Celebrating 30 years of joyful meditation

More description of my experience with meditation




Experiencing the power of detachment

When we are slave of our thoughts and minds even little things can annoy and irritate us. The most effective solution is to develop detachment and keep things in perspective. A powerful benefit of meditation is that it helps us to gain a broader perspective and detach ourselves from what is insignificant.

The Bhagavad-gita explains us in chapter 2 that real yoga means to be able to experience equanimity under any circumstance. Meditation help us to reach that state and get a strong footing in the higher dimensions of yoga that gives us the real power of detachment.

Steps to pure Love

(based on a Gopi-Gita meditation)




I miss you so much, it seems impossible to live without you. 
It seems also impossible to give up my life because my life belongs to you and it lives in the hope of being with you.

In this hopeless hope, I can only hear and chant about you in a renewed intensity of feeling. 

This increases my love for you.  My life becomes filled with your love.

The only real life
Is a life filled with
Real love for you


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A flowery festival of Love

patram pushpam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayachati
tad aham bhakty-upahritam
ashnami prayatatmanah

“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”

Bhagavad-gita 9.26

Please check the nice texts and pictures related to this wonderful festival of flowers at the wonderfull website Bhakticollective.com

Here is an excerpt of the text :

“This wonderful festival is a festival of devotion. Please don’t see just with your eyes, see through your heart. Through the wisdom we receive from the Holy Scriptures and the great saints. It is a shower of our combined intent to please Krishna, to purify our own hearts and ultimately to be instruments of love in every aspect of our life.”

“The world is in turmoil, economically, ecologically, emotionally, psychiatrically. According to the World Health Organization depression, mental illness is the number three disease that causes pain and death. Why? Externally we have so much, but internally so little. The jewels of divine love within our hearts have been plundered by the thieves of greed, envy, anger, arrogance, selfish passion and illusion. Driven by those thieves, enemies within us, even the pure soul creates havoc within this world. There is a great need to understand what is really of value. Things like character, integrity, humility, self- control, a selfless spirit of compassion towards other living beings, which are all part and parcel of love for God. These are the greatest needs within this world.”

We may not have the budget to reproduce that at home but we can mentally shower the Lord of our heart with unlimited fragrant flower petals whenever we want (or have the ecstatic consciousness that will enable us to perform such amazing act of love).



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Love with pure purpose

Pure Love is Love
with pure purpose


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More reasons to show love to others

 


More research shows how helping others is good for you.

The Corporation for National and Community Service recently pulled together research in this field and was able to demonstrate that people who volunteer live longer than those that do not. For example, individuals who get involved in good works after suffering a heart attack report reductions in despair and depression. This in turn drives a reduction in post-traumatic illness and significantly reduces mortality. It's also true that those who volunteer have fewer incidents of heart disease in the first place. US Census Bureau data shows that states with greater percentages of volunteerism have lower rates of cardiac-related illness.

See the complete article from Harvard Business

Introducing Prema-yoga

Prema-yoga is simply yoga developed to its full expression and real purpose.

Real yoga is not only meant for the well being of our mind and body but to link us to the Absolute.

The best link is Love

The Sanskrit word “prema” means pure love flowing from and for the ultimate source of everything.

It is distinct from kama, the egoistic, greedy, materialistic hankering for illusory satisfaction. 

Prema is the source of all spiritual perfections while kama is the source of all sufferings and illusions.

Prema-yoga is a joyful process to enable you to taste divine love within the innermost chambers of your life.





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About this blog

This blog is written by Guy Tetreault (see my personal web page) and it focuses on the greatest need to obtain full satisfaction in our daily activities and the ultimate good of life: pure love.

To get a first glance of the importance of this Pure Love, please read this post.

To read more posts directly related to this subject, read the posts that are in the category Pure Love (Prema).

Of course, the subject is extremely vast and all the posts of this blog are meant to gradually bring a better understanding of the fascinating essence of life.

We are working hard to keep active with 1 or 2 posts minimum every week so it is worth subscribing to it by RSS feed or by email.
 

Why this blog focuses on the universal path of pure love

Pure love (Prema) is the real goal and ultimate subject of all scriptures, all religions and spiritual practices.

