DRK’S NEWS LETTER Issue 029

DRK’s News Letter

Issue No: 29

August,2019

UNIVERSAL PEACE CONFERENCE IN FERRETTE, FRANCE SUNYOGA * SUNGAZING * AGNIHOTRA * IN FRANCE

Universal Peace Conference in France I was invited by the Association Sunyoga France to be the chief guest at the Universal Peace Conference in France. Accordingly I landed at Zurich airport in Switzerland. I was warmly received at the airport by Sunyogi Umashankar and the local organizers. The pleasant drive through the mountainous road took us to Ferrette, Basel in north eastern France. The serene and beautiful Ferrette is located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet. The Château de Ferrette, a ruined castle is a recognized historical monument. The exact location of the conference was an ancient building – Centre de Vacances À la croisée des Chemins Don Bosco, Ferrette, Alsace. The delegates included teachers, authors, religious leaders, scientists, doctors, yogis and swamis from all over France and even from USA, India, UK and Serbia. The subjects discussed included Religion and Spirituality – unity – Global Governance and

Human Rights- Nature and Environment – Balancing the Global Warming: - Sustaining a peaceful family life for future generation development – Physical and Spiritual Growth – Global Family University – Creation Law of the Universe – Ahimsa, Defence and Peace – Physical and Spiritual Health – Global Governance and Human Rights. Every morning Sunyogi Umashankar led the Agnihotra, Sun Yoga meditation, physical exercise and yoga on the slopes of the green mountain.

Email: drkaarthikeyan@gmail.com Website: www.goodgovernance.in www.lifepositive.com

Château de Ferrette, France

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Agnihotra is a healing fire from the ancient science of Ayurveda. It is a process of purifying the atmosphere through a specially prepared fire performed at sunrise and sunset daily. Sun Meditation is a great meditation method that is being increasingly used in the modern world to charge the energy of the body. Sun worship has been in vogue from ancient times not only in India but in many other cultures. Every evening there were cultural performances from delegates from various countries and cultures. The delegates hailing from various traditions and countries enthusiastically participated in all these activities. Some of the prominent speakers are – JÉRÔME BOUJON (France): Jérôme BOUJON is a scientist, multi-therapist, Kundalini Research Institute certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga, a researcher and inventor, with 35 years of every day meditative practice. Having created 7 inventions, he was a president of an international association of inventors and researchers for 15 years. Today, Jérôme is a renowned expert in sacred geometry. At the 47th International innovation exposition in Geneva 2019, his 5th invention, the ‘Diamond Earth’ was recognized as an activator for Peace for human consciousness elevation and received 4 medals. He spoke on the fundamentals of sacred geometry, the Diamond grid and Diamond light – the source of life.

Summary of Ideas presented by him – on Spirituality and Religions – Unity: “Religions are like schools to learn to become holy. There are saints in all religions. Holiness is a state of purity, alignment, respect that brings a being to its ultimate spiritual realization. Religions are aquariums in the ocean of spirituality. Spirituality is a borderless unity ocean welcoming all differences, variations, colours, cultures… with compassion”. “In the past a great man said: Science without consciousness is only a ruin to the soul. Today I say: "Science in consciousness is an ascension of the soul". Science can be a tool that can serve the evolution of our civilization. It allows to develop outer technologies. Just as yoga is an interior technology. The question is: are the developments of science and technology in alignment with the principles of a luminous and uplifting spiritual life? As much as the mind is a good servant and a bad master, science and technology are good servants of spirituality but very bad teachers. May the scientists be examples of incarnated spirituality.” He also presented ideas for the Nature and Environment debate: Balancing global warming “Climate change is here! Can you imagine the world in 30 years? 2.5 billion climate refugees, 30% fewer territories. The idea of staying below 1.5 ° C is simply a utopia. In October 2018 the increase of the average global temperature was + 1.2 ° C.

