Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG)

A photographic look at our ashram 2011. View us on Google maps! maps.google.co.in

Shanti Mandir Magod Ashram — in the kitchen

www.shantimandir.com Preparing the food for a bhandara (feast) in Mahamandleshwar Swami Nityananda’s ashram in Magod, Gujurat India.

INTERFAITH – How I Found My Path To God

The Hindu Community Council of Victoria presents: A VEDIC FORUM ” WHAT DOES MY RELIGION SAY ” series of lectures and Q & A sessions. The topic of the second of these HCCV Vedic forums is; “How I Found My Path To God” The venue for this HCCV event is the Shiva Ashram, Mt Eliza, [...]

AARTI In The Dhuni Haidakhan VishwaMAHAdham BABAJI Ashram India

Shot at Sundown in the Maha Shakti Dhuni in Haidakhan. As you can see the light was fading fast so the video is a bit dark, hopefully you will still enJOY the sacred fire which was still glowing and the sound of the holy mantras. BHOLE BABA KI JAI!

Opening Speech Day 1 Navaratri Havan 2010 Haidakhan VishwaMAHAdham BABAJI Ashram India

The opening speech and thoughts before the FIRST havan. This was filmed over the Spring Navaratri 2010 in Haidakhan Vishwamahadham where in celebration to the Divine MOther a fire ceremony is done for 9 days in a row. This was the largest turnout to date in Haidakhan with more than 500 devotees from around the [...]

Spring Navaratri 2010 Havan [ Vedic Fire Ceremony] Haidakhan BABAJI Ashram India

Part of the vedic fire ceremony offerings celebrated here during The Spring navaratri in Haidakhan VishwaMAHAdham 2010 honouring the Divine Mother! JAI MATA DI! BHOLE BABA KI JAIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Worship Nature

A Hindu woman performing a religious ceremony around the tulsi plant Painting by D.V. Dhurandhar, Bombay, C.1890 (image source: V&A Museum, London) Once again this has reference to Seenu’s blog on Indian Monsoon In The Bhagavad Gita , sloka 20, Chapter 10, Lord Krishna says, “I am the Self seated in the heart of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the very end of all beings”. All beings have, therefore to be treated alike.” *** Our natural environment – comprising mountains and hills, rivers and dales, trees and plants – is considered auspicious enough to provide space for meditation. There are thousands of spots whose special sanctity is enhanced by the performance of daily rituals. Retreats in the Himalayas or on the river banks shelter sages who are credited with universal knowledge. Especially hallowed are the sources and confluence of rivers. Harmony with the natural world receives strong emphasis as a pervasive element in Indian spiritual beliefs and rituals. Evergreen trees were regarded as symbols of eternal life and to cut them down was to invite the wrath of the gods. Groves in forests were looked upon as habitations of the gods. It was under a banyan tree that the Hindu sages sat in a trance seeking enlightenment and it was here that they held discourses and conducted holy rituals. The ancient sacred literature of the Vedas enshrines a holistic and poetic cosmic vision. They represent the oldest, the most carefully nurtured, the most elaborately systematized and the most lovingly preserved oral tradition in the annals of the world. Unique in their perspective of time and space, their evocative poetry is a joyous and spontaneous affirmation of life and nature. The Vedic Hymn to the Earth, the Prithvi Sukta in Atharva Veda, is unquestionably the oldest and the most evocative environmental invocation. In it, the Vedic seer solemnly declares the enduring filial allegiance of humankind to Mother Earth: ‘Mata Bhumih Putroham Prithivyah: Earth is my mother, I am her son.’ Mother Earth is celebrated for all her natural bounties and particularly for her gifts of herbs and vegetation. Her blessings are sought for prosperity in all endeavours and fulfilment of all righteous aspirations. A covenant is made that humankind shall secure the Earth against all environmental trespass and shall never let her be oppressed. A soul-stirring prayer is sung in one of the hymns for the preservation and conservation of hills, snow-clad mountains, and all brown, black and red earth, unhurt, unsmitten, unwounded, unbroken and well defended by Indra. (source: The East is green – ourplanet.com).