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We are all Gods
Sai Baba ... A Biography
Brahma Gyan
Do not try to get ‘ mantra ’ or ‘ upadesh ’ from anybody
Power of Meditation
Self Knowledge
Wickedness
Mind is the Builder
Treasures and Treasures
The Way Toward Health
Brahmarshi Subhash Patri
Science and Mind
Recouping health ... Breath-by-Breath
Blooming Buds School
Dhyana Yagnam
Science of Meditation
My Journey Towards Myself
Physical Health and Wisdom
Soul Cluster Groups
Vibrational Nature of today’s children
Guiding Principles
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Sai Baba ... a People’s God !
Sai Baba ... a Spiritual Master of the early 20th century Earth !
Sai Baba ... entered the physical body on 28th September , 1835 and
vacated the physical body on 15th October , 1918 !
Sai Baba ... quintessence of Indian Spirituality and Cosmic Truth !
Sai Baba ... a simple human being with astounding raw wisdom !
Sai Baba ... born in the village Patri and settled in the village Shirdi !
Sai Baba ... Pure Atma ... turned into flesh and blood, turned into muscles
and bones !
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Sai Maharaj ! ... You are our dear Astral Guru
and our dearest Astral Friend !
All the Anapanasati Meditators are well aware that you are behind most of
their meditational experiences !
You have allowed Pyramid Meditation into all your temples !
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We, the pyramid masters, are your followers !
We, the pyramid masters, are your compassion continued !
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We, look forward eagerly to be in Shirdi, on the sacred soil, between the
period 25th Dec. to 31st Dec. , 2006 ... to do Intensive Meditation ... under
your personal guidance and your personal energy !
PPPPPranamsranamsranamsranamsranams Unto Y Unto Y Unto Y Unto Y Unto You !ou !ou !ou !ou !
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god-hood means cosmic consciousnesscosmic consciousness
isachieved
only ... through ... a ... regular ... practice ... of
ANANANANANAPAPAPAPAPANANANANANASAASAASAASAASATI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITAAAAATIONTIONTIONTIONTIONcosmic energy
isobtained
only ... through ... being ... with ... the
“ When we are with the breath - energy, the mind becomes empty !
Then, there is a tremendous in-flow of cosmic energy into the physical body !
Gradually, the hitherto dormant third eye becomes energized ... and latent powers
of the cosmic consciousness are released ! ”
THE BREATH-ENERGY IS OUR ONLY SAVIOUR !
BE A MEDITATOR !BE A MEDITATOR !
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NO MANTRA
“ no mantra is to be chanted ! ”
Forcible holding of one’s breath ... i.e.kumbhaka ... should never be attempted !
Anapanasati should be undertakenregularly, and for atleast thirty to forty minutesevery day.
Any time, and any place, is perfectly okayfor meditation !
EASY POSTURE
“ sthira sukham asanam ! ”
Take any comfortable sitting posture ! Handsshould be clasped and eyes closed !
Routine thoughts of the mind should be cutright away, as and when they arise !
Attention only on being consciously withthe breath - energy !
close your eyestake all the time you need to get comfortable
shift musclesshift musclesshift musclesshift musclesshift musclesstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relax
spine and neck are relaxed ... not held stiffly !there is no stiffness here
just comfort ... the beginning of calm ... there is no hurry nowthere is nothing else to do ... or think about ... just pure relaxation !
BE STILL !INHALE SLOWLYEXHALE SLOWLY
let your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calm
follow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breath
BE STILL !BE WITH YOUR BREATH
use your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathin in in in in ............... out out out out out ............... in in in in in ............... out out out out out
that is allthat is allthat is allthat is allthat is allBE STILL !
BE WITH YOUR BREATHbe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energy
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Sai Baba, a personification of spiritual perfection and an epitome ofcompassion, lived in a little village called ‘ Shirdi ’ in the State of Maharashtra(India) for sixty years. Like most of the perfect saints, he left no authentic recordof his birth and early life before arriving at Shirdi.
Sai Baba’s simple, yet spiritually enriched, way of life with its supremedetachment and renunciation, and his method of imparting spiritual instructionand guidance to the devotees through instances and experiences of theirdaily lives have an unfailing appeal. ‘ Sai ’ means Savior, Master, or Saint.‘ Baba ’ means father as an expression of reverence.
The following account of the Master has been taken from a number of texts, mainly from “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” .EDIT-TEAM
her husband to wait for a while. But he went his
way. As soon as she was delivered of the child, a
son, beneath the shade of a banyan tree, she
placed her child on the ground, covered it with
banyan leaves and hastened after her husband,
for her duty lay in that direction.
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A person named Mr. Patil from a neighbouring
village was fetching his wife from her mother’s
hamlet, in a tonga. Sreemati Patil alighted from
the tonga and went to the very spot where the child
had been made to lie by Devagiriamma. She heard
the child’s cry, removed the banyan leaves and
found that it was a new-born child. Excited, she
called her husband to the spot and showed him
the child. They were a childless couple. And it was
their feeling that GOD had given them this child to
look after and to play with. They took the child
home. They brought it up as their own son.
“ birth of sai baba ”
Shirdi Sai Baba was born in September 28,
1835, to a Hindu couple.
Sri Sai Baba was the third child of a boatman,
Ganga Bhavadiya who lived in “ Patri ”, a village
near Manmad, on the banks of a river there.
Mother’s name was Devagiriamma.
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Torn between her husband and her children,
Devagiriamma decided that it was her duty to
follow in the footsteps of her husband, sent her
two children to her mother ’s house and
accompanied her husband into the forest.
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After they had covered some distance,
Devagiriamma felt that she was soon going to be
in child-bed. Birth pangs had set in. She implored
Govind R Dabholkar
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“ boy-hood ”
The child grew up in the Patil household. Patil
died when the child was growing into boy-hood.
The mother was unable to cope with his activities.
The boy used to go into Hindu temples and recite
the ‘ Quran ’ there. He installed a stone Lingam in
a mosque and worshipped it there. Enraged Hindu
and Muslim neighbours came to the foster-mother
and complained bitterly about the
boy. She was puzzled.
Unable to control the boy,
Sreemati Patil, the foster-mother,
came to know of an ashram
started some miles away by a
sadhu named Venkusa. There
were, in the ashram, some
orphan boys and waifs. She
decided to take Babu (Shirdi Sai
Baba as boy) away and leave him
there. Venkusa had a dream on
the night previous to the coming
of the foster-mother with Baby. Sreemati Patil
went there at about 10 am, with Babu. She told
Venkusa about the boy’s disturbing activities and
prayed to Venkusa to take Babu as an inmate of
the ashram. Venkusa did so with great delight and
reverence.
“ return to shirdi ”
Baba first came to Shirdi when he was a young
lad of sixteen and stayed there for three years.
Then, all of a sudden, he disappeared for some
time. After some time, He reappeared in the Nizam
State, near Aurangabad, and again came to Shirdi,
with the marriage-party of Chand Patil, when he
was about twenty years old.
“ welcome sai baba ”
Sai Baba came to Shirdi with the said marriage
procession, which camped in a field near the
Khandoba’s temple on the outskirts of the village.
One Mhalsapati, a goldsmith by caste of Shirdi,
was a devotee of Shri Khandoba and visited that
temple daily. There, when this Mhalsapati first
saw Sai Baba, the former spontaneously
accosted him thus, “ Welcome Sai Baba ” and
this is the name i.e. ‘ Sai Baba ’ by which thereafter
this Saint of saints became known to the world.
“ l ife at shirdi ”
After Sai Baba’s return to
Shirdi in 1858, people observed
a change in his old routine.
Though by day he still spent a
great deal of time under his
favourite ‘ Neem ’ tree, and
occasionally sat near a stream
on the outskirts of the village, the
nights were spent either in the
village’s dilapidated mosque or in
the chavadi.
Sometimes he walked to
Neemgaon, two kilometers north
of Shiridi, and sometimes to Rahata, five
kilometers in the opposite direction.
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Once from a visit to Rahata, he brought back
with him saplings of marigold and jasmine. After
clearing a small patch of land, Sai Baba planted
the shrubs and tended them. At the end of three
years, under his daily ministrations, a beautiful
garden bloomed on what had once been barren
land.
“ cloth around head ”
Sai Baba wore a piece of white cloth around
his head which was knotted at the back and flowed
down from behind his left ear. He was usually
barefoot and a piece of sack-cloth served him
as a cushion. He kept a fire burning perpetually
in the mosque and when he sat next to it, he
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“ allah malik ! ”
Sai Baba did not mix with the local people and
he was scarcely ever seen speaking to any one.
He was often heard muttering sacred Urdu
phrases to himself but his manner at such times
made it clear to those in the vicinity that he did not
wish to be overheard.
His favourite expression however was
of Muslim origin - “ Allah Malik ” meaning
“ God is the Master. ”
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Apart from a handful of food and some small
quantities of tobacco for which he begged, the
only thing he really seemed to need was oil for
his lamps. The people of Shirdi ignored him as a
young man who was slightly touched in the head
and indulged in religious practices which were not
in keeping with the precepts of either Hinduism or
Islam.
“ dance .. . songs .. . bliss ”
In those early years of his life he used to go to
‘ Takia ’ , the public night shelter for moslem
visitors to the village. There in the company of
sojourning devotees and fakirs, he used to dance
and sing in divine bliss, with small trinkets tied
around his ankles. The songs he sang were
mostly in Persian or Arabic. Sometimes he sang
some popular verses of Kabir.
“ all are one ! ”
The split between the two communities ...
Hindus and Mohammedens ... widened up and
Sai Baba came to bridge that gulf. His constant
advice to all was to this effect.
“ Ram and Rahim are one and the
same; there is not the slightest
difference between them then, why
should their devotees fall out and
quarrel among themselves ? Join
hands and bring both the communities
together, act sanely and thus, you will
gain your object of national unity.
“ Yoga, sacrifice, penance and
knowledge are the means to attain God.
If you do not succeed in this by any
means, in vain is your birth. If anyone
does any evil unto you, do not retaliate.
If you can do anything, do some good
unto others.”
This, in short, was Sai Baba’s advice to
all, and this will stand in good stead both in
material and spiritual matters.
“ religious amity ”
Sai Baba himself actively discouraged
speculation amongst his devotees as to his
identity and back-ground. Despite extensive
enquiries, nobody was ever able to prove
conclusively whether Sai Baba was a Hindu or a
Muslim.
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When asked for his name, he replied,
“ They call me Sai Baba ”
“ Creed or religion ? ”
“ Kabir ”
“ Caste or community ? ”
“ Parvardigar ! ”
Not a single answer was of the least help in
establishing his true identity !
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Though he lived in a mosque, he always had
a fire going in it. He not only had oil lamps burning
night and day, he even permitted the blowing of
conches and ringing of bells inside his mosque.
On the other hand, it was the name of Allah which
was always on his lips. Sai Baba disapproved of
extremes of religious orthodoxy.
“ knowledge of languages ”
His Hindi was as fluent as his Urdu. Nobody
believed that Baba knew Sanskrit. One day He
surprised all by giving an interpretation of a verse
from the Gita to Nanasaheb Chandorkar.
Nanasaheb Chandorkar was a good student
of Vedanta. He had read Gita with commentaries.
He fancied that Baba knew nothing of Sanskrit
texts. So, Baba one day pricked the bubble.
Nana, then, recited Bhagavad Gita IV-34, which
is as follows :
“ Tadviddhi Pranipaatena PariprashnenaSevaya,
Upadekshyanti Te GnyanamGnyaninastattwadarshinah ”
Baba began to explain :
“ It is not enough merely to prostrate
before the Gnyanis. We must make
Sarvasva Sharanagati (complete
surrender) to the Sadguru.
“ Mere questioning is not enough. The
question must not be made with any
improper motive or attitude or to trap the
Guru and catch mistakes in the answer,
or out of idle curiosity. It must be earnest
with a view to achieve spiritual progress
or liberation.
“ Seva is not rendering service, with the
feeling that one is free to offer or refuse
service. One must feel that, he is not
the master of the body, that the body is
Guru’s and exists merely to render
service to him.
“ If this is done, the Sadguru then will show
you, what the Knowledge referred to in the previous
stanza is. ”
Nana was humiliated, His pride was knocked
down.
