Vedanta Sandesh

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 In This Issue

1. Vedanta Section: Atma Bodha - Shloka-20

2. Letter Section: Viveka & Mukti

3. Traditions Section: Guru Poornima

4. Story Section: Pushpadanta

5. VM Programs: Mission / Ashram Progs

 From Poojya Guruji

Vedanta Sandesh
Spreading Love & Light
Hari om!

Monthly eMagazine of Vedanta Mission
Sharing the message of Vedanta and Sanatan Dharma
July 2010
On the Net since 1995
Started by:
Poojya Guruji Sri Swami Atmanandaji
Fifteen years back on the occasion of Guru Poornima we first published the
first issue of Vedanta Sandesh, an e-magazine of Vedanta and Sanatan Dharma.
It was our humble offering at the feet of our divine teachers who starting from
God himself brought this knowledge down to us through this amazing tradition.
Indebted by their knowledge and compassion we have humbly tried to take this
message of Vedanta to as many people as we can through this great medium
of internet, and I am happy that our list of subscribers has been continuously
increasing since then. We are very happy that now have our readers in almost
all the parts of the world. On the occasion of Guru Poornima, which is the
birthday of Bhagwan Veda Vyasa, in whose memory we have this traditional
Spiritual Teachers Day, I convey my blessings & best wishes to all our readers
and the aspirants of Self-Knowledge.

Guru Parampara, the tradition of teachers of Vedanta is a unique tradition,

which reveals that which is beyond our true Self, something which is beyond
Editor:
our mind & senses, it is, as the Kena Upanishad says, the mind of mind, the
eys of eye etc. Bhagwan Krishna in Bhagwad Gita says that while there may
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be many amazing things in the world, what amazes me most is just this fact
that there are some people who talk about ‘this’ truth, and some even get
privileged to hear about it, and further more some even realize this divinity
directly. It is indeed wonder of all wonders. It wont be an exaggeration if we say
Published from: that there is just nothing more amazing and divine than this tradition of Guru
Vedanta Ashram Parampara. Upanishads do not describe it yet reveal it, they discovered an
E/2948-50, Sudama Nagar unique methodology to make this possible. God defined is indeed God defiled,
Indore-452 009, India anything which can be described is always limited and therefore perishable, so
the Upanishads take resort to a system of negation. The self is self-effulgent
and all that eclipses it is our projections, so they just focus on these superim-
positions and help us to realize their ephemerality. One who realizes the un-
truth as untruth negates that untruth, and to that extent the truth stands unvieled.
Web:
We are revealed the entire gamut of our superimpositions and thereafter there
www.vmission.org.in is a a deep enquiry to realize directly all the superimposition as such. Truth is
neither Vidita nor Avidita, neither something which is known nor something
Email: which is unknown. Known and unknown are words pertaining to the knowledge
vmission@gmail.com scenario of the Knower, this fellow knows something and does not know other
things. We are turned away from ‘objects’ of knowedge and turned to this very
knower, free from the conditionings of known & unknown. Amazing. Again our
reverential pranams to the entire Guru Parampara. Namo Namah.

Love & om,

Swami Atmananda
 Atma Bodha - Shloka 20
Vedanta Section
Atma alone Enlivens everything
From the previous sloka we are trying to understand how the Atman i.e. the Self is neither a
doer nor an enjoyer. The performance of the body, mind and intellect is superimposed on the
Atman and I come to see my self as a doer and enjoyer individual. But when this is said then a
question arises that how can the instrumental physical and mental faculties do things themselves
because they are basically inert and depend on the vitality of the Atman in functioning. So in that
case if the Atman is not the doer itself then it may be the agent that impels these faculties to
function. This query is answered in the following sloka that the Self or the Atman is neither the doer
nor the enjoyer nor does it work as an agent to deligate any kind of performance.

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Atmachaitanyam aashritya dehendriyamanodhiyah

Swakriyaartheshu vartante suryalokam yatha janaah
Atmachaitanyam: consciousness of the atman; ashritya: depending upon;
Dehendriyamanodhiyah: the body, the sense organs, the mind and the intellect;
Swakriyaartheshu: in their objects or functions; vartante: perform; suryalokam: the light of the
sun; Yatha janah: Like people.

