Gayathri Mantra Samarpana

Gayathri Mantra Samarpana

Dear All:

Guruji always used to tell me that Guru Mantra and Gayathri Mantra are the foundation in Himalayan Tradition.

After Guruji's demise, it occurred to me that we all start right away chanting one mala (108 times) Gayathri mantra every day and offer it to Guruji as Samarpana during the forthcoming Summer Camp (15th May -21st May 2016)

It is not yet finalised on what day during the camp we will be doing the Samarpana and how (in the form of a homa or otherwise). We will let you know. Those who cannot make it to the camp, they also can take up this Purashcharana and offer it as Samarpana from their respective places.

I shall be grateful if you can kindly respond with your confirmation on this. Your cooperation and understanding will be highly appreciated.

Guru be with you all and guide.

Om Shreem Gurudevaaya Namaha !

Practice:

1.  Sit in a comfortable position by keeping the back, neck and head along the same line.

2.  Do 3 rounds of Naadi Shodana Pranayama (Anulom Vilom).

3.  Focus on Guru Chakra (just above Eyebrow Centre) and chant

     Hiranyagarbhaa Dhaarabdhaam

     Seshou Vyaasaadhi Madhyamaam

     Swami Shree Rama Paadhaanthaam

     Vandhe Guru Paramparaam

     Vandhe Guru Paramparaam

     Vandhe Guru Paramparaam

4.  Focus your attention on Heart Chakra.

5.  Remember the Rishi, Devatha and Chandas

     Om Vishvaamitra Rishi hi

     Savithaa Dhevataa

     Dhevi Gayathri Chhanda ha

     Dhebhyo Namaa mo vayam

6.  Chant 108 Gayathri Mantra staying in Heart Chakra

7.  After completion of 108 Gayathri, chant

     Namasthe Dhevi Gaayathri

     Saavithri Tripadaaksha rey

     A-jarey A-marey Maatha ha

     Traahimaam Bhava Saagaraath

     Traahimaam Bhava Saagaraath

     Traahimaam Bhava Saagaraath

8.  Then chant Gayathri Seersha

      Om Aapo Jyothi Raso Amrutham Brahma Bhoor Bhuvas Swarom (9 times)

9.  Chant Shanti Mantra and come out

Om Sarve Bhavanthu Sukhina ha

Sarve Santhu Niraamayaa ha

Sarve Badraani Pashyanthuu

Maa Kaschith Dhukka Bhaag Bhaveth

Lokaa Samasthaa Sukhino Bhavanthu

Lokaa Samasthaa Sukhino Bhavanthu

Samastha San Mangalaani Bhavanthu

Om Tat Sat

Om Sahanaa Vavathu

Sahanau Bhunakthu

Saha Veeryam Karavaa Vahai

Tejas Vinaa Vadheetha masthu

Maa Vid Dvishaa Vahai

Om Shaanti Shaanti Shaanti hi

Om Poornamadhaf Poornamidham

Poornaath Poorna Mudachyate

Poornasya Poorna Maataaya

Poorna Mewaa Vashishyate

Om Shaanti Shaanti Shaanti hi

Note: As requested earlier, sadhaka's who are joining the Summer Camp are requested to register themselves Online without fail at http://www.sadhanasangama.org/campreg.php . If done already, you may please ignore this.

-Thank you-

N. Narayanan

SST Summer Camp Coordinator

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SST Summer Camp & Guruji Audio Clip

Guruji during Summer Camp

Dear All,

In continuation to our earlier communication on SST Residential Summer Camp from 15th May to 21st May, you may have probably missed our request to register yourself on the link provided confirming your participation for the Camp. Hence this mail is a gentle reminder for your utmost cooperation and support to do so.

Friends, during one of the occasion, Guruji asked me to take up the responsibility of streamlining the camp activities in a phased manner and the beginning is Online Registration. Unless you all cooperate, this particular task is difficult. Therefore, I seek your cooperation by voluntarily registering yourself at the link below and help me to carry on with the task assigned to me by Guruji. Filling the basic info provided on the link would also help the Ashram Administration to facilitate the basic requirements to the participants without any hassles.

