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Yoga Poornima
Program details:
17th–20th: 8am to 6pm – Mrityunjaya Homa
21st: Mrityunjaya Poornahuti & celebration of
Swami Satyananda’s birth
In 2008, after the culmination of the Rajasooya Yajna, along with the
Sat Chandi Mahayajna, Sri Swami Satyananda introduced the Mahamrityunjaya
Yajna which is another very important and effective yajna for the health,
wellbeing and protection of mankind.This yajna coincides with the birth
of Sri Swamiji which took place at Almora, in the Himalayas on the poornima
of Marga Sheersha eighty-seven years ago.
The Mahamritunjaya mantra is a most ancient universal mantra taken from
the Krishna Yajur Veda which can remove difficulties and afflictions of
every kind. It forms a part of the sacred Rudri hymns traditionally chanted
in the worship of Shiva and has gained eminence on account of its extreme
efficacy in granting protection to those who chant it.
As such, this yajna, which is named ‘Yoga Poornima’, is both
a tribute to the birth and life of the great yogi Sri Swami Satyananda
Saraswati Satyananda, who gave to the world clarity and insight into how
the practices of yoga can harmonize our lives and awaken our full potential,
as well as a way to awaken the benevolent force of the cosmic father,
Shiva.
Just as tantra has chosen Shakti as the symbol of cosmic energy or Nature,
who is further represented as yoni, in the same way the symbol chosen
by this sublime philosophy for the cosmic consciousness, is Shiva, who
is further represented as lingam. Yoni signifies the womb or the holy
grail where life germinates and lingam signifies the source where the
seed of life exists in its pristine purity. Together they represent the
entire circle of existence at all levels. According to tantra there is
nothing apart from or above Shiva and Shakti.
Shiva and Shakti are the two eternal principles from which all life springs
forth. They are the dual forces that govern our lives as chetana or awareness
and prana or vital energy. Without awareness and vitality we could not
even blink an eyelid, let alone perform the myriad tasks that we are required
to do throughout life. So, in a way by worshipping Shiva and Shakti we
are worshipping their presence in ourselves and awakening to the fact
that essentially we are not apart from, but an integral part of them.
Just as, we are an integral part of our parents, born from their semen,
ova, blood, bones and marrow, yet we have a separate existence. In the
same way, we are intimately connected to our cosmic parents, Shiva and
Shakti, because we are born out of their eternal and abiding cosmic principles.
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Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati peforming
Sringara
Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati peforming
Abhishek
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