Author: Mandala

First of all I pay homage to my Guru Swami Rama of the Himalayas by whose grace the Holistic Health workshops were completed successfully. Humble pranams to Swami VEDA Bharati our inspiration for this effort.

We were indeed fortunate that Swami Ritavan Bharati came to Pune and stayed with us – we consider ourselves blessed indeed. Mr. Ram Prakash senior student of the Gurukulam also came for the workshop and fulfilled his role admirably. The workshop comprised primarily of about an hour on the Joints and Glands exercises conducted by Mr. Ram Prakash followed by a short session on Pranayam and about 20- 30 minutes of meditation conducted by Swami Ritavan Bharati.

To start at the beginning-
26.3.10:  Arrival of Mr. Ram Prakash at 7 am and Swami Ritavan Bharati at 6 pm.

27.3.10:  At 11 am met with Dr. K.B.Grant the Managing Director and Mr. Bomi Bhote the CEO of Ruby Hall Clinic. Meeting of all those who helped in organizing the workshop at various venues with Swamiji between 3 and 5 pm – group meditation done, and a good interactive session followed.

28.3.10:  At 5.30 am our first session at the third floor terrace of Ruby Hall Clinic a 550 bedded hospital, the premier medical facility of Pune, only one accredited by the National Board of Hospitals. 55 people attended. This was followed by a trip to Allandi the Samadhi of Sant Gyaneshwar about 25 kms from Pune.

29.3.10: At 5.30 am the second session at RHC was conducted being a Monday the number was less about 45 people. In the evening a small group attended at home with Swamiji.

30.3.10: Last day at RHC a smaller group attended a group photo was taken at the end of the session.

31. 3.10: At 5.30 am at the Poona Club Room 21 about 50 people came for the workshop. A really good interactive session followed with loads of question and answers. A similar evening small group meditation conducted at home.

1.4.10: At 5.30am again at Poona club, about 40 people attended. Everyone was very appreciative. Both

 the Hon. Secretary Mr Shanti Sanghvi and Secretary Col. Jamwal attended and felicitated both Swamiji and Mr. Ram Prakash and organized breakfast at the club. At 11 am we were invited to the residence of Mr. Satish Mehta, owner of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. Mrs. Bhavana Mehta had organized a meet of about 30 women for a seminar sort of program not a workshop- Swamiji spoke explained the principle of the Himlayan Tradition and conducted a few pranayam exercises and meditation- was very much appreciated. Evening 5.30 pm saw us at Chowkhidani a Rajasthani park with restaurant and several rides – a bit of fun hosted by Mr. Harish Mehta.

2.4.10: At 7 am we were conducting a workshop for executives of Emcure  Pharmaceuticals in the Ballroom of St. Lauren’s Hotel Hinjewadi Pune. The workshop went well as there was no sound disturbance. This was followed by breakfast. At 11 am we were heading for Lonavala and really enjoyed the trip to the Kaivalyadham Yoga Ashram and what should we see in the bookshop a souvenir which had Swami Veda Bharati smiling at us!

3.4.10: At 5.30 am again- we were at the Maidan next to the Ganesh Temple Kalyani Nagar, to conduct our first public workshop nicely organized by local politician Mr. Ramesh Kamble. Nearly 80 people attended and the workshop went really well for by now we had become experts at presenting the salient features which distinguish our system from others and emphasizing the right points. At 4pm we were at the Bishops School Harding Hall to conduct yet another workshop for an NGO called Connecting people working for preventing suicides- 19 people attended. Too hot in the Hall but Swamiji conducted the Nadishodhanam in such a way that all cooled off!

4.4.10: Second day at the Ganesh Temple maidan Kalyani Nagar , our last workshop (a little sad and a little glad)- successfully completed good attendance, group photo and smiles all round. Swamiji left by the 6.30pm flight to Delhi, the festival was over and it was time to say good bye.

5.5.10: At 5pm even Mr. Ram Prakash left and the home is quiet now as I pen this report.

