“A very strong and positive mind will create a new shrishti, a new world for you. If more and more people do pious and generous actions, the collective thought power of the world will increase many times. The mission of all the saints and Sages is to increase the collective power of masses in all nations and it begins at individual level.

You initiate this act from today. As one’s sanchit karmas (accumulated karmas) are extinguished with the grace of God and the gurus, the power of thoughts increases manifold. All the shakti, power of the manas or mind should be oriented and focused in doing only selfless actions – nishkam karmas. The power of nishkami purush is so much higher and has more potential than others. The result of our actions are in God’s hands. When we decide and dedicate all our pious actions to God, God and all our Gurus are extremely pleased. They give us more shakti, their power to do nishkami karmas. Thus each good action is born with a good thought. Increase such good thoughts and also increase the power of each thought by meditation daily.

Meditation leads to contemplation. Contemplation leads to Self-Inquiry which in turn leads to Self Realization and Self Transformation.

Strike a balance between meditation and practical life. Meditation is self transformation and practical life is about actions. To increase your thought power you must do both, both are essential for your inner growth and progress.” Swami Nityananda.  (From Thought Power-III)

Dear readers, this is the concluding post on the topic of thought power; there were three parts on thought power and three parts on ways to improve that power. May we all try to gain insight into these six posts and may we all as spiritual seekers  attempt to move ahead by transforming our thoughts by our daily efforts.

In my own small effort, I am posting this new article and pray for all the aspirants who are striving. May God give them success in their efforts and peace in their hearts and minds. We begin with an explanation about how our subconscious mind should be purified of negative elements and how we must make it dynamic and powerful by doing unselfish and humble actions. Regular practice of meditating and compassionate praying for our loved ones and others too will cleanse the mind very quickly.

The last portion is an offering of a beautiful mantra to the Lord of the Universe. I am sure you must have heard it many times. It can be sung often anytime during the day as it should penetrate inside the deepest levels of our minds.

“When the seeker purifies himself during his sadhana or spiritual practices, he must be aware and attentive regarding himself. At any cost, he must not allow negative thoughts to arise in himself for others. He should only think well of others and must have love and compassion for them even for those persons who behave imperfectly, spitefully or unkindly.

The whole purification process takes a long time to complete so he must be alert all the while. Divine bliss and ecstasy come much later in the meditations by the grace of God and hard penance.

Towards the peak of many incarnations, the human soul when ready for God realizations has to undergo many hard tests and personal trials for the victory of Spirit over matter. In that life time, all the left over karmas of uncountable lives are ready to fructify, all at once in frequent intervals. The sadhak must be aware of this and must not be overwhelmed by this natural phenomenon. When the harvesting of karmas occurs, there are incidences of loss of wealth and honour, depletion in health, mistrust, deceit from people and so on. The gyani or the accomplished seeker comprehends well that this is a temporary phenomenon and after the gloom and doom, there will be a change and relief received eventually. Knowing this, the sadhak turns his mind towards God, and only God. He makes sure that his mind is completely held fast with divine thoughts and spiritual practices. Along with this act, the sadhak carries out only selfless actions towards all relentlessly. While doing all this after some time, there comes a turning point where his life once again looks up and there is a marked alteration, well being  and positive transformation in every sense.

He attains peace in the mind and there is peace at home as well. Health improves gradually, there is sufficient prosperity and the heart and mind of the seeker is now all the more involved and absorbed in God day and night uncompromisingly. Therefore he must not stop or put a stop to his spiritual efforts and must believe in God’s mercy and caring love.

At last, finally there comes a time in the seeker’s life, when God is very pleased with him because in spite of such rough times he was doing only unselfish actions and was showering only affection and kindness to all God’s children. This is the turning point for which a true sadhak must hold on to and should wait for this glorious phase. He becomes unusually empowered in every sense since he cuts through his thorny destiny with blazing knowledge and wisdom and pious actions and creates a dazzling new sacred divine life full of joy, happiness, well being and permanent peace.

Solutions to all life problems, prosperity in all areas, love flowing easily for every soul, tranquility in all times and fearlessness in every situation – this is the kind of life that is created for the sadhak, by his own will.

And how does this happen?

The unpurified mind has negative tendencies in the subconscious level. After purification, the subconscious mind becomes completely positive and gains extraordinary spiritual powers which translates the mortal, ordinary consciousness and existence to divine consciousness and good living.

The thoughts thrown out from the purified subconscious mind attracts happiness, wealth, success, creativity, prosperity, peace, friendship and health.

The powerful thoughts lie in the subconscious mind. Whatever we think or act at the conscious level, gradually becomes permanent as it moves in the subconscious mind. Therefore the seeker must be vigilant all the time.

What should he be doing?

The seeker must make his subconscious mind powerful.

How?

By playing out the role assigned to him by God and destiny both. While carrying out his duties, at the back of his mind he must constantly remember God in any form. In free time, he should practice meditation, must contemplate, introspect and maintain a diary to record the important lessons and review them at regular intervals.

Those around you who are unwell, unhappy or sad, be of some assistance or support to them. Kindle love, sympathy and kindness and give solutions and remedies to people in their problem or distress. Inspire them to lead a sacred and spiritual life by your own actions and thoughts. Be good to all and think well for all. Speak well of others and encourage and motivate them in all their efforts. Comfort and support them when they are in need.

Mentally bless all the creatures and send out loving peaceful vibrations to God’s creation, pray for harmony and well being of Mother Earth.

By doing this, not only will the subconscious mind be purified, the inner recesses of the subconscious mind will become powerful by positive divine vibrations. The power of such a mind never gets depleted of energy and is never exhausted because the power of God’s will constantly flow in it. In return, he shall be able to care for all and do good actions for everyone.”

Vashistha Rishi

On this auspicious evening of 20^th April, at the time of dusk, I humbly offer a sacred chant of tranquility, peace and auspiciousness at the feet of the Supreme, the Lord of the Universe. May we all be blessed and in return give love, peace and tranquility to all.

Bhumi Mangalam, Udak Mangalam     

Agni Mangalam, Vayu Mangalam

Gagan Mangalam, Surya Mangalam

Chandra Mangalam, Jagat Mangalam

Jiva Mangalam, Deha Mangalam

Mano Mangalam, Atma Mangalam

Sarva Mangalam  Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu

Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu

Sarva Mangalam Bhavatu Bhavatu Bhavatu

Om Shanti,  Shanti, Shanti   Om .

Translation :         

May there be auspiciousness and tranquility on Earth, in water, in fire, in the wind, in the sky, in the sun, on the moon, on our planet, in all living beings, in the body, in the mind and in the spirit.

May that tranquility be everywhere and in everyone.

Om shanti, shanti shanti Om!

Updated on 28-06-23 

This post has been supervised by Vashishtha Rishi. His forte is Sankalpa Shakti, the power of our mind. He advocates rebuild it by meditation, select your thoughts and insert chosen high frequency thoughts which will add positive energy in the world and into your sub conscious mind. Vashishtha Rishi has extra ordinary memory owing to his nature of keeping words minimum and remaining in the depths of his sub conscious mind where he has accumulated very bright thoughts of positive  energy of selflessness  given by God to him in his meditations in many lives.

The above mantra of Bhumi Mangalam, Udak Mangalam  is authored by Loma Maharishi. Both the Rishis were born a very long time ago and are abundantly wealthy in their mental domains uptil now.

Part-A

How do yogis achieve the highest levels of Consciousness?

Each man possesses a mental body of his own. It is the energy of the kind of thoughts that dwell and are nurtured in the mind. His intellectual property, his process of thinking and the kind of thoughts nurtured are all included in the mental body. Each thought that we send out, each thought that we receive and the cumulative power of it all makes a man what he is. It is this thought power to which we are attracted to in some people or repelled depending on the quality of thought.

Sankalpa Shakti – This word is also used for determination many  times. Sankalpa here means the rise of a thought, the power of thoughts. Every thought that is born is like a wave in an ocean, and has its magnetic power. It draws to itself positive or negative circumstances. The more positive our thoughts, the more power we possess and vice versa. Attention should be paid by us every time we think and to our quality of thoughts. We should discard the evil, bad and weak thoughts. In their place cultivate and nurture positive, constructive, creative and healthy thoughts.   

The state of Super Consciousness-I

Dear friends, cultivating and nurturing a powerful mind is a continuous process of a life time. In the last few posts, it was reiterated that we must maintain peace and calmness in all times and try to hold on to lasting peace as much as we can. But due to our karmic cycle, there will be bouts of unrest and instability with loss of durable peace. So should we get discouraged by sudden storms or tides of lashing waves that hit us unsuspectingly in our life? No, a true sadhak and a yogi will still try to be calm inside in spite of suffering as he knows that the tide will recede at the appropriate time with God’s grace. Many times, the devotees assume that life will be absolutely hassle free when he once comes in touch with God during meditation. Well, this is not correct. In fact, an advancing yogi creates new pious and positive karmas currently and side by side also extinguishes past karmas as and when they arrive. What should we do in such a situation?

We must meditate with a specific purpose so that the effect of the rough tide minimizes and we must hold on to our Guru who will help us wade through the rough weather. How?

People think that in meditation we must try to stop the wandering and onslaught of thoughts and apply force to stop them. For all the sincere seekers, this point should be clarified once for all. One requires a powerful mind to let go of the subtle past karmas and be an observer. So in your meditation to improve your thought power, bring to an end those disturbing thoughts which people are sending to you by not allowing them to enter first your aura and then your mind. More so if the thoughts are bothering you and are a hindrance in maintaining the tranquility of your composed mind. For this, you must be watchful of the thoughts and images that keep bombarding you during concentration or meditation.  Instead of entertaining, discard them. If they re-occur discard them again and again until they stop coming to you. In this manner, we make our mind empty of re-connecting to past karmas done with those people many lives ago. Practice this and after a few days, you will again be your normal self when harmony and tranquility prevails in normal life.

