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CREATIVITY FROM SUMMER CAMPERS

Participants of our Summer Camp - 2009 exhibited their creative skills.

These are but a few examples. A Splatter of colours from their creative

minds were displayed on paper.

The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through

experience.1

NACHIKETA TAPOVANPlot No.70, Phase I, Kavuri Hills, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 500 033

Phone No. 040 23113887 Mobile No. 9849168937Regd. By Govt. of A.P. (Regd. No. 53/IV/99)

Volume: 1Issue 11

10th June, 2009Wednesday

Nachiketanjali

NACHIKETA TAPOVAN ASHRAMGairan Tanda, Kodgal Village, Jadcherla Mandal, Mahaboobnagar Dist-509301

Ph: +91-40-23113887 Mobile: 98491 68937 www.nachiketatapovan.orgE-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Pranavo dhanu:sharo hyaatma, brahma tal lakshyam uchyate,

Apramattena veddhavyam, sharavat tanmayo bhavet.

Om is the bow; the Atman is the arrow; Brahman is said to be the mark.

It is to be struck by an undistracted mind. Then the Atman becomes one

with the Brahman, as the arrow with the target.

- Mundaka Upanishad ( II.2.4 )

Life is a balance between rest and movement.


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Page No.CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor

Subhadra K.

Editorial Consultants:

Annapurna R.

Sowja A.

EDITORIALSwamiji's Message 3Message by Mataji 4Upanishad 6 Youth Meet 8 Yuvanjali 10 Publication 12 Upcoming Events 13Sponsor Options 14

An Appeal 15

Subhadra K.

Life at Nachiketa Tapovan during this

summer break was different. About 40

children braved the oddities of summer

to attend our Personality Development

Camp 2009 which was filled with fun

and frolic. After an eventful week, the

experiences and friendships that the

campers carried back home will form

lasting associations so important in

todays world.

The camp was superceded by new

admissions for the academic year 2009-

2010 and one could see flocks of

students with parents moving around

the campus vying for the coveted

admission in our Vidya Mandir, a rare

privilege to be close to the Divine

Presence of Swami Nachiketananda, to

learn under the Perfect Master. Yes,

Nachiketa Tapovan is the most

happening place in Hyderabad, where

Swamiji does things in his inimitable

style for the world to emulate before

experiencing the Bliss!

Few Tapovan students who were

identified with great potential were

upgraded after being given a qualifying

test. The simmering summer which

reigned supreme the past month with

days sweltering to highs over forty has

come to an end welcoming back the

children into the open arms of Tapovan.

Realization is real religion, all the rest is only preparation 3

Swami Nachiketananda

Message by Swamiji

What is Sadhana? Channelizing all

your actions effectively is Sadhana.

Anything that supports your spiritual

growth is Sadhana. External growth

is not spiritual growth. Then how do

we judge ourselves?

You might be having many great

qualities in you. You might be a very

honest and humble person but if you

carry that tag in your mind you will

turn out to be egoistic which would

be a hindrance to your spiritual

growth. Try to express your great

qualities through your actions

instead of projecting them.

You can not be a Sannyasi or Acharya

by wearing saffron robes or aTripunda. An Acharya should be able

to impart True knowledge by

convincing people. Do not bow to

any spiritual person unless you have

total faith and conviction. To grow

spiritually, it is foremost to

understand ones own self.

God has created many hurdles in

our spiritual path because they are

mirrors which project our true self.

You have to understand and

overcome these hurdles instead of

seeking a way out. The biggest

hurdle is we do not want to see our

true self.

You will burn your finger when it

comes in contact with fire. The

same thing will happen to a spiritual

person but, he will not carry the scar

in his mind. When you are not

influenced by external forces then

you can consider yourself to begrowing spiritually.

One ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk.


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ADHYATMIK PRANETADear Friends,

Today many of us are going through

a lean patch called Recession in our

lives. We all know very well how big

role money is playing in peoples

lives! Without money livelihood is

difficult. The effect has been so

harsh that some people have lost

their hopes on life while some have

even lost their lives. How is thisRecession able to make so much

difference in our lives?

