In our trips to India in the past years, we have taken hours of video footage to remind us of our heavenly sojourns there. As time has allowed, we have edited the footage of our various adventures. We have now added some of these videos to our main web site, for the enjoyment of those who love the spiritual face of India. View links to the videos below on our India Videos page. Due to the size of some of the videos, and the speed of your web connection, the pages may take some time to load, but the wait is well worth it.
From Belur Math to Dakshineshwar
On the banks of the Ganges River north of Kolkata are two of the most remarkable religious sites in all of India. On one side is the Dakshineshwar Kali Temple, where Sri Ramakrishna practiced intense spiritual disciplines while serving as the priest of the Goddess Kali. The temple compound has become a place of pilgrimage for devotees of Mother Kali and Sri Ramakrishna alike, including monks from Atma Jyoti Ashram who filmed this video.
Down river, on the other side of the Ganga, is Belur Math, the monastery founded by Swami Vivekananda, the world-renowned disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, which has become the world headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission.
Ganga Arati
Every night in Hardwar, in the foothills of the Himalayas, at about 6:00 p.m. there is worship (arati) of the Ganga at the Brahma Kund. In February of 2003, pilgrim-monks from the Atma Jyoti Ashram participated in the Ganges worship, which they also videotaped, as well as the shrines and religious goods shops located around the Brahma Kund.
Glimpses of India
A compilation of four short spiritual events filmed by our pilgrim monks during their trip to India in 2005:
- The Morning Havan by the students at the Vedic Gurukula at Om Shanti Dhama in Karnataka.
- Rare footage of the spiritual figure known as “Ajja” in Puttur, southern Karnataka.
- The evening Nagar kirtan of Ram Nam at Anandashram, made famous by Papa Ramdas, near Kanhangad, Kerala.
- Devotional Bhajans and dancing by village devotees at the Samadhi Shrine of Jnaneshwar in Alandi, Maharashtra.
Temple Elephants in India
A two minute video filmed in various temples throughout India, showing temple elephants blessing devotees, and being fed by their mahuts. Elephants in this video include Rukmini from the Arunachaleshwar Temple in Tiruvannamalai, Andar from the Sri Rangam Temple in Trichy, and the temple elephant from the famous Krishna temple in Udupi.
India Smiles
When people anywhere see a camera, it seems to bring out the budding actor in them. In our trips to India, we have frequently brought smiles to people’s faces by showing them their images in both still and video cameras. This film is a short collage of footage of both young and old enjoying their moment of fame on film.
Visit our India Videos page to see these videos in your choice of sizes, depending on the speed of your web connection.
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