“ always be doing something ! ”
It seems Baba did not like that any of His able
bodied devotees should remain idle and be a
burden on society or his kith and kin. He always
preached, “ A man should always be doingsomething.” He himself never sat idle but was
always busy doing something. In the noon, when
no work was at hand, he would just take a needle
and repair his torn out dhoti or his robe etc. and if
at such a time somebody would turn up and
question Baba, “ Why should you take this trouble8
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when we all are ready and willing to do this for
you ? ” He would at once reply :
“ One has to be always busy doing
something and so far as possible he
should avoid troubling others for his own
piece of work. ”
“ fasting and onion ”
‘ Fasting ’ and ‘ onion ’ were two of the things
which Baba often used as the subject ... matter
for displaying his wit and humour and, at the same
time, for showing his wonderful knowledge of men
and matters and also for
showing his divine powers.
Baba never fasted and
never believed in fasting and
always discouraged fasting as
a means of getting any spiritual
good.
Baba taught that the search
for God on an empty stomach
is not desirable, as it’d not
achieve its avowed goal and
the story of how he met his
Master in the forests only after
he ate. The food offered with
love by an unknown tribesman
and the advice he gave to Radhabai Deshmukh,
when she went on a fast unto death in Shirdi village
for getting his blessings.
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Baba much liked onion and his daily meal was
not complete unless he ate a couple of them, raw
and dry, with relish and often he had a dig at the
orthodoxy of several brahmins who refused even
to touch it, on grounds of sex and dirty smell. And,
his only purpose of making fun of fasting and onion
was to instruct his devotees and to show up his
omniscience.
“ wonderful bed-stead ”
Nanasaheb Bengle brought for Sai Baba, a
wooden plank, about four arms in length and only
a span in breadth, for sleeping upon. Instead of
keeping the plank on the floor and then sleeping
on it, Baba tied it like a swing to the rafters of the
Masjid with old shreds of rags and commenced to
sleep upon it. The rags were so thin and worn out
than it was a wonder, how they could bear or
support weight of the plank itself, let alone the
weight of Baba. But, somehow or other it was
Baba’s sheer Leela that the worn out rags did
sustain the plank, along with the
weight of Baba on it !
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On the four corners of this
plank, Baba lighted Panatis
(earthen lamps), one at each
corner and kept them burning
the whole night. It was a sight
for the Gods to see Baba sitting
or sleeping on this plank ! It was
a wonder to all, how Baba got
up and down the plank. Out of
curiosity, many curious
observers kept watching the
process of mounting and dismounting, but none
succeeded.
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As crowds began to swell, so as to detect this
wonderful feat, Baba one day broke the plank into
pieces and threw it away. Baba had all the eight
Maha Siddhis (powers) at his command. He
neither practised nor craved for them. They came
to him naturally, as a result of his spiritual
perfection.
“ begging ”
Sai Baba himself ate very little; and the little he
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families in shirdi who had come to consider it a
privilege to render this services.
But many were the times when Sai Baba
himself distributed food ! What was unique about
these occasions was that everything from the
shopping to the actual cooking was done by Baba
himself without any assistance from anyone. And,
as if that was not enough, he personally served
the food to all who were present in his mosque.
“ DWARKAMAI ”
“ See God in all living creatures ! ”
Sai Baba’s mosque which he had named ‘ the
Dwarkamai ’ was open to all.
Dogs, cats, crows and lizards were as
welcome as the lame, the blind and the leprous.
Poor man, rich man, the able-bodied and the
handicapped, all were treated with the same
graciousness and courtesy.
“ sister l izard on visit ! ”
One day, as he sat as usual before his sacred
fire in the mosque, a lizard on the wall made a
constant ‘ tic-tic ’ sound. A devotee asked whether
the sound produced by the lizard was of any
particular significance.
“ The lizard is happy because her sister from
Aurangabad is coming to see her ”, Baba told
him !
This explanation perplexed the devotee but
he kept quiet. Minutes later, a gentleman from
Aurangabad stopped at the mosque to see Sai
Baba. He had come on horseback and had
broken journey at Shirdi as the horse was hungry.
As the man unslung a cloth bag (containing feed
for the horse) and thumped it lightly on the floor, to
rid it of dust, a lizard emerged from it and swiftly
made its way up the wall to the other one, and
the two went scuttling along the rafters !
“ manifestation of Brahma ”
Though, Sai Baba looked like a man, three
cubits and a half in length, still he dwelt in the
hearts of all. Inwardly, he was unattached and
indifferent but outwardly, he longed for mass
welfare.
Though, inwardly, an abode of peace, he
looked outwardly restless. Inwardly, he had the
state of Brahma, outwardly he seemed
engrossed in the world.
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Sometimes, he looked on all with affection
and at times he threw stones at them;
sometimes he scolded them, while at times he
embraced them and was calm, composed,
tolerant and well-disposed towards his bhaktas.
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He always sat on one Asan and never
travelled. His ‘satka’ was a small stick, which he
always carried in his hand. He was calm and
thought-free. He never cared for wealth and fame,
and lived on begging. Such a life he led. He always
uttered “ Allah Malik ” ... “ God is the realowner ”.
He was the store-house for self-knowledge
and full of divine bliss.
“ miraculous manifestations ”
Sai Baba had complete knowledge of events10Spiritual India, September - October 2006
and occurrences even at long distances. Though
he never physically left Shirdi, he was known to
materialise himself in other bodies in far distant
places.
But, in order to do so, he never went into
trance, nor did he ever interrupt his normal routine
in Shirdi itself !
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Curiously enough, to those who had seen him,
he invariably appeared in a form, different from
his own, while for the benefit of those who had
never even heard of him, he materialised as the
well-known figure in the white robe and head cloth.
These manifestations, whatever the form they
took, were always for a reason.
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Sai Baba himself spoke frequently of his travels
over great distances. Sitting besides his fire in
the Dwarkamai, he often regaled his devotees with
tales of where he had been and whom he had
visited during the night.
“ I don’t mind my arm being burnt ! ”
Diwali day, Baba was seated as usual in his
mosque feeding wood to his sacred fire when he
thrust his arm into the flames. Two devotees who
were present at the time caught him by the waist
and pulled him back.
When asked why he had done such a thing,
Sai Baba explained :
“ The wife of a blacksmith was working
the bellows of a furnace when her
husband called out to her. Forgetting that
she had a child tied around her waist,
she ran to her husband and the child fell
into the furnace. So I thrust my hand into
it and pulled the child out ! I don’t mind
my arm being burnt ... I’am glad that the
child’s life was saved. ”
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Sai Baba, of course, refused to have his burns
treated. The doctor who was sent for all the way
from Mumbai by some of Sai Baba’s wealthier
devotees was not even permitted to examine the
arm, let alone treat it.
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The only person who was allowed to dress the
burns was a leper devotee called Bhagoji Shinde.
The ‘ treatment ’ consisted of the burnt area being
massaged with ghee, covered with a leaf and
wound tight with bandages. It was typical of Sai
Baba that he accepted this personal service from
one who was an advanced case of leprosy.
“ no ashrams ”
Though enormous sums of money flowed into
Shirdi after Sai Baba’s fame had spread, he never
kept any of it nor did his life-style undergo the
slightest change.
He owned no property, he built no ashrams
and costly gifts were returned to the donors. The
money collected daily was distributed by him each
evening amongst the poor and the needy. Except
for a few coins which he set aside to purchase oil
for his lamps, wood for his fire and tobacco for his
pipes, he kept nothing for himself ...
At the time of his death, in 1918, Sai Baba’s
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been when he came to Shirdi in 1858. a white
cotton robe, a piece of headcloth, a tin can, a
wooden stick and some clay pipes.
“ seventy-two hours of samadhi ”
Thirty-two years before Samadhi, i.e. in 1886,
Baba made an attempt to cross the border line.
On a Margashirsha Pournima (Full moon) day,
Baba suffered from a severe attack of Asthma.
To get rid of it, Baba decided to take his Pran high
up and go into Samadhi. He said to
Bhagat Mhalsapati :
“ Protect my body for three
days ! If I return, it will be all right,
if I do not, bury my body in that
open land ... pointing to it ... and
fix two flags there as a mark ! ”
After saying this, Baba fell down
at about 10 p.m. His breathing
stopped as well as his pulse. It
seemed as if his prana left the body.
All the people, including the villagers
came there and wanted to hold an
inquest and bury the body in the place, pointed by
Baba. But, Mhalsapati prevented this. With Baba’s
body on his lap, he sat full three days guarding it.
After three days passed, Baba showed signs of
life at 3 a.m. His breathing commenced, the
abdomen began to move. His eyes opened and
stretching his limbs, Baba returned to
consciousness again.
“ my life left me today ! ”
Some days before Baba’s departure, there
occured an ominous sign foreboding the event.
There was, in the Masjid, an old brick on which
Baba rested his hand and sat. At night time he
leaned against it and had his Asan. This went on
for many years. One day, during Baba’s absence
a boy who was sweeping the floor, took it up in his
hand, and unfortunately it slipped and fell down
and got broken into two pieces.
When Baba came to know about this, he
bemoaned its loss, saying :
“ It is not the brick, but my fate, that has
been broken into pieces. It was as dear
to me as my life, it has left me today ! ”
“ passing away ... 15th October, 1918 ”
When Sai Baba knew that he
was to pass away soon, he asked
Mr. Vaze to read ‘ Ramvijay ’ to him.
Mr. Vaze read the book once in
the week. Then, Baba asked him to
read the same again day and night,
and he finished the second reading
in three days.
Thus eleven days passed. Then
again he read for three days and
was exhausted. So, Baba let him go
and kept himself quiet. He abided in
his Self and was waiting for the last
moment.
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Two or three days earlier, Baba had stopped
his morning peregrinations and begging rounds,
and sat quietly in the Masjid.
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Baba got a slight fever on 28th September,
1918. The fever lasted for two or three days, but
afterwards Baba gave up his food, and thereby
grew weaker and weaker.
On the 17th day, i.e., tuesday, 15th October,
1918, on Vijayadasami. Baba left his mortal coil
at about 2-30 pm.
material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi ...
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There was a rich gentleman who was veryprosperous in his life.
He had amassed a large quantity of wealth,houses, and lands, and had many servants anddependents. When Baba’s fame reached hisears, he said to a friend of his that he was not inwant of anything, and so, he would go to Shirdiand ask Baba to give him “ Brahma-gyan ”, whichif he got, would certainly make him more happy.His friend dissuaded him, saying, “ It is not easyto know Brahma and especially so for anavaricious man like you, who is always engrossedin wealth, wife and children.”
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Not minding his friend’s advice, the fellowengaged a return journey tonga and came toShirdi. He went to the Masjid, saw Sai Baba, fell athis feet and said, “ Baba, hearing that you showthe Brahma to all who come to you, I too havecome here all the way from my distant place. I ammuch fatigued by the journey and if I get theBrahma-gyan from you, my troubles will be well-paid and rewarded.” Baba replied, “ Oh, my dearfriend, don’t be anxious, I shall show you theBrahma. Many people come to me and ask forwealth, health, power, honour, position, cure ofdiseases and other temporal matters. Rare is theperson who comes to me and asks for Brahma-gyan.
“ There is no dearth of persons asking forworldly things but persons interested in spiritualmatters are very rare, I think, it is a fortunate andauspicious moment, when persons like you, comeand ask me for ‘Brahma-gyan’.”
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Saying this, Baba started to show him theBrahma. He made him sit there and engaged himin some other talk and thus, made him forget hisquestion for the time-being. Then he called a boyand told him to go to one ‘ Nandu Marwadi ’ andget from him a loan of Rs. five. The boy left andreturned immediately, saying that Nandu wasabsent and his house was locked. Then, Babaasked him to go to ‘ Bala grocer ’ and get from himthe said loan. This time also the boy wasunsuccessful. This experiment was repeated againtwice or thrice, with the same result.
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Why did Sai want the paltry sum of five rupees,and why did he try hard to get it ? Really he did notwant this sum at all ! He knew that Nandu andBala were absent, and the whole thing was a testfor the seeker of Brahma. That gentleman had aroll or bundle of currency notes in his pocket and ifhe was really earnest, he would not have sat quietand be a mere on-looker !
