‘Shreyas karmas’ are the ones which are difficult to perform and not very pleasant in the initial stages but are highly beneficial for us in future. While ‘Preyas karmas’ are those karmas which are very pleasing and enjoyable in the beginning but produce ill effects in future in long term.

The beneficial or ‘Shreyas karmas’ are advantageous, benign, health giving and have positive and wholesome effect in our lives. They give peace, longevity and abundance. So perform only positive actions. But this path of selective good actions is sometimes long and arduous. Our feet get tired, we lose hope and courage, we find ourselves alone with no companion, people ridicule us as majority of them do not validate our views, and finally we see that there is no energy left in us to walk up the steep hill.

But do you know my lovable child, that you should never give up  your ambition because our aim is very blessed and unselfish. Our motives very pure and therefore God provides us help in accomplishing our benign goals. Although the greedy and selfish man also works hard to achieve his goals and selfish intentions, but God never provides him any encouragement or support.

God provides help only to his sweet children by giving them ‘shakti’ or force in their minds by planting thoughts of determination, fortitude, discrimination, goodness and self-belief to continue walking on the rocky path of God-realization. Whoever makes attempts to redeem, purify and wants benediction, God promotes and backs up every little effort of ours so that we  make consistent and considerable progress for atonement, self discovery and God realization.

God is non-doer, a silent spectator and is responsible for nothing that we do. We are responsible for whatever actions we take whether  physical or mental or otherwise. But when you invoke God by the perfume of your virtuous acts, He blesses you like a Father to a son for your good acts and supplants fatigue with good energies, high spirit, a fine intellect and extraordinary physical and mental energies to cover up the gaps when we take giant strides to make our spirit blossom.

But those people who harbour evil thoughts, jealousy, anger and shrewdness, they all live in hell. They emit a foul smell as they have a very small heart. Such people slowly become lazy in nature, they do not get success in their goals and their mind gets constricted. They fall and regress and further regress on the ladder of human evolution.

Now there is one question which may crop up in our mind in the process of salvaging ourselves. Which actions should we chose from so many possibilities as sometimes our mind gets blurred? There is always a choice that we have to make and we do not know what is right for us? What is the criteria of selection?

 We should only choose to do those karmas which will raise our soul higher, which will produce enthusiasm and zest in our lives and which will make our life a blissful paradise.

What sort of life should we lead to enable us to do the right actions?

Our life must be simple, it should have sweetness. It should have love in abundance. Our life should be brimming with devotion, love and goodness for all!!

A few lines in Hindi are flowing spontaneously at this point in my mind summarizing the topic of all the three posts. I hope you will appreciate my small effort in expressing myself what I wish to say. It goes something like this..,

Agar atma prakash karna chhate ho to shubh, hitkari, swarthheen karam karo.

Nishkam karam mukti ka dwar hai, rasta hai.

Nishkam karam man ko shanti deta hai.

Nishkam karam-bandhan se mukti deta hai.

Nishkam karam do dilo ko jodta hai. Raag, bhaye ko door bhagata hai.

Nishkam karam punyai ka ambar lagata.

Nishkam karam se Arjun ko Krishna mil jata hai.

The translation in English.

If you wish to have Divine Illumination, then perform beneficial, selfless actions.

Selfless acts are the door to salvation, is the path of salvation.

Selfless acts give peace of mind.

Selfless acts free us from the bondage of results of our actions.

Selfless acts join two hearts. It eliminates anger and fear.

Selfless acts add to your treasure trove of virtuous acts.

With selfless acts, Arjuna (devotee) finds his beloved Lord Krishna (God)

Please refer the last post for more description and explanation)

(Concluded)

Our actions are what we are. Our actions are what we will be, our actions build our future lives. Our actions determined where we were even before many, many years in the bygone eras and times. Actions determine the character of a person. We are judged by God by the type of our performed actions. We are judged by God by the intentions of our actions. Actions are the Force which will push the soul either upwards or downwards on the wheel of life and death on the cycle of evolution!!!!

