The Art of Living - Newfoundland

06/08/2025

Just wrapped up a 3-day online Sahaj meditation course—and I’m so grateful I chose to revisit it.
Even though I’ve done it before, going through it again helped me deepen my practice and reconnect with a profound sense of calm, clarity, and joy.
We meditated alongside over 12,000 people from 111 countries. ✨
Guided beautifully by Spencer and Bhanu ma, the experience felt both deeply personal and powerfully expansive.
If you’ve been meaning to pause, reset, and reconnect with your own inner stillness…
Dr. Shobha and I will be teaching the upcoming SKY Breath Meditation Program (Art of Living Part 1 Course) on June 27–29.
This practice has transformed millions of lives—including ours.
If you’ve been looking for a way to refresh your energy, calm your mind, and breathe deeply again, this might be your moment.
Register here: https://www.artofliving.org/ca-en/i_2564
Please don't hesitate to message me if you have any questions.
We’d love to have you with us.

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06/06/2025

😌 Want to sleep better, think clearer, and feel calmer—starting tonight?
What if you could:

🧠 Clear mental fog
💤 Sleep more deeply
💛 Feel more grounded—even when life feels chaotic
🌿 Start and end your day with calm, not stress

That’s what this gentle, effortless meditation practice offers.
And the best part? You can experience it from your own home.

This evening, I’m joining a 3-day online meditation program that’s helped me—and many others—reconnect with inner peace, clarity, and energy.

No experience needed. No pressure to “quiet your mind.” Just a simple, guided way to reset.

🧘‍♂️ Program Schedule (Newfoundland Time – NDT):
▪️ Starts tonight – Friday, June 6: 7:00–9:00 PM
▪️ Saturday & Sunday: 9:00–11:00 AM

🕰️ Eastern Time (ET):
▪️ Fri: 5:30–7:30 PM
▪️ Sat & Sun: 7:30–9:30 AM

If your body or mind has been asking for a pause, this is a beautiful place to begin.

👉 Register here: https://www.artofliving.org/ca-en/i_2829

I'll be there too. Would love to have you join me. 💛

06/06/2025

Two essentials for Good Living! Precious Knowledge.

05/28/2022

Often people think they are sad because of love. It is not so. It is craving for attention from the other or aversion to the other's behaviour that causes sadness. Love really begins when you go beyond craving & aversion.

05/28/2022

There is a very beautiful poem that says:
“What do you say to a person who is scared of noise but has built his house in the market?
What do say to a person who has built a home on the seashore and hates waves?
What do you say to a person who has built a home in the forest and is scared of animals?”

In the same way, what do you tell a person who lives in society and is scared of accusations, blames and praises?

People blame and they say things, what can you do? Educate and ignore. Even when you have done nothing wrong still people become your enemies. How many of you have experienced this? You did not do any harm to them but they have become your enemies. Similarly, you have not done any big favors for some people but they have become your friends, isn’t it?!
Becoming a friend or an enemy works on some other special law and that is Karma. With Karma you cannot have a reasoning or explanation for certain happenings. That is just how it is. So don’t worry if people blame you for things that you have not done. Don’t get disturbed.

It is easy to say don’t get disturbed. You do get disturbed, but at that time this wisdom will help you – ’It is some strange Karma, let it be there. So what, what can we do? That is the nature of the world.’

In this way you should make yourself dispassionate. One who is dispassionate always remains joyful. ’Kasya Sukham Na Karoti Viragah’ – There is no pleasure greater than a state of mind that does not seek pleasure.

01/04/2022

Life is full of interruptions. We need to keep moving. We park ourselves somewhere and then we move again. Now if you park in a wrong place, you need to move sooner, and if you park in the right place, you have freedom to move when you want to. Similarly, you have to park your mind in a safe place. If you have parked your mind in your own garage, nobody can tell you when you should move it. But if you park your mind in somebody else’s garage, they will be after you.

Don’t give your life’s authority in somebody else’s hand. If you do, you will have no freedom. And when you lose freedom, the next thing you lose is love and compassion, because someone who is stifled cannot express their compassion or love. So, take care of the car called mind which drives you. You should drive the mind rather than the mind driving you. Wisdom empowers you to drive the mind. Otherwise the mind is driving; it is an automated car which goes on its own.

12/07/2021

When someone blames you, you feel a heavy load on your head, and when you talk about it you spread the unpleasant feeling all around you. At this moment wake up and see that you are the Being and nothing can touch you.
Owning responsibility for all your experiences in life makes you powerful and will put an end to grumbling, planning counterattacks, explanations, and all those host of negative tendencies.
To love someone whom you like is not a big deal at all.
To love someone because they love you, you get zero marks.
To love someone whom you do not like, you have learnt a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason, you have learnt the art of living.

When someone blames you, you feel a heavy load on your head, and when you talk about it you spread the unpleasant feeling all around you. At this moment wake up and see that you are the Being and nothing can touch you.
Owning responsibility for all your experiences in life makes you powerful and will put an end to grumbling, planning counter attacks, explanations, and all those host of negative tendencies.

To love someone whom you like is not a big deal at all.
To love someone because they love you, you get zero marks.
To love someone whom you do not like, you have learnt a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason, you have learnt the art of living.