Conclusions

• A database has been formed of over 200 members who we could contact for future programs.
• A core group has been identified- Dr. Venkatramani the solid support thoughout, Mrs. Pratibha Mehta who helped throughout the event, Mrs. Namita Thappar, Mrs. Seema Mehrotra, Anil Malik.
• A proper package for the basic course has to be defined especially if the system has to be sold to the masses. A fee can be levied if the delegate has a concise curriculum.
• There would have to be a continuous back up of the Ashram for the centre when it gets formed with regard to resources. A proper Hindi speaking Guru is desperately required to impress the public at large (feedback received).
•  Leaflets, books, CDs of GOOD quality both audio and video would be required. There would have to be a profit margin for the centre to run expenses.

This has now to get translated into regular practice in Pune and the formation of a proper centre.

Experience is the best teacher and in the future more such events can be organized.

HARI OM
Dr. Shirin Venkatramani.

28th March-4th April 2010 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

The Kumbha Mela, the most sacred of all the Hindu pilgrimages, culminated on April 14th in the sacred Maha Kumbha Sahi Snan – the royal bath. Thousands of holy men and women (mahamandeleshwaras, monks, saints and sadhus) in addition to the pilgrims who journeyed from villages far and wide in India, gathered to take a dip in Mother Ganga on this most auspicious of days. For the past month or so, millions of people have journeyed to Haridwar for the Kumbh Mela.  In addition to the major event of the ritual bath, other activities include religious discussions, devotional singing, mass feeding of holy men and women and the poor, and religious assemblies where doctrines are debated and standardized.

What is a pilgrim? Where does the pilgrim’s journey ultimately lead to?

For answers, please read the following transcription of a talk on the subject given by Swami Veda.

In mystic traditions, particularly in India, life is regarded as a journey. A pilgrimage is merely an external projection of an inward journey. Before you can determine who is a pilgrim, you need to be clear about some aspects of pilgrimage.

A place of pilgrimage is one where a manifestation of divinity appeared for a particular purpose, where a sage performed austerities or meditated for a long period, or where someone got direct experience of God. One or more specific areas within the holy place get marked as a sanctum sanctorum, due to a still palpable divine power, like a vortex of energy. I have personally experienced this vortex in many places, particularly while taking a dip in the Ganga with my Guru at the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.

A pilgrimage is undertaken with many spiritual goals in mind. It may be an act of acknowledging to oneself one’s failures and misdeeds. You may aspire for freedom from this burden of misdeeds through prayaschitta, an act of atonement and purification. It could be in the form of renouncing a habit, addiction or worldly pleasure after the pilgrimage is complete.

It is not a myth that if a pilgrim is one who fulfils all the requirements, he may be granted the rare darshan of a sage who left the body thousands of years ago, but still dwells there as a light being.

You will feel the energy to the degree your mind is attuned. If you blanket your mind with the elements of the unsettled, the non-sacred, the mundane, and carry your anger and impatience with you, the energy plays hide and seek, and you return without being recharged.

While a pilgrimage is not the highest endeavour, it is far more conducive to self-enquiry and enrichment than a holiday. Rather than attending a lecture on silence, it is better to practise silence. Go on an internal journey rather than an external one.

If done earnestly the right way, it cleanses the mind, unburdens the heart, and you become confident in your capacity to explore your inner world. You then renounce pleasures you are addicted to and come to realise that you have the spiritual strength to live without them.

Begin a pilgrimage with an inner resolve or sankalpa, abandoning comforts, renouncing pleasures,

remaining silent and still, practising celibacy, practising restraint in matters of food, accepting whatever the stations in the journey have to offer, controlling speech and all the senses and withdrawing from desires and from memories thereof.

Many spiritual seekers share Kabir’s view: “If taking a dip in a river would grant me liberation then the fish would have been liberated long ago.” Hence the internal journey is far more important than the external one.

A holy place is called tirtha, a point of crossing over. Let a pilgrimage be a point of crossing over, a transition to a higher level of thought, action and existence. Go with the resolve: “After the pilgrimage, I shall be a higher self, purer, brighter, more stilled, more akin to my own interior divinity.”

After the pilgrimage, be not what you were before. Let your life become a journey to your internal sanctum sanctorum. Until that final realisation happens, you will continue to remain a pilgrim. Thereafter, you become a guide to other pilgrims who might follow you, seeking to grasp the vessel of God’s elixir of immortality, the Aquarian fullness, the essence of enlightenment.

