DIWALI, excellent time to meditate

DIWALI  is the most important Hindu festival as we all know! It is also a great time to meditate and cleanse negative energy from our house and life. It is a festival of 5 days, each day has a different significance.

DAY 1: DHANTERAS

Although people associate DHAN with wealth, but DHAN in DHANTERAS is associated with DHANVANTRI mythological doctor with AYURVEDA knowledge .Well being of our physical selfis considered very important in VEDAS. If we are healthy then only life can be well lived; meditation and good KARMA path can be followed.

 It is on this day that Lord DHANVANTRI had come out of the ocean with AYURVEDA knowledge for treating the ailments. He is depicted carrying a pot of nectar in his hand; nectar or AMRIT is said to have ultimate healing properties.

So it is a good idea to buy a new metal pot or bowl filling it with water and chant healing mantras or any positive affirmation 108 times, then whole family can drink that energized water. It can be sprinkled around the house or work place also. Personally I do not believe that a stone or water from other individual can cure us of our sins and ailments. We all have to do our KARMA. But I do believe if I meditate and collect my positive energy and infuse it in water, I can cleanse my surrounding by sprinkling my own positivity around me. After all we are our best friends and we would think best for ourselves. 

So whatever rituals you do for today please make time for healing.

A simple mantra which sends vibration to all CHAKRAS :

OM LAM VAM RAM YAM KSHAM HAM SAM MAATANGINI SWAAHA   [pronounce A as U sound; as in words SUM, UMBRELLA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBC2u8yDrIQ 

DAY 2: NARAKA CHATURDASHI

It is said that this day Krishna defeated NARKASUR demon. To me it simply means end of negativity and fear.
So I simply chant Gayatri Mantra and burn camphor lamp which clears negativity. Everyone can make their own ritual to cleanse negativity. 

DAY 3: LAKSHAMI POOJA  

This is the most auspicious of all five days. People perform Lakshami Pooja this day.
One can buy Lakshami Yantras , which I personally do not do.
We can make one for our self also.

An earthen pot [diya] to be lit with 4 wicks
[depicts 4 directions illuminated]

Rice
[depiction food to be ample]

A small plate metal or earthen

Water in a metal bowl
[water is essential for life and depicts abundance]

Flowers

[depict beauty and devotion]

Silver or gold coin
[pure metal is wealth and purity]

Kesar [saffron] , honey and milk
[all natural and pure]

Floating candles yellow\ red
[fire energy]

On a saffron or red colour new cloth rice can be placed like a heap in center. Placing on the heap metal bowl with water. Adding silver coins and floating candles. Place 4 wick diya on the right and on left put the plate. On the plate at one side mix few drops of milk and saffron strands ; with this yellow milk write AUM in center of plate and put flowers.

Chant mantras or affirmations in any language comfortable [DIVINE understands all languages] .
This way we energized water and our shrine. Now put flowers in water bowl and add few honey drops. Do not put out any flame, let it extinguish naturally. Ideally should burn till dawn next day. These silver coins can be wrapped in red or yellow cloth and kept in money place or at the entrance of house or in wallet for 1 year. 

DAY 4: GOVARDHAN POOJA \ ANNAKOOT \ VISHWAKARMA DAY

 This day is celebrated in many ways according to customs of people all over India.
This is a day of new beginnings. It is also new year of the oldest calendar of VIKRAMI SAMVAT.
All the positive energy gathered in earlier day marks a new positive beginning this day. 

DAY 5: BHAIYA DOOJ

This festival is celebrated for love of brothers and sisters. Sisters apply TILAK on forehead of brothers and bless them with long life and prosperity. Brothers give gift to sisters. One can use the energized yellow kesar - milk from the DIWALI day to put mark on brother’s forehead.  

HAPPY DIWALI 

Difference Between Us and Gods

Vedas say that DIVINE is a big ocean of energy, positive energy.

It is shinier than millions of suns put together; we are all droplets from that ocean, living in a physical body.

Since we are drops of DIVINE, we are also DIVINE; equally limitless. We bind ourselves during our journey through many lifetimes into rules, we condition our brain to think in limits and boundaries imposed by others. We are taught to accept what we cannot do.

We all know there is no multiple GOD system. There is only one supreme energy, not in any solid physical form; but present as life force in every spec of universe. It does not control anything as a dictator but has empowered every living, non-living to walk its natural course. Those of us more evolved can think and make choices. We can choose limits or can be limitless, be free.

Being free is not at the cost of someone else's freedom. It is being free from all insecurities. Normally we would hurt something or someone because we are threatened by its being or we want to prove our power or freedom.

