I visited South Africa 19 June 2024 for the first time to share Beautiful Knowledge Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar ji has imparted us . I knew something good will happen with this visit but still some flashes of self doubts kept coming . Ever since i have lived self doubts have kept coming . BUT something new was going to happen ...i started with teaching Free AOL program called the Breath-Water-Sound workshop in a church aided Drugs Rehabilitation center. This gave me an Idea everywhere people are same ,they also had their positive qualities & negative qualities like fear, self doubts ..they also go through same emotions and as our programs do wonders and bring transformation same i experienced there as well. Just in 4 days people became more calm & peaceful & felt the energy which our breathing techniques & meditation gave has substituted the need for any other substance use.
i taught many programs after that and ever program i taught i met new people and experience people are so lovable & genuine . Especially our AOL teachers , my Coordinator (NTC of SA) Neeraj really helped me fix up all programs.
Program which really gave me a boost & filled my confidence has DSN in cape town organized by Mukesh & Gerlinda . Before the start i was filled with self Doubts ...so many ... I had to take full program in English for the first time, i am not good enough to teach DSN & Blah Blah ......
BUT as soon as i remembered a line from VTPs which i have taught many in India " DO EVERYTHING KNOWING YOU ARE NOT THE DOER" my self doubts started vanishing. EVERY TIME I USE TO SIT ON THE 'VYAS PEETH'(SOFA ON THE STAGE) I USE TO SAY THIS THIS LINE SLOWLY IN MY MIND.
Second day of the program i literally saw GURUDEV beside my bed in the early morning hours. THE PRESENSE WAS SO STRONG AND AS IF HE HAS COME TO SAY "I AM THERE" .
Result of DSN was phenomenal for me ...all self doubts were gone , i was a new Abhishek ... Confident ...a feeling which has never left me till now... all people were so happy ....no one left the program in between which often happen as people can't take it due to some very challenging mind bending processes.
Now i have this thing in me I CAN DO.
During my stay whenever i was having a situation where organizer was telling that we can't do a program or my days were about to go blank without any program.....i would gave them an alternative program and they use to agree and in no time it use to get organize with fairly good strength. On my last destination Durban when organizers told my they can't do VTP , i just requested NTC & organizers for a zoom meeting with all the teachers of Durban and in that one meeting 8 programs got finalized in just 2 weeks . 4 Yoga events 3 days each , 2 Intuition Processes 2 days , 1 HP & 1 Online Sahaj . Those 14 days i taught morning & evening all days and also got time for 4 Satsangs , 1 Intro talk , 1 university visit for YES+ Proposal to the dean, 1 YES+ training for local Teachers, 3 Radio Interviews & 1 follow up.
In all during my SA visit i taught 21 AOL programs in 10 weeks plus 23 non Course activities.
In between i was motivating people to visit Mauritius but i had no self plans to visit as my return tickets were booked. And you know sometimes we block ourself when we are so much planned .
In DSN 3 people got ready for Mauritius ...2 of them also booked for the corporate event & when when similar thing happened in Durban and when one of the candidate in HP got ready for Mauritius immediately when i personally told him to go .... My mind also took a different approach .. " May be i can also go "
AND here i spoke to both my NTCs SA & INDIA ...both said you can go ...only challenge was since my return tickets can't be changed i have to go on my personal expenses & they can help with stay & other things.
NOW the easy way for me was to go to INDIA on planned dates and no hassles of how i will go where i will get stay ,will i get seva , tickets for events , expenses etc.
BUT I CHOOSED THE CHALLENGING WAY - to GO TO MAURITIUS & BE WITH GURUDEV's PRESENSE.
I so many years of being with Gurudev & especially the SA experience had left me with no choice but to take the plunge .
Now i had handed over all the gift money in Rands(people were giving me envelopes and literally i was keeping envelops packed in my laptop bag thinking i will count afterwards) to our accountants & teachers Pat & Kassie in Durban.
when i asked Pat how much my tickets to Mauritius & then to India costed to my surprise he said no need to add any extra money in the gifted money as it is exactly equal to the ticket cost!!
Can You believe this !! yes but i can .... when i stared my journey from India i had this intuition some Guru story is going to happen but wait this is not only the Guru story ..there is one more ....
:) :)
So i reached Mauritius & NTC Connected me to AOL trustee Dr Vinod in Mauritius ... there are 100+ teachers & thousands of devotees in Mauritius but Dr Vinod called only one teacher Cevina and asked that a teacher from SA is coming and you please make him stay at your home. Now Cevina is little Skeptical for a male teacher staying at their home where only 2 females she & her mom are staying(this is what she told me later) and thinks i don't know him and her mom who is also AOL teacher, already doing seva to cook for swamiji how can she take this new responsibility . BUT then she finds me on facebook/whatsapp group and immediately recognizes my "this is Abhishek Bhaiya" . I had assisted the very first International TTC she has done in 2014 in Bangalore ashram for 15 days. Though we had never spoken after that and i do not remembered her doing that TTC .
Story abhi bakki hai ..... :):)
NOW stay is done what next Seva in the event ?
but some how there is no seva to be done !!
here i must paise the event organizing skills of trustees & teachers of Mauritius.....
Here i got a chance to get a role in dance song which the Mauritius team preparing for Gurudev!!
NOW when Gurudev arrives the organizers make his stay in Presidential Suit in a Good Hotel.
So on first day one SA Volunteer who is staying in the hotel takes me there and i come on the beach side from inside the hotel. Gurudev Comes on the balcony and asks me & few others where are we staying ..He mentions very politely that since this is a French property theses people will not like people who are not staying to come inside . I got my message so day 2 & 3 i did not visited Gurudev or tried to follow HIM . i was happy but still missing to be proximate with HIM.
On day 4 after Devi Pooja Gurudev sees me in darshan line & asks " KYA HAAL HAI TUMHARE" ( HOW DO U FEEL?) i only said .. i am good & my SA trip was very good. He nods and goes away.
Now before the pooja i had message Swamiji that i want 3 of the DSN people to have close darshans of GURUDEV and Swamiji had replied only me to come in the hotel after Devi Pooja. First i thought how these 3 people will have darshans ..but in line darshan Gurudev went to everyone and gave nice time to each one.
So now i went to Hotel and there i had most memorable time with Gurudev.........beyond that i can't express , He is embodiment of love & takes care of every single person and i feel when we are out there with Clarity in mind , Purity in Heart and Intensity in Action things just fall into place . He asked about my SA trip and while telling it my mind went blank ..i always wanted to tell him about support i got from all NTCs India & SA but i know he already he knew this ...
i express my gratitude to Purnima ji , Neelu ji , Neeraj ji and all the teachers of SA & Mauritius because of whom my this trip was possible and also my Mom & my wife Meghana as they also spent almost 3 months without me and managed everything well & especially Meghana supported & encouraged me to go to Mauritius ..which gave me most fulfilling time . Here i remember Dr Anita & Dr Jay Khooshal our AMP teachers who really help me become more caring Human Being there genuine helping nature taught me a lot of things. They also taught me Swimming on the Last day of my stay abroad . when a new swimmer generally learns it in a stable calm water....I can proudly say I LEARNT TO SWIM IN OCEAN. THIS IS ALL GURUGRACE. I came back on 9th September.
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