The body, the sense organs, the mind and the intellect, depending on the energy or
vitality of Atman, perform their respective functions, just as people, depending on the light
of the Sun, carry on their activities. living

Atmachaitanyam aashritya:
Depending on the vitality of Brahman the
body, the sense organs and the mind are en-
gaged in their respective functions. Each organ,
each faculty is performing thier respective ac-
tions, but they are all activated by the power and
light of the Atman. ‘Tameva bhantam anubhati
sarvam tasya bhasa sarvamidam vibhati!!
(Kathopanishad). All this shines after that light;
by its effulgence all this shines”. This statement
of Sruti, of the scriptures reveals the fact that all
the sense organs, the organs of action, body, mind
and intellect of all living beings are basically inert
and today if these instruments are dynamically
functioning then it is due to the life giving factor
of the Atman. Without this life energy we all hu-
man beings, all the plant life, animals and every
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and active being would be like sculpted figures,
very beautiful to look at but lifeless, inert, devoid
of feelings and emotions and brain dead. Every-
thing in the cosmos owes its existence and it’s
playful nature to the life energy of the Atman.
The beauty of this universal truth is that even
though the Atman enlivens everything yet it does
not deliberately do anything. Its very presence
activates and brings life into everything that
comes before it. Just as iron fillings if brought
near a magnet start dancing and playing, with-
out the magnet making any efforts or even hav-
ing the desire to do so. So also all beings bubble
with life in the mere presence of the Atman, with-
out any efforts of this soul.
Realisation of this fact not only awakens
us into the very source of all existence and un-
veils the truth but this also invokes a deep sense
of humility that we all owe our existence to this
source of life. All our faculties will be mere show
pieces and dead matter if we were not blessed
by the substratum.
Dehendriya manodhiyah:
Our personality is made up of the physi-
cal and mental levels. We have studied in the
previous slokas that our physical and mental
existence is known as the gross and the subtle
bodies i.e. the sthoola and sookshma shariras.
These two bodies comprise of the organs of
action, the sense organs, pranas, the mind and
the intellect. It is through these physical and
mental organs that we percieve the world, ex-
perience various things and give our responses
to the world outside. It is through these faculties
alone that we perform our actions, experience
pain and pleasure, recognise ignorance and gain
knowledge too. As we also saw that these facul-
ties are made up of Panchmahbhutas along with
the three gunas. But the gross and subtle bod-
ies made up of panchmahabhutas do not have
the pottential to function independantly. They are
enlivened by the supreme consciousness. The
Acharya further goe on to explain that with the
blessing of the supreme light these faculties per-
form their respective functions.
Swa kriyartheshu vartante:
All our faculties are designed in the most
amazing way. Hats off to the creator who has
given us such awsome faculties that we are
never tired of, seeing the scenic beauty the world
over, getting mesmerised by the enchanting fra-
grance of flowers, experiencing the best feather
like touch, and most of all our bellies are proof
of the best of taste that we enjoy, and so on with
the best of emotions, and the great intellect of
human beings fathoming the objective and the
subjective worlds. All our personality instruments
are performing perfectly in their respective fields.
When we see the specialised and perfect func-
tioning of our BMI there is no doubt that the it is
the ‘consciousness’ alone which is the truth of
everything and is thus the enlivening principle
behind everything and not merely the physical
instruments. Althugh here one must understand
that this supreme power does not directly have
any sense of doership but it blesses a particular
thing through the conditioned consciousnessto
be what it is. This conditioned consciousness is
what the scriptures explain as the devata of that
thing. That is why in te scriptures we come across
a particular devata of a particular faculty. But
unlike the objective world the beauty of Adhyatma
Darshan is that inspite of the diversity in the world
we see the existence & play of the conscious-
ness in & through everything. Once this way of
looking at something is understood & inculcated,
then this culminates in the realization of one all-
pervasive divinity all over. One electricity bless-
ing the various electrical equipments.
Suryalokam yatha janaah:
The Acharya explains the non-doership of the
Atman with a very crisp example. He says that
everything that comes in the vicinity of the sun
gets activated and enlivened. As soon as the
sun rises the flowers start blooming, animals,
birds, human beings all wake up from their slum-
ber and inactivity and get charged to work, so
also the mere presence of the Atman charges
all the faculties to perform their respective func-
tions. Just as we see in the example of the sun
that the sun does not itself make any deliberate
efforts nor does it deligate anyone to activate
the world, so also the Atman does not make any
effort with a sense of deorship or enjoyership to
activate everything around nor does it deligate
anyone to do so. Everything simply gets enliv-
ened beacause light and life are its very nature.
The discovery of the Self as the illuminating
source of everything and its non-doership is the
awakening in the true nature of the Self. This is
the culmintaion of knowledge. Such an awak-
ening brings about that state of non-doership and
non-enjoyership which is the state of liberation.
It is that divine state of existence where one need
not physically cut off himself from doing anything
or experiencing anything but one mentally lives
in a detached manner inspite of being amidst all
actions and experiences.
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 Is Your Problem my Problem?
A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer
and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was
aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap. Retreating to the farm-
yard the mouse proclaimed the warning: "There is a mouse trap in
the house, a mouse trap in the house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said,
"Excuse me, Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but
it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse
trap in the house, a mouse trap in the house!"
"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there
is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my
prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "You say, Mr. Mouse.
A mouse trap? Like I am in grave danger....NOT!"
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected,
to face the farmer's mouse trap alone. That very night a sound was
heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching
its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the
darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail
the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.. The farmer
rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now ev-
eryone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer
took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. His
wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit
with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the
pig. The farmer's wife did not get well and a few days later she passed
away. So many people came for her funeral, that the farmer had the
cow slaughtered, to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem
and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least
of us is threatened, we all may be at risk.

