RICH PEOPLES THINKING

                                                         RICH PEOPLES....

             THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, AND WHICH, IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE, PERMEATRES, PENETRATES, AND FILLS THE INTERSPACES OF THE UNIVERSE.

            A THOUGHT IN THIS SUBSTANCES PRODUCES THE THING THAT IS IMAGED BY THE THOUGHT.

          WE CAN FORM THINGS IN OUR THOUGHT, AND BY INPRESSSING OUT THOUGHT UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE CAN CAUSE THE THING WE THINK ABOUT TO BE CREATED.

          IN ORDER TO DO THIS, WE MUST PASS FROM THE COMPETITIVE TO THE CREATIVE MIND, OTHERWISE WE CANNOT BE IN HARMONY WITH THE DIVINE INTELLIGENCE, WHICH IS ALWAYS CRETIVE AND NEVER COMPETITIVE IN SPIRIT.

          WE MAY COME INTO FULL HARMONY WITH THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE BY ENTERTAINING A LIVELY AND SINCERE GRATITUDE FOR THE BLESSINGS IT BESTOWS UPON US. GRATITUDE UNIFIES OUR MINDS WITH THE INTELLIGENCE OF SUBSTANCE, SO OUR THOUGHTS ARE RECEIVED BY THE DIVINE. WE CAN REMAIN UPON THE CREATIVE PLANE ONLY BY UNITING OURSELVES WITH THE DIVINE INTELLIGENCE  THROUGH A DEEP AND CONTINUOUS FEELING OF GRATITUDE.

         WE MUST FORM A CLEAR AND DEFINITE MENTAL IMAGE OF THE THINGS WE WISH TO HAVE, TO DO, OR TO BECOME. WE MUST HOLD THIS MENTAL IMAGINE IN OUR THOUGHTS, WHILE BEING DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO THE SUPREME THAT ALL OUR DESIRES ARE GRANTED TO US. IF WE WISH TO GET RICH, WE MUST SPEND OUR LEISURE HOURS IN COMTEMPLATING OUR VISION, AND IN EARNEST THANKS GIVING THAT THE REALITY IS BEING GIVEN TO US. TOO MUCH STRESS CANNOT BE LAID ON HE IMPORTANCE OF FREQUENT CONTEMPLATION OF THE MENTAL IMAGE, COUPLED WITH UNWAVERING FAITH AND DEVOUT GRATITUDE. THIS IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE IMPRESSION IS GIVEN TO THE DIVINE, AND THE CREATIVE FORCES SET IN MOTION.

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            THE CREATIVE ENERGY WORKS THROUGH THE ESTABLISHED CHANNELS OF NATURAL GROWTH, AND OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL ORDER. ALL THAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS MENTAL IMAGE WILL SURELY BE BROUGHT TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE INTRUCTIONS GIVEN ABOVE, AND WHOSE FAITH DOES NOT WAVER. WHAT WE WANT COME TO US THROUGH THE WAYS OF ESTABLISHED TRADE AND COMMERCE.

           IN ORDER TO RECEIVE OUR OWN WHEN IT SHALL COME TO US, WE MUST BE ACTIVE, AND THIS ACTIVITY CAN ONLY CONSIST IN MORE THAN JUST FILLING OUR PRESENT PLACE. WE MUST KEEP IN MIND OUR PURPOSE IS TO GET RICH THROUGH THE REALIZATION OF OUR MENTAL IMAGE. THEREFORE, WE MUST DO, EVERY DAY, ALL THAT CAN BE DONE THAT DAY, TAKING CARE TO DO EACH ACT IN SUCCESSFUL MANNER. WE MUST GIVE TO EVERY PERSON A USE VALUE IN EXCESS OF THE CASH VALUE HE OR SHE RECEIVES, SO THAT EACH TRANSACTION MAKES FOR MORE LIFE. MOST OF ALL WE MUST SO HOLD THE NEW THOUGHT THAT THE IMPRESSION OF INCREASE WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO ALL WITH WHOM WE COME IN CONTACT. THIS IS THE SECRET OF ATTAINING WEALTH. PRACTICE THE FOREGOING INSTRUCTIONS AND YOU WILL CERTAINLY GET RICH.

                                                                ACTION ABROAD

                   THE RULES THAT APPLY TO YOUR ACTION AT HOME MUST APPLY TO YOUR ACTIO EVERYWHERE. NEVER FORGET FOR AN INSTANT THAT THIS IS A PERFECT WORLD, AND THAT YOU ARE A GOD ALMOST GODS. YOU ARE AS GREAT AS THE GREATEST, BUT ALL ARE YOUR EQUALS.

                RELY ABSOLUTELY ON YOUR  PERCEPTION OF TRUTH. TRUST TO THE INNER LIGHT RATHER THAN TO REASON, BUT BE SURE THAT YOUR PERCEPTION COMES FROM THE INNER LIGHT, ACT IN POISE AND CALMNESS, BE STILL AND ATTEND ON GOD. YOUR IDENTIFICATION OF YOURSELF WITH THE ETERNAL ONE WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED FOR GUEDANCE IN ANY CONTINGENCY THAT MAY ARISE IN YOUR OWN LIFE OR IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS. IT IS ONLY NECESSARY THAT YOU SHOULD BE SUPREMELY CALM, AND RELY UPON THE ETERNAL WISDOM THAT IS WITHIN YOU. IF YOU ACT IN POISE AND FAITH, YOUR JUDGMENT WILL ALWAYS BE RIGHT, AND YOU WILL ALWAYS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. DO NOT HURRY OR WORRY. IN THE DARKEST DAYS OF WORLD WAR 2, WHEN THE NAZIS HAD OVERRUN EUROPE, WHEN THE LUFTWAFFE WAS BOMBING LONDON EVERY NIGHT, AND WHEN IT APPEARED THAT ENGLAND WOULD BE INVADED AT ANY MOMENT, WINSTON CHRCHILL STOOD BEFORE THAT NATION AND INSPIRED THEM TO REMAIN STEADFAST, ENCOURAGED THEM TO REGAIN HOPE AND REVITALIZED THEM IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO VICTORY. THIS SEEMINGLY IRREVERENT LEADER WAS TRULY A VOICE OF GOD.

              HAVE PERFECT FAITH IN YOURSELF AND IN YOUR OWN ABILITY TO COPE WITH ANY COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MY ARISE. DO NOT BE DISTURBED IF YOU ARE ALONE, IF YOU NEED FRIENDS THEY WILL BE BROUGH TO YOU AT THE RIGHT TIME. DO NOT BE DISTURBED IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE IGNORANT, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED WILL BE FURNISHED YOU WHEN IT IS TIME FOR YOU FORWARD IS IN THE THINGS AND PEOPLE YOU NEED, IMPELLING THEM TOWARD TOWARD YOU. IF THERE IS A PARTICULAR PERSON YOU NEED TO KNOW, HE OR SHE WILL BE INTRODUCED TO YOU. IF THERE IS A PARTICULAR BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IT WILL BE PLACED IN YOUR HANDS AT THE RIGHT TIME. ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED WILL COME TO YOU FROM BOTH EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SOURCES. 

           YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR TALENT WILL ALWAYS BE EQUAL TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE OCCASION. AS SOON AS YOU AWAKEN AND BEGIN. TO USE YOUR FACULTIES IN A GREAT WAY YOU WILL ALWAYS POWER TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR BRAIN, NEW CELLS WILL BE CREATED AND DORMANT CELLS QUICKENED INTO ACTIVITY, AND YOUR BRAIN WILL BE QUALIFIED AS A PERFECT INSTRUMENT FOR YOUR MIND.

