Sri Siva - Mantras

Life ChangingMantras:

Tools from theOther Side

bySri SivaPublished by Tripura Foundation 2002

All rights reserved.

The purpose of this book is to bring about measurable positive results in your life.

ÂIt is dedicated to Saraswati, feminine aspect of the Divine,

associated with speech, education, and the creative arts, including writing.

Truth cannot be communicated through words.

I call books the "blah-blah" of the author.

This, in turn, is my "blah-blah."

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Table of Contents

Section I Siva’s Teachings: A Bird’s Eye ViewIntroduction 7Sri Siva Speaks 9Preparing To Work With Sacred Sounds: Karma and Mantras 29

Section II Personal Transformation ProgramChapter 1 Physical Appearance and Personality 49Chapter 2 Finances 62Chapter 3 Risk-Taking 76Chapter 4 Happiness and Material Comforts 95Chapter 5 Personal Connection with God 113Chapter 6 Health, Enemies, Debt and Litigation 120Chapter 7 Relationship 127Chapter 8 Obstacles and Longevity 137Chapter 9 Compassion and Grace 142Chapter 10 Profession 148Chapter 11 Profit 160Chapter 12 Expense and Enlightenment 165

Section III Other ToolsChapter 13 Nadis 178Chapter 14 Sacred Ash (Vibhuti), Siva-Shakti Malas,

Crystal Siva Linga 186

Chapter 15 Om Na Ma Si Va Ya 201

Chapter 16 Tripura—The Philosophy of Sri Siva 205Chapter 17 You Do Not Have To Be Hindu

To Use This Material 213

Glossary of Pronunciation 230

Products and Meditation Aids 234

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Introduction

T his is not just another book. This book willchange your destiny. It carries secret soundsand other tools used by enlightened beings inancient times from the esoteric teachings of

India. Sri Siva extends blessings for new adventures in yourcurrent life in the modern age, as you read and try out the partsthat appeal to you.

The book touches on several key areas of human life andoffers plenty of practical solutions. It is a book you can readmore than once as you will experience the material in deeperways with repeated exposure, and as your life changes. Evenworking with just a few of the techniques will bring greatbenefit.

Who Is Sri Siva?Sri Siva is a spiritual name of Dr. Baskaran Pillai. (In past

years, he has also been called Maharishi Brzee, Sri Guruji andGuruji.) Sri Siva comes from an illustrious and esoteric lineageof enlightened Indian saints, the Tamil Siddhas, who have beenpassing on enlightened teachings for thousands of years, usuallyin very small circles of selected students.

Sri Siva is quite radical in the presentation of these teach-ings. He says that from now on there are no more secrets.Everything should be public knowledge and inexpensive. Histask is to bring these teachings to the West where there is trueyearning for wisdom.

Sri Siva is a fully enlightened teacher. In some traditions,

Section ISiva’s Teachings: A Bird’s Eye View

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Sri Siva Speaks

W elcome to a great adventure in Self-Discovery. The Self is a complexconcept. There is a higher Self, andthen there is this relative self. The

higher Self is the formless one which has manifested in theformed one. We are concerned in this book with the manifestedaspect of our self, because the unmanifested aspect is incompre-hensible. It is God. It has no shortcomings whatsoever. But themanifested part has a lot of imperfections.

The Secret Sounds and other tools in this book will enableyou to create positive, powerful changes for yourself. You mayuse these to benefit yourself or others.

Until now, I have never made a serious attempt to publishmy writings. There were times in the past when I was asked tomeet with attorneys to sign a contract for book deals; and at onetime my editor even took an advance, which she returned aftersix months since I would not cooperate to write the book.

Many people judged me according to their own perceptionsof reality. Some said I was lazy, unreliable, and irresponsible.Others who a were little kinder to me said, “No doubt, Sri Sivais a rare enlightened being, but that doesn’t exempt him frombeing accountable.”

But nothing of what others thought of me mattered, for Iwas and continue to be in my own ivory tower which oftencollapses, and like the phoenix, reemerge instantaneously. Myunwillingness to publish was not a self-determined one. In myworld there is nothing that is permanent. Everything arises and

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this is understood as a prophet, a Messiah. According to anancient Oracle tradition, the sacred Nadi palm leaves ofKakabhusunda, Nandi and others, Sri Siva is an incarnation ofLord Siva on this earth-plane. The purpose of this incarnation isto save the world from self-destruction through interventionfrom another, much higher world.

Sri Siva’s book offers information that will bridge the gapbetween matter and spirit for many people, and allow morepeople direct experience of Divine Grace. The Nadi leaves ofVisvamitra, Agastiya, Bogar, Siva Sukshmam and Siva Vakiyahave all confirmed the divine avatar mission of Sri Siva.

Sri Siva currently lives in the United States with his wife anda daughter who currently attends university.

He served as coordinator of Indian Studies within the AsianStudies Program at the University of Pittsburgh and taughtseveral courses on Buddhist meditation and other Buddhisttopics. His specialty included research integrating religiousphenomena with modern science. He had training inneuropsychology which was used in research interpretingtraditional yogic and tantric wisdoms about psychobiology. Healso served as an editor for the Encyclopedia of Hinduism.

Sri Siva has taught meditation for two decades as well asseminars on successful thinking all over the world. He inspirednoted author Wayne Dyer to write his recent best-selling book,Manifest Your Destiny, which Wayne Dyer dedicated to Sri Sivaas “Guruji.”

In addition, Sri Siva has been active in the computer fieldwith an office in the Silicon Alley section of Manhattan. He isalso engaged in putting his mystical teachings into variousmodern formats such as CD, video, and now for the first time,a book available to the general public.

For a longer biography, please visit Sri Siva’s website: http://www.srisiva.com

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Einstein in his previous birth was Bogar, a Tamil Siddha.Whatever may be the truth of the statement, I personally believeit to be true because Bogar was also a mathematician; there areunmistakable parallels. Einstein was painfully aware of the limi-tation of his work and the purely theoretical nature of physicsand mathematics.

Einstein wrote, “Mathematics deals exclusively with therelations of concepts to each other without consideration oftheir relation to experience.” The world still follows Newtonianlaws and the Einstenian universe of relativity is considered onlytheoretically true. When they will become true is the day whenwe begin to live the concepts or when the concepts becomeexperiential realities.

Wayne Dyer in his best-selling book, Manifest Your Destiny,expresses this idea: “Unfortunately, the people of the world haveyet to apply this hologrammatic understanding to their living.Seeing ourselves as connected to all of humanity is an ideawhose time will come, and it will not be stopped.”

When Wayne Dyer and I met at Ed Marzec’s home inBeverly Hills, I asked Wayne Dyer what he wanted in life. Iremember him replying, “I want to disappear.” I knew that hehad disappeared before in his previous life times. That is why hespeaks about Castaneda’s teachings from Don Juan many times,as they contain the idea of disappearing into another world.

Disappearing with the body is realizing E=mc2 in an experi-ential way. The Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Jnanasambanda,Appar, Sundarar, Manikavacakar, and a host of Tamil Siddhasall disappeared. None among the list of ascended masters was ascientist, but then they had access to a higher science in whichenergy and matter are experientially interchangeable.

In Einsteinian terms these masters converted their mass m(representing their body) to the speed of light (about 183,000miles per second) which is represented by the c2 in the equa-tion. All that we need to know is that our physical body is

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falls. I have always been a witness to everything that goes on. I must tell you if this book finally gets written and published

it is not my wish. It is the wish of the Divine to make thesesecrets available to you.

In this connection, I remember an anecdote in the life of SriRamana Maharishi, a fully enlightened being fromTriuvannamali (southern India) who left his body in 1950. Hisexample taught me many things as we shall see later.

Ramana Maharishi attracted many important people fromthe West including Paul Brenton, Somerset Maugham, CarlJung, and others. It was Carl Jung who said that RamanaMaharishi was the “whitest spot in the white sky.” RamanaMaharishi left home when he was 14 or younger and meditatedall his long life.

Even after his enlightenment, and even though there was acoterie of wealthy people who would do anything for him, SriRamana never had an ashram built for himself, not even asimple home. In fact, once when a European devotee presentedhim with a Mercedes Benz, he refused to accept it. RamanaMaharishi told the devotee, “I don’t know how to take care ofthis cart [meaning body], and I don’t need another one!”

However, one day after his walk, Sri Ramana Maharishi saton the ground and would not get up. He said that he wanted toconstruct an ashram there and that the desire was not his, butGod’s. I think I can relate to his statement.

This book, too, is God’s wish. I totally claim no credit for it.If I happen to misrepresent anything, that, too, is God’s faultand not mine. I am in one sense rejoicing very much, for I havebeen able to bring out to the world the most precious teachingsof the enlightened Tamil Siddhas.

In many respects the Tamil Siddhas teachings are similar tothe teachings of Einstein, although the Siddhas were practicaland Einstein more theoretical.

In fact, someone told me, or I heard it somewhere, that

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I needed to breathe and later master the spiritual energy thatdissolves terrible karma of people so that I can help them todiffuse their karma. This vision made perfect sense to mebecause, until I was 18 years old, I never left the island, so I wassoaking in the aura of Rameswaram very deeply.

I remember as a boy I used to go to the temple every singleday. My greatest attraction in the temple was not the maindeity, but a beautiful shrine of Siva Nataraj (the dancing form ofLord Siva) which is situated in the outer corridor of the temple.I was attracted to this spot over and over again, and I spent allmy free time sitting there. I told my family that on my birthdaywe needed to do special food offering to the dancing Siva, apractice that went on for a while.

Even after I went to college, I came back to this shrine. Butthis time I had a little more understanding. I had learned thatbelow the statue was the tomb of the Siddha Patanjali, theenlightened master who is the author of the Yoga Sutras. TheSiddhas do not die. Some of them walk into a small enclosureand turn into a Siva Linga (a holy object symbolizing Siva).

My father was a painter and sculptor. He was a good one,although with the indifference that goes along with artists ingeneral. The burden of raising five boys naturally fell on mymother who made sure that everyone had the right educationand did not become an artist!

However, I was the most beloved and problematic boy formy mom. She loved me because I was the most intelligent of allher kids and stood first in the class, but she hated me because Ikept her up in the night. She thought that I had insomnia andtook me to the doctor who, after examining me, concluded thatthere was nothing wrong physically or mentally, although hecould not figure out why I could not fall asleep. During thenight I used to move from one bedroom to another, and mymother had a hard time finding me out. Although my sleepless-ness has continued to this day, I have greater understanding

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solidified light; and that it can be transformed back into lightparticles again at will.

I want the readers of this book to know that before time in memori-am, Tamil Siddhas had bridged the gap between physical laws and reallife experience—the problem as Einstein saw it. For instance, theSiddhas saw the five elements as much in the physical environment asin the body/mind and sense perceptions of life. Space, air, fire, waterand earth, all elements of nature, transform themselves into vata(space and air), pitta (fire) and kapha (water and earth). I hope to sharemore about these Siddha secrets later.

Birth and ChildhoodI was born February 1, 1949 on a small island named

Rameswaram in southern India. Rameswaram is near thesouthern-most tip of the Indian subcontinent and is only a fewmiles away from Sri Lanka. In mythical times Lord Rama hadordained this island as the perfect geographical space to removethe most sinful karma. In Rama’s own case he had to get rid ofhis karma for having killed his rival in battle, the demonicRavana. Although Ravana was an evil person and deserveddeath, killing someone in and of itself has its own consequences,and Rama needed to pay for this karma.

Rama established a shrine for Lord Siva and ordained thatwhosoever had done terrible karma could come to this shrineand wash their sins in the temple. The tradition is still followedin the temple. Pilgrims go to the temple and take a dip in thewaters from 20 or more wells that surround the temple. Withwet clothes, the pilgrims then walk into the sanctum sanc-torum. Because of this custom the temple floor is always wet. Ifwater can purify sins, it is truer in this temple than anywhereelse.

Until recently I had no clear idea of why I reincarnated inRameswaram. Kakabhusunda, the immortal yogi of all times, ina vision revealed to me the purpose of my birth at Rameswaram.

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degree in English Literature. I wanted to do my Masters imme-diately, but I was not accepted that year.

What followed was an intense period of soul-searching expe-rience. My uncle who was a Vedic astrologer predicted a fewthings which turned out to be true in spite of my attempts tochallenge them. It was my first serious attempt to look intodestiny, karma and astrology. I began to raise questions like whysomeone was born rich, and someone else did not even havefood to eat; why someone despite being very intelligent couldnot even get a job, while some idiot became the CEO of acompany.

I began to look for answers to these questions in Vedicastrology which in India is a science that explains the karma ofindividuals. Vedic astrology became almost an obsession in mylife during this time, and I collected about 1,000 horoscopes ofpeople belonging to various vocations in order to do an empir-ical study.

My mother was getting annoyed about my interest inastrology and metaphysics. She wanted me to be a normalperson and pursue the common pleasures or agony of humanlife, including getting a job and getting married and begetting abunch of kids. Her greatest dissatisfaction was my spending allmy time studying Vedic astrology, because in India it is believedthat you should not mess with one’s future, for it is the realm ofthe Divine. One day when I was away my mother pitched outall my Vedic astrology books and notes and when I returned,she threw a tantrum to underline her point. But, by this time Iwas so deeply involved in the metaphysical areas of life that itwas impossible for me to lead a normal life, although duringthis time I had earned my Masters degree in English Literature.

It was during this time that I met a famous man who hadinfluence in my life, Dr. Meenakshi Sundaram. He was a manof great accomplishment and an internationally renownedacademician. He introduced me to Transcendental Meditation

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about sleep now. When I was 10, I started to meditate on my own. I

remember lighting a candle in front of a small picture of theBuddha and meditating. I liked the Buddha because he taughtnonviolence and compassion. Even at a very young age, myemotions were very stable.

When I was twelve, my father died of cancer, and I hardlycried or was visibly moved. My relatives thought I was weird,and they gave up on me when I protested against some of thetraditional funeral rites and rituals. Looking back, I now under-stand that my strange behavior was my protest against deathwhich I now clearly know is life’s slap on our face.

In 1991 my mother died and I was in the U.S., and again, Ihardly cried, but by then my understanding on this point wasmuch more mature. I even knew in advance that my motherwas going to die, for she had been bedridden for long time. Afew days before her death, I had Shridi Baba come to me in mymeditation. Shridi Baba was a Siddha who lived in central Indiain the later part of the nineteenth century and died in the earlypart of the twentieth century.

Shridi Baba told me that my mother was going through a lotof pain and that I should give permission for her to make thetransition through the death process. My mother had been myfirst meditation student, a fact that I had always been proud of.I wanted to give her what Sri Ramana Maharishi gave to hismother. When Ramana’s mother was dying he put his hand onthe chest where the spiritual heart is and disbursed her karma.The woman died, and Ramana declared that she would notcome back again. This is what I did for my mother, thoughfrom a long distance. My mother cooperated with me. She saidthat she had no desire to come back to the earth-plane and washappy to be liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

My college life was nothing spiritually significant, and I didwhat other college kids did. I got out of college with a bachelor’s

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as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I could not wait tobecome a TM teacher. TM teacher training, which took aboutfour months full-time to complete, was a God-given opportu-nity. I take this opportunity to publicly thank Sri Guru Dev(Maharishi’s guru) and the Maharishi himself for that wonderfullearning opportunity, for after the training, I was never the sameperson.

I came home, and my mother was my first meditationstudent. I initiated her on Ganesha’s birthday. After teachingTM for a while, I went to Rishikesh in the Himalayas to do theTM-Siddhi training program. Being in the Himalayas widenedmy interest in spirituality, and after that I returned to theHimalayas for many meditation experiences, visiting my homeonly a few times.

Again, my mother got annoyed over my spiritual inclina-tions, and she came up with a plot of a marriage proposal forme and threatened that she would kill herself if I would notaccept the proposal. Indian mothers are such good adepts inblackmailing their children, and I fell a victim. But I was clever,too. I told my mom that I needed to go to the Himalayas forthree more months, and after that I would marry the girl.

The girl is my wife Vasantha whom I only got a glimpse ofin one of the arranged marriage interviews, traditionally set upaccording to certain conventions. Vasantha was shy to look atmy face, although I was least worried about her looks, for in mymind, my conspiracy was to please my mom temporarily andget back to the Himalayas. I told the bride’s people that I wouldcome back after three months and marry her. I did not show upfor a year intentionally. Once you are not around for such along time, the bride’s people look for another groom. But, asfate would have its way, I came back, and Vasantha was not stillmarried. I married her on September 16, 1977, again onGanesha’s birthday.

To me being married mostly meant being stuck at one

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geographical location, something which I never understood,much less could actually live in this lifetime. I took a researchscholar’s position at the University of Madurai in theDepartment of English and Comparative Literature. TheUniversity provided me with staff quarters near the mountains,and I spent two wonderful years in that secluded place.

My academic project was to find out the paradox that JohnDonne (a famous English metaphysical poet) had faced betweenGod and sex. I wrote what I considered, at the time, a brilliantdissertation on the sacred nature of carnality which paved myway to the University of Pittsburgh where I expanded mystudies for my Ph.D. However, I don’t intend to discuss myacademic life too much, for now I think such endeavors,although not entirely meaningless, are nevertheless useless atthis point in my life.

What was very important during my university time atMadurai was my meeting with Sri Dhandapani Desikar, myguru who introduced me to the practice of Sri Vidya. Sri Vidyais the most esoteric practice of meditation that only a few adeptteachers have the ability to teach.

The practice involves the worship of the goddess LalitaTripurasundari with the help of the mandala called Sri Chakraor Sri Yantra. In recent times, the greatest exponent of Sri Vidyawas Swami Brahamanada Saraswati, Mahesh Yogi’s guru. SwamiRama writes in his book, Living with the Himalayan Masters,that during his days with the Himalayan master, SwamiBrahamanda Saraswati, the master had shown him a Sri Chakrawhich he worshipped made out of ruby. Also, Swami Ramawrites that if he had any spiritual powers at all, they came fromSri Vidya.

My Practice of Sri VidyaMy guru Sri Dhandapanis Desikar was a very remarkable

man. He had no formal education, yet was a professor of

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Desikar said what had taken place was remarkable. He said thegoddess was responding to my prayer, and on my request, hechanged my vision of the goddess into a pleasant one.

Since then the goddess has been with me doing many, manymiracles in my personal life, except for a few years when she leftme for some reasons that I can’t discuss here at this time.

Some Miracles with the GoddessFor the worshippers of Sri Vidya, the goddess in general

appears in two ways. One form is as a light being visible to theeyes, but not tangible. This form is rare, but then, it is the mostpowerful appearance of the goddess. In Sanskrit this phenom-enon is called darshan (sacred seeing) of the goddess. I have hadmany such experiences of the goddess and could call her at anytime. I have also been able to show her to other people who areworthy of the darshan.

The other form that the goddess appears is in the form ofhuman females. In the sacred literature of the goddess, it isstated very clearly that the woman and the goddess are the sameexpression of the Great Archetypal Female. This is the reasonwhy that my charitable organization, Tripura Foundation, andother enterprises are run mostly by women. In fact, the TripuraFoundation was started with a donation of $18,000 given by awoman who wanted to remain anonymous. She never has saidanything to anyone about her donation. Since then manywomen have served the organization selflessly.

The most important help I received from the goddess wasduring the time I was doing my Ph.D. program. I started outlate and knew too much about life, which was actually ahindrance for a student. I never kept my appointments with myexaminers; I saw them very seldom and never did anything ontime, despite their expectations.

Not that I was irresponsible, but I was responsive to themoment. I was trying to find out how the moment existed in

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Tamilology at the university. Every university in the state recog-nized his scholarship. In his long life of 85 years, Sri Desikarhad written about 180 books in all. Meeting with Sri Desikarwas a Divinely inspired event. We could not resist each other,and Sri Desikar agreed to teach me Sri Vidya.

I went through the regular guru-disciple routine. I was liter-ally his personal attendant helping him with all daily spiritualand religious rituals. My day would start at 4:00 a.m. I neededto go to the flower garden and pluck the flowers, chantingmantras as I did the chore. Then I had to help him bathe,soaping his body, etc. At 7:00 a.m., he would start his puja forLord Siva for about an hour. At 9:00 a.m., his wife would serveus a massive lunch which often made me uncomfortable in thebeginning, to be served so much food.

During this time Sri Desikar taught me many things ofwhich the most important was the worship of the goddess withher special 16 mantras. The day Sri Desikar initiated me intothe mantras, I had a profound experience. I was initiated in themorning. He told me there was no fee for the service, but Ineeded to take some ghee (clarified butter) for the lamps to thetemple of goddess Meenakshi (who is considered a form ofParvati, Lord Siva’s wife). I sincerely carried out his instructionand went home in the evening.

Around midnight, I was awakened from a very vivid dream.I saw the goddess, but she was in her ferocious form. She carrieda trident and seemed as though she wanted to kill me with it. Iscreamed and woke up. My wife heard my cry, and she woke uptoo. The image of the goddess began to haunt me. Everywhere Iwent, I saw her constantly in front of me, though she was notpointing her trident towards me any more. But I was still scaredand did not want to do anything with her.

I stopped visiting my guru for a couple of days. Sri Desikarapparently knew exactly what was happening to me and sent forme. I went and saw him and confessed what had happened. Sri

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of Lord Siva. The five faces of Siva (Isana, Tatpurasha, Aghora,Vama and Sadhyojata) are five parts of the human brain. Theinitiation was so powerful that revelations about the five parts ofthe brain keep coming to me in an unending way. The initia-tion was in 1981, and in a prestigious conference presided byNobel Laureate Eugene Wigner, I presented the correlationbetween the five faces of Lord Siva and the human brain. Atsome point in my life, it is my destiny to reveal the secrets ofawakening the five faces of Siva. This book is to begin preparingpeople, so I do hope many of you will actually practice some ofthe techniques I give here, so later I can share more with you.You must begin preparations now.

Without much further ado, I want to dwell on some of myenlightenment experiences, just a few, and I am deeply indebtedhere to two great spiritual masters of the last century who Inever physically met: Bhagavan Rajneesh (also known as Osho)and J. Krishnamurti.

I have read almost every piece of Sri Rajneesh’s writings andexperimented with most of the techniques advocated by him. Itwas during one of the dance meditations called Nataraj that Ifell down and was in Samadhi for 12 hours. Since then, therewas a great shift in my consciousness which got intensified inmy attempt to understand time.

One day I was reading J. Krishnamurti’s excellent, althoughsomewhat advanced book, Ending Time. The book is a veryintense conversation between Dr. David Bohm and J.Krishnamurti. Dr. Bohm in that book pushes Krishnamurti toexplain thought and time. As I was reading this book, my mindblanked and experienced no time. This was the scariest experi-ence that I ever had. I felt that the Divine was giving me achoice to be here in the mind or be totally mindless. I thoughtthat I had almost lost my sanity and wouldn’t be able to comeback to the normal world. With tremendous effort, I cameback; and I am glad that I did, for I never wanted to be a yogi

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time and space. I did at least explain this to one examiner whowas willing to be my student. He told me that he understoodmy problems, but insisted that I should be functional in a worldof cause and effect, a problem that I may never be able to solve.

During this time the goddess’s help was very practical. Sheknew that I could not read everything in the many, manytextbooks that I was expected to read. She was very sharp and tothe point. She provided me with the ability to know thequestions beforehand so that I prepared answers only for thosequestions. I know every student who reads this would beenvious of me and want to develop a relationship with thegoddess! But I must tell you that the grace of the goddess is theresult of spiritual work done in many life times. Shankara, theEinstein of Indian mysticism, after his hair-splitting encounterswith intellectuals, came to the goddess for his liberation andhappiness.

I must also tell you that the most powerful way of invokinga divine entity is to use the mandala for that being. Within thegoddess tradition, the most powerful tool used in her invocationis the Sri Yantra (also called Sri Chakra). Sri Yantra or SriChakra is a formation of 43 triangles transposed in a certaingeometrical pattern within concentric circles enclosed bysquares.

