Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Hiranyagharba Lingam Manifested (Golden Lingam)

Sri Swami Vishwananda gave birth to the Hiranyagharba Lingam (Golden Lingam) at 2pm on the 30th November 2009.

If you would like to see pictures of it follow the link below:
http://swamivishwananda-info.blogspot.com/2009/11/swamiji-manifested-golden-lingam.html

So what is the Hiranyagharba Lingam:

Well, according to the Vedas the Hiranyagharba is the primordial being, the primeval seed from which Brahma was born. According to Manu, Hiranyagharba was Brahma, the first male, formed by the indiscernible First Cause in a golden egg resplendent as the sun. Having continued one year in the egg, Brahma then divided it into two parts by his mere thought and with these two shells he formed the heavens and the earth and in the middle he placed the sky, the eight regions and the eternal abode of the waters."

"Brahma is depicted as growing out of the navel lotus of Narayana and is a metaphor for all of creation. Brahma is a name for the principle which creates all of the manifest realms. In the Vedas the term "Brahma" does not appear. It is a word that stems from the Sanskrit word "Brih" which means "to grow" or "to expand." In this way Brahma has become synonymous with Hiranyagharba, "The golden egg of creation."

Some of the things that Vishwananda shared with usregarding the lingam go beyond human understanding. The golden egg of creation simply cannot be completely understood. But Swamiji did remark that "the lingam does not appear just like that without any purpose. Its presence gives the world a greater balance. Seen from God's perspective, this 'interference' is only minimal (God doesn't greatly interfere with his own creation), but for the world it does matter."
The golden lingam is said to have great healing powers. Even just a picture of the golden lingam can bring about a transformation within. But for the most part, the Hiranyagharba lingam goes beyond explanation and understanding.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

October Insights

During his last Darshan on October the third 2009 Sri Swami Vishwananda gave answer to an interesting question:

Last week somebody asked “Swamiji, have you ever seen God?” The answer is Yes, not only one time, but actually everyday. Everyday I see the Divine Mother and I see God in all beings which breathe, because He is inside of them. So the Darshan of the Divine is ever present. If you have the eyes to see that, you will see. That’s what Christ said no?

Where does the multitude of beings all around come from? Does it not come from God? And where are they all going? They are going towards God. Some say we are doomed, which I don’t believe at all. We make ourselves doomed. We make ourselves being miserable. When we are far away from the light, we are in darkness. We have the choice: If you want to be in the light, you will see the light. But if you refuse to see the light , don’t complain that you are not seeing the light. If you sit in the dark room and say “It’s dark, it’s dark” and you don’t want to move to the next room, where there is light, then why do you complain? So the same thing: the Divine is ever present. If you want to see the Divine, you will see, it but you have to be sincere in your want. Many people say” Yes, Swamiji I want to see the Divine, but… it’s difficult.” Well, just by knowing that the Divine is ever present, you will have the Darshan of the Divine.

Like I said once: It's not by seeing a light, that you call that light the Divine. It’s good if He comes in the form of the light. Be happy about it. But yet the light has a limit. The Ultimate doesn’t have a limit. You are breathing the Ultimate. You are living in the Ultimate. You are part of the Ultimate and this is the real Darshan of the Divine. There is no use looking for something which has a limit. It is inside of you. So: Yes, everyday you have Darshan of the Divine with each person that you meet, each work that you are doing, you are serving the Divine and if you just say to yourself “Yes, I see the Divine Mother everyday in every being”, you will see the Divine Mother in every being.

Having recently returned from Germany after spending time with Sri Swami Vishwananda celebrating Navaratri, it was a truly beautiful experience and time, sharing those moments with Him.

The one thing I always see is how much Swami just gives and gives. There were over 200 people staying at the centre in Germany and as you can imagine everyone wanted to spend time with Swami. However no matter how many people He had already chatted to or seen that day He always had a smile for the next person. Navaratri was an experience like never before. It is the celebration of the Divine Mother over a 9 day period and without going into detail about the actual celebration I rather want to share my experiences with everyone out there.

Each day we celebrated from around 6pm till on average 1am. Now normally one would sit there and think when is the prayer ending or have other thoughts. However Divine Mother's energy could be felt so strong and I knew she was with us. My mind was clear and all I could focus on was Her, Her love and Her grace. It is something until now if someone had said this to me I would not have been able to understand. But after my experience and feeling Divine Mother around me I ask Her to always be with me. Her energy is soft and gentle with so much love. A couple of the nights at the end of the prayers it felt like we all had been transported to a Lokka the abodes of the Gods and Demi Gods. It was so beautiful as we sang, danced and prayed with the Divine Mother each night.

