Swami Veda Bharati
TED speech, Taipei, Taiwan 15th January 2011
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) holds their conferences worldwide and attract thousands of innovative thinkers in these fields.
In a recent TED conference in Taipei (Taiwan), on 15th January 2011, Swami Veda Bharati was asked to do the closing session. Each speaker in this conference is limited to 18 minutes. The speakers were asked to present their views on any one or many of the nine questions:
One Must Run One’s Life by a Spiritual Plan
Swami Veda Bharati's Silence Announcement
Dear Initiates in Gurudeva,
May the Guru Lineage continue to bless you.
One must run one's life by a spiritual plan. I have attempted to do so, with some failures, throughout this life. Now, after 63 years (at age 78) of continuous traveling and teaching (which will be 65 years in 2013), it is time to move on to the next rung. I need to
• Complete the sadhana of my meditation in its next level
• Heal my currently ailing body so it may continue to serve, and
• To bring the teaching to a higher level.
For these purposes I need to go into a prolonged period of silence. From March 10th 2013 I will undertake a five year period of silence (may be ten!).
The teaching will continue
• Through other highly qualified teachers both at Sadhaka Grama in Rishikesh, and in all parts of the world,
• Through many writings and recordings of Gurudeva and of this self, and
• Through yourself coming and sitting in the experience of silence with this disciple of the Guru.
An aspiring yogi's true teaching begins when s/he takes to silence.
Just before starting the five-year silence, there will be few weeks of intensive teaching at the Ashram. It will be followed by 9 days of silence for all, who will be at the Ashram, from March 10th to 19th.
Please make your plans from now and do confirm your participation.
These kinds of decisions are not made in a vacuum. These are parts of the traditions of the yogi Lineages.
Also, please see a little, for the first time, about my own physical family's inheritance. It will explain many things to you about the steps I am taking.
Yours in service of Gurudeva,
Swami Veda Bharati
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Editor's note:
For a glimpse of Usharbudh Arya/Swami Veda's family history, please see
See http://www.ahymsin.org/main/index.php/2013-Gather-of-the-Sangha/2013-all-teachers-and-sangha-gathering.html for a brief description of the 2013 gathering.
Please Join Me in Full Moon Meditation
Dear Meditator, Fellow Wave of Light,
Late in 2003 I made an experiment with all the initiates in India who all, each in his/her own home, sat for meditation with me. The responses that came encouraged me to open World-Group Meditations to all.
Experienced meditators, initiates, non-initiates, and beginners of any tradition or no tradition are invited to participate and they will experience the grace and guidance of the Lineage.
Samadhi: The Final Healing
Samadhi is the Final Confluence. It is the Final Convergence. This universe, the measure of which is approximately, on the average, 5 feet, 6 inches, is a presence of the streams, energies, forces, of rivers, streams of energy, rivers of forces of consciousness. When the river of consciousness, the streams of awareness within this universe which you claim to be your body, which you erroneously claim to be your personality, which you misidentify as yourself – when the stream of energy, rivers of forces of consciousness in this universe flow in multifarious and contradictory directions, there occur wounds; there appear hollows where there ought to be fullness. Where there ought to be undisturbed presence of dynamic force, there appear warps. One warp opposing another warp, one whirl contradicting the force of another whirl, one wave moving in one direction colliding with another wave moving in another direction, and once again there appear wounds. There appear and disappear many inclinations; there appear and disappear many desires and many frustrations. From moment to moment, your identity appears to change. This moment a yes; the next moment a no; the following moment a negation of that no; and the following moment even a negation of that negation. Then through a continual series of negations and denials, the current being attacked by cross-currents, the waves colliding with waves, all the energy of your life-force dissipates, and you become physically weak, mentally a weakling, a clod of earth at the mercy of the winds which are no longer smooth-flowing streams of prana.