Vedanta Sandesh - July 2010

 Letter of the
Month Viveka & Mukti

Hari Om.

My response to your Reflections :

I thought that since consciousness does not imply action it merely implies awareness,
There is a real Indeed Consciousness just implies awareness, of any action or even non-action.
'me' which is That by which we are aware of all activities is Consciousness.

complete and never then is it possible that the nature of bondage is the belief that i can act? All action is
performs any actions; the product of causal forces with one action leading to another.

however there is also Right. Bondage is basically non-apprehension followed by mis-apprehension of

truth of ourselves and life. Arrogation of doership on ourselves is one of the basic
an illusory 'me', our errors constituting our 'bondage'.
identity of today,
I also read many psychological tests conducted on human action and decision
which alone presses
making have confirmed that decisions are taken at an unconscious level "first" then
the various buttons to they enter the conscious brain. in other words we simply become aware of our
decisions and dont cause them.
initiate and accelerate
Yes, Action is like the proverbial tip of an iceberg. It is a visible manifestation of a
actions. So basically
deeper process - all of the mind, and I am 'that' which not only is conscious of the
the whole exercise in entire process but blesses it too - without any direct involvement.
Self-Realization is to
The way i see if i am just awareness then I may simply be aware of what i am doing
discriminate between as though a film, however given that action is taking place from a certain perspective
these two 'me'. i.e. mine, it is very easy to imagine that I may start to believe that i am causing
everything around me.
- Poojya Guruji
There is a real 'me' which is complete and never performs any actions; however
there is also an illusory 'me', our identity of today, which alone presses the various
buttons to initiate and accelerate actions. So basically the whole exercise in Self-
Realization is to discriminate between these two 'me'. The real and the not-real, the
absolute and the relative, and also understand how the ghost comes about, what
all it can do and does. All sorrows & joys are from his perspective, nothing from the
point of view of real me.

Love & om

Guruji

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 Darkness has only one solution and that is light. Wheather it is darkness in a
room or darkness of the mind and intellect, bringing about some light alone stands
against darkness. That is why the Scriptures truly speak of the Guru as the one
who leads us from darkness to light. This is the reason why a great significance of
having a Guru, a guiding light in one’s life. However rich, famous, and well equiped
a person may be with the best of worldly means, however many our relations may
be yet one cannot deny the valuable need of a Teacher in one’s life. Right from the
basic learning in life to walk, talk and eat to all the specialised knowledge in the
Sri Guru Poornima

objective world, at every step one feels the need to have a Teacher who can teach
him the ways and means of that field. Wheather it is the knowledge of the objective
world or the highly subtle knowledge of the Subjective Self there is no waking
without a Teacher. Infact the knowledge of the Self is so tricky that it is not possible
25th July 2010

