Daily Protection with Purple Shield

 This is a powerful protective shield which should be done every morning. It is done only for the day time, as it may come in the way of a deep sleep at night.

1.       Say aloud or in your mind, “Mother, father, God, please send purple shield”.

2.       Now imagine a purple colored egg with two walls.

  

3.       Imagine yourself and all your immediate family members inside this purple egg. If your children are married, theirs is a different family, you can’t include them. You can make a separate energy field for their family.

4.       Imagine Reiki energy filling up the space between the two walls of the purple egg. If you are a Reiki II channel, draw the Reiki symbols in this space and chant the names thrice.

5.       Now tell in your mind or aloud, “Please protect (names of each member) from - - am to - - pm (or “from the time they wake up in the morning to the time they go to sleep at night”) and go back to the source of Light.”

Manual on "Life"

Developing A positive Attitude

There has been too much stress on ‘staying positive’ and shunning all things ‘negative’ in the New Age spirituality. In the soul state, we all are “Sat Chit Ananda”, which is translated as "Truth Consciousness Bliss", "Reality Consciousness Bliss", or "Existence Consciousness Bliss". When we are in the human form, so many veils of ignorance (acquired over many incarnations) cover this ultimate truth and we consider ourselves as limited beings with limited knowledge, in a miserable state.  Human birth is considered precious because in this form, by constant effort and detachment, we can experience that eternal truth.

Our human existence is to experience the limitations, understand the duality that is part of the Maya, and then transcend to the realms of inner bliss. When duality is concerned, positive and negative aspects are very much parts of the earthly life. Can we shun all things negative? Is it practical?

Positive thought vs negative thought

Human beings have minds, the duty of which is to think. When we think, we feel it, as emotions and in the body as expansion or contraction of the body. Every positive thought will bring with it a feel good factor, a sense of joy and calm, an expansive sense of the physical body. On the other hand, a negative thought will bring restlessness, the physical body feels contracted, which leads to chemical secretions in the body that bring down the immunity level and cause physical illness, if repeated overtime.

Should we shun all negative thoughts?

No, negative thoughts have a role in keeping us safe. Negative thoughts come to spur you into action. For example, when water spills on the kitchen floor, a negative thought comes that somebody may slip, fall down, and get injured. Immediately you mop it up, the negative thought disappears.

But in another situation, when one is overweight and diseased, the doctor advises weight reduction. He explains the sequence of events if weight reduction is not done. This is to encourage you to take action towards weight reduction. If you chart out a plan and do it diligently, the problem ends. But in majority of cases, the action is not taken and every waking moment is spent in thinking of all the problems awaiting with the overweight status. This will only make the situation worse.

Take action, do not drown in the sea of negative thoughts

In this world of duality, we have to deal with both positive and negative aspects. When you know that negative thoughts are just there for you to take action, you won’t be lingering in that thought. You will do what needs to be done and that negative thought no longer remains in your mental/emotional field to cause illnesses.

Positive attitude vs negative attitude

Have you noticed that some people have a generally positive attitude and some others a negative attitude? How does this happen?

When majority of the time it is positive thoughts that are lingering in the mind, slowly it becomes a habit and he/she develops a positive attitude. Constant negative thoughts lead to a negative attitude in the person. You should understand that a person with a positive attitude will also get negative thoughts, but they don’t let those thoughts linger in their mind.

Expansion and contraction of the body

If for a moment you close your eyes and notice the character of your thoughts and sense whether your physical body feels expanded or contracted, you will notice that the body feels expanded with positive thoughts and vice versa. When the body feels expanded, the feel good hormones are being secreted, and the immunity is getting boosted up.

When the body feels contracted, the blood vessels are contracted too, and the secretion of hormones is restricted.

Develop a positive attitude

So, to remain physically and mentally healthy and active, a positive attitude is very helpful. But remember, it is not shunning of negative thoughts. 

For this, start with the exercise of watching your thoughts thrice a day and taking action when it is a negative thought and feeling the expansion of the body and joy within you when it is a positive thought. Take care to keep the company of people with a positive attitude, and give attention to the food you consume. Do this for 21 days, to make it into a habit and you will be surprised to see what a positive attitude you have developed overtime!

If you want to go ahead on this path, Listen to this :  CLICK HERE

A curse in your family?

 When people suffer from long term physical, economical and relationship problems, majority of the times, it is because of their attitude to life and their current karmas. Instead of assessing one’s character and behaviour and bring about change, which is going to take a lot of patience, honesty and perseverance, it is much easier to attribute the misfortune to external factors. These are curse in the family and black magic.

What is a curse?

It can be defined as a solemn utterance in words or in the mind, intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm or punishment on someone or something. It is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.

Coming to ancestral curse, according to The Gospel Coalition, a “generational curse describes the cumulative effect on a person of things that their ancestors did, believed, or practiced in the past, and a consequence of an ancestor’s actions, beliefs, and sins being passed down.” Our families’ history and baggage impacts us, whether we like it or not. You may consider your family a blessing, or consider them a burden because of the long history of negative traits they’ve passed down.

There are many examples of generational curse: death of several infants, series of accidents, unmarried children getting older in the family, and continuous physical problems

Illicit income

In our culture great importance is given to the food consumed. We know the importance of sattwik cooking, as the thought waves are generated by the food we eat. When we go deeper than that, the reason for much of the suffering becomes clear. The source of the income that is used to provide the food has a great impact on the family health and environment. In today’s time this fact is so commonly overlooked, because having illicit income has sort of become a norm.

In my childhood, there used to be whispers of somebody taking bribe and they used to be looked down upon. In my youth, I heard mother in laws talking proudly, “My son in law’s salary is Rs. -----, but he earns Rs. ----- over that every month. So my daughter will be happy, as she can have a lavish life.” This was about the bribe he was taking, and I used to wonder, “Really? She is going to be happy living on money received as bribe?”

But people are happy and enjoying with such money

I get to hear this over and over again from youngsters who are starting their life after completing their studies. Outwardly all those with huge money do look so happy, with all the pomp and show. For one, you really don’t know the inside stories, which are pathetic, and they are putting up a facade. Secondly, the Universe is very kind and lenient majority of the times. It gives a long rope, providing adequate time to mend one’s ways and live a dharmic life. But ultimately the noose tightens, and then there is no way out.

