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Vikram Hazra

As Program Director of the International Art of Living Foundation, I travel, teach, sing, smile and serve, and strive to excel as an instrument of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, whose goal is to put the smile back on every face on this planet.

Home!

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It really is nice to be home. Nice friendly vibe, familiar food and smells, books and CDs smiling like old buddies, and of course the guitars and racquets and other tools of the trade, my weapons of choice for sonic warfare 😉 – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Heading home

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Finally heading back to bbay today after two wonderful weeks in the ashram with Guruji; first for the Sri Sri Yoga teacher training program and then for a meeting of senior teachers with Guruji. Didn’t carry a laptop, guitar and other paraphernalia; just the iPhone. Also didn’t get onto the wifi there, so it has […]

Wisdom from Sri Sri

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The Sanskrit word for birthdays is Jayanti. Jayanti means the pinnacle of victory. Victory is always associated with duality, war, conflict, but birth is beyond conflict because it is celebration. This is when the ocean became the wave and will become ocean again after some years. A birthday is a time to remember that the […]

Still looking inward — an update

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One of my favourite songs, by Joni Mitchell, is Both Sides Now — which talks about how life is full of paradox, humour and change (the same three principles which are outlined so well in the movie The Peaceful Warrior) and concludes with “I guess I don’t know life at all” And yet, this is […]

Thought for the day

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Q: How can I free myself from the polarity of dependence and independence so that I will be free for real? Sri Sri : There is nothing called total independence in life. Forget about it. If you are thinking “I want to be totally independent” — you are not. Till the age of 15, 16 […]