to awaken in it without a Sadguru and even if someone manages to study the

scriptures by themselves it will only result in informative knowledge and bloating of
the ego which defeats the very objective of true awakening.
This year as we celebrate Guru Poornima, the auspicious day when we take
the opportunity to offer our reverances and express our devotion and gratitude
towards our beloved Guru let us also try and understand this beautiful relationship
between a Teacher and disciple, between a Guru and a Shishya. Each year we
celebrate Guru Purnima with a lot of overwhelming joy and devotion. We worship
the Divine Lotus Feet with milk, water, flowers, perform the arti and offer sweets.
We do japa and devotionally chant the name of our Sad Guru. We meditate upon
his Holy Feet. We also take the opportunity to go to the ashram of our Guru and
seek his blessings. In this manner each year we celebrate this auspicious day with
faith and devotion. But truly speaking what is the nature of this divine, beautiful,
blessed and very rare relationship. Is a Guru someone who just teaches us the
Scriptures and helps us intellectualy understand the technicalities of the principles
of knowledge, Is he someone who helps us overcome the hurdles of Vedic lan-
guage, Is he someone who invokes some faith and devotion towards an unseen
hand and in turn builds up a divine support for all times to come, or is he that
compassionate hand who is always there to hold us and guide us through the roller
coaster of everyday life. What is the role of a Guru? It is significant to understand
as a disciple too, what is the nature of my relationship with my Master and where
does it culminate? Aa a disciple at the end of the day should I feel blessed and
overwhelmed that I have someone who is spiritually powerful, a friend philosopher
and guide with whom I can share my happiness and sorrows, who is always there
to hold me whenever I stumble and who will take my decisions for me whenever I
am at cross roads.
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 Knowedge Truly wise men or a Sadguru in the real sense gives us an eye opening and
hard hitting but true understanding of this relationship. They say that knowledge
empowers & empowers and liberates. The true test of kowledge is to bring about such an awak-
Liberates. ening in a person that he discovers his own strength and fulfillment within, and is
able to take decisions by himself and live with love, selflessness, enthusiasm and
dedication. All of us have to live our lives by our own self. A teacher can make us
understand the fundamental principles of knowledge of the truth of life, the truth of
the Self, about Righteousness, about the Law of Karma etc. but ultimately it is our
own self who has to stand in the battlefield of life and take our own decisions. We
are responsible for all the happiness and sorrow that we face in life. Once in the
field we will stumble, fall, make mistakes, that’s all part of the journey and growing
too. Hence a Guru in the true sense will aim to invoke such pottential in his disciple
from within. A genuine teacher will never cripple the student’s capacity to think for
himself by spoonfeeding him with do’s and dont’s all the time. If at all any Guru in
Right teachers the name of compassion, love and wisdom always makes the disciple hold on to
them he makes the student dependant on him for life, blocking his growth for good.
not only share This may ultimately only satisfy the ego of such unwise guides of having a good
their wisdom but following. J. Krishnamurtiji gives an indepth thought to say that even if one says that
a teacher should be a role model, it is blocking his freedom and creativity. Is there
see to it that their
freedom in making one rose look
students dare to like another. Every flower has its
take their own fragrance so as a teacher one
must give the freedom for the fower
d e c i s i o n s
to blossom with his own colour
themselves -right and fragrance. Fundamental prin-
or wrong ciples of life dont change for any
one but the ex- pression of life is
- Poojya Guruji uniquie to ev- ery person and that ex-
pression should not be im-
posed. Infact when a person aims to become like someone it brings about a subtle
fear of success or failure to become like the other. It brings about a conflict of what
one is and what one should be. A teacher’s role is to free the student of all
conditionings. The real role of the teacher is to share their knowledge in an ambi-
ence of mutual love and respect. Having unfolded the fundamental principles, then
let the student dare to take their own decisions. This alone was the vision and spirit
of the Gita. Lord Krishna explains the fundamentals of Dharma, the goal of life, its
means etc and then finally tells “Oh Arjuna! yathechhasi tathaa kuru.” Do as you
deem fit. Thus giving Arjuna a mature stand to take his own decisions.
Ths is our beautiful tradion. Our Guru-Shishya parampara. salutations to our
empowering and liberating tradition.

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 Things We Can Learn From A Dog

Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.

Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.

When loved ones come home, always run to greet

them.

Eat with gusto and enthusiasm.

If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.

Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your

face to be pure ecstasy.

Be loyal.

Run, romp and play daily.

When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close

by and nuzzle them gently.

Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.

When you're happy, dance around and wag

your entire body.

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 Stories from
Shiv Purana Pushpadanta: Shivji’s Attendant
Pushpadanta was one of Shiva`s principal attendants.

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Parvati the concort of Mahadeva had propitiated her lord by her celestial

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strains. Shiva was pleased by her adulations and he proffered her whatever boon

me she might request. Her only demand was to receive instruction from his lips, and to

a ti hear from him such narrations as were yet unknown to the immortals or herself.
Shiva, giving orders that no person should be admitted, proceeded to reveal to the
goddess those narratives which illustrate the happiness of the gods, the troubles
of mankind, and the intermediate and varying conditions of the spirits of earth and
heaven.