This method of meditation described is for subtle meditation and is prescribed for past life karma cleansing for advancing seekers.

For beginners, to improve your thought power, practice these suggestions-

When in turmoil, think of times when you were in peace. Re-live those peaceful moments.

Increase the depth and intensity of your meditation. When there is unrest inside you, re-live the depth and intensity of past meditations.

Repetition and chanting of one or two line mantras will soothe the mind and will make the mind stronger. Divine mantras add specific powers to the mind.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind. If they do re-surface, eliminate them repeatedly.

When in mental or physical distress, do not give up on daily physical exercise and remembrance of God, even if you cannot meditate during such times.

Part-B

Another meditation technique for empowering your mind-

After making the atmosphere conducive, sit in a meditative posture with your body completely relaxed.

Once you are composed and calm in mind, concentrate at the crown chakra.

For some yogis, there may be some discomfort in the beginning. Continue after some time again until you feel comfortable.

Once you get accustomed to concentrating at the crown chakra, visualize golden light over your head.

Stay in this position as long as you are comfortable.

After some time visualize the rays of golden rays falling on the crown chakra. Feel the soothing rays. And the peace in the soothing rays will touch the Brahma randra or crown chakra. Prolong this action or kriya.

Later visualize the golden rays entering your body through the crown chakra and penetrating the upper part of the brain, feel its sensation. The rays will then trickle down to the lower part of the brain. Imagine that your whole brain has been recharged with divine rays.

The Divine Light when invoked willingly energize us after it flows inside our body. If you focus on the crown chakra then the divine rays will energize your mind and give excess powers to recharge and revitalize your mental energies thus improving your thought power.

An anecdote –

As I am wrapping up this condensed post, I am recalling a memorable scene that I saw when we were travelling from Prayang to Saga during my Kailash Mansarovar yatra last year. Perhaps this is the most appropriate photogragh I have for this subject. Because a car was stopped at the Chinese check post for our verification of valid documents, we had to stop in the middle of our journey until that car could join our caravan. It was extremely cold at the place where we had halted; it was open, wild and completely barren. It suddenly became dark and cloudy and it was raining on far away mountains. There was not a single soul around and it was a no-man’s land. In spite of harsh climate, a few of us got tempted and got out of the cars to take a few pictures as the place was very beautiful scenically. My eyes fell on a unique spectacle when at the far end of this cold and barren land, I saw a solitary woman walking all alone in the cold. I really marveled at her mental strength. Here they are, take a look at the pictures! Hope you will revert on this forum with your responses, questions or just your spiritual experiences to share with everybody!!

Updated on 30-06-23

The first two posts Improving our Though Power were guided by Vishwamitra Maharishi.

  Part-A

• Always have a higher purpose and goal in life.
• To achieve that higher purpose, have great thought power.
• And to have great thought power, be in control of your senses and the mind.
• To control your senses and the mind – meditate more and more.

When our thoughts are concentrated, attuned with Divine Gurus and surcharged with God’s power, one can do impossible things for the sake of spiritual welfare of others. For this one must raise one’s consciousness, bring the senses in control and focus the mind completely to empower it with full force.

When the mind is surcharged, powerful thoughts of the highest good of oneself and for others should be sent in the Universe.

After meditation, leave and disperse thoughts of someone’s spiritual progress as well as evolution and pray to God that their souls may be redeemed. God’s Grace is received with such selfless acts and the Gurus respond by telling us how this purpose can be achieved. In this manner a few more souls are empowered, emancipated and enlightened thus making our Universe more peaceful, harmonious and enlightened.

 One outstanding example of a dynamic thought.

At the end of the war of Mahabharat, Yudhisthir performed the tarpana ritual for the souls of the departed. Although the Pandava emerged victorious, Draupadi was remorse and dejected as she had lost all her sons in the war. Unable to bear her personal loss, she wailed unceasingly. When she became  poignant and cheerless, a noble thought rose in her mind one day. After consulting her  protector, friend and guru-Lord Krishna, she decided to perform a havan, a fire sacrifice and pooja to worship their deities for forgiveness. She conducted a very big havan in a desert to also pray to Mother Earth and the Universal Lord with Rishi Veda Vyasa by her side. She sincerely prayed that although her own children were no more alive, but God’s children as the future generations yet to come must have a long life. They must live in a world of abundant love and peace!

Part-B

Morning meditation 10.03.11.

Meditation is a unique mental activity since it involves an individual’s mind which connects to the Universal Power thereby making it capable to receive those unlimited powers directly and in return enhancing one’s own individual powers.

A meditation technique for the beginners and advanced seekers alike.

• Sit in a comfortable position in a quiet zone with your eyes closed and back upright.
• Rest your hands on the knees with your palms turned upward.
• Take a few deep breaths until you feel relaxed.
• After sometime bring your attention to your eyes and remain there.
• Lift your attention from your eyes and bring it in between your eyebrows.
• Visualize a small lamp at this spot with a flame.
• After a while visualize that there is just the flame lit at that place. Focus on the flame.
• Remain in that position as long as you are able to.
• Now visualize entering the flame.
• You will only see yellow Light in your vision.
• At this juncture, repeat a positive affirmation for your self for your own higher good or affirm for others or do both.
• The limitless powers of the Universal Energy will start entering you, receive them without any restriction.
• Remain in this position as long as you can.
• Sit in silence for some more time so as to absorb the divine rays.
• Benefit from the calmness and tranquility.
• During the active day, recall this experience and revisit the positive feelings over and over again.
• Practice this morning and evening/night till you see the good results.

Updated on 30-06-23

The above meditation technique was given to me by Subhash Chandra Bose. He was an accomplished yogi of many lives.

It is called Tratak (त्राटक). In my book – Preservation of our Awakened Spirit, Mind & Body with Divine Knowledge, Meditation, Yoga, Pranayam & Prolonged Inner Silence, a sub chapter is given on page number 177. It is about two techniques which he gave me. One is Tratak. 

The book is available on Amazon. Thank you.

12.02.11

It was a very pleasant morning and as soon as I woke up, I was eagerly desirous to meditate so that I could once again lose myself and be one in the ocean of God’s endless flow of grace. The last few weeks have been full of rapid learning and like a child going to school and enthusiastically waiting for the teacher to arrive in the class, I sat to meditate on that day to have one peek, to sneak a quick look of the infinite which is so irresistible and endearing. Therefore, at the beginning of meditation, I requested God and pleaded- “God I want to know more about you, I want to come closer to you, bring me closer to you, more closer to you my Lord.”

Hearing my plea, God responded without delay when the effulgent Light cascaded on me and covered me completely. I basked in the morning sunshine as well as divine Light simultaneously in my room and rejoiced till the most inner core of my being. Such glorious moments of intense joy and ananda, such blissful moments, so much Light! Who would ever wish to come out of such embalming Divine showers?!

God’s answer in words also trickled in very quietly, “I accept your sweet request and wish to give you more knowledge, very intense knowledge  prachand gyan.

(Refer last portion of  Expand your Consciousness-II)

“After Self realization there are three stages.  First there is shanti- peace, after shanti  there is a stage of Divine sound-Om and after Om there is complete silence- shunya  or void, a complete thoughtless state.

I am going to tell you about one kind of meditation. This technique of meditation is for those who are pure in heart and faithful to God. After your meditation whatever you practice, do this kriya or action in order to attain indescribable peace.”

Meditation technique

Visualize white Light on top of your head at the crown chakra. Let it remain there for some time or as much as you wish.

Bring this Light from your head to your shoulders. Feel the white Light on your shoulders, remain still. You will experience peace.

Bring down the Light from your shoulders to your spine and then to your root chakra. Let the Light remain there for some time.

The spine is a hollow tube which starts from the base and ends at the base of the neck. We will pass the divine Light in the hollow tube up and down many times.

Practice this and experience unalloyed peace within you……

I did as was told to me and I saw the dancing particles of energy in my cerebrum after this exercise and the peace is lasting for days on.

Next-

Maharishi Agastya’s blessed words of insight and ancient knowledge once more-

“Those souls who have been living in this universe for a very, very long time are a treasure and store house of Earth’s as well as man’s history. Just imagine how much we have seen, how much we have known and imagine how many eras, epochs and time cycles we have witnessed.**

The time that was followed after the creation of the Earth, was very heavenly and delightful. There was no insufficiency or deficiency. Slowly, with time the population of humans increased and the trees were felled. The deterioration and destruction on the Earth is due to human follies and lack of sight and vision.

Africa was the richest and most prosperous kingdom 86,000 years ago with an organized society. They made great advancement in agriculture, cattle rearing and little bit of mining of stones and water. They made many oasis and reared their cattle as their wealth. .

Africa was lush green and very prosperous in vegetation and animal life but pride and arrogance combined with greed depleted its resources. There were more sins committed like adultery and incest than virtuous acts. The more faith we have in God, the more gladness and happiness generated around. Whenever the sins of man exceed on this earth, God has to send a very luminous soul to re-establish Truth and Dharma called Avatar to remind us of the eternal knowledge and truth that advocates having compassion on all living beings, loving all, doing good to all and helping all men. Where ever there is a surge of wrongful acts, there is disturbance, remorse, unrest and disorder and people are in agony and pain. The luminous Souls or Avatars as they are called incarnate and give their punyas or meritorious karmas to Mother Earth and that in return brings back peace, order, cheerfulness and love. Dharma or righteousness and Truth are re-established. If we also add something as our contribution towards this objective and mission of the Avatar or other realized souls and dharmatmas, then their workload shall be eased. The positive rays of Divine Light emitted by them generate peace, happiness, greenery and relaxation to the tensed minds on the Earth.