Over many decades I have been watching this worldly drama going on around. And in every single instance, the law of karma finally unfolded. We all know that the universal law of karma says – what you sow, so shall you reap. Only thing is no one knows the time frame. Depending on the good deeds the person did in the earlier years of this life or in past lives, it may manifest in a few years, or it may take 30 to 40 years.

So here, it is the curse from one’s own karma, not a familial curse or somebody’s black magic.

Curse from ancestors

In the current generation, there is a resistance from the youth to get married and settle down. The parents are still of the old way of thinking, and they want to finish off their duty of ‘marrying off’ their children. And when the children resist tooth and nail, this is attributed to ‘familial curse’ and there are people taking advantage of this opportunity to squeeze out money from the distressed parents in the name of conducting remedial measures.

Since I am a healer and many people approach me with this situation, I have given deep thought to it. The older generations considered it their duty to obey their parents. The current generation will question the parents and if they are not satisfied, they won’t obey blindly.

In this particular situation, the parents should evaluate their own married life. Was it loving and harmonious, so that the kids can look forward to such a life after marriage. If the non working mother has been ill treated by the father, she makes sure her daughters stand on their feet so that they don’t have to stay in a marriage for economic reasons. And once the daughter starts earning, she finds she can lead a life she wants, doing everything she likes to do, without tolerating tantrums from a spouse. She chooses not to marry since she has no faith in the institution of marriage.

I think in this case, there can be a possibility of a familial curse, even though I would consider it as a blessing from a great lady of the past. When that lady had spent her life time literally like a slave to her husband, looking after all his comforts, receiving no loving actions from him, instead, being slapped once in a while (yes, this happens in educated and even in octogenarian couples), her heart burns at the thought of future female generations and a blessing, ‘May the girls of my future generations be relieved from the chain of marriage” is released.

From the other gender too

It is not necessary that only ladies have influence on future generations. A man, on finding he has no compatibility with his wife, is forced to lead a miserable life because he cannot go for a separation due to familial pressure. Every waking moment his heart may be projecting a message that makes the future male progenies decide not to marry.

Is there a way out?

We can adopt one of the many approaches to maintain the peace and calm inside, irrespective of the experiences life throws at us

1.    -- Everything that happens with and around us, is only because of us, and us alone. Once we take up that responsibility, we will start looking for remedial measures and the Universe will steer us through correct path.

2.     -- There is a specific time for things to happen. Always remember, we cannot receive anything before time and beyond our luck (or destiny, which is generated from our past karmas).

3.     -- Believe the great saying of Lord Krishna, “You have right over the actions you do, but not on the fruits of those actions.”

4.     -- Finally, choose your friends wisely to have ‘Satsang’, or companionship of people who follow a virtuous life style.

References:

1.       https://www.allprodad.com/how-to-break-family-curses/#:~:text=It%20might%20even%20be%20something,referred%20to%20as%20family%20curses.

2.       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse

3.       https://www.thesource.org/post/generational-curses-affect-my-love-life

4.       https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/spirituality/2019/jun/25/how-karma-views-blessings-and-curses-1994978.html

 

Reiki healing request in Reiki groups.

Once you have been doing Reiki self healing for many years and have been witnessing miracles in your daily life, you develop unshakeable faith in the powers of Reiki. It not only provides direct physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, economic, and social healing, but also brings into our life whatever is needed for our well being and growth. For example, if one has to get a surgery done, Reiki will bring in the reference of a  good surgeon. If one is inclined to learn astrology, he/she will be provided with a very good teacher.

Role of Reiki groups

We being humans, with the passage of time, complacency sets in, and the importance of daily Reiki self healing gets forgotten. Some short cuts are sought, some days are missed, or we do not heal all the required points. This is detrimental to our well being. As I always say, it is equivalent to not brushing every single tooth in the mouth (me being a dentist J) daily.

When we interact with members of the Reiki group, it acts as an incentive to do our daily healing practice diligently. On hearing about the Reiki miracles happening, we get inspired.

Another great advantage of being in a group is getting Reiki healing from multiple people when one (or a family member/ close friend) needs healing for a problem encountered. Here, the effect is not 1+1=2, but 1+1=11. The effectiveness of Reiki healing from multiple sources is very strong. Apart from that, when we give Reiki to a family member, we are so much attached to the outcome and that comes in the way of the manifestation of the result. When the group members are sending Reiki, they are not clinging on to the results.

What is the energy exchange?

Reiki healing when given to somebody, there has to be an energy exchange so that the karmic debt is not carried over. In a Reiki group where all are Reiki channels, when one receives a healing from multiple people, it becomes that person’s obligation to give Reiki healing for the next five (at least) requests. If healing request is for a person in severe crisis, the group members can send healing for four days. Since a number of people are sending healing, it is very powerful.

We know that for acute problems 7 days healing is sufficient and 21 days healing is recommended for chronic problems. In these situations, it is better to approach a Reiki healer separately.

There are some important factors to be considered here. Let us have a look at them.

Daily self healing mandatory

When you have to give healing for someone else, it is very important to make sure that you are doing your daily self healing in the proper way. There are two aspects to this. One is, when you are trying to send healing, the energy will first replenish your own energy field. If you have not done your healing, most of the energy will remain with you, there will be much less to go to the other person. Secondly, I have witnessed some Reiki channels feeling drained out, or picking up symptoms (temporarily), if their self healing practice has not been optimal.

When should the energy be sent?

It is ideal to send the healing the moment one reads the request for healing. We may think of sending it later, but there are good chances of forgetting it. Reiki I channels do not have distance healing training, so they can just send prayers. Significance of prayers has been proven beyond doubt. When a Reiki channel sends prayer, it carries more power.

Is a comment necessary?

Once you have sent the healing, is it necessary to put a comment regarding that? My answer is a big YES. It gives an indication to the person that you have sent the healing and it is a morale booster. Apart from that, it has a strong placebo effect too. Look here to see how great a role placebo plays: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34572482

To me, it is a common courtesy to let the other person know when you have done something for them. 

