ASHRAMITE DEEKSHA🔗

The step to the merger

This deeksha is given to people who wish to stay and learn at the feet of the Master and do service to humanity.

Those who lose themselves in me, those who melt into me, can live a beautiful and ecstatic life here. This place, this ashram, is an extension of my being. The life style here, the food that you eat, the earth that you walk on, the air that you breathe, are simply my very being. Whoever sleeps in this energy field sleeps in my womb.

Initiation ceremony at Bangalore ashram - July 2005. | New acharyas, ashramites, gurukul students, | and brahmacharis are being initiated. |

The oldest initiation

Gayatri initiation is the oldest method of initiation given by ancient Hindu Seers. It is the initiation given to the child to kindle his inner intelligence to flower and to remind him that he will live a chaste life until he enters into marriage. The Gayatri mantra is a prayer to the Cosmic Intelligence for it to flower from within each one.

The saffron cloth given to him symbolically represents the cloth used by sannyasis to receive the food given to them as charity by others. It signifies that one should lead a simple and contented life and not a luxurious one.

Darbha grass (sacred grass used as a mat while meditating) is given to the child as part of the initiation. The grass is a reminder that one should lead a truthful and pure life.

Participants of the Little Anandas program witness a fire ritual under the sacred banyan tree, performed by a senior brahmachari, Bangalore ashram, May 2006