We must always remember our duties towards our country and to God. Family duties can also be somehow managed; it is not a big issue. When we work for God, our household and family responsibilities are taken care by God itself-

“Sarvadharmanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraja”

These lines are from Bhagwad Geeta which I quote here. Chapter 18 verse 66.

Translation-

Sarvadharmanparityajaya mamekam sharanam vraja I

Aham tva sarvapapebhoya mokshayishyami ma shuchaha II

Resigning all your duties to Me, the all powerful and all supporting Lord take refuge in Me alone, I shall absolve you of all sins, worry not.

At this point, a flash of Divine Light hit me in the third eye and the Light spread inside and outside. It percolated in all the different sections of my body. After it spread, it dawned on me that-

Divine knowledge is eternal, it never changes although the world will change, people will come and go but the sacred knowledge will always remain the same. It is hence called Sanatan Dharma or Eternal Religion

Maharishi Agastya continued with his flow of Divine words after giving me a glimpse of the sacred light and knowledge. He said,

“The human by nature is constricted and restricted; it likes dullness, timidity and obscurity. When he gets Light in the form of wisdom, he does not accept it. Knowledge of God and Self is eternal and we must attempt to attain it. Knowledge is Light, with knowledge we get to see God.”

18.02.11

Mahavatar Babaji’s golden drops of divine words in meditation-

Incessant grace of revered His Holiness Mahavatar Babaji once more. He enlightened me by throwing so much light on areas which are out of purview of average human mind and my day became so much richer. He began by saying-

“What you are going to receive from me now is because of the good karmas of your many lives. This is ‘prasad,’ grace from God to you and you must share it with all.

After Self Realization, a seeker transcends and attains three stages of further development, one by one if he has the will and desire to attain, if only he has ichcha shakti.

1^st stage- After self realization, there is a stable state of sustaining peace. The mind’s agitation stops and one is calm most of the time.

2^nd stage- The stage of Om. Continued sound of Om, the divine sound is heard in meditation or in other times as well by the meditator.

3^rd stage-During meditation many times the culminating stage is also touched, the stage of thoughtlessness called shunya or void, a state of Pure being.

The meditator passes from one stage to another and after long practice of concentration and meditation and Guru’s grace, he stabilizes in one such stage and then shifts to the higher one. The mind and body have to be prepared and fine tuned for such higher stages. Right diet, enough sleep and regular exercise are of prime importance. Ayurvedic medicines such as Brahmi, Ashwagandha, Shatavari are good brain tonics. Foods such as amla, almonds, nuts, milk and milk products, fresh fruits and vegetables play a vital role in nourishing and recharging the nerve cells and channels (Refer Food and breath control)  Head and body massage with a nourishing and rejuvenating oil and aromatherapy are also helpful to a great extent and are supportive in creating a healthy well being.” He went further ahead by saying the what is mentioned in the oldest Vedas, the Rig Veda.

“When the Universe was not born, what was there? Shunya- void, emptiness, no thought stage. A state of bliss, ananda, eternal joy.

In a world full of people there is chaos and commotion in the atmosphere. The thoughts that float in the space clash with each other and it becomes harder to meditate upon God in a modern world. The relentless noise of traffic, people and machines add to the disturbance in the atmosphere.

The Earth is a unit, one house, it is one. Do not think in terms of country or community, see the Earth as one planet and the planet as a whole. It is yours. At the moment, our Earth is passing through the lowest level where the rate of unrighteousness, sins, lust for money, greed in on the surge and increasing everyday. This trend should be reversed and we must make our planet greener, more peaceful and pious once again.”

Conclusion-

Babaji concluded very beautifully when he took me to greater heights as he told me-

“Those who wish to soar higher and touch new heights should follow this blog and they will realize the power of God. There is road beyond Self Realization, the latter is a phase, a sojourn in the very long path of the pilgrimage and we need not stop here.

After we get to Self Realization, the second stage is of Knowledge of Atman which should be attained. The next stage is of Cosmic Consciousness or Virat Swaroop, it is followed after knowing Atman. God is eternal, indestructible know Him. Expand your thinking and limitations and do good to yourself.

Simultaneously, there are many depths and levels of peace. Profound peace, intense peace and limitless peace.

There are several levels of knowledge too. Move onward.

Reach the thoughtless state, the state of perfect perfection!

If you reach the state of shunya void, you will be able to unfold all the mysteries of nature.

There are several stages of bliss or ananda also. There is no limit or boundary for it.

Human is unable to attain great degree of perfection mainly because of his social commitments and obligations. Break the barrier of all layers of ego. Free your mind from very old pattern of habits and sanskaras.

And don’t forget to pray and meditate regularly for the good of all- living as well as non- living beings.”

I bow and prostrate humbly at the Lotus Feet of Shri Mahavatar Babaji and his Guru Agastya Maharishi whose incessant flow of Grace is flowing and benefiting uncountable number of people spiritually in so many ways. He is so merciful to have awakened us from deep slumber of so many earthly lives……….

(For more description read The Light of the world-Shri Mahavatar Babaji-II) Co-incidentally this article was written exactly a year ago and they both are so closely linked!

           Hari Om Tatsat!    Hari Om Tatsat!   Hari Om Tatsat!

Updated on 07-05-19

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Notes

Once the Spirit unfolds in us and you know Atma, there are three levels of aspiration and heights to accomplish after that. In accordance, there are three types of gyan or wisdom – Teevra gyan, Prachand gyan and Prabhutva gyan.  When we translate that, it means wisdom that is intense, very intense and most intense respectively.

https://spiritinlife.blog/2011/02/10/expand-your-consciousness-ii/

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“Those souls who have been living in this universe for a very, very long time are a treasure and store house of Earth’s as well as man’s history. Just imagine how much we have seen, how much we have known and imagine how many eras, epochs and time cycles we have witnessed

**https://spiritinlife.blog/2015/12/22/the-shining-stars-in-the-galaxy/

Next updating on 28.5.21

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Highlights-

# Agastya Maharishi

# Once Africa was very prosperous in vegetation and animal life 

# Slowly, with time the population of humans increased and the trees were felled. The deterioration and destruction on the Earth is due to human follies and lack of sight and vision.

# Do not think in terms of country or community, see the Earth as one planet and the planet as a whole. Expand your consciousness.

# Where ever there is a surge of wrongful acts, there is disturbance, remorse, unrest and disorder and people are in agony and pain.

# At the moment, our Earth is passing through the lowest level where the rate of unrighteousness, sins, lust for money, greed in on the surge and increasing everyday

# Knowledge of God and Self is eternal and we must attempt to attain it.

# Knowledge is Light, with knowledge we get to see God.”

# See the Earth as one planet and think and see the planet as a whole.

Part A

Dear readers, this post on expanding our consciousness is an extension of the last series of three posts on Super Consciousness. Apart from raising our levels, we must also try to expand our consciousness to wider horizons. If you recall, so far we have discussed the progression of a soul from throat chakra, vishuddha chakra to the crown chakra, the center of Super Consciousness, our Atma. Now we are going to discuss broadly the remaining chakras, our energy centres thus completing the whole cycle of ascent of a Soul..

On the night of 22^nd Jan, I was endowed with a life altering experience during meditation. The meditation was dynamic, elucidating and it increased my awareness and widened my consciousness to a large extent. Prior to this unexpected experience, I was desperate and was trying to sleep on time so that I could be energized in the morning and make a sketch of my next post. So I quickly sat down to meditate in my room thus bringing an end to my normal day. As I was even preparing, I saw that I was overflowing with abundant love and peace and was unable to contain myself. As I was soaked in peace and complete relaxation of mind and body, I could hardly keep my eyes open by then. I saw myself covered by a blanket of godly love on a pleasant and chilly night. Impatient to connect to my inner source, I immediately began my meditation by saying a prayer. The power of love and peace in me was so urgent that no time was lost and I began to connect and then…..

Sublime thoughts and feelings were coming in my mind and I saw myself praying for the salvation and upliftment of those souls who have faith in God and have a desire to evolve themselves. I prayed to God that His children who are making an effort sincerely should be blessed with triumph and success. I requested God to give them His love and peace and that they too realize Him and become free from all shackles of bondage. May his children also do tapasya, penance and search out and see God in the form they desire since God appears in any form depending on the kind of devotion and faith placed in Him. I became somber at this point when a spontaneous request flowed from my heart in that hour of devotion, “God, please give them what you have given me; dear God please bless them with your Divine Presence in their hearts.”

With peace falling gently all over me and touching every pore of my being, I retired in bed longing for a quick transition from the state of wakefulness to restful peace in the form of sleep. I was certain that sleep will not evade me tonight and I shall wake up at the crack of the day when the first bird greets me near my window. As soon as I closed my eyes to sleep, almost instantly my body became very loose and I disconnected with the chord that attaches the soul with the physical body. I reached a different plane instead. I happened to see a galore of white Light in full beam before my closed eyes. It was milky white in colour and it felt so light then, so very pure in its divine presence. I was enclosed and fully covered by this white Light and was absolutely dazzled by its brightness and luminosity. Prior to this time, I had not seen such a bright dazzling Light during meditation or otherwise too. I was seeing only this white Light present around me and nothing else for a few fleeting moments. And then the sight of Light quickly vanished when it was replaced into divine visions.

