The soul speaks to you!-III

30th Jan is approaching, and it is the date when I enter a new post each month. And then there is a marriage in the family around this time; the blog entry and the social event coincide. The last few waves of external turbulence are ebbing and in spite of extra active and multitasking life, it is possible to think, compose and prepare an article in  between my social commitments and another travel schedule to south of India …..

Ruminating on these thoughts, I took some time off to rest and meditate in the afternoon of 24th Jan as morning meditation was not happening. It does not matter what time I meditate but the necessity to connect to my God and the Holy Masters is imperative. I just cannot function without them. Without staying in connection with them, life seems futile and aimless. I cannot move ahead at all without the spiritual guidance and wisdom given to me by the divine gurus since I have taken refuge in them some years ago. The normal vision of any layman is like walking in a dark cave without any sight! How can he see God?

However, if the Guru gives you the knowledge of what is right and what is not right, then you have Light to see inside with clarity and precision!

With these enlightening thoughts, I moved into deeper level of meditation. The realizations at that soulful time were giving me a sense of comfort and mental rest. I was also recalling some wondrous realization that I recently had about which you must have read in the last post of 20th Jan- The soul speaks to you-II. At that time there were many sealed subtle thoughts floating inside me which were unwrapped in my meditation just a few days ago. And they were about the power of our thoughts, our sankalpas. I recapitulated and reaffirmed about it and I cancelled a few thoughts that arose by seeing some people’s low learning capacity and consequently their low performance. One under performimg person was testing my patience since morning and while I was telling that person to act with attentiveness and yield better quality of work, nonetheless I started giving myself an important lesson alongside.

I said to myself,” Sarika, if you want to do great work in future, if you want to yield great performance, then understand one thing very well today and learn it very fast, right away. And that is- all great work ever done in this world has been produced by those people who were surrounded by and were dealing with low performers. And in spite of so many people producing low quality work around them, they were able to produce a stupendous volume  of great quality work without being affected. So know that people will not perform their jobs with efficiency and responsibility, instead focus your mind sharply on the goals that you have set for yourself and move a little closer everyday towards them at a quick pace. Do  not frustrate yourself and ruin your day.”

As these thoughts emerged in me I felt extremely energized and the external situation seemed to no longer affect me. I meticulously planned my day by rearranging my schedule and created a slot for myself to do my writing in the brimful day.

So to be back on the main thought . My revelations of 24th afternoon meditation were very propitious and encouraging. As I moved into further realms of meditation, I saw my consciousness being raised higher. I felt myself inwardly going up and rising and  becoming lighter in body and mind. A sense of expansion took over me and just then re-connection with my soul took place. Our soul speaks to us you know. It speaks to us when we really want it desperately. It speaks to us when all the inane and pointless thoughts are thrown out like the trash of the house! The soul speaks to us when we do all actions right and noble in spite of people behaving with us with abhorrence, grievance, maliciousness, non co-operation or plain indifference. Our soul is a silent spectator of all our karmas. Our soul speaks to us when we love everyone as children of one God in spite of knowing that these same people are blind to God and everything else and hence they don’t act rightly and as a punishment or penalty from God, they do not possess high quality nervous system and they under perform.

Since morning I have harboured these realizations and when the Grace of God fell on me during 24th afternoon, the Soul- God in me broke the silence and spoke to me,”People are ineffective and show low performance not in one life but in progressive  lives because they do not learn to concentrate. It all starts with concentration of mind. To concentrate is an act, an action in itself. Waves of distraction are always coming from all sides but one’s mind should be trained everyday to become stronger by not allowing it to banish and disperse.