          DO NOT TRY TO DO GREAT THINGS UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO GO ABOUT THEM IN A GREAT WAY. IFYOU UNDERTAKE TO DEAL WITH GREAT MATTERS IN A SMALL WAY- THAT IS, FROM A LOW VIEWPOINT OR WITH INCOMPLETE CONSECRATION AND WAVERING FAITH AND COURAGE - YOU WILL FAIL. DO NOT BE IN A HURRY TO GET TO THE GREAT THINGS. BEGIN TO BE GREAT IN HASTE TO BE FOUND OUT OR RECOGNIZED AS A GREAT PERSONALITY. DO NOT BE DISSAPPOINTED IF YOU ARE NOT NOMINATED FOR OFFICE WITHIN A MONTH AFTER YOU BEGIN TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU READ IN THIS BOOK. GREAT PEOPLE NEVER SEEK RECOGNITION OR APPLAUSE, THEY ARE NOT GREAT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE PAID FOR BEING SO. GREATNESS IS REWARD ENOUGH FOR ITSELF. THE JOY OF BEING SOMETHING AND OF KNOWING THAT YOU ARE ADVANCING IS THE GREATEST OF ALL JOYS POSSIBLE.

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BECOME GREAT

                                                ANY PERSON MAY BECOME GREAT

                   THERE IS A PRINCIPLE OF POWER IN EACH OF US. BY THE INTELLIGENCE USE AND DIRECTION OF THIS PRINCIPLE, WE CAN DEVELOP OUR OWN MENTAL FACULTIES. WE HAVE AN INHERENT POWER BY WHICH WE MAY GROW IN WHATSOVER DIRECTION WE PLEASE, AND THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY LIMIT TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR GROWTH. NONE OF US HAVE US YET BECOME SO GREAT IN ANY FACULTY BUT THAT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BECOME GREATER. THE POSSIBILITY IS IN THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE FROM WHICH WE ARE MADE.

          GREAT PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GREATER THAN THEIR DEEDS. THEY CONNECTED WITH RESERVE POWER THAT IS WITHOUT LIMIT. WE DO NOT KNOW THE BOUNDARY OF OUR MENTAL POWER, WE DO NOT EVEN KNOW THAT THERE IS A BOUNDARY.

         THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS GROWTH IS NOT GIVEN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS, IT IS RESERVED FOR HUMANKING ALONE. THE LOWER ANIMALS CAN, TO A GREAT TO TRAIN AND DEVELOP OURSELVES, AND HAVE IT TO AN APPARENTLY UNLIMITED EXTENT.

         THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIFE  IS GROWTH, JUST AS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE FOR TREES AND PLANTS IS GROWTH. TREES AND PLANTS GROW AUTOMATICALLY AND ALONG FIXED LINES. WE HUMANS CAN GROW, AS WE WILL. TREES AND PLANTS CAN ONLY DEVELOP ANY POWER THAT IS OR HAS BEEN SHOWN BY ANY PERSON, ANYWHERE. NOTHING THAT IS POSSIBLE IN SPIRIT IS IMPOSSIBLE IN FLESH AND BLOOD. NOTHING THAT WE CAN THINK IS IMPOSSIBLE IN ACTION. NOTHING THAT WE CAN IMAGINE IS IMPOSSIBLE OF REALIZATION.

          WE ARE FORMED FOR GROWTH, AND WE ARE UNDER THE NECCESSITY OF GROWING. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR HAPPINESS THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUOUSLY ADVANCE. LIFE WITHOUT PROGRESS BECOMES UNENDURABLE, AND THE PERSON WHO CEASES FROM GROWTH MUST EITHER BECOME IMBECILE OR INSANE. THE GREATER AND MORE HARMONIOUS AND WELL-ROUNDED OUR GROWTH, THE HAPPIER  WE WILL BE.

            THERE OF US COMES INTO THE WORLD WITH A PREDISPOSITION TO GROW ALONG CERTAIN LINES, AND GROWTH IS EASIER FOR US ALONG THOSE LINES THAN ANY OTHER WAY. THIS IS WISE PROVISION BECAUSE IT GIVES ENDLESS VARIETY. IT IS AS IF A GARDENER SHOULD THROW ALL HIS BULBS INTO ONE BASKER. TO THE SUPERFICIAL OBSERVER THEY WOULD LOOK ALIKE, BUT GROWTH REVEALS A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE. SO OF MEN AND WOMEN. THEY ARE LIKE THE BASKET OF BULBS. ONE MAY BE A ROSE AND ADD BRIGHTNESS AND COLOR TO SOME DARK CORNER OF THE WORLD, ONE MAY BE A CLIMBING VINE AND HIDE THE RUGGED OUTLINES OF SOME DARK ROCK, ONE MAY BE A GREAT OAK AMONG WHOSE BOUGHTS  THE BIRDS SHALL NEST AND SING, AND BENEATH WHOSE SHADE THE FLOCKS SHALL REST AT NOON, BUT EVERYONE WILL BE SOMETHING WORTHWIDE, SOMETHING RARE, SOMETHING PERFECT.

                THERE ARE INDERSTAND OF POSSIBILITIES IN THE COMMON LIVES ALL AROUND US. IN A LARGE SENSE, THERE ARE NO "COMMON" PEOPLE. IN TIMES OF NATIONAL STRESS AND PERIL EVEN THE SIMPLEST INDIVIDUALS MAY BECOME HEROES AND STATEMEN THROUGH THE QUICKENING OF THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER WITHIN THEM. THERE IS A GENIUS  IN EVERY MAN AND WOMAN, PEOPLE TO WHOK ALL GO FOR ADVICE IN TIME OF TROUBLE, PEOPLE WHO ARE INSTINCTIVELY RECOGNIZED AS BEING GREAT IN WISDOM AND INSIGHT. TO SUCH PEOPLE THE MINDS OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TURN IN TIMS OF LOCAL CRISIS. THOSE PEOPLE ARE TACITLY RECOGNIZED AS BEING GREAT. THEY DO SMALL THINGS IN A GREAT WAY. THEY COULD DO GREAT THINGS AS WELL IF THEY DID BUT UNDERTAKE THEM, DO CAN  ANY PERSON SO CAN YOU. THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER GIVES US JUST WHAT WE ASK OF IT, IF WE ONLY UNDERTAKE LITTLE THINGS, IT ONLY GIVES US POWER FOR LITTLE THINGS, BUT IF WE TRY TO DO GREAT THING IN A GREAT WAY IT GIVES US THE POWER THERE IS. BUT BEWARE OF UNDERTAKING GREAT THINGS, IN A SMALL WAY, O THAT WE SHALL SPEAK FARTHER ON.

 

                         THERE AE TWO MENTAL ATTITUDES WE MAY  TAKE. ONE MAKES US LIKE A FOOTBALL. IT HAS RESILIENCE AND REACTS STRONGLY WHEN FORCE A APPLIED TO IT, BUT IT ORIGINATES NOTHING,IT NEVER ACTS OF ITSELF.  THERE IS NO POWER WITHIN IT. PEOPLE OF THIS TYPE ARE CONTROLLED BY CIRCUMSTANCES AND ENVIROMENT. THEIR DESTINIES ARE DECIDED BY THINGS EXTERNAL TO THEMSELVES. THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS TYPE ARE CONTROLLED BY CIRCUMSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENT. THEIR  DESTINIES ARE DECIDED BY THINGS EXTERNAL TO THEMSELVES. THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER WITHIN THEM IS NEVER REALLY ACTIVE ALL. THEY NEVER SPEAK OR ACT FROM WITHIN. THE OTHER ATTITUDE MAKES PEOPLE LIKE A FLOWING SPRING, POWER COMES OUT FROM THE CENTER OF THEM. THEY HAVE WITHIN THEMSELVESA WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE. THEY RADIATE FORCE. THEY ARE FELT BY THEIR ENVIRONMENT. THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER IN THEM IS IN CONSTANT ACTION. THEY ARE SELF-ACTIVE.

               NO GREATER GOOD CAN COME TO ANY MAN OR WOMAN THAN, TO BECOME SELF-ACTIVE. ALL THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE ARE DESIGNED BY PROVIDENCE TO FORCE MEN AND WOMEN INTO SELF-ACTIVITY, TO COMPEL THEM TO CEASE BEING CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND MASTER THEIR ENVIRONMENT. IN THE LOWEST STAGE OF FEAR. OUR ACTS ARE ALL REACTIONS RESULTING FROM THE IMPINGEMENT UPON US OF FORCES IN OUR ENVIRONMENT. WE ACT ONLY AS WE ARE ACTED UPON. WE ORIGINATE NOTHING. BUT WITHIN THEMSELVES A PRINCIPLE OF POWER SUFFICIENT TO MASTER ALL THAT THEY FEAR AND IF THEY LEARN THIS AND BECOME SELF-ACTIVE, THEY BECOME AS ONE OF EHT GODS.

