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.

Guruji’s parents

June 14, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 2 Comments

Shri RSV Ratnam (Acharya Ratnananda) and Smt Vishalakshi, known to us all as Pitaji and Amma, will always live on in our hearts. We are indebted to them for all they have shared with us.Pranams and Jai Guru Dev

What dreams may come :)

June 7, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 13 Comments

Is it only in dreams that we are able to perceive reality as fluid, multi-dimensional, evanescent and flexible? Do we “wake down” to our mundane reality and then transcend to dream once more, and then step into the blank nothingness/everywhereness of samadhi, where all simply “is”? Who, then, dreams — and who transcends — and […]

Forging ahead

June 6, 2011 by Vikram Hazra Leave a Comment

As you can see, we have been trying to incorporate new elements into the blog without changing the basic structure and look too drastically. Please do bear with us over the next few days as Alpesh (my tireless webmaster) and I try a few experiments. I hope you like the page with all my photography […]

Question from a seeker

May 17, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 7 Comments

This blog post is in response to Questions asked by the blog readers. Checkout, ask questions and Questions and Answers List. Here are some questions I was sent by a “seeker” yesterday; I suspect similar thoughts run through many other minds as well, so here is the mail, along with my replies: well, must […]

A small clarification

May 9, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 59 Comments

For over fifteen years I have served as Program Director for the Art of Living foundation. The past couple of years I have also taken my music to a professional level, which means that I now make a living from my bhajan concerts. Must admit that it felt a bit strange to call myself a […]

Glimpses

April 30, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 3 Comments

Hello everyone

April 20, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 20 Comments

Entirely my fault for having been away this long; its been a wonderful and very successful year, and I have been taking two-three flights a week for the past 10-12 months; have been making notes in my diary to turn into longer posts but truly have not had the luxury to sit down and convert […]

Cathartic return to blogging

April 19, 2011 by Vikram Hazra 10 Comments

Time flies time flies it doesn’t wait around while you make up your mind you keep on thinking of what will make your life better and trying to figure out who you are and what the f*** you are doing on this gorgeous planet but suddenly you look up and find that several decades have […]