Vihangam Yoga

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December January, 2010 From the editors desk

Greetings dear readers! A very eventful year draws to an end as we witnessed the global economic recession and now slowly recuperating financial systems. In these difficult situations people have become even more stressed about their professional and personal lives. Constant anxiety keeps lingering in the subconscious mind and serves as source for negative energy. To face such times with poise and remain unaffected by these ebbs and flows, Vihangam Yoga presents a well structured and scientifically proven meditation procedure. Times have indeed been challenging but people exhibiting fortitude, resilience and composure have emerged stronger. Vihangam Yoga enables practitioners to rise and see above temporary influences by helping realize the ultimate aim for our existence. As we step into the New Year, let us resolve to understand ourselves better, and know who we are and why we are here. The answer lies in this months articles which talk about peace and fundamental entities. As our community grows, we have added a new section to keep you informed about our global outreach and developments. Again, wishing you a very happy and prosperous New Year and as always we love to hear from our readers, so please keep your comments, feedback, suggestions and questions flowing. - NAIVY newsletter team

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 8

Practitioners meditating during a workshop in Dublin, OH. North America Institute of Vihangam Yoga provides free mediation sessions every Sunday through telephonic conference. For details see page 3. much easily than complex lessons taught in our modern-day classrooms which we completely believe but never truly get to experience. For example, we all know very well that an apple from a tree falls to the ground due to force of gravity; but we never get to truly feel this force. However, have you noted how we feel peaceful when we visit a Holy place, we do not need a proof for this as we experience this peace in our heart and soul. This happens because we have peaceful thoughts originating from our minds; similarly all the other devotees who have come to visit this holy place also have similar peaceful thoughts which ultimately make the entire surrounding highly energized and serene. This means our mind through our thoughts and feelings affects the world around us in obvious and subtle ways. These thoughts have energy, and this entire universe is made up of energy. To state it simply: Happy thoughts create a joyful world while sad thoughts create a gloomy world. Look at how Hitler was able to raise an entire nation that was at unrest whereas during the same time Mahatma Gandhi was able to raise a nation filled with love and affection. We can struggle through life to barely get by and make it from one challenge to the next, one disappointment to the next, or temporary happiness to the next; or we may systematically gain control over mind to attain peace. The concept of peace is about being unaffected by storming thoughts, remaining focused, pacified and aware in all situations. The mind is fickle, rarely does it stay at one place or point and its stabilization is important to sustain peace. Meditation, as taught in Vihangam Yoga, is the key to attaining and sustaining peace within ourselves. Vihangam Yoga meditation technique empowers practitioners to attain peace and direct the flow of conscious from outwards to within ourselves. This is the same peace that Lord Ram had even when he was subject to rigorous struggle and war during fourteen years of exile. It is also the same Peace that Lord Krishna gave to Arjun and hence we remember Gita as a poem of peace even though it was set in midst of the great war of Mahabharata. . Sadguru Sadafaldeoji Maharaj says in Swarveda, that the mind is a completely different entity, is not part of us and hence there can be nothing called as peace of mind. It is the soul which experiences this peace within us. Eternal peace can only be possible in the absence of mind itself i.e. when mind is completely dissolved at its source. Thus, it is by Vihangam Yoga meditation technique that we can all slowly tame and conquer the mind and experience greater peace within our soul. Page 1, Volume 1, Number 8, DecJan 2010

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Peace of Mind The Six Fundamental Entities Vihangam Yoga around the Globe Illustrations from Swarveda Featured Ashram of the Month Page 1 Page 2 Page 2 Page 3 Page 3

Peace of Mind
By Pravin Bhat If we ponder for a moment about Peace of Mind, it would be helpful to understand the meaning of peace in different contexts. In our everyday life we hear about peace in many ways universal peace, religious peace, peace in relationships, etc. So what is the difference or relation between all different forms of peace and peace of mind? Peace originating from the mind is the key to peace in all its other forms. If the mind is at peace so will be the individual and if the individual be at peace so will be the environment around him/her. A few might argue about how just thinking about peace or practicing something like meditation where one does not perform physical actions could achieve major results. Well, there are proven rules which can be applied in our daily lives

