Oceania Digambara

02/27/2018

Swamiji reminds us of a simple and ancient Indian maxim: "If you have, give. If you need, take."

Please remember the many ways we can join together to raise people from poverty, share a meal, provide a teacher in a remote village, support meditation, and much, much more. Even a small door opens into a large Heart.

Your donation to Oceania Digambara is 100 % tax deductible on this site, or by check to P.O. Box 167, Norwalk, CT 06852. You will also find Oceania Digambara in the drop down list of acceptable charities on AmazonSmile where 0.05% of your purchase of your necessities eventually finds its way here.

Open your heart close by. Spread good karma together far and wide.

Om Namah Sivaya. 🕉 💫

10/21/2017

Swamiji & 'Big Buddha' (Sean T) in Dancing Meditation, blessing and celebrating in the moment the bride, groom, family, friends gathered at a wedding celebration at a beautiful plantation (now state park) in the Maryland/WDC area on 10/15/17. Celebrate in the Moment! Swamiji's teaching is "Moment to Moment. Here and Now. Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate! Liberate!" Don't miss your moments.

10/21/2017

Swamiji guiding a Celebration through Meditation session at the Hindu Cultural Center (Stratford, CT), 11-1PM, Saturday, 10/15/17.

06/07/2017

Swamiji's Intensive event "Journey to Celebration Through Meditation" on 4 June, Hindu Cultural Center (Stratford, CT), was very well attended, hugely successful, culminating in dancing Kirtan to live music. Delicious fresh food was lovingly prepared & served. Several people stayed for Initiation, healing, going into peaceful trance immeduately following. Others have already visited Swamiji in Norwalk in the day following. Many heartfelt thanks to Wendy Ji's Kirtan band, Wendy Ji & Kamal Ji for organizing every detail, & Bharati Ji's compassionately careful & caring eye throughout the long & wonderful day. Without Wendy Ji & Kamal Ji, this event, & more to come, would not be possible. Blessings to them. Watch for dancing, celebrating video. Swamiji will be back at the HCC Sunday during Yoga class, & will lead a meditation session from 11-Noon on Sunday (11 June.) You may meet with him then, & stay on after the class for any queries you have. All are welcome.

09/16/2016

OCEAN FRIENDS MEDITATORS FULL MOON MEDITATIONS
INVITATION

Join with Ocean Friends Meditators for Full Moon Open Air Meditations. The next Full Moon Meditation takes place on Friday, 16 September 2016 at Sunset (7:00 PM) at Calf Pasture Beach, Norwalk, CT in front of the main buildings opposite Calfe Mu. There is no charge for meditation.

This is a classic ancient completely non-sectarian Full Moon Meditation of Indian Himalayan origins. It is spiritual, not religious. Meditative skills acquired are portable to any tradition, or may simply accompany persons on life’s journey. Participants are guided to decompress, destress & experience special techniques to drink the energy of the Moon’s reflected light. All are guided in the presence of living Master energy to connect to the Moon, dissolve the monkey mind & settle more uninterruptedly into Soul.

Full Moon Meditation begins at Sunset for about one hour. Please gather & settle at the Meditation Point ten minutes before Sunset Time & cultivate Silence, with a small towel, folding stool or chair. Meditation is guided by realized yogis, Swami Gupta (Swamiji), Master and (Prof) Dr. Barbara A. Amodio.

Check Newsbites in the Norwalk Hour for upcoming Full Moon Dates, Times & Locations coordinated with Sunset Times. A Norwalk Beach Pass (or car admission fee) is required until 15 October. City Lights remain on in the beach area until 11 PM. The next Full Moon falls on 16 October (Sunset at 6:10PM.) This is a good time to explore the beautiful pastel beach a little ahead of time. The Yogis & the Moon will be waiting for you.

Ocean Friends are Meditators who are in fact Friends of the Ocean (of Consciousness & Bliss), a completely non-sectarian group dedicated to authentic meditation. All who seek to perfect their meditation and head toward peaceful Consciousness, Bliss and Celebration in life’s journey are welcome. You may sign in to the Public Web Page (Ocean Friends Meditation) on Facebook for updates & additional locations. Locations, Dates, Times appear in Norwalk Hour Newsbites. Browse www.oceaniadigambara.org and the Oceaniadigambara page for Swamiji’s Inspired Messages, & more.

06/20/2016

The Moon & Celebration

Look at the Moon uninterruptedly. Connect with the Moon. Experience that Moon and

(The Moon and Celebration © 6/19/2016 A. P. Mishra, Master and Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.)

Self are merging with each other, and have Celebration.

[MESSAGE NOTES: You may wish to check a local newspaper for the timing of the Moon phases in your geographic area. The next Full Moon in the USA is Monday, June 20, 2016. Swamiji
is reminding us not to take the Moon for granted, and to avail ourselves of the reflected and special light at this time. Doing so uninterruptedly moves the Sincere Seeker into an uninterrupted
meditative focus, undistracted by mind. Merging Moon and true Self is an experience without words, without the workings of mind, an experience that brings Celebration. Celebration is a high form of meditation. A surprise awaits you.]

(MESSAGE NOTES for “The Moon and Celebration” © 6/19/2016 Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.

06/18/2016

06/16/2016

The Master’s Touch

The Master’s touch is energy sharing. It is not the touch of a body to a body, nor again the touch of a leather finger. Body is impermanent. It quickly disassembles and disintegrates without
the proximity of Soul, revealing its inherently impermanent character. Body and Mind are both impermanent. One will become leather. The other will eventually dissolve in one lifetime or another. Only Soul is impermanent and deathless.
The Master’s touch transcends and penetrates body, even mind, and reaches at once to your Soul. This is the touch of an initiation that brings you out of the past and the future into the
present. This touch penetrates and unblocks the dense illusions of mind and memory and the attachment of mind to the changing body.
The Master’s touch brings you to the fullness of the present. With strong determination, the Sincere Student is guided to make the journey. The Master’s touch is a commitment to help the Sincere Student to make the real journey inward to Self. The Master is taking you from the impermanent to the permanent, from death to deathlessness. This is the journey from leather to life.

(The Master’s Touch © 5/18/2016 A. P. Mishra, Master and Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.)

06/04/2016

The Dark Moon

The ‘Dark’ Moon is the ‘New’ Moon, completely in shadow. It is not visible in the night sky. Nevertheless, it is present, and it is powerful. As always, high state spirits, Buddhas, and the many protectors of the planet are present with great intensity between the hours of 4 and 6 am. They are coursing through the cosmos and wash over and through the magnetic fields of the planet, offering guidance, bounty and encouragement to Sincere Seekers. This watch is an excellent time in which to meditate, or simply cultivate the silence of that period, communing uninterruptedly with the many sounds of nature awakening and oxygen rising. Be alert that there are in fact six ‘watches’ to any night, in two-hour increments, leading up to the sunrise and the period in which the moon will gradually set. If you are observant and conditions are right, you may notice that both the sun and the moon are occasionally visible simultaneously in the sky, as if in a silent conversation.
But on the night of the Dark Moon it is especially important to realize the significance of the six watches of the night, and to honor protocols for each. After 11 pm, and with intensity from 11pm to 1am, rakshasas, yakhyas, and demonic spiritual energies are coursing freely across the planet, seeking opportunities. The Sincere Seeker should honor this fact. While some mantra chanting for a noble purpose is permitted along with meditation on the Dark moon night, in NO cases should mantra chanting be continued after 11 pm on the Dark Moon. On the approach to the 11 pm hour, only meditation should be practiced. New meditators and Seekers should avoid the abundant negative energy mingled with the high state spirits who protect the earth. Meditation in a cemetery or other zone attractive to dark spirits at this time should be strictly avoided as a general caution. New meditators, Seekers, and weakened persons in general are advised to stay well inside and to meditate at a safe distance. Certainly remember that trees exhale carbon dioxide massively as they sleep during the night, for which it is never wise to meditate on any moon directly under a tree at night. With the rising of the sun and the natural intensity of high state souls from 4-6 am, the negative spirits seeking the dark and long shadow across the planet dissipate. Oxygen and light increase. The earth is full of oxygen which is essential to meditators. Therefore, continue to connect with the positive energy of the planet during the 4-6 am hours, even on the night of the Dark Moon, by which you will dissolve your mindstuff and karmas. Always do your best to take your breakfast by the time of the rising sun. (The Dark Moon © 5/1/2016 A. P. Mishra, Master and Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.)

[MESSAGE NOTES: You may wish to check a local newspaper for the timing of the Dark Moon in your area. Meditation requires oxygen, and oxygen is high in the blood, body and organs of a yogi or yogini. It is hardly necessary to take a breath as the blood and fibre of meditators is super-oxygenated. Carbon and oxygen deprivation are characteristic of negative spirits, people and habits. The Sincere Seeker should avoid carbon and cultivate an oxygen rich body-mind-spirit field. The natural circadian rhythms of humans are fine-tuned to the natural rhythms of this planet. For those interested, you may view many energetic belts and wave-like patterns washing regularly over the planet in a kind of reciprocal energy dance with the earth’s magnetic field, made possible by enhanced satellite photos and more from space. We read of this in ancient Indian texts, and works of ancient mathematicians and astronomers. The Milky Way we know as the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is only one. These waves have direct spiritual significance. The next Dark or New Moon in the USA is June 4. (MESSAGE NOTES for “ The Dark Moon” © 5/1/2016 Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.)

05/17/2016

Hypocrisy and Truth
Generally, society teaches a person to be a hypocrite. There are those who do things to others, and others who receive these actions. Then they change places, the places of doing and receiving, switching roles with cleverness and cunning, and so on, in an endless round of blows, one reciprocating to the other. One day someone is successful, feeling on top of the world. The very next day he or she is unsuccessful, feeling unhappy and cheated. Cheating and being cheated. Scoring on an impermanent balance sheet. There is a never-ending external personal comparison and competing, winning and losing. Such paired opposites are strictly reciprocal and require each other for their very meaning. There is no winning without losing, no up without down, no right without left, no happy without sad, and more. How to liberate from this cycle of tosses between pairs of opposites. How to liberate from this message of society? How to rise above its negative environment? How to break the reciprocal cycle of blows and come to the Middle Way, poised between the pairs of opposites, there to stay with an unshakeable confirmity?
Our own authentic vibration requires a large place, not the squeezed house of a negative environment. Hypocrisy and over-confidence in moments of temporary success will drown you in a river. It is difficult to leave that negative habit pattern. We ‘forget’ when we cheat someone, but we ‘remember’ when we are cheated. Our own soul vibration must rise up, break out of the cycle of blows and negative moments of ordinary society, rise from attachment to the temporary, possessiveness, false ego, pain and turmoil in endless cycling through the pairs of opposites. Through the blows of doing and receiving we make our own knots of karma, and manufacture our emotions to match, hiding in hypocrisy and untruth. This untruth is about ourselves, and also about others.
Hypocrisy moves in the opposite direction from Truth and Freedom. Hypocritical ‘knots’ must be dissolved. The false ‘hiding’ of ‘concealment’ is the misfortune that leads to darkness and an overburdened hypocrisy, making a person over-confused, adding to the stress-out of ordinary life. We hide from ourselves as from others in the false ego. Our own self-created mind torments us. To dissolve hypocritical knots requires a fearless nature, akin to that of a lion, to be sure not the violence of the lion, but the lion’s bravery. Typically, below thirty there is no maturity in a person. Therefore, good heart and health matter more. Above thirty, from 30-50, persons have experienced much, from divorce to other difficulties and world pain according to their mental health and karmas. Such persons, when they meet the right guide, can be induced into and encouraged toward a certain determination and patience. Some will become spiritual. Others’ hearts will open slowly toward external acts of charity and humanitarian service. Regarding the rules and the exceptions, the sooner spiritual habit patterns and helpful rhythms are begun, the more likely are the patience and determination needed for the true journey to flower in a person. By patience and determination a person may continue in a spiritual direction. ‘Knots’ of karma are less likely to harden and fossilize. A person may remain open, flexible, meditative and fluffy in the great journey whereby the mind is dissolved and the inner journey toward Soul state, the real Self, is continued steadily and with unwavering confirmity in all the moments. Then awareness and alertness blossom, fruit and flower in truth, freedom and constant god-consciousness.
Swami Gupta (© 5/2/2016 A. P. Mishra, Master and Barbara A. Amodio, Ph.D.)

04/30/2016

Swami Gupta (A.P. Mishra) interviewed by Eustachio Cazzorla in Monopoli, Italy.

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