Parliament House, Canberra · Tuesday 15 September 2026
We meet on the lands of the Ngunnawal people
we pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and honour a spiritual tradition of listening to land and silence carried on this Country for tens of thousands of years
स्थिरता
the question
What does it actually meanto be well within?
The state of an individual mind influences relationships, judgement, leadership, workplaces, families and communities.
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chapter 01
Vihangam Yog
the eternal science of consciousness
the name
Vihangam: the way of the bird.
A bird does not fight the ground it rises from. It lifts above, and sees the whole. Vihangam Yog is the soul taking that flight - above thought, into its own vastness.
a century ago
Seventeen years of meditation.One scripture: the Swarved.
Anant Shri Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj revived this practice in 1924 and set down what he directly experienced. Not a belief system - a method, carried unbroken through a century of teachers to the presiding Sadguru today.
The Swarved Mahamandir, Varanasi
the world's largest meditation centre - 20,000 people can sit in one silence
recognition
Inaugurated by thePrime Minister of India.
In December 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Swarved Mahamandir and paid tribute at the statue of Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj.
a living practice
100+years in the open
20,000seats in one hall of silence
6continents with active centres
Freealways, for everyone
practice becomes service
5,000+units of blood donated in one annual worldwide drive - nearly 200 camps, 35 nations
25,000hawan kunds in one Vedic Yajna at the centenary, December 2023
2013special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council
PM of India, pmindia.gov.in Dec 2023 · UN-ECOSOC 2013 · press coverage, archived
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chapter 02
The evidence
what the research already shows
the need, in four figures
42.9%of Australians aged 16-85 have experienced a mental disorder in their lifetime
$220bnwhat poor mental health costs Australia every year
1 in 6people worldwide experience loneliness - in the most connected era in history
871,000deaths a year linked to loneliness and isolation
ABS 2020-22 · Productivity Commission 2020 · WHO Commission on Social Connection 2025
what research finds
What centuries of practice knew,instruments now measure.
The anchor meta-analysis of 47 trials found moderate evidence that meditation programs improve anxiety, depression and pain - and systematic reviews through 2024-2026 keep replicating the pattern across countries and populations, from students to health workers.
Goyal et al., JAMA Internal Medicine 2014 · Scientific Reports 2024 · reviews 2025-26
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chapter 03
The inner foundation
how steadiness becomes social fabric
स्थिरता
external success and inner experience
Efficient with everything -unfamiliar with our own mind.
Successful and still restless. Surrounded by communication and still disconnected. Outer capability and inner stability are different dimensions of wellbeing.
स्थिरता
the instrument we never studied
A knower of texts.Not a knower of the self.
The sage Narada had mastered every science of his age and remained sorrowful. He had studied everything except the one doing the studying.
स्थिरता
wellbeing is more than comfort
The capacity to remain balancedwhen circumstances are not ideal.
To notice a reaction before acting on it. To recover from disappointment without letting it define the whole of life. Not an escape from responsibility - a more stable centre to meet it from.
where we are
The outer life has never been richer.The inner life has never been busier.
Anxiety, distraction and disconnection rise in every prosperous society. The cause is not a lack of resources. It is attention that never comes home.
an image of governance
The senses are the horses.The mind is the reins.
The body is a chariot; the intellect the charioteer; the conscious self the passenger the whole vehicle exists to carry. When the reins are slack, it does not matter how magnificent the chariot is - the journey is not in anyone's hands.
inner wellbeing and a healthy society
Inner agitation does notremain private.
It enters the tone of a conversation, the home, the workplace.
A person with greater awareness notices anger before it becomes harmful speech.
Institutions, however well designed, are operated by human beings.
four attitudes for living together
Toward the happy: friendliness, not envy.
Toward the suffering: compassion, not indifference.
Toward virtue: joy, not cynicism.
Toward hostility: equanimity, not retaliation.
स्थिरता
another layer of the same reality
No procedure can createpatience within us.
No policy can make the decision for us in the moment of anger. No technology can choose the quality of attention we bring to another person. Those capacities must also be cultivated.
the role of the Sadguru
We are not asked to believe.We are helped to know.
In this tradition the journey is undertaken under the guidance of the Sadguru - a fully realised master who has directly experienced the states of consciousness the path describes, and who guides the seeker toward that experience rather than toward intellectual assent.
Your life energy is so much in disharmony within you. How could you create harmony in society, in the world?
Sant Shri Naam Deo Ji Maharaj
Five quiet minutes
gather the reins, gently
We offer this freely, wherever we go
free guided programs across Australia - open to every background, no experience needed
What happens within uswhen life does not arrange itself as we prefer?
Vihangam Yog
