'Happiness'. - Ssy.org

A great artist is more precious than hundreds of engineers in an assembly. But we are still in the age of
survival. When a country moves to greater plentiful ness, the finer aspects of life are appreciated and
art flourishes.
Still greater than this is , ‘ to be with Gods.’
At the Gurukulam we are learning to satisfy the survival requirements very fast so that, we have time
and energy for the growth of an artist, a leader and a star in whatever one does.
We still have a long way to go. I think by 2006, we have mastered the speeding up of the Survival aspect.
Now the distinctive growth will start and every student will be marked as a special contribution to the
society from our Gurukulam.~
My Yatra in Europe - 1971
I was 24 years old and full of energy. God had already presented me enough money to go around the
world. I had worked for about a year while doing my Masters in Technology, in Ottawa. Every boy
dreamed of seeing the world and I too, just had to go out and experience what the whole civilization
was about. I was in the middle of changing my job and had nothing to loose.
My Canadian friend Greg, also wanted to join in. I packed my haversack, bought a return ticket from
Montreal to Paris. I had a Canadian Immigration, by then, visas were not required for Europe. It was
too good to be true.
I bought a book called “Europe on Five dollars a day.” It had all the information on where to stay, where
to eat, what to see and how to reach the place. I also bought a Eurail pass for $100, which would let us
travel forever on trains all around Europe. You could even sleep and travel when you had no place to
stay.
I will go over my trip place by place and what happened as I traveled. A small youngster had to be
moulded into a formidable force and God had his ways with me.