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Declaration of Consciousness Movement is the
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biodynamic organic farm sanctuaries growing 'intelligent' non-GMO
indigenous food, feeding the hungry in scales that makes a
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coming into reality. This is a research and developement- where we
create free seeds, develop know-how, research on supermanure and
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After being initiated through death, Tapasyogi Nandhi, undertook his spiritual journey through tapas and pilgrimage to attain his wholeness and come to understand a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life of purpose. Nandhi spent the initial years in the spiritual wilderness of South India, in pilgrimages through forest shrines and caves, under the guidance of his Gurus and firm yogic </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">resolve. In the next phase, he was guided by his Gurus to come to the West to teach the Siddhar consciousness and techniques in order to help raise the consciousness </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and enlightenment of humanity. </span></div>
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Nandhi's teachings represent the wisdom of the Masters/Gurus which has been passed on through an unbroken lineage of Siddhar Gurus for thousands of years. The S<span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iddhars, the mystic yogis, are the enlightened Sages who journey beyond enlightenment. The Siddhars are the mystics of the 'other' spiritual India seldom known to the outside world. </span></div>
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Though their teachings have seldom been revealed to the outside world, throughout the ages some of the Siddhar teachings have been the source of yoga and the yogic <span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wisdom to the mainstream traditional India. The Siddhars utilize yogic techniques to go beyond the limits of the body and mind. </span></div>
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Nandhi reveals the Siddhar practice as "the Mastery of Consciousness". Mastery of Consciousness imparts experiential teachings; with the core intent being to attain a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life of freedom, purpose, inspiration, health and inner wisdom for practical living. He has condensed the esoteric wisdom into several programs that Westerners can </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">relate to in practicality. The Siddhar's teachings of heart wisdom is easily incorporated into our daily yoga and/or spiritual practice. </span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness is a powerful solution.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Siddhars Sages and Consciousness</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mastery of Consciousness:– Understanding Consciousness as the
highest aspiration we could wish for ourselves.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nine Jewels of Yoga</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Siddhar Wisdom, the Tantiram- Know ‘yoga’ as in its potency to make
a change in our lives, as our realities and as blessings for humanity.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Secrets within Yoga: Part I</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Secrets within Yoga: Part II</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be the Guru:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secrets within
Yoga – Awaken to understand ourselves as consciousness itself, the
Guru.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conquer Time: Emperor Empowerment! True freedom comes from awareness
that we are prisoners within the day and night of the 24 hour cycle, our
mind and our limitations. Break free!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blessings of resonance:
Mantra Power</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turiya State of Super
Consciousness - as reflected by Ramana Maharishi and Mahatma Gandhi</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mahasivratri: The Night of
the Yogi/Yogini ~ Time vortex of enlightenment.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Lingam Puja: Multiply
Consciousness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Grace of Food: SIddhar Wisdom
– With awareness of energy, awaken to intensifying energies we put in
ourselves and the ability to multiply energy through food. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Yogic Insight on Ahimsa –
When awake in consciousness, it is natural to realize the Oneness of all
the living and forgo violence as in the Ahimsa principle. However, there
is also a contradiction to this Ahimsa principle!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A Wealth of Consciousness – Going back
through the history of India to trace consciousness as its nature, it is
revealing to understand history as proof of consciousness being abundant.</span></li>
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for humanity-</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our moment in history of consciousness now is with us! Be a part
of this history in the making.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062890601310001206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564639951029267181.post-71239220259109834912014-02-09T22:31:00.002-08:002014-02-10T13:04:08.810-08:00Story behind the Ariven Vision & Mastery of Consciousness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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was seated in the middle of three Sages in the
Mango Tree Cave of Thiruvannamalai- they, the three Sages, had not
spoken for over 20 years. <br />One of the Sages
broke his silence to answer a question I had
asked. My question was- "Swamijis, over here the
yogic practice and meditation leads to peace easily. But
in the human reality I am facing, it is war. What sort of yoga
should I practice there?". <br />He broke his 20
years or more of silence by saying, "What use is
my silence if it cannot help humanity!?"<br />He
answered my question as in a continuous flow of
words of wisdom. At the end of his discourse, he
offered me a boon by saying, "Ask for anything
you want and we will give it to you." After an
initial hesitation I asked, "I desire
the wisdom behind your years of silence". <br />
The three Sages blessed Nandhi and then the Sage
said, "We would like to give you a gift. This
gift is for humanity. It is "Saivam Vetri"".<br />
Saivam Vetri means,in Tamil, may
consciousness/oneness/Spirit triumph.<br />The
moment I heard the words Saivam Vetri, it woke
up my childhood dream. I understood and realized
I had a purpose in life. <br /><br />As I child I
dreamt of saving old cows. I must have been
about 9 yrs old then. I did take this dream
seriously back then. I built a fantasy around
this dream- thinking of how I would reclaim
waste land, grow so much food that I could feed
and feed everyone until there was no hungry
person. As I grew up, this dream was nearly
forgotten until I was woken up by the three
Sages of Thiruvannamalai. Now, as a yogi, I
understood the need to save the life of every
cow on planet earth.<br /><br />My childhood dream
now comes true as I build our first, the debut
project- Amma Sanctuary, sanctuary for retired
cows, located in India. <br />The objective is to
do the all of it on scales- by creating thousands of such farms globally; save the life
of old used retired cows; and create biodynamic
lands. The first few sanctuaries are Research
and Development based to grow intelligent
non-GMO food as free seeds to support more
farms. We will feed the hungry with a portion of
the vegetarian food produced. The sanctuary is
being created at this moment. We are creating a
prototype "Conscious Farm' with rescued retired
animals with Amma Sanctuary and then create
hundreds of similar sanctuaries worldwide. <br />
<br />The three Sages had blessed me with a
journey even deeper- as with the grace of each
of my Gurus who opened the realms of
consciousness further and further. <br />It
enabled me to put together the teachings as
Mastery of Consciousness. Mastery of
Consciousness teachings are the powerful yogic
tools of consciousness from the mystical yogis
of South India, the Siddhars. Some of these
teachings are coming out to humanity for the
first time. The teachings are experiential,
amazingly simply but potent in its ability to
transform and evolve the practitioner.<br /><br />My
first book- Mastery of Consciousness, Awaken the
Now-is complete and ready for publishing. It
brings out Siddhar wisdom that has never so far
come out to the open. <br /><br />Divine Beings- I
request you to contribute and participate.
Better still be a Visionary with me. <br /><br />
<a href="http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/mastery-of-consciousness">http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/mastery-of-consciousness</a>
<br /><br />Thank You!<br /><br />Tapasyogi Nandhi</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12062890601310001206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564639951029267181.post-40332563654454587642014-01-31T17:43:00.000-08:002014-01-31T17:52:23.179-08:00Mastery of Consciousness 14 day intensive with Nandhi: Feb 14- 28<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Join Nandhi on one of the most powerful time vortex of the year- Mahasivratri. Each day will be a journey within utilizing the teachings of Mastery of Consciousness through yoga (Kalangi Kundalini Yoga); Siddhar puja; 5 elements worship etc. Those completing the entire 14 days retreat will be certified Mastery of Consciousness Teachers.</div>
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Option 1: All 14 days – Feb 14 – March 1: Staying in the Ariven Temple.</div>
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Option 2: All 14 days – Feb 14 – March 1: 9 AM each morning until 9 PM every day until Mahasivratri Day Feb 28th All night immersion. Outside Temple Accommodation (we can help arrange a hotel nearby)</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #2c537e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mastery of Consciousness Course utilizes the wisdom of the mystical yogis as tools of enhancement:</span></h3>
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Kalangi Kundalini Yoga, Yoga of the Achievers- utilizing simple posture sequences to journey within consciousness through breath, bandhas and yogic techniques.<br />
About Kalangi Kundalini Yoga</div>
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More about Kalangi Kundalini Yoga Sensitive Planet</div>
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Siddhar Yagna/Havan (Fire ceremony)- Fire represents collective consciousness of humanity and the angelic world. Utilizing the ancient pre-vedic wisdom of invoking the Divine and creating the harmony in our realities, the sacred fire ceremony is a powerful inner journey of burning away karmic limitations and empowering consciousness. For thousands of years, the sacred wisdom of the Siddhar yagna was utilized by the Sages to go beyond thresholds of magnified intent and Divine alignment. Learn the art of creating your own Siddhar yagna and enhance Planet Earth’s consciousness!</div>
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Siddhar Puja (Empowering Puja)- A ‘Siddhar puja’ is an intense worship of the Divine with an alert mind. A Siddhar puja creates a 24/7 meditative mind. When we awaken to understand and feel the the Divine love (bhakti), we are gifted wisdom (nyana). As we grow in consciousness/wisdom, the more proximate to Source we are as in Divine love. A Siddhar puja utilizes an awake and alert mind of focus to invoke,celebrated and worship Source.</div>
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Deeper teachings of the Siddhars to utilize the Sun, the Five elements, the prana and infinite potential powers within ourselves- allowing the transforming grace of ‘yoga’ to flow through the our mind, body and realities. When we relate to whom we are as we seek Oneness, we realize we are Earth, Water/Fluidity, Fire, Air/Prana, and Infinite Space that contains the Sun and the Moon. Aligning and worshiping the Divine through the Five Elements, we allow Divine grace to not only awaken us as with grace flow transforming the mind, but also every other facet in our lives- including our body.</div>
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Practical teachings & insights to enhance our wellbeing, career, finding love, creating the Now and all fulfillment that inspires us to evolve & be transformed. Learn the power and usage on ancient symbols. Understand the principles of manifestation. Utilize the Siddhar wisdom for enhancing all good for humanity and your own realities!</div>
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Kalangi Kundalini Yoga (Yoga of the Achiever); Siddhar Puja/Yagna and awareness of breath enable the momentum to evolve and grow further each day. The day journey through consciousness never stops- it flows- tapping into the grace of rejuvenation of the mind and body.</div>
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A yogi is disciplined and each day, a yogi follows a practice to enhance consciousness through uniting with Source. This discipline is possible only because there is much joy, bliss and liberation in the activity. The journey through consciousness and its mastery can be done solely through understanding the essence of joy and happiness in uniting with Source so the limited individual limits dissolve to be One with the vastness and grace.</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This workshop/training/retreat does not require prior yoga experience- though highly recommended especially for yoga teachers.</li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic level of fitness is required for the Kalangi Kundalini Yoga section.If you can do the Sun Salutation sequence, you are fit enough.</li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: 900; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More About this Retreat:</span></div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In depth teachings of Kalangi Kundalini Yoga, the mystical dimensions within hatha yoga.</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bringing the vastness of whom we truly our into prayers to magnify the blessings of Presence invoked through the Siddhar Puja.</li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This “Retreat” is about burning several layers of our past; awakening our ancient re-connect with our lineage of Siddhar Gurus; awakening the Inner Fires; learning the journey through Mother Kundalini; utilizing the various tools to enhance the potency of our Inner Fire and especially- creating an abundant and inspired reality aligned to the vastness of whom we are.</li>
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Nandhi teachings are experiential- conveyed through stories, through the process of inner journeying and through the actual yogic process. Such teachings are to enable our own Self-Mastery.</div>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You will walk out understanding yourself to be a Master.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a yogi, Mahasivratri is the “Day/Night of Yoga”, the time to transcend, transform and evolve. Mahasivratri has been observed as the single most important vortex of time by the yogis and householders in India for thousands of years. Based on the planetary alignment with earth and the lunar cycle, this vortex of time holds the objectives of yoga as in being the Spirit having the human experience; as in being ‘liberated’ from the limits of the mind and as in having the grace of Source in our daily realities. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State of Turiya, the super-conscious states of an enlightened yogi:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many versions of stories behind Mahasivratri. One of the popular version of the stories behind Mahasivratri is-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A thief was running away into the forest. As he goes deeper in the forest its evening and soon it gets dark. The thief was frightened of the wild animals. So he climbs up a tree with great difficulty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This thief had done huge dharma in his past lives. This good fortune of the past brought forth a miracle. The tree that the thief chose to c,limb up and spend the night happened to be the Vilva. The Vilva leaves are considered to be a special and sacred heart offerings for Lord Siva. Unknown to the thief, just below tree was a Siva Lingam (Lord Siva represented as a in the form of infinity- the Lingam).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the night, the thief was afraid to fall down. The thief stayed up all night long and each time he moved, the leaves of Vilva kept falling down accidently. Leaf by leaf through the night they fell over the Lord Siva Lingam that was below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the night, slowly the fear, fright and ignorance started burning away as the thief sat perched on the branches with his thoughts recollecting all the past deeds. With feelings of repentance, the thief felt the need to surrender this past. Through the sleepless moments of the night, the thief slowly woke up to understand himself as the Spirit having the human experience. By dawn, the thief was on the thresholds of enlightenment as he saw the Lingam below. It takes a being of higher consciousness to understand and realize the power of Infinity in the Lingam- and the thief recognized the Lingam for the Source it represented as in form. Climbing down the tree, he did he worshiped the Lingam, not as a thief any more for his old nature was forever erased. He had become a yogi, an enlightened being who began celebrating consciousness by way of the Siva Linga worship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In India, millions of ordinary people- householders and yogis stay up through the night chanting and signing to Lord Siva. Most householders however are 'weekend warriors' - they simply jump into the Mahasivratri celebrations without any preparations. Through the night they try staying up chanting- and fighting sleep through this timelessly long night as a struggle. They miss the essence of Mahasivratri that celebrates the ‘staying up all night’ event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Observance of Mahasivratri is a supreme yogic discipline. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The process to descend and alight with Mahasivratri is actually a yogic process of attaining the state of turiya through this period. Turiya is higher consciousness and its attainment changes the way we think forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state of turiya is called the sleepless sleep- a realm beyond the mind that is of intense joy and bliss. The state of turiya is also attained by each of us when we are in totality of focus, inspiration, excitement and happiness while doing something that we enjoy- when we do not feel tired, hungry, hot or cold or sleepy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a yogi, it is an inner journey to attain the supreme objective of yoga- to be Lord Siva, the Yogi.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lord Siva is our awake soul, the Spirit that is mentioned in the bible as the Holy Ghost. By observing Mahasivratri and attaining the state of of blissful union with Lord Siva, through the night of Mahasivratri, the state of turiya awakens as the experience beyond limits of the mind, the mind always is aware of each breath- to be the yogi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness is awakened by attainment of state of turiya, even if it was just for that one night and for all of our life time we are blessed by the empowerment of ourselves through the state of a yogic mind- the state of turiya.