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Sri K.C.Srikrishna
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am happy to inform you that Imperience- Centre for Research and Training in PAM which was started on the auspicious occasion of the Birth Centenary of Dr.K.C.Varadachari on 14th August 2002 has successfully completed three years.
The Institution was started with the objective of educating aspirants in the Natural Path. Towards this end we have been conducting training programmes, workshops, seminars and formal / informal interactive sessions (discussions) on topics related to PAM.
In addition to assist the aspirants in their Sadhana, ‘Tools for self evaluation’ were developed. A continuous endeavor is on towards improving the ‘Self Assessment Tools’ and the same are being made available to them from time to time.
“Imperience” has also been disseminating information through publication activities. The Institute as part of its research activities has been carrying out Academic and Practical research. As part of academic research, a study is being conducted to observe the effect of Pranahuti vis-à-vis the fresh aspirants expectations, attitudes and their perceptions vis a vis the Natural Path and its Philosophy. The institute administered a questionnaire with some suggested answers. These questions pertained to the following aspects:
- aspirations,
- motivation to attend the course,
- practice of worship and also about the type of worship,
- concept of God and about the qualities or attributes of God
- rating of various noble qualities like truth speaking, fraternal feelings etc and
- attitude to life.
The questionnaire was also administered to persons who are practicing the system. This data is being collated and will be released shortly. As of now we do not have adequate data to carry out studies in the field of practical research. In this context Imperience makes a sincere appeal to all of you to help us by providing your records and so that a study can be undertaken to prove the efficacy of the system.
Training Programmes for Freshers
The institution conducts training programmes for freshers on every Second Saturday and Sunday of every month. In an ongoing effort in improving the presentation of the system of Natural Path, the training slides were modified.
In India the centers where Training courses are regularly held are Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Kakinada, Vizag, Tirupathi, Bangalore and Satyavedu
This year Bangalore, Kakinada and Tirupathi Centers have become active and have started conducting training programmes regularly.
In USA training courses were held at California, Denver, Washington D.C and Florida.
Currently training programs at Denver and Washington D.C are not being held
All the training courses are of two day duration. This year 269 persons attended the training programs and of these 138 persons were introduced into the system.
Workshops
Workshops are sessions of focused study and training- essentially meant for persons who would like to have more clarity and understanding of the intricacies of the various conditions that one goes through and cover various topics based on the teachings of the Master.
Workshops are meant to help own up the conditions that the practicants get during Satsang and Individual sittings. Owning up of a condition means to feel, to understand, to imbibe and to dwell in that condition and workshops assist in this.
The workshops are scheduled for the first Sunday of each month. To address the individual requirements and problems we are limiting the number of participants which ensure that the quality of the workshops remains high.
Selection of the participants for each workshop is based on the information provided by the participant in the introspection sheet and the remarks and observations given by respective trainers, and also the availability of seats.
We have suspended holding the workshops as of now. We would be considering holding workshops based on specific requests of aspirants.
Seminars
Seminars are being held bi-monthly on various topics, and are basically of practical interest. The stress is on sharing ones’ understanding of the subject based on experience by way of Paper Presentation. Seminars are intense sessions of training aimed to lead the abhyasis to attain clarity in important aspects of sadhana. Seminars are conducted on the third Sunday of every alternate month.
Six seminars were conducted in the current year. All the papers are available as part of the web site of Imperience and at Imperience office. Copies of the same will be made available on request.
In all a total of 51 papers were presented at the seminars. All the papers presented were of a very high order and one could see the effort of the abhyasis in presenting papers which had stress on the academic, intellectual and practical aspects related to sadhana. We hope the seminars in the coming days will also be of the same high quality.
The first seminar was conducted on the topic “This and that have gone now”. The seminar was attended by 51 abhyasis and 11 papers were presented.
The second seminar was held on the topic “Love is the inner awakening to Reality”. The seminar was attended by 54 abhyasis and 10 papers were presented.
The third seminar was conducted on the topic “Divinity is the play and Divine the way”. It was attended by 51 abhyasis and 7 papers were presented.
The fourth seminar was conducted on the topic “Service is the only concern of the Serf!” This seminar was attended by 57 abhyasis and 5 papers were presented.
The fifth seminar was conducted on the topic “Mind can be known by mind and Divinity can be known by Divinity”. Six papers were presented for this seminar.
The sixth seminar was conducted on the topic “Demolition of the past is a chapter in the Natural Path”. The seminar was attended by 36 abhyasis and 12 papers were presented.
Training Programmes for Trainers
In an ongoing effort to improve the understanding of trainers, The training manual has been translated into telugu. The training programmes for trainers on the manual has been started from this month , 22 trainers attended the training.
These are scheduled on the first Saturday and Sunday in the months when seminars are conducted and on the third Saturday and following Sunday in the other months.
Imperience proposes to conduct two or more workshops for trainers on
1. Development of Will.
2. Development of Sensitivity.
Publications
The following books were published by Imperience
1. Heart to Heart
2. Difficulties in Yoga
3. Orientation to Master
4. Oka Parichayamu
Tools for self Evaluation
The institute is happy to inform you that Self evaluation questionnaire on Altruism is being prepared and will be available shortly.
I would like to inform that Attitudinal Scale relating to qualities that are conducive for spiritual progress is under development and would be made available as soon as possible.
It is to be recognized that these tools are in order to assist the aspirants in evaluating their spiritual condition.
As all aspirants are aware we already using the implementation of Sri Ramchandra’s Commandments as a criterion in evaluating the condition. The above mentioned tools we hope would assist us further in our effort towards evaluating conditions.
During the current year Sri. K. Hara Prasad and Smt. V. Aruna have been actively involved in the activities of Imperience and we would like to thank them for the same.
We would also like to extend our thanks to Sri S.S. Janardhan Rao, Sri V. Ramam, Sri Balachander for having actively involved themselves in the functioning of the Centre and for having assisted in preparing various reports of the institute.
Smt. V. Annapurna was actively involved in the activities of the institute during the second half of 2004. We would like to thank her for the same.
In order to make the presentation of material dynamic during training, discussions and seminars, equipment like Laptop computer, public address system & better quality speakers were acquired. We are thankful to the abhyasis from U.S.A for having donated the same.
We acknowledge the participation of all abhyasis who have participated in the functioning of the “Imperience”.
We make an appeal to all abhyasis to make use of the workshops and trainings. All abhyasis are requested to ensure that they give their requests for workshops and training courses well in advance.
The training courses are restricted to 15 people and workshops are restricted to 10 people. We request you not to inconvenience us by asking for registration at the last minute.
Imperience is the institution of the aspirants in the path of the great Master Sri Ramchandraji Maharaj of Shahjahanpur who has given humanity the greatest boon of Pranahuti and the Natural Path to suit the needs of the modern man. We owe it to Him and to posterity to establish the scientific basis of the system. It is a collective effort of all the abhyasis of ISRC, and we request you to help us in improving the quality of collective service.
Expenditure
During the current year 2004-2005 , the expenditure incurred was Rs. 2,16,341. (Two lakh sixteen thousand three hundred and forty one only). This was met by the interest earned on the corpus which amounts to Rs 2,69,000/- (Two Lakhs Sixty nine thousand only)
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