           NOTHING WAS EVER IN ANY HUMAN BEING THAT IS NOT IN YOU, NO ONE EVER HAD MORE SPIRITUAL OR MENTAL POWER THAN YOU CAN ATTAIN, OR DID GREATER THINGS THAN YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH. THE NEW THOUGHT CONCEPT. CAN BE SUMMED UP IN THESE WORDS. YOU CAN BECOME WHAT YOU WANT TO BE.

            IN 2003, WHEN THE POEPLE OF CALIFORNIA VOTED TO RECALL THE INCUMBENT GOVERNOR, SCHWARZENEGGER THREW HIS HAT INTO THE RING AND WAS OVERWHELMINGLY ELECTED AS THE NEW GOVERNOR.

           YOU CAN LEARN MUCH FROM THIS MAN. IN SETTIN GOALS, YOU ARE NOT LIMITED TO ANYONE AREA. SCHWARZENEGGER COULD HAVE LIMITED HIS FUTURE TO BODYBUILDING AND BECOME QUITE SUCCESSFUL, BUT HE DREAMED OF MUCH MORE, SET HIS SUCCESS AND ADAPTED THIS KNOWLEDGE IN OTHER ASPECTS OF HIS LIFE.

               DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY CRITICISM. CRITICS BELITTLED HIS ACTING ABILITY IN HIS FIRST FILMS, BUT HE WAS NOT DISSUADED AND PURSUED HIS GOALS TO BECOME A MAJOR MOVIE STAR, AND LATER A VERY SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR AND GOVERNOR OF AMERICA'S MORST POPULOUS STATE.

 

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MEANING OF HELL , THIRST AND IMPURITY

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                     HE WHO SAYS WHAT IS NOT, GOES TO HELL, HE ALSO WHO, HAVING DONE THING, SAYS I HAVE NOT DONE. AFTER DEATH ARE EQUAL, THEY ARE MEN WITH EVIL DEEDS IN THE NEXT WORLD.

                    MANY MEN WHOSE SHOULDERS ARE COVERED WITH THE YELLO GOWN ARE ILLCONDITIONED AND UNRESTRAINED, SUCH EVIL- DOER BY THEIR EVIL DEEDS GO TO HELL.

                BETTER IT WOULD BE TO SWALLOW A HEATED IRON BALL, LIKE FLARING FIRE, THAN THAT A BAD UNDERSTRAINED FELLOW SHOULD LIVE IN THE CHARITY OF THE LAND.

            FOUR THINGS DOES A RECKLESS MAN GAIN WHO COVETS HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE- DEMERIT, AN UNCOMFORTABLE BED, THIRDLY, PUNISHMENT, AND LASTLY, HELL.

          AN ACT CARELESSLY PERFORMED, A BROKEN VOW, AND HESITATING OBEDIENCE TO DISCIPLINE PILGRIM ONLY SCATTERS THE DUST OF HIS PASSIONS MORE WIDELY.

        AN EVIL DEED IS BETTER LEFT UNDONE, FOR A MAN REPENTS OF IT AFTERWARDS A GOOD DEED IS BETTER LEFT UNDONE, FOR A MAN REPENTS OF IT AFTERWARDS, A GOOD DEED IS BETTER DONE, FOR HAVING DONE IT, ONE DOES NOT REPENT.

      LIKE A WELL-GUARDED FRONTIER FORT, WITH DEFENCE WITHIN AND REPENT. SO LET A MAN GUARD HIMSELF. NOT A MOMENT SHOULD ESCAPE, FOR THEY WHO ALLOW THE RIGHT MOMENT TO PASS, SUFFER PAIN WHEN THEY ARE IN HELL.

        THEY WHO ARE ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY OUGHT NOT TO BE ASHAMED OF, AND ARE NOT AHAMED OF WHAT THEY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF, SUCH MEN, EMBARING FALSE DOCTRINES, ENTER THE EVIL PATH.

        THEY WHO FEAR WHEN THEY OUGHT NOT TO FEAR, AND FEAR NOT WHEN THEY OUGHT TO FEAR, SUCH MEN, EMBRACING FALSE DOCTRINES, ENTER THE EVIL PATH.

         THEY WHO SEE SIN WHERE THERE IS NO SIN, AND SEE NO SIN WHERE THERE IS SIN, SUCH MEN, EMBRACING FALSE DOCTRINES, ENTER THE EVIL PATH.

         THEY WHO SEE SIN WHERE THERE IS SIN, AND NO SIN WHERE THERE IS NO SIN, SUCH MEN, EMBRACING THE TRUE DOCTRINE, ENTER THE GOOD PATH.

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                                                                          THIRST

                   THE THIRST OF A THOUGHTLESS MAN GROWS LIKE A CREEPER, HE RUNS FROM LIFE TO LIFE, LIKE MONKEY SEEKING FRUIT IN THE FOREST.

               WHOMSOVER THIS FIERCE POISONOUS THIRST OVERCOMES, IN THIS WORLD, HIS SUFFERINGS INCREASE LIKE THE ABOUNDING BIRANA GRASS.

            BUT FROM HIM WHO OVERCOMES THIS FIERCE THIRST, DIFFICULT TO BE CONQUERED IN THIS WORLD, SUFFERINGS ALL OFF, LIKE WATER - DROPS FROM A LOTUS LEAF.

           THIS SALUATARY WORD I TELL YOU, DO YE, AS MANY AS ARE HERE ASSEMBLED, DIG UP THE ROOT OF THIRST, AS WHO WANTS THE SWEET- SCENTED USIRA ROOT MUST DIG UP THE BIRANA GRASS, THE MARA, THE TEMPTER, MAY NOT CRUSH YOU AGAIN  AND AGAIN, AS THE STEAM CRUSHES THE REEDS.

          AS A TREE, EVEN THOUGHT IT HAS BEEN CUT DOWN, IS FIRM SO LONG AS ITS ROOT IS SAFE, AND GROWS AGAIN, THUS, UNLESS THE FEEDERS THE FEEDERS OF THIRST ARE DESTROYED, THIS PAIN OF LIFE WILL RETURN AGAIN AND AGAIN.

          HE WHOSE THIRTY - SIX STREAMS ARE STRONGLY FLOWING IN THE CHANNELS OF PLEASURE, THE WAVES, HIS DESIRES WHICH ARE SET A PASSION - WILL CARRY AWAY TAHT MISGUIDED MAN.

         THE CHANNELS RUN EVERYWHERE, THE CREEPER OF PASSION STANDS SPROUTING, IF YOU SEE THE CREEPER SPRINGING UP, CUT ITS ROOT BY MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE.

         A CREATURE'S PLEASURES ARE EXTRAVAGANT AND LUXURIOUS, GIVEN UP TO PLEASURE AND DERIVING HAPPINESS, MEN UNDERGO AGAIN  AND AGAIN BIRTH AND DECAY.

         BESET WITH LUST, MEN RUN ABOUT LIKE A SNARED HARE, HELD IN FETTERS AND BONDS, THEY UNDERGO PAIN FOR A LONG TIME, AGAIN AND AGAIN.

       BESET WITH LUST, MEN RUN ABOUT LIKE A SNARED HARE, HELD IN FETTERS AND BONDS, THEY UNDERGO PAIN FOR A LONG TIME, AGAIN AND AGAIN.

        BESET WITH LUST, MEN RUN ABOUT LIKE A SNARED HARE, LET THEREFORE THE MENDICATE DRIVE OUT THIRST, BY STRIVING AFTER PASSIONLESSNESS FOR HIMSELF. 

