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Vedika Hosts a Four-Day Residential Retreat for Students on Gayatri Upasana and Shishya Sadhana
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Offering sunset Sandhya Vandam at Vedika retreat |
Summer concluded with a retreat for all Vedika Gurukula students. The retreat was designed to build on their practice of dinacharya, their Ayurvedic daily health routine, and their growing experience of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits of rising during brahmamuhurta, the exquisite pre-dawn time. The focus was on deepening their experience of Gayatri sadhana, the practice of purifying every level of one's being through repetition and absorption in the Gayatri mantra. The purpose of this ancient practice is to build an inner pillar of strength, intuition, protection and selfless dedication, to cultivate the inner foundation of a healer and counselor. Its daily practice has been central in Shunyaji's family lineage, and amongst numerous lineages of traditional vaidyas.
Vedika's students and teachers gathered under the stars amidst the silent beauty of the approaching dawn to perform the sandhya vandam together. This is the twilight offering of gratitude to the Supreme Lord whose visible form is the sun. It takes the form of offering purifying mantras as a prayer to live a noble, illumined life, and infusing these mantras and intentions into water that is then offered to the rising sun, and is followed by silent meditation. During the day, students gathered to study the science that makes Gayatri mantra so potent, the values it embodies, and its scriptural roots in the Vedas and Upanishads. They learned the significance of its practice in Ayurveda and studied Rishi Charaka's description of an astonishing rejuvenation regimen for the body, mind and spirit for which Gayatri mantra as one of the primary "medicines".
Steps by step, Vedika students are being prepared to become wise and deeply inspired in their service of humanity.
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