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrate Mahasivratri even by default, is worth it :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Celebrate Mahasivratri as a Yogi, and Be.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wisdom of ancient spiritual India works in potency through the determined time vortexes:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All scientists of the past in India were yogis. The yogis were intuitive and scientific in looking at time as a very important facet of divinity as much as infinity, matter and energy is looked upon as representing Source/God. For thousands of years, the Mahasivratri observed on the lunar calendar has been determined by the yogis as the single most important period to attain enlightenment, grace of fulfillment as blessings and a time of renewal. It is a common obervance amongst yogis who do intense spiritual penance, tapas, to be in solitude through the whole year and come out to the public on the Mahasivratri night to bless humanity as in being the human form of Lord Siva. Any religious festival, from Christmas to Ramadan that is observed by millions does create a time vortex by itself by the power of collective consciousness. Mahasivratri is celebrated as in fasting andd worship by the largest mass of humanity together creating adding grace to the already potent time vortex. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mahasivratri period is ideal to detox and rejuvenate:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we want to attain the yogic union of the mind with Source/God/Lord Siva, fasting aids the process. When our digestive tract is kept with minimum activity with a mind that has tuned into the state of joy that forgets hunger, heat and cold and other limits of the body and mind, we are able to step into the grace of stillness to meditate and tune into the state of turiya. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fasting of Mahasivratri is not the way 'fasting' is generally done. This 'fasting' is done in stages. The first step is in having fruits, fruit juices, plenty of water and nuts. The yogi then awaken the intense states of joy to gradually reduce the intake of fruits and nuts. The body and the mind must be treated with love and care through this period as we meditate on bliss and become bliss form. Having specific ayurvedic herbs that are wisely chosen during this period intensifies the rejuvenative energies of our body and mind. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liberate yourself- the single most crucial essence of yoga!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A primal age old need of any human of ages to now is that of wanting to be free. To be free really means, to be free of limits of the mind,body and realities. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When anyone does yoga, the first experience is that of bliss and liberation. Any yoga asana done properly with awareness of breath does convey the experience of bliss like a drop of nectar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liberation really means- freedom. This sense of freedom/liberation is in reality the experience of being the yogi as the Spirit having the human experience- felt as bliss. Lord Siva is called Satchidananda- meaning Sat-truth, chit-consciousness, ananda-bliss. When we experience bliss and transform our life experience as bliss, as a yogi, we attain the body of bliss and the mind of turiya. Mahasivratri holds the condensed and intense experience of this bliss that liberates us. Doing the inner pilgrimage through Mahasivratri for a yogi is the attainment of the honey pot. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understanding ourselves as the Emperor through observance of Mahasivratri:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The difference between a slave and an emperor is- who owns time? We are all caught within the 24 hour clock of time within which we are tied into sleep, dream and awake states the mind, the mind in its moods of ups and downs when awake and life circumstances that makes us run the rat race. A yogi is liberated from this time clock. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first step to break this prison of time that holds our mind is- to light a lamp/candle/flame atleast once a day and connect to Source/God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next important observance is to observe one day a week solely to connect to Source/God- a precious holiday we can give ourselves as being an emperor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third observance is to connect to the moon cycles of new moon (time to celebrate Lord Siva as Spirit) and the full moon (time to celebrate Lord Vishnu as the awake mind). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The single most important moment through the year is Mahasivratri- when we take our inner pilgrimage to awaken to the I Am experience of Lord Siva as the timelessness, beyond the mind. This experience awakens us to be awake and sets us on a journey to enlightenment and beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every once a week- our special day off for being a yogi, we relive the once a year Mahasivratri experience of being Light and expand our consciousness to be the Sun of the mind that has woken up the Spirit to enshrine our body- as an Emperor. It is from timelessness that time can be defined. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now as conscious beings of timelessness, let us define realities for ourselves and all of planet earth as time!</span><br />
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Various studies on savants show the correlation of the left brain with the right brain that attributes this genius.<br />
The “awakened” conceptualize the vastness of spiritual beingness or connectivity to the infinite with the practical facets of thinking from the inspired flow that enables them to excel in what they do.<br />
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While Albert Einstein considered one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, has transformed scientists’ understanding of physics and astronomy with his theories, the intellect of Einstein himself has remained misunderstood.</div>
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Ever since pathologist, Dr. Thomas Harvey harvested the scientist’s brain in 1955, researchers have tried to crack the mystery of Einstein’s genius by observing that brain.</div>
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Now scientists think they’ve found a clue. A new study, published in the journal, <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Brain,</em> on September 24, 2013, suggests that the two hemispheres in Einstein’s brain were unusually well connected.</div>
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All scientists of ancient India’s past were yogis—awake and liberated beings who could think outside the box of the mind. Spirituality’s offspring is consciousness that adheres and creates newer frontiers for humanity as in intellect and realities.</div>
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In the yogic philosophy is the <em style="border: 0px; color: #343434; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">chakra</em> system wherein, the crown <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">chakra,</em> when awake, is called the <em style="border: 0px; color: #343434; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">sahasrara </em>(thousand petals of the lotus awake). Once awake, the petals, as awareness, forever stand awake. This awakening experience is like stepping out of one level of consciousness to another higher level while understanding the concept of freedom as being liberated from the mind as in its limits and past momentum of thoughts.</div>
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When we have a near death experience or a powerful experience of awakening, we have, ourselves, lifted beyond the limits of the mind and forever, the way we think and perceive our realities have changed. In this state, is the purest state of joy ever experienced and there is no reason (or all the reasons) that is behind this state of joy.</div>
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This experience has been expressed by sages of all cultures and religions throughout the world. The yogis of the eastern traditions describe this as the lotus having blossomed with the joy states mentioned as bliss. The yogis attribute the state of bliss as in being Lord <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Siva</em>, the form of bliss. This is, in reality, the depiction of all religions, the Spirit having the human experience.</div>
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Almost immediately after this spiritual experience, the pursuit into even deeper thresholds of seeking for more of this joyfulness begins. This seeking can be described as God, Infinity, Source, Supreme-Self and all other characterizations. Some are born with this awareness while others are activated into this awareness at some point in their life. The moment such awareness is activated, most persons plunge deeper into uncovering the states of joy.<br />
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In the mystical path of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhar" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; color: #343434; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Siddhars</em></a>, returning back to the society to serve humanity from the highest consciousness has been indicated to be the fastest way to evolve.</div>
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When awake and in the society’s structures of responsibility, there is a different perception to how we spend each of our moments, our definition of time, our way of perceiving what success is and our ability to understand life at its best and worst situations. All this, as in thinking from a higher place of consciousness and then relating to the mundane realities faced, is the linking of the left brain and the right brain.</div>
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As in physical exercise, where the muscle gets stronger with each day, this exercise is the mental exercise of relating the left brain and the right brain.</div>
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These are important teachings of the Sages to exercise the left brain and the right brain and in the process, be the genius in our doings:</div>
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Once awake, we will want to utilize our time more efficiently by how we act, whether it is in meditation and practices that brings us harmony or in day to day work that has our <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/09/fields-of-intent-barb-pickl/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" target="_blank">heart’s intent</a> in it. An awake being, normally, would sooner or later drop out of the rat race of survival mode and instead see each moment of work justifying the highest purpose of existence.</div>
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Understand genius as states of joy that we uniquely feel while doing whatever we love doing from our heart and that no one is smarter than another. Everyone has a unique state genius:<b style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> </b>Take the case of any insect or animal as an example to see how there is a particular thing that every living being has that cannot be replicated by another species.</div>
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Likewise, every person has a unique talent waiting to be tapped. This talent or talents are that which each one of us are specially programmed for by destiny. When we find the activity that gives us most joy and understand this as an expression of ourselves that gives us maximum satisfaction, we begin to see sparks of our innate genius awaken. This is the right and left brain now aligning itself through the states of joy in our doing.</div>
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Beings like Leonardo Da Vinci are perfect examples, who exemplify the genius in the many levels of accomplishment they were capable of. History notes that Leonardo Da Vinci once wrote a bio of himself to the countess of Turin while seeking to be invited. In his bio, he lists over 25 different facets of himself, each facet shows amazing genius.</div>
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Today we know Leonardo Da Vinci as a talented master artist. Leonardo Da Vinci lists his skill as an artist as the 23rd. This example of Leonardo Da Vinci depicts the mind of a person awake to understand the wholeness of being and the potency to be the master in many abilities. The ability to do inspired work or play from the perspective of seeing ourselves as immensely huge beings exercises the bridge between the right and left brain.</div>
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After the initial experience of awakening, the journey has just started! The right brain is forever thriving on more and more stimulation for connectivity to God/Source/Infinity or whatever we could call this. The Sages of the east call this, <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">yoga, </em>the sacred union between individual ego and Source.</div>
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It does not matter for us to feel <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">awake</em> or <em style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">not awake</em> and compare ourselves with anyone. All that matters for ourselves is to hold on to our own experiences, starting with understanding states of joy and bliss in our daily practice of going inward, be it praying, meditation, contemplation or any practice that gives us joy, like dancing, yoga or even cooking and acknowledging that bliss and joy state to be that of genius.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most potent blessing we could ever
receive from a Sage, Yogi or any Enlightened Master is to receive the
uplifting, igniting grace of our own consciousness. In the ancient pre-vedic
language Tamil, the word mantra is mentioned as ‘mandiram’ which also means
magic- the ability to transform reality in a moment. Called ‘deeksha’, which
means, initiation, the giving of a mantra by the Guru to the initiate is the
single most important ritual as the mantras serve the lifelong spiritual
journey through the thread of the ancient resonance- for the initiate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Traditionally, in India, the method of
conveying awakening consciousness is especially through the mantra. In the
mystical yogic tradition of the South Indian Siddhars, there is less emphasis
in teachings through writings or even oral teachings and much of the wisdom is
conveyed through the mantra energy that awakens the inner knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mantra recitation can be said to be the
mother of meditation. With the recitation of a mantra, the mind immediately
focuses on a single thought leading to transcendence - awareness beyond the
mind. By reciting the mantra, effortlessness meditation is enhanced
even while doing mundane chores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we meet a higher conscious being in
the form of a saint, yogi, or even disguised in the ordinary like a taxi
driver, we know that we are uplifted by the words, action or simply the mere
presence of that person. Higher conscious beings flow with a vibration of peace
and harmony. It is said that when Buddha would walk from place to place
crisscrossing each village and town, his presence was felt by people over ten
miles around him. On feeling his presence as peace, love and calm, thousands
would gather near Buddha to experience more of this vibrancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many scientific studies on
meditation that have proven that meditation gives more benefits to
society than merely inner peace for the meditator. The effect of
mass meditation has been noted to effect surrounding areas by a significant
drop in crime rate. When the founder of Transcendental Meditation,
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, would conduct a group meditation with hundreds
of persons, the drop in crime rates in the surrounding area where the
meditation was being conducted was observed to be consistent. This energy field
produced by meditation has, for a long time, been referred to by yogis as
consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sages, yogis and masters of higher
consciousness in India have for thousands of years imparted consciousness
through the mantra. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The secrets of power within the mantras are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <b>Mantras serve as a bridge of consciousness:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When receiving the mantra from a Guru,
understand the significance of this to be an initiation in which we are forever
connected in consciousness with the Guru. By reciting the mantra, the seeker is
able to climb above states of consciousness and become the master. Every time
we chant our mantra, we are invoking the presence of our Guru. An enlightened
master’s presence in our lives is protecting, nurturing and guiding and
gradually, our own consciousness becomes the presence of the master. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. <b>Mantra chants create the specific realities we desire:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each mantra holds a specific dimension of
reality- for instance- when we chant a mantra for the Goddess of abundance, we
will see that reflect abundance in our realities. Understand the power of
recitation of mantras to be tapping into the realities we desire. For instance,
when there is a deep fear and we recite a specific mantra, we are creating an
energy field to protect ourselves. The more we trust the abilities of the
mantra and recite the mantra from our heart in its intent, the better the
mantra works to create the specific reality that we seek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <b>Mantras shift and transform our thoughts and thinking pattern:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through chanting the mantra, we begin to
tune into the inherent vibrations within the mantra and in alignment with those
higher vibrations, our mind also perceives thoughts from a higher place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. <b>Mantras are a manifestation tool:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we chant the mantras, our mind is
slowly brought to a singular focus like a magnifying glass that converge sun
light into fire. Any intent held through the mantra is magnified due to the
intensity of focus and an intent that has been held long and thus brought to
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. <b>Mantras are supreme prayers: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nearly all mantras carry the intent of
invoking a specific facet of God/Source. Through chanting the mantra we develop
a singular focus on the invoked Deity. Extended over years of chanting, we
realize our connection to the invoked Source/God more and more, and with
greater ease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. <b>Mantras fine tune our breath and optimal thinking process:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By chanting the mantras, our inner journey
to Source/God has begun. Slowly we begin to realize our breath becoming deeper
and slower thereby utilizing more of our lungs. This is a natural process that
reciting a mantra accomplishes. With enhanced breathing, our mind also thinks
optimally from the center of harmony.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. <b>Reciting the mantra awakens the state of bliss</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we chant the mantra, we transcend the
limits of the mind. Reciting mantras induces bliss due to the mind slipping
away from its past momentum and acquiring the stress free “Now” moment.