The opening chapter in a bulbul's life

Since I became a Reiki channel, plants and animals have a special and close relationship with me. Injured animals and birds do visit me for healing. Cats and dogs just stop for a while in front of me, with that particular look in their eyes. I know they are asking for a boost of energy and I am always glad to provide.

Building a nest on our window

When I noticed a blackhead bulbul inspecting our window on April 25^th, I felt it was planning to build a nest and was about to chase it away. My daughter prevented me saying, “They don’t dirty the place like pigeons, so allow them to make the nest. Let them be happy if they want to be near you.”

So I let them build the nest. What a dedicated full day job it was! It was so good to see the couple working in synchronization.  I recorded their effort for half hour. They will fly away to find and bring twigs and straw, then wrap it around the window grill. Most of the time they were away searching. So I edited it and made a six and a half minute video, “Bird building nest on our window” and published. I loved watching that video.

TTT to WIN

A 7 year old found the video depressing, which shocked me. I asked why it was depressing. The answer: “It takes so long to build the nest.”

That statement opened my eyes to the general view prevalent now. When we were building our lives, we knew that ‘Things Take Time’ (TTT) and were toiling for years to save money and buy that refrigerator, the car, the house etc.,  

Now is the ‘Fast food era’ where people want things fast and immediately. The TTT has been replaced by WIN, ‘Want It Now’.

Roots need to go deeper for the tree to grow taller

The basic rule of Nature is that you can’t hurry up things. Everything is designed to grow, mature and fully manifest in a certain period. If we hurry things up, it will compromise on the quality. A pried opened bud cannot manifest the inherent beauty or spread the fragrance. This is one basic lesson we need to learn and teach our children early on in their life.

The bulbul’s life story

The nest was completed in a day and later the bird started warming the eggs. The nest was visible from our living room (where we spend most of the day) and the dining table. After the eggs hatched, every day just before sunrise we would see the parents collecting food for the babies.

We would be having our breakfast and watch the babies being fed. Same thing during our lunch time too. In the afternoon, for about an hour or so the parents used to disappear. May be taking that much needed rest!

It was so fascinating to see in front of our eyes the bulbuls growing day by day, developing wings and feathers. They were gaining strength and I found it so interesting to watch them exercising to develop their wings.

It is a matter of great joy that they visit us even now, after they flew off the nest. 

To watch the movie of their life story, CLICK HERE

Taking control back from your fears

 Human beings are very much a part of the Universe and are bound by the Universal laws. Think of all those planets rotating and revolving in their fixed paths. 

If they decide to do ‘what they feel like doing’, can you imagine what havoc it can create? Everything in the Universe is set in an order for proper, smooth functioning, and every being has a role to play, which is concerned more with helping and nurturing others and the surrounding. Human beings have taken things in their hands since long and the Earth is being depleted and destroyed.

What is our role?

If we listen to our body and heart, we know what is our role because we are endowed with ‘Vivek Shakti' (power of discrimination), which helps us to distinguish between ‘right and wrong’, ‘true and false’, and ‘reality and illusion’.

If we have been ignoring our inner voice, or going against its guidance, we lose our power of discrimination. This is very detrimental for a stable, peaceful living. In this situation we can get all the guidance we need from our scriptures.

Surrender to the Universe

When the Universe decides to strike back whenever our detrimental actions go too far, we have to be just patient and tide over the difficult times. We need to do our karma according to our dharma and maintain the inner calm. This is easier said than done, especially when the fear psychosis is swirling around like a hurricane. Fear is a crippling and destructive emotion.

Let’s talk about Fear

Whereas fear takes you into a downward spiral, faith uplifts you, faith in the justice of Universal laws, faith in yourself, faith in the goodness of others. Always remember, fear and faith cannot co-exist. Fear may be related to so many things, but ultimately, everything will come under one of these five:

1.       Fear of death

2.       Fear of losing near and dear ones

3.       Fear of losing health

4.       Fear of losing wealth and materialistic things

5.       Fear of losing name, fame and respect from others

An easy meditation to tackle the fear and instil faith

In a totally relaxed state, you will be guided to bring out the fear from each body cell to the Heart space which is a great alchemist. As you watch the different layers of fear being destroyed one by one, you will feel a sense of relief and peace. Finally those empty spaces left on destruction of fear are filled with healing light that bring in faith. At the end of the meditation you will experience a definite shift in your  attitude and mental state.

To start this meditation, CLICK HERE

Tunnel Travel Technique (TTT) for the body shape you dream of...

When you are on a path of weight reduction, most go through the Yo- Yo phase and remain in this phase for years together. When you are aiming at weight reduction, there is no concrete picture in your mind.

Involving the senses

The more of the five senses we can involve in any of our attempts, the brain gets a definite picture on what and how to work with. First of all we need to have a mental image of our body that we are aiming for. One needs to be able to hold on to that image with closed eyes. If you find that hard in the initial stage, Photoshop your picture to the shape that you want to achieve and store it on your phone or PC.

When you look at that picture, the brain gets visual impulses to work on. As your body is slowly reducing in size, you feel your clothes becoming loose, providing kinaesthetic impulses. When you start looking thinner, you get compliments, here come the auditory impulses. As the body size gets more towards the optimum, you won’t be able to wear the old clothes and you will have to buy new dresses. When you wear those new clothes, close your eyes and enjoy the smell of new clothes, thus olfactory impulses are also provided.

Introducing Tunnel Travel Technique

This is a hypnotic technique that I received during my meditation. Under hypnotic trance you will visualise a long tunnel, you are looking down from above the tunnel.  There are six mirror partitions in between. At the other end, outside the tunnel stands the future you with the optimum body shape.

In the next step, you are entering the tunnel. You will be guided through imagery necessary to bring reduction in your body size. As you are walking through the tunnel, you come to the first mirror partition, with an opening in the centre to pass through. Before passing through, you will have a good look at your image on the mirror and notice the change in your body shape and outline.

Passing through 6 partitions

 You keep walking through the tunnel, listening to the guided imagery, finally coming to the 7th chamber.  And when you finally emerge out, you are face to face with the final you, with the body of your dreams.

