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Jai Gurudev! 

This is a self-study platform. Every video is from a different speaker, and the topics cover a “middle ground mindset” at the moment of interaction with newcomers, but also for our daily lives. These topics are based in:

• Knowledge and identity, 
• Enthusiasm, 
• Responsibility, 
• Knowing our role, 
• Being grounded, 
• Learning how to share our own experiences with Guruji in a simple and short way, 
• Learning to work together in sangha, etc.

We hope you enjoy this platform. The included materials are sessions that were pre-recorded for other countries at the beginning of the project.

Know that we are also available to support you through your Sangha Facilitator of the 1008 Seeds project in your country.

Jai Gurudev!

Welcome to this introductory course on the Bhagavad Gītā. The Bhagavad Gītā is the most important scripture in Bhakti Marga and Hinduism at large. It consists of 700 verses and spans 18 chapters. This makes it a relatively concise text that is nonetheless filled to the brim with incredible wisdom. The focus of this course is to simply introduce the Gītā and to correctly contextualise and position it within Paramahamsa Vishwananda’s movement. There will be no focus on memorising verses, comparing various philosophical interpretations, storytelling or even too much commentary.

Instead, we will journey together through the core themes of each chapter in the Gītā, such as the nature of the Self, karma, yoga, bhakti, God and plenty more, defining them as precisely and concisely as possible. Our intention for this course is twofold. Firstly, this course will serve as the perfect foundation and preparation in order for you to eventually further your studies into our more advanced courses on the Gītā. Secondly, this course was also designed to help you acquire a greater appreciation for the many experiences and insights often shared by devotees and Paramahamsa Vishwananda. Stories that sometimes don’t fully make sense to us or at least seem unrelatable become instantly clearer and potentially transformative for us when heard through the lens of the Gītā‘s teachings.

Accompanying every lesson will be quizzes designed to test your knowledge and sharpen your understanding as you move from chapter to chapter.We look forward to your participation in this course!

Jai Gurudev,
Welcome to the Sri Yantra Seminar with Paramahamsa Vishwananda. Here you will find everything you need to take part in Paramahamsa Vishwananda’s Sri Yantra wisdom seminar. We hope you will really enjoy the program and will actively use the information to deepen your relationship with the Divine Mother in Her geometric yantra form.

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• Please Note: The archived video is only available in English. The translators will not be recorded. Post-seminar translations and transcripts of this program are not included in this program.

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Welcome to the Tithing Project!

This Tithing Project is an online program that will help you to fulfill your responsibilities as a devotee of Paramahamsa Vishwananda. In it, you will learn:

• What tithing is
• Gurudev’s instructions about tithing
• Why tithing is important as a devotee
• How to make a tithing budget
• How to use the tithing system in your country

After you complete this course, you will understand the Tithing Project and can begin to fulfill your commitment as Gurudev’s devotee. Let’s get started!

This course is delivered by Bhavani who has been trained in Indian Classical Arts from a very young age. Through short, digestible video modules which you can repeatedly refer back to, and play along with, you can grasp how to play the big manjīrā alternatively known as the whompers.

The big manjīrā are a powerful and very audiable contributor to the sound of Kirtan which is why it is very important to be proficient in the basic manjīrā workshop module, which is also delivered by Bhavani.

You will learn how to hold the big manjīrā correctly and at which points to hit the big manjīrā in order to create different sounds. You will also learn the most important beats used in kirtan as well as the variation of those beats.

There is a final ‘play along’ with the teacher and mṛdaṅga to gain more proficiency. The video modules are more than 15 minutes in total with beats given also in a written form so that you can keep practicing.

Enjoy!

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.