Another important thing that people do not know is that  mind’s concentration improves exorbitantly if one is constantly engaged in some kind of action and activeness called karmas. Performing many kinds of activities enhances our brain power and multi tasking at varied levels is the real test. So do not shy away from doing multi skilled actions at multi levels to nurture and refine your brain. A high powered brain shall develop with concentration and meditation both. “

As for me God said,”Concentration on God is not only during meditation but throughout the day as well as night. Today in spite of your engrossing  in mundane activities, your thought was fixed on me. All throughout you were thinking inside while performing those actions- what will God teach me next? I have learnt that there is more power in our thoughts than food and sleep put together. You have also cancelled the futile thoughts arising out of external life situations . And you have decided to finish your daily lessons and then fulfill the social engagements.

Continued and persisting anchoring of mind on God gives a person very high level of knowledge and people who have high level of spiritual knowledge excel and perform multi tasks at multiple levels. This is because while their mind is enduring and  engaged in some way to God, they have no inclination or time in hand to interact with low quality minds. Even if they interact with low quality minds and average people, their sankalpa or thought is always powerful and profound. Their sankalpa gives them more power to do great karmas in future and subsequently they have no time to squander or fritter away in unproductive actions!

Doing unselfish karmas, doing karmas for the welfare and benefit of the society and the planet, helping people silently by praying shall generate highest grade of results thus giving you a very pious, peaceful and divine life.”

Conclusion of the last three posts-

• Our soul speaks to us
• Real power comes from our mind
• That mind power is unleashed when we do noble acts for the society and the planet and when we practice concentration and meditation.

Footnote  The first picture is blurred and I am sorry for that. I had referred briefly in the last post that because of lack of light in the caves of Ajanta , my earnest desire to take a picture of Lord  Buddha as Padmapani could not be fulfilled. It is this same picture. However, with the help of a blog reader Nishith, it was retrieved to a certain extent and to get an idea how magnificent it was, I have shared it with you!

The second photo is of Bhagwan Mahavira at Ellora caves.  I have used these two photos to explain  a point and highlight the difference between two contrasting thoughts. Hope you like them!

The soul speaks to you!-II

Part A

15^th Jan’12 and it is 1.18 a.m. Last minute preparations in full swing to make a trip and travel to Aurangabad to do the much awaited sightseeing of the world famous Ajanta and Ellora Caves. During the day, there was less time and more tasks to accomplish. I slept very late and to relax my exhausted body, I meditated in the bed. The body, in next to no time became relaxed and tension free and I slipped into profound meditation. All of a sudden, I saw many roots hanging from a large Banyan Tree. The dangling roots touched my upper body and sort of made me more focussed and my attention was immediately brought to the centre of my two eyebrows. The large Banyan Tree stood firmly on my upper torso and I saw dazzling light in it. In that bright Light I saw an image of His Holiness Shri Mahavatar Babaji. Seeing him, I sought his blessings before embarking on my journey to interior Maharashtra, the site where the world class monuments stand as a master piece and glory of human endeavour towards refining and purifying its soul by making monuments as places of worship and advent of new awakening.

The dazzling Light entered my upper brain with its sensations tingling up there and along with this there occurred expansion and relaxation in my brain. With so much Light entering my nervous system as you would expect, I felt extremely comfortable and relieved of all day’s weariness. At this point in time, Shri Shri Mahavatar Babaji spoke to me mentally with kindness, “This is not enough. Wait. Let more Light circulate in the rest of the brain so that it can accommodate more new knowledge. You will not need any sleep tonight because one great positive thought has more power to rejuvenate your mind and body than a few hours sleep at night. The power in sankalapa (thought) is immense. If you increase the power of your sankalapa by very positive and potent thoughts then your requirement of sleep will decrease. So increase the power of your thoughts, make powerful sankalapas.”