That makes us bound in the need of having to prove.

Everything is part of the big cosmic equation, so if trees, stars, seas, rocks or rodents are as much a part of universe as us and have a purpose to serve then we are all together a reflection of the bigger image. When we truly understand we are a part of abundance, then we begin to understand limitlessness and stop feeling threatened by others.

What we sometimes want is only a job or a house as we believe it would give us happiness. True, we require materiel things to live in the physical world. But that does not give us true happiness; it is just a small pause before we want something else. Though nothing wrong with it as it is natural course of life, but side by side having the awareness that we must find and fulfill our true purpose on this earth is important. That is evolving as more aware being, aware of our DIVINITY and limitlessness and finally finding our way back to the origin. Knowing that we are not merely our physical self only, but part of DIVINE. When we can have the whole universe why choose the limits. 

Those who achieved this, are the likes of Buddha, Krishna and many more. We may choose to worship them in temples but the truth is they were drops of DIVINE aware of their DIVINITY. It is good to respect them, follow their teachings but walking the path ourselves will give us the real answers. As the teachings we read is what some people wrote hundreds of years ago as their perception of Buddha or Krishna. Everyone has their own path to walk. We all have our own KARMA bondage to break and then we will be free to evolve to higher plane of consciousness. 

So the only difference between our GODS or Gurus and us is this awareness of DIVINITY and making an effort to embark on the journey within and find courage to challenge the boundaries; to know that we are not bound by place and time. 

Suggested reading : Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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MEDITATION: How is it life changing?

Meditation does not belong to a certain sect or religion.

I have been to a temple may be 4-5 times in my life. I have observed a day of fasting many times to detox and work on my health and concentration and not for any religious ritual. I have always rebelled against the dos and don’ts of the religious beliefs of my mother. I found most religious dogmas illogical. It was a cause of conflict with the elders during my growing up years.

Yet I embraced meditation and propagate its life changing effect tirelessly.

I was gifted books on meditation, naturopathy, J. Krishnamurti and aura readings by my father. He was always supportive of my queries. He encouraged me to find my own DIVINE. All this was the foundation of the change that was to come.

I came face to face a situation a few years ago when I could not see a solution. The problem was grave, life threatening even and I knew I had to muster enough courage for everyone around me. I surfing the net to find a treatment, what I found was - Heal through meditation and find ANANDA, the eternal joy. I came across a website of Ananda Sangha (http://www.anandaindia.org/), which taught meditation. Then I searched about MEDITATION. I knew I have found the right path and wanted to learn the technique to be able to find strength to face my problems and to be able to find an answer. Before that also I use to meditate but did not have any proper technique to energise.

I had read somewhere that the answer always comes from within, to hear it we must have a quiet inner center. Even when sometimes it is delivered to us by an external source to be able to recognize it we need a strong peaceful inner center. With this knowledge I joined the basic course of two days over that fateful weekend.

I started to practice the technique. I started writing my experiences and it took a form of a small story when I put experiences of others in it. I mailed copies into my circle and it gave me immense pleasure that people wanted to meditate and they also wanted to remove negativity from their thoughts and lives. My suggested method in the book worked for them as well. I had kept a nominal price of 7 Euros for this written material as we tend to take more seriously something that we pay for. But the real benefit was the discussions I had with those who read it often on mail as it was improving and evolving my approach.  

I found that higher consciousness is actually inside me and ever ready to guide. This infinite intelligence, I realized was my best friend and I although I was a tiny entity in the universe I had never felt more secure.

Meditation is concentrating on the still center inside us and connect to the infinity. We are in a meditative state sometimes without even realising. While studying, playing, dancing or listening to music when we are not aware of our surroundings, that is a meditative state.

Meditation helps us:

·         Build our confidence.

·         Connect with our intuition.

·         Find the answers.

·         It helps us connect to divine.

·         Stay focused.

·         Heal.

·         De stress.

·         Evolve spiritually.

·         Be peaceful and secure.

If anyone is interested to meditate and has any question please put in a comment and I would happily reply.

As all of the Indians around the world know DIWALI is coming and all these days of NAVRATRAS (9 days dedicated to creative power of DIVINE also called SHAKTI) and 3 days of DIWALI are a good time to remove clutter and bring in health and prosperity into our lives. I would request everyone to read about meditation and special chants for NAVRATRAS and DIWALI and connect to the spiritual energy generated by millions of people during these auspicious days.

