Thursday Satsang In Person at TMC and via Zoom – September 5, 2025
Presentation of a Recorded Audio Talk by Dr. David Frawley at SRSG:
“Ritual, Sacred Space, and Sacred Time”
(the Timeless Presence)
Introduction by Emilio Bettaglio and Michael Smith
7:00-8:30 p.m. CDT
5:30-6:45 p.m.: In-Person Gentle Hatha Yoga
7:00-8:00 p.m.: Presentation of a Recorded Talk by Dr. David Frawley at SRSG:
“Ritual, Sacred Space, and Sacred Time”
(the Timeless Presence)
Introduction by Emilio Bettaglio and Michael Smith
8:00-8:30 p.m.: Meditation Guided by Swami Radha Bharati
8:30 p.m.: Evening Prayers
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Join us on Thursday, September 5, 2024 to hear Dr. David Frawley’s profound recorded talk. There will be time for discussion, comments, and questions.
From Dr. Frawley’s 2013 talk
“…as Swami Veda says, the chitta-prasādana. And here “ritual” also means “right action,” because action done with awareness becomes a ritual. And in this regard, everything in the universe follows a certain organic rhythm or order, which is a ritual, and which also is a yajna(sacrifice) – or we can say, creating the right lifestyle, routine or rhythm to our lives. We have biological rituals, like eating, breathing and sleeping. Everything we do has some sort of ritual connection.
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And our yoga sādhana should also have its own ritual order. And ritual is also the foundation of the bhakti-yoga, or the devotion. These actions done in worship of the deities become a ritual: mudrā (sacred gesture), pūjā, yajna, mantra, the recitation the divine names. It has that ritualistic component where your action follows a certain structure designed to have a certain beauty…”
…So it’s very important that we have that sacred dimension to what we do. And then here also [it is important to understand that] yoga only works in sacred space and sacred time. It does not work in chronological time, and it doesn’t work in property, you know, space that is owned by somebody. So we need to create our own sacred space and our own sacred time in order to do the practice. And ritual is a way of creating sacred space and sacred time…
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