SINGAPORE SEWA TEAM - INTERESTING LESSONS

By:  Shiv-yog Foundation  

DELICIOUS & HYGIENIC BHANDARA

The Bhandara or Prasad at Singapore is quite famous for its delicious flavour. When dug deeper, it came to be known that the small but devoted & efficient Organising Sewa team had dedicated members who also tasted the food of the caterer with all their taste buds fully opened to test the flavour & quality of ingredients. Lessons for all the Sewa teams in enhancing the quality & preparation of  Bhandara at their shivirs.

PUNCTUALITY

If the allotted time of the break was one hour, all the sadhaks used to be seated 15 minutes before the start. Members of the Sewa team were deployed to make announcements in the corridors about 15 minutes prior to the start time of the shivir, another lesson for those attending & those organising. And the hall was not a place to engage in idle gossip, chanting substituted chatter.

BE IN A LINE

In another act of impeccable discipline, a great deal of important was given to standing in queue, be it for the washroom, food, divine shop or for any other activity. No one broke lines & everyone ensured that rules were respected, another beautiful lesson.

PURE INTENTION, MORE GRACE

Sadhaks attended the shivir with the sole intention of releasing the negative emotions & habits rather than passing time. Seeing their willingness to grow & resolve to heal themselves, Baba ji rewarded this sincerity by personal emotional release on mic & ensuring the lessons from the individual release were learnt by all.

BONHOMIE WITH A SIDDHA

Baba ji provided an outlet to all the sadhaks in the former of personal meets in country batches. He heard out all sadhaks from a particular country during the break time & it made it that much easier for Baba ji to understand their psyche & behaviour patterns & effect a powerful healing on all.

UNINHIBITED SANKIRTAN

The sadhaks never really cared too much about what others might think of them or judge them if they sing. So what came out were not musical vibrations but the deepest feelings from the core of the heart, striking an instant cord with Baba ji. The Siddha himself said that he will be singing a few of the unique bhajans sang here in the next shivirs. He is listening to those songs in the taped recordings so that he can deliver them in an even better way. Kudos to the fantastic sadhak singers. 

 This photograph was captured when the sadhaks were singing the bhajan Amma Pamreshwari. The rhythm was so divine that Baba ji instantly went into a trance and the shower of blessings began automatically the moment he sat, even before he could speak a word. It sums up the strong vibes which positively influenced Baba ji's mood.

AN ENCORE

A plethora of factors, some of them mentioned above, combined to make Baba ji so spiritually satisfied that he committed to an advanced healing programme next December in Singapore. A lesson for all the regions looking to get Baba ji to shower higher grace.

HOSPITALITY

Anyone can present an impeccable picture of hospitality & service by serving Baba ji wonderfully. But very few can earn the tag of being genuinely compassionate and ensure that the warmth as extended to Baba ji is provided for all the sadhaks at the shivirs as the Sewa team in Singapore did so beautifully. At the end of the shivir, sadhaks hugged and thanked the organiser, and the brilliant Sewa Team who had the knack of springing a rabbit out of the hat, just when one thought they are in doldrums.

YOUNG SEWA TEAM

Baba ji has always maintained that till the time one has energy, one is youthful. The Singapore Sewa team is purely driven by the young & energetic. They have the uncanny knack of being highly resourceful & getting things done at a very short notice in a country like Singapore where things are done in a scheduled way & it is difficult to avail a service such as printing a poster in 24 hours.

HUMILITY

All said & done, the clockwork efficiency of the Singapore Sewa Team, most of all its organiser, did not deter the Shiv Yogi in them to dedicate all their service at the feet of the Guru. Of course there was pride that such an advanced shivir was assigned to their country but no ego to boot.

And it isn't as if they did not receive anything for their relentless perseverance and unstinting efforts. The blessings and love of Baba ji and the sadhaks are with them. They have the grace of God on them and with that, the ability to become world beaters.

The Divine Global Wave of Durga Sapthsati 2015

After years of meditation on each verse and each hymn of the scripture, Baba ji unlocked and decoded the locked power of Beej Mantras and through wide-scale initiation in DSS programmes through his power of intention (sankalpa) and celestial voice (vaani), spread this supreme instrument of healing heritage to the farthest corners of the world, opening the door to a whole spectrum of possibilities of tangible and intangible benefits to life on the planet.

Some of the benefits which the grace of the Mother Goddess showers & which are being quoted from the locally available edition of Durga Saptashati are:

- Healing of physical diseases.
- Clearing of all hurdles, problems for all round success in life.
- Neutralizing of the ill-will between people, turning Opponents into Allies (Shatru Mukti)
- Banishing of sorrow and suffering for a life full of happiness and prosperity.
- Materialistic joys such as wealth and an excellent family.
- Disintegrates all kinds of negative energy, exterminating evil spirits and ghosts.
- Alleviates poverty and fills life with abundance.
- Paves the way for easy achievement of goals in life.
- The practitioner is blessed with a sharp yet peaceful mind and he eventually reaches to ascension after death.
- The house which witnesses periodic practice of the Durga Saptashati always finds itself in the lap of the grace of the Divine Goddess.