With Jérôme scientist & inventor

Jérôme and Katarina with award winning inventions

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Planting billions of trees to store CO2 is a step but you have to

prepare for an

emergency world with a completely different geographical, geopolitical and economic map. We have the responsibility to prepare our children for this new world. There is a hope: when the human is at the foot of the wall, he will find the resources to meet the challenge. Will he be able to transcend his potentials into "powers" and make them beneficent and benevolent?” . His impactful presentations were highly appreciated. www.diamondlight.eu KATARINA MARINČ (Slovenia, France) – Multi-therapist, author of 33 Universal Laws and founder of Living Love Teachings and Technology. She made her presentation on Law and Justice for Humanity and How to live a peaceful family life for future generations development. She also presented the Universal Laws of Parenthood, Partnership and Marriage - about the conscious pre-conceiving and also conscious parenting: the future of humanity depends on our children which need our constant and conscious presence, support and guidance. : www.livinglove.lv Marie-Ginette Lichère, France - is a Psychotherapist, coach and trainer. She added – There is no peace without unity. Unity can be achieved in ourselves when we arrive to harmonize all our trends into one direction. For this we must become aware of the different elements that constitute them: the mind, the soul, the intellect, the heart, the will, the physical body, and then endeavor to grant them to each other.

The purpose of spiritual work is to refine the body matter, to warm it so that the Spirit can express itself through it. Only then it could give us its treasures. Matter no longer opposes the Spirit and the lower nature becomes the servant of the higher nature. That is unity! At this moment human can express himself in fullness, and be conscious of himself in all the universe. It becomes one. It is an extraordinary plenitude. In unity, never the least hostile manifestation appears. Some beings have gone so far in this experience of unity that they feel vibrated in unison with all creatures: there is no more separation, all souls, all spirits vibrate in unison and they experience what happens to others as if it were to themselves that it happened. There is a link between all living creatures, as there is a link between all the cells of the physical body. The difficulty for the human being to really know himself is that he represents a huge and extremely various world. Like God who did it in his image, he exists in all creation. And it's because he does not realize it that his life is so difficult. In particular, when he clashes with things and beings without knowing that they are in him and that he is in them. Crystal Goh, Hypnotherapist & Evolutionary Coach, London She spoke on difference between Religion and Spirituality. Religion being taught with dogmas, rituals and ceremonies whereas Spirituality is what one actually practices daily in instinctive conduct. We are actually Spirit in a body, the

Diamond Earth – Award Winning Invention

Group Meditation

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human vehicle, Spiritual Beings experiencing a Human life on Planet Earth. A thought is a notion, an idea, a concept, a perception, with the 5 senses that translates into action and manifestation. First the thought, then the word, followed by action and deed, and then matter in manifestation! Spirit of Soul is eternal, powerful and when in embodiment, co-creates and manifests, with Supreme Creator. So how could Yoga, Science and Technology even measure up to the Universal Intelligence and importance of Spirituality, the eternal essence of the fragment of Supreme Creator? www.hypnotismpower.com My address I had to speak in every session either as Chairman, moderator or a panelist. I emphasized on the need for the world following more on spirituality – the essence of all religions – minus their rituals and dogmas. I also emphasized on the unity of all religions and universalism of all human beings – the need for respecting environment and all forms of life – to being and imbibing universal values of caring, sharing, compassion, forgiving and forgetting wrongs done by others. I appealed that everyone should follow at least two vows – not harming anyone or anything knowingly or unknowingly … and the second one to be of some help to everyone to the best of one’s ability. I recalled my long association with Sunyogi Umashankar who is working with devotion to create Universal Peace and Harmony.