We awaken to the “Now” moment that is devoid of worrying of the past or
future when the mind is subdued to the ever present harmony in the core of our
being. We are able to experience a state of joy within the mantra that the
Sages of antiquity held on to. Holding on the state of joys embedded within the
mantra, we begin to expand this state of joy in our being - as in a body of
bliss, as in realities of bliss and in perceiving all realities from the state
of bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. <b>The power and potency within the mantra can constantly be increased</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We realize the mantra chanting as a way of
connecting our consciousness with our Guru, who imparted the mantra. When we
perform acts of goodness and kindness (dharma) we are increasing the power
within the mantra. The mantra serves by being the facilitator to higher
consciousness and when we utilize the wisdom of higher consciousness to do good,
we are allowing the flow of grace that is awakened through our expanding
consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. <b>Mantras are empowered with the ‘cooking’ process:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The more we chant the mantra, the more
potent and powerful the mantra becomes. As we chant the mantra over longer
periods of time and over the years, we realize the mantra’s effect on reality
in daily miracles and its potency in realities caused. With time, the mantras
we constantly recite mature and gets ‘cooked’. When the mantra is ‘cooked’ over
a period of time, the mantra can now be given to another as a field of
consciousness that easily alights anyone ready for more consciousness. Even to
simply listen to the mantra chant of an enlightened master can shift our
consciousness partly because the mantras have been ‘cooked’ by the master and the
mantra is embedded with blessings of all masters who chanted the mantra before
as the lineage behind the mantra. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. <b>Chant the mantra and awaken to all the goodness of higher
consciousness: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chanting the mantra transforms the mind to
an effortless meditative state. When the mind is at a meditative state, our
consciousness expands to imbibe all the positive attributes such as less
stress, increased empathy, more focus, more optimism, more unconditional love,
and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. <b>Mantras carry the vibratory presence of our Guru and all the preceding
Gurus as the lineage Presence:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is wise to receive our mantra from an
enlightened master as most mantras are passed from Guru to disciple, with the
mantras having been chanted by each Guru over a whole life time. When we chant
the mantra, we are tapping into the primal vibrations of all masters of the
past in our own expanding consciousness. When we recite mantras that have a
history of lineage, we are able to align to the ancient lineage of the Gurus as
guidance, protection and grace in our inner journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. <b>Chanting
mantras is an optimal solution for those with Attention Deficit (ADD). </b>Recent
scientific studies attest that meditation does help those with ADD.<b> </b>In this age when from childhood our
mind seeks inputs of music, television or information and with mass intake of
information and working online, it is only natural that our mind is trained to
be have an attention deficit. The methodology of meditation with the principle
of awareness of breath and eradication of thoughts simply does not work-
especially for those of us in urban areas. Reciting the mantra is perhaps the
surest way to not only quiet the mind but also to train the mind to focus on a
single point for a longer period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. <b>Awaken
the genius within: </b>Through chanting we enhance the mind’s ability to
meditate to climb above the normal patterns of the mind. In ‘climbing above the
mind’ we are able to think outside the box of limitations. Most of the amazing
minds of history, from Albert Einstein to Isaac Newton were able to touch base
with the spiritual essence beyond the mind and ‘see’ the higher perspective
that we refer to as ‘genius’ and great intelligence. When we go behind to
understand the awareness that exists beyond our thought pattern and thinking
process, we are tapping into a state of super-consciousness- that the yogi
sages call, the state of turiya. Chanting leads us to this super consciousness
state that all beings of higher consciousness experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the consciousness of the guru behind the mantra, each act of goodness that we
do empowers the mantra in its potency. Since mantras enhance realities as our energy
within manifesting the reality we desire, the realities we manifest is directly
related to the mantra energies we awaken. When we do charitable good deeds, the
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becomes true to ourselves as states of joy alight, we are in the state of
turiya. Turiya is higher consciousness. Turiya is what the Sages call the
sleepless sleep. Turiya is the experience of the liberated. The liberated are the
Self-realized.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of
Mother India’s enlightened masters, would awaken the turiya state of higher
consciousness of any seeker who sought his blessings simply through silent
presence. His simple gaze would awaken a seeker to realization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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awakening of the turiya state is conveyed in the following story that Nandhi
adapted to convey the yogic insights into the essence of meditation and the
conscious mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Three thieves ruled over the
jungle. If anyone entered this jungle they never could escape - for the third
thief was merciless, cruel and lazy. The second thief always wanted things
done. He was constantly in action - running around the forest, checking out the
neighboring towns and never at one place for very long. The third thief however
had goodness in him. He was peaceful, happy, but sworn into company of the
other two thieves since they were living together in the forest as a family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Manidan was held captive by the three thieves. The thieves tied up Manidan as
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thieves, Manidan prayed to Source for freedom from this harassment and cruelty,
not knowing any other relief. Hearing the prayers the third thief, the good
thief came to the rescue of Manidan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thief, the bad thief, was sleeping, the good thief released Manidan of the
bonds. The good thief took Manidan to the outer boundaries of the forest and
said, “Walk out to your freedom beyond the entrapment of this forest and the
robbers who dwell in it. From now on, remember that you are not Manidan
anymore. You are a Deva, an Angel.” Manidan walked out to his true reality, with
the name and identity of Deva.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Thieves” are the three
states of mind. The first state of mind is Tamas - the lower state of the mind
that is ignorant. The tamas state is characterized as the nature of sloth,
anger, violence and all the lower tendencies of the human. The second state of
mind is Rajas which depicts a person who is active and action oriented, as in
the fast paced society of the West and as city dwellers - in a survival mode.
The third state of mind is called Satva which is characterized as the peaceful
tranquil nature that knows basic goodness in each pure thought.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any time we pray, meditate,
or contemplate Source, our satvic mind steps in to untie us from the unique
bond of ego and the mental patterns we experience in human limitations. The
“Forest” is the human mind that we enter into through this birth. “Manidan”,
the man captured and confined in the mind “forest” is the humanness of
ourselves. Manidan in Tamil means the human. “Deva” is the Being whom we are
when we are shown freedom by the third state of the mind, the Satvic nature
within ourselves. "Deva" in both Tamil and Sanskrit means the Angel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This “Deva” state is turiya -
the spirit having the human experience as a higher conscious being. In the
state of turiya - experienced as expanded realities - we are able to tap into
our potential of genius wherever we choose to focus our attention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The turiya state is a common
denominator of inspiration for all people. For instance, an artist while
painting, a mother suckling her baby, or anyone who is aligned to the genius of
perfection, steps into turiya states where the doer forgets time, hunger, and
tiredness in the intensity of inspiration. Every higher conscious master
imparts wisdom through the alignment of being in states of turiya through
prayer, contemplation, meditation and inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The majority of humanity
experience turiya unconsciously in states of joy. In this fleeting flash of a moment, joy
reveals itself and sets the human in pursuit to have more of this joy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A yogi consciously seeks the state
of joy perpetually within and until the state of turiya begins to be the
perpetual meditation mode - of being in love, as love, in every moment.
Disciplines form around the desire to have more joy - leading us to do our
daily yoga, lighting a lamp to Source. All of this leads to a mind that is in
the joy of awareness, mindfulness and bliss, which is the nature of the turiya
state.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those liberated and blessed
by Turiya are Mahatmas - the immense awake souls - like Mahatma Gandhi. If you
are traveling through Mother India, visit Sabarmati Ashram. Here Mahatma
Gandhi’s divine presence is enshrined in the form of the many books he wrote
and the innumerable articles, notes and books written about him. Here was a man
who also did household chores, ashram duties and was involved in the relentless
struggle for freedom. The time he spent in prison, of course, gave Mahatma
Gandhi ample time to utilize in writing. What you will ‘see’ in Sabarmati
Ashram is the immense stature of Mahatma Gandhi, as he made more than a mere
mark in history. He was a giant in this
moment in time, swaying global leaders while being the epicenter of a mass
movement committed to non-violence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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blessed state of turiya. He was a yogi. He began his day waking up no later
than 3:00 to 4:00 am. Every morning without fail, at 4.30 am, he and all the
ashram inmates would hold prayer meetings with songs and prayers chosen from all the major
religions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bed at 11:00 pm. He loved reading and would fall asleep by midnight, providing
him with about 4 hours of sleep each day. He did not sleep during most days;
and if he did take a nap during daytime, it was a short nap for less than 30
minutes. Mahatma Gandhi said, “If you are really tired during the day, meditate
twice as much, to wipe tiredness away.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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personal book called "Prayer," he is revealing the turiya state. In
this autobiographical book, Mahatma Gandhi writes a rare portrait of himself -
more open and frank in discussing his intimate spiritual life. In understanding
and celebrating each breath in tune with Source, Mahatma Gandhi describes being
in a meditative state throughout his daily work, and how intensely inspired
each moment was, even during difficult times. He mentions in this book, how he
went to sleep with his final plunge into the depth of sleep through prayer and
then would wake up each morning with prayer; thus attaining the higher
conscious mind that could manifest magnificent realities as a Mahatma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A historically significant
incident was recorded by the disciples of Sri Ramana Maharshi, when the Saint
was asked what he thought about M.K Gandhi.
This was at a time when the title of “Mahatma” was not yet conferred to
Mahatma Gandhi, about twenty years before India won independence and when the
freedom struggle of India against the British imperialism had waned. At that
time, Mahatma Gandhi was in a political wilderness, with no seeming
breakthrough with the British, in the struggle for freedom. Sri Ramana Maharshi
responded with total confidence, “Gandhi operates from the Aadi Atma Shakti,
and no matter what, he will accomplish the objective of the freedom struggle.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that Mahatma Gandhi had tapped into the powerful “Soul Force”, the primal
energy of the soul, and this awake turiya state would lead Mahatma Gandhi to
victory. Thus, the turiya state of the awake presence and actions of Mahatma
Gandhi was recognized by Sri Ramana Maharshi, years before Mahatma Gandhi was
truly acknowledged by all of India for this accomplishment of winning
independence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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through our daily practice to celebrate our union with Source. By cultivating
our daily practice we expand our consciousness making each thought potent to
manifest the most harmonious, abundant and inspired realities! Imagine the power of a million Mahatmas
shaping our global realities as blessings of turiya for all of humanity! Through
turiya be a “Mahatma.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The worship of Lord Siva, represented in
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Siva Lingam puja is the most personal and
intimate time for a yogi as moments of absorption into the Divine, fully aware
and intensely in union with Source through breath and as breathless joys. The
yogic discipline of doing the Siva Lingam puja is considered the most potent of
all yogic practices in being able to push a yogi through states of
consciousness and as grace, evolve to be the object of worship, to be Lord
Siva- as in the journey into One to be Oneness.</span></div>
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In the yogi traditions of mystical India,
each precious moment as human is for the purpose of enhancing more of
consciousness and closer to Source. This journey beyond consciousness is
enhanced each day with deeper and even more empowerment in the awakened inner wisdom.
After having woken up to be the Spirit, the yogi then starts enhancing this
experience through intensifying the bliss state for the mind to be at all times.
In this journey through consciousness guided by bliss, the yogi understands
effort and progress as a yogi through the push factor of own effort and divine
grace as the pull factor- through the Siva Lingam puja. <o:p></o:p></div>
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involving state of mind. A puja is when Source/object of worship is celebrated
in the physical form with offerings of flowers; milk; water etc along with
mantra. A puja is a concentrated enhanced form of worship and can be called the
mother of all meditations- a puja leads to a mind that is meditative, the
natural state of the mind that is be
defined as meditation. By doing a Siva Linga Puja, the yogi aligns in the
receiving end of grace by invoking the power of the infinite Source in human
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Utilizing the Lingam as representation of
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To yogis, the Lingam is the most apt form
representing the Infinite. The Lingam is the infinite as in Form referred in
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description of the Lingam representing the phallus is not the entire meaning
behind the Lingam. Yes, the Lingam is the representation of the ‘Wand of Light”
as the experience of our own inner Light rushing above through the spine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When a yogi does the Lingam Puja, the yogi
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<b>How is a Siva Linga Puja done?</b><br />
- Attain or purchase a small Siva Lingam. You will need a few utensils that will help contain the water, milk and other offerings you may pour over the Lingam.<br />
- Attain, receive or learn simple mantras, preferable for Ganesh, Lord Siva and Goddess Sakti. Your Siva Linga Puja is an inner journey through mantras, journey of uniting your external realities and infinite inner realities through the puja using the mind in focus and surrender of all thoughts through the fire of bhakti, devotional love.<br />
- Once a day or once a week or whenever convenient- commit to doing a Siva Linga Puja.<br />
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<b>The Inner Journey of the Siva Lingam Puja:</b><br />
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<b>- Prepare Yourself:</b> Prepare yourself for the Siva Linga Puja as a very personal journey between you and Source. Having a shower or washing your face helps to refresh your mind and body. Set aside atleast 45 minutes of uninterrupted time. Create a sacred space for yourself, preferably an altar space that can hold and carry forward positive energies of a Siva Linga Puja. Pick up offerings of flowers, water, milk or anything else you may feel like offering to the Lingam.<br />
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<b>- Abishekam: </b> There is no right or wrong way in a pure heart’s ritual. Begin at first reciting the mantra invoking Lord Siva. Connect your breath to the mantra resonance and feel the invoked Presence through your chanting. Now begin pouring water over the Lingam slowly invoking the Divine Infinite in the Lingam. You may pour milk over the Lingam collecting the milk for later use as Prasad, Divine sanctified offerings. After the final slow pouring the water finally to bathe and cleanse the Lingam, the Lingam is ready for the Puja.<br />
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<b>- Siva Lingam Puja:</b> Have many flowers, if not, many petals of flowers as that you will offer the Lingam with every mantra recited invoking Lord Siva. Ideally, when Lord Siva is invoked, it is perfect wisdom to invoke the Divine Goddess to complete the wholeness within the Divine. We end this puja invoking the awake mind state, the God of sustenance and abundance, Lord Vishnu.<br />
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<b>- Invoke Blessings of Source:-</b> A Siva Lingam Puja is powerful as we have invoked the power of Infinity in our realities. As we bring the Siva Lingam Puja to closure, from the depth of depth, invoke peace through reciting “Shanthi” by expanding to the infinite vastness we are and bringing forth this energy blessings of peace into our own human form and realities. Create an intent in “Peace” ie, may this Peace for all the living or; may this Peace be for my own health and the health of all of humanity. Blessed are the messengers and custodians of Peace.<br />
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<b>- Sacred Shrine/Altar at your Heart Shrine:-</b> After a Siva Lingam Puja, store the Lingam at an altar space as to keep the divine energies and blessings vibrant in our physical and spiritual realities.<br />
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<b>Benefits of a Siva Linga Puja:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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be a Yogi:</b> When we surrender our
total focus of the mind to Source, through the puja, the mind develops the
ability to rejoice in the dance of stillness. This dance of stillness is the
Mother of all meditative practices. <o:p></o:p></div>
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and Be God:</b> As we invoke the
presence of Source through our mantras holding the focus, we are drawing more
and more proximity to the object of worship and gradually, we attain all the
attributes we are invoking, ie, we slowly evolve to be angelic, invoking the
presence of God/Source. <o:p></o:p></div>
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innate genius:</b> We awaken to the deeper dimensions of consciousness within
ourselves that triggers the innate special powers within ourselves, the
“Siddhis”. The Siddhis are the unique special abilities awakened in each of us
such as musical genius, the ability to see the future, the awakening of various
extra sensory perceptions, ESP etc. Yogis tend to disregard this awakening of
various facets of the mind as it distracts us from the power of worship that
grows in potency through humility.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Empowerment:</b> We wake up to the
joys and bliss of experiencing Source/God- “Ananda”. This joy ebbing from the
bottom of the heart through our Lingam Puja is a higher conscious vibratory
state. To be in this bliss form state is to be God- with Lord Siva described as
Satchidananda, the bliss form. Slowly but surely, our realities too begin to
vibrate the higher frequencies of this divine bliss.<o:p></o:p></div>
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our yoga practice:</b> When we do our
daily yoga practice through the various sequences, we understand the deeper
journey within after having done the Siva Lingam puja. In fact, it is advisable
to do the Siva Lingam Puja after doing our hatha yoga practice so to seat the
enormous vast immense energies of Source within us through the awake ‘nerve
centers’, the nadis. Hatha yoga and the Siva Lingam Puja is naturally
compatible and enhancing to each other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Magic of Now:</b> To experience being
God/Source; worship the Infinite Almighty through the mind and breath; attain
grace of inner wisdom as a journey through consciousness- makes us Angelic and
God like. Slowly but surely, we not only awaken to the vastness we each truly
are but are also guided, protected and gifted with the most valuable gift of
this human birth- to be able to celebrate the Now moment completely. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Potency of Consciousness:</b>
Worshipping the Lingam is multiplying consciousness. As we invoke ourselves to
be Spirit, the Holy Ghost, we celebrate Lord Almighty Source of Infinite as in
Form, empowering this Form to be Formlessness ever more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blessed:</b> Lord Siva, the nameless
Infinite Being invoked represents blessings of wellbeing, wisdom and highest
purpose as the Yogi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dec 21st 2012 London: 3 Magic Words Premier: The gala featured a special London premiere screening of the ground-breaking metaphysical documentary from Starseed Film, "3 MAGIC WORDS," at the Odeon West End Cinema in Leicester Square followed by a panel discussion with the writer/producer/ director of the movie, Michael Perlin, co-producer Maura Hoffman,Theresa Ibis, founder of Indigo Bridge In Service (IBIS), Dolores Cannon and Nandhi. "3 Magic Words" evolved from Perlin's personal and lengthy study of metaphysics as he became determined to find a common theme in all of the ancient mystical teachings. The occasion included a "blue carpet" with celebrity appearances and a live performance by Lucinda Drayton ("A Hundred Thousand Angels"). <a href="http://3magicwordsmovie.com/">http://3magicwordsmovie.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The evening held a Global Meditation led by Sonya Sophia (Sophia School Of Living Arts), a World Peace Prayer conducted by Gudni Gudnason (Modern Mystery School), the announcement of the Declaration of Consciousness by Tapasyogi Nandhi, the reading of this Declaration of Consciousness by 10 year old Simran Serene Chevaliar and the signing of "The Declaration of Consciousness." </span><br />
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Announcing our Declaration of Consciousness in London Dec 21 2012</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">At the time of birth of Buddha, the court astrologers (as done even today in most parts of India) looked into the baby boy’s horoscope. They saw in his astrological chart the immense being he was. So he was named Siddhartha, the one who is a Siddha. Siddha in Sanskrit and ancient Tamil means the one who has mastered the mind, the conscious beings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">This consciousness has never been the exclusivity of any one culture around the globe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Consciousness has been the attainment of connect to the infinite realm described by some as Source/God and by some as infinite. Every human does Source/Infinity connect- some aware and others unaware. All masters who attained higher consciousness had a singular wish- to alight consciousness to all of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This leads us to the historic moment of Consciousness within recent
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Dec 21<sup>st</sup> 2012, London, at the movie 3 Magic
Words premier, Declaration of Consciousness was announced- to usher humanity to
the new dawn. On this day, Consciousness has won a long war after so many
battles through the history of humanity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dec 21<sup>st</sup> 2012 will also be
noted as the day when the critical mass of consciousness of humanity has been
reached- and hence, the declaration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This announcement is an historical epic moment due to the
relevant facts. This is a proud day for England and Europe. This is Triumph of
the United States as in declaration of Freedom, now with the resolve as the
Rights of Freedom for every individual. This Day is the Triumph for Humanity.