When Baba was frantically trying to get a paltrysum of Rs. five, and he knew that Baba would keephis word and repay the debt, and that the sumwanted was insignificant, still, he could not makeup his mind and advance the sum. Such a manwanted from Baba, the greatest thing in the world,Brahma-gyan !
He was in a haste and he implored Baba, “ OhBaba, please, give me the Brahma-gyan soon ! ”Baba replied, “ Oh my dear friend, for seeingBrahma, one has to give five things : 1. five pranas... vital forces 2. five senses, 3. mind, 4. intellect5. ego. This path of ‘ Brahma-gyan ’ or self-realization is so hard tread ! ”
material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi
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There was an old woman, by name
Radhabai. She was the mother of one Khashaba
Deshmukh.
Hearing Baba’s fame, she came to Shirdi with
the people of Sangamner. She had Baba’s
darshan and was very satisfied. She loved Baba
intimately and resolved in her mind that she
should accept Baba as her Guru and take
Upadesh from him.
She was determined to fast unto death, should
Baba not accept her and give Upadesh. She
stayed on in her lodging and stopped taking any
food or water for three days.
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On seeing her
determination, Baba sent for
her, and made her change
her mind by addressing as
follows :
“ Oh mother ! Why do
you subject yourself to
unnecessary tortures ? You
are my mother and I am your
child. Take pity on me and
hear me through.
“ I had a guru. He was a
great saint and most
merciful. I served him long,
very long, still he would not
blow any mantra into my
ears. I had a keen desire, never to leave him, but
to stay with him and serve him. But he had his
own way. He first got my head shaved and asked
me for two paise as Dakshina. I gave the same at
once. You may ask, ‘ why should he ask for money
and how can he be called desireless ? ’ The reply
is that, he never cared for coins. His two ‘ paise ’
were ... 1. firm belief 2. patience and
perseverance. I gave those two paise to him and
he was pleased ! ”
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“ I resorted to my Guru for twelve years. He
brought me up. There was no dearth of food and
clothing. He was full of love
... he was love incarnate.
When I looked at him, he
seemed as if he was in
deep meditation and then,
we both were filled with
bliss. My mind was always
fixed on him. This
‘ Nishtha ’ ... firm faith ... is
one paisa of Dakshina.
‘ Saburi ’ ... patience or
perseverance ... is the other
paisa.
“ I waited patiently and
served my Guru. This
Saburi will ferry you across
the sea of this mundane
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material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi ...
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gets rid of calamities in various ways, and casts
aside all fear, and ultimately, gives you success.
Saburi is the mine of virtues, consort of good
thought. ”
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“ My Guru never expected any other thing from
me.”
“ Oh mother ! My Guru never taught me any
‘ mantra ’ ... then, how shall I blow any ‘ mantra ’
into your ears ? Just remember that Guru’s
tortoise-like loving glance gives us happiness ! Do
not try to get ‘ mantra ’ or ‘ upadesh ’ from
anybody ! Make me the sole object of your
thoughts and actions and you will, no doubt, attain
Paramartha ... the spiritual goal of life. Look at
me whole heartedly. Sitting in this masjid, I speak
the truth, nothing but the truth ! ”
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Instructed in this way, the old lady was
convinced. She bowed to Baba and gave up her
fast.
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Then, Baba spoke as follows :
“ My method is quite unique. Remember
well ! To get the knowledge ... realization of the
SELF, ... dhyan ... meditation ... is necessary. If
you practise it continuously, the vrittis ... subtle
thoughts ... will be pacified. Being quite desireless
... you should meditate on God, who is in all the
creatures and when the mind is concentrated, the
goal will be achieved. Meditate always on my form-
less nature, which is ... Knowledge Incarnate ...
Consciousness ... Bliss.
“ As you go on doing this, your vrittis will be
single-pointed. And the meditator will be one with
the consciousness and be merged in the Brahma.
“ Victory be to our Sadguru Sai Maharaj,
Who is Pure
Consciousness ... Knowledge ...
Bliss ! ”
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Rachana Gupta
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Then, I turned towards spirituality.
I got initiated by Sri Sri Hans Raj JiMaharaj of ‘ Ram Sharanan ’. I got somepeace by chanting ‘ Ram Mantra ’. Forthe last twelve years, I have been hisdisciple.
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Then I came to know about Reiki. I learnt Reikifrom the Jalandhar Reiki Master ... Mrs. Pooja Jain;I was very excited with it.
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The turning point in my life came when Mrs.Pooja Jain one day phoned me and asked me toattend a meditation class. She said that mastersfrom ‘ Pyramid Spiritual Societies ’, fromHyderabad, were coming to her house and thatshe has arranged one class for all her Reikistudents !
In the beginning, I was reluctant to go but I don’tknow ... something made me change my mind ...I travelled from Ludhiana to Jalandhar, to attendthe meditation class.
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30th January, 2006 ... the day I will treasure forwhole of my life ! I went to Puja’s house in Jalandharand she introduced me to Mr. Anjaneya Sharma, agreat pyramid master !
Iam Rachana Gupta, a simple house-wife in Ludhiana, Punjab.
I was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, in aroyal family. We are four brothers andsisters.
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I had everything in life ... still I foundsomething ‘ missing ’. I didn’t enjoy a happychildhood because I didn’t posses good physicaland mental health. I remained a disturbed person.
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My father deeply believed in astrology and triedgem therapy from time to time on me. However, Iwas quite good in studies. I came out of mygraduation with distinction ! I wanted to pursue myhigher studies further, ... but being a girl, I was notallowed to do so !
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I got married to Mr. Raj Kumar Gupta ofLudhiana. He is such a gem of a person ! We arehappily married and blessed with two sons !
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After the birth of my younger son, I startedgetting asthma attacks. We went to so manydoctors ... but the relief was temporary. I had sinusproblem also and was using nasal drops. I got fedup with it and sometimes used to go into suchdepression that I wished to end my life, as it wasall so painful.
LUDHIANA
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Mr. Sharma enquired about me. My reply ... “ Iam practicing ‘ mantra Japa’ but I am not satisfied.I want something more ! I have read that everythingis inside ! When will I go inside ? Which is theright way to go inside ? ”
Sweatly replying, Sharmaji said ...“ Anapanasati meditation is the only right way !Why are you still sitting in ‘ nursery classes ’ whenthe doors of Ph.D. are open for you ? ! ”
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Madam Satya and Madam Padmaja, seniorpyramid spiritual masters from Andhra Pradeshwere giving the class. They taught meditation tous. We had a half-an-hourmeditation. I felt so very light andenergetic as I had never felt before! It was an entirely new experiencefor me and I immediately desiredthat my family members, friendsand relatives should also enjoy thiswonderful experience !
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I asked them if it would bepossible for them to visit Ludhiana... I so desperately wanted toarrange a class, for others to availthe benefit of meditation ! Theypromised to come !
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1st Feb. 2006 ... they did cometo my home in Ludhiana ! Themeditation class went off so well, everybody likedit !
I had an opportunity to talk in greater depth toShri Sharmaji. He ... like a master, friend andphilosopher ... guided me towards real spiritualityand clarified all my doubts. He asked me to dothree hours of meditation daily ! It was a bit difficultfor me ... but I very seriously wanted to mature inmeditation !
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From that day on ... my journey into truespirituality began in right earnest ! I started doingthree hours meditation daily ! One hour each time
... three times ... a day ! From the very first day Inoticed that ... I was breathing very normal ...without the help of nasal drops ! It was a miracle... my twenty years old addiction vanished in thevery first sitting !
I was so excited, the cure that medicinescouldn’t give me, meditation gave me ! I thankedGod for sending ‘ Pyramid Masters ’ in my life !
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I decided to do forty days meditation sincerely.My forty days were to be finished by 10th March.
Within forty days, I experienced lots of changes... my asthma attacks completely vanished. My
doctors were absolutelyamazed ! Pain in my kneesdisappeared ! I lost extraweight !
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I became a completelydifferent person !
My attitude towards children,family members and my friendscompletely changed ! From ashy, irritated and sickly person ...I became a very friendly, easy-going, loving and healthyperson !
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Seeing me, all my familymembers who were near to me
started taking meditation seriously.
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Earlier, my favorite past-time was gossiping,watching T.V serials, sleeping etc. ... but they allchanged into new spiritual habits ... like readinggood spiritual books, doing meditation andteaching meditation.
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My inner intution advised me to remove all thegem-stones and the rings I was wearing, as theywere ‘ not proper ’ for me now ! I even stoppedpracticing Reiki ! I stopped chanting mantras !
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Now, in my life, only one thing remainsmeaningful ... that is meditation ! The dictum is ...“ do meditation ... and it takes care of all thethings ” !
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March 2006 ... the ‘ Pyramid Masters ’ againcame to Punjab. This time, I also arranged someclasses and joyfully participated in them !
Seeing a tremendous difference in me, myhusband and my family members ( ours is a big joint
family ) all became very enthusiastic. Everybodystarted doing meditation and everybody helpedenthusiastically in arranging the classes inLudhiana. It was my first initiative. The classeswent off very well ! In those two days, Mr. Sharmaused to tell me about his great master BrahmarshiPatriji and how he changed his life. The more hetold about Patriji, the more I was becoming eagerto meet him !
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April, 2006 ... Madam Satya phoned me andtold me that she was going to Pune as Patriji willalso be there for four days. She asked me to joinher. I wanted very badly to meet Patriji. I asked myhusband. He immediately gave his consent.
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1st May, 2006 ... me and my husband left forPune ! At Pune airport, we were cordially receivedby Satya Madam, her husband Mr. Raj Shekharand Mr. Vijay ... all great pyramid masters. Westayed among many masters and every personhad wonderful experiences to share ! We wereso amazed that Patriji has created / is creating somany masters !
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3rd May ... a day I will remember all my life ! Imet Patriji with his white beard, radiantcomplexion ! He appeared like some great God tome ! I couldn’t take my eyes off him !
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He asked me and my husband to tell aboutourselves. We related all our experiences and what
made us come to Pune to meet him. He asked usto join him in all the classes in Pune, Shirdi andAhmednagar.
The first class was in Pune Central Jail. Patrijiconducted the class so beautifully ! He played theflute, taught meditation to prisoners and askedthem to become vegetarian ! He called me ontothe dais and asked me to say a few words ! Tillnight, we attended many classes with Patriji atdifferent places.
Patriji was so energetic, so full of life, and sojovial in nature ! For the next two days, he was inPune. Then, along with him we went to Shirdi,Ahmednagar and many small villages. In everyclass we came to learn different things !
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7th May ... we said ‘ bye ’ to Patriji and returnedto Punjab with an himalayan amount of newspiritual strength, new approach to life and tonnesof wisdom ! Me and my husband immediatelyembarked upon teaching meditation, as requestedby Patriji ! We conducted classes in jails, schools,yoga centres, at homes, traffic police, doctors etc.The more we taught, the more we were spirituallythrilled !
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15th June 2006 ... Patriji visited Punjab ! It wasthe hottest month ... but with his arrival, the coolbreeze started blowing ! For a week, Patrijitravelled the whole of Punjab. He taught meditationin Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Chandigarh,Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala ... and many small villages.Wherever he went, he created a new atmosphere!
In every class, he called me onto the stage andall the respect and importance I got, I can neverforget ! He created altogether a new, confident,highly energetic and lively Rachana !
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I humbly thank God for sending Patriji into mylife. He is like a lamp post, guiding me towards thepurpose of my current life-time !
Rachana Gupta
21-B - Moti Nagar, Ludhiana ... ph : 0 98729 76005
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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise
and run murmuring to the sea ;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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Say not, “ I have found the truth ”, but rather, “ I have found a truth ”.
Say not, “ I have found the path of the soul ”.
Say rather, “ I have met the soul walking upon my path ”.
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
material excerpted from the book “ Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran ”published by Shrijee’s Book International. New Delhi ... grateful acknowledgements ...edit-team
Kahlil Gibran
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The man who ranges himself on the side of
evolution realizes the wickedness of destroying
life.
He knows that, just as he is here in this physical
body in order that he may learn the lessons of this
plane, so is the animal occupying his body for the
same reason, that
through it ... he may gain
experience at his lower
stage. He knows that the
life behind the animal is
the Divine Life, that all life
in the world is divine.
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The animals,
therefore, are truly our
brothers ... even though they may be younger
brothers, and we can have no sort of right to take
their lives for the gratification of our perverted
tastes ... no right to cause them untold agony and
suffering merely to satisfy our degraded and
detestable lusts.