         HE WHO, HAVING GOT RID OF THE FOREST OF LUST (AFTER HAVING REACHED NIRVANA), GIVES HIMSELF OVER TO FAREST - LIFE (TO LUST), AND WHO, WHEN FREE FROM THE FOREST (FROM LUST), RUNS TO THE FREST (TO LUST), LOOK AT THAT MAN! THOUGH FREE, HE RUNS INTO BONDAGE.

          WISE PEOPLE DO NOT CALL THAT A STRONG FETTER WHICH IS MADE OF IRON, WOOD, OR HEMP, PASSIONATELY STRONG IS THE CARE FOR PRECIOUS STONES AND RINGS FOR SONS AND A WIFE.

           THAT FETTER WISE PEOPLE CALL STRONG WHICH DRAGS DOWN, YIELDS, BUT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDO,  AFTER HAVING CUT THIS AT LAST, LEAVE THE WORLD, FREE FROM CARES, AND LEAVING THE PLEASURES OF LOVE BEHIND.

            

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                                                                       IMPURITY

              THOU ART NOW LIKE A SEAR LEAF, THE MESSENGERS OF DEATH (YAMA) HAVE COME NEAR TO THEE, THOU STANDEST AT THE DOOR OF THY DEPARTURE, AND THOU HAST NO PROVISION FOR THY JOURNEY.

            MAKE THYSELF AND ISLAND, WORK HARD, BE WISE, WHEN THY IMPURITIES ARE BLOWN AWAY, AND THOU ARE FREE FROM GUILT, THOU WILL ENTER INTO THE HEAVEN ENLY WORLD OF THE ELECT (ARIYA).

          THY LIFE HAS COME TO AN END, THOU ARE COME NEAR TO DEATH, (YAMA), THERE IS NO RESTING - PLACE FOR THEE ON THE ROAD, AND THOU HAS NO PROVISION FOR THY JOURNEY.

          MAKE THYSELF AN ISLAND, WORK HARD, BE WISE! WHEN THY IMPURITIES ARE BLOWN AWAY, AND THOU ARE FROM GUILT, THOU WILT NOT ENTER AGAIN INTO BIRTH AND DECAY.

          LET A WISED MAN BLOW OFF THE IMPURITIES OF HIMSELF, AS A SMITH BLOWS OFF THE IMPURITIES OF SILVER, ONE BY ONE, LITTLE BY LITTLE, AND FROM TIME TO TIME.

          AS THE IMPURITY WHICH SPRINGS FROM THE IRON, WHEN IT STRINGS FROM IT, DESTROYS IT, THUS DO A TRANSGRESSOR'S OWN WORKS LEAD HIM TO THE EVIL PATH. 

           THE TAINT OF PRAYERS IS NON-REPITION, THE  TAINT OF HOUSES, NON-REPAIR, THE TAINT OF COMPLEXION IS SLOTH, THE TAINT OF A WATCHMAN, THOUGHTLESSNESS.

           BAD CONDUCT IS THE  TAINT OF WOMAN, NIGGARDLINESS THE TAINT OF A BENEFACTOR, TAINTED ARE ALL EVIL WAYS, IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE NEXT.

        BUT THERE IS A TAINT WORSE THAN ALL TAINTS, IGNORANCE IS THE GREATEST TAINT. O  MENDICANTS! THROW OFF THAT TAINT, AND BECOME TAINTLESS!

        LIFE IS EASY TO LIVE FOR A MAN WHO IS WITHOUT SHAME, A CROW HERO, A MISCHIEF-MAKER, AN INSULTING, BOLD AND WRETCHED FELLOW.

         BUT LIFE IS HARD TO LIVE FOR A MODEST MAN, WHO ALWAYS FOR WHAT IS PURE, WHO IS DISINTERESTED, QUIET, SPOTLESS, AND INTELLIGENT.

        THERE IS NO PATH THROUGH THE AIR, A MAN IS NOT A SAMANA OUTWARDLY. THE WORLD DELIGHTS IN VANITY, THE TATHAGATAS (THE BUDDHA) ARE FREE FROM VANITY.

        THERE IS NO PATH THROUGH THE AIR, A MAN I NOT A SAMANA OUTWARDLY. NO CREATURES ARE ETERNAL, BUT THE AWAKENED (BUDDHA) ARE NEVER SHAKEN.

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GAYATHRI MANTRA STEP FIVE

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                 HAVING PURIFIED THE SURROUNDINGS, WE NOW DO THE NEXT LEVEL OF PURIFICATION BY DOING ACHAMANA. ACHAMANA IS TO DRINK THREE SMALL SIPS OF WATER FROM YOUR WATER POT. IT IS DONE THREE TIMES TO SIGNIFY PURIFICATION OF YOUR BODY, MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS. WHEN WE CHANT THE GAYATHRI MANTRA, WE SAY BHURBHUVAH SVAH. BHUR MEANS THIS PLANE OF EXISTENCE, BHUVAH, THE PLANE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND SVAH THE PLANE OF THE SOUL. THE THREE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ARE THE DREAMING, WAKING AND SLEEPING STATES. THIS IS WHY WE SAY BHUR BHUVAH THREE TIMES.

              ALTHOUGH MANY ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TEXTS GO INTO GREAT DETAIL ON HOW ACHAMANA SHOULD BE PERFORMED, AND HOW PEOPLE BELONGING TO DIFFERENT CASTES ARE SUPPOSED TO DO IT, IN THE SCIENCE OF MANTRAS, THOSE RULES DON'T APPLY. BECAUSE THE MOMENT YOU ARE INTIATED, YOU DON'T BELONG TO A PARTICULAR CASTE, OR ANYTHING. YOU BELONG TO THAT LINEAGE.

              HERE I'LL DIGREES FOR A MOMENT TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE ROLE OF INITIATION, OR WHY INITIATION IS CONSIDERED ALMOST SACRED ON THE PATH OF MANTRA YOGA. AT THE SAME TIME, I DON'T WANT TO OVERSTATE THE IMPORTANCE OF INITIATION EITHER. I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU THE IDEA THAT GETTING INITIATED IS THE END OF YOUR SADHANA OR THAT WITHOUT IT YOU CAN'T SUCCEED. THIS IS NOT THE CASE.

           HAVING SAID THAT, INITIATION DOES BESTOW A CERTAIN POWER ON YOUR CHANTING. IMAGINE YOU RUN A GOVERNMENT  DEPARTMENT - LET'S SAY YOU ARE A MINISTER AND YOU HOLD A CERTAIN PORTFOLIO. SOMEBODY COMES TO YOU SEEKING HELP SAYING, I HAVE TO SPEAK TO A MANAGER IN YOUR DEPARTMENT." YOU MIGHT TELL HIM, "NO PROBLEM, HERE IS MY RECOMMENDATION LETTER - TAKE IT, AND GIVE IT TO THE RELAVANT MANAGER". THE MANAGER WILL SEE YOUR SIGNATURE AND SAY, I KNOW THE MININSTER HAS SENT HIM, AND OKAY, I'LL DO WHAT HE ASKS, BEING INITIATED IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

          WHEN YOU CONNECT TO A LINEAGE, ALL THE SIDDHAS, THE ADEPTS BEFORE YOU HAVE MADE CERTAIN RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THERE IS A COLLECTIVE KARMA THAT YOU GOT TO TAP INTO. WHILE STEVE JOBS INVENTED IPOD AND IPAD, NOT EVERYBODY IN APPLE GAS TO DO THE SAME. HE GENERATED A MOUNTAIN OF CASH, AND NOW THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THAT, BECAUSE OF HIS EFFORTS,  STRATEGY AND VISION - HIS EXECUTION. LIKE WISE YOU GET A BENEFIT FROM WHAT THE SEERS BEFORE YOU AND DONE IN YOUR LINEAGE.

          THERE IS A STORY I ONCE READ IN A BOOK WRITTEN BY PANDIT RAJMANI TIGUNAIT, A DISCIPLE OF SWAMI RAMA. HE WANTED TO CHANT A PARTICULAR VERSE FROM A TEXT CALLED SOUNDARYA LAHARI, WHICH IS FROM THE SRI VIDYA TRADITION. IN THAT TEXT, FOR EVERY VERSE YOU CAN DO A PURUSHCHARANA, YOU CAN INVOKE AND ACCUMULATE ENERGY.

