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<div align="center">Divya Jivan Newsletter<br>
Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad<br>
February 2015<br>
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OM Namo Bhagawate Sivanandaya!<br>
OM Namo Bhagawate Chidanandaya!<br>
OM Namo Narayanaya!<br>
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Worship of Lord Shiva on auspicious Mahashivratri (Feb 17,
2010) <br>
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src="http://divyajivan.org/Monthly_NL/sivananda.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true" align="left" height="184"
width="145">"The formal worship consists of bathing the
Lord. Lord Shiva is considered to be the Form of Light
(which the Shiva Lingam represents). He is burning with the
fire of austerity. He is therefore best propitiated with
cool bathing. While bathing the Lingam the devotee prays: “O
Lord! I will bathe Thee with water, milk, etc. Do Thou
kindly bathe me with the milk of wisdom. Do Thou kindly wash
me of all my sins, so that the fire of worldliness which is
scorching me may be put out once for all, so that I may be
one with Thee—the One alone without a second.”
<p>Offer this inner worship to Lord Shiva daily: “I worship
the jewel of my Self, the Shiva residing in the Lotus of
my heart. I bathe Him with the water of my pure mind
brought from the river of faith and devotion. I worship
Him with the fragrant flowers of Samadhi—all this so that
I may not be born again in this world.” -Swami Sivananda <a
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Chidananda Darshan - through Life incidence of Guru Maharaj
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<a
href="http://divyajivan.org/Centenary%20celebration%20of%20GuruMaharaj/program%20schedule_DJSS.pdf">Birth
Centenary Celebration of Guru Bhagawan Sri Swami
Chidanandaji Maharaj at Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad. </a><br>
"Be a part of Celebrations and Be benefited "<br>
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<img alt=""
src="http://divyajivan.org/Monthly_NL/chidananda.jpg"
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width="150"><b><small>E</small></b><b>ver Ready To Serve
The Master</b><br>
Induben Bhatt and Mahesh Bhatt of D.L.S. Bhavnagar once
arranged a puppet show during a night Satsang at the holy
Samadhi Shrine of Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.
With all enthusiasm they staged a show of life story of Sri
Gurudev. Here they showed SriGurudev starting a charitable
dispensary near Laxman Jhula and that he needed one servant
to help the dispensary work. So puppet of Sri Swami
Sivanandaji brought a signboard for publicity of the
dispensary as well as to announce his requirement of one
servant.<br>
The moment the puppeteer announced -'Servant wanted', at
once from the audience Swamiji Maharaj rushed to the puppet
of Sivananda offering himself to become the first servant of
the Master.<br>
Though Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj was in the form
of a puppet, Sri Chidanandaji Maharaj sees GURUDEV himself
in it and offers himself as a servant. Swamiji beholds
Gurudev at all times, in all conditions, at any place, in
any situation.<br>
What a total surrender to the Master !!!<br>
<br>
<i><b>Santa-Samagam</b></i><i> </i><br>
With all his busy schedule round the year, the itinerary
extending to distant parts of the globe, Swamiji yet
succeeds in wrenching himself free every now and then to be
in the company of some saint or other. That is the
atmosphere he longs for; at the mental plane that is the
world which perhaps he continually inhabits. Nimkaroli Baba,
a wonder mystic of North India, a Hanuman Siddha, was one
such saint for whom Swamiji had very high<br>
regard. Swamiji knelt down beside the cot and humbly offered
his homage to the Baba and after sometime sang a few Bhajans
and Stotras in praise of Lord Hanuman. At the close of
Swamiji's Kirtan the usually reticent and severe-looking
Baba instructed all his disciples to bow down at the feet of
Swamiji and declared that if they did not do so, they would
miss a unique opportunity of prostrating before an illumined
sage of high order. <br>
In his inimitable way, Swamiji said that if a person held a
flower for a considerable length of time it was natural that
the fragrance could be smelt on the palms. Therefore, it was
no wonder if the fragrance of Gurudev's virtues was
sometimes wafted through him because of his fortunate
protracted contact.<br>
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Yoga Learning from a book "Yoga, A way of life" by Sri Swami
Adhyatmananda<br>
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src="http://divyajivan.org/Monthly_NL/Adhyat-6.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true" align="left" height="156"
width="178">Surya Namaskara or Sun Salutation ("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.
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The physical base of the practice links together twelve
asanas in a dynamically performed series. These asanas are
ordered so that they alternately stretch the spine backwards
and forwards. When performed in the usual way, each asana is
moved into with alternate inhalation and exhalation (except
for the sixth asana where the breath is held in external
suspension). A full round of Surya namaskara 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
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/Yoga_Book/Sun_salutation.pdf"><<
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href="http://divyajivan.org/video_clips/yogasana_%20posture.htm">Yogasana
Postures</a> ( video Clip )<br>
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Highlighting News & upcoming Events<br>
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The New Year 2015 began with a spirit of joy and enthusiasm
for planning<a
href="http://divyajivan.org/Centenary%20celebration%20of%20GuruMaharaj/program%20schedule_DJSS.pdf">
Birth Centenary Celebration of Guru Bhagawan Sri Swami
Chidanandaji Maharaj </a>at Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad.
Ashram's working committee members have planned various
satsang, seva projects & other Divine activities during
centenary year from Sept 24, 2015 to Sept 24, 2016 for
general benefits and spiritual uplifting under the guidance
& leadership of Revered Sri Swami Adhyatmanandaji
Maharaj, President of the ashram. And, it has started from
this very month only. On Jan 24, 2015 vasant panchami day
ground breaking ceremony (<i>Bhoomi Pujan</i>) was performed
on proposed spot for the construction of "Sri Swami
Chidananda Centenary Memorial Yoga Bhavan" at north-east
corner of the ashram.<a
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><a
href="http://divyajivan.org/upcoming_events.htm">Mahashivratri
Utsav ( Feb 17, 2015</a><b>)</b> - Continuous twenty
four hours Worship services at Lord Vishvanath Temple.<br>
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<a
href="http://divyajivan.org/News%202015/news_Jan%202015.htm">News
& Activity Report for the month of January 2015</a><br>
<a href="http://divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/index.htm">Divya
Jivan</a> / <a
href="http://divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/DJ_Jan2015/DivyaJivan_Jan15.pdf">January
2015 </a><br>
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Gitamrutam <br>
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rgb(255, 255, 204);">To those men who worship Me alone,
thinking of no other, of those ever united, I secure what
is not already possessed and preserve what they already
possess.(9:22)<br>
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Fix thy mind on Me; be devoted to Me; sacrifice unto Me;
bow down to Me; having thus united thy whole self with Me,
taking Me as the Supreme Goal, thou shalt verily come unto
Me.( 9:34)<br>
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Fix thy mind on Me only, thy intellect in Me, (then) thou
shait no doubt live in Me alone hereafter.(12:8)<br>
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Abandoning all duties, take refuge in Me alone; I will
liberate thee from all sins; grieve not.(18:66)<br>
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