{"id":22,"date":"2011-11-03T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:22:59","slug":"my-visit-to-guru-shri-shankaranandas-ashram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"My visit to Guru Shri Shankarananda&#8217;s Ashram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days\u00a0ago I was in Melbourne, where visited\u00a0the Shiva\u00a0Yoga\u00a0Ashram\u00a0founded by the Guru\u00a0Shankarananda\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shivayoga.org\/html\/swamishankarananda.html\">http:\/\/shivayoga.org\/html\/swamishankarananda.html<\/a><br \/>\nI am happy\u00a0that there are students\u00a0of Svami\u00a0Muktananda\u00a0from Ganeshpuri\u00a0(about\u00a0whom I&#8217;ve heard\u00a0a lot), Kashmir\u00a0Shaivism\u00a0practitioners in Australia.<br \/>\nSvamiji\u00a0Shankarananda\u00a0and\u00a0Devi\u00a0Ma\u00a0were\u00a0very\u00a0hospitable, and all their\u00a0students as well.<br \/>\nI was\u00a0very\u00a0touched by the\u00a0traditional\u00a0welcoming ceremony, which\u00a0is not\u00a0usual for Western culture.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/03.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/02.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/04-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/051.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/051-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Together with my students I\u00a0attended the ceremony of Baba\u00a0Nityananda\u00a0Arati,\u00a0satsang\u00a0of Svamiji\u00a0Shankarananda,\u00a0where\u00a0he\u00a0introduced\u00a0us\u00a0to everyone.\u00a0Then\u00a0I performed agnihotra\u00a0dedicated to\u00a0Goddess\u00a0Durga. The ritual was liked by all participants\u00a0and\u00a0we\u00a0agreed to organize my mini-workshop on the theme of Agnihotra. Actually the very light and pure atmosphere reigns in this Ashram.\u00a0Below you can see the photos\u00a0of my visit to\u00a0the Shiva\u00a0Ashram:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days\u00a0ago I was in Melbourne, where visited\u00a0the Shiva\u00a0Yoga\u00a0Ashram\u00a0founded by the Guru\u00a0Shankarananda\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/shivayoga.org\/html\/swamishankarananda.html I am happy\u00a0that there are students\u00a0of Svami\u00a0Muktananda\u00a0from Ganeshpuri\u00a0(about\u00a0whom I&#8217;ve heard\u00a0a lot), Kashmir\u00a0Shaivism\u00a0practitioners in Australia. Svamiji\u00a0Shankarananda\u00a0and\u00a0Devi\u00a0Ma\u00a0were\u00a0very\u00a0hospitable, and all their\u00a0students as well. I was\u00a0very\u00a0touched by the\u00a0traditional\u00a0welcoming ceremony, which\u00a0is not\u00a0usual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peopleevents","tag-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}