Registration link -> http://www.sadhanasangama.org/campreg.php

I will really appreciate your cooperation and understanding in this matter.  Thanks

Important Update: I recently got the opportunity to listen to one of Guruji's audio clip which is worth sharing with you all for the important message it contains. Listen to the Audio and happily fill up the online registration form :) 

Audio Below:

  

Jai Gurudev!

V.S. Murlidher

Coordinator

Guruji Pattabhiram left his physical body

Guruji Pattabhiram

Our Beloved Guruji Pattabhiram, has left his physical body on 16 March 2016. Guruji cremation were carried out at his Ashram, Sadhana Dhama on 17th March 2016.

Remebering Swami Veda Bharti's message at this time for all of us to remember....

What is the ultimate in spirituality? – That when you have learned to liberate yourself, you seek to continue to use body after body for the benefit of others, for the elevation of others, for the enlightenment of others. To pull those out of the well of darkness who are still lying there at the bottom and wailing and crying and thrashing in sorrows and frustrations. The Guru never abandons. The Guru never leaves us incomplete. Whether embodied or disembodied, he will continue to grant his grace.

May the Guru grace be shower on all of us and let us continue to March Ahead on the Path He has showed to us....Vande Guruparamparam....

Note: Summer camp will be held at the earlier announced date (15th May - 21st May) at Sadhana Dhama Ashram. All Sadhaka's are requested to come and attend with their family as we all now know there is someone dear is waiting for us... You may please register for the camp through http://www.sadhanasangama.org/memberreg.php if not done already.

Sadhana Sangama's Residential Summer Camp - 2016

Dear Sadhakas

Hope this email finds you in good health filled with grace.

As you might be preparing to travel soon for the summer camp in May at Sadhana Sangama Ashram, we wanted to share some exciting developments and seek your support. If you have not registered already, we encourage you to plan your trip asap and confirm your participation by visiting below link:

http://www.sadhanasangama.org/memberreg.php 

This year, we will be celebrating Guruji's Sashtiapthapurthi on May 18th as part of the camp. This event will be celebrated as per traditional vedic methods involving Guruji and Jyothima.

It is a great delight for all the Sadhakas who have been touched by Guruji and Jyothima and their selfless service towards our inner unfoldment, to be part of this event. We plan to organize in few ways to express our gratitude to Guruji and Jyothima for their contributions to us, to the society and being role models for all of us to follow their steps.

When each of us look back into the past few decades in our own lives, all of us who have come in touch with Himalayan parampara have had an irreversible transformational experience in life. We could probably go back in time and see those moments that pivoted us from our life style away from our ownself and put us on the path of Sadhana. We have seen our family blossom through the message of Harmony, removal of ego, hatred and conflicts, upliftment out of depressed state of mind establishing in joy and cheerfulness. 

We all have experienced a qualitative difference in our lives once we came in contact with Guruji and have been touched by his profound love and deep concern for our well being. It is our humble effort to compile some of those experiences of our Sadhana parivara and release a booklet at this event.

We humbly request you to share your personal experience with Guruji that made an impact in your lives. It would be good if you can mention specific experiences and how change in your personality happened putting you on path of Sadhana (or) any of his teachings that touched you in any way which inspired you in your personal life. You can prepare one page write up and share with us. Kindly include your name and place you live as well. At this moment, we also request you to share any photos you have with Guruji and Jyothima or photos taken during their programs in your area. Please note that this is to be used in preparing the booklet that shall be released in an informal way to the sadhakas during the camp. We are not planning to release a formal book at this time.

We request you to send this write up and photographs by March 31 by replying to this mail id. We would greatly appreciate if you send in your inputs as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us through email.

We look forward to seeing you at the camp and receiving your support in this effort prior to the event.

Love & light

Sadhana Sangama Trust

SST Summer Camp - 2016

Art of Contentment - 1

New Beginning

Hello Bansuri. How are you doing?

Hi Sankara! I am doing great. For the first time, I feel, I am in BLISS!

Oh is it? How come?

It is my true nature, isn’t it Sankara?

Bansuri, I know you for years! Now don’t fool around! How come you got to know your true nature?

Sankara! I am just trying to remember what our Guruji said that the true nature of our being is Atma Tripti, Atma Bhava and Atmananda. 

Good to know that there is some sort of change in you post attending Sadhana Sangama’s Winter Camp. So how was the camp Bansuri ?

It was marvelous.You surely missed that. I never felt being at home anywhere else than at Sadhana Dhama during the winter camp. 

