Vishwabhanu June July 2014

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JUNE JULY 2014VOLUME 2 - ISSUE 2014

Vishawa BhanuVishawa BhanuVishawa BhanuVishawa Bhanu

IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial - THE TIME FOR OFFERING

Sandeepani Sishuvihar New admissions

Gurupoornima

Other Prorammes in the !ampus

Two da" Rama"ana para"anam # Spreadin Rama"ana $rom house to

house

Reulars a!tivities

Sri Rama%rishna-The &est o$ 'vatars (r)M) *a%shmi +umari)

fearless and full of

love

A Bi-monthly bulletin o Vi!e"#n#n$# %en$ Ve$i' Vi(ion )oun$#tion


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From the Editors penFrom the Editors penFrom the Editors penFrom the Editors pen

This is the time our Motherland was waiting for long.

We must hurry up lest our chance is lost for ever? How long would she

wait, this dear Motherland of ours for her children to wake up from the

slumber from ignorance from their worthless dissipating pre occupations?

How long can she go abegging to feed her children? Others laugh at her,

throw mud at her, call her mad. n a fren!y they tear her clothes apart.

"et, no curse, ever escapes her lips. #he only smiles and hangs her head.

Her own coffers are full, her soils riche, her wealth untapped, yet her chil$

dren go without food or go elsewhere to eke out a living.

Her mountain%s streams and forests resound with music, eternal melodies

flowing down from far off centuries, yet ever fresh, sweet and invigourat$

ing. &ut alas, her children have no ears. They dance to alien tunes.

They have all the time to gobble up facts and figures and to pose as

knowledgeable, yet have no time left to take a sip from the cup of nectar

that Mother holds in her hands'

Her clothes are torn and tattered. &ut who can weave today that e()uisite

garment of unity with diversity, strength with delicacy, beauty with utility?

Who knows the magic of mi(ing all the colours up to produce that intense

glow of white, the colour of love?

#weetness still pervades her countryside, her villages and the dwellings of

the poor and oppressed. "et on the surface, nothing but the all devouring

currents of cruelty, violence and gross indifference to the values of life.

Which temple will ring its bells to herald the arrival of the new era? *rom

whose orchards $ will the springs of new life sprout? *rom where will thecall come again, from the shores of +anyakumari or the heights of the

Himalayas.?

rgency is in the air. Time for offering is nearing. Where are her children

who would renounce their all for her sake, who would wipe her tears,

clothe her fresh in a mantle of love, compassion and harmony? Who would

give her back her golden sceptre and reinstate her on her throne of -ter$

nal lory?

The dawn is breaking, still we continue to sleep on. We are busy building

temples in brick and mortar, but refuse to build them in our hearts where

they should truly be. We are not ready with our offering.


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continued...................continued...................continued...................continued...................

We are not ready to make any sacrifices nor to transform ourselves ever so

slightly. /ike the proverbial donkey, we are busy carrying the load of sandal$

wood on our backs.

sn%t it time to spread the message of love, compassion and tolerance? sn%t it

time to serve the lowest and the lowliest, for, there the Mother has taken her

shelter now? sn%t it time renounce selfishness, self aggrandi!ement, domina$

tion in the name of caste, creed and se( and hundreds of false, degrading,

self annihilating notions?

t is time to wash away the humilating encrustations on the body of our Moth$

er, The time has come to make an offering of the whole of our lives.

The 0ltar is ready, Mother is waiting.

1enunciation and #ervice are the offerings2 3iscipline and #elf$

transformation, the watchwords. nity in 3iversity is the theme, Harmony

and 4eace the goal. Hard work and dedication the rule.

The conch shell is sounding. /et us hurry up lest the time for offering slip by

once again.


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2nd June, was a very special day

for the new comers of Sandeepani Sishu-vihar.

It was their first day of school

for the toddlers. A total of eight chil-

dren came along with their parents in

the morning. UK students, eight of

them too were present with their par-

ents. After admission, a short prayer !ythe UK students started the day. "ar-

ents meeting with #idi, and the teach-

ers, Kumari $indu, Smt Jaya and Smt

Anita, continued for an hour. %hildren

were led to their class room where #idi

lit the lamp and welcomed all of them.

