Videos

Vedic Chanting the Shri Rudram

The vibrations of this chant purify the atmosphere and mind, fill your being with peace and vigor, bestow protection, and coupled with a pure intention, have the power to grant your wishes, including liberation.

I discovered Vedic chants while playing rock music in my college years [yes, it seems like an unlikely combination, but not really -:)]. I realised the meter, the feel and the vibration, went so well with some of the fusion work I was doing and it also took me deep into myself. It intrigued me so much, that over the years, I have put different tunes to different Vedic chants, for my own pleasure and happiness. In this video, Vidura Barrios a fellow sadhaka (someone on the spiritual path) chants the Shri Rudram with the text on the screen, for us to follow. The abhyasa (regular practice) of scared chanting, is a great discipline in the Indian tradition.

The Shri Rudram is an ancient Vedic text and part of the Krishna Yajurveda (look up more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajurveda). It is a powerful hymn in praise of Rudra, or Shiva. In the mystical tradition, Shiva represents the consciousness within everything, the pure essence within all, referred to in the Hindu scriptures as Sat Chit Ananda: truth, consciousness and bliss. It is in Shri Rudram that the great five syllable mantra, Om Namah Shivaya is first mentioned. You might simply listen to the chant during meditation or you could chant along.

The vibrations of the chant purify the atmosphere and mind, fill your being with peace and vigor, bestow protection, and coupled with a pure intention, have the power to grant your wishes, including liberation.

How culture can make us feel lost

Dr. Gabor Maté expounds eloquently on the four alienation’s in culture and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature.

Our gut feeling tells us a lot. But how do we “hear” it and differentiate it from the ruminations of the mind? According to Dr. Gabor Maté we need to connect back in to ourself, and we are hard wired for love, compassion and more. He gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation, and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature as we move forward through the challenging times of modern culture.

He quotes Karl Marx, and expounds eloquently on the four alienation’s in culture:

  1. Alienation from nature
  2. Alienated from other people
  3. Alienated from our work
  4. Alienated from ourselves
Video Length: 10 minutes

Choose your preferred state of being

From the deepest place, there is no objective reality outside, You are the creator or non creator of it all. Thus do NOT be a slave to your circumstance.

Quite often we let outer circumstances, or what we see with our eyes, guide us. But this can be misleading, because what we see on the outside, comes from within, from our own perspective. From the deepest place, there is no objective reality outside, You are the creator or non creator of it all. Thus do NOT be a slave to your circumstance. Instead choose and “feel” your state of being, your preferred life and out picture it for yourself. What you feel right now (regardless of your outside circumstance) is what you will attract to yourself.

The video begins with the words “If your state of being, your state of consciousness is not your No.1 priority, then life will have its way with you.”. In essence the narrator asks us to make our state the priority and constantly plant new seeds and become a creator of what one passionately desires. Loosen the grasp on the physical and play with your imagination, just as a creator would, in order to create a so called “outer life” that we want.

Video length: 4 min 44 sec

“Shiva, Oh Boy, Don’t Kid Me”

Listen to this video; it is not just a normal video. What you are doing, by listening to it, is giving yourself the opportunity for transformation. Words are just the surface, your longing for the highest in you, is what will transform your awareness.

Make the time, make the time, make the time. Make understanding yourself, the biggest goal in your life. Become like an Olympian, have one singular goal, in this case the goal to understand who you truly are; an Olympian in bringing to the fore, that you are the ecstasy of the universe, that you are Shiva, that you are what it is you are looking for. Listen to this video; it is not just a normal video. What you are doing, by listening to it, is giving yourself the opportunity for transformation. Words are just the surface, your longing for the highest in you, is what will transform your awareness.

Video length: 10 min

You took birth, you came through millions of souls, you found a womb; now don’t waste it. It takes only 10 minutes this morning, then the next, then the next, then the next….and slowly you would have built a full practice over the years, that will give you the greatest bliss inside. It is worth every bit of the joy and fun, even while living with all your earthly duties. Do it. I am only speaking now after almost twenty seven years of spontaneous practice and not to boast, but to inspire, that it is possible at anytime, create the inner environment.