We have brought things to such a pass with
our miscalled ‘ sport ’ and our wholesale
slaughterings, that all wild creatures fly from the
sight of us. Does that seem like the universal
brotherhood of God’s creatures ? Is that your idea
of the golden age of worldwide kindliness that is
to come ... a condition when every living thing flees
from the face of man because of his murderous
instincts ?
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Every one of these
creatures which you so
ruthlessly murder in this
way has its own
thoughts and feelings
with regard to all this; it
has horror, pain and
indignation, and an
intense but
unexpressed feeling of
the hideous injustice of it all. The whole
atmosphere about us is full of it.
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Though all the inhabitants may not be directly
conscious of it and recognize it as Mrs. Besant
did, they may be sure that they are suffering from
it unconsciously, and that that terrible vibration of
horror and fear and injustice is acting upon every
one of them, even though they do not know it.
material excerpted from the book “ Vegetarianism and Occultism ” by C.W. Leadbeater published byThe Theosophical Publishing House ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
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Bob Trowbridge
Bob Trowbridge received his Master of Divinity degree from
San Francisco Theological Seminary. He served as a Presbyterian
minister for five years before directing his efforts and his
considerable talents to private counseling, writing, lecturing, and
leading workshops. When he is not speaking or facilitating
workshops, he resides in Mountain view, California. edit-Team
Being sick is seldom fun, and sometimes itis life threatening.
The symptoms of an illness ... and thetreatment ... can range from annoying anduncomfortable to extremely painful. For many,feelings of being powerless and victimized arenearly as bad as the illness itself.
“ natural principles ! ”
What if you weren’t the victim of your illness ?What if illnesses were the result of natural orspiritual principles, principles that could be learnedand applied in order to heal and prevent illness ?What if you could live your life illness free andcould experience a quality and fullness of life farbeyond what you now know ?
“ mind is the builder ”
The ‘ Maitri Upanishad ’ tells us, “ One’s ownthought is one’s world. What a person thinks iswhat he becomes ”.
In the ‘ Dhammapada ’ , Buddha says : “ Weare shaped by our thoughts ... we become whatwe think.”
Edgar Cayce expressed the principle of “ Spiritis the life ... Mind is the builder ... Physical is theresult. ”
“ For mind is the builder and that which wethink upon may become crimes or miracles.For thoughts are things and as their currentsrun through the environs of an entity’s experiencethese become barriers or stepping-stones.”
Edgar Cayce
“ spirit is the building block ”
We are spiritual beings. Spirit can be seen asdivine energy or divine ‘ matter ’.
Both the energy and the material we use tobuild our physical experience come from Spirit.That which eventually becomes our physicalreality, including our bodies, comes directly fromthe Creator. Spirit is the building block for matter.
“ thoughts and feelings ”
Imagine your mind as pipe. Divine energy ispoured into one end of the pipe. Inside the pipeour mind modifies that energy. We shape it withour thoughts and feelings. We shape it with ourfears and desires, our attitudes and beliefs.Pouring out of the other end of the pipe is thephysical result, our life experience, including ourbody and its state of health or illness.
“ we are powerful ! ”
Our ability to make ourselves unhappy or sickdemonstrates how powerful we are. This shouldn’tdiscourage us, however. It is possible for us toco-operate with the positive intent of the universe,to come into alignment or attunement with it, sothe Spirit can come through our minds with verylittle distortion.
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When this happens, we can become a channelof blessings to ourselves and others. We canlearn to create miracles and stepping-stones evenmore easily than we now create crimes andbarriers, or serious illnesses.
“ conscious and unconscious ”
The mind is the waking consciousness as wellas the unconscious and the superconscious.What is conscious is what we are aware of at anygiven time or can easily be brought to awarenessfrom our memory banks.
Obviously , the line between what is consciousand what is unconscious is not fixed. Theunconscious, on the other hand, contains thingsthat are not easily available to consciousness.Many of these things are childhood experiences... or past-life experiences ... that have beenforgotten or even repressed.The unconscious also containsmany ideas, attitudes, beliefs,expectations, fears and desireswhich affect our lives every day.
“ superconscious ”
Superconscious is the realmof consciousness in which ourspiritual nature resides. This isthe realm of the Higher self, theChrist self, Buddha self, or God self.
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We repress our powerful, positive, beautiful,divine selves and they reside in thesuperconscious. Just as the unconscious can beexplored through dreams, meditation, and otheravenues, so can the superconscious be exploredand many gifts can be raised to consciousness.
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A surprising number of our physicalexperiences, including illnesses, are created bythoughts and feelings that are quite conscious.
“ mind moulds divine energy ! ”
We believe that life is difficult, and our livesbecome difficult.
Some experiences are created by thoughts andbeliefs that are beneath our normal wakingconsciousness, like hidden fears. We will attractand experience the things we fear, and our fearwill grow stronger.
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All of these thoughts, whether conscious orunconscious, whether fears or desires, modifySpirit as it passes through the mind.
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As we look at the process of the mind mouldingdivine energy into our life experiences, we shouldkeep in mind the existence of these unconsciousand superconscious shadows. We also need topay attention to our conscious thoughts and thewords we speak.
“ we create our daily experiences ! ”
We create our world and ourdaily experiences with ourthoughts.
In a sense, we hypnotizeourselves every day with thewords we say and the thoughtswe think. If we believe and saylimiting things about ourselveswe are creating limits in our
lives.
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The energy that comes from Spirit does nothave ‘ can’t ’ attached to it. The ‘ can’t ’ comesfrom our minds.
“ illness ... a self-hypnotic process ! ”
Illnesses are frequently created through theself-hypnotic process. We give ourselves hypnoticsuggestions all the time. Spoken or thoughtfrequently enough and with enough energy, thesehypnotic statements will make us sick and can, insome cases, kill us.
“ de-energize negative thoughts ”
Pay attention to your words, thoughts, andfeelings.
Whenever you catch yourself saying or thinking22
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material excerpted from the book “ The Hidden Meaning of Illness ”by Bob Trowbridge, ... published by A.R.E. Press ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
anything of a negative or limiting nature, stop.Immediately begin to de-energize negative andlimiting thoughts or ideas by saying to yourself.
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If you deny your negative and limiting thoughts,their status as truths or facts, they will begin tolose their power over you. Even those things whichseem as real as money problems, relationshipproblems, or serious illnesses are nothing morethan materialized ideas.
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A person who is successful in business canbring some of the thoughts and feelings from thatpart of his or her life and apply them to an illness.In dealing with a serious illness, our feelings canbe our greatest foe or our greatest ally.
“ your self-image is creative ! ”
Your self-image is creative. What you thinkabout yourself has a powerful effect on how youact in the world, how you treat others, and howyou expect to be treated.
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Many limitations in your life are the result ofhow you view yourself. Many of the things youcreate in your life or are unable to create in yourlife are the result of your self-image.
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Your self-image is not fixed. Your personalityis not fixed. Your gifts and abilities are not fixed.Your limitations are also not fixed. Your self-imageis a constellation of ideas you have about yourself.
“ everything is a feed-back ! ”
There is no part of your life that is not part ofthe feedback system !
It is important to understand the unity of life. Inother words, you can’t separate your illness fromother parts of your life.
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Illnesses are not the problem but arethemselves simply part of the feedback system,pointing to the real problem.
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As you begin to see your experiences andrelationships as part of a feedback system, aguidance system for helping you to improve yourlife, you will be able to see yourself more and moreas the author of your experiences and less as thevictim.
“ teachers and helpers ”
Ironically, you can begin to see all of thenegative experiences and individuals in your lifeas teachers and helpers rather than as obstaclesand enemies. Illnesses are not the problem. Theyare, in fact, part of the solution. Our illnesses havewithin them a healing intent.
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The negative feedback we get from our worldis not a reflection of what is true about us or aboutthe world. It is a reflection of our beliefs.
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A serious illness may be the result of manymonths or years of feedback that we either did notperceive or we overlooked or ignored. When youdeny the power of your own thoughts and placeyour issues outside yourself, when you blame otherpeople or situations for what’s happening in yourlife, you give your power away and confirm yourselfas helpless.
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Any part of your life that is not working may betelling you something about an imbalance ordisease in your thinking. In a sense, it’s a thoughtproblem.
Your problems and illnesses should thereforebe seen as blessings because they can serve toheal your life, to get you back on a path of healthand wholeness.
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When I was four years old, while hiking with
my Father in the mountains I saw some people
who were driving a carriage with four horses. After
watching their joy, I turned to my Father, looking at
me, said, “ I do not have a carriage, a horse ... ”
My Father, looking at me, said, “ Let us sit on this
rock for a moment and I will tell you what you
have ”.
We sat on a rock facing a valley which spread
out in front of us for hundreds of miles. “ Now, first
of all ”, he said, “ you have a nice body. Look at
your hands. Here : look at your face in this small
mirror. Do you see ? ”
“ Yes ”
Torkom Saraydarian
Torkom Saraydarian (1917-1997) was born in Asia Minor. He lived with Sufis, dervishes,Christian mystics, and masters of temple music and dance. Meditation became a part of hisdaily life, and service a natural expression of his soul.
Saraydarian wrote a large number of books, many of which have been published. Hiswritings and lectures and music show his total devotion to the higher principles, values, andlaws.
A few excerpts from the book “ Dynamics of The Soul ”. edit-team
“ spirit of gratitude ”
Those who have the spirit of gratitude already
know that all of Nature, all of Life, is a treasure.
We must learn to recognize that everything
that exists is a treasure : mountains, rivers, lakes,
streams, forests, flowers, birds, animals,
minerals, and human beings. All of these are
treasures in the treasury of space, and we must
relate to them as treasures.
“ what is a treasure ? ”
A treasure is an object, a power, a living being,
or a virtue that multiplies and meets your physical,
emotional, mental and spiritual needs. It also
becomes a blessing to all around you, and to all
those who are far away from you.24
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“ Also, all these mountains are yours. The air
is yours ; the sky is yours ; that river is yours.
This pure fragrance is yours ; these birds are
yours. All of this is yours ... so long as you enjoy
and care for these things. ”
“ Father, ” I said, “ I did not know that I had all of
this ! ”
“ Later, when you grow up, you will realize that
there are treasures which cannot be seen ! ”
“ Can any treasure exist which we cannot
see ? ”
“ Yes ! For example, your vision is a treasure
which you cannot see. Can you see your mother’s
love for you ? ”
“ No, but I know that she cares for me ! ”
“ Right. There are many treasures in man. One
day you will discover them.”
“ human being is a great treasure ”
I never forgot this talk with my father, and
gradually it sank into my heart.
As I grew up I realized that the human being is
a great treasure, with his senses, thinking, and
creativity. Whenever, I walk in the mountains and
canyons, it seems to me that I am walking among
treasures.
A flower, a bush, a bird, a deer is enough to
make you feel ecstasy !
✤ ✤ ✤
Just as a man who lives in luxury feels that all
that he has is nothing special, so mankind lives in
the treasury of Nature and feels that he has
nothing. Unless one realizes that he is a treasure
in himself, he cannot see the real treasures in life.
The moment he realizes his own worth, he will be
filled with gratitude and will become aware of all
the treasures by which he is surrounded.
“ four facts ”
In later years, when I contemplated about
treasures and the treasury, I discovered four facts
that made me extremely happy.
First, I found out that there were inner, invisible
treasures as well as outer and visible treasures.
Second, but a more important discovery was that
the outer treasures could be increased by investing
and sharing them or by using them economically.
Inner treasures were also increased by sharing
and distributing them with joy and love. The more
you gave of your inner treasures, the more you
had.
Third, the inner and outer treasures do not
belong to us but to all life !
The fourth and final discovery was that ... when
you share your inner treasures, you not only
increase your inner treasures but you also increase
your outer treasures. And similarly, when you
share your outer treasures with clean motive, you
increase your inner treasures.
“ a poor life, inspite of abundance ! ”
One day, while my family was travelling by boat
on the ocean, I saw a bottle floating in the water.
My mother said, “ Can you tell me what the bottle
suggests to you ? ”
“ That someone put a cork in it and threw it into
the sea. ”
“ Well, that is called a smart escape. But think
now. Let me see if you can find something deeper.”
