Guru Purnima 2022 at Double Bay Meditation Centre
Event description
Our annual Guru Purnima celebration (full moon in July) will be held on Wednesday 13th July at 7.30pm at the Double Bay Meditation Centre.
Guru Purnima traditionally honours the Vedic Masters who brought to light the Vedic knowledge we all enjoy today. It is an evening of stories, eating of rich sweets together, taking in a moonlit stroll, and enjoying the great good fortune of being a meditator at the dawn of the age of enlightenment.
The peak of the evening's festivity is the performance of "Puja", the beautiful ceremony of gratitude to the Tradition of teachers that you witnessed when you learnt to meditate. To facilitate the abundance of the ceremony, please bring a flower to offer.
It is part of the mythos of Guru Purnima that a boon is granted in response to a wish offered with one's flower at the culmination of the Puja.
It will be important to give our wish some worthy consideration. After all, this is an exercise in expansive thinking. What is it I actually want?
How can I gain fulfilment of this desire in a way that helps the evolution of many others? What is a creative way to incorporate my own individual fulfilment into my wish and be mindful of the needs of all others, now and for the future? It is an opportunity to demonstrate large-scale thinking while considering our individual desires. In other words, it is practise in developing a style of thinking that is akin to Nature's own program of mutually inclusive individual and cosmic evolution.
The evening will include a short group meditation but it will be best to meditate and have dinner before coming.
Please note that due to space limitations there will be a maximum of 40 people attending.
"Guru Purnima is the day of infinite correlation. It is a day of supreme knowledge; it is a day of Brahman; it is the day of Guru; Guru Purnima, the fullness of Guru Deva, the fullness of the element of Guru, the fullness of pure knowledge. Guru is the expression of Enlightenment, pure knowledge, the field of all possibilities, the field of infinite correlation. In that supreme awakening, in that supreme awareness, in the state of supreme knowledge we have wholeness of life, absolute value of Being, pure infinity, pure eternity, pure immortality. Guru Purnima day is structured in pure knowledge. It comes year after year to bring the awakening of totality of life. It unfolds the full potential of knowledge and brings to fulfilment the master-disciple relationship. It is the master-disciple relationship, and that expresses itself in its totality: Full potential of all possibilities. It is a very special day, it's a very special day for us." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
