THE DIFFERENCE OF NRITTTA AND ABHINAYA

 

                                WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

                                       "NRITTA" AND "ABHINAYA"?

                     NRITTA : THE NRITTA TECHNIQUE OF INDIAN DANCE EMPHASIS HUMAN MOVEMENT. INDIAN DANCE IS, INFACT, A STRINGING TOGETHER OF A NUMB ROF HIGHLY STYLIZED AND SYMBOLIC POSES. THE NRITTA TECHNIQUE ENCOMPASSESS NOT ONLY THE TECHNIQUE OF RENDERING RYTHM (TALA) THROUGH MOVEMENTS WHICH DO NOT HAVE MEANING, BUT ALSO IMPORTANT FEATURE OF PROJECTING SPECIFIC POSES WITHIN THE GIVEN RHYTHMIC CYCLE.

                   INDIAN DANCE PURPOSELY EMPHASIZE ONLY CERTAIN TYPES OF MOVEMENTS. IT EXPLORES THE FULL POSSIBILITIES OF THOSE MOVEMENTS WITHIN CONSCIOUSLY IMPOSED LIMITATION. NONE OF THE INDIAN STYLES USE LARGE LEAPS EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN ASPECTS OF KATHAKALI AND CHHAU FORMS AND LITTLE OR NO DISCUSSION OF THEN APPEARS IN THE TREATISE OR INDIAN DANCE.

                 NATYASHASTRA CONTAINS DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE MOVEMENTS OF MAJOR LIMBS (THE ANGAS) AND  MINOR LIMBS (THE UPANGAS). THE HEAD, BREAST OR CHEST, SIDES (WAIST), HIPS AND FEET CONSTITUTE MAJOR LIMBS (ANGAS) AND THE EYES, EYEBROWS, NOSE, LIPS, CHIN, MOUTH ETC. CONSTITUE THE MINOR LIMBS (UPANGAS). THIS IS FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION ON BASIC STANCES I.E, THE STHANAS - THE COMBINATION OF THESE PRIMARY MOVEMENTS.

                 ABHINAYA : THE MIMING ASPECT OF THE NATYA TERMED AS A ANGIKABHINAYA IN THE NATYASHASTRA IS ALSO AN INTEGRAL PART OF DANCING. IN DANCE (NRITYA) IT IS KNOWN AS ABHINAYA. SAME PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO BOTH DRAMA AND NRITYA OR ABHINAYA.

                IN THE NRITTA PORTION, MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT UTILIZES SWARNAS OF A MELODY IN A GIVEN RHYTHMIC CYCLE (TALA) AND THE VARIATIONS OF TALA ARE INTERPRETED BY THE FEET AND THE OTHER ANGAS AND UPANGAS OF THE BODY. IN THE ABHINAYA PORTION, THE MUSICAL ACCOMPLISHMENT INVARIABLY CONSISTS OF POETRY, LYRICAL OR NARRATIVE, WHICH IS SET TO MUSIC AND RHYTHM. IT IS THIS POETRY WHICH IS INTERPRETED BY THE DANCERS. IN THE ACTUAL INTERPRETATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE SOLO DANCING OF ALL THE CLASSICAL STYLES, IT CONSISTS OF PORTRAYING THE VARIOUS TRANSIENT STATES (SANCHARIBHAVAS), OF THE PARTICULAR DOMINANT STATE (THAYIBHAVA). THIS IS DONE THROUGH A SERIES OF THE ANGIKABAHINAYA IN WHICH EACH WORD OR LINE OF POETRY IS INTERPRETED IN AS MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AS POSSIBLE. IN DOING SO, THE PRINCIPLE OF NATYADHARMI IS FULLY FOLLOWED - THE DANCER ASSUMES DIFFERENT ROLE WITHOUT CHANG3E OF DRESS OR COSTUME.

                   FROM AMONGST THE MOVEMENTS OF THE ANGAS AND UPANGAS THE NRITYA OR ABHINAYA PORTION DEPENDS MOSTLY ON THE GESTURE OF THE HANDS AND FACE ESPECIALLY THE MOVEMENTS OF THE EYES, EYEBROWS, EYEBALLS ETC.

                  THE TECHNIQUE OF INDIAN DANCE IS AS COMPLEX AS THE TECHNIQUE OF ANY OTHER ART IN INDIA. IN BUILDS FROM ITS SMALLEST PART INOT A COMPOSITE WHOLE BY A SERIES OF LAWS APPLIED SYSTEMATICALLY. ALL THIS IS DONE WITH A VIEW TO EVOLVING A PARTICULAR STAGE OR MIND OR RASA.

                        WHAT IS THE MATURE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCE ON DANCE IN INDIA?

 

                   ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCE : IT WAS IN THE SECOND PERIOD THAT THERE WAS THE FIRST ARTICULATION OF A SELF-CONSCIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF DANCE AS AN ART. THE COMPILATION OF NATYASHASTRA CONFIRMS IT. WE ALSO FIND THAT THERE WAS AN EFFORT AT STYLIZATION ALTHOUGH NONE OF THE MONUMENTS AND THE SCULPTURAL RELIEFS SHOW THAT THEY HAD ARRIVED AT A STEREOTYPED CONVENTION MERELY TO BE FOLLOWED REPEATED. THE MOTIFS IN THE SCULPTURAL TRADITION WERE THOSE OF THE TREE AND WOMAN, THE YAKSHA AND YAKSHANI AND MANY OTHERS, ALL THESE FINALLY CRYSTALISED INTO THE DANCE OF SIVA AND THAT OF KRISHNA. IN BHARHUT, SANCHI, MATHURA AND ELSEWHERE THERE ARE INNUMERABLE YAKSHA AND YAKSHNIS WHO STAND AGAINST TREE AND PILLAR, HOLD BRANCHES OR BIRDS ETC. EACH OF THESE MEN AND WOMEN ARE SEEN IN THE DANCE POSE. ALONGSIDE ARE DANCE SCENES WITH FULL ORCHESTRA. THIS IS ALSO THE PERIOD OF THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCULPTURAL FIGURES OF GODS AND GODDESS ESPECIALLY SIVA, DURGA, SARASWATHI, AND GANESHA. EACH HAS A DANCE ASPECT POPULARLY CALLED, THE NRITTAMURTI. FROM THIS SCULPTURAL EVIDENCE OF THE SECOND PERIOD, WE REALIZE THAT THE DANCE MUST HAVE BEEN CENTRAL TO THE CULTURE FOR THE SCULPTURE TO HAVE BEEN INSPIRED TO ARREST IT IN STONE REPEATEDLY.

                 TO THIS SECOND PERIOD ALSO BELONGED THE CONSTRUCTION OF STUPAS AND TEMPLES. DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF LIFE HAVE BEEN DEPICTED ON THE RAILINGS AND GETS THE DANCE RECITAL AS ALSO THE DANCING ASPECT OF GOD AND GODDESS. THE ORISSAN TEMPLES OF BHUBANESWARA AND EVEN EARLIER THE STUPAS OF RATNAGIRI TELL US OF THE PRE-OCCUPATION OF THE SCULPTURE WITH THE IMAGE OF DANCE. THE TEMPLES OF RAJA RANI, OF PARASURAMESWARA AND OF LINGARAJA - ALL REVERBERATE WITH MUSIC AND DANCE. INNUMERABLE FIGURES ENTWINED WITH TREES OR PILLAR HOLDING BIRDS, STANDING ON ANIMALS OR DWARDS SMILING OR MORE SERIOUS, ARE DEPICTED IN PANEL AFTER PANEL ON THE OUTER WALLS OF THESE TEMPLES. LOOKED AT CLOSELY, ONE IS IMRESSED BY THE FACT THAT THE SCULPTURE WAS NOT ONLY A KEEN OBSERVER OF MOVEMENT, BUT WAS ALSO A SELF-CONSCIOUS ILLUSTRATOR OF THE BASIC POSITION I.E. THE STHANAS AND THE  FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENTS CALLED THE CHARIS DESCRIBED IN THE NATYASHASTRA. THE MONUMENTS OF CENTRAL INDIA ESPECIALLY THOSE OF KHAJURAHO BUILT BY CHANDELES AND UDAYESHWAR OF THE  PARMARAS BELONGING TO THE 11TH AND 12TH CENTURIES ALSO PRESENT A WIDE ARRAY OF MOVEMENT PATTERNS FROM SOLO STANDING FIGURES TO FIGURES IN ARDHAMANDALI, TO GROUPS AND FINALLY TO THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SERIES OF FLYING FIGURES, LEAVES A STAGGERING IMPRESSION OF THE POPULARITY OF DANCE.

