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Artist Cauleen Smith has taken inspiration from Swamini Alice Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda’s Sai Anantam Ashram. It served as a sanctuary for seekers of all faiths in the Santa Monica mountains from 1983-2017. Today’s guest instructor Nora Vimala Pozzi and Coltrane both studied with Yogaville founder Swami Satchidananda.

  1. Today’s guest instructor Nora Vimala Pozzi and Coltrane both studied with Yogaville founder Swami Satchidananda. In 1970 Alice Coltrane recorded Journey in Satchidananda which she said was inspired by her “association with someone who is near and dear to me. I am speaking of my own beloved spiritual preceptor, Swami Satchidananda.
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In 1970 Alice Coltrane recorded Journey in Satchidananda which she said was inspired by her “association with someone who is near and dear to me. I am speaking of my own beloved spiritual preceptor, Swami Satchidananda. Swamiji is the first example I have seen in recent years of Universal Love… Anyone listening to this selection should try to envision himself floating on an ocean of Satchidanandaji’s love, which is literally carrying countless devotees across the vicissitudes and stormy blasts of life to the other shore…”

Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was a U.S. Jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.Coltrane was born Alice McLeod on the 27th August 1937 in Detroit, Michigan. She studied classical music, and attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where she continued her musical training.

Mindfulness meditation is a way of giving “kind attention” to our experience in the here and now. As these sessions introduce you to a variety of meditation techniques and breathing practices we will also be making connections to themes in our current exhibitions. The 20 minute guided meditation is followed by sharing and instructor feedback.

Doors open at 11:45 am. All participants are invited to check in at our Welcome Desk.

Mindfulness @ ICA is sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the College Behavioral and Emotional Health Institute, both at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Guest Instructor Nora Vimala Pozzi, is the director of the Integral Yoga Center of Richmond (IYCoR), an affiliated School of Yogaville, promoting the teachings of Swami Satchidananda – its founder and spiritual leader. The IYCoR continues to educate the public on the yogic principles of peace and non-violence, the environment and health.

Short form Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानंद, IAST: Saccidānanda) or Sacchidānanda representing 'existence, consciousness, and bliss'[1][2] or 'truth, consciousness, bliss',[3] is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate unchanging reality, called Brahman,[4][5][note 1] in certain branches of Hindu philosophy, especially Vedanta.

Etymology[edit]

Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानन्द) is a compounded Sanskrit word consisting of 'sat', 'chit' and 'ananda', all three considered as inseparable from the nature of ultimate reality called Brahman in Hinduism.[8] The different forms of spelling is driven by euphonic (sandhi) rules of Sanskrit, useful in different contexts.[8]

  • sat (सत्):[9] In Sanskrit sat means 'being, existence', 'real, actual', 'true, good, right', or 'that which really is, existence, essence, true being, really existent, good, true'.[9][note 2]
  • chit (चित्):[11] means 'consciousness'.[12][13]
  • ānanda (आनन्द):[14] means 'happiness, joy, bliss', 'pure happiness, one of three attributes of Atman or Brahman in the Vedanta philosophy'.[14] Loctefeld and other scholars translate ananda as 'bliss'.[12][13]

Satchitananda is therefore translated as 'Truth Consciousness Bliss',[3][15][16] 'Reality Consciousness Bliss',[17][18] or 'Existence Consciousness Bliss'.[2]

Discussion[edit]

The term is contextually related to 'the ultimate reality' in various schools of Hindu traditions.[8] In theistic traditions, sacchidananda is same as God such as Vishnu,[19] Shiva[20] or Goddess in Shakti traditions.[21] In monist traditions, sacchidananda is considered directly inseparable from nirguna (attributeless) Brahman or the 'universal wholeness of existence', wherein the Brahman is identical with Atman, the true individual self.[22][5]Satchitananda or Brahman is held to be the source of all reality, source of all conscious thought, and source of all perfection-bliss.[8] It is the ultimate, the complete, the destination of spiritual pursuit in Hinduism.[8][5][23]

Textual references[edit]