              PANDIT RAJMANI CHANTED A PARTICULAR MANTRA  WITHOUT TELLING HIS GURU, AND HIS CHANTING HAD NO EFFECT. ONE DAY, SWAMIN RAMA CAME BACK FROM A TOUR AND ASKED HIM TO BRING HIM HIS COPY OF SOUNDARYA LAHARI. OF ALL THE MANTRAS, HE POINTED TO THAT PARTICULAR MANTRA, AND SAIE, CHANT THIS ONE, PANDIT RAJMANAI THOUGHT, I HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS AND IT HAS HAD NO EFFECT. HE HAD TRIED CHANTING EARLIER, 11000 TIMES, 62000 TIMES AND 125000 TIMES. HIDING HIS FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS, HE ASKED SWAMIN RAMA HOW MUCH HE SHOULD CHANT EVERY DAY, TO WHICH SWAMI REPLIED BY SAYING THAT ONLY TEN TIMES.

              JUST ONE-ZERO, NOT TEN THOUSAND ?, PANDIT RAJMANI EXCLAIMED.

               OKAY IF THAT DOESN'T SEEM ENOUGH, SWAMI RAMA SAID, YOU CAN CHANT IT 1000 TIMES A DAY.

              STILL IN A STATE OF DISBELIEF, HE ASKED, REALLY ? JUST 1000 TIMES.

              WELL THEN, YOU CAN DO 2000 TIMES.

              PANDIT RAJMANI REALIZED THAT EACH TIME HE QUESTIONED HIM, SWAMI RAMA WAS SIMPLY INCREASING THE NUMBER, SO HE STOPPED AND DID AS HE WAS TOLD, AND GOT THE RESULT THAT WAS PROMISED IN THE TEXT.

             FORTY DAYS LATER, HE WENT TO SWAMI RAMA, ELATED, AND SAID, LOOK, TH RESULTS CAME THROUGH. I HAD THE EXPERIENCE I WAS SEEKING. THIS IS JUST REMARKABLE, BUT SWAMI RAMA SEEMED UPSET WITH HIM. PANDIT RAJMANI COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HIS GURU WOULD BE UNHAPPY, BECAUSE HE HAD JUST FINISHED HIS SADHANA.

             FINALLY, SWAMI RAMA CLARIFIED, YOU SEE, BEFORE YOU JOINED OUR LINEAGE, MY GURU, WITH THE POWER OF HIS TAPAS, HIS PENANCE, HAD SIMPLIFIED THIS SADHANA. IT WOULD ONLY REQUIRE SOMEBODY 10 CHANTS EACH DAY. BUT NOW, ANYBODY AFTER YOU WILL NEED TO DO 2000 EVERY DAY TO ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULT. DUE TO YOUR EGO YOU QUESTINED THE NUMBER OF ROUNDS FOR CHANTING THE MANTRA, AND CHANGED IT UNNECCESSARILY.

          

                 WHEN YOU CONNECT WITH A LINEAGE, TI BECOMES YOUR SIGNATURE. IF THE SIDDHAS HAVE SAID, THIS WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU CHANT THIS MANTRA, SOONER OR LATER, IT WILL HAPPEN.

                PRESENTLY, TO PERFORM ACHAMANA, YOU WILL NEED AN ACHAMANA POT AND VESSEL. THEY ARE VERY INEXPENSIVE BUT IF YOU CAN'T SOURCE THEM FOR ANY REASON, JUST USE ANY SMALL POT AND A LITTLE SPOON. THERE'S NO HARD AND FAST RULE FOR THIS. TAKE THE SPOON IN YOUR LEFT HAND, SCOOP UP SOME WATER WITH IT AND POUR THAT WATER IN THE PALM OF YOUR RIGHT HAND. NOW SAY , "OM KESHAVAYA NAMAH", AND THEN DRINK THE WATER FROM YOUR RIGHT PALM. DO IT ONCE MORE SAYING "OM  MADHAVAYA NAMAH",AND REPEAT IT WHILE CHANTING "OM NARAYANAYA NAMAH".

            SO THREE TIMES ALL UP. ONCE DONE, PUT SOME WATER AGAIN IN YOUR RIGHT PALM, PUT THE SPOON IN YOUR LEFT HAND BACK IN THE POT, "OM PUNDARIKAKSHAYA NAMAH", THE WASH YOUR HANDS ON THE LEFT SIDE.

            I HOPE YOU WON'T FEEL OVER WHELMED WITH AL THESE MANTRAS JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW THEM. YOU SEE, NOBODY IS BORN WITH KNOWLEDGE. IF YOU PRACTICE A FEW TIMES, THEY WILL COME TO YOU. BUT IF YOU SAY "I DONT WANT TO CHANT ANY MANTRAS AT THIS POINT, THAT'S OKAY TOO, IT'S NOT A DEAL BREAKER. YOU CAN STILL DO YOUR THING, WITHOUT CHANTING A MANTRA HERE. FOR ALL I CARE, YOU COULD CHANT THE GAYATHRI MANTRA ITSELF FOR ALL THESE STEPS,  IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SIMPLIFY IT TO THE EXREME. MY PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION, HOWEVER, IS THAT YOU GO THROUGH THESE STEPS, MAKE YOUR OWN NOTES AND FOLLOW THEM. THINGS WILL THEN FLOW EFFORTLESSLY.

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DREAMS WITH AUTUMN

                                                THE SEASON OF AUTUMN

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                 MARRIAGES, SO IT IS SAID, ARE MADE IN HEAVEN. THE INEVITABLE HAPPENED. ON AN AUSPICIOUS DAY SATYAKAM AND BHAIRAVI WERE MARRIED THROUGH. TANTRIC RITES UNDER KAPALA'S PERSONAL SUPERVISION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED THE CEREMONY. ALL DAY LONG, STREAMS OF DEVOTEES FLOWED IN AND OUT OF THE TEMPLE GROUNDS. CLOUNDS OF DUST ROSE IN THE AIR, AND MUSIC SUNG TO LORD SHIVA AND MOTHER KALI RANG SONOROUSLY. THOSE WHO ENTERED THE PRECINCTS WERE GREETED BY THE CONSTANTLY CHIMING TEMPL BELLS. SATYAKAM AND BHAIRAVI BEAMED WITH AN INEXPLICABLE JOY AND A GLOW SURROUNDED THEIR BODIES. WITH SILENT GESTURES THEY WELCOMED THE PEOPLE WHO HAD COME FROM VARIOUS SURROUNDING VILLAGES. MANY SAID THE COUPLE WAS AN INCARNATION OF SHIVA AND DURGA. 

             SOON THE CEREMONY ENDED, FOLLOWED BY A CONSTANT RUSH TO TOUCH THEIR FEET. THE CLAMOR WAS SO GREAT THAT PEOPLE COULD HARDLY HEAR ONE ANOTHER ABOVE IT ALL. THE COUPLE PATIENTLY ACCEPTED THE OBEISANCE. AFTERWARDS SATYAKAM AND BHAIRAVI ROSE, TURNED TOWARD THE SHRINE, AND BOWED TOGETHER BEFORE THE IMAGE OF KALI. AS THEY STOOD UP, KAPALAK CAME NEAR. BOTH TOUCHED HIS FEET. THIS WAS KAPALAK'S FIRS APPEARANCE BEFORE HIS FEET. THIS WAS KAPALAK'S FIRST APPEARANCE BEFORE SUCH A LARGE CROWD.

           HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ALL THIS TUMULT? ASKED KAPALAK HUMOROUSLY.

         SATYAKAM REPLIED WITH A SOBER SMILE, IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT I LOVE. KAPALAK COMMENTED, YOU SHALL TEACH THE TRUTH AS TAUGHT BY THE ANCIENT SEERS AND LEAVE IT IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE.

           VOLUNTEERS DISTRIBUTED CONSECRATED FOOD AMONG THE VISITORS AND GRADUALLY PEOPLE BEGAN LEAVING FOR THEIR HOMES.

