Working as a volunteer in Isha foundation is really a life time experience. Will this become my life itself? Let me wait and see. In Isha I work for IshaVidhya rural schools. IshaVidhya is a project started to educate the rural India. We have around 6 Isha vidhya rural schools through out Tamil Nadu. Being an academician I was asked to take in charge of the academics of three of these schools. I work with schools in Tuticorin, Nagercoil and Coimbatore. Yesterday (Monday, August 17th) Sadhguru visited both Nagercoil and Tuticorin schools. Some of the moments I cannot forget till my last breath. Being an Isha meditator now for 13 years I have seen Sadhguru very closely many times. But during the school visit it was altogether a different experience. I would like to conclude this post with a thought "What we Isha Vidhya volunteers could not do in 3 years, Sadhguru did to the teachers and students in 15 minutes". :), after the school visit, many teachers came and hugged me and cried. One teachers words I cannot forget "Raji akka, I always though that you exaggerate about Sadhguru and even wondered why are you wasting your life as a volunteer in our schools, but now I found what is there...this opportunity will also get in my life"....I just nodded my head with a smile.
Thank you Sadhguru...what is there to thank you...we are all mere instruments in your hands. Its so wonderful to throw us completely in your hands and let you do whatever you want. In this world of people always wanting to to be in control...you showed us how wonderful it is to be vulnerable. Thanks, but at times I struggle, help me. :)
(My next post I will write more about this project, my experience in these 8 months and the people I met)
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Raji..I remembered Khalil gibran words in his book "The Prophet" reading ur blog:
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."
:-) Enjoy!
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