In all my humility, I thanked the Holy Spirit Shri Mahavatar Babaji and abided by his wish. Although I was anxious to take at least a few hours sleep before leaving, I gave up the idea by surrendering to God’s wish and accepted God’s wish as mine. I spent quite sometime in the bed roaming in the spiritual world with a new sense of accomplishment by not being a slave to sleep and also not worrying about missing the early morning flight. I was relaxed and assured  that with God’s blessing and having Mahavatar Babaji’s inner vision before embarking on my holy trip, everything is going to be perfect and splendid….I floated in so much comfort and ecstasy that instead of sleeping I wanted to get started in the middle of night although I hadn’t winked my eyes even once! For a long time, my heart was brimming over, overflowing with gratitude and appreciation for God’s kindness and graciousness. My heart swelled up with gratitude even though the body was dead tired since  12.30 a.m. I thanked God ever more for giving me so much seva, service for choosing me of all the people to do this service. There are many types of seva God told me and guiding people with wisdom and light is one of them. As you know that these trips that I am making to heritage centres of India these days are not at all my own idea.

As I have mentioned in the beginning of this segment that Shri Mahavatar Babaji will be sending me to some world heritage sites of India and he would tell me something that no historian, archaeologist or traveller would know. My aim and vision is to re-visit these sites and get spiritual knowledge that is buried in times with the help of meditation and guidance of the realized souls. My focus throughout the night was what would God reveal to me this time? What is that God wants me to know? What must have happened during those times in history that we people today do not know and is of great spiritual importance for us and that we should be knowing now? What next?

In such moments out of nowhere my soul began to speak to me, “According to Hindu calendar, today is your birthday. Ask for any boon from me, I shall grant it!” I felt a flux of light at my heart centre.

Without any time spent here and there I prayed to my Soul, “My beloved God, my sweetest Lord, give me more insight in yet deeper meditations. May I always, always worship you;  may I always do your bhakti, may I always serve you. That is all I want. The rest of my requirements and cares you shall take care of obviously and I am certain about it.”

After saying this, I was mentally transported again to my infancy stage when I remembered that I had prayed to God in my mother’s lap as a baby. “May I never again sleep in the lap of ignorance”, I had  pleaded to my Soul  and I also recalled the power of praying intensely on our birthday and how I had once prayed and pleaded very intensely to God long time ago  before I was even born to unshackle all my karmic bonds in this life itself.

The soul in me threw open the closed gates of yet another higher door of cryptic knowledge by unfolding this enigmatic awareness by explaining me, “ Although we have light of God in our soul but sometimes our soul is very close to God. This means that in some rare moments, there is excess divine light in us, even though it could be for a very short period of time. If we make an affirmation, a positive affirmation at that moment, it could prove to be monumental and it could be the turning point. It can change the future course of path for anyone. To rise in Spirit, one must make very powerful thoughts irrespective of external detrimental conditions. The power in thought is more powerful than the power of food and sleep put together. Therefore, do not think or grow anxious about not getting due rest or sleep but instead have powerful thoughts and increase the physical stamina and endurance by increasing the attention span on God and depend solely on the sankalpa, thought of God to energize you all the time. And what I have just told you is what you should be writing in your upcoming post once you return. The content of the post is crucial so make the draft now before leaving.”

I looked at the watch it was 1.15 a.m.  I, being cautious and wishing not to lose any trace of this sublime divine knowledge, sat up and wrote down part A of this article before leaving for Aurangabad very early morning to see the Ajanta and Ellora caves on 15^th Jan’12.

Part B

20^th Jan’12 and it is 6.20 p.m. I am at this moment writing the later part of my post after I have visited and seen the magnificent caves of Ajanta and Ellora in Maharashtra, India and returned on 17^th night. And dear friends what a rare experience that was! I wonder why did I never get a thought or an idea thrown at me by someone to see these most exquisite caves?

I had not even fathomed before that people living more than 2,500 years ago in India could make such awe inspiring monuments with such humble instruments like that of just a chisel and a hammer!! And seeing is believing! Although I had known for years that these caves are world heritage sites and the caves are of Buddhism, Jainism and Shivaism category but my trip to these sites were not at all from religious point of view. My perspective was very different and all the time I was wondering why were these caves made?