Sacred geometry belongs to the language of the divine. It issuch a powerful tool that the Divine lets only certain individualswho have transcended their ego-self know its secrets. Everythingfrom attracting a woman or a man you want, or incrediblewealth, or talking to dead people, to harming your enemies, canbe accomplished through the use of the mandalas. In otherwords, mandalas are the DNA codings of a universal energysystem. The Tamil Siddhas are quite adept in this esotericsystem.

Another major gift that I received from Sri Desikar was initi-ation into the five important mantras representing the five faces

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Some of you may find it helpful to use the book in accom-paniment with some of my CD’s and videotapes as I cannot puteverything into just a book! But hopefully, you will find somethings here that are useful to you.

Currently, I have the following websites, and more are indevelopment:

www.srisiva.comwww.vaaaksounds.comwww.tripurafoundation.orgwww.astroved.com.

This is my first book. And as I stated earlier, it is not from“me,” but it is the will of the Divine for you to have this infor-mation now.

OM NA MA SI VA YA.March, 2002

New York, New York

The above pages of my autobiography were written in 1997,and I had put them aside until now. During the past five yearsmany, many things have occurred. I don’t currently intend todiscuss them in this brief sketch of my life. Sometime later if Ifind it necessary, I will do a longer version of my spiritual auto-biography.

I feel compelled to say something about Nadi astrology.Nadi astrology is a special form of astrology practiced by theSiddhas of ancient India. The Siddhas, who are enlightenedbeings, recorded on palm leaves the life events—past, present,future—of some souls in order to help them in this lifetime.

There are many types of Nadi astrology, and one shouldapproach them with caution, discrimination, and intelligence.One of the most remarkable Nadi leaves came from the enlight-ened sage Saint Visvamitra. There are many types of Visvamitraleaves, and all of them are not of the same quality. It is fair to

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in a coma. Recently during a public gathering, I said that I knew the

ugliness of silence, and this is a commentary about the Divinecoma stage. I must add also I had an extended trance experiencepracticing a light technique described in the book, The Secrets ofthe Golden Flower.

During my long search for enlightenment, I have had thegrace of several gurus, Siddhas and Divine beings, and I amgrateful to all of them. I have learned something from every oneof them. My ultimate encounter with enlightenment was due tothe infinite Grace of the Dancing Siva at Chidambaram inIndia. I have had a very long term relationship with Him inmany, many births. His guiding hand leads me every minute ofmy life. Some day He will, through me, reveal the secrets of thefive letters NA MA SI VA YA which is the answer to themystery of the universe. Every master comes to the earth-planewith a mission and his own idiosyncratic version of enlighten-ment. It is so beautiful to see so many blossoms from God withsuch miraculous colors.

It does not make sense to me that the truth isone/none/many. To me, celebration is the only Truth there is.This is the secret of the dancing Siva at Chidambaram. LordSiva is the eternal dancer who lives both stillness and dancesimultaneously. This is the meaning of the marvelous sculptureof the dancing Siva Nataraj which has attracted the attention ofthe entire world.

During my long path of inquiry through several of mybirths, I have found that Truth is open-ended, and even theAbsolute is Relative, as time causes evolution. As digital sciencebegins to understand the nuances of light and sound waves,there will be an outburst of wisdom that will bring heaven onearth. This will be my mission in the years to come. But fornow, I wish to open up the world of secret sounds (mantras)and other tools.

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The transition from a material body to an immaterial bodyis a fascinating experience. Over the past two years I have hadmany revelations about the evolution of my soul. Ancient palmleaves in India that are in possession of some individualsunveiled my previous incarnations on this earth-plane.Evidently, I have had thousands of incarnations, if not more.The palm leaves revealed a few of them: Bhishma, Agastiya,Bhrigu, Manikavacakar and Swami Ramalingam.

My Bhishma incarnation is the weakest when compared tothe rest. No doubt Bhishma was semi-Divine, but then I had todie at some point, although it was my own personal choice. Idied on a bed of arrows at the beginning of the Winter solsticewhen the sun moved into Capricorn. The Agastiya incarnationis very interesting. As Agastiya, the palm leaves maintain that Ivisited the earth-plane some 800 times. In some incarnationsout of the 800, I stayed here for some years and at other times, Iappeared and disappeared staying only for a few hours or fewmonths. I had miraculous powers to acquire a body and todissolve it at will. It is because of this reason that Lord Siva oncesaid that Agastiya was his equal.

My incarnation as Manikavacakar was the most agonizingone. I documented my frustrations in the thousands of hymnsthat I wrote during that incarnation. I resented my filthyhuman body, my ignorant mind and the torture of the fivesenses. Although I was the Prime Minister of the King andenjoyed the royal benefits of that office, my mind was little atpeace. The appearance of Lord Siva in the guise of a humanguru to initiate me was a turning point in my life. After theinitiation I was transformed. I was no longer the PrimeMinister. Nevertheless, I was not fully Enlightened either. I stillhad to battle with my human body, mind, and the senses. Butfinally, at the Chidambaram Temple, Siva absorbed me into hisimage. Even today psychics perceive my image inside theDancing Siva at Chidambaram.

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say that Saint Visvamitra contacted me through his leaves. These leaves were in the possession of a guy who has been

reading regularly for the prime minister and president of India.The leaves commissioned this guy by saying that he should seekme out and read my future to me. To make a long story short,through a series of miracles, he came to see me. The leavesopened up a new world for me.

I remembered many of my past lives as great saints of India.The final revelation was that I was the incarnation of Siva himself.It is embarrassing for me to write this. But since I am neitherattracted nor repulsed by it, I decided to include this information.Nevertheless, I also wrote sometime ago the following lines inresponse to those predictions.

The Human Becoming the DivineIt is very interesting to dwell upon the process of the human

becoming the Divine. Within the Hindu-Buddhist tradition,the difference between the human and Divine is a matter ofconsciousness. The human is limited. The human is stuck in thematerial body and in an ignorant mind, whereas the Divine hasno material existence and has a divine mind. The Divine is alsoinfinitely intelligent. Man’s destiny is to become, ultimately,Enlightened—what this means is that the human is becomingthe Divine. To use the terminology of physics, it is matterbecoming energy. The Judeo-Christian tradition also has somereference to the relationship between the human and theDivine. The Bible says that God created man in his own image.This means that God has an image, and it looked like the imageof a human being.

All traditions speak about angels and other Divine beings.Mythology has it that these Divine beings have no physicalbody, although they have a form made up of light. They appearand disappear by their choice and by their power make them-selves known to certain human beings.

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Ramalingam has done immense good for the evolution of mysoul. Both were fully realized beings and identified themselveswith Siva himself. They both claimed that after theirencounter with Siva, they had become Siva himself. However,both felt that although they became Siva, Lord Siva was stilldifferent from them. This is in accordance with the Saivaphilosophy that your soul is part of Siva but not Siva himself.Swami Ramalingam, before he took off, proclaimed that theGod of Light, Siva, would come to the Earth-plane and staythere for awhile performing numerous miracles and trans-forming the planet Earth.

It is interesting that the palm leaves have now revealed thatSiva has indeed come to the earth-plane. He is within my bodyand will reveal himself soon. I am myself both fascinated andexcited. On the one hand, I experience this human body withgastric troubles, toothache, poor vision, etc., combined withother human limitations caused by maya, karma and ego. I amawaiting very eagerly for the transformation of this body intoLight. This event, when that happens, will have a huge impacton the evolution of planet Earth. As a human being I am fullyaware that I cannot manipulate this transformation. It is purelythe decision of the Divine. I invite students to pray devoutly toSiva to descend into my body for the upliftment of the humanbeings on planet Earth.

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My absorption into the image of Siva is very fascinating.Lord Siva turned my body into light, and I was pulled into theLord’s image. I was thankful to Siva for ending my karma anduplifting me to his level. It was such a blissful experience.However, I had a deep desire to know the dynamics of thematerial body turning into light. So, Lord Siva gave me anotherbirth as Ramalingam. This time, the purpose of the incarnationwas to systematically and experientially understand the transfor-mation of the body into light.

My entire life as Ramalingam was spent on giving theoreticaland practical proof as to how matter can turn into light. From atheoretical standpoint, two basic principles are very important.One is the gross five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spaceturning to their corresponding insubstantial energy forms. Thesecond principle is the opening of the Third Eye that results in theremoval of seven layers of material and energy consciousness. It isimportant to note that these two purificatory processes are fairlydifficult to accomplish by human efforts alone. It is ultimately upto the mercy of Siva that accomplishes it.

Siva appeared before Ramalingam, who was sleeping on thefloor. He woke him up. Ramalingam saw the splendor of Siva’sform. Siva then hugged him. Ramalingam’s body instanta-neously became a light body. He also developed the Third Eyeof Siva. Siva then left and Ramalingam’s body reverted back toits original flesh and blood form. Ramalingam was quiteunhappy. Nevertheless, he remembered the initiation and hopedthat one day he would permanently get the Light Body.Accordingly, in 1873 Ramalingam’s body turned into Light.Many of his disciples were in awe, but none wanted the Lightbody. Ramalingam was upset that his students preferred threemeals and full gossip over the Light Body. He decided to takeoff and come back at a later time. So, he disappeared on January30th of 1874.

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C onsider this example: Someone is the presidentof a country; someone else lives as a homelessperson in the same country. Why is there thisinequality? How come some get everything so

easily and others have to work hard and still get nothing andsuffer? The answer is: it’s all the individual’s karma. Karma is theonly theory that can explain the mysteries of life—the mysteryof joy and suffering, health and disease, success and failure, longlife and premature death and other dichotomies.

Simply put, karma is your past life: the desires and plansthat you held in your previous life. These are now presentingthemselves in this life. They may not necessarily be from yourmost immediate past life. They may be from other lives that youhad lived long ago.

In fact, what you call the present or the future is indeed yourpast. Everything that you wanted to do in the past, you are nowdoing in the present. These things may end now, or they maynot end now. Maybe it will take a few more births to end them.This is the philosophy of karma: you desire something andcreate karma and a lifetime (or lifetimes) to experience it.

I am going to take you on a tour of life with its joys, trialsand tribulations. Understanding life is about understandingkarma. For your quick reference, I have put together a shortFAQ followed by a longer chapter on karma.

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Before you enter the body of the book it is important for you to understand the concepts of karma and mantra.

Karma is what governs life.Mantra is what corrects it.

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The easiest way to change your karma is to use the mantraThiru Neela Kantam. You visualize a blue light in your throatand go on chanting this mantra at your throat. This mantra willreverse your bad karma. In addition to chanting the mantra,you need to reprogram your mind with positive affirmations. Aset of positive affirmations is in the section, “Prayer to theMind” on my CD, Meditations and Affirmations with a Master.

Karma, Destiny, GrowthIn short, karma is your destiny. An orange seed has a destiny

to grow into an orange tree. An apple seed grows into an appletree. Just as a plant has a destiny so does every human being.

Destiny is destination. You start out at a point and thenmove forward. Finally, you stop moving forward, and themomentum ends.

Growth is a mystery. Ironically, growth itself is a process ofdecay! A child is growing, but at the same time it is decaying!The child is growing towards old age and death.

It is the mystery that led the Buddha to explore life. TheBuddha said, “I am a prince, but what good is it if I am goingto decay?” And, in his escapades out of the palace, he went outand confronted people who were suffering from illnesses. Hediscovered that the skin shrinks and a once beautiful facebecomes ugly. Some become crippled and disabled. Hedemanded: “What good is this life? I must find out the meaningof this life.”

I don’t want to sound too philosophical. There is anexpression, “Philosophy never bakes bread,” which is to sayphilosophy is not practical. So, what is karma again? Karma isthe force which causes you to reincarnate. Birth after birth, youcome into being because there is this cyclical karmic force whichcreates life to experience desires which you had no time toexperience in that lifetime. And for some, a time comes whenyou don’t want to come back at all, because you are tired of

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Karma: Frequently Asked Questions

What is karma?Karma is the spiritual law of cause and effect. Through good

acts you create good karma, and through bad acts you createbad karma. For instance, if you have done good actions in yourpast lives, this lifetime will bring a life of luxury, good healthand happiness. Conversely, bad karma from past lives will createproblems, suffering and poverty in this lifetime.Can one change his or her karma?

Yes and no. Karma is one’s destiny. There are certain types ofkarma that you can change, and some types you can’t change.For instance, it is impossible to change an orange into an appleor a donkey into a horse. But, it is certainly possible to changeone’s financial or relationship karma.We came to the earth-plane to undergo karma. Is it not wrong tochange one’s karma?

If you have good karma and that good karma is giving yougood results, you don’t need to change that karma. Bad lifecreated by bad karma must be changed. It is not a good idea toprolong pain and suffering in the name of God or bad karma.Do our present acts create karma?

Yes. Not only your acts create karma, but even yourthoughts also create karma. You should be careful about whatyou think.Can I change the karma of someone else?

You could. But I advise against it. When you interfere withthe karma of others, there is always a price to be paid. Oneshould be strong enough to take on the karma of others beforeattempting this.What is the relationship between karma and reincarnation?

Reincarnation is caused by karma. If there is no karma inyour stockpile, there will be no reincarnation.How do I change my karma?

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it, and they would only use it on special occasions. For example,when an aristocrat had a date, the aristocrat would ride a bicycleso as to impress the woman he was courting. It was a statussymbol.

And the funny thing about the bicycle was that the originalbicycle did not have a brake. The man who invented it did notsee the necessity for a brake. He told the aristocrats, “What youdo to stop the bicycle is dash against a tree and hold onto thetree.” Then the people who tried this method of course crashed,and they thought it was a really stupid way to stop a bicycle.They decided we have to somehow stop the bicycle frommoving in an easier way. So, they invented the brake for thebicycle.

Psychic TechnologyWe are continuing in the same line of development today.

We now have cellular phones that we can take anywhere, evento the bathroom! We have phones in the airplanes that we canuse. And, at some point, we are going to realize it is better topsychically communicate. Then we don’t need a phone. Andwhat will transmit our voice is space. We are going to do itsometime. Why not do that right now?

In Atlantis, people were doing that—using psychic commu-nication. But in our age, it is going to take time, because themodel that modern science follows is limited. It’s very, verylimited. However, the people on this planet could make acollective decision to do things in an easier way!

In India all these various limitations were challenged many,many thousands of years ago by the yogis. They said all of thesethings, including the phenomenal world, are only a fabricationof your mind. What exists is your own mind.

Creations of the MindIf one has no mind, then nothing will be out there in the

world. Everything is created by the mind, including a physical

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coming back and you want to return to Being. Then karmaends.

So karma is not just a metaphysical philosophy. It is real.Whatever you think becomes a reality in the invisible space-time complex of your soul, and then this manifests in life afteran appropriate lapse of time.

The Buddhists say that you cannot end karma until youbecome totally empty. When you are empty, there will be nomore movement; there will be no more desire. And when thereis no more desire, there is no possibility for life. Every one ofyou has come here to act out something in life. You came hereto become the president of the country or to be a homelessperson. You came here to marry someone or to divorce someoneelse. You came here to experience success or incredible pros-perity. Or, you came here to go through poverty and slavery.

Why Do You Do What You Do?I can understand people coming to live a prosperous life, but

who wants poverty? It is a learning process. On the earth-planeyou learn everything through trial and error. That is the struc-ture of human knowledge. You constantly go on makingmistakes. Why are you not able to make a perfect computer?Every year companies make imperfect computers knowingly,because there is no way they can make a perfect computer. Samething applies to life. You experiment with this man or woman,with this job or another, and then move on to get a new betterpartner or vocation.

Story of the Invention of the BicycleI often talk about an interesting anecdote as some people

find it easier to understand things through stories. One day Iwas watching a Disney movie for kids. The Disney movie wasnarrating the history of the invention of the bicycle. The movieexplained that when the bicycle was first invented in France, notvery many people could afford it. Only aristocrats could afford

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In this experiment the cancer patients were told that they aregoing to receive chemotherapy, and the treatment may causeloss of hair. The doctors didn’t administer chemotherapy, butinstead a placebo was given. Nevertheless, 35 percent of thepeople lost hair anyhow.

This led Cousins to make very serious objections aboutpreventative [measures]. We give some information to people tohelp prevent certain things from happening, but it may producea countereffect. An innocent woman who doesn’t know aboutbreast cancer is told to examine her breasts periodically—whoknows what is going to happen? Somebody is going to realizethat fear in a physical form.

Changeable vs Unchangeable KarmaNow I am going to confine my current discussion to one

area of karma, the karma which cannot be changed easily. Youhave certain givens [or conditions] in this life. For instance, Ihave brown skin. If I want to turn it into white skin, it’s notgoing to happen.

I might bleach myself and invite more problems. I haveselected certain situations in my life which are very, very diffi-cult to change. That’s why people come to me saying that theyhave wanted to change their life ten years ago, but day after daythey wake up to the same reality. They have not been able tomake changes in a significant way.

Why? It is because the givens are like water which hasbecome ice cubes—solid matter. It is very difficult to changesolid matter. Everything starts out as energy and becomesmatter and when energy has become a material reality, thechanges are very, very difficult to make.

I’m not saying that it is impossible. You can change thesethings. But, we have to operate with the fact that we are dealingwith matter-of-fact.

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object like this. You have to have a mind which can hold thisobject as a thought in your brain. Look at sleep. When you aresleeping, nothing exists. Remember that during sleep, you arenot dead. The mind is dead. The mind is not there. So whenthe mind is not there, then everything disappears. In themorning, when the mind comes back, everything comes intoexistence.

So the mind creates. Nothing creates, but the mind. Wehave to understand the human mind. It creates throughthoughts, through understanding. Karma is also created throughthe mind. The mind creates psychic impressions that somehowstay in the cosmos, and then these impressions cause a person toreincarnate.

So we have to become very, very responsible in handling ourmind, because whatever we think is going to become a reality.As I said in the beginning, our life as it is now is a result of ourown thoughts in our past lives. We have to become very, verycareful about what we think, because what we think is going tomanifest as reality.

Thoughts Become BiologyI will give you a practical example. Norman Cousins was an

old acquaintance of mine. He wanted me to come and workwith him in UCLA on a project about psycho-neuroim-munology. What this high-sounding word means is that yourthoughts become your biology. He had a number of projects inthis country and also in Europe to discover how thoughts gettranslated into biological reality.

The major experiment he conducted was on cancer patientswith at least 500 people in each experimental group. This exper-iment was repeated both in Europe and in this country. Thesecancer patients were tested for a placebo effect—he wanted tosee how powerfully people translate a certain idea into biologicalrealities.

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Someone has come with a mindset that he has taken birth todo certain things. No matter what you do to change him, he isnot going to change. This holds true for everyone. Everyone ofus is under a spell. We are unconscious. We are unconsciouslyled to the process of staying with a certain mindset because it isvery, very difficult to be alert and be otherwise.

It is easy to be a robot. That is how we live life. We are notconscious at all. The Buddha said that you consider yourself tobe in a waking state, but you are not. You are under a spell as ifyou are drugged. You follow the same path. You are incapable ofmaking changes. The mind thinks, “I want to change my life. Iwant to change my car. I want to change my apartment. I wantto change my job. I want to manifest a good relationship.”

You want it on a mental level, but then it is not happening.Why? Because of the spell. Because of the robot mind. Theinfluence of karma forces you to carry on with the misery. Youmust ponder this very soberly. Be sincere. Share this materialwith others who may be interested.

You have to become alert to the core. You have to createmore energy to diffuse the past life karma. When you becomealert, you begin to challenge reality, challenge karma. When youchallenge karma, you are not going to accept things as they are.Every minute you are going to be conscious. At no time are yougoing to be unconscious.

If you are unconscious, you are allowing things to happen.You are causing the karma to manifest. The moment youbecome alert, you challenge the cause of karma. So the way todiffuse karma is to become alert and not allow the robot tocontinue in its unconscious way.

We love to forget ourselves. We don’t know that we are evenbreathing. That’s why the Buddha said breathe for an hour. Andhe said that while you are doing this exercise, you have to be soconscious that you should not miss even one breath. Becausethe breath and the mind are related processes.

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because of its physicality. In Sanskrit they call it the most difficult karma to change,

prarabdha. Prarabdha is that which is going to be experiencedby you no matter what you do.

That is why when self-help people tell me that you createyour own reality, I tell them this is only true in a limited sense.There have been many self-help books, but how many peoplehave been able to turn their lives around? They have beenreading hundreds and hundreds of books on self-help which allsay you create your own reality and the sky is the limit.

How many of you have dramatically changed your lives?What is the percentage of people who have been able to changetheir lives? One percent? Two percent?…. Ninety percent fail.This is what people have to look at…

For most people, change has not happened yet. Day by daywe wake up to the same old reality. We get frustrated. Evenpeople who write books saying that you can do everything, theyget frustrated, too, although they may not acknowledge it!

Prarabdha: Difficult KarmaSo there is a reality that is very difficult to change,

prarabdha. These are the givens. And we created them. Andthese are what we need to diffuse. The diffusion cannot be doneby the mind. That’s the most important thing that we have tounderstand.

Mentally you can go on making affirmations, writing affir-mations, making promises that “I won’t repeat this; I willchange this; I won’t repeat this behavior.” But constantly youmake the mistake over and over again.

Why do we do that? Because of karma. Karma is the spell.Everyone is under a spell. In Sanskrit they have a word calledsamskara which means innate qualities or certain proclivitieswith which you are born. That is the karma from a previousbirth.

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relive all the karma that he had to pass through. And, in thatway, he emptied the karma.

Then, there was no more karma to emerge. That is why hesaid that total reality is emptiness. There is nothing out thereand in that emptiness you are full. Emptiness is not a negativequality. Emptiness is unlimited life in which you are notdefined. You are infinite. And that, he said, is the nature ofevery human being, to live without karma.

When you become more aware, you see into the limitedcircumstances that the mind both creates and makes real. Forexample, look at a six-year-old girl—she wants all kinds of toys.And what is your attitude toward the girl? Why does she wantall these toys? Why does she want chocolate all the time? But forthe kid, it is so real and so tempting.

The same analogy applies to grown-up people also. Theonly thing is that they like different toys. The toys are different.For the grown-ups, these toys are very real.

The Buddha was able to see that all these are games. Youhave to end playing these games at some point in your life.When you do that, you end karma. What can help you come tothis conclusion is more awareness. More awareness means moreintelligence.

The term Buddha means one who has accessed buddhi.Buddhi means Intelligence. It is not intelligence in the Westernpsychological sense. Intelligence is universal understanding inwhich you understand everything about yourself and about thecosmos.

From that perspective, everything seems to be a game—anillusion. One has to wake up to the reality which is infiniteintelligence. Intelligence is synonymous with awareness. Youhave to become aware.

You eat with awareness.You sleep with awareness.You study with awareness.

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But the reality is you cannot put your mind on the breatheven for five minutes. If you successfully become aware of yourbreath for an hour, that will change your life entirely because bythat time you will have created enough energy, enough alertnessto diffuse karma.

Diffusing KarmaSo, what will diffuse karma is attention. If you are attentive,

then things cannot get overlooked. You can stop things byvirtue of your own attention. Why don’t we have much atten-tion now? We are lazy. So, with attention, you can stop things.This is the law of nature. Attention means care. Attention andcare are synonymous. If you bring more attention, you bringmore care.

You don’t care now. Mike Tyson has great muscles. You and Idon’t have these. Why? Did he care for his muscles? He did. Didyou care for your muscles? No. And how did he care for them?His whole life was the muscles.

So what you need is care, more attention. When you bringmore attention, then you become more alert. Then karma willstop. Karma stops because you are waking up to a differentdimension of existence where you are able to see the karmacoming forth, and then the attention burns off the karma.

This is how you avoid the dangers that are yet to come.Patanjali, the enlightened Indian yogi who compiled the YogaSutras, speaks about why one needs to meditate. He says youhave to meditate because you have to avoid the danger that hasnot yet come.

You have created enough dangers for several lifetimes. Theyare unfolding. This lifetime is not enough to live those events,so you are going to create other lives to enjoy it or suffer it. Sowhat you have to do is just meditate more.