This realization awakens us to be conscious and declare for ourselves our
individual basic freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dec 21<sup>st</sup> 2012 is of historic significance for
each one of us here, for all of humanity and especially for the truth of a full
circle of history being completed today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness became more visible in England, in 1689
through the Bill of Rights; evolved in USA with the Declaration of Independence
and has now come back, in maturity, announced in London on this day Dec 21st
2012- back in England- now for the entire world as Declaration of Consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From ascertaining consciousness for a colonial empire, and
then for a nation as freedom, consciousness now relates to the absolute rights
of every individual on Planet Earth as – the core essence of every human as in
adhering to the ahimsa principle of non-violence, non-killing; tolerance of
every path to the Divine; Honoring the Feminine; protecting and nurturing our
children; and upholding Planet Earth- as basic consciousness. (For specifics <a href="http://declarationofconsciousness.org/">http://declarationofconsciousness.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historical Thread of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">United States of America has been built on the tenets enshrined
in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Written by Thomas Jefferson, the
Declaration of Consciousness is articulate, poetic and enlightened in its core
principle that all humans are equal and everyone has the inherent right to be
free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet, the ground reality beneath Thomas Jefferson, the author
and visionary behind the one of most celebrated historic document, the
Declaration of Consciousness is bound by contradiction. Thomas Jefferson was
the second largest slave owner in his state and during his entire lifetime, he
freed only two of his hundreds of slaves. So how can the ‘consciousness’ within
the vision of Declaration of Consciousness be reconciled? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The teachings of Jesus Christ were from immense
consciousness that was way beyond his times- so he was crucified by a society
that could not handle that extent of ‘truth’ in those times. Should Jesus be
with us today and he said the same words, each of us would have appreciated him
as we are now so much more aligned to the higher wisdom he spoke about as our
own inner knowing. However, Jesus, had he been with us today, would speak
differently, as consciousness grows and is ever growing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Thomas Jefferson inherited slaves as property from his
father and had over hundred slaves in his Moticello estate- slavery was taken
for granted. The first English settlers of 1660 came to the new land, America,
with slaves. The backdrop of social norm where slavery was considered not only
the wheel of economy but also an acceptable norm was the prevailing extent of
consciousness in those times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be a ‘good’ master to his slaves, calling his slaves his ‘family’. At the time Jefferson wrote the historical
document until years after America gained its independence – the ingrained
assumption of ‘freedom’ as applicability exclusive to the white population. Should Jefferson (who
was the President of America in 1801-1809) had taken any step towards
emancipation of his slaves or in public, decried the institution of slavery-
his political career would have been wiped out. Jefferson would have risked
being assassinated almost immediately. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was assassinated due to the cornerstone policy of his presidency – emancipation
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It had taken another hundred years and more for America to
then gain a higher layer of consciousness through the Black Civil Rights
movement headed by Martin Luther King that gained more equality for the entire
population of America. He too was assassinated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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realization of the Oneness of all humans and the living beings. India won its freedom without bloodshed and
yet, after attaining the freedom for the nation- Mahatma Gandhi was
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness however
triumphed through the intent of these higher conscious masters and leaders
through history- to ascend humanity to the next levels of civilization.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through history, the seed of consciousness planted by the
wise has grown and is growing further to become the realities we are experiencing
today. It is unfortunate that communist countries and dictators have subdued
the entire population through fear and dependency to bottle individual freedom
and consciousness with the primary tactic of using force. Consciousness and the
urge for individual freedom however cannot be kept locked up for indefinite
time as we have seen the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the regimes of Eastern
Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The time has come to state the innermost aspiration of every
human on planet earth. This aspiration is the basic urge and need of every
human to want to be free, to want peace, to create a society of harmony and
conscience and to uphold and sustain planet earth as in environment. By
Declaration of Consciousness, we frame this common aspiration that is within
the heart of all humans- the right of consciousness that guarantees freedom for
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subdued by past beliefs and rules of conduct. In Declaration of Consciousness
as an inner directive- is humanity ready to evolve to be the Angelic Being-
free of the mind and its prejudice, free to understand that we are one with
Source/God/Infinity and free to follow our heart’s aspiration that entails
basic goodness as one human to another?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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realization that all humans can evolve to be the higher consciousness the Sages
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Declaration of Consciousness is a non-profit
organization, with the mission to embark on a powerful intent to convey a
message of unity consciousness to all of humanity. Our goal is to reach our
Declaration to all national leaders through the United Nations. Simultaneously
we will actively awaken the grass roots of humanity through music. movies and
media. We deeply value our coming together in commitment for volunteering your
time, funds and sharing the Declaration of Consciousness with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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10 year old Simran, representative of the future of Consciousness, reading our Declaration of Consciousness</div>
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Melissa Athens, President of Declaration of Consciousness signing </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">London and this upcoming event heralding consciousness as on
Dec 21<sup>st</sup>, the movie premier of 3 Magic Words & Declaration of
Consciousness holds a special circle of completion for Nandhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Nandhi was little, around 9 years of age, he longed to
meet a “Guru” who could guide him. He was studying in a boarding school,
Lawrence School, Lovedale, in India. Nandhi was a loner and he preferred to
spend much of his time by himself with nature in the nearby forests within the
campus of his boarding school. Deep in him, Nandhi knew that the loneliness he
felt was the intense craving to meet someone who could open the doors to
another world- a world of completion, stillness and vastness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This dream would come true soon. Aged 15, during his school
holidays, he finally met his “Guru”- Lewis Parker, from London. Lewis had been
travelling once or twice every year to India. The object of his travel to India
was not very clear even to himself but in part it was a seeking to connect an
immense spiritual awakening Lewis had had when he was a child and Lewis felt an
strong bond with India through the
travels, through the persons he met and through the ancient connect he
had for the mystical wisdom that was in India. It was on one of those trips
that Lewis was introduced to Nandhi while in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Nandhi, connecting with Lewis, whom he called “Uncle
Lewis” was a turning point in his life when for the first time he could ask
philosophical questions and receive profound answers that would point out to a
deeper truth that Nandhi had always been seeking. As a “Guru” Lewis enjoyed
every moment with Nandhi sharing his knowledge on mysticism and the yogic
wisdom that he had always wanted to share and he found an eager student in
Nandhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shortly after they first met, Lewis sent to Nandhi a book titled,
3 Magic Words written by U.S Anderson. Lewis and Nandhi would write letters to
each other with a perfect chain of immediate replies and the communication was
exciting to both due to its philosophical nature and mystical wisdom Lewis had
to share and for Nandhi to delve into with more questions and thoughts while
having to confront a challenging environment in school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book 3 Magic Words, however, for reason Nandhi still
cannot fathom until today- was laying unread. Reading was Nandhi’s passion even
at that early age and yet, Nandhi cannot understand why he did not read that
book given to him by Lewis with so much love and caring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Nandhi completed his undergraduate studies in India,
Lewis welcomed him to London to do his Masters. Nandhi was happy to do his
studies in London where he could see and spend more time with Lewis and
experience a newer reality as an adventure. The three years Nandhi spent in
London went fast. The deep moments with Lewis; the thrill of being a college
student; the inspiration to be a ‘man’ by starting his own business with Lewis
as a senior partner mentoring him; the
excitement of experience in being in a new country and meeting; and making so
many new friends- made time fly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was time to return back to India. For the first time,
Nandhi had mixed feelings at the thought of leaving London as he knew he was
not going to spend more time with Lewis. Lewis, though sad, did his best to not
express it. Instead, he told Nandhi, “A vast new life waits for you. Just be
yourself and experience all the great realities you will create!.” </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uncle Lewis was like a foster father, a Guru and a mentor to
Nandhi and parting ways with Lewis and London was sentimental for Nandhi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in India, Nandhi started his business of exports in
granite. He got married to girl chosen by his parents. He was now stuck in his
mundane world of a human rat race. He did keep in touch with Lewis by way of
letters and phone calls. About two years after his return to India, Nandhi
began to sense despair in Lewis’s voice. Lewis had told him over the phone,
“You have much to do. You can take as much failures and you will rebound. My
life is nearly over.” The phone conversation was followed by a letter he wrote
to Nandhi saying, “When I met you, from the first moment I knew you were to do
great things for humanity. You are resilient and you will never give up. You
have a great future ahead of you.” The tone of Lewis’s message was not normal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A month later, Nandhi was given the news that Lewis Parker
had committed suicide by hanging himself in his home in London. The reason for
his suicide was that Lewis felt his life was wasted in London distanced from
spirituality and human companionship. He told those around him, “I am wasted in
this circumstance. I want to be reborn in India pursuing a life of a yogi”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The suicide was more than a shock for Nandhi. It broke every
foundation of spirituality Nandhi had. Nandhi felt betrayed by life and its
illusions. Lewis’s death for Nandhi was a painful awakening that everything
about life was unreal and all the philosophy and faith was now meaningless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nandhi went to England for Lewis’s funeral. Early in the cold
frigid morning, at around 5, Nandhi sat near the book shelves stacked with
Lewis’s books. It was painful for him to feel the void of Uncle Lewis. Nandhi
held his breath with an intent, “Uncle Lewis, knowing you are here now as
Spirit. You just left for whatever reason, but you abandoned me. Is there
anything you want to tell me? Appear before me and I will not be frightened.
Please show me a sign that you are there. What is my future? I need you to
guide me!”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just then, Nandhi could hear an inner voice- that of Lewis-
say, “I gave you the book 3 Magic Words at the beginning of our relationship.
It is beyond my understanding that you never ever read it. There must be divine
reasons for this. It is time for you now begin your our journey into the
experience of the Divine rather than read about it or hear about it. Your
Divine journey begins now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just then, one of books tumbled down the book shelf. Nandhi
picked up the book so see what it was about. It was a book about the Hindu Goddesses.
