9/23/14

Navratri Anushtana

Navratri

Meditate on "Newness" (Nava) in the "Dark Nights" (Ratri)


Navaratri is a festivity of nine (Nava) nights when the Divine vibrations of Great Mother – Lalitha is in the highest sensitivity filled with compassion to grace every soul to embark upon the spiritual journey during these nine days.

Most of the time the whole life looks bleak filled with despair, confusion, conflict and occasionally rare moments of joy. Such a mechanised, dull and burdensome life lacks purpose. We have to break this cycle of monotonous  un-rhythmic days and nights and create space within for the transformation to happen.

Divine Mother Lalitha the brightest charming light, the treasure of knowledge, the essence of absolute freedom, the grace of prosperity, harmony and enthusiasm is the centre which is “New”, “Fresh” and “Ever expanding filled with joy”. This eternal sacred centre should be our hope, refuge and guide in the dark nights of our journey.

Let us invoke the benevolent grace of Newness - Lalitha filled with grace, rhythm and wisdom. Let us connect with that centre - Lalitha firmly by doing Navaratri Anushtana. (Sep 24th - Oct 3rd)

May you and your family be blessed by Divine Mother.

With yogic fragrance

Pattabhi & Jyothi


Practice Sequence:

1. Assume a comfortable posture. Keep the body still till the end of the practice. 

2. Relax the body completely.

3. Focus on Sushumna for 3 minutes. 

4. Come to Guru Chakra. Feel the presence of Bhole Baba (Swami Rama). Meditate there with the special mantra (8 times) 

“OM HREEM GURUDEVAAYA NAMAHA” 

Seek the blessings of Bhole Baba. 


5. Come to Anahada Chakra (Heart). Feel the presence of Divine Mother in her blissful, graceful and benevolent form. 

6. Meditating on The Mother, Chant a minimum of 108 times everyday.:

"Om Aim Hreem Shreem Lalitha Maha Tripurasundaryai Namaha " 

(ओम एम ह्रीं श्रीम ललिता महात्रिपुरसुन्दर्यै नमः ) 

7. Chant with intent feeling that Divine Mother is present and remember the meaning and the message above.

8. After completing japa, come out of meditation by chanting the prayer:

OM SARVE BHAVANTHU SUKHINAHA 

SARVE SANTHU NIRAAMAYAAHA 

SARVE BHADRAANI PASHYANTHU 

MAA KASHCHIT DUKHA BHAAG BHAVETH 

LOKAA SAMASTHAA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU 

LOKAA SAMASTHAA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU 

SAMASTHA SAN MANGALAANI BHAVANTHU 

OM TAT SAT

9/5/14

SUNSAT with Guruji

Dear All:

SUNSAT 12 was conducted by Guruji himself on August 17, 2014 at Prof.Iyerji's residence. Guruji emphasized mainly on Saakshi Bhaava i.e., whatever is happening to you and through you is not YOU. Meaning, the processes are happening but you are not the process. What we have to do is to just detach ourselves from the process and look at the process.

Satsang with Guruji Pattabhiram 

Satsang with Guruji Pattabhiram

Full audio of Guruji's discourse can be downloaded from here:

SUNSAT 13 went on as usual. We wanted to play Gurudev's audio and follow the instructions. But since the audio was not available on time for the SATSANG we continued with the old format.

SUNSAT 14: We could get the audio of Gurudev and we played it and followed the instructions. Gurudev suggested us to do Sumeru Dhyana till November, 2014. Accordingly we prepared an audio file of Gurudev's Sumeru Dhyana programme. It is about 50 minutes and the remaining 10 minutes we chanted Hanuman Chalisa and dispersed. We will stick to this format till November, as suggested by Gurudev.

The group felt happy as we were all guided by the voice of Gurudev for 50 minutes. 

N. Narayanan, Delhi
Vande Guru Paramparam

Vande Guruparamparam

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