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Divya Jivan Newsletter
Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad October 2016 ==================================== OM Namo Bhagawate Sivanandaya! OM Namo Bhagawate Chidanandaya! OM Namo Narayanaya! ================================================================== Deepavali - A festival of Light Joy & Illumination ( Oct 28, 2016 - Oct 31, 2016)  "Celebrate
the real Deepavali by living in Brahman, and enjoy the eternal bliss
of the soul. He who Himself sees all but whom no one beholds, who
illumines the intellect, the sun, the moon and the stars and the
whole universe but whom they cannot illumine, He indeed is Brahman,
He is the inner Self.The Sun does not shine there, nor do the moon and the stars, nor do lightnings shine and much less fire. All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of the inner light of the Self. Merge yourself in this light of lights and enjoy the supreme Deepavali ". "May you all attain full inner illumination! May the supreme light of lights enlighten your understanding! May you all attain the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the Self! May you all prosper gloriously on the material as well as spiritual planes!" - Swami Sivananda << More>> ================================================================== Early Morning Meditation Talks from Ponder These Truths by Sri Swami Chidananda
Deepavali Greetings & Jnana-Prasad from H. H. Sri Swami
Adhyatmanandaji Maharaj
================================================================== 38 th YTTC (Dec 11, 2016 - Dec 30, 2016) : YTTC at
Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad is organized under the guidance &
leadership of H. H. Sri Swami Adhyartmanandaji Maharaj, who has
conducted over 770 Yoga camps in the East & the West. Ashram's holy
atmosphere is ideal for enhancing your spiritual growth as well as
the skill in the science of Yoga. Contact the ashram for further
details - sivananda_ashram@yahoo.com / Registration form. On
completion of three weeks residential YTTC and successfully passing
the test including theory and practical, the graduate will receive a
diploma certificate recognized by Gujarat University. =================================================================
Yoga is restraining the mind stuff (chitta) from taking various
forms (vritti) Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning
attachment and balanced in success and failure! Evenness of mind is
called Yoga (2:48)
Gurudevarpanmastu!
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"This
Moment" : True life is made up of “now.” True life is not made up of
bygone yesterdays or uncertain tomorrows. What we have is like a
lump of clay in a sculptor’s hands or a piece of gold in a
goldsmith’s shop. We can create out of it what we will. At this
moment, what are we doing with the time we have? Are we thinking of
something else? Are we forming opinions of people who are sitting
beside us or of the person speaking to us? Or, are we engaged in
making our life sublime, enriching ourselves, uplifting ourselves,
drawing nearer to the Divine, and awakening within, unfolding
ourselves, shining with the awakened light? What are we engaged in
doing in this moment?
The
hymn was written in the 5th century BC by Adi Sankara, a revered
Hindu philosopher and theologian. Sankara took Sanyasa
(renunciation) at the age of eight. One day, as a young boy, he was
begging for alms to prepare his lunch and he went to the house of a
very poor Brahmin lady to beg. The lady was upset because there was
nothing edible in the house. After searching the house once again
she found one amla(Amalak, gooseberry) fruit. She hesitantly offered
it to Sankara. He was moved after seeing the plight of the woman and
sang 21 hymns praising Goddess Lakshmi. The Goddess was so pleased
that she appeared before him and asked him why he has remembered
her. He asked the Goddess to grant riches to the poor woman. The
Goddess first refused to do so because the lady had not done any
work for charity in her previous birth and it is not possible to
change one's fate. Sankara told the Goddess that she is the only one
who is capable of changing the fate of someone by erasing or
changing the writings of the future made by Lord Brahma. The Goddess
was so pleased that she instantly showered the Brahmin lady's house
with goose berries made of pure gold...........
