Newsletter April 2009

Academy of Absolute Understanding

The academy has been able to print nine books this year.

The Academy has purchased Rimage a machine to print DVD’s and CDs in high volumes.

The Academy has been able to pay for its website.

The Academy has printed 2000 coloured brochures for promotional use. It will be sent to every philanthropist. Delivery of brochures and envelopes are awaited.

The philanthopists recognition of the importance and the need of the academy is appreciated.

Amsterdam

Denekamp

Munich

Belgium

Denekamp

24th – 26th April

15th – 17th May (Historical presentation Epic)

24th – 26th July (launch POI German)

28th – 30th August

(launch Understanding Life volume 1)

18th – 20th September launch KG 7

See schedule in www.acadun.com for detailed information.

The Epic of Absolute Understanding.

The Academy is pleased to announce the book ‘The Epic of Absolute Understanding’ is ready for collection on the 16th of May in Denekamp. Donors please be present on that day to receive your copy.

Please register and information here.

Dr Shankar shares with Indian community  deep insights into the nature of mind, not in how real the mind is but rather how illusory, which made for deep pondering.

Man and woman, young and old from all walks of life gathered on the last weekend of March for satsang in Sugarland Texas.

Photo by: Team Hector

E-mail a friend

Please send in e-mail addresses of your friends to www.acadun.com contact. The academy will inform them about Dr. Shankar. A friend deserves this.

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New DVD’s, CD’s

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Quotes.

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New DVD available:

Effect

New CD’s:

1. Birth of Maya (1)

2. Birth of Maya (2)

3. Imagined World

Real Guru found: Listen 19 april at 14.15u!!!!

Regina Brand gives an exclusive interview to OHM radio.

Program: De Lotusvijver

Radio 5

Website:  www.ohmnet.nl

Click ‘radio’ and anouncement.

Excerpt from new article

Newest article: “Happiness”

“Steady State”

Man wants to know ‘what is happiness?’ By the question it is obvious that man as yet does not know what happiness is or could be - nevertheless he wants to be happy, not really knowing what happiness is. If you do not know what happiness is, how on earth can you be happy? Firstly, man has to be sure where happiness is and where it could be found? Is it in life or in the mind?. (read further)

“Understanding Life” Five Elements booklaunch in Belgium dd 29 aug 2009

‘The Power of Illusion’ booklaunch in Germany dd 25 juli 2009

‘The Power of Illusion’ is translated

in German by Marcus Stegmaier.

The book will be launched at 25 July in Munchen

Marcus and his wife Yvonne

Comments:

Article ‘Happiness’.

Dory, Netherlands

How man is deluded to search for happiness where it is not. And to search for a happiness which is not. As long as man believes the mind,  happiness will never be there.

This article is again so clear. Thank you for sharing your understanding.

Comments ‘Old Age’

Randy, Netherlands

How much of what you write can a man take? After rereading Old Age again and again I realise that I am reading these words so that I may honour and salute life. I can’t wait until this article is publishable in Dutch. The thought of people who can’t read it in English is unbearable. I can’t wait to see how it will find its way to the hearts of our fellow human beings, whatever their age is. Dear Dr Shankar, it regularly happens that you say that we’re spot-on. But sir, it is YOU who is spot-on, it is YOU who is spot-on all the time! I know this because I feel demolished inside, ripped apart. But how compassionated life is: I also understand that what is being taken away isn’t that meaningful in the first place, is it, Dr Shankar? I salute life, I salute life as you, and I salute you from the bottom of my heart.

Comment ‘Time and Money’
Julian Capper, U.K
Dr Shankar illuminates, in this chapter, the quandary that besets mankind in its quest to live life to the full, as man sees it. The pinnacle of a successful life is built on the quicksand of illusion, with its twin towers of time and money. Meticulous planning and carefully-contrived deceit are man's means of securing the high ground - and all this, ironically, happens precisely and mysteriously as the gift of life. Such is the extraordinary and intelligent nature of life that is beautifully clarified here by its author.

Comment ‘More’
Julian Capper, U.K
To discover how fully the concept of 'more' has dominated man's thinking and actions throughout his life is the gift of this chapter. 'More' is constantly on the tongue such that no matter what a man receives it can never be enough. This chapter itself is the understanding; it is the realisation of the extraordinary nature of the illusory 'more'. Without 'more', this chapter and its content could never have been written and gifted to man.

Comment ‘Happiness’
Julian Capper, U.K
When situations are overwhelming you, when people demand your attention from every direction all at once and when there is no other person there to help you, realise that you are looking, thinking and dealing through the mind. All at once life shows her beautiful hand and all the imaginations of the mind recede. The beautiful hand is always there and the imaginations of the mind are always imaginations. The flow of life was missed, yet it flowed; the turmoil of the mind and the mind itself faded. Thank life for the wisdom of the sages; thank life for its messenger, Dr Shankar. Thank you.

Comment ‘Kaivalya Gita vol 4’

Randy Breuer, Netherlands

A while ago I looked at a painting in my house; I figured it was the 'expression' of a painter. Then I remembered you, saying that the world is an expression. The next thing I realised was that, even when we dislike a painting, we never say: "How can it be improved"; we understand that the painting is done, a result, an outcome, and therefore too late to change it. But life is, as you repeatedly explain, an expression too, yet, man thinks he can and should alter it. And it occurred to me that life is, in a way, also every moment a 'painting' or 'outcome' or 'result' that continuously transforms itself. And because we're too in this 'living painting', the whole idea of changing it becomes rather silly as we're changing too every moment, along with the rest of the 'painting'. Especially chapter 2, KG vol. 4, arose in me as I realised that my understanding of this chapter had deepened. This realisation helps me tremendously to take a step back and understand that whatever it is that I would like to see altered - it will always be 'too late'. If only man could learn from his visits to a museum: there he observes and admires. But may be God didn't manifest the museum just to admire art, but primarily as an opportunity for man to understand the meaning of the 'art' of living, which is, as I have come to see it, the 'art' of being watchful, so that admiration can happen, in and outside a museum.

Dr. Shankar
Only the illusory life can be admired.

Comment on satsang 'The sound of 'I'

Lucile, Maastricht.

 This evening here in the South we watched together "The sound of 'I'".

It is such a beautiful talk! I think I can speak for all - Wolfgang & Carla, Mariëtte & Hendrik, Winnie, Martien, Paul, Susan, Lisha and me - when saying that we enjoyed it very much.

For me the illusion of doership has never been more clear explained; the way it is build up from birth where not the 'I' but a presence is crying in the newborn baby, to the same presence in death, in doing, in sound of "I', in growth, etc, how irrefutable (hope this is the right word). 

Besides the clarity I feel really touched by what seems to me a golden purity one way or the other evaporating from this talk. Thank You.

Dr. Shankar  

The mail Guruji was patiently waiting for has arrived.