By meditating you create more awareness. The Buddha satunder the bodhi tree before his enlightenment, and he began to

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He wonders what is bothering him: is it Desdemona’s sex actwith this guy or the knowledge that he has that she slept withhim? And he says, “I had been happy if the general camp… hadtasted her sweet body, so I had nothing known.” So whatbothers him is not the actual act, but the knowledge that shehas slept with this man, which he does not know whether it istrue or not.

So, you have to step outside the thought process and for thatyou need awareness. And then you can check out what you cando and what you cannot do. Sometimes there will be an obsti-nate thought. By becoming more conscious you can stop theseprocesses and when you do that, you are diffusing karma. Youhave to learn to develop more consciousness within you.

There is a bodily awareness that you have to create, and thenawareness of the consciousness itself is another project. Whilesitting here, you can become conscious. Right now, you areunconscious. I can create consciousness in you provided I tellyou how to do it. It’s a simple exercise. Try this right now.

Just sit and then become conscious of yourself, conscious ofyour body. In order to remain focused, you should keep youreyeballs still. Keep your eyeballs still and just become consciousof your skin all over the body. You will be creating an energyfield.

You see how it happens? So, if you remain in this way, you’llbecome more and more conscious. The Buddhists believed inthis methodology because it agreed with their system in whichthere is no God and no soul. What exists is your own conscious-ness. You are not using your consciousness in the right way.

This is the Buddhist model. But I don’t quite totallysubscribe to the Buddhist model. My own tradition is atradition that equally emphasizes changing the physical reality.My tradition is called the Tamil Siddha tradition. It’s a traditionthat is not very well known.

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You work with awareness.You play with awareness.You never lose your awareness no matter what you do. What

happens now is that your awareness is being eaten by your thoughtprocess. The thought process is like a vampire. It sucks up all ofyour energy and limits you. And you live a life as though there isno existence other than thought existence.

Thoughts are your guests. They check in and check out. Youare the host. No thought can remain within the system forever.Become alert. The thought will fall away like a dead leaf from atree. The moment you become aware and tell yourself, “Thisthought is trying to cheat me and make me unhappy; I dismissyou,” the thought will fall away.

If you give reality to a thought, that thought will give rise toanother thought and another thought and another. And, “Oh,how he cheated me on this,” and then you will begin to analyzeall the incidents trying to make up a case to make yourself moremiserable. You can become alert and dismiss the thought. “Idon’t want it. I don’t want to be unhappy. I don’t want thisthought at all.” And for that you need more consciousness,more awareness, because you can’t allow the robot thought to doits thing.

Sometimes it is the knowledge that becomes the problem.Shakespeare had a great understanding about this. In his play,Othello, somebody came and told Othello that his wife,Desdemona, was having an affair with another guy, even thoughthis was not actually true. He successfully planted this suspicionin Othello’s mind, and Othello’s mind began to rage. “Thiswoman is cheating me!” And in the play he puts his hands onhis head to see if he has developed horns. The gesture is from abelief in ancient Greece that if your wife cheats on you, you willgrow horns. And he begins to analyze the situation. Hecontinues to analyze and analyze, and then he concludes, “I amlike dust in the wind.”

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No doubt the mantras are tiny, often with only one or twosyllables. But, is it not true that the atoms, tiny as they are, carryenormous power? The mantras are called Bijas in Sanskrit whichmeans seeds. The seed carries the tree within itself.

I compare the mantras to DNA. Each DNA is a miniatureof a particular person. With the help of DNA you can identify aperson, and perhaps in the future, even clone the individual.Mantras are energy DNA’s. You implant them in your mind,and then you manifest the energy.

How long does it take to get results from the use of mantras?It varies from person to person. Some people have gotten

results in days, and some take months. The bottom line is thatyou use the mantra until you get the results.

I am a very busy person. I don’t have the time to sit and meditate. Isthere a mantra that I can practice in a few minutes?

There is a one minute meditation which is very powerful.See the “One Minute Mantra” in Part III.

Should I chant a mantra aloud or think it mentally?Mantras can be chanted as well as used mentally. When the

mind is noisy, use the verbal chanting method. When yourmind is quiet, use the mantra mentally. The thinking methodwill quiet the mind and will give you tranquility.

Will there be any bad results that may come out of the mantras?There are mantras to create bad effects like hurting others,

etc. Those mantras are excluded from this book. I have only putin benign ones.

I am Christian/Jew/Moslem. Will this practice of mantras interferewith my religion?

Mantras are areligious, although they were originally discov-ered by the yogis of India and have long been part of the Hindutradition. The practice of a mantra does not convert one toHinduism or interfere with your spirituality.

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materially and spiritually. You have to challenge even yourmaterial reality and change it not for the next life, but right nowfor this life. So their philosophy is 200 percent life: 100 percentmaterial progress, 100 percent spiritual change. How can I change my karma?

The simple answer is: use a mantra.

Mantra: Magical Sound That Can Change Your LifeWhat is a mantra?

A mantra is a magical sound. It is a Divine tool to createwhatever you want to create.Who discovered the mantras?

The mantras are part of the space energy. (Space energy isone element among five, the others being earth, water, fire, air.)Meditating on the space energy, the ancient enlightened yogisdiscovered the sounds in deep states of trance, called Samadhi.How old are the mantras?

The mantras have no beginning nor an end. They are as oldas space and the universe.What is the oldest extant literature on the mantras?

The Vedas (Books of Knowledge) written in Sanskrit are theoldest texts on mantras. They may date back to 1500-1000 B.C.The Vedas talk about the use of mantras to get into nonordinarystates of consciousness and for obtaining spiritual as well asmaterial things.How do mantras work to get whatever you want to get?

Mantras are energy forms of matter. For instance, you wantto buy a house or a car. There is a specific energy form thatcontrols matter that gives you material comfort. In this case, Irecommend the use of the mantra “Shreem.” You go on usingthe mantra repeatedly. The mantra will then attract thecar/house towards you. It is magical.How can a small sound attract large things like cars/homes?

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get dramatic results. You don’t have to know many things. Transcendental

Meditation (TM) became popular in the United States becausethey use mantras. They don’t want to waste your time giving abig intellectual seminar on creating your own reality or how themantras function.

All they say is: “Come here, and I will give you a mantra,and it will change you.” So the mantras have this ability becausethey work at a different level, not at the mind level.

If you try to change your consciousness at the mind level,the change will be very superficial because it cannot dispel thespell you are under. By clinging onto the mantra, you can gointo a deeper level and rearrange the atoms of your ownconsciousness—the sound atoms of your own consciousness.

The mantras have also been part of the Biblical tradition aswell. The Bible says that, “In the beginning was the Word, andthe Word was with God.” God created everything through hisWord. The Word of God is the mantra.

Jesus speaks about the power of mantras on two occasions.At one time when asked to teach a prayer he teaches the prayerthat even today is used in some churches. In the prayer Jesussays, “Father, hallowed be thy name.” What is this name God?God’s name is everything. It represents pure energy.

If you ask for anything in God’s name, it will happenthrough the miraculous power of God. At the end, Jesus told hisfollowers to ask everything in his name. What is there in Jesus’name? Jesus’ name is a mantra.

Similarly, Yahweh, the name of the Jewish God, is also amantra. Yahweh is formed of the sounds for space (akash) andair (vayu) energy, which according to the Hindu traditionbelong to the pure energy complex of the Divine. The soundsya and va representing space and air are part of the Nama Sivayamantra.

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Mind is Composed of SoundsThe mind is a bunch of sounds. This is the theory of the

Siddhas. What do the Siddhas mean by this? Your mind is made up

of language. Ninety percent of your mind is language. If youpull out language from the mind, the mind would not exist.

Then, what is language? Language is sound—conceptualsound and meaning in some relationship of reference. Now,what is sound? Sound is just a bunch of vowels and consonants.So if you understand vowels and consonants, you have under-stood part of your mind.

So, if you want to change your mind, change the sounds inyour consciousness. Your mind has a sound pattern. Yourunconscious has a sound pattern. Even your soul belongs tosome vowel or consonant group.

John Edwards, the TV psychic who reads spirits’ messages,uses this knowledge. Nadi astrology of the Siddhas also uses thesound techniques to identify souls.

Consciousness itself is sound. So if you change soundswithin the system, then you can make lasting changes in yourlife. All that you need to do is to change the sounds of yourconsciousness at a very deep level.

When the yogis talk about sounds, they don’t talk aboutonly the spoken sounds. Spoken sounds are only very grossform of sounds. Spoken sounds emerge from unmanifest levels.

The evolution of speech is as follows: first, there is a thoughtsound (thought also has a sound) called nada and paranada.The thought sounds become speech sounds.

In order to make significant changes in your life, all that youneed to do is to rearrange the sound patterns of your ownconsciousness. This is what mantras do.

Mantras are sounds of the unconscious. While you are medi-tating on the mantra, the mantra takes you very deep into thelayers of the unconscious. That’s why people who use mantras

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time for meditation with their families, and their children justknow at certain times Mom is “doing her thing” and is not tobe bothered. Each of you can find the discipline to mediatedaily.

Flowers, candles, incense can greatly help focus the mind formeditation and spiritual practice. Spiritual statues or pictures ofsome deity or enlightened teacher who inspires you can be goodto put in your meditation spot.

To end your meditation or spiritual practice, bringing yourhands together and bowing is an ancient way to seal the medita-tion and to offer gratitude to the Divine. This gesture of bowingbrings in humility and prevents you from becoming “proud” ofyour practice.

Never forget these basics of purity, humility, and gratitude.I am so happy that this book is in your hands at last!

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passes “all things.” The Quran has the 99 names of Allah—all ofthem are mantras.

Siddhi ConsciousnessWhen one is able to live the Siddhi consciousness

completely just as God does, then creation takes placeinstantaneously. As soon as a thought is produced within theSiddhi consciousness it gets materialized. There is no time lag.No action is needed to make the thought into a physical reality.

This is Siddhi. It is a great achievement. And this is the idealof the Siddhas, that everyone should be able to live the Siddhiconsciousness. The problem is we have manifested a mind, andthe mind is the barrier.

The mind hides the vision of the Siddhi consciousness.Somehow we have to find a way to get beyond the mind and goto this Siddhi consciousness.

I am giving you many tools in this book to help you do this,because now is the time for the spiritual seekers to get a break!Use them wisely to benefit yourself and others. I am serving agreat brunch of knowledge and like a brunch, you will fill up onsome things and not on others. Each of you will pick the partsthat are right for you to work with now. I trust your intuitionabout this, plus I will help you with this inwardly. Many of youwill experience this help in the dream plane, some consciously,some unconsciously. This is a multi-level teaching that I amopening up. I invite you to come back to this book again andagain, as you cannot possibly absorb it all in one reading!

Some basic preparation advice: Whenever possible, meditateor do other spiritual practice in a clean spot, and take a showeror at least wash your face and hands, and wear clean clothes.Purity is essential for accessing light. If you do not have a medi-tation spot already set up in your home, you may find it veryhelpful to do this. Pick a spot that is quiet and where you willnot be interrupted. I have known even busy mothers negotiate

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Chapter 1Physical Appearance

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Mantra: Satyam Sivam Sundaram(Pronounced: Saht-Yahm She-vam Sun-da-rum)

I n this chapter, we are just going to look at ourselves.Very, very few people actually look at themselves.Sure, they look at others always, but seldom them-selves. This is because the physical eyes are turned

only towards others; not towards oneself! If you want to seeyourself, you have to go in front of the mirror and create the“other.” And only through that mirror can you see yourself.Even in the mirror you are seeing only a reflection of yourself,not your real self.

So, self-examination is not naturally available to us. We haveto do it through conscious awareness. Very few people have eventhe practice of looking at themselves in the mirror. It is animportant practice that everyone should do. You should go andlook in the mirror and see how you look. Then you will figureout the imperfections you have created.

Awareness is the first step. Once you have become aware ofimperfections then you can correct yourself. This happens attwo levels: at the body level, and at the mind level. You have tolook at your own physical form first, and you will begin to takenote of the imperfections that you have created.

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should desire for the best in every area of your life. For example,if you want a skin cream, go for the best quality.

The purpose of this book is to encourage you to becomeconscious in every area of your life. The remedial sounds that Iwill teach you are the crux of the teaching.

Beauty is TruthBeauty, inner and outer, is the best asset you have. “Beauty is

Truth, Truth Beauty,” John Keats wrote in his poem, “Ode on aGrecian Urn.” He was a British poet who was influenced byPlato. The poem continues, “—that is all/ye know on earth, andall ye need to know.”

If you think about something all the time, then you will beable to bring that thing into your life. This is the truth. In orderto think about something consistently for a long period of timedoesn’t require any money; it only requires motivation. But as Isaid, the motivation will be blocked by your karma. Karma willnot allow any change to happen easily. To overcome Karma, youonly need the commitment that no matter what, you are goingto focus attention on the imperfect parts of your body. It will bepainful in the beginning because nobody wants to look at theirown imperfections, but then you cannot keep things hiddenforever.

In this chapter, you are going to look at your own physicalappearance and personality.

First, you look at the imperfections; and then on a mentallevel, make the changes you want and put these ideas out to theuniverse.

The universe will then help you to manifest your desires.This is for manifestations on the level of the body.

Beauty and SpiritualityYou might ask what does beauty have to do with spirituality?

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intention to look how you look now. How can you correct this?You can correct this through awareness. Put your attention onhow these imperfections have affected various parts of yourbody. Notice how you have created diseases and other abnormalconditions. The moment you begin to reflect on it, then youcreate a change already within you. Once you have set thesethings in motion, eventually, over a period of time, you will finda means of rectifying them.

Put Your Attention on What You WantOnce a woman came to me. She had no resources to correct

some imperfections on her nose. She told me that she knewexactly what could be done; all that was needed was plasticsurgery on the nose but it was very expensive. I told her to justput the desire out, and then it will manifest. Don’t even askwhere the money is going to come from because that will stopmanifesting the money that is needed to do this surgery. Whatyou should be concerned about is: “Yes, I do have this imperfec-tion and I need to correct it.” You just close your eyes and putyour attention on what you need to do. Then you will findmiracles happening.

Now, there are many negative forces that will try to keep youfrom doing this. You will fall a victim to unconsciousness. Onlyvery few people remain conscious. Many, many people areunconscious. Because they are unconscious, they are not able tobring about any significant changes in their lives.

Sometimes we deny certain parts of ourselves. The denialleads to negligence. We keep it under the rug and we don’t wantto talk about it. This leads to neglect. We become irritated whensomeone talks about it. People get angry because they don’twant to have to look at certain parts of themselves.

You have to admit you are wrong. Ask yourself, “What can Ido to get myself straight here?” There should be a willingness tolook at yourself and change what needs to be changed. You

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slim and very, very beautiful, but act as though they have a lowself-esteem. So, it is important for a person to think and feelthat they are attractive regardless of what they do or how muchmoney they make. It is not just in thinking but rather feeling itin their bones that is important.

Now, what about your personality? Your personality is an intrinsicquality with which you are born. Physically, one may be attractive/unattractive/average/tall/short/medium. Also, behaviorally, one maybe well-mannered/short-tempered/cold/warm/mean/generous.Your life may go smoothly or may be full of problems.Unpleasant expressions and experiences of your personality aredue to bad karmic impressions in the body/mind and spirit.Again, take note of what you want to change.

Personality is not just expressed through a physical appear-ance or manners, but also through your own psychologicalconcept of who you are. The truth is, you are God. But thenyou have, through an ego identity, created a lot of restrictions.You have allowed yourself to be defined by your education, yourprofession or what you currently do for a living or even whetheror not you have a job. This is not really your personality. Yourvocation is not really what you are. You are beyond all that youdo. You are God. The moment you understand that you areGod, you have will incredible self-esteem and changes willfollow automatically.

Visualizing MeditationNow I am going to guide you through a personality change

meditation. [This format should be referred to for visualizationsand preparations for meditation.]

Sit quietly. Picture a beam of white light entering into yourright eye, completely flooding through every cell with an ener-gizing, healing light. Let the light go all the way in, all the wayback into the optic nerve. Receive this light completely.

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you in areas of relationship, career, and your own well-being.They influence the impact you have in the world.

Unfortunately, many times, women in particular do nothave the right attitude about their appearance because of variousconditionings. They say that they are not very attractive deepdown, and once they think that they are not attractive, thenthey are not going to attract. So it is important for every womanto think and feel, “I am attractive,” because once you think thatyou are attractive then you can attract.

I can think of two women at least who became successfulnational figures who believed they were attractive even thoughthey did not look like magazine models. One is Oprah Winfrey.I think she’s great. However, when Oprah Winfrey started outand became successful she was not attractive at all. She weighedas much as Mike Tyson, yet the weight was not a problem;because though she was overweight, she was still very popularand she received numerous awards when she was very heavy.

Later on, of course, she took control of her weight throughdiscipline and exercise and so forth. But my point is, irrespec-tive of her weight, she was successful because she thought thatshe was attractive. To think that you are attractive is the ulti-mate thing. Once you think that way about yourself deep down,your external appearance—whatever it is—is not important, forthen you are going to attract no matter what.

The other woman I have in mind is Rosie O’Donnell. Shealso has a weight problem, but she, too, is the kind of personwho thinks that she is very attractive. That is why she was ableto attract a huge national following. People love her. So, it is amatter of convincing yourself that you are attractive.

Creating an Attractive Personality is the SecretIf you want to attract people, this is very, very important.

Conversely, I must also acknowledge that there are a number ofwomen whom I have met who work in restaurants who are very

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beautiful, and you are just a joyous being. The mantra Sundaramis created out of a great sound. It is the sound of pure energy,which resonates in your heart.

Now go to your own body. Focus attention, particularly onthe imperfections that you have created. Start from the headand work to the toes. Make note of them one by one. Nowchant this sound. Receive the sound waves. These sound waveswill go and impact every cell in your body: Satyam SivamSundaram.

Relax. Keep this sound, Satyam Sivam Sundaram, in yourconsciousness. Chant the mantra, Satyam Sivam Sundaram intoeach part for a few seconds:

Right EyeLeft EyeRight EarLeft EarRight NostrilLeft NostrilTip of the TongueMiddle of the TongueBack of the Tongue/Tonsils

Go back into each part again and this time say the soundsilently, on the inner level, bringing the sound waves into asubtler level of your cells. Visualize the changes you want tomanifest. Be very positive in your visualization. As you do thismeditation regularly, you will find miracles happening.

The sound waves of the mantras travel to the inner spacewhere energy and matter collapse into one unit. You must begung-ho with the chants. Make a serious commitment to workwith them. Discipline yourself to some form of daily practice.

Close your session with the chant Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti,bring your hands together and bow with gratitude. (“OmShanti, Shanti, Shanti” is an ancient chant for peace.)

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eye, completely flooding through every cell with an energizing,healing light. Let the light go all the way in, all the way backinto the optic nerve. Receive this light completely.

Now move to your right ear. Receive a beam of white lightinto your right ear, cleansing each cell, going all the way intothe inner eardrum. Receive this light completely.

Receive a beam of white light into your left ear, cleansingeach cell, going all the way into the inner eardrum. Receive thislight completely.

Now move to your right nostril. Receive a beam of whitelight into your right nostril, energizing and refreshing each cell,going all the way into the right nasal passageway. Receive thislight completely.

Go to the left nostril. Receive a beam of white light intoyour left nostril, energizing and refreshing each cell, going allthe way into the left nasal passageway. Receive this lightcompletely.

Next, go to the mouth. Receive a beam of white light intoyour mouth, going into each cell of your mouth. Receive it firstinto the tip of the tongue, then the middle of the tongue, finallythe back of the tongue and tonsil area. Receive this lightcompletely.

Mantra: Satyam Sivam Sundaram(Pronounced: Saht-Yahm She-vam Sun-da-rum)

In addition to receiving the white light, the most importanttool in this area is a mantra that will help change your personality.The mantra is Sundaram.

Sundaram is a concept beyond description. It is going to cre-ate joy. It is going to create a beautiful form, both on the level ofthe mind and the level of the body. You just keep on chantingthis sound, so that the sound goes deep into your consciousness.Once it is deeply established within your own awareness, youwill find your mind becomes beautiful, your body becomes

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the key word. In order to become more aware, you have to endyour old ways of being aware. Right now, the problem is that wegive too much importance to our thought processes. We do notknow anything other than what our thoughts inform us about.So most of our understanding comes from these thoughts. Andwhere do the thoughts come from? Most of the thoughts comefrom our own personal ego.

Most of the time our thoughts are related to the future; theyare our survival anxiety. What’s going to happen? This is thenature of thought most of the time. If you give credence tothese thoughts, they will become more and more powerful, andif you don’t, they will lose their power. Thought comes mostlyout of fear. Somehow, we want to protect ourselves and it setsinto motion the thought mechanism. It is not wrong to followthat process. What is wrong is being closed to another way ofliving —living in an effortless way.

That is the purpose of meditation. The meditation tech-niques were developed exclusively for making life easier. Howcan we work with energy and get things done? It is very difficultto work with matter. Matter has very little flexibility, whereasenergy is infinitely flexible. Matter follows very, very strict rulesor laws of nature. As I have said before, an ice cube is solidmatter, but in other forms it becomes steam, snow, and water.These are all various stages of the same matter, but when itbecomes ice it loses its flexibility. So we have to get back to thelevel of energy. On that level, life is infinitely flexible, infinitelyeasy.

Thinking Without ThoughtsSo we have to make a shift from material existence to

spiritual existence. The laws of the spirit contain a lot morewisdom; there is consciousness. Consciousness is pervasive; itexists within even the smallest particle of matter. Matter has theintelligence of remaining fixed in place; it understands how to

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repeat the sounds.

Dealing with Negative Feelings Sometimes when people are hateful, they gain weight. If you

love yourself, you cannot afford to hate someone else.This is a tool for dealing with hateful feelings. Write three

times:I no longer blame [put in name of person you have

harbored hatred toward].When the mind is negative, you can become lethargic andcynical. Tell yourself:

I don’t want to be cynical and lethargic.Time is money.Waiting is a waste of time.I want it right now.

Your mind is the child of the soul. Use the sounds to change thesoul.

About Pronunciation of the MantrasSome people may wonder, “How exactly are the mantras in

this book pronounced?” For people who are not able to hear meor another teacher say the mantras in person, CDs and videoshave been created which are available at www.vaaaksounds.com.It is very important to use the correct pronunciation of themantras. And yet, while the mantras have their own power, theirdeepest power comes from being energized by an enlightenedteacher. I emphasize that I have put a powerful blessing throughall the mantras and tools in this book, which will last hundredsof years. I will amplify your positive efforts.

The Purpose of MeditationPlease use the mantras and tools with focus and be alert. I

want to dispel the idea that meditation is just for relaxing: Thepurpose of meditation is not just for relaxation.

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Yes, one needs thoughts to live in this world. However, whatone does not need is unintelligent thoughts, thoughts that comebecause of ignorance. This type of thought usually comes whenyou are disturbed. In this condition one has to be very, very care-ful to remain quiet. The quieter one can remain, the easier it isfor one to receive help from one’s higher self. The ego-self can-not accomplish much because it speaks from a level of ignorance.

As you begin to meditate, you cannot go wrong because youare supported by this avikulpa, the non-thought reality. All thatyou need to do is just go deep. This inner stillness gives you thewisdom, and you cannot go wrong. With this other, verypowerful form of intelligence to support your actions, theactions that you do will become spontaneously right. There areso many variables involved in a single action that you cannotbegin to control these variables.

