Love & Lust

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

Posted by Aravind Venkatachalam in Knowledge

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In love even an object gains life. Stones speak to you, trees speak to you, the sun, the moon and the whole creation becomes alive, Divine. In lust even a living being becomes a mere object. You want to use even people like objects. Here are some salient attributes of love and lust. They are so different yet so close! If you find more you may add to the list.

LUST vs LOVE

Lust bring tension	Love brings relaxation
Lust focuses on the part	Love focuses on the whole
Lust brings violence	Love brings sacrifice
In lust you want to grab and possess	In love you want to give and surrender
Lust says all I want you to have is what I want	Love says I want you to have what you want
In lust there is effort	Love is effortless
Lust causes feverishness and frustration	Love causes longing and pain
Lust imprisons and destroys	Love liberates and sets you free
Lust demands	Love commands
Lust gets you mixed up and confused	In love you are focused and spaced out!!
Lust is only dark and monotonous	Love has many modes and colours

If someone’s lust is interrupted they get angry and start hating. Hatred in the world today is not out of love, it is out of lust.

Love is playfulness and in lust there is cunningness and manipulation. Shiva, the embodiment of innocence and love was meditating. His meditation was disturbed by an arrow of flowers from the lord of lust. As soon as Shiva woke up he opened his third eye and the lord of lust, Manmatha (one who churns the mind) was reduced to ashes. Everybody celebrated by throwing colors on each other realising that life is full of colours.

We play many roles in our life. If all the roles get mixed up it becomes dark, like when you mix all the colours. The wise play each role distinctively side by side, like colors displayed side by side form a rainbow.

– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Yoga Rave is here!

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

Posted by Aravind Venkatachalam in Art Of Living

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Bhajans, Meditation, Music, Party, Singing, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Yoga, Yoga Rave

If you have not heard about Yoga Rave yet, you must be in some other planet who just got out of hibernation! Or maybe underground. Yoga rave, is the new way to party! A rave party like no other. It is a substance free party for all ages with yoga and meditation infused in between the hard rock techno sanskrit bhajans! Wow, now that is unusual blend! It is a healthy and balanced fun alternative where you sing and dance to mantras to feel energy, joy and enthusiasm that comes from within rather from external substances. Isn’t that something wonderful to experience?

Yoga Rave is a party like none other in the world, a new concept in fun where the body responds only to the stimulation of music, yoga & meditation. The initiative sprang forth from the Art of Living Foundation, the largest volunteer-run NGO in the world. Just like the rest of the Foundation’s initiatives, the motive is non-profit. The money raised goes to bring yoga, meditation, and stress reduction to university campuses and young professionals in need through the YES plus workshop.

About the Creators

Yoga Rave Artists Nicolas Pucci and Rodrigo Bustos

Yoga Rave Artists – Nicaolas Pucci and Rodrigo Bustos

The So What! project is the creator band of the Yoga Rave. Nicolas Pucci and Rodrigo Bustos are the artistic producers and sound designers for the So What! Project and Yoga Rave parties. They are from Argentina and are volunteers of the Art of Living Foundation. They have released two albums – Smile and Blossom. They play the songs from their albums live in their Yoga Rave parties.

What is the Party like?

Recently there was a Yoga Rave party which was conducted for Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s visit in Argentina. It was attended by more than 100,000 people. The pictures were just amazing to see so many people dancing and singing sanskrit bhajans. Here are some pictures from the event

: Yoga Rave is coming to San Francisco this October 12th!

: Nicolas Pucci and Rodrigo Bustos jamming in a Yoga Rave party during Sri Sri’s visit in Argentina

: Yoga Rave party with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Argentina

: Yoga Rave Artists – Nicaolas Pucci and Rodrigo Bustos

: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the Yoga Rave party in Argentina!

: Nicolas and Rodrigo Jamming!!

The party is a blend of the opposites in harmony – Music and Silence! Here is how the party goes

YOGA – to warm up the body
MEDITATION – To get you into the ideal state of mind to enjoy the music
MUSIC, SING and DANCE – Now the dance floor enlivens
MEDITATION – After 4 hours of dancing, you slip into deep states of meditation to end the night!

Here is a glimpse of how that would look like

Oh yeah, you will have the trampoline, glow sticks, face artists and other crazy stuff too!

When are they coming?

Yoga Rave is coming to San Francisco this October 12th!

Here is the invitation to the Yoga Rave party in San Francisco from the Art of Living Foundation!

YOGA RAVE is coming to SF this OCT 12th at Herbst Pavilion @ Fort Mason Center! The ticket starts at 20 USD. It si 30$ at the door. You can get your tickets here http://yogaraveus.inticketing.com/events/251516