Foundational Philosophy

Accomplishing Self Healing through Community Building

Dear One,

The world is a Sangha - a conscious interconnected community.

Yes, separate individuals make up a community and pockets of community appear on the surface at least, separate from each other, in various ways ­ geography, color, religion, age, race and economic inequality, to quote a few. However, microcosm has no separate existence apart from the macrocosm teach the Vedas.

The Science of Ayurveda conceives of individual health and mental and spiritual wellbeing as a dynamic, precarious, fluid and eclectically changing paradigm due to its inherent, incessant and compulsive fusion with the collective.

The alterations in the collective invariably affect the individual. There is no part without the whole and unless the whole is perfected, the part will continue to yearn and shrivel and experience the discomfort of imperfection and the pain of incompletion.

Oneness is the Only Truth

Eka evagnir bahudha
samiddha Ekah suryo visvam anu prabhutah
Ekaivosah sarvam idam vibhaty
Ekam vaidam vi babhuva sarvam

One fire burns in many ways; one sun illumines the world; one dawn dispels the darkness of night; All that exists is One and It has taken all these various forms. Rig Veda, 8.58.2

No wonder the Vedic sages blessed all beings……….sarvesham poornam bhavatu…May we find our wholeness, may we be established in our larger self.

Our community is a good place to start, says Ayurveda. And go beyond the local community to embrace the whole world? Why not! Say the Vedas ­ Vasudeva Kutumbakam ­ the world is my family.

So the sages went about healing the society, the whole word form its disease of violence, and abuse, beautifying the gardens and farms, respecting animals, teaching mothers how to best parent the infants, purifying the water and air quality, spreading messages of ethics, Dharma and essential light and goodness Sattva, everywhere; firm in the belief that if the community is healthy, the individual will be healthy.

Unless our family life is peaceful, every thing inside the body - all those organs, tissues, and hormones and cells, will never experience the peace of true abiding health. The mind will be restless and the soul, ah, lost and forgetful of its supreme nature. Unless the earth exists in harmony with laws and intelligence of the universe Rta, that regulates orbits and holds planets in ether …….the chaos engendered will be destructive to the entire plane of existence causing pralaya.

Pratichi

In the successful collective, every individual knows his or her part and performs it to perfection. In the orchestration of interconnected flow, a deeper health arises from within and becomes a source of inspiration and healing for all.

The sages teach that unless the collective, the community, the global family is healthy, happy and peaceful….it is a matter of time before the tiny bit of happiness, health and peace that has been cornered with stress or luck and grabbed on to so tightly in the wrist …..will ultimately slip away. War, epidemics, scarcity, drought, crime, drugs, psychological alienation, and loss of humane values have a way of traveling full circle; and a remote community’s loss in one part of the world, becomes a global loss in no time.

Such is the nature of dynamic wholeness,. We learn lessons, together. We reap rewards, together. We are in this together, for better or for worse………… because we are essentially One. In the truth of oneness, how long can a part cherish its fantastic isolation? Pratichi

The cut-off solitary self is a concept; the deep permanent bliss of oneness, wholeness, fullness and perfection is truth. The disunity and divide is the mirage; the sacred circle of human unity and the warmth of essential oneness irrespective of differences, is the indisputable realty.

This is why, even in the case of spiritual health, the sages counsel not only to strive and perform spiritual practices or sadhana and tapas for personal liberation - Mukti; but effort for liberation of All by the living of, teaching, serving and spreading the truth……..so that All experience transcendence of true God Self­ Sarva-Mukti.

The Vedika Path...

Through the Vedika Sangha initiative of Vedika Global, let us walk the path of embracing our community……………and let us; live the message of the Sadhus, yet once again.

In the altar of Vedika, let us burn away the selfish desire to seek wellbeing of our personal body, mind soul. At Vedika Global we recognize our place in our global village and embrace our tasks in community building and nurturing to its spiritual heights, through our Vedika Sangha initiative.

