Vedanta Mission News

Shiv Puja on Kumuds Birthday

2009-07-18T14:06:00.006+05:30

On 17th July was the birthday of Kumud, P. Gurujis disciple who is accompanying him for the discourses at Niagara. Poojya Guruji got an elaborate Shodasha Upachar Puja of Shivji done by her. The entire puja was conducted by Poojya Guruji himself.

Later, after the abhisheka of Shivji, they drove over to the misty lands near Niagara Falls and got 'her' abhisheka also done. Before dinner Anamitra Shome and others sang Birthday Felicitation songs for her. It was indeed a birthday with a difference.

Pl check out the entire Photo Album HERE.

Shiv Mahimna Talks at Niagara

2009-07-18T08:38:00.005+05:30

Poojya Guruji is giving talks on 'Shiv Mahimna Stotram' at the Shiv Mandir at Niagara. The talks are in mixed hindi and english language and are of 60-90 minutes duration.

The first two days Talks are being uploaded and other four will follow soon. Please click on the links below to download the required pravachans:

Niagara Visit - Day 3

2009-07-17T16:27:00.006+05:30

On the third day of the visit, P.Guruji saw an amazing 4D Show about the creation of Niagara falls called Niagara's Fury. Later they went to see the Butterfly Conservatory. The Gyana Yagna also started in the evening of 16th July.

Please check out the albums at:

Niagara Visit - D-3 / Inauguration of Gyana Yagna / House n Garden of Shome's

Niagara Visit - Day 2

2009-07-16T15:51:00.005+05:30

The second day at Niagara too was for siteseeing. Arrangements for Tourists is very nice. We went to see the famous Casino, and then had a boat ride called 'Maid of the Mist' which goes to the misty bottom of the fall, and then we were taken behind the falling water through tunnels, that was 'Journey Behind the Fall'.

Check out two albums:

1. Niagara City / 2. 'Maid of the Mist' Ride

We will continue our siteseeing the 3rd day also, and then later in the evening the Gyana Yagna will start at the local Shiv Mandir.

Guruji at Niagara Falls

2009-07-15T07:08:00.004+05:30

P.Guruji reached Niagara on 14th July evening, and saw the beautiful Fall in the evening. With sun shining brightly, a full rainbow welcomed him. It was indeed awesome. Check out its video clip and Photo Album:

Photo Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/vmission5/NiagaraFall#

Toronto Visit

2009-07-14T17:27:00.003+05:30

On 13th July Poojya Guruji visited various Temples in and around Toronto, and also the Toronto downtown. The CN Towers in the album was till recently the highest building of the world, now ofcourse bigger ones have been made elsewhere in the world.

Satsang at Peterborough

2009-07-14T16:22:00.005+05:30

A Satsang was organized at Peterborough on 12th July. You can hear or download the Introduction of P.Guruji given by Dr Kumud Tewary and the Talk given by Poojya Guruji there:

1. Download - Introduction of Poojya Guruji
2. Download - Talk of Poojya Guruji (English)

Guruji arrives in Canada

2009-07-13T10:33:00.003+05:30

Poojya Guruji arrived in Canada on 11th July. He was recieved at the Toronto Airport by Ashish Pathank and his friend Pankaj. They drove over to Peterborough, and then had a nice rest to overcome the jet-lag.

Next day the hosts and their frinds organized a nice Pravachan, Bhajan & Bhojan Program. The whole program was nicely attended and appreciated. Later in the evening we drove over to the Marina and Downtown areas of the city.

Check out few of the Albums:

1. Departure from Indore Ashram

2. Guru Poornima Satsang at Mumbai

3. House of Ashish at Peterborough

4. Satsang at the house of Ashish

5. Visit to the Marina and Downtown areas of Peterboro

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Poojya Guruji leaves for Canada

2009-07-09T09:40:00.005+05:30

Poojya Guruji Sri Swami Atmanandaji leaves for a fortnight long trip to Canada on 11th July 2009. He will conduct a week-long Gyana Yagna at Niagara from 16th to 24th July on Shiv Mahimna Stotram at the local Shiv Mandir.

