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 classical yoga in
his
own
way
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.
The literal meaning of that term is 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 about making it up with the supreme being in actions of
atonement like doing volunteer work for a good cause. The usual hatha-yoga
of postures or âsana's we know in the West is but 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 preparatory stage for the
purpose of doing mantra's (dhâranâ) and meditations
(dhyâna) in order 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
one's consciousness for the sake of spiritual happiness in such a way
that the fundamentals of yoga of hatha, karma, jnâna and bhakti
are respected. It is an integrated form of yoga thus. One could also
call it the vedic reform of christianity in his case (see also a
more general description with practical tips for the beginner by
Aadhar).
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 a
dubious motivation and went to India in the late eighties in order to
study the better and more honest approach of yoga in different local
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 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.
The Person, Inspirations on the Story of the Fortunate One. Part 1 & 2 conceptual framework and philosophy. In
this book Anand Aadhar testifies about his inspiration to the Śrīmad
Bhāgavatam, the 'Story of the Fortunate One'. The text is partly a
comment on the book while it on the other hand spans a bridge to modern
time spirituality. It argues for a more person oriented comprehensive
approach in a series of essays wherein the basic concepts of filognosy
are explained, the science of self-realisation. It discusses
philosophical, scientific, analytic, spiritual, religious and political
matters. This he does in book one. In book two he in the role of a
teacher answers the questions of a seeker and discusses, among other
things, the different appearances of the Original Person throughout
human history.
Music
For the interest of learning
the mantras and singing the bhajans together he studied the greater part of the
popular vaishnava bhajans, the devotional songs of the
âcâryas (seventy four in total), and presented them
complete with chords, audio-files, (midi)scorefiles and translations of
the original Bengal and Sanskrit. He produced this way eight 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,
CD-ROM's wetre planned for the same purpose.
Present state and links
As said, has Anand
Aadhar withdrawn 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 his worldly responsibilities. He is
solely engaged in devotional service these days and for that
purpose he can be reached by email for people abroad, or by
telephone (see Dutch page) for people of his own
country. For those who like him are interested in the internet
community around 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).
Practical tips and
tricks for beginners:
On a separate page there
are twenty basic notions set up for the beginning yogi.
Donations
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donator financially wants to contribute to the maintenance of this
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work, may send a donation transferred by (internet-)bank
to:
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