                      THESE SCULPTORS AND PAINTERS RECORD IN STONE AND IN PAINTING, THROUGH LINE AND MINIATURE PAINTING. SOME ARE INSPIRED BY BUDDHIST TEXTS OTHER BY JAINA THEMES AND YET OTHERS BY HINDU PURANIC MYTHS AND LEGENDS. THE EVIDENCE OF DANCE IN MURAL PAINTINGS RANGES FROM THE FAMOUS DANCE SCENES OF BAGH CAVES TO AJANTA, ELLORA AND PANNAMALAI.

                    LITERARY EVIDENCE : THIS IMPRESSION OF THE PERVASIVE POPULARITY OF THE DANCE MOTIF IS FURTHER REINFORCED BY THE EVIDENCE AVAILABLE IN SANSKRIT LITERATURE OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD. IN THE EPICS RAMAYANA AND THE MAHABHARAT, MANY DANCE PERFORMANCES ARE PRESCRIBED. IN THE WORKS OF POETS BHASA, KALIDAS AND OTHERS UNTIL THE TIME OF HARSHA, WE ENCOUNTER MANY PRECISE DESCRIPTIONS OF DANCERS AND DANCE RECITALS. FROM ALL THIS, ONCE CAN GATHER THAT THE POET AND THE DRAMATIST WERE EQUALLY WELL-VERSED IN THE TECHNICAL INTRICACIES OF DANCE. THEY APPRECIATED THE AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND DREW UPON THIS ART TO STRUCTURE THEIR PLAY ON POETIC OR DRAMATIC EDIFICE. NONE OF THE PLAYS OF KALIDAS, BHAVBHUTI AND HARSHA AND BEEN  CONCEIVED OF AS DRAMA DEPENDENT ON THE SPOKEN WORD ALONE. THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYED BY THE WRITER TAKES INTO ACCOUNT NOT ONLY THE VERBAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH GESTURES, COSTUMES, DECOR ALONE BUT ALL THE INNER STATES OF BEING WHICH ARE REFLECTED IN INVOLUNTARY EXPRESSIONS. 

                 THIS TRADITION WAS ESTABLISHED IN INDIA  MANY CENTURIES PRIOR TO THE WRITING OF THE PLAYS OF BHASA OR KALIDASS. THIS IS EVIDENT FROM THE CODIFICATION OF THESE COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES IN THE FIRST TREATISE ON DRAMATURGY I.E. THE NATYASHASTRA. THIS TRADITION CONTINUES IN THE PLAYS OF BHAVABHUTI AND HARSHA AND CULMINATES IN THE WORK OF RAJSHEKHARA. MANY EXAMPLES OF THIS COULD BE CITED FROM THE DRAMATIC WORK OF RAJSHEKHARA MANY EXAMPLES OF THIS COULD BE CITED FROM THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF THE 10TH CENTURY A.D. KARPURAMANJARI IS THE EXAMPLE OF THIS WHERE THE DRAMATIC FORM, CHIEFLY UTILIZING THE VERBAL LAND, GIVES PLACE IN THE SANSKRIT TRADITION. HOWEVER, ITS FULL AND VIGOROUS FLOWERING TOOK PLACE ONLY IN THE EARLY AND THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD SAY 9TH CENTURY A.D. AND CONTINUING UNTIL 11TH AND 12TH CENTURY A.D.

                        IN THE 9TH 10TH CENTURY A COMMENTARY OF NATYASHASTRA BY ABHINAVAGUPTA WAS WRITTEN. THE COMMENTARY OF ABHINAVAGUPTA BEGAN A NEW PHASE OF THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFERENT THEORIES OF AESTHETIC AND ARTISTIC CREATION.

                     FROM THE 13TH CENTURY ONWARDS ONCE CAN FIND MANUALS ON DANCE FROM PRACTICALLY EVERY REGION OF THE COUNTRY. EVEN A SUPERFICIAL STUDY OF THESE MANUALS EMPHASIZES TWO BROAD FACTS.FIRST. THAT DESPITE REGIONAL VARIATIONS ALL SCHOOLS SUBSCRIBED TO THE BASIS PRINCIPLES OF THE NATYASHASTRA TRADITION. THE DANCE CONTINUED TO BE DIVIDED INOT NATYA AND NRITTA ON ONE HAND AND INTO TANDAVA AND LASYA ON THE OTHER. THE SECOND IS THAT, ALTHOUGH THEY CONTINUED TO FOLLOW THESE BROAD PRINCIPLES, MANY DISTINCTIVE REGIONAL STYLES EVOLVED AND EACH REGION ULTIMATELY DEVELOPED A DISTINCTIVE REGIONAL STYLES EVOLVED AND EACH REGION ULTIMATELY DEVELOPED A DISTINCTIVE VOCABULARY. THIS SECOND FACT LED TO THE VONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL STYLES - BEIT BHARATNATYAM, KATHAKALI, MANIPURI, ODISSI OR KATHAK - CAN BE TRACED BACK TO DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD, ROUGHLY DATING FROM 1300 A.D TO 1800 A.D.

               THE RECENT REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN DANCE, DEVELOPED AS A SIGN OF NATIONAL PRIDE IN THE GLORIES OF INDIGENOUS ART AND CULTURE, HELPED THE DEVELOPMENT AND POPULARITY OF OUR VARIOUS DANCE STYLES. DURING THE PAST FIVE DECADES MANY LAYERS OF THE PAST ARTISTIC GLORY HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED. THE DIGGING CONTINUES AND EACH TIME ONE DELVES DEEPER, A GREATER TREASURE IS DISCOVERED.

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WHY GAYATRI MANTRA

 

                                                      GAYATRI MANTRA

                   WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN? ALTHOUGH I HAVE CHOSEN THE PATH OF MEDITATION IN MY OWN LIFE, MUCH OF WHAT I KNOW, IF NOT ALL OF IT, IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE GRACE OF DIVINE MOTHER. IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WHEN WE ARE CONTINIONED WITH WESTERN THOUGHT, IT IS NATURAL TO QUESTION THE EFFICACY OR THE RELEVANCE OF MANTRAS.

                    I CAN TELL YOU FROM MY FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE THAT TEH POWER OF MANTRAS IS ONE, IMMENSE, TWO REAL, AND THREE, ACCESSIBLE. WHEN WE LISTEN TO MUSIC, WE CAN HEAR THE HARMONY WITHIN IT - AND WE KNOW THAT CERTAIN CHORDS, MELODIES, RHYTHMS AND SCALES CAN EVOKE CERTAIN EMOTIONS IN US. THIS IS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE KNOW HOW TO SING, PLAY AN INSTRUMENT OR READ MUSIC NOTATION, ETC.

                    AS A LISTENER, LISTENING TO MUSIC CAN MAKE YOU CRY, IT CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH AND SO ON. SIMILARLY - AND IT'S NOT JUST A METAPHOR, IT IS VERY REAL - WHETHER OR NOT YOU KNOW IT, THE SOUND OF MANTRAS CAN BRING ALIVE LONG - FORGOTTEN MEMORIES IN YOU. TENDENCIES, FEELINGS, EMOTIONS, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, POWER AND SIDDHIS YOU HAVE BEEN WITHIN YOURSELF OVER LIFETIMES CAN BE EVOKED WITH THE POWER OF A MANTRA.

 

                   THE ABIDING DILEMMA IS SANATANA DHARMA IS, WHAT IS THAT ONE SUPREME ENERGY ONE SHOUD TAP INTO? PEOPLE ASK ME THIS ALL THE TIME THAT THERE ARE SO MANY GODS OR FORMS OF GOD, TO WHOM SHOULD WE PRAY? MOST FASCINATINGLY, EVEN IN A RELIGION AS DIVERSE AS SANATANA DHARMA, WITH AS MANY SECTS AS STARS IN THE SKY (OKAY, MAYBE NOT AS MANY)  THERE'S ONE VEDIC MANTRA THAT HAS BEEN WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS THE QUINTESSENTIA MANTRA OF OUR DHARMA.