Picking up this book to take home, Nandhi started reading the book right away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the airplane headed back to India, Nandhi felt a love
that was comforting surround him. He started praying to the Goddess, as the
various forms he had known through childhood. There was intensely beautiful
comfort in this new awareness. His journey into the Divine had truly begun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was shortly after this, four months later, that he was
taken through his death initiation by his Siddhar Guru Bhairavasekarswamy. The
initiation process was through a night; awakening Nandhi through the various
deaths of past births and the realization that he was the spirit/soul dwelling
in the body. The experience of liberation, the pure joy, the overwhelming bliss
of being One- all this was the experience Lewis would mention describing his
own awakening as the ‘flash of Kundalini” to Nandhi several years ago- and now-
Nandhi was experiencing this huge wake up state. After this death initiation,
Nandhi became a yogi, taking the plunge into the spiritual wilderness of India-
into the caves, the forests, the shrines- for the next twelve years. This was a
journey of transformation that connected him to the various enlightened masters
and to the inner most dance of silence and stillness. It was his deepest desire of childhood coming true, but
there was sadness that all this wonderful experience could not be shared with
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fast forward in time- eighteen years later in Santa Monica,
USA- Michael Perlin, the director of 3 Magic Movies approached Nandhi with a
request for an interview for the film. For a strange reason, the name of the
movie, the 3 Magic Words did not trigger any memory of the past- even as
Michael asked questions pertinent towards the quest within the movie. For
Nandhi, the filmed interview for the movie at that time did not seem in any way
relating to his past and the name of the movie 3 Magic Words did not connect
with the first book of Lewis, 3 Magic Words at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was just recently, September 2012, when Nandhi had a
vivid meditation experience of one of the Sages of the past whom he had
encountered many years ago that woke up the synchronicities of the past and the
now. That Sage had told Nandhi, during a meditative stint Nandhi was
undertaking, the essence within yogic pursuit, the seed of realization as in
the words- “Tat Vam Asi.<span style="color: windowtext;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is a Sanskrit word of the highest realization of Sages – “That thou art,” “Thou
art that,” “You are that,” or “That you are”. Tat Vam Asi means, the
realization of “I Am God!”. (This is another story- for more- </span></span><span style="color: #0d0e00; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dolorescannon.com/blog/3-magic-words-movie-2/story-3-magic-words-movie-declaration-consciousness-nandhi-yogi/)">http://www.dolorescannon.com/blog/3-magic-words-movie-2/story-3-magic-words-movie-declaration-consciousness-nandhi-yogi/)</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Sage- in the recent meditation- was reminding Nandhi of a sacred purpose as in
time that has come after all the years. The message was the reality of purpose that wasactually happening. It was only then that Nandhi connected, remembered and realized- it was in the movie 3 Magic Words, with the meaning within the movie-
Tat Vam Asi- I am God that has now turned up as an actual reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3 Magic Words, the movie:</b>-<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_759546867"> </a></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://3magicwordsmovie.com/">http://3magicwordsmovie.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This visit to London on Dec 21<sup>st</sup>, for Nandhi, is homage
to the past as a full circle complete. This visit reckons thoughts as memories of
his first Guru Uncle Lewis, the inner journey he undertook with the grace and
guidance of all the masters of consciousness and the sacred defined time of
awakening for humanity as that of now as realities created.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Declaration of Consciousness:-</b> <a href="http://declarationofconsciousness.org/">http://declarationofconsciousness.org/ </a></span></div>
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higher conscious beings who lived on Earth had been to plant seeds of
consciousness so humanity would slowly but surely realize. These mighty seeds
of intent have multiplied as the prevailing consciousness of today as the idea
in time that is before us."--Nandhiji</b></span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mastery of Consciousness Teachings, Nandhiji <a href="http://www.nandhi.com/">www.nandhi.com</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Resources: Book / Yoga/ Music / Meditation Teachings- <a href="http://www.sensitiveplanet.com/">www.sensitiveplanet.com</a></b></span></span></div>
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Food determines our wellbeing. Food is also medicine in its ability to heal and immunize. As a vital input into ourselves, food also determines our thinking and thought patterns. Food is pure energy. To enhance the energy present in the food, before we eat, saying grace matters. There are of course, a countless ways to say grace before eating our food as each culture, religion and families have different ways to express gratitude. From the Siddhar perspective, food also has a component of dharma, basic goodness, as an energy field to be enhanced.</div>
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In India, it is normal, in fact, a cultural practice, to offer food to the guests before eating, even if the guests are strangers. This practice of <em>offering </em>food has deep meaning in the causal of dharma. Nearly every saint, sadhu, guru and yogi in India would agree that offering food as dharma to feed others is the most potent of all actions - simply because, as Siddhar Rajaswamy says, “The stomach pit is the only pit in the human body that can be satisfied and every human, rich or poor goes through the pangs of hunger. Food also represents the body and when we feed people, we set into motion, the grace of well-being not only for ourselves but for humanity itself.”</div>
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Let us begin with this story to understand how we may say grace before eating. The story is from the time of the Mahabharata, when the Pandavas, the five brothers (the good guys) are in exile, hiding in the forest. The Pandavas, the five brothers were married to Draupadi. The Kauravas, hundred cousins (the bad guys) found out their cousins, the Pandavas hiding place in the forest. Draupadi was a Goddess incarnate who was graced with Lord Krishna in the divine relationship of a brother- and in this birth, she was thew wife to the five brothers, the Pandavas.</div>
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Determined to inflict damage on the Pandavas, the Kauravas summoned Sage Durvasa. Sage Durvasa had done tremendous tapas and due to the potency of his tapas, every word he spoke came true. But Sage Durvasa had a vice - inspite of years of intense penance that gave him enormous siddhis (powers), he had not conquered anger. Durvasa was extremely short tempered and in a moment, he could curse anyone.</div>
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The Kauravas requested Durvasa to go and visit the Pandavas in the forest intending that Durvasa would arrive at the little hut dwelling of the Pandavas just after the Pandavas had their food.</div>
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The custom in Indian households, still followed in many households today is, when you have any guests come to your house, you need to offer them food. So there was Durvasa with his retinue of disciples standing outside the Pandava brothers house and Draupadi was shocked and worried. Seeing Durvasa standing before her as a guest, Draupadi realized that there was absolutely no food grain left in the house to cook for that day and her guest and all his disciples. As she stood in silence, Durvasa muttered, “Divine Host, my disciples and I are hungry and tired. We will go and take a bath in the nearby stream and we will come back to your home shortly.” Draupadi understood this to mean that Durvasa and his disciples had indicated the need to be fed and they would be taking a bath to give Draupadi time to cook their food!</div>
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Just after Durvasa left to have a bath with his entourage, Draupadi started crying out to Lord Krishna, “Please come and save me Krishna!”. Lord Krishna appeared and asked Draupadi why she should panic when there was already all the food of the universe available to her. Draupadi says to Lord Krishna, “Krishna, this is not a joke. Don’t you realize that we have no food in this household? Every morsel of food has been consumed.” Lord Krishna goes to the vessel in which the food was cooked and He picks up a tiny morsel of leftover rice and He puts it in His mouth saying, “May all the stomachs of all living beings be full and satisfied!”.</div>
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Meanwhile, Durvasa and his disciples had just completed bathing and were returning in anticipation to eat the food they thought was being prepared by Draupadi for them. Just then, their stomachs felt full already. Another custom followed in India today is, if you are invited into the home of your guest to eat, you need to eat well. To eat well as a guest is to honor the host. Durvasa was now perplexed as to how he could face Draupadi as it would be an insult to not be able to eat. Understanding such a circumstance, Durvasa and his retinue quietly slipped away.</div>
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This story expresses Siddhar wisdom. <strong>Whenever we prepare to eat, if we could for a moment close our eyes, imagine ourselves to be the vast Spirit, like Lord Krishna and make a deep wishful intent- “May all creatures and may all of humanity be fed”, and then as an ethereal Being, we inhale the food’s aroma and say gratitude to Source for having given us this food, we set into momentum potent dharma.</strong></div>
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<em>"Great indeed is the power acquired through austerity to endure hunger. But greater still is the power of those who relieve the hunger of others."</em></div>
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When we understand the significance of imagining and creating the intent to feed every stomach on planet earth before consuming our own food, even if we are physically not doing so, we are reflecting a positive thought of vibrational energy. When we acknowledge ourselves to be the Universal Spirit and intend the fulfillment of every hunger, we invoke the energy of the Source, to enable this. Accompanied by gratitude as our reality in the moment, the food becomes cleansed, energized and serves our well-being.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The difference between an emperor of time and a slave is that an emperor owns time and the realities within it, while a slave is trapped in seemingly uncontrollable natural ups and downs.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stepping into the Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, in Gujarat, India, it is mind-boggling to see that there are hundreds of articles and books written by one man and another few hundreds books written about him. It is obvious that during his times, the world press must have written about him far more than recorded as clippings at Sabarmati Ashram. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This one man, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/the-big-g/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, had far too many activities on his plate, apart from the already overwhelming initiatives he undertook in the freedom struggle of India. He did his fair share of chores for the upkeep of the Ashram. There was not a single piece of correspondence sent to him—from all parts of colonial India (that includes today’s Pakistan and Bangladesh) and from all parts of the world—that was not replied to by him personally. Added to all these daily activities was Mahatma Gandhi’s daily prioritization of time to spin cotton for his own clothes, garden, tend his animals and meet the numerous people who showed up every day at his Ashram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So how did Mahatma Gandhi manage so much within 24 hours? What was his yogic secret? Mahatma Gandhi was named the “Mahatma”—the “Great Soul”—to denote the yogi in him who was the emperor—the yogi who had conquered time, reality and the limits of the human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In India, millions of gods and goddesses are worshiped in various forms. From the mystical yogic perspective of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhar" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Siddhars</a>, some of our most important visible forms of “God” today are our wristwatches and our clocks. But when we learn how to align time with timelessness, we are in tune with the evolving grace that is the absolute gift of being born human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yogis, sages and enlightened masters in India are called “Maharaj,” King of Kings, for the reason that they truly are the emperors. The difference between an emperor and a slave is that an emperor owns time and the realities within it, while a slave does not own time. Yes, everything comes back to time and how we are either enslaved within time or timeless and free through defining time of our own accord, as an emperor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether we like it or not, we are born into <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/08/synchronized-circadian-rhythms-natures-cancer-fighter-dr-issac-eliaz/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the 24-hour cycle of time</a>, which has its days and nights. We are born with a mind that is captured by the limits there are to the hours we can spend in sleep, in being awake and in the dream states. This mind is also a slave to the past and its momentum. This can be attributed in part to “karma,” the law of equating the past with the present. This emotional roller coaster creates lopsided realities and further traps the mind in seemingly uncontrollable natural ups and downs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a slave, we then see our reality as in a movie theatre, without any control over what unfolds, forgetting that this is a movie and we do have a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can of course choose to be a slave or an emperor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An emperor owns time. So how do we begin setting ourselves free from time and redefining time and the realities unfolding before us? How do we become the emperor?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From beginning to end, life’s journey is between us, as individuals, and Source/God. In between Source and our true identity as Soul is our mind. Lighting our outer and inner lamp is a mother to all meditation effort, as we are able to let go and surrender all our worries, emotions and good and bad thoughts to Source. We still the mind to a place of calm, harmony and optimism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we light a lamp to connect with Source/our inner self/infinity once a day, we are lighting and manifesting the inner lamp within ourselves. Lighting our inner lamp at least once a day breaks our entrapment in the 24-hour cycle of time by awakening us to the space of timelessness, which we experience during these moments spent with ourselves and Source. The experience of connecting to Source is guided by joy, happiness and liberation each day, with our objective being to have more and more of this.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once a week, set yourself one day to take a supreme holiday.</span></strong></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately, if we can prioritize one day a week just for us to reconnect to Source, our journey to become the emperor has just begun. This one special day is for us to meditate, pray, do yoga or anything that will bring us to our own centers. It is not about our creative zeal or even our family, let alone our career. It is about us expanding our consciousness to be Source/infinite, devoid of our mind,<a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/undoing-all-the-doings/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reclaiming ourselves as Spirit having a human experience</a>.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once every fortnight, utilize the days of the full moon and new moon as vortices of time to penetrate beyond ordinary consciousness.</span></strong></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The full moon period is a vortex of time that enables you to make a shift in shaping your existing realities. The full moon directly works with our minds. From the yogic perspective, when we observe this full moon vortex of time with a focus on Lord Vishnu, we are able to transform our spiritual and material realities through the mind and its ability to focus on expanding the realities we truly desire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Likewise, during the new moon, the vortex of being and Spirit, we are able to leapfrog our evolution as we observe the worship of Lord Siva. In the space of infinity, where consciousness is forever expanding, our mind and our realities can be taken several notches above. The yogis prefer the new moon vortex as it offers the chance to preset the mind to a much higher “station” in its ever-expanding consciousness, able to make potent each thought.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Observe <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/mahasivratri-the-night-of-the-yogiyogini-2012-tapasyogi-kalathi-adiyen-aadi-nandhi/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mahasivratri</a> as a yogi—be Lord Siva!</span></strong></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grandest and the most powerful vortex of time/timelessness is the once-a-year enlightening vortex of time: Mahasivratri, the supreme night of the yogi, Lord Siva. This vortex, based on the lunar calendar, has been observed by hundreds of millions of regular householders and spiritual seekers dating far back through the history of India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Observe this potent vortex of time and start your yogic inner journey by way of fasting, meditating, pilgrimage, silence and worship at least two weeks before this sacred day. Slowly, but surely, we begin to realize that we can slip out of the limitations of time (as we do in sleep) and the limitations of the mind, to attain the yogic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em></a> state—“sleepless sleep.” As Mahasivratri nears, through the grace of this enlightening vortex of time and our own effort, we easily step into the state of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em>—we experience Spirit having a human experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the night of Mahasivratri, most spiritual weekend warriors try not to sleep, so as to get the blessings of this sacred night. For us, the yogis, we are already in the beautiful sleepless sleep state of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em>, a state of inspired awareness, and on this night, we become the vast infinity of being, Lord Siva. Each of us has our own unique experience of “being God.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After having the sacred, fruitful experience of being Lord Siva on Mahasivratri, the mind will never be the same. Realities naturally align themselves to harmony. Innermost desires and highest purposes are fulfilled through the empowered super mind that has experienced <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/you-are-god-william-hathaway/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">being God</a>—the enlightened mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We utilize the joyful splendor of the Mahasivratri night experience once a week when we observe that one sacred supreme holiday for ourselves, to further intensify our Source connection, renewing us and deepening our worship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every day, when we light our lamp, we carry forward our expanding consciousness to even vaster realms while we are in the state of super-consciousness—the state of<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em>. Our every thought now comes from the genius of the mind that is aligned to its pristine Source state. Ultimately, we understand and awaken to the need to be in a perpetual state of joy, bliss and inspiration, and we set our daily discipline to attain this angelic state of being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All this discipline of being united with Source leads us to be in the magic of the “now” moment. Being in the “now” as Spirit having a human experience, our karma that limits us is transmuted to become opportunities for growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where can there be the past momentum of karma if we are not in past or future but in the now, not as humans but as Spirit having a human experience?</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this enlightened state, where each thought is empowerment to further embrace reality, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/08/karma-its-nothing-personal/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">free of karmic restraints</a>—we are the emperor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The secret behind the dazzling work and life message left behind by Mahatma Gandhi, in his books and in his legacy, can be attributed to the state of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em> he was in. Every day, he was up by three am, ready to start the day in communal prayers. He seldom took a nap during the day. He held another communal prayer meeting at 10 pm, after which he would read before getting to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being in the state of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">turiya</em>, he was a cause of setting into humanity’s consciousness the reality of harmony, love and peace. Mahatma Gandhi was an emperor, a “Maharaj,” who conquered time as a yogi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When humanity sets itself free by awakening to timelessness, we will chart the destiny for our future, through a consciousness where physical and material abundance flows naturally, in harmony and fulfillment for all. Peace reigns supreme where consciousness is.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">About
Siddhars (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhar) (Tamil: </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Latha, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">சித்தர்</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">):</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> are saints in India, mostly of the Saivaite
denomination in Tamil Nadu, who professed and practiced an unorthodox type of
Sadhana, or spiritual practice, to attain liberation. Yogic powers called
Siddhis are acquired by constant practice of certain yogic disciplines. Those
who acquire these Siddhis are called Siddhas. These Siddhars can be compared to
Mystics of the western civilization. Siddhars are people who are believed to
control and transcend the barriers of time and space by meditation (Yoga) and
herbs that transform the body to make it potentially deathless, and a
particular breathing-practice, a type of Pranayama. Through their practices
they are believed to have reached stages of insight which enabled them to tune
into the powers hidden in various material substances and practices, useful for
suffering and ignorant mankind. Typically Siddhars were saints, doctors, alchemists
and mystics all at once. They wrote their findings, in the form of poems in
Tamil language, on palm leaves which are collected and stored in what are known
today as Palm leaf manuscript, today still owned by private families in Tamil
Nadu and handed down through the generations, as well as public institutions
such as Universities all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After years of inner journeying, meeting and absorbing
the Siddhar wisdom, being consumed in the Siddhar mantras while living the life
of the Siddhar, it is inspiring to write about the <i>"Siddhars"</i> from
this experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The term Siddhar has always drawn intrigue, curiosity, interest
and respect in India. The little known aspect about them other than from their
divine poetry and literature has always created mystery while revealing the
secrets of this yogic path to those who are spiritually mature seekers. In Tamilnadu and as in rest of India, it is
common for an enlightened being to be called a Siddha or a Siddhar. When
Gautama Buddha was born, the astrologers identified his star of birth to be
powerful in all aspects, as a higher being- so he was named Siddhartha- the one
who is a Siddhar. Siddhartha later left his home to seek<i> ‘nirvana’</i>, the
attainment of liberation of the mind, to then be called Gautama Buddha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Siddhars are Sages who journey beyond enlightenment as
the 'liberated' yogis. In this journey within consciousness, the Siddhars
abandon beliefs for experience. Connecting to the ancient lineage of Gurus who
pave way for guidance, protection and grace, their's is a process of 'unlearning'. The inner journey of the Siddhars
is based on tapas<i> (to light the fire within of perpetual Source
union).</i> The Siddhars follow the path of oneness that embodies ahimsa <i>(ahimsa is the life message of Mahatma Gandhi. Ahimsa means-
non-violence, non-killing, tolerance and love for not only all of humanity but
for all creatures as well).</i> For the Siddhars, external knowledge especially from
a book is hardly relevant as much of their knowing, practice and teachings is based on self-knowledge, the wisdom from within. With depth of silence,
meditation and mantra japa <i>(recitation of mantras)</i> as tapas, the Siddhars
examine the human realities from cosmic consciousness. Those who chose the path
of the Siddhars are often not from the Brahmin caste <i>(priests, the upper hierarchy
of the Indian society)</i> and the Brahmins who take to the path of the Siddhars
often renounce their caste as a Brahmin to be able to tread this ego free wisdom.
