Arsha Vidya Center

There is Nothing Indeed as Purifying as Knowledge

Month: July 2018

  • Gurupurnima 2018 Gratitudes

    My Pranam to my Guru and all the Maha Acharyas to the Arsh Vidya Gurukulam. I take this day to great appreciation to all my Gurus.
    Vijayji, your dedication and determination of teaching us to analyze self , makes a huge difference in our lives.
    Unless, some of Gruhastha duty or sickness, I look forward to Tuesday and Saturday classes. What makes difficult for all of us is being , Gruhasta and in a Vyavaharik transection, is difficult to see the falseness of worldly things. How ever one can make tremendous progress by regular studies and assimilate in to daily life. I have strong shraddha towards śāstra and Rudram (prayer) to guide me through ups and downs of falsely world situation.
    The strong bonding ( Moha) towards children transformed in to unconditional love. Acceptance of the situation. Todays busy life makes their young blood to think differently and it is o.k.
    Most important thing in my life is to be a best company to myself. Learn to attach with detachment.
    Our Monday class discussions help us with this kind of situations and learn to deal with, because all of us class students are in the same boat and objectively we can guide being outsider.

    May Lord , Guru and Atma Krüpa be with me.
    May Lord keep you in a best of health, continue to enlighten us and continue guide us to study and analyze to go closer to our Atma. May I , not fear death and handle the situation differently and continue to make progress in my life.
    Seeking blessings from you.

    Hari OM, Chaula

  • Swami Parmatmananda Visit 2018 Gratitude

    HariH OM ,

    It is with a heart filled with love and gratitude that I speak these words on behalf of all of us. Thank you for your visits to California which I pray with be regular every year. Our sincere salutations to Sri Vijay Kapoorji, our Bay Area resident guru who tireless teaches us week after week.

    As students of Vedanta, we begin our study with shravanam, mananam and nididhyasam and through a life of karma yoga ,bhakti and prayerful life, we develop viveka and vairagya and a burning desire for moksha. You have taught us that our swarupaH is sat chit ananda, that all the limitations that we place on ourselves are superimpositions on our Truth alone., that the ahankara or the small “i” is ultimately false.  Consciousness alone is the truth of me as chit, which is sat , and which is anantam , my very swarupah, knowing which I gain moksha in the here and now and from which there is no returning to the cycle of life and death as it dissolves the sukshma sarira or antahkarana which travels with us from lifetime to lifetime.

    In meditation you guided us to suspend our identification with the body mind sense complex and remain in the awarenesss of the Self as we appreciated Ishawara’s vibhuti as the order of the universe.  In meditation, we saw our true nature as purna, asanga, nirgunaH atma.

    In the Drk Dhrushya VivekaH. we focus on the real “I”, and the process of tvam pada shodhanam , through which we cleanup the false notions of ourselves., to remove the false cognitive plurality of ourselves. These false notions arise from our identification with our psycho- physio complex which cause us to feel limited and incomplete contrary to our Truth wherein we are unlimited and Purna.

    Swamiji, you are a masterful teacher. Your teaching is systematic with examples that are easily understood. Your wit adds lightness to the subject matter and your skill brings us back to the subject on hand. Thank you for making the time for your visit to us. We remain eternally grateful to you and pray that we may be blessed with your guru krupa as we continue our journey. May we be so blessed that we can continue to learn at your lotus feet year after year.

    Harih OM.

    Zarina Kaji