NEW COMERS LKG N! UKG"RENTS MEET

UKG CHIL!REN LE!ING THE "R#ER

!I!I LIGHTING THE LM" ON THE

$IRST !# O$ SHISHU%IHR


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&n '(th July )ive*ananda Kendra offered

!hi*sha to +evered Swami Adhyatmanandai ofSam!odh oundation, hiruvananthapuram. /e

came with (0 students for whom he was conducting

a spiritual study course for 0' days at a place

called 1oohi*ulam, 34 *m from Kodungallur.

After the initial introduction, Swamii ad-

dressed the gathering which included our local well

-wishers also, on the importance of sadhana of

formless ruth as also the need for worshipping

od in various forms. /e used two stanas from$hagavad ita chapters 5 and 4 to clarify points.

ollowing Swamii6s tal* 1ananeeya 7a*shmi

#idi spo*e on Swami )ive*ananda6s message to the

individual, to the 8ation and to humanity at large.

She used three imageries to emphasie the points,

that of light man, of a sculptor and lastly planned

how he released the world religions from the cages

in which they are *ept and allowed them to fly to

the infinite freedom of ruth.

'5th and '9th July mar*ed the 'st

and 2nd day of +amayana month coincid-ing with the 'st and 2nd days of the

month of Kar*ata*am. his year there

was an e:tensive programme of two days

in which well-*nown +amayana devotees -

Shri %ha*rapani ;arriar and Smt Suma,

read through the whole of +amayana.

Sessions started from 9.3< in the morn-

ing and went on up to =.3< in the evening,

with short tea-lunch !rea*s. A num!er of

local well-wishers too* part in the paraya-

nam session. It was a novel e:perience

for some who had never had an opportuni-

ty to read the +amayana fully.

As usual Kumari $indu and her

group have started visiting different

houses for +amayana Satsanga as part of

their month long programme

1.>d. students of "alpu 1emorial %ol-

lege came to visit )ive*ananda Kendra on 3rd

and (th July as a part of a proect wor*

which they were re?uired to complete on a

local institution. hey found )ive*ananda

Kendra an ideal place where different man-

ma*ing nation@!uilding "rogrammes are going

on. All of them saw )ishwa $hanu our

1ural painting >:hi!ition on Swami

)ive*ananda and collected whatever ma-

terial they needed for their proect

wor* through discussions with the

inmates and literature availa!le in our

li!rary.

Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, whenever virtue subsides and vice prevailsI come down to help mankind.


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In the evening Sri .+. +amanathan of "aravur, an advocate !y profession and well-*nown

for his profound erudition and great oratory, spo*e on Buha uru Su!rahmanya Swami CKarti*eyanD

and *ept the audience spell!ound. 8early a hundred people attended the programme

At '< a.m. there was a get together of

all the yoga varga mem!ers, eighteen of

them, some of whom are wor*ing as yoga

teachers in different schools in and aroundKodungallur. 1ananeeya 7a*shmi #idi e:-

plained a!out the significance of Buru "aram-

para down the ages namely, 8arayana,

"adma!huva, )asistha, Sa*ti, "arashara,

)yasa and Shu*a and how Sage )yasa codified

all the divine *nowledge which the previous

seers had passed on to their respective disci-

ples orally, It was on this day that the great

sage )yasa was said to have !een !orn, hence

this day is cele!rated as )yasa6s ayanthi all

over India as a mar* of respect for the great

saint who is addressed as B)ishala !uddhi6 in

the $hagavad ita. %hanting of the uru Sto-

tra and pushparchana were part of this two

hour programme.

&n the auspicious occasion of

urupoornima, a day long programme was ar-

ranged at Aanda dham. anapathi /omam andSri %ha*ra "ua were conducted in the

#a*shina auditorium of Anandadham in the

morning hours.


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+egular study classes on Sri 7alitha Sahasra 8amam !y Sri 7.

irish*umar were conducted on 29th and 24th June and 2=th

and 25th July.

