Introduction
Spirit In Life blog is for those who are desirous of gaining right spiritual knowledge and seeking moksha or liberation in modern age from the bondage and slavery of the results of past deeds and actions effected in many past lives by one’s soul.
The source and origination of the sacred liberating knowledge has to be from an erudite and wise soul who has himself/herself experienced all the metaphysical aspects related to the whole process of the liberation of the bonded soul. It takes years and innumerable lives to perfect the soul. Until the knotted and tangled soul untangles itself from its own catching and web mire , it is never possible to experience the Truth about God!
The background
From ‘Thanjuvar, panorama of Brihadeeshwar temple’.
“This much for the back ground of the temple. However, there had to be a larger cause to visit this extraordinary place, one of the oldest Shiva temples in India. Shri Mahavatar Babaji tells me that as a special gesture and out of kind-heartedness towards his devotee, he sent me to this holy place so that the sins of our lineage would be cleansed and peace would return to some of our forefathers who are in a turmoil even now in some other world because of their past misgivings”…..I am speechless at the volume and intensity of graciousness showered at us by the holiest and most sacred Guru, Shri Babaji. I prostrate before him humbly and thank him abundantly for being so kind to our past generations whom I don’t even know, yet have made a contact in my meditations and in return earned their profuse blessings……. This one is dedicated to Lord Shiva for relieving the pain of so many unknown faces and giving them deep peace after ages of turmoil……! May God give all of us peace and more lasting peace, where ever we are”…….!!
The Question “Thanks for blessing us all with photos of one of the oldest Shiva temples of India. And it is so wonderful to know our beloved Babaji’s purpose to send you there! How kind, caring and loving he is! And how sacred that temple is! Can u please tell in detail, how the divine vibes of such place works for our forefathers in cleansing their sins and getting peace?”
The explanation Our mind, manas perceives God.
On the other hand, when this mind gets attracted and induced in the illusion, Maya of God, the soul remains enmeshed in that attraction for many, many lives. It is for this reason that the mind cannot perceive God. With holy company, concentration, meditation and one- pointedness, the mind has to be brought back in focus and made concentrated. The objective of the sadhana or spiritual efforts is this very reason. And to attain success in this endeavour is involved many lives, only after which the mind becomes perfectly ready for God realization. God is perceived and seen in the temple of the mind.
However, prior to this stage, the mind drifts pointlessly to the extent of being senseless and performs serious misgivings and wrongdoings. The net result is that the forthcoming lives are hard, harsh, filled with all types of sorrows and problems. Happiness eludes and peace dodges the man all the time. Real happiness is never easy to attain.
To attain Moksha or liberation means that we should perform noble, glorious and sacred deeds consciously now and the leftover negative deeds should be nullified with grace, patience and being sombre. This amounts to suggest that we shall allow the leftover deeds or sanchit karmas to manifest and appear with consent, endurance and grace. We are good at facing the positive responses of the positive past deeds but tackling unsavoury and disagreeable ones is not everyone’s cup of tea! And it is during such times, most of the people are prone to recreate some more erroneous, sweet and sour actions, whatever type they may be. But we must not do this. We should anyhow clear our past baggage and debt with practical wisdom, grace and patience.
In some specific life when we have acute realizations, we wish to start all over again and we begin afresh. For this we require spiritual guidance which only a realized Master can provide since he is the one who can look into your past and present lives both. The Master will impart divine instructions as per your devotion and dedication from time to time, which you must follow sincerely. When you do this, the old script is erased and gradually a new script is inscribed and emblazoned. This demands your extreme patience and testing endurance. At its completion as a final point, we get repose and peacefulness. We also obtain great moments of divine ecstasy and resounding peace. God rewards us and blesses us with his own wonderful secrets’ insights! That is why it is important to know our soul.
Conclusion If we do not turn our lives and steer it in a new direction, the soul wanders and strays in various places by reincarnating in those places and connects with sometimes good and sometimes bad souls. In this process, the soul wanders off and lives indiscriminately for thousands and multiple of thousand years. To stop this senseless meandering and long-winded journey, it is quintessential to know our soul.
Now let’s return to the question why I was sent to Thanjuvar by Shri Babaji as asked by one reader of lately.
