Articles by Swami Veda Bharati golden_leaf

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Diaphragmatic Breathing

29 March, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

To learn to breathe correctly and to learn to relax by using the correct way of breathing, lie on your stomach, cross your arms, or put one hand on the other, and rest your forehead on the arms, or on the hand; not bending your neck.

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Beginning Meditation

24 March, 2009 @ 9:48 pm

In the Raja Yoga meditation system, as taught by the Himalayan yogis, what follows are the steps of meditation. They constitute the foundation. The reader’s ego may want to say: “I have been practicing meditation for a decade or two, I want something more advanced, I do not need elementary lessons.” This attitude is incorrect.

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Swami Veda Bharati on YouTube and in other Videos

23 March, 2009 @ 8:58 pm

Here are a number of links to videos of Swami Veda Bharati appearing on YouTube and in other videos.

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Silence – Save Your Breath and Live Long

23 March, 2009 @ 11:17 am

At some point in one's spiritual progress an urge to silence arises uninvited; a wave that carries the mind self-wards, atman-wards. In all spiritual traditions the aspirant is assigned periods of silence, not to speak of the masters who have maintained total silence for their entire life-spans. Silence is not merely an absence of speech. It is a fullness of the mind; the mind filled with the flow of an energy stream rising from within. For such a silence one needs guidance, because there is a science to practicing silence that many are not aware of.

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Swami Veda Invites You to Full Moon Meditations

10 March, 2009 @ 6:24 pm

When all sit together at the same time even in different parts of the world, they connect to the Universal Guru mind and generate a strong field, like so many magnets being joined together and forming a much stronger magnet; the strength of each then equals the combined strength of all. 

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Mind Field: The Playground of Gods

24 February, 2009 @ 9:38 am

If one were to ask: on which science the Indian sages have done the most thinking, short of meditation itself, the answer would be ‘psychology’, understanding mind. It has been done not by objective observations alone. The sages have used themselves as guinea pigs. They led their own mind through various states of sentiments (bhavas),  concentrations, visualizations, silent recitations and other interior devices and observed their effects on the mind. Of these methods and devices we shall speak later in greater detail. Here we continue with attempting to understand the definition of mind and its stages.

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How To Meditate Basics

5 July, 2008 @ 6:57 am

The steps in the method are: DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING - Even breathing; CORRECT POSTURE - Being able to maintain a straight spine, with no feeling of discomfort in the legs, back or the neck; SYSTEMATIC RELAXATION - Maintaining total relaxation of neuro-muscular system throughout a meditation session; AWARENESS OF BREATHING - One gradually learns subtler modes of breathing; USING A MANTRA OR A SACRED WORD -Use of the word soham until one is given a personal mantra.

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Five Pillars of Sadhana

5 July, 2008 @ 5:48 am

The five steps or pillars of sadhana which will be discussed in this short writing are: STILLNESS, SILENCE, FASTING, CELIBACY, and CONQUEST OF SLEEP.

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2008 Guru Purnima Message

1 July, 2008 @ 12:57 am

I pray to the divinity in you. We offer our worship to the Guru of all Gurus, the teacher of all teachers, the perennial, the eternal Guru, the formless, the transcendent One.

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THE ENERGY THAT HEALS

23 April, 2008 @ 7:07 am

This Energy is not apart from any other being. This Energy is not divided into parts, particles or moments. This Energy is not divisible in time and spaces. This Energy is not a measurable. I am That. A voice within you wordlessly, nonverbally, non-vocally calls and says, “Listen to That which I am.” This Energy cannot be understood by sentient beings. This Energy can only be grasped by Pure Sentience alone. This Energy cannot be understood by sentient beings. This Energy can only be grasped by Pure Sentience alone. This Energy cannot be understood by the application of intelligence. This Energy can only descend into the very intelligence which is a form, function, operation of this very Energy, like lightning which has expanded, expanded, expanded to cover, to fill, to fulfill, to permeate all spaces, bending down to kiss the forehead of a mountain – the Energy that is Sentience, the Energy that is Intelligence, the Energy which is the Force of the Ocean in which all forms and worlds are as so many islands.

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