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c. 800–600 BCE) is among the earliest Hindu texts which links and then discusses Atman (soul), Brahman (ultimate reality), awareness, joy and bliss such as in sections 2.4, 3.9 and 4.3.[24][25][26] The Chandogya Upanishad (~800-600 BCE), in section 3.14 to 3.18, discusses Atman and Brahman, these being identical to 'that which shines and glows both inside and outside', 'dear', 'pure knowing, awareness', 'one's innermost being', 'highest light', 'luminous'.[27][28] Other 1st-millennium BCE texts, such as the Taittiriya Upanishad in section 2.1, as well as minor Upanishads, discuss Atman and Brahman in saccidananda-related terminology.[29]

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An early mention of the compound word sacchidananda is in verse 3.11 of Tejobindu Upanishad,[30] composed before the 4th-century CE.[31][32] The context of sacchidananda is explained in the Upanishad as follows:[33]

The realization of Atman.

(...) I am of the nature of consciousness.
I am made of consciousness and bliss.
I am nondual, pure in form, absolute knowledge, absolute love.
I am changeless, devoid of desire or anger, I am detached.
I am One Essence, unlimitedness, utter consciousness.
I am boundless Bliss, existence and transcendent Bliss.
I am the Atman, that revels in itself.
I am the Sacchidananda that is eternal, enlightened and pure.

— Tejobindu Upanishad, 3.1-3.12 (Abridged)[33][34]

Vedanta philosophy[edit]

The Vedantic philosophy understands saccidānanda as a synonym of the three fundamental attributes of Brahman. In Advaita Vedanta, states Werner, it is the sublimely blissful experience of the boundless, pure consciousness and represents the unity of spiritual essence of ultimate reality.[2]

Saccidānanda is an epithet for Brahman, considered indescribable, unitary, ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism.[4], [35][36]

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Vaishnava philosophy[edit]

Tulsidas considers Rama as Satcitananda.[37]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Brahman is 'the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world',[6] which 'cannot be exactly defined', but is being-consciousness-bliss.[1] and the highest reality.[7]
  2. ^Another translation is offered by Sugirtharajah, who suggests a 'palpable force of virtue and truth'.[10]

References[edit]

