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<div align="center"><font face="Arial Narrow"><font
face="Arial">Divya Jivan Newsletter<br>
Sivananda Ashram , Ahmedabad<br>
February 2013 </font><br>
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face="Arial">OM Namo Narayanaya! <br>
OM Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!<br>
OM Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya! </font><br>
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<p><font face="Arial Narrow"><b><img alt=""
src="cid:part1.06050208.08030107@divyajivan.org"
height="163" width="126" align="left">"Serve
Humanity And Seek Divinity "</b><br>
"Life is Sadhana. Living is spiritual process. All
actions—mental, verbal and physical—constitute
Yajna. Yajna or self-giving is the fundamental
principle and <i>PAROPAKARA</i> (doing good to
others) is the Mulamantra (the basic sacred formula)
of this life."</font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial Narrow">"Live with understanding
and wisdom. Understand the meaning and purpose of
life. Understand your real nature and why you are
here. Here on earth you are but a passing traveler.
Here all things are temporary. All things pass.
Therefore seek the eternal. Your real nature is not
earthly. It is <i>spiritual </i>and <i>deathless.
</i>To realise your Reality, your eternal identity
is the purpose of your life. While you strive
diligently for this inner experience cultivate Ideal
Relationship with the world around you. To all
beings relate yourself with nobility, sympathy,
kindness, love, selflessness and the desire to serve
all. - Swami Sivananda<a
href="http://divyajivan.org/sivananda/index.htm">
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<font face="Arial Narrow"><b>Early Meditation Talk from
"Ponder These Truths by Sri Swami Chidananda</b><br>
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src="cid:part3.09020704.06090908@divyajivan.org"
height="162" width="139" align="left">"Spiritual
Life"<br>
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<p><font face="Arial Narrow">"Spiritual life means
growing in godliness. Sadhana in its various forms
such as japa, kirtan, puja, svadhyaya, asana,
pranayama and meditation is a process of purifying
and transforming your normal human nature into godly
divine nature. And to ensure that your outer life of
day-to-day living—speaking, acting, interacting with
others and all life around you—to ensure that it
supports your inner sadhana, you are admonished by
Gurudev to transform your present outer life into a
divine process, a divine life, not the life that you
have been leading in the past, but a divine life.
You have to make your life a divine life by bringing
into it ingredients and qualities that belong to
God, incorporating into it divinity, godliness,
qualities that we do not normally associate with
man, that we do not normally associate with this
world, this earth plane." - Swami Chidananda<a
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<font face="Arial Narrow"><b>Yoga Learning from a book
"Yoga, A way of life" by Sri Swami Adhyatmananda</b><b><br>
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<img alt=""
src="cid:part5.09080102.06050205@divyajivan.org"
height="167" width="106" align="left"><b>Surya
Namaskara</b> or <b>Sun Salutation</b> ("salute to
the sun"), is a common sequence of Hatha Yoga asanas.
Its origins lie in a worship of Surya, the Hindu Solar
deity. This sequence of movements and poses can be
practised on varying levels of awareness, ranging from
that of physical exercise in various styles, to a
complete sadhana, which incorporates asana, pranayama,
mantra and chakra meditation.</font>
<p><font face="Arial Narrow">The physical base of the
practice links together twelve <i>asanas</i> in a
dynamically performed series. These <i>asanas</i>
are ordered so that they alternately stretch the
spine backwards and forwards. When performed in the
usual way, each <i>asana</i> is moved into with
alternate inhalation and exhalation (except for the
sixth <i>asana</i> where the breath is held in
external suspension). A full round of <i>Surya
namaskara</i> is considered to be two sets of the
twelve poses with a change in the second set to
moving the opposite leg first through the series.<a
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href="http://divyajivan.org/video_clips/yogasana_%20posture.htm">Yogasana
Postures</a> ( video Clip )</p>
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<p align="left"><font size="4"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <small><font
face="Arial Narrow"><small>Divya Jivan
Sanskrutik Sangh has established a special
publishing division named <i> "Sivananda
Jnana Yajna Nidhi"</i> to facilitate
spiritual publications. Holy Master Sri
Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj has written a
wealth of literature for the upliftment of
mankind, and additionally, there is so much
knowledge to be gained from his disciples
and organizations the world over. <i>The
Sivananda Jnana Yajna Nidhi </i>has been
doing absolutely wonderful job to bring bulk
of the literature in local Gujarati
language. It has received grace &
blessings of Gurumaharaj Sri Swami
Chidanandaji Maharaj.</small><br>
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size="4"><small><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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Jivan"</a><small> </small></b><small>is a
monthly magazine in Gujarati language from
the Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad, that has
been published regularly for the past forty
five years and running. Apart from bringing
out various articles of great spiritual
imports from various saints of the present
and past regardless of their affiliations to
organizations, it has also served well to
communicate with spiritual aspirants all
over. Subscribe to this magazine and be
benefited.</small></span></small></font><small><font
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<p align="left"><a
href="http://divyajivan.org/News2013/News_jan2013.htm">News
& Activity Report for the Month of January 2013</a><br>
<a href="http://divyajivan.org/video_clips/index.htm">Divya
Darshan of the Lord</a> (video clip)<br>
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<font face="Arial Narrow"><b>GitaMrutam</b> <br>
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Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the evil
of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, their
desires having completely turned away, freed from the
pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the
undeluded reach the eternal goal. (15 : 5) <br>
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He who is ever happy within, who rejoices within, who
is illumined within, such a Yogi attains absolute
freedom or Moksha, himself becoming Brahman. (5:24)</font><br>
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src="cid:part17.01040409.03080601@divyajivan.org"
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<font face="Arial Narrow">The sages obtain absolute
freedom or Moksha—they whose sins have been destroyed,
whose dualities (perception of dualities or experience
of the pairs of opposites) are torn asunder, who are
self-controlled, and intent on the welfare of all
beings.(5:25)<br>
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The man attains peace, who, abandoning all desires,
moves about without longing, without the sense of mine
and without egoism.(2:71)</font><font face="Arial
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<font face="Arial Narrow">This is the Brahmic seat
(eternal state), O son of Pritha! Attaining to this,
none is deluded. Being established therein, even at
the end of life one attains to oneness with
Brahman.(2:72)<br>
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