To be continued for 21 days

This needs to be done continuously for 21 days and you will get the final result if the discrepancy between your current body size and the size you want to achieve is not high. But if you are aiming to achieve a medium (M) size from an Extra Extra Extra Large size (XXXL), you need to take a week off and then repeat 21 days again., may be a couple of times more.

Instructions to be followed before opening the video

Set aside about 20 minutes daily just to do this session. Are you willing to dedicate that much time for 21 days to get trim and fit?

First time, you need to watch the whole video so that you know exactly what and how to visualise as you listen to my voice. Then onwards, you will follow the instruction and keep your eyes closed for the session.

So, all the best for this journey towards the NEW YOU!

For the video, CLICK HERE 

References:

https://sarahwayt.com/energy-understanding-your-senses-and-chakras/

https://www.arhantayoga.org/category/energies-pranayama-chakras-ayurveda/

Hypnosis - A Fast method to harness the subconscious mind

Neuroscientists are of the opinion that we are conscious of only about 5 percent of our cognitive activity. Most of our emotions, decisions, actions, and behaviour depend on the 95 percent of brain activity that goes beyond our conscious awareness. About 40 percent of behaviour is habitual, and it takes anywhere between 15 to over 250 days to form a new habit.

Subconscious mind – the bigger player

About 90 percent of your total brain function is through the unintentional aspect of your mind, or the Subconscious mind. It is a vast collection of unintentional, habitual thoughts, behaviours, and actions. Actually, we can infer that the phrase that best describes the Subconscious mind is “No Choice”.

Around the year 2000, researchers learned that most of the decisions (up to 90%) we make are unconscious.

Processing by Conscious versus Subconscious mind

The conscious mind can only process 40 bits of info/sec, whereas the subconscious mind can process 20 000 000 bits of info per second. This means the subconscious mind can process 500 000 time more what the conscious mind is able to, which makes it bigger and far more powerful than the conscious mind.

The subconscious mind can change beliefs suddenly and irrevocably, but more importantly, it can hold onto wrong beliefs even when the evidence for change is present right in front of you. It is the powerful background system that runs everything in your life.

Our data bank

The subconscious mind is a data-bank for everything that is not in your conscious mind. Whatever you have seen, done or thought is right there. It stores all your memories, beliefs, previous experiences, and skills. May be we can equate habits with unconscious behaviour and non-habits with conscious behaviour. This brings us to the question:

Can you control your subconscious?

The Universe has given humans an absolute control over the information that enters the subconscious mind, through the five senses. Sadly, in the majority of cases the average person does not exercise this control. There are ways to hack your subconscious mind and unlock your magnificent life.

We can achieve this through visualization, positive affirmations, positive reinforcement, meditation, and by keeping a gratitude journal. 

It takes an average of 66 days to reprogram the subconscious mind with intentional effort. However, depending on your limiting beliefs, it can take up to a year or more to see result.

Here comes Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a purely natural state that allows direct access to the subconscious mind. It is an artificially enhanced state of suggestibility, resembling sleep. Nevertheless, it is not sleep. With hypnosis we can by-pass what would require a prolonged or circuitous re-learning program in our fully conscious state. There is no physical intrusion; it is simply a self-contrived change of mental awareness.

It is an altered state of consciousness, one in which the individual clearly feels a qualitative shift in her/his pattern of mental functioning. The hypnosis state is identical to the state of full consciousness with 3 exceptions:

1.       Concentration will be focused completely (without the normal distractions of the reasoning, waking conscious mode);

2.       Every muscle will be relaxed;

3.       There is an increase in the acuity of the senses – hearing, touch and smell.

A safe process

Hypnosis is a purely natural state and a sudden withdrawal of the hypnotist will not abandon the subject to an unending trance. And more importantly, the client has the control and the hypnotist is not able to perform anything against the subject’s will.

Hypnotherapy sesssions can be done in person or through video call. Both are equally effective.

It is a very relaxing, energizing, delightful and empowering experience, as you can hear from these feedbacks after Impromptu hypnosis: CLICK HERE

Reference:

https://m1psychology.com/hypnosis-and-the-power-of-the-subconscious-mind/#:~:text=Hypnosis%20is%20a%20purely%20natural,behaviour%20pattern%2Dmaking%20systems%20reside.&text=Thus%20hypnosis%20is%20an%20artificially,Nevertheless%2C%20it%20is%20not%20sleep.

Power of Human Vibrations

As one walks the spiritual path and the aura gets clearer and wider, it will attract vibrations from others more easily. It is like if your house is filled with dust, daily accumulation of dust is not going to make much visible difference. Imagine you did a thorough dusting and cleaning of your house in the morning and when you look around in the evening, don’t you think you will notice the accumulated dust?

For this reason it is advised to be careful about the company one keeps. Recently I came to understand this very clearly. 

It is my routine in the  morning to gather flowers from the garden and after bath arrange them in different areas of the house.

The gorgeous hibiscus

There is one hibiscus flower that is so beautiful that I usually keep it in the drawing room.

Another characteristic of this flower is that on the next day morning when I change flowers, this particular one will  still be looking beautiful.

So I keep it aside till the evening and then only discard.

Wilted flower by same evening

One day a guest came, we had a nice conversation along with evening tea. I was not comfortable with his vibration. After he left, I noticed that this hibiscus flower that I had kept in the morning was wilted so much and I had to discard it immediately. My husband was so surprised to see this and it left an impact on him. It also substantiated my uneasiness with that person’s vibration.

 

 

The real meaning of Diwali

 

Diwali celebration is attributed to the return of Lord Rama from the forest where he spent fourteen years. But according to puranas this is not correct. It so happened that since no festival was celebrated in Ayodhya for fourteen years, on his return, all festivals were celebrated.

The real story

Initially Diwali used to be puja for Narayan and Lakshmi.  Later it changed to Ganesh and Lakshmi puja. Let us see how this change happened.

When Raja Bali won all three worlds and took the throne of Lord Indra, the latter panicked and went to Narayan. Knowing Bali’s weakness on giving ‘Dan’(charity), Narayan took the form of Vamana and sent Bali to patal lok. In patal, Bali was praying to Narayan, who became happy and had to agree to the request of Bali to go with him to patal.

