Week 9

Topic Covered: Japa

•True meaning of Pilgrimage (tIrtha yAtrA)

•Saint Tukaram Story.

•Benefits of Japa.

•Provide fine tuning and relaxation of the mind

•Focused mind means sharper intellect

•Singing lords name creates an atmosphere of peace, Serenity and tranquility.

•Pray together, Be together

•Perform Japa

•Person breathes 900 time an Hr, 21,600 times a day

•Half the times goes in sleeping so one breathes 10,800 times  during one’s waking hr

•Single round of mala (108 beads) is thus equivalent to remembering  1/100th of ones Waking hrs

 

Topic Covered: Charity
•Charity

•To help the needy.

•An act or feeling of goodwill or affection.

•Love for humanity

•Homa – Our gratiturde to all devatas, the natural forces.

•Charity means

•giving unconditionally with the purpose of betterment of individual., community, society, nation or the world.

•It comes in many forms – Physical, intellectual, emotional or material,

•Lasting fulfillment

•Examples of Charity

•True Charity

•The golden Mongoose story.

•The Smoky Buddha.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGghmwUcbQ

•Guru/preceptor.

•Guru – He who has through knowledge of Scriptures and experience of the supreme. Free from all bias and mental obsession.

•Preceptor – in whose presence you feel elevated and inspired to live a nobler life.