I had met Sunyogi Umashankar when I visited the Yoga Centre of Annamalai University near the sacred city of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. He was standing quietly in a corner till he was introduced to me as a yogi – he was/is simplicity and humility personified with just a dothi around his waist and a piece of cloth around his shoulders barefooted always. When he visited me at Delhi, he told me about his drawing the perennial and purest form of energy by looking at the Sun for a few minutes everyday and remaining without eating any food and even drinking water. He continued his practice for years – and even when he was with me at Delhi whenever he came. Sunyogi Umashankar believes in the power of Sunyoga – meditating by sun gazing - looking at the Sun and receiving energy – remained without food and water for long periods. Remains comfortable even at high altitudes in the Himalayas with bare clothing. Travelling with me to Kailash Manasarovar in 2005 Sunyogi was comfortable lying on the Himalayan Snow even at an altitude of nearly 20,000 feet with no warm clothing or footwear. The local Tibetans and the American tourists visiting Kailash Mansarovar were fully clothed with warm material and with snow shoes. They were amused to see the Sunyogi with almost bare body and competed with each other to be photographed with him. It was much later he started consuming food and water, when offered. www.sunyoga.info

Formal Dinner with Delegates

Sunyogi Gazing at the Sun

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Sungazing - SunYoga and SunYogi At every early morning practice of Sun Gazing, all the delegates including scientists participated with great enthusiasm and total faith. The ancient Vedic scriptures make little mention of Sunyoga. While the thorough knowledge of how it can be practiced has been forgotten, it remained unknown to the common man for a long time. Thanks to Mahavatar Babaji, this knowledge has become available to a wider group of practitioners again. Sunyogi Umashankar has travelled to many countries in Europe and and Asia to help people to increase their awareness, help them achieve self-realisation and set them on a mission to bring peace to the Universe. Today Sunyogi travels all over to teach Sunyoga and spread its message of universal peace. Sunyogi is also a recognized skilled acupressure therapist, an ancient art that he has taught everywhere over the years. I am personally aware he lived for years without food and water, drawing his energy directly by gazing for sometime every day at the Sun, the source of inexhaustible energy for planet earth. Although scientists and doctors agreed that hunger reduced if not eliminated, due to the complexity of the various brain functions, they have not been able to explain how sun gazing has such positive effects on the human mind or body. However more research is underway.

Sun gazing is an ancient rite that existed in several cultures as Mayan, Aztec, Egyptian, Greeks, Tibetan and Indian Yoga. Today in some of them, it is still practiced. According Hira Ratan Manek (HRM), an Indian researcher of the ancient method of Solar Healing, he has lived for years on water, and, occasionally, tea, coffee, and buttermilk. Source: “FIRST DISCIPLINE, discipline of disciplines by Joseph Manuel”. HRM told me also that Sungazing is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration. “Sun gazing is a cost-free, guru-free practice that can free mankind from mental and physical disease and spiritual ignorance”. – Hira Ratan Manek. HRM is the man who made the rite of sun gazing reappear due to a protocol design for a safe practice. Later, he spread his protocol and experience around the world. He said so at a conference organized by me at Delhi in 2009. During his study, he was mainly inspired from the teachings of Lord Mahavir of Jains, who was also practicing this method 2600 years ago. Other inspirations for sungazing came from ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans. What happens to your body while sun gazing? The sun energy or the sun rays passing through the human eye are charging the hypothalamus tract, which is the pathway behind the retina leading to the human brain.

Morning Yoga & Exercise on the Mountain

“Sun gazing is a cost-free, guru-free practice that can free mankind from mental and physical disease and spiritual ignorance”. – Hira Ratan Manek

Interfaith Dialogue

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The practitioner of safe sun gazing can also add to his practice, safe sun warming of the body which is needed for an overall good health. According to SunYogi Umashankar, we have all looked at sunrises and sunsets for long periods with no harm. In the same way, if we start practicing safe sun gazing in the hour of sunrise or the hour of sunset, we will get expanded health for mind, body and spirit. Drinking and using sun charged water and walking barefoot on bare earth with a good thick layer of warm soil, sand or earth that is free from grass, helps to heal the body.

The root cause of all illness is the body becoming weak. The body stops functioning properly and the more the darkness, more the disease.