“ You know, mother, a floating bottle is like a
foolish man. ”
“ You are very close to finding the answer. Think
a little more.”
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material excerpted from the book “ Dynamics of The Soul ” by Torkom Saraydarianpublished by T.S.G. Publishing Foundation, Inc ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
It was back on board that I finally found the
answer.
“ The bottle is in the sea,” I said, “but the sea
cannot fill it because it is closed.”
“ Then tell me: who is like this ? ”
I could not answer. Seeing my agony, she
whispered in my ear, “ Like those who have
abundance, but live a poor life.”
✤ ✤ ✤
People live surrounded by treasures, but they
feel empty because they are closed. The word
‘ closed ’ in its
connotation was so
deep that I was often
directed to examine its
depth.
“ what are inner
treasures ? ”
God in man is the
Real Treasure !
All other treasures
belong to Him, in man. There are higher treasures
in man which are the result of age ... long labor.
For example, healing powers, the power to see
the past and the future, the power of higher
clairaudience, the power of higher clairvoyance,
the power of artistic creativity, the power of
renunciation and detachment, the power of
serenity, the power of leadership, the power over
elements, and the power of continuity of
consciousness are just a few.
“ treasure tower ! ”
Treasure is something that increases and
multiplies to meet your needs whenever you give
your treasure to others. With joy, you install a
window or another door in the Treasure Tower.
“ not imposing yourself ”
By making other human beings free, by not
imposing yourself, by not making others, your
slaves, by refusing to exploit or manipulate others,
you build the Tower.
Have you helped others to think freely, to
choose and discriminate freely, to act freely ? Have
you given freedom to
others ? Have you
helped to free them
from their vices,
glamours, illusions,
vanity and ego ?
Every time you
make another human
being your slave, or any
time you encourage a
person to be a slave to
their own weakness, you destroy the Tower.
“ the power within ”
You have within you the power to destroy or to
build. If you are engaged in destruction, you will be
struck in the classroom of this world forever
suffering, inhaling smog, and being subjected to
radioactivity and pesticides.
If you are constructive, you will someday
graduate from this school we call earth and have
a chance to enjoy other creations that God has in
this Universe !
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Before we can really study the nature of health
or illness, we must first understand human
consciousness and its relationship with the body.
✤ ✤ ✤
You know that you have a conscious mind, of
course. You also possess what is often called the
sub-conscious, and this merely consists of
feelings, thoughts or experiences that are
connected to your conscious mind, but would be
considered excess baggage if you had to be aware
of them all of the time. Otherwise, they would vie
for your attention, and interfere with the present
decisions that are so important.
If you tried to hold all of those subconscious
memories uppermost in your mind all of the time,
then you would literally be unable to think or act in
the present moment at all. You do more or less
have a certain access to your own subconscious
Jane Roberts
mind, however. It is perhaps easier to imagine a
continuum of consciousness, for you have a body
consciousness also, and that body consciousness
is itself made up of the individual consciousness
of each molecule that forms all parts of the body
itself.
✤ ✤ ✤
There is no such thing as an unconscious
mind. The body consciousness is highly
conscious. You are simply not usually conscious
of it.
✤ ✤ ✤
The varying portions of your own
consciousness operate at several different
speeds. Translations between one portion of
consciousness and another goes on constantly,
so that information is translated from one “ speed
” to another. Perhaps you can begin to understand,
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Seth ... an “ energy personality essence ” no longer existing in physicalform, began channelling through Jane Roberts ... since the year 1963.
Seth delivered a continuing manuscript totaling over six thousand pages,called as “ SETH MATERIAL ”. “ The Way Toward Health ”, was deliveredduring the final years 1983-84. Jane Roberts vacated her body on 5th
September ,1984.
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then, that the whole picture of health or illness must
be considered from many more viewpoints than
you might earlier have supposed. Many of you
have been saturated by conventional, distorted
ideas concerning health and illness in general.
The very concept of the immunity system
suggests, at least, the disease invader against
which the body’s immunity system must or should
surely defend itself.
✤ ✤ ✤
Most people do not realize that they can indeed
have access to this inner awareness. This inner
ego or inner self should not be thought of as
superior to your ordinary mind. It should not be
thought of, really, as something separate from
your ordinary mind. Your ego and your ordinary
consciousness bring into focus all of your physical
experiences, and make possible the brilliant
preciseness of physical experience.
✤ ✤ ✤
The conscious mind is one brilliant segment
of your larger consciousness, but it is composed
of the same universal energy and vitality that
composes all consciousness.
This inner ego or inner self uses a process
that is far swifter than reasoning.They consist of
inspiration, intuition, impulses, and deal with
feeling far more than with usual logical thinking.
✤ ✤ ✤
Each person is a vital, conscious portion of
the universe. Each person, simply by being, fits
into the universe and into universal purposes in a
way no one else can. Each person’s existence
sends its own ripples throughout time. The
universe is conscious at every conceivable point
of itself. Each being is an individualized segment
of the universe ... each person is a beloved
individual, formed with infinite care and love,
uniquely gifted with a life like no other.
✤ ✤ ✤
No animal considers itself a failure, obviously.
People, however, often identify with their seeming
mistakes, forgetting their abilities in other
directions, so that it seems that they are misfits in
the universe, or in the world.
The inner ego, however, always identifies with
its source-identity as a beloved, individualized
portion of the universe. It is aware of the universal
love that is its heritage.
It is also aware of the infinite power and
strength that composes the very fabric of its being.
Through being made aware of these facts, the
exterior ego can begin to feel a quicker sense of
support and nourishment. The knowledge can let
it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and
safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child
of the universe, both ancient and young at once,
with an identity far beyond the annals of time.
✤ ✤ ✤
It is of great value, then, that each person
remember this universal affiliation. Such a reminder
can often allow the inner self to send needed
messages of strength and love through the various
levels, appearing as inspiration, dreams, or simply
pure bursts of feeling. The inner ego draws instant
and continuous support from the universal
consciousness, and the more the exterior ego
28Spiritual India, September - October 2006
keeps that fact in mind, the greater its own sense
of stability, safety, and self-esteem.
✤ ✤ ✤
One of the attitudes detrimental to good health
is that of self-condemnation, or dislike of the self.
Such attitudes are unfortunately sometimes
fostered by parents, schools, and religions.
Feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and pleasure
with one’s abilities promote feelings of well-being,
health, and exuberance.
✤ ✤ ✤
The universe actively loves itself and all of its
parts. The world loves itself and all of its parts. It
is not true that energy is neutral or indifferent.
Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can
almost be called an instantaneous pleasure with
itself and its characteristics.
Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is
indeed at its basis, love. It is also composed of
highly charged consciousness that operates
almost in a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of
exuberance and vitality. The great - the greatest
creative force - that force that is the origin for all
physical life - did not suddenly appear once in
some distant past, sparking the birth of your reality,
endowing it with an energy that could only then
run down, or dissipate. Instead, ever-new virgin
energy, so to speak, is created constantly, and
appears at every conceivable point within your
universal system.
✤ ✤ ✤
Each new rose in the springtime is in truth a
new rose, composed of completely new and
unique energy, utterly itself, innocent, alive in the
world.
In the deepest of terms, while each body has a
history, each moment in the body’s existence is
also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent
and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world,
it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that
propels life itself.
✤ ✤ ✤
Those who look upon physical life as inferior
to some other more perfect spiritual existence do
a great injustice to physical existence in general.
Physical life is everywhere filled with the universal
energy that is its source, so it can hardly be inferior
to it’s own composition.
Corporeal reality is a brilliant segment of
existence. It cannot be inferior to existence. It is
because you so often view your world through a
system of highly limited beliefs that you so often
misread the implications of temporal life.
✤ ✤ ✤
Environment is not something separate from
yourself, for you to control. Instead, you and the
environment support, strengthen, and fortify each
other in ways that often escape you. All portions of
the environment contain their own kinds of
consciousness. They are aware of their own parts
in the body of the world, and they are aware not
only of their own conditions, but of their
relationships to all other portions of the world. They
add to the world’s health, in other words, and your
own vitality and that of your environment are
everywhere interrelated.
material excerpted from the book “ The way Toward Health ” by Jane Roberts published
by Amber-Allen Publishing San Rafael, California ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
29Spiritual India, September - October 2006
In the year 2003, I visited my sister’s house in
Bhimavaram, West Godavari district, Andhra
Pradesh.
My brother-in-law ... Naga Babu Appanna ...
gave me an audio cassette “ Yoga Parampara ”... by Brahmarshi Subhash Patriji. He told me just
to ignore a sentence that says “ there is no bhakti
yoga ” and listen to the rest ... to know the stage
of one’s current incarnation ( I am a strong believer of
Bhakti Yoga ... having inherited the concept from my mother).
✤ ✤ ✤
I carried that audio cassete with me to
Melbourne. It took atleast a couple of months before
I first listened to it. I liked it so much and kept on
listening to it repeatedly !
I must have listened about forty to fifty times,
in the next one and half years, the same
cassette ! Meanwhile, I was also searching for
more audios by Brahmarshi Patriji.
✤ ✤ ✤
In the year 2005, on a mother’s day, five of us
(friends) decided to give a surprise party to our wives
and booked a cruise. While in the cruise, a couple
of my friends were discussing about Spirituality. I
over-heard a word ‘ Subhash Patri ’ from the
mouth of Nath Danturty.
Immediately, I interrupted their discussion and
checked whether he meant “ Brahmarshi
Subhash Patri ” from “ Pyramid Spiritual
Societies ”. He said “ Yes ”. He further told me
that he was a follower of him and that he has a
good collection of audios and books by him.
I told about my “ Yoga Parampara ” and
requested him for a few audios. He is a contractor
and a busy man, so I waited for a couple of weeks
to hear from him ... but with no luck. Then, one
day, I rushed to his place and collected four audios
“ Dhyana Vemana ”, “ Jesus Christ ”, “ Jnana
Navaratnalu ”, “ Ledu Maranam ”.
✤ ✤ ✤
I spent the next six months repeatedly listening
to these audios and occasionally going back to
my favourite “ Yoga Parampara ”.
I don’t know ... but I just can’t stop listening to
these ! The knowledge in these audios is
absolutely astounding !
✤ ✤ ✤
Siva Jawaji
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Nath and myself travel in
the same train and we
occasionally come across
each other in the evenings.
Slowly, we started sharing
the knowledge we gained
from the material. He told me
about his intention ... inviting
Subhash Patriji to Australia
and he informed me that he is already in touch
with a couple of his friends who are also similarly
interested. I gave my full support to the project
and occasionally checked with him about the
progress of the idea.
✤ ✤ ✤
In one of the audios, Patriji mentioned about
‘ hanuman chalisa ’ and the meaning of it. I decided
to undertake a forty day meditation deeksha. I
almost succeeded in doing it ... except that I
missed out on a couple of days in the middle.
Before this, I couldn’t even do meditation for five
minutes ! I really surprised myself ... to be able to
do meditation upto an hour at a single stretch !
✤ ✤ ✤
End of the year 2005, I enrolled to study
“ Masters in Project Management ” in RMIT
commencing from Feb 2006. A few weeks before
the start of the classes, I re-visited Nath’s house
and he offered a few more
books as well as a few more
audios. The first book I read
was “ Maranam Leni Meeru ”.
It is a gem of a book. I then
read “ Jonathan Livingstone
Seagull ”, “ Atmaayanam ”,
“ Four Agreements ”, “ Third
Eye ” etc.
Exactly at this time, my classes in RMIT also
got started. I couldn’t concentrate on my studies
as I didn’t feel like studying those books. I really
struggled to balance my life ... with work, family
with two young kids, studies with assignments and
then reading these spiritual books.
If I have to give an order of preference, studying
these spiritual books comes first ! I sometimes
felt I should not have enrolled to study. I even
contemplated discontinuing the studies. However,
after a couple of months I managed to regain my
balance.
✤ ✤ ✤
During all these times, I did not stop doing
Pooja. Shortly, I came across the
“ www.pss.org ” website. Therein, I read a
quotation by Patriji saying ‘ meditation ’ and
‘ bhakti ’ are two opposing streams; one can’t do
both, one has to leave one to enter the other !
31Spiritual India, September - October 2006
✤ ✤ ✤
Exactly at this time, my wife and kids were
leaving to India to attend a family marriage. I finally
decided to stop pooja and spend more time for
meditation.
