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21.01.2022 The Significance of Dhanteras and Lights & Firecrackers in Diwali Celebration: All the simple rituals of Diwali have significance and a story to tell. The illum...ination of homes with lights and the skies with firecrackers is an expression of obeisance to the heavens for the attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace and prosperity. According to one belief, the sound of fire-crackers are an indication of the joy of the people living on earth, making the gods aware of their plentiful state. Still another possible reason has a more scientific basis: the fumes produced by the crackers kill a lot of insects and mosquitoes, found in plenty after the rains. According to one belief, the sound of fire-crackers are an indication of the joy of the people living on earth, making the gods aware of their plentiful state. Still another possible reason has a more scientific basis: the fumes produced by the crackers kill a lot of insects and mosquitoes, found in plenty after the rains. The word Diwali has been derived from Dipawali which in turn is formed by dipa + avali (row). Dipawali is thus a line or a row of lamps. During Diwali, lamps are lit everywhere. It is celebrated on four consecutive days the thirteenth day (Dhanatrayodashi), the fourteenth day (Narak chaturdashi) and the new moon day (amavasya) [Lakshmipujan] of the dark fortnight of Ashvin and the first day of the bright fortnight of Kartik (Balipratipada). Some exclude the thirteenth and consider only the remaining three days as Diwali. Since Vasubaras and Bhaubij respectively precede and follow Diwali, they are included in it. However in reality they are separate holy festivals. Dhanteras: The thirteenth day of the dark fortnight of Ashwin On this day Lord Vishnu's unmanifest energy flows through Mata Lakshmi Devi's Surya nadi (the right channel of the Kundalini) and the channel is activated. The rays generated from here are full of the 'Tej tatva' or the fire element. These 'Tej' rays spread all over the Universe and the whole Universe is illuminated by shiny golden particles. Goddess Laxmi’s chaitanya present in these golden particles provides opulence, prosperity and creates an environment conducive for spiritual practice. Hence on this day Goddess Laxmi is worshipped with utmost devotion. Because of the Ritualistic worship with Spiritual emotion, the Lord and controller of wealth Kuber enters the earth’s environment.

17.01.2022 Many Blessings at Diwali

15.01.2022 We’re all set for another Kirtan session with the beautiful meditation students from Living Beautifully Yoga in Cranebrook. Jai Ram!