My dear Mandira, this evening I want to draw your attention on something which I feel you should be knowing by now. It is very important that you understand a few fundamental concepts and principles of Divine Laws on which our lives rest. Unless you know and understand them, you will not be able to take charge of your life. The following three posts will be an explanation of this so please try to link each post with the other and then understand the  principle in totality. It will start with a mundane example but will lead you to very crucial  fundamental principles of spirituality. So let’s start from this point-

If you look around yourself, perhaps you must have marked that most of the time our immediate environment is not agreeable and pleasurable as people are having altercations with co-workers, squabbling with neighbours, having some dispute with one or the other or else people are at loggerheads with relatives and opponents. We are not able to give, share, understand other people’s problems and pains, lack sympathy and shirk to co-operate. Just observe all that what I have brought out to your notice. Why do you think this is quite common no matter where you go? Did you ever find out why does man not live in adjusting and co-operative manner? It sometimes pains me to see that there are so many people who are not  caring,  are unconcerned, unhelpful and are self-serving to the core. What could be the real reason behind all this you must know.

Man by nature is born selfish. He is by nature covetous, acquisitive and egocentric. And the reason behind his improper behaviour and attitude is- ignorance and lack of understanding. He does not know that his actions are an outcome of his ignorance.

As we sow, so we reap. So actions based on being cunning, selfish and hate not only create unhappiness for oneself but by the act of the Supreme’s Law of action and reaction, his actions are all the time shaping and building a future life for him which will degrade his soul and as a punishment he will regress in future coming lives by encountering poverty, disease, sorrow and inadequacies. Each soul is responsible for oneself. There is so much poverty all around us and one seeks to know why is it so? It is of course because of greed and exploitation by a few and nonetheless also due to the wrong doings of the sufferers at some point of time for which he is paying now.

Whenever a soul performs a wrong action, a thin layer of dark energy covers his Soul. And the brain gets proliferated with dark dense dots of negative energy and he in turn, cannot perform deeds wisely and his intellect gets contaminated under the dark cloud of darkness. On the contrary, when we do actions and activities whether in a group or solo like generosity, helpfulness, love and kindness and unselfishness, the already existing layers of darkness and ignorance over our Soul is dispersed, gets thinner and our brain is polished little by little. That’s why good natured people, irrespective of  lack of material wealth or good health are spirited people. Wherever they go, they beam happiness and make everyone light. Such people are morally upright, fearless and will always perform righteous acts as prescribed in our scriptures.

(To be continued)

During one of the dynamic meditations these days, Sri Paramhansa Yogananda or Guruji helped me to grasp the subtle working of the unseen underlying forces in this Universe.He made me understand that there is a fine balance of two types of energies in the world which are responsible for its peace, harmony and stability. The moment the bad or evil forces begin to take charge and spoil the work of God, the Divine forces, through saints in this as well as in the astral world escalate their task of counter balancing and reinforcing the good energies by their mere ‘will’ or ‘thought’. The explanation and elaboration of this principle is as follows-

In this Universe, out of God’s powers, were created two types of forces. One which is good, conducive, progressive, evolutionary and constructive in nature called the Divine Force or Devik shakti (Godly forces). And the other which contradicts it by opposing it, the ungodly force or asuric shakti (Demonic forces). It is regressive in nature and causes turbulence, chaos, conflict, confusion and destruction in the environmental field and in the space in which we live. The two forces are constantly at play in the Cosmic Creation in various forms in nature as well as in man.

In short, we can call them positive energy and negative energy. Still better, positive forces versus negative forces to make it easy to understand for this purpose.

 And in this world there are 3 types of people-

•  Very good people who do only good actions. Very few in number. Just to understand things, we can denote and call them ‘The white people’ for the sake of our convenience and simplification.
• Very bad people who do only bad actions. A huge number. The black people.
• Mix type- who do good as well as bad actions both. Again a large number. They are grey people.

So we have just a few people who are highly virtuous and contribute mightily to the pool of positive karmas in the universe. But remember, it is the quality and great intensity of their karmas which makes all the difference. Humanitarian acts of compassion, friendship, love, forgiveness, service, philanthropy, charity of material wealth for a spiritual cause, revival of ancient art and science of god-knowledge are acts of great contribution for sustenance of humanity and creation on this earth. So though there are just a few who can perform such great acts but their impact on the world scene is tremendous and is great in measure, scale and intensity. The godly, humanitarian and saintly people fall in this class.

