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Life changing breathing technique

Sudarshan Kriya™

The cornerstone of Art of Living courses, the Sudarshan Kriya™ technique has helped millions around the world to reduce stress to get better rest and to improve the quality of life. Studies conducted on four continents and published in peer reviewed journals, including at Yale and Harvard, have demonstrated a comprehensive range of benefits from reduction in cortisol, the stress hormone, to increasing overall life satisfaction.

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A life changing experience

My experiences after Sudarshan Kriya: I feel a sense of joy and calmness. I am centered and thereby can deal with difficult things, stress and distractions. The transformation that happened in me was that I am capable of doing many things that I didn’t think I could do earlier. This fact made me more confident.
Kunal Kapoor
Kunal KapoorBollywood Actor
I feel that in the morning after I do the Sudarshan Kriya, pranayama and meditation, it’s an amazing feeling I carry for the entire day. Similarly, in evening, when I meditate, it gives me the energy for the remaining day.
Sharad Veswakar
Sharad VeswakarNepali Cricketer
I refreshed one weekend of The Art of Living program doing Sudarshan Kriya, than from a month of vacation. I feel immediately stronger, less shy and more balanced.
Farhan Akhtar
Farhan AkhtarIndian Actor
Sudarshan Kriya has helped me not only to build my immunity, fitness and overall health but also to keep calm and powerful over the ups and downs in my profession. We need a healthy mind in a sound body to be successful and survive in this world. I am glad when young participants join in to learn Sudarshan Kriya. Earlier, you start better it is for all.
Dipika Prasain
Dipika PrasainNepali Actress

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If you look at the benefits that meditation brings in our life, you will find that it is all the more relevant. In ancient times, meditation was used as a way for finding the Self, for enlightenment. Meditation was a way to overcome misery and problems. It was the way to develop one’s abilities.

If you want, keep aside enlightenment. Today’s stress and tension in society calls for meditation. If you take more responsibility, more meditation is required. Greater responsibilities and ambitions you have, greater is the need for you to meditate.

If you have nothing to do, you may not need meditation as much.The busier you are, the lesser time you have, the more desires and ambitions you have – all the more is the need to meditate. Because meditation not only relieves you of stress and strain, it also enhances your abilities, strengthens your nervous system and mind. Not only does it help eliminate stress and tensions, releasing toxins from the body and soothing the mind, it also makes you more capable, enhances you in every way. What else do you want? If you want to be happy and healthy, you’ve got to meditate!

You don’t need to be able to stand on your head to be able to get the benefit of the courses offered by the Art of Living!

The breathing techniques and meditation techniques taught in our programs do not need any special physical skills and are practiced by millions of people around the world from the ages of five to ninety!

You are busy now, but when will you be happy? Joy is found only in the present moment. Yet usually we find the mind swinging back and forth between the past and the future. We feel regretful or angry about something that has happened to us, or we worry about the way things will turn out. Observe your mind.
 
If you notice, you postpone the good things but never postpone negative things. You never say, “I will postpone my anger, do you?”
 
You postpone your happiness until some perfect future date, but it never arrives. If you live life now, tomorrow will take care of itself. This is the Art of Living.

The Art of Living Courses are not expensive.  There are expenses when courses are organized. The volunteers have to rent a hall, get supplies. So a percent of the course contribution is spent on course expenses. Remaining funds go to support service projects all over Nepal.

Also, if you offer the course free, people don’t value it. People don’t take responsibility to sit and learn. 

Sudarshan Kriya™ came into being in 1982 in Shimoga, India when Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, now a global humanitarian and a spiritual leader across the world, went into a ten-day period of silence. In his words: 

“I had already traveled around the world. I had taught yoga and meditation. But still, I was concerned about how to help people live a happy life. I felt there was something that was lacking. Though people do their practices, their life is in compartments when they come out in life, they are very different people. So, I was thinking how we can bridge this gap between inner silence and outer expression of life.

During a ten-day period of silence, the Sudarshan KriyaTM came like an inspiration. Nature knows what to give and when to give. After I came out of the silence, I started teaching whatever I knew and people had great experiences.”
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Since then, Sudarshan KriyaTM – the powerful, rhythmic breathing technique has been the cornerstone of all Art of Living courses. The first course was taught by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at Shimoga. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has made ancient wisdom very practical to modern day and has introduced yoga, pranayamas, and meditation into the daily lives of millions over the last four decades.

The cornerstone of the Art of Living courses is a technique called “Sudarshan KriyaTM“. Sudarshan means the right vision of who I am.“Kriya” means purifying action. It produces a deep calm in the mind while every cell in the body becomes enlivened with energy. This cleansing process powerfully dissolves stress. In one hour’s time, after the very first practice, you will see how the energy, the mind, and oxygen penetrate deep into every cell of your body and cleanse you on a very deep level. Every cell of your body gets cleansed, energized, and more oxidized.
 
