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Digital- April 2021.Indd Present An Exclusive Online Exhibition of artworks by India’s top contemporary artists for members and subscribers of GolfPlus Monthly Magazine Featuring artworks by Anjolie Ela Menon, Paresh Maity, Thota Vaikuntham, G. R. Santosh, Suhas Roy, Jogen Choudhury Jayasri Burman, Asit Patnaik, Shobha Broota, Shamshad Hussain, Nupur Kundu, A. V. Illango, Vishal Joshi, O.P. Sharma, Gopi Gajwani, Sachin Jaltare, Sidharth, Laxman Aelay, Jai Zharotia, Priyendra Shukla, Ramesh Gorjala and many more Also Artworks by PadmaVibhushan Pt. Birju Maharaj, Actor Sushma Seth, Sarod Maestro Ayaan Ali Khan, Padma Vibhushan Sculptor Ram Suttar 1st April - View works online www.golfplusmonthly.com For enquiries and bookings contact 30th April Mob: 8810277623, 9999264148 2021 Email: [email protected] In Support of Supported by 6TH AUGUST IS NATIONAL DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE DAY EDITOR’S LETTER APRIL 2021 Vol.-XIV, Issue - 4 Editor-in-Chief: Anil Dev Editorial Board: Amit Luthra Col. R. Dewan (Retd.) Contributing Editors: Brandon de Souza Digraj Singh Farzan Heerjee Gaurav Bajaj Maj. D.N. Dass BACK TO THE ABNORMAL! Michael Wilson Raja Danish Aman Randy Williams Ridhima Dilawari t was exactly a year ago when we were While a number of countries are facing Deputy Editor: Charu Dewan six days into the lockdown due to resurgence of the virus, a number of them Ferry Monné Corona Virus. Governments all over have got it under control totally and are in the Creative & Newsdesk Team: the world had a devastating medical process of opening their doors to non- Deepak, Pushpendra & Akansha situation at hand wherein the number essential visitors. Golf Paradise Thailand has Place of Publication: of infections and deaths were spiraling out of announced phased lifting of restriction on Golf Plus: 436, Sector-37, control. We had at that point not yet inbound travel. 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While the biggest vaccination like to encourage our readers and all golfers Printed at: HT Media Limited program ever is ongoing, the life seems to to play with the necessary safeguards like Plot No. 8, Udhyog Vihar, have come a full circle. Covid 19 is back and Greater Noida - 201306, U.P. masks & sanitisers. While the game promotes on 1st April, 2021 the numbers are again skyrocketing. social distancing, it is advisable to exercise Owner, Printer & Publisher: India has been facing the brunt with a caution whenever you are out for a round. Anil Dev number of states declaring selective Stay Safe! lockdowns. While this time around we are more experienced in handling the situation, we have again been pushed to an era of ©2010 GolfPlus Article and features, including uncertainty mostly due to a callous attitude. illustrations can only be reproduced with the permission of the Editor. We regret we cannot be liable for the safe custody or return of any solicited It is time again to be extremely cautious and or unsolicited material, whether typescripts, careful with full safety measures as in the photographs, transparencies, artwork or computer Editor-in-Chief discs. Contributors are advised to keep copies of past lest we land up in the same situation as all material submitted. Page Nos. 31 to 38 printed [email protected] under license from Bauer Consumer Media before. Limited (Todays Golfer/Golf World) Send address changes to: 436/37 Noida 201301, Uttar Pradesh, India 6 GolfPlus APRIL 2021 Feature RANKED AMONGST THE FIFTY MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN INDIA, SADHGURU IS A YOGI, MYSTIC, VISIONARY AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SADHGURU HAS BEEN CONFERRED THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2017, THE HIGHEST ANNUAL CIVILIAN AWARD, ACCORDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE. SADHGURU ISHA FOUNDATION BREAKING THE KARMIC CYCLE SADHGURU ON HOW TO GO BEYOND ONE’S LIMITATIONS Q: I’m always doing my practices but still, 40-minute cycles are called galige in Kannada It all depends on how conscious you are. The something within me is not breaking down. So, the karmic cycle actually takes force more conscious you become, the more you see I’m making the same mistakes again and every 40 minutes. Every 40 minutes, you living in an unconscious cycle is no good. So, again. How to break that? have an opportunity to break it. If you are not every 40 minutes, you have an opportunity Sadhguru: So, you want to break down observant, it may take a cycle of 12 years for to become conscious of it and to break the certain limitations and go beyond them. You you to notice that there is a certain pattern to cycle. You want to break your present walls need to understand, the karmic structure in your life. If you make yourself more and more and go away. Do you have your wife’s every human being is essentially cyclical. conscious, you will see, every 40 minutes the permission? You need to take permission When we say it is a cycle, it is not from same cycle is happening. It is very important because you took vows together. [Laughs] lifetime to lifetime alone. If you are observant to see this. If you see that your life is simply a But unfortunately, certain things in life do not enough you will see, outside events generally repetitive foolish cycle, that every 40 minutes, happen with permission. Unless people are repeat themselves in cycles of 12 to 15 years. you are doing the same cycle over and over conscious enough to see arrangements only as If you observe much more closely, you will again, it just takes two days for you to realize temporary and unless they are willing to look see, within a year’s time, these same patterns the way it is going is no good. If you see the at life beyond that and take the arrangements are happening many times over. If you observe cycles once in 12 years, it will take 24 to 48 to different levels as necessary, then the only very, very closely, even within a day, the same years to realize this is no good. If you see the choice becomes either to give up the process cycles are happening many times over. These cycles once in a lifetime, it will take a few of growth or to break the arrangements. lifetimes to see this is no good. Both will be cruel. One will be cruel to you; 10 GolfPlus APRIL 2021 Feature another will be cruel to people around you. If remain in your present circumstances, do the you want to grow taking people along with best you can do, keep yourself open, keep you, it takes much more effort, much more yourself focused and make yourself available Caution and cowardice consciousness, much more dedication, much to the process. In the last moment of your life, are not two different more balance, much more sadhana than we will see that it happens. Another way is, walking alone. I would say a Brahmachari you want to know something now. You want things. When needs much less sadhana than people who to break your limitations now and go beyond; want to live in family situations and still you want to know life beyond its limitations someone else does it, want to grow; because they have taken on a now. Then you should not be concerned about it is cowardice. When bigger challenge in their life; a much bigger what is happening around you. You should challenge. You will ¿ nd walking alone to not be concerned about it because many you do it, it is caution. Kailash dif¿ cult. If you have to take four things will happen that nobody will approve. people on your shoulders and walk, it will Society will not approve, people will not So, you will become take tremendous strength. approve, your family will not approve since cautious and do a So, if you go with your whole family to the they related to you because you were one base of the mountain, the only thing that will kind of person. If you become another kind, more practical thing. happen is, you will look at the mountain and they will not be able to relate to you anymore. you will shiver, because you look at your Let us say you got married to somebody. wife, you look at your child – “How to take They married you because you were a certain all these people and go up?” Then you will kind of person. If you become another kind, are ways to do it. You just come. Most people become cautious. Caution and cowardice are maybe it is a beautiful kind but a different do not break without activity. Very few can not two different things. When someone else kind, you are suddenly an alien. They cannot just sit here and simply dissolve themselves. does it, it is cowardice. When you do it, it is live with you unless they have the wisdom The rest have to be broken.
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