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12.01.2022 The Fantastic Science of Yantra/ Dec 2016 Swami Satyananda Saraswati In the tantric system you must have seen the geometrical diagrams of upright and inverted ...triangles, quadrangles and many other geometrical figures known as yantras. How are these geometrical figures associated with human beings? Sri Yantra is nothing but a combination or a confluence of triangles. It is supposed to be one of the most powerful yantras, symbolizing the process of creation, the manifestation of energy from the dormant potential state. Even as a plant sprouts out of a seed, in the same manner the whole manifestation of the macrocosmic universe has come out from a state of unmanifested reality. We call it avitha, unmanifested. What you perceive now in the form of time, space, objectivity, past, present and future is manifested reality. Symbol of creation Sri Yantra is supposed to represent this process of manifestation where life, names, forms, time, all of space and the different dimensions have been evolving. This yantra has been taken as a symbol of our unconscious mind. It is difficult to explain the exact nature and relationship of the unconscious state of existence. In Vedanta and Samkhya philosophy, it is known as the causal body. This unconscious state can be experienced by the practice of kundalini yoga, laya yoga, pure pranayama and also kriya yoga. When a yoga aspirant practises these different yogic systems, then the whole consciousness, the whole personality is completely extinguished just as you blow out a candle, nothing remains of what you are. It is not a state of shoonya, void, or a state of completeness, it is a state of nothingness. That is the unconscious. In vedic texts, the oldest books written by humanity, we use the words hiranya and garbha. Hiranya means ‘golden’ and garbha means ‘womb’. This unconscious mind, unconscious body or the causal body of the laya state of experience is like a golden womb. The shape and the form of this manifestation is geometrical. Therefore geometry defines the process of the universe. I am not a student of physics but I can tell you that the whole universe, the whole creation is nothing but circles and triangles, not men, women or children! The creation is a science of mathematical numbers and geometrical figures. The yantras in tantra are supposed to be very powerful. Take a yantra designed for yourself by an expert who knows the science, put it here, and it starts working positively and negatively. The people who have experienced the miracle of yantra, will not be able to explain the modus operandi of it. The ordinary yantra, and there are plenty of them, is a receptacle for and a transmitter of powerful energies. Need for a basis The moment a yantra is placed near the unconscious body, they come into association, into communion with each other and start working. Therefore in the system of kriya yoga we have the yantras of each chakra. Mooladhara has the inverted triangle and anahata has two intersecting triangles. The inverted triangle is the symbol of Shakti, the straight triangle represents Shiva, and when they intersect or embrace each other, that is the union of Shiva and Shakti. Therefore, the practitioner of kundalini yoga concentrates on the yantra. I am not talking about bija mantra, my subject is now only confined to yantra in relation to the awakening of the unconscious forces in man. In order to awaken your great personality or higher personality which we call anandamaya kosha, the blissful sheath, you concentrate on each chakra by means of the yantra of each. The students of kundalini yoga should take care to learn, investigate and concentrate on the yantra, then go from one chakra to another, to the third, fourth, fifth, like this, in order to bring the consciousness from the material plane to a different plane where it is more powerful, stretched and expanded. It is necessary that while you do this you must have a basis. Without a basis the consciousness cannot function. There are certainly very few people among us who can be aware of pure consciousness, who can be aware of pure mind. Most of us cannot think of mind without a thought. We cannot think of consciousness without a symbol, we cannot think of existence without any basis. Therefore, there must be some type of concrete symbolism. In the context of kundalini yoga there are various forms, right from the bottom to the top. They are encased in the yantra. Within the form of a circle you have a crocodile, within the form of an inverted triangle you have an elephant. That is the symbol, the basis. Remember again that the mind cannot be comprehended without a thought; we know the mind because we know the thought. If we want to know the mind only, it is not possible because it is formless, and the comprehensibility of something formless is an impossibility. Therefore, in kundalini yoga we have the symbolic representation of the forces of the unconscious in the form of yantra. Into the mind Yantras have an immediate effect on the unconscious body. As I told you yesterday, whatever you have experienced in your childhood is deeply embedded in the depth of your personality. Later when you grow this can become a problem, an ailment or an emotional crisis. It is not easy for a psychoanalyst to bring an individual back to his childhood and put him in touch with an experience which he had during his unconscious period. It is not possible for us to do this. So what do you have to do? You have to design something which will explode the unconscious quietly. Many years ago, I used to wander as a mendicant from place to place. I was lean and thin. Once I was living in a village during a very scorching summer. After some time I developed a really high temperature, something like 106F, or 107F. Somebody took mercy on me and called a doctor. The village doctor gave me some medicine but it did not work. For two full days I was unconscious, nothing existed for me. After the third or fourth day, a very old man came to know that a swami who had come to his village was having a very high fever. He came and looked at me, went back and brought a small piece of copper. On the copper were inscribed only two petals and one circle, that is ajna chakra. He just hung it on my neck, and within half an hour the fever was finished. In the evening I left the village. This simple but very significant example shows the influence of a yantra. This influence was not conscious; if it had been you could say this is a psychological process. However, it was not a process taking place via the mind but directly into the mind. The yantra does not work through the mind or through faith because you may not believe and still it will work. It is like a bullet, whether you believe in it or do not believe in it, it is still going to act upon you. I am giving you my experience. When I was unconscious what I felt was that somebody was putting a big triangle on my neck and pulling me up and up and out. This is not the experience of a solitary individual; it has been experienced by our ancestors and it is a part of our culture. What is that culture? To awaken the unconscious directly. The process of self-analysis, of psychoanalysis has its own merits; we are not trying to discredit it. But to alleviate the suffering of mankind and in order to mitigate the possibilities of further suffering it is very necessary that tantra has to come to our rescue. Blast of the unconscious During meditation, oh it is an experience of more than thirty years ago, when I had no idea of tantra. I was just nineteen when I entered the monastery of my guru, I had very little time when I joined Swamiji’s ashram; I was in my budding state, and I had to work as a plumber a labourer, a water carrier, chop the fire logs, cook the food, carry all kinds of things five or six miles. There were no cars, no Volkswagens, nothing like we have today. I used to carry everything in my hands. Tired in the evening by nine or nine thirty I used to sit on the banks of the flowing Ganga in Rishikesh, surrounded by the glorious mountains of the valley. Since I was not yet a sannyasi, I was still a brahmachari, my mantra was Gayatri. It is the mantra for children, the mantra of intuition. So I used to recite Gayatri and while I was reciting it, I used to see peculiar geometrical figures. I always thought that these were coming up because I was so bad in mathematics. Maybe I was lost in unconsciousness and came face to face with the yantra, but ignorant that I was, I thought that they were the repressions of my mathematical phobia. Later the geometrical figures gained terrifying momentum, sometimes I used to see the whole play of geometry. I asked many swamis, mahatmas and wise men including my guru Swami Sivananda about this and they gave me one simple answer, It is your causal body, your unconscious body and your deeper self. I said Why do I not see my guru, why do I see these triangles, circles, hexagons and quadrangles? They said, That is the creation, the great prakriti. Prakriti means the creation of the whole fantastic drama. So coming to the point of conclusion, the yantras that you see are a blast of the unconscious. No artist, no painter, no poet can ever create that language of the triangle unless the unconscious is blasted completely through. Everything coming out from here, from the bottom, comes from the small golden egg, the causal body, the unconscious body, the anandamaya kosha, call it by any name you wish. Where there is no time, no space, no form and no name, where there is no I and no you, there are no numbers, it is just one homogeneity, no Scandinavians, no Indians, no French people, no man and no woman, just one homogenous consciousness. This mass of consciousness is a totality of existence, as one not as two. Therefore, the yantra in tantra is a very powerful system of self-culture. It is a very powerful system for redeeming the diseases of the unconscious and also for the formation of our personality. 14 April 1977, Lecture given in Stockholm, Sweden http://www.yogamag.net/archiv/2010s/2016/ldec16/yantra.html