                  EVEN THOUGH I'M CALLING SANATANA DHARMA A RELIGION - COMMONLY KNOWN AS HINDUISM - IT IS ACTUALLY NOT A RELIGION BUT A WAY OF LIFE, A MANNER OF THINKING. THEREFORE, IN INDIA'S ANCIENT OR MEDIEVAL HISTORY, YOU WILL NEVER FIND AS EPISODE OF TWO KINGS OR STATES GOING TO BATTLE JUST BECAUSE THEY PRAYED TO A DIFFERENT FORM OF GOD. IT IS QUITE REMARKABLE THAT IN A COUNTRY WITH TENS OF LANGUAGES AND HUNDREDS OF DIALECTS, A COUNTRY WITH EXTRAORDINARY CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL DIVERSITY, WHERE STATES WERE ETERNALLY FIGHTING TERRITORIAL AND POLITICAL WARS, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANY PERSECUTION IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. THAT'S BECAUSE SANATANA DHARMA ALLOWED PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE OF CONTRADICTIONS.

                  WHEREVER YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, THROUGH ANY PERIOD IN ITS SEVERAL MILLENNIA - OLD HISTORY, SANATANA DHARMA HAS STOOD ON FOUR PILLARS - GAU, COW, GITA, THE BHAGAVAD GITA, WHICH MEANS THE SONG OF THE LORD, AND IS OUR SCRIPTURE, GANGA, MOTHER GANGA, AND GAYATRI.

                 ADI SHANKARACHARYA WROTE IN BHAJA GOVINDAM, GAIYAM GITA NAAM SAHASRAM, DHEYAM SHRIPATI ROOPAMAJASRAM, NEYAM SAJAN SANGE CHITAM, DEYAM DEEN JANAYE CHAVITTAM.

                 THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE IS FOURFOLD. GAIYAM GITAM NAAM SAHASRAM, SHANKARACHARYA URGES THAT WHENEVER YOUR MIND HAS A MOMENT TO SPARE, CHANT THE HOLY NAMES, SING THE DIVINE GLORIES AND EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE TO THE DIVINE (ITS BETTER THAN GOSSIPING, SULKING OR SPEAKING ILL OF ANYONE). BECAUSE, AS YOU HAVE HEARD IN MY EARLIER DISCOURSES, NOTHING GIVES YOU STRENGTH LIKE GRATITUDE, HAPPINESS AND INNER PEACE. HAPPINESS IS A DIRECT OUTCOME OF YOUR GRATENESS. THE MORE GRATEFUL YOU ARE, THE HAPPIER YOU WILL FEEL.

                   DHEYAM SHRIPATI ROOPAMAJASRAM: MEDITATE UPON THE DIVINE ENERGY, NEYAM SAJAN SANGE CHITAM, SPEND YOUR TIME IN THE COMPANY OF GOOD PEOPLE - IT'S THE HARDEST THING TO DO.

                  WHEN YOU SOCIALIZE WITH OTHER POEPLE, YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT THEY SPEND MORE OF THEIR TIME GOSSIPING THAN DOING ANYTHING ELSE, AND IT GOES BEYONG THE STANDARD EXCHANGING OF PLEASANTRIES, " HEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY"? IT'S JUST PLAIN GOSSIPING. THIS WEAKENS YOU, BECAUSE WHEN YOU RELAX IN YOUR FREE TIME, YOUR MIND ALWAYS PLAYS BACK WHAT IT HAD HEARD DURING THE DAY. THA'S HOW THE MIND WORKS. IT YOU DON'T FEED IT GARBAGE, IT WON'T FEED YOU GARBAGE BACK.

                    SHANKARACHARYA SAID, "NEYAM SAJAN SANGE CHITTA". SPEND YOUR TIME IN THE COMPANY OF GOOD PEOPLE. I ONCE READ SOMEWHERE THAT AT ANY POINT IN TIME, YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT YOU ARE A REFLECTION OF THE FIVE MOST SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE. WE BECOME THE KIND OF PEOPLE WE SURROUND OURSELVES WITH. THE WHOLE PREMISE OF MEDITATION, OF BHAKTI, OF DEVOTION, IS BASED ON THIS ALONE - THAT IF I HAVE TO DERIVE MY INSPIRATION FROM SOMEBODY, LET THAT PERSON NOT BE AN ORDINARY PERSON WITH ORDINARY CHALLENGES, WITH ORDINARY, PETTY THINKING. LET ME DRIVE MY INSPIRATION FROM SOMETHING GRAND, SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY, SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.

                  "DHEYAM DEEN JANAYE CHAVITTAM" MEANS BE CHARITABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE NEEDY. SUCH A LIFE IS USELESS WHERE YOU LIVE JUST FOR YOURSELF. SOMEWHERE YOUR LIFE HAS TO HAVE MEANING. IT HAS TO BE OF USE OF SOMEBODY ELSE, TO SOME OTHER POEPLE, BECAUSE THE UNFAILING LAW OF THE UNIVERSE IS WHATEVER YOU GIVE, IT WILL GROW. WITH THAT IN MIND, SHARE YOUR RESOURCES WITH THOSE WHO NEED IT. SO THESE FOUR PILLARS OF SANATANA DHARMA FORM THE BASIS OF A MEANINGFUL LIFE, OF A PURPOSEFUL LIFE, SO THAT WE SPEAKER OUR WORDS CAREFULLY, USE OUR RESOURCES JUDICIOUSLY TO HELP OURSELVES AND THSOE AROUND US AND BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES.

                     THIS PARTICULAR BOOK IS ABOUT THE FOURTH PILLAR, THE GAYATRI MANTRA. MY VIEW IS THAT BY THE TIME YOU FINISH THIS BOOK, YOU WILL KNOW, A) HOW TO INVOKE THE GAYATRI MANTRA BECAUSE UNTIL YOU INVOKE IT, YOU WON'T BENEFIT FROM IT AND  B) EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO PUT IT TO USE. MERELY ACCUMULATING THE ENERGY OF THE MANTRA IS NOT ENOUGH, ONE NEEDS TO KNOW HOW TO BENEFIT FROM IT, IT'S LIKE HAVING A MILLION DOLLARS IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT BUT NOT KNOWING HOW TO WITHDRAW THE MONEY, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CHEQUE BOOK OR AN ATM CARD.

                   MANTRA SCIENCE IS SOMETHING LIFE THAT. THE WEALTH THAT YOU SEEK, THE SPIRITUAL WEALTH, IS INSIDE YOU. IT'S ALREADY THERE. THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO YOU PUT IT TO USE? NOW, THERE ARE MANY METHODS AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU MORE METHODS. (I DID THAT EXTENSIVELY IN MY BOOK THE ANCIENT SCIENCE OF MANTRAS) HERE, I WANT TO MAKE IT EXREMELY SIMPLE FOR YOU.

                  A WIFE WAS LEAVING HOME TO GO TO THE MARKET.

                 SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, "HONEY, I'M GOING OUT FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS, DO YOU NEED ANYTHING FROM THE MARKET"?

                 HE SMILED AND SAID, "THANKS, THAT'S ENOUGH"!

               CHANTING IS A LITTLE LIKE THIS. WHAT I AM GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU MAY SEEM LIKE NOTHING AT THE END OF THE DAY, BUT DEPENDING ON YOUR STATE OF MIND, THIS IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH, NOTABLY, MANTRAS, INCLUDING THE GAYATRI MANTRA, HAVE NO CREATORS. MANTRAS HAVE WHAT WE CALL SEERS, WHICH MEANS RISHIS THERE - WE ONLY NEED EYES TO SEE IT. 

                OF THE FOUR VEDAS, RIG VEDA IS CONSIDERED THE OLDEST. IN THE  RIG VEDA, 3RD CANTO, 61ST CHAPTER. MOTHER DIVINE IS REFERRED TO AS USHA. USHA MEANS DAWN, USHA MEANS DAYBREAK, THE FIRST LIGHT. MOTHER DIVINE IS REFERRED TO AS THE LIGHT. BUT IT IS IN THE 3RD CANTO, 62ND CHAPTER AND 10TH VERSE WHERE THE GAYATRI MANTRA IS FIRST FEATURED IN ANY SCRIPTURE.