He will also visit his devotees at Peterborough, Ottawa and Toronto. A satsang will be organized at Peterborough on the 12th of July. He will return back to India on 27th July.

Vedantic Meditation_Session-5

2009-07-02T21:51:00.003+05:30

In this meditation session, Poojy Guruji started with the asanas, which needs to be comfortable and steady. He said sukha asana implies not being conscious of the body. A person sitting for dhyana has a great goal, a great love, so making the body comfortable etc is a means to devote thoroughly for that. That goal is mumukshutvam, desire for freedom. This goal needs to envelop us. Mumuk... implies feeling of the pain of bandhan. The pain of bandhan is of great importance and blessing. It alone provides us the energy & drive for mumuk... The intensity of pain decides the intensity of mumuks... This pain helps us to keep aside all worldy pains, they pale into insignificance. So one not only needs to understand this bandhan and feel it intensely. When the pain is in heart, the solutions too touch the heart.

You can see all the links of mp3 and m3u etc HERE. Some of the main links for download etc are being given below:

1. Open Skydrive to see and Download 'Day5' File (Size: 29 MB)
2. Save m3u Playlist File to Stream Play in yr system (Size: 76 bytes)
3. Play online in the player below:

Vedantic Meditation_Session-4

2009-07-02T19:49:00.002+05:30

In the fourth session of guided 'vedantic' meditation, Poojya Guruji began with guidance of necessity to 'see' and 'assimilate' the real meaning of 'Nirpekshata' (indifference). There is one nirpek... which is of a person who doesn't like someone, such a fellow is also indiff... but this is not the nirpek... we cherish, because such an attitude is ego-centric and prompted by conditionings. In such a nirpek... there is lack of sensitivity; and the nirpekshata which is ishta is the one with profound sensitivity. 'See' the meaning of real nirpe.. and let it be a quality of your heart. This alone will facilitate us to see the anitya as anitya and nitya as nitya, in fact such a nirpek... implies this viveka alone. You can see all the links of mp3 and m3u etc at: http://www.archive.org/details/SwamiAtmanandaVedanticMeditation. You may directly click on main links below too:

1. Open Skydrive to see and Download 'Day-4' File (Size: 30.7 MB)

2. Save m3u Playlist File to Stream Play in yr system (Size: 76 bytes)

3. Play online in the player below:

Vedantic Meditations - Day-3

2009-06-27T09:51:00.006+05:30

On the third day of guided 'vedanta' meditation, Poojya Guruji began with guidance of sitting down nicely & comfortably, and then realize the fact that in Meditation we do not lookout for any experience whatsoever. 'See' the limitation of an experience; the moment this fascination drops, you awake to that which is not a product of yr mind.

1. Open Skydrive to see and Download 'Day3' File (Size: 30 MB)
2. Save m3u Playlist File to Stream Play in yr system (Size: 76 bytes)
3. Play online in the player below:

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Vedantic Meditations - Day-2

2009-06-26T23:12:00.005+05:30

In this second session of guided 'vedanta' meditation, Poojya Guruji talks about the detached attitude required for meditation. This detachment should be borne out of understanding. He says, cut off the tree of jagat with the sword of Asangata. Thereafter there shall be no sorrow. 'See' that 'Asangata' alone indicates true viveka. We become asanga just by seeing some facts, and such a mind becomes naturally quiet & peaceful.

1. Open Skydrive to see and Download 'Day2' File (Size: 26 MB)
2. Save m3u Playlist File to Stream Play in yr system (Size: 77 bytes)
3. Play online in the player below:

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Conducted Vedantic Meditations

2009-06-26T21:39:00.016+05:30

While meditation has become very well-known nowadays, the understanding about meditation varies profoundly. Means obviously differ as per the understanding of the nature of problem. Advaita Vedanta says that the human problem is only because of ignorance of truth of ourself alone, thus the solution is knowledge alone. We basically need to know something rather than to do something. Doing implies change, while knowing doesn't require any change, thus the system of meditation in Vedanta differs from other systems.