So that year, Narayan was not present with lakshmi during Diwali puja. That is how Ganesh and Lakshmi puja started, which still continues.

Narayan’s return

Lakshmi was desolate without Narayan. She too decided to cash in on Bali’s weakness for ‘Dan’. She made Bali her brother on ‘Bhaiduj’ festival. When Bali asked what she wanted as a gift, she requested to release Narayan from patal. Then Lakshmi granted boon for Bali that he will rule all three worlds on Diwali.

Significance of gambling on Diwali day

In his previous life Bali was a gambler. Once while going to a prostitute with flowers,he tripped on a stone and fell on a nearby Shivling. He died on the spot and though he was destined to go to patal for his sins, he was given Lord Indra’s throne for one day for his merit in putting flowers on Shivling. When he sat on the throne, it struck him that for one good deed he got the throne for a day. So, to gain more merit, he offered one by one, everything in the Heaven’s treasury. In the evening when Indra came, the treasury was empty, and because of all the merits that Bali gained, he got Indra’s throne.

When Bali released Narayan from patal, Lakshmi gave the boon that Bali will be worshipped during Diwali and to commemorate his life as a gambler, gambling is allowed on Diwali day.

Puja during Diwali

During the Samudra mandhan ( churning of ocean, the Ksheera sagar), on the day Lakshmi appeared, Diwali is celebrated. Whoever lights lamp with oil (where Lakshmi resides), the Goddess blesses them and resides in their house for one year.

On the day Lord Dhanvantari appeared, Dhanteras is celebrated.

On Naraka Chaturdasi day, Mahakali puja is done.

Mantras in your life

Mantras have beneficial effects on the health of the body and positive effects at mental and emotional levels. The earliest mantras were composed in Vedic Sanskrit in India, and are at least 3500 years old. In the simplest form, the word ॐ (Aum, Om) serves as a mantra, it is believed to be the first sound which was originated on earth. Aum sound when produced creates a reverberation in the body which helps the body and mind to be calm.

Chanting mantra (japa)

Mantra japa is a practice of repetitively uttering the same mantra for an auspicious number of times, the most popular being 108.  Japa is assisted by malas (bead necklaces) containing 108 beads and a head bead, called 'meru'. Thumb and middle finger are used to count each bead while repeating the chosen mantra. After doing 108 repetitions, if another round of chanting has to be done, the mala is turned around without crossing the head bead and the cycle is repeated.

One or several mantras?

Even if one chants just one mantra throughout life with complete devotion, it is enough to uplift his/her life. But some people, like me, are drawn to several mantras. I feel strong connection to many mantras and got the clarification when I saw several past lives involved in spiritual pursuit. Each mantra activates a particular kind of energy in a different part of the body.

How to find time to chant many mantras?

If you are a one mantra person, there is no problem. But if you are attracted to many mantras and want to chant them all, there is problem with time management. I have found a way to do this. I have a mantra that I chant while cooking. Before starting to eat meals, I do Reiki and chant three mantras. In the morning and evening when I do puja, half an hour to forty minutes are spent in chanting different mantras. While doing yogasanas, during holding each pose, instead of counting minutes, I chant mantras. Then while performing routine duties, chanting will go on at the back of the mind.

I find this a very soothing practice. Our mind’s function is to think. Now a days there are too many stimuli around to give impetus for thinking to start, whether it is from the news paper you read, television shows or from Facebook and whatsapp messages. Instead of thinking about those things, which will only corrupt the mind, isn’t it wonderful to engage the mind in Divine mantras?

The purpose of different mantras

We can’t have a single program in the computer to accomplish different functions. With Word, you can have a word document, but to prepare a lecture presentation, you need to install Powerpoint in your computer. Each mantra has been chanted for millions of times by Sages and made powerful. They hold tremendous vibration that will be transmitted to your body while chanting, to bring about a particular result.

Ultimately, it must be your choice, according to your inner voice, whether you should adopt one mantra or many mantras, and which one.

Finding the purpose

As I entered the forest at dawn,

I gasped at the beauty of leaves so bright

The stately trunks, girths so broad,

Their skin glistening and smooth

 

The air was filled with fragrance divine,

From those colorful flowers all around

I spent hours roaming along,

Listening to the songs of birds abound,

Making a pledge to come again,

To bask in the beauty that I long for.

 

An year later as I trudged along

In anticipation of that dazzling sight

My feet stopped,

As I took in the heart wrenching sight

Of dead wood, dried leaves and rotten flowers.

 

I lost my strength, knees locked tight,

Sitting on a rock, letting flow my tears.

As my eyes dried up and I closed them,

The events in the past year flashed through.

 

I sensed the roots drawing water and nutrients,

The trunk doing the transportation,

Leaves making food for the whole tree,

Flowers engaged in ensuring lineage.

 

Then one day, as the trunk noticed the leaves,

Rustling in glee and dancing in the wind,

Remorse filled it up, as it craved to be like the leaf,

Stopping the duty that was the trunk's.

 

The roots sensed the trunk's remorse,

Thought of its whole life buried under,

Deprived of the wind and Sunlight,

And stopped doing its duty.

 

The fate of leaves and flowers was doomed,

Without the food and water coming up

From the roots through the trunk

And the forest died a painful death!

 

Five season later I happened to cross the path,

Of the forest that had died,

And wasn't I surprised to see,

The Heavenly beauty once again.

 

As I stood near the tree,

With my hands around the slender trunk,

I felt the whispers, 'Welcome back, my friend,

We won't disappoint you again,

We know the purpose of life now,

Each one is different  and our happiness lies,

In doing our duty to the fullest.

Manipura Chakra Meditation, Dr Beena Rani Goel, 18 September 2020

Bhagwad Gita - It Is Your Own Story

 

During my hostel days in PUC, we used to have an hour of ‘Bhagwad Gita’ class on Sunday mornings. The lady who took it had least interest in Gita and it used to be a boring class. When she started in her monotonous tone “Dharmakshetre Kurukshetre” I would be dragged into the land of sleep and it used to be a struggle to keep my eyes open. Needless to say I gained absolutely nothing from those sleepy hours.