We are all clinging to something

which is unreal and untrue. Isnt it

the law of nature and our nature that

anything which goes up is bound to

come down? By ignoring these

simple truths we are letting external

objects affect our lives to such a

great extent.

My dear friends, let us not embrace

the money which cannot buy

hunger, sleep, love etc. so closely.

The difference between an ordinary

person and a spiritual person is that

the former is more worried about

his own livelihood while the latter

thinks beyond his survival. Some

yogis dont eat for months together

because of the happiness they

derive from within. As SwamiNachiketananda says, Live for the

life not for the Livelihood.

I hear from many people especially

youth who think that by making

their career and obtaining a good

job they will be settled in life. The

truth is, the job would answer the

questions of their livelihood but

not the life. There was a person

who had property worth crores and

still used to pray God to give more

wealth. So in spite of all the wealth

he had he made himself a beggar in

front of God. The same person lived

his life in luxury by spending money

lavishly and feeling like a king.

Unfortunately one day he lost all his

wealth and found himself on the

streets on the verge of begging. Heexperienced insult, fear, anger and

frustration. Swept by depression,

wanting to commit suicide the

person started walking into a

forest.

RECESSION

Education is the panacea of all the evils in the society. 5

SU JOK THERAPY

CLASSES

On his way he finds a Sadhu without

any proper shelter sitting under a

tree, deeply immersed in Sadhana.

On seeing the Sadhu who seemed

to be all blissful, this person

postponing suicide plans wanted to

seek the secret of his happiness and

waited for the Sadhu to open hiseyes. In fact when the Sadhu

opened his eyes the person saw how

they were filled with compassion

and true love. The Sadhu

enlightened the person that by

losing material assets one does not

become poor. The Sadhu himself

exemplified someone who did not

have any possessions but

experienced ever lasting

happiness. Sadhu revealed to him

that any happiness derived from

outside is unreal and temporary.

Therefore strive to experience the

real and eternal happiness that is no

where but within you.

Through the Sadhus Grace the

person came to know the truth and

experienced the real wealth forwhich one does not need to go to

forests or Himalayas but can do so

by being in the real world. All one

needs to do is to sharpen the faculty

of viveka through sadhana whileSwami Shivanandamayi

Combine seriousness with childlike naivete. Live in harmony

with all.

performing actions in the world. The

aspects to be remembered are:

As long as you think that objects are

everything in life, so long you are

inviting worries and problems.

Before acting or reacting, take a

moment to think that the action isbeing performed for eternal

happiness and not external wealth.

Anger, frustration, jealousy etc are

experienced due to lack of viveka.

Once you can discriminate between

temporary riches and eternal

wealth, no more can you be the

victim of problems; every situation

becomes a happening.

The recession you should worry

about is the lack of spiritual values.

The real recession affects when you

forget your true nature.

Adi Shankaracharya says you are chit

ananda rupa shivoham shivoham.

So let us experience that

chidananda and nityananda.


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plumage envelopes him. As he

realizes that he was all the time

none OTHER but the reflection of

the majestic bird, he himself

dissolves until he becomes one

with that glory.

The upper bird is God or Brahman;

the Lord of the universe and the

lower bird is the human soul or

Atman. The sweet and bitter fruits

are the elements of Maya that

occupy a human being and keep him

oblivious of the truth that he is but

the reflection of the higher; he

himself is in essence the upper bird

all the time. Every time a difficulty

approaches the heart becomes

open to divine light. Consciously or

unconsciously we are all striving for

perfection. Every being must attain

it. Thus gradually it approaches

God, and as it gets nearer and

nearer, it finds its old self melting

away, gives up all sorrow and

realizes that he is ONE with GOD.

Our nations motto Satyameva

jayate was taken from the

Mundakopanishad.

satyameva jayate naanritam

satyena pantha vitato devayanah

yenaa kramantyarishayo

hyaaptakaamaa

yatra tat satyasya paramam

nidhaanam

-(III.1.6)

Meaning:

Truth alone triumphs, not

falsehood. By truth the path is laid

out, the Way of Gods, on which the

Seers, whose every desire is

satisfied, proceed to the Highest

Abode of the True.