            DUSK CAME AND, EXCEPT FOR A FEW NEAREST DEVOTEES, ALL WERE GONE. ONCE AGAIN, SILENCE PERVADED THE TEMPLE COURTYARD.

           THE STORY OF SATYAKAM AND BHAIRAVI WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ANY OTHER HOUSEHOLDER COUPLE HAD IT BEEN FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENT. THIS MARKED DIFFERENCE WAS SHARPENED BY SATYAKAM'S PROFICIENCY HE SHARED WITH HIS ADVANCED BHAIRAVI.

            THE SPECIFIC PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OF AN IDEAL COUPLE, ACCORDING TO TANTRA, WERE NOT LACKING IN THEM. BOTH WERE HEALTHY FIGURES. HE WAS MANLY AS MUCH AS SHE WAS LOVELY, WITH HER SLENDER WAIST, FULL BREASTS, SOFT SKIN AND LOTUS EYES.

             IN THE TEMPLE'S SOLITARY COMPOUND, FREE FROM NOISE AND POLLUTION, THEY OCCUPIED THE PRIEST QUARTERS. BECAUSE THEIR FEELINGS AND ACTIONS WERE HARMONIOUS, THEY WERE WELL SUITED FOR PERFECT EXPRESSION. THE DEVOUT BHAIRAVI PLAYED THE ROLE OF THE DIVINE ENERGY AND BECAME A PERENNIAL SOURCE OF JOY TO HER LORD.

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            PEOPLE ADDRESSED THEM AS "MAHARAJ", AND "DEVIJI" RESPECTIVELY. DEVIJI DILIGENTLY LOOKED AFTER ARRAGEMENTS FOR WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE WITH METICULOUS CARE AND MAHARAJ  GAVE SATSANG DAILY IN THE AFTERNOON. HE OFTEN TALKED ON DEVOTION TO MOTHER DIVINE. SINGING GROUPS VISITED FROM TIME TO TIME AND THE ATTENDANCE AT THE TEMPLE FUNCTIONS GREW LARGER AND LARGER. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE TMEPLE  SATSANGS WERE BEING HELD IN IT.

         AFTER TWO YEARS HAD PASSED, A SON WAS BORN. MANY DEVOTEES BROUGHT PRESENTS FOR THE SPECIAL FEAST. ROHIT WAS OF BROWN COLOR, HEALTHY, AND GREW HAPPILY IN THIS ATMOSPHERE OF LOVE, POWER AND HARMONY. WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TWO YEARS OLD, A SECOND SON WAS BORN. AGAIN, THERE WAS A BIG FESTIVAL AND THE CHILD WAS NAMED PURAN.

           PURAN WAS MORE FAIR AND DELICATE THAN ROHIT, WITH AN AURA OF SHINING LIGHT AROUND HIM. HE SEEMED MORE SWEET, QUIET AND INTELLIGENT THAN HIS BROTHER, NUT NONETHELESS, THEY GREW SIDE BY SIDE WITH JUDICIOUS TREATMENT AND CARE. ROHIT, IN  FEATURES, RESEMBLED HIS MOTHER AND WAS MOST FOND OF HER WHEREAS PURAN TOOK AFTER HIS FATHER. THE DIVINE FAMILY LIVED IN JOY, PEACE AND ABUNDANCE WHILE PURAN GREW TO BE ONE YEAR OLD.

          BUT NATURE IS CHANGEFUL AND NO STATE OF AFFAIRS REMAINS CONSTANT. ONE AUTUMN AFTERNOON WHEN DEVIJI GOT UP FROM A SHORT NAP, SHE DISCOVERED ROHIT MISSING. CASUALLY, SHE LOOKED HERE AND THERE AND THEN GREW SECRETLY APPREHENSIVE. AS SHE SEARCHED FURTHER, THEIR HOUSEMAID CAME RUNNING AND WEEPING, "DEVIJI, ROHIT DROWED IN THE POND"!, STUNNED DEVIJI RAN TOWARDS THE TEMPLE'S POND. THE HOUSEMAID RAN AFTER HER SCREAMING, I WENT TO THE POND TO BATHE AND AS I ENTERED THE WATER, SOMETHING STRUCK MY FEET. I LOWERED MY HANDS WITH FEAR AND CAUGHT HOLD OF THE BODY AND BROUGHT IT OUT, SHE WAS GASPING FOR BREATH.

             UPON REACHING THE POND, THEY FOUND ROHIT'S BODY LYING AT THE WATER'S EDGE. QUIET TEARS FILLED DEVIJI'S EYES AS SHE COPPAPSED TO THE GROUND LIKE A LUMP OF FLESH. TAKING ROHIT'S HEAD, WHE GENTLY PEOPLE ACCOMPANYING MAHARAJ CAME HURRIEDLY AS THE NEWS SPREAD. AS IF A DAM HAD BURST, DEVIJI EXPLODED IN A POIGNANT WAIL, FALLING ON MAHARAI'S FEET. WITH TEARS FLOWING PROFUSELY, SHE PLEADED TO HIM, PLEASE REVIVE HIM. I KNOW YOU CAN RECALL THE SPRIT TO A DEAD BODY. NO ONE HAD SEED DEVIJI IN SUCH A CONDITION OF HELPLESSNESS. THERE WERE TEARS IN EVERYONE'S EYES AND SOME PEOPLE WERE EVEN SOBBING. ALL FACES WERE TURNED TOWARD MAHARAJ WITH EXCECTANT EYES.

          MAHARAJ SERENELY SAT DOWN NEAR DEVIJI, TOUCHED THE FOREHEAD OF ROHIT AND UTTERED SOFTLY, WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN HAS HAPPENED. THERE IS NO USE GOING THE WILL OF DIVINE MOTHER WHO KNOWS BEST, "DEVIJI WAS SUDDENLY QUIET FOR A MOMENT, BUT WITH A HEAVY SADNESS SHE PLEADED DEEPLY, WON'T YOU SAVE HIM, LORD?

         

             I WOULD HAVE IF MOTHER HAD WANTED THAT, SATYAKAM BOWED HIS HEAD AND REMAINED SILENT. LIFTING HIS HAND FROM ROHIT'S FORHEAD, HE PLACED IT ON DEVIJI'S SOULDER AND RESUMED, THIS IS A TEST FOR US AND AN OPPORTUNITY AS WELL TO KNOW HUMAN FEELINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ONE OF THE LESSONS FOR WHICH MATAJI SENT YOU HERE IS TO OUTGROW ATTACHMENTS AND CLINGING BY EXPERIENCING AND NOT MERELY BY CONCEPTUALIZING.

           DEVIJI LOOKED AT ROHIT. A THRUST OF SHOBBING ROSE AGAIN IN HER FULL BREAST AND THEN SHE LOOKED AT MAHARAJ. LIKE A DYING DEER SHE SPOKE, "YOU DON'T FEEL ANY SADNESS AND LOSS"?, A TINGE OF SAD ENVY MARKED HER WORDS.

        DEATH, REPLIED MAHARAJ, IS THE SAME AS BIRTH. BOTH ARE SIMPLY TWO SIDES TWO SIDES OF THE SAME PHENOMENON. WITHOUT BIRTH THERE IS NO DEATH AND VICE VERSA. THE SPAN OF LIFE IN BETWEEN IS BUT A FRAGMENT OF THE TOTAL  LIFE, WHICH IS NEVER LOST OR DEAD.

          ROHIT WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE BEFORE HE CAME TO US AND THEY MUST HAVE LOST HIM BEFORE HE CAME HERE. SO WE TOO MUST LOSE HIM BEFORE OTHERS GET HIM ON HIS ONWARD JOURNEY TO PERFECTION. WHO ARE WE TO  DETERMINE A SOUL'S LIFE SPAN?

           AFTER PROPER RITUALS AND CEREMONIES WERE DONE AT HOME, ROHIT'S BODY WAS TAKEN FOR BURIAL ON THE BANK OF ADI GANGA. THE PRIEST WAS SUMMONED TO PERFORM THE FINAL RITUALS. THE BODY WAS THEN LOWERED INTO THE PIT WHICH WAS FILLED IN WITH EARTH. OTHERS BROUGHT WATER FROM THE RIVER  AND SPRINKLED IT OVER THE GRAVE. ALL WERE QUIET.

