{"id":308,"date":"2022-06-04T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2022-07-08T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:16:23","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/?page_id=308","title":{"rendered":"PREFACE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"308\" class=\"elementor elementor-308\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-edba013 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"edba013\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a54d8be jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"a54d8be\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9733cd3 jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9733cd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<figure style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"225\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:table --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Namashkaram.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">The internet may\u00a0be replete with Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism digital\u00a0libraries structured towards Dharmic goals. Achieving Hindu Rashtra could be a long haul but each of us shall play a role towards this ideal. In a small way, this blog is\u00a0an additional pearl in Mata Saraswathi\u2019s japamala of\u00a0jnana. My Facebook postings over the years and E-books drafts are a direct inspiration. For now, please treat this to be a rough draft. Suggestions, corrections, amendments, proposals\u00a0are very much appreciated.\u00a0Pledges to contribute topical contents are acknowledged with gratitude.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">God\u2019s windmills grind slowly but surely. This Sanatana Dharma Library targets about 200\u00a0odd\u00a0main subject headings with drop-down menu. Over time, the subject index is hopefully fine-tuned for a comprehensive, convenient user-friendly source. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">The Madam\u2019s Corner, may not be truth-seeking or connecting\u00a0to a Higher Power per se. Surely, like my Facebook page, Shaktis would be visiting the Library intentionally. Otherwise, Bhojana, Ragam-Thaalam-Pallavi, are outright allurements for newcomers to visit the blog. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">It is imperative that juniors are trained in the ways of Dharma from a young age. Keshav\u2019s Baalvikas contains notes from the internet to assist mothers to enable their kids to understand Dharmic relevance to their early life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Rudra Memories need not be for my own consumption. The folder is placed here to share the love of fur-kids especially waiting for the parents at the rainbow bridge. I had many happy years with Rudra. All this big talk of detachment or illusion\u2026. it was never easy to bid goodbye. The Divine breaks some hearts to prove that He takes the best away. Rudra &#8211; the Self in her was the Self in me was the lesson taught by her as if one of Dattatreaya\u2019s gurus.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">We are all full of gratitude towards the hundreds of Teachers, Gurus, Rishis, Yogis of the ancient times. \u00a0They are unarguably considered as manifestation of the Divine or the Source of Creation.\u00a0 These pioneers of Dharma have left behind a massive\u00a0knowledge repository for us to draw generously. Pada vandanam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Just as every ticking second of Mahakala creates a\u00a0momentary change leaving behind various experiences, every day is also a day of learning. This site aims to engage not\u00a0only mumukshus \u2013 seekers of jnana and satya but generally future generations in pursuit\u00a0of Sanatana Dharma goals, Purushartas. \u00a0One does not evolve as a mumukshu by rubbing perfumed oils etc. Certain dose of jnana and yoga practices is what keeps his or her mind calm, promote compassion alongside nishkama karma or selfless actions without attachments.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Sanatana Dharma is Eternal Order, the intrinsic connections between elements, body, mind and spirit. \u00a0We are taught to witness the Divine, not the sultans in the sky, but That\u00a0which is divinely present in rocks, streams, plants, flowers, air, fire, space and in countless saguna and nirguna Deities. Sanatana Dharma means one is not to give up on Truths for one is born of truth, live with truth and finally merge in Truth. It is your own Consciousness to be learnt, loved and adored. The truth in your Self is also the truth in the other Self. Our Dharma believes in truth, reincarnation and liberation. It gives us complete freedom to pursue what one believes. \u00a0It is therefore emphatically urged that you to find your own Truths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">However, do not be mesmerized by personalities or commercial pseudos claiming their truths to be the ultimate truths or their paths the only way to\u00a0moksha \u2013 liberation. Blind acceptance can be a slippery slope towards the yoke of slavery. This is made worse by commercialization of the spiritual process.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Notwithstanding,\u00a0no-one in this Blog claims to teach or transmit knowledge through the electronic media. The Library aims the\u00a0creation of a data base. Hopefully data from here integrates into prior knowledge and\u00a0experience of the seeker and for him or her to clear out ignorance or intellectual blocks \u00a0\u2013 asatoma sadgamaya.