Once I reached the Ajanta caves on 15^th morning around 10.30 or so and started seeing the line of caves I had reached my saturation.  It was mind boggling; the magic of just being in an ancient Buddhist cave was really awesome. Standing inside them with great surprise and wonder, I could visualize the monks walking here and there carrying out all the ceremonies and rituals and how people must have come to pay their respects to Lord Buddha in those caves long time ago. But for the signs of vandalism, harm and damage done to these master pieces left me depressed and disturbed. All the day long, a sense of sadness was felt and it lingered after I saw so many overwhelming and grand idols defaced and dishonoured by some unknown people ages ago.

And the next day on 16^th morning, I visited two caves of Jainism category. As we reached quite early, there were just a few people and I relished every moment spent there seeing carefully every bit of the fine architecture with a deep sense of wonder and respect. I am certain that somehow the later generations were first inspired by these monuments and the Dilwara temples made of white marble in Rajasthan today have drawn inspiration by these Jain temples made about two thousand years ago. There is a lot of similarity between the layout and style of architecture between them and these cave temples.

My jaws dropped literally when I first saw the Ellora’s Kailash (Shiva) temple after the Jain cave temples. A thrill of electric ray like feeling ran through me when I first entered the huge complex and courtyard of Kailash temple and was left in a trans- like state.  There was so much positive energy in this particular place that I was immediately infused with remarkable energy to capture this great moment of my life. I was inspired and hungry to photograph every master piece installed there by taking as many photographs as possible in the very little time available to me.

I had never ever imagined that man could make such beautiful monuments as places of worship without any modern engineering and machines. And all the pains were taken merely to connect to God in some ways! How very fascinating! This goes on to prove, I thought to myself, that praying and meditating are really very important for we humans and we are just not doing that, I wonder why?

In fact, I only saw three cave temples in four hours in Ellora because they offer so much to see and savour. I left the rest of the caves because one needs at least four days from morning to night to see all the details and appreciate the classic beauty of each and every idol and figure made out of just chiseling the hard black mountains in both the places. In any case, I was so satisfied with what I had seen that I actually did not want to see any more caves, more so because ordinary people lack love, regard and reverence for such grand places of worship and their behaviour is only contrary to what it should be in such elegant caves!

Now though the historical facts were written everywhere on boards but no one answered my one question. Even when I had seen all the caves at Ajanta and in the following day a few at Ellora, I was stuck with one question, “It is clear that humans made these monuments with just a hammer and a chisel but why would they make them? And most importantly- “Who got the first idea of making these caves? From where did this idea come?”  I was all the time talking to myself silently. Obviously, no one can answer this to me in the physical world but I was really, really intrigued and a bit restless beneath and I didn’t know why.

Yesterday around 5 p.m at home, I was very peaceful and wanted to meditate in the midst of some ongoing problem. I knew that no wonder what kind of problem I face, I shall find an answer and solution by connecting to God because God knows everything. Also my certainty about God’s appearing before me to direct and lead me to complete my pending assignment of posting a new entry made me feel very comfortable and relaxed.  With gentle rays of love and peace thrown at the upper skies by me, I sat in blissful peace on my bed and was lost in the unexplored and unknown regions of celestial areas. Just then I saw a beam of thick Light coming beyond the Earth and originating much beyond the Earth and touching me. I wished to know from where the beam of Light was originating. My inner vision saw that the beam was endless and was coming from infinity. I concluded that there is Light beyond the Cosmos that I know of but then where is the beam of Divine light originating from? Who is sending it to me? Why is it coming to me?

At this juncture, my soul began to speak to me, “This whole creation was created with the thought sankalpa of God. First came the thought, then the Cosmos. The thought of God has Light in it. That sankalpa of God is still present in this Universe. It is present even today and cannot be wiped out; it is so powerful. There can be catastrophes on the Earth, but this Universe cannot be wiped out because it is my will and sankalpa that it should be conserved and should continue to exist.

 If you connect your thought with this thought of God, you shall be empowered. The Spirit in you is also light of God. Only a pure heart can know and understand all this.