✤ ✤ ✤
While my family was away in India, I spent
most of my evenings studying spiritual books and
spent most of the nights doing meditation. Mr.
Nath introduced me to a
person by named Rao
Parmarthy. He gave me
“ Spiritual Reality ” video
and a book “ Ramtha ”.
The video inspired me so
much that I plunged into
even more intense
meditation. “ Ramtha ” is
another jewel of a book !
It changed my definition of God and human being.
✤ ✤ ✤
Jhansi Madam gave us the good news that
Patriji accepted our invitation to visit Melbourne
between 5th and 25th of September 2006.
We immediately formed “ Melbourne
Pyramid Masters Group ” with five members.
All the members visited for the first time my place
and then I was introduced to Raveendra who
stays in the same suburb as me.
✤ ✤ ✤
Ravi shared his experiences and one of the
things that caught my attention was “ twenty
seven hours of meditation ” that he tried on his
27th birthday ! As my family was still in India,
Raveendra and myself started trying long
meditation sessions.
We started with two hours intensive meditation
and proceeded to three hours ! I tried four hours
with mixed results and sometimes even a whole
night !
✤ ✤ ✤
Middle of June, I too
went to India to meet my
parents and other family
members. I shared all
my experiences. They
were very much
impressed by my
knowledge and they also
started following the
path of meditation.
I spent almost every evening discussing and
sharing the knowledge I had gained. The trip,
which was supposed to be a family visit ... changed
into a spiritual one !
✤ ✤ ✤
Finally, I got a chance to meet the SOURCE
of the abundant knowledge ... Brahmarshi Patriji
on 7th of September, at the Melboune Airport ! The
most joyful and colorful days of my life in this
incarnation started on that day !
We learned a lot in this short duration before
he concluded his trip on 24th September with a
promise to visit us back in the month of March
2007 !
Siva Jawaji
2/12, Maroona Road, Carnegie, Melbourne, Australia
32Spiritual India, September - October 2006
Prof. B.M. Hegde, an internationally recognized cardiologist, born teacher, author, philosopher,social worker whose heart bleeds for the less fortunate, and researcher par excellence. He trainedin cardiology at the National Heart and the Middlesex Hospitals in London and the Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston. He retired recently as the Vice Chancellor of MAHE Deemed University, Manipal.
The book “ What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in the Medical School ” is the culmination of hisefforts to change the teaching and learning methodology in medicine in addition to pointing out thefallacy in following the time-honoured reductionist science in place of holistic science as the base ofmodern medical research.
excerpts from the book “ What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in the Medical School ”. EDIT-TEAM
Prof. B.M. Hegde
Science, in the correctsense, is the only saviour ofmankind.
Science could makeman realize the secrets ofNature ... to see how hecould use science for the
good of humanity.
Science, in every sphere, is dying slowlybecause of specialization. New science of fractalsand chaos looks at the dynamic human being asa whole, and as a part of this macrocosm. That isthe future of science including our medical science.
✤ ✤ ✤
Art is defined best by Henry David Thoreau as“ that which makes the man’s day ”. The art ofmedicine is that which makes the patients’ day.
Long live medicine which aims to “ cure rarely,comfort mostly, but console always ”.
“ mind of the scientist ”
It is the mind of the scientist or his financialmaster that has created misery for mankind andnever science by itself.
In fact, without a scientific temper, man couldsink himself into the vally of illogicalism. OttoFrisch and Rudolf Pearls were responsible forconceiving the formula for the first atom bomb.But it was the mind of Harry Truman and WinstonChurchill that resulted in its being dropped on thatfateful August morning in 1945 on Hiroshimaresulting in instantaneous death of more than80,000 people within minutes. Culprit, then, is notscience but the human mind.
“ even-mind of yoga ”
Every single killer disease, starting from heartattack to cancer, is now thought to originate in thehuman mind. Their cure or otherwise alsodepends on the mind. Every human cell, includingthe heart muscle cell or the cancer cell, has itssubatomic mind that either makes or breaks thefinal outcome !
✤ ✤ ✤
Short-term ‘ quick fixes ’ to make money, likedrugs and surgery, are only temporary palliation.Long-term gains by way of primordial preventiondepend on the mind, the even-mind of yoga !
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Spiritual India, September - October 2006
material excerpted from the book “ What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in the Medical School ” byProf. B.M. Hegde ... published by Paras Medical Publisher, Hyderabad ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
to a particular organ. This organ-based medicine,like the modern so-called scientific medicine, usedto believe that the mind resided in the heart, for avery long time.
Brain, or for that matter, any other organ in thebody, could not be the seat of the mind. The mindcould never be thought of in terms of cellularstructures.
✤ ✤ ✤
The Science of Robotics, which is nearly seventyyears old, has not been able to replicate the humanmind to be packed inside a human robot.
The mind is a subatomic quantum state. Humanmind, or other-wise called the humanconsciousness, is a quantum level thinking.
“ educational system ”
The educational system should change from thepresent competitive ethos where one has tocompete with another to the one where onecompetes with oneself for excellence. In the lattersystem, there is no room for hatred and jealousy.In addition, value-based education could easilyinculcate certain basic values in the child’simpressionable mind.
✤ ✤ ✤
If only we could change the Macaulay type ofeducation to our ancient Guru Kula type, one couldavoid all the negative feelings getting into the child’shead.
Our only hope for the future is to bring up a wholenew generation on this new educational ethos ofexcellence, camaraderie and co-operation, inplace of competition, hatred and jealousy.
✤ ✤ ✤
Materialism without a touch of spirituality wouldsink man into the valley of moral nihilism
The real Yoga or Meditation ... should aim atkeeping the mind tranquil (chitta vritti nirodhaha yogaha).Yoga should not be equated with ‘ asanas ’ andsimple meditation of closing the eyes and chantingsome ‘ mantra ’ !
✤ ✤ ✤
If I am able to make the reader realize the gravityof the problem and dire need to change the waywe live, to have a tranquil mind as the cure for allhuman ills, I will have achieved some success.
✤ ✤ ✤
One does not have to compete with others todestroy them to build oneself. One could live andlet live with co-operation as the motto. The newscience of the mind and its quantumconsciousness would be able to send man notonly to the moon but also to the neighbour’s housewith a smile.
“ Love thy enemy, love thy neighbour ”
- Jesus Christ
✤ ✤ ✤
Are we not all same on this planet ? How thencould you compete with your brother ? Co-operatewith him and love him.
“ enigma called the mind ”
Where is the mind ? Never mind ... it iseverywhere inside and out-side !
What is the mind ? Where is it ? Mind is like thewind, which the poet described thus :
“ Who has seen the wind ?Neither you, nor I,
When the trees dance and bend,The wind is passing by ! ”
Christina
People have been trying to fix the mind, like allother cellular structures of the human anatomy,
34Spiritual India, September - October 2006
On every full-moon day, around 300 people of
all ages and various walks of life converge at the
Spiritual India Centre at Mehdipatnam. They do
meditation under the full-moon throughout the
night. When “ City Express ” spoke to a few
people on October 7, the full-moon day,
their accounts were bewildering.
✤ ✤ ✤
So far, one heard
of spiritual and
r e l a x a t i o n
benefits of
meditation, but
here are a few
people claiming
immense health
advantages from it. And
they said they bettered
themselves all the while without
any medication. They defined
meditation as being with breath. In doing so,
the mind becomes empty and that is when huge
amounts of cosmic energy flood the body.
✤ ✤ ✤
P Varalakshmi, a house-wife from
Sreekalahasti, has been practising meditation for
four years. Earlier, she used to suffer from uterus
and skin problems and now she claims she is
t o t a l l y healthy. “ As I was desperate for
medical solutions to my
problems, I sat for a minimum
of eight to nine hours for the
first thirty days. My Skin
problems perished
and other problems
also started
w a n i n g
g r a d u a l l y.
Now, I am
totally healthy ”,
she said.
✤ ✤ ✤
The case of Shalini Lashker, a
B.Sc., first year student, is revealing.
“ Believe me, I had long sight since my
childhood. I also had frequent spells of headache.
I started meditation nine months ago and stopped
taking medicines. Now, I am not using spectacles
and there is no trace of headache either ”, she
said.
✤ ✤ ✤
Pallipattu Ramesh, a senior executive with
Sahara India, claimed that he had cured himself
of Chikungunya recently. “ As it struck, I intensified
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my meditation for long hours even as I was
languishing in the bed. In three days, I began
recovering. I had a foot pain for long. It is no longer
there. The healing properties of meditation are
for real ”, he said.
✤ ✤ ✤
K Venu, an officer with Punjab National Bank,
claimed that meditation had cured him of
diabetes, joint pains and acidity.
“ Over two years ago before starting
meditation, I was a diabetic and suffered from
joint pains. Within sixty days, my sugar levels
came to the normal levels and the joint pains
relieved. Acidity is also gone. I regularly meditate
for two hours a day and do not miss out the full-
moon meditation, ” he said.
His wife, Parvati Kumari, said she had totally
overcome her hypertension and stress problems
without any medicine in two years through
meditation.
✤ ✤ ✤
N. Raga Latha, working with SCCL, in the
city, said : “ A year ago, I used to suffer from
cold, breathing problems and acidity. After
starting meditation, they have mostly
disappeared. ”
✤ ✤ ✤
Rajeshwar Poola, who runs an SSI unit,
said : “ I was skeptical initially. But as I started
doing it daily, my attitudes changed for better;
my employees began to be more cooperative. I
started the Spiritual India Centre under the aegis
of Pyramid Spiritual Societies of India. The
service is totally free, there is no guru, no initiation
or any mantra. There is no association either and
no obligation to attend every session. ”
His wife, Arundhati, has also been doing
meditation for the last four years. She claimed
that she had overcome around 30 ailments
through meditation. Group meditation, pyramid
meditation and full-moon meditation are advised
for greater and quicker benefits. A pool of energy
surrounds a meditating group. As for meditating
under a pyramid-like structure, the benefits are
thrice than when one sits outside it. And during
the full-moon night meditation, one comes in
touch with extra-planetary forces. This results in
spiritual illumination and physical well-being.
K Balaram Reddy
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To
THE SPIRITUAL INDIAPyramid Meditation CentreMehdipatnam, Hyderabad - 28
Sir,
It is to express our gratitude to the members of “ Spiritual India ” team for sowing the seeds ofmeditation in the tender minds of the children of “ Blooming Buds School ” by regularly conductingmeditation classes during morning assembly time. The process has taught the children discipline inmeditating together and the power of silence which spreads everywhere throughout the premises.
It is good to observe that a few of the children are able to meditate. However, a few are unable toclose their eyes even for a while. This situation as educationists is worth observing and it gives us anopportunity to realize that it is our work to help out those children who are unable to give rest to theirminds.
We are fortunate to get this opportunity at the earliest ... otherwise, it is difficult to imagine their futurewhich demands lot of work with good focus and stability.
Teachers participating in the meditation workshops found the process very soothing and meditationindeed helped them in concentrating better in their classes.
A little feed back from our teachers :
“ When I do meditation, I feel fresh throughout the day. It gives calmness to my mind and it isincreasing my memory. On the whole, it gives strength and patience to the teacher for thewhole day. ” - Preethi ... teacher
“ After a lot of work pressure at home, meditation is giving complete relaxation of body andmind. I am able to have a good start in the class. I am also having a feeling of full energy andhappiness throughout the day. ” - Kameswari ... teacher
“ On the first day I did not feel anything while doing meditation . From the second day onwards,however, I could feel mental peace, physical energy and new vigour. I am not feeling tired. ”
- Leelavathi ... teacher
“ Meditation helps me to control anger, tension, restlessness and calms me down in my dayto day busy schedule. ” - Priya ... teacher
“ Meditation gives calmness and rest with peace of mind. ” - Daphne ... teacher
“ Meditation helps me to be fresh with relaxed mind. ” - Laxmi ... teacher
Thanking you,
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Torkom Saraydarian
“ meditation ”
Meditation is an effort to shift yourconsciousness from lower levels to thehigher levels of mind.
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Consciousness must penetrate into still higherlevels of the mind until the highest level is achieved.
“ network of communication ”
Through meditation, the network ofcommunication is established with the lower mindand the pilgrim can, at will, use both parts of hismind to achieve balance : using the lower mind tocontact the world of concrete values, problems,and needs of the world ... and using the highermind to shed light, love, and beauty upon the lowerworld to meet its problems.