At Vedanta Ashram, Poojya Guruji Sri Swami Atmanandaji is conducting Meditation for the inmates of the ashram. These hindi language guided meditations started on 24th June 2009, and the duration of each session varies from 45 to 60 mins. To make the best use of these guided meditations, one just has to sit down quietly and comfortably and listen to these sessions.

We shall be posting the links of each days meditation on the net. People who have some background of Vedanta can either download these files, hear online in the embedded mp3 player, or stream play by downloading the small m3u playlist file.

Day-1 : On the first day Poojya Guruji told about the uniqueness of Vedantic Meditation. Such meditation is all about making our Paroksha Gyana into Aparoksha Gyana. Seeing directly what we have heard and read.

1. Open Skydrive to see and Download 'Day1' File (Size: 16 MB)
2. Save m3u Playlist File to Stream Play in yr system (Size: 78 bytes)

3. Play online in the player below:

Katha Upanishad Discourses

2009-06-18T21:42:00.004+05:30

During the recent Sadhana Camp at Arsha Vidya Peetha, Rishikesh, Poojya Guruji Sri Swami Atmanandaji gave 6 discourses on the 3rd Valli of the 2nd Chapter of Kathopanishad. These hindi language discourses are of 90 to 120 mins of duration.

These talks have been uploaded on the VMission Skydrive Account. You can click on the Folder link below to see the links of all 6 files, which maybe downloaded freely by anyone. If you do not see the folder image, then please click HERE to open the folder.

Sadhana Camp, Rishikesh

2009-06-15T08:29:00.007+05:30

A six days Sadhana Camp (Photo Album) was organized from 7th to 12th June 2009, at Arsha Vidya Peetha (Sw Dayananda Ashram) at Rishikesh by Vedanta Mission. Poojya Guruji Swami Atmanandaji and P. Swamini Amitanandaji conducted the camp. The texts of the discourses were Kathopanishad, third valli of its second chapter; and Gita Chapter 9. The former was conducted by Poojya Guruji, while P. Swaminiji took the Gita Classes.

Group Photo of 'some' of the members of the Camp (many had to leave to catch train a bit early)

Apart from the two main classes, sessions of Conducted Meditation, Chanting, Bhajans and Cultural Programs were also organized, which were conducted by P.Swamini Amitanandaji. One of the days was the Ganga Puja and Deepa-Daan in the Ganges, a quiz program, bhajan antakshari, special program on the concluding day and the Pada Puja of Poojya Guruji.

We have uploaded various Photo Albums (Camp, Ganga Snana, Deep Daan, Cultural Program and Pada Pooja), Video Clips (Quiz Acting, Bhajan Antakshari, Culturap Prog, Rafting in Ganga), and Bhajans and Poems (Total 17 clips). You can get all the links of the above HERE for access or downloads. Below is embedded a playlist of the bhajans and poems, and you can even download them from the link given herein:

Photo Albums of various Visits in UK

2009-06-01T21:53:00.003+05:30

The UK Tour of Poojya Guruji and P.Swamini Samatanandaji comes to close. They fly back to India on 2nd June. Following is the list of more Photo Albums of various programs and visits:

Visit to Woburn Safari Park
Talks at Leicester Mandir
Puja at Hariyani's
Visit to Purohit Family
Manjuben Deeksha
Peace Pagoda Visit

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Trip to Scotland

2009-05-27T07:45:00.006+05:30

Siddartha Arora, a student from Indore at Oxford University, planned a short & sudden site-seeing trip to Scotland for Poojya Guruji and P. Swamini Samatanandaji on the 25th & 26th May.

The trio left took a flight for Edinburgh from Luton on 25th morning and arrived at Edinburgh by 8.30AM. They went around the old & famous castle there, and strolled around till the afternoon, when they got a bus for Inverness. The bus ride was beautiful and took five hours to take them to the highlands. The stay was at Bazpackers Hostel, which was very nicely located just in front of the castle and side of the river Ness. They spent the night there, saw the city and got a feel of the quiet place and its hospitable people. They returned back to Luton by a direct flight from Inverness to Luton on 26th evening and were received at the 'London Luton Airport' by Hina Patel.

