completely give up their responsibility?
I believe it would be good for you to read our ‘guru’ section to get a better impression of what we believe – it is up to you to decide what you want to believe of course!
All the best!