Same words with magical effect

Recently I started listening to Manoj Kaimal’s talk on ‘Bhagwad Gita’. And when he started “Dharmakshetre Kurukshetre”, I was captivated. He explained that the word ‘Kshetre’ means field (the war field in the setting of Mahabharat yudh) and also temple. This refers to our body. It is in our hands to make this physical body into a war field or a temple. I felt as if nectar started pouring into my inner core. It was very fascinating how every incident and words were compared to things in our daily life in such a way that it made a deep impact. From then on I was waiting eagerly for his Monday evening discourses.

Parikshit and the dead snake

Parikshit was the last king of Chandra Vanshi, the grandson of Pandavas and son of Abhimanyu. One day Parikishit was in a forest for hunting and he felt thirsty, so he went to sage Shamik. Sage was engrossed in his meditation and he didn't listen to King Parikishit. Such a humiliation prompted Parikishit to put a dead snake around Shamik's neck. After some time Shamik's son came to his father and on seeing a dead snake around his neck, he cursed Parikishit that he would be dead in seven days by getting bitten by a snake.

In our daily life when we get irritated by people, mindlessly we throw dead snakes at them. For example, while you drive when somebody doesn’t allow you to overtake, some abusive words may be uttered. We think these words are harmless (the other person hasn’t even heard it, right?), just like that dead snake. But we need to remember that every action of ours is going to come back to us. Once this fact sinks into our psyche, we will be very careful with our words and actions.

When you are in your own shoes

Arjun had single handedly fought and defeated the Kaurav sena with great warriors like Bhishma, Dronacharya etc. when he was in the guise of Brahannala. His mind or hands didn’t waver even once. But when he was in the battle field of Kurukshetra, in his real identity, he was trembling and his bow, Gandiva slipped from his hand.

When we confront difficult situations in life, standing in our own shoes, we get blinded and can’t see any solution. If we can just step aside, mind becomes calm and receptive to the solution that already existed.

Is your intellect blindfolded?

To face our life in a balanced way, we need to let our mind direct us under the guidance of intellect. Manoj beautifully described the reason why things get into a mess . Our mind is Dritharashtra, who was blind from birth and intellect is Gandhari. Gandhari chose to spend her life time blind folded. Same way we keep our intellect blind folded and let the mind run amuck and complicate our lives!  

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Dentist- the sacrificial lamb of the millennium (Covid-19 effect)

It is interesting to take a look at the life expectancy of dentists. A 2007 article by Randy Lang, “Stress in Dentistry - It could kill you!” in ‘Oral Health’, reported that dental literature confirms dentists are subject to a variety of stress-related physical and emotional problems. He elucidates:

STUDIES AND STATISTICS

* The suicide rate of dentists is more than twice the rate of the general population and almost three times higher than that of other white collar workers.

* Emotional illness ranks third in order of frequency of health problems amongst dentists, while in the general population it ranks tenth.

* Coronary disease and high blood pressure are over 25% more prevalent among dentists than in the general population.

* Dentists suffer psycho-neurotic disorders at a rate of 2 1/2 times greater than physicians.

* The #1 killer of dentists is stress-related cardiovascular disease.

* The dental profession in North America loses the numerical equivalent of one large dental school class each year.

And then, CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that the dental professionals were 23 times more likely to have IPF (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis) than the rest of the population. IPF causes scarring of the lungs. Something in their workplace environment may have been poisoning them, investigators said, although they don’t know what.

Starting from a disadvantageous position

So a dentist’s life is starting with a disadvantage, and literally they are in a unique position. Majority of hours are spent bending over a patient in an awkward position, their necks often bent or crimped, their backs strained while trying to peer into the depths of their patient’s mouths and holding tools for long periods of time. Now with the microscope dentistry, they are forced to sit in a taut straight back position which can be very bad for the spinal health.

Covid-19, the last straw that may break the camel’s back?

Now with all the precautions and preparations that a dentist is supposed to adhere to while attending a patient, it looks like they are the sacrificial lambs of the millennium. Let us take a closer look. 

First of all, take a look at how a dentist has to wear the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) here . While sealed inside the PPE, one starts sweating profusely. Just watch the above video at 10.59 minute to see his wet shirt in this much short time of showing how to wear and remove the PPE. When the dentist works for hours in the clinic, imagine the wet clothe inside the PPE!

Gloves

In the above video, you will see that the dentist has to wear two pairs of gloves, the first is one size smaller. Even with the correct size glove, how I used to wait for the moment of finishing the dental work so that my hands could be freed and the skin could breathe!

Wearing a pair of gloves one size smaller is unthinkable for me, but the practicing dentist has no other go. He/she has to tolerate the hands being cramped for hours together. This is added to the high incidence of carpel tunnel syndrome among dentists due to repetitive motions and the demands on their hands.

A study was published in 2011 on the ‘Effects of Wearing the Wrong Glove Size on Shoulder and Forearm Muscle Activities'. Almost all subjects mentioned that their hands felt fatigued in the gloves that were one size smaller—a sensation that would likely increase if the gloves were worn for longer periods.  Wearing the wrong glove size led to decreased forearm muscle activation, that resulted in increased shoulder movements. Myofascial pain syndrome in the shoulder may be caused by the continuous operation of inefficient shoulder and forearm muscle activation patterns while wearing gloves of the wrong size during tasks that require manual dexterity.

Healthy hands are important for many activities in our life and if their health is non-optimal, dentists have a compromised life!

Masks

Dentists are more prone to acquire infections through saliva and aerosols. Surgical masks (SMs) are used by dental professionals to reduce microorganisms shedding from the mouth, nose, and face of the patient. Dental clinics are places with a high concentration of various infectious microorganisms, present on the surgical mouth masks used by dental professionals. A recent (2020 February) study performed for the assessment of bacterial and fungal contamination on the used surgical masks among dental professionals found that most of the micro-organisms isolated from the used surgical mouth mask were potentially pathogenic. Dental professionals should change the mask after each dental operatory procedure, especially those beyond 2 hours. Double-layered surgical mask or 95% efficiency for aerosol particles of 3.0 to 5.0 μm in diameter should be provided to patients as well to prevent cross-contamination.

