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<div align="center">September 2007<br>
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<h1><font color="#cc6600">Divya Jivan Newsletter</font></h1>
<address><b><big><font color="#cc6600">September - 2007 </font></big></b>
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<td bgcolor="#000099" valign="top"><b><font color="#ffffff">Glories
of the Lord
Sri Krishna on auspicious Janmashtami Festival ( Sept 4, 2007) </font></b></td>
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<p><img alt="" src="cid:part2.09080002.02060605@divyajivan.org"
align="right" height="173" width="183">...."Sri Krishna is not merely
a historical man who came and
went, like
others, but the Eternal Purusha who dwells even now and shall live in
the
everlasting future, in the core of all manifestation. It is the Symbol
of the
Absolute descended into relativity that we call <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>,
the ever-beloved protector of all that breathe and air."....<br>
..."Sri Krishna came to reorganise and reconstruct the society
of
beings on the basis of Dharma. Dharma is the manner by which one
directly or
indirectly abides and lives in conscience with the Law of the Universal
Whole."..... "Mankind forgot the Law, groped in darkness, committed
blunders and managed to disturb the equilibrium and harmony of the
Universe.
There was a reaction from the Whole, to bring back the universe to its
essential and natural equilibrium, and the result is Sri Krishna. So
Sri
Krishna is called an Avatara, a descent of God in the world, of the
Whole in
the parts, of the Absolute in the relative."....... Swami Sivananda <a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/Janmasthami/index.htm"><<More>></a><o:p></o:p><br>
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<td bgcolor="#000099" valign="top"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Gurudev
Swami Sivananda -"The Man for the Mankind"<br>
120th Birth Anniversary of His Holiness. ( Sept 8, 2007)</b></font><br>
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<img alt="" src="cid:part3.05040100.08030108@divyajivan.org"
align="left" height="164" width="134">"Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji
Maharaj was the
Man for the Mankind. Each breath of his life he breathed to serve, love
and give
the best what he could give or the best he could do for the mankind. He
was a
Godman, filled with wonderful love in his heart. From head to toe he
was oozing with divine nectar of love, love and love only. He lived all
his life for the good of mankind and he became a person beloved by
countless people all over the world".........<a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/sivananda/index.htm"><<More>>
</a>Swami
Adhyatmananda<br>
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color="#ffffff"><big><small>Early Morning Meditation talks from"
Ponder These Truths" by Sri Swami Chidananda</small></big></font></small></big></small></big></small></big></font></small></big></font></small></big></small></big><font><big><small><font><big><small><font
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What Has to be Known?<img
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"....Two keynotes of <i>sadhana</i>—<i>abhyasa </i>and <i>vairagya</i>—have
been placed before us in the Gita by Lord Krishna. He said, "This is
the key to success." These twin factors can work
miracles for you; they can achieve for you what is seemingly
impossible. Fully dwell upon their significance and importance and try
to understand their implications.".... <br>
..."Integrated knowledge backed up by a high sense of ethical
consciousness, and this backed up by resolution and determination not
to fail but to succeed—all these things are components of the authentic
and genuine spiritual life, not an inferior or middling, but a superior
spiritual life".... Swami Chidananda<br>
<a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/ponder_these_truths/index.htm"><<More>></a><br>
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<td bgcolor="#000099" valign="top"><font color="#ffffff"><b>On
Health Topics from a book "Yoga & Health'' by Sri Swami
Adhyatmananda <br>
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<img alt="" src="cid:part5.07060209.06050907@divyajivan.org"
align="left" height="151" width="109"><a>What is Yoga? </a> <a>How
Yoga can be done ? </a> <br>
<a>Yoga: Advantages and Suggestions </a><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">What
is Yoga? The common meaning of the word Yoga is 'to join'. This word is
derived from the Sanskrit element 'Yuj'.....</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Yoga
means "maintaining balance" in eating, walking etc. That is why it is
said
that Yoga means balance in life style. </span><i><span>'Samatvam yoga
uchyate.' <br>
</span></i><span>In addition to this
Shree Krishna has given very beautiful and exact definition of Yoga: <i>'Yogah
karmasu kaushalam'. </i>That means Yoga is one where work is done with
dexterity. What is this dexterity in Karma? It means whatever you do,
the job
should be exact, it should not be soft-padded or like a loosely filled
bag:
whatever you do, do it well, properly organized. <br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Maharsi Patanjali defines
Yoga as
control of the leanings of the mind. </span><i><span>'Yogaschitta
vrittinirodhah.' </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
This is the highest aspect of Yoga </span>..........Swami
Adhyatmananda <a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/yoga&health/"><<
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of the upcoming events at Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad</font></b><br>
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<div align="left">Concluding
of Holy
Shravan
Month Celebration (Aug 13, 2007-
Set 9, 2007 )<br>
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<li><b>Jana Yajana on "Maha Shivapurana" during Holy Shravana
Month (Aug 13, 2007 – Aug 9, 2007)</b> <b>- </b>Ashram is like a <i>Yatra
Dham</i> during sacred
Shravana month. Hundreds of devotees came and offered to the Lord
Vishwanath a special pooja, Rudrabhishek, Rudripath, Prathiveshwar
Pooja, Prahar Pooja through out the holy month of Shravan. Lakhs
of sacred Bilva Patras were offered to the Lord.