The Siddhar tradition is devoid of castes, traditions, beliefs and written
teachings. Instead, the ancient wisdom was conveyed through resonance, the
mantra deeksha<i> (initiation)</i> and the guru's grace- with much of evolving
transformation happening from one's own effort- tapas <i>(inner fire)</i> and sadhana
<i>(daily discipline). </i>For a Siddhar Sage, divinity is in form and formlessness,
with the worship centered more towards a simple fire lamp as a symbolic focus
of their own inner lamp. Siddhars prefer to call God, Source as to free wisdom
from stagnancy of dogma. The South Indian Siddhar's teachings of <i>Tantiram</i> are
the roots to the term 'tantra', where the awakened roots of the human as in the
mode of survival, sexual and primal needs unite with cosmic consciousness to
transcend a normal human into an angelic yogi. Siddhars worship the Divine
Feminine as the essence to wholeness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the pathway of the Siddhars, as we journey through
consciousness, we realize our mind being empowered by the extra abilities such
as envisioning the future, seeing the past of another person, reading the
thoughts of others etc. Due to the absence of ego, the Siddhar Sages do not succumb
to these extra powers of the mind and the super-normal abilities that awaken
with the mind connecting with Source/God. However, the Siddhars, realizing their
vastness of being Spirit/Source in their ability to transcend the mind and the
limits of the mind, bring this blessing to benefit humanity. The Siddhars bless
humanity by way of deepening their tapas and flowing as the guiding wisdom to all who
meditate, as Guru Ayya did while he meditated in his cave for over 18 years. There are other
Siddhars who are in humanity as healers, scientists, visionaries and other
professions who utilize the states of higher consciousness to effect changes in
real terms. Some of the notable nature of the Siddhars are- absence of ego,
total love for God/Source as bhakti (devotion), lack of organization and
followers around them. To a Siddhar Sage living in the midst of humanity with a life of purpose and focus, multidimensional talents as genius are brought to fore. The path of the Siddhars is attuned, aligned and suited to the current modern day society as it is a
journey to seek being whole due to understanding the power of now and the colossal
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the mystical depths of yoga are secretive teachings of “Tantiram”––the roots to yoga and tantra.</span></h3>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These teachings were held within the intimate circle, primarily to be shared only with those who are spiritually mature and are able to handle the vast potent energies of the awakening Mother Kundalini. However, from today’s perspective of where the word and name “yoga” came from, as in the form of exercise and practice reaching global awareness, it is necessary to understand yoga and the practice from the perspective of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhar" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Siddhar</a> sages.</span></div>
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1. Yogic practice enables us to meditate all day.</h4>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Our daily discipline of yoga is to find the total union with source, with each moment as in supreme peace. The harmony within as the calm center, at all times is the yogic attainment with little practice as the first steps. In other words, we do yoga to attain a state of <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/05/avoiding-spiritual-bypass-and-worldly-bypass-via-the-bhagavad-gita/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">perpetual meditation.</a></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Yoga is tantra––the union of the human with source through the sacredness of the ‘orgasm.’</span></h4>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Hatha yoga is tantra. <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/sex-bliss-tantra-and-the-anusara-revolution/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tantra</a> means union of source with our human. Tantra comes from the word<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tantiram</em>, which is the ancient wisdom of the realized to magnify human realities of highest purpose—to realize the orgasmic joys of being on every level of human reality that represents all the seven chakras. Each layer of reality,starting from the roots of sensuality to the leaves of active doing, has a state of joy growing from the limited to the unlimited. When we are in this ‘flow’ we are blessed by an inspired life and its abundant reality.</span></div>
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3. Yoga is the realization of source in all things––“Tat Vam Asi”––meaning: “That Thou Art.”</h4>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, to understand <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tat_Tvam_Asi" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tat Vam Asi</em></a> as in actual experience, as a yogi, we need to understand ourselves containing all facets of the infinite and the finite represented by the five elements.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/05/a-yoga-teachers-fallen-bridge-pose-called-life-ashley-dimeglio/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">yogi connects</a> to each of the five elements to be one. Within this mystical wisdom is the practice of ‘tumor’–– the ability to generate heat from within and be beyond the limits of heat and cold. The practice of integrating with the five elements allows a yogi to be the master of the now as in terms of the natural settings.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Through our daily yoga, when we find union with <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source</em> through the <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/experiencing-loss-with-the-five-elements-leona-harter/" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">five elements</a>, we realize the oneness as the experience of being the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All.</em></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Yoga is the celebration of our body as a sacred shrine and the genius of the mind that enshrines our spirit.</span></h4>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yoga naturally induces health. A healthy body enhances the mind to focus on higher ideals as in devotion and union with <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source</em>. However, our daily practice of yoga is beyond just health and well-being. Connecting the mind to Source awakens the genius within ourselves—the amazing unique potentcy each of us are gifted with from birth. By connecting the body to Source, we awaken to the rejuvenating the youthful energies.</span></div>
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5. Within each yoga posture is a treasured facet of empowerment.</h4>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Each posture of yoga has a specific enhancement in our external realities. For instance, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the warrior posture</em> helps better focus of thoughts; <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">downward dog posture</em> enhances mindfulness. To surrender the mind, the past and thoughts into the calm harmony of the center, by way of breath and stillness, awakens the underlying energy within each posture. To rest in the absolute state of harmony within each posture is to attain the tranquility of breath, “<a href="http://vedabase.net/s/sthira" style="border: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sthira</a>.” Yoga is much like shooting to the stars and then coming back home to the ocean of tranquility through each posture.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mind is conditioned by the past, or the momentum of karmic imprints that limits us and beliefs that impede us from realizing that we are Source. To realize the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One</em> within ourselves that is in harmony, love, peace, happiness, bliss and oneness, is to be God/Source. The objective of yoga is to climb above the mind and thoughts to the state of being the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit</em>—directly experiencing Source as the loud sacred silence. When we awaken to realize ourselves as the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spirit</em>, beyond the mind and the chatter of thoughts, we appreciate Source as in all the pathways of religion and yet, we are not confined by the limitations. A yogi is a prophet directly experiencing Source.</span></div>
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8. Yoga is in riding breath as rivers of consciousness.</h4>
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Secrets Within Yoga: Be the Guru.</h2>
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Yoga works on the push and pull factor.</h2>
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The push is our own daily discipline and effort. The pull is grace. This grace is attributed to our Guru whom we invoke through our daily yoga. If in a yoga class, expressing reverence and gratitude to the yoga teacher at the beginning and end of yoga sessions does contribute to enhancing the inherent goodness of the inner journey of yoga.</div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In nearly all Eastern philosophies importance, reverence and respect is given to the Guru, the one who opens the door to our inner wisdom.</em></h3>
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This “Guru” is most times a living master or sometimes a spiritual being whose grace and guidance, the journey through consciousness as in yoga is enhanced. Awareness from a yogic perspective is the wisdom guiding us beyond the state of the ‘no-thought’ where the mind has no more thoughts. This ‘awareness’ as the wisdom behind thought is the Guru. In yoga, as we journey through consciousness and states beyond the mind, the awareness beyond the mind as the Guru continues to guide us.</div>
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This Guru could be Christ, Ramana Maharishi or any master of consciousness whom we feel deeply connected to or grateful for. When we invoke our Guru through our daily hatha yoga by way of breath, bandha (inner lock), visualization and intent, we open ourselves to be at the receiving end of grace that transforms our inner and outer realities.</div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mind is the tool to awareness and the journey beyond consciousness.</em></h3>
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Breath is the key to utilizing the mind. Each thought carries energy and thoughts of our Guru as in physical or spiritual form does carry expanded energy of wisdom that guides, transforms and evolves us. When we invoke our personal Gurus to guide us through our yogic journey, we are guided through a higher wisdom connection that is fulfilling and nourishing as the next level of consciousness.</div>
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The Guru Consciousness is from the awareness of the chakra above the navel called by the yogis, the Guru Chakra (not described in any text books or intellectual teachings of yoga). Taping into this energy field just above the navel, we possess vast unlimited energy even as we awaken to primal wisdom of higher consciousness. Yogis activate this energy field above the navel, the Guru Chakra to climb above consciousness that gives the freedom to be beyond hunger, heat/cold and sleep/tiredness.</div>
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With daily practice invoking our Gurus, we master consciousness to become the Guru. Expanded consciousness is Mother Kundalini. When we realize that the Guru is Kundalini and that Kundalini is a state of consciousness, we are the Guru.</div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to incorporate the Guru Chakra in your daily yoga practice:</em></h3>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[It is recommended to practice Sun Salutations as a sequence to incorporate the invoking of the Guru. Sun Salutations is a sequence of postures that help warm up at the beginning stages of yoga. In this sequence, from posture to posture, awareness of breath, the mind and the body is with ease.]</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Invoke your Guru at the start of the sequence when bringing your palms together as in Anjali mudra (palms together at the front of the chest). Remember your Guru through each following sequence and through each breath.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Stand with the legs slightly apart imagining ourselves as a pyramid. Feel the root chakra within ourselves as the center of the pyramid. Experience ourselves as stable and steady while aware of each breath.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Inhale our breath all the way down from the root chakra. Let the breath fill up from the lower belly and upwards.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. In the retention of breath, be conscious of the spot above the navel. Contract the spot above the navel.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. In the exhale, elongate the breath as a slow exhale while being conscious of the navel chakra and the Guru within our breath.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Do the entire sequence of Sun Salutation being aware of each breath as the journey within the breath invoking the Guru.</em></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Through each posture, feel the Guru Chakra and all our effort from the body towards the postures coming from the Guru Chakra.</em></div>
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Ultimately, through our daily yoga, we realize our inner fire and the invoke Gurus as the higher consciousness we awaken to be. The Guru within is awake as blessings of yoga!</div>
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Much of the hatha yoga styles we have in the West are beautiful hybridizations of the traditional yoga practiced in India but with a focus on the needs of pro-active individuals and directed more towards the body.</h3>
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Ever expanding consciousness is pure wisdom that is reflected in being in the present moment. As there is truth in the dynamic nature of ever expanding consciousness of the present moment, there is truth in the hybridization of yoga as long as the ‘yoga practice’ is in tune with uniting the Source to our human experience utilizing yogic principles. The spiritual end of experience that aligns with the stillness of the mind and the vastness of being Spirit is beyond scriptures and belief systems in its truth.</div>
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From the perception of the Siddhar Sages who live the life of yoga in its entirety, the yoga journey is being liberated as Spirit, and then the taking care of the body and understanding the body is as a shrine that holds the divinity of Self. Liberated from the mind and body to be Spirit and then understanding the body as a shrine to utilize the mind as a tool of consciousness, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/03/report-from-the-bali-spirit-festivalput-it-on-your-bucket-list/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the inner journey through yogic wisdom unfolds each day </a>as our own enriching experiences.</div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the key understandings to hatha yoga is the realization of the vastness of our Spirit toward awakening and the human body we have in being a shrine. The yogi understands the human body as the shrine that contains all of the Universe and Mother Earth. This “All-ness” is contained in the five elements—earth; water/fluidity; fire; air and void space. When the yogi understands that connecting to Source is to be present through the existence of the five elements and begins to attain mastery over each element, that the real complete union of human and Source has begun.</span></em></div>
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So in our daily yoga, understanding our inner journey through the elements with awareness paves the way toward the mastery of wholeness. The elements are the body as are the elements of earth; each thought is as the element of water; our inner fires—the energies that help with digestion, breath, activities etc leading to the kundalini fire; breath and the breathless realm the element of air; and the final destination, infinite void space of ever expanding consciousness.</div>
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While the word ‘nude’ does put most minds on alert and sometimes provokes the extreme ends of reaction, for a yogi, wearing the minimal clothing means wearing the entire infinite sky as clothes. Digambara, the sky clad one, is another name for Lord Siva, the supreme yogi. When practicing yoga, doing yoga in the nude enables us to integrate the five elements as one of the body and our being.</div>
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From the yogic experience, grace and learning is the ability of the body and our mind to break free of the limits and climb above the extreme cold or heat; hunger and sleep. The concept of ‘tumo’, the inner fire that produces warmth for the body is vital and important aspect of our yogic journey. By doing yoga nude we integrate the element of infinity of space; air through breath and our breath beyond breath wisdom; the inner fires and of our body shrine representing Mother Earth.</div>
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- Open your window or door to keep the outside air flowing inside so to connected with the air element.</div>
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- Be conscious of the temperature (hot or cold) and allow your yogic practice to generate the inner fires that work like a thermostat to equate our thresholds to equate whatever may be the weather outside.</div>
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- Allow our awareness to go beyond the mind to connect with the infinite nature of the sky. Realizing that we are infinite beings doing yoga is the rich experience of the Spirit having the human experience.</div>
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<strong></strong>Within each posture is the trigger of vital energies kindled through breath. The Himalayan Master (from the book, Autobiography of a Yogi. For those who have not read this wonderful book, a great life-changing gift of reading awaits you!) Mahavatar Babaji’s teachings of the mystical kriya yoga, condenses the essence of “sthira” as a very vital part of the practice. Sthira is the attainment of calm, tranquil, harmony of the breathless breath in breath.</div>
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Through each posture, divine into this tranquil space by utilizing the breath of sthira and expand the ‘self’. This ‘self’ is our awareness of our vast being-ness that is also experienced through the recitation of ‘AUM”. Sthira is the attainment of bliss and joy through breath from the breathless being. A ‘yoga’ session without usage of “AUM” is glorified gymnastics that presents much danger since we are not including the greatness of our partnership with Source. In the breath of sthira is the realization of the eternal aum that makes us aware of our infinite being, one with Source.</div>
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The yoga practice we do comes originally from the Sages who lived in the wilderness of caves and mountains. Every day they walked, climbing up hillocks and hills. Most temples and shrines in India are located above on hillocks and hills to facilitate such pilgrimages. Their daily hatha yoga practice complimented their walking while their food intake was minimal or optimal.</div>
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In our society we do consume far more calories than needed. We are exposed to huge blasts of stress energies. We live without the need to walk on a daily basis. This environment needs to be transcended by making our yoga more effective by including skipping and/or dancing and/or running and/or cycling alongside with our daily yoga practice. Nandhi would recommend including any additional activity that gives more of joyfulness as joy paves way to daily discipline.</div>
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<strong></strong>Utilize a yoga studio as you would use a walking stick. Yoga studios are for us to learn sequences of asanas but it does not substitute our daily yoga practice. Our daily yoga practice with or/and without a yoga studio is important for your daily inner journey in its practice, learning, wisdom and experiences.</div>
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There is a deeper wisdom from the yogic perception of time. When we ensure that we have our own daily practice that does not rely on anyone else or any circumstance (like a yoga studio), we begin to step into realigning the 24 hours though the experience of stepping into the gift yoga has to offer—timelessness. Doing yoga is a powerful form of worship and a journey into timelessness. Each day has 24 hours of time that holds the day and night experience for us.</div>
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We are like a planet experiencing the day and night while limited within the 24 hours each ‘day’ has to offer us. When we step into timelessness just once a day through yoga, we reflect life as though we are the sun. We cease to be the night and days experiences of the mind in its moods and in its perception of realities.</div>