Vihangam Yoga Around The Globe

Vihangam Yoga Channel on YouTube This month, Vihangam Yoga Channel was launched on YouTube. The channel www.youtube.com/vihangamyoga features videos from Vihangam Yoga events around the globe and amritvaani of Sadguru Swatantradeo Ji Maharaj on different occasions. Vihangam Yoga on your Mobile Phone Vihangam Yoga is now available on your mobile phone. To receive latest updates about spirituality and events Vihangam Yoga events seekers may subscribe by clicking here (available in India only). Vihangam Yoga in Australia Workshops conducted in Sydney, Australia by Mr. M.M. Prasad and Mr. Lalit Gunjan Singh. The message of Vihangam Yoga was well received and more than 87 participants were intiated into Vihangam Yoga Vihangam Yoga in South East Asia A series of four workshops were conducted by Mr. Lalit Gunjan Singh, Mr. Gopal Rishi, Mr. Naresh Agarwal and Mr. Prakash Tripathi in Singapore. These workshops have started a new furor in global outreach of Vihangam Yoga. In last few months 247 blissful souls got initiated into Vihangam Yoga family in Singapore. San Jose Yoga workshops in full swing NAIVY conducts meditation, pranayama, and yoga sessions in different states in USA. In the picture below, Mr. Rajkumar Gupta guides participants in San Jose. Workshop details on page 3.

The Six Fundamental Entities

By Late Dr. Rjaeshwar Prasad The basic eternal existences are six in number. They are, Paramatma or Parama Purusha (the Supreme Being), Akshara Brahma (the Cosmic Executor), Atma (the Soul), Nitya Anadi Sadguru (the Eternal Spiritual Guide), Prakriti (Nature) and Kala (Time concept). As they are eternal, there was never a time when they did not exist and there will never be a time when they will cease to exist. The first four of the above entities areconscious or sentient while the last two, viz. Prakriti and Kala are insentient. The conscious beings are those, which possess the faculties of knowledge, desire and action. Of the two insentient entities, devoid of these faculties, Prakriti is inert and Kala is neither conscious nor inert. A brief description of each of these entities is presented. 1. The Supreme Being (Parama Purusha) The Supreme Being is omniscient, omnipotent and the base of everything that exists. He has been described as Sat-chit-ananda i.e. one who is eternally existent, infinitely conscious and supremely blissful. He is the subtlest of all the subtle and pervades every substance, every soul and the entire universe. The universe exists in only one-fourth of Him. The remaining three-fourths is pure nectarine bliss. 2. Cosmic Executor (Akshara Brahma) That which creates, sustains and dissolves the universe is Akshara Brahma. All the physical forces as well as mind and Pranas (the life forces) originate form Akshara Brahma. All activities in the world are solely due to it. It is thus the preserver of the world. When the Akshara Brahma withdraws its forces, all the motions cease and the universe collapses to a point, the cosmic egg of modem science. That is what we call dissolution. It functions under the command of the Supreme Being and is confined to one-fourth of Him, where the creation, regulation and dissolution of the universe take place. 3. Soul (Atma) Though bliss is not the intrinsic quality of a Soul, it possesses the other two qualities like those of the Supreme Being, viz. eternal existence and consciousness. However, the consciousness of a soul is limited whereas that of the Supreme Soul is unlimited. While the Paramatma remains in one and the same form with its consciousness not undergoing any change, the consciousness of a soul attains different levels. The Atma is capable of associating itself with Paramatma. In the association of Paramatma the soul's consciousness increases infinitely and at the same time it experiences a supreme bliss of His. It thus acquires all the qualities of Supreme Being. This is the super conscious state of Atma. In this state there is likelihood that a soul may delude itself to be identical with the Supreme Being. This deluded state of the soul is called its Kaivalya state.