I urge all of you to sit down in a moment of silence and call the Divine Mother, look inside your heart and you will find her. I urge this so you may share the experience of love I found over Navaratri with Divine Mother, have Darshan of Divine Mother and move into the light.

Swami’s trip is coming closer and I spoke to Him about it, He is really excited to be coming to South Africa and sends everyone His love. During November we will be communicating Swami Schedule to you, Darshan dates and times and the News Years eve celebration with Him.

We hope to see you all soon at the Temple and if you would like to help with Swami trip in December please contact me so you can get involved.

Much Love

Thursday, 3 September 2009

September Insights

September, spring is coming which means growth of the new and the death of the old has passed. Just as the seasons come and go, so do we flow with them. As we move into spring and then summer we begin to blossom inside and grow towards our true self. We begin to open like a lotus flower, no matter how much dirt surrounds us we can grow to be the most beautiful flower that radiates trueness and grace. We have recently put our website for the temple live. It has information on events the temple and multimedia from some of the events that have taken place: http://www.narasimha.co.za/

This month we focus on Atma Kriya and messages from Mahavatar Kriya Babaji to all of us:“The Atma Kriya given to Swami Vishwananda contains the keys to freedom of the soul taking flight, riding upon the golden wings of Garuda, Vishnu's vahana, that takes the soul to the heights of Divinity and the realms of Narayana and Maha Lakshmi, the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother. Those souls who are poised upon this pinnacle of Divine Timing presently are divinely inspired and will take Atma Kriya home to freedom, enlightenment. And so it is written, and so it is!” —Mahavatar Kriya Babaji.

Atma Kriya is a highly effective yoga practise anchored in an ancient tradition, but adapted to the modern life. It has been passed down from Mahavatar Kriya Babaji to Sri Swami Vishwananda. It is an invitation to take one of the greatest human journeys anyone possibly can – a journey to the Centre of Your Being. This place is called Atma. Atma is the Sanskrit name for your Soul, it is who you Really Are, it is what you Truly Represent and it is the source of your Highest Potential. For those that have done Atma Kriya you have felt its beauty, felt its ability to free your soul from the bonds of time. Atma Kriya will open the heart so you can begin to flow with unconditional love. The opening of the heart and becoming unconditional love is our true purpose and who we really are.

"I am coming closer to humanity than ever before at this time in Earth’s history. Why? Because it is Divine Timing that I do so! So It Is Written. From time immemorial man has lived upon the Earth in various levels of consciousness or awareness. As time progresses in each Yuga or age, enlightenment occurs in Divine timing. So it is that in the present age of Kali Yuga the Divine has given Kriya meditation as a vehicle capable of raising one's consciousness into higher levels of vibration. Now is such a time when Kriya will take one to the heights of the Gods as has been recorded in scriptures left on this planet by the Gods who come to live among man to assist in his awakening in each age."

I am one who exists in obscurity to the unaware eyes of man but contiguously lives with man on the planet throughout the ages to assist with this process of man's freedom from the cycle of birth and death and the reincarnational wheel. Never before have I come as close to unenlightened man as I now am offering myself to the disciples of Swami Vishwananda. In times past, I have worked with the Prophets or Enlightened ones of mankind, who then take my message of Living Light of Love to the rest of humanity. It is within the Divine Plan that I am coming closer to all mankind at this time through Atma Kriya and in general. Let it be so.” — Mahavatar Kriya Babaji.


We are having a Atma Kriya course in December 2009. I have also attached an overview Atma Kriya. If you would like to know more please email at info@narasimha.co.za I shall leave you with words from some of my students who recently did Atma Kriya

"MY EXPERIENCES GAVE ME GREATER EFFORTLESS ACTS OF FORGIVING AND SPONTANEOUS FEELINGS OF LOVE, SO MUCH THAT I INVOLUNTARY SHED TEARS WHENEVER I COME ACROSS ANY SELFLESS ACTS IN REALITY OR EVEN IN MOVIES , TV BROADCASTING ETC. I FEEL MORE HAPPY AND JOYFUL EVEN FOR NO REASON AT ALL."