               THE VERSES IN VEDAS ARE ORGANIZED IN METERS, CALLED CHANDRA IN SANSKRIT, AND KRISHNA SAYS, "GAYATRI NAAM CHANDASAAM AHAM" (THE BHAGAVAD GITA 10.30), HERE, KRISHNA SAYS, OF  ALL THE VEDIC METERS, I AM GAYATRI. THE METER OF GAYATRI HAS MANY MATRAS, WITH GAYATRI BEING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT. IN OTHER WORDS, THE METER OF THE GAYATRI MANTRA IS ALSO GAYATRI, THE GAYATRI MANTRA SITS IN THE 3RD CANTO, 62 ND CHAPTER, 10TH VERSE, AND IT DOES NOT BEGIN WITH THE USUAL BHUR-BHUVAH-SVAH. THE MANTRA FOUND THERE IS :

                                          TAT-SAVITUR-VARENAYAM

                                          BHARGO-DEVASYA-DHIMAHI

                                          DHIYO-YO-NAH-PRACHODAYAT.

               THE COMPLETE AND RECOMMENDED MANTRA, HOWEVER, BEGINS WITH OM BHUR-BHUVA-SVAHA. TO UNDERSTND THE STRUCTURE, POWER AND ENERGY OF THE GAYATRI MANTRA, WE HAVE TO REVISIT A CHAPTER IN OUR ANCIENT HISTORY, WHEN, HOW AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES THE FIRST RISHI INVOKED THIS MANTRA.

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BLUEPRINT OF SUCCESS

 

                                            BLUEPRINT OF YOUR SUCCESS

                    AN ENGINEER HAS A TECHNIQUE AND A PROCESS FOR BUILDING A BRIDGE OR AN ENGINE. LIKE THE ENGINEER, YOUR MIND ALSO HAS A TECHNIQUE FOR GOVERNING, CONTROLING, AND DIRECTING YOUR LIFE. YOU MUST REALIZE THAT METHODS AND TECHNIQUES ARE PRIMARY.

                 IN BUILDING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, THE CHIEF ENGINEER UNDERSTOOD MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES, STRESES AND STRAINS. SECONDLY, HE HAD A PICTURE OF THE IDEAL BRIDGE ACROSS THE BAY. THE THIRD STEP WAS HIS APPLICATION OF TRIED AND PROVEN METHODS BY WHICH THE PRINCIPLES WERE IMPLEMENTED UNTIL THE BRIDGE TOOK FORM AND WE DRIVE ON IT. THERE ALSO ARE TECHNIQUES AND METHODS BY WHICH YOUR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED. IF YOUR PRAYER IS ANSWERED, THERE IS A WAY IN WHICH IT IS ANSWERED, AND THIS IS A SCIENTIFIC WAY. NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE. THIS IS A WORLD OF LAW AND ORDER. IN THIS CHAPTER YOU WILL FIND PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE UNFOLDING AND NURTURE OF YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. YOUR PRAYERS MUST NOT REMAIN UP IN THE AIR LIKE A BALLOON. THEY MUST GO SOMEWHERE AND ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE.

                    WHEN WE COME TO ANALYZE PRAYER WE DISCOVER THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND METHODS. WE WILL NOT CONSIDER IN THIS BOOK THE FORMAL, RITUAL PRAYERS USED IN RELIGIOUS SERVICES. THESE HAVE IMPORTANT PLACE INGROUP WORSHIP. WE ARE IMMEDIATELY CONCERNED WITH THE METHODS OF PERSONAL PRAYER AS IT IS APPLIED IN YOUR DAILY LIFE AND AS IT IS USED TO HELP OTHERS.

                  PRAYER IS THE FORMULATION OF AN IDEA CONERNING SOMETHING WE WISH TO ACCOMPLISH. PRAYER IS THE SOUL'S SINCERE DESIRE. YOUR DESIRE IS YOUR PRAYER. IT COMES OUT OF YOUR DEEPEST NEEDS AND IT REVEALS THE THINGS YOU WANT IN LIFE. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTENOUSNESS, FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED. THAT IS REALLY PRAYER, LIFE'S HUNGER AND THIRST FOR PEACE, HARMONY, HEALTH, JOY, AND ALL THE OTHER BLESSINGS OF LIFE.

                                        THE PASSING - OVER TECHNIQUE

              THIS CONSISTS ESSENTIALLY IN INDUCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO TAKE OVER YOUR REQUEST AS HANDED IT BY THE CONSCIOUS MIND. THIS PASSING OVER IS BEST ACCOMPLISHED IN THE REVERIE-LIKE STATE. KNOW THAT IN YOUR DEEPER MIND ARE INFINITE INTELLIGENCE AND IN-FINITE POWER. JUST CALMLY THINK OVER WHAT YOU WANT, SEE IT COMING INTO FULLER FRUITION FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD. BE LIKE THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD A VERY BAD COUGH AND A SCORE THROAT. SHE DECLARED FIRMLY AND REPEATEDLY. IT IS PASSING AWAY NOW. IT IS PASSING AWAY NOW. IT IS PASSING AWAY NOW. IT PASSED AWAY IN ABOUT AN HOUR. USE THIS TECHNIQUE WITH COMPLETE SIMPLICITY AND NAIVETE.

                 YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WILL ACCEPT YOUR BLUEPRINT

                    IF YOU WERE BUILDING A NEW HOME FOR YOURSELF AND FAMILY, YOU KNOW THAT YOU WOULD BE INTENSELY INTERESTED IN REGARD TO THE BLUEPRINT FOR YOUR HOME, YOU WOULD SEE WOULD WATCH THE MATERIAL AND SELECT ONLY THE BEST WOOD, STEEL, IN FACT, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. WHAT ABOUT YOU MENTAL HOME AND YOUR MENTAL BLUEPRINT FOR HAPPINESS AND ABUNDANCE? ALL YOUR EXPERIENCES AND EVERYTHING THAT ENTERS INTO YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON THE NATURE OF THE MENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS, WHICH YOU USE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF YOUR MENTAL HOME.

             IF YOUR BLUEPRINT IS FULL OF MENTAL PATTERNS OF FEAR, WORRY, ANXIETY, OR LACK AND IF YOU ARE DESPONDENT, DOUBFUL, AND CYNICAL, THEN THE TEXTURE OF THE MENTAL MATERIAL YOU ARE WEAVING INTO YOUR MIND WILL COME FORTH AS MORE TOIL, CARE, TENSION, ANXIETY, AND LIMITATION OF ALL KINDS. THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL AND THE MOST FAR-REACHING ACTIVITY IN LIFE IS THAT WHICH YOU BUILD INTO YOUR MENTALITY EVERY WAKING HOUR. YOUR WORD IS SILENT AND INVISIBLE, NEVETHELESS, IT IS REAL.

               YOU ARE BUILDING YOUR MENTAL HOME ALL THE TIME, AND YOUR THOUGHT AND MENTAL REPRESENT YOUR BLUEPRINT. HOUR BY HOUR, MOMENT BY MOMENT, YOU CAN BUILD RADIANT HEALTH, SUCCESS, AND HAPPINESS BY THE THOUGHTS YOU THINK, THE IDEAS WHICH YOU HARBOR, THE BELIEFS THAT YOU ACCEPT, AND THE SCENES THAT YOU RE-HEARSE IN THE HIDDEN STUDIO OF YOUR MIND. THIS STATELY MANSION, UPON THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHICH YOU ARE PERPETUALLY ENGAGED, IS YOUR PERSONALITY, YOUR IDENTITY IN THIS PLANCE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE STORY ON THIS EARTH.

                GET A NEW BLUEPRINT, BUILD SILENTLY BY REALIZING PEACE, HARMONY, JOY, AND GOOD WILL IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. BY DWELLING UPON THESE THINGS AND CLAIMING THEM, YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WILL ACCEPT YOUR BLUEPRINT AND BRING ALL THESE THINGS TO PASS, BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.

                

                                   THE SCIENCE AND ART OF TRUE PRAYER

                   THE TERM "SCIENCE" MEANS KNOWLEDGE, WHICH IS COORDINATED, ARRANGED, AND SYSTEMATIZED. LET US THINK OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF TRUE PRAYER AS IT DEALS WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF LIFE AND THE TECHNIQUES AND PROCESSESS BY WHICH THEY CAN BE DEMONSTRATED IN YOUR LIFE, AS WELL AS IN THE LIFE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING WHEN HE APPLIES THEM FAITHFULLY,. THE ART IS YOUR TECHNIQUE OR PROCESS, AND THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT IS THE DEFINITE RESPONSES OF CREATIVE MIND TO YOUR MENTAL PICTURE OR THOUGHT.