Satyameva Jayate

Strength is the medicine for the worlds disease.6

There were two birds perched on

the Self-same tree, one on the top

and the other below. The bird on the

top is calm, silent, and majestic,

immersed in his own glory; the bird

on the lower branches, eating fruits-

sweet and bitter, hopping from

branch to branch, is becoming

happy and miserable alternately.

Whenever the lower bird eats a

bitter fruit, it gets disgusted and

looks up and sees the other bird with

golden plumage who eats neither

sweet nor bitter fruit, who is always

calm and blissful. Seeing that, lower

The whole of the Vedanta philosophy is in this story from

Mundaka Upanishad:

Dva suparna sayuja sakhaya - samanam vrksam parishasvajate;

Tayoranyah pippalam svadvattya- nasnannanyo abhichakashiti.

Samane vrkse puruso nimagno-nisaya shochati muhyamaanaah;

Jushtam yada pasyatyanyamisa- masya mahimanamiti vitasokah.

-Mundaka Upanishad (III.1.1)bird longs to be like him; untouched

by pain and pleasure and hops a

little closer towards him. However,

as time passes by forgets all about

his yearning to be like the upper

bird, and resumes eating the fruits.

Again when he eats another bitter

fruit, which makes him feel

miserable, he again looks up to the

blissful bird, and tries to move

nearer to him. Once more he

forgets. This repeats for a long time

until he makes it very close to the

beautiful bird. He sees that the

light from the birds golden

MUNDAKA UPANISHAD

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.


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and undisguised.Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

Pre-Launch Meet of Yuvanjali Nachiketa Tapovan attained a more colourful look on the morning of Sunday the 7th

June, with groups of teenagers splattered all over the campus. The young citizens who

gathered to discuss the launch of Yuvanjali looked as colourful and delicate as butterflies

but are comparable only to lions in their strength. Indeed youth is the power of the

Nation.

The event which we called the Pre-launch meet of Yuvanjali was organized and hosted by

Madhukar under the auspices of Swami Nachiketananda and Swami Shivanandamayi .

The gathering was to get all the young friends of Tapovan familiar with the need, concept,

aims and objectives, structure and other details of Yuvanjali. After the lamp was lighted

by Suharika, Spandana and Ramya who have been with Tapovan since its inception,

Madhukar briefly introduced to the audience how Tapovan is able to contribute to the

society leaving it to ones imagination, how much more could be done joining hands with

mighty Yuva Shakti.

Vasundhara Ma introduced Mataji to the audience in her gentle tone and graceful words;

influenced by Swamiji how from a shy young camper Mataji became an impressive speaker

and an advanced Spiritual Sadhaka. Then Mataji conveyed in her message the need for

inculcating a spiritual lifestyle to encounter the ever-growing stress and frustration and

enjoy life beyond all limits. Swamiji addressed the youth in his casual yet effective style.

He urged them to develop deep perception that can help see the absolute truth beyond

the external body. He clarified that Spirituality does not demand one to renounce his/her

pleasures of life instead will help one to enjoy life from all angles. The objective of

Yuvanjali is to incorporate Spirituality smoothly into ones life by means of helping Family,

Society, Country, World and lastly Self.The gathering started as a series of lectures and presentations given by different speakers

and grew into a panel discussion where the Yuvanjali-aspirants freely expressed and

shared their ideas and plans for the youth wing. There was lot of response, and good

feedback from the youths side in the first meeting itself. Looking at all the enthusiasm

that was oozing from everyone present at the gathering one can predict that sky is the

limit for Yuvanjali.


