• Table of Contents
  • 14 Practices by Swami Veda Bharati
  • Forgiveness by Swami Rama
  • Can I Have Samadhi? by Shi Hong
  • TTP Program for Thailand and Taiwan by Thaniya Kevalee
  • Navaratra (Poem & Slideshow) by Jay Prakash Bahuguna
  • HYT-TTP Newsletter by Rabindra Sahu
  • Pune Pranayama Camp by Dr. Shirin Venkat
  • Sangha Gathering 2016 by Joanne Sullivan (Divya)
  • Dear Yoga Mentor, My Question Is…
  • Swami Nijananda Bharati
  • Cancer, No Easy Choices by Richard Parenti
  • Netra Tantra Seminar, October 2016
  • 2016 Events and Beyond
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of our SRSG ashram
• AHYMSIN Newsletter Archive

Navaratra

by Jay Prakash Bahuguna

Prayers without Words

      — by Swami Veda Bharati:

Why are these verses not prayers?

The words are called prayer,
         but my Divine Mother, my God, is beyond words.
If I say, “I love you,” I love not.
Where feelings overwhelm the senses, there words cease to be.
Only an awareness remains.
Such awareness is meditation, a prayer without words.

A deep wave of peace comes over me in the knowledge that I,
        a little ring, am part of the cosmic gold.
This, the ring's love for its gold origin is my love for God.

My spark of awareness knows that it came from the same fire of
        consciousness from which emanate all the stars of the night.
I grow and glow in the knowledge of that majestic peace;
       that is my prayer; the prayer of my innermost being radiating
       in the light of meditation.

Are these verses, then not, a prayer?

More photos can be seen at this link by click here.

Slide Show

(View these full screen by clicking the control in the upper right corner of a full width, full height image. You should see some "arrows")

Editor’s Note:

A Navaratra Devi-Puja was celebrated 8th - 15th April 2016 at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG). 

Swami Veda Bharati has written about these times:

“The 9 sacred days dedicated to Divine Mother... We will have non-stop recitations of the thousand names of Divine Mother and you may come sit and enjoy silence.”

and

“…These events are charged with special spiritual energy and a very special time to renew your silence and sadhana.”

The next Navaratra Devi-Puja at SRSG will be 1st - 10th October 2016. To inquire about accommodations:http://ahymsin.org/main/accommodations-inquiry.html