"ON 17 AUGUST 2009 AFTER HAVING DONE THE COURSE ON THE WEEKEND AND HAVING STARTED THE 40 DAY MEDITATION, AS I WAS SLEEPING, I 'DREAMT' THAT SOMEONE WAS NEXT TO MY BED AND GENTLY BLOWING INTO MY RIGHT EAR (AS YOU DID, FOR THE INITIATION ON OUR THIRD EYES). IT WAS EXTREMLY VIVID AND REAL."

Much Love Dhanam Jay

Friday, 31 July 2009

August Insights

Jai Guru Dev to everyone as we move into the wonderful month of August. June and July were two extremely busy months as they saw the culmination of months of planning. We officially opened our new Temple in Johannesburg, had Sri Swami Vishwananda visit us here in South Africa doing various prayers and giving Darshan and we experienced a almost unbelievably amazing Guru Purnima dedicated to Mahavatar Kriya Babaji. Moving forward into the rest of the year as spring slowly creeps its way into our lives we continue with the uplifting and enlightening movement of love and God Realisation.

This month sees some wonderful events taking place at the Temple: we have Krishna Janmastami (a celebration of the appearance of Lord Krishna) on the 14th August, Atma Kriya Course on the 15th and 16th August, Om Healing every Sunday of the month, Satsang on Thursday evenings and Abishek to Lord Narasimha every Saturday morning.

As this is the month to celebrate Lord Krishna we decided to change the format a bit. Below are two extracts that are most beautiful and enlightening in their words and power. The first narration was spoken by Sri Krishna to His close friend Uddhava. They are some of the most beautiful words every recorded and are a guide and marker for attaining liberation in this life time…

- Hear me, O Uddhava, as I tell you the secret of spiritual enlightenment....

- In each and every age Satsanga is the supreme means of salvation....

- The gopis who tended the cows and kept me company in childhood, the wives of the brahmins of Vrindavana, and countless others.

- None of these studied the scriptures, and they never served the great saints, or observed any vows or austerities. Yet through their association with me or with saints, sages and my devotees, they attained liberation.

- The gopis who tended the cows, even the cows, antelopes, serpents and trees, all reached ecstatic union with the One through satsanga....

- When I was taken away from Vrindavana with my brother Balarama, the gopis, because of their love for me were bereft of joy.

- The days and nights with me in Vrindavana passed like moments, but the days and nights of my absence seemed like years.

- With their minds fixed on me, with all their thoughts revolving around me, they were no longer conscious of relatives and friends, they were not even aware of their own bodies, much less of this world or the next.


- Like Yogies in a deeply meditative state, they merged their consciousness with mine, just as the waters of many rivers merge with the ocean.

- These were women uneducated in scriptural law, they did not know my true nature or their own.They simply desired my presence, they longed for me as their beloved.


- Yet through the power of satsanga with me they attained that state of consciousness in which they merged with the supreme Brahman.

- You should do likewise, beloved Uddhava. Give up all injunctions and prohibitions,All that you have heard or may hear related to scriptural do's and don'ts.

- Take shelter in your heart, there seek the Self. Do this with complete devotion and freed from all fear you too will surely merge with me.

From the Uddhava Gita 7.1,5-15
(Bhagavata Purana XI.7.1,5-15)


The Last piece for this month is a beautiful Sanskrit poem that talks about the glories of Lord Hari’s name

Shri Kevalastakam
An Anonymous sanskrit Poem

(1)

madhuram madhurebhyo ‘pi
mangalebhyo ‘pi mangalam
pavanam pavanebhyo ‘pi
harer namaiva kevalam

1) More sweet than all other sweet things; more auspicious than all other auspicious things; the greatest purifier of all purifying things—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(2)

abrahma-stamba-paryantam
sarvam maya-mayam jagat
satyam satyam puna satyam
harer namaiva kevalam

2) The entire universe, from exalted Brahma down to the lowly clump of grass, is a product of the illusory energy of the supreme Lord. The only thing that is reality, reality, again I say reality—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything

(3)

sa guru sa pita capi
sa mata bandhavo ‘pi sa
siksayec cet sada smartum
harer namaiva kevalam

3) That person is a true preceptor, or a true father, a true mother, and a true friend also only if they teach one to always remember—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(4)

nihsvase nahi visvasa
kada ruddho bhavisyati
kirtaniya mato balyad
harer namaiva kevalam

4) There is no certainty when the last breath will come and put an abrupt halt to all one’s material plans; therefore it is wise to always practice chanting from very childhood—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(5)

hari sada vaset tatra
yatra bhagavata jana
gayanti bhakti-bhavena
harer namaiva kevalam