When the communication network iscompleted, the whole mental plane works as aunit.
“ meditation helps to unify the mind ”
Meditation helps to unify the mind and to buildthe communication network so that later, when thehuman should penetrate into the Spiritual Triad, itcan use the mental mechanism for its creativework.
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Those who penetrate into the abstractlevels of mind demonstrate pure idealismwhile manifesting practicality in all theirrelationships and services. The world ofvalues and the world of practical concrete
forms become one world. This is why such peopleare true leaders.
“ ray energies ”
It is important to know that the communicationnetwork built between the mental levels is not onekind of network. This network generally is built withmental substance, but in that mental substancethere can exist strands of varying Ray Energies :First Ray, Second Ray, Third Ray, and so on. Asthe network approaches completion, it becomesa Rainbow with the energies of all Seven Rays.The perfected Rainbow is a transmitter of RayEnergies and related zodiacal energies. Howpowerful and abundantly creative is the personwhose Rainbow is complete !
“ foundation for the rainbow ”
Meditation lays the foundation for the buildingof the Rainbow and carries on its construction tocompletion. The deeper, the more persistent isyour meditation, the more soundly your Rainbowis built.41
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✤ ✤ ✤
Communication lines increase year after year,life after life, until the mental plane, as a unifiedfield of energy, turns into a central station ofcontact.
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The mental body has many specialized centerswhich perform various jobs, such as receiving,assimilating, and translating the traffic ofimpressions coming from higher or lower realms.These specialized centers are related to specificneurons which act like programmed diskettes. Thecapacity of the ‘ diskette ’ determines the creativemanifestation of the mental currents.
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Meditation not only builds specialized centersin the mental body, but it also builds and programsspecialized groups of neurons or ‘ diskettes ’ inthe brain. The more evolved is the brain, the greateris its capacity to manifest accurately highercurrents coming from mental centers.
“ a healthy future for man ”
Meditation, which helps the brain organize andfuse closer to the mental body, actually preparesa healthy future for man. Because it is the brainthat manages the health of the body, the moreorganized the mind of man is, the greater is hisprobability of survival.
The brain is an independent organ in the sensethat it continues to work, even if the mental bodyis suspended. The reason for this is that certainneurons are like automatic record/play-backmachines. But the task of meditation is not only tobring the brain under the full control of the humansoul via the mental body, but is also to erasecertain ‘ diskettes ’ which contain programsinherited from millions of years of living in thehuman or animal kingdoms.
“ building the rainbow bridge ”
Meditation, in building the Rainbow Bridgebetween the body, emotions, mental body, andSpiritual Triad, gives man an opportunity to bring
forth recordings stored in deeper and highersources which can change the contents of genesand DNA. This change is caused by energycurrents, visualization, and creative imagination.
“ revitalizing the neurons and genes ”
It will one day be possible to form a body whichwill live as long as one wants by revitalizing thecells, neurons, genes, and DNA with advancedmeditation !
Meditation of this caliber even attacks viruses,microbes, and germs with the laser of the humansoul.
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The future of humanity does not exist inmedicine or in physics but in meditation, usingvisualization, creative imagination, and, in highercases, through direct command, to create, to healor to destroy.
Through meditation a person can introducebeneficent changes in his genes and DNA bycontacting their prototypes ... the permanent atomsin the etheric, astral, and mental bodies.
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A human soul advances, like any cell orneuron, through specializing himself so that he issuitable for greater and greater labor.
The process of specialization is carried onthrough meditation.
Through meditation, specialized cells andneurons are trained and drawn to their rightlocations.
Through meditation, the human soul is
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material excerpted from the book “ Dynamics of The Soul ” by Torkom Saraydarianpublished by T.S.G. Publishing Foundation, Inc ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
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Medicine, in general, is centered aroundchemistry and diet. But ideas, dreams, visions,hope, courage, daring, and heroism are also foodswhich create very special chemicals in oursystem ! Meditation increases a pro-survivalchemistry in our system !
“ space medicine ”
Space medicine is becoming a reality. Throughmeditation, the human soul absorbs elements inspace which are not composed of matter but arecomposed of mental or intuitional substances. Byabsorbing such elements through meditation, thehuman soul creates chemical compounds in thebody which help the body survive in unbelievableconditions.
“ learn to meditate ”
It is important for people to learn to meditateand enrich their spheres with good thoughts, goodemotions, and joy if they want to live a happier life.
All of this is possible through the science ofmeditation.
specialized and drawn to the location where it willbe of greatest service.
“ begin to live consciously ”
The promotion of a cell or neuron is controlledby the programming impressed upon the humansoul. This programming continues until the personbegins to live consciously as a self-conscious soulusing his mechanisms as a separate unit. Fromthis moment onward, the specialization processof his cells, neurons, and atoms comes under theconscious control of the human soul throughmeditation.
“ graduation ”
Through meditation ... the lower atoms, cells,and neurons graduate, take initiations, and servein greater capacity in the whole mechanism.
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This is what we call the process oftransmutation, transformation, and transfigurationas far as the personality is concerned. After that,the process of resurrection begins to penetrateinto intuitional, atmic, and monadic levels and buildthe subtle mechanism through which the humansoul contacts a greater universe.
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I am Suniti Sharma.
I was born and brought up in
Delhi in an educated, reputed and
respected family with a thoroughly
enjoyable childhood.
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Despite being married in a respectable family
of Doctors and having three beautiful children, a
post graduate degree in obstetrics and
gynaecologist by profession ... and having a decent
government job with Indian Railways ... yet, I was
leading more or less a mechanical life and kept
feeling something ‘ missing ’.
I wasn’t a very spiritual person ... yet, I was
deeply religious.
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Apart from a couple of experiences in the
childhood, which had lot of impact as a child, I
used often to play as a ‘ Child Krishna ’ in the lush
green gardens in my dreams. Once, ‘ Hanuman ’
showed me the exam paper of Hindi two hours
before the schedule in my dream ... as I was too
sick to go for exams and it was Board
examination.
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Once while going to Vaishnodevi temple in
Suniti Sharma
Jammu, I got the darshan of maa durga on the
way itself and the high fever lasting for ten days
vanished with no traces of weakness
whatsoever !
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However, I was longing for something more ...
I didn’t know what it was. I was experiencing lot of
restlessness, etc.
I was having many interests in various fields
like ... giving health programmes on Doordarhsan,
opportunities to perform in telefilms ... I was a good
painter ... teaching pranic healing in my medical
profession for holistic treatment of the patients etc.... yet, there was an emptiness in life.
✤ ✤ ✤
In the year 1984, the first seeds of spirituality
were sown by Brahmarshi Patriji ... whom I had
known as ‘ bucchi uncle ’ (his pet-name in his family),
who introduced so many new words in my
vocabulary of spirituality !
✤ ✤ ✤
I learnt so many new terms like ‘ silver-cord ’,
‘ astral body ’, ‘ astral world ’, various other bodies
of ours, explanation about ‘ phantom limb ’ etc. ...
all of which I found very fascinating and my first
session lasted from 11 pm. in the night to 5 am. in
the morning ... without even a blink of eye along
NEW DELHI
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with my friend Dr. Sudha Koduri ... elder sister of
Patriji.
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In the year 1996, my restlessness increased
to such a pitch that I started desperately to pine
for my guru. When the student is ripe to start on
the spiritual path the guru himself makes an
appearance ! And, for me, it happened in a
dramatic way !
✤ ✤ ✤
One fine day, while I was resting in the duty
room of the hospital where I was working, while
reading the book of Vivekananda on Raja Yoga,
something compelled me to look sideways and lo
and behold ... none other than Sai Baba sitting and
smiling on the sofa was lying there ! It was 28th
October 1996, I was puzzled and elated and it
lasted for about forty five seconds !
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I did not talk about this to anyone but then there
were so many things, experiences, dreams
happening one after the other in my life ... I knew
intuitively that I was heading for ‘ something ’ !
Since then, there was no looking back on the
onward inner journey.
Within a week of that, I had another experience
at Mumbai where I had gone for a conference. The
last day of my stay there it was midnight ... I was
sleeping ... yet, I was awakened by a bright golden
white light all around ! And here again ... I saw Sai
Baba sitting by my bedside ... and he told me so
many things, which he said would unfold over
time !
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Another five months, I happened to go for a
workshop to U.S.A. and Canada ... wherein, apart
from many significant happenings, throughout the
six weeks tour I had just two words ringing in my
ear ... “ do meditation ”, I started getting restless
as to :
Who’s voice was it ?
What is meditation ?
How to do meditation ?
Where should I learn to do meditation ?
✤ ✤ ✤
I was longing to reach India and home and the
day I reached ... I sat in the ‘ pooja room ’ of my
house with eyes closed with all the questions in
my mind ... to get some direction ... and lo and
behold ... it was Sai Baba over the third eye screen
again ... dictating me many things about the future
and said “ You will soon get help for meditation ”.
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Shortly, Patriji happened to come to Delhi and
I happened to come in contact with him after a
long gap of fourteen years ... and the super
specialist in the science of meditation taught me
the correct way of meditation !
✤ ✤ ✤
The impact of his words was so powerful ... it
stays on with me till today ! His inspirational
statement was : “ Once you know about the final
goal of your life ... why not try to achieve it first and
then live life king-size ! ”
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His method of teaching was very simple,
calming, soothing ... yet very concrete and
effective. Although the impact was very strong, I
discontinued meditation after about six months,
as I could not spare more time due to the job and
family responsibilities.
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However, I continued communion with Sai Baba
and during meditation there was an ushering of
visions of great beings like Buddha, Shiva,45
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Hanuman, Einstein, Jesus Christ, Lord Krishna,
etc.
I also happened to have the glimpse of my
previous birth as a monastic in a Himalyan cave.
✤ ✤ ✤
One fine day, while in meditation, I saw a long
fair hand coming towards my forehead and it
touched with the thumb which turned into a flame
in my inner gaze and I was engulfed in a feeling of
heat and tingling sensation in the physical body at
the ajna chakra. Slowly, the flame transformed into
a live Shirdi Sai ... which stayed for full nine days
of navratri. It was such a very blissful feeling ! I
could not see anything else without first seeing
My Beloved Sai with eyes open ... and like a pasted
photo on my third eye screen in my inner gaze ...
I had the vision continuously for full nine days.
On the tenth day (which happens to be his maha samadhi
day), I saw him getting up from his stone throne
and walking up to a garden and he sat under a
tree on a bench and I had the wonderful darshan
of Sai Trinity.
The experience is as live in me, now, as it was
nine years back !
✤ ✤ ✤
Another time, during meditation, I saw the
purification process being done on me in four
stages, each one on a different day of meditation.
I saw hundreds of Masters sitting and chanting
together in a strong vibrating repetitive omkar
around the havan kund, which was a flame and I
saw myself standing in the havan kund with no
feeling of pain at all.
After a few days, the next stage was shown
where-in, my half body being black turning to grey.
The next stage was that whole body turned into
ashes collection in the havan kund as a heap of
ashes and the final one it was shown that Sai Baba
was sitting by that side of havan kund and was
saying : “ all your old samskaras have been
burnt ” and he blessed me with his smile !
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One very frequent vision I used to have was ...
the whole third eye screen would turn into a liquid
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metal which would take the shape of Shirdi Sai
Baba and melting back again into formless. I would
often see a tall fair figure of Shirdi Sai ... mixed
amidst crowds in a market-place or so and then
disappearing.
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My second phase of meditation started some
months back when I was desperately feeling that
my inner progress had come to a standstill for
almost an year.
✤ ✤ ✤
I was really begging The Almighty for help and
once again Patriji was there to give me a big jolt
and push, after a gap of another nine years which
was very much required ! Thus, materializing my
vision of sitting inside a pyramid which was tied in
the form of a gift from top with a calm feeling of
home-coming with a light hearted feeling. It was a
gift from above indeed !
✤ ✤ ✤
Meditation changed my life dramatically ! A
sharp turn indeed ... inwardly. I now understand
the meaning of meditation. It means to unwind
oneself back to the core ... and recognizing the all
powerful SELF. And, in that unwinding, you will face
so many ups and downs in the form of obstacles.
