Swami Veda Bharati
Decibel Level at SRSG
Writing on 1st January 2011 when the New Year is 20 minutes old.
Earlier this week a friend, Chetan Upadhyaya, visited our Ashram (SRSG) for the first time. He has many successful missions. One of his missions is to reduce the public noise level in India after 10 p.m. He has started with the holy city of Varanasi that he hails from.
He carries a decibel-metre with him.
He said that he has checked the decibel levels of hundreds of places in India. That our Ashram has the lowest decibel level he has ever recorded was a pleasant surprise; it is at 30.5.
You feel it when you walk into the Ashram.
I wish you for 2011 a lowered decibel level in the Ashram called your MIND and all its emotion-residents.
Blessings
Swami Veda Bharati
In Memory of Maya
There are a fortunate few who leave the world with a vessel more full than the one with which they arrived.
The vessel of some gets so full that it spills its drops into the hearts and minds of all whom they touch. Margo, Maya, is indeed one of those who spilled of her fullness and has carried a full vessel with her. She leaves behind her, hearts and minds feeling fulfilled with the teachings she imparted by her personal presence and by her words and acts.
As the spiritual journeys go, on the one hand, it may have been several incarnations long but in this body I saw her moving steadily for more than three decades towards her goal of a more and more sattvic and purified being. We should celebrate that she succeeded and along with that passed on generously a part of her success to so many in different parts of the world from North America to India, Korea, Hungary, Italy and many other countries in different Continents.
Dive into the Depths of Your True Nature
Svabhava and Svarupa
A Satsang with Swami Veda, 5 June 2010, Singapore
We have made our mind a place of noise. Whenever we do something that is not natural to us, we are unhappy. When we are unhappy we should know that the unhappiness is a symptom of something we are doing that is not natural to us. Therefore, whenever we are unhappy we should dive into ourselves and discover, search and find, what is natural to us; what is not in our temporary nature. That which is not nature, which is habit. We must learn to distinguish between our nature and our artificially cultivated and formed habits.
Satsang with German Group, 31 March 2000
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.