The vision that I had was this..…

Before my inner eye, I saw myself walking upward on a path with Param Pujya, His Holiness Mahavatar Babaji. We were marching ahead with very quick steps. I was not holding his hand as we stood there. It felt as though now I was  like a child who in enthusiasm and sheer joy wishes to walk all by himself. I saw Babaji keeping an eye over me standing in a corner while I took strides and was almost running up with great anticipation. Later, Babaji began to walk ahead of me and I was trying to walk up fast to keep pace with him. On our way, there was a cluster of white clouds, but we walked past them. We did not stop and were walking upwards until we reached the regions of ether and space in the celestial skies.  I observed that there were no gross particles around us, therefore the movements were rapid. Everything was so light, very, very light. We both were as if flying in the upper space till we reached the skies and my thoughts were crystal clear during this time. We reached the uppermost levels of the sky very quickly. And all that I am describing here was awesome and truly incredible!

The place that we reached now was filled with bright golden Light. The tremendous rays were looking exactly like the rays of the Sun but were golden in colour, they were brilliant. They were present in every space possible and were immensely dazzling. A few of these golden rays started falling over my face and then entered my eyes, in the corners, below the eyelids, around the eye ball and behind the eyeballs.…. I saw them reaching in the right eye and I felt the warm sensation and tingling. They were tender and very soothing. Somehow the brightness of the Light was so glaring that I contracted and squished my eyes since I had never seen so much Light before, and of this intensity and luminosity. I turned to Babaji who was standing on my left side and told him, “Even if I burn off or die here, I will not go down again. I will never ever again go on the Earth and I will stay here forever.” As I was speaking these words, I was simultaneously exerting all my force into my soles so that I could stand there firmly and not budge under the Light of many Suns!!

Babaji gave me an enigmatic smile. I reiterated that I will not go down now from this level. Even while I was saying this, like a spike plunging downwards, I went down but instantly bounced back with full force and stood firmly on my legs once again. I looked upto Babaji for his reaction and waited anxiously. We both stood there for a few fleeting moments in the same state when all of a sudden he notified me, “Na, na, we cannot stay here any longer. You are not permitted. You have only this much punyas, good karmas and you cannot stay here any longer.” So we quickly rushed down and as we came just a level below this celestial sky, we came to the sky of the deities, the sixth sky. The Light at this level was was not very intense and it was very pale blue in colour, almost white in colour. I saw a few rays of light scattering around in that place and it is here that I saw a huge black Shivlinga which aroused feelings of devotion in me. At this juncture, Babaji questioned me, “Do you remember this?” I answered in the negative. “You have seen it, try to recall,” he prompted. I tried my best but could not recall when I saw the black Shivlinga. As my memory did not respond therefore, Babaji stimulated my memory as he opened an utterly unknown page of my past. Now this was quite startling as well intriguing as things began to unfold one by one.

With great composure and serenity in his eyes, he began telling me, “When you were one and a half years old, one day when you were in your mother’s lap, you had the same vision of a black Shivlinga to which you made a heart filled prayer and pleaded, “God, may I never again sleep in the lap of ignorance”.

With Babaji’s limitless grace and boundless mercy, I could recall this incident quite vividly during the latter part of my meditation. I recollected that it was afternoon time and we were then living in a joint family and I was lying in my mother’s lap and she was putting me to sleep. Along with putting me to sleep, she was also talking to some  members of the family after completing her morning chores. I could also recollect how noisy it was then and what I was hearing was complete cacophony to my ears. Instead of that, I wished to hear something nice and good words that could raise my consciousness. I felt much suffocated living in an environment that was so grim and dark. All along I was refraining and I resisted the waves of ignorance being bombarded at me in early childhood. That day I could see all this clearly when I regressed into my early childhood.

If a soul defends strongly even when he or she is very young in age and resists accepting the ignorance of people around him or her, then they overcome it by rejecting it mentally. Some souls who are in a dream state, they initially resist and after a few attempts give up because the ignorance of all the people around them is overwhelming and too powerful to combat. From here on, such souls begin to accept and absorb the darkness which is so prevalent in this world. In this way, the layers of darkness keep piling one after the other in our mind  if we do not reject it out rightly.

Now for the sadhak, to remove the ignorance of many incarnations, first of all the earthly desires embedded in the muladhar chakra, the base chakra and swadhisthan chakra should be purified of past karmas. This area is the seat of earthly ties and survival instincts. The passage between the lowermost chakra the muladhar chakra uptil navel is the place of earthly attachments. Majority of people live below the navel in lower consciousness. By nature, the human being does not assess himself instead, he judges others harshly. But when he begins self assessment, he begins to rise and reaches the point of navel from the centres lying at the base. As mentioned in earlier posts, Manipur or solar plexus is the seat of aspiration, the seat of fire as well as power. If we move up gradually in our consciousness and reach this center, we begin to aspire and raise ourselves from lower consciousness to higher awareness.

The navel is the cross point, a bridge in the body. Once the Kundalini Shakti is awakened, glimpses of lost memory of divinity is awakened and a new journey starts from this point. Please refer article on Kundalini Shakti, where explanation about smriti and vismriti  is given.

https://spiritinlife.blog/2010/02/01/kundalini-shakti-iii/

Heart Chakra or Anahat Chakra is the seat of love, forgiveness, compassion and mercy. As the seeker progresses and moves up, his heart chakra opens. First of all, he learns forgiveness. Refined feelings of love, gratitude, mercy, compassion develop thereafter. After forgiving all the people of this as well as other lives, pure love originates in the heart. Forgiveness comes only after we realize our own mistakes and the harm caused to others voluntarily or involuntarily. Empathy generates forgiveness. The sadhak now lives and operates from this level of consciousness if he keeps progressing by adopting various spiritual practices. Sadly, people mostly live on very basic level of existence and do not make efforts or strive hard to raise their consciousness from very gross to spiritual.

Part B

On the next day after the last post was published, I was taking some time off to rest and was going through the post mentally once more in order to absorb  it. The last series of three posts on Super Consciousness have been a phenomenal effort because so much of energy and time has gone in its conception, conceptualization and arranging them in a definite order. It is  sometimes difficult for me to say certain things or explain to others my spiritual experiences because words often fail me. Many a times, the inner experience is so wonderful that one would not like to dilute it by translating them in words.  

Well, at that time I was also wondering do I have to tell so much about my experiences to others? Is it not enough? Why should I not write a post that is about other saints and great illumined souls instead? Why me?

(Gangotri temple in the Himalayas, the source of river Ganga, visited in 2009)

(The view opposite the temple, the other bank of river Ganga after it just starts to flow)

As I was brooding over this, I again fell in a trance that afternoon and got disconnected with the physical body. In the transcendental stage, I saw a thick forest and a big river was flowing in a zigzag manner with a gush and a roar. I reached the Himalayas and saw Gangotri and the white temple there and I also saw the thick foliage of evergreen trees on the nearby mountains. A voice began to talk to me telepathically, “I am Ganga, my sacred waters give life to millions. Many years ago, when I used to flow, there were such lovely, beautiful dense forests growing where ever I flowed on my path. Today, there are no forests and green jungles, but only concrete buildings. Uptil Haridwar, my water is still clean but after that it becomes despoiled. Do you know why? I replied, “No, I don’t know Ma.” She replied, “That’s because my water does not flow freely from there on, it becomes stagnant.”

I did namaskar to Ma Gange and tried to solve the riddle. Why did Ma Ganga tell me all this? What am I to do with this information. Am I not clean yet? These thoughts ran across my mind immediately. As I was struggling with myself…..

Just then I saw a small white temple which had a spacious room with white walls. Inside the room was a big white idol of Lord Vishnu holding the conch shell, shankh and a mace in one hand and in another sudarshan chakra wearing a garland of white lilies and a few red roses. There was a beam of white Light filtering in the temple from the left corner of a roof and the slanting light rays were falling on the idol of Lord Vishnu thus making the visual so sacred and wonderful. It gave me immense joy to see such a holy scene before my blessed eyes. This was the first time I had a darshan of Vishnu Bhagwan. I felt extremely fortunate because Vishnu Sahastranaam is my favourite tribute to Lord Krishna.

I tried to connect these two visions occurring one after the other quickly but could not gather anything. My curiosity was immediately satisfied when in an instant the idol of Lord Vishnu vanished and in its place I saw Mahavatar Babaji standing there in his usual appearance. I was stupefied at the turn of events and the variety of scenes rolling out before my eyes like a slide show on the computer screen. Comprehending my problem, Babaji said, “Start the next post now. One’s Consciousness need not only be raised, it should also be widened and expanded.” He gave me a few examples of attachment, anger and greed that some people possess around me and showed me the harmful effects these vices have over their lives. A kind of snapshot ran through my mind and I instantly got a glimpse of the next post.

“Do you remember the post of Super Consciousness-I in which I had told you that there are many Himalayan Yogis meditating and doing tapas in the caves out there?” he asked me.

I got my answer.

One day, in the morning when I was contemplating about this post, my mind got connected with one such ascetic living in the cave of Uttaranchal. He told me that he has been meditating there since the past thirteen years and has not come out of the cave ever since. The requirement of the sunshine is fulfilled by some Yogic Kriya and he is atoning his bad karmas of unkindness, ego and arrogance. He told me that-

“Attachment of a sadhu is worse than that of a householder. The sannyasi or sadhu has an ego which is undetectable by him and others as well and such a person has severe attachment to his monastery, disciples and his position. It takes a lot for them to accept that humility is superior to monk hood and that accepting other people and their views is a virtue.”

He himself had been arrogant and harsh when he was living in the normal world and with great difficulty has accepted his mistakes. Mahavatar Babaji’s supple guidance and unconditional love has changed him forever and he has realized the importance of unconditional love for all beings.