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Summa iru. \u00a0Be still. Be\u00a0silent. Just Be. Let go of your identity. Transcendent union of your mind with the Divine is not an impossibility\u00a0through yogic methods of seating in silent contemplation. You can find inner peace \u2013 Shanti from where you are. The quest for enlightenment, or nirvana, or bliss is a long mystical but pleasant wait. It is an inner drive to fuse with a Higher Power.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Our spiritual process was not without challenges. We gratefully acknowledge contributions from well-wishers remaining anonymous for the bridge, building structure and roofing. However, Anandashram building that was to create space and energy to facilitate Mauna Yoga fell prey to the universe conspiring to create a contradiction. It fell silent as we faced manifold hindrances \u2013 from technical loss to natural disasters; from health issues to finance. Despite a beautiful bridge linking the Ashram and the forest area, our Gangga, like any mighty river, is subject not just to Prakriti\u2019s natural flow but overwhelming floods thrice. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">However, while the light of Anandashram physical appearance is delayed or flickering away, it was rekindled by the divine spark of Hirdayashram. \u00a0One can suppose that the roots for that can be traced to Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi. Aspiring Hirdayashram \u2013 an ashram in the heart, means there are no rooms or forest to go to but to materialize spiritual convictions within one\u2019s own inner guha-cave. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">After-all Anandashram was not intended as a patch of earth with just huts with star facilities. Passion for heart-based Mauna Yoga starts with an attitude of the mind, a powerful energy centre for self-transformation in absolute silence. \u00a0This is an essential ingredient of Raja Yoga. Within a micro-second of intention and thought, there you are seated in your own ashram in forest environment. This, for want of a term, paves the way for heartfulness \u2013 heart- centered approach to life. Other than this being meditation yoga, no other labels are given. \u00a0As mentioned earlier, yoga is aimed for you to be free with your truths, not enslaved.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">The Anandashram Facebook page contents shall be left unaltered for public consumption. It shall now be appropriately renamed as Hirdayashram. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">This Library project was delayed for more reasons than one. But our spirits refused to be hampered. So here we are with humble\u00a0but blissful beginning in the name of anandavakya.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Isavasyam Idam\u00a0Sarvam \u2013 Ishwara has been eternally present together with TriShaktis showering abundant blessings. My Father, the\u00a0late Sri Krishna M. Swamy\u2019s divine presence is obviously felt alongside Guru and Shiva anugraha.\u00a0\u00a0On a personal note, may it be said that this Blog is not\u00a0a piece of work by a\u00a0Vedanti, Siddhanti or a silent monk meditating on a mountaintop. It is the product of a wondering mystic \u2013\u00a0a Piththan in search of Truth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Thanks must be said to the inventors of the internet facilitating the spreading of Dharmic information and knowledge. Thanks are also due to my writing utensils and laptop. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Anantham, Paramanantham,\u00a0Santhosham, Maghilzchi, Vaalgha, Valargha.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 19.2pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Thus, Self. Yogi Ananda.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">&#8220;Krishnapuri&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">No.\u00a0108, Bemban Village, <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Port Dickson Road<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">Seremban, Negri Sembilan, Malaysia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\">2<\/span><\/strong><strong><sup><span style=\"font-size: 8.5pt;\">nd<\/span><\/sup><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;\"> July 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandavakya.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1849\" src=\"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/home-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Home\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/home-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/home.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 52px) 100vw, 52px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f7a4cdc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"2f7a4cdc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78111092 jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"78111092\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namashkaram. The internet may\u00a0be replete with Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism digital\u00a0libraries structured towards Dharmic goals. Achieving Hindu Rashtra could be a long haul but each of us shall play a role towards this ideal. In a small way, this blog is\u00a0an additional pearl in Mata Saraswathi\u2019s japamala of\u00a0jnana. My Facebook postings over the years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}