Continuous use of face mask causes reduction of oxygen in the blood, reduction of oxygen to the brain, one starts feeling weak and it can even lead to death.

While wearing the PPE, in 15 to 20 minutes the mask and the clothes get wet. One cannot drink water or use the toilet till the PPE is removed, which may be after several hours. On a lighter note, all lady dentists have to forget about wearing saris and other Indian dresses and hair styling during the clinic hours!

References:

https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/stress-in-dentistry-it-could-kill-you/

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/ministry-puts-dentists-in-high-risk-category-87123

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/03/10/dentists-keep-dying-of-this-deadly-lung-disease-the-cdc-cant-figure-out-why/

https://www.dentalproductsreport.com/view/tackling-taboo-topic-mental-health-dentistry

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113990/ J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Feb; 9(2): 759–763.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/49/5/49_MS1235/_pdf

In communion with the Goddess

A famous Indian saint, Neem Karoli baba once remarked, 'Thousands of people have come to meet me. All their requests can be categorised under 20 headings, it is not a long list. Like 'When will I get married?'
'Please bless my daughter to get a job'
'Baba, bless me to have a son.'
Nobody came to ask for God. They asked for garbage (materialistic pursuits) and I granted them that.'

Purpose of temple visit

The purpose of visiting temple is also similar for majority of people. I could always feel the cloud of such aspirations, and it used to be sort of a mild distraction. During the lockdown period I was mentally at the temple of the Goddess whose mantra I was chanting daily. And what a different state my inner self experienced! It was just ecstatic. As the temple was locked, there was no crowd and no mental cravings floating in the atmosphere.

Totally by Grace of the Goddess

For 80 days at a stretch I was lucky to have this experience and it gave me an opportunity to expand my spiritual horizon. At 4 am every day I was there at the temple, cleaning the premises, chopping my head (ego), then chanting and praying so that Devi could fill me up! Then at dusk time repeating the same process, this period became like my 'Sanyasashram'. Though my stepping into 'Vanaprasthashram' in 2005 was a voluntary one, slipping into this was totally a gift from the Heavens.

Sign from flower

On June 8th, the 79th day of my special sojourn, while I was collecting flowers for puja, I was awestruck to find a flower like this:


This was the specific flower I offer to Goddess and usually it's pistil is always hidden inside the petals. But in one flower on this day, it had come out and was standing up towards the Heaven, to convey a message to me!

Manifesting goals and changing your destiny

For every person who is successful in ‘manifesting goals’ or ‘changing the destiny’, I find nine people who have miserably failed, in spite of following various techniques very sincerely for long periods of time.

I just typed ‘Manifesting goals’ on Google search and I was really amused by the amount of information and the number of videos that popped up. It is really interesting to have some idea on this:

1.       In this video, I share a few insights into some simple practices that you can do to help you manifest your goals

2.       Guided Meditation/hypnosis for Manifesting your goals and dreams by connecting with your SOUL ENERGY

3.       How to manifest your goals FAST

4.       The three step goal setting and manifestation formula

5.       How to manifest your goals by scripting

6.       Manifesting goals  through law of attraction

7.       No.1 secret to faster manifestation

8.       Three days manifestation technique

9.       Manifest your ultimate goals and destiny

..... and on and on and on...

What is the purpose of your incarnation?

For a moment let us pause and think about the purpose of our incarnation. The Earth is a school and we are here to learn certain lessons. Each lesson once learnt, is planned to take us to higher or deeper lessons. When we don’t learn, or refuse to learn from an experience, it keeps repeating, intensifying with each repetition. We are here to experience and enjoy this materialistic world, without getting totally pulled into its drama. The fact that we are souls having a human experience here should finally become an experiential fact. In the materialistic world, nothing succeeds like Ego and in the world of consciousness, nothing fails like Ego.

Where do we stand (as humans) in the Universe?

Copernicus introduced the idea of heliocentric universe, leaving Earth as just one planet among the others orbiting the Sun. The seventeenth century realization that the stars were heavenly bodies like our own Sun, located at incomprehensibly far distances, changed completely the position of our Sun and of ourselves in the cosmos. The Sun was just another star like the others, endlessly travelling its lonely path through space.  During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, astronomers found that our Sun was a member of a huge star system, the Milky Way.

With improved measurements of distances outside of our Galaxy, this huge 100,000 light-year wide system turned out to be just one among multitudes of others, such as the nearby (over two million light-year distant!)  Andromeda galaxy. In modern cosmology, Copernicus’ ideas have been extended to the ultimate in that our home location in the universe does not appear to be special in any way. In this situation, where do you think we stand?

It doesn’t help to think of humans as something special. We are part of this Universe, just like any other being. Generally speaking, other beings take as little as possible from the earth and contribute to the best of their ability; we extract much more than needed and are not bothered to put in maximum contribution.

Imagine a common place scenario

Scene 1:

 It may be easier to understand our need to manifest from where we belong. Imagine a household, the parents, a daughter and a son. The kids are small and need a lot of attention from the mother. They all have aspirations to do different things during the weekend. After a hectic week, the mother wants to spend time with her friends. The father wants to play badminton the whole morning and ‘loosen up’ with friends in the evening over a beer party. The daughter wants to go for her dance class in the morning and the son wants to go for his football game. Children are not old enough to go by themselves and either the mother or father has to accompany them.

Imagine that all four of them are trying to manifest their wishes, how do you think it will work out? Each one of us is not a separate entity; we are just dots in the infinite matrix. Or a single piece of the huge  jigsaw puzzle that is the Universe. If we try to manifest something which doesn’t synchronize with others around us, or the other puzzle pieces, it is difficult for it to happen.

Scene 2

The father is a daily wage earner and at the end of the day he brings rice, dal and some vegetable, which his wife will cook for dinner. The son demands chapatis and the daughter dosas. Tell me, will it be possible to fulfil their demands?

