True story: To help or not to help

Here is another story. And involves also my friend George from Mantra for Ego.

Same place, "Sunny Meadow", a nice camp in the mountains of Romania where we spent with yogis the New Year in the early 90s.

As there were so many of us, the water at the washrooms was not enough so we needed to go outside (it was winter!!!) and wash our faces and teeth in the morning using the water of a small river passing by.

We felt very proud as we were (or pretended to be) detached of the cold.

I was sitting near George, brushing our teeth, when he lost his balance.

Now, this small river, creek actually was only around 1 m wide so you can easily jump over it.

When he lost his balance, he tried to jump on the other side.

I noticed only that he lost his balance and I tried to help, pulling him back.

Now you probably remember from high school Physics studies. If you apply 2 opposite equal forces to an object, it stays put.

So did George, who tried to jump over the creek, I pulled him back, so he was very curious why he stopped somewhere in the air. Gravity helped him to fall right into the middle of the creek.

It took all of us, including George, some time to stop laughing.

The psychologist lemon

Via Silvana (Italy):

An interesting technique for improving ourselves comes from Ukraine (or so).

A nice, big lemon needs to be involved in it.

We invite the lemon to get vibrations, then we just take it, hold it in our hand and then very sweetly we tell it all our problems and... it will absorb all of them!

This is not an official techique, but try to believe it!

There is no end to creativity...

This might be a true story, said as a joke by the organizer of a program in Ukraine. Or maybe somewhere else... Or maybe it is not even true. But it is funny :)

True stories: what does "balanced" mean

From Gita:

Recently in our class.

New participant: "If I catch on the left and on the right Vishuddi, is my Vishuddi then balanced?"

Answer (without thinking): "No, that means it's messed up."

True stories - enlightened lemons

From Silvana (Italy)

It happened many years ago, during one of the first classes I have attended.

The teacher was explaining us a few techniques for clearing our chakras, when he started with a new one called "matka".

We were supposed to use lemons and chillies.

So he said: "Take 7 nice lemons and put them to MEDITATE in front of Shri Mataji's picture..." at that point, after an immediate surprise, everybody started laughing while thinking of the lemons meditating...

True stories - Mantra for Ego

This happened some time ago, at a nice camp "Sunny Meadow" in Carpathians, Romania.

We all sat for meditation, very serious, truly understanding the importance of the moment.

My good friend George was leading the meditation, going through different mantras for chakras.

When we reached Agnya, he said:

"Let's now say the mantra for Ego: Mother you are not doing anything, I am doing everything!"

I do not know if he did it on purpose, but the result was explosive. We all started laughing and we did not stop for a while!!!

True stories

We are starting a new series of posts called "True stories".

Did anything funny happened to you in your Sahaj life. Share it with us so we can enjoy and laugh together.

You can send it by email at contact@sahajayogablog.org.

Thank you,
Dragos