The Ultimate Relationship


There had always been a question in me from when I was a kid. Is there God? Like everyone grows up in the concepts of god, their belief systems, the way they grow in the world and finally end up making god a concept in the books, art in the pictures, a thought in the mind or an option to reach out to when nobody is there to go to, or, finally, a connection in the heart. Like everyone, I was brought up in the world that had me to see god as a picture in the worship area of home. Slowly, he started to spread away in various places in a city, which I got to know as temples. I used to wonder. Who is this man? Why are there so many temples for one man and it turned out there are more of them! Also, there are women! I was more confused until ‘God’ became a concept in my mind. Being born in a brahmin family, rituals impact our daily lives a lot. On the way of doing all of these rituals to please god, I used to wonder if he really existed and if he did, where would he be (or she). Then, it happened that I had to fall in love with a man whom I first saw on a small id card, in white silk robes with a smile brighter than a thousand suns. I further inquired about him, enrolled in his programmes, learnt his breathing techniques that improved my life in an unimaginable way. Further in my journey, I started to read his teachings, listen to the knowledge imparted from him, further got to a place where I started believing in a truth when all around me were miracles happening around me, protecting me, guiding me in a way I could have never comprehended with logic. By the time I could start wondering about anything, it happened so that the first time in my life, I cried like a baby with a different emotion just by looking at this man look at me. What is it? Who is he? What is happening to me? It was a deep state of something opening up in me. Something unfolding. Later on, after diving deep into the path which he created, it bestowed on me that this emotion, which is not really an emotion, is called love and god is not someone sitting in the sky watching over. But something that permeates in every particle of this universe. It’s been said that the only way to see it is meditation and love. 
Everybody has to undergo their own journey to find out this truth anyway. This man, who is called guruji with love, is Sri Sri Ravishankar, the founder of Art of living organisation. His relationship with everyone is so personal. So is for me. I can write paragraphs about him, his works all around the world, how he takes responsibility of the whole world, how he is the ambassador of world peace, how he ended raging conflicts in several parts of the world, how he is doing anything and everything this world is in need of. His mission being to see a smile on the face of everybody’s face, he takes celebration (and chaos) wherever he goes. To be in his love, to be able to have him in life, to be able to see the ultimate form of love and to be in the ultimate relationship with him and myself are the greatest blessings of life.



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