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  1. ^ abRaju 2013, p. 228.
  2. ^ abcWerner 2004, p. 88.
  3. ^ abGurajada Suryanarayana Murty (2002), Paratattvaganṇitadarśanam, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120818217, page 303
  4. ^ abDevadutta Kali (2005), Devimahatmyam: In Praise of the Goddess, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120829534, page 365, Quote: 'Saccidananda, being-consciousness-bliss, a threefold epithet attempting to describe the unitary, indescribable Brahman'.
  5. ^ abcJones & Ryan 2006, p. 388.
  6. ^Puligandla 1997, p. 222.
  7. ^Potter 2008, p. 6-7.
  8. ^ abcdeJames Lochtefeld (2002), 'Satchidananda' in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 2: N-Z, Rosen Publishing, ISBN0-8239-2287-1, page 578
  9. ^ abSir Monier Monier-Williams, Sat, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, Oxford University Press (Reprinted: Motilal Banarsidass), ISBN978-8120831056, page 1134
  10. ^Sugirtharajah 2004, p. 115.
  11. ^Sir Monier Monier-Williams, Cit, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, Oxford University Press (Reprinted: Motilal Banarsidass), ISBN978-8120831056, page 395
  12. ^ abJames Lochtefeld (2002), 'Ananda' in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1: A-M, Rosen Publishing, ISBN0-8239-2287-1, page 35
  13. ^ abConstance Jones; James D. Ryan (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Infobase Publishing. p. 28. ISBN978-0-8160-7564-5.
  14. ^ abSir Monier Monier-Williams, Ananda, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, Oxford University Press (Reprinted: Motilal Banarsidass), ISBN978-8120831056, page 139
  15. ^Vasant Merchant (2000), Savitri: A Legend & a Symbol-Sri Aurobindo's Modern Epic, International Journal of Humanities and Peace, vol. 16, no. 1, pages 29-34
  16. ^Jean Holm and John Bowker (1998), Hinduism, in Picturing God, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN978-1855671010, page 71
  17. ^Julian Woods (2001), Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata, State University of New York, ISBN978-0791449820, page 201
  18. ^Adrian Hastings et al (2000), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0198600244, page 324
  19. ^Klaus Klostermair (2007), A Survey of Hinduism, 3rd Edition, State University of New York Press, ISBN978-0791470817, page 246
  20. ^Hilko Wiardo Schomerus and Humphrey Palmer (2000), Śaiva Siddhānta, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120815698, page 44
  21. ^Sherma, Rita (1998), Lance E. Nelson (ed.), Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India, State University of New York Press, p. 116, ISBN978-0791439241
  22. ^Holdrege, Barbara (2004). Mittal, S; Thursby, G (eds.). The Hindu World. Routledge. pp. 241–242. ISBN0415215277. Shankara philosophical system is based on a monistic ontology in which brahman, the universal wholeness of existence, is alone declared to be real. In its essential nature as nirguna (without attributes), brahman is pure being (Sat), consciousness (Cit), and bliss (Ananda) and is completely formless, distinctionless, nonchanging, and unbounded. As saguna (with attributes), brahman assumes the form of Ishvara, the lord, [...] Moksha is attained through knowledge (jñåna, vidyå) alone, for when knowledge dawns the individual self awakens to its true nature as Atman, the universal Self, which is identical with Brahman.
  23. ^Christopher Key Chapple (2010), The Bhagavad Gita: Twenty-fifth–Anniversary Edition, State University of New York Press, ISBN978-1438428420, page xviii
  24. ^Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120814684, pages 433-437, 464-475, 484-493
  25. ^Anantanand Rambachan (2006), The Advaita Worldview: God, World, and Humanity, State University of New York Press, ISBN978-0791468517, pages 40-43
  26. ^Mariasusai Dhavamony (2002), Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Theological Soundings and Perspectives, Rodopi, ISBN978-9042015104, pages 68-70
  27. ^Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120814684, pages 110-117
  28. ^Klaus Witz (1998), The Supreme Wisdom of the Upaniṣads: An Introduction, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN978-8120815735, pages 227-228
  29. ^Dhavamony, Mariasusai (2002). Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Theological Soundings and Perspectives. Rodopi. pp. 68–70. ISBN9789042015104.
  30. ^Hattangadi, Sunder (2015). 'तेजोबिन्दु (Tejobindu Upanishad)'(PDF) (in Sanskrit). p. 8. Retrieved 12 January 2016.; Quote: नित्यशुद्धचिदानन्दसत्तामात्रोऽहमव्ययः । नित्यबुद्धविशुद्धैकसच्चिदानन्दमस्म्यहम् ॥
  31. ^Mircea Eliade (1970), Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, Princeton University Press, ISBN0-691017646, pages 128-129
  32. ^Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, p. 96, ISBN978-0521438780
  33. ^ abAyyangar, TR Srinivasa (1938). The Yoga Upanishads. The Adyar Library. pp. 42–43.
  34. ^Hattangadi, Sunder (2015). 'तेजोबिन्दु (Tejobindu Upanishad)'(PDF) (in Sanskrit). pp. 7–8. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  35. ^Lochtefeld, James G. (2002). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: A-M. The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 593, 578, 604. ISBN9780823931798.
  36. ^Eliot Deutsch (1980), Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN978-0824802714, Chapter 1
  37. ^MacFie 2004, p. 26.

Sources[edit]

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  • MacFie, J.M. (2004), The Ramayan of Tulsidas or the Bible of Northern India, Kessinger Publishing
  • Potter, Karl H. (2008), The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies: Advaita Vedānta Up to Śaṃkara and His Pupils, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited
  • Puligandla, Ramakrishna (1997), Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy, New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd.
  • Raju, P. T. (2013), The Philosophical Traditions of India, Routledge, p. 228, ISBN9781135029425, retrieved 8 June 2015
  • Jones, Constance; Ryan, James D. (2006), Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Infobase Publishing, p. 388, ISBN9780816075645
  • Sugirtharajah, Sharada (2004), Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective, Routledge, p. 115, ISBN9781134517206
  • Werner, Karel (2004), A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, Routledge, ISBN9781135797539

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