Ananth's Blog

They said the world will end in 2012. For me my world ended in 2011. Or so it looked. 2011 is when my stay in Isha Yoga Center became crazily tenable. I was taking classes in Delhi and was having a blast. Rams got married. Shanti from Home School would feed me comfort food whenever i longed for Chocolates/Italian food. I could sit in Ardha Siddhasana for an hour and not realize it! :) However a variety of circumstances forced me to leave the ashram. I had too much pride in me to do something which would have made lesser human beings celebrate. Anyways, I chose to go and live in the Himalayas. In retrospect, I really don't know how I let myself do it. What I do know is that those 6 months of my life that I spent as a nameless life walking the mountains were my proudest. There was too much life happening in those 6 months. Too many experiences, too many emotions, too many sensations in my body packed into 6 months. I managed to get some scrap paper and maintain a journal. I...

Took her out for a long drive this weekend. Drove from Bangalore to Ooty via Mysore-Bandipur-Mudhumalai route . Very scenic. She was smooth on the curves and cushioned me through all the ups and downs of the road. She took out all the 36 hair-pin bends without breaking into a sweat. Had a lot of home-made chocolates in Ooty. Was a fun weekend!

Next up is Inner Engineering at Basavanagudi this wednesday! Guess how i will be driving to the class??? a Honda Civic 1.8 VMT. Yup, that's my 'new' car... Will be out of facebook for a week... Taking classes in different parts of Bangalore city is the best way to experience the City... But more about that later.... For now, Buckle up your seat belt dorothy, cos Kansas is going Bye-Bye... Vroooom!

Yes where am I really? Couple of things: - Sadhguru gave me a new name "Ananth". - I am no longer a full-time volunteer of Isha. - I have gone back to being a part-time software coolie with Microsoft in Bangalore. It has been more than a year since i have shared whats been happening in my life through my blog . So why did i decide to blog again? - I love writing. - I need money. I am running the World 10K Bangalore 2013 run and I have pledged to raise at least 1 lakh INR (around 2000 USD) for Isha Vidhya . I was hoping that i would raise enough money by dedicating each of my post to the highest donor to my cause. - I occasionally read through some of my older blog posts and I can't help thinking I have come a long way. Ironically the most poignant experiences have not been shared. I was hesitant to share about some of them mainly because of external restraints. Now many of those restraints are gone. Also i feel i owe it to myself to persist those experie...