Grey Shades

Read about my guru ,  Inner Engineering: The beginning and Inner Engineering . The first four days went enjoyably and uneventfully. The night before initiation day, I could barely sleep. I was too excited and when I finally did fall asleep, there was a power cut and with that, the mosquitoes attacked. For a long time, I lay on the bed contemplating getting up and lighting the mosquito strip or waiting for the power to be back. Finally, I got up, lighted the strip, but had trouble going back to sleep again. I don’t really know when I fell asleep because the next thing I knew, my alarm was beeping, signaling that it was time to get up. I got up, got ready, packed a few things that we were supposed to bring that day, and went to the venue. This was a different venue than the one where the course took place. This was the first time I was leaving Fearless for an entire day. I had already cooked breakfast and curry and stored in the fridge for Ashwin and Fearless. All they had to ...

Read about my guru and  Inner Engineering: The beginning . First, a few things about Inner Engineering (IE). It would be better to browse through Isha’s IE website to get a clear picture of the course. The online IE course is not available in India. Indians can take IE at their local Isha centers. The rates are different for different countries and geographical areas, so don’t do the dollar-to-rupee conversion (:P) from the .com given above. Find the local centers here and call up the respective numbers in the program listing for any queries that you may have. The IE course is arranged such that it begins on a Wednesday and ends the following Tuesday. On six of the seven days, the classes are conducted in two batches: 6:00 AM – 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Each batch is not more than 50 people. This time they are planning to introduce a 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM session (at least for Bannerghatta Road, don’t know about other centers at the moment) with around 35-40 people in eac...

Read about my guru here. The problem with waiting is that I can’t do it indefinitely. There was a yearning to do “something” at least. Reading up various articles and browsing their website umpteen times brought me to settle at Inner Engineering.  I wanted to experience the advanced programs actually, but for that "Inner Engineering" was a pre-requisite. So I thought, let me take the first step and do that.  I  got to know that they schedule IE from time to time at various locations across Bangalore. The nearest center for me from the listed ones was Jayanagar. I vaguely remembered that months ago I had been browsing the website and had come across  an IE course in Marc School of Business which is like a stone’s throw from my home. I had at that time come to that website as our neighbors (who were not his fans, BTW) had mentioned him and I had no clue who he was. At that time I had just glanced through the site n sent them the link for the program saying, "Hey ...