Swami Mukundananda Delivers Speeches On 'The Spiritual Art of Managing Your Mind' In Sunnyvale, CA

Aug. 13, 2009 - PRLog -- Sunnyvale, CA           Swami Mukundananda, a renowned saint from India and an IIT & IIM alumnus, will deliver unique lectures on 'The Spiritual Art of Managing Your Mind', August 23-29, 2009 in Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

• Combining The Management Expertise With ‘The Spiritual Science’:

Swamiji, an alumnus of two of world's top schools, synthesizes the Management expertise with the Divine Knowledge on the Science of the Soul that he has received from the Lotus Feet of his beloved Spiritual Master, Jagadguruttam Shree Kripaluji Maharaj.

Thus, Swamiji seeks to elucidate the rather esoteric subjects that always elude the material intelligence viz., the science of the soul.

• In-Depth Answers to the Eternal Quest of Humanity:
Over the ages, philosophers, psychologists and scientists have wallowed within the spectrum of human intelligence to unlock the 'Unknown'. But trying to know the mind with the mind is like trying to catch the thief in the accomplice's car.

Swamiji, who has been preaching this Science for more than past twenty-five years, tries to answer the mysterious questions through the Effulgence of The Vedic Encyclopedia, such as the Upanishads, The Purans, Shreemad Bhagavad Geeta, Shree Chaitanya Charitaamrit and other Vedic-Gaudeey Encyclopedia.

• Elucidation of Esotericism:
Through deep but neutral analysis, penetrating logic and practicable parables, Swamiji offers simplified means to grasp what otherwise seems a tale of fantasy.

• Ancient-Wisdom in Modern Attires:
The Vedas are beyond time, manifested before the concept of time was inserted into the material creation. But, with changing level of consciousness and circumstances of the general psyche, these Divine Knowledge needs to be presented in a manner that contemporary souls can absorb and understand.

• Pristine Science:
Having said that, what is important is that The Originality of The Vedas should not be vitiated by any kind of human interpretation or modification. Most of the sages, preachers of the Divine Vedic Wisdom have unknowingly ignored this Golden Principle by adding their own tone to the Universal Science, which makes the Universal Science graspable only to like-minded followers, and thus it kills its Universality and Originality.

Swamiji, quotes the relevant Texts from the relevant Scriptures, reinforcing with authenticity. Swami Mukundananda has received the Vedic Knowledge from Jagadguruttam Shree Kripaluji Mahaprabhu, who is the Fifth Original Jagadguru in past Five-thousand years.
The Discourses will be divided into 7 episodes of 120 minutes each, delving into minutiae such as Nature of the Mind, Characteristics of Human Intelligence and Ego, Nature of Material pleasure and Spiritual Bliss, instinctive defects of mind and practicable solutions to overcome them, Soul Science, the Supersoul connection, karma and its effect on the thoughts/desires of mind, ways to purify the mind and its instincts.

• ‘The Art of Managing Your Mind’:
Swami Mukundananda is an IIT and IIM alumnus, being an exponent of the Material Managerial skills and having undergone a rigorous internship under the divine guidance of his Guru, Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji, Learning the details of The Spiritual Science.

By the Grace of Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, Swamiji has been teaching this unique art of managing one’s minds across the globe for more than past twenty-five years.

An uncontrolled mind is the subject for the vagaries such as lust, anger, greed, fear, jealousy, vanity, anxiety etc. that torment a person endlessly. To curb this infirmity, many people practice the art of positive thinking through their will power, not knowing that a human mind is helpless to bear the past karma. The Vedas, however explain that without a proper spiritual insight and proper self-knowledge, all means practiced to conquer the mind are fruitless.

• Meaning & Nature of The ‘Mind’:

It has been revealed in the Vedas, It is the Mind only that is the Root-Cause of Physical-Mental imprisonment and Liberation (Amrit-Bindu-Upanishad Shloka 2). What is this Mind, then? The Scientists fail to penetrate to the subtle mind, as they consider the brain as the mind. Brain is only a central processing unit, hard-wired with the physical organs of the body such as hands and legs. Moreover, while the Psychologists do admit the existence of Mind, they refrain from admitting the existence of Soul, the neutral source of Energy, through which, the mind functions.