Daily discourse on Maha Shivapurana by H. H. Sri Swami
Adhyatmanandaji Maharaj was a special treat for the devotees. Holy
Shiva
Purana sings the glory of Lord Shiva and His Worship. On
Shravani Amavashya (Sept 13, 2007), it will be concluding with a Grand
"Homatmak Lagurudra" and Mahaprasad. Join us in this auspicious Yajna
worship. <br>
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<a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/misc/yttc_dec07.htm"
target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Upcoming
Yoga Teachers Training Course (YTTC) Dec 11, 2007 - Dec 30,
2007</a>. Enhance your skill in Yoga, be a teacher and spread the
knowledge to
others. You can accomplish all that by systemically learning from a
Master. Join YTTC at Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad. Please download the
registration form. <br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/News/Newsletters/aug07_news.htm">Visit
to Jaipur with H. E. Governor of Gujarat Pandit Nawal Kishor Sharmaji </a><br>
<br>
<a
href="http://picasaweb.google.com/divya.tour2006/NewsletterSemptember2007/photo?authkey=abr6fzuLJrk#s5104328460452027186">August
2007 News in Slide Show</a><br>
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<p>Several children were playing on the village street, building
houses and acting the
part of families etc. One child got annoyed with another and in a fit
of anger kicked the
house built by the latter. The two began to quarrel over this. "You
have destroyed my
house; how dare you?" etc. etc. A young man who was watching all this
began to laugh
at the children's foolishness in quarrelling over the imaginary
"houses" made of
a handful of mud which were in any case to be destroyed after the play
came to an end. An
elderly man, however, remarked: "Friend, when you were a young boy,
You, too,
quarreled like that. Now that you have grown old, you no more take
interest in these
things. You have acquired the sense of proper valuation of things.
Come. let us by all
means pacify the children; but you should not laugh at their
behaviour." </p>
<p>Similarly, in the world people quarrel over the petty things.
They build houses of
brick and mud; and quarrel over their possession. This earth itself is
just a mud-pile
whirling in infinite space. It is created for the time being so that
the Jivas might carry
on His play. When this play is over, it will be dissolved. Then man
with a worldly wisdom
laughs at others who quarrel over the objects of the senses. But the
sage reminds him
that, before gaining the knowledge of the impermanence of the objects,
he, too, was
behaving like the worldly men. With genuine love and sympathy, he makes
people live in
peace and gradually enlightens them about the real nature of the
mundane objects and the
Peace and the Bliss that can be had in the Self. </p>
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Soul<br>
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<b>Prayer<br>
</b>"Pray even once from the bottom of your heart. Have a meek,
receptive
attitude of mind. Cultivate intense feeling in your heart. The prayer
is at once heard and responded. Do this in the daily battle of life and
realise for yourself the high efficacy of prayer. You must have strong
conviction in the existence of God."<br>
-Swami Sivananda <br>
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the
soul. It is daily
admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart."<br>
-Mahatma Gandhi <br>
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"This is the highest form of prayer - prayer not for gaining anything
in this world created by Him, but for gaining only the most coveted of
all things, Yoga - a constant inner communion and link with Him"<br>
This is true prayer.<br>
-Swami Chidananda
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