In order to make some spiritual energy hubs on this planet, I had this first thought and it was me who first sent out this positive thought in a Mahatma, a holy Spirit so that these caves could be constructed more than two thousand of years ago. Through this Mahatma, the thought was transferred to some other people and the caves were made. These prayer halls or Chaityas  as they were called, were meant to be places of worship, praying, chanting and holy activities. But later some destructing civilization vandalized it in order to gain supremacy. Wars are mainly fought for supremacy, proving a point because of one’s ego or just plain hate. From time to time, one civilization tries to gain supremacy over other civilization by force but the creation will never be destroyed because it is my will. The defacing and ruining that you have seen and has disturbed you is done by one civilization because of not gaining supremacy but out of hate.

Before the actual outward damage happened, there was something unnoticed that took place. The monks in the beginning were pious and were carrying on their duties well. Later on, after about eight hundred years or so, the civilization peaked and the monks in the Viharas and Chaityas  became immodest and hungry for power thus spoiling the unseen atmosphere, the atmosphere of thoughts and sankalpa. The air became polluted and at this time, another civilization took over this place forcefully and damaged the work and toil put up by so many labourers and other people during the medieval times of Indian history. Whenever the negative thoughts over power the positive thoughts, there is bound to be regression and destruction. Therefore, have very positive thoughts and increase the intensity of positive thoughts in the atmosphere by meditating and positive affirmations. In today’s world also there is a silent war of thoughts going on between two countries and civilizations to gain supremacy. Those civilizations who try to be most powerful by negative means in some time face downfall because God will stop them and not allow excess negative, detrimental vibrations in this Universe. Those nations or people who resort to immoral and unethical means to overpower others shall be overthrown by their own wrong doings in due course of time.

Nevertheless, the bad air is again and again cleared and sanctified by the good deeds and thoughts of good people. There should be more good karmas than bad karmas from everybody to gain lasting peace and happiness and well being. Very sadly, most people are like empty cane baskets- light and hollow. They do not possess profound and spiritual thoughts. To make your life more blissful and joyful, one must learn to meditate on the thought of God and their thoughts should be one with God’s wish. Learn to prolong your mind’s attention on God and go deeper still inside and I shall reveal to you many hidden facts about God’s sinless, pure world. Only a pure mind and heart shall be blessed with such divine revelations!!”

Ajanta Caves

 

 

 

 

Ellora Caves

A Foot note- As flash is banned in the caves to preserve the murals and frescoes, I was not able to take the photograph of the most wonderful painting of Lord Buddha at Ajanta- that of Padmapani, Buddha with a lotus in his hand. Some photos on the blog appear to be dark and may also be blurred as they were taken with great difficulty in the dark caves. Inconvenience is regretted.

The soul speaks to you!-I

Shri Krishna Govinda Hare Murare, Hey Nath Narayan Vasudevaya…..

Our soul is buried deep inside the thick layers of the debris of the karmas done by us in innumerable incarnations. It gets buried to such an extent that it becomes impossible for man to even conceive of God, let alone think or meditate upon it. The thick layers act as insulation and the human being believes that he/ she is the most superior because of which she/he does not fear or obey God. Disobedience, arrogance and brushing aside sane advice  is by those people who are careless in their conduct. They do not realize that these bad actions or karmas are creating a web cycle of endless low quality births in future lives to come.

The soul which is a small fragment of Cosmic Consciousness is us is indelible and cannot be erased no matter how long we live and die in ignorance in uncountable bodies. The soul is the voice of God. The soul is always right and gives us unfaltering guidance and advice. The soul is our real beauty hidden inside us. Our soul is our conscience with which can navigate safely in spite of recurring turbulence outside us  in this mahasagar or ocean called the sansara, the world.

But how do we lose contact with our soul?

