Namadeva is Thomas Ashley-Farrand the author of several books and audio programs including Healing Mantras, Shakti Mantras (Ballantine Wellspring,) Chakra Mantras (Weiser Books, 2006), Mantra: Sacred Words of Power (a 9-hr. workshop), several other CDs and Mantra Meditation (a Book/CD) (Sounds True), Mantra Therapy Healing Intensives, Gayatri Mantra Meditation, Mantras of the Goddess and more (Saraswati Publications), The Ancient Science of Sanskrit Mantra and Ceremony (in three volumes, with recorded mantras, slokas, astottaras, etc.) and other works. He also teaches workshops in the US, Canada and London, England.

Lakshmi - Shakti (power) of Success, Abundance, Royalty, and Realization
Namadeva - Thomas Ashley-Farrand
July 20 - 25, 2010

Program Fee: $150

Please note: This program begins on Tuesday evening rather than on Wednesday evening.

The ancient rishis of eons past and present-day sages worship the Great Feminine. It is She who powers and empowers everything and everyone. There is no dispute about this among all the diverse Eastern paths to spiritual and material attainment. Today, we seek to improve our lives in every way. Why not go directly to the source of all improvement? Whether it is spiritual or material abundance, success in running our lives or a corporation, protection of ourselves or loved ones, healing though elimination of obstructing agents, or realization of the Supreme Truth, Lakshmi mantras present an easy, expeditious, pleasant and effulgently fulfilling way to achieve whatever end we have in mind. In the Lakshmi Tantra, Lakshmi teaches us in the first person. There she makes an amazing statement: When you look out at the world, it is really me looking at myself through your eyes. So why not identify with me and become . . . everything?

Attendees will learn:

A variety of known and esoteric Lakshmi mantras for every aspect of life, including prosperity and wealth, for gaining children and protection of them, enough food to eat, development of courage, the power of victory over the problems of life, and more.

Mantras for invoking each of the eight aspects of Lakshmi.

A Lakshmi Mantra used by the great Brahma Rishi Vashishta.

Mantras for the companions of Lakshmi.

Sudarshana Chakra mantras found in the Lakshmi Tantra. A unique Maha Lakshmi Spiritual Discipline that can bestow Spiritual Realization.

Thomas Ashley-Farrand (Namadeva Acharya) is one of the Western world's foremost authorities on the application of Sanskrit Mantra to life's problems. In December 2008 and June 2009, he received empowerments from Satguru Rama Mata, his lineage holder, to be a guru. In 1968, Namadeva Acharya began having experiences of a mystical nature, which caused him to seek a teacher to help him with them. In 1972, he received Kriya initiation from the Self Realization Fellowship. Namadeva Acharya began practicing extensive mantra-based spiritual disciplines in 1973, when he became a student of Sadguru Sant Keshavadas and Satguru Rama Mata. From 1973-1984, he was the priest for the Temple of Cosmic Religion (Sanatana Vishwa Dharma) in Washington, D.C., first as priest-in-residence where he performed ancient Sanskrit ceremonies (pujas) twice daily, and later as traveling priest based in Southern California. In 1974, he received initiation from Sadguru Sant Keshavadas into the universal mantra for spiritual illumination, the Gayatri Mantra, and other mystical formulas. He also studied with Christian mystic Dr. Leon Wright of Howard University. In 1975, he received Tibetan spiritual empowerments from the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. Since 1978, he has visited India and received blessings from Sri Sri Shankaracharyas Jayendra Saraswati Maha Swamigal and Vijayendra Saraswati Maha Swamigalof Kanchi Math and since 2005 leads biannual pilgrimage tours with his wife, Satyabhama, to India. They have also received initiations from the late Kalu Rimpoche, the Dalai Lama and Sakya Jetsun Chiney Luding (Jetsun Ma), a woman guru from Tibet.

In 2001, he and Satyabhama organized a non-profit religious corporation, Sanatana Dharma Satsang, Inc., and also Saraswati Publications, LLC, formed in 2001. In 2007, Sanatana Dharma Satsang opened a Gayatri Temple in Beaverton, Oregon.

For more information about his works and workshops, see his website, www.sanskritmantra.com