Swami Veda Bharati
Gods My only Kin
Love, Meditation, and Service
I have received a question from a spiritually advanced friend who has a following of his own:
“I have one question in mind. A person decides to go to a world-famous Meditation Centre (Ashram) in South India, for 10 days. Supposing that the person, while leaving the city finds family person seriously ill, but continues with journey to that Ashram, will it be fair? Especially if the ill person at home has no one by his/her side and needs emotional support, more than anything?
Attachment or no attachment, should the person heal the family member and necessarily postpone it till problem at home is over OR carry on with the programme?”
Mt. Kailash
(This is a transcript of a talk that Swamiji gave on 29 September 2011 before a pilgrimage led by Tinyu Chen, Yoong, and Swami Ritavan to Mt. Kailash was to begin.)
Kailash is a sacred most, the most sacred place, of four religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, then one religion about which most people do not know called Jain religion – it was founded by a great teacher named Mahabirar who was at the same time that the Buddha was teaching in India, but that religion has not spread because it is a very very pure and ascetic religion so not many people know about it because you follow many many rules of purity – and Mt. Kailash is also, of course, the sacred most place for the people of the Bon-po, the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, of which there are still many followers, and some of the Tibetan Buddhism is also a mixture with the influence of Bon-po.
Integration and Ecstasy
This is a transcript of the lecture given at the Spirituality Centre of the Medical Faculty of the University of Minneosta. Delivered at Mayo Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, on 20th July 2011.
(1) MEDITATION:
Shivam
shantam
adwaitam.
Benevolent divinity ever at rest within ourselves.