Articles by Swami Ritavan Bharati 
Sacred Pilgrimage
25 September, 2023 @ 3:16 pm
Recently, myself and Acharya Rabindra, following our Shringeri visit some years ago, continue in the footsteps of our Parampara and just as Adi Shankaracharya once made a visit to Nashik, we did too.
Invitation to the Decade of Loving Transformation
24 March, 2023 @ 12:04 pm
Swami Veda has very lovingly guided us, “Plan for when you retire. There is no end to worldly involvements. If you live to be a hundred, you will still be worrying about how you are babysitting your great grandchildren. Enough, done. Serve them, help them, guide them but don’t be so attached. So, what you will do, what spiritual work you will do on yourself.”
Transitioning from Ganesha Gayatri to the essential Ganesha Mantra
5 March, 2023 @ 4:34 pm
Lord Ganesha, the divine force who is the remover of obstacles in our life, in our sadhana; and provides the physical and emotional stability that we all aspire for by removing such obstacles, resistances, and conflicts enhancing our clarity and spiritual understanding lighting and enlightening our path of sadhana.
New Year, and New Moon Meditations
4 January, 2023 @ 8:10 am
Good tidings to you at this auspicious period of "resting", receiving the gift of void - emptiness. What is this incessant urge, desire, and need to fill? The art of fulfilment is the art of giving. Through giving you receive. By emptying you create the "space" - the opportunity to receive and thereby to be nurtured.
Tamaso-ma-jyotir-gamaya: Jyoti Meditation
6 November, 2022 @ 3:57 pm
OM; Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya…Lead me from darkness to light, lead me from darkness of ignorance to the to enlightenment! Let this become a prayer encompassing your entire heart and mind; an affirmation: jyotiraham, jyotiraham, jyotiraham. I am light, I am light, I am light!
Illuminating Freedom
8 September, 2022 @ 2:53 pm
Learn to unconfuse your mind and illuminate the darkness of bondage. Learn to unconfuse your mind with the identity that never changes. The nature of realization, the nature of purity is everything of its surroundings reflect in it without making it impure. Yet, we allow anything and everything to reflect in our purity with ever-changing thoughts and emotions as habit patterns, as our identity. The ever-changing, the impure, our false bondage becomes our identity crisis.
Special Message from Swami Ritavan Bharati
7 August, 2022 @ 11:46 am
Special Message from Swami Ritavan Bharati, for the newly initiated Swami, and as a message of moksha for all who aspire
I Bow to the Truth-Bearing Guru
9 July, 2022 @ 11:47 am
I bow to the Truth-bearing guru, who is the bliss of Brahman; who bestows the highest joy; who is infinite, free of the bonds of the 36 tattvas; who is One, the embodiment of Wisdom, Pure, and Eternal; and who exemplifies the great Vedantic proclamations, such as 'That Thou art;' the witness beyond all duality.
International Yoga Day Tribute – 2022
21 June, 2022 @ 5:41 pm
Yoga unites everybody in silence and meditation. Yoga is a tradition of discovering the inner serene silence. Yoga is not a system of physical movement. It is a system of silence and stillness from which the movement expresses itself. It is the subtle yoga, not the yoga of the body but the yoga of the inner self.
A loving invite for the Swami Rama Dhyana Gurukulam
13 April, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
We are pleased to announce the starting of "Swami Rama Dhyana Gurukulam", which will not only convey the message of great Rishis but will also pave the way to realize the truths of life.