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haribol everyone.
i will soon give up the domain name www.ananda-mohini.de. I want to keep this blog though, so in the future if you try to get onto my page and it doesn’t work, you will have to go to www.anandamohini.wordpress.com and you will be directly on this blog. Pls make yourself a note somewhere about this, as once the name is changed you wont be able to access.
thank you for your attention that is by the way …me eating cotton candy in India, Jagannath puri, on the beach

We lead mainly a life of opportunities.
We can only do the things which are offering themselves to be done. If I live in the city far away from the ocean, it will be nearly impossible to learn surfing, for example. It is possible but the effort would have to be enormous or i would have to change my opportunity structure by moving to the ocean.
In any case, why want what is hard to get, if you can just grab one of those opportunities which sit on your door step!
I really wanna be more open for those opportunities in my life and that also means to put aside those opportunities i want to happen and wait until they offer themselves to me or not.
anyway some philosophy on the side.
hej i was thinking about closing down this blog, because i have not much time writing and also i m using facebook alot more, so if anyone is against that pls speak up now or be forever quiet.

i hope no one feels neglected recently. life just has become a bit busy here. Paul and me have been planning the yogaprogram at the temple and designed a magnificent flyer for it. we wanna get started by the 4th of august with a weekly class that i ll teach and Paul will make a dinner for the yogis after the class. prasadam that is our joker. i have been visiting the last few weeks many different yoga classes to get more a feel for how i am gonna structure the class. i love yoga. yoga is just so good for everything: the mind, the body and the soul.

here is a little movie for you guys out there who have been missing Paul and my dancemoves.
click here to see our wicked dance.

Tonight Paul and me will once again join the legendary scody flat Bhajans. Which means we will have bhajans at the flat of our bachelor friends Nitai and Raivata. and actually the flat is not so scody (meaning ‘dirty’ and ‘low class’ in kiwi english).

We had a day of leasure today me fixing trousers, blankets and deity dresses and Paul fixing our fireplace (pellet fire) whilst listening to an introductory class of Dhanurdara Swami about the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali.

Hase Krsna

…and if so what is Twitter then?
and will webblogs die out soon because people are busy doing facebook quizes??

Ananda Mohini is now pronounced a Permanent Resident of Vrindavan…aham well its only New Zealand, but yaye…Finally!!!

this morning i looked out the window. and there it lay at the bottom of the postbox. a huge envelope. i ran out, fetched it and opened it while chanting. and yes, i have been granted finally permanent residency.

jaya…hopefully soon a letter arrives, which grants me permanent residency in Goloka Vrindavan. I guess i have alot of training to do for that one

we have finally booked the tickets to india for our trip from oktober till december.

So our tentative schedule looks as follows:

we will fly from Christchurch to Delhi on the 11th of october and stay for one day in delhi to buy appropriate wedding clothes.

Then will fly on the 13th from Delhi to Duesseldorf and stay for 2 1/2 weeks in germany. Darshans can be booked in for this time.  Also we will have our Hare Krsna wedding in that time, probably in the temple in cologne, date still has to be selected.

later on the 31st of october we will fly back to india to attend the retreats & seminar with my guru in Vrindavan and will travel on thru to Mayapur, maybe Darjeeling, Puri and finally reach Chennai, from where we will exit India to Christchurch on the 15th of december.

phooo what a trip!!!!!

hope to see alot of you then.

You know these crazy days when everything which happens seems just not right and you wished you could skip to the next day.

yeah, welcome to the material world. this is it. nothing ever goes perfect. its just not meant to be perfect. there are and will be always built-in mistakes. even in the wonderful mac, hehe, i am speaking from personal experiences.

but what can be perfect is your response. by that i don’t mean only your words or your bodily reaction, but also your inner response. if i can just say ‘yes’ to everything that happens and accept everything as it is, i can be a way more happy and balanced person. i simply realized recently that inside of me i very often tend to respond with a loud ‘NO’ to situations that i didn’t planned like that or expected to be like that. and then i find myself in a grumpy or unhappy mood, because nothing is going the way I WANT IT TO GO.  i just wanna be in control.

but as a matter of fact there is no way i can be in control of the complexity of situations that are out there for me to happen. there are just too many variables! however there is the simple method of saying ‘yes’ to whatever happens…and miraculously everything turns out fine. i say ‘yes’ to the plan of the universe, the plan of the Lord and its all in da FLOW!!!

i do need to practice this saying ‘yes’ inside of me though. accepting everything as it is. because my habbit of saying ‘no’ is so deeply rooted in me, that as soon as i am not aware i return to saying ‘no’ to so many things and by that trying to control it and being unhappy. its also this deep rooted desire to control my own happiness. this desire to manipulate or plan situations in such a way that it will bring me the greatest amount of pleasure and happiness. 

I just received a wonderful postcard from my friend Krystina in germany. It had a quote of Arthur Rubinstein on it saying:’Most of the people make happiness a condition for life; but actually happiness only comes if you don’t set any conditions.’  And here it is, the same thing again: trying to be in control of happiness versus accepting the happiness in any kind of way it might present itself to you. Thanks for the card Krystina.

So today in the morning i went to the beach to exercise my saying ‘yes’ by trying to accept Krsna in my heart while i was chanting. And i think that was a good first step, because first of all chanting is purifying me from all the subtle covering that blocks my vision and my intelligence and consciousness. And second of all if i accept Krsna in my heart i can create a personal relationship with him. And thats where the juice is anyway.

As an end note i want to say that, of course, i don’t mean by saying ‘yes’ to everything which happens, that you approve of it. An action like killing is wrong. Or a death of a dear person is sad. But you can choose how to react to it. and there are basically two ways: Saying no inside of you and trying to find a way to not deal with the reality. Or saying ‘yes’ and accepting whatever happens and from that point move on and deal with the situation in a good way. Its way easier to deal with something which you have accepted to be an asset than if you try to deny it and try to change it so it fits into your perception.

Today i consciously wanna say ‘yes’ to the things which happen. If the traffic on my way to work is slow….so what, what can i do, i try to say yes to it and make the best of it by maybe having more time to listen to a lecture in the car or just observing the things which happen on the street on my way. And if a customer today is very complicated i will try to say ‘yes’ in my heart and try to give this person some attention, maybe i will just asks what she/he really needs. i made the experience anyway that if we listen to people and try to understand what they want, then that is normally what makes them happy. its not what they want which will make them happy, but the fact that they were heard by an open ear.

anyhow…thats a new topic ej.

cheers to the ‘yes’ in the heart!!! have a good one.

Say 'Jaya' in the Heart!