Story of the King and the SaintThere is a famous Sufi story. There was a Sufi saint who had

a white horse, and the king wanted this white horse. He offeredthe Sufi any price he might name for the horse. The Sufirejected the king’s offer. The neighbors considered the saint verystupid, but the saint told them not to judge. A few days later,the horse was missing, and again, the neighbors called the saintstupid, and again the saint told them not to judge. Within a fewdays, the horse returned, accompanied by several wild horses.Now, the neighbors came and told the saint that it had beengood the horse had been lost, and again the saint told them notto judge. The saint’s only son began training the horses, andwhile training the horses, he became badly injured and lost aleg. Now, the neighbors said how terrible this accident was, andagain the saint told them not to judge. After some time hadpassed, there was a war, and all the men that were able to fighthad to leave their homes to fight the war. The war was goingbadly, and none of the men that had left were returning home.

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remain immobile. Energy, on the other hand, exists in a state ofconsciousness where it can move anywhere. So change mustoccur within consciousness.

Not only does your brain think, but your genes also think.The genes know what pattern they will become; all this is storedwithin the gene. How is it stored? Consciousness! So, we havenot understood consciousness. If we are to understandconsciousness, one must go deep within oneself and understandnon-thought realities, or in Sanskrit, avikalpa, which means“thinking without thoughts.”

This is why the mantra Satyam Sivam Sundaram and theother sounds must be received all the way into your cells andeven the spaces between the cells! You are influencing rightdown to a molecular level when you bring the sound waves intoyour cells.

If one can think without thoughts, then one is a good dealcloser to acquiring higher consciousness. Thought always comesfrom the ego, from fear, and also one’s longings to get certainthings. So, when one goes deep in meditation, one discardsthese thought patterns. There comes a stage when you arecompletely quiet, when not even a thought comes into yourmind, but there is pure understanding.

So the goal of these tools is a stage of complete stillnesswhere there is no activity at all. When you have acquired thatkind of state, you will find that thoughts are a burden to you.You will see the thoughts as obstacles to your consciousness.The mechanism is very simple. Consciousness is pure, but yourego attaches its thoughts to your consciousness, and thesethoughts color your consciousness. If you do not give anycredence to these thoughts, they will wither away. Millions ofthoughts come into one’s mind. We do not need all of them;they are a waste of time. If you remain quiet and only have afew thoughts that are very productive and rewarding, then youhave fulfilled the purpose of life.

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practice one of the mantras or use one of the tools, you will bebringing in new positive consciousness at an accelerated rate. Igive you my promise. Have faith!

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Now the neighbors came to the saint and said maybe it wasgood that the saint’s son had lost his leg because now hewouldn’t die in the war, and again the saint told them not tojudge. And so, life goes on in this manner.

Reality is Not FrozenThe mistake we make is that we try to freeze reality at any

given moment. Life is not like that. Reality is volatile, andchanges from moment to moment. Yet, we want to have some-thing to hold onto, particularly something miserable. The mindis basically miserable, as it always wants to identify with misery.The Sanskrit word dukka means misery.

The mind likes least to act upon a desire immediately. Therewas a woman who came and told me that she wanted to buy ahouse in two years, and I asked her, “Why not buy it now?” Shetold me it would take her two years to save for the downpayment. So, she had frozen her reality. Once she believed itwould take two years to buy the house, that attitude becamereal.

What prevents us from thinking differently about suchthings is our preconceptions about time and logic, but moreparticularly, our own negative attitude, right down to predictingour retirement and the flowers we will have at our funeral. Thatis an extreme example of how we can freeze our reality.

But it points to the problem. In a life that is structured andguaranteed, there is no adventure. We should live our life inaccordance with the infinite possibilities that the particles thatmake up our being have afforded us. So, we must raise the mindto that level of awareness. This is possible through the practiceof meditation.

I teach “purposeful meditation.” Set productive goals foryourself as you work with the sounds and the tools.

The sounds and tools in this book will help you changeconsciousness. Each time you read in this book, you willunderstand things on another level. Each time you sincerely

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above. Not that I disbelieve them, but they are commonplaceknowledge and many people, if not everyone, know aboutthem. I want to give you some uncommon and spiritualmethods for addressing your money karma.

Why do you hurt for money? There are many reasons why you don’t have money. Let me

begin from the beginning of your life. Your mother has justdelivered you. But, unfortunately, you were not born with asilver spoon in your mouth. Nevertheless, one’s birth circum-stances with money constraints have serious consequences.

As a child growing into adulthood, you are not going tohave an easy life unless your parents do something to improvetheir finances. But as the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad indicates,most of our dads (including mine) had no clue as to how tomake money. In a negative parental environment such as thisone, you can do very little to get up and running. Yourconsciousness is clouded and you have no energy. You can’t goto a good school because you can’t afford the tuition. Why isthis situation happening to you and not to Prince William orthe sons and daughters of a millionaire? There is only oneanswer to your question: YOU ARE BORN WITH A BADMONEY KARMA.

How to Change Bad Money KarmaYou may ask, “How do I change my money karma?” I have

come to this earth-plane primarily to help people change theirkarma. Please understand something—suffering does notremove or dissolve bad financial karma. You need a technique toremove bad financial karma, a Divine technique. Within thesoul are vibrations which support wealth or poverty.

I am doing a lot of meditation to help put money into thehands of spiritual people, people who have hearts. Right now, itis in the wrong hands. In this chapter, I am going to give youtechniques to dissolve bad financial karma.

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Chapter 2Finances

Mantra: Brzee (Pronounced: BREE-zee)

M ost people in the world have bad moneykarma which means they are hurting formoney. This problem is true even in theUnited States, which is the richest country

in the world. Most people experience one or more of thefollowing:

1. Living from paycheck to paycheck.2. No paycheck at all.3. Living with your parents.4. Driving a junky car.5. Taking a bus to work because you don’t have a car.6. Job is constantly ending and you are continually looking

for another.7. Surviving on cash advances from credit cards.8. Borrowing money from others.

If you go to a financial counselor, he or she would say one ormore of the following:

1. You have no job skills that are marketable.2. Go back to school and acquire some education. 3. Get two full time jobs to supplement your income. 4. Get more hours wherever they are available.

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then crush them, saying the mantra, Thiru Neela Kantam. Thenthrow these scapegoat flower petals away and wash your hands.

Flowers come from a very pure dimension. They carry spaceenergy, the energy of akash (space). Your karmic records are saidto be stored in the Akashic Records, the realm of space energy.And flowers have the occult (hidden) power to help you accessAkashic Records. This spiritual technology is like directlyupdating a database! I promise you, if you work with the flowerpetals and the mantra, you will find tremendous benefit fromthis secret ritual. Those of you who have my Thiru NeelaKantam CD should listen to it everyday, even if it is just playingin the background while you are doing the dishes or drivingyour car to work.

The flower ritual comes from Divine law, not human law.Divine law deals with spirit. It is difficult to change deep-seatedkarma through behavioral techniques. This technique is part ofDivine Knowledge, and many, many people in the world willnow benefit from it. Repeat this flower ritual every day. Tellyourself firmly, “I do not want to go through this karmic life. Imust dissolve it and create some other karma, something morefruitful.” If you do this flower ritual every day, your human egoand doubt will get out of your way. You will begin to desire in amore authentic way. What supports a prosperous mind aredesires that are authentic, genuine and healthy. Without desires,a prosperous mind falls apart. So I repeat this truth to you, whatsupports prosperity is desire. So the fire of alert consciousnessand desire must be burning all the time. You must cultivate thatconsciousness. When the mind begins to blah-blah, say “Shutup!” and put something interesting in the mind instead. If moreand more people will live this teaching, we can create a societyof conscious individuals.

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In order for you to have maximum results, you shouldfollow my advice meticulously. Get rid of your own philosophyabout money. It has not helped you. Remember, even withoutyour knowledge, your philosophy will sneak in. Get rid of yourphilosophy. Period.

Mantra: Thiru Neela Kantam[pronounced: TEE-ru NEE-la KAN-tum]

Start my two-fold program to improve your bad moneykarma, outlined below: First, this technique will help you getrid of your past life karma that is disallowing you to makemoney. When you wake up in the morning, do the karma-busting, Thiru Neela Kantam meditation at least for threeminutes while still in bed. Chant the mantra, Thiru NeelaKantam in the throat visualizing a blue light. Both the mantraand the light should stay in the throat. Make a prayer to me toempower the mantra for you to remove your bad money karma.

Flower RitualLater on when you shower, do the mantra again as outlined.

After the shower, it is important that you take a few flowerpetals (or even a whole flower) and roll them on your head(around the brain area and forehead), throat, neck, shouldersand chest (heart area). As you do this, pass your negative finan-cial karma to the flower petals. Put the mantra, Thiru NeelaKantam into each area. Let the negative thoughts about moneyin the head pass into the flower. Let the negative financialkarma stored in the throat pass into the flower. Let the financialburdens carried in the right shoulder and left shoulder pass intothe flower. Literally let the burden lift off your shoulders. Letany heartache and sorrow about money and finances in yourheart pass into the flower.

Do not smell the flower petals. Hold them in your righthand as you do the ritual. Imagine that the flower petals haveabsorbed all your past-life karma and present-life karma and

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Visvamitra, being the king of the land, would not take nofor an answer. He now demanded the cow from Vasistha,invoking his royal power as a king. Vasistha again politelydeclined. Visvamitra decided to take the cow by force, and heordered his army to capture the wish-fulfilling cow. However,Kamadhenu resisted the arrest and kicked the solders with all ofher four legs! She magically flew into the air and descendedupon the army, killing several soldiers. No one could captureKamadhenu.

In the meantime, the king engaged Vasistha in combat. Heshot deadly arrows at Vasistha. But Lord Siva intervened andturned the arrows into flower garlands that fell harmlessly at thefeet of Vasistha. Now, Visvamitra did not know what to do. Fora moment he was confused and angry. But suddenly, it began todawn on him that all his martial arts training and kingly powerswere useless in comparison to Vasistha’s miraculous powerattained through spiritual means.

The humbled Visvamitra was resolved. He renounced histemporal power as king and decided to whole-heartedly pursuespiritual austerities. After many years of disciplining his mindVisvamitra also attained miraculous powers. The story ofVisvamitra’s encounter with Vasistha illustrates the idea thatmind power is better than muscle power.

The mantra that Visvamitra gave to me is BRZEE. It took1500 years of meditation for Visvamitra to come up with thismantra for wealth.

Brzee MeditationIn this meditation, we will place this sound in various parts

of the body. First chant Brzee out loud into the sensory organsand then, mentally repeat at the same spots, continuallyallowing the mantra to become more and more subtle.

Let’s begin. Sit comfortably. Chant the sound Brzee into thesensory organs. Stay for one minute in each of these areas. Begin

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planets in your chart. I recommend that you find out whichplanets are directly involved in creating financial hardships foryou and do some remedies to change those bad influences. Youmay ask, “If we are doing Thiru Neela Kantam, why bother withplanets?” The answer to this question is: Thiru Neela Kantam islike your general physician. He knows everything about yourbody, but he needs to send you to an eye doctor or an ortho-pedic doctor as the need arises.

Story of Visvamitra and the Sage VasisthaWhen I was in India, I received a very powerful sound

which was not known to the world before. This mantra wasgiven to me by Visvamitra as a gift to be used in this age.Visvamitra was a king who became a great enlightened saint. Iwill tell you a story about him. Visvamitra was originally a greatking who lived in India in a different time period. He was bornto a warrior class family of kings, and he distinguished himselfin all kinds of martial arts and methods of warfare. The countrypassed through a very severe economic depression, and therewas not enough food for the people. Visvamitra was distressedby this suffering, and he wanted to find out means for rectifyingit. One day, while hunting he encountered Kamadhenu, themagical, wish-fulfilling cow. This cow was a gift that theenlightened Sage Vasistha received from Lord Siva after yearsand years of penance and meditation.

Visvamitra thought that the cow would be useful to him tofeed his people who were suffering from the drought.Visvamitra wanted the sage to sell the cow to him. He explainedto Vasistha that he would put the cow to good use and thatthere was no better financial instrument than Kamadhenu.Vasistha agreed that the cow had tremendous power, but saidthat he wouldn’t be able to part with the cow, because it was aDivine gift. Vasistha made it clear that the magical cow was notsomething one could buy and sell like other commodities.

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ficial prey had any deformity, that prey was not eligible for sacri-fice.

So the robbers examined the king, and then they found hisfinger was cut. They let the king go. The king came back homeand released the minister from prison. The story expresses theidea that good things happen to us, and yet, we do not know it.

Visualizing Brzee MeditationNow I am going to take you on a guided meditation with

Brzee. [As with all the meditations and visualizations in this book, itis a good idea to review the meditation first before participating.]

Close your eyes. Focus attention on your right eye. Visualize a beam of white light entering your right eye,

then entering your left eye.Visualize another beam of white light entering the right

eardrum, then entering the left eardrum. Visualize another beam of white light entering the right

nostril, then entering the left nostril.Visualize another beam of white light entering the mouth. Now come back to the right eye again. And receive this

sound in the right eye: Om Brzee Swaha.Allow the sound Brzee to go deeper and deeper into your

right eye. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee…Go to the left eye. Om Brzee Swaha.Receive the sound Brzee in your left eye. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee…Let the sound go into every cell of the left eye.Go to the right eardrum. Om Brzee Swaha. Let the sound go into the right eardrum. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee…Go to the left eardrum. Om Brzee Swaha…Brzee…

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by chanting aloud, then mentally, until it is a feeling. First into the right eye: BRZEE, BRZEE… BRZEE.left eyeright earleft earright nostrilleft nostriltip of the tonguemiddle of the tongueback of the tongue, tonsils and throatthird eye (pituitary)

Now, write this mantra nine times. And when you write it,you have to write it in a certain way. B-R-Z-E-E. On top of theletter BR, draw a crescent moon. And then on top of the cres-cent moon, put two birds, flying.

This sound Brzee consolidates material energy. And whenyou begin to vibrate with that energy, you will attract matter. Itis a spiritual technology.

Story of the King and the RobbersThe Divine is watching over us all the time. Often we are

unable to appreciate it. In India there is a story which illustratesthe lack of perception and appreciation for Divine guidance. Aking was cutting a mango fruit. The knife slipped, and he cutone of his fingers. The king’s minister who was nearby saw theking bleeding and said, “That’s good.” The king got mad. “I cutmy finger, and you say, ‘that’s good!’ That’s not right! I’mthrowing you into the prison.” So, the king had the ministerseized and put into the prison.

That evening the king went on a hunt, and he became sepa-rated from his hunting party. He lost his way in the forest andfell into the hands of some evil bandits. The fiends took him toa temple where human sacrifices were done. They beganpreparing the king. But then there was the rule that if the sacri-

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with gratitude.

Money and EnergyMoney and energy are synonyms. When there is no money,

there is no energy. Most people know this concept intuitively.Lethargy, cynicism and unconscious thinking are indications oflow energy.

Energy and lethargy are represented by two archetypalfigures, Lakshmi and Alakshmi, in Indian mythology. Lakshmi’senergy is royal 1and has a strong sense of direction and purpose.Alakshmi’s energy is dim and leads you to denial and sloppybehavior. When infused with Alakshmi’s energy, you becomeunconscious, unfocused and you lack goals and direction.

We come to the earth-plane to learn about money, powerand energy. Those who have the money get to rule the world.Those who don’t have money end up working for those whohave it. Right now, only people with money can really run forpolitical office. Even Jesus was betrayed for a few pieces of silver.Money gives you independence. When you have money, you nolonger need to do jobs that you don’t like. When you havemoney you can boldly say, “No” to your boss and speak thetruth. My finding is that when people have no money, they donot eat or live well. When you have no money, you eat hot dogsand generic bread and sleep in smelly motels.

Becoming Money-MindedThe energy of poverty is anti-life. In order to make money,

you have to be money-minded. It is unfortunate that manycultures have put God on one side and money on the other.Even in the affluent United States, there are far too manypeople living a life from paycheck to paycheck, and credit carddebts continue to rise each year. This split between God andmoney is a serious theological and metaphysical mistake whichhas led to dismal experiences.

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Section II—Personal Transformation ProgramChapter 3: Risk-Taking

Now the two eyes and the two ears are filled with thesound Brzee.

Om Brzee Swaha. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee… Brzee…Now go to the right nostril.Om Brzee Swaha. Feel the sound inside the right nostril. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee…Go to the left nostril. Om Brzee Swaha.Receive the sound in the left nostril. Brzee… Brzee… Brzee… Now your two eyes, ears and the nostrils are all filled with

the sound Brzee…Now go to the tip of the tongue and receive the sound

there. Om Brzee Swaha… Brzee…Now move to the middle of the tongue. Om Brzee Swaha… Brzee… Now move to your tonsils and the throat. Om Brzee Swaha… Brzee…From the tonsils look up into the two brains. Om Brzee Swaha…Brzee… Let your two brains vibrate with the sound.Om Brzee Swaha…Brzee…

Now come back to your right eye. Internalize the soundBrzee in the right eye very subtly. Go to the left eye, internalizethe sound very subtly. Put Brzee very subtly into all the organsagain. The right eardrum. The left eardrum. Inside the rightnostril. The left nostril. The tip of the tongue. The middle ofthe tongue. The tonsils and the throat. Look up into the brainand internalize the sound:

Om… Om Brzee… Om Brzee… Om Brzee… Om… Keep your eyes closed. Relax. Slowly, slowly come back to

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Picture AbundanceAnother thing that you must want to do is put up pictures

representing financial abundance. Put up a picture of a moneytree. The money tree goes back to the archetypal imagination ofthe human race. There ARE money trees in heaven. They arenot just money trees, but these are trees which are capable ofmanifesting the things you want. These are called wishing-fulfilling trees. In Sanskrit there is a name for such a tree. It iscalled, Kalpa Vriksha, the trees which manifest your desires. So,it’s important to visualize because the money tree belongs to theunconscious and the archetypal imagination.

Emotional “Investment”Embrace the desired wealth with all positive emotions. If

you do not have such strong emotions, you cannot manifest.Logic will not help you manifest; it’s only the emotions of theheart that will help you with the manifestation. The head isjudgmental, whereas the heart doesn’t judge.

Fantasize and Think PositiveHave a wealth fantasy. Feel as though you are already living

this manifestation, as if you have already manifested all of thesethings. Feel happy and satisfied with your manifestation.

Go on doing the practice, using the mantra with visualiza-tion. Do not be discouraged if the mind gives negative signals.The mind may be saying, “Well, it has never worked. And it isnot going to work.” Whenever the mind gives you a negativesignal like that, you just say, “Shut up” to the mind.

Some people ask me, “Is it okay to manifest what I want?Aren’t I supposed to surrender to God’s will?” I tell you, Godwants for you what you want for yourself. His will for you isunending joy. God is not a kill-joy! Now, I’m going to lead youthrough a small meditative process, and first it is just a contem-plation, and then you will add some chanting which will helpyou to manifest during this session.

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focus on how you can best improve your finances: Just thinkabout your finances all the time. All the time think aboutmoney. Just have a figure in your mind, some numbers. Say toyourself, “This is the amount that I want to make.” Keep onthinking about it. This is very, very important. The reason whywe don’t have money is because we forget to remain money-conscious. We are unconscious. It is a tragedy that humanbeings seem incapable of remembering just one thought. If youcan hold onto a thought, whatever the nature of the thought,you are going to realize that thought.

Finance involves goals and visions. Most people don’t havevisions; they just get by. Visions have to be supported by prac-tical data. Ask yourself some tough questions. “Am I tooidealistic?” “Am I unconscious?” The moment you put yourattention on looking at finances, ideas will come. Now ofcourse, we cannot earn money through activities like stealing orselling drugs. We want to earn money through noble means. Wemust ask the Divine to help us and to inspire us with fruitfulideas.

Techniques of AttractionI’m going to teach you two important techniques of attrac-

tion. It is very important that your eyes should be focused onthe things you want to manifest. The eyes are very importantorgans in the thinking process. There is a saying in English,“Out of sight, out of mind.” So in order to have something inmind, you have to have it in sight.

So do this: write on a little piece of paper whatever you wantto manifest, and it should be very, very legible and put it up itall over the house. Go to the workplace, and then put it on yourdesk. You happen to see the figure, the numbers that you wantto manifest. It will have tremendous impact on your conscious-ness. That’s one thing.

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tree coming out of this milky ocean. It has no money on theleaves, but actual gold. The tree with gold comes toward you,gets into the third eye and merges with you.

And now you see the goddess Lakshmi, who is the goddessof wealth, coming out of this milky ocean. She is golden andcarries two golden pots. And the pots are filled with gold coins.And she is coming toward you. She is emptying the pots of goldcoins into your head. And then she gets into you. She mergeswith you. Chant the mantra:

OM SHREEM LAKSHMIYAI SWAHAVisualize gold everywhere. Gold is the purest emotion of

creation. Gold is the emotion of God. That’s why in everyculture people have accepted gold as money.

OM SHREEM LAKSHMIYAI SWAHAJust visualize abundant wealth, all that you want in your life.

Just visualize with great emotion and joy, as if you have alreadymanifested. It’s not that you’re going to manifest, visualize thatyou have already manifested. Whatever you wanted to manifesthas already been manifested: the house, car, relationship, health,whatever you just want to manifest, they have already beenmanifested…

Embrace this manifestation. Live through this manifestation.Chant: Om Brzee, Brzee, Brzee.

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Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Now think about yourown financial situation. Think about the past. Have you everthought about how much money you want to make? Just askyourself. The answer will come. Now ask this question. Do youhave a game plan to manifest that money? What are yourresponses from your own mind for this question? If you don’thave a game plan, can you think of one? Just think of one thatcan give you the amount of wealth that you desire.

Manifesting TimeNow another factor is time. How much time is needed to

manifest this amount of money? If you think it is going to betoo much time, think of another avenue that involves a shortertime to get to the goal. These are questions which you havenever asked. If you had asked, probably they were superficial.You never sat down and asked yourself these questions withclosed eyes.

Visualization of LakshmiI’m going to give you another dimension, a spiritual dimen-

sion, to help you manifest wealth. Now stop thinking about thequestions and just be with me. And I’m going to ask you toimagine certain symbols. Visualize the ocean. But this is not anocean full of water, but an ocean full of milk. It’s a milky ocean.It is endless, with waves of milk dashing against the shore. It isso brilliant. It’s all white. And now you see a moon, a full moon,coming out of this milky ocean and shooting into the sky. Themoon moves up and up and up into the sky. And now you finda white elephant, an enormous white elephant coming out ofthis milky ocean. And it walks on the milky ocean. And itcomes toward you. And this white elephant goes into your thirdeye and becomes part of you.

Now you see a magical white horse. This horse has wings.The white horse is coming toward you. It also gets into yourthird eye and then merges with you. And now, you see a money

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possibilities. So it is important for you to examine yourself.Examine your path. How much risk have you taken? However,you should not close your eyes and get involved in some riskyaction. You must first find out, “What is out there for me if Itake this risk?” It is always important to find out what theoutcome is going to be. Depending on that answer, you take therisk or stay away from it.

Now is DivineThe NOW is the Divine moment. The mind has nothing to

do with the NOW. The mind, in fact, is the anti-NOW. Themind can never exist in the NOW. If NOW has to manifest,then the mind has to demanifest. This is because the mindcreates time—past, present and future. All these fall into thearena of the mind. But the NOW has nothing to do with themind. The NOW exists in a timeless, spaceless continuum. It is,as I said earlier, the Divine moment which transcends time andspace. One has to invoke this NOW within one’s self. It is achallenging task because we are not used to living in the NOW.We are used to living in logic. That is why we find it difficult tolive in the NOW. But to live in the NOW is the only way tolive the Divine. The Divine wants everything in the NOW. TheDivine is capable of manifesting everything in the NOW. Itdoesn’t posit a future. It doesn’t have any sense of the past, anysense of the present. It is a blissful experience wherein you areable to manifest things instantaneously. And all of you knowwithin the deeper part of your soul that it is true. Because youhave lived it. Because this is your heritage.

But somehow, the whole of humanity has fallen into time,and time is what makes things to appear in a linear sequence.We are creating a drama. In that drama, we want things not inthe NOW, but in the future so that the drama can becontinued. This drama is the drama of ignorance. It is not thedrama of enlightenment. An enlightened person would not

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Chapter 3Risk-Taking

Mantra: Trishulam (Pronounced: Tre-shu-lam)

I f you don’t take risks, there will be no dramaticimprovement in your life. Risk-taking ability comesout of your adventurous nature. Risk-takers arepioneers in their field and deal with the extraordinary.

