Swami Veda Bharati

This category contains articles authored by Swami Veda Bharati. A partial biography of him can be read here.

Yoga Nidra Refined Silence

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Why do we sleep?

The great Shankacharya says that everyone is ananda.   Being of bliss.  You know these three words that we often use?  Sat Chit Ananda.  I’m sure everyone has heard those words.  Sat chit ananda, sat chit ananda.  Sat the being, the very being.  Chit, awareness, awareness of being, consciousness of being or just the force called consciousness.  And ananda, purnam, completeness, bliss, totality of bliss.  All the pleasures of the world are little sparks of that fire of ananda.  All the pleasures of the world are just drops of the ocean of ananda, and every drop is trying to experience what  it feels like to be the whole ocean.  Every drop that is you and I, every drop is trying to feel, trying to see what it would be like to be the whole ocean of that joy and bliss.

Guru Purnima Message 2009

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To Everyone with Love

Giant jasmine full moon
spreads scented lights through skies
so the heart lilies open, bloom
breeze their fragrances to waft
lift earth-dwellers' minds aloft

2008 Guru Purnima Message

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I pray to the divinity in you.

 

We offer our worship to the Guru of all Gurus, the teacher of all teachers, the perennial, the eternal Guru, the formless, the transcendent One.

We offer our worship to hiranyagarbha, the Guru, the teaching spirit of the universe whose body this universe is. To hiranyagarbha, the golden womb, the teaching spirit of the universe whose body this universe is.

Dakshina Stotra

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Dakshinamurti Stotra

Foreward

There is a book: "Dakshinamurti Stotra" . It is only ten verses, composed by the great Shankaracharya. They are a hymn in the honor of God as teacher, who is often shown in iconography in a beautiful forest, for the great ancient ashrams were in forests, filled with the sounds of birds and animals. At such a place, where the beasts of prey have ceased all violence, he is pictured as sitting under a great sheltering vata tree, that sends down branches and spreads out. Shankaracharya, but a youth, sitting in silence, surrounded by elderly-looking disciples, his silence is his speech, and all the disciple's questions are answered. All their doubts vanish.
 
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