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Swami Veda Bharati

Phoenix in Haiti, January 2010
Friday, 22 January 2010
Nature dismantles what She has created as an invitation to us to re-create, reconstruct. In Haiti She has dismantled so that we may take Her invitation and go and rebuild. If anyone has lost even a wink of sleep imagining a hungry baby on the breast of a mother dead in the earthquake, let him/her regain that wink of sleep by offering even one milk bottle. Drop by drop the buckets fill; bucket by bucket we make reservoirs. I only have hope and not despair. I believe and envision that this... Read more...

Consecration
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
Thousands of years ago, in the epic Ramayana, … Rama shows a puzzlement over the fact that people celebrate the dawns and the dusks, the sunrises and the sunsets. They rejoice at the change of seasons. They celebrate the terminations of the years, not realizing that with each sundown and sunrise, one night and one day of their life span has passed. That there is one less season now left available in our karmic scheme to perform debts we have come to perform. That there is one year... Read more...

Human Fulfilment
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
"Humanity does not face many problems all the problems are facets of the same single one. It is the lack of full understanding what human fulfilment is. "The contemplatives get a sense of fullness from within themselves. Others seek fulfilment by conquest and gathering of objects. This results in few people over-milking of the cow called the Earth. This results in the unitary problem of faux wealth, poverty and hunger, wars. "We would... Read more...

When is the best age to meet your Master?
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
Swami Veda Bharati gave the following answer when asked when was the best age to meet your master. "I’ll give three brief answers." First answer is 3 years before you are conceived because he would give instructions to your parents. This happens in rare cases – 3-years before, 10-years before. Like in the case of my Master’s parents, the Master came in their very, very old age and said, You will have a child”. And they said, “What we are 70, 80-,90 years old”...i... Read more...

A Personal Aspiration for Life
Saturday, 14 November 2009
…just this tremendous amount of love everywhere from people I did not know, and I’ve found that the God has made a very, very loving world, and my prayer for you is that you find your world to be the same, and my prayer for myself is that whether someone throws roses at me or throws mud at me, I should remain the same and there should be no change in the level of my love. That’s my prayer for myself, and for you, may you find the world to be as full of love as beautiful as... Read more...

Grace
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
On the way to India in August of 1989, I spent ten days at our Himalayan Institute near Hamburg in West Germany. It is a center that has grown tremendously in less than ten years under the dynamic leadership of Wolfgang Bischoff. This time he had prepared 50 students to study with me, and the enjoyment of teaching was all mine. One evening all the Ashram members – residents of the Institute – gathered at Wolfgang's house. One of the questions they asked was: "We came to live at... Read more...

Diwali Blessing, 2009
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
The Sun rises only in the East, The ātman-deepaks are lit in all directions. May the light of your ātma-deepa illuminate all horizons and the whole universe.

Be the Dwelling Place of God
Saturday, 10 October 2009
When you work on purifying yourself, that purity naturally overflows the bounds of your personality and inundates all those around you. Your silence cools the world, when there is sufficient silence within you. You cannot blame others for conditions in your personal life, else you will also blame others for the collective life of the planet. Remember that love is first; the Beloved is found after. May you seek silence on that sentence. Joy is first.... Read more...

A Unique Yoga Approach in Helping People with Multiple Sclerosis Make Health Lifestyle Changes

Thursday, 04 February 2010 - Richard Parenti

This article is written as a source of information only. The information contained in this article should by no means be considered a substitute for the advice of a qualified medical professional who should always be consulted before beginning any new diet, exercise, yoga, meditation or other health program.

All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this article. The author expressly disclaims responsibility for any adverse effects rising from the use of or application of the information contained herein.

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Most people think that when they are doing Yoga postures they are doing Yoga or Hatha Yoga. Yoga postures have incredible health benefits as has been demonstrated by BKS Iyengar and the Bihar School of Yoga in India, but the fact remains that they are only a very small part of the true science of Yoga. Yoga and Hatha Yoga are much more than a posture and a breathing technique. So what is Yoga? Yoga is a science of self realization.

The subject of this article is to gain a basic understanding of some of the health principles found in Yoga and Ayurveda, the science of life, that can help people with multiple sclerosis make healthy lifestyle changes. Also, it includes taking into consideration some useful guidelines prior to starting to work with people with multiple sclerosis.

7 Days of Silence

Thursday, 14 January 2010 - Jim Waeffler

7 DAYS OF SILENCE: OCTOBER 16 – OCTOBER 22 2009

In the spring of 2009 I traveled to Rishikesh, India, with friends. As part of our stay at the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Ashram we undertook a two-day silence practice. It was a satisfying experience and left me wanting more. So, in the fall of 2009, I returned to the ashram alone to undertake a longer practice. This is a recounting of that second silence experience, based on journal entries I made at the time.

Himalayan "Insight-Seeing" Tour 21-25 March 2010

Tuesday, 05 January 2010 - adminstrator

Himalayan “Insight-Seeing” Tour from 21-25 March, 2010

Spiritual Travel designed by the staff at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama

Enjoy the spiritual richness and the natural beauty of the Himalayas during the early spring season. This five day trip includes some of the most spectacular and inspiring views of the region known as “Dev Bhumi,” Land of the Gods. The power of nature and devotion come together to make available to the traveler a fulfilling tour experience.

More about this opportunity: http://www.ahymsin.org/docs2/miscellaneous/srsgtravel/itmar2010/

Himalayan Yoga Tradition Teacher Training Retreat 6-20 March 2010

Tuesday, 05 January 2010 - adminstrator

Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program

Why do we teach Yoga?

“We teach out of compassion. We teach because the world suffers and our teaching will reduce that suffering. We teach because we have received that compassion and want to share it with others who suffer. The cause of suffering, in the Yoga-sutras, is ignorance. Our teaching reduces the level of that ignorance. The student arrives because s/he is seeking help - our desire to teach arises directly out of our compassion for the student.”

- Swami Veda Bharati