                  ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU, SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, KNOCK, AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU.

                                                                                                     MATTHEW.

                     HERE YOU ARE TOLD YOU SHALL RECEIVE THAT FOR WHICH YOU ASK. IT SHALL BE OPENED TO YOU WHEN YOU KNOCK, AND YOU SHALL FIND THAT FOR WHICH YOU ARE SEARCHING. THIS TEACHING IMPLIES THE DEFINITENESS OF MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL LAWS. THERE IS ALWAYS A DIRECT RESPONSE FROM THE INFINITE INTELLIGENCE OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO YOUR CONSCIOUS THINKING. IF YOU ASK FOR BREAD, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A STONE. YOU MUST ASK BELIEVING, IF YOU ARE TO RECEIVE. YOUR MIND MOVES FROM THE THOUGHT TO THE THING. UNLESS THERE IS FIRST AN IMAGE IN THE MIND, IT CANNOT MOVE, FOR THERE WOULD BE NOTHING FOR IT TO MOVE TOWARD. YOUR PRAYER, WHICH IS YOUR MENTAL ACT MUST BE ACCEPTED AS AN IMAGE WHICH YOUR MIND BEFORE THE POWER FORM YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WILL PLAY UPON IT AND MAKE IT PRODUCTIVE. YOU MUST REACH A POINT OF ACCEPTANCE IN YOUR MIND, AN UNQUALIFIED AND UNDISPUTED STATE OF AGREEMENT.

                      THIS CONTEMPLATION SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY A FEELING OF JOY AND RESTFULLNESS IN FORESEEING THE CERTAIN ART AND SCIENCE OF TRUE PRAYER IS YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLETE CONFIDENCE THAT THE MOVEMENT OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, WHICH WHICH IS ONE WITH BOUNDLESS WISDOM AND INFINITE POWER. BY FOLLOWING THIS PROCEDURE, YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE ANSWERED.

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TECHNIQUE OF THANK YOU AND VISUALIZATION

 

                                            THANK YOU TECHNIQUE

                      

                          IN THE BIBBLE, PAUL RECOMMENDS THAT WE MAKE KNOWN OUR REPRESENTS WITH PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING. SOME EXRAORDINARY RESULTS FOLLOW THIS SIMPLE METHOD OF PRAYER. THE THANKFUL HEART IS ALWAYS CLOSE TO THE CREATIVE FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE, CAUSING COUNTLESS BLESSINGS TO FLOW TOWARD IT BY THE LAW OF RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP, BASED ON A COSMIC LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION.

                      FOR INSTANCE, A FATHER PROMISES HIS SON A CAR FOR GRADUTION, THE BOY HAS NOT YET RECEIVED THE CAR, BUT HE IS VERY THANKFUL AND HAPPY, AND IT AS JOYOUS AS THOUGH HE HAD ACTUALLY RECEIVED THE CAR. HE KNOWS HIS FATHER WILL FULFILL HIS PROMISE, AND HE IS FULL OF GRATITUDE AND JOY EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NOT YET RECEIVED THE CAR, OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING. HE HAS, HOWEVER, RECEIVED IT WITH JOY AND THANKFULNESS IN HIS MIND.

               I SHALL ILLUSTRATE HOW MR.BROKE APPLIED THIS TECHNIQUE WITH EXCELLENT RESULTS. HE SAID, "BILLS ARE PILIG UP, I AM OUT OF WORK, I HAVE THREE CHILDREN AND NO MONEY. WHAT SHALL I DO"? REGULARLY EVERY NIGHT AND MORNING, FOR A PERIOD OF ABOUT THREE WEEKS, HE REPEATED THE WORDS, "THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR MY WEALTH, IN A RELAXED, PEACEFUL MANNER UNTIL THE FEELING OR MOOD OF THANKFULNESS DOMINATED HIS MIND. HE IMAGINED HE WAS ADDRESSING THE INFINITE POWER AND INTELLIGENCE WITHIN HIM KNOWING, OF COURSE, THAT HE COULD NOT SEE THE CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE OR INFINITE MIND.

             HE WAS SEEING WITH THE INNER EYE OF SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION, REALIZING THAT HIS THOUGHT-IMAGE OF WEALTH WAS THE FIRST CAUSE, RELATIVE TO THE MONEY, POSITION, AND FOOD HE NEEDED. HIS THOUGHT FEELING WAS THE SUBSTANCE OF WEALTH UNTRAMMELED BY ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND. BY REPEATING, "THANK YOU, FATHER," OVER AND OVER AGAIN, HIS MIND AND HEART WERE LIFTED UP TO THE POINT OF ACCEPTANCE, AND WHEN FEAR, THOUGHTS OF LACK, POVERTY, AND DISTRESS CAME INTO HIS MIND, HE WOULD SAY, "THANK YOU, FATHER, AS OFTEN AS NECESSARY. HE KNEW THAT AS HE KEPT UP THE THANKFUL ATTITUDE HE WOULD RECONDITION HIS MIND TO THE IDEA OF WEALTH, WHICHIS WHAT HAPPENED.

               THE SEQUEL TO HIS PRAYER IS VERY INTERESTING. AFTER PRAYING IN THE ABOVE-MENTIONED MANNER, HE MET A FORMER EMPLOYER OF HIS ON THE STREET WHOM HE HAD NOT SEEN FOR TWENTY YEARS.

 

                THE MAN OFFERED HIM A VERY LUCRATIVE POSITION AND ADVANCED HIM $500 ON A TEMPORARY LOAN. TODAY, MR.BROKE IS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY FOR WHICH HE WORKS. HIS RECENT REMARK TO ME WAS, "I SHALL NEVER FORGET THE WONDERS OF "THANK YOU, FATHER". IT HAS WORKED WONDERS FOR ME".

                                          THE AFFIRMATIVE METHOD

                THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN AFFIRMATION IS DETERMINED LARGELY BY YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUTH AND THE MEANING BACK OF THE WORDS, "IN PRAYING USE NOT VAIN REPETITION". THEREFORE, THE POWER OF YOUR AFFIRMATION LIES IN THE INTELLIGENT APPLICATION OF DEFINITE AND SPECIFIC POSITIVES. FOR EXAMPLE, A BOY ADDS THREE AND THREE AND PUTS DOWN SEVEN ON THE BLACKBOARD. THE TEACHER AFFIRMS WITH MATHEMATICAL CERTAINLY THAT THREE AND THREE ARE SIX, THEREFORE, THE BOY CHANGES HIS FIGURES ACCORDINGLY. THE TEACHER'S STATEMENT DID NOT MAKE THREE AND THREE EQUAL SIX BECAUSE THE LATTER WAS ALREADY A MATHEMATICAL TRUTH. THE MATHEMATICAL TRUTH CAUSED THE BOY TO REARRANGE THE FIGURES ON THE BLACKBOARD. IT IS ABNORMAL TO BE SICK, IT IS NORMAL TO BE HEALTHY. HEALTH IS THE TRUTH OF YOUR BEING. WHEN YOU AFFIRM HEALTH, HARMONY, AND PEACE FOR YOURSELF OR ANOTHER, AND WHEN YOU REALIZE THESE ARE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF YOUR OWN BEING, YOU WILL REARRANGE THE NEGATIVE PATTERNS OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BASED ON YOUR FAITH AND UNDERSTANDING OF THAT WHICH YOU AFFIRM.

                  THE RESULT OF THE AFFIRMATIVE PROCESS OF PRAYER DEPENDS ON YOUR CONFORMING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF LIFE, REGARDLESS OF APPEARANCES. CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT THAT THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF MATHEMATICS AND NONE OF ERROR, THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF TRUTH BUT NONE OF DISHONESTY.

               THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF INTELLIGENCE BUT NONE OF IGNORANCE, THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF HARMONY AND NONE OF DISCORD. THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH BUT NONE OF DISEASE, AND THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF ABUNDANCE BUT NONE OF POVERTY.