The following is a blog entry by Jagadananda, our Sanskrit teacher at SRSG. He details his personal reflections upon the ordination of seventeen young Indian men into the Catholic priesthood. This group had spent a week last year at our SRSG Ashram, learning about yoga and meditation. Swami Veda gave a special address on the occasion.

Religion Divides and Spiritualism Unites

An interesting experience today. There is a seminary of Saint Thomas Christians (Syrian Malabar Nasrani) here in Rishikesh. The name of their ashram, Samanvaya Vidya Dham (harmony and unity of religions), indicates a bit about their approach.

They invited Swami Veda and his disciples to their church near Laxman Jhula to participate in a mass which initiated 17 young men into the minor orders of the priesthood, namely lectorate and subdeaconate. These students have spent the last year in Rishikesh and they will be working in North India. Though they are all Keralans, they speak fluent English and Hindi. In fact, they all look extremely sattvik and they are trained to a very high educational level. If Hindu sannyasis were put through the same kind of training requirements that this sect puts its priests through, it would be of greatest benefit to everyone, both within Hinduism and without.

The priest who invited us, Davis Varayilan CMI, started his introductory discourse by saying that the police had visited the ashram a few days before asking about their conversion activities. There is a lot of sensitivity about that around here obviously, and they are feeling the heat. They had to explain that St.Thomas came to India in 52 AD, so their church is nothing new in this country. Most, of course, think of the Christian church in relationship to the aggressive missionary tactics used by American Protestant churches.

Fr. Varayilan said that the position of the Thomian Catholics is “Indian in culture, Christian in faith, and Oriental in its rites.” But as I heard in the JNU conference last week, with the coming of the Catholics into India, especially in the 18th century, the Keralan Christians became more and more closely aligned with Roman Catholicism and the mass we saw today was a classic post-Vatican II celebration, only transposed into Hindi, with the hymns, etc., sung in North Indian bhajan style. It was a bit interesting to hear the Sanctus or Agnus Dei presented in that way, but on the whole, a very nice adaptation.

In fact, Fr. Varayilan said that the purpose of having the seminary in Rishikesh was to compensate a bit for the overly European influence and to reconnect with the Indian roots of the religion. It was meant to familiarize the seminarians with Hindu religious practices, yoga and meditation, and it was precisely for this reason that the group was invited to SRSG for a week last year, going through a meditation retreat and getting classes from Swami Veda Bharati.

On the ceiling of the church, they had six symbols of the major Indian religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism (if I got them right). This is a clear indication of the direction that an “Indian” Christianity would take, a rather more salutary approach.

Interestingly, they specifically, as Keralans, spoke of themselves as descendants of Shankaracharya.

Listening to the mass, which concluded with a rousing Jai Jagadish Hare arati, I was wondering about the relation of form to content. At any rate, it is very welcome to see a Christian group so warmly embracing Hindu-style pluralism. Indeed, when speaking of the experience at SRSG, one of the priests recited the old adage, “Religion divides and spiritualism unites.”

I hesitated a moment before taking communion (parama-prasada), but showing solidarity with the cause of interfaith brotherhood, I did so. I usually felt the same kind of hesitation when at church during my son’s career as a choirist, perhaps as a result of the childhood training that there was no communion without confession. You have to be in a state of grace. But left to my own subjectivity, I would never be in a state of grace, so I just went ahead.

Strange feeling. I guess that all that interfaith conferencing in Patiala had its effect.

Submitted by Jagat

It all started with a thought. A shared thought. In a sunny afternoon last November three of us met in Sydney for the first time, to share ideas. It had been on our mind for a while to connect the initiates and friends of the Himalayan Tradition here in Australia. One of us said: ‘how about we organise a weekend event, as an opportunity to meet and know each other’. The other two laughed. The same thought had come to each of us, few days before coming to Sydney, while sitting in meditation. Some may see this as mere coincidence, however those of us practicing for some time had experienced in numerous occasions similar silent share of thoughts. Well … this was a good start. Furthermore, we all felt that there was a strong intent behind this thought.

