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I completed Chapter 2 - Verses 1 to 9 - Kashi Retreat!

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Course thought/question

I had a question pop up while watching a course q & a, if someone with some experience in practice would mind answering: What is the relationship between tapas and surrendering to Śakti?

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Pranam 🙏 Tapas and surrendering to Shakthi go hand in hand, to what extent depends on the constitution of each jeeva , their sadhana and grace of Divine.

Tapas is the sadhana discipline where the burning of karmas and vrittis happen when we do japa and meditation. Giving up of our limited perception and limitations to the higher principle . Surrendering to Shakthi or the process of it leads to dissolution of ego , giving up of our limitations and surrendering to flow of life either through intense bhakthi or jnana ,actively is the process in which deep surrender happens .

The more deeper/intense is one's tapas the , the deeper one connects and surrenders to the Divine 🙏🕉️🌺

AUM TAT SAT 🕉️

Introducing the tradition to young children

Hello,

I have a 16 month old kid and I wonder in what ways you guys think the vedic/tantric tradition can be introduced to young children?


For now this is what I do with my daughter (to clarify, I'm french and was raised an atheist, with Christian culture) :


  • I sometimes sing the sanskrit hymns I know, even partially

  • I painted a Saraswati icone for her during my pregnancy ( Saraswati felt right, and I later found out that this deity is often worshipped by children for knowledge acquisition and education related purpose.) I think I will add the yantra behind the canvas as well, so that she can use it for meditation. But I don't know much about yantras for now.

  • I sometimes do japa aloud or whispering to show her, but I know silent recitation is the recommended usage.

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I don't have any children so I'm really not qualified to suggest anything. But when I was a child I recall watching my parents and wanting to do what they did but when I was made to do something I resented it because it wasn't my choice.

My father forced me to play sports. To this day at the age of 63 I have zero interest. Maybe if I was allowed to pick up the ball on my own with his appreciation of my chosen interest?

Instead my chosen interests have been inward turning since as long as I can remember since the age of 10 years old. Sitting on the grass in right field during a game blowing dandelions gone to seed was far more interesting than the ball rolling past me.







Next Course

Hello everyone, quick question: does anyone know when the next course after the Patanjali course starts? I couldn’t find any information anywhere.

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I haven't seen anything concrete so far. Effectively, it seems we're on a bit of a 'summer break'. If you watch the final Q&A from the Patanjali course, I recall Acaryaji mentioning an interest in something related to Kālī, but no details beyond that.

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