             THE AFFIRMATIVE METHOD WAS CHOSEN BY THE AUTHOR FOR USE ON HIS SISTER WHO WAS TO BE OPERATED ON FOR THE REMOVAL OF GALL-STONES IN A HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND. THE CONDITION DESCRIBED WAS BASED ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF HOSPITAL TESTS AND THE USUAL X-RAY PROCEDURES.

               SHE ASKED ME TO PRAY FOR HER. WE WERE SEPERATED GEOGRAPHICALLY ABOUT 6,500 MILES, BUT THERE IS NO TIME OR SPACE IN THE MIND PRINCIPLE, INFINITE MIND OR INTELLIGENCE IS PRESENT IN ITS ENTIRETY AT EVERY POINT SIMULTANEOUSLY. I WITHDREW ALL THOUGHT FROM ALL CONTEMPLATION OF SYMPTOMS AND FROM ALL CORPOREAL PERSONALITY ALTOGETHER. I AFFIRMED AS FOLLOWS. "THIS PRAYER IS FOR MY SISTER CATHERINE. SHE IS RELAXED AND AT PEACE, POISED, BALANCED, SERENE, AND CALM. THE HEALING INTELLIGENCE OF HER SUNBCONSCIOUS MIND, WHICH CREATED HER BODY, IS NOW TRANSFORMING EVERY CELL, NERVE, TISSUE, MUSCLE, AND BONE OF HER BEING ACCORDING TO THE PERFECT PATTEN OF ALL ORGANS LODGED IN HER SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.

                SILENTLY, QUIETLY, ALL DISTORTED THOUGHT PATTERNS IN HER SUBCONSCIOUS MIND ARE REMOVED AND DISSOLVED, AND THE VITALITY, WHOLENESS, AND BEAUTY OF THE LIFE PRINCIPLE ARE MADE MANIFEST IN EVERY ATOM OF HER BEING. SHE IS NOW OPEN AND RECEPTIVE TO THE HEALING CURRENTS, WHICH ARE FLOWING THROUGH HER LIKE A RIVER, RESTORING HER TO PERFECT HEALTH, HARMONY, AND PEACE. ALL DISTORTIONS AND UGLY IMAGES ARE NOW WASHED AWAY BY THE INFINITE OCEAN OF LOVE AND PEACE FLOWING THROUGH HER, AND IT IS SO".

                     I AFFIRMED THE ABOVE SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, AND AT THE END OF TWO WEEKS MY SISTER HAD AN EXAMINATION, WHICH SHOWED A REMARKABLE HEALING, AND THE X RAY, PROVED NEGATIVE.

 

                TO AFFIRM IS TO STATE THAT IS SO, AND AS YOU MAINTAIN THIS ATTITUDE OF MIND AS TRUE, REGARDLESS OF ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYER. YOUR THOUGHT CAN ONLY AFFIRM, FOR EVEN IF YOU DENY SOMETHING, YOU ARE ACTUALLY AFFIRMING THE PRESENCE OF WHAT YOU DENY.

                REPEATING AN AFFIRMATION, KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AND WHY YOU ARE SAYING IT, LEADS THE MIND TO THAT STATE OF CONSCIOSNESS WHERE IT ACCEPTS THAT WHICH YOU STATE AS TRUE. KEEP ON AFFIRMING THE TRUTHS OF LIFE UNTIL YOU GET THE SUBCONSCIOUS REACTION, WHICH SATISFIES.

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WHY WE SLEEP

 

                                          YOUR SLEEP AND YOUR LIFE

         

                    YOU SPEND ABOUT EIGHT OUT OF EVERY TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, OR ONE-THIRD OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, IN SLEEP. THIS IS AN INEXORABLE LAW OF LIFE. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE KINGDOMS. SLEEP IS A DIVINE LAW, AND MANY ANSWERS TO OUR PROBLEMS COME TO US WHEN WE ARE SOUND ASLEEP UPON THE BED. MANY PEOPLE HAVE ADVOCATED THE THEORY THAT YOU GET TIRED DURING THE DAY, THAT YOU GO TO SLEEP TO REST THE BODY, AND THAT A REPARATIVE PROCESS TAKES PLACE WHILE YOU SLEEP. NOTHING RESTS IN SLEEP. YOUR HEART, LUNGS, AND ALL YOUR VITAL ORGANS FUNCTION WHILE YOU ARE ASLEEP. IF YOU EAT PRIOR TO SLEEP, THE FOOD IS DIGESTED AND ASSIMILATED ALSO, YOUR SKIN SECRETES PERSPIRATION, AND YOUR NAILS AND HAIR CONTINUE TO GROW. YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND NEVER RESTS OR SLEEPS. IT IS ALWAYS ACTIVE, CONTROLLING ALL YOUR VITAL FORCES. THE HEALING PROCESS TAKES PLACES MORE RAPIDLY WHILE YOU ARE ASLEEP AS THERE IS NO INTERFERENCE FROM YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND. REMARKABLE ANSWER ARE GIVEN TO YOU WHILE YOU ARE ASLEEP.

                                                     WHY WE SLEEP

                 DR. JOHN BIGELOW, A FAMOUS RESEARCH AUTHORITY ON SLEEP, DEMONSTRATED THAT AT NIGHT WHILE ASLEEP YOU RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS SHOWING THAT THE NERVES OF THE EYES, EARS, NOSE, AND TASTE BUDS ARE ACTIVE DURING SLEEP, AND ALSO THAT THE NERVES OF YOUR BRAIN ARE QUITE ACTIVE. HE SAYS THAT THE MAIN REASON WE SLEEP IS BECAUSE "THE NOBLE PART OF THE SOUL IS UNITED BY ABSTRACTION TO OUR HIGHTER NATURE AND BECOMES A PARTICIPANTS IN THE WISDOM AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE GODS".

             DR. BIGELOW STATES ALSO, "THE RESULTS OF MY STUDIES HAVE NOT ONLY STRENGTHENED MY CONVICTIONS THAT THE SUPPOSED EXEMPTION FROM CUSTOMARY TOILS AND ACTIVITIES WAS NOT THE FINAL PURPOSE OF SLEEP, BUT HAVE ALSO MADE CLEARER TO MY MIND THE CONVICTION THAT NO PART OF A MAN'S LIFE DESERVES TO BE CONSIDERED MORE INDISPENSABLE TO ITS SYMMETRICAL AND PERFECT SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT THAN THE WHILE HE IS SEPERATED FROM THE PHENOMENAL WORLD IN SLEEP".

                                            PRAYER, A FORM OF SLEEP

                YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND GETS INVOLVED WITH VEXATIONS, STRIFE, AND CONTENTIONS OF THE DAY, AND IT IS VERY NECESSARY TO WITHDRAW PERIODICALLY FROM SENSE EVIDENCE AND THE OBJECTIVE WORLD, AND COMMUNE SILENTLY WITH THE INNER WISDOM OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. BY CLAIMING GUIDANCE, STRENGTH, AND GREATER INTELLIGENCE IN ALL PHASES OF YOUR LIFE, YOU WILL BE ENABLED TO OVERCOME ALL DIFFICULTIES AND SOLVE YOUR DAILY PROBLEMS.

               THIS REGULAR WITHDRAWAL FROM SENSE EVIDENCE AND THE NOISE AND CONFUSION OF EVERYDAY LIVING IS ALSO A FORM OF SLEEP, I.E, YOU BECOME ASLEEP TO THE WORLD OF THE SENSES AND ALIVE TO THE WISDOM AND POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.

                          STARTLING EFFECTS OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION

                 LACK OF SLEEP CAN CAUSE YOU TO BECOME IRRITABLE, MOODLY, AND DEPRESSED. DR. GEORGE STEVENSON OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH SAYS, "I BELIEVE IT CAN SAFELY BE SAID THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO MINIMUM OF SIX HOURS, SLEEP TO BE HEALTHY. MOST PEOPLE NEED MORE. THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN GET ALONG ON LESS ARE FOOLING THEMSELVES."

                      MEDICAL RESEARCH SCHOLARS, INVESTIGATING SLEEP PROCESSES AND DEPRIVATION OF SLEEP, POINT OUT THAT SEVERE INSOMNIA HAS PRECEEDED PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWN IN SOME INSTANCES.

                     REMEMBER, YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY RECHARGED DURING SLEEP, AND ADEQUATE SLEEP IS ESSENTIAL TO PRODUCE JOY AND VITALITY IN LIFE.