In the gross body the soul experiences different worldly pleasures, which are short lived and invariably followed by miseries. It indulges itself in various actions to fulfill its desires. Each desire feeds and multiples on other desires. The Atma in the subtle body takes another birth in one of the millions of species depending on the desires and tendencies of the previous lives. The process is repeated ad infinitum and the soul finds itself shackled in the endless chain of births and deaths. The soul forgets its real nature and identifies itself with its body. When it finds the miseries of its unbearable and craves to find a way out, another, conscious entity, the Eternal Sadguru, begins to guide it on the path of salvation. 4. The Eternal Sadguru The Eternal Sadguru is the messenger of Paramatma. Brahma Vidya (the Divine Wisdom) emanates from Him and he is the Lord of the spiritual domain. In the beginning of the creation, he is sent by the Supreme Being into the world with the light of spiritual knowledge. His only mission is to awaken the suffering souls of the world from the sleepy state of ignorance by shedding upon them the divine light. He liberates the craving and deserving souls from the bondage of Prakriti and enables them to enjoy the nectarine bliss of the Supreme Being. When humans become too much engrossed in the allurements of Prakriti and tend to deviate from the true path of spiritualism, the Eternal Sadguru appears in the world in a human form to salvage the souls The Sadguru has no worldly desires, has nothing to get from the disciple, and hence he comes to the world to fulfill his mission of helping the aspirant to choose the correct path and then guide him through the practice of yoga. He is there to guide the souls to reach the Supreme Soul, the abode of eternal bliss. 5. Nature (Prakriti) All the insentient objects in the universe are composed of one basic substance called Nature or Prakriti. Prakriti consists of three gunas - Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas, whose characteristics are illumination, activity and inertia or sluggishness respectively. Each guna is present in active or dormant form in all the substances created. The gunas of Prakriti are analogous with the fundamental particles of atom. While modem science is ignorant as to the agency responsible for 'big bang' in the cosmic egg, the Indian Rishis say that it is the Akshara Brahma who imparts vibration in Mool Prakriti and thus starts the creation of the universe. All parts of our bodies are manifestations of Prakriti, except mind and Pranas, which originate from Akshara Brahma. 6. Time (Kala) Given two events, we can always say whether one of them occurred earlier, later or simultaneously. The concept, on which the chronological order of events is based, is called Kala (Time). Time is an abstract entity and is conceived only through the changes that take place around us. The Prakriti (Nature) undergoes a continuous transformation or change right from the moment of the creation of the universe till its dissolution. These changes indicate the incessant flow of time. The birth and death, inhalation and exhalation and all the experiences of pleasure and pain occur in the domain of time. The soul becomes free from the wheel of time only when it is liberated from the bondage of Prakriti by the technique of Vihangam Yoga under the guidance of a Sadguru. Page 2, Volume 1, Number 8, Dec Jan 2010

Forthcoming Workshops in USA

Date Dec 19th 2009 Venue, Time, Contact Bharatiya Temple 955, Haslett Rd, MI 48840 - 1000-1200hrs Brijesh Dutta 630-276-6864.

Dec 20th 2009

Dec 27th 2009

A soul is always a soul it never becomes Brahma. A piece of iron fallen in fire becomes red and starts glowing like it. But soon as it is taken out of fire, it Fremont Temple, 3676, Delaware Dr. gradually loses its qualities of fire and becomes an iron Fremont, CA, 94538 - 1600-1800hrs piece again. Kaivalya state meets with a similar fate. As Rajkumar Gupta 408-770-0423. soon as the ego of I am Brahma crops up in the soul, it no longer cares to remain in the zone of nectarine bliss 5807 Sylvia Rd, Dublin, OH 43016 and tends to move towards the zone of creation. 1600-1800hrs Vijay Kumar 614-787-0693.