                                    Om Aim Hring Kling Chaa-mun-daa-yay Vich-chay

                                                            (Cleanse negativity)    

            

                                            Ya Devi Sarva Bhutesu Shakti rupena samsthita

Namestasyai II Namestasyai II Namestasyai II

Namo Namah II

                                                                     (Brings in positive power)      

I was introduced to the DIWALI preparation by my Spiritual Master in Delhi

These two powerful chants to prepare our mind, body, soul and our home to receive blessing this DIWALI. Let’s do the first one for 11 days [21 times everyday]

Then start the second one 21 times everyday for 11 days. 

Chants have certain vibrations which echo inside us and infuse positive energy.

HAPPY CHANTING

 Next post would also be about meditation.

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WHAT IS A MIRACLE?

I have heard many times people demanding a miracle from GOD.

To applaud the presence of HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS we require some extraordinary experience. I also grew up on other people’s definition of miracle. Education in high school also should have been enough to answer some of my questions but we all want complicated answers, else it does not appeal to our logical brain.
 Truth is generally very simple, now I know this.

A thought originated: to walk to the other room; it was broken down into steps taking; which was simplified into lifting of the leg. Some electric impulse was created by some chemical to carry the demand to the brain; which sent back message to all the muscle cells to perform an action; in the most synchronized approach the cells caused the tissue and tissue caused the muscles to move and I simply took a step. All the activity took place in less than a nano second! But that was not a miracle.

If I was able to vanish from one place and just reappear 3 meters away, would that count as a miracle? What if that is how we were designed to walk. All the atoms disintegrating and then coming back to gather elsewhere. No, then being visible all along walking would be a miracle.

Everything including living is made of small particles called atoms or cells, which are not visible to naked eye. Then I read that even in those tiny things there are electron, proton and neutron and if that was not enough there was space in between them also; besides a constant activity was going on in there. It is all around us, but that was not a miracle.

We actually have an illuminated outline around us – an AURA, it can even be photographed. But even that was not a miracle. 

My life did change. I learnt to see the miracles. I discovered feeling at AWE of these happenings. I was born with a healthy body and opportunity to learn, I learnt to be grateful.
Miracles were happening every day around me and within me only I chose to be ignorant. Walking the path of spiritual discovery brought peace and feeling able.

Science was logic and miracle an unexplained phenomenon, but after discovering miracles I realized scientists were doing the same; they were marveling at these miracles.

Enjoy witnessing a miracle everyday. After all a miracle is nothing but an ordinary routine in a day's work of  THE UNIVERSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maRjLnuGy-o&feature=fvwrel

Is anyone an atheist?

This is my first blog. I want to share my experiences of last 4 years.

Lot of people do not believe in Deities.
Lot of people do not go to Church, Temple or Mosque, they do not read Holy books. They do not follow rituals of prayers, fasting or agree that some days of the year can be more holy than others. But I still do not agree that anyone in the world is a non believer.

We may not believe in traditional GOD as the rest of the world does, but we all do believe in some ideology.
When we say we make our destiny with our decisions and choices, it’s not pre written by GOD, it means we believe in KARMA.

When we say Nature controls birth and death, Sun, Moon and Stars are a creation by forces of universe. We believe in LIFE, a force which is driver of the never ending cycle of creation and destruction.

So we all do believe in something. Some force makes the planets revolve their orbits. A planet is destroyed or a star is born every day in the Universe as a simple routine. So the some cosmic power is present to organise all this.

 Nature designed our planet to support life; it gave us lungs to breathe and different respiratory systems to underwater life. To match our needs it provided each of us a special habitat . It made deep sea creature illuminated as sun light does not reach there.
If I were to design something, I might forget some tiny detail …. But when nature designs it creates something perfect! So there is something more efficient, more intelligent, whom we call higher intelligence or super consciousness.   We all believe in it one way or the other. It is not our master or controller of our every move but just a creator and to an extend a nurturer. We live our life with our own choices.

Definitely there is a creative force in nature which gave us air, water and food resources .Not one of which can be created in our labs and kitchens.
So if you don’t want to go to Church or temple don’t, if you do not want to follow any religion don’t, if you don’t want to read holy books , don’t, But don’t deny yourself the acknowledgement of cosmic power. Since we are a creation of DIVINE ENERGY, we are a drop of that energy. 

Acknowledgement of that energy’s presence strengthens us. We feel ONE with the UNIVERSE as that energy is inside us.

If divine energy is a vast ocean of water and we are a drop of it, means we are water only. Even if we are a very tiny drop as compare to the ocean still we are the same material as ocean which means we are divine. We just have to self realize ourselves.