Sunday, October 29, 2017

Body consciousness vs lady consciousness

Years back we came in contact with a religious guru who was the disciple of a great Saint. We had long discussions and got to learn many things. One day he said, ‘Women can never attain moksha. They are inferior to men. Their duty is to serve their husbands whole heartedly and pray for a future male life, so that they can continue their spiritual practices to attain moksha. One reason for this is their perpetual body consciousness.  You can watch a lady: while talking to somebody, they will be adjusting the pallu of their sari in between. This shows that they can’t go beyond body consciousness, which is very vital.’

Is it the truth?


I didn’t feel it right at all. I believe that a soul has no gender and it is the soul that is striving for moksha i.e., a jeevatma trying to merge with paramatma.

Women have attained moksha, there are hundreds of women saints and sages all over the country, but somehow, we know very few of them. 


                                                         Saint Meerabai



                                                       Anandamai Ma

A male dominated society won’t publicize them, and to add to that, most of these women have expressly shunned any kind of publicity.

Present knowledge about women's roles in Hinduism indicates that their position was highest during its earliest periods. During the Aryan invasion and prior to the full development of the Vedic literature, worship took place primarily in the home and required the presence of both the husband and the wife. The Vedic literature also indicates that women were not merely a silent partner in the rituals, but played a crucial role in them. 

Denial for education


The earliest Vedic scriptures, the Rig Veda, indicate that both men and women needed to participate in the rituals in order for them to be effective. Moreover, the Rig Veda states that the rite of initiation into the study of the Vedic texts is open to both men and women. Women were also involved in the beginnings of the ascetic tradition. The prohibitions against their entering the ascetic life, which required previous study in the Vedic texts, increased as women's actual access to education declined.

Thus the prohibitions do not reflect an inherent bias against women but rather reflect the social reality that with few women receiving the necessary prerequisite education, few women were actually qualified to enter the ascetic life.

Against the basic belief


Actually attempts to bar women, either in theory or in practice, from attaining moksha are in fact contrary to basic Hindu belief. Moksha in its simplest formula is attained when persons understand that their true nature is Brahman. 


To deny women access to achieving moksha is in fact another way of denying that Brahman is both male and female, or beyond gender, and thus is to deny the unity of Ultimate Reality. For if everything is Brahman, then ultimately there is no meaningful distinction between male and female.

Another point


Yesterday during sleep I got this message, ‘If women are body conscious, men are lady conscious’, ‘Ha ha ha’ I laughed in my sleep, and it was ringing in my ears when I woke up to this beautiful Sunday.

Yes, there is so much truth in this. Many male gurus, when a female devotee comes to them don’t see a jeevatma approaching them, but something else. This is in spite of our culture saying that apart from one’s own wife, every other woman should be seen like a mother.

Many women have come to me seeking healing for the sadness and depression they gained by the inappropriate behaviour of their male gurus, whom they had put on pedestals.

So finally I got an answer I liked very much, ‘If women are blocked from attaining moksha because of their body consciousness, men are blocked by their lady conscioiusness.’ Ha ha ha



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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Reiki from the Dolphin

At the Trincomalee beach in Sri Lanka, after settling down in the hotel room, we discussed about the things that could be done there.  The person at the reception suggested going for whale/ dolphin watching.  The providers charge separately for dolphin and whale watching. We opted for only dolphin watching and set out early morning the next day.

Dolphins around us


They took us in a nice boat two kilometres into the sea. Since wild life sighting is always a matter of luck, I started sending Reiki for Dolphins to come. And voila! They came in huge numbers, we saw around fifty dolphins.  They danced, jumped and raced with the boat.




Receiving Reiki


There was one particular dolphin that was swimming along with us very close to the boat. I was sitting on the left side of the boat and it was on my left side, swimming at the speed of the boat. 



It was difficult to imagine that it was swimming; it looked like a rocket speeding in the water.

I was giving Reiki to this dolphin, thanking it for coming so close. After a while I started receiving Reiki from the dolphin! It was an amazing experience.

Giving Dolphin Reiki to the client


We were back home after the trip and I had a past life regression client. He was into severe depression from a recent traumatic incident in life. The session was very deep and on waking up, he told he was feeling very tired. I suggested giving a Reiki healing and he agreed.

During the Reiki session, suddenly dolphin Reiki came to my mind. The client was feeling tired and I have seen the tremendous energy dolphins possess. After the regular Reiki healing, I gave him dolphin Reiki.

Energy entering through left palm  


While giving dolphin Reiki, I felt something very intriguing. The energy was entering through my left palm. Usui Reiki enters through the crown chakra. I am not sure whether this is routine with dolphin Reiki or it was because the first time I received this beautiful healing energy from the dolphin, it was swimming on my left side and my left palm was very close to it.

Beaming client



After the healing session, the client got up with an ear to ear smile and told he was feeling absolutely fine and fresh. 

Dolphins and energy healing?


Dolphins, the  master healers, are highly evolved omni-dimensional beings who live in the Oneness. Their  influence transcends time, space and physicality. Dolphin Energy Healing can be useful in assisting with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual challenges.

Michael Zasloff , a researcher at the Georgetown University Medical Center has documented the extraordinary healing ability of dolphins. He writes, "It should awe us. You have an animal that has evolved in the ocean without hands or legs, which swims faster than we can, has intelligence that perhaps equals our social and emotional complexity, and its healing is almost alien compared to what we are capable of."

Ref:
https://www.livescience.com/15150-dolphin-recovery-human-healing.html