In order to develop a risk-taking consciousness, you need todevelop a non-ordinary consciousness and courage. You changeyour consciousness by changing your thought patterns.

You must embrace courage and risk-taking. What is impor-tant is outrageous thinking, thinking that is not of the normalnature. It is important to learn this. Courage and risk-taking gotogether. Don’t follow the normal path, the path of mediocrity.Seek the adventure of life. Take the express elevator. Thinkabout your goal. It is very important to realize that you aredifferent. Unless you conceive yourself to be different fromother human beings, there is no way that you will becomeextraordinary.

It is not just having a fantasy of success. Those who make itin life are not just those who have a fantasy, but those who acton a fantasy. Action is very important on this earth-plane. Youhave to act. You should not remain in a job you don’t like, orwait until you have enough money.

Risk-taking means living the moment. Every moment isnew. Time is of the past and of the future. Those who live in thepresent live in the NOW, which is eternal freedom, a field of all

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it for my own reasons. It is good, because I act out from theNOW. So tomorrow morning I may cancel my program inChicago and in North Carolina. And I have my own reasons forkeeping it or not keeping it. When you get into the NOW, youmove into a sphere that is beyond logic.

So far we know a way of life based on logic. We do not wantto enter into the sphere which is beyond logic. We are afraidbecause it is so terrifying. We are fearful. But once you get intothe territory of the NOW, there are infinite possibilities.Remember, I am not telling you to disregard your appointmentsor your logical reality. You have to do that, because you have notlearned to fully live in the NOW. Until you make this transi-tion, you will do what you have to do. And then for a time, youwill be in a state of awareness in which you will see the twoworlds, the world of logic and the world that is beyond logic.And then there will be an integration of these two withoutconflict.

If I have to cancel a program, there will be no conflict. I integrateeventualities with ease, and the impact of it will also be with ease.Logically it may not make sense to you, but when you live in the NOWreality, you will understand that you have only to gain by moving pastlogic.

So it is important every day that you have to live the NOWfor some time. That is why I created an email newsletterprogram for you to get out of your mundane awareness. And forone minute as you read the email, you live in a different dimen-sion. The advantage of being in the NOW is that it can speedup your progress. The mind has the tendency to delay things forno reason. It doesn’t want anything right NOW or eventomorrow or even after a month. You want things to happen inthe distant future. The reason why the mind always feelscomfortable visualizing things happening in the dim future isthat the mind is conditioned by time.

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want anything in the future, because to conceive of the futurewould be an insult to his own consciousness. Everything has tohappen now and it is just a stupid game to prolong things. Sowhen you live in the NOW, everything is possible. You can livelike a god or goddess.

Now is ElusiveThis is an important part of daily practice to accelerate

transformation. You should always evaluate whether you areliving in the NOW, because the NOW always eludes us. Howdo you live in the NOW? You just disorient yourself from allthat is around you and then live in the NOW. I’ll give you aconcrete example. Everyone creates a future, including myself.What happens is that when you are going to act out the future,you begin to question whether what you’re doing it right or not.But remember that everything that is around you is yourcreation, and nobody creates it but you.

One morning I was reflecting on the NOW, and that is howI came to do this material for you. Let’s say that tomorrowmorning I have to go to Chicago, and I will be in Chicago forthree days. And then from there, I go to North Carolina andspend five days there. Suddenly, I began to question the neces-sity for me to go to Chicago. But I fully take responsibility forhaving created it. I have to fulfill my obligations. I have to be inChicago, and then I have to be in North Carolina. All theseengagements were created by me. NOW, at this point, I beginto question if these events were required. And the moment Ibegan to question that, there is a possibility that I will begin aprocess of self-examination, and then begin to live in the NOW.

Choosing NowNOW, at every point, you have a choice. The choice is to

live in the NOW and then make important decisions. Those ofyou who have been close to me know that I cancel programsvery often. And you have NOW learned to understand that I do

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“I am in the NOW.” Be without obligations just for a fewmoments, because it’s the obligations you have set out for your-self during the day that cause you to act and follow a certainschedule. You are going to follow a certain schedule, but what Iwant you to do as you wake is to say to yourself, “God, I wantto be Divine today. I don’t want to be human anymore. Give mean opportunity so that all things can be changed, and I can liveafresh.” Then you will feel bliss. Then you will not feel that youare a victim.

Then you will feel that every moment is NOW. And youwill begin to celebrate life. It is the Divine right for everyhuman being to be able to live spontaneously in the NOW.

Just float. While you are still engaged in doing things whichyou have created, just float in the NOW. Do not carry anythingvery deep within you which creates time. Just float. If you learnto float, there are a lot of possibilities for you in this lifetime.Only when you feel that you are stuck, things go wrong. First,you feel that you are inside within your mind, then you createthe outside. If you are not stuck inside, you are not stuckoutside.

That’s the bottom line. Don’t complain about others. Don’tcomplain about destiny. Don’t complain about anything. If youhave to complain about someone, complain about yourself.Because you are not living in the NOW.

And it doesn’t cost you any money to live in the NOW. It isyour own action. It is your own mind that you need to control.Suppress the mind and then get into the NOW. And when youlive in the NOW, God lives in you. God not only lives in you,you become God.

But you refuse to accept that. You love to identify yourselfwith the human-ness. You embrace limitation. You are afraid ofde-limitation. You are not afraid of a society which identifiesitself with human limitations. And if someone calls himself aGod, society is against that person. This happened in the life of

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Accelerate the Materialization of Your FantasyEverything on this earth-plane takes time. You sow a seed,

and the seed takes time to sprout. And then it takes time for thesprout to grow into a tree. Many years elapse between the timethat you sow the seed and when it becomes the tree. Similarly,the growth of a baby into an adult takes time. This is also truewith the money situation. Most people get paid either weekly orevery other week; others get paid on a monthly basis. Thosewho get paid on a monthly basis must wait 30 days before theyget paid. Introducing a concept like NOW is alien to the mind;it makes the mind uncomfortable. The mind says that NOW isfantasy, not reality. But the most important thing that the mindhas to understand is that fantasy and reality are not verydifferent.

The day that your fantasies gain enough strength to becomereality within your own consciousness, then there is no distinc-tion between fantasy and reality. Fantasy is phenomenon not yetrealized. Reality is a realized fantasy. So you have to make everyfantasy of yours become real. And I want you to do this withinthe structure of the NOW, within the Divine moment. Makeuse of the Divine moment to conceive of the fantasy. Then thefantasy gets realized soon.

So you always have to get into the NOW in order to accel-erate the process. The NOW has the energy to accelerate thematerialization of your fantasy. It has a Divine energy that tran-scends time, that transcends logic, that transcends theconceptual constraints of the human mind. So it is terriblyimportant that we live in the NOW. Sometimes once in a dayor many times within a few hours, we are able to get into theNOW. And within the NOW, we will challenge everything thatwe have created for the day.

Be Divine TodayWhen you wake up in the morning, just get into the NOW:

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sion. If you want to marry him, then marry him and have thatexperience. But, one thing you must understand, that once youget close you may not even want the experience. Every experi-ence is a game that you are playing. But without playing gamesthere is no life. So play games, but play intelligently. Remember,you should not make your life’s happiness dependent onanything other than your own consciousness.’

Your consciousness is full. It is completely full. It doesn’tneed any experience whatsoever to make it happy or unhappy. Itis beyond happiness or unhappiness. It is bliss. However, beingconditioned by the body-mind, you are seeking some experi-ence.

Go and have that experience, but no experience is going togive you ultimate happiness. Ultimate happiness is the realiza-tion of the soul’s true nature.

Everything is a game. Continue to play the game, but play itwell.

Be Like GodGod manifests things as soon as the thought comes into His

mind. This is called manifestation in the NOW. It is a simpleand joyful process. For human beings, manifestation of desiredobjects is a complex process which does not happen in theNOW. We need to create an action and wait until it is completeto manifest things. For instance, if we need money we first needto create a job or business to generate income, or we have toborrow from someone. However, the requirement of an actionto manifest material reality appears to be redundant. In God’sconsciousness the thought and its object exist in blissful union.God switches back and forth between thought and object withutmost ease.

Who is this guy, God? Where does He live? How can welearn this technique? God lives within you as the non-egoconsciousness without any identity whatsoever. We can learn

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Jesus when Jesus started calling himself God. People stoned himbecause it was blasphemous to equate oneself with God.

Now You Can Make ChangesYet the Bible says that God created man in His own image.

So you have everything within you. All that you need to do isget rid of your ego. Your ego is responsible for the separationbetween you and God.

The moment you bring in the energy of NOW, you caneffect a lot of changes in your life. You can diffuse your diseasesbecause a disease is something of the past that hangs on to thebody because the body is in the past. The body cannot move,and it has caught hold of an idea in the past. Because of thematerial nature of the body, it clings onto the idea and lives thatidea of sickness for a certain time. But you can educate the bodyto diffuse that idea by diffusing the concept of time. You cancause the body to live in the NOW as well. The body has to livethe NOW. Once the body begins to live the NOW, then thedisease which was created in the past disappears.

So, people have to be systematically taught how the bodycan live the NOW. How the cells of the body can be trained toremain in the NOW. The cells also think. It is not only thebrain that thinks. The cells are also bound by the concept oftime. The cells must think: NOW… NOW… NOW…NOW… NOW. When the cells pick up the NOW, they loseinterest in the old concept, and they will begin to live in theDivine energy.

The same thing can be applied to relationships. Onemorning I received a call, and not a very uncommon call at that.This is one of the many calls that I receive: ‘Sri Siva, am I goingto marry this person? My heart is drawn to him. What do yousay? Can you get into a Divine sphere and tell me whether thisperson is out there for me? When am I going to marry him?’

And I tell say, ‘Look, it is your decision. It is not his deci-

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journal and review it on a weekly basis.

Morning Technique

Practice Chaotic Breathing for two minutes. Exhale continu-ally with vigor and visualize all the impurities leaving the body.

Practice the Ham Sa breathing technique for three minutes.Exhale with both nostrils and mentally say, “Ham.” Then inhalewith both nostrils and mentally say, “Sa.”

Practice the “Looking Up” meditation for five minutes. Keepthe eyes closed and raise the eyeballs up as high as you can.Pretend that you are watching the top of the sky. Imagine thatthere are two parallel lines emanating from the eyes, and thesego straight up into the sky. Follow the two lines up as high asyou can. Bring the two lines together to find the point ofinfinity. Now feel the connection between the point of infinityand the third eye between the two eyebrows. Now feel thechannel that runs from the third eye and then down the spineto the base of the spine.

Practice the “Ah” meditation for 10 minutes. The sound“Ah” I received directly from the Siddha Nandi. In the Hinduworld, Nandi is depicted in the form of an enlightened bull.Just as the Greeks have a story of Prometheus who stole firefrom heaven, Nandi kind of stole this “Ah” technique fromKailash (Siva’s heaven) because of his compassion for thesuffering of humanity. So, we are very grateful to him for this“Ah” meditation. The whole world now knows this soundthrough the efforts of Dr. Wayne Dyer, whom I authorized afew years ago to teach the technique in his seminars.

Close your eyes…Keep your hands still. Don’t move your hands.We are going to play a trick with our own mind. Just

pretend that you have lost the ability to move the hands. It’s apretension. And although you may want to move the hands,you can’t move them. It’s a pretension.

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God’s consciousness if we can get rid of our ego-self. We needinnocence and purity at the Heart—we need to be utterlysimple and honest. With that, manifestation becomes easy.

Human beings are unable to conceive of the NOW of God,which is also the Eternal Now. This is because humanconsciousness believes and lives in linear reality—a past, presentand future which are spread out in a line on the earth-plane in atime-space continuum. We love the drama of life which consistsof love and longing, and success and failure. The Truth aboutTime, however, is that everything is in the NOW. You don’tneed to wait for the future to manifest things—you can mani-fest right NOW.

Nevertheless, you don’t want to manifest NOW because youare afraid and unsure of many things. This checklist will helpyou to identify the problems:

1. Afraid of success because of its newness and unfamil-iarity.

2. Satisfied with the current state of affairs and do not wantto venture into something new.

3. Afraid of hurting others. 4. Skeptical of success. 5. Lazy and lack motivation. 6. Lack the resources. 7. Lack the qualifications.

You might want to go over and over the checklist to identifyyour problem. Maybe none of these categories describe yoursituation very well. This checklist will, however, help you lookat yourself more closely. Write down what you think are theproblems that delay manifestation for you. Sincerely pray tohave these problems dissolved “in Sri Siva’s name.” Praying likethat is like putting your request into a microwave to get itresolved faster. Ask yourself the question every hour or twoduring the day, “Why am I not manifesting NOW?” Keep a

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in a particular way, you set the creative energy to action. The sound “Ah” creates a lot of material force which exhibits

both on the level of your mind and on the level of your body.There is a secret here. The “Ah” has to be used in a certain wayfor then it opens a pathway between the third eye and your sexcenter.

The “Ah” starts at the sex center and goes into the third eyeand then from the third eye it returns to the sex center. Whenyou do this exercise with “Ah,” you will be able to find achannel within you opening up which is now available for yourexperience. Previously, you may not have used it consciously.

We use it unconsciously whenever we say, “Ah.” Joy is associ-ated with “Ah.” When you leave the mind and experience even asexual ecstasy… “Ah.” What happens is the sound opens up thechannel between the sex enter and the third eye. When theenergy is released through the sex center, it results in procre-ation.

When it is released through the third eye it is realized as re-creation meaning that any thought that comes into the third eyeby that time is realized. You are very fortunate that this teachingis made available to the general public, and I hope you take fulladvantage of it to create a better life for yourself and others. Ihave special permission to release this into the West.

Previously, this has been kept secret, even within the tradi-tion of the Siddhas. The principle is that procreation is not verydifferent from creation of material object or things you desire.The same energy is used, but you release it from differentcenters of the body.

In both cases when you do this sound “Ah,” it creates a senseof joy and expansion within you when you recite it. When yourecite it in your meditation, you’ll have to raise the sound fromyour sex center and be sure to do it with a joyous feeling, notcerebrally. This is not intellectual knowledge, but a techniquethat requires authentic emotion and true desires.

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ExerciseThis is an exercise to make you understand how powerful

your consciousness is.Give yourself these directions:

You can’t move your hands.You can’t move your hands. Repeat one time.The hands are not moving. Repeat one time.Now feel the energy that is coursing through your hands.Feel the energy.You can’t move your hands.The hands feel like rocks. Repeat one time.Now slowly, slowly open your eyes, but don’t move your

hands.Now give back the consciousness to the hands and move

them.This exercise will convince you that the mind is a very

powerful mechanism. Yet this only sets the stage for goingbeyond the mind. When you remain completely still, whenevery part of the body remains still, the mind will disappear.

Ah…Siddhi ConsciousnessWhen the mind disappears, then you have access to different

forms of consciousness. Siddhi is one out of the several forms ofsuperconsciousness. It is through the Siddhi consciousness thatone can manifest quickly.

Now, the Siddhi consciousness has its own language, certainkey words that characterize the Siddhi consciousness. We willconsider some of the key words or key sounids in the Siddhiconsciousness.

The Siddhas maintain that the sound “Ah” has the ability toconceive, meaning to conceive both an idea as well as a physicalconception. The conception of a baby or the conception of anidea, both are done by the sound “Ah.” When the “Ah” is used

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the energy rising from your sex center up to your third eye.Then, introduce the thought you want to manifest into yourthird eye and continue to chant “Ah,” embracing your manifes-tation with all desire and emotion. For the next few minutes,chant “Ooh” at the third eye and fill out the manifestation—seeit, touch it, feel it, smell it, taste it. For the last few minutes,chant “Ma” and know that the manifestation has taken materialform; it is already here. Stay positive about this. Keep a confi-dent attitude toward the manifestation.

Evening MeditationBegin with ten minutes of the Thiru Neela Kantam medita-

tion. For the first five minutes, mentally say, “Thiru NeelaKantam” and picture three arrows of light piercing the brainand penetrating through to the heart. For the next five minutes,mentally say, “Thiru Neela Kantam” and focus on your throat,visualizing a blue color. Imagine your karma escaping throughyour throat.

❖ Meditate using the Yogic Sleep CD. ❖ Practice the following contemplation upon waking up: “What unlimited possibilities could happen today?”

Visualize some outrageous possibilities filling with beau-tiful opportunities.

❖ Practice the following contemplation before bed: ‘What have I been thinking about today? Do I want these

thoughts to be my reality?’ ❖ Practice the following during awareness times:

Bring Trishulam into your awareness consistently duringthese awareness times. Say it at least five times, either out loudor inwardly.

1. Upon waking up. 2. Before every meal. 3. Before bed.

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The “Ah, Ooh, Mm” Meditation

Let’s practice “Ah.” Now imagine the sound going into thethird eye in between the eyebrows as you recite “Ah.”

You have to do it with emotion. Just listen how I recite“Ah.” Let’s do it together “Ah.”

Now whisper it “Ah.” Now whisper “Ah” three times.Now in the third eye the sound, “Ooh.”Let’s do another recitation. Close your eyes. “Ooh.”“Ooh” is the next stage in the material formation of the

world. First it starts with “Ah,” and then it becomes“Ooh.” So, when we recite “Ooh,” we are entering intothe second stage in materializing pure energy.

Let’s do it again: “Ooh.”Let your whole body vibrate to the sound “Ooh.”Now make the whole world vibrate with the sound “Ooh,”

the trees, the building, everything around is vibrating tothe sound “Ooh” as you recite “Ooh.”

Continue to do “Ooh.”Now while you are reciting “Ooh,” close your eyes. Subtly

bring into your consciousness the things you want tomanifest, but it should not be done in an overlypronounced way. Do this visualization very subtly as apassionate feeling to create the things you want to mani-fest within the consciousness.

While you are reciting “Ooh,” subtly think about thethings you want to manifest. “Ooh.”

Now, go back to “Ah.” When you do the “Ah,” also bringin the thought you want to manifest into physicalreality. “Ah.”

Now go to “Ooh.”

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silently. Do the affirmations which will bring you back into thetimeless reality. It is very easy to change your life if you commityourself to the risk-taking aspect sound. Do not follow thenormal pace. If you do not take care of your destiny, thendestiny will take care of you!

Make up your mind right NOW. Do not allow time to passby. Once you have made a decision, you have to remain gung-ho. I will provide you with all the spiritual help that is neededto enable you to progress with these tools. Have a picture of meand look in my eyes. You will have an instantaneous transforma-tion—because I do not represent any part of the normal life onthis earth-plane. That is what I can offer you, silently; words arenot needed. You will come within my vision and there is trans-formation. I am empowering every sound, every technique, andevery suggestion in this book with a tremendous spiritual power.I came here to help humanity—global change, individualchange. They will come together. I encourage you to do yourpart.

You cannot afford to waste time. I have immense compas-sion for you because I know how hard it is on the earth-planejust to get by. Ignorance comes and envelops you. You are withme as long as you turn to me with open hands. I am fully avail-able to you. This statement is the most important part of thisbook. I will send you incredible opportunities in life. Just lookto me, and I will look to you. Having kept me in yourconsciousness, there is no way you will fall into mediocrity,because you will become as you think. When you focus on anenlightened teacher, that light comes into you.

The Right IdeaEverything boils down to having the right idea. Once the

right idea comes into your mind and you begin to act on it, youfind that results are inevitable.

Most important, just being in my presence will give you

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What Is Out There For Me?Select one object, event, or opportunity that is reasonably

attainable in the near future and would create the biggestimpact in your life. Visualize your manifestation at the third eyewith great emotion.

It is important to understand what market is there for yourideas. If there is no market, do not pursue that idea.

Find out where your strengths are. Find out what is going tobe out there for you. Everyone is different. I have written earlierof my studies of Vedic astrology. I have found this ancientesoteric science to be surprisingly helpful for many people.Some of you may want to go a Vedic astrologer and find outwhat area in your life would most benefit from you taking arisk. Others may have an intuitive sense of where they need toapply their courage. Ask yourself, “What is out there for me?”This is very important to know. You will be surprised to knowthat your heart’s desire and what you learn from the astrologerare going to be the same. Vedic astrology is just a reflection ofyour own destiny.

Don’t Waste TimeDo not waste time. I have repeatedly told people, “Waiting

is a waste of time.” Make up your mind. Time will pass by, andyou will not progress. You should be very, very conscious. If youhave spent a day that is like every other day, that is a crime. Youhave not lived up to the expectation of your soul. Your soul’sdesire is for you to become fully conscious. Do not fall into thetrap of unconsciousness, the trap of karma.

I encourage people to get a beeping watch so they can checkthemselves every hour. This is such a great tool to help you stayalert and conscious. Set the watch to beep once an hour. Whenthe watch chimes, you take an honest look at how you havespent the hour which just passed. Use the beep to remind youto repeat the mantra(s) you are working with, even if it is just

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Left nostrilTip of the tongueMiddle of the tongueBack of the tongue, tonsils and throatThird eye.

VisualizationVisualize the trident, a three-pronged weapon. This weapon

will give you courage. Put pictures of a trident around, and letthe power of this symbol sink in deeply. We see the trident inmany places as a symbol of great confidence: King Neptune hasa trident; the U.S. Navy SEALS use the trident on their pin.Some of you may want to get pictures of Lord Siva sitting witha trident. To meditate on this form as a mandala or yantrabrings courage. For the positive energies of meditation to flowproperly, you must have an attitude that is victorious,triumphant, and confident. You must bring up your courage,get your “yang” up to fully engage in successful risk-taking.

Trishulam is the mantra for courage and for ending medioc-rity. “Tri” in this mantra invokes the trident which is carried byLord Siva. So Trishulam invokes an archetypal symbol repre-senting courage and ending mediocrity.

Use the following prayer every day upon awakening:I don’t want an unceremonious life.I don’t want an uneventful day.I deny mediocrity.

Trishulam will open courage for you to live a new life. Usethis mantra with a specific goal in mind.

Do not use this encouragement to take risks that foregocommon sense. There is the case of a woman who went out andbought a car on a loan that she could not really afford. Shethought this risk was the kind of risk being spoken about. Tocompound the situation, she did not buy theft insurance, andthe car was stolen. She was left with a four-year new car loanand no car. This is not risk-taking; this is foolishness. A good

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incredible courage to embrace the risk. You will not learn thisthe hard way if you use the techniques I have given you.Courage will flow through you.

Look at my picture and carry this with you all the time.

Courage Comes from the DivineIt is very important to break away from mediocrity.

Mediocrity equals lethargy and an unwillingness to experiment.It is a condition of low energy. No one who subscribes toconsensus reality ever made a difference in his or her life.Everyone needs courage to explore new things. Courageouspeople become exemplary.

Be prepared to undertake this journey of exploring andbeing adventurous through risk-taking. What makes you avoidrisk are your old concepts of safety and security. In order tomake significant changes you must take risks. Before you risk,see the pros and cons. Do not take blind risk. This is the prac-tical side. On the spiritual side, first you need courage thatcomes from the Divine Source. The Divine, in order to helpyou, gives you courage. It encourages you by saying, “Come on,do this.” The heart knows better than the head.

Love belongs to the heart. It is the greatest Intelligence, notthe intellect. The intellect can give reasoning, but love isIntelligence. And Intelligence belongs to the Divine.

Mantra: Trishulam(Pronounced: Tre-shu-lam)

The mantra to increase your ability to perform right risk-taking is Trishulam.

Put this sound into your…Right EyeLeft EyeRight earLeft earRight nostril

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Chapter 4 Happiness and Material Comforts

Mantra: Shreem Shreeng Siriyum Siriyung(Pronounced: Shreem Shreung

Sir-i-ym Sir-i-yung)

H appiness and comfort are two different cate-gories. Money can give comforts—a nice car,a beautiful home, relaxing vacations, and soforth, but not necessarily happiness.

