Swami Veda Bharati
Marks of Spiritual Progress
Further Advice on New Practices (2010 - 2013)
Go back, if you do not have copies of what was distributed [at the time of the special practices pertaining to Ity-ukta Mantra] in 2007. That is life long. Continue with that, and then this an addition.
So far as the AHYMSIN family is concerned, upon seeing you all I feel deep satisfaction – that there is a sense of deep stability here. Even though the gathering is smaller than last time, which is to be expected, the family is more stabilized – the commitment of many people. You do not know fortunate you are to associate with other members of the AHYMSIN family – how many experienced, wise devotees are here, people who can guide others. And it is for them to start guiding, and it is for them to be found. It is for you, while you are still here, to find them and make a friendships with them, create kalyana mitras, noble friends, and let that stability continue.
akhanda-mandalākāram mantra
New AHYMSIN 2010 Practices
OM Shreem Gurave Namah! OM Shreei Gurave Namah! OM Shreem Gurave Namah!
I worship the divinity that is within you. From February 2007 to February 2010, for three years the entire AHYMSIN family undertook the observance of reciting a special mantra:
ity-uktā sā tadā devi
gambhīrāntah-smitā jagau
durgā bhagavatī bhadrā
yayedam dhāryate jagat
The meaning and the purpose of this mantra was explained at that time – to bring stability, to bring stability to our individual hearts and minds, stability in our spiritual practices; thereby stability in our emotions; thereby stability in our body language, verbal language (voice, tone), all manner of our communication, and through that, stability in our relationships, in our families, in our communities, and through that stability, expanding its circles, stability in our spiritual family.
I have been delighted and gratified that so many participated in this observance, and I have seen, witnessed the stability it has brought to our spiritual family, the results of which are visible in the satsanga, the gathering of the aspiring souls of the sangha, of the fraternity that came together here at Swami Rama's Sadhaka Grama from February 1 to February 12, 2010.
Now it is time for us to go further, to seek wisdom and the wisdom of enlightenment by the grace of the Guru. Our next gathering of this kind will be from February 25 to March 11. Part of that time, nine days, will be satsanga in total silence, the rest of the time for other contemplations and deliberations. Imagine 300 people in silence on the sacred grounds for nine days, silently devoting their bodies, prana, hearts and minds to a merger with infinity, with the serenity of the Divine Being! What energy it will generate, not only for the participants on location to feast upon, but what rays will go emanating from it to the entire sangha on all continents wherever our Gurudev's disciples meet in meditation!