Safe sun gazing is a must for better health. More sunlight empowers the body. All the body defenses increase and become stronger to fight disease. According to HRM, when safe sun gazing is added with sun warming of the body, drinking sun charged water and walking barefoot on the bare earth, one easily gets cost-free health and the presence of a master or a guru is not required. One

only has to understand the safe practice of sun gazing and start practicing. For those who are interested in learning more about the sun energy as an effective healing source, HRM recommends these books: “Light, Medicine of the Future”, by Jacob Lieberman “The Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century”, by Richard Hobday.

Dr. Edward Group, Founder of Global Healing Centre says – “The practice of sungazing closely resembles its name. At sunrise and/or sunset, when the sun is closest to the earth, sungazers stand barefoot on the earth and look directly at the sun for 10 seconds. Every day, 10 seconds are added and some sungazers eventually reach a duration of 44 minutes. The theory is that the sun is the force of all life, and staring at it can infuse the body with large amounts of energy. So much so that one of the sungazers featured in the film, Hira Ratan Manek, claims to have gone eight years without eating. He has been “eating” a steady diet of solar rays, and claims that this is all he needs for nourishment. Our ancestors understood the relation between the sun and health. From the Aztecs to the ancient Egyptians, many past societies revered sungazing as an esoteric practice for high-ranking priests and shamans. Today, it is experiencing a resurgence in popularity and sungazers claim it has its benefits.

Prayer for Universal Peace

Prayer for Universal Peace

Sunyogi Meditating on the Glacier

HRM Gazing at the Sun

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It boosts production of melatonin and serotonin. Research shows sungazing stimulates the pineal gland as the direct sunlight hits the eye, moves through retinal-hypothalamic tract, and then hits the brain. This stimulates the pineal gland, also known as the “master gland”. This boosts the secretion of melatonin and serotonin, our "feel-good" hormones. Modern day sungazers say the practice has boosted their vitality. This is probably related to the secretion of the aforementioned hormones. Not only can this practice boost hormone levels, it has also been shown to increase the size of the pineal gland. Normally, as we age, the pineal gland shrinks. However, brain scans of a long-term practitioner of sungazing show that this 70-year-old man has a gland three times as big as a normal man. One of the historical theories for sun gazing was that the body and mind could be nourished by the sun, reducing the need for food. Similarly, some modern day sungazers say they have lost excess weight, and some even report a total loss of the desire and need to eat. Sungazing is an interesting practice that touches the spiritual and psychological realms, which are very personal things. Everyone is wired a little differently and this practice isn't for everyone, nor is it something I recommend. If you choose to partake, do your own research, be careful, be cautious, and document your experience.” https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/

Agnihotra All the delegates including scientists participated with total devotion and sincerity in the ancient fire worship ceremony known as Agnihotra, conducted by Sunyogi following all traditional rituals. Agnihotra is a healing fire from the ancient science of Ayurveda. It is a process of purifying the atmosphere through a specially prepared fire performed at sunrise and sunset daily. Anyone in any walk of life can do Agnihotra and heal the atmosphere in his/her own home. Thousands of people all over the world have experienced that Agnihotra reduces stress, leads to greater clarity of thought, improves overall health, gives one increased energy, and makes the mind more full of love. It is a great aid to drug and alcohol de-addiction. Agnihotra also nourishes plant life and neutralizes harmful radiation and pathogenic bacteria. It harmonizes the functioning of Prana (life energy) and can be used to purify water resources. One can make changes in the atmosphere with mantras and fire prepared with specific organic substances, timed to the sunrise/sunset biorhythm. The fire is prepared in a small copper pyramid of specific size and shape. Brown rice, dried cowdung (manure) and ghee (clarified unsalted butter) are the substances burned. Exactly at sunrise or sunset the mantras are spoken and a small amount of rice and ghee is given to the fire. There is not just energy from the fire; subtle energies are created by the rhythms of the mantrass. These energies are generated or

