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Bharat – Discovering the Magic

The following three images have valuable information on Bharat.

Beyond the narratives of geography, history, modern economy, structures, events and rituals, and habits, lies the magic of Bharat, which also means India for many.

Bharat is a flowing stream of Consciousness, Nature, Culture, Civilization and Knowledge, intertwined in a manner that one cannot be understood without the other.

Countless small habits, rituals, beliefs have come into practice out of their deep meanings.

The practices like bathing in rivers on Kumbh, Bhikshavritti, revering rivers, cows, etc., have come from awakening that understood shiva-shakti.

In Bharat Camps, we elaborately discuss the Bharat and its meaning, with many facets in the figure here. To an uninitiated seeker, this is a view that has come from lifetime of journey of discovery, and which has wisdom passed on from the continuous stream of gurus and custodians through ages.

In Manthan Camps, we see Bharat through inner quest, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam and consciousness at work.

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The Quest with Manthans

” I felt a gap that needs understanding and coverage, else a lot of folks you have interviewed in India would spend many years or even a lifetime in search for India within. And probably we need it faster for a better world.

The view how consciousness, philosophy, nature, culture are interwoven by a web of expressions, and why humans go beyond logic or intuitions while guiding themselves, is easy to understand but the existing prejudices, especially the ingrained dualism and material bias hinders that view. To add to it, we have lost a lot of material shaktipeeths to illusions and destruction, but the non material ones stand.

Often over years, as one searches, intuitively that view is being built in parts, but that one step to a different plane, to understand it holistically is still the quest. I found that it is so near and simple, yet gets obfuscated by the complexity of thoughts, and different institutions being the custodian of the complexity.  That is the gap.” 

Please see the following posts to understand our Quest with Manthan Camps, in different parts of India, with people from wide range of backgrounds.

Following are a few photos from our recent Manthan Camps.

Learn more about Manthan Camps here: https://manthangurukul.org/manthan-camps/

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The Present World and Its Guiding Forces

As a lot of humans are realizing, we have gone too far in destroying nature, this planet , and societies. Even families have not been spared. And all this has been the direction of human mind.

Armed with industrial power, and ability to create more and more of illusionary world and artificial constructs, we at some point lost looking at consciousness and a connected universe as guide.

The mind–body duality, though neither possible nor natural, became a tool to direct human minds into getting occupied by illusions.

How various systems and structures have evolved to reach this point is often a subject in Manthan discussions. Understanding this is important for many folks as they are part of the existing systems and jobs, and are able to perceive that time for invoking deeper insights have come.

Late nights, sitting around wood fire, we have looked deeper into Socrates to modern day thinkers, and how a cumulative picture has evolved.

 

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Power within Self

A person awakened to consciousness, feels an inner power that keep one unaffected by illusionary or material influences. The source of this is often passed as some saintly motivation by observing folks. But the two are very different.

The knowledge that we are connected to consciousness, and have a universe full of shaktipeeths, beings and energies, as a family and guide and destination, is a sobering power. One that keeps us pursuing the true purpose of this life, without any attachment to results, as we already know the purpose may be very different from the result – even hidden from all our thoughts. Just like say one gets a call to attend to a needy stranger, and goes for it. Irrespective of the outcome of this act, it happens that some other chance meeting is there and the call was just a medium.

The Manthan program has focused on all aspects of awakening the power within self: Understanding the current world and its motivations; understanding Bharat where consciousness, culture, knowledge have come together harmoniously; understanding the footprints of consciousness and discovering one’s call; and understanding the shaktipeeths, beings and energies around us on this journey.

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Manthan Camps for Youth

The Manthan camps are most important for youth as the quest opens up in this age. Apart from the Manthan Camps, where there is usual predominance of youth, we also have the Karma (Action) Path groups, and the Self Discovery Program for living in our Manthan Center in Aranyaani forest for sometime, which aids self discovery, where self is gradually strengthens and becomes aware.

The objective is that youth understands and feels the power of Bharat, the magic of consciousness and the guiding the kutumb or oneness behind them.