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Another key benefit of having our own daily yoga practice is in awakening ourselves to be the greatest master and the most deserving student. When we learn from a yoga teacher, we are then like sponge, able to incorporate all the gold nuggets of wisdom into our daily practice.</div>
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Tantra comes from the pre-vedic teachings of South India, the Dravidians. The worship of Lord Siva and Goddess Sakti and the yogic teachings within it was called “Tantiram”, the roots of tantra. Tantiram is to unite Source with our human reality through the wisdom of joyfulness. Tantiram wisdom teaches that the roots, the muladhara, hold all the power in our journey towards realization and the journey through consciousness after waking up. The root chakra holds the key to the inner journey, hence the importance of worshiping Lord Ganesh.</div>
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When we thread the yogic path we realize the vastness of ourselves to be like an onion, layered in each reality, starting from the roots all the way to the crown as realities to unite with Source. Tantiram, the core of tantra, is the experience of orgasmic bliss within each and all layers of reality that we can enhance through our daily yoga. When we awaken to the wholeness of yoga, we transform our primal energies of sex, sensuality and survival instinct into evolved angelic potent thoughts of manifestation. Our daily yoga is tool to transforming and evolving through the embrace of wholeness, the tantiram.</div>
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Most hatha yoga teachings involve having to invoke the root chakra to awaken and work with Mother Kundalini. When we journey inward, we know Mother Kundalini as another state of consciousness and through this awareness; we ride through the inner fire awakening each chakra that holds the secrets of each layered reality as in its manifestations through harmony, abundance and Divine grace.</div>
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This wholeness is the union with Source that holds the nature of bliss and the understanding of the “I Am” experience as in the bold statement, “I Am God”. Lord Siva as experience is “Satchidananda” the experience of the now as in being the bliss form.<br />
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Once a year, a powerful time vortex presents itself for us to attain enlightenment with ease.</h3>
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In practical realities, Mahasivratri offers:<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- An ideal time to detox the body</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- The time to ‘detox’ the mind as in letting go of the past and karmic imprints of limitations</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- To create an intent of resolution and a supreme prayer</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- An inspiration to awaken the yogi within</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- A potent time to break free from the stagnancy of life to enable us to evolve into a life more attuned to our higher purpose with ease</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">- To awaken to the joyfulness of “Being” a person of higher consciousness and thereby imbibing all the qualities of higher consciousness as in abundance, harmony, love and wisdom</span></div>
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In the Western world it is truly beautiful to witness the growth of yoga as a practice, as an exercise and as a lifestyle itself.</h3>
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A drop of honey will lead to the honey pot. Practicing yoga does naturally provide benefits of health and less stress, but beyond it all is the experience of gravitating towards Source expressed in words such as “Freedom”, “Oneness”, “Blissful”, “Inspired”, “In the Now” etc. When we go deeper into the science of yoga to understand yoga as a journey through consciousness, we realize that words such as ‘liberation’ and ‘enlightenment’ are not distant concepts but an amazing experience we can have in our daily realities. Observing Mahasivratri does ease us into awakening the potential underlying objectives within yoga.</div>
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The worship of Lord Siva (Lord Shiva as in North India) is essentially <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">advaita, </em>which means: awakening to the Oneness of Source as in whom we are and as in everything we perceive. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Si</em> is the Spirit that we are. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Va</em> is the Goddess, that of experience. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SiVa</em> is the awakening experience to be the vast void that holds all the universes. This awakening is related to the experience of being the Spirit – the vast Soul that is beyond our “I” identification, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SiVa</em>. This is the root understanding to Lord Siva, the male and female within each of us. Likewise, “yogi” refers to the feminine counterpart yogini as well.</div>
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In the spiritual depth of India, most yogis who undergo deep tapas, (meditative penance), seldom coming out for months all together, take a break from their meditative state on this one day. These Sages come out to bless humanity during this period of Mahasivratri. For one on the path of yoga, this is the night to experience and actually be the Eternal Yogi.</div>
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This day of Mahasivratri is calculated based on the lunar calendar when our consciousness easily condenses into divine awareness during this period. From the yogic perspective, the moon directly influences the mind and our consciousness.</div>
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Each month, the new moon and full moon energies changes to its own uniqueness as the Earth rotates around the Sun in its oval shaped orbit through the year. Each day of the moon cycle holds a specific nature and in the mystical traditions of yoga, each day is attributed to a specific Goddess that holds a unique facet of energy based on the moon phase. Each full moon and new moon period holds a specific vortex of energy. New moons hold the consciousness of Lord Siva, the Spirit experience and full moons hold the awareness and the mind, the energies of Lord Vishnu. Every month, there is one Sivratri – a potent time to meditate and worship deeply and once a year, the grand Mahasivratri (maha means great) near the new moon period.</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;">Mahasivratri and Turiya:</strong> One of the key observations during the night of Mahasivratri is to stay awake all night. In reality, it is not about being a weekend warrior staying up all night singing, chanting and dancing, but about training ourselves to go beyond the mind and its sleep pattern through meditative practice. At the time vortex of Mahasivratri, we are able to experience the ‘sleepless sleep’ state with less effort.</div>
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The many objectives of yoga from the original intent of the Sages unravel with the experience of Turiya and the grace of Mahasivratri.</div>
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<li style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we unite the limited mind with Source, we ‘yoke’ the unlimited potential to expand human realities to its mastery as an artist while painting.</li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we realize that we are the Infinite Spirit dwelling in the body as the “I Am” experience, we are able to attain the highest perspective of realities that surround us and attain the radiance of blissful being.</li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon realizing that our body is a shrine that houses our Soul, well-being as good health flows naturally with us.</li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon climbing above the mind as Spirit having the human experience, we realize the oneness of humanity, oneness of all the living and ourselves as the Oneness that is many. We awaken to the potent angelic nature of realization to be compassionate.</li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are blessed with the attainment of higher consciousness that is causal in abundance, love, inspiration and fulfillment to all our aspirations.</li>
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When we utilize yoga as a tool to consciousness, we realize that the journey is beyond the mind and the natural states of consciousness that is sleep, being awake and dreaming.</h3>
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For a yogi/ni, to climb above the mind’s rooftop is to enter a realm of higher consciousness that is called “Turiya”. The Sages describe Turiya as the “sleepless sleep”. Most of us touch the state of Turiya with and without awareness as when doing the most joyful, inspired thing that we are passionate about. At this moment, we are most divinely aligned.</div>
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Any saint or holy man and woman in any religion or culture have the ability to bless reality through words and intent. This is because they are in touch with the higher conscious mind that is in union with Source, the mind state of Turiya. In deeper meditation, as we journey through the states of being awake, dreaming and sleeping, we realize each facet of the mind in levels of consciousness. The yogis dive beneath these layers within to go beyond the mind, the thought patterns and karmic imprints to the state of Turiya, the state of sleepless sleep. In the state of Turiya, the yogis climb into timelessness to intensify the “I Am” experience. In Mahasivratri, the key to celebrating Lord Siva is by staying awake all night long to experience the yogic state of the mind, the Turiya. This higher conscious state of Turiya is the hidden experience that we are to be blessed with during Mahasivratri when staying awake through the night singing, meditating or chanting.</div>
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Yoga naturally yields all attributes of yogam. These are precious moments for humanity as higher consciousness is now a reality that is of these moments. Yoga as in the Western sense does spearhead this awakening even if it is considered a simple exercise for health benefits and fashion instead of a spiritual discipline – as the taste of a drop of honey will eventually lead to the honey pot of higher consciousness.</div>
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The Siddhar wisdom is potent when applied to the yoga practice as the body is an effective tool to work the mind towards the inner core of realization. By yoga we refer to ‘hatha’ yoga as practiced in the West – the physical postures and the inner journey through this form of yoga as a sequence of postures. We recommend utilizing the traditional Sun Salutation sequence to experience the teachings below. Ideally, the Sun Salutation by itself is sufficient to attain the core consciousness, the objective of our yogic practice. Nandhi wishes to offer insights of Kalangi Kundalini Yoga, the yoga of the Sages.</div>
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1. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Yoga is a Journey through Breath & Consciousness.</strong> “Ha” and “Tha” of ‘hatha yoga’ means the entwining of Sun and Moon energies of our breath. Hatha yoga is in reality the journey of consciousness through breath. The right breath is the Sun and the left breath is the Moon. The Sages call these two breath streams the inner rivers through which we ride through awareness. By being aware of our breath as in its Sun and Moon energy, we are able to utilize the natural currents within breath through our yoga. To swim along with the predominant breath and to stimulate the Sun breath and the Moon breath equally enables us to swim along with the inner currents of the mind and consciousness. To know breath and the Source of breath is to know life, death and the immortal Spirit. Harnessing breath, we awaken to the wisdom of being Spirit.</div>
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2. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Awakening Energies of Gratitude:</strong> Our consciousness begins from each cell that owes its existence to our parents – Father and Mother. This initial step of awakening body consciousness is by acknowledging of our Father and Mother in gratitude. Through the first round of Sun Salutation, utilize the asana sequence of the left to visualize and express gratitude to your Mother – the moon breath. Likewise, utilize the sequence of the right to visualize and express gratitude to your Father – the sun breath. By acknowledging our Father and Mother (as in thought, dedication and gratitude) who are the seeds of our own creation as the body we possess, we shift our body consciousness field of energy. When we are thankful and grateful to our parent’s unconditional love from the moment of our birth, we are able to vitalize every cell of our body to that of wellbeing. When the first layer – that of body consciousness is woken up, our inner journey has begins with the gratitude as intent. Gratitude and coming to terms with body consciousness paves way to “Now” from where of yoga practice begins blessed.</div>
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3. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Activate the Root Chakra & Invoke Lord Ganesh’s Blessings:</strong> Lord Ganesh, the essence of the root chakra, is invoked in the beginning of all endeavors to enable success. The success of the inner journey, Kundalini awakening and higher consciousness relates to the strength and power of the root chakra. The Root Chakra activated through yoga holds key to wellbeing of the body in physical realities and in the spiritual essence, a strong foundation of harmony for awakening Mother Kundalini. The root chakra (the muladhara) needs be activated through the bandha (the inner lock, called the mulabandha), visualization and mantra. The muladhara is where the Inner Lamp is. To light this inner lamp through our daily yoga not only awakens the Kundalini energy but also takes us through our inner journey safely, as blessings of Ganesh. In practice, the mulabandha that awakens the root chakra fires is easily activated through the Sun Salutation process.</div>
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4. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Invoke Our Guru’s Through Yoga. </strong>When we understand breath as a tool to consciousness, we realize the space beyond breath as infinite wisdom, the Guru. In yoga, as we journey through consciousness and states beyond the mind, the awareness beyond the mind is the Guru that continues to guide us. Each thought carries energy and thoughts of our Guru as in physical or spiritual form does carry expanded energy of wisdom. When we invoke Christ or Babaji or our personal Guru’s to guide us through our yogic journey, we are guided through a higher wisdom connection that is fulfilling, nourishing as the next level of consciousness. The Guru Consciousness is from the awareness of the chakra above the navel called by the yogis, the Guru Chakra (not described in any text books or intellectual teachings of yoga). Tapping into this energy field just above the navel, we possess vast unlimited energy even as we awaken to primal wisdom of higher consciousness. Yogis activate this energy field above the navel, the Guru Chakra to climb above consciousness that gives the freedom to be beyond hunger, heat/cold and sleep/tiredness. When we realize that the Guru is Kundalini and the Kundalini is a state of consciousness, we are the Guru.</div>
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5. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Yoga With Mantra Is Effective: </strong>The mind and thoughts are vibrations. Mantras are vibration inducing resonance that shifts and transforms the mind in its frequency to generate thoughts that are more aligned to the energy within the mantra – through breath. When we recite mantras through our yogic sequences, our breath entwines with the mantra to unravel the higher energies of consciousness within the mantra. Each chakra is an energy center in within ourselves that blesses our reality in its blossoming through the mantras, breath and our awareness- allowing us to kindle and ride Mother Kundalini. Awakening our inner fire, the Kundalini, we utilize our daily yoga to transform ourselves. Riding on Kundalini as a state of consciousness while going through the sequences of yoga, we evolve from human to angelic. When we do yoga simply as a physical exercise without awareness of the sacredness of breath, we are more likely to injure our body and not receive the amazing and beautiful benefits of real yoga.</div>
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6. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">The Special Universal Cave- Third Eye: </strong>All rituals and disciplines finally lead to the supreme state of being still – the attainment of vibrant stillness of meditation. This vibrant stillness within is in finding our center. Doing yoga, we awaken the inner fires of the Kundalini that we experience as surging joy and bliss that leads to vibrant stillness. This surge of bliss initially is like a nuclear explosion rushing above the crown chakra. A yogi directs the explosive energies of the crown chakra towards the Third Eye to harmonize this inner fire with focus. This Third Eye focus takes us to the seat of the Universe – the magical space that is the meeting point of Source and our human. Awakening the vast energies within ourselves through breath, asana and the mantra grace, we climb above to the seat of consciousness, the Third Eye. The Third Eye is the experience of conscious-samadhi, the state of awareness while being absorbed in meditative oneness. In bringing all the focus through the Third Eye, we deploy the Kundalini energies of bliss, the wisdom and supernormal strength in our physical realities as in its grand manifestations. The objective of yoga is the attainment of being the Spirit having the human experience or in practical terms, to be able to bring Source energy into the physical realities.</div>