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Construction Committees - Co-ordinators

OUR PUBLICATIONSA set of 8 Yogic CDs were released on1st

April 2007.The CDs comprise instructions

given on different yogic techniques based

on an extensive research done by Swami

Nachiketananda assisted by other Swamis

and Volunteers.Om- A divine melody is

the first of the series. All the CDs are

available at the Nachiketa Tapovan

premises at Kavuri Hills, and also in leading

book stores.Cost of CD - Rs. 35/-

Mataji General Information - 9849168937

Reddy P. S. N. General Information - 9849636882

Rama Devi Temple - 04023113887

Reddy P.S. Temple - 9849636882

Subhadra K. Vidya Mandir - 9849800155

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Madhukar A.- Ramakrishnalaya - 9949299998

Prasad Y.V.S. Ramakrishnalaya - 9849913399

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Venkatram Compound Wall- 04023113887

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Dear Atmabandhu

We solicit your gracious presence with friends on the occasion of

LAUNCH OF

YOUTH WING - 'YUVANJALI'YOUTH WING - 'YUVANJALI'YOUTH WING - 'YUVANJALI'YOUTH WING - 'YUVANJALI'YOUTH WING - 'YUVANJALI'

Yours in the service of Motherland

Madhukar A.

Director

Programme & Satsanga

Venue:

NACHIKETA TAPOVAN

Plot No. 70, Phase I, Kavuri Hills,

Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

Our principle should be love and not compassion.

on the auspicious day of

GURU POURNIMA

at our "NACHIKETA TAPOVAN"

on Tuesday, 7th JULY 2009 at 9.00 a.m.under the auspices of

Swami Nachiketananda and Swami Shivanandamayi

on this day we will also

Celebrate Guru Pournima & Release Vanaprastha Flyer


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SPONSOR OPTIONS

Anna daanam maha daanam; vidya daanam mahattaram.

Annena kshanika trupthihi yaavajjeevanthu vidyaya.

Vidya Mandir at Nachiketa Tapovan is currently able to accommodate a family

of about 150 children who receive all-round nourishment from man-making

education to milk-n- meals and basic health- aid in an atmosphere of genuine

love. Kind-hearted Well wishers have been the unseen force behind this offering

to God. We thank you for your continued support.

Vidya Daanam (Education ) Rs. 3500/ year/student

Anna Daanam (Mid-day Meals) Rs. 2800/day

Ksheera Daanam (Morning Milk) Rs. 600/day

Vastra Daanam (Uniforms) Rs. 600/ 2 pairs

Dinnerware (Steel Plates & Glasses) Rs. 5000/ 50 sets

Stationery Supplies (Copier Paper) Rs. 5000/ term

Festivals Celebration Rs. 1500/festival

Oushadhi (Medical Supplies) Rs. 5000/month

Celebrate your Special Days with the Children

at Nachiketa Tapovan!

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AN APPEAL

Dear

Atman

No man is an island. To fight the

good fight we need help. This has

been the basis for the Nachiketa

Tapovans inception and ensuing

growth over the last 10 years from

a hut into a 3 storied- building onto

a 40 acre spiritual complex.

Imparting literacy to children from

impoverished families was the idea

with which the divine project

started before it grew into a

multifarious movement. All along

Tapovans efforts received great

support from you all in every way

bringing fruition to the noble

intent..

The main focus has never shifted

from Vidya Mandir. Nachiketa

Tapovan has become the haven for

the underprivileged children who

have been nourished with not only

milk and food but also good

academics supplemented by thetraditional values of India. Vidya

Mandir will be taking a big stride

this June from offering Primary

Education extending onto

Secondary Education. That is, this

academic year, Vidya Mandir will

offer classes ranging from LKG

through 6th grade.

It requires additional resources,

both monetary as well as human to

fund this progressive step. We

hereby make a fervent appeal for

generous donations. Please

participate in this Vidya Daana Yaga

being performed to benefit the

most deserving children and help

pass on the legacy of our Cultural

heritage, Social values andReligious traditions.

It may kindly be noted that

donations to Nachiketa Tapovan are

exempted from Income Tax U/S 80

G of IT Act, 1961 of Govt. of India.

Donations in the form of Cheques/

Demand Drafts may please be

drawn in favour of Nachiketa

Tapovan. We acknowledge the

generous contributions made by

donors.

Swami Nachiketananda

Yours in the service of Motherland

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes.

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