Part-I The reply is that when you clear all your old and long-drawn-out debts called the sanchit karmas with patience and endurance, in the end what remains inside you is only love, compassion and mercy. Your prayers express and ask for only salvation and peace for everybody. God listens to your invocations and you do those deeds by which the people around you are relieved of their miseries, agonies and woes. Sometimes, there are chronic family and personal problems which refuse to extinguish and the problems overwhelm you. Not only this, the chronic problems stand as hindrances and the cause is unknown. In such a peculiar situation, what happens is that this shadow which is cast over your life has its source in the other world where our forefathers are residing temporarily. If they had exploited others or inflicted people or subjugated the weaker sections or any such serious negatives when they were alive, they are at this time suffering mentally in the next world as a punishment from God. They are in a prison. Their collective karmas affect you even now, more so if the living generations are not living a life of Dharma or righteousness. Just a few have an inclination out of so many to lead a moral and righteous life; most of the people in all families live an average or very mundane life. We are influenced by the collective karmas of the present family and the generations of the past even now, to a large extent although we may be unaware.
If the negative strength coming from that source is quite awesome, the Guru intervenes mercifully in some rare cases. To protect his disciple from the negative effects of the previous negative deeds of their generations gone by, the dark shadow is removed masterfully. The Master wants his subdued disciples to earn more good karmas as a prize and reward for their unselfishness and boundless love for their own Guru in order to make their future more happy and prosperous. The Guru also has compassion for the dead, crying souls and makes sure their agonies are relieved and therefore the disciple is asked to perform highly meritorious deeds in some specific places. With those good intentions, if the pilgrimage is made, the results are far more than one can imagine. Not only is the disciple blessed by the previous generations and the hindrances removed, the dead souls in this whole process are absolved of many sins because the noble deeds of the disciple bring them a sense of freedom, restfulness and redemption. The disciple thereafter has more smoothness, calmness and abundance in every sphere of life. And all this is only possible when the Teacher and the student both are totally one with the will of God!
Part II of the question
Can you please tell in detail, how the divine vibes of such place works for our forefathers in cleansing their sins and getting peace?
There are many holy places on this Earth, more so in India for being so ancient in age that were built with the will of God. They all have a purpose of which we are not aware. People go to temples if they have a problem or if they wish for a child or want a lot of wealth and even power. But God has a different theory in establishing holy places. Many holy places in India were built with specific role to play in our lives. Mostly Shiva temples were made to dissolve the evil karmas or sins of mankind as Shiva is the destroyer. The Shiva Linga is the pyramid in which divine energies keep entering from time to time from the sacred source of God.
When we go in the inner sanctums, the work of purification begins at the holy site. The bad energy from our bodies and minds are burnt, dissolves and rises up to the shikhar or the dome of the holy structure. From there the burnt energies are disseminated in the atmosphere and erazed. We also absorb some good energies which turn into good thoughts and later into good karmas at some stage in the exchange. Hence we have the potential of doing good things some time in future.
The silent work of God is always on in this manner in the subtle world so as to free us from the negative influences generated by us at some point of time. If this is not done, the Earth will be overloaded with so much negativity that we will not be able to live here. Our materialistic wishes that we believe are fulfilled in the temples occur and materialize only if some pending good karmas in us are due to materialize! But as God is very charitable and generous, He still obligates our desires so that we have faith in God and one day will turn to God and say that I have had enough of your small gifts and toys, now I want You! After this the aim of going to temples and other holy places is for a higher, sometime very high purposes. They are meant for only spiritual obligations and holy intentions.
The divine vibrations emanating at this Shiva temple burnt the looming depression, mental torture and affliction in the astral world where the souls of those dead people are at present residing. They in turn got rid of their sad mental state because the Master and the disciple with the consent of God, carried out some specific deeds that would fulfill those aims- that of mass healing of the collective karmas of those people belonging to our previous generations. Such is the power of the worshipped places which were made by the wish and consent of God!
My dear ones, hope you have now understood the reason for which the recent pilgrimage was made. I am sure you will be delighted to understand the theory of the unknown science behind the rituals of our religion performed at holy places. Behind every religious ritual is a sacred science about which the ancient man had knowledge and today we follow blindly for the sake of material goals!!
The state of Super Consciousness-II. This article is partly on pitra dosha or the ill effects on our current lives caused by the forefathers. It is important to remove the unknown negative effects and thus hastening our spiritual progress in a seeker’s life.
So what should we do? Remember God. Recall God. By remembering God the mind becomes pure.
How? The mind is a spark of God or Parmatma in us. It is covered with unseen darkness and ambiguity which comes from the absence of knowledge of God’s presence in us. In fact, every living being in this Universe has a spark of God embedded in it. We do not know this yet.