“Those who are practicing Yoga, Pranayaam or Kriya must try to look deeper inside themselves and seek Guru’s guidance in scraping off hidden subtle ego lurking inside them,” said he in conclusion.

I must admit that I am lucky for this timely advice from an ascetic sitting miles away whose advice I shall always remember and follow.

Part C

Today is 30.01.11,  5.00 pm.

Posting the last and the most important part of this article. Just got up from another dynamic meditation a while ago. I was waiting impatiently for the translation and explanation of Bhagwad Geeta’s verse 1 chapter 15 to come to me in meditation since a reader has asked me to explain it some days back. Well, just very few hours ago, I was praying unremittingly for the interpretation of this particular verse as indeed it is complicated and the meaning is difficult to understand. I requested God to explain the verse as different people interpret it differently and one gets to understand just a part of the shloka and not the full thing.

As I was praying I had a vision of Lake Mansarovar and sacred Mountain Kailash and I saw its highest tip. Mt. Kailash heard my prayer, acknowledging that I was waiting for God’s response to write this post. It began to communicate with me and said that I am a blessed soul because God has heard my prayer. I should now raise my consciousness further up from the tip of the Kailash Mountain and connect to the Highest skies and highest source-God. I also saw a Shree Yantra, a pyramid which I have and is a perfect representative and replica of Mount Kailash. One should meditate with this yantra if  possible. Today I meditated keeping this yantra with me as I was having  difficulty in concentrating. Eventually I was  able to connect and all of a sudden the answers to all my inquiry began to flow unrestrained! I only had to contain and absorb it.  I heard God speaking inside me and the Voice began to explain to me the sacred knowledge hidden within this verse in Bhagwad Geeta in the sacred hour. The Voice of God said-

“Bhagwad Geeta originated during the time of warfare and bloodshed when Arjun’s heart was filled with remorse and compassion as he did not want to kill anyone. He detested bloodshed and completely surrendered to God in spite of knowing that victory was his without any doubt because Krishna was with them. God was very pleased with Arjuna and responded and spoke to him through Krishna. Krishna became the medium through which God gave the eternal, shashwat knowledge to Arjuna. God responds unconditionally to sincere prayers and pure hearts.

The world or sansara  that we live in and see around us is eternal and the ignorance of man is also primitive and eternal since the first man was born many, many centuries ago. The physical world is temporary and illusory, it is like a bubble in an ocean. The ocean is the Universal Self or God. God is eternal, limitless and infinite.

We are born here many times and every time we come here, we are in a state of dream or sleep. When we dream, we are in delusion. Delusion can be broken when we attain knowledge of Self with self realization. For that we must go to an enlightened Guru who breaks our delusion and gives us the eternal knowledge of Self. The Vedas contain the knowledge of eternal Self. The knowledge of Self is also eternal like the world or sansara. We must acquire this knowledge.

The Guru takes mercy on us and shows us many of our important past incarnations that we have lived so far as a proof that indeed we have lived so many lives only dreaming and did not  know the Truth.

With constant help and guidance of the Guru, each and every cell of our brain is illumined with continuous spiritual practices and master’s touch over a good period of time. Normally, humans use very little portion of the brain in a life time. As the dormant memory cells are recharged, we can do past life regression. We get over with our very old, unwanted tendencies and habits, thereby the memory of our Soul is kindled. Eventually as we progress on our path, we  get enlightenment of the Soul once all the dormant cells are functional and used optimally after recharging them with Divine energy in the form of Light.

Sadly, the ignorant man’s brain is shut as the nerve cells are clogged with ignorance and dark particles. For the enlightened, God is eternal and always present while for the ignorant, the power of God is unknown and false power of self or ego is always prevalent. This is the main difference between the two categories of people- gyani, agyni

The analogy of a Banyan Tree is used as a metaphor to explain this. It can be explained on two levels- body and mind. First on body level- the parts of a Banyan Tree can be compared to that of our body. The roots of the tree are the parts that hold it firmly to the ground. They are like our feet holding us firmly on the ground. The legs and trunk of the body are comparable to the trunk of the tree. Our hands are compared to the branches. The canopy of the tree is the head of a human body and the roots dangling from the canopy are our matted hair.

On the second and higher level, we compare the upper part of the tree to the upper part of our body- the human brain. As explained just a little while ago that the canopy of the tree looks similar to the brain of a man. It is similar in shape and anatomy. The leaves of the Banyan Tree are like the cells of the brain and the veins in the leaves are the nadis or veins in our body.

The cells in the body have memory ingrained in them called smriti. As we live in this sansara for too long, we forget God and believe the world to be real. This is vismriti  or forgetfulness of God.  Smriti and vismriti both are in the brain and the memory of God should be revived gradually with the eternal knowledge of Self or Atman with Guru’s guidance. Behind the memory or smriti is God. We must reach uptil here where the memory, smriti of our divinity is re-awakened. At the last stage of evolution, the remembrance of God is real, God is real, God’s personality real, God’s power and existence as real in contrast to the existence of our false ego.

And finally there is one more part of the interpretation of this shloka which when combined with all the explanations before makes it complete and final.

 Urdhva mulam adhah shakhamashwatham prahuravyayam I

Chandasi yasya parnani yastam veda sa vedavit II

Ashwattha is the other name of  Banyan Tree. Ashwattha means shashwat, that never ends, eternal.

There are two types of men in this world those who know and those who do not know- The gyani and agyani respectively. Majority of people come in this world without knowing who has created them and this world and get completely entangled in the maya jaal, the webmire of maya or delusion. They repeatedly come in this world because of their vasanas or desires for physical world and are therefore called ignorant and compared to an inverted Banyan Tree in this shloka. The falling roots upside down are the roots of ignorance in the inverted tree. They are contrary to what they should be ideally and therefore the tree is shown upside down.

While the wise men, come in this world, they do not get too entangled, go to a guru, take Vedic or esoteric knowledge from him, cut down the branches of their ignorance with an axe of wisdom and are compared with a Banyan Tree which stands firmly on its roots and is absolutely grounded. Those men who have knowledge of God are firmly grounded and do not get swayed by the storms of enticing maya.

In the end, God asked me, “Do you know that there is a Banyan Tree which is more than eight thousand years old? Have you seen it?” I thought for a moment and looked around every where mentally and thought of a few places. Actually I did not know that a tree can live up to eight thousand years, leave alone know one! God enlightened me, “There is one such Banyan Tree, the Boddhi tree in Lumbini under which Gautam Buddha attained Prachand Prakash, intense light. It is the only tree which is so ancient. It is now 8,056.5 years old. Mahavatar Babaji can be compared to this Bodhi tree- so eternal, so timeless and so ancient. Such trees are never uprooted even in the strongest of wind, earthquakes or storms and are always strongly grounded. You are a very blessed soul because you are writing all this about him. Pay your homage and tribute to an ageless, timeless, immortal Soul who has been living for more than 1,800 years to serve my children.”…..

My dear friends, with my ceaseless gratefulness and boundless gratitude and devotion, I wrap up this post with a poem and offer both of them at the lotus feet of our beloved Mahavatar Babaji.

May his fragrance of wisdom, love and knowledge reach every human soul living on this earth!!

(In Haridwar Ganga ghat near Keshwashram in 2009)

Pani Bahata hai, jeevan bahata hai, manushya theharta hai.

Apne andar ki kitab kholo,

Khud ko jano, apne ko pahchano

Kisliye yahan aaye they, kya kar rahe ho?

Dukh kyon sahate ho jab swayam sukh ki khaan ho?

Andar ke taale tumhe jakadte hai,

Unhe guru se chabi lekar kholo,

Ganthe swayam khulti jayaengi

Jab sachcha samarpan karte hai

Samarpan woh sachcha jisme

Bhavnaye tumhari sachchi ho

Man mei tarang sundar uthe to

Ishwar usey sweekar lete hai.

Mai bhi tumhara haath pakad lunga

Yadi tum chahoge

Pakadkar phir kabhi na chodunga

Jab tak dhyeya pura na saadh lo

Ek bar chu kar dekho

Andar kaun hai?

Kya kabhi mahsoos hota hai

Tumse pahele koi mojud hai?

Translation-

Water flows, life flows but man stagnates.

Open the book which is inside you

Know thyself, recognize your true self

Why did you come here, what are you doing?

Why do you suffer when you are a treasure of  happiness?

The shackles inside arrest you

Release these chains with the key from the Master

The knots shall open on their own

When we surrender our self

Surrender that has sincere feelings

Is real and true,  and feelings which are true

Are hurriedly accepted by God.

I shall hold your hand

If you so wish

Once I hold, I shall never leave you

Until the goal is met.

For once, glance inside , touch and see

Who is inside you?

Have you ever once felt that

There is already someone present even before  you?

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Revised and updated on 03-05-19

Revised on 02-02-2020

I have spent a few days in Delhi lately. There was a lot of greenery around and the house that I stayed in wore a deserted look once everyone living nearby went out to work.  There were no disturbing sounds in neighborhood as such and it was quiet during most of the day.  Moreover, there was a feeling of wellness and harmony in the atmosphere. On those days, my mind was very introverted and more often than not, I wished to either meditate or sit in solitude.