Next are those large number of men, who because of their degenerative nature carry out acts which are regressive in nature for our society and evolution of man. Acts of repression, anarchy, creating political turmoil, abuse and subjugation of women, inhuman acts of treachery, opposing development of society by selfish people and individuals who cause infliction to others in thoughts, deeds and mind are of this class.

Lastly there are the ‘grey people.’ Such people under the influence of their past good deeds in this or past life are bent to do virtuous acts of religion, charity and goodness. But as this tendency is not yet firmed up strongly because of deeply buried hidden tendencies of greed and craving  for honour, money or fame, they have friends, relatives, associates and co-workers with whom they join in acting in wrongful acts of sins, corruption, cheating, lying and impunity to law. They sometimes also do very rewarding acts and at the same time, they are prone to act in very harmful ways also. They do ‘mix karmas.’

People are all the time acting and sending out these two types of energies and thus creating new patterns of vibratory energies in the Universe composed of different qualities. The effects and consequences are here for us to see in the manifestation of social, political, moral and spiritual conditions of our society.

A society degenerates when truth, goodness and morality begins to decline and shows signs of positive growth in every sense in all areas when goodness, truth and fairness increases and prevails.

There is a constant fight, a tug of war between good and bad forces where Divine forces act upon the ungodly forces to establish Dharma or righteousness, order, balance, peace, harmony and goodness. Or else the evil forces, whose primary assigned role is to destabilize the harmonizing order and energies will be a victor. As long as the tussle between these two forces is going on, the balance seems to even out.

However, it is the intervention and acting of the ‘grey people’ during the ‘balance time’ which causes tremors, agitation, disorder, violence and storms in the Universe. Normal life goes out of gear and order.

The so called ‘grey people’ are the ones who are responsible for the tilting of the delicate balance of both energies in the surroundings and prevailing normal conditions. When they do good actions by coming in contact and associating with good people, the positive energies increase. And the negativity decreases so there is order, calmness and peace. But when the grey people out of greed, egoism or ignorance align with bad people to gain some selfish motives, it spoils the balance by tilting the needle of the balancing scale towards the bad forces. And the needle begins to tilt towards the other side and the result is destabilization of good energies.

God is a silent spectator. He has given us the power of  ‘free will’. It is up to us whether we exercise the given gift of free will or not. Free will also means we may or may not take the initiative to carry out an act. Man is free to do or not do something. God is impartial and loves all alike.

When the silent spectator, God perceives the leaning of the forces more towards the dark forces or when the balance of the forces has gone out of control and it has begin to affect adversely or harming peoples’ right of peaceful living and freedom, or when people are exploited and looted by the corrupt and liars, God does step in quietly. He intervenes by choosing some savants, saviours and samaritans who are deliverers, defenders and who serve the Lord. Through them The Lord brings about positive changes in the social set-up although the culprits and offenders are unable to see or understand this. They obviously cannot comprehend the subtle acts of God operating in their surroundings. They continue to strike, play dirty tricks, resort to unscrupulous acts, malpractices etc but finally they fail in their misdeeds. The power of God is such that all their efforts go to waste and they eventually lose by running out of luck and goodwill. Once again dharma, fairness and righteous living are re-established and peace and stability  restored.

So we as believers and devotees of the Almighty must always preserve trust and faith in God and at the same time endure and even suffer sometimes to oppose the bad forces in order to stop those wicked people from becoming stronger so that they do not rout the Divine forces and bring about chaos, indifference and deterioration in our society. If we too do not allow the acts of bad people to take place and if we oppose them, this  will be our good karma and it will be accounted in our credit.

So my dear child,

We must never ever align, associate or side with ungodly people and we must always do what God has told us through the scriptures like Geeta or Bible. These scriptures are for our guidelines and navigation. Spirituals laws are clearly written in them by the do’s and don’ts. And God will be pleased with us and will favour and protect us if we obey these laws. Our life will be filled with contentment, stability of mind and righteousness. There will be no guilt, sorrow, disease and remorse.

But please know that all this takes time to re-set and realign the two forces in nature and we must be faithful, patient and must possesses fortitude. We must trust in God.

