Moments so Far ...

It has been a difficult emotion, expressed indifferently and at unexpected moments in life. It has affected my parents, me, my spouse, my children, my colleagues and somebodies whom I have directly or indirectly interacted in past. But it was a call to the SBI call center which brought the anger expression into perspective. I had ignored my SBI current account for few months. I was out of freelancing since a while and there was not much action happening there. But I happen to see the yearly statement by chance while making a bill payment. I noticed that on 2 occasions the bank had fines me for around INR 650. Instantly sent them email. Not satisfied called them up. A lady agent received the call and explained that “rules say” If you do not maintain a minimum balance of INR 10000 per quarter you will be charged around INR 650 per quarter. I explained that I was not aware of the rule. She said, she cannot even take a complaint as it was crystal clear rule wh...

A first time to banasankari amma’s temple at bangalore. The morning of April 8, 2017 was spent with special participants of art of living happiness programme at RBI Layout center. The evening was to be in art of living satsang led by dearest Swami Suryapada ji (otherwise known as Chayyana ji, with love). Started walking to the temple. The first few Bangalore auto wallahs ignored. One well dressed and young one of them stopped and demanded INR 80, almost double. Another, shabbily dressed and middle aged simply switched on the meter. Entered temple. Not knew which direction to take. Where to keep the footwear? Some feet were bare and going in, searched for ones not bare and followed them. Suddenly, the footwear stand appeared on the left end of the temple. Saw the banner declaring satsang in kannada along with photos of Sri Sri and Chayyanna. The stage was getting set. Suddenly saw one of the AOL happiness programme participant there. She said she came...

Most times you want to lead. It creates a pressure on you to think, direct and move in certain direction. It is difficult not to lead. Then facilitator instructs you, Now try not to lead . Pause. Allow not to be lead. Wait. Some moments of awkwardness happen. The impulse to lead dilutes. The effort to direct dissolves. The wait becomes bearable. And then you allow to be lead. Then the facilitator instructs you. There comes a time when you are not leading nor being led and simply the movement happens. The rules of movement still hold but the movement is unrestricted. Then you simply flow in the space. Together as team you explore the space. Share. Learn. Move. Unafraid. Unjudged. Like you river your path happens . The jungle of risks, smoothens . The stones of challenges weather . The above thoughts were born out of a team workshop conducted by Preeti Sunderajan, CEO of GAIT . Reach out to her if you need to smoothen out the rough edges from your te...