Evening of Serenity

27th July 2013 - Bangalore.

Inauguration of academic year of IBMR/ISBR Institutions Karnataka on 15.07.2013.

Arunji was the Chief Guest and Key Note speaker at the inaugural of the academic year with  IBMR/ISBR Institutions, Karnataka.Chairman Manish Kothari honoring him at the assembly. 

Guru Purnima at Udaipur

Guru Purnima 2013 took us to Maharana Pratap's  adorable city of  Udaipur. Torrential downpour did not deter the satsang spirit of devotee who filled the auditorium to capacity well before the start. Hundreds who turned up late were greatly disappointed though. The event opened with  Puja and presentation based on Gurudev's message  on the significance of Aashada Purnima.

Shortly thereafter the assembly was drenched  in a different kind of rain  inside the auditorium - Nectarene shower from the newly released binaural album Ram Amrit. The meditation was deep and memorable with the crowning glory of  'Ab mero Jeevan sawar gayo rey'

Following morning, the large assembly of  girl youth from St.Marys, a premier ranking school in the city  were present for the talk" Human life is precious". The Principal and Senior teachers hosted a warm reception after the address.

To be here; oh it was so much fun!

 ( Nainital 17-21 July 2013) 

Nainital in Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas is set in a valley containing a pear-shaped lake, approximately two miles in circumference, and surrounded by mountains. The highest of them is Naina 8,579 ft,  atop which  magnificent views are obtained of  great snowy range that forms the central axis of  Himalayas. The Art of Silence retreat here is best remembered for the depth of experiences gained. Words cannot best describe; yet venturing to capture them in these lines:

The Himalayas stand grand and tall, a view so vast; it made us feel small,
Hilltops rolling like waves upon the sea; to be here, oh it was so much fun!

The tall pines, conifers, wild flowers and the majestic rocks aging through time,

To breathe the cool mountain breeze with our minds at ease; to be here, oh it was so much fun!

Beyond usual rush hours, honking traffic and carbon polluted lungs, 

Basking in the beauty of pristine nature, surprise showing up of a tiger to grace our sights; to be here, oh it was so much fun!


As the sun beginning  to set between the hills, night lights shining, knowing we can return to that high place which we yearn, once again ... oh it was so much fun!"   


Jaideep from New Delhi, a participant at the course wrote:

..and in all this Fun ... I discovered .. that I was so much Fun. 

The vastness that I saw outside was within me. 

The tall mountains, the trees, the rain kissed leaves ... that freshness was within...

Saw the long , winding mountain roads... but the journey was within...

The rising SUN glowing behind the misty clouds .... the radiance was within...

The soothing Moon light in the garden of stars... the peace was within...

... I slowly discovered that what I was a seeker for out side... was all within me...


This Journey out side to inside .... Oh it was so much fun...

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Dear Dr. Madhavan, 

We thank you for the wonderful advance course you gave us at Nainital. We appreciate your gentleness of conducting the course according to the number of repeaters and ages of participants. You made it very relaxing and comfortable for all of us.

The knowledge of Yoga Vashishta during the course was priceless, it made the course so special. It has touched our heart as a lesson in life. The course has become a memorable event for us. 

Jai Gurudev!

With Best Regards
Girish Madhogaria
8B / 1 Queens Park, 
Bullygunge, Kolkata-700019
(M) :+91 98300 58000
E-mail: girishsecretariat@gmail.com

The first devotional album using binaural Soul beats launched.

The knowledge of the origin of brain waves in humans extends back to the 1920s when HansBerger, a German psychiatrist, invented the Electroencephalograph -EEG. Electrodes are placed on the scalp over multiple areas of the brain to detect and record patterns of electrical activity. It is then read as a brain wave test where brain cells communicate by producing tiny electrical impulses. The brain waves are broadly categorized into main power spectrums and may relate directly to certain psychological and physiological states; illustratively:

Beta 12 Hz to 22 Hz: high state of arousal and some drug effects;

Alpha 8 Hz to 12 Hz: sedation, hypnosis and relaxed but focused sports activities;

Theta 4 Hz to 8 Hz: deep hypnosis, dreaming;

 Delta 0.5 Hz to 4 Hz sleep, general

Anesthesia; Gamma above 22-30Hz.

The main application of the EEG is its ability to read the real time variations in brain wave states. This is useful in understanding certain severe mental conditions like epilepsy, arousal, and coherence of brain waves in meditation and in the sleep cycle. The sleep cycle is a good example of the brain waves changing as they descend from high spectrum power i.e. Beta brain waves, to low spectrum power viz. Delta brain waves.

This overview of brain waves is important as alongside the discipline of feedback and EEG experiments, there is another area of research that is not very well known but has binaural beats, brain waves and entrainment. The principle of entrainment is of two or more close frequencies locking in rhythm with each other. In the general context is explained the very first finding on Entrainment was by Huygens in 1665. He worked with pendulum clocks and noticed that if he started the pendulums all at different times, they would eventually synchronize their beating or entrain with each other.

Therapeutic  Binaural-Beat Induced Theta EEG Activity:

Binaural beats are auditory phenomena that can be correctly termed ‘auditory beats in the brain’. They were popularized by Gerald Oster, a researcher into auditory phenomena. According to  him, binaural beats can be created by sending separate distinct tones to each ear to produce a third ‘phantom’ beat within the brain which is perceived by the brain as a real distinct sound. ‘Binaural field’ this is known as the space perceived through headphones as   earphones create the correct conditions for binaural beats to work.  The reason that speaker arrangement does not create the correct effect as individual sound waves leave the speaker they mix in the air first and create a unified wave, rather than two distinct waves from headphones.

Such listening helps to modify brain wave states and  create a positive effect in the physiological and psychological state of humans subjects, by restoring ‘normal’ healthy brain wave patterns. The ability to modify brain waves came to the mass attention in the early 1970s. Probably the most well known is the alpha wave movement that gained popularity in the early 70s when scientific studies were done on Meditators who  had the ability to control certain brain wave states like alpha. According to these studies the ‘mind awake, body asleep’ or alpha state could be created at will by advanced meditators. The results varied but the 7-10 Hz alpha range was established as the general range that could be created.  Since 1997 studies into this area have further contributed to growing evidence that through the use of binaural beats as an external process, the brain-waves can be changed to create beneficial therapeutic applications.

Ram Amrit:

 Nectarene Musik has dedicated their new album Ram Amrit set on binaural beats, as their humble offering to Gurudev on his birthday on 13^th May 2013. Empowered with the SoulBeats™,  the album has mellifluous bhajans sung by Dr.Arun Madhavan and Siddhant Bhatia. It is supercharged to provide slow, but deep healing on extended listening sessions. You may order your copies from www.artoflivingshop.com or visit the  Divine shop.