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.
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. Thus was also 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, 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
Ether Exists!- Introduction to
Filognosy:
Is relativism, 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).
Music
For
the interest of learning
the mantra's 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. It 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
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IBAN: NL40ABNA0572801912
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MP3 CD-rom of all available bhajans in song or
instrumental music only, or a set of audio-CD's of song
or either sing-along music alone). We will use your
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Wishing
You all happiness in self-realization and
devotion.
Hare
Krishna!
