[Sivananda] Divya Jivan Newsletter, December 2017

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Divya Jivan Newsletter
Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad
December 2017
OM Namo Bhagawate Sivanandaya! ====================================
OM Namo Bhagawate Chidanandaya!
OM Namo Narayanaya!
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Christmas- Its Spiritual Significance -by Swami Sivananda

"Beloved seekers, usher in now the real and spiritual Christmas within 
your being, become desireless. Conquer egoism. Become embodiments of 
true humility. Develop meekness and lowliness of spirit by humble 
surrender unto the Lord.

Be courageous to overcome all obstacles. Joyously renounce mammon. 
Welcome the descent of the Light of Grace within. Rejoice in the advent 
of the Divine. Thus celebrate the Christmas that ultimately leads you on 
the glorious climax of Transfiguration, Resurrection and Ascension. Be 
crowned with Divine glory. Attain immortality, perfect freedom and be 
for ever steeped in infinite bliss. Through Christmas realise the 
Christ-consciousness and the radiant light of Atmic (divine) Wisdom. 
Amen."- Swami Sivananada" <<More>> 
<http://divyajivan.org/sivananda/index.htm>

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Early Morning Meditation Talk from " Ponder These truths" by Swami 
Chidananda

"Spiritual Life"
"Blessed Immortal Atman! Spiritual life is an earnest endeavor to 
transcend sense-perceived, temporary appearances, unrealities, and 
attain to a vision and an experience of the super sensuous Divine 
Reality. It is an attempt to transcend changeful and passing sense 
appearances and to rise up and become established in the Reality that is 
ever-present amidst these ever-changing, temporary appearances as their 
very source, their support and their substratum."

"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 <<<More>>>
<http://divyajivan.org/ponder_these_truths/index.htm>
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Learning of "Jeevan Yog" <http://divyajivan.org/Jeevan%20Yoga/Index.htm> 
from a Yoga Acharya Swami Adhyatmananda
Through TV episodes of "Jeevan Yoga" Series by Doordarshan Girnar

Prana - "The true meaning of Prana is not only breath. The Prana is 
energy. It is universal power, brightness, light and intelligence. All 
these cosmic energies are named as Prana."Yatkinchit Jagat Sarvam 
Drishyate Shruyatepiva..This Prana is filled in all that we see and 
hear, the inside and outside of all things, all movement etc. in this 
world.

The Prana is the source of all capabilities and the power in the 
universe. Prana is the only power behind the normal functioning of the 
system of respiration (inhalation and exhalation), blood circulation, 
digestion, excretion of urine and stool, system producing semen, 
structure of our bones and also the nervous system.The working abilities 
of sensory organs and motor organs improve as each cell gets extra 
nutrition. The secret of beauty of skin, shining of the face, brightness 
of the eyes, intelligence power and development of mental power is the 
result of the practice of Pranayama. The practice of Pranayama means 
oneness with cosmic energy. Pranayama Sadhana opens the doors of subtle 
life from the gross life "- Swami Adhyatmananda. << Read More>> 
<http://www.divyajivan.org/Yoga_Book/chapter_3_Prana.pdf>  / Jeevan Yoga 
Episode <http://divyajivan.org/Jeevan%20Yoga/Index.htm>

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Highlighting the news and upcoming events

39th YTTC (Dec 11, 2017 -  Dec 30, 2017) : 
<http://divyajivan.org/misc/index.htm>  You can still enroll.
A comprehensive 20 days residential Yoga Teachers Training Course for 
training of Yoga teachers has been conducted twice a year since the last 
two decades at Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad. It is designed by  H.H.Sri 
Swami Adhyatmanandaji Maharaj. 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. These programs are attended by yoga aspirants from across 
the globe. Sri Swamiji has trained more than 1000 yoga teachers. These 
teachers render both preventive and curative aspects of yoga teaching 
for well-being of body and mind around the world and are instrumental in 
spreading ancient Indian Culture and rich heritage. << Reg Form &  more 
info >> <http://divyajivan.org/misc/index.htm>  Please refer to our 
guest information page <http://www.divyajivan.org/GuestInfo/index.htm> 
for stay, travel details and more.

News & Activity Report for the Month of November 2017 
<http://divyajivan.org/News%202017/News%20_%20November2017.htm>

News through Event photos <https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zulj0gvDe1GkuVhn2>

Divya Jivan <http://divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/index.htm>  /November 2017
<http://divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/DJ_November2017/DJ_Nov2017.pdf>
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Q & A on Spiritual Life and Sadhana from “May I Answer That?”- by Holy 
Master Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

Why does not the benevolent, kind and all-merciful God help the 
righteous man and give him happiness? Why does He leave him to the 
mercies of his Purva Karma?
Karma is likened to the wheel. It has to work out; because the force 
that set it in motion has to be spent. It is a cycle of action and 
reaction. Just as the arrow once discharged from the bow cannot be 
withdrawn, even if the hunter feels that he has aimed at a wrong target, 
Prarabdha Karma, the fruit of those Karmas performed in previous births 
that have come up for experience in this present birth, cannot be annulled.

How then does God help His devotee? The all-merciful God does help His 
devotee by strengthening his will-power, his power of endurance, to bear 
the Karma-Phala with a cheerful countenance. The devotee is certainly 
not left to the mercy of his Purva Karma; he is beautifully clothed in 
the protective shield of His grace. Just as in the worst winter and 
violent storm, you remain unaffected in your own house and in your warm 
clothing, the devotee (though to the onlookers he is poor, sick or 
suffering) does not feel that he is suffering at all and is ever happy 
and blissful in His remembrance.

Teachings of Lord Sri Dattatreya 
<http://divyajivan.org/dattatreya/index.htm>
  Dattatreya Jayanti (December 3, 2017)

Gurudevarpanmastu!
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