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HRIDAYA RETREAT

REVELATION OF THE SPIRITUAL HEART

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Contents

1.0 Welcome to Hridaya Yoga1.1 About Hridaya Yoga

2.0 The Hridaya Retreat2.1 Introduction to the Hridaya

Retreat and Its Purpose

2.2 What is Hridaya Meditation?

2.3 What is the Heart Center?

2.4 About the pauses after

inhalation and exhalation2.5 The Self-Inquiry Method of

Ramana Maharshi2.6 The unity between Love

(bhakti) and non-mediateKnowledge (jnana)

2.7 Techniques and Activities

2.8 Hridaya Retreat Leader2.9 Special Themes

2.10 Testimonials of Past

Attendees

3.0 Retreat Guidelines3.1 Voluntary Restraint

3.2 Silence

3.3 No Use of Electronics or

Media

3.4 Mobile phones3.5 Reading

3.6 Sexual Abstinence3.7 Fasting

3.8 An Attitude of Solitude

3.9 Gender Segregation

3.10 Dress

3.11 Photographs

3.12 Cigarettes

3.13 Meditation Notebook3.14 Following the Schedule

3.15 Lateness

4.0 Administrative Details4.1 Retreat Coordinator

4.2 Attendance

4.3 Partial Attendance of Retreats4.4 Disturbances

4.5 Questions

5.0 Inspirational Poems

6.0 Suggested Reading

7.0 Glossary8.0 Contact Information


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for all this is Brahman, all beings and all that is are this Self.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Worship the Living God

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor

have you. To see this chair you first see God, and then the chair in and through

Him. He is everywhere, saying, I am. The moment you feel I am, you are

conscious of Pure Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him

in our own hearts and in every living being? Thou art the man, Thou art the

woman, Thou art the girl and Thou art the boy. Thou art the old man tottering witha stick. Thou art the young man walking in the pride of his strength. Thou art all

that exists a wonderful living God, who is the only fact in the universe.

Swami Vivekananda the Great

Neither I am me,

nor you are you,

nor you are me.

Also, I am me,you are you

and you are me

We have become one

in such a way

That I am confused whether

I am you,

or you are me. Rumi

Last night,

I saw the realm of joy and pleasure.

there I melted like salt;

no religion; no blasphemy,

no conviction or uncertainty remained.

In the middle of my heart,

a star appeared

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and the seven heavens were lost

in its brilliance. Rumi

The Divine Spirit, the spark of God that dwells in the heart, is smaller than a grain

of rice, is smaller than a grain of rye, is smaller than a mustard seed, is smaller

than a grain of millet, is smaller that the germ in the grain of millet.

This Atman that dwells in the heart is bigger than the Earth; it is bigger than the

atmosphere, bigger than the sky, bigger than the worlds altogether.

Chandogya Upanishad

Infinity is that. Infinity is this.

From Infinity, Infinity has come into existence.

From Infinity, when Infinity is taken away, Infinity remains.

Invocation from the Isa and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

What shall I do with the things that cannot make me immortal?


Lead me from the unreal to the Real

Lead me from darkness to Light.

Lead me from death to Immortality.


From Bliss we come into existence.

In Bliss we grow.

At the end of our journey's close, into Blisswe retire.

Taittiriya Upanishad

The spirit (Atman) cannot be revealed by the weakling.

Mundaka Upanishad


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