Samskar varga went on well at two places with =

children attending the Sunday morning classes at

Anandadham and with '0 children at )inya*apuram,

near Karur madam every month.

'0 ladies and 4 gents were present for yoga satras during June cand July. = lady participants

and 5 gents attendedoga varga.

REGULAR ACTIVITIES

!isitors to "nanda #ham

Sri arit Kumar $aneree from Uttarpara, ;est $engal

Swami Annapurnananda from +.K.1ission /ome of Service, )aranasi

Sri Sadashivam from amilnadu,


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Ehe time was ripe for one to !e !orn,

the em!odiment of !oth head and heart,

the time was ripe for one to !e !orn,

who in one !ody would have the !rilliant

intellect of Shan*ara and the wonderful-

ly e:pansive, infinite heart of %haitanyaA

one who would see in every sect the

same spirit wor*ing, the same odA one

who would see od in every !eing, onewhose heart would weep for the poor,

for the wea*, for the outcast, for the

downtrodden, for everyone in the world,

inside India or outside IndiaA and at the

same time whose grand !rilliant intellect

would conceive of such no!le thoughts as

would harmonise all conflicting sects, not

only in India !ut outside of India, and

!ring a marvellous harmony, the universal

religion of head and heart into e:ist-

ence.F

hat is how Swami )ive*ananda in-

troduced his 1aster Sri +ama*rishna "ar-

amahamsa in his famous lecture on Bhe

Sages of India6. o Swamii, he was the!est of avatars whom he worshipped as

one who came to esta!lish #harma, who

was also an em!odiment of all #harma.

hat is a !eautiful theme for contempla-

tion which ta*es one !ac* to the words of

Sri Krishna in the $hagavad ita,

Ewhenever virtue su!sides and vice pre-

vails I come down to help man*indF. In his

remar*a!ly, elevating lecture on 1y 1as-

ter, Swamii recalls these words and adds

that E whenever this world of ours, on

account of growth, on account of added

circumstances, re?uires a new adustment,

a wave of power comes and as a man is

acting on two planes, the spiritual and the

material, waves of adustment come on

!oth planes.F

he world he lived in saw in him anordinary priest of the Kali temple at

#a*shineswar. $ut +ani +asmani who !uilt

the temple and her son-in-law 1athur!a!u,

who managed the temple, could find in him

none other than the worshipful 1other

Kali herself. 8o wonder, they !ecame the

instruments for the enactment of the di-

vine drama at the Kali temple, which made

#a*shineswar world famous, !ecause,

there dwelt the #ivine Swans, Sri +ama-

SRI RAMAKRISHNA THE BEST OF AVATARS

Dr. M. Lakshmi Kumari


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*rishna and his consort Sri Sarada #evi,

their divine play centered round the resur-

rection of human life to its pristine glory.

Swami )ive*ananda, who is considered as a

super model of man, an e:ample par e:cel-

lence, calls himself a wea* instrument ofhis 1aster and says, E7et not his character

!e udged !y seeing me. It was so great

that if I or any other of his disciples spent

hundreds of lives, we could not do ustice

to a millionth part of what he really was.F

he learned men of %alcutta recog-

nied in him an em!odiment of pure

*nowledge in spite of the fact that he had

hardly any formal education. Is it not true

of all the great world teachers that they

showed us that the path to true *nowledge

is not through !oo*s, not even through

schools, colleges or universitiesG his itself

should !e enough for our so-called modern

educationists to open their eyes if only

they would !other to do so.

According to Swamii, F8ot one

stands so high in !rilliance as that life

which I saw with my own eyes, under whose

shadow I had lived, at whose feet I have

learned everything - the life of Sri +ama-

*rishna "aramahamsa. /ere was a man whonever confined himself to mere theories,

!ut sought the depth of everything !y

practising immediately. hen would he car-

ry his theory into practice.F /e dived deep

to the su!tlest truth of every religion,

made his own heart strings resonate with it

and then produced a melody which was not

only sweet, harmonious and soul stirring,

!ut also carrying a message for the entire

humanity.