Happiness comes out of doing what one likes. Happiness is anexpression of one’s own heart. The key input is that opening theheart chakra is important for a free flow of emotions that lead tohappiness. In general, that’s why Nietzche said, “I could onlybelieve in a God that would know how to dance.” The joyous,celebratory energies of song, dance and music are sources ofhappiness. This chapter presents some spiritual tools for you tohave both happiness and material comforts in abundance.

To start with, I want you to look at issues concerning yourpractical needs on this earth-plane. I want to make your lifeeasier. As embodied beings, we all require that the body be kepthealthy, and this body needs to be fulfilled. A primary require-ment that everyone has is comfortable roof over your head. Iknow that different people want different life styles, buteveryone must have, at least conceptually, an idea of a comfort-able house.

One’s soul remembers how it lived in a past life and wants tocreate the same situation now. Because of past life bad karma,

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Section II—Personal Transformation ProgramChapter 4: Happiness and Material Comforts

risk is a “calculated risk” which optimizes the opportunity forsuccess.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.

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than a cramped studio apartment.Don’t put a cap or limitation on your imagination. Any cap

you have on your imagination is arbitrary and comes from yourown negativity. This negativity you may have picked up throughyour parents/grandparents/religious conditioning or othersources. So, the first step that you have to do is to remove yourlimited thinking. Consciously dismiss these misconceptionsabout housing. It is very important to do this.

Once you have broken the limitations on your imagination,you can go and build a new reality. First, you have to do thehomework to allow this to happen. As I told you, this story is areal life example. The man who video taped me was able to buya house within six months. Previously, he was not able to buy ahouse because he lived in this limited thinking that since helived in New York City he should be satisfied to live in acramped, small rented space. When he removed his misconcep-tions, he gave the Divine forces an opportunity to work.

This is an important point: give the Divine forces an oppor-tunity to work. When you say, “I have no money,” or othernegative statements, you freeze reality. Make provision forthings to happen in the Now. Time is an illusion. Don’t stop theblessings. They are already available in the NOW. You block theblessings through your own perceptions.

You have to really open up your mind. This is the beginningstep for everyone who desires to move into his or her idealhome. Unfortunately, the mind wants to go in logicalsequences. It doesn’t want to go to the end result right at thebeginning. You must conceive of outrageous outcomes. You canhave everything in the NOW provided you make a commit-ment to a different kind of thinking. This is accomplishedthrough the science of spirituality. Spirit is unlimited. It is onlymatter that is limited. With spirit everything is possible. Wehave to bring spirituality back into our lives. Being spiritualmeans being positive, being unlimited, being joyous forever and

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there is suffering in this life. Once you pay for it, you can getback to the original place: joy.

The moment you focus on comfort, you attract a nice home,a nice car, and the comforts of life. I want to give manifestationtools to everyone who will make a commitment that they aregoing to square things away in two areas: house and car. Youhave to have the consciousness established of having a beautifulhouse and a car you genuinely would enjoy to drive. You haveto be committed to authentic desires for these tools to work.

Don’t Limit Your ImaginationI am going to give you some real life examples. Some time

ago, I was being video taped, and in that particular tapingsession, I focused on the issue of owning a house. After the tapesession was over, the gentleman who was video taping me beganto understand the misconceptions he had about his ownhousing situation. All his life he had lived in New York City.The general thinking in New York City is that if you live inNew York City, you don’t need a house. So many people live inNew York City with this concept that the best you can hope forin a New York City housing situation is to be cramped within alittle tiny, studio apartment. The first important thing is to getout of limited thinking in which you have concluded that youare living in Manhattan and that you are not eligible for a largerliving space. You have to break this concept before you makeany kind of changes.

Once you have settled for living in a small studio apartment,whether it is in New York City or Virginia Beach, then there isusually no possibility for your making any change to live in abigger space. So the first thing you have to do is remove thesemisconceptions about not needing a larger space. The truth is alarger space gives you more freedom. You can have a room foryour meditation, you can have a room for your studies, you canhave a room for meeting people, etc. This is a much nicer reality

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geometry; the sages of India were specialists in it. They haveknown the use of sacred geometry from very ancient times.

If you have an understanding of the square in yourconsciousness, then you will find that it leads to your settlingmany of the issues that are related to matter. Housing is themost fundamental of these issues. Once you have a house, thenyou need a car. Your house and your car are a reflection of yourconsciousness expressed in physical reality.

Consciousness is everything. Once you have the conscious-ness, then you can change anything. Whatever you put in yourconsciousness will manifest. If you put a junky car in yourconsciousness, a junky apartment in your consciousness, thesewill manifest for you. Don’t blame God; don’t blame yourdestiny; don’t blame your lack of education. Don’t blameanyone or anything. If you have to blame someone, blame your-self. To blame someone is a cop-out. There is nobody to blame.You are the creator of all these dramas. You can create a gooddrama or a bad drama, but you have to take responsibility forwhatever you create. There is never a period in your life thatyou are a victim. You are never a victim. You can just walk outand say, “Goodbye, I can’t take this misery any more. I have justcommitted myself to happiness, to unending happiness.” Thenyou realize it is in your life.

It is very important to understand how powerful you are.Rather than complain to others about being a victim to thissituation, realize that you are not a victim. You are going tosquare away these things.

I will give you another example. There was a woman I metin Pasadena, California many years ago. She came to me andsaid, “Sri Siva, I want to buy a house next year.” I said, “Whydo you want to buy it next year?” She said, “It is because ofpractical concerns.” She explained she had just gotten a job andneeded to save up money for a down payment. In her mind, bynext year, she would have money saved up to be able to buy a

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ever.

Practical SpiritualityMost people have been taught that life is suffering. This is all

wrong thinking, wrong teaching. We have to get back to ourown original unlimited Self, which is pure, unending joy. Thiswill be part of our consciousness as we move into the nextmillennium. Currently, many people have become specialists inimpossibilities. “Forget it; I can’t afford it right now. I can’t evenafford a two-bedroom apartment. How do you think I can buya house?” The moment you have said this to yourself, you willnever be able to buy a house, because you are being negative.Somewhere something has gone deeply wrong within us if wecannot even wish good things for ourselves. We cannot wishthat we could have a beach house. Why not? Because the logickicks in, “No, no, there is no money.”

Money is not needed. What is needed is just the pure desireto have a house. Once the desire is there, then you can manifestit. This is the bottom line. How can you get that desire intoyour consciousness? That is the key issue. There are spiritualtechniques that change the very core of your consciousness sothat you will be able to alter your negativity.

Change your life through your own spirituality. Use spiritu-ality principles to enhance your practical life on thisearth-plane.

Squaring Things AwayThe number four represents the square, the geometrical

figure of the square. There is an expression in English, “tosquare away.” This is an important expression. “I have to squarethis,” means: I’m going to make it completed. Squaring here isused as a metaphor for clarifying something. When you look ata square, it is the most perfect geometric form. If you take oneline out of the square it is incomplete. Sacred geometry existsbut we have lost touch with it. The classical Greeks knew sacred

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By incorporating this ancient wisdom into our lives, we canchange things that we now think are impossible. We havebecome specialists in “impossibilities,” as in “Forget it; I cannotafford it right now. I can’t even afford a two bedroom apartmentso how can you think that I can have a house?”

The moment you think these thoughts you will not buy ahouse because you are negative. It is because logic kicks in: “No,no there is no money to do all these things”.

Let me tell you again: Money is not needed to buy a house.What is needed is a pure desire to own a house and once thatdesire is there you can manifest it. That is the bottom line. Howcan you get that desire into your consciousness? This is the keyissue. I am going to teach you some spiritual techniques thatwill change your soul. The very core of your consciousness willchange so that you will innately be able to alter your negativity.The secret of manifestation is having an open heart.Manifestation based on spiritual principles involves developinga doubt-free faith.

Everything I do in this book has a deeper purpose. I can goon and on explaining to you how I structured this, but I am notgoing to do it because it is not necessary. All that I want you todo is just follow some of these things that I ask you to do in thisbook.

Applied Spiritual ScienceI am going to help you change your life mostly through spir-

itual technology. I just want you to be conscious of one thing:the number four. It represents the geometrical figure, thesquare. We are going to square things away! If you have anunderstanding of the square in your consciousness, you will findthat it leads to your having to settle many issues that are relatedto matter. Housing is one. Housing is the most fundamental.

Cut out squares and put them everywhere—on the refriger-ator, on your books, in your bathroom, wherever you can, so

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house. She could decide to buy a house even before one yearwas up. She was not giving opportunity to other forces, beyondher control, to work in her favor.

Think about this. You may lose your job within a year. Thenyou may not be able to buy the house at all. I am not sayingthat you should not plan. You should plan. Everyone shouldplan. But you should also make provision for things to happenmomentarily because time is an illusion. When you decide notto buy a house sooner, you are not allowing things to happen.You are stopping the timeless blessings.

Unfortunately, the mind wants to proceed in logicalsequences. It does not want to go to the end result right at thebeginning. I have come here to this earth-plane in order topromote outrageous thinking. I have come here to give youthinking outside of time. I have come here to tell you how youcan have everything in an hour, provided you make a commit-ment to a different kind of thinking.

Being Spiritual Means Being PositiveAll this I am going to do, not through the modern sciences

you now know, but through a science that challenges yourunderstanding. It is the science of spirituality. Spirit is unlim-ited. It is only matter that is limited. With spirit, everything ispossible. That is why we have to bring spirituality back into ourlives.

Being spiritual means being positive. Being unlimited. Beingjoyous forever, and ever, and ever. We cannot even conceive thatwe can be joyous forever because we have been taught that life issuffering. It is all wrong thinking, wrong teaching. We have toget back to our own, original, unlimited self, which is just joy,never ending joy that will be part of our consciousness as wemove into a new era. In the new millenium, we are going tolearn new sciences, which are in fact old sciences from theWisdom Traditions.

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There is no one else to blame. You are the creator of all thesedramas. You can create a good drama or a bad drama. But youhave to take responsibility for whatever you create. Don’t sayyou are a victim of circumstances. One is never a victim. Youcan just walk out. You can just say, “That’s it, I cannot handlethis misery anymore. I have just committed myself to happi-ness.” Then you will realize it in your life.

It is very important to realize how powerful you are. Make adecision that you are going to square away these things. That iswhy I want every one of you to make a commitment in thischapter that you will square away things.

Most people don’t have good houses or nice cars. But someof you may want to establish a new consciousness permittingthese. Say to yourself, “I am going to have a beautiful house anda beautiful car. Once you have talked your mind into it, it willhappen. If not now, maybe a year later.

I remember one lady who was following my teachings got soupset because she was driving a car worth about $400. I saw herwalking out of the seminar room and kicking her car. She saidto her car, “You represent my consciousness, and I do not wantyou!” She was literally kicking her car. Do you know whathappened? The following day, her mother called and said, “Ihad a huge check come in from someone who I thought wouldnot pay back the money [owed]. The first thing I want to do isto get rid of my old Cadillac and buy a new Cadillac car. I amgoing to give you my old Cadillac for free because I do not needit.” The woman from my class was amazed how well the tech-nique worked for her!

Focus on the SquareTo help you make changes about material comfort, I want

you to focus on the sacred geometry of the square. The foursides of a square represent the number four, and the four sideswill help you to square things away. Both the geometric shape of

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that you can look at the square often. By looking at the square,you can square away many things in your life. Just by looking atsquares, so many things can get corrected. Sacred geometry canchange the very structure of your consciousness. It can correctcertain misconceptions that you have had which resulted inyour lack of comfort.

Visualizing What You NeedOnce you have the house, you need a car. This chapter gives

techniques where you change your car consciousness. I have avery strange reputation of giving new cars to my students. It allhappened when I first started a program a few years ago becausepeople needed to change their consciousness about cars. When Ifirst started one of my year-long Personal TransformationPrograms, one woman, in the second week, bought a Mercedes.Before the program ended, at least three other people in theprogram bought Mercedes-Benzes. That happened because theywere able to get that desire into their consciousness.

Consciousness is everything. Once you have the rightconsciousness, it can change everything. When I first went toCalifornia, I met an engineer. He came to pick me up in his oldpick-up truck. He had such a bad consciousness. He told methat the truck had been with him for twelve years. It was amiserable experience for me because he had to put my luggagein the back, and there was rain while we were driving to hishouse, and my luggage got wet. I had to make him aware of themistakes he was making with regard to his car consciousness.Within two months of working with the techniques, he boughta Mercedes.

Whatever you put in your consciousness will manifest. So, ifyou put a junky car or a junky apartment in your consciousness,don’t blame God, don’t blame destiny, don’t blame your lack ofeducation. Do not blame anyone. If you have to blamesomeone, blame yourself. To blame someone else is a cop out.

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realm of miracles or outrageous thinking. We need to changereality right now. We are not going to just sit and say, “Let mewait for a year to get my down payment. These things are goingto take time.”

Those of you who have been around me and are workingwith my CD of affirmations know I have said repeatedly,“Waiting is a waste of time.” Just get this idea into yourconsciousness. We don’t want to wait. We want it right now.The moment you make a decision, “I want it now,” you willbegin creating what you ask for.

Meditation on Lakshmi (Pronounced: Laksh-mi)Now I am going to take you step-by-step into a meditation

that involves using many deep archetypal symbols. Lakshmiherself is an energy giving you direction. The word Lakshmi inSanskrit has many meanings, but one of the primary meaningsis that it gives direction. It is important to have direction. If youdo not have direction you will not go anywhere. Supposing youare going to Cleveland, Ohio and you don’t have directions toCleveland, Ohio, so then you will end up going somewhere else.Why? You will go somewhere else because you do not have thedirections. So, Lakshmi is going to give you the directions youneed. She will give you directions for squaring things away. Thisis a very, very ancient science. Following this science, you willnot have difficulty in manifesting things in your life. All that Irequest is that you be committed to the instructions, committedto using the sounds.

Visualization MeditationNow, let’s do this meditation. You can either lie down or sit

comfortably. Close your eyes. Ignore all your thoughts. Thoughts will come and go. They are just aberrations.

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the square and the number four contain energies whichcomplete material formation. Squares or rectangles give a solidfoundation for material life.

You must establish this square consciousness within yourself.Draw a square. Carry a square and put it on the refrigerator, onyour books, on your table-—wherever it will enable you to lookat it frequently. By looking at the square, you are going tosquare many things in your life. This is what sacred geometry isgoing to do for you.

Just by looking at squares, so many things will correct them-selves. I am considering developing computer programs tointroduce sacred geometry and how it can change the verystructure of your being and how it can correct certain miscon-ceptions that you have had, which are the causes for yourcurrent discomforts. If you don’t have a house, if you don’t havea good body, if you don’t have a good car, then something hasgone wrong. What has gone wrong is that you have an amor-phous consciousness. Your consciousness is not supporting anyform. So, we are going to create a form here for you to focus onbecause form is clarity. Understand this: clarity and form aresynonymous. You will get clarity just by looking at a squarewhich is a very structured form.

So, first, you have to have an authentic desire. Put thissquare in your consciousness. Actually draw a square.

I am also going to give you a meditation. This is anothermeditation involving the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. We willcontinue to use certain symbols which belong to our archetypalconsciousness that will aid you in creating prosperity conscious-ness.

The whole meditation is a proactive mental therapy. Theimages are strong symbols that will directly involve your uncon-scious.

It is very important to work with the unconscious. This is toyour advantage. To work with the unconscious is to work in the

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She has a light body; she is very radiant; her body is gold incolor.

Her body is pure gold, and you can see the radiance fromout of the milky ocean as she is coming out.

She is sitting on a sweet-smelling lotus flower, and youlook at her crown, for she is wearing a golden crown.

Look at her face. She is very beautiful. She has four arms. She is sitting on this lotus flower. Now, her eyes are closed as she fully emerges out of this

milky ocean. She is opening her eyes. She looks at you. As she looks at you, two rays of light emerge out of her

eyes and fall into your eyes. You are transformed. You are now in communion with the goddess Lakshmi! Receive her energy. Square away your consciousness.

Then there are other happenings right on this milky ocean. You see, by the side of Lakshmi, on her right side, an

elephant. This elephant is a magical white elephant. You see another white elephant on her other side. A little farther away you see a money tree come out of this

ocean. You go close to this money tree. The leaves are golden. This money tree has a special ability to grant your wishes. You just go and hug the tree. You are going to go and talk

to the gold leaves. Now make a prayer to the leaves in the money tree.

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You are not going to identify yourself with any of thethoughts.

Let them check in and check out. Don’t move your body. Keep your body still. Think of a mountain, which never moves. Imagine yourself as a mountain. Don’t move. The mountain does not move. The mountain

represents the highest consciousness as it is quite still.That is why gods are said to live in the mountains. In Sanskrit, mountain is achala (pronounced: ack-ALA).

Mountain, mountain, mountain: achala, achala, achala. Thesesounds are very important for the unconscious.

Don’t move. Don’t move. Imagine the mountain has two broad wings. Now, the wings are spread. I am going to cut off the wings of the mountain so that the

mountain cannot fly. Now the wings are cut off. Achala. Achala. Achala. Perfect non-movement. Now, I am going to give you an experience of movement. Visualize a milky ocean, an ocean full of milk.

Picture an ocean not of salty water, but see an ocean of whitemilk.

The waves are white, milky white. It is a white, endless,milky ocean.

In the middle of this milky ocean, you see some move-ment, right in the middle.

You see some bubbles. From out of this ocean of milk you see the goddess

Lakshmi coming out from the depth of the ocean.

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Chant the mantra as you to build the square:Draw in the bottom of the square.Draw in the left side of the square.Draw in the top of the square.Draw in the right side of the square. Keep chanting continuously as you draw the square.Build a strong visual image of the manifestation inside the

square.Continue chanting. Let the mantra penetrate the

visualization.This process will “square away” the manifestation.

You are working with the sacred geometry of squares. Somepeople ask, “What color should the square be?” It doesn’tmatter, although you could use red because red is the color ofattraction. Others ask me, “Should I use a box to represent thesquare?” No, the box is a cube, a different geometric form. Thesquare is four-sided.

Just Do ItNow that I have given you the techniques, I could go on and

on and explain to you for many pages how these specific symbolswork. But it is not important. If you go to a doctor, he may giveyou medicine for an ailment you may have. However, he doesn’tnecessarily explain everything to you about how the medicine isgoing to work. All he does is to tell you to take this pill, twice aday. It is the same with this meditation. Just follow this medita-tion, follow the sounds, and follow the images. The mostimportant thing is to carry positive, healthy, body consciousness;positive house consciousness; and positive car consciousnessthroughout your daily life.

I have people come up to me after I given these sounds formaterial comforts and say, “I’ve been on a spiritual path for along time, and I’m confused. How can it be okay to want things

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You want the tree in your own house. You pray to the tree to give you abundance, material abun-

dance, abundance in terms of money, for you needabundant money.

Now you see another phenomenon taking place, and this isa moon coming out of this milky ocean.

It is a full moon. The moon is rising. It goes up right into the sky. Now you see something else taking place right on this

milky ocean. You see a magical white horse. The horse has wings like a Pegasus. It looks so beautiful. You have all these images of Lakshmi looking at you. The rays of light from Lakshmi’s eyes are beaming into

your eyes. ˙ Now say these sounds repeatedly:

SHREEM, SHREENG, SIRIYUM, SIRIYUNG.

Your square consciousness is getting completed as you chantthese four sounds. Visualize a square and at the bottom of thesquare on the left side of the square ~ SHREEM ~ the top ofsquare ~ SHREENG ~ the right side of the square, SIRIYUM,the left side of the square, SIRIYUNG. Receive the Light fromLakshmi’s eyes.

Ooooouuuuummmmm. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti. Keep your eyes closed. Relax. Slowly, slowly, come back to

yourself.

Drawing a Square TechniqueAnother technique is to use a piece of paper and a pen or

pencil. You are going to draw a square on the paper and visu-alize inside a square the desired manifestation, such as a car or ahouse. Make your visualization very specific.

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into the earth. Some people who live in city apartments with noyard, collect their used flower offerings into a paper or plasticbag and scatter them in a park or field when they take a walk inopen nature.

Continue to work with the tools that appeal to you.Meditate on Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth, using the varioussymbols from the milky ocean which belong to our archetypalconsciousness. This will aid you in creating prosperityconsciousness.

Things to RememberMeditating on Lakshmi is mythotherapy. These images

directly affect the unconscious mind. Working with the uncon-scious opens up the realm of miracles, the realm of outrageousthinking. We need to change our realities. We don’t want towait; we want it now. The moment you make a decision thatyou want it now, you create the situation. It all starts with aninner decision.

Then do the meditation for programming your square. Theenergy of Lakshmi gives you direction. Without direction, yougo nowhere. With direction, you square things away. This is avery ancient science, using the principles of sacred geometry tocreate new form and clarity in your life. Follow the spiritualscience and you will not have difficulty manifesting what youwant in your life. JUST BE COMMITTED.

Song, dance, and music are the greatest sources of happiness.Sing! Dance! Listen to beautiful music. This will also open yourenjoyment of material comforts.

Om. Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.Peace. Peace. Peace.Peace to the body.Peace to the mind.Peace to the soul.

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like a Mercedes and a luxurious home and still be spiritual?” Beassured ALL of the techniques for manifestation in this book arebased on enhancing your spirituality and cultivating your rela-tionship with the Divine.

For those who are comfortable focusing on the feminineaspect of the Divine, you may want to put some pictures ofLakshmi around. For those wanting a deeper connection withLakshmi’s energy, know that chanting to Lakshmi on Fridayevenings is very powerful, especially between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.If you focus on Lakshmi during that time and light a candle andoffer the candle to her picture or statue. Place 108 pink flowerpetals before her picture or statue as you chant Om ShreemSwaha with each petal. This will increase the flow of her blessingsfor material comforts.

You can usually get 108 petals out of four to five plumpcarnations, for example. You don’t need to remove the petalsahead of time; you can pluck them off the flower for each repe-tition. (People can also use mala beads to help them count theflower petals/mantra repetitions. I explain more about malabeads in Chapter 15.) Some people pluck the petals and placethem in a bowl beforehand and then take then out one at a timefor the offering. There is not a hard and fast way to do this. Besensible about what works for you! Handling the flower petalsbrings you in contact with a very pure vibration, and I havealready explained in Chapter 3 something about the connectionbetween flowers and other dimensions. There are many beau-tiful esoteric secrets regarding flowers, and I suggest some ofthese will open up for you if you work faithfully with this tech-nique.

This is a gesture some people like to do to honor the sacreduse of these flowers. When the flower petals have dried up, donot discard them in the trash. Flowers that have been used inspiritual offerings can be scattered onto the earth, someplacewhere people will not walk on them, and they will just recycle

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Chapter 5Personal Connection with God

Mantra: Arut Perum Jyoti(Pronounced: Ar-rut Pey-rum Jo-tee)

W hat we consider luck or fortune is a giftfrom God. Some people are born witha silver spoon in their mouth. Thesepeople do not toil, but most people

have to make their way by the sweat of their brow. Some peoplehardly make it. What can we do about our fortune? Fortune is aresult of our past lives. Many people have asked me, “Why issuch is there so much poverty and suffering in India? There aretemples everywhere, and there a rich spiritual tradition. Whythere so much poverty in India?”

The problem in India is that people do not understand spiri-tuality in the right sense. It is true that the country is floodedwith temples and temple attendance is high. But althoughpeople go to the temples, they don’t believe in God. Their beliefin God is only marginal. It is an unconscious robot activity.There is no trust at all.

God does appear to people. This is not just a product of theimagination or a hallucination. Many do not have enough faith.We go to the temple/church/mosque/synagogue, and our trustis not there. The problem with humanity is lack of faith, lack oftrust.

Mind is Negative, Faith is PositiveWe need a commited faith to connect with God.

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your ego that you stop the flow of grace. Ego devises manydevious ways in order to get things done. Drop off your ego;then you can get into the field of grace. It is important tounderstand this point. You will never come to grace throughyour mind. Grace is beyond mind, beyond ego.

