World Spirit Videos - The Unchanging Self

The Unchanging Self
a journey in spiritual india

Video or DVD - 67mins approx
DVD £15.00 (P-12)
Video £5.00 (P-102)

On the evening of every Full Moon, between half a million and a million people make their way to the small Indian town of Tiruvannamalai for a ritual pilgrimage around Mt Arunachala. Walking barefoot for 14 kms, it is an awesome display of devotion. Filmed in the major temple towns of South India, this film reveals and explains the roots of Indian spirituality that have nourished the region for thousands of years.

The colour and clatter, and the sights and sounds of everyday India are depicted against intense sacred ritual and awe inspiring architecture, highlighting the relationship between the manifest and spiritual worlds. It is a journey through spiritual India and a journey of the individual soul.

A World Spirit independent film production

Indian spiritual culture is rooted in the idea that we are not separate from the creation and that ‘The Self’ is ever-free, limitless and unchanging. Knowing and enquiring into this is central to the spiritual traditions of India and has provided the means for people to set themselves free from any sense of bondage, from any dependence on the world for personal happiness.

With spiritual, cultural comment and tales from Roger Housden, author of ‘Travels Through Sacred India’, the handbook of spiritual travellers in India, and with comment on the ancient teachings of Vedanta from Swami Suddhananda at his ashram at the foot of Mt Arunachala.

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1. pilgrimage around Mt Arunachala

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2. the manifest world

(02:29)

3. shiva, nataraj and the elements

(13:17)

4. ritual - realising the sacred

(24:39)

5. yogas, ashrams, gurus and disciples

(34:04)

6. mountain, temple and deity as sacred

(44:50)

7. the self as sacred

(55:48)

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	Swami Suddhananda - contributor
	'Realising the Self is a joke - because everybody has experienced it. Every moment you are experiencing it. You are it!'
			Straight from the source, from an oral tradition stretching back thousands of years, and under a tree at his ashram near Tiruvannamalai, Swami Sudhannandra reveals the Vedic view of human reality. His comments cover vital areas of existence - identity, creation, faith ritual, liberation, not to mention the very basic issue, what is it that makes us happy? Swami holds regular classes at his ashram outside Tiruvannamalai from mid-January through February.
			For details contact: samvit@md3.vsni.net.in
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	Roger Housden - contributor
	'All the various things that we want to know, and look to for understanding - all eventually lead us back to the understanding of ourselves - to knowledge of Self - 'Chit'.
			Traveller, commentator and writer of the handbook of spiritual travellers in India: 'Travels Through Sacred India'. Author of the highly acclaimed 'Ten Poems To Change Your Life' series. Originating from Bath, England and now resident in Woodstock, New York.

	James Swartz - Narrator
	'The word 'Veda' simply means knowledge. Not the knowledge of outer things, but the knowledge of who or what we really are'
			An independent spiritual commentator, based in India during 35 years of profound enquiry into its spiritual traditions. Originating from Montana and now resident in California, Jim teaches meditation, gives talks on Vedanta, creates compelling spiritual art and is author of 'Meditation - Inquiry Into The Self''.

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