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As consciousness grows, so does our ability to think clearly from harmony, bring focus to priorities and create the power of intensity within intent.</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are certainly amazing and exciting moments we share together. With tools of consciousness such as meditation, yoga, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Chi" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tai-chi</a> and all other inward-rewarding-conscious activities becoming ‘popular,’ so is our collective consciousness expanding faster than ever before. So what does this mean for each of us reflected as the realities we unfold?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness and its mastery is attuned to the word “Siddha.” The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_%28novel%29" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Siddhars</a> are the Sages journeying beyond enlightenment, the mystics of the yoga tradition. From the Siddhars, the masters of consciousness, the insights of consciousness are the ultimate tool to transform our human limitations to Angelic Beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Consciousness is Empowered Realities:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As consciousness grows, so does our ability to think clearly from harmony, bring focus to priorities and create the power of intensity within intent. Manifestation of any desire is through the strength of passion, focus and sustenance of the underlying intent. Those of higher consciousness hold the empowerment to manifest with ease as a natural divine gift as they utilize the thinking process effectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, greater than even the gift of extraordinary focus is the ability to see from outside the box. Conscious beings like Einstein attribute the ability to conceptualize beyond their mind to unraveling of greater truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quote from Nandhi’s upcoming book, <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be The Prophet, “</em>In the entwining of joy, focus and surrender is genius that springs from our heart as the most perfect ‘music.’ Joy is Mother Kundalini’s sacred fire; focus is the mind’s fixation to source as in <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/08/bhakti-chai-could-be-as-american-as-apple-pie-pranada-comtois/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">bhakti</a> (divine love); and surrender is the vastness of void that accompanies the knowing. The subtle essence of heart’s music is wisdom, the poetry of the Now<em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Consciousness is Abundant:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Siddhar saying goes as, “Lord Siva’s favorite disciple is Goddess Laxmi and Goddess Laxmi’s favorite God of worship is Lord Siva.” This means, when we are detached (as in being Spirit), abundance of that we are detached to comes to us in ease. Likewise, when we are abundant (as in grace of Goddess Laxmi), we are detached. It is sad to see many spiritual beings be suffering from poverty and actually swear by poverty. This poverty could be attributed to the vows of poverty they took of past births and their present attitude towards abundance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An oil lamp used on the altars of most households has inscriptions of Goddess Laxmi over it. The reason is that when our lamp is alight, we manifest a solution to any of our need. So when a yogi sits in a cave to meditate and his body needs food, someone will bring the yogi food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Gautama Buddha was born, the astrologers saw from his birth horoscope that he was a highly realized soul- so they named him Siddhartha, i.e., In Sanskrit, Siddhartha means one who is a Siddha, a conscious being or a master of <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/06/consciousness-says-hey-im-right-here/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">consciousness</a>. It was only natural that such an elevated being should have been born in the midst of plenty, as in a royal family. Where consciousness is, abundance always is. Where collective consciousness is, the nation prospers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Consciousness is Freedom:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All poets, philosophers and writers throughout ages find one common aspiration as the most mentioned- it is freedom. This freedom is that to be happy, blissful and be the immense Spirit of infinite consciousness. The original role of any <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/08/spiritual-e-mail-closuresevolved-or-obnoxious--toni-grates/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">spiritual</a> teaching is freedom to “Be.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, religion, belief systems and cults have stood in the way of an individual reaching towards Source by curtailing the freedom to be the wisdom behind the “I Am” experience. Consciousness forever grows and the wisdom of our unique Now of consciousness is greater than any sacred scripture there ever was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first freedom is that from our own mind, the belief of the past and our own karmic veil that keeps us from understanding the vastness of whom we are as the Spirit having the human experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The consciousness Christ spoke about was from deep love that expressed oneness. This love was from the ability to see God in every human. That consciousness of Christ was way ahead of his times two thousand years ago for which he was crucified. Consciousness grows perpetually and is still growing. The deeper our realization of God, the more of God we see in all living creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first trait of a conscious person is that of compassion towards all living beings. When we understand the wisdom of Oneness to not kill another living being, the food we eat will carry more energy to expand consciousness. When Oneness is understood so will we understand that race, sexual preference, culture etc. from not just tolerance, but appreciative over differences we might have. From Oneness, the word “love” becomes more meaningful as unconditional and from the <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/05/the-republican-with-the-heart-of-gold/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">heart</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Consciousness is Purpose:</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we awaken to the vastness of the “I Am” experience, we are then reminded of our human body that has a shelf life. The next question then is<em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, “What am I here on Planet Earth to do?”</em> As we journey through consciousness, we come to realize our individual highest purpose that has all the passion and joy in it even just to dream or think of it. Coming into the ‘knowing’ of purpose, we attain the blessings of inspiration that enables well-being, fulfillment and evolved grace in our life. Consciousness then becomes action and a reality. The collective reality of conscious folks in the world then creates heaven here in Planet Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Consciousness is being the Spirit:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">When Siddhar Rajaswamy was in the forest with his Guru Kakapujundar , in the evening time, Siddhar Rajaswamy saw many wild animals and birds come and sit beside them as he and his Guru sat to meditate or do the sacred fire (yagna). Siddhar Rajaswamy asked his Guru, “Divine Guruji, It is truly heart touching to see all these animals and birds come towards us and sit so peacefully without fear around us. There is more to all this that I can see. Could you tell me about it?”</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Siddhar Kakapujundar said,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">“Angels are highly evolved Spiritual Beings but they evolve slowly into even higher realms as compared to the human evolution. In being human the evolution is quicker the moment consciousness is attained. With attainment of consciousness, the conscious person constantly does good and evolves fast. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Yes, of course there is much more to understand this evening from the yogic perspective. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Twirling around us is the peace of ourselves and all Angels too. The animals and all creatures come to bathe in this light. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Like all living beings gravitating to their innate wholeness, even the Angelic Beings seek to evolve. They seek to evolve by assisting conscious beings, the living masters. Angelic Beings twirl around conscious beings, wanting to serve and guide the conscious master. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">At the moment when a master of consciousness is meditating all the Angelic Beings circumbulate around the pillar of light activated. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">When a conscious being performs a good act (dharma) the Angelic Beings, too benefits from the merits of good action. Through the dharma done by the higher conscious being, the Angelic Beings evolve. A higher conscious master is many as one with many Angels serving them. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The human birth and its evolution towards consciousness is the reward that even Angels desire. Use the human birth for all its potential” </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Consciousness is the awake awareness of being the Spirit having the human experience. The Spirit is the "We, the many as One."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This inner wisdom explains how spiritual beings have legions of angelic beings and Source serving them to attain the highest aspiration for humanity. This Spirit as experience is our own inner bliss of being in the Now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Teachings of Mastery of Consciousness:</b></span></div>
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Consciousness and wealth—spiritual & material—are not just related, but rather interwoven as one flowing energy field. When there is peace and harmony, abundance of all good things flow naturally—not just for individuals, but also for whole nations.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been so much global dynamics springing from the colossal debts USA has and the global politics of economics that shape this. The debt is $14.6 trillion and climbing. That is roughly $47,000 debt for every US citizen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/08/how-we-are-rich-linda-v-lewis/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there a need to be worried?</a> What will happen next to the nation, the global economics and our own individual reality? What will happen if a rogue nation like China, armed with economic strength, gains the upper hand to threaten our individual freedom?</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These questions and thoughts can be brought to the right perspective if we can understand consciousness as being the wealth that will always gain precedence over any temporary upheavals. </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we can gain insights into the history of consciousness, we know we will not fail. We are consciousness that is victorious. Always!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India had been an economic super power for over 2000 years prior to being colonized by the British Empire. This “super-power” status was conferred based on the size of the entire global economy being less than 50% of that of India, the global economy of that period of course included a relatively developed China. Compare this to the 50-year maximum time of the “super-power” status of the USA that in its heyday constituted only 15% of <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/think-green-living-in-a-nightmare-economy/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">the global economy</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This enormous wealth of India was driven by a foundation of harmony from within for centuries. Economic strength grew due to the inner harmony, the result of the absence of wars, especially in South India. Isolated from invasions for thousands of years thanks to the three oceans of the south and the Himalayas of the north, the Indian subcontinent sustained a society where <strong style="font-weight: bold;">spirituality was a foundation on which enterprise prospered along with science.</strong> The Indian subcontinent provided and still provides the sustaining and nurturing environment to not just a few spiritual seekers, but to over 3 million <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sadhus</em>, or spiritual recluses.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider these facts of an inherent consciousness:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- During its years as a “super-power,” India did not invade/plunder or evangelize another of its neighboring countries. All of its neighbors were trading partners and culture & philosophy flowed naturally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Wars were civilized. Wars were fought within the Indian subcontinent with an attitude of being civilized, i.e., no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">civilian casualties, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/01/the-first-precept-on-war-a-buddhists-dilemma/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">no killing</a> prisoners of war, hostilities ceased every evening to tend to the wounded etc. Sadly, this code changed with the advent of the Muslim invaders from 1200 A.D. onwards who came to plunder India and forcefully enforce Islam on the conquered people while committing atrocities that violated the ethics of war. With the advent of British imperialism, all ethics of war were done with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Throughout the years of India’s history, anyone and everyone stepping on the shores of India were treated as welcomed guests of honor. India is the only country that not only welcomed the Jews but also ensured that they were protected and that their trade was encouraged. This is exactly the policy that East India Company took advantage of to later colonize India (see the video below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- With Islamic invasion & European colonization, the original language, religion and culture of entire nations were obliterated completely and replaced by that of the conquerors.<strong style="font-weight: bold;">India was the only exception.</strong> Even after being ravaged by over 800 years of Islamic rule and then British / Portuguese / Dutch colonization, nearly all its native languages, indigenous cultures and religion are quite intact (as in comparison to Latin America/Africa/Middle East etc.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- When Mahatma Gandhi started his freedom struggle in India, the British felt threatened almost immediately as the vast majority of the Indian population were agreeable to the concept of <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ahimsa</em> — non-hurting, non-harming and non-killing as a non-violent path to attaining freedom. <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/04/ahimsa-the-yoga-of-non-injury-will-set-you-free/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ahimsa</em> as a concept</a> was untried as yet in human history. The Indian freedom struggle through violence was well in place before Gandhi’s presence. What baffled the British and the press was how, without modes of modern communication, huge crowds would form and wait for hours before Gandhi arrived at any destination. The freedom movement had the whole of India responding to Gandhi’s call to be the “soul-force” from the beginning — that eventually led to Britain’s decision to leave India as a friend. Consciousness still won over steel, guile and greed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"></strong>When the British got their first administrative hold in the Indian subcontinent starting with what is today Tamilnadu, the British knew that they would conquer the rest of India with the financial “profits” they made. They</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">realized that they had the revenue of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48FP9Pd9aWE&feature=youtu.be" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">the world’s richest region of those times</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1803, the East India Trading Company (later taken over by the British government) made 13 million pounds as its profit (approx $5 billion in today’s value) from a territory that later expanded over nearly 25 times in size. This “profit” grew compounded each year by a minimum 100% and sometimes 1000% each year — over each year at the minimum, year after year as newer territories were annexed—until the entire Indian subcontinent was under the empire. Newer methods of appropriating money from India were devised—until India gained Independence in 1947.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In between, India footed the entire bill of the UK’s First and Second World Wars cost apart from the costs of all the other wars fought by the British. If we sum up the amount of wealth taken out of India directly and indirectly from 1800 to 1947, by comparison, the current US debt of $15 <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12754" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">trillion</a> is minuscule.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness, however, moves in cycles and is not the monopoly of any one culture or country.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ancient consciousness of the Indian subcontinent is embedded in the science of yoga, meditation and the essence of realizing oneness — <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ahimsa</em>. This cycle of goodness for consciousness is now beginning again. The enormous wealth that was with India in the form of stored consciousness through being a super-power for over 2000 years was not depleted as wealth, spiritual and material, is created through consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we meditate, do yoga or do any practice that calms the mind to harmony, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/everything-is-perfect/" style="border-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">we experience peace</a>. Thoughts from a mind of harmony are always innovative, abundant, nurturing and inspiring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As thoughts of the Sages from the East, we wish all to know that even a $100 trillion is still minuscule compared to collective consciousness that can be transformed to abundant material realities in a moment.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The immenseness of spiritual abundance is a power that has come of time and no one person, no nation and no ignorance can stop its manifestation to be the radiance of material abundance.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May we all evolve in our awakening to the harmony of oneness behind each thought. May we all unfold abundant realities in our lives that fulfill, inspire and bless us with well-being, contentment and enterprise that enables the goodness of abundance.</span></div>
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Yet, the Dalai Lama said,</div>
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Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.</div>
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This is common sense in the reality we live in today.<a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/04/ahimsa-the-yoga-of-non-injury-will-set-you-free/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Known for his practice and advocacy of Ahimsa</a>, this statement from the Dalai Lama might seem contradictory. There is however a deeper yogic wisdom to the principle of Ahimsa.</div>
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Our world is energy. Balancing the world is about balancing energy.</div>
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Looking into the yogic insight on the three basic states of energy called <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gunas</em>, with reference to history, sheds light on the applicability of the Ahimsa principle in our times.</div>
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There are three states of the mind. The first is the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tamasic</em>mind, which means darkness and is a mind characterized by ignorance, violence, and destructive tendencies. The second is the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rajasic</em> mind, which is characterized by action and momentum fueled by greed and selfishness. The third is the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sattvic</em> mind that is pure, illumined, and without impurities. The Sattvic mind is rooted in the principles of Ahimsa.</div>
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When World War II broke out, Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Hitler, trying to persuade Hitler away from being an aggressor. The letters reached Hitler just before his invasion of Poland. Hitler chose to ignore the letters and simply went ahead invading and annexing Poland. Mahatma Gandhi’s Ahimsa principle had fallen on deaf ears.</div>
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At the same time, Gandhi was of the opinion that <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/08/live-and-let-die-yogitaratna-chaitanya/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis, “should submit themselves meekly</a> and as Satyagrahis (spiritual warriors) will triumph”.</div>
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Today, now that the world knows for sure the determined evil intent behind the Nazi regime, we understand that Mahatma Gandhi’s Ahimsa principle would have failed to stop the massacre of Jews. In fact it would have aided the Nazi authorities in achieving their aim of mass murder of the Jews.</div>
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From the yogic point of view, during that time, Nazi Germany was in the grip of Tamas. Britain was Rajasic. The non-violent India headed by Gandhi was Sattvic. According to the yogic perception of the Gunas, Tamas can be effectively dealt with only through the Rajasic nature. Likewise, the Rajasic nature can be overcome only by the Sattvic nature. In other words, it was only through the violence of war (Rajasic energy) that Britain, America, and the other fourteen allied countries could defeat Nazi Germany & Imperial Japan. Likewise, it was exclusively Sattvic non-violent India, which was following the Ahimsa principle, that could overcome the colonial British rule of Rajasic nature.</div>
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It is important to see human realities for what they are: states of energy. Now we understand why the Dalai Lama said what he said.</div>
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Osama Bin Laden is a sad symptom of the increasing face of avidya (ignorance of Oneness) that is stalking humanity today in various forms such as terrorism and war lords. When Osama Bin Laden was in his destructive element, facing him with the principle of Ahimsa would not have worked, especially given he was convinced he would achieve the status of a martyr, and other heavenly rewards by using violence.</div>
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The disease to be addressed is <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/05/think-im-crazy-at-least-youre-thinking--david-telfer-mcconaghay/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ff3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the advocacy of intolerance, violence, barbaric punishments and male dominant belief-systems that justify the likes of Osama Bin Laden</a>, the Taliban and the growing fundamentalism around the globe.</div>
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Wishing away this growing threat by standing on the principles of Ahimsa is questionable as we are dealing with Tamas that cannot be suppressed directly by the Sattvic nature. In the practical, Rajas will have to be employed to limit Tamas – and Rajas means Resistance and Counter-action. This isn’t justification of violence or ‘an eye for an eye’ — this is simply saying that, giving in without resistance (Ahimsa) is not the way to go and action has to be taken when we are faced with Tamas (violence).</div>
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