…and all else followed smoothly since then. Our first get together was to be held on January 24th, in

Adelaide, the tranquil capital of South Australia, lying between lush green hills and the Pacific Ocean.

Once back in Adelaide we started to organise the event: look for a place, design the content of the workshop and send out invitations. We found a nice, peaceful venue on a high land overlooking the ocean. This is a heritage building administered by an enthusiast group of volunteers who wish to preserve it as a community centre, despite being highly sought after by various entrepreneurs.

The event was intended primarily as a one-day practice workshop for the TTP teachers in training. The morning schedule included joints and glands, hatha yoga and pranayama sessions while the afternoon sessions covered meditation, yoga nidra, yoga and health and pranic healing. There was also time for discussions, sharing thoughts on how we see the future of our Australian AHYMSIN group.

We scheduled the meditation session to synchronise with the morning meditation time at SRSG (i.e. 8:30 – 9:30 in India). Some of us have formed the habit to sit in meditation at this time, no matter how busy our days are. We stay in touch this way with Swamiji and our friends in the ashram.

It may look small on the map, however, Australia is a vast country (about the size of continental US) with long distances across open country. What then motivates people from various walks of life, different age groups, to travel long distance just to spend one day together? The desire to meet and share stories on how the practice of yoga has changed their lives? The joy of sitting in meditation together? The need to make available to others the teachings that so generously were given to them? Well … all of these.

Below are some comments received from participants:

“Firstly, a great experience, long awaited and appreciated. Also an opportunity to share some of our teaching experience and feedback in a very supportive environment, which is so important at this stage of the TTP. Finally, a beginning of networking with like-minded people from the Tradition here in Australia. Thank you so much for all this.”

“A small seed has been planted in a fertile environment from where it will no doubt grow. Thank you Swamiji for your inspiration and guidance”.

“I found the workshop very informative, enjoyable and very relaxing. I also learnt some new things.”

“I attended the workshop given by students of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition here in Adelaide.  It was presented in a sincere, respectful and professional manner – I felt very welcome and thoroughly enjoyed the workshop.  What stood out was the devotion the facilitators had for the Masters from this tradition, it was humbling; and I came away with techniques that are practical and simple to apply at home.  Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience I hope you will continue with workshops and classes.”

“Much can happen when people’s individual pranas align, heading into the same direction. This was only a beginning. The river of collective prana is sure to attract more tributaries, more people who are seeking to develop themselves spiritually.”

Personally, I do not know a better way to get to know someone than to sit in meditation with them. And I do not know a nicer way to become friends with someone. We sit in meditation and something from that moment of peace stays with us after we rise from meditation and go on with our lives. Our acquired habits of fear, of being judgemental, of fighting with others and ourselves, fade slowly and our natural needs for peace, beauty and friendship are more and more visible and manifest in our lives.

We felt so joyous together during our get-together in Adelaide that similar events are now planned in Sydney and Melbourne. We cannot wait to meet our friends again. We also hope to make new friends.

We will continue to support teachers here with their sadhana and their lives so that they have the confidence and peace of mind to go out and teach. Our aim is to make the teachings of the Tradition available so that more people will practice meditation here in Australia. It is much needed!

Reported from Adelaide by Dr Mihaela Ivan

On Tuesday, October 20, 2009, Pandit Hari Shankar Dabral made a brief but informative visit to The Meditation Center of Minneapolis. His main mission: to inform the local community about the traditional, ritual customs and etiquette of the sacred fire ceremony. Earlier in the season, September 13, 2009, The Meditation Center consecrated its new Havan Kund (Sacred Fire Pit). Emilio Bettaglio spearheaded the project with the help of several volunteers who assisted in the construction over the summer months.  Dozens of people came together to participate in the consecration ceremony led by Emilio Bettaglio and Swami Ritavan Bharati. Overall, it was a great success! There was much talk about doing several more ceremonies in the future.

However, a very highly respected sage by the name of Swami (self-proclaimed Nitpicky)Veda immediately pointed out some very important customs that were lost during the consecration ceremony! – At least from what he could tell in documentary photos that started to circulate around the global community. Immediately, he recommended that The Meditation Center summon Pandit Hari Shankar Dabral to show the community first hand how to conduct these sorts of ceremonies in the future.

