Navaratri – What Is It? – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Sept 29, 2022 – #36, Vol 11

Navaratri translates into “9 nights.” It’s an ancient vedic ritual that occurs a few times in a year based on astrological calculations. Autumn Navaratri or Sharada Navaratri is considered the most auspicious. Auspicious in the sense that it brings renewal to our lives – on an energetic and physical level. Energetically, it is said that creative powers known as “shakti” are more readily available and present in the environment. Even though women are identified as “shakti,” this creative cosmic force is not limited to women’s physiology. A woman is an expression of shakti; but both men and women carry shakti energy in different degrees. In Autumn, that shakti energy is readily available for all to get recharged with. This is celebrated for 9 days and nights. It is a good time to turn inwards, even as Nature is getting ready to transition from the exuberance of Summer nights into shorter and colder Autumn days. It is also an ideal time to do a seasonal home detox, change our pace of work/rest, adjust our diet to changing temperatures, so that our physical bodies can transition and stay and grow strong. Ayurveda is the best tool that helps maintain our health so that we can continue on our journeys of exploring and attaining yogic samadhi or bliss. 

Here’s to your health with Vaidya Mishra’s unique pranic ayurvedic formulations and ayurvedic know-how. Namaste!

SVA COMMUNITY NEWS

… NEAR & FAR …

Our next Navaratri yagya-s are scheduled for Monday October 3 and Tuesday October 4th at 2pm. If you would like to join us, you may still do so. See below for more information and how to contribute. 

This year, we offer the options of attending 1, 2, or 3 days. The yagya will be held in the afternoons after 1pm, and will last 4-5 hours. You may also sponsor the yagya for 1 or 3 days. Suggested donation (not required for attendance) for 1 day sponsorship is $108. Your sponsorship will help pay for offerings to conduct the fire ceremony.

For more information or to sign up, please email us at: 

info@prana-center.com 

celebrate Navaratri by playing divine chants to Mother Divine at home

Daivi Shakti Chants

Vedic Devata Productions presents the first of its Vedic Mantra Therapy CDs performed by Westerners, featuring the ancient science and art of Vedic Classical Devotional Song. This CD is beyond entertainment as it has been found by listeners to be therapeutic and healing. It features the Ancient Vedic Sanskrit language that is the mother of all languages, and vibrates at a primordial level of life close to what Modern Quantum Physics has identified as the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature, and what ancient Vedic Science identifies as the Veda, a field of Pure Self-interacting Consciousness. 

Consciousness is all that there is, and sits at the basis of every grain of manifest creation. All matter and energy emerge from this field that is

silently present fundamentally in all forms of manifest creation. Therefore, many listeners find their awareness enters a deep meditative experience while listening, that promotes inner harmony, nourishment, and peace. These

specific traditional ancient texts enliven attunement to the universal power of that Cosmic Administrator known as Mother Divine, the Divine Feminine that is naturally nourishing to life. In addition to its spiritually uplifting and therapeutic values, this Daivi Shakti CD also provides an excellent teaching supplemental tool with the PDF file of the Sanskrit texts and transliterations, allowing listeners to sing along and enjoy the enhanced bliss of Vedic

Devotional Songs. These delightful and divine melodies and texts

are derived from Vedic pujas and yagyas; they are chanted and sung in Sanskrit with English transliterations, so that you as a listener may sing along and learn them yourself with the lead singer/teacher. The songs are sung in the oral tradition known as guru-shishya- parampara, with teacher and student chorus alternating, so that listeners may easily learn and sing along. There is no substitute for a good teacher; however, this CD provides an excellent teaching supplemental tool to learning to pronounce, sing and enjoy the bliss of Vedic Devotional Songs. These divine songs have a remarkable power and ability to nourish and uplift the heart and consciousness toward a state of complete unity.They are always nourishing, but especially

fulfilling when sung during the Nine Days of Mother Divine according to the Vedic Calendar, which occur in the spring and fall of every year. Instrumentation has been limited to the customary use of drone and minimal percussion; using traditional acoustic instruments to encourage maximum purity of intonation along with perfection in pronunciation.

Testimonials 

“I have listened to the beautiful recording of the teacher and girls singing Sanskrit songs, and I found it enjoyable and very settling to listen to.

From the viewpoint of Sanskrit, it’s technically accurate, much like a recording that would emerge from some ashram high in the Himalayas. I recommend it, and I personally plan to listen to it again and again.”

—Tom Egenes, Ph.D, Professer of Sanskrit

“ There was a time when I lost both my mother and my fiancé to cancer and a car accident within a two week period. I sank into a deep depression. I listened to the Daivi Shakti Cd daily in my car while driving to work. It effectively uplifted me and nourished my mind- body-spirit. With its feminine nourishing power it healed my emotional heart, while helping to

neutralize the grief from the loss of the two important women in my life. I highly recommend it.”

— Robert Chalmers, DDS

About the artist

The songs are artistically and skillfully led and executed by award-winning vocalist and teacher, Graciella Zogbi, former professionally trained opera singer at the world-renowned Cleveland institute of Music, with over ten years additional training of her four octave voice in Vedic voice culture and the Classical Music of Northern Vedic India. She has studied and trained with numerous top musical artists of India including padma bushan sitarist, Debu

Chaudhuri, and vocalists, Pandit Mani Prasad, Anita Roy, and former president of the Lucknow School of Music, Dr. Awasthi. She has also integrated with her musical studies, training, and study of Sanskrit and Vedic recitation with numerous Sanskrit scholars. She has taught classes in Vedic Devotional Song at both the elementary and university levels. Tabla artist, Sankari Menon Wegman has a Ph.D. in Vedic Physiology and Ayurveda and enjoys

listening and playing Vedic music.

REPLAY OF EMF VS PRANA COURSE

What a fabulous session we had yesterday, filled with so much knowledge, empowering us against this overwhelming modern health phenomenon – EMF toxicity. The good news is there is SO MUCH we can do, through Vaidya Mishra’s SVA teachings, as well as through all the information Henry Eckstein shared with us. Understanding the ayurvedic fundamentals of what EMF is, is the first most important step to be able to address it; however, having a strong handle on all the recent measuring devices, as well as the different categories of radiation and frequencies that we need to address is also so crucial. We thank Henry Eckstein for generously sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. Here again are some important details and ways you can reach him if you want to assess your home or workspace: 

1. Website: https://www.HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
2. His email: Henry@HealthyIndoorConsultants.com
3. Business phone: (303) 306-8793

On the website you can book a free discovery call where you can discuss if Henry can help you. You can also buy meters at a discount. Here is the page: https://healthyindoorconsultants.com/favorite-products

Henry also offer zoom calls to help people get aquainted with and learn how to use their meters.

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