Guest guest Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Jai Guru Datta, With Sri Swamiji's Blessings you are receiving the first issue of our Quarterly Newsletter. Your comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome. Happy reading to all my fellow devotees. Teekah. Datta Yoga Centre of Canada Newsletter Jaya Guru Datta! Summer 2004 Number 1 In this Issue: Drops of Nectar Announcements Tour Schedule Bookstore Drops of Nectar Listen from within When the Guru was giving a discourse, one of his disciples, a professor was sitting on the banks of a river. An inmate of the Ashrama went there and started talking to him. Disciple: What is this Professor! Guruji is giving a wonderful discourse there and you are sitting alone here!! Professor: There is no coherence in Guruji's talk. He says one thing now and another thing later. It gives a feeling that He doesn't know what he is talking about. Disciple: Never mind. Tell me sir, what are you doing sitting here? Professor: I am tuning myself to the nature. Disciple: What is 'tuning'? Professor: There! listen to the splashing waves; listen to the chirping of birds; see that silver line on that cloud; look at the fragrance of these flowers. Don't you feel peaceful at heart? Disciple: Sir, you said that you were tuning yourself. When you say that, it means that you are merging with something. In what are you merging? Is it the sound of the splashing waves? Or is it the noise of the chirping birds? Or are you lost in the beautiful silver lining of the clouds? Or are you completely immersed in the wonderful fragrance of the flowers? Professor: None of them! But in all of them!! Disciple: Now, you sir, you are talking incoherently. Aren't you? Professor: Yes. That's how one has to talk in such circumstances. There is no other way to describe such phenomena. Disciple: Is there no way? Or is it just that you don't know? Professor: I know. Sound, smell, and colour - each one has its own wavelength. The combination of all of these will have a different wavelength altogether. It manifests with the co-ordination of the wavelengths of the different aspects. Disciple: Where does it manifest? Within or without? Professor: It manifests at both places. Therefore while narrating it, one is forced to talk in a manner that might appear inconsistent and incoherent. Disciple: Very well Professor! If you have to talk in such a manner just to explain transitory events such as this one, think as to how one will need to talk to explain those phenomena that have eternal manifestation! Can there be a simpler way of explaining things? Professor: Indeed what you say is true. But somehow I am not able to tune myself with what Guruji says. Disciple: Have you ever thought what the splashing waves mean? Have you ever tried to think what the chirping of the birds mean? You are just listening. You are forgetting everything. You are saying 'Ah I am tuning myself to this'. Professor: Do you mean to say that I am unable to tune myself with Guruji because I am questioning Him? Alright. I accept what you say. But why on earth should He talk like that? Why should he talk in a way that gives scope to questions? Disciple: So that some wavelength is generated! Listen to His words just as you would listen to the splashing waves or the chirping of birds. Listen with love. Listen with dedication. Gradually your listening will stop and then you will know that you are tuned in. When that happens, you will listen from within. Announcements August 8 (Sunday): Special Satsang. Discourse on Gayatri explaining origin and import of gayatri. September 18 (Saturday): Ganesh Chaturthi. Special Satsang. Tour Schedule Sri Swamiji's Travel schedule: July - December 2004. Date Event 21 Jul Wed Mysore - Hyderabad - Arr Airforce acedamy 11 AM 6 PM - IC 840- Hyderabad - Delhi - Arrive 8.30PM 22 Jul Thu Delhi - Paris Four days private stay 26 Jul Mon Paris - Moscow - Air Fraince 1944 - Dep 0930 Arr 1510 Programs in Russia till 31 July Contact Mr.Alexey Lukutin Phone - 00-7-095-101-5662 Email - Alexey Lukutin <lav 28 Jul Wed Moscow - City Tver 29 July Thu Pada Puja and Satsang in City Tver Contact - Mr.Varada Raja- Email - <varada 30 July Fri City Tver - Moscow - Satsang in the evening 31 July Sat Music for Meditation and Healing in Moscow 1 Aug Sun Homa & Puja in morning Moscow - London-British Airways 8730 Dep1700-Arr 1815 2, 3 & 4 Aug Shata Shloki Ramayana discourse-9.30AM-1 PM Preston Manor School, Carlton Avenue East, Wembley, HA9 8NA Sri Chakra Puja - 7.30PM - 9.30PM (except on 3rd - when there is concert in the evening). 