Pandit Dabral led an extensive satsang around the topic of the Sacred Fire Ceremony. He began by explaining the ways in which these sorts of ritual practices are ingrained and taught to individuals in India, starting from birth – primarily through the observation of parents and elders, as examples, while simultaneously participating in the rituals.

These sorts of rituals are integral to the cultural context from which they originate; therefore it typically isn’t something that is taught primarily through words, but though observation and awareness to details from those who are experienced in the actions.

By bringing the understanding within, there develops an internal philosophical understanding and the desire to question becomes less and less. That being said, Panditji strongly encouraged the community to ask many questions even if they seem stupid or childish, because we all have to start from somewhere. By following some important principals, we begin to experience things differently.

Panditji went on to talk about the importance of integrating the Yamas and Niyamas in our daily practice, particularly the principle of Saucha (Cleanliness).  He went into extensive detail about the importance of bathing the body daily and wearing clean clothing (ideally before meditation and participation in ritual activities). Often-times, we spend a great deal of time making ourselves look clean and nice when we go out to a party or want to impress someone etc. but what about the Divine? How would you like to look and feel when you meet Divinity?

He also emphasized the importance of keeping one’s meditation space immaculately clean and pretty at all times – with the idea that a sage could come to visit you, unannounced, at any time. By conducting ourselves in a way that is vigilantly clean and tidy we begin to treat our bodies and our entire lives as a sacred shrine.

This is why we participate in ritual, not to become overly superstitious, to condemn ourselves and/or others as impure, nor to simply act out a dramatic event for our own amusement. We participate in ritual so that we can practice the action of treating something as sacred and precious – so that we can expand that to our lives and take nothing for granted.

Before participating in the sacred fire ceremony, Pandit Dabral recommends that we follow the following procedures with the principal of saucha :

Keep the inside and outside of the kund (fire pit) clean.

1. Always try to evoke the Guru.
2. Try to fast the day of the ceremony within your own capacity.
3. Use pure wood (ideally with an aromatic quality such as wood from a mango tree).
4. Bathe the body and wear clean (preferably sattvic) clothing that covers the arms and legs.
5. Immediately before the ceremony, again wash your hands, face and mouth.
6. Do not go near the kund with shoes (out of respect for Agni (the fire deity) and in attempts to maintain the sanctity of the place).
7. Make all offerings with the right hand because the energy force is different therefore utilizing the right hand creates a certain energy flow and the energy of different elements in the body due to the body alignment.
8. Avoid using the index (pointer finger) when making offerings, offering samaghri (mixture of herbs) etc
9. Sit properly (do not put your feet toward the kund out of respect and reverence for the divine.)
10. Make all offerings gently and offer them in the way that you would like to be offered things (do not trough things sloppily, with anger, excitement or lack of awareness).
11. Begin by evoking the spirit of Agni and paying homage to that which is the path of light and righteousness.
12. Pay homage to Guru. Start with the recitation of the Guru mantra at least 3 times (each time ending with an offering of Ghee)
13. Pay homage to Ganesha (deity of the root charka) to bring us solidity in our practice so that we will not be moved from concentration.
14. Do personal prescribed practice (ityukta, gayatri, mahamrityungaya etc)
15. End again by paying homage to Agni and internalizing the fire and light within.
16. Clean the kund (all debris that is left on the top step is swept into the fire, all of the rest that falls on the second or third tiers are unsuitable for the fire and can be spread in the forest).

“The ritual of worshiping Agni (the Fire Deity) is to evoke and acknowledge that presence within ourselves,” Panditji stated. Agni is the primordial force that brings us to move and act, to burn and to purify our samskaras and all negativity that we carry with us. We participate in these rituals to acknowledge the path of fire and light so that we may shine in this lifetime and become as pure as gold. We begin by evoking and acknowledging the external fire and paying homage to it. But overtime we internalize that experience and worship our own internal fire within our navel center. Then we no longer need the elaborate ritual of the physical fire because we can worship the Havan Kund within ourselves.

These are the tools given to us by the sages. Sometimes we are not able to understand exactly why we should follow these ritual practices, but over time we will see that certain actions create a particular energy field that is conducive to certain things we wish for in our lives.

