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2015 Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat

by Swami Veda Bharati

22nd to 31st December 2015 at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama

(Editor’s Note: This letter from Swami Veda is presented first in English and then in Hindi.)

Dear loving Spiritual Parent,

All parents like to have their children grow up with spiritual values but do not always have the opportunity to make their wish fulfilled.

So far we have had two children’s retreats at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama.  It had children of all ages; there was even one 82 year old child by the name of Swami Veda Bharati!

We all had a great silence, learning, inspiration, laughter and fun.

One parent donated 40 trees and the children planted these and they gave names to the trees.  Come see!

On the last day all the children gathered around me and begged me to have such a retreat every year and I agreed.

Attached herewith please find a book list suitable for parents who want to raise children with a glow of divinity. [The reading list is below in this article.]

So, will you bring or send your children this year from 22nd to 31st December?  Please write to ahymsin@ahymsin.org  and childrensretreat@gmail.com

Please give my love to your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.  Do please write soon.  I cannot manage without seeing children for so long.

Always in your service
and in Service of Gurudeva

Swami Veda Bharati

प्रिय आध्यात्मिक मातृ-पितृ जन,
सभी माता-पिता अपने बच्चों को आध्यात्मिक मूल्यों के साथ बड़े होते देखना चाहते है परन्तु अपनी इच्छा पूर्ति का अवसर उनको सर्वदा नहीं मिल पाता।
अब तक हम स्वामी-राम-साधक-ग्राम में बच्चों के दो शिविर करने में सफल हुए हैं। यहां सभी उम्र के बच्चों ने भाग लिया।  इन में स्वामी वेद भारती नामक एक ८२ साल का बच्चा भी था।
हम सब ने गम्भीर मौन, शिक्षा, प्रेरणा, और हँसी का आनन्द उठाया।
एक माता-पिता ने ४० पेडों का दान दिया और बच्चों ने इन्हें रोपित किया और उन पेडों को नाम भी दिये। आ कर देखिये!
अंतिम दिन सभी बच्चे मेरे पास आ कर एकत्र हुए और प्रत्येक वर्ष इसी तरह का शिविर कराने की मांग मुझसे की, जिसे मैं ने खुशी से स्वीकार कर लिया है।
जो प्रबुद्ध माता-पिता अपने बच्चों में देवत्व की चमक डालना चाहते हैं उनके लिए पुस्तकोंकी सूची इस पत्र के साथ जोड दी गई है।
तो क्या आप अपने बच्चों को इस वर्ष २२ से ३१ दिसम्बर तक के लिये लाएंगे अथवा भेज देंगे? कृपया सम्पर्क करने के लिए mailto:ahymsin@ahymsin.org और childrensretreat@gmail.com  को लिखें।
अपने बच्चों, पोता/पोती और पड़पोता/पड़पोती, नाती/नतिनी को मेरा प्यार दे दीजिए। कृपया जल्द ही लिखियेगा। मैं लंबे समय के लिए बच्चों को देखे बिना नही रह सकता।

सर्वदा आपकी सेवा में
और गुरुदेव की सेवा में
स्वामी वेद भारती

Reading List of Swami Rama’s Books for SRSG Children and Family Retreat

• Love and Family Life (Swami Rama, Himalayan Institute Pr 1992)
• Marriage, Parenthood and Enlightenment (Swami Rama, Himalayan Publishers, 1988)
• Let the Bud of Life Bloom: A Guide to Raising Happy and Healthy Children (Swami Rama, Lotus Pr, 2002)
• The Art of Joyful Living (Swami Rama, Himalayan Institute Pr 2007)
• Creative Use of Emotion (Swami Rama, Swami Ajaya, Himalayan Institute Pr, 2000)
• Happiness Is Your Creation (Swami Rama, Himalayan Institute Pr, 2005)
• Fearless Living: Yoga and Faith (Swami Rama, Himalayan Institute Pr, 2005)
• At the Feet of a Himalayan Master (Five Volumes) (Prakash Keshaviah – Editor, Lotus Press, 2010 – 2014)
• Bhole: Adventures of a Young Yogi (Hema de Munnik, Lotus Press, 2006)
• Raising Spiritual Families (Swami Veda Bharati, Himalayan Yoga Publications Trust, 2015)

Available from ahymsinpublishers@gmail.com

Editor’s Note:

The article above was also sent out to our newsletter mailing list as a separate mailing. Some additional articles about the recent (December) 2014 Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat can be read in this newsletter. Please see the articles:

• Connecting to Mother Earth
• Fun with Kids
• 2014 Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat

Some of the books listed above are available at a number of bookstores, including

• Himalayan Yoga Publications Trust. Email: ahymsinpublishers@gmail.com Website: www.yogapublications.org
• The online bookstore at The Meditation Center, which ships nationally and internationally.
• The yoga in europe online media store
• And other bookstores

A Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat was held at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in 2011. Articles about this retreat:

• The Children Are Here!
• The Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat
• To Serve Nature
• Seeds Were Planted
• An Experience of the Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat