Forty-six hosts sponsored our Saturday Japathon!, celebrating the Ashram’s fourth birthday. Across the US, Canada and Europe, Svaroopa® yoga teachers and students joined in our great japa event!
Bindu (Maureen) Short reports that in Buckingham PA, following the teleconference call, japa flowed into meditation as part of the regularly scheduled monthly satsang. Two students who each had recently had surgery both credited japa with helping them through the anxiety before their operations, as well as with being immobile afterward. Japa comes to them now naturally and automatically.
Throughout September, Vibhuti (Sandra) Courtney King of Hopedale MA led her weekly meditation groups into meditation with japa. Some of her students purchased mala beads and began doing japa as preparation for their home practice. This is what some of them said about japa:
When we went from repeating aloud to repeating the mantra silently, the mantra continued on its own, leading me to a very deep place. It was so effortless.
I have never experienced meditation in this way! My mind was still very busy, but the mantra was front and center and very compelling. For the first time, the mantra was more interesting than my thoughts. I feel like I am just beginning to understand what meditation is!
What IS the mantra?! It feels alive!
Yes, the mantra is alive! In our Japathon! celebration, our mantra became a mighty river of Grace, flowing through each and every one of us.
Swami has given us, in 2013, The Year of Japa. Allow this great gift to unfold fully, allow the Grace of the mantra to bring you all the way to your own Self. Our beloved lineage — of Nityananda, Baba and Swami — is pointing the way: Meditate on your own Self.
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