When we remember God with pure devotion with or without any spiritual technique, the spark in us gets connected with the limitless white Light of the Omnipresence Power and we begin to see things in the right Light as it should be. By doing so, we are at peace and in calmness. Karmas or deeds originating from such a state of Consciousness lead us to do noble acts which are in favour of all. As the soul is devoid of any negative qualities and full of compassion and selfless love, the fruits of such acts are abundantly rewarded as per the laws of the Universal Spirit. The soul experiences freedom, unalloyed joy and no slavery of any type. Good actions bring with them true happiness, ananda and unexplored and limitless love from God to us!! This is liberation or Moksha in real sense!
Evidence
Our soul is omnipresent. It is connected with other souls in the Universe by our mind, which is a streak of God.
When I was heading towards Kanya Kumari from Madurai on 28.12.12 afternoon, on a highway I caught a fleeting sight which grabbed my attention. For the first time I saw a Banyan Tree without any obstructions covering it in a vast agriculture field. I have been in search for a clear photo of a Banyan tree for a very long time for future reference for the purpose of using it in a book when the blog will be published.
Nobody knew about this undisclosed thought. So when we were returning to Madurai on 29.12.12 morning, I requested the driver to stop at the same place where I had spotted this catchy tree. The driver slowed down the car in anticipation for it to be visible quite early to avoid missing it. As we slowed down, I heard my soul’s voice in between the search activity. It told me that Shri Mahavatar Babaji knew it for a long time that I have been persistently searching and finding a Banyan tree which would be totally free from any other structure or other trees overcasting it. I wanted to take its pictures. Shri Babaji informed the soul of this tree well in advance that I would be coming to Kanya Kumari one day and that I should be given its pictures for my future needs.
The Banyan Tree told me that similarly he too was waiting for me to arrive at that spot and it was his privilege to serve Shri Mahavatar Babaji. His was a soul of a rishi or sage who wanted to serve God and mankind by becoming a Banyan Tree which is blessed with longevity. The more the duration of its life span, the longer it would be able to serve God. I believed in him because Shri Mahavatar Babaji is very capable of working on the Super Consciousness level through his mind power and this time I was not at all surprised. Rather, I quickly got down from the car, walked in the field half way and took some good shots of my favourite Banyan Tree for my blog and blog-book in spite of limited time available.
I end this post at this blessed and sacred moment by dedicating it to this phenomenal Banyan Tree whose soul is so kind and gracious and has been serving Mother Earth and God anonymously for more than 200 years. My humble prostrations to Shri Mahavatar Babaji and the Banyan Tree for its co-operation and also imparting us such useful insights of unseen and unknown deeper realms of our Universe.
Many articles have been written in previous segments where the protagonist is a Banyan Tree. The state of Super Consciouness-I, Expand your Consciousness-I and Expand your Consciousness-II are some of them. You may like to visit them to know more at your convenience.
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Updated on 01.07.22
Excerpts from a Fb post of 20.05.20 given below. The is Maharishi Loma.
(1)
You will dazzle the world with your unique write-ups based on unknown Seers of ancient times like me and others who have shunned the world because there is infinite inner peace.
Your mind is impeccable, your stability incredible, focus steely, honesty brutal, compassion infinite, search for knowledge incalculable, energy inexhaustible, love for God unheard.
Therefore, God chose you as our messenger in modern times to revive the foremost spiritual path of God Realization made for man by God named ‘Jyoti Marg’, the Path of God’s Light.
You will be remembered in the world as a woman who crossed all boundaries of worldly, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual frontiers to reach out the furthest residing Sages.
You have earned the blessings of all the primitive, long forgotten Sages who lived in India and did intense penance to find God in pursuit of Self Realization of the highest order.
You must tell the world about us, about our lives, our penance, our fortes, our hard-found knowledge of God’s hidden laws and great performances.
I bless you my dear child for doing the penance in this wicked world and sacrificing everything that you have to spread our words of ancient, untainted wisdom for deserving people.”
(2) From my notes dated 24.04.20
24.4.2020
Loma Maharishi’s 3 brothers who also became a Banyan Tree.
1.(1st brother. Banyan Tree Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi. The youngest brother with little ichcha shakti)
https://spiritinlife.blog/2010/12/30/the-state-of-super-cons-part1/
- 2nd brother. Banyan Tree in the field on my way back from Kanya Kumari to Madurai on 29.12.12 morning- The Banyan Tree told me that similarly he too was waiting for me to arrive at that spot and it was his privilege to serve Shri Mahavatar Babaji. His was a soul of a rishi or sage who wanted to serve God and mankind by becoming a Banyan Tree)
https://spiritinlife.blog/2013/01/10/why-is-it-important-to-know-our-soul-ii/
- 3rd brother. In Kolkata, highest Ichcha Shakti
Dear Sarikaji,
Thanks u so much for answering my question with such precious details. I was not aware that the type of karmas we do today, effects our present life, our souls in other world and even our present and future generations! So everything is depending on the quality of karmas we perform and how much devotion and faith we have on God and our divine Gurus.