I completed the everyday work around a house on 18^th Dec morning and sat down to meditate. Before long, I began to hear Buddhist chants in my inner ear. The pitch and tone of the chants were so nice and sacred to hear, very soothing and captivating to my heart.  I calmly listened to these chants and could visualize a monastery in the Himalayas in which some dedicated Buddhists monks with multiple beads in their necks were repeating the mantras feverishly before a lit lamp and fragrant incense sticks. As I listened attentively to the Buddhist mantras for a few minutes, the sound of Om began to reverberate in my ears and the chanting of mantras was leaving away. Soon after, the mantras stopped ringing and I heard the recurrence of the sacred sound of Om ringing continuously. The sound of Om made me very peaceful and it silenced my mind completely. The interminable thoughts became completely still in no time and I plunged in deep tranquility and peace. I sat in this state for quite some time when…

I called upon God to pray and I implored, “My sweet God, may I never lose sight of you, may I forever worship you, may I never lose your memory in me, and may I never stop praying to you. May my heart always bind with you and may I never get too entangled in this external world and please bless me God so that I forever think of you. May I always do natmastak, bow profoundly to you all the time, even while I am asleep.”

God quickly responded by murmuring these words of disclosure and good counsel, “Babaji is very humble like Gurla Mandhata. Do you recall the mountain Gurla Mandhata, standing majestically opposite sacred mountain Kailash on your pilgrimage?  It is always bowing at Kailash although it is bigger and taller than it. Mahavatar Babaji is like Gurla Mandhata- tall and majestic yet always so humble. Be like him. The spiritual horizon and the perceptions that you have experienced during the preceding days here is from agya chakra or third eye level. You have had experiences of Super Consciousness sometimes but you must stabilize in it. If you wish to go higher, then Babaji’s compassionate Grace will take you to the level of Gurla Mandhata or to the State of Super consciousness and perfect humility.”

I recalled my Kailash Mansarovar yatra when I saw Gurla Mandhata mountain. It is positioned right opposite Mt. Kailash and amusingly when I saw the mountain many times, I discovered that it had many moods and changing faces. We were informed by our group leader that the mythological story is that this mountain is a devotee of Mt. Kailash and that it is its desire to always prostrate humbly to holy Mt.Kailash, the holiest of all the mountains.

After knowing this, I prayed to Mahavatar Babaji- “Babaji, it is my most earnest and sincere pray to you in this sacred moment. Hey Prabho! Destroy all my sins and mistakes of all my past lives. May I never ever err, may I always only serve Ishwara, the Holy Lord! May I serve you all my life and in all coming lives too. May I spread your words and teachings. Remove my darkness, all my darkness for forever and forever!!

Shri Mahavatar Babaji’s merciful nature acknowledged and accepted my prayers in no time. A series of beautiful visions began to emerge before my eyes like an appeasing movie as I kept my eyes closed and sat comfortably for the time that flowed. What I saw was so benevolent, so magnificent that I feel I should share with all his devotees, followers and other readers too.

I envisioned Shri Babaji walking with very quick steps and in this way denoting the urgency of his expedition and importance of time’s utility. I was walking next to him and trying to catch up with him on a hilly ground. He looked very happy and enthusiastic that day or else he is somber and serene. He took me to a very beautiful place full of tall, green trees which resembled fir and deodar. The ambiance was of a thin forest with many trees growing on a mountain top. The shade of the trees was cooling and under it was situated a beautiful pond. It had many colorful lotus flowers floating in it. He took me to the divine pond where the atmosphere was saturated with divine purity and serenity and the place resembled and felt like a paradise.

Babaji went ahead and plucked one lotus flower, then another, then some more and then many more from the pond one by one. The petals had tiny drops of  water on them making them look all the more pure and sacred. The bunch of lotus looked so pretty in his arms and I was cheerful by looking at the lovely bouquet and the image of exuberant Babaji both at one place. Just then, while holding the flowers in his divine arms, Babaji took one white lotus and gave it to me. He looked at me as if waiting for me to express something. I didn’t. After a very short pause, he broke in a spell of mystic laughter and divine joy. He pulled out one purple lotus from his bundle and gave it to me in my hand. I held it in bewilderment and at the same time I was overjoyed at his kind gesture. Without waiting, he now gave me a pink lotus, then a yellow one and a few more one after the other. All the flowers from his arms were in mine by now and in utter amazement, I looked at the collection of heavenly lotuses piled up and was absolutely numb because events were occurring  at such rapid and unexpected ways. I stood there totally incomprehensible not knowing what to do or say to him.

He put up a question to me, “Do you know why I gave you the lotuses?” I hurriedly considered a lotus flower in Buddhism, as an emblem in many spiritual organizations, on books and sacred places but I did not know the present connotation and the co-relation. I did not reply.

He had a white lotus in his right hand and with a mysterious smile he said, “White is for purity and peace. Take this.” I now received a white lotus from him.

Babaji had a purple lotus in his hand after this. He asked me, “What is purple for?” I had no answer. “Tranquility”, he replied. “Take this.” I received a deep lavender lotus from his sacred hand.

After all this, he again asked me, “What is pink for?” I stood quietly and wished not to answer.

“Love. Take this lotus also. It is for you.”

“What is yellow for?” Now I gathered some courage and answered in humility. “I don’t know Babaji.” He looked pleased and smiled slightly from the corner of his mouth. He said, “Enlightenment, knowledge. Now take this yellow lotus also.”

In the next moment, an unanticipated development took place. Babaji burst out laughing loudly like an ecstatic yogi and began to dance throwing his hands up in the air, turned his neck round and round and sang with merriment and ecstasy. He then said, “I have given you peace, love, joy, ananda, tranquility and transcendental knowledge to give to this world. I am spreading these virtues through your web log on the net in modern times in this world. From now onward, more and more people will read and receive these gifts of God from you. My idea of spreading God’s love and peace is successful, is successful, is successful. Then he circled round and round like an intoxicated saint singing and chanting God’s holy name. He resembled Chaitanya Mahaprabhu singing and chanting God’s holy name while diving in celestial bliss.

Understanding by now that it was an auspicious moment granted by God, I did not want to lose the golden opportunity of a very sacred hour. I realized that I would be obliged and my prayers would be surely answered. Therefore I pleaded, “Holy Babaji, I pray to you at this moment and hour, please bless me that I never ever make any mistakes in my present and forthcoming lives. May I always remember God. May my memory of God forever be revitalized and it should never be erased or corrupted. May I always do God’s service, may I always do your work and may I always spread your divine fragrance through your words and teachings.”

Babaji smiled at me softly and with overflowing love said very sweetly, “My sweet child, Babaji becomes pleased with devotion, with love, with sacrifice, with service.   I am pleased with those devotees who have a keen desire for seeking God and serving Him. I fulfill all such desires. And those people who do not have this desire yet, they should instill purity, devotion and love in their hearts. One day, they will also attain God. Once and for all purify your inner being, inner heart. And after cleaning, forever keep yourself in a pure state so that your future lives are pure, beautiful, worthy and for service of humanity. I love those who love God. Today, who so ever will wish for this desire, I shall grant and fulfill it.”

I chanted and thanked God throughout the days that followed for this wonderful blessing and love.

                                 Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya

                                 Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya

                                 Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya…

Since I have discovered Babaji, I have always wanted to know something about his personal life. It is because whatever little information that is available to public now through Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda or other books, the focus has always been on Babaji’s interaction with his devotees. Random communications, his counsel, advice to devotees are present in the books. Nothing is documented about his birth, birthplace or early child hood, personal life etc. Everything is mysterious about him because he leads a very secluded life and is extremely reclusive by nature. Ever since Babaji has come in my life, it has been my lingering desire to get to know him personally and to have an intimate bond and connection with him internally. I have longed to know what was his state of mind when he was born, what did he perceive as a child, what was his state and stage of enlightenment, how could he acquire the highest state in such a tender age and similar things. My compelling desire has made me visit Shri Badrinath temple many times and I have also visited a few places associated with Babaji’s life out of mere devotion and unshakeable faith in him. So many times, he has told me to visit some special place without my fully understanding its meaning and significance affecting my life-both personal and spiritual. It is only now that all the pilgrimages and visits to holy places undertaken in the past few years are bearing fruit and I can see a clear picture with his kind grace emerging out of all that.

Dear friends, today is 9^th January and it is late evening. I have not yet compiled my article completely. I have been anxious in the last three to four days wondering about how the post should turn out to be, how should I wrap up since I only had the narration of my vision with me which you have just read. As the date of my submission of this post was nearing and I was completely blank, throughout the day I have prayed to God to tell me what should I write about Mahavatar Babaji.  It is not easy to discover or know much about him as he is very humble, shy and reclusive. I surrendered to God absolutely.  I meditated, prayed and pleaded. I sat on the sofa just below Babaji’s photo some time back and closed my eyes and remembered him with intensity and I expressed my desire, “Babaji, you are playing hide and seek with me. Until you relent, how can I tell the world who you were, where you were born, why did you incarnate and what was your mission in life at that time? My very dearest, my beloved Master, reveal thyself, reveal thyself, please reveal thyself… It is my very humble request to you please tell me something about your past and present lives so that my life’s mission is accomplished. If I am able to bring your devotees and your dear ones closer to you; if I can tell this world that there exists a great soul like you hidden from the public gaze and if I can help you in some minuscule measure in your worldwide mission of uplifting the humanity at large, then the purpose of my life is met. I wish for nothing, I want to know just about you.”

As I said these words, my body did not move or stir a bit. There were a few fleeting moments of absolute quietude. There was complete silence after I prayed to God and waited till Babaji responded to my earnest request. As I was sitting still, I saw an image of my own body in a meditative lotus posture in front of my shut eyes.  I saw a big white lotus flower with a yellow centre. The lotus flower was placed at the spot between my eyebrows and its white petals were in full bloom and spreading over my entire upper head. Its stem was placed on my spinal cord and coincided with it. Staring at the lotus flower I became all the more still and I immediately became peaceful like never before.