We have been trained not to believe in God. We have beentrained to believe in our self, in our own ego, in our own mind.You have to make a tremendous effort to believe in God.

Making a Connection with GodI want to give you some tools to access a personal connec-

tion with God. Your connection may not be the same as yourneighbor’s, so you must pick the right tools that suit you. To dothat, you must do some self-assessment.

Every individual is different. One may be very intellectual,while someone else is very emotional, yet another is skeptical.Each human being has certain innate qualities. In order toaccess the grace of God, each individual must look inside andfind what type of individual he or she is. Depending upon that,one can get into a practice which will be useful for finding Godand God’s grace.

Path of Knowledge: Jnana (pro. Jah-Nana)Let us recognize that there are various types of individuals.

Those who are intellectually oriented follow the path of theintellect. The path of the intellect is not only discursivereasoning. It is beyond that. The path of the intellect may startwith inquiry, but it eventually leads to enlightenment. This iscalled the path of jnana, the Path of Knowledge.

According to this path, God is Intelligence. So you begin tounderstand the structure of Intelligence. You begin to question,“Who is the perceiver?” “How do I perceive things around me?”“Am I perceiving through the linguistic tools?” “What are myprejudices?” “What is the phenomenon of sound?” “What is the

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Unfortunately, many have lost their emotion of faith. It isbecause of science. Science is based upon mistrust. Already ourego is not letting us have faith in God. Now science, which isbased on the model of doubt, reinforces our innate tendency todisbelieve and doubt.

We have hit the rock bottom. Strictly speaking there is noway out from your current mess. We are absolutely pushed intoa corner. We are desperate. Our minds don’t work. Our bodiessuddenly have lost all energy. What do we do? This is the timefor providence, luck. Providence works through miracles. Wheredo these miracles come from? God. God watches over youalthough you are not able to see Him. I repeat, luck is a giftfrom God.

When I say God, it is not a Christian, Jewish, or HinduGod. It is the Supreme Energy that supports life. You can defi-nitely access this Energy through any form presented by thedifferent religions. You can then turn to these Divine figures forhelp and protection. They will certainly respond to you if youpray to them sincerely, with faith. But unfortunately, the mindconstantly moves from one idea to another. It is hard to keepattention on anything for a prolonged period of time. Also faithseems not quite natural to the modern mind. Mind is rationalwhile faith is irrational. Mind is logical; faith is illogical. Mindis fact-oriented, faith deals with truth. Mind is doubtful; faith isdoubt-free. Mind is duality, and faith is unity. Mind is negative,and faith is positive.

Humanity has come to a realization that our dedication toscience has not given us peace of mind. It has made us moremiserable. So that life can be peaceful and joyous once again,more people are looking at older ways of living—bringing faithback into our lives.

God exists. Grace exists. Enlightenment exists. You willbenefit more by dedicating your life to the Divine. The Divinecan do things more easily than your ego-self can. It is because of

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to you. You can achieve whatever you want to achieve throughtotal devotion to the deity. Worship the deity; pour out yourheart to that deity. Make sure you can resonate with thatfeeling. Then the deity comes alive. Always think only about thedeity. Then grace will come to you. This is the easiest way. Youcan this with Jesus/Buddha/Mary/Allah/Yaweh/Quan Yin, etc.

You can worship any deity from any tradition. Make sureyou can get into the emotions. If you have a natural pull towarda particular deity, if you could love that deity unconditionallywith great emotion, then you can access grace. Once you accessgrace, your whole self is filled with great intelligence. That intel-ligence is responsible for creating your life. It is good to developa personal relationship with the deities. Deities are alwayswatching you and are ready to help you. They are going to sendspecial envoys to help you. The mantras put you in intimatecontact with the deities so that you can use the Divine help.

GraceGrace is never ineffective. Once you receive the grace of an

enlightened Siddha, it never goes to waste.❖ Reflect on all that has occurred in your own life as a

result of grace.❖ Practice reverence, sincerity, faith and love.❖ Allow yourself to adore God. Imagine Him/Her to be in

every part of you.❖ Meditate on God’s qualities, such as nobility and mercy.

Mantra: Arut Perum Jyoti(Pronounced: Ar-rut Pey-rum Jo-tee)Chant this mantra: Arut perum jyoti…

While chanting, visualize grace as a vast light pouring downfrom heaven. The light comes down. It comes in through thetop of your head.

Visualize the vast grace light getting into every cell of the

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phenomenon of light?” “How do I know?” These kinds of queries can eventually lead you to enlighten-

ment. The Buddha followed this path which led him to the ideathat reality is empty. When you annihilate your mind, thenthere is emptiness. That emptiness is Fullness. And in Fullnessyou realize that you are infinite. In that condition, you haveaccomplished the goal of your own existence. In this path youfollow mostly a monastic life and practice intellectual reasoningand meditative exercises.

Path of Devotion: Bhakti (pro. BAK-ti)However, I recommend a more lively and enjoyable

approach. It is the approach of bhakti (devotion). If you devoteyourself totally to a God or to a Guru of your choice, youachieve things much faster than through jnana. The devotionshould be unconditional. It should be total surrender. Once youdo that, you are in the field of grace. It is the easiest way.

The structure of devotion is fascinating. It is very human.Within the Tamil tradition, you find this structure fullyexplained in the lives of many saints. You can enter into a verypersonal relationship with a God of your choice. He can be yourFriend, a friend who can get you anything. He can also beconceived of as your Master. This is the way most commonlyfollowed, the guru-apprentice/disciple relationship. Youabsolutely surrender to the teacher. You don’t just trust yourintellect; you don’t trust your ego or your mind. You trust onlythe master, and your whole life is dedicated to the master. Inanother modality, God becomes the lover, as in the case ofKrishna and Radha. Radha is the greatest exponent of romanticlove. She totally dedicates herself to the love of Krishna. Radhais the human soul, and Krishna the God.

You can get into a very intimate relationship with the deity.As you begin to pour your heart into the deities, the deities willcome alive. Through your own emotions, the deity becomes real

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believe in the name of Jesus and its ability to accomplish thingsfor you? You may say, “I have prayed in Jesus’ name many times,but nothing has happened.”

All that I can tell you is that there is nothing greater thanGod’s name. But you must believe whole heartedly and beemotionally able to relate to the divine name that you call onfor help.

For instance, if you are a devout Christian, you may not beable to call on Allah/Buddha/Siva. Yet, I have been able toperform miracles in the lives of individuals who trusted metotally. Then there are others who claim that they are followingme, but they are only following themselves. Jesus said, “Loveme,” but how many people really do love Jesus?

Another question many people ask me is, “Isn’t surrenderbecoming powerless?” To be honest, this is a question that allspiritual aspirants ask at some point. The answer is, “No.” Infact, true spiritual surrender is a powerful state. What yousurrender is your limited ego to the Higher Self or God. Thisallows for higher intelligence to guide your life. When you giveaway your ego, you are giving away something that doesn’treally belong to you.

Things to RememberI encourage you to develop a personal relationship with

God. I recommend that you keep a picture or statue of whateverdeity you resonate with, and do the following: Light a candle,burn incense. Talk to God like a friend. Tell Him/Her what youwant. Pray for grace.

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body. Feel the grace of God in every part of you.Arut means Intelligence. Intelligence is the grace of God.

This chant and visualization reprogram the cells. As youcontinue the chant and visualization, Infinite DivineIntelligence starts to fill you.

Grace fills your mind and purifies it. Grace fills your ego and purifies it.The mind merges with grace, and merges with God.Arut perum jyoti—this mantra has come directly from the

Divine. Siva Nataraj, the dancing form of Lord Siva, gave it tome when I was Swami Ramalingam in my previous incarnation.I am so happy to share it with you.

It is very important to connect with the deity in an intimatepersonal relationship. make a connection with the deity thatyou most resonate with. Pick an area of your life that needsDivine grace to enter into it. Surrender this area to the deity.Say with deep feeling, “I give this problem to you; I ask for yourgrace to solve my problem.” Pray for grace to enter into allaspects of your life.

As you do the mantra, Arut perum jyoti, visualize white lightentering you. Keep seeing the grace light to go deeper anddeeper into your cells. Try this for 20 minutes.

The Importance of BeliefThere are people who attend my lectures, purchase my CD’s

and try mantras, and then they ask why things are still notworking. Why is God not responding to you? It’s because youdon’t believe in God. You may say to yourself that you believe inGod. But the truth is, you believe only in your ego and in theworld. You either think about yourself, which is your ego-self,or about the world. God is not the priority in this dark age.That’s why there is so much suffering and agony.

Jesus said frequently, “Believe in me, and my name can doeverything for you.” Let us be honest. How many people really

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going to do in the year 3000. It is amazing, but that is how lifehas been structured. That is how consciousness is. If we knowwe could have an accident, ill health, or accumulate debt, wecan take steps to avoid these happenings. No one needs theseexperiences.

The Challenge of Finding the True Causes of DiseaseFirst, we will focus on one of the serious problems caused by

the number six: ill health. What is ill health? It is dis-ease. Itchallenges the natural equilibrium of life. Basically, health is amatter of our own attitude. It is a reflection of our conscious-ness. Disease is caused by a certain negative attitude. If one candisperse the negative attitude, then disease will disappear.Everything starts in an invisible way and becomes visible. If wecan get into the invisible sphere where we have created thedisease and release that attitude then we have made a solid foun-dation to heal ourselves.

Doctors have been saying that we only treat symptoms andnot causes. Seldom are the true causes of illness really known.To do that requires an investigation into your past life as well asan investigation into your current life and the forces that affectyou. For instance, the planets have a strong effect on you. Inorder to get healthy, everyone should go deep into one’s ownconsciousness and understand the process of reversing a chain ofevents that has finally manifested as a disease. Anyone whosuffers from a chronic illness has, as a counterpart to theoutward disease, a deep emotional problem. Unless you addressthat problem, you will not find a permanent solution no matterwhat medicine you take. It is important that you delve deepinto your own consciousness and find the answers.

Part of the problem is the human collective consciousnessitself. Human collective unconscious is full of negativity. We fillour minds with much negative feedback. We talk about psycho-somatic illness. No one talks about psychosomatic wellness. It

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Chapter 6Health, Enemies, Debt and

Litigation

Mantra: Saravanabavaya(Pronounced: Sah Rah Vah Nah Bhah Vah Yah)

H ealth is the most important gift that one canhave in life. If you lose health, you lose every-thing. Life becomes miserable. A healthybody and mind make life enjoyable. to main-

tain physical health, we should not abuse the body with wrongfood. To maintain mental health, we should not abuse the mindwith negative thoughts. Negativity is the direct cause for dishar-mony—crime, enemies, debts, ligitations, etc. In this chapater, Iwill discuss the spiritual laws underlying debt, enemies, illhealth, etc.

The literature from many religious traditions indicate thatthe number six is negative. Six represents energies dealing withdebt, ill health, accidents, prison, and court cases, everythingthat contradicts progress. Life implies both good and bad. Inthe earth-plane, which is a plane of duality, we do not knowhow we can relate unless there are polar opposites. Six hasbecome necessary so there is a battle. Without a battle we don’tgo anywhere. If everything happens effortlessly, there will benothing to do in life.

However, avoiding problems is sometimes better than facingall of them. Remember that your future is already in yourconsciousness. In our psyche we already know what we are

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Whenever possible, you have to avoid starting things on the dayof Mars which is Tuesday. If you have a choice, don’t travel on aTuesday. Do not be superstitious about this, but just as a surfertries to catch the best waves to ride, when possible, ride theenergies that are beneficial for projects and avoid the ones thathave more “undertow” in them. Prison, court cases, and litiga-tion of all kinds also belong to the number six. You have to takethese things out of your own consciousness. That is how youkeep away from problems.

Mantra: Saravanabavaya(Pronounced: Sah Rah Vah Nah Bhah Vah Yah)

Lord Muruga is the aspect of the Divine which helps peopleto pay off debts. The mantra for invoking his energy andbusting debt is :Sa Ra Va Na Bha Va Ya

Put this sound into your… Right EyeLeft EyeRight earLeft earRight nostrilLeft nostrilTip of the tongueMiddle of the tongueBack of the tongue, tonsils and throatThird eye.

You might put this on an index card and put somewhere yousee everyday, like by the mirror in the bathroom or on therefrigerator in the kitchen, etc.

Muruga is usually depicted as having a youthful appearanceand tremendous physical vitality. His mantra helps raise thevibration of the body by making the body more conscious. Youcan chant this mantra into specific body parts to raise theirvibration. In the near future, I will reveal more information

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works on the same principle. Our focus has been on negativity.We have collectively committed ourselves to this process. Wehave not collectively committed to positivity. Once we do that,not only will we solve our problems, but the problems of theplanet as well. I hope this book will emphasize the fact of howimportant it is for us to become positive.

Debt vs Abundance: Two Sides of the Same CoinNumber six is also associated with debt. Debt is an ugly

reality. We created it due to a wrong concept. Debt and abun-dance are two sides of the same coin. We decided to be on thewrong side. All that we need to do is just go back to the otherside, the side of abundance.

You are responsible for your own consciousness. You areresponsible for whatever you decide to do. What drives you tomake poor decisions is low self-esteem, an error in conscious-ness that says that you can’t do better. You have to dissolve theidea that you are going to be in debt, that you are never goingto be self-sufficient. You have to change this consciousness.How do you do this? By raising your own consciousness. It isvery simple. Poverty is just a negative dream. But we have beenused to it for such a long time. We have inherited poverty genesfrom our parents and grandparents. They also have a say inwhat we think. It is very important that we learn to grow out ofthis consciousness. Once you do that, you have moved to theother side of the coin. Remember that abundance is also agame, but a better game, not a miserable one like being in debt.

Misadventures and AccidentsNumber six is also associated with accidents. Some people

create accidents once every year. Why does it happen? Ithappens due to their consciousness being obsessed about acci-dents. It is also reflected in their astrology chart. The chart willshow an afflicted Mars. These people are prone to accidents.Number six and the planet Mars are associated with each other.

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session.

Candle TechniqueAnother ancient practice for immortality and purification is

to keep five candles burning when you go to sleep. The Siddhastaught if there is enough light, there won’t be any disease. Youmust use common sense if you try this. Have smoke alarms andgood ventilation and so forth, and only use candles that havelead-free wicks and are safe. Some people have found candlesthat can burn all night safely, the kind some churches use intheir sanctuaries. If you cannot do five, that is ok. Do what youcan. Even one candle burning at night is purifying. But again,only do this if you can do it safely. Some people with pets orchildren will not be able to do this safely, so do not attempt it.

Watching Your ThoughtsEveryone can work on the practice of becoming more vigi-

lant to think thoughts that do no harm. Use an hourly beepingwatch to check your thought process. If you detect that themind is indulging in hatred, change the thought.

Keep consciousness around food and eat foods that do notharm you. Each person’s body is different.

The positive quality to focus on to break up problematicenergies is service to others. If you do service with a pure heart,it comes back to you multiplied a thousand-fold. Each of you iscapable of doing more than you think to help others, and thisgenerates positive energy.

Summary of the Tools for Avoiding MistakesI have given you a powerful tool in this chapter. Please use

Muruga’s mantra, Sa Ra Va Na Bha Va Ya, effectively. There areseveral things you can do with it, including:

❖ Hold in your awareness an area of the body or healthissue you wish to heal and put the mantra into it.

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about mantras. Muruga’s mantra is a good place to start withtoning up health and improving strength.

This mantra prevents mistakes, losses, especially throughoverspending. Muruga is the second son of Siva, and in Hindumythology it is said he became smart and became a mentor forhis own father. He is always shown with a peacock, which repre-sents creation in all its glory. I encourage you to use this mantrato get relief from all debts.

Muruga is a warrior, and he brings the energy of strengthand the skill of martial arts. Whenever there is a war thatrequires the intervention of the gods, he is the army general forthe heavenly forces. He is usually depicted with a vel, a kind oflance or spear, in his hand. The lance represents Parvati herself,the feminine aspect of the Divine, who goes right into battlewith him. So the mantra Sa Ra Va Na Bha Va Ya has a tremen-dous power for cutting through and defeating the negative,unhealthy energy of debts.

Clean up any credit card debts with regular payments oreven double payments and then do not overcharge again. Theemphasis in the book is getting your life together in every areaand improving it. We need a lot of good people on this planetwho are strong in every way to support bringing in higherconsciousness onto the planet.

Water Cleansing TechniquePeople strongly interested in purifying themselves may wish

to experiment with the ancient practice of taking three showersper day. This practice dramatically increases the vibration of thephysical body. The showers do not have to be long showers.Some of them can be quick rinses. Or if you have a pool or livenear a lake or the ocean, a quick dip in the water.

The Siddhas taught that water is a great purifier and doeswonderful things to clean our aura. Always you should showeror at least wash your face and heads before any meditation

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Mantra: Kleem Shreem Hreem(Pronounced: Kleem Shreem H’reem)

P lato’s Symposium discusses why are men andwomen are attracted to each other. It is becausein primordial time man and woman were justone androgyne—a being consisting of both a

male and female part. Zeus sliced the being in two, so that whatwas one being became two. Since that time the separated part isseeking to unite with the other. This is the reason for the attrac-tion between the two genders.

Tantra, the Hindu and Buddhist spiritual science of sex,affirms Plato’s notion that sexual attraction is a spiritualphenomenon.

Key Problems in RelationshipsSo, I might hear from a couple, “Yes, yes. We approve of the

sacred nature of sex, but how do you solve the innumerable rela-tionship problems?”

I have several answers for your question, but the mostimportant part is the remedy that I will suggest. First, thefollowing are some key problems in relationships:

1. You like the guy, but he doesn’t like you or vice versa.2. We like each other, but we constantly fight.3. I am always the one to make compromises. I am tired of

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❖ Hold in your awareness an area of debt you wish want toclear and put the mantra into that.

❖ Hold in your mind a person you want to forgive andagain, put the mantra into that situation.

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mind and heal your heart.

I am afraid that my spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend is going to leave me.What can I do?

Get rid of this idea from your mind. Otherwise, you willmanifest it. Nevertheless, if you prepare for separation, that isfine, too.

How can I get rid of an obsessive relationship?Every relationship, to a degree, is obsessive. The obsessive

part is due to karma that brings two people together. Once thekarma is done, the obsession is gone. Then you will celebrateyour aloneness as much you do being with another.

Relationship Karma: Compatibility CheckIn a matrimonial relationship, you should check with an

astrologer who will compare your natural charts for compati-bility. Recently I was looking at a married couple who hatedeach other. I found out that Rahu, the snake planet (i.e., theMoon’s North Node*), was in the seventh house of relationshipsin the girl’s chart. Accordingly there was constant bickering andpoisonous exchanges between them. There is a simple remedyfor the problem. Go to a Snake temple dedicated to Rahu anddo a ritual for your birth star. This simple act will help prevent alot of agony, psychotherapy, physical illness and a host of otherproblems.

Whatever may be the outward reason for your relationshipproblems, metaphysically there is only one reason: Your rela-tionship karma is screwed up. You work out your karmathrough your planets—through the nature of the house of thechart, the nature of the planet that rules the house, and theplanet that occupies the house—all cumulatively contribute to agood/bad relationship. Astrologically speaking, unless you takecare of the planet that causes the problem, you will not have alasting solution. You will continue to play games in your relation-ship. (*Note: Eastern and Wastern systems of astrology differ

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4. There is no love behavior, but the physical part is goodor vice versa.

5. Fear/economics is the reason why we are together.6. I don’t know why we are together. It is hell.

First Change YourselfOn Valentine’s Day, 2002, I felt the pain of hundreds of

thousands of people battling with relationship problems. Youwant to change your partner/brother/father/boss/co-worker. Buthave you had any success? You go to a counselor who says withrevelatory authority that you can change only yourself and notothers. He advises you to change yourself. Yes, it’s good advice.You must change yourself.

Relationshp: Some Questions &AnswersThere are several questions I am frequently asked about rela-

tionships:Are relationships important for everyone?

The need for relationship varies from person toperson. Generally speaking relationship is karmic. Thegender attraction is the collective karma of life itself. Yousee it in the plant kingdom, animal kingdom and amonghumans. Human beings dramatize relationship.How can I attract the right person?

Mr. Right and Ms. Right simply don’t exist. Everyone is acombination of good and bad. You have to find out what youcan live with or put up with. As regards attraction, it is simple.You can use mantras and chants. Kleem is the mantra forattracting relationship.I just broke up with my boyfriend/girlfriend. The pain is unbearable.Is there a solution?

The pain resulting from loss/separation/divorce/death isreally intense. A certain amount of grieving is indispensable.Practice the One Minute Meditation. It will give you peace of

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insist that you shape up not for the guy/girl, but for yourself. Ihave advised a lot of insecure guys who go on buying giftsbecause they fear that the girl is going to leave and that is notright behavior either.

Control doesn’t work at anytime. The bottom line is that noone wants to be controlled, although everyone wants to controlthe other person. I am not saying that control is not needed.Control is an organizing principle that gives stability and secu-rity.

Cultural laws are based on control. But then, there is anatural control and an imposed control. The control mecha-nism that comes out naturally is based on love. The control thatcomes out of social/cultural/legal obligation doesn’t hold forlong. Sigmund Freud discussed this issue in his writing,Civilization and its Discontent (see “The Case of Dora” andother essays).

Interpersonal Relationships and Success in LifeVedic astrology is deep into relationship compatibility which

you can check before you get involved. Rahu the snake planetcan do the same thing in the houses. To give you a few exam-ples, in the fourth house, Rahu will challenge the relationshipwith the mother; in the 9th house he will create problems withthe father; in the 10th house with the employer. Astrology is notsuperstition, and in my opinion, it is God’s gift to humanity tohelp us.

You are a social being, and it is terribly, terribly importantthat you develop interpersonal relationship skills. If there is oneprinciple that I want to emphasize for success in your life, orbusiness life, that is the importance of having very good inter-personal relationships. Relationships are not easy because theyare full of challenges. You don’t agree with the other person orthe other person does not agree with you. There are suspicions,there are jealousies, and there are some things that you always

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on the meaning of the Moon’s Nodes, but this work refers tothe Eastern School.)

Finding a “Perfect Relationship”Remember, there is nothing called a “perfect relationship.”

People growing up in the West have fantasies that they devel-oped during their pre-school and kindergarten times. The ideaof the prince showing up in a chivalrous fashion and marryingthe girl and living happily “ever after” is ingrained in theconsciousness of many women. The guys have comparativelyfewer fantasies than women do.

The solution to the problem is to find out what you want inlife. How important is that in your life? Can you livewith/without relationship? These are questions that each indi-vidual has to answer for himself/herself. There are some generalprinciples that I want to lay out.

No Mr./Ms. RightI have already explained there is no Mr. Right or Ms. Right.

The whole idea of Mr. Right/Ms. Right is based on thefollowing issues:

1. Insecurity 2. Control 3. Ego

Insecurity is based on the fear that the partner is going toleave you at some point. This fear leads to the next stage—control. One has to realize that you can’t live your life ininsecurity nor can you control anyone. If you feel insecure deepdown, you are going to manifest it outside: “The guy is going toleave me if I don’t lose weight or do a face-lift or re-shape mynose, skin or rear end.”

I am not saying that you shouldn’t shape up. But youshouldn’t do it for the guy, because the guy may leave you for afat woman with less money and less education than you have. I

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There are two answers for this question. Check if you are bynature negative. Do a self-analysis of your own behavior.Secondly, the fault may be largely the other person’s.

I want to talk about a specific situation. Let’s say you gotinto a relationship. For a few years, everything was rosy, butnow you completely hate it. However, you don’t want to leaveand start another nightmare. You say to yourself, if possible, Iwant to change this nightmare into a sweet dream. How do I doit? You may go into analyzing what caused the change in therelationship. You may think that if there is a change in thefinances/career/social situations/new people in your life,something will shift. One or many of these categories may becontributing to the relationship failure. It is important that youanalyze these factors. But most importantly, look at the planetsthat govern your relationship with your mother/father/siblings/spouse. Working with the planets is moreproductive because the planets are at the root of yoursymptoms.

