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* These forms will be made available from January 1, 2011 for use. **Spiritual Retreat Forms will be available from January 31, 2012
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The programs are being modeled to help awaken the spiritual need of a person. The central focus is to find your Self. Keeping that in view, spiritual retreats will mainly be conducted. These will be based on the lives and teachings of Indian spiritual personalities like Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo etc. In addition to Yogasana, Pranayama, Meditation and devotional session. Trekking in the hills will be added feature of this retreat. The discourses will be delivered by Scholars adept in the field of their expertise. Board and lodging will be looked after by the Institute. It will be more of a meditative, contemplative and spiritually inspirational living for 7 days.
There will be 15 Retreats, 5 in each category. The form** can be had from this web site from 31st of January, 2012. Each retreat will be of 7 days duration and there are 50 seats. The location will be at the proposed centre of Human Excellence in Uttarakhand near Almora. There will be in house spiritual resource persons who can be consulted on personal spiritual matters also during the retreat.
After the Retreats are over, 6 Study camps will be conducted on the life and teaching of great spiritual leaders. Please see list below.
The spiritual retreat and Study Camp forms** will be displayed for online filling and sent by email or alternatively by mail. The form should be enclosed with a cheque or draft of Rs. 5000/- in favour of "Institute of Human Excellence" payable in New Delhi, India. Advertisements to this effect will be published in spiritual magazines like Life Positive, Vedanta Kesari, Prabhudha Bharat, The mountain path, and others.
A Life membership form* is also given on the web site for online filling and sending along with a cheque of Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh only) The form could also be printed after duly filled in and signed and sent. The cheque should be in the name of "Institute of Human Excellence" payable at New Delhi.
The Application for joining the Institute* as a full time worker for a minimum period of one year up to maximum of three years will be available on this site.
Sisters and Brothers of America,
It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world; I thank you in the name of the mother of religions, and I thank you in the name of millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects.
My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation. I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: "As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."
The present convention, which is one of the most august assemblies ever held, is in itself a vindication, a declaration to the world of the wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita: "Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me." Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.
- Address to the Parliament of Religions, at 4 P.M. Dated: Sept. 11, 1893. Chicago, USA
Igniting the fire in you
VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF HUMAN EXCELLENCE
Sl. No.
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Courses
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Duration
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No. of seats
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D A T E S
From To
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1.
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Bhagvad Gita
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1 month
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50
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July 1, 2012
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July 30, 2012
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2
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Yoga Vashisth
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1 month
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50
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Aug. 1, 2012
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Aug. 30, 2012
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3
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Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita
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1 month
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50
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Sept. 1, 2012
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Sept. 30, 2012
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4
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Yoga Vashisth
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1 month
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50
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Oct.2, 2012
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Oct. 31, 2012
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5
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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
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1 month
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50
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Feb.1, 2013
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Feb. 28, 2013
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6
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Talks with Ramana Maharshi
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1 month
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50
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Mar.2, 2013
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March 29, 2013
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FUTURE PROGRAM
STUDY CAMPS**
Sl. No.
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Retreat Name
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Total Seat
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From
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To
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1
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Life and teaching of Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Saradamani
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50
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April 1, 2012
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April 7, 2012
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2
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Life & teaching of Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Saradamani
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50
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April 10, 2012
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April 16, 2012
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3
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Life and teaching of Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Saradamani
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50
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April 19, 2012
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April 25, 2012
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4
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Life and teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
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50
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April 28, 2012
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May 3, 2012
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5
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Life and teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
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50
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May 6, 2012
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May 12, 2012
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6.
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Life and teaching of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
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50
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May 15, 2012
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May 21, 2010
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7.
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Life and Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
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50
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May 24, 2012
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May 30, 2012
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8.
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Life and Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
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50
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June 2, 2012
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May 8, 2012
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9.
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Life and Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
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50
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June 11, 2012
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June 17, 2012
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SPIRITUAL RETREATS**
Daily Program
6.30 a.m. Tea/Coffee
7.00 a.m. Asana, Pranayama and Meditation
8.15 a.m. Breakfast - fruits, South Indian dish / North India dish /Continental dish - milk
9.15 a.m. Tea/Coffee - optional
10.00 a.m. Discourses/lectures
12.30 p.m. Lunch
3.00 p.m. Tea/Coffee
3.30 p.m. Discourses/lectures
5.00 p.m. games - volley ball, running, trekking, Nature walk
6.30 p.m. Evening Satsang
7.15 p.m. Health issues
8.00 p.m. Light Dinner
9.00 p.m. Self study / interacting with course director informal way.
10.00 p.m. Individual meditation (15 minutes)
10.15 p.m. To bed
(all foodstuff will be provided at the dinning hall, no room service unless permitted by campus doctor)