But, because most souls have a deep aversion for the Absolute Truth, they do not want to cultivate pure love for Him, they rather want to opt for cultivating knowledge, performing austerities and sacrifices, practicing all types of yogas, pious activities, acts of charity or mystical and esoteric processes.

For most people, it will take many lifetimes of those practices to reach the yoga of love and devotion which is described as the highest yoga in the most authoritative book on yoga: The Bhagavad-Gita (6.47)

Most often, the soul will get lost in matter and will imagine that the goals of life are either immediate material satisfaction or liberation from this world, but those goals are only egoistic and cannot satisfy the soul, nor those living around him.

Only pure love for the Absolute can bring full unity with everything, full satisfaction to the heart as well as freedom from dualities, illusions and all types of suffering.

That’s why this blog focuses on the universal path of pure love in a non-sectarian, non-denominational and non-material way.
 

New dates for the seminar on vedic psychology with Dr Satyanarayana das

The 2 day seminar on Vedic psychology will start on Feb 28th instead of March 1st.

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Details for the seminar

Food and lodging are available at the place of teaching in Faridabad.

No fixed price: donation basis

Registration must be made in advance with Guy Tetreault at guytetreault@gmail.com


For more details  visit the website Vedicsychology.net


GT


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You lose yourself

You lose
What you don’t use

And when you don’t use
Your love properly
You lose yourself

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Pour un védanta complet

Question d'un lecteur :

J'aimerai savoir s'il éxiste quelques part une version en Français des Brahma Sutra de Shankara, car j'aimerai beacoup "étudié" ce texte et jusqu'ici toute mes recherches sont resté infructueuse....


Réponse :

Merci de ton bel intérêt pour le Védanta.

Lire Shankaracarya ne t’aidera pas beaucoup. Il a été de loin dépassé et rectifié par de nombreux autres grands acaryas ces derniers 1200 ans.

Je te conseille plutôt de te procurer mon fascicule « Exploration du Védanta » pour voir tous les merveilleux détails des nombreuses branches du Védanta.


Sincèrement,

Guy Tétreault

Voici une brêve description de ce livre DISPONIBLE IMMEDIATEMENT
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Le
seul aspect du Védanta assez connu en occident est celui du monisme
radical de l’Advaita-védanta avec sa conception impersonnelle de la
non-dualité.

Il existe de très nombreux
autres aspects à la non-dualité ainsi que cinq autres grandes écoles de
Védanta qui se sont développées en Inde depuis plus d’un millénaire et
ces textes sur le Védanta vous en donne un aperçu.

Toutes
les notions ici explorées ont nécessité plus de 20 ans d’études pour
êtres assimilées. Ne vous découragez donc pas si vous n’arrivez pas à
tout assimiler en quelques minutes.

Ces
études ont été faites auprès de grands maîtres tellement plongés dans
l’étude et l’enseignement de cette discipline exigeante qu’ils se sont
tenus très loin de tout show-business spirituel tel qu’on peut le voir
présentement sur toute la surface du globe.

Ils
sont vraisemblablement les derniers représentants d’une tradition qui
exige toute une vie de pureté et d’érudition pour être cultivée avec
succès.

Donnez une grande attention à ce rare enseignement!

Ce livre est un fichier PDF de 241 pages que vous pouvez lire sur
votre écran ou imprimer. Il vous faudra le lecteur de fichier PDF,
Adobe Acrobat (5.0 ou plus), si vous ne l'avez pas.

A prayer to the supreme Goddess of Love.

A prayer to the supreme Goddess of Love.

Your lotus feet are the topmost summum bonnum of all existence and the very life treasure of Govinda.
May the cooling waves of honey, dripping from the pollen dust of those feet, soak my heart with a Rassa that will attract fortunate souls to your merciful service.


 

Ready to pay the real price ???

Many claim they want truth and freedom from illusion but who is ready to pay the real price to obtain it?

Putting an absolute limitation

If you limit the Absolute, you limit yourself absolutely.

Most modern crusaders of non-dual consciousness limit the Absolute’s highest manifestation to an impersonal void devoid of all attributes, qualities, personality… they therefore totally miss the most essential feature of a genuine yoga: prema, which is pure exchange of love.

This is putting an absolute limitation to the amount of bliss they can experience.