Sri Durga Saptashati is an ancient scripture of mythology. While the tales and fables in this scripture, highlighting the heroics of Mother Goddess Durga, are known to all and widely discussed in traditional culture, the real power of the scripture lies in the mystic meditation revolving around the scripture. This secretive meditational process of Durga Saptashati lay encrypted in a spiritual code for ages. It was kept a closely guarded secret to avoid it falling in wrong hands. But, the merciful Healing Master Avdhoot Baba Shivanandji took it upon himself in the contemporary times to revive this supremely powerful but forgotten spiritual practice. Babaji reckoned that in the current milieu of conflict, war, rebellion, strife, epidemics, incurable diseases, natural disasters, catastrophes, pain and suffering, mankind was becoming increasingly disconnected with itself. He felt that time was ripe to overhaul such a vitiated atmosphere with something which could not only arrest this slide but universally resurrect a congenial environment for good health, peace, happiness and an overall harmonious existence for all living beings.

Thus, Babaji decoded and distillated the 13 Chapters and 700 verses of the Durga Saptashati scripture. What came through was a very powerful gist of Beej Mantras or Seed Syllables. Each Beej Mantra is a living entity and invokes the Goddess in some form.

Each syllable has great sanctity and purifying capacity. There are three units in the meditation, corresponding to the Divine Trinity of Goddesses MahaKali (Kills the vices), MahaLakshmi (Bestows infinite material and spiritual wealth) and MahaSaraswati (imparts great wisdom) and so the devoted practitioner is blessed with elevation of the soul with every passing chapter of the process.

The demons which Goddess Durga overpowers in the various story legends of the Durga Saptashati are actually all bad habits of ego, criticism, sycophancy, greed and the cascade of misdeeds which have occupied our lives because of ignorance. As the practitioner of this meditation follows the procedure, the intimate connection with the Goddess that gets established kills the negativity within, helping us internalize the real essence of Durga Saptashati which is renunciation of all kinds of devilish tendencies.

The defining element of this meditation is that it is known to be the giver of great boons. Moreover, with Babaji having moulded such a complex, long-drawn meditation into a succinct process, it has become tailor-made for the fast paced modern times.

The greatest asset of Durga Saptashati sadhna is that it helps us learn the real meaning of renunciation and detachment by guiding us towards the practical aspect of spirituality. So, we realize through this practice that the devils of Mahishasur, Madhu-Kaitabh, Shumbh-Nishumbh and Raktabeej are not external entities but symbolic of bad qualities within us. Saptashati is a facilitator in us becoming aware of the fact that when we kill the bad tendencies, we are showered with great boons, material wishes and spiritual ascension.

For detailed information please visit www.shivyog.com/dss

More the troubles, more the sadhna

Teachings of Shiv yog cont...

Namah shivay Baba ji said that decisions in life must be taken by listening to the inner voice. Intention automatically becomes pure when we listen to the inner voice. The voice of the Self is heard when sadhna is done regularly and purity is brought. Seek everything from God but before that seek the raising of consciousness and making it pure. This way when things materialize, the sadhak will not get attached. So always lift the consciousness a few notches above that of the wish. Purity is nothing but rising above worldly ills and lures.
 

Never dub anything as bad. Nothing is bad, only the consciousness is impure. Shree vidya gives the blessings of Maha Laxmi in the form of prosperity, Maha Saraswati In the form of wisdom and Maha Kali In the form of will power. Raising consciousness will raise will power, wisdom and prosperity. Never get under the influence of ego. It has caused the decline of many a great soul. Balance between sadhna and material world is a must to attain self realization. Morning and evening sadhna are a must to reap the abovementioned benefits.

Make your birth worthwhile

Namah shivay! If there was one video which could be the answer to all questions of the seekers, it is this one. Of late many sadhaks were having doubts and queries on various issues. The most common one was how to keep the spiritual momentum going during non-shivir days. You get the answer in this video. Also, among the topics discussed in this video include:

1) Releasing negativity from life, having a direction, a vision and a goal in life.

2) When are you going to get the real fruits of your positive actions and?

3) How will you benefit from the teachings of Shiv Yog?

4) Best ways for spiritual growth and accelerating self-development.

5) What are the ways for performing selfless sewa/service?

6) Do I need to sacrifice my job and prioritize only spiritual deeds?

7) Why are people seeming bad?

8) What you give to others comes back thousand fold to you.

9) Significance of eyeing only what is yours, not trying to grab what is others'.

Happy New Year 2015

 As the New Year approaches us with hopes anew, here is wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead. Happy New Year

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