I gazed at this flower for a short while and basked in exclusive peaceful times. I don’t know how much time had lapsed but after that I perceived a medium-sized pink lotus placed on my heart chakra. The flower was open and I could feel my heart throbbing faintly as it remained there. By now I could see myself explicitly sitting in a perfect lotus posture with the white lotus on my head and the pink one on my heart. Two words flashed before me and I uttered, “Love and peace, I love divinity, I love God.”

A little later, the image and sound of Babaji’s divine words resonated when he made a prophesy, “In 2053, I will no longer remain in seclusion and shall come out in public in a world forum.” Lifting a book in his right arm he said, “This book will be a proof for the world to see what I tell you now.”

In an instant, the face of Shri Mahavatar Babaji emerged in me and he thus began to speak to me, “I was always born in India and in future also I shall take birth in India. It is a sacred and pious land. Since thousands of years, the sages and saints have done tapasya here whose positive rays are still imbued in the atmosphere. My last birth was one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven years ago.

I was born of a humble Brahmin priest in India in a fishermen’s village in today’s Tamilnadu’s coastal area. I was born in an enlightened state and I came for a specific purpose and mission. I brought along with me ** yoga, tapa, dharma, satya- unity with God, spiritual penance, righteousness and truth respectively.   You should also follow these virtues.

My father was a learned man and I heard the Vedic mantras being chanted when I was in my mother’s womb. I knew most of them by heart and wished to revive their lost meaning once I was born soon. The noise and clutter emanating out of the spiritual ignorance of people disturbed me and I had vowed in my mother’s womb that I shall try to eradicate that and awake people from deep slumber. I was aware of my time and place of birth and I had already chalked out my future plans to work for God. So I started very early and was already meditating in the womb! I was born with prayers on my lips and a mission as big as the earth in my mind. Therefore, I maintained silence all the time and hardly ever spoke!! Words are very confusing and create so much trouble. Speech is only good if used with humility and kindness. I hated wars because they create more problems than before and if peace is lost on earth, the proof of God as peace and love is lost. All human problems can be solved only through peace and love. Hatred culminates in ignorant hearts and should be shunned at all costs.

As it was not destined that I lead a life of a householder, I was kidnapped by a man from Kabul and sold for a pittance thus separating from my mother and father. The trader to whom I was sold in Kalkatta was a kindhearted man and he freed me. God directed me on a path that would forever change my life thenceforth. I saw a band of monks travelling and I discreetly joined them. As I was observing maun or silence even at the age of six, they did not think it fit to ask me any questions. I joined the band and reached Kashi, today’s Banaras. I visited Bodh Gaya and Lumbini during my very short stay there. As I was so attuned to the Vedic hyms and chants, I did not have to memorize them. Instead I saved a lot of time and used it for contemplation. Soon I began to give sermons and people came from far and wide to listen to me at a very young age of ten. One night, I decided to leave the place quietly as giving sermons to people was never my goal.

I took a boat from the shores of Kanya Kumari and reached Sri Lanka. The forests were very thick and the number of people much less then. I wanted to maintain uninterrupted silence for a few years so I hid myself in the thick forests of Katargama in Sri Lanka away from the noise and found an old Banyan Tree. I sat under it to meditate and did not move for days. Swami Kartikeyan blessed me. I sat near his place of samadhi and tapas.

Rishi Boganathar saw me in tapasya and gave me initiation in Sudarshan Kriya. The Sudarshan Kriya practiced now a days is a very simplified form of the original. Earlier Kriya was not practiced by the homemakers as its sanctity cannot be maintained by them. By practicing Kriya uninterruptedly, the need for food for the body became unnecessary. I mastered the art of living without food, sunshine, air and water for incessant days. The glory of divinity and victory over nature shone in the glow that was emanating out of me. The radiance and glow was many kilometers wide and could be seen by the rishis and munis in that area and those sitting in meditation in caves and hills. Maharishi Agastya was sent to me on the behest of God to give me more powers and siddhis as my workload in future would require me to use them as my tools in my endeavours to do the service of God.

I attained the highest state of acute enlightenment after mastering the highest kriya which I learnt from rishi Boganathar and Maharishi Agastya and since then I am engaged in carrying out the work of God. Though my body has become immortal, I shall shed it once my mission is accomplished.

With yogatapa, penance done with yoga, I have made my body incorruptible so that there are no hurdles of sickness and decay. The body degenerates in normal circumstances and as my mission is the spiritual evolution of humans and the progress in humans is very slow, I have accomplished a state where the body cannot decay or degenerate. All this was possible because of my intense Ichcha shakti.

Those people who are devoted to me, who pray to me with keen interest in serving others, to uplift themselves, I grant them boons. Their hurdles and struggles in life steadily vain, the family life becomes congenial, their health improves drastically and their mind begins to engage and gets occupied in spiritual practices and yoga with much interest. It is only and only the one with devotion who can attain me. Mei keval aur keval, keval sharaddha se prapt hota hun!!

Babaji began to explain to me in detail at this juncture about the pitfalls during evolution and progress of a human soul. He simplified and said- Poorva gyan aur vartmaan gyan. When translated it means -Previous knowledge and Present Knowledge.

When born, every individual brings with him wisdom acquired by him from his previous lives. That is Previous knowledge or Purva Gyan. And Present knowledge or Vartaman gyan is the wisdom that we are acquiring in our present life.

The wisdom that we have carried forward in this life gets corrupted in the company of worldly, unwise, evil and lethargic people. By coming in constant companionship and interaction, we imbibe obtuseness, vices and impurities. So keep away from evil, vicious, greedy and immoral people. Benefit from the company of learned and wise. Enjoy silence and solitude.

Divulging about my soul he informed me – “When you were not born, you made such intense and compassionate prayers to God to free you from the bondage of your karmas from past life that God heard you after all, although it was not at all possible to even out or burn the effects of your humongous karmas in just one life. Because of your very intense Ichcha shakti to free yourself, there was so much power in your prayers that God gave you one chance to liberate yourself in this life. Although there were innumerable troubles, hardships and problems in the guise of hurdles, you did not relent and you overcame them. To be able to overcome so many hurdles, one must have strong sankalpa shakti and kriya shakti both. The force of the sanchit karmas is so much that it is comparable to the gushing and flooding of dam water.

We must possess enough inner powers of ichcha shakti, sankalpa shakti and kriya shakti to contain and cancel the force of our sanchit karmas.

You have an irresistible desire to make use of your present life to serve others and therefore, I have given you the seva or service of seekers and aspirants through  this weblog.

When all the sanchit karmas are exhausted and burnt, then one attains the state of Super Consciousness or Atma. It is the state of Brahma, the eternal truth, peace, harmony and bliss.

Most of the sages and saints of today have themselves not reached the stage of third eye or agya chakra and they are advocating and teaching yoga to their disciples. But that is also alright, we must try to learn from everyone and move on.

Gurus who do not teach you dhyana, dharana, meditation and concentration respectively, they can never be able to take you to the state of samadhi and permanent bliss. Seekers who wish to reach and attain the highest must have a Param Gyani Guru or great master who shall liberate you from the consequences of karmas of all your past lives lived so far. And who has the potential of giving you a new lease of life full of happiness and serenity and a life of knowledge of Supreme Truth so that you never again create karmas of ignorance. Therefore, give up all unproductive activities and perform only valuable and positive activities, do not waste your time and make your life worthy and commendable. Add value to your life.”

Babaji again went back to tell me more about himself. He divulged about his tapas and intense spiritual practices done. “After the initiation of the highest level of Kriya, my body became unconquerable and invincible. My senses became extremely acute and I could no longer bear to hear the sound of clatter and any noisy words. Therefore, I decided to meditate in a place where there would be no disturbing sounds and I headed for the Himalayas on foot. I found a cave in a place where there was no human soul and I meditated in freezing climate without any cloth over me to test my abilities. Once assured, I offered all my accomplishments to God and asked him to now let me exit the world at the age of just fourteen! God’s answer was, “Give me this body; I shall use it for a purpose that no one has done before. I shall accomplish with it that no one has accomplished before.” I only bowed in front of that Divine Light and uttered, “It is yours.”

The samadhi state that I am in today is continuing for years and I shall relinquish this body once the cycle or kaal chakra of the kalyug changes to sat yuga- from the present age of machines to the age of truth and peace.

My dear child, you have never questioned me and have followed all my instructions and requests with full conviction and faith. I have sent you to many places about which you knew nothing but you took my words as words of God. I have sent you to my birth place and the places where I have meditated. The yantra made at my birth place is very sacred and you have seen it. It is the spot where I was born and the spot still emits great vibrations of ichcha shakti or the power of will. I had a very persistent and strong desire to help and salvage human beings. If you can concentrate on that spot, you will develop that same power within you.

And the two huge Banyan trees that you saw on the edge of the compound wall, they possess very great powers of sankalpa shakti. To emancipate your soul, you must inculcate these special powers or else tamas or darkness envelops us and we bury ourselves in sunken depths of spiritual ignorance.”

Dear friends, Shri Mahavatar Babaji has inspired and encouraged all of us by saying these memorable words of eternal wisdom which I leave in the end, “So my dear children, awake, have mercy on yourself and enlighten yourself with the help of those souls who are never reluctant to salvage you and redeem your Spirits in Truth and eternity.   Hari Om Tatsat !

                    Hari Om  Tatsat!

                     Hari Om Tatsat!!”…

Forever in reverent thankfulness and gratitude for this blessed gift. I gently bow once again with reverence to God, Shri Mahavatar Babaji and all my gurus for their kindness, compassion and love bestowed on me and you on this very sacred day.

Please note-This blog is structured as and stands on 4 pillars-** Yoga, Tapa, Dharma and Satya.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     (To be concluded)

(Please refer previous post for ichcha shakti, sankalpa shakti and kriya shakti,

Creating your destiny for more pictures of the temple of Babaji and

read about Saurabh Samadhi in How does one know know Atman?

