AHYMSIN Newsletter, Issue - January 2022
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Surrender~ Swami Rama
With palms together, I pray to Thee, To be with the sages, their darshan to enjoy, O Lord, have pity on me – To be with the sages, their darshan to enjoy, Its crashing waves will wash me away – How to sin I know too well; Only the Lord can help me regain |
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Renunciation~ Swami Veda Bharati
Clouds renounce raindrops You are to me rain-giving cloud, vapour-giving earth I pray, may my prayer be granted |
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Enkindle the Fire of Wisdom~ Swami Ritavan Bharati
Blessings for Lohri and Sankranti May this festival enlighten your life with the warmth of glory, good health, and happiness. Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous Sankranti with the fire of knowledge enkindled in your heart. Let the Lohri bonfire light up the darkness of selfishness and unbridled desire to bring wisdom, peace, and happiness to your lives. May the fire of ambition you light within fill your life with warmth and brightness of love. |
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Upcoming AHYMSIN Sangha Practice for 2022 Onwards~ AHYMSIN Office On the sacred occasion of the Mahashivaratri 2019, Swami Ritavan Bharati, our Ashram Pramukha and Spiritual Guide, had initiated the AHYMSIN Sangha into a collective special mantra practice. Thousands of initiates and students around the world practiced the Saumya-Tara Mantra during the last three years. This sangha practice will now be coming to a conclusion in Feb 2022, with a special Purash-charana, Yajna, and Purnahuti of the Saumya-Tara Mantra. On behalf of the Lineage and all our global family members, Swami Ji will be presiding over the conclusion ceremonies. After the Purnahuti of the previous Sangha Practice, Swami Ritavan will initiate the AHYMSIN Sangha into a new mantra on 25 February, 2022. Further guidance on the new practice will be offered over the following few days. |
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A New Year’s Message from HYT-TTP~ Chris Young Dear AHYMSIN family, From all of us at the Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program (HYT-TTP), we would like to extend a very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Thank you for a beautifully successful year of digital workshops and online community! Your continued support of the Himalayan Tradition’s offerings serves to sustain us all in uncertain times and we look forward to the upcoming year with hope and a sense of renewal as we find ways to best serve the global community. Although we will again not offer an in-person retreat in March 2022, we hope to be able to be together at the SRSG ashram again next November. Our March 2022 offering to the AHYMSIN worldwide community will be a spring HYT-TTP virtual workshop from March 5th to 20th , with the theme of “Meditative Mind, Mantra, and Voice”. More details for this virtual event will be coming soon. While we continue to monitor the situation with covid closely, we would like you to know that our annual in-person TTP retreat is still planned for July 10th-23rd of 2022 in North America. This retreat is offered for all Level I and Level II students of TTP (200 and 500/600 hour tracts), and will be held at the beautiful Providence Renewal Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: https://providencerenewal.ca/ |
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AHYMSIN Japan and Our Work~ Yuko Metsugi
The mission of AHYMSIN Japan is to share and make available the knowledge of yoga meditation as taught within the Tradition of the Himalayan Masters in Japan. In line with this mission, over the past many years, we have held many workshops, sharing the basic knowledge and practices of yoga meditation and applications of the teachings in our day-to-day life. We have invited Swami Ritavan Bharati, our Spiritual Guide, Swami Ma Radha Bharati, and Rabindra Sahu for our retreats and workshops, where we were blessed to have the opportunities to receive their wisdom and knowledge on yoga meditation, and sit for meditation with them. Since the pandemic began, we have not been able to held face-to-face classes, but have continued to share the teachings online. In the past two years, we were able to organize several online workshops, including the three workshops (“Peace and Stillness”, “Happiness is Within”, and “Yoga in Daily Life”) with Rabindra Sahu from SRSG. From the workshops that were organized during 2020 and 2021, we have received 500,000 yen (approximately 4,400 USD) from the participants as donation to the ashram. We continue to share the teachings of the tradition, which can be applied in our everyday life. From 5 February, 2022, we will begin our new online workshop on Karma Yoga (Yoga is Skillfulness in Action ~ “Yogah kamasu kaushalam”) with Rabindra Sahu. Kindly see our website for more information. |
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The Breath, the Gunas and a Wheelbarrow~ Jim Fraser
The breath is the boat carrying us the passengers, so Ashutosh Sharma said in his engaging talk on the relation between Hatha Yoga and meditation in the Fall 2021 Virtual Workshop HYT-TTP. The next day the boat was a wheelbarrow carrying me about as I gathered fallen leaves from the oak tree in my garden. Practically, to leave a light scattering of leaves is no problem, but a thick mass of decaying leaves left over winter will kill grass, harbour pests, smother plants and get in the way in spring. So I set to work gathering into the wheelbarrow and wheeling it to where the leaves could be left for a year or more to produce enriching leafmould. The gardener’s activity, like all activity, is rajasic. Nature’s too: turning the seasons, leaves sprouting along the branches, opening, breathing, dying, falling, decaying. The gardener’s systematic activity aligns with Nature but is in opposition too to Nature’s ways and wildness. The gardener creates order and directs the processes of Nature preferring plants over weeds. Nature left to itself would spread acorns over the ground and in some years the garden would be a forest. But it is difficult to know where to make the line between the activity of Nature and human activity. The recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow makes it very clear that the line is not drawn in the right place. |
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Full Moon Meditation Reminder17 January 2022
You are invited to sit in meditation for an hour wherever you are, in your home or with friends. Total beginners and longtime practitioners, non-initiates and initiates are welcome. If you cannot sit for the entire hour, sit as long as you are able; as Swami Veda has said, “Let the quietness of the mind continue even after you rise…” |
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Mauni Amavasya (Silence Day)1 February 2022 Mauni Amavasya (Silence Day) is an annual observance. The observation of Silence Day is a practice that Swami Veda Bharati invited us to practice. Swami Veda has said – “…I would like many of my friends to set aside at least one day to share the silence with me just as you have shared the full moon day for an hour each month for more than a decade now. This sacred day is celebrated at SRSG by all ashramites and visiting sadhakas as well as globally by the AHYMSIN community. |
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