Featured Ashram of the Month Sarnath Ashram

An Encyclopedia of Spirituality Swarved

The great glory of Brahma Vidya Vihangam Yoga finds its mention in all the spiritual scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Geeta, Bible and Quran, but is least understood and practiced. During recent times, Sadguru Sadafaldeo Ji Maharaj has revived the same supreme knowledge by creating an encyclopedia of spirituality the Swarved. This book was written by him on his path of spiritual exploration. Here are a few instances describing the divine abodes of Vihangam Yoga. How yoga helps in sustaining the peace?

Sarnath, located just 12 km from the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, is the site of the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma after his enlightenment. The Maharishi Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ashram, located in Sarnath is nearest to the Swarveda Mahamandir in Varanasi. Accessible by land, rail and air transport, Sarnath is well connected for spiritual seekers to experience the city and enjoy a rich flavor of spirituality. Sarnath Ashram is one of the centers of Vihangam Yoga where meditation brings energy and nuclear power of spirituality in its deepest form. The nearest airport to this ashram is Varansi International Airport while Sarnath Railway Station is located within the town. The ashram has modern accommodation facilities for guests and seekers. It also serves as a centre for prachar, meditation, spiritual workshops and an administration office to monitor developments of the Swarveda Mahamandir project. Please join us on our weekly telephonic workshop every Sunday, 10AM EST from anywhere in the USA. Telephonic workshops feature pranayama and mediation sessions Dial 1- 605-715-4920 and access code 269844# when prompted Topics for our forthcoming weeks are: December 20th 2009: Sadguru and God December 27th 2009: Swarveda and Other Scriptures January 3rd 2010: Importance of Parents in Life January 10th 2010: My World and the World Free Weekly Yogasana and Meditation for San Jose Residents: NAIVY presents free Yogasana, pranayama and meditation workshops in San Jose. Workshops are conducted every Sunday from 04.00 pm to 05.30 pm at the residence of Mr. Raj and Mrs. Rekha Gupta. For further information please contact Mr. Raj Gupta at rekha_rajgupta@yahoo.co.in or (408) 770-0423.

Budhi chit mann bhav mein, Vishay uthe nahin koi| Yog shanti sukh mool hai, mook dhong bhram soy|| Swarveda 05/06/39
Purport: The root of all happiness- the peace in Yoga is the state where there is no attachment to any subject in mind, intellect and chitta. This state is achieved only when the spiritual consciousness is raised and turned inward. A natural peace develops with the detachment from outer world and the controlled mind is not influenced by the change in subject. The ritual of practicing silence known as Maun Vrat in true sense is the silence and control in all sense organs and not the silence of mouth as usually practiced in ignorance.

Praakrit durgun naash hai, sadgun shudh vikash| Saadhan saral upaay se, taahi kahat abhyaas|| Swarveda 05/06/29
Purport: The change in external subject causes non-peaceful state of mind. The human mind is more influenced because of the bad virtues (durguna)- lack of purity or Sadguna. The practice of meditation is the journey of leaving the durguna and developing the Sadguna which eventually develop a natural state of peace.

Aatam gyaan mayukh ko, antar mukh dridha shaant| Yukti yog abhyaas hai, uday kala nij kant|| Swarveda 05/06/24
Purport: When the consciousness of soul turns inward, it naturally establishes sense of peace and with the controlled flow of consciousness; soul aims for the union with god- the abode of ultimate peace with the practice of Vihangam Yoga. Ever wondered why a blessed human life is full of sorrows?

Manav uttam deh ko, paa kar lakshay na jaan | Heen mukhy udeshya se, so dukh jeevan maan ||

Purport: Even after being blessed with human birth and being superior to all living creatures on this planet we have not yet understood the prime motive of the life. Swarveda says life devoid of ultimate aim is meaningless and sorrowful. || Jai Sadgurudeo ||

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