           

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THE STORY OF KALAVATI

                                                       KALAVATI'S STORY

                WHEN I WAS SMALL, THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO LIVED AT THE FAR END OF OUR STREET WITH HER FOUR CHILDREN. HER HUSBAND HAD HELD A GOVERNMENT JOB, BUT HE DIED WHEN HER ELDEST DAUGHTER WAS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD. THERE WAS A PROVISION IN HER HANBAND'S DEPARTMENT THAT IN CASE AN EMPLOYEE DIED WHILE STILL IN SERVICE, SOMEONE FROM THE FAMILY WOULD GET A JOB IN THEIR PLAC. BUT WITH KALAVATI BEING ILLITERATE AND CHILDREN SMALL, NONE OF THEM COULD GET A JOB. SHE TOOK TO WASHING DISHES AND CLEANING PEOPLE'S HOMES, WHICH WAS THE ONLY WORK SHE COULD DO TO FEED HER FAMILY, WHICH WAS THE ONLY WORK SHE COULD DO TO FEED HER FAMILY. KALAVATI HAD GREAT FAITH IN SHIVA, AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE MANTRA THAT SHE CHANTED ALL THE TIME, OM NAMA SHIVAYA. THIS SIMPLE MANTRA WAS THE MANTRA OF HER LIFE.

                I WAS QUITE YOUNG, NOT EVEN FOUR YEARS OLD, WHEN KALAVATI WAS WIDOWED. IT DID NOT EVEN OCCUR TO ME SHE MIGHT HAVE HAD A  HUSBAND AT SOME POINT IN TIME. I THOUGHT SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY, JUST HER WITH FOUR CHILDREN, DOING DISHES IN PEOPLE'S HOMES.

            MY MOTHER SAID TO HER ONCE, "I CANNOT ALLOW YOU TO DO DISHES IN MY HOME BECAUSE YOU ARE A VERY SPIRITUAL PERSON, AND I CANNOT LIVE WITH THE BURDEN THAT YOU DO DISHES AND CLEAN HOMES. SO I WILL JUST PAY YOU SOMETHING - WE'LL GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO THE WORK."

           OVER THE YEARS, SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAPPENED TO KALAVATI. HER FACE STARTED TO SHINE LIKE THE SUN. SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON WHOM I SAW WHO HAD NOT JUST A SOFT GLOW TO HER SKIN, BUT A RADIANCE SO STRIKING, AS IF IT WAS JUST FLOWING FROM HER - AND SHE WAS SOMEBODY WHO DID NOT EVEN HAVE MONEY TO BUY SOAP. HER HEELS WERE BADLY CRACKED TOO, GIFTED HER SPIPPERS - ANY TIME SOMEBODY GIFTED HER SLIPPERS, SHE WOULD SIMPLY GIVE THEM TO ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS OR SONS. SHE WOULD SAY, "MY CHILDREN NEED SLIPPERS MORE THAN I DO". SO HER HEEL WERE CRACKED, BUT HER FACE GLOWED MIGHTILY.

            BY THE TIME SHE TURNED SIXTY, NOT EVEN ONE WRINKLE FORMED ON HER SKIN, THERE WAS JUST HER LARGE, GLOWING FACE, WITH HER GIANT FOREHEAD FRAMED BY MATTED LOCKS, BECAUSE SHE WAS VERY POOR.

           AT FIRSTM, SHE AND HER CHILDREN LIVED IN ONLY ONE ROOM. WITH SOME HELP, THEY MANAGED TO GET ANOTHER ROOM FOR TWO OF HER CHILDREN, THEN ONE OF HER SONS GOT MARRIED AND THE OTHER ONE STARTED RIDING A LITTLE RICKSHAW. SHE PUT A TIN ROOF OVER THEM, AND THAT'S WHERE SHE WOULD LIVE. IN THAT LITTLE PLACE, THERE WAS A BED AND A LARGE PICTURE OF SHIVA, AND SHE WOULD SPEND ALL OF HER TIME THERE.

         ONE DAY, WHEN MY PARENTS WERE LOOKING FOR A MATCH FOR MY SISTER, SHE CAME TO OUR HOME AND SAID TO MY SISTER, TOMORROW , SOME PEOPLE ARE COMING TO SEE YOU, MY MOTHER WAS THERE, AS WAS. I WAS NOW 16 YEARS OLD. WE WERE ALL SURPRISED. BECAUSE INDEED SOMEONE WAS COMING TO SEE IF THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY OF A MARITAL ALLIANCE, BUT WE HADN'T TOLD ANYBOD. KALAVATI SAID, "THEY WILL COME IN A WHITE CAR, HIGH CAR, THE BOY WILL BE WEARING A SHIRT WITH STRIPES". AND FOR SOME REASON, AND YOU WILL GET MARRIED HERE. AND OH SHE SAID, "THE BOY IS FAIR-SKINNED".

          THE NEXT DAY, SOME PEOPLE SHOWED UP IN A WHITE TATA SIERRA - A BOY WITH A FAIR COMPLEXION, ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER AND SISTER. HE WAS WEARING A SKIRT WITH STRIPES. CAN YOU IMAGINE? AND HE ACCIDENTALLY LOCKED HIS IGNITION KEY IN THE CAR, WHICH DELAYED THEM. THEY CALLED SOMEBODY  TO HELP, BUT THEY COULDN'T OPEN THE DOOR LOCK. FINALLY, THEY BROKE THE WINDOW OF THE CAR SO THEY COULD GET INTO IT. EVERYTHING SHE SAID CAME TO PASS, WORD FOR WORD, EXCEPT THAT MY SISTER NEVER GOT MARRIED THERE. AND THE ALLIANCE NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

            THERE WAS A FUNNY REASON FOR THAT

          WHEN THEY HAD A BREAK THE WINDOW OF THE CAR, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSPECTIVE GROOM BECAME CONCERNED. SHE WAS A WINDOW FROM A VERY WELL - OFF FAMILY, SHE THOUGHT THE EPISODE WITH WINDOW TO BE A BAD OMEN. I AM WORRIED, SHE SAID, "IF THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING BEFORE THE WEDDING THEN AFTERWARDS, GOD KNOWS WHAT ALL WE WILL HAVE TO BEAR".

             WHEN YOU CHANT A MANTRA WITH DEVOTION AND FAITH, YOU DEVELOP VERY SHARP INTUITION - BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN EVERYTHING YOU SAY WILL COME TRUE. IT CAN, PROVIDED YOU REMAIN EMOTIONALLY UNATTACHED. KALAVATI LOVED OUR FAMILY, SHE CAME ON HER OWN VOLITION TO MAKE THOSE PREDICTIONS, AND SHE WANTED MY SISTER TO GET MARRIED THERE.

          HERE IN LIES TWO OF YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGES AS A SADHAK:

             1. TO NOT SAY THINGS THAT ARE NOT PART OF YOUR INTUITION , AND

             2. TO KNOW WHAT ISN'T PART OF YOUR INTUITION. YOU MUST ASK                                  YOURSELF, IS WHAT I AM SAYING COLOURED BY MY EMOTIONS?

            FOR EXAMPLE, YOU MIGHT SAY TO SOMEONE, "DON'T WORRY, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO WORK OUT," ARE YOU SAYING THIS BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THAT PERSON AND YOU DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THROUGH ANY TROUBLE, OR ARE YOU SAYING THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE HEARING, FEELING OR PERCEIVING IT THAT WAY?

         WHEN YOU DO MUDRAS AND WHEN YOU DO NYASA CORRECTLY, THE CHANCES OF SUCH ERRORS LESSEN SIGNIFICANTLY, BECAUSE YOU ARE IN DEVI BHAVA - YOU ARE IN THE SENTIMENT OF YOUR DEITY. YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO JUST BLABBE OUT OF A SENSE OF ATTACHMENT, TO SAY THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO HAPPEN. INSTEAD, YOU WOULD SAY THINGS OBJECTIVELY, LIKE A RADIOLOGIST READING A REPORT OR SCAN. THERE COMES A DISCERNING WISDOM WHEN YOU CHANT A MANTRA CORRECTLY.