Pushpadanta came to the palace gate and was refused admission by the
warder. He was a great favourite with his master, lord Shiva and had always-ready
access to his person. The rejection excited Pushpadanta astonishment and curios-
ity; and, rendering himself invisible, he passed in, determined to ascertain why
entrance was so rigorously barred. In this manner he came close to the place
where lord Shiva and Bhavani or Parvati were seated. He over-heard all the mar-
velous stories repeated by the deity. When these were concluded, he retired as he
had entered unobserved by anyone. Pushpadanta went back home and communi-
cated the narrative to his wife Jaya it being impossible to keep wealth or secrets
from a woman. Jaya, equally unable to preserve silence, communicated what she
had heard to her fellow attendants on Parvati. The affair soon became known to
the goddess Parvati and her lord Shiva.

Pushpadanta was condemned to a human birth, as the punishment of im-

pertinence. His friend Malyavan, who was presumed to intercede for him, was also
damned from human birth. After a due interval Pushpadanta was born at Kausambi
as Vararuchi, and when arrived at years of discretion found the goblin, recollecting
his origin, repeated to him the seven great narratives of Shiva, each comprehend-
ing a hundred thousand verses.

There is mythical story of the life of Pushpadanta, who was the worshipper
of Shiva. Pushpadanta was a great scholar and poet, and a disciple of the philoso-
pher Sankara. He wanted to write a deep philosophical poem celebrating Shiva,
the object of his devotion. Pushpadanta spend many years of hard work in prepar-
ing poems. Pushpadanta was very proud of his work. When he had finished writing
the poems he presented it to the Lord Shiva in the temple, with great flourish.
Shiva just glanced through the collection of poems and was not satisfied. He asked
Pushpadanta to throw the collection of poems into the mouth of Nandi, the bull.
Pushpadanta was very confused and astonished. There, to his great surprise, he
found every verse of his poem, on the teeth of Nandi, engraved in tiny letters.
Shiva explained to Pushpadanta that the verses were written long ago. Pushpadanta
was a mere instrument. Pushpadanta attained omniscience after four months of
rigorous spiritual practices and had about eighty-eight disciples. The emblem of
Lord Pushpadanta is Dolphin.

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 June’10 VM / VA Programs
Sadhana Camp At Rishikesh:
A six days Sadhana Camp was very satisfactorily organized at Swami
Dayananda Ashram, Rishikesh from 7th to 12th June 2010.
The camp featured two intense sessions in the morning where Poojya
Guruji gave discourses on Kaivalya Upanishad. He revealed that Kaivalya is
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the state of being one non-dual divinity embracing everything. This Atharva
Veda Upanishad is a dialogue between Brahmaji and a well-known & cutured
person called Ashvalayana.
The evening session after tea were taken by Pujya Swamini
Amitanandaji where P. Swamiji took Gita Chapter 3. Pujya Swaminiji also
taught chanting of Ganga Stotram and Lingashtakam and briefly explained
their meaning too.

Cultural Activities At Sadhana Camp At Rishikesh:

During the Camp various highly engrossing & inspiring cultural activi-
ties were also organized, which included Ganga Puja, Ganga Snana,
Parthivlinga Puja, Bhajan Antakshari etc.

Parthiv Linga Puja:

On the second day of the camp all the devotees gathered at the
Ganga Ghat which is accessable from the Ashram premises. Everyone very
lovingly made the Parthiv lingum and then in the presence of Pujya Guruji
and Pujya Swamiji puja and abhishek was done very lovingly by all the devo-
tees.

Deep-Daan in Gangaji:
After the Parthiv-linga puja, all the devotees offered prayers unto
Gangaji and offered Deepa’s - lamps to her. This is called Deepa-Daan. The
ladies prepared the lamps very lovingly earlier, with flowers, kapoor, cotton
bati etc. This is an expression of your gratitude to the mother for her ever-
flowing blessings.
Few days in the evening there was Bhajans and Question & Answers,
while on other days there were other interesting activities like Bhajan
Antakshari and Garba dance. People who were not opening up earlier opened
up very nicely in Antakshari and we had a tough competition from both the
groups. Finally it was a tie. One day it was Garba dance, and was initiated
by devotees from Gujarat, thereafter everyone joined, and then we had dif-
ferent flavors of Garba dances which may not be called Garba by others.

