Thursday 20 January 2022

ReDefine your 'Family'

#MemoriesForLife

Pankaj ji's participation in the Art of Living Teachers Training Program (TTP) in 1997 completely changed his life and later also changed mine! Below is picture from last day of Pankaj ji's Teachers Training Program.



Nitin bhaiya would visit our home very often, travelling from Gujarat to Bangalore would always include a stopover at Mumbai. I remember one such trip in June 1999, we were at V.T. station, bhaiya had boarded the train and he looked at me and said "mai next week Bangalore ashram me TTP le raha hoon; Pankaj tum ek kaam karo, isko (pointing towards me) bhej do". He instructed and I went! Thats it!

I had already been organising and assisting basic courses week after week, had already been listening to knowledge series back to back. I only needed a train ticket, which got confirmed at the last minute (like it always does for many of us, especially when we are going to Bangalore ashram).

I reached ashram and was asked "Do u have the TTP form"; I had never even seen any TTP form. I remember I had said