Serve Love Give Purify Meditate Realise
Ananda Kutir Ashrama © Chiltern Yoga Trust (Australia)
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Venkatesaya
- Meditate
A mantra may be merely a powerful spiritual instruction.
It is not only a mystic formula, but may also be a sincere piece of advice, a counsel or teaching which can rouse the whole being.
- Realise
When in the light of knowledge there is neither seeking nor avoidance, there is freedom.
In that freedom the inner awareness spontaneously functions "in the present".
- Give
It is only when there is no disorderly feeling and thinking, no commotion, that I can see clearly.
- Give
The very act of the repetition of the mantra - if this act is earnest, sincere and serious, is capable of purifying the mind - which, simply, means "clearing the mind of all other thoughts, concepts and precepts".
If such purification does not happen, obviously sincerity is absent.
- Serve
Karma Yoga is when meditation and life fuse into one.