Thank God i joined it!

I had already paid 500 Rs for it so willingly or unwillingly I had to attend it. It was the workshop for youth of Nagpur arranged by ART OF LIVING.
Some times u take a road or path unwillingly and then u realize that this is what u were searching for.Thats what happened with me .
Art of living…..the first thing that comes to our mind is elderly people sitting , doing yogasans, chanting mantras and listening to (sorry for this) swami or baba. Isn’t it? Yes the same thing came to my mind, to my entire friends mind those who had also made blunder by registering for it. And the comments of our non-registered friends, “Yaar tum log budhe ho gaye kya art of living lagane ke liye. Jake bhajan gana wahape”, discouraged us more and we were desperate to get our money back but no way out. They were not ready to return money back. So we decided to check out it once.
The first day of workshop……….17 July. Timing was from 5 to 9pm. We all decided to bunk last 2 classes so that we can take proper rest and then go. Actually this idea was given by one of my nine friends. According to him pre workshop rest was necessary for us, as we had to sustain the 4-hour bhashan and lecture and various assans. The venue was MUNDLE HALL near DIKSHABHUMI (Nagpur). As per Indian standard time we all ten friends gathered at our meeting point and those who didn’t follow Indian standard time (IST) were complaining that they had to wait for long for those who followed IST. Some how we managed to find the hall…assemble hall of a school………..and most amazing thing was that we all didn’t forgot to bring our passes. We got stamps on our pass………….a way of attendance………..and we entered the hall. And on stage there was written ‘UTSAV’ with thermacol alphabets. Then it dawned to me that the name of workshop is Utsav and coincidently one of my ten friends name is Utsav and hence we were able to kill our 10 to 15 minutes teasing him ,as we were first time ,before time ,and program was yet to start. And then slowly the hall was compactly filled with so called youths of Nagpur. I was patiently waiting and our condition was miserable.
And suddenly there was announcement and there entered our first GURU and believe me I couldn’t believe me that that person who was introduced as our Guru is gonna teach such a big mob because he was appearing so young and actually he was hardly 30.He was introduced as “RASHMIT BHAIYYA” .He is an international chess player and has an international ranking. He is from Mumbai but now stays in Banglore. And then our next Guru Nanda Tai came. She must be near about 30 to 35. So it was really hard to digest this that we actually invested our 500 Rs for hearing to these young Gurus who are hardly few years older than the seniors of our college. And now I was sure that due to my mere dumbness and stupidity I had wasted 500 Rs……..I could have done so many things in it……..could have drink 7-8 coffees in CCD or could have eaten 5-6 Pizzas in it.
But as we all know the saying ‘looks can be deceptive’ , that is what happened in my case. And friends believe me whatever happened after that made a great impact on me and it will definitely be with me throughout my life. When rashmit bhaiyya and Nanda tai started talking, and most important when I started listening to them with full focus and concentration, only one thought came to my mind-‘ Thank God I joined it’.