Mind has been revealed as a subtle (not abstract) machine, through which a soul experiences and interacts with, the external world. A soul’s likes, dislikes, desires, tendencies, instincts are all stored in a part of our subconscious mind. Mind, however, functions in various modes and stages.

• Types of Mind:

Primarily, the subtle human mind can be divided into Four Partitions. Mind you, it is the one single mind that enacts four different roles simultaneously, as revealed in Shreemad Bhagavatam Puran (3.26.14).

→ Mann (The Desire-Weaving Machine): The mann instinctively makes sankalpas and vikalpas or desires of sense gratification. The mann is heavily affected by the surroundings and past karmas of a soul. This being mind’s inherent function, the mind cannot be deprived of making desires. There is not a single moment, where mind can stop making sankalpas and vikalpas. (Shreemad Bhagavad Geeta 3.5), knowing this well, instead of annulling the mind, the devotees try to diver the thought-flow towards the Spiritual Realm by constant remembrance of the Lord’s Names and Divine Pastimes.

→ Buddhi (Intelligence): Once the mann decides a particular thing or hatches a particular desire, the data is further processed to the Intelligence, where it is weighed taking into consideration social viability, status, personal image and other material constraints.
Both Mann and Buddhi carry out their jobs with the alliance of the memory faculty, wherein samskars (neural-images) of past infinite births are stored in the mind.

→ Chitt (Contemplation): Once the Buddhi weighs viability and feasibility of a particular desire, the more evolved or status-conscious individuals churn the application furthermore in this highly advanced and subtle machine called chitt. Most of Para-psychologists, yogis and munis fail to breach the code of this subtle organ.

→ Ahamkar: Ahamkar is not ego but the inherent sense of I or ‘I’-ness. It is of two kinds, the unreal and the real. The material Ahamkar, that of considering one to be a body or a sense of belonging to a particular cast, nation, ethnicity, species etc., is false ego. Whereas, considering one to be a Pure Atomic particle of God’s Marginal Potency aka Atma is Real Ego.

• Stages of Mind:

Human Mind can be divided primarily into three stages based on the level of its consciousness about its own entity.

→ Conscious Mind: Conscious mind is the mind that one is conscious about. The habits that we know we have, our limitations, vices, infirmities etc.
→ Subconscious Mind: Subconscious Mind is that sphere of our mind that we know but we cannot express through words or gestures.
→ Unconscious Mind: This more than 99.99% of our mind. All the material aspects that we do not know are stored in the unconscious mind of a soul.

→ Super-conscious Mind: This is the mind of a turiyaatita yogi, whose consciousness is able to reflect its optimum capacity, but this also is limited to the relativity of the yogi. It would be indeed very incompetent to conclude that such an individual receives the cosmic consciousness.

→ Divine Mind: This is a mind of a pure devotee who has been impregnated with Pure Love of God by his/her Guru.

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→ Venue: Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, 420 Persian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

→ Timings: Sunday: 12:00-13:30 and Monday-Saturday: 18:30-20:30.

→ Official Web-page: http://jkyog.org/events_sunnyvale2.html

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Jagadguru Kripalu Yog, an NPO founded by Swami Mukundananda under the Graceful Guidance and Order of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. JKY is dedicated to Spiritual Elevation of the souls of the entire world.

Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, who nurtured the seed of this Missionary Movement, is the Fifth Principal & Original Jagadguru of the Sanatan Vedic Dharm. He is only the Fifth Person in past five-thousand years to have been honored with this Divine Title of Jagadguru (meaning the Universal Teacher of the Vedic Science.) He is the Bhakti-Yog-Rasavatar, i.e. The Personification of the Divine Bhakti.

Swami Mukundananda is one of the foremost disciples of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj has been preaching this Vedic Science since more than past 25 years.

Along with endeavoring to achieve the Missionary Goals, JKYT conducts multiple philanthropic activities, such as feeding the poor, Aiding calamity hit areas, conducting eye-cataract removal & blood-donation camps etc.