✤ ✤ ✤
As my understanding was unfolding, many
things became absolutely clear ! Obstacles do
occur in this path ... because of past negative
karma. However, because of meditation, there is
a clear shortening of karmic negativity. Many births
do get compressed into a couple of births
perhaps ! May be, the present life time will even
become the ... ‘ last one ’ !
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While walking on this path, one will find peace
and calmness on one side and simultaneously
restlessness of another type ... spiritual type ... on
the other side !
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With meditation, I feel increase in awareness,
expansion of consciousness, clarity of thoughts
and intuitive wisdom.
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Throughout this inner journey, I was constantly
helped in various ways ... like meeting the right
type of people and reading the right type of
inspirational books.
I was fortunate to read ... Shivananda,
Vivekananda, Sai literature, Ramakrishna
Paramhansa, YSS literature by Paramhansa
Yogananda ... other New Age spiritual books as
suggested by Mr. Sai Kumar Reddy, and my friend
Dr. Sudha.
The first book to start with was “ Autobiography
of a Yogi ” by Paramahansa Yogananda, back in
the year 1983, given by none other than Patriji !
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I do have an intense desire to inspire people
towards the benefits of meditation, relying on their
inner energies instead of depending wholly on
medication.
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I thank a million times The Almighty, which is
within me ... Unseen Power called God ... for giving
me continuous help and special thanks to my
enlightened teacher ... Patriji ... for the help, for
accomplishing the tenuous journey of myself to
my SELF !Suniti Sharma
251-6B-P.K. Road - Railway Officer’s Enclave - New Delhi - 55 ... ph : 0 98992 20398
47Spiritual India, September - October 2006
Dr. David Hawkins is an author, mystic, spiritual teacher, and psychiatrist in Sedona.Arizona. Dr. Hawkins is a proponent of using ‘ applied kinesiology ’ to calibrate theconsciousness level of ideas, things, and people. He directs the Institute for AdvancedSpiritual Research.
The objectives of Dr. Hawkins’ research and teaching are to facilitate spiritualunderstanding and to confirm the reality of spiritual truth in the individual as well associety.
His unique spiritual journey ... in his own words ... excerpted from the book “ Powervs Force ” published in the year 1987. ... edit-team
David R. Hawkins
We become healthy, as well as wealthy, by
being wise !
what is wisdom ?
It’s the result of aligning with high-power
attractor patterns.
“ attractors create context ! ”
In essence, this means that one’s motive,
which arises from the principles that one is
committed to, determines one’s capacity to
understand and, therefore, gives significance to
one’s actions.
“ alignment with principle ”
The effect of a alignment with principle is never
more striking than in its physiological
consequences.
Vibrant health follows alignment with high-
energy attractor patterns ... alignment with weak
patterns results in disease. That this syndrome is
specific and predictable, and can be proven
through a demonstration meeting the scientific
criterion of 100 percent replicability, is a fact that
by now is familiar.
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The human central nervous system clearly has
an exquisitely sensitive capacity to differentiate
between life supportive and life destructive
patterns. High-power attractor energy patterns,
which make the body go strong, release brain
endorphins and have a tonic effect on all of the
organs ... adverse stimuli release adrenaline,
which suppresses immune response and
instantaneously causes both weakness and even
breakdown of specific organs, depending on the
nature of the stimulus.
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This clinical phenomenon forms the basis for
such treatments as chiropractic, acupuncture,
reflexology, and many others. These therapies,
however, are usually designed to correct the
results of an energy imbalance, but unless the
basic attitude that’s causing the energy imbalance
is corrected, the illness tends to return.
“ self-help groups ”
People by the millions in self-help groups have
demonstrated that health and recovery from the
entire gamut of human behavioral problems and
illnesses comes as a result of adopting attitudes
correlated with high-energy attractor patterns ...
that is spiritual.
“ positive attitudes ”
Generally speaking, physical and mental
soundness are attendant upon positive attitudes,
whereas poor physical and mental health are
associated with such negative attitudes as
resentment, jealousy, hostility, self-pity, fear,
anxiety, and the like.48
Spiritual India, September - October 2006
material excerpted from the book “ Power VS Force ” by David R. Hawkinspublished by Hay House, Inc ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
In the field of psychoanalysis, positive attitudesare called ‘ welfare emotions ’, and the negativeones are called ‘ emergency emotions ’.
Chronic immersion in emergency emotionsresults in ill-health and a gross weakening of one’spersonal power.
“ seek good company ! ”
How does one overcome negative attitudes soas to avoid this deterioration of power and health?
Clinical observation indicates that the patientmust reach a decision ... a sincere desire forchange allows one to seek higher attractor energypatterns in their various expressions.
For instance, one doesn’t get over pessimismby associating with cynics ... the popular idea thatyou’re defined by the company you keep does havesome clinical basis.
“ you get it by osmosis ! ”
Attractor patterns tend todominate any field ... thus, all that’sreally necessary is to exposeoneself to a high-energy field andone’s inner attitudes willspontaneously begin to change.
This is a well-knownphenomenon among self-helpgroups ... it’s reflected in thesaying, “Just bring the body to themeeting ”. If you merely exposeyourself to the influence of higherpatterns, they begin to ‘ rub off ’, or, as it’s beensaid, “ You get it by osmosis ”.
“ all stress is internally generated ! ”
Traditional medicine generally holds that stressis the cause of many human disorders andillnesses. The problem with this diagnosis is thatit doesn’t accurately address the source of thestress. It looks to blame external circumstances,without realizing that all stress is internallygenerated by one’s attitudes. It isn’t life’s events,but one’s reaction to them, that activates thesymptoms of stress.
“ attitudes stem from positions ”
Challenges on the job can result in stimulationor anxiety, depending on whether one’s supervisoris perceived to be a ‘ teacher ’ or an ‘ ogre ’.
Our attitudes stem from our positions, and ourpositionality has to do with motive and context.According to the overall way that we interpret themeaning of events, the same situation may betragic or comic. In the choice of attitude ... onechooses between anabolic endorphins or catabolicadrenaline.
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It would be foolish to claim that the only impactson our health are those originating internally, forimpersonal elements of the physical world canalso increase or decrease our strength.
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Synthetics, plastics, artificialcoloring, preservatives,insecticides, and artificialsweetener etc., make the body goweak ... whereas substances thatare pure, organic, or made byhuman hands tend to make us gostrong. Organic vitamin C, is farsuperior to chemically produced.
“ acceptance andcompassion ”
It’s a foible of human nature tostoutly defend an established position despiteoverwhelming evidence against it ... the onlyhealthy way to deal with such lack ofrecognition is acceptance. Once we reallyunderstand the human condition we’ll feelcompassion where we once might have feltcondemnation.
Compassion is one of the highest of all ofthe energy attractor power patterns. Ourcapacity to understand, forgive, and acceptis directly linked to our personal health.
49Spiritual India, September - October 2006
Dr. Michael Newton, is a world renowned hypnotherapist. He is a member of the AmericanCounselling Association. He has been on the faculty for higher educational institutions asa teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Dr. Newton developed his ownage regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their pastlife memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives.
In 1998, he received the annual award from the “ Most Unique Contribution ” in bridgingmind, body and spirit from the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. He
is now residing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.A few excerpts from his book “Journey of Souls ”... edit-team
Dr. Michael Newton
material excerpted from the book “Journey of Souls ” by Michael Newtonpublished by Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
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It is rare for me to find souls involved with eachother in any meaningful way who are members oftwo different secondary groups, because thenumber of souls is so great it is not necessary.
“ inner circle ”The smaller sub-group primary clusters vary
in number, containing anywhere from three totwenty-five souls.
The average assemblage is around fifteen,which is called the Inner Circle.
Any working contact between members ofdifferent cluster groups is governed by the lessonsto be learned during an incarnation.
This may be due to a past life connection, orthe particular identity trait of the souls involved.
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Soul acquaintanceships between members ofdifferent cluster groups usually involve peripheralroles in life on Earth. An example would be a highschool classmate who was once a close friend,but who you now see only at class reunions.
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Members of the same cluster group are closelyunited for all eternity. These tightly-knit clustersare often composed of like-minded souls withcommon objectives which they continually workout with each other. Usually they choose livestogether as relatives and close friends during theirincarnations on Earth.
“ journey back home ”Group placement is determined by soul level.
After physical death, a soul’s journey back homeends with debarkation into the space reserved fortheir own colony, as long as they are not a veryyoung soul or isolated for other reasons.
The souls represented in these cluster groupsare intimate old friends who have about the sameawareness level.
“ a soul cluster group ”When people in trance speak of being part of
a soul cluster group, they are talking about a smallprimary unit of entities who have direct andfrequent contact, such as we would see in ahuman family.
Peer members have a sensitivity to each otherwhich is far beyond our conception on Earth.
“ spiritual ponds ”Secondary groups of souls are arranged in the
form of a community support groups which ismuch less intimate with one another.
Larger secondary groups of entities are madeup of giant sets of primary clusters as lily pads inone pond.
Spiritual ponds appear to be endless ! Withinthese ponds, I have never heard of a secondarygroup estimated at less than a thousand souls.
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The many primary group clusters which makeup one secondary group seem to have sporadicrelationships, or no contact at all between clusters.
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material excerpted from the book “ One-ness ” by Rashapublished by Jodere Group, San Diego, California ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team
Rasha
“ radical transformation ”
The world as you know it will undergo radical
transformations in the times to come !
For the world as you know it to be is, in fact,
dematerializing in the wake of the momentum that
is driving all creation.
“ significant shift ”
The changes are taking form in subtle
increments. And, often, one does not even notice
that a significant shift has occurred. But, from the
perspective of a broader vision, one will be able
to look back upon these times with wonderment.
And those of you who will have retained your
physical form will have fascinating stories to tell
as to how these changes came to be !
“ an act of courage ”
Your willingness to be in physical form during
these changes is an act of courage. For, it would
have been far easier to wait until the dust had
settled and simply manifest into more favorable
circumstances ! You, who read these words, are
among those who chose to experience the
transformational journey in physical form and to
have the experience of physical ascension.
“ current infants ”
The beings now in their physical infancy will
exhibit abilities that would have been considered
most unusual, not long ago. These beings are
incarnating fully equipped to cope in a world that
neither you nor they have seen, as yet.
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It will be a natural condition of humanness to
become telepathic, not only with other humans
but also with other life forms and with other
dimensional forms of existence. The phenomenon
of channeling will come to be considered
commonplace.
The very young amongst you know this
instinctively and will demonstrate far less attraction
to the otherworldly and the unexplained than do
present adult generations.
The very young will be absorbed in the wonder
of being alive and with their formidable skills in
manipulating their reality to produce what they
want to experience.
Rasha ... is a healer, channel, and author, who has served as a conduit of divineguidance since 1987. She has dedicated herself to addressing the profound spiritualawakening that is a hallmark of these times.
February, 1998, Rasha received the teachings from “ One-ness”. A few excerpts from“ One-ness” .. grateful acknowledgments to the publishers. edit-team
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2 Read right spiritual books,e.g.,books by Osho, Rampa,Castaneda, Jane Roberts, AnnieBesant, Deepak Chopra, BrianWeiss, Sylvia Browne etc.
1 Meditate in the right way... i.e.,Anapanasati,... and teach everyonethis same way of Anapanasati.
Let’s establish Vegetarianism and Anapanasati ...on a global scale ... at the earliest possible time !
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5 Utilise full moon and new moonnights for meditation.
7 Give-up medicines; onlymeditational energy heals.
9 Spend much time in environmentsof pure nature e.g., forests etc.
17 Establish Meditation Centres inall villages, towns and cities.
11 Impart meditation training to children,right from their early child-hood.
13 Reject money exchanges inmeditation-training programs.
15 Solve all individual personal problemsusing own meditational strength.
3 Exchange meditational experiencesand life-wisdom with everyone.
10 Never indulge in ‘ spiritual ’ clothing,or ‘ sacred ’ body marks.
12 Learn to live as Masters and neveras disciples.
14 Not indulge in the worship of idols, orworship of Living Masters.
16 Enjoy normal family lives, and givejoy to all other beings.
8 Never eat meat; no eggs !Eat according to need, notaccording to greed.
4 Spend... much time... every day ...insilence.
6 Utilise pyramid power formeditation, as much as possible.
18 Publish meditational experiences andpersonal spiritual transformation.