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Drawing is meditation and the best form to meditate on is the form of the guru. 

In this course Murali Das leads you on a video drawing journey for almost 2 hours where by the end you will have recreated a photograph of Guruji as a pencil or pen drawn portrait. 

Not only will you focus on Guruji’s form but you will also learn and hone techniques of portrait drawing.

This course is delivered by Vandhana via short, digestible video modules totalling 2 hours which you can repeatedly refer back to so that you can practice and learn at your own speed. The videos modules are supported by reading material, quizzes and guided practice. 

Sanskrit is the expression of the spiritual realm, a vibrational language which has the power to change thought waves as well as your environment. By participating in this course, you will be empowered to:

– read and pronounce in the correct way (Romanized script)

– spot and reproduce different verse patterns

– optionally train your musical pitch

– develop confidence by knowing how to chant Guru-stotram, Paramahamsa Vishwananda’s 108 names, Bhagavad Gita chapter 15, and much more.

Join this wonderful course, which has the capacity to bring you to a new level of how you relate with Sanskrit and the ancient culture of Sanatana-dharma (Hinduism).

Jai Gurudev!

Welcome to this Simple Pūjā course!

Pūjā is the basic ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, God is visible in the form, and God sees the person who worships.

Performing pūjā is to serve one’s deity and to build and strengthen one’s personal relationship with the divine. It is one of the best tools for calming and focusing the mind, as it involves all of our senses.

By practicing pūjā with love, we can learn to forget ourselves, our limitations, and to let go and surrender to God.

A mūrti is the manifestation of a deity in this world. The deity takes the form of a statue so that we can comprehend the form of the deity with our limited mind and thereby find it easier to connect with the Divine. If you place a mūrti/deity on your altar, you have to be aware that this is not just a statue but something much, much more – especially after it has been blessed.

This way to connect and build up a steady relationship to the Divine in the form of the deity is very powerful and important on the spiritual path. By worshipping the deity in such a form through pūjā – worshipping the Divine in the outside through various offerings and the chanting of mantras (arcana-bhakti) – it becomes much easier for us to concentrate and to go beyond the limitations of our mind. It also helps to cleanse our negativity so that we may be able to receive and handle more LOVE which our gurudeva/iṣṭadeva is constantly giving us. They are always willing to give even more through the grace of the satguru but we must do our part to prepare ourselves for that.