3 Aug Tue Music for Meditation and Healing at Tabernacle-Powis Square, London W11. - 7.30PM 5 Aug Thu Visit to Coventry 6 Aug Fri Coventry - New Castle by Train 7 Aug Sat Music for Meditation and Healing - New Castle University, New Castle upon Tyne 8 Aug Sun Sri Chakra Puja and Homa - 9.30 AM West gate community school, West Gate road, Newcastle upon Tyne 9 Aug Mon New Castle - Amsterdam 13 Aug Fri Amsterdam - Copenhagen - KLM 1127 Dep 0950 - Arr 1110 Contact - Agastya Sekkritt - agastya 14 Aug Sat Music for Meditation and Healing in Copenhagen 15 Aug Sun Puja and Home in the Satsang center of Denmark in Roskilde town, Denmark 16 Aug Mon Copengagen - Frankfurt - Visit the proposed Euro Center site Drive to Geseke Datta Yoga Center Germany Emanuel-Leutze-Str.1 40547 Dusseldorf, Germany Tel./Fax: 0211/5367451 Email - mail 17 - 22 Aug Courses in Kriya Yoga, Vedanta and Ayurveda in Geseke town, Germany 21 Aug Sat Music for Meditation and Healing in Robert Schuman hall in Dusseldorf 22 Aug Puja and Homa in Geseke Dusseldorf - Zurich Lufthansa LH 3770 Dep1805PM - Arr 1910 PM Drive to Gwatt Center on lake Thun Datta Yoga Center Schweiz Schulstrasse 14 8488 Turbenthal Switzerland 23 - 29 Aug Programs in Gwatt Center on Vedanta, Kriya Yoga and Puja 23 Aug Mon Narahari Teertha Aradhana in Gwatt Center 28 Aug Sat Music for Meditation and Healing in Franz sische Kirche, Zeughausgasse, Bern 29 Aug Sun Puja and Homa in Gwatt Center 30 Aug Mon Sri Swamiji returns to India 4 Sep Sat Swagata Sabha (reception) to Sri Swamiji in Jaya Durga Teertham, Vijayawada to participate in Krishna Pushkara program 6 Sep Mon Krishna Janmashtami festival in Jaya Durga Teertham 9, 10 & 11 Sep Krishna Sannidhi program in Jaya Durga Teertham. (By invitation only) 11 Sep Sat Vijayawada - Nellore 12 Sep Sun Programs in Nellore Ashrama. Music for Meditation and Healing 13 Sep Mon Nellore - Mysore 18 Sep Sat Ganapathy Festival in Mysore Ashrama 11 Oct Mon Sri Swamiji arrives in Hyderabad 15 - 22 Oct Devi Navarti festival in Hyderabad Ashram Contact Information center - 040-27765047 Email - sgsinfocenter 25 Oct Mon Hyderabad - Mysore 1 Nov Mon Antakshari program in Dasa Sahitya in Nada Mantapa 18 - 21 Nov Programs in Bombay Contact - Somashekar-022-24071441 Email - corr_rad 22 - 30 Nov Programs in Surat and Baroda Contact - Surat Ashrama - 0261-2334-1367 1 - 5 Dec Programs in Delhi Ashrama Contact - Delhi Ashrama - 011-27290413 17, 18 & 19 Dec International Bhagavad Geetha conference in Mysore Ashrama 24, 25 & 26 Dec Datta Jayanti festival in Mysore Ashrama Programs are Subject to Change. Please contact Mysore Ashrama for more information. Bookstore Newest Additions to the DYCC Bookstore. Name Format Description Shata Shloki Ramayana Book Swamiji says "Here is my gift to you" Ramayana in your hands. It is a brief narration of Ramayana, the story of Rama. This hymn is in the beginning of the Ramayana by the saint poet Valmiki. For many people it may not be possible to recite the full text of Valmiki Ramayana of 24,000 slokas. Hence the brief version with meanings is now available to you. Shata Shloki Ramayana CD Sri Swamiji is aware of the limitations imposed on us by the contemporary lifestyle. Having appreciated the fact that the 24,000 verses of the great epic cannot be read by everyone everyday, Sri Swamiji decided to bless the devotees with the option of remembering the verses in his own unique way of musical rendering. These are the first verses from the first canto of the Ramayana. Sri Swamiji urges everyone to listen and learn by heart, the Shata Shloki Ramayana and become eligible to be blessed by Sri Rama, the embodiment of righteousness. Karya Siddhi Hanuman DVD This DVD contains the divine moments of the consecration of the mammoth 85 feet Lord Hanuman on June 9th 2003, it also contains the celebrations of Pujya Sri Swamiji's 61st birthday celebrations held on June 11 2003 at the Datta Yoga Centre, Trinidad. Shiva Jyoti Video Bhajans on the 12 Jyotirlingas sung by Pujya Sri Swamiji with video clips of the various Jyotirlingas temples as well as video clips of Maha Shivaratri celebrations at Datta Peetham, Mysore. For more information, please contact: F Teekah Ramnauth ? Datta Yoga Centre of Canada President * 171-173 Advance Blvd, Unit#41, Å (905) 795-1161 Brampton, ON L6T 4H9 s dyccanada CANADA " http://members.rogers.com/dyccanada/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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