Great! It’s sad to note that I could not make it, though I thought a lot about it to be there. 

Sankara, I think to attend such camps for a week, sometime it requires lot of efforts & hard decisions compared to going out on a picnic tour for a week effortlessly!

Oh Bansuri! Don’t be too critical, you never know what my situation was back in my family. 

Oh yes, you are right. I should not become too critical of others, just because I attended this camp. I too have my own share of missing camps earlier with some lame excuse. 

Bansuri, I do agree with you that we should make all efforts to be part of Sadhana Sangama camp, as it’s the only time we from different parts of the world come together and spend some quality time in Ashram, listening to Guruji & Amma’s lecture & meditation session, in addition to reflexing our muscles & breaths.. More importantly, get our Sankalpa strengthened & motivated to trend on spiritual path. But alas, sometimes you see… something or the other comes up and hold us from attending the camp. 

Don’t Worry sankara, I have Guruji’s session recorded audio files with me. Why not we together listen it for some time every week?

That’s a great idea Bansuri. Though nothing comes close to listening to Guruji live in front, nevertheless this audio recordings will surely help people like me who missed the camp. Thank you so much. 

Thank you so much Bansuri, I was looking for a New year Message from Guruji and I got it by listening to this clip. 

Sankara, do you mean to say Guruji gave us an advanced New Year Message during the camp ?

Yes Bansuri! Did you not get it ? The New Year message is:

With the grace of Guru Parampara, Let’s all be blessed with the beauty, grace and the joy of natural way of living like a child and get real strength of creative intelligence & patience to be in the state of ‘Now’. 

With that feeling, let’s spend this new year day Bansuri…. See you in next year…  Jai Gurudev.

Jai Gurudev!

- 'Bansuri'

Sadhana Vidyalaya Annual Day School Function - 2015

Sadhana Vidyalaya, a day school for rural children celebrated its 11th Annual Day School function on 23rd December 2015 (Wednesday) with great enthusiasm and vigor. 

Every child has a unique quality inside and Sadhana Vidyalaya goes that extra mile so as to bring out that hidden talent in them. Celebrating this school day function involving all the classes of Sadhana Vidyalaya right from L.KG. till Standard X was one such step. The students being from rural village, these stage performances really helped the children to remove stage fear and also bringing confidence in them. 

The vision of the school which is to revive the ancient educational model of Gurukula system, in which students and teachers stay together and establish a personal relationship outside the academic zone as well, was very much evident on the day as both the students as well as teachers united together for variety of songs and dance performances. 

The theme for the annual day function was ‘Folk’ and the teachers along with the choreographers and students worked very hard to put up a great show. The result was fruitful with scintillating & sparkling performance of the children from various classes. The parents were very excited and proud of their children for their performances during the function.  The function also had prize distribution for various students for their academic performance and teachers & support staff of Sadhana Vidyalaya were also honored during the function. 

Block Education Officer (BEO) of Chennapatna District, Mr. Mallikaarjun was the chief guest and spoke very high about Sadhana Vidyalaya and its founders Guruji Pattabhiram & Jyothi ji. In his speech during the prize distributions honoring various students, mentioned that Sadhana Vidyalaya with its unique Holistic Education System for the rural children is the best school in the district providing Modern Education blended with traditional culture, scenic environment & moral values. He also appreciated school administration in giving best facilities to the rural children inspite of various challenges in setting up such infrastructure in the rural village.

He also awarded the first SSLC Batch 2014-15 Sadhana Vidyalaya students who have all passed out in flying colors.

Jyothi ji in her vote of thanks shared her experience of meeting a former student of Sadhana Sangama Institution in a park while she was having her morning Walk at Minneapolis, US. She felt immense joy to know that the student is now working in a reputed company as a software engineer. During the course of their talk, the student had thanked his teachers & masters at Sadhana Sangama, for imparting him the culture & moral values along with the modern education because of which he felt he could be a good human being and add some value to the society he belongs. Jyothi Ji also remembered how Guruji Pattabhiram, taking Yoga & Samaj Seva as Mission of his life, unmindful of Engineer-Career has devoted his entire life with a vision to create happy, healthy harmonious society through family values and holistic living principles imparted right at the young budding age along with the much required Modern Education. She finally concluded by stating that every student who gets quality education at Sadhana Vidyalaya, should work towards that vision by becoming a good citizen with moral values and help the society to make it a better place to live. 

