The Incredible India

I remember those TV ads, which Indian govt. has launched for showing the diversity and rich culture of India. I never thought so deeply about the culture of India and why it is so special? After coming back to India in almost one year, I feel the difference between our culture and the culture of west. I am not saying that materialistically we are not developed or we are very poor as compared to the rich countries. Coming back to India was big culture shock for me than going to west and experience their culture. When I landed here before 15 days, I saw only chaos. I started observing people at the airport. Everything was looking very much negative. I was thinking, how a foreigner will think about my country, how is the officer at the airport behaving, why there is no security, why autowala is forcing me to take their auto, and the list continues. My heart was literally crying from inside by looking the condition of my country.
But if I keep this materialistic development aside, because I think it is mainly caused by the govt irresponsibility and corruption. They did not take sensible decisions all over the time.
I need to see more deeply, to understand rich Indian culture and people's mentality. There is no doubt the Indian people have inferiority complex, It is because of slavery by Britishers for a long time. It is actually improving by time, because there is no instant solution of this problem. In addition, I see deep connection and strong faith in people. This faith may be due to fear or devotion but it is there. In India, despite having lots of problems people are very content. They always have feeling of giving something and doing service without any intention. It is very much appreciable. We have a strong tradition of Yoga and meditation. This knowledge is very deep and people in west are hungry of this knowledge. I, myself have meet many people who appreciate me only because I am an Indian. I am from a place where vibrational energy is very strong because for ages rishis and munis have meditated here. Now after 15 days of living in India, my mind set is again changed. So what if there is no development, so what if people dont smile, so what if there are more poor, so what if govt is not good, it is my country. I am blessed to be born in such a beautiful land. I take responsibility to do at my level best to make it better place for living. 

The Silent Communication

How absurd is this title, The Silent Communication....can communication be possible in silence? And if it is, then how much effective will it be? Last week, I got a chance to go in the 3 days silence program of art of living. Those three days we were totally silent, even no talking with our self, no facebook, no mp3, no mobiles nothing, means no distraction from outside world. For someone (specially girls) it is impossible to be silent for few minutes, forget about three days. But the experience we all had was amazing.
There were in total 21 participants in the course and I could personally feel a strong connection with each one of them.
I like these lines from the course "the purpose of words is to create silence" but we never speak like that. We speak what ever comes to our mind and later on we feel sorry for that. Speaking too much also reduces the power of our speech. But when we speak after keeping silence for some time our power of speech is tremendous. By being silent, we start feeling the joy from inside. We don't need external factor to be happy.
That is how I am feeling now a days.
The course venue was in the middle of black forest in Germany, called Bad Antogast. It is international center of art of living in Germany. It was my second visit to that place. The place is so vibrant and full of energy. The day course started, snow also started there. The first snow of the season was very beautiful.
The teacher, who took the course, his name was Christopher Kiran Byrt. He was a German and have been in art of living from around 25 years. His silence was very strong. He doesn't need any word for communication that you can easily feel in his presence.
So for the first time I realized that it is possible to communicate even in silence and this communication is even more deeper and strong.