High Energy
Rishi Nityabodhananda Saraswati (Australia)
My impression of Sita Kalyanam '99 was one of intense activity.
I walked into the Akhara thinking, “In only seven years I'll
be able to retire on the pension,” but I walked out feeling a lot
younger. The remedy was that energy, that instruction, that direction,
that force with which we had to work and which kept us moving, preparing
the Tapovan complex. But who was pushing us? If I had been doing the same
work in Australia, it would have taken me not ten days but maybe one hundred
days. Where was the energy coming from?
Anyone who dared take a three minute yoga nidra during the day woke up
feeling that there was duty to be done. We kept on going and if we felt
tired, we put the tiredness aside and somehow it dissolved. Later on some
sickness would come and if we put it aside it just dissolved too. In that
atmosphere of high energy, everything dissolves. My whole year's
accumulation of negativities about my age, my strength and my health all
went. So actually I was the winner.
The deepest impression was that of giving. You even had to give away
your time for eating and sleeping because there was so much that had to
be done. Some people kept going night and day, weeks together. So it was
a very wonderful experience to go through and I would recommend it. The
next yajna, the Rajasuiye yajna, is going to be a very big one. If we
are invited, we will come well in advance for hard karma yoga, just to
experience what it is like to be selfless a little bit of the time.
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