You may like to check out the following Albums and Video Clips of the trip:

Photo Album of trip to Edinburgh
Photo Album of trip to Inverness
Video Clip of Blessings to Siddartha
Video Clip of Inverness Bridge at night
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Puja at Hina's

2009-05-24T10:03:00.002+05:30

On 23rd May a grand puja was organized at the residence of Hina Patel. A special jhanki of Ganga Avatarana was made. Ganga Dasshera is just round the corner, when Gangaji came down on the earth, recieved by Lord Shiva. The puja was done by both Hina Patel and Siddartha Arora, who had come over from Oxford for the day. Later there was Bhojan, prepared lovongly by Hina's mother and Vimalaben from Wellingboro.

Later in the evening we all went to Dunstable Downs for walk and also games. You may pl check out two Photo Albums of the day:

Puja at Hina's
Outing at Downs
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Satsangs at Loughborough and Bradford

2009-05-20T07:43:00.008+05:30

On 17th May, Poojya Guruji and Swamini Samatanandaji went to Gita Bhawan, Loughborough, and later to the Sri Laxmi Narayan Mandir, Bradford for conducting Satsangs. The talks at both the places were highly appreciated, and plans are afoot to have a longer program at Bradford.

You may like to check out the following:

- Photo Album of program at Gita Bhawan, Loughborough

- Photo Album of program at Laxminarayan Temple, Bradford
- Pravachan of P.Guruji at Sri Laxmi Narayan Temple, Bradford

Visit to Oxford

2009-05-14T12:53:00.006+05:30

On 13th May, Poojya Guruji and Sw.Samatanandaji visited Oxford. They went to meet Siddartha Arora. They went around his college, some university offices and then spent most of the time in their lovely garden, and also did some boating and punting. Pl check out the Photo Album and two video clips at:

Photo Album
Video of Feeding Ducks
Video of Boating
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Satsang at Reading Hindu Temple

2009-05-13T11:09:00.004+05:30

A Satsang of Poojya Guruji was organized at the Reading Hindu Temple on 12th May at 7.30 in the evening. Poojya Swamini Samatanandaji introduced Poojya Guruji to the audience. There were large number of audience who listened with devotion to Poojya Guruji. Later the Chairman Dr. Ashok Khare thanked the Mahatmas on behalf of the Mandir.

Pl check out the following:
- Photo Album
- Pravachan of Poojya Guruji
- Bhajan etc by Pandit Anilji
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Satsang at Manuben's

2009-05-06T15:16:00.002+05:30

A 'Bhajan & Bhojan' program was organized at the residence of Harishbhai & Manuben at Wellingboro on the 5th of May. Poojya Guruji talked about the importance & blessing of a Guru in one's life.

Pl check out the Photo Album of the occasion HERE.

Satsang at Birmingham

2009-05-06T15:10:00.002+05:30

A satsang was organized at the residence of Hemaben, younger sister of Vimalaben, at Birmingham on 4th May afternoon. Poojya Guruji talked on a verse from Hanuman Chalisa.

Later Shanta Mangat, who had met Poojya Guruji in Mumbai earlier came to meet Poojya Guruji and they all went to her house too for tea.

Pl check out the Photo Album of the visit and satsang HERE.

DDV Class & Birthday of Avanish

2009-05-06T15:02:00.002+05:30

While at Wellingboro, Poojya Guruji also started one special class for select devotees on Drg-Dryshya Viveka. This special session is being conducted at residence of Harishbhai Thakrar from morning 9 to 10.

On 4th May was also the birthday of Avanish, the younger son of Harishbhai & Kirtiben. Poojya Guruji and Swamini Samatanandaji blessed him and then a cake too was cut.

Pl check out the Photo Album of the occasion HERE.