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GAYATHRI MANTRA STEPS

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            THE SECOND STEP IS TO PIT ON FRESH CLOTHES. SOME PEOPLE KEEP A SEPERATE SET OF CLOTHES FOR THEIR DAILY PUJA, AND THEY DON'T WEAR THEM ANYWHERE ELSE, WHICH IS QUITE GOOD, BUT I HAVE ALSO SEEN SOME LAZY ONES WHO WOULD WEAR THEIR CLOTHES FOR A PUJA AND HANG THEM ON A HOOK AND THEN THE NEXT DAY TAKE THEM OFF AND WEAR THEM AGAIN. THEY WILL SAY, "THESE ARE MY PUJA CLOTHES", BUT THEY MIGHT NOT WASH THEM FOR 30,40 OR 50 DAYS. BELIEVE ME, I KNOW SUCH PEOPLE. DON'T DO THAT. PUT ON FRESH CLOTHES.

             THERE IS A STORY I WROTE ON MY BLOG SOME TIME AGO. ONECE BUDDHA WAS IN SOLITUDE, WALKING, HE ASKED FOR ALMS FROM A MAN. THE MAN REFUSED AND STARTED SHOUTING AT HIM, CALLING HIM NAMES. BUDDHA DID NOT SAY ANYTHING, AND WENT ON HIS WAY QUIETLY 

           ANOTHER MAN, WHO WAS OBSERVING THIS, WENT TO THE MAN AND SAID, YOU JUST INSULTED BUDDHA".

           THE MAN SAID, "THAT BEGGAR COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE BUDDHA" THE OBSERVER SAID, "NO, HE WAS!"

           "BUT BUDDHA IS ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE"

      WELL, HE IS IN HIS STINT OF SOLITUDE.

            REPENTING HIS ACTIONS, THE MAN WENT LOOKING FOR BUDDHA, BUT COULDN'T TRACE HIM. THE NEXT DAY, HOWEVER, HE FOUND HIM, AND FELL AT HIS FEET.

            O LORD! HE SAID REMORSEFULLY, I AM SORRY I INSULTED YOU AND CALLED YOU NAMES.

            OH, WHEN WAS THAT? BUDDHA SAID CALMLY.

           JUST YESTERDAY!

          TATHAGATA DOES NOT KNOW YESTERDAY, BUDDHA SAID, I ONLY KNOW TODAY, THIS MOMENT.

          BESIDEDS HYGIENE, THE IDEA OF BATHING AND PUTTING ON FRESH CLOTHES IS SO YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO HAVE A FRESH START FOR THE DAY. IT IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A DIVINE BLESSING THAT YOU HAVE ONE MORE DAY TO LIVE, ONE MORE MOMENT TO BREATHE. I READ SOMEWHERE THAT IF WE WERE TO LIVE EVERY DAY AS IF IT IS OUR LAST DAY, WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY  GOING TO BE RIGHT. SO PUT ON FRESH CLOTHES.

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                       NOW YOU ENTER THE PUJA GRIHA, THE SANCTUM SANCTORUM, OR STAND BEFORE THE ALTAR, IF YOU HAVE A SEPERATE PUJA ROOM OR JUST A LITTLE SPACE, HOW DO YOU APPROACH IT? YOU ARE ENTERING YOUR SACRED SPACE. LIKE YOUR WASHROOM IS WHERE YOU PERFORM PHYSICAL CLEANSING, YOUR ALTAR IS FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL CLEANING. THERE IS A MANTRA THAT YOU SAY PHAT, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO STAMP THE FLOOR WITH YOUR HEEL. IN EARLIER TIMES, THEY USED TO DO THIS BECAUSE FLOORS WERE SEALED WITH COW DUNG AND THE LIKE. THUS, THERE WOULD BE SOME MICROORGANISMS ON THE FLOOR OF YOUR SANCTUM SANCTORUM, AND BY STAMPING YOUR HEEL ON THE FLOOR, YOU WOULF SHAKE THE SURFACE SO THEY COULD MOVE, SO YOU DON'T STEP ON THEM.

                      HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THESE SEED SYLLABLES? IS IT "HRING", OR IS IT "HRIM", ? FOR THAT, I WOULD GIVE YOU A SIMPLE RULE OF THUMB - THE ELABORATE METHOD IS A LITTLE COMPLICATED, AND THIS IS NOT THE FORUM FOR THAT. BUT QUITE SIMPLY, HOW DO YOU SAY THE WORD, "MAA", YOU DONT SAY "MAAG", - YOU SAY MAA, SIMILARLY, THE WORD IS "HRIM", (M BEING THE SAME SOFT NASAL SOUND AS IN THE WORD "MAA") NOT "HRING".

                   IF I HAVE TO PRONOUNCE AN "M" SOUND AT THE END, I WILL NOT WRITE AN "M". I QILL SIMPLY HAVE WHAT WE CALL AN ANUSWAR, A DOT. THE ANUSWAR DENOTES A PURELY NASAL SOUND WHERE THERE IS A LURKING "G" SOUND, AS IN OM HRIM ASTRAYA PHAT. I CAN'T THINK OF ANOTHER WAY TO EXPLAIN THIS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH.

                                                                          STEP FOUR

                      STEP FOUR IS PERFORMING THE PURIFICATION RITUAL. YOU WOULD HAVE A LITTLE VESSEL OF WATER - YOU JUST DIP YOUR FINGER IN IT. REMEMBER, THE INDEX FINGER REPRESENTS IGNORANCE, IN THE INVOCATION OF MANTRAS, AS IN ALL SPIRITUAL, RELIGIOUS KARMA, WE KEEP THIS FINGER AWAY. TO PERFORM PURIFICATION, EITHER TAKE A FLOWER IN YOUR HAND, HOLDING IT WITH YOUR THUMB AND THREE FINGERS (EXCEPT THE INDEX FINGER) OR SIMPLY JOIN THE RING FINGER WITH THE THUMB IF YOU ARE NOT USING A FLOWER. NOW TAKE A LITTLE POT OF WATER. YOU DIP RING FINGER JOINEDD WITH YOUR THUMB, OR IF YOU HAVE A FLOWER, YOU CAN DIP YOUR FLOWER IN THE WATER AND CHANT THE MANTRA.

                                              OM APAVITRAH PAVITRO VA

                                              SARVAVASTHAM GATO API VA

                                              YAH SMARET PUNDARIKAKSAM

                                              SA BAHAYA ABHYANTARAM SUCIH

                          AS YOU ARE DOING THAT, SPRINKLE SOME WATER IN ALL THE TEN DIRECTIONS. YOU DON'T COUNT, ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, ETC., - JUST DO SO SYMBOLICALLY.

                       THIS MANTRA EXPRESSES THAT EVEN THOUGH I HAVE TAKEN A BATH AND PUT ON FRESH CLOTHES, THERE ARE STILL IMPURITIES I CARRY ON MY BODY, IN MY HEART AND MY MIND, WHICH ARE TO BE REMOVED BY MEDITATING ON THE DIVINE ENERGY. THE MEANING OF THIS MANTRA IS GIVEN BELOW:

                                                  OM APAVITRAH PAVITRO VA

                                                  SARVAVASTHAM GATO API VA

                        IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW IMPURE YOU ARE, IN WHATEVE STATE YOU MAY BE. 

 

                                            YAH SMARET PUNDARIKAKSAM

                                            SA BAHAYA ABHYANTARAM SUCIH

   

           THE ONE WHO MEDITATES ON THE DIVINE ENERGY - THE LORD IS CALLED PUNDARIKAKSHA HERE, WITH BEATIFUL LOTUS EYES - THE ONE WHO MEDITATES ON SUCH FORM OF THE LORD IS PURIFIED INSIDE OUT.

            THIS MANTRA DOES NOT GIVE YOU AN EXCUSE TO NOT BATHE, BUT IT WILL PURIFY YOU, SO DO IT WITH THAT SENTIMENT.

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