Term 3 Newsletter, 2010

Welcome to Term 3!

As always each term we revise the timetable and make adjustments according to class attendance and students' suggestions.

Added Classes

The following class has been added this term:

• A new 5 week Refinement Course has been added on Monday at 6:30pm starting on the 2nd August. Booking is essential.

Cancelled Classes

The following classes have been cancelled this term:

• Monday 5:30pm yoga for menopause.
• Monday 6:30 open plus
• Thursday 7:30pm drop in meditation

In general ...

This term our inspiration will be the yoga concept of reincarnation.

Below is an extract from the book - coming back “The Science of Yoga Reincarnation” by Swami Prabhupada

According to the Vedas the original scriptures on Vedanta and yoga there are 8,400,000 species of life, beginning with the microbes and amoebas, rising through the fish, plants, insects, reptiles, birds and animals to the human and beyond. According to their desires, the living entities perpetually take birth in these species.
The mind is the mechanism that authorizes these transmigrations, propelling the soul to newer and newer bodies. The Gita explains “Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state of being he will attain without fail in his next life” Everything we have thought and done during our life makes an impression on the mind, and the sum total of all these impression influences our final thoughts at death. According to the quality of these thoughts, material nature awards us a suitable body. Therefore, the type of body that we have now is the expression of our consciousness at the time of our last death.
The path of reincarnation does not always lead uphill; the human being is not guaranteed a human birth in the next life. If one dies with a low mentality in ignorance then the next birth will reflect the same,
The Gita explains that “humans who do not inquire about their non-physical, higher nature are compelled by the laws of karma to continue in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth sometimes as humans and sometimes other.
Our existence in the material world is due to the multiple karmic reactions of this and previous lives, as the human body provides the only loophole through which the material conditioned soul can escape. By properly utilizing the human form, one can solve the problems of life and break the endless cycle of reincarnation.
A soul fortunate enough to obtain a human form should seriously endeavor for self-realization, to understand the principals of reincarnation and become free from repeated birth and death. We can’t afford not to.

I would like to thank all the teachers and helpers for their service in Term 2

Don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you have any suggestion throughout the term.

Let’s all look forward to a positive growing year ahead!

 

Yours in service,
Jean-Alain
& the Dharma team