Relationship is Karmic Relationship is irrational. To use religious language, relation-

ship is karmic. You often marry the man or women you havemarried at least five times in previous lives. In each lifetime, yougot married and kept the marriage partly or fully. And, againyou do it in another lifetime. Every human being has gonethrough millions of lifetimes and several millions of relation-ships. Since you don’t remember past lives, you don’tunderstand what is happening now. You may have murderedyour wife/husband in a previous lifetime. He/she has to come toavenge you. He/she may get married to you and give youconstant problems.

Or, you may be involved in an abusive relationship whereyou hurt each other on an hourly basis, establishing psychicroutines. Sometimes you cry out: “God, I want this to be over.

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have to keep private. There are so many other issues. The bottom line in learning to create a good relationship is

that you should not carry on your judgments about the otherperson. Every moment is new, and you should be willing tolook at that person in a different way. And even if that person isa scoundrel, you pretend as if there are no problems betweenyou. Then you not only pretend but you believe that it is true.And then you will find that things do change. You cannotchange the other person. You can only change yourself. So, letthe other person do whatever he wants to do. As far as you areconcerned, this is what you are going to do. You are going to beopen, you are going to be friendly, and you are not going to bejudging. Or, even if you judge, that will disappear in the nextmoment and then you are open. And then you go on with yourlife.

This is an important idea to absorb. Every moment is new.Every moment can open to a new reality.

Getting to the RootI want to emphasize that behavioral problems need to be

dealt with not at the symptom level, but at the causal level.Behavior is the manifestation of a cause, which is invisible. Hereis a possible scenario dealing with a typical relationship behav-ioral symptom: You get up in the morning. You want to makesure that you don’t even see your spouse’s/father’s/mother’s/chil-dren’s face(s). You want to avoid them. But it so happens thatyou end up seeing them. Before your mind responds, your bodyand “heart” respond. You are irritated and annoyed. Youexchange dirty looks, although outwardly you pretend to beacceptable and kind…

Your body is more authentic than your formal behavior.Everyone is psychic and knows what the other person thinks.Always follow your gut feelings. They speak the truth. You mayask me, “What if my gut feelings always say negative things?”

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not just celestial objects. Each planet is a celestial being, and thecelestial body is only an outer manifestation of the planetarybeing. The planetary being, in turn, is governed by a god. Whenremedies are being suggested, several of these factors are takeninto consideration.

Relationship problems are caused, primarily, by two planets:Mars and Venus.

MarsMars is the pre-eminent problem for fights between part-

ners. Mars represents ego and quarrels, which are also ego based:“Who is bigger, me or you?” “I make more money.” “You don’tdeserve me.” “I am way, way above you.”

Mars also will create delays (because of fears, insecurities,and so on). You may be dating a guy/girl, but you put off doinganything serious. At the end of the day, you go home separately.Not that you don’t love each other, but then, there are trustissues or fear issues or something else. All these problems arecreated by Mars. Mars is funny. He can make you extremelysexual or dry up your desire and juices. Particularly withwomen, Mars can play lots of games. He will manipulate theirmenstrual cycle and play hardball with their emotions. Mars isalso related to menstrual fluid. He can make a woman meanand a man a philanderer.

Unless you are a Mars person (don’t ask me what thatmeans—you may want to talk with a Vedic astrologer!), don’t goon a date on Tuesdays—perhaps, that will be the last date. (But,remember that may not be so bad!)

A Mars person is more inclined to pull out from a relation-ship. Even a small disagreement will trigger a serious break up.It is fair to say that almost sixty percent of breakups, separation,and divorce are caused by Mars. It’s funny that I am writing thissection today (December 2, 2001, time: 2:50 p.m. If you are anastrologer, you can do a chart for this time and see where Mars

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Can you help me?” When a person gets to this level, God doescome down to give you guidelines. He says: “No relationship isperfect. Relationship is past memory. Don’t take it seriously andkill yourself. The only true relationship is with God.”

Your True Relationship is with GodGod will eventually make you understand that you are God.

When you become God, then there will be no animosity, finger-pointing, abuse, hatred or anger. You will be just love. You loveeveryone unconditionally and not because both of you scratcheach other’s back, although that may appear to be kind of nice.

You may reply back to God: “God, that’s all fine. But do youhave a remedy for my tooth-ache?” (meaning your pain in yourcurrent relationship situation). God says: “Yes, I do. Use themantra KLEEM.”

Kleem is a seed syllable for Parvati who is a feminine aspectof the Divine, a goddess who can assist you with relationships.Some people say it is selfish to pray for a relationship, but I sayit is important to ASK for what you want. These same peoplehave no problem to go into a restaurant and tell the waitresswhat food they want for dinner that night. If you do not giveyour request to the waitress she cannot serve you.

My suggestion to you is get a set of Rudraksha mala beadsand chant KLEEM 108 times on a daily basis. It will silentlyremedy your relationship problems. (Also, watch month sevenof my Personal Transformation Program video set. It has a verypowerful meditation for relationship problems.)

Mantra: Kleem Shreem Hreem(Pronounced: Kleem Shreem Hreem)

This mantra brings in a host of Divine blessings that are verypotent seed syllables that combine effectively to bless relation-ships.

I would like you to understand some concepts concerningthe planets in Vedic astrology. In Vedic astrology, the planets are

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Mantra: Om Gum Ganeshaya Namaha(Pronounced: Ohm Gum Guh-nuh-es-shi-ya)

Mantra: Mrtyunjayaya(Pronounced: Mer-Tuh-Jah-ya-yah)

S ome people live long and some die prematurely.Some people have repetitive car accidents andexperience losses. It is important to know aboutthe subtle laws of life principles and anti-life

principles.Once I visited a student of mine at her house. Her son was

swimming in the pool. Looking at him I thought there wassomething seriously wrong with the boy. I asked her to do twothings. One, to get a Nadi reading for him. Two, take him tothe doctor for a physical. The Nadi reading came back and saidthat the boy will have some life threatening periods. One wouldbe at the age of six and another at the age of 18. A few remedieswere suggested. I personally got involved and saved the boy’slife. I am not too much interested in the medical part of his life.So I won’t discuss it here.

Apart from mantras, numbers do play a great role in influ-encing life. I have briefly talked about number four and six andtheir positive and negative values. The number eight is tied to

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is). As I write this, Mars is appearing before me with his plane-

tary god, Muruga, and feels happy. Those of you in conflictwith each other might want to propitiate Mars and his planetarygod, Muruga.

To do this, you light a candle (a small tea-candle is fine) infront of their pictures and chant their mantras.

mantra: Om Mangalaya Namaha (pronounced: Ohm Man-ga-li-ya Na-ma-ha)

The mantra for the planetary god of Mars, Muruga, is OmSaravana Bavaya Namaha (pronounced: Ohm Sa Ra Va Na BAVa Ya Na Ma Ha).

VenusVenus is another planet that is directly related to relation-

ships. Venus particularly creates romance more than sex.Between Mars and Venus, Mars is associated with sex, andVenus with romance. Venus energy is very active on Friday. Thisis the reason why lots of people go crazy on Friday evenings.The romantic energy of Venus causes you to blindly fall in love,without scruples. It is only later that you understand yourmistakes. Most of teenage love is caused by Venus. Venus energyleads to lots of partying, movies, wine and beer.

Passionate love feeling or passionate separation are caused byVenus. The planetary goddess for Venus is Lakshmi. You canpropitiate Venus and Lakshmi through the following mantras.

Mantra: Om Shukraya Namaha (pronounced: Ohm Shuk-Rah-ya Na-ma-ha)

The mantra for the planetary goddess of Venus, Lakshmi, isOm Shreem Namaha (pronounced: Om Shreem Na Ma Ha).Light a candle before a picture of each deity and chant eachmantra 108 times.

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Obstacles and the Obstructions of Life EnergyWhat is an obstacle? An obstacle is something that was

hidden initially and shows up later. To illustrate this point: youstart some action, you have some plan, and then following yourplan you start that action. But as you are progressing in actionyou find obstacles. These obstacles are unforeseen things thatarose after you started a project.

Why did you not foresee it? Because of the inability of thehuman mind to foresee everything. You can, of course, foreseecertain obstacles, but not all of them. The whole of human lifehas been spent in trying to discover obstacles which lie in thefuture, and then trying to figure out what to do to remove theobstacles. The whole life or many lives have been spent in tryingto discover obstacles and overcoming them so that the futuregenerations are able to benefit from it. In other words, thewhole human life revolves around finding obstacles andremoving them, and this is what life is mostly about.

Ganesha, Eldest Son of Siva: Remover of ObstaclesGanesha, in Hindu mythology, is the eldest son of Siva. He

represents an intelligence far beyond the reach of human intelli-gence. He is called the Lord of Obstacles or the Master ofObstacles. The study and understanding of Ganesha gives adifferent perspective on the whole concept of obstacles. Beingthe Lord of Obstacles, being one who has mastered theconsciousness which gives an understanding about obstacles,Ganesha knows right at the beginning where the obstacle is. Infact, Ganesha’s intelligence has the ability to foresee all obstacleswhatsoever.

That’s why when you want to start a project, just go toGanesha or invoke the energy of Ganesha. His energy tells youwhere the obstacles are. It tells both the conscious mind and theunconscious mind so that you do not waste your time in goingthrough the obstacles. It is intelligent to avoid obstacles right in

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life energy.Here on the East Coast while I am writing this, the weather

is as lousy as can be: freezing rain, bitter cold, piles of snow onthe road. Think about the power of eight!

The number eight represents difficulty in general. It alsoobstructs the life process. With the number eight, life itself is indanger.

Saturn and the Number EightIn Vedic astrology, Saturn is represented by the number

eight. He both promotes and destroys life. Saturn and eightcould some good for some people. But for most people, thenumber eight represents difficulty and obstruction of the lifeenergy. I recommend you avoid the number eight whenpossible. This applies to travel plans as well. When planets travelthrough the Eighth House, there are problems. For example,don’t make appointments at 8:00 o’clock; make them at 8:05.

If the Eighth House is damaged (or afflicted) in a person’sastrology chart, the life of the person may be short. The EighthHouse will also indicate a person’s losses, difficulties and prob-lems. When a planet goes into the Eighth House it becomesweak.

When a free flow of life energy is obstructed it creates thefollowing:

1. Depression2. Diseases3. Low Income4. Loneliness5. Abandonment

All these negative qualities can be diffused by one mantra:Mrtyunjayaya namaha.

Mrtyunjayaya namaha literally means “I bow to theconqueror of death.”

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Mantra: Om Gum Ganeshaya Namaha(Pronounced: Ohm Gum Guh-nuh-es-shi-ya)

(Please refer to the earlier meditation techniques.) Whilechanting Ganesha’s mantra, specifically ask him to removeobstacles. Meditation on the actual form of a deity is veryimportant. When you focus on the form of a deity, you imbibethe powers of the deity. Look at a picture or statue of Ganeshaor visualize his form in your own mind. This has a tremendousamount of power.

Meditate on Ganesha’s form with a feeling of reverence whilerepeating the mantra.

How to Talk with GodWe live in a world where science alone is “the truth.” We

have lost touch with nature and with God, so it has becomevery difficult for human consciousness in this age to access theenergy of God as easily as our forefathers did. This is a sad stateof affairs—that we have lost our emotional self, our self of faith.Ganesha’s picture or statue can bring him right here—it is notsuperstition. It is tremendously powerful.

Yogananda has a small, but delightful book which you canbuy very inexpensively. The title of the book is, How to TalkWith God. This book begins with the affirmation by Yoganandathat talking with God is a definite fact. He goes on to say thatGod is not just abstract; He has a form as well. The Bible says,“God created man in his own image.” Therefore, if God had aform, it was like a human form. So for successful meditations, itis important to visualize a form.

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the beginning. How does Ganesha do that? Because his intelli-gence can foresee what is out there in the future. This is thewhole secret of invoking Ganesha’s consciousness at the begin-ning of a project.

Symbols of GaneshaGanesha has a certain mythological form; he has an elephant

head and a pot belly. He rides on a mouse, and he has fourhands and a third eye. His form may appear to be amusing toyou by human standards; however, the form has a deepsymbolic meaning which you cannot figure out through humanintelligence. His form has a Divine power to remove obstacles.Just contemplating Ganesha’s form will accomplish this. Somepeople may want to put statues or pictures of Ganesha aroundtheir house or in their meditation area. Ganesha’s form wasdesigned exclusively by the Divine to remove obstacles. Thisarchetypal symbol addresses the unconscious energy in yourbeing and works at a very deep level.

There is a beautiful book, Loving Ganesha, by Satguru SivayaSubramaniyaswami for children and the young at heart. Forthose curious to learn more about the mythology of Ganesha,there is another book, The Broken Tusk by Uma Krishnaswami.

Gum is the seed syllable that vibrates with the energy ofGanesha. As you begin to have this sound in your conscious-ness, the unconscious mind recognizes the sound that is theintelligence of Ganesha. That is how you access the under-standing of removing obstacles and finding shortcuts. Ganeshais the god who removes obstacles, so to recite his mantra willinvoke this obstacle-removing aspect of the Divine in a powerfulway. Many people like to use this mantra for a bit at the begin-ning of a meditation session or at the beginning of a project.This recitation is for removing obstacles (physical, emotional,mental, financial, spiritual).

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Intelligence as opposed to human rationalistic intelligencewhich is called “marul.” Marul includes our science and tech-nology as well, since they follow human laws which are timebound. Truly, Arul itself is a mantra that defies any discursivereasoning used to define it. If you look at the terms “Arul” and“Marul,” there are significant resemblances and differencesmeaningful only for yogis. Personally, I suggest you use the term“Arul” instead of “Grace” because the moment you say “Arul,”you invite in the mercy and intelligence of God.

Light Up the MindNow I want to define the term light. What is light? Is it

brightness? Is it high electricity? Is it simply a visual quality?The concept of light is very complex. I think of two ways ofexplaining light. Yes, it is brightness and electricity. You haveheard that in many religions God is light.

However, the Light of God excels that of the sun or anyother star. His brightness is equivalent to trillions of stars. It isblinding to the naked eye. This light of God carries the DivineIntelligence called ‘Arul’. It moves at a tremendous speed.

When we align ourselves with the light of God we get thingsdone in the speed of light. Light depending on its intensity haslesser or more intelligence. More light means more intelligence.No light means no intelligence and no knowledge. No light isdarkness.

Darkness puts out the fire of knowledge. That is why in adark room, you cannot see. And “seeing” is knowing. You tounderstand that light is consciousness, both inside the mind andoutside in space. During enlightenment, you do experience thelight of God very directly.

What is a Miracle?Let me now define “miracle.” Miracle is an extraordinary

happening that baffles our understanding. Somebody is cured ofAIDS/cancer or someone receives huge wealth out of the blue.

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Mantra: Arul Karunai Daya(Pronounced: A-ruhl Kar-u-nayee Dah-ya)

G od, Grace, Light and Miracle are synonyns.You can accomplish all that you need toaccomplish if you take a leap of faith. To helpyou understand these concepts more deeply, I

am going to give you a working definition for each concept.

What is “God”?GOD means a Divine being who is luminous in complexion

with no materiality except a form visible only to certain humanbeings with ESP. He* is omniscient with knowledge of every-thing: past, future, and present. He is omnipresent in the sensethat he is present everywhere in time and space in the past,present and future. He is omnipotent in the sense that he iscapable of performing anything and everything including theimpossible. [*Note: The Godhead can be thought of as both maleand female.]

A Defining GraceGRACE is the quality of God. Grace doesn’t mean mercy

simply. It is mercy combined with intelligence of the supremekind. In Tamil there is a word for it which is almost impossibleto translate into English. That term is Arul. Arul means Divine

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mother, forget all about that. Say, “Mom, tell me that you blessme.” If your mother is dead, pray to her. This will give youprotection.

Allow the sound Daya to get into your third eye.

Allow yourself a MiracleThe Divine appears in dreams. We need miracles. It is stupid

to disbelieve in miracles. We have to allow them. Skepticism isnegative. If we don’t experience miracles it is because we don’tlet them happen. Let miracles happen. How? By believing. Bytrusting in the realm of the Divine. The realm of humans ishard work. Put everything in the hands of God. Pray, havecompassion. Then everything will be there.

Don’t judge things. The moment you judge things, the gooddisappears. Remove judgment from your consciousness.

If your hands are full, God can give you nothing. You haveto be totally empty. Every day, ASK for grace.

Dismemberment MeditationThis is an ancient technique that gives us access to the

condition of being when we had no body. We can then gain theknowledge as to our past life merits and demerits.

With eyes closed, imagine that you dismember yourself…just as you would dismember a toy, taking off thearms… the legs… the head… the torso.

Now all parts of the body are lying in front of you; you arejust consciousness, you stay outside the body.

The bodily parts are lying in front of you… Now ask the question, “Who am I?”Consider asking the question:“What are the dramas I have played in my previous life-

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These are some examples of a “miracle.” Miracle is one of thequalities of God. Remember what Jesus said: “…with my Fathereverything is possible.” If you need miracles in your life, it isthen necessary that you should be in God’s energy all the time.

Chant: Arut Perum Jyoti, Taniperum Karunai(Pronounced: Ar-rut Pey-Rum Jo-tee, Tani PEY-Rum Kar-u-nayee)

Now I am going to give you a technique that wraps up allthe concepts discussed above. This builds on the mantra givenin Chapter 5. It is a chant that I received from Lord Siva inmeditation during my last incarnation as Swami Ramalingam.The chant is:

Arut perum Jyoti , Arut perum JyotiTani perum Karuni Arut perum JyotiArut (Divine Intillegence, Grace)Perum Jyoti (vast light)Tani (exclusive)Perum Karunai (vast kindness)

The chant literally means Arul, which is the mercy of God,in the form of vast light. This light is the expression of the vastkindness of God. Keep chanting the words. You may want tocontemplate the word meaning to satisfy your intellect. What isthe benefit of bringing in this energy?

You will have Divine Intelligence to know everything.You will function at the speed of light.Miracles will be an everyday happening in your life.

Mantra: Daya (Pronounced: Dah-ya)Another mantra to open up compassion is Daya. This

mantra awakens grace. It invokes the mercy and compassionaspects of grace. This mantra will awaken your third eye.

Daya means compassion, particularly the compassion of theMother. This is unconditional supreme love. Pray to the Motherand seek the Mother’s blessings. Forget if you had a terrible

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❖ Constantly check how much ego consciousness youhave and how much Divine grace you are living.

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continued in this lifetime?”Say to yourself, “I do not want anything unpleasant. I want

to remove all of them right now in this moment.”Now come back into your body.Within your mind, say this affirmation:

“Father, Father, Father…Help me to accomplish my goals.Father, Father, lead me…Father, Father, dissolve my ego and lead me…”

You may want to do the “dismemberment meditation” foreach of these four areas: Job, Relationship, Finances, Health.

Become aware of what previous karma you are working outin each of these four areas. Then pick one specific karma youwant to dissolve in each area.

Techniques

❖ Now seek the help of the Divine. On four separatepieces of paper, write down the specific area you wantDivine grace to help you with (Job, Relationship,Finances, Health).

❖ Light a candle. Place each paper and make a request toGod before the candle, one at a time.

❖ Chant these two mantras for grace: Arut Perum Jyoti andDaya.

❖ Make a prayer.❖ Focus on the Third Eye and say:

Let there be grace; Let me be surrounded by grace light;Let Arul and Daya surround me.

❖ Keep the concept of grace in your awareness. The egoshoots up and keeps you in an ugly reality. ExpectInfinite Intelligence to be dawn to you and lead you to agreater reality.

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❖ How can I enhance my professional fortune? ❖ How do I create a job that I like?

Fish Where The Fish AreI’m going to talk about your karma—your action. You are

doing exactly what you wanted to do. Here’s a graphic example.During one summer, I was in India staying in a beach hotel,doing various mystical practices. The hotel was alongside anisolated beach. I had wanted to be alone and to walk on thebeach for a long distance and not be bothered by others. So thisbeach hotel was perfect for me.

I stayed at this secluded hotel for a long while, takingnumerous walks along the beach, morning and evening, andsometimes also at midnight. While I was walking, I becamefriends with a man who lived in a nearby village. He was about60 year old and belonged to the fishing community. He wouldcome and attempt to fish there, throwing his hook into theocean while standing on the shore.

Through talking to him, I found out more about this man.Believe it or not, he hadn’t caught even a single fish in the pastsix months. Nevertheless, he came every day—morning andevening—and spent about eight hours trying to catch a fish,and each day he went home with nothing. For six months, hehad no success fishing at this spot. But still, he returned eachday and threw his net at the same spot. This is what I call heavyduty fishing karma!

He was unconscious, not really looking at what he wasdoing. Each day he showed up and tried to fish, knowing that itwas very unlikely he would catch a fish there. I inquired aboutwho took care of him. He said his wife; his wife was smart. Shewas also into fishing, but she fished at a place where there werefish. She sold them and also brought some fish home for dinner.

This man performed the same thing over and over againwithout any success. If I go back to India, I will probably still

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Chapter 10Profession

Mantra: Sada Shivom (Pronounced: Sahda She-vohm)

Mantra: Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha(Pronounced: Ohm Kahla Sam-hara

Mert-ne Na-ma-ha)

T he tenth house in Vedic astrology denotesprofession, business, job, status. In fact, inSanskrit what you do—whether it is a businessor a job—is called karma. Karma literally

means action. What you do is karma because karma isperforming an action. You are doing exactly what you wanted todo. If you are a cardiologist, that’s what you wanted to be. Ifyou are a carpenter, that’s what you wanted to be. If you are asailor, that’s what you wanted to be. If you are not doinganything, that means that’s what you wanted to do. You wantedto do nothing. Realize that what you do for a living is karmi-cally determined. Most people will have a job while very fewpeople become independent entrepreneurs. This chapteraddresses these questions:

❖ What can we do to remove bad karma that has led to abad job/profession/business?

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to lead you to something else. So I am happy when peoplehonestly consider these questions.

Pull Misconceptions About Money Out of Your MindI want to remove certain misconceptions about making

money. There is a general perception that you should have ahigher education or vocational training in order to make money.This is what the consensus has been in our civilization.

I say you don’t need a PhD, an MBA, or an engineeringdegree to make a lot of money. All you need is to identify anarea which has the potential of generating money. There aremany millionaires who are high school dropouts or collegedropouts. In order to do business, you don’t really need a“higher education.” So, this is the first misconception that youhave to pull out of your mind.

To me, creating a job or creating money is a karmichappening. That’s fine, because this is the plane of karma. If youdon’t act, you become atrophied, you can’t move. I have seensome Himalayan yogis who did not move their bodily parts,and they became atrophied. I do not recommend this at all!

The same thing happens if you don’t act, you become aninvalid. So, you have to act. But make it intelligent action.Don’t be like the fisherman who fished where there were no fish!He was under the charm of karma. The charm of karma is avery, very strong, magical illusion. This illusion seems very realto you, and it is very difficult for people to get out of that. Ifocus on these things in the tenth chapter because the tenthhouse denotes your karma, your job, your profession, your busi-ness.

Mantra: Sada Shivom (Pronounced: Sahda She-vohm)

The sound, Sada Shivom, can help with tenth house matters.Put this sound into all your sense organs:

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find him doing the same thing…Why couldn’t he change his job? What kept him from

moving to another place and doing something else? He wouldn’tchange. Why? Because of karma. For this lifetime, he decidedthat he would be a fisherman, and he would do fishing whetherit was lucrative or not. I know one day he will die. He will comeback again and perhaps fish again until his fishing karma isdone.

The lesson here is it is very important: fish where the fishare, and if the fish have moved on, so should you!

Are You Conscious of What You Do?I have seen people coming into the earth-plane doing the

same thing birth after birth. Unless you become conscious, youcannot