Early morning Agnihotra

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thrust into the atmosphere by fire. This, in addition to the qualities of the materials burned, produces the full effect of this healing HOMA (healing fire). Much healing energy emanates from the Agnihotra pyramid. A magnetic-type field is created, which neutralizes negative energies and reinforces positive energies. Agnihotra purifies the atmosphere of pollutants and neutralizes harmful radiation. The resultant atmosphere gives nourishment to plant life. Plants grown in Agnihotra atmosphere are better able to withstand droughts. Agnihotra causes a change in the cellular structure of the plant which sends more nutrients to the fruit of the plant and less to the leaves, stem and roots. Many people have found that the size, taste, texture and yield of fruits and vegetables grown in Agnihotra atmosphere are superior. Performance of Agnihotra in the garden reduces pest problems and organic gardening and farming are made easier by using Homa (healing fire) techniques. Agnihotra renews the brain cells, revitalizes the skin and purifies the blood. It is the holistic approach to life. Many people who are normally allergic to smoke experience a healing effect by sitting in Agnihotra atmosphere. The healing effects of Agnihotra are locked in the resultant ash. Thousands of people in different parts of the world have experienced wonderful healings of all types of ailments by using Agnihotra ash. https://www.agnihotra.org/

Sun Worshiped as God Different civilizations had beliefs that revolved around the worship of the sun. Planet sun is source of all forms of life. Deification and adoration of the sun occurred primarily in agrarian societies. When man became a farmer, and thus dependent upon daily and seasonal changes of weather, he often turned to worship the great force that regulated these changes—the light and heat of the sun. And so worshiped as God in all traditions from time immemorial. It was power and unpolluted energy, light and warmth. It was what made the crops grow each season, so it is no surprise that the cult of Sun God had immense power and was widespread. The sun is the giver of life, controlling the ripening of crops which were worked by man. Because of the life giving qualities of the sun, the creator of the universe and the giver of life, the sun represented life, warmth and growth. Since the people regarded Sun as the creator of the universe and the source of life, he had a strong influence on people which led to him being one of the most worshiped of all the gods and even considered King of the Gods. THE HEALING SUN Throughout history, humans have revered the sun as a creator and destroyer of life; they have based their belief systems around it, as well as recognising the healing properties of sunlight. Today, indoor living and artificial light have diminished our relationship with the sun and the

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light–dark cycle it presides over, yet scientists are increasingly recognising the influence it wields over us and using this knowledge to improve our health and wellbeing. Our ancestors also recognised the sun’s power over our bodies. Apollo was the Greek god of light, but also a patron of medicine, which is why he features on this apothecary’s sign. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed in the healing properties of sunlight, advocating sunbathing as a treatment for numerous ills, from epilepsy to lethargy, malnutrition and obesity. Medical interest in sunlight was rekindled towards the end of the 19th century: “It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light… And that it is not only light but sunlight they want,” wrote nurse Florence Nightingale. Recent research supports the idea that patients with greater daylight access may recover faster and have a greater chance of survival. Also around that time, Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb. Edison bragged about needing just three hours sleep per night, but chronic sleep deprivation is a major cause of accidents, and precedes heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Electric lighting has brought many benefits – however, it has also undermined our relationship with the natural light–dark cycle and our sleep. By the 1920s, sunlight was being touted as a cure for pretty much every disease under the sun. Not only does solar UV light kill bacteria directly, it enables the synthesis of vitamin D. This helps build healthy teeth and bones, and is used by our immune cells to produce a chemical called cathelicidin, which kills bacteria.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. Lynda Resnick, American billionaire entrepreneur and businesswoman.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

“The physical body functioning without disease is the happiness of first order; Living without worry is happiness of the second level; Living by helping the needy is third level happiness.”

Dear friends, Om shanti. Some of you would have heard me say that everything starts with the heart. When the heart is honest and clean, God is pleased with me. Sometimes the heart can’t be clean and true because it has memories of the past. If you keep courage and make a choice to bring closure to things of the past, then you can move away from those things and the sorrow they bring. When you are free from the past, then whatever pure thought you have is easily and automatically realized. With love,

BK Janki (103 year old Chief of the World-Wide Brahmakumaris Spiritual Movement)

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.