The Highway painted pink with Art of Living flags - 17th Feb (morning)


Baby's first Orange candy!


The stage - notice the people standing in front of the stage and those on the stage.. to get an idea of size


Donation pots for 5H projects


Chilling out under the tags... notice the Way to Seating banner pointing correctly! :)


The buggies? Wonder who used these... not me!


Venue map... grand is the word


Some of us all dressed up.. some not


Artists from Maharashtra to welcome Guruji ... and us!


These large puppets are being carried by single men! As in one person.


The Ganapati Homa happened here...


People paying respects


A beautiful lamp.. no?


Priest having prasadam


The baskets and dried-leaf bowls with a trumpet for company


Mighty Karthikeya. I know from the peacock.


Nataraja!


The Nataraja Profile. Especially took this picture for the umbrella on top.


Holy coconuts in 'kalash'es


Fruit Baskets! Offered to priests and saints after Gods and Goddesses


A close up that shook a bit, but looks nice (to me anyway!)


'Anna Kuteer' The Food Court we were volunteering at


The Exhibition. See how sunny it is!


Pictures from the exhibitions - this one of the Vishalakshi Mantap. Lotus for the lotus.


Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir


Sri Sri Yoga


Early Days - Notice Guruji - so young yet so mature yet so innocent yet so stately!


Another one...


And another...


And.... :)


This is a great collage!


Art of Living Centres around the world


The 7 levels of existence


The four sources of energy


Guruji's blessed parents and teachers


Guruji in His mom's lap! So cute!!


I love this photo of all the saints going all the way back to... what looks like heaven! First time got to know what it means...


Beautiful B&W pictures


5H - notice what the 5 H are and the numbers --- very impressive indeed


This one for the inspiring numbers again!


And again...


This one I did not know of earlier... very nice. ..


This is RDP...


And YLTP: Youth Leadership Training Programme


Lovely Blue mermaids!


Notice the number her again


Notice the names of the countries where Prison programmes are conducted...


:)


Guruji laughing and playing!


Guruji with other world leaders


What a number!


My beautiful Guruji!


Look again..


Ah!


His Promise...


The Best Part.. Guruji's signature...


Guruji with some more spiritual leaders...


About Art of Living and Women


This is what Guruji says about women...! Cool!


The Veda Boys!


This again I did not know of earlier...


This Neither...


VVMVP


More numbers...


Prison Programme


5H programme


A movie of a lovely dance performance...


This is from Maharashtra.. what great beats,,,


The expensive stalls - jewellery anc clothes


From Madhya Pradesh


From Madhya Pradesh


From West Bengal


Paper Flowers.. this whole thing made by cutting thin rolls of white paper. The craftsman showing a demo too


A small fraction of the 3,800 musicians


Which country's flag is that? Can you tell?


An international musician...


More from the troupe


Sea of chairs


See... ?


And more..


And MORE.. I was reallly early


Some under shade, some outside


Hey can you spot the rainbow in this picture?


Try again...


The sunset


Helicopter hovering above us


The stage is all set now..


So are the people


Spectacular!


Full Zoomed in


From afar


Side


Shook


The VIP Food Court


Rice served well


Om bag


Stairs from the brand new bridge


Another view


And another


From a newspaper article about Ajanta and Ellora caves - nice no?


Man selling surgical masks! Was really dusty there.. but I wonder who told him?!


Sea of people..


See?


And more..


Waving to the camera


The stage from where I sat


Full zoomed in..


More people shots..


A movie showing crowd waving to the camera...


This is first is a series of pictures of .. HEAD GEAR!! ....


see Yellow!


dancing while waiting (not part of the HeadGear series..)


Red!


Black!


From Himachal Pradesh..


From I think NZ


Don't know from where


Notice the white hat in the distance?


This is a better shot.. different shaped hat I thought


Pretty


Haha! Cool (over)HeadGear


More variety..


Missed the flag in the last one...


See more dancing... these were the VIP seats..


Colourful picture with lots of different hats and scarves


More flags and colour


The masks indeed came in handy.. and nice scarf


Flag and see the hats?


More..


Waiting?


Another one...


And another..


And...


That's all with head gear folks!


BLUE sky


With camera


And helicopter


The screen as I saw it.. full zoomed in


The balloons .. peace balloons..


GURUJI!!!!


LARGE!


....


Speaking...


...


The President


Shaking Guruji's hands...


Side view from outside..


The Divine Shop .. books only


Panorama...stage


Panorama.. full venue... Am standing on top of the stairs you saw many pictures back..


The stage again..