5) Lord Hari eternally dwells in that place where truly exalted, spiritually advanced souls sing in the mood of pure devotion—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(6)aho duhkham maha-duhkham
duhkhad duhkhataram yata
kacartham vismrtam ratna-
harer namaiva kevalam

6) Aho! What a sorrow, what a great sorrow! More painful than any other misery in the world! Mistaking it as a mere piece of glass, the people have forgotten this jewel—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(7)diyatam diyatam karno
niyatam niyatam vaca
giyatam giyatam nityam
harer namaiva kevalam

7) It should be heard again and again with one’s ears; It should be uttered over and over with one’s voice; It should be perpetually sung and sung anew—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.

(8)

trni-krtya jagat sarvam
rajate sakalopari
cid-ananda-mayam suddham
harer-namaiva kevalam

8) It makes the entire universe seem insignificant as a blade of grass; it splendrously reigns supreme over all; it is full of eternally conscious divine ecstasy; it is supremely pure—The holy name of Sri Hari alone is everything.


Lots of Love
Dhanam Jay

Thursday, 30 July 2009

Is it easier being a Christian, Muslim or Hindu???

The reason I ask this question is Christians and Muslims have one God really to believe in. Christians have God and well Jesus made it clear that he was the son of God. Even if you think that Jesus is God then that leaves you with still one prospect as Jesus and God are basically one and the same. The same with the Muslims they have Allah and it is clear for them that Allah is the Supreme. Hindu’s on the other hand well the options to choose from are vast and many. Each scripture can be taken and used to justify whatever aspect you decide to follow to be the Supreme and the pinnacle. Throughout History people have taken a verse or couple of versus to say that the one I follow is the Supreme. Is that a justification for their ego or is that to help others find the path to salvation.

This is not however isolated to just the Hindu’s as all religions do the same and propagate that if one does follow this aspect or that aspect you are damned or not going anywhere. Has all this justification bred judgement that because I follow x or y I am better than you.

Surely that goes against what God actually had in mind for us from the beginning. Unity and Love and an understanding that we are all one, an understanding that if I judge my fellow human I am in fact judging myself and God for that matter.

It would be wonderful for someone to send down a memo from God that said you know what, I finally reached my dear Lord Hari and low and behold everyone from all beliefs was with Him. I was so expecting that one or the other group would be sitting outside His fence because they believed in someone else but wow it would seem that They are all His Aspects are all the Supreme.

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Eclipse 6th August 2009

So in the space of 2 months the world will experience 3 eclipses. What is the significance of these eclipses, should we avoid looking at them and what should / can we do to negate any effects if there are any?

Today the 22nd July the 21st century’s longest solar eclipse occurred. It mainly occurred over India, Pakistan and Asia at about 5:58am (Pakistan time) and ended approximately five hours later at 11:12am when it began when the moon blocked out the sun.

From a media report, ISLAMABAD: The longest full solar eclipse of this century will blot out the sun today (Wednesday) as it passes over Pakistan and other countries.What is a solar eclipse? A solar eclipse occurs when the moon’s orbit moves between the Earth and the Sun so that the Sun is fully or partially obstructed.

The short space of time that sees the three eclipses is significant as the last time this occurred major change happened in society. The phenomenon is said to have occurred just before the 1st and second world war. Tracing it back there is evidence that it occurred before other such major events in history.

Should you avoid looking at the eclipse and going outside while it is taking place…. YES!!
To negate any affects of the eclipse you should meditate on the 6th August to neutralize any affects it has.

See the 3rd of the eclipses has a purpose and if we trace back to what occurred just after the last one world war 2 we can see that it has a duality to it. What is the duality?
The third eclipse is here to deal with the negativity of the world in which we live. If you stay inside and mediate during or on the 6th the eclipse shall relieve you of your negativity. However as the world in which we live is a duality if you go and look at the eclipse you will be burdened with negativity.

So please try your hardest to avoid looking at or being outside during the eclipse on the 6th August.
The next one on the 6th will happen at the times below: IST is Indian standard time.

4.37 hrs IST in the early morning and ends at 7.49 hrs IST

If you need to convert IST to your time click on the link below and you can then make choose your country and city to see the time difference.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html?cities=176,1661,269,168,136,179,106

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Words to live by

Here are some beautiful words that we all should digest and learn to live ;-)))