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 June’10 VM / VA Programs
Pada-Puja, Rishikesh:
As per our tradition Guru Pujan is done on the last day, and one of
the campers is selected to represent everyone for doing the Puja. This year
it was Ketanbhai Dasadia from Bhavnagar. He attended such a camp for
the first time, and was visibly moved by the entire experience.
Vedanta Mission / Ashram Programs

The whole puja was directed by Poojya Swamini Amitanandaji. After

the elaborate Pada-Puja all the devotees got an opportunity to talk about
their Camp experience. Everyone was very benefitted by the whle camp,
and were rather overwhelmed. There were many first-timers and it was a
great experience for them. No one had experienced anything like this ear-
lier in their lives, was what they said.

Poojya Guruji arrives in Russia, Moscow:

Poojya Guruji arrived at Moswos Airport on the afternoon of 18th
June by Aeroflot flight. Earlier due to the late coming in of Indore-Delhi flight
he missed his flight on 17th and so had to catch flight the next day. So he
spent one day at Delhi, and enjoyed the hospitality of Amit Dave.
The flight to Moscow was comfortable and took 6 hours. At the Air-
port he was recieved by Brni Divya Chaitanya and Sergey Didenko, his
official host. They took an Express Train to Metro Rail station in Central
Moscow, and from there immediately took the tube to another Railway Sta-
tion from where they caught the train to Balakova. There he was met by
Sammy & Andy Kotwani, two brothers who are very succcessful business-
men of Moscow. The train to Balakova was of 22 hours.

Guruji at Balakova, Russia:

At the Balakova Railway Station the group of four people was recieved
by Irena an her husband Alec. Irena is a well-known businesswomen of the
city and is also the owner of the well-known Arabika Coffee House. There a
grand lunch was waiting them, which had including other things, Indian
Samosa’s and Naan’s. Irena took all of them to her Summer House on the
banks of River Volga, the Russian Ganga.
This was our Camping site, and is well-equipped and very quiet &
beautiful. Here regular classes of Kena Upanishad were started for Divya
Chaitanya, and general Satsang for others. Texts like Drg-Dryshya Viveka
were also started. Poojya Guruji has regular question & answer sessions for
others, which Brni Divya translates. Occasionally they have dip in Volga which
is great.

Check out the detailed Photo Albums of the various functions on

VM News Blog at : http://vmissionews.blogspot.com/
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 Quotes

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and
successfully." -Tryon Edwards

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat
for a lifetime." -Unknown

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

-Thomas Carruthers

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the
spoon." -Edward Morgan Forster

"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to
live." -Michel Eyquem deMontaigne

"The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liber-
ates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can im-
part. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were be-
fore." -Stephen Neill

"The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and
such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imita-
tion." -Stephen Neill

Vedanta Sandesh - July 2010

 Forthcoming Programs

Poojya Guruji’s Trip to Russia:

Poojya Guruji left for Russia for a month on 18th June and will return to India on 18th
of July. He will be back just before Guru Poornima. A month long Camp of and for Br Divya
Chaitanya, the Russian student of P.Guruji will be conducted there. Poojya Guruji plans to
take Kena Upanishad for her there, alongwith Sankara Bhashya.

International Congress of Advaita Vedanta, Moscow:

An All Russia International Congress of Advaita Vedanta has been organised in Mos-
cow by Advaita Vedanta Congress Organising Committee from 14th to 16th July. They have
requested P. Guruj to bless them with a talk at the International Congress.

Sanyas Deeksha of Brni Divya Chaitanya in Russia:

Poojya Guruji will be present at the Vedanta Ashram for Guru Poornima celebrations on
25th of July. He will be back at the Ashram by 19th July. Special Poojas will be conducted, first
of the Padukas of Bhagwan Sri Sankaracharya and then of Poojya Guruji. The main puja will
be organized at 9.30 AM.

Gita Gyana Yagna, Bhavnagar:

Poojya Swamini Amitanandaji will be conducting a Gyan Yagna at Shri Ramdas Ashram
at Bhavnagar from the 1st to the 10th of July’10. In the morning P. Swaminiji will give dis-
courses on the first Valli of Kathopanishad. In the evening pravachans will be held on Sri
Hanuman Chalisa.

Guru Poornima Celebrations at Ashram, Indore:

Poojya Guruji will be present at the Vedanta Ashram for Guru Poornima celebrations
on 25th of July. He will be back at the Ashram by 19th July. Special Poojas will be conducted,
first of the Padukas of Bhagwan Sri Sankaracharya and then of Poojya Guruji. The main puja
will be organized at 9.30 AM.

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