Mainly by two factors

• Living in wrong and unproductive company; in so doing gaining and collecting bad energies.
• Doing bad actions. The bad energies or forces compel the individual being or self to like and get attracted to bad forces or bad actions. This creates a never ending cycle or wheel and maze from which the individual self cannot recover and suffers life after life.

And for those who wish to re-connect to their souls, what must they do?

• Sadhana ( spiritual practice ) of Japa (chanting and recitation of God’ name)
• Dhyana(meditation)
• Seva, (service)
• Maintaing silence or maun
• Leading a saatvik or pure life and

Thus recalling the memory of God in oneself are some ways.

Bhagwan Buddha was reiterating endlessly about the soul’s incessant suffering  because of his/her endless desires set in ignorance but hardly anyone understands this even until this day. Unless the individual has a desire to liberate oneself from its own created hell and suffering, even God cannot help! Given the teachings and spiritual counsel of the realized great Teachers the world has known, one can liberate oneself by first accepting their teachings in the heart with reverence and devotion. Once the dust over the soul is lifted, the soul begins to speak to you by becoming your constant companion and friend residing inside who never leaves you for even a moment.

The soul never sleeps and is awake even though the body may sleep or mind may rest. The soul speaks to us in many different ways. Sometimes it whispers in our ears gently. Someday, it talks to us like we talk to our own selves in the day. Sometime, it may only utter a few simple or perplexing words so remain alert and contemplate on them. On some beatific occasions, it might only manifest itself as unending peace or sheer bliss just like it has manifested itself with so much tranquility and serenity in these sublime and thought provoking words in me in this blessed hour after prolonged turbulence in the last so many days!

My many, many salutations and pranams to my soul, which is purity of the Divine, for residing in me and speaking to me these liberating words of Moksha!!

Silence of the soul-III

Today is the first day of the year 2012 and for me it is a very favourable day to begin with by submitting a post as a resolution and promise to myself that in spite of our extremely demanding and challenging lives, our commitment to God and Gurus shall never take a back seat. So after resting for a while, I am back at my laptop this evening typing my feelings and recent spiritual experience which took place only last late evening.

Prior to my narration I would like to wish all of you a very blessed and auspicious year ahead.

May this year give you more insight, more blessedness and may you march ahead and rise in your Spirit as each day progresses!! Even if we have to keep pace with our hectic daily schedules, may we never ignore or overlook our constant inner spiritual progress as the wheel of sansara shall never stop and this life is too precious to be washed out in less productive actions.

If you can recall I have mentioned to you in the last post of 30.12.11 that I took a short break and we went out of town for four days. Out of fatigue and lack of sleep in the previous many days, the body revolted and I was in agonizing pain yesterday as I became unwell and I had no choice but to rest and lay down in bed for a few hours. Since the last few days and more so after paying my obeisance to Lord Shiva at Trayambakeshwar temple in Nasik, lately, the silent chanting of ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ has been in progress while carrying out all the work in the day. So to alleviate my pain, I took the best medicine that I think works best in times of crises for me. I switched off my mind from the external world and with full faith I began to chant the mantra ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ repeatedly.

Immediately I felt peace coming to me and the mind easily became quiet and very silent. Peace and silence took me deep inside my soul where I reached the innermost chamber of God’s residence. I pleaded Him to rid me off with the excruciating pain so that I could save time to continue working for Him without any loss of time and much break. Although I knew that the body would recover in minimum time required for its recovery, I requested God to speak to me as talking to God always brings me so much joy and relief. It is the best medicine and remedy to all my problems that recur off and on.

I would like to inform you that during the last few days unfortunately I had to deal with so many people who were instilled with very low level of consciousness although I had ignored and disregarded them by keeping  my mind fixed only on God to save my mental energy for a higher purpose. But yesterday I met somebody who crossed all limits of sanctity. This combined with my hectic schedule eventually took its toll on me.