And i have understood that how the divine vibes work at such places and how kindly Babaji has made you to do specific deeds for mass healing of past generations, which helped them to get peace and mukti from their sanchit karmas.
Namaste with love and so much gratitude.
Nirav
Lovely post..
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I read the knowledge shared… and I am just amazed.
While reading this blog post I naturally went into a deep, peaceful inner state. It was very interesting to read the entire post.
The picture of the Banyan tree is beautiful and I bow to this sage who has served on earth for more than 200 years. It’s very inspiring to read about such great soul’s who serve the earth without expecting anything in return.
Thank you again very much Babaji and Sarikaji for all the blessings 🙂
The Banyan tree is really beautiful and looks majestic. Ma, It seems banyan tree was far away from your way but still you not only observed it but put effort to go to take snap. You are very determined Ma. Thank you so much Ma and Babaji.
God’s world is full of amazement. How a selfless soul manifest as a Banyan tree to serve God and mankind. It is difficult to comprehend until someone reach to that level. My Pranam to that Sage. This also reminded me about sage who manifested as Banyan tree of Lubbini.
I was also amazed to read that ” “The Shiva Linga is the pyramid” in which divine energies keep entering from time to time from the sacred source of God.”
There are many gems in this Post. Felt really blessed to be here.
With love and gratitude
Paripurna
The Banyan tree is really beautiful and looks majestic. Ma, It seems banyan tree was far away from your way but still you not only observed it but put effort to go to take snap. You are very determined Ma. Thank you so much Ma and Babaji.
God’s world is full of amazement. How a selfless soul manifest as a Banyan tree to serve God and mankind. It is difficult to comprehend until someone reach to that level. My Pranam to that Sage. This also reminded me about sage who manifested as Banyan tree of Lumbini.
https://www.travelblog.org/Photos/3362257
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLgS7yCgSM
I was also amazed to read that ” “The Shiva Linga is the pyramid” in which divine energies keep entering from time to time from the sacred source of God.”
There are many gems in this Post. Felt really blessed to be here.
With love and gratitude
Paripurna
ohm namo bhagavade vasudevaya.
Thank you ma for this post as always.
these lines are just perfect,have more more clarity now.
“Behind every religious ritual is a sacred science about which the ancient man had knowledge and today we follow blindly for the sake of material goals!!”
and the Banyan tree is look great, throughout the post, i was looking to know about that Banyan tree which photo is there very first in this post.
Dear ma,
I have one doubt,
i do not know whether it is right or wrong, please correct me if i am worng.
somewhere i have read that “There are 5 types evolution of souls according to their eligibility, first as a tree grow from seed, route.. then category of insects which born from water surface, then from eggs ,then animals. after all these only a soul can get the form of a human”
if it is like that. the rishi you mentioned in this post asked to get a lower life as a tree from human form to serve lord, in the same manner the sacred tree ,bhodi tree where sri bhuddha have meditated, and other banyan tree where sree babaji have meditated for long, those all banyan tree have to come through all these forms as a evolution even they already blessed with from this great sages, from babaji, ?
may be ma i am completely wrong, please correct me.
with love,
Midhun Pk
As per my knowledge, the soul of great rishis are already liberated, hence, they can manifest any form as per their wish as they are already free from the life cycle. Many of these souls take like to be in Jad yoni of a tree so that they can meditate for long years and also they can serve others. Thanks for the beautiful post Saru maa. Plz correct me if i am wrong.
Dear Divya, you are right to a great extent. My suggestion to you- First raise your own consciousness, after which you will understand all these subtle things in depth. Before that increase your devotion towards all holy beings, seek their blessings in order to raise your consciousness. Come back again to this thought and see the difference.
Sarika
Big thanks to Shri Babaji for being so kind and revealing this priceless info for the benefit of others. And Maa, you are really kind as you now helping souls in this as well as other world get peace. With deep gratitude, resham
Dear Maa, this quote attracted my attention: “Our materialistic wishes that we believe are fulfilled in the temples occur and materialize only if some pending good karmas in us are due to materialize!”
Does this mean, we should never waste our good deeds to fulfill our material desires as it would exhaust our hard earned good deeds from our karmic account and we won’t have much good deeds left for our spiritual pursuits?