Dear Fellow Initiate,

“To shape your mind into a beautiful vessel for the divine Name,

Wash off the darkening shadows of sunsets of karmas with the brilliant light of the full moon of knowledge,

Persevere, uplift, & transform from the mirages and emotional storms of sorrowful bondage.

For this, let us remember the Guru’s work within the eternal lineage in which compassionate grace is our primary link.”

~ Swami Veda Bharati

Each time someone comes before you angry, disturbed, or troubled, it is a wonderful occasion for you to find that juxtaposition, to look at yourself and see how harmonized and integrated you are, so that their conflicts are not becoming imprinted and affect you. In this way, you create spiritual exercises called Svadhyaya.

Now remember, you are meditators, so you are skilled at reinterpreting those actions. In this manner, reinterpret the situations of your daily life. When you have trained your mind to look at yourself in juxtaposition to someone else’s conflicts, there will come the realization of joyfulness in you.  Your joyfulness will radiate from you and enter the other person’s mind.

Discover spirituality in all the daily routines.  Take each activity, all your involvements, and reinterpret them. For this, you need a life philosophy where meditation becomes the guiding force, a force known as the sakshi-witness. You remain the witness, the observer. Thus, your actions and reactions do not become attachments that produce pain, worry, and anxiety.

At this sacred time, we pay homage in gratitude to our Gurudeva Swami Rama, who takes the form of our spiritual guide. A guide who protects us on the journey from this shore to the other shore. A guide who graces our spirit in each breath, to re-cognise our true nature through his gift of mantra—sacred name.

May we continue to experience our true Self daily in the luminosity of our pure mind and loving heart. Meditate, Meditate, Meditate, and listen to the inner music of your soul that is your mantra.

With blessings of the Himalayan Lineage on this Guru Purnima day,

Tasmai shri gurave namah. Om tat sat.
– srb