I fell ill and I was resting on the sofa with eyes closed and my mind on my beloved Param Guru Shri Mahavatar Babaji.  I got instant relief and in no time, everything fell silent and the sound of Om started ringing in both the ears. All my attention was transferred to this sacred sound and I immersed in deep peace and relief as though there was no pain at all. I only wanted to hear Om as nothing outside is ever as good as this. The domain of God and our Spirit is very blessed and I always crave to be in that realm as much as possible because it is very peaceful there. It is blissful to be in contact with one’s Spirit. My soul always longs to be there and during such divine moments I also pray to God to let me keep on being there as long as possible as I don’t feel like returning to the normal world after so much holiness purifying me every time I visit there, never mind how short the stay must have been!

 God is all pervading and omnipresent and He knows every little thing that we see, do or experience. God began by educating me with this knowledge, “Leaving just a few, this whole sansara is full of people who have not controlled their mind. Their mind compels them to make so many horrible errors after errors because of which they fall one after the other in degraded births and there is no way for them to rise up. Their bad karmas bring about bad results and in turn they fall in lower quality of lives and consequently a bad mind compels them to do more bad karmas thus bringing upon them more error, misery, grief and suffering. The never ending cycle goes on.

It all starts with the mind which has the power to drop you from a height to one’s abysmal low. You used to think that meditation is for controlling the mind because the weak and copious thoughts used to bother you. But you did not know that all the men in the world except for a few are all governed by the agitated, insatiable and dirty nature of mind which drops the soul of the individual in hell and such souls cause so much negativity and unconstructiveness on the earth. Therefore, the saints and the spiritual Gurus lay so much stress on controlling the mind because there is so much suffering for the soul to go through all this because of so much darkness in them -life after life after life.

And once someone understands that purity of thought and mind is the key to a wholesome, peaceful and balanced life, that individual will practice meditation and will stay away from bad people as much as possible. The interaction with the worldly people cannot be avoided completely but retaining your sanctity, stability and purity of soul is utmost important. Therefore, stay in silence; recover from the impurities of the thoughts of others with the name of God who is the best healer and make your life more divine and peaceful by always remembering God in spite of the extra burden placed on you. It is possible to balance the purity of the Spirit and the contrasting dirt and muddiness that exists outside you by constantly remaining with God and Gurus. Rest a while to recover and get back to your normal spiritual life. Never forget that you are a child of God and those of you who wish to be sheltered and protected in the arms of God must always listen to the counsel and warnings of the Guru. Those people who get lost and drift in this world never realize that they are going on erring and their ignorance about the presence of divinity within themselves is causing so much pain and misery to them.

However, those souls who have worked on themselves since many births and incarnations one day arrive at a point where they are face to face with their pure, unblemished Spirit and they are constantly protected and cleansed by their divine Gurus so that their sanctity is maintained and they in turn rise up further in spite of either karmic load and/or their spiritual aspirations. Such a stage is arrived when the disciple has innumerable good karmas to his/her credit and the good karmas give power and bounce to his/her abundant spiritual growth and evolution. It becomes imperative for the advanced yogi and aspirant to become aware of his duty to keep himself pure and uncontaminated all the time as the Spirit does not favour or oblige any murkiness clouded over it at any time.

In fact, a stage comes when the disciple reaches the pinnacle of spiritual progress and it becomes the will of God to keep the aspirant clean and spotless by saving him/her every time abundant  unclean energy engulfs him/her. The disciple should also listen to the voice of God for smallest of directive that may come directly from within or from the Sadguru who is constantly guarding his much loved disciple.”

 My realization that came about out of the silence of my soul today -

The Spirit likes to remain unalloyed and uncontaminated so that it can remain in its glory, purity and sanctity. The pure state of Spirit emanates joyfulness, spiritual insight, tranquility and it knows and has the answers to all the quirky problems that we face each day. The Spirit in us gives us the power to be in a state where the rays of divinity cascade in us and in doing so we come in touch with its endless beauty, timeless knowledge more vast than any ocean that we can perceive of and enduring joy and peace. The thirst to drink this nectar is voracious in me!!