Guruji Pattabhiram who attended the entire function inspite of his health issues, gave a brief talk starting with thanking Block Education Officer Mr.Mallikaarjun for greeting the function. He later added that for any Educational institutions to run smoothly and achieve its vision & mission, it needs able support from the students, their parents & school teachers & support staff. In that way, he said, Sadhana Vidyalaya is highly blessed in receiving all three along with able assistance that is provided by the philanthropist continuously in running the school for the rural children. He appreciated the parents from rural village in encouraging their kids in sending them to school for Education. Guruji then mentioned how with able support from the parents & philanthropist, the school could develop over the years with excellent infrastructure including new school building, solar lights, Quality kitchen facilities, Toilet facilities, library, Yoga & the Auditorium Hall. He shared his dream in providing even better infrastructure & facilities in the coming years and sought the much required humble support from all. He ended the speech by blessing all the school children and wished them all the best for their education. 

The annual function ended with the vote of thanks by School Administration & Academic Head Masters by thanking the teachers, support staff and Students for putting up a great show.

Some random pics taken during the function:

Entrance to the Open Amphitheater

Parents turned out in huge numbers

Folk as a theme - students from various classes 

Guruji & Jyothi Ma along with Block Education Officer

School Annual Day Function

Guruji & Jyothi Ma along with audience watching the students performance

Kids watching the function 

SV Annual day function

Jyothi ji sharing a lighter moment with our Guruji

Eager parents watching their kids performance 

SV school annual day function

Sadhana Vidyalaya Annual school day performance

Sadhana Vidyalaya Annual School day function 

Sadhana Vidyalaya Annual School day function 

Sadhana Vidyalaya Annual School day function 

Sadhana Vidyalaya School Annual day Function performance

SV school annual day function

SV school annual day function

Parents from rural village turned up in huge numbers

Chief guest & other speakers 

Jyothi Ji addressing the audience

Block Education Officer Mr.Malllikaarjun addressing the audience

100% pass-out First SSLC batch 2014-15 students

School teachers were honored during the Annual day function

Prizes were distributed for various school students

Sadhana Vidyalaya support staff  shared the stage and were honoured

Thanks for reading this post.

- 'Bansuri'

Winter Camp - 2015

Winter Camp 2015

Venue	Kanva Reservior Road, 4th K.M., Sriramapuri, Kanva Post, Kannamangala  Village, Channapatna Taluk, Ramnagar    District (Bangalore Rural),  Karnataka – 562108, INDIA
Contact:	Mr. Sanket  +91-7760555918 (call for registration)
Other Sessions that are part of Camp:	Sessions on Yoga , Pranayama, Meditation, Guest lectures
Date:	20th Dec  (4:00 PM) – 26nd Dec (12 noon) 2015

Winter Camp 2015

Dear Sadhakas,

Blessings from the Masters of the Himalayan Tradition! 

I am extremely happy for all the generous inquiries about my health and thank you for the support that you are providing in furtherance of the cause. This is not only encouraging for my health but has instilled in me an enthusiasm to meet you all. But, as per medical advice, I am not supposed to strain my body by travelling and conducting public programmes at least for a year. Therefore, Jyothi & I came up with the idea of an annual event Winter Camp 2015 at our Ashram over the period December 20 (from 4.00 pm) to 26 (till 12 noon). This will provide me with an opportunity to meet you all. Together we can spend some quality time doing Sadhana.

I plan to take two Sessions in a day. Sessions by Mrs. Jyothi, Mr. Srinivas Murthy, Mr. Sudheendra and other prominent guest speakers also form part of the Winter Camp. Jyothi will be taking two sessions in a day where the first session will be on Tantrik approach to Tatwa Shuddhi & the second session would be on Bahiryaga – Practical approach in Tantra. There will be separate sessions on Yogasana, Pranayama and Meditation as well.

I am sure you will also be excited to be a part of the Winter Camp 2015, as I am, and hence, this advance intimation.

Hope to meet you and your family soon.