                                          YOU NEED MORE SLEEP

                ROBERT O'BRIEN, AN ARTICLE, "MAYBE YOU NEED MORE SLEEP," IN AN ISSUE OF THE READER'S DIGEST, REPORTS THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENT ON SLEEP. "FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS EXPERIMENTS HAVE BEEN IN PROGRESS AT WALTER REED ARMY EXPERIMENTS HAVE BEEN IN PROGRESS AT WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH IN WASHINGTON. D.C. SUBJECTS-MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILITARY AND CIVILIAN VOLUTEERS-HAVE BEEN KEPT AWAKE FOR AS LONG AS FOUR DAYS. THOUSANDS OF TEETS HAVE MEASURED THE EFFECTS ON THEIR BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY. RESULTS OF THESE TESTSHAVE GIVEN SCIENTISTS ASTONSHINGLY NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MYSTERIES OF SLEEP. THEY NOW KNOW THAT THE TIRED BRAIN APPRARENTLY CRAVES SLEEP SO HUNGRILY THAT IT WILL SACRIFICE ANYTHING TO GET IT. 

                  AFTER ONLY A FEW HOURS OF SLEEP LOSS, FLEETING STOLEN NAPS CALLED "LAPSES", OR MICRO-SLEEP, OCCURED AT THE RATE OF THREE OR FOUR AN HOUR. AS IN REAL SLEEP, EYELIDS DROOPED, HEARTBEAT SLOWED. EACH LAPSE LASTED JUST A FRACTION OF A SECOND. SOMETIMES THE LAPSES WERE PERIODS OF BLANKNESS, SOMETIMES THEY WERE FILLED WITH IMAGES, WISPS OF DREAMS. AS HOURS OF SLEEP LOSS MOUNTED, THE LAPSES TOOK PLACES MORE OFTEN AND LASTED LONGER, PERHAPS TOOK PLACE MORE OFTEN AND LASTED LONGER, PERHAPS TWO OR THREE SECONDS. EVEN IF THE SUBJECTS HAD BEEN PILOTING AN AIRLINES IN A THUNDERSTORM, THEY STILL COULDN'T HAVE RESISTED MICRO-SLEEPS FOR THOSE FEW PRICELESS SECONDS. AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, AS MANY WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL OF A CAR CAN TESTIFY. 

                     ANOTHER STARTLING EFFECT TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION WAS ITS ATTACK ON HUMAN MEMORY AND PERCEPTION. MANY SLEEP-DEPRIVED SUBJECTS WERE UNABLE TO RETAIN INFORMATION LONG ENOUGH TO RELATE IT TO THE TASK THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO PERFORM. THEY WERE TOTALLY BEFUDDLED IN SITUATION REQUIRING THEM TO HOLD SEVERAL FACTORS IN MIND AND ACT ON THEM, AS A PILOT MUST WHEN HE SKILLFULLY INTEGRATES WIND DIRECTION, AIR SPEED,  ATTITUDE, AND GLIDE PATH TO MAKE A SAFE LANDING.

                                                SLEEP BRINGS COUNSEL

 

                   A YOUNG LADY IN LOS ANGELES WHO LISTENS TO MY MORNING RADIO TALKS TOLD ME THAT SHE HAD BEEN OFFERED A LUCRATIVE POSITION IN NEW YORK CITY AT TWICE HER PRESENT SALARY. WHE WAS WONDERING WHETHER TO ACCEPT OR NOT AND PRAYED  PRIOR TO SLEEP AS FOLLOWS. "THE CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE OF MY SUBCONSCIOUS MIND KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR ME. ITS TENDENCY IS ALWAYS LIFEWARD, AND IT REVEALS TO ME THE RIGHT DECISION, WHICH BLESSES ALL CONCERNED. I GIVE THANKS FOR THE ANSWER WHICH I KNOW WILL COME TO ME".

                SHE REPEATED THIS SIMPLE PRAYER OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS A LULLABY PRIOR TO SLEEP, AND IN THE MORNING SHE HAD SHE REJECTED THE OFFER AND SUBSEQUENT EVENTS VERIFIED HER INWARD SENSE OF KNOWING, BECAUSE THE COMPANY WENT BANKRUPT IN A FEW MONTHS FOLLOWING THEIR OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT TO HER.

                THE CONSCIOUS MIND MAY BE CORRECT ON THE FACTS OBJECTIVELY KNOWN, BUT THE INTUITIVE FACULTY OF HER SUBCONSCIOUS MIND SAW THE FAILURE OF THE CONCERN IN QUESTION, AND PROMPTED HER ACCORDINGLY.

                                         SAVED FROM CERTAIN DISASTER

                                

                   I WILL ILLUSTRATE HOW THE WISDOM OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND CAN INSTRUCT YOU AND PROTECT YOU RELATIVE TO YOUR REQUEST FOR RIGHT ACTION AS YOU GO TO SLEEP. MANY YEARS AGO, BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR, I WAS OFFERED A VERY LUCRATIVE ASSIGNMENT IN THE ORIENT, AND I PRAYED FOR GUIDANCE AND THE RIGHT DECISION AS FOLLOWS. "INFINITE INTELLIGENCE WITHIN ME KNOWS ALL THINGS, AND THE RIGHT DECISION IS REVEALED TO ME IN DIVINE ORDER. I WILL RECOGNIZE THE ANSWER WHEN IT COMES".

              I REPEATED THIS SIMPLE PRAYER OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS A LULLABY PRIOR TO SLEEP, AND IN A DREAM CAME THE VIVID REALIZATION OF THINGS TO COME THREE YEARS HENCE. AN OLD FRIEND APPEARED IN THE DREAM AND SAID. READ THESE HEADLINES-DO NOT GO!". THE HEADLINES OF THE NEWSPAPER, WHICH APPEAREDIN THE DREAM, RELATED TO WAR AND THE ATTACK ON PEARLY HARBOR.

               OCCASIONALLY, THE WRITER DREAMS LITERALLY. THE AFOREMENTIONED DREAM WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A DRAMATIZATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WHICH PROJECTED A PERSON WHOM I TRUSTED AND RESPECTED. TO SOME A WARNING MAY COME IN THE FORM OF A MOTHER, WHO APPEARS IN A DREAM.

 

               OCCASIONALLY, THE WRITER DREAMS LITERALLY. THE AFOREMENTIONED DREAM WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A DRAMATIZATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WHICH PROJECTED A PERSON WHOM I TRUSTED AND RESPECTED. TO SOME A WARNING MAY COME IN THE FORM OF A MOTHER, WHO APPEARS IN A DREAM.

             SHE TELLS THE PERSON NOT TO GO HERE OR THERE, AND THE REASON FOR THE WARNING. YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS ALLWISE. IT KNOWS ALL THINGS. OFTENTIMES IT WILL SPEAK TO YOU ONLY IN A VOICE THAT YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND WILL IMMEDIATELY ACCEPT AS TRUE. SOMETIMES YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WILL WARN YOU IN A VOICE WHICH SOUNDS LIKE THAT OF YOUR MOTHER OR SOME LOVED ONE WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO STOP ON THE STREET, AND YOU FIND, IF YOU HAD GONE ANOTHER FOOT, A FALLING STREET, AND YOU FIND, IF YOU HAD GONE ANOTHER FOOT, A FALLING STREET, AND YOU FIND, IF YOU HAD GONE ANOTHER FOOT, A FALLING OBJECT FROM A WINDOW MIGHT HAVE STRUCK YOU ON THE HEAD.

                       MY SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS ONE WITH THE UNIVERSAL SUBCONSCIOUS, AND IT KNEW THE JAPANESE WERE PLANNING A WAR, AND IT ALSO KNEW WHEN THE WAR WOULD START.

      

                     DR. RHINE, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY, HAS GATHERED TOGETHER A VAST AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD SEE EVENTS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN, AND IN MANY INSTANCES ARE, THEREFORE, ABLE TO AVOID THE TRAGIC EVEN WHICH WAS FORESEEN VIVIDLY IN A DREAM.