Have you ever wondered how does a negative thought arise? If you attend to the source of negative thought you will realize that they come because of tension and stress. A relaxed, happy person will not get negative thoughts. You see? The more miserable one is, the more negative thoughts come. Instead of rubbing the mind with a positive thought, go deep into yourself, through the breath, through meditation, and cleanse the system. Go to the root of it, eliminate the cause, the very root of negativity. It doesn’t take a long time. Especially with the Sudarshan KriyaTM, it’s so immediate. Just two days of practice, one hour each day, cleanses the body so much, makes you feel so light. 
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Founder, The Art of Living

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a global humanitarian, spiritual leader and ambassador of peace. Gurudev’s vision of personal and social transformation through mental health and wellness has ignited a global movement in over 180 countries, uplifting the lives of more than 50 crore people.

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Strengthen your roots, broaden your vision and be of service to humanity are the underlying principles of the Art of Living. From child education to river rejuvenation, from pesticide free farming to ethics in business, from conflict resolution to disaster relief, the Art of Living has become a platform for people from around Nepal and the world to serve humanity.

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Vedic Dharma Sansthan – Nepal Celebrates Every Occasion in Vedic Style. Please let us know, If you have any questions..

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Upanayanam Ceremony

 

Upanayanam is one of the most important Samskārās in a person’s life. “Upa” means ‘close’ and “Nayana” means ‘to bring’. Upanayanam means to bring closer to the Guru or Divine. Upanayanam also called the ‘sacred thread ceremony’ is a ceremony performed to mark the point at which children began their formal education in the Vedic tradition.

Upanayanam is traditionally seen as getting a new birth in the spiritual world towards the higher knowledge of the Self. It is an initiation process to learning the sacred chants and mantras according to the Vedic tradition. Upanayanam ceremony is complete with the wearing of the Yajnopavitam (Sacred Thread) on the body. The child is initiated into the most sacred Gayatri mantra in the Brahmopadesham ceremony. He is taught the Sandhyāvandanam.

The Gayatri mantra is a prayer to invoke brilliance and purity in our intellect and consciousness. The three threads in the Yagnopaveetam represent the responsibility towards the one self, family and society. During Upanayanam, the great Gayatri Mantra is imparted to the participant as it is considered as the greatest of all upadesams and is called “Brahmopadesam”.

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Maha Shivratri is the day when the Shiva Tattva touches the earth. The consciousness, the aura or the ethereal world which is always ten inches above the material ground, touches the earth element on the day of Maha Shivratri. It is the wedding of the material with the spiritual.

Shivratri is taking refuge in the divine consciousness which brings peace and solace to all layers of consciousness. So resting in the Shiva Tattva is Shivratri.

The Significance of Maha Shivratri

According to the Shiva Purana when Shiva was asked by Parvati, what pleases him the most, he is supposed to have replied, ‘The 14th night of the new moon, of the month of Phalgun is my favorite day.’ This is known as Shivratri.

Ratri means ‘to take refuge’. Shivratri is taking refuge in Shiva, in the soul. It is celebrating the Shiva Tatva within oneself.

We celebrate maha shivaratri every year at Art of Living Center, Shankhamul.

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The Significance of Navratri!

“The word ‘Ratri’ means deep rest or relief from three ‘tapas’, three types of fire or botherations- the physical, the subtle, and the conscious. A deep rest can relieve you from all these three botherations.

It’s a time of prayer and rejuvenation. A child is born in nine months. These nine days are like coming out of a mother’s womb once again. Having a new birth.”

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

At the time of Dashain (Navratri). We regularly celebrate Navratri in Vedic Style by doing puja nad homa at Art of Living Park, Shankhamul.

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Rudra Pooja is an ancient practice followed in sanatana dharma since time immemorial. ‘Rudra’ means ‘Shiva – the Benevolent’, ‘ the Destroyer of Evil’. ‘Pooja’ means that which is born out of fullness. Through this Pooja one can aim for inner peace and fulfillment. In this Pooja, Lord Shiva is worshipped in his Rudra form.

It is hailed by all Vedic scriptures as one of the greatest Poojas to remove all evils, to attain all desires and for all-round prosperity. Scriptures on Astrology prescribe this emphatically as a remedy for several planetary doshas.

Satarudriyam or Sri Rudradhyayam is the very essence of all Veda branches (Sakhas). Hence it is also known as Sri Rudropanishad. Principally, this Rudradhyayam, which forms the fifth Prasna in the fourth Kanda of Krishna Yajurveda, is a composition describing the greatness of Sri Parameswara, with universe as his form and his transcendence beyond the manifest universe, and extolling him and seeking his grace.

We as Vedic Dharma Sansthan – Nepal conducts puja at Art of Living Center regularly.

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