12.01.2022 Namo Narayana, We are joyful to let you know that Sw Satsangi-ji has released the at-home Sadhana for the Satchandi Mahayajna on the Rikhiapeeth website. htt...ps://rikhiapeeth.in//u/2020/12/SK-Sadhana-with-pics.pdf We at ‘Niwas will be faithfully performing this Sadhana each day at 5.30am MST. May the auspicious blessings of this time be felt by all. Namo Narayana, Sn Shivani

11.01.2022 Satya (Truthfulness) Asks us to be truthful, in our speech, in our actions, but also the ability to see the truth, to be aware of the truth behind everything.... #satya #yamas #truthfulness #codeofconduct #rajayoga #eightfoldpath #yogaindailylife #yogateacher #yogastudent #yogaforeverybody #yogaacademynorthamerica #yana #yogaus #biharyoga #biharschoolofyoga #satyanandayoga #hathayoga #classicalyoga See more

11.01.2022 Attachment and Love "In the tradition of the Buddha Dharma , meditation is only one of the many qualities which is emphasised. It's a very important one becaus...e we have to understand our mind, and we can only understand our mind by looking at it. But to be a well-balanced practitioner and reach our aim of being a totally integrated and realised being, we must develop many other essential qualities. Among these are generosity, tolerance, patience, ethics, loving kindness, compassion, and so on. Now if we take something like ethics or loving kindness, it's obvious that one needs other people in order to practise. it's very easy living up in a retreat to be ethical, because there is no one to steal from, no one to lie to. It's no big deal to be patient. And to be generous, it's only necessary to throw out a few crumbs to the birds. Yes, very generous! We need others. We need society in order to really exercise these essential qualities. So we start where we are. If we are really sincere about having the Dharma in our heart the Dharma starts right here, right now, with those beings~especially with those beings with whom for some reason we are karmically connected. Those are the people we have to work on. Those are the people with whom we really have to purify our hearts. Because if you cannot do it with them, then with whom else? This is very important." ~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo in her book "3 Teachings Retreat. Mahamudra, Mindfulness our daily life as spiritual practice"

09.01.2022 Pics from last year's Diwali Celebration! Join us tomorrow evening for our Diwali Celebration at Anahata <3 More info: www.anahata-retreat.org.nz/event/diwali-celebration

05.01.2022 ZOOM YOGA CLASS Change becomes Opportunity 14 November 9 - 10.30am With Swami Atma ... There may be something real to learn from our discontentment: a recognition of the way we are out of balance and how balance can be better achieved. Our idea of what a "solution " is may need to be expanded. The aim of yoga is to improve and enhance the quality of life. Bookings through https://www.yogavic.org.au/online-living-consciously-program

04.01.2022 The tendency to love is natural and is implanted in the hearts of all persons. - Swami Sivananda

01.01.2022 VYAGHRASANA -Tiger pose A practice that gets its name as it stimulates the stretch like a tiger! It is a posture that requires, balance and co-ordinat...ion! It is a beautiful practice when the movement is combined with the breath. Physically, the movement stretches through the spine, the legs down to the toes and strengthens through the core of the body. Practising Vyaghrasana stimulates the nervous, lymphatic and reproductive systems. The compression in the abdomen whilst practising also aids the digestive system. This image demonstrates a variation of the practice, where the opposite arm is stretched out in front at the same time as the leg stretches behind. Extra balance and co-ordination required here! For modification, a rolled blanket or bolster can be placed for the arms to rest upon. Or place a folded blanket under the knees to protect them from pressure and stress. #tigerpose #vyaghrasana #balancingasana #coordination #asana #yogapostures #yana #biharschoolofyoga #biharyoga #yogateacher #classicalyoga #hathayoga #satyanandayoga #corestrength #practiceyogaeveryday #yogapractice #sadhana #yogainddailylife #yogaacademynorthamerica See more