                    THE DREAM WHICH I HAD SHOWED CLEARLY THE HEADLINES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT THREE YEARS PRIOR TO THE TRAGEDY OF PEARLY HARBOR. IN CONSEQUENCE OF THIS DREAM, I IMMEDIATELY CANCELLED THE TRIP AS I FELT A SUBCONSCIOUS COMPULSION TO DO SO. THREE YEARS LATER THE SECOND WORLD WAR PROVED THE TRUTH OF THE INNER VOICE OF INTUITION.

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HOW TO HEAL YOURSELF

 

                                                    HEALING YOURSELF

                  * REMIND YOURSELF FREQUENTLY THAT THE HEALING POWER IS IN YOUR OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.

                  * KNOW THAT FAITH IS LIKE A SEED PLANTED IN THE GROUND, IT GROWS AFTER ITS KIND. PLANT THE IDEA (SEED) IN YOUR MIND, WATER AND FERTILIZE IT WITH EXPECTANCY, AND IT WILL MANIFEST.

                  * THE IDEA YOU HAVE FOR A BOOK, NEW INVENTION, OR PLAY IS REAL IN YOUR MIND. THIS IS WHY YOU CAN BELIEVE YOU HAVE IT NOW. BELIEVE IN THE REALITY OF YOUR IDEA, PLAN, OR INVENTION, AND AS YOU DO, IT WILL BECOME MANIFEST.

                * IN PRAYING FOR ANOTHER, KNOW THAT YOUR SILENT INNER KNOWING OF WHOLENESS, BEAUTY, AND PERFECTION CAN CHANGE THE NEGATIVE PATTERNS OF THE OTHER'S SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AND BRING ABOUT WONDERFUL RESULTS.

                * THE MIRACULOUS HEALINGS YOU HEAR ABOUT AT VARIOUS SHRINES ARE DUE TO IMAGINATION AND BLIND FAITH WHICH ACT ON THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, RELEASING THE HEALING POWER.

              * ALL DESIRES ORIGINATES IN THE MIND. NOTHING APPEARS ON THE BODY UNLESS THERE IS A MENTAL PATTERNS CORRESPONDING TO IT.

             * THE SYMPTOMS OF ALMOST ANY DISEASE CAN BE INDUCED IN YOU BY HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION. THIS SLOWS YOU THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHT.

            * THERE IS ONLY ONE PROCESS OF HEALING AND THAT IS FAITH. THERE IS ONLY ONE HEALING POWER, NAMELY, YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.

           * WHETHER THE OBJECT OF YOUR FAITH IS REAL OR FALSE, YOU WILL GET RESULTS. YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND RESPONDS TO THE THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND. LOOK UPON FAITH AS A THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND, AND THAT WILL SUFFICE.

                                         IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

                * YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND CONTROLS ALL THE VIRAL PROCESSESS OF YOUR BODY AND KNOWS THE ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS.

                * PRIOR TO SLEEP, TURN OVER A SPECIFIC REQUEST TO YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AND PROVE ITS MIRACLE-WORKING POWER TO YOURSELF.

                * WHATEVER YOU IMPRESS ON YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IS EXPRESSED ON THE SCREEN OF SPACE AS CONDITIONS, EXPERIENCES, AND EVENTS. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY WATCH ALL IDEAS AND THOUGHTS ENTERTAINED IN YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND.

              * THE LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION IS UNIVERSAL. YOUR THOUGHT IS ACTION, AND THE REACTION IS THE AUTOMIC RESPONSE OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO YOUR THOUGHT. WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS!

            * ALL FRUSTRATION IS DUE TO UNFULFILLED DESIRES. IF YOU DWELL ON OBSTACLES, DELAYS, AND DIFFICULTIES, YOUR SUBCONSIOUS MIND RESPONDS ACCORDINGLY, AND YOU ARE BLOCKING YOUR OWN GOOD.

           * THE LIFE PRINCIPLE WILL FLOW THROUGH YOU RHYTHMICALLY AND HARMONIOUSLY IF YOU CONSCIOUSLY AFFIRM. THE BELIEVE THAT THE SUBCONSCIOUS POWER WHICH GAVE ME THIS DESIRE IS NOW FULFILLING IT THOUGH ME. THIS DISSOLVES ALL CONFLICTS.

  

          * YOU CAN INTERFERE WITH THE NORMAL RHYTHM OF YOUR HEART, LUNGS, AND OTHER ORGANS BY WORRY, ANXIETY AND FEAR. FEED YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WITH THOUGHTS OF HARMONY, HEALTH, AND PEACE, AND ALL THE FUNTIONS OF YOUR BODY WILL BECOME NORMAL AGAIN.

          * KEEP YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND BUSY WITH THE EXPECTATION OF THE BEST, AND YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WITH FAITHFULLY REPRODUCE YOUR HABITUAL THINKING.

          * IMAGINE THE HAPPY ENDING OR SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM, FEEL THE THRILL OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND WHAT YOU IMAGINE AND FEEL WILL BE ACCEPTED BY YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AND BRING IT TO PASS.

                                               IDEAS WORTH RECALLING

                 1. MENTAL COERCION OR TOO MUCH EFFORT SHOWS ANXIETY AND FEAR, WHICH BLOCK YOUR ANSWER. EASY DOES IT.

 

                2. WHEN YOUR MIND IS RELAXED AND YOU ACCEPT AN IDEA, YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS GOES TO WORK TO EXECUTE THE IDEA.

               3. THINK AND PLAN INDEPENDENTLY OF TRADITIONALY METHODS. KNOW THAT THERE IS ALWAYS AN ANSWER AND A SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM.

              4. DO NOT BE OVERLY CONCERNED WITH THE BEATING OF YOUR HEART, WITH THE BREATHING OF YOUR LUNGS, OR THE FUNCTIONS OF ANY PART OF YOUR ANATOMY. LEAN HEAVILY UPON YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS AND PROCLAIM FREQUENTLY THAT DIVINE RIGHT ACTION IS TAKING PLACE.

            5. THE FEELING OF HEALTH PRODUES HEALTH, THE FEELING OF WEALTH PRODUCES WEALTH. HOW DO YOU FEEL?

           6. IMAGINATION IS YOUR MOST POWERFUL FACULTY. IMAGINE WHAT IS LIVELY AND OF GOOD REPORT. YOU ARE WHAT YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF TO BE.

          7. YOU AVOID CONFLICT BETWEEN YOUR CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS IN THE SLEEPY STATE. IMAGINE THE FULLFILLMENT OF YOUR DESIRE OVER AND OVER AGAIN PRIOR TO SLEEP. SLEEP IN PEACE AND WAKE IN JOY.

                                     FORGIVENESS IS LOVE IN ACTION

                THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT IN THE ART OF FORGIVENESS IS THE WILLINGNESS TO FORGIVE IF YOU SINCERELY DESIRE TO FORGIVE THE OTHER, YOU ARE FIFTY-ONE PERCENT OVER THE HURDLE. I FEEL SURE YOU KNOW THAT TO FORFIVE THE OTHER DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT YOU LIKE HIM OR WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH HIM. YOU CANNOT TO COMPELLED TO LIKE SOMEONE, NEITHER CAN A GOVERNMENT LEGISLATE GOOD WILL, LOVE, PEACE, OR TOLERANCE. IT IS QUIET IMPOSSIBLE TO LIKE PEOPLE BECAUSE SOMEONE IN WASHINGTON ISSUES AN EDICT TO THAT EFFECT. WE CAN, HOWEVER, LOVE PEOPLE WITHOUT LIKING THEM. THE BIBLE SAYS, LOVE OF ONE ANOTHER. THIS, ANYONE CAN DO WHO REALLY WANTS TO DO IT. LOVE MEANS THAT YOU WISH  FOR THE OTHER HEALTH, HAPPINESS, PEACE, JOY, AND ALL THE BLESSINGS OF LIFE. THERE IS ONLY ONE PREREQUISTITE, AND THAT IS SINCERITY. YOU ARE NOT BEING MAGNANIMOUS WHEN YOU FORGIVE, YOU ARE REALLY BEING SELFISH, BECAUSE WHAT YOU WISH FOR THE OTHER, YOU ARE ACTUALLY WISHING FOR YOURSELF. THE REASON IS THAT YOU ARE THINKING IT AND YOU ARE FEELING IT. AS YOU THINK AND FEEL, SO ARE YOU. COULD ANYTHING BE SIMPLER THAN THAT?

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