#istinctions and !arriers of caste and

creed melted away !efore the fire of his

in-depth awareness of the &neness of Su-

preme ruth. he !eam of his inner light

removed the shadows of dou!ts and s*ep-

ticisms which normally linger in the human

hearts as they try to comprehend the

truth propounded !y the various great

1asters from time to time.

he Ultimate ruth is straight and

simple and any!ody can realise it if one ap-

proaches it with truthfulness and simplici-

ty. his was the great message which ema-

nated from him. /e used to say, Ehe spir-ituality can !e communicated ust as really

as I can give you a flower.F

he language which he spo*e was

e?ually simple and straightforward in

which every sylla!le thro!!ed with the

awareness of the &neness of ruth. his

deep commitment to ruth made each

word he spo*e vi!rate as a ray of ruth.

/is words vindicated the scriptural dictum

that the words of a realied soul @ $rahma

0et not his character be 5udged

by seeing me. It was so great

that i6 I or any other o6 his

disciples spent hundreds o6 lives,

we could not do 5ustice to a

millionth part o6 what

he really was


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Jnani @e:press nothing !ut the ruth. 8o

wonder /is words stirred the souls of lis-

teners and transformed them. wo e:am-

ples would suffice to prove this.

/is wife Sarada 1ani, who was an

uneducated village !elle from a poor familyas*ed him one day as she was massaging his

feet as to how he udged her. "at came the

reply @ Byou are to me the oddess I wor-

ship at the temple6. Hou are also to me the

mother who gave !irth to me and who now

resides at the Bnaha!ath6 Cpart of the

#a*shineswar empleD - hese simple

statements had marvelous effect on Sara-

da 1ani. In worldly terms, she grew in

stature to !ecome a mother to one and all

who came to her. Spiritually she ac?uired

the aura of #ivine 1otherhood. he netresult was there for all to see @ the /oly

1other who adorned +ama*rishna 1ove-

ment as its Sangha Janani after Sri +ama-

*rishna6s mahasamadhi.

>?ually grand elo?uent were the

words through which he transformed his

!eloved 8aren into the future Swami )ive-

*ananda. All that he told him was that he

should not !e indulging in 8irvi*alpa Sa-

madhi and enoy the $liss all !y himself,

!ut he must devote himself for B1other6s

wor*6. After the mahasamadhi of the

1aster, the resonance of these words

made him not only discover the B1other6s

wor*6 !ut also his own role in the re!uild-

ing of 1other India through the regener-

ation of Sanatana #harma.

oday religion has !ecome a !y

word for dividing humanity, for violence,

and for destruction and degradation of

human personality. Sri +ama*rishna reit-

erated that to understand religion, one

should understand the real meaning of re-nunciation. It is through renunciation of

the superficial dogmas and !eliefs and

worldly temptations that one could come

to realise the &neness of truth in all reli-

gions and thus realie the one ruth in all

religions. &ut of this understanding of

the harmony of religions should evolve the

spiritual universal tolerance of the &ne-

ness, which alone can eliminate intoler-

ance, cruelties and violence perpetrated

in the name of religion.

he uni?ueness of Sri +ama*rishna

which mar*s him out from other world

teachers is that the he never taught a re-

ligion in his name, he never made any claimfor himself. o ?uote Swamii, Fhe left

every religion undistur!ed !ecause he had

realied that in reality they are all part

and parcel of &ne +eligion.F 8o wonder

that his own immaculate life !ecame in-

fused with the universal spirit and he

himself got transformed into a living em-

!odiment of Sanatana #harma. hus, did

he revitalie Sanatana #harma and re-

deem it from the o!livion into which time

Fhe left every religion undis-

tur!ed !ecause he had realied

that in reality they are all part

and parcel of &ne +eligion.F


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old Zen saying

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most of us probably picture a monk, sitting in a cave, meditating

for hours on end. The idea behind this Zen saying is mindful-

ness in every day activities. Not only does this raise conscious-

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Take any daily activity, such as walking into your place

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