Sarvey bhavantu Sukhinaha
Sarvey Santu Niraamayaha
Sarvey Bhadraani pashyantu
Ma kashchit dukhbhaak bhavet

May All be happy
May All be healthy
May All see auspiciousness
May None suffer.

Satyam Vadishyahmi ­ We bow to Truth

Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti
That which exists is One, sages call it by various names.

Nature, we bow to you. You teach us our first lessons in Oneness. We understand how every blade of grass belongs to a community of grass, and how the entire community of grass is reflected and represented by a solitary blade of grass.

As founder, I propound to the world community a profound fiery transformational activism in which the fire of inner transformation is ignited (Atma-Agni) in each individual, so that the inner change becomes the foundation for change of the outer. The individuals are healed and made whole, always keeping in mind that they are intrinsic and inseparable parts of the collective. The sense of collective and oneness is emphasized even as the individual is strengthened and nurtured. Vedic wisdom is the spiritual match that will enkindle the body’s, heart’s and minds of souls and through the flames separation will collapse, energy’s and intentions will coalesce and a resplendent Sangha, a global community so remarkably beautiful, inter connected, deeply healthy and spiritually established in Source -- will be born.

Pratichi

Welcome to the Conscious Community being created by Vedika Sangha.

samano mantrah samitih samani
samanam manah saha cittam esam.
samani vah akutih samana hrdayani vah,
samanam astu vo mano yatha vah susahasati

The sages bless us:
Common be your prayers.
Common be the end.
Common be your purpose.
Common be your deliberation.
Common be your desires.
Common be your hearts.
United be your intentions.
Perfect be the union amongst you.

Rig Veda X.l91. 3- 4.

To accomplish the mission of the sages, we will do what it takes inside Vedika Sanghas. We will teach inside Sanghas easy steps to self caring and body healing with aid of science of Ayurveda; methods to enhance self awareness and access true self empowerment through application of science of Yoga and its various wings, philosophy, psychology, transformational breath work, yoga postures and kriyas; or last but not the least, by way of application of immediate spirituality facilitating Vedanta wisdom and Vedantic meditations on the eternally powerful healthy pure Self within, we will facilitate tremendous healing and restorative shifts within the Sangha.

Now, the Vedic sciences of Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta come alive in the social and environmental context and render mass healing to the body of the society (people), the mind of the society (beliefs), and to the soul of the society (oneness).

• Sangha members will be assisted to go inwards and establish deep connection with their own Selves and feel their true soul power and access lost underlying physical and mental health and social wellbeing
• Sangha members will be aided through Vedic wisdom to recognize and appreciate the fact that true health, power and creativity is unleashed and not blocked when we make the genuine effort to connect with our community. A vibrant state of health, joy and fun awaits us, when we learn to choose cooperation over competition (we always have a choice).
• Sangha members will learn to determine core values that enhance our human journey and if practiced regularly, prepare us for our higher journeys of self actualization and self realization. Digging through the mass of un-needed beliefs and illusions of separateness, common values will be unearthed and readopted and reinterpreted through the light of Vedic wisdom to facilitate internalization. Sangha members will explore consciously, dedication to truth, non violence, compassion to all beings, benevolence, charity, exercise friendship towards all and conscious indifference to attackers, etc. The common values will bond the Sangha members.
• Sangha will move mountains, working together. Through power of collaboration, will achieve the unachievable. The interconnected Sangha members will spontaneously evoke the through the power of love and through vision of commonality heal internal strife, soothe emotional wounds, nurture the physically sick, and bridge economic disparity and other factors that otherwise breed ill health, insanity and ignorance in isolation.

Agne vrata pate vratam charishyami tachakeyam tanme
Radhytam idamaham nruta satyamupaimi

May Agni, the fire of vows, inspire me to master my lower self. May the fire grant me strength and make my effort fruitful.

In service to my community and in dedication to the Sadhus who lit the fire inside my Vedika...

Ablaze,

Pratichi Mathur
Founder, Vedika Global