Revised and updated on  10-01-19 & 25-02-19

The place of penance of Shri Mahavatar Babaji in Katargama, Sri Lanka. Today there is a temple there.

“I took a boat from the shores of Kanya Kumari and reached Sri Lanka. The forests were very thick and the number of people much less then. I wanted to maintain uninterrupted silence for a few years so I hid myself in the thick forests of Katargama in Sri Lanka away from the noise and found an old Banyan Tree. I sat under it to meditate and did not move for days. Swami Kartikeyan blessed me. I sat near his place of samadhi and tapas.”

When the Chetna shakti of the individual joins and unites with Atma shakti or Universal Spirit, that is Super Consciousness. It takes place at Brahmarandra or crown chakra. All sacred knowledge, truth and divine illumination takes place at Brahmarandra. Illumination comes from God, beauty comes from God, and truth comes from God. The state in which there are no thoughts is called Nirvikalpa.  (How to increase the level of your consciousness –I)

“After arriving at this stage even the Guru is not there, only Brahma remains. At this stage there is the Absolute Truth, absolute Brahma, Immutable Brahma, Unchanging Atman our Spirit. It 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!” (Ignite the flame of Illumination-II)

The state of Super Consciousness is reached by doing progressive meditation by which is meant that the aspirant must progress from lower chakra to the higher ones in meditation. One should start concentration from the solar plexus, then progress to heart and finally to the third eye. (How to increase the level of your consciousness-II)

Dear readers, as we progress with each post step by step, we are going higher on the levels of realization of Self. It becomes necessary for us to look back for a while and see the links that are present in preceding posts. For this reason I have quoted from the posts of previous segments at the start because all this is inter-connected. Keeping all the quotes in mind, let’s continue now from where we left last time. We were discussing progressive meditation to enlarge our present level of consciousness.

The third eye is the centre of divine perception, visions, supernatural powers and telepathy. It is called the third eye or spiritual eye because the human soul has the capacity to see beyond the normal eyes, an inherent faculty of unused power to see beyond the realms of physical world. This centre of concentration is named agya chakra in Yoga. It is a special door of knowledge where one can see, hear, know and feel in super normal ways without the use of one’s senses. Knowledge coming from this door can be depended upon wholly and one cannot go wrong in his judgment unlike the normal method of knowing and judging situations in normal circumstances. High frequency vibrations of sound and light are very well received at this point from the middle regions of astral world without any hindrance of earthly disruptions. Through third eye one can have a direct contact with the Higher Self.

Please know that the results of concentration attained by the seeker at the third eye is much slower than the preceding chakras and the progress is at a slower rate. Much work has to be done prior to the manifestation of its commendable results at this centre. Only persistence helps. Meditation at the agya chakra or the third eye should never be done alone but always under the guidance of a guru. Many people are casual about it and are misguided by their mentors. As with Kundalini Shakti, so with the third eye. The awakening of these two sacred centres should come as a grace from the gurus and not by obstinate efforts of oneself. The dangers are many, including the most prominent of opening the door to evil spirits and the lower worlds. Practices like tratak or concentration at one point, on that of a flame or lamp with the motive of gaining success in materialistic affairs or attaining supernatural powers can prove to be very harmful for the practitioner. One must learn concentration to control the restless senses and mind and get rid of the weaknesses; and we must meditate to attain self realization. The intention of any spiritual practice should be pure and progressive in nature. Invoking and installing of a deity, a guru or some image of God in the heart and the third eye is mandatory, more so if you have just begun. The initiation and commencement of this sacred act should be in the knowledge of a reliable guru.

Karna, the brave warrior and friend of Duryodhana in Mahabharat lied to his teacher Sage Parshuram about his history and background. On revelation at a later stage, Karna was cursed by his teacher for lying and hiding his background  from his Guru. There are spiritual laws which when defied result in very painful and detrimental results. Therefore, one should always be very humble and ego-less in all the spiritual efforts and give the highest status to the benevolent guru. It is in our own interest and safety that we follow the legacy or parampara of guru–shishya, teacher student tradition and succeed in our deliberate efforts.

From the position and center of the third eye, the spiritual voyage becomes exclusive as well as conclusive. When we concentrate at this point with our conscious will, we pull up the life force from the lower regions of the body to higher levels of concentration. The lower chakras deal chiefly with sustenance and survival actions. As humans have a very deep sense of survival instincts visible as ego, hatred, enmity, selfishness and self-centeredness, the consciousness of majority of people is centered there. Evidently, the vibrations of thoughts emitted from the lower chakras levels are gross and heavy. The knowledge base and capacity of understanding of majority of people is constricted and limited plus the vast horizons of higher consciousness untapped. The actions performed with constrained knowing and dim consciousness leads to unsatisfactory and impoverished results resulting in human race suffering in terms of mental unrest, confusion, lack of prosperity and success, physical as well as mental ailments, and as a whole they lead a directionless, purposeless and meaningless life. Sadly, such a typical life is repeated again and again by the human soul who never reflects or thinks and therefore fails to transform and convert himself into a higher being. This is the irony of humanity at large! Only a few have the desire to attempt to walk on the path of spiritual evolution and divinity. Ironically those people who do attempt lose interest after some time because the results of these efforts are slow to become visible and difficult to assess by the unaccomplished practitioner!

Nevertheless there are a few outstanding aspirants who are intelligent, patient, diligent and sincere too. They continue working towards their objective and higher aspirations. They just refuse to be re-born incarnations after incarnations into insignificant and meaningless existence in lower worlds and domains.

Hence it becomes imperative for us to understand very well as to why we need to put in so much effort and time today for self improvement and progress in a lifestyle which leaves us with little spare time. However, those people who are wise enough will invest their energies and time towards their development because they realize too well that if they do so, their future lives will be pious, peaceful and sacred. And their present lives will have a great meaning and purpose too.

Dear friends, so back to our original subject that we were discussing about concentration at the third eye. It takes longer time and practice to open this centre of consciousness because the effects of past accumulated karmas are very profound and erasing them takes extensive time and labour. There are many doors which must be opened one by one and these are doors of ignorance and darkness of many, many incarnations. As each door opens one after the other with clearing of small portion of ignorance, we begin to experience frequent patches and periods of calmness, mental peace and devotion in our life. Once the agya chakra is cleaned by God and Guru’s Grace, the dormant Kundalini Shakti awakens by itself and the prana or vital force starts to flow freely in the spinal cord within some time without any hindrance or blockage. This process recharges and electrifies the spinal column and the nervous system as well and the prana reaches the seat of Super consciousness– the Crown Chakra with the help of excess force given by Kundalini. But please remember this, it is not a hurried affair and process. It is going to take you quite some time depending on many factors which may be discussed at some other time in a later post soon.  Next…

The Crown Chakra or Brahmarandr- Brahma means God, randra means a hole. It is the region of receiving Super Conscious vibrations from the celestial worlds. The uppermost part of the cerebrum is very sacred for the reason that it is here that the knowledge of sacred Brahma is received and established. It is the centre and seat meant for only one purpose- to receive spiritual realizations, illumination and knowledge in the form of astral rays of divinity through the very fine nerves present in the nervous system from the highest skies or astral worlds on the human form. It is received in the upper cerebrum which acts as an antenna, the human receiver and transmitter. Sincere prayers, affirmations and aspirations from this state are heard and manifested without any delay. It is a very potent and powerful centre and must be utilized for self growth and world transformation.

No physical or gross activity is done from this centre of vast learning. If one learns to concentrates at this sacred point, the knot of breath and mind is broken and the breath stops for a while.

Cessation of breath leads to Super Consciousness.

It is a stage of absence of thoughts as the connection of the Spirit breaks from the body temporarily and we are in a state of Cosmic Spirit. The ultimate aim of any Kriya and Pranayaam is to untie the knot of prana and manas– vital force and mind. We shall discuss this in little more detail later in future articles. This particular advanced stage is termed as Samadhi and is hard to attain by one’s own efforts but easy to achieve for humble, sincere and devoted disciples as a Grace from their benevolent, merciful gurus. Arjuna experienced the Cosmic form of the Universal God during a war on a battlefield of Kurukshetra!! The Grace of Krishna was spontaneous and it flowed out of divine love for Arjuna who had a sacred heart and undying love for his mentor, Guru and teacher and beloved friend Krishna!!

The Crown Chakra is the place of receiving abundant Cosmic Light without any hindrance or obstacle. So all the knowledge that comes from the higher skies or celestial kingdom is in the form of Cosmic Light first which instantaneously translates into human intellect and comprehension. Hence knowledge received in this method is infallible while the world’s method of  knowledge procurement is from the middle level and order- the intellectual level. It cannot be relied upon so  many times and is not complete in wholeness.

If we learn to begin to operate from the higher state and level of Super Consciousness and Cosmic Light, all our actions are going to be of divine wisdom, love, understanding and compassion. It is stage of perfection or boddhi sattva. All human stride should be in this direction to circumvent disorder, hatred and mayhem so prevalent in our world. If we cannot change the present world we can change the world within ourselves. We can definitely make our inner world pious, peaceful and divine. The real purpose of each human incarnation is to move somewhat nearer to this supreme goal and not to drift aimlessly or regress in lower consciousness. The real purpose of spirituality is again the same- to rid our consciousness of the lingering ignorance of our divinity and sanctity. Each incarnation is a big lesson to learn, each life is an opportunity to learn our next lesson. We are given incarnations after incarnations to live until we understand fully well that the real purpose of our life is to reveal the divinity present in us. We should therefore make all possible tireless and persistent efforts everyday in some manner to push our present life in that sacred direction.