Submitted by Lela Pierce

Swami Veda’s first three public lectures in Trinidad took place at very different venues but his powerful message was the same. The common thread of course was “meditation.”  At all three lectures, the practicum set the tone. At the Chinmaya Mission, there was a very large crowd. As  Swamiji entered, we all saw that the audience was fully participating as Savitri led gentle stretches and postures with breath-awareness. At the University of the West Indies, Swamiji’s topic of “Unifying Streams in Religion” was very well received. As he went through a series of examples of how similar the important themes are, there were nods of assent and smiles from the audience

At the Raja Yoga Center, Swamiji voiced his observation that he was very happy to see changes in Trinidad and that members of the community seemed more spiritually aware. He congratulated all on the progress made on that quest. In his opening remarks, he wished that in this very life all come to personally know God. Swamiji’s lecture was so philosophical, poetic and inspiring!

After the first three public lectures finished, there was a beautiful dinner on the balcony of the Raja Yoga Center in San Fernando. Sister Hemlata and all of the Brothers and Sisters were so gracious, warm and welcoming and happy to be able to host Swamiji. Everyone in Swamiji’s group received a little book of thoughts and affirmations.

On Friday, September 11th, there will be a Symposium entitled Wanam: Traditions in Conversation. The book launch is hosted by the Dept. of Behavioural Sciences at UWI. There will be three panels each of four members and a moderator. The first panel represents the voice of academics and the second panel represents the voice of women. The third panel represents the voice of religious practitioners. The book launch for Wanam will be on Saturday 12th September. These events have been widely publicized in the local newspapers. Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo and a group of 16 arrived from Guyana for the Book Launch today. Swamiji was very pleased that Guyana is represented.

Everyone tries to ensure that Swamiji takes as much rest as possible. Today, Thursday is supposed to be a rest day but we are expecting two separate but short interviews from the press, and also for the Indian High Commissioner, who also served in Mauritius before, to visit, possibly for dinner. Tomorrow, it is planned that Swamiji would see the Bird Sanctuary so we are all looking forward to this.

Aunt Dolly is busy in the kitchen today making black eye soup (here it is called sancoach and has black eye peas but in Guyana it is called metagee), boiled corn and fresh vegetables. Yesterday she made dumplings from whole wheat flour and the day before she made the delectable ‘bake’ which Swamiji enjoyed very much. The milky drinks are the highlight of his day especially the soursop and babbadeen. The milk is so fresh that thick cream forms after being boiled

As always, this link should take you to the pictures.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Preadarshni/
Trinidad09#5378492902061020882

In Service,
Priya

Editor’s note:

Personal Reflections by Priya

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Meet Geeta Currimjee, Centre Director:

I live on a small island called Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean off the East coast of Madagascar and East Africa. The population of Mauritius is a melting pot of all the races and religions of the world.

The people live in harmony with their brethren of Indian (70% of the population), African, Chinese and European origins.

Born Hindu, I married Abbas who, as the name suggests, is Muslim. We live in total respect and harmony with each other’s faiths. I fast during the Ramadan and he does not! He meditates and recites the Mahamrityunjaya mantra.

My spiritual journey started as a child, and in my thirties I started taking philosophy lessons. In this quest for answers on the Reasons of our Being, I visited all the swamis and philosophers visiting

Mauritius.  I even started going to Rishikesh to the Sivananda Ashram!

In 1986 Swami Rama came to spend two months in Mauritius to write the Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad Gita. I found out about His visit only two days before He was due to leave……!

My first meeting with Gurudev is still fresh in my mind. He entered the room where I was waiting. I was spellbound by this very tall, handsome person with piercing and ever so love-filled eyes! The first thing he asked me was:”Where have you been? I’ve been waiting for you!” He knew everything about me. He had been at my restaurant and even played tennis at the family court.

Thus started my Himalayan Tradition journey. I am blessed to have been initiated by Gurudeva Swami Rama . I pay homage to Guru brother Swami Veda who has been there to follow my journey. Now I have taken up the responsibility to teach in Mauritius. I pray to the guruparampara to guide me in establishing the Himalayan Yoga Societies in Mauritius.

With great modesty, in service to the Guru Lineage

Geeta Currimjee