• Table of Contents
  • Beijing, May 18, 2015 by Swami Veda Bharati
  • Progress in Meditation by Swami Rama
  • South India Sangha Gathering 2018
  • Dance Workshop 2018 February
  • Youth & Children’s Retreat
  • Holiday Celebrations at SRSG
  • Letter from Minnesota
  • Dear Yoga Mentor, My Question Is…
  • 2018 Events and Beyond
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of our SRSG ashram
• AHYMSIN Newsletter Archive

Full Moon Meditation January 31^st

January 2018 Newsletter

This is a combined Full Moon announcement and Ahymsin newsletter, so it's going out to both lists at the same time.

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“Serenade God with a song. The song is the Soul stilling her senses. Serenade God with silence.”
— Swami Veda Bharati (from his poem “Serenade God with a Song of Silence”)

We started 2018 with a call to the practice of silence for one day, and at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG), that silence took the forms of retreats with the silence retreats continuing now until March 10th - first with the annual Mauni Amavasya retreats and continuing with silence retreats in celebration of the finale of Swami Veda's 5-year Mauna Vrata (silence vow).  These will be followed in March by an HYT-TTP teacher training retreat , a Navaratri Puja, and a Yoga Nidra Retreat, and in April by a Program for Initiates, while February 12th – 14th Dr. Prakriti Bhaskar will present a Dance Workshop dedicated to Shiva Nataraja. Programs continue throughout the year at SRSG and can be found in the Upcoming Events.

There will be a South India Sangha Gathering and Retreat in Bangalore in April 2018; registrations will be taken 1 – 28 February. Please see the article in this newsletter.

The 2017 Youth and Children’s Retreat took place in December. Look for the articles with pictures - "Youth & Children’s Retreat" and "Holiday Celebrations at SRSG" - in this newsletter. Yuko Metsugi wrote, “Met so many new friends (仲間) again this time…I simply feel that we are connected under a great power, which is the tradition and the guru lineage.” And Pat Layton noted, “It was so joyful to share practice with children.”

We also share with you in this newsletter a transcript of possibly the last lecture given by Swami Veda before he dropped the body – “Beijing, May 18, 2015”.

Saraswati, salutations to you. Saraswati Namastubhyam. There was a Saraswati puja, and the murti was installation on the first floor porch of the gurukulam building at SRSG on Vasant Panchami, 22 January 2018. For many, the festival is dedicated to Saraswati, Devi of knowledge, music, art, wisdom, learning, philosophy, creativity and nature. Some educational institutions arrange special prayers or pujas in the morning to seek blessing from Saraswati for accomplishment in study. If you put the words “Saraswati Namastubhyam” in a search engine, you can learn more about the Saraswati Shloka.

The full moon on 31st January 2018 will be the 2nd full moon in the month. It will occur when the moon is at perigee, which means the point in the 27 day orbit of the moon at which it is nearest to the earth. In addition, there will be a lunar eclipse; to see if the lunar eclipse will be visible in your area, please click here.

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This Month's Newsletter Articles

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1. Beijing, May 18, 2015 by Swami Veda Bharati
2. Progress in Meditation by Swami Rama
3. South India Sangha Gathering 2018
4. Dance Workshop 2018 February
5. Youth & Children’s Retreat
6. Holiday Celebrations at SRSG
7. Letter from Minnesota
8. Dear Yoga Mentor, My Question Is…
9. 2018 Events and Beyond
10. Full Moon Meditation Dates
11. Location of our SRSG ashram

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Yours in service,  — Ahymsin Office