Swami Veda invites you to meditate for an hour where ever you are, in your home, or with friends or family. Total Beginners, Non-initiates are welcome.

ABOUT FULL MOON MEDITATION

Meditation is now a household word but many are struggling to find out how to meditate.

Here we provide a little guidance for which a CD can also be obtained. The CD contains a meditation guide’s voice which gently eases you into a meditative state.

You’re also invited to join thousands of other meditators on all continents to sit with the meditation guide every full moon day right in your own home.

In the philosophy of meditation, mind is a universal field and a meditation guide like Swami Veda Bharati, disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas (author of the classic Living with the Himalayan Masters), is trained to tune into the universal mind-field.

If you will sit in your own home every full moon day (see enclosed timings) and follow the guidelines given here or through the CD, you will be guided into an inner tranquility which is your own deep interior nature.

Even people who have never learnt to meditate are benefiting from these sessions, so there is no prior experience necessary!

Please join this worldwide family and let us know that you are linking up every full moon day — ahymsin@gmail.com

For further guidance, inquiries or to obtain CDs and literature you may write to:
Association of Himalayan Yoga Meditation Societies International (AHYMSIN)

C/o Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama
Virbhadra Road, Virpur Khurd email: ahymsin@gmail.com
P.O. Pashulok, Uttarakhand publications: ahymsinpublishers@gmail.com
India 249 203 tel: +91-0135-2450093 / 2455091 / 2453030

To download meditation audio recordings & lectures please visit www.swamiveda.com

To subscribe to the e-newsletter, receive reminders of the full moon meditation, and order DVD videos please visit — www.swamiveda.org

HOW BEGINNERS MAY PARTICIPATE

Those who have not learned to meditate before, but would like to join Swami Veda Bharati, disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas, in his meditations on the Full Moon Days, may ask for his booklet titled Beginning Meditation and a cassette of guided meditation.

Till then, and till you have had the opportunity to take some training in correct way of sitting and correct way of breathing, the simple procedure to follow is :

(1) Sit as straight as you can on an even, firm but cushioned surface

(2) Relax your forehead

(3) Relax your facial and physical musculature

(4) Bring your awareness to your breathing.

(5) Breathe slowly, gently, smoothly, evenly; without jerk or sound in the breathing

(6) Now feel the touch and flow of the breath in the nostrils

(7) Let there be no pause between the breaths; as one breath is completed, begin to feel the next breath flowing and touching in the nostrils

(8) After a few breaths, choose

• (a) whichever name of God is your favourite according to your tradition or religion,
• (b) or a sacred but short phrase or prayer word from your scripture or tradition
• Some suggestions are as follows :
• (a) Those who wish to follow the Himalayan tradition may use the sound so in the in-breath and ham in the outbreath, without a break in the cycles of ham-so with the breath
• (b) The Sikhs may use : Vaah-e-guru
• (c) Muslims may use the word Allah
• (d) Christians may use one of these :
• Jesus, 
• Ave Maria, 
• Hail Mary,     
• Maranatha (Aramaic)
• Kyrie eleison (or Greek)
• (e) Mazdayasnians (Zoroastrians, Parsees) may use any of these :
•   ahura mazda
•   ahuu vairyo
•   esham vohu 
• but for total beginners of the Mazdayasnian tradition the best recommendation is to use the phrase
•   vohu-mano
• (f) The Jainas may use
• Om, 
• Om hreem, or 
• Hreem arham
• (g) Those who prefer total nirguna, transcendental, trans-qualitative divinity may use only Om
• (h) The Buddhists may use the word Buddho to start with
• (i)  If you do not believe in a form of divinity or spiritual incarnation and so forth,
• exhaling, think Ooooonnnne (One)
• inhaling, think twwwooooo (Two) –
• without a break in this count with the breath

(9) Exhaling, think that phrase; inhaling think that phrase.

The phrase is not to come in the mouth nor on the tongue;

it must be only a mentation.

(10) Let there be no break between the breaths,

 nor between the incessant flow of the thoughts of the same phrase

(11) As soon as you become aware that you have lost the flow and other thoughts have begun to arise, re-start the same procedure

(12) Sit for as long as you wish.

(14) Let the quietness of the mind continue even after you rise

(13) If you practice this even for 2-3 minutes at a time many times in the day, you will notice subtle changes in yourself for the better

(14) Whatever you will do repeatedly with the mind, that will become the mind’s habit; calming the mind repeatedly will return your mind to its calm nature. 

For inquiries to receive instruction you may write to

 sadhaka_grama@yahoo.com (in India)

 info@themeditationcenter.org (in USA)

To order books and audiovisual materials : srsgp@sancharnet.in

 For more details, visit :

• www.swamiveda.org

• www.bindu.org

• www.themeditationcenter.org