Home of Rehnadee Shum, A Language For Meditation

Guhanatha Swami
Founder and Webmaster, Shum Sanctuary
Guhanatha Swami is the Founder of Shum Sanctuary and the principal author of the site's content. His spiritual journey led him to the creation Shum Sanctuary as a means of sharing the Path of Enlightenment with the world. You can connect with him through Shum Sanctuary's contact page. His spiritual journey that led him to his guru and his subsequent introduction to the Shum language is chronicled in the the following article: How A Language Inspired My Spiritual Journey.
Rehnadee Shum is the dialect of Shum Sanctuary

Rehnadee Shum is the dialect of Shum that Shum Sanctuary uses. I created Rehnadee Shum with the inner spiritual guidance of Guru Omkar. I differentiate Rehnadee Shum from the Shum my Guru taught me wh...
Rehnadee Shum's Structure and Syntax

Shum images come together to make Shum words which are also known as Shum Portraits and Shum Image-Portraits. They are portraits because the words are used to create meditation maps which are pictures...
The Primary 18 Shum Images

The Shum Images List consists of 108 Shum images which is akin to the alphabet list of a language. When I first started learning Shum in the monastery in the early 90's there were 72 Shum images. Thes...

Shum is unlike other languages in that there are no sentences in Shum. There are only Shum words and these words describe experiences in meditation. The vocabulary of Shum is an encyclopaedia of the m...

The Innerverse is the universe that we can sense within us. It is a juxtaposition to The Universe which is the world we can sense outside us. All the languages in the world are centered on the Univers...

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