At the soul level we decide what experiences we want to go through during this life time and according to that we decide our place of birth, parents, capabilities  and the surroundings. As we incarnate, we start comparing our lives with those of others and we get into a groove of perpetual dissatisfaction and sadness because we are unable to have what they are having, whether it is opulence, career, or relationships.

Look for happiness inside

We can reach a place of bliss and peace only by realising that they reside inside of us, not by accumulating or achieving things. Whatever is destined to come to us, which we decided at the soul level, will come to us. We have created the present destiny through the previous karma. Realising this at the intellectual level will be of no help at all. It has to reach the experiential level, beyond which we are rooted in a blissful state. This takes years of understanding and sadhana, which makes it possible to just do our karma in a state of surrender and peace.

Finallly, it may help us and the Universe if we can switch from our ‘Want based approach’ to ‘Need based approach.’

References;

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-09534-9_33

Are you being rebooted?

I am not in the habit of taking nap daily. After the lockdown, I am forced to take a nap once in two days or so because I feel so sleepy. When I work on computer in the afternoon, I will fall asleep while typing something. When this happened a couple of times, I saw that my work was not progressing and decided to hit the bed. One day my mobile phone almost fell off my hand as I was sitting and checking the messages. During chanting with mala in the hand, the mala slips down multiple times.  Then I tried reading a book, and realised that the page was not progressing even after half hour because after reading a few sentences I would fall asleep, and then when I open my eyes, I would have forgotten what was read, so go back to the same sentences and so on.

While in these sleeping episodes I was totally transported into a very deep state which was rather unique. After ten days of same pattern, it set me thinking. I decided to take a close look at it from different perspectives.

Astrologically speaking..

2020 marks the opening of a new world era signified by rare outer planetary alignments. It is a significant year that requires a new set of rules and assumptions about time and reality. During January until December 2020 we will experience the very rare triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto (first time since 1284!).The meeting of Saturn and Pluto signifies a key turning point in the journey of transition and fundamental changes to the world as we know it. Jupiter, planet of expansion and growth, entered Capricorn on December 3, 2019 and will remain until December 19, 2020. Jupiter will conjoin with Pluto exactly on April 5th, June 30th and November 13^th to start a new 13-year Jupiter-Pluto cycle. Two strong energies meet, with one wanting to go to the heights (Jupiter) while the other draws to the depths (Pluto).

Saturn in Aquarius: Change is in the Air!

(March 22, 2020 – March 7, 2023): In the airy climate of Aquarius, Saturn works hard at forming a bridge between ideas of the past that have proven their usefulness and the unfolding concepts for the future. The emphasis is on reordering structures and boundaries, making connections, distributing information, and developing innovations to achieve a better future for humankind. As the co-ruler of Aquarius Saturn is the “planetary Gatekeeper for the New Age” preparing the planet and all its inhabitants for the new consciousness.

It is important for us to realize that now is the time to open our hearts more deeply than ever before and there’s no point in fighting it.

2020

This is the only year we are likely to live through wherein the first two digits will match the second two digits.  May be we can consider this a special privilege. 2020 tells us to be prepared for what is coming our way. Emotional and physical changes are about to enter our lives and we need to be prepared both mentally and physically.

A quantifiable physical change in the Universe follows when there is an energy shift. This shift may be around you as in the environment or in other individuals, and it can also occur inside you.  5D ascension timeline is happening now.

During the process of spiritual awakening, we become aware of more dimensions than the one reality we are living in and the one that we know so well. As the higher dimensional energies start calling us we start resonating with them and go on our quest to find out more about who we truly are. We learn about universal energies and different frequencies and what ascension truly means: an energetic shift from 3D to 5D by raising our frequencies to a much higher level and transmuting low frequencies of fear into unconditional love up to a point where no fear / trigger is left. We come across a lot of information and are learning a lot about ourselves, the Universe and humanity.

3D

This is the material world of fear. Energetically, this is a place of very low vibration, enhancing the illusion of separation, duality and free will. There is only one timeline (reality) available here and we live with the construct and illusion of the ego-mind of linear time. Through the illusion of duality we experience light and darkness, good and bad, joy and despair, better and worse. We have the choice to act as saints or demons. That is actually the only choice we have on this plane: Love or fear, light or darkness.

4D

The magical dream world sets in here and it is also called the Astral Plane. It is a dimension that is less dense and much more fluid than the third dimension, but still has only one timeline (reality). It hosts the illusion of duality, the ego, and thus fear is able to exist here.

5D

This is one of pure and unconditional love, with absence of fear. We totally start living from the heart. Here it is possible to tap into the collective consciousness through the altered mind, and learn more from there. The astral realm is a place where light and darkness come into conflict easily. Dark magic has its place here, dream walkers for example can influence us on this plane easily when we are still full of fear and have not learned yet to set healthy energetic boundaries, i.e. when we are able to create our own light and sustain it so that it simply absorbs the darkness. The body is lighter and of a different cellular structure. Our higher self gets fully integrated into our physical body and takes over the guidance. But before the higher self can be fully anchored into the physical body, the healing of all bodies (the mental, the emotional and the physical; healing = remembering our wholeness) has to be completed. Therefore, your higher self will slip in and out for a while until it can move in permanently. You will know when your higher self is integrated, when you do not question the universal flow and simply trust your journey. You do not feel the need to interfere or control that flow anymore. In 5D everything comes without an effort as we have rediscovered that the Universal energetic flow always guides us perfectly. We start connecting through our hearts and feel the connection and love instantly.

It is time for us to emerge as butterflies from our cocoons.

An upgradation

So, a definite upgradation is in the offing for the whole world in general and for individuals specifically. How much will come through your way will depend on how deeply you have been on your spiritual path in the last few years.  When you are upgrading your computer, after installing the software you need to reboot the computer right? This may be Nature’s way of rebooting us by making sure there is more sleeping time. So how many of you have been on the spiritual path seriously and are finding that you are feeling too sleepy?

References:

https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/enter-2020/

https://www.romper.com/p/pisces-2020-horoscope-predicts-a-turning-point-new-sense-of-purpose-19494038

https://thewakeupexperience.eu/3d-4d-and-5d-the-dimensions-and-their-differences/