Affectionately

Guruji Pattabhiram & Jyothi

Sadhana Vidyalaya School Update

Dear Friends,

Sadhana Vidyalaya has been evolving from a humble beginning to be a school that delivers quality education with a vision and purpose. We have established several unique infrastructure facilities in alignment with that vision and purpose. We would like to share some of the infrastructural developments that have taken place in Sadhana Vidyalaya recently.

- We have completed the construction of 4 new classrooms marking the completion of the larger school building. 

-  A new dedicated multi-purpose play ground with a walking trail is nearing completion.

- Environment friendly, water-less urinals and toilets separate for boys and girls are to be made operational soon.

- Creation of an audio-visual room is underway to make the learning interesting and engaging.

Many more activities are ongoing to make Sadhana Vidyalaya a leading school in the area in line with our vision of offering contemporary education blended with spiritual values. Some of the work in progress pictures are below for your view:

New Toilet Block for school children in construction

 

Toilet block for school children in construction 

Toilet Block for School children passage

Toilet block for school children side view

Passage towards Auditorium followed by school side entrance

Open Auditorium work in progress

School construction (WIP)

School construction (WIP)

School construction (WIP)

School construction (WIP)

School Building side view

Friends, Sadhana Vidyalaya also reached a milestone when it delivered 100% passing results with its first batch of 10th standard(grade) students. The school received accolades in local community and media for this accomplishment thus raising the popularity of the school in surrounding villages and towns. This success would not have been possible without the dedication and hard work of the school staff and above all the continued overwhelming support from our Sadhakas. 

Thank you all

Sadhana Vidyalaya School Management, Staff & Children

Let's hear from our school - Sadhana Vidyalaya school update

NTPCL Visit to our Ashram:

Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC Ltd Shri Arup Roy Choudhary visited our School on 17.07.2015. He was accompanied by his wife Smt. Sharmila and some senior members of his team. NTPC Ltd, thru their CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] has supported the school with donations for the construction of 4 classroom in our new building and also for setting up Solar Plant for the street lights. He was very happy to see the four class rooms that are now fully functional. A small program was also organized by Sadhana Vidyalaya School Management to welcome Shri Choudhary. Below are some of the pics taken during the day:

Motivating the teachers and Children:

a. Mrs Karandikar asked teachers to involve children of all classes from 4th Std to 9th Std to organize an exhibition. Class Teacher of 6th Std, Miss Sukanya took the challenge and organized the exhibition in her class room without taking support from any other teacher and involved 30 children spanning over 4th to 9th Std. This not only gave her the satisfaction of accomplishing a task single-handed but also motivated other teachers to come forward with proposals for several activities. Children enjoyed the exhibition and are now eager to do something creative.

Teacher Sukanya with HM Shri Bhuvaneshappa and Director Smt Shailaja during the exhibition

b. Shri Kiran, a young entrepreneur who has worked in the field of organic farming, representing an NGO called School Gardenia has involved children in a project where he guides them in farming of Organic Vegetables. It was proposed to setup 20 beds but the work got disrupted by heavy rains. Children are locally guided by Shri Dhanush Narsimhmurthy and have four vegetable beds in place. Out of these four the first one has started giving results with spinach growing rapidly. The idea behind this project is to act as a nucleating agent that will encourage the mostly village children of the school to start vegetable farming in their fields.

Organic Farming Module

c. Poultry farming has been started; this activity will introduce children to another vocation. It is hoped that children will learn from the experiment being conducted by Shri Dhanush N. and profitably start their own poultry farm in their village.

Poultry Farming

3. Panch-Kosh based learning system is being implemented in the school. The program is being introduced in small steps so that teachers and children can assimilate the ideas with ease and can whole-heartedly practice the steps. The first step of the program has three parts: Primary School children are taught shlokas as before but they are now encouraged to participate in singing and dancing also. Children from Middle- and High School are taught different Pranayamas and Asanas and encouraged to participate in sports. Teachers are given exposure to the Panch Kosha System and taught Pranayama. To realize this plan we have identified first period and dedicated it to this project. Primary School children are handled by Primary School teachers guided by Shri Santosh, Middle and High School children are guided by Smt. Shailaja K and Smt Kavitha N.Teachers are guided by Shri Laxman K. Everyone is enjoying the project.

Thanks all again for your continuous support & love. Hoping to see you soon with next update on our School. Till then, Vande Guruparamparam

- Shri Laxman Karandikar
Sadhana Vidyalaya