Satsang with German Group, 31 March 2000
Saturday, 04 September 2010
Satsang with German group, 31 March 2000 at Swami Veda Bharati’s Cottage   Yoga is so vast   Q. There are some schools of meditation that neglect or even fully reject to do yoga asanas and to do pranayama. Are they also to be called yoga, or have something to do with the yoga? For example, the Tibetan don’t do asanas as I got to know, and some of the other schools also reject asanas or pranayama.     A. All these are all partial statements. Because yoga is so vast that it is not... Read more...

Signs of Meditative Progress
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
(A guided meditation preceded the lecture.) May the peace mind of the universe fill your personal mind.  God bless you. Eternity to be packed in forty five minutes, no problem, it can be packed into one trillionth of a second if we know how to enter the consciousness of one trillionth of a second and that is what the yogis have done for thousands of years of the history of this earth.    Yoga Is Much Misunderstood  Yoga is much misunderstood.  When I first came to Minnesota in 1967 I... Read more...

Process of Japa
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Golden Nuggets 1. To understand the process of Japa, understand different layers of the mind 2. Japa begins when the mantra becomes pure thought in the mind Section 1 -Understanding the Mind What is Mind?   • It is a shakti kshetra (energy field), a field of energy; closest of the form of Prakriti (matter) What is the function of Mind? • Mind is the link between consciousness and the physical personality • Through Mind one goes beyond annamaya (anatomical body), pranamaya (vital... Read more...

A Secret
Monday, 10 May 2010
I'll tell you one more secret of success in life. It's a very simple trick.    Very difficult to master because you have doubts. Everybody here has doubts. When you sit and listen to it, you say, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Oh yeah! That's right. Ah ha!" But the moment you put on your shoes, there is some black magic in the shoes. The moment you put on your shoes to walk out of here, the black magic takes over, and you say, "Hum? Well, I've got to think about it." And you take off your... Read more...

Svanta Sukaya, Because it Gives Me Satisfaction
Monday, 10 May 2010
Meditation: Flow of Divine Energy Center of the universe is in a space called the space of your heart. The space of your consciousness - Chidakasha. Come to the center of the universe that is enclosed by the clay vessel called the body, the temple of god, called the body. Through the space, through the walls of the stable flows the breeze of the divine energy which becomes your breath. This divine energy passes through you, as it enters you, as it leaves you. Inhaling and exhaling feeling the... Read more...

No Silence Nor Non-Silence
Monday, 10 May 2010
Now, Kahola the son of Kaushitaki asked him: Oh Yajnavalkya, whatever be Brahman right in front of my eyes, not in some intangible sphere, the self (atman) that is within all, tell me that.   Here, this is your self (atman) that is within all. Which one is the one within all, Oh Yajnavalkya? That which transcends all hunger and thirst, grief, delusion, decay of age, and death. [Yajnavalkya continues---] It is that self ( atman) knowing which the Brahmanas (children of Brahman) rise above... Read more...

Earthquakes and Mindquakes
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
The situations that produce mind quakes in others leave a meditator’s mind well alone to enjoy its stillness. Meditators do not suffer mind quakes even during earthquakes.   I recall my first earthquake in Dehradun. I must have been about 9 or 10 years old.  The whole family had gone out somewhere and I was absolutely alone.  I felt the ground and the house shaking, my mind said this is an earthquake!  Something inside me made me run out of the house,  jump down two steps from the... Read more...

Atma Tattva Avalokanam
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Atma Tattva Avalokanam Swami Veda’s Address to the Gathering of the Sangha 2nd February  2010 Meditation: “The Breather Observing the Breath” Free your mind. Free your mind of all the parigrahas, everything that mind has grabbed onto, hold nothing. Let your mind calm. Come back home, to the divine temple that is your body, that is your being, that is your prana, that is your mind, that is your self. You the Atman.   Be aware of your self. No names, no conditions, no limitations,... Read more...