Remember what Sri Krishna had said in Bhagwad Geeta Chapter IV verses 7 and 8

 Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati Bharat

Abbhyuthanam adharmasay tadatmanam srijamyahum-7

Paritranaaya sadhunam vinashayay ch dushkrutam

Dharamasansthapnarathaya sambhavami yuge yuge-8

Arjuna, whenever righteousness is on the decline, the unrighteousness is in the ascendant, then I  appear.

For the protection of the virtuous, for the extirpation of evil doers and for establishing Dharma (righteousness) on a firm footing from time to time.

While I am wrapping up this post, I am overwhelmed and soaked with gratitude. It is a day of revelation, a day of awakening for me. It is Guruji’s blessing falling over me and a gift to all of us who read this blog on this  blessed day!!

My heartfelt thanks to this beautiful Spirit!!

Oh God beautiful. Oh God beautiful.

 At Thy feet Oh! I do bow!!!!!!!

(To be concluded)

The atmosphere was filled with vedic mantras as special poojas were being organised and conducted by devotees in the outside complex as well as inside the hall. I was listening to the rhythmic sound of mantras recited by the pujaris, the Brahmins as I sat there facing the idol in the hall.

Gently my eyelids shut as I began ‘naam smaran’ or repeating the holy name. I was uttering mutely…Nityananda, Nityananda, Nityananda….

My mind was soon interiorized with the help of the ongoing chanting when after a brief spell I heard these words  inside me, “Chanting band karo.”

 “Stop the chanting.”

 I obeyed immediately and I sat there with a restful mind. A few moments were spent like this when….

At the point of concentration in between the two eyebrows of my forehead, I saw a Jyot, a Divine Flame in oval shape glowing radiantly. It was lemon yellow in colour. The flame had a thin outer ring of  blue colour. Or to be a  little more precise it was more close to cobalt blue, which quickly disappeared and only the yellow flame remained there.  The  flame was steady. I saw it glowing continuously.

Ah! What do I say what I saw!? Words can never translate what I experienced in those moments. How am I to say what I saw? What can I say how I felt at that moment? And whenever I recall those peerless moments in the temple, my whole being fills up with deep tranquility and joyful peace! I recapitulate those moments even now in times of solitude and repose to connect with the Eternal and relive that sense of oneness with it. Words cannot describe what your soul has felt. They will always fail me to express such sublime moments of oneness with Divinity!

The preparation and foundation I realized later, for further higher experience had been laid with the glimpse of Light and with this my mind was elevated to higher sources by this time. I understood sitting there that Sri Nityananda Swami had prepared the ground for me for higher and deeper revelations of spiritual sciences and enriching experience. Something more is yet to come.  And so….

The quiet, mute conversation now began with the omnipresent Guru. He informed me by speaking very gently, “Yeh Divya jyot hai.”

“This is the sacred flame of God.”

It occurred to me that it  was a confirmation of the spiritual phenomenon which took place just a few seconds before, or else I would have not fully understood what exactly had happened .

He continued, ” Mei tumhara param Guru hun. Param Guru Param Siddha Yogi hota hai.”

“I am your Param Guru.  Param Guru is a Param Siddha Yogi”

I bowed down reverentially in my heart at the blessed moment with a feeling of deep gratitude and thankfulness directed towards him. I stooped down to touch his feet, which always beam divine beatific rays, as though he was actually present in his physical body in front of me. I today realize that I had become a recipient of God’s blessing through Shri Nityananda on that very special day. So far I had known only about Kripa- Prasad, but for the first time it dawned on me that this is ‘Hari Prasad’ – God’s blessings in such wonderful ways. I was very, very pleasantly awakened with such a rewarding experience!

After this, the oval shaped flame expanded to become a small circle and covered my upper portion of the face and forehead and the malleable energy in its circumference was touching my skin while I felt its tingling on my cheekbones very vividly. I even felt the sensations on the eyelids and forehead. I was deeply absorbed in this experience sitting there with my eyes closed and did not care at all about what was happening around me as the minutes that were floating were too blissful to barter with anything else and was not worth its match really!

At this stage, Swami Nityananda enlightened me by giving me knowledge of various stages of spiritual progress by the human soul.  He began by revealing “Divya gyan Param Guru se hota hai.”

“Sacred knowledge is imparted by Param Guru only”.

These words of wisdom from the great soul were like immortal drops of elixir, words that infused life and vigour in me because they were spiritually awakening in every sense. I became more attentive now as I wanted to gather every little piece of the priceless pearls that were falling in my lap one by one.

At this point, the circle of the halo extended and became bigger than even before as I felt the soothing warmth of the extremely light and gentle tingling sensation of the halo touching my shoulders. The scattering rays sat lightly over my both shoulders. And there I sat, unmoved soaking myself in the balsamic rays and felt lighter and lighter. I was further gratified by the following upcoming words of spiritual wisdom from the kind-hearted saint.

“Guru aur Ishwar ek ho jata hai is awastha par. Yahan par shanti hai.”

“Guru and God become one at this stage. There is Peace here.”

Soon the ethereal halo became much larger, big enough to encircle me wholly and completely by now. I was so enamoured by it that I can’t really tell! I felt the emollient  rays of Light which were falling and descending all over me like satin-soft light showers of featherweight rain drizzle. They were too, too endearing and alluring. And they continued to fall till they touched my knees and the rest of the body by now. I sat there bathing under the thick canopy of soul-soothing Divine rays. I took a spiritual bath under the shower of Divine Light and felt profusely blessed at that stupendous moment. I was completely dissolved with gratitude for my Guru and God both. God’s blessings came as a real surprise and I was receiving them like the  thirsty dry  earth  that sips the first rain drops of the rainy season hungrily! My thirsty soul never once wished for the rains to stop! A memorable time of my life written with indelible ink!

It was the sheer Grace of God which was flowing towards me through the benevolent saint of Ganeshpuri. Had he not intervened and explained to me in explicit terms through his soft spoken mellifluous words,  I would have not known and understood the matchless value of this valuable experience.

He went on to  speak these weighty words of enlightenment to illumine me once again. ” Yahan aakar, Guru bhi nahi rahta, Brahma hota hai.  Is awastha mei kewal nishabad brahma hota hai. Shanti ke baad maun, shunya hai.  Yeh satya ki khoj hai. Brahma hamara strot hai. Hum wahin se aaye hai aur punha usme leen hona hai. To dhyan karo, is Ishwar ki Jyot par dhyan karo.”

“After arriving at  this stage even the Guru is not there, only Brahmn remains. At this stage there is the Absolute Truth, absolute Brahma, Immutable Brahma, Unchanging Atman our Spirit. This is the beginning of the search of the Truth. Brahma  is the source of our Origin. We must immerse in it again. So meditate on the Light of God! Meditate on the golden glow of illuminating Light!”

So my dear child kindly listen to me now. Surrender completely in your heart and mind at the Lotus Feet of your spiritual master. He is the messenger of God for his devotees. He will show you the path of salvation and the road to illumination. God’s Grace is received by those who have complete trust in their spiritual mentor and who are ready to obey them unconditionally. One can chant this mantra for moksha thus freeing his soul from bondage of karmic consequences.….

Om Namo Bhagwate Nityananda. Om Namo Bhagwate Nityananda.. Om Namo Bhagwate Nityananda….

 Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu.

 Gururo Devo Maheshwara.

Guru sakshat para Brahma

Tasmai Shri Gurvai namah.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti Om.

(Please read the previous post to know who is a Param Siddha Yogi)

Last night on 23^rd Jan, I slept in deep peace. Something mystical conjured up before I was retiring to bed. As is the practice every night, I washed my face by splashing some tap water and began preparing myself for a good night’s sleep. While I was  brushing, I smelt something heavenly near me. There was a waft of jasmine incense stick scent sweeping in my area and it caught my attention instantaneously. I was quick to perceive and identify the alluring ethereal scent  in the atmosphere. It was very distinct. I spoke to myself,  “This is not the ordinary Jasmine fragrance I know of, though it is similar to the one I have at home.” My extra sensory perceptions were heightened and I continued thinking “Definitely, there is something supernatural happening around me. A celestial being is near me at this moment and wishes to convey something. But who can it be? Why has He appeared before me? What am I to understand and grasp from all this?”

I comprehended and perceived the identity of the Divine Soul right then with whom I am very familiar with and was obviously delighted and felt so blessed. Not ready to miss this blessed moment, I went in my room without allowing my mind to get engaged in its trivial and frittering movements. I sat quietly on my bed with no lights. I bowed unpretentiously to my beloved astral accomplice of those blissful moments. I then meditated upon the pious and serene image of this compassionate saint and waited in expectancy to receive his bountiful gifts.

Within a few seconds, I slipped into a spell of calmness and tranquility and began to experience profound peace vibrations falling all over me. The room was radiating with abundant peace and I tried to absorb every little ray of peace floating around me. I became calmer and more calmer and the mind melted completely in the calm sea of peace and bliss. I continued sitting still without moving and was bathing in joyful peace. My eyes were closed and on my forehead, cheeks, head and shoulders as well as on arms were falling glimmering rays of golden Light one by one buoyantly. I got completely softened, melted  and immersed in the golden glow of mellow luminosity!

During such glorious moments, I submitted myself at the Lord’s feet and sincerely requested Him to suggest to me what I must write next in the upcoming post of mine. “I, in all humility and submission offer each word that I write to the Merciful Father, the endower of all creative works.”  I spoke politely to Him. With such wonderful thoughts, I went to sleep peacefully. So peaceful were the last moments that I woke up on light ethereal wings and I yearned to experience those sublime moments once more after absorbing the leftover divine beatific rays!

The morning that followed was a distinguished one. I returned to the same spot and began to concentrate on the inner illuminating eye. The connection with the inner Self seemed effortless on that day. Enlightening thoughts began to brim over one by one and I could comprehend that this is because of last night’s ‘classic encounter’ of mine. So I consolidated previous night’s sojourn with the Deity within me who began to speak in its own distinctive language and speech! Ideas and thoughts began to flow with his benign flow of Grace!

My dear daughter, now this is for you….

During the meditation span, I started getting insights regarding the current situations of our country as well as the world from the viewpoint of the liberated souls of the saints and mahayogis who are not in their physical body at present but they still wish to communicate something to us. Doors to an entirely new subject were opened for me and I saw their  wide and broad-minded opinion of  a global vision during meditation. The current economic and political situation is not only our concern today, but also for them. They are more concerned than any of us I feel. I began to understand this more and more during the passing moments and clarity crept in.

To those liberated souls, progress in spirit and the events of the world are of equal concern as these events affect our lives and future in many serious ways. We cannot be indifferent to the circumstances around us. It is the limited mind which thinks otherwise. God speaks to us in so many ways you see! Sometimes through nature, sometimes through bizarre incidents and sometimes through the medium of saints. Man doubts God’s existence and His power existing behind the presence of life on the earth. But God is very, very compassionate and is looking after and protecting humanity by conveying peace messages through Divine Souls. Like god, the liberated souls are equally concerned about bringing peace upon the world for progress and prosperity.

Look at the phase through which our country  and the whole world for that matter, is passing through now-a-days. Many developmental and economic reforms were undertaken in our country in the last few years and there was a boom. People were thrilled and were beginning to expect the country to take a giant leap by its emerging as a super economic power. But with the  recent abrupt halt we now see gloom. There is a downturn and all eyes are on the President of US, who won the elections recently as to what economic and political policies will he adopt and the consequent results they will have on the other countries as well.

Now let’s look at this particular scene from the view point of spiritualism and humanitarianism put together. The question is can only bringing about economic reforms and developments, changing political situations bring about peace and prosperity in the world? Can there be prosperity for all of us only by making life more abundant, comfortable and tizzy? Let’s assume for a moment that all the nations of the world have Presidents or Prime Ministers who are ideally suited and have only one mission- serving the people. Will we still be done? If every person benefits (which is incredibly impossible) from the incredible economic and political waves of reforms, will then each man be happy? If not, then let’s think, what is missing here?

From the spiritual viewpoint- no, he won’t. Because-

Apart from economic, social and political correctness, the man also needs something more, something else. And that is peace! Man thrives on peace. We must have peace in the world, peace in our country, at home, at office and peace everywhere.

Many years ago, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated and his peace plans were thwarted. Look at the social and political scene of the two neighbouring countries at present. There are no signs of peace but only conflict and violence. War, hatred, economic rivalry, petty ideals make our world narrow and difficult and unsafe to live in. Our countrymen are being divided and further divided into smaller groups for personal petty gains by people in power and politics. Therefore, corrective measures as individuals, groups as well as nations need to be taken  soon. If the President of US is today taking corrective measures to bring about peace in the world by resolving and amending the conflict between warring groups and countries, let’s join in the world family and wish good for all and pray for him and others too, so that there is lasting peace established in the world that we live in today.

These days, I am flipping through the  pages of  ‘Savitri‘. I understood some paras well. The following lines convey similar line of thoughts which I have picked up and am writing  for you.

 In ignorance and nescience are our roots.

A growing register of calamities

Is the past’s account, the future’s book of Fate:

The centuries pile man’s follies and man’s crimes

Upon the countless crowd of Nature’s ills;

As if the world’s stone was not enough,

A crop of miseries obstinately sown

By his own hand in the furrows of the gods,

The vast increasing tragic harvest reaped

From old misdeeds buried by oblivious Time.

He walks by his own choice into Hell’s trap;

This mortal creature is his own worst foe.

His science is an artificer of doom;

He ransacks earth for means to harm his kind;

He slays his happiness and others’ good.

Nothing has he learnt from Time and its history.

   ‘ Savitri’ Canto II  by Sri Aurobindo.

In this Universe, of which we are a part, there is a constant play of God and anti-God forces. When the anti-God forces increase in the form of unrest, agitation, violence, unrighteousness or adharma, crimes and other sinful acts, there is chaos, disruption of peace plans and prosperity.

Our world is going through the era of ‘Kalyug’. The basic characteristics of the Kalyug man are greed, selfishness and materialism. With such characteristics, where is the scope of peace in his mind?

Greed divides man from man, society from  society, one nation from another nation. If only we could realize that true happiness comes from peace within and not by satisfying our selfish materialistic goals and impulses and passing pleasures, we can make our ‘Home’, the world a better and worth living  place for all of us.

Hope you understand the underlying many good thoughts and golden rules of spirituality which are interwoven in this thought provoking post.

So my dear girl, we, as responsible citizens and devotees of God must pray for peace for the  world and for ourselves. When you remember God in your meditations and prayers, bring down peace in your heart, in your mind and disperse it everywhere you go. Bring down peace for yourself, for your family, for your neighbourhood, for the country and for the whole world. During meditation, chant the mantra- ‘Om shanti, shanti, shanti Om’ many times. The holy word Om has peace vibrations, its frequency is such that it creates creative energies in the environment we live in. Shanti means peace. Shanti word dispels agitation in the mind and relieves the body from restlessness and mental agitations. It is a powerful mantra. Chant it whenever you can, wherever you go.

This is the ideal way to offer our contributions towards our Mother Earth, Nature and our planet as a whole. We owe a lot towards them, don’t we?  In return we must spread vibrations of peace on the place we live in. Do you recall this mantra from Upanishada?

Om Sarve bhavantu sukhina. Sarve santu niramaya. Sarve bhadrani pashyantu.  Ma kashchit dukhbhag bhavet. Om Shanti, shanti, shanti Om!

May all be happy. May all be without diseases. May all have well being. May none have misery of any type.

                                                                                                                          Brihadaaranyaka    Upnishada 1.4.14

(This post is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace. Today is 30^th Jan, Gandhiji’s death anniversary)

Today is 31^st December, the last day of this year and of the month too. And it is also my birthday and this year I would like to celebrate it differently- by writing down my thoughts for you about what all I know my dear Mandira regarding the importance of our birthday. I hope you will enjoy reading my blog entry as much as I have enjoyed collecting and writing  my thoughts. I humbly dedicate this article to my Divine Mother of Pondicherry who infused  spiritual vitality and resurrected me with Her vibrations when things were not going right for me once and I was groping without any direction.

I read somewhere in a book in which the Mother had mentioned that-

On our birthday our soul rises up and goes to meet the Divine. Therefore, we must pray and meditate with great interest and fervour on this particular day as we are very close to our source of origin.

Though these days people believe that merrymaking and revelry is a way of celebration but for me these lines reverberate on every birthday of mine since then.

Ma also explained to me that before we are about to take birth and come on the earth, it is our soul which decides and determines as to how many karmas  it will dry up or work out, out of the uncountable karmas, out of sanchit karmas or accumulated karmas of all the previous lives stored up as unripe fruits of karmic seeds in us.

It is we who decide whether we want to undergo the formidable efforts  and salvage ourselves or not. It is we who  decide in which life and when and how should it be done.

Some individuals don’t want it, some postpone it and just a very few have the courage and fiery determination to decide and agree to finish the long-pending job of salvaging their soul from their millenniums old ignorance. It is decided on the reasoning and understanding that if eventually one has to bear and work out the fruits of actions of many past lives at some point anyway, so why not do it now? Why not free myself from the entrapment of numberless cycles of life and death? It has to be done any way at some point. Although man lives in a deep slumber but the Spirit wants to be free from the shackles and soar in vast space and take a flight of freedom and float in ether without limits.

Now the question is -Does it really happen? And how?

The answer is yes,  when we pray.

Pray how?

Pray intensely!

When we pray so quietly, unknown to all, who is the witness then?

The God residing in us is the witness and administrator of our pledge and invocation.

And on what basis does God give a consent to our request?

If the pleader makes an earnest request by praying intensely to God to free him or her from the bondage of countless regressing rebirths and consequently free oneself with associated mental and physical suffering, wishes to atone, make amends, then God is merciful and gives consent.

Liberation and salvation is not possible without the consent of God who is benevolent, supportive and sympathetic.

He helps by appointing a mentor for us in the form of a Divine Guru when we come to stay  on earth and also bears a part of the weight by giving us the much required support and encouragement in the form of generating the force of forbearance, courage, fortitude, firmness in our goal, persistence in us. And also by helping us build an unshakable  faith and complete trust in the Highest Power.

My dear child, whatever I have revealed to you today is a very pensive and profound matter of spirituality. It is worth consuming all your attention and thoughts.

Imagine that very short transitory moment, the power of a single moment when we decide for all our lives to come and that moment when we pray intensely to God for this, even when we are not born in the physical body! The impact and repercussions of a moment’s intense prayers! How much power is contained in our praying intensely!

 Think. Imagine the power of intensity, imagine the power of praying and put it together and see the impact of the power of intense praying!

Intense praying contains the power of feelings, faith, devotion of God and is surcharged with willful intentions. So we must learn to pray everyday, many times and make it a natural habit. You never know which is that crucial, life-altering moment you see. Praying should become a habit. Talk to God in this way.

Some people ask me what is praying? Why should I pray?

A prayer is an invocation, a request for help and an expression of thanks made to God. It can be an earnest hope or a wish. It is a call upon God for mercy, redemption and correction.

Praying is communicating with the Omnipresent God to find a solution to a problem. It is an acknowledgment to God for favours and obligations.

When we pray, we acknowledge and accept that there is a Higher force in this universe and we submit to it for our existence.

With our prayers we send out positive vibrations in the atmosphere. It is the broadcasting of one’s innermost desires, yearnings, requests and wishes. It is purposeful invocation to the Supreme for the advancement of oneself and others.

In praying lies mental, emotional, physical and spiritual healing. We can regress in previous lives and therefore heal our past. We become even-tempered, peaceful and restful in mind, body and spirit. It dissolves and releases the knots and blotches of stagnant blocked or burnt energies in our system. It accelerates the process of evolution of our Spirit by exhausting the karmic deposits.

Prayers can be said loudly or silently, alone or in a  group small or big one. It can be for ourselves, our family, community, country or for humanity for the well being and goodness of all.

The more intense and truthful, emotion packed the prayer, the more powerful its impact on oneself and on others as well.

One can pray anytime, during the day or at night, while resting or while in activity, at work. By doing so the mind of the devotee  does not wander aimlessly and is  riveted firmly and hence in control. It is attuned to the Highest Power through which we receive solutions, guidance, strength, determination, peace, fortitude and stability.

Extraordinary and welcome events occur in the form of miracles in sincere praying through the work of God.

We recover, recuperate, revitalize, find remedies. We bloom, we flower, we rejoice in health and mental peace.

Many of my prayers have come true. I have prayed for years for mental prosperity, spiritual growth and physical fitness and for an uncomplicated, worry less existence. I have  wished and asked God to make each day of my life peaceful, joyful and purposeful. I see all my prayers coming true!

My sweet child, it is my sincere prayer that may your heartfelt prayers also be heard and come true!