Are
you interested in Yoga, but not conversant with it?
Are you experienced in hatha-yoga, the yoga of
physical exercises, but have no clue how to proceed?
Then read on about Anand Aadhar and his yoga. He
applies in his own way classical yoga in all its forms
to the western style of life and thinking.
The
Name, The Yoga
Aadhar
means foundation and yoga means union, specifically
the union of the individual soul and consciousness
with the supreme soul and consciousness. Yoga as such
is the science of uniting the consciousness. How to
link oneself up in transcendence is the matter of yoga
and thus it has much in common with the latin word
ligare, to link, of which the modern word religion has
been derived, that thus literally means to reconnect
oneself. Basically there is the yoga of knowledge,
jnâna-yoga, the yoga of devotion, bhakti-yoga
and the yoga of atonement in action or karma-yoga.
Jnâna-yoga is much about books and the
philosophy, bhakti is much about song, prayer and
mantra's, while karma-yoga is much about forsaking
profitminded labor - like everyone does once a week on
sundays - and making it up with the supreme being in
actions of atonement like doing volunteers work for a
good cause. The usual hatha-yoga of postures or
âsana's we know in the west is just a single
part of the eightfold process (called
ashthânga-yoga) of transcending the material
duality for the sake of a united consciousness. That
physical yoga is more the preparation for mantra's
(dhâranâ) and meditations (dhyâna)
to find a more durable absorption in the supreme
(called samâdhi). Anand means happiness,
specifically spiritual happiness. Aadhar yoga in sum
thus means that one unites the consciousness for the
sake of spiritual happiness in such a way that the
fundamentals of yoga of hatha, karma, jnâna and
bhakti have been respected. It is an integrated form
of yoga thus. One could also call it the vedic reform
of christianity in his case.
The
Person
Anand
Aadhar is a former clinical psychologist who renounced
the material way of finding happiness. He gave up his
private practice of doing psychotherapy with people of
dubious motivation and went to India in the late
eighties to study the better and more honest approach
of yoga in the different âshrama's. Thus he
found the principles of equality, brotherhood and
freedom or a revolution of reform more wisely
respected. He met with several guru's and
yoga-practitioners and learned from each of them
before he arrived at his own integral practice. He was
first introduced into the basics of meditation by
reading the books of Rudolf Steiner and Krishnamurti
and later on initiated into the secrets of yoga by
Bhagavân Sri Sathya Sai Baba who with His
siddhi's [yogic perfections or miracles]
definitely broke his materialistic and rationalistic
vision of reality in a way that left him no doubt as
to how the universe is run. After visiting him he went
to Poona to receive initiation from Bhagavân Sri
Rajneesh, the later Osho, just before that spiritual
philosopher and guru left this planet in the winter of
1990. He went to Amsterdam, London, New York and other
cities where he in temples under the guidance of the
disciplic succession [paramparâ] of the
Brahmâ-Mâdhva Gaudyâ Vaishnava
Samprâdaya studied the Sanskrit of mantra's, the
vedic literatures and the culture of Krishna-bhakti in
the company of the pupils of Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupâda [ISKCON]. From their more
traditional appraoch he adopted the title of prabhu,
the usual term used in respecting devotees, or
bhakta's. The title Svâmi that he received from
Osho he renounced out of respect for the
âcâryas in exchange for the address of
Prabhu. Apart from a bhakta-program he received no
further initiation from them. The leading
sannyâsis in the Netherlands at the time advised
him to put his energy in doing devotional service with
the computer, hence this internetsite with the
Bhagavad Gîtâ and the Bhâgavatam
based on the work of Swami Prabhupâda. Aadhar
withdrew as an older devotee [born 1954]
within his own ashram in the east of the Netherlands
to more extensively study in depth the music, the
Gîtâ and the Bhâgavatam. With local
people interested there does he presently maintain a
regular practice of hatha, bhajan, fasting, feasting,
translating, studying, reading, listening and
contemplating in his conclusion of Aadhar Yoga. He
does no puja [idol-worship], but does
regularly, to the regular of Krishna's greater nature,
listen to the Gîtâ and associate in kirtan
[singing together] and reading from the
Bhâgavatam.
Lectures:
Aadhar
regulary
gives a talk of twenty
minutes
for the visistors of the site of the Order
of Time in which he processes the philosophy of yoga
into a love of knowledge, viz. filognosy, which can be
accepted by each world citizen.
Writings
In
Dutch he wrote a commentary called
Krishna
and the Singing
Philosopher:
a comment on the first four chapters of the Bhagavad
Gîtâ. It is a study to the music and
philosophy of the Caitanya-vaishnava's (or the Hare
Krishna's). There is no English translation as yet of
this study that is presented with images and
audio-files of the by him nicely arranged original
melodies of the âcârya's [the gurus of
example]. It gives an idea of the wider purport of
the culture and the essence of modern reform and Yoga.
For the internet and the common non-religious person
he developed for the karma-yoga atonement of his
psychologic scientific commitment the internetsite the
Order
of Time
where he, for non-devoted and spiritual people in
general, defends the interest of meditating the
original natural order and conditioning with
the
analytic conclusion of Father
Time.
That spirituality he baptized filognosy and has for a
year been practiced as a kind of group meditation in a
New Age center before he withdrew in his ashram
restricting himself to predominantly yoga-activities.
He rephrased the Gîtâ from this spiritual
perspective and baptized it The
Bhagavad Gîtâ of
Order
(the first in Dutch on the internet)
reminiscent of Swami Prabhupâda's remarks
[in the 'Diaries'] that to deal with time was
something he left to his pupils. He also produced a
modern version of the Gîtâ, with not a
single word or name in Sanskrit, transposed to the
modern situation of a political debate:
A
song of Fortunate - a modern
Gîtâ.
Also was the S'rîmad
Bhâgavatam,
the Krishna-bible, the actual book discussing all
avatâra's, the culture of devotion and the life
of Lord Krishna studied and presented in a
concatenated way to the as-it-is norm set by
Prabhupâda in his Bhagavad Gîtâ
as-it-is. The presentation is scientifically
bona-fide, up standard to the norms of the
paramparâ with the texts of Swami
Prabhupâda and his pupils, the Sanskrit word for
word and the transliterations.
Articles:
For
the Order
of Time
he wrote a series of articles on diverse subjects and
a political manifesto:
The
essence of
spirituality.
This article revises the concept of spirituality
against the light of ancient vedic values at the
one hand and modern natural science at the other
hand. It concludes well-wishing that this
definition according to true time, loyalty to the
celibate, economic austerity and vegetarian
compassion contributes to the interest of bringing
more personal happiness in the first place and will
also offer a broader perspective to a future world
order.
Time
for Sex.
How does time relate to sex? It is a simple
question that takes some time to answer properly.
This article tries to formulate the basics of
modern sexuality in the reality of our 'New Time'.
Religious
Time.
This article describes how the different
concepts of religious time can be understood and
combined into a unified and integrated concept of
world-time in contrast with the timelessness of the
modern information culture.
About
Gurus and their
teaching.
This article critically surveys the value of
eastern gurus and their teachings in western
society.
Reincarnation
and the Fear of
Time:
This article discusses the nature of
reincarnation in the light of the christian
Renaissance and the duality of modern multicultural
time-consciousness and its psychological fears of
time. It maintains that the fear of time in fact is
the fear to be faced with the never ending mission
of getting closer and closer to one's own personal
and collective divinity - whether or not one is
reincarnated or simply in ones lifetime is reborn
to another consciousness of time.
Democratic
Elections:
Rationalism, pragmatism, humanism. What
is their relationship, what is the method to arrive
at a government that is stable at the one hand and
still in respect for the dynamics of our personal
evolution? Who should represent us, what is the
future of political parties and how should the
falsehood of any system be fought in the first
place? What has God to do with it and how should we
incorporate each in our societal order? All these
questions are answered in this speech about what
our concerns should be to the regular incidence of
democratic elections.
The
Filognostic
Manifesto:
This
filognostic manifesto, a manifest on the love for
knowledge or
filognosy,
elaborates on the themes of The Order 0f Time with
the subject of work and unemployment as its lead to
answer the fundamental questions of war and peace.
The purpose is to arrive at a clear lead for the
politics of state in relation to the cultural and
natural order of time and
timemanagement.
A
Small Philosophy of
Association:
One can
unite in the private sphere with a marriage, to a
job with a contract of labor, in the political with
a political party and in the spirit with a
religion. But what exactly would the philosophy of
all that association be? How are all those
associations themselves there as one culture, what
holds us back and confuses us in finding
association and would there be something like a
general order of association? Or what would in
association be the interest of the personal in
contrast with the impersonal, what standards and
values are we talking about, what is the theory and
what is the practice? How does it all cohere and
how is that converted into politics? This argument
offers a short coherent view, a philosophy of
association as a solution for this complex
problem.
The
Ether Exists!- Introduction to
Filognosy:
Is relativism, as the negation of the
absolute, the solution for the problems mankind is
wrestling with? Does that vision really work for
us? Einstein developed his theory of relativity
partly on the basis of the failure to deliver
experimental proof of the ether. But the Ether
exists! And Einstein later on in 1920 confirmed
that in his new theory of the
ether. Therein he explains that the ether is
actually space with certain characteristics. And so
do we have the ether not only as an element in
classical philosophy, but also simply empirically
verifiable as the operation of space, of the force
field which controls all galaxies, our galaxy, as
well as our at the sun directed planetary, earthly
life and thus also our thinking. We have to learn
to think from that element, and also,
relativistically, from the order of time and matter
belonging to it, as being the representation of
that force, of that 'something', of that
all-embracing and all-pervading absolute whole, in
the classical scriptures so easily addressed with
God and Lordship. This reappraisal of this nuclear
concept of culture, is fundamental to our cultural
and multicultural survival on the planet. This book
forms the introduction to the all-embracing love
for this knowledge of spirit and matter, that
exists by dint of sober facts, regulative
principles and interacting persons like ourselves,
and which is covered by the one term of filognosy
(on site: the
introductions and synopsis of the Order of
Time).
The
Thread of the Science of Uniting One's
Consciousness: the Yogasûtras of
Patañjali
are a classical concept. They constitute
the backbone of the discipline of yoga: the science
of uniting one's consciousness. There are many
interpretations though of this analytical
masterpiece of the incarnation of Âdi-S'esha
who is Patañjali. Patanjali is the first
expansion of the ego of Vishnu in hindu mythology.
This condensed work, this summary so to say, about
the discipline of connecting oneself with the soul,
thus forms the ego of yoga, The different existing
interpretations all together plead for this text
the same way as the music of J. S. Bach is so
excellent because it cannot be spoilt by
interpretation. This literary-philosophical
monument from the indian realm is here represented
from the perspective of this site: the time, the
ether, and gross matter are all equally fundamental
expressions of the divine of nature and thus is the
yoga actually the most concrete of all sciences
around. For it relates directly to these
fundamental absolute truths when it offers us the
discipline to live with them. The yoga turning away
from time, space and matter does, meditating on it,
land right in the middle of it as the one and only
correct vision upon it, as the only right
consciousness of unifying therewith, ... of the
natural order of the consciousness of time
therewith.
Music
For
the interest of learning
the mantras and singing the bhajans
together
studied he the greater part of the popular vaishnava
bhajans, the devotional songs of the
âcâryas (over fifty of them), and
presented he them complete with chords, audio-files,
(midi)scorefiles and translations to the original
Bengal and Sanskrit. He produced this way six CD's
[plus sing-along CD's of accompaniment only]
of the nicely arranged original melodies that are
available as donation-material for personal
distribution by him or by devotees
(send
an email to apply)
only (no commercial exploit permitted). Also of the
books, the sites he made, were CD-ROM's planned for
the same purpose.
Present
state and links
As
said has Anand Aadhar withdrawn
himself from further writing and contributing to the
material interest of the things presented at The Order
of Time, apart from maintaining the site and giving a
twenty minute talk so now and then. This site was his
way to part from his worldly responsibilities. He is
solely engaged in devotional service these days and
can for that purpose be reached by
email
for people abroad, or by telephone
(see
Dutch page)
for people of his own country. For those,
like him, interested in the internet community on this
subject he maintains linklists to other yogasites in
the
Linking
Library,
the linkspage of
srimadbhagavatam.org
and at the
ego-links page
(guru's
and movements).
Donations
Anyone
who incidentally or as a regular donator financially
wants to contribute to the maintenance of this
internet presentation and the promotion of Anand
Aadhar Prabhu his work, can send a donation
transferred by (internet-)bank
to:
Bank: ABN Amro bank NV, P.O. Box 5, 7500 AA
Enschede, The Netherlands
Account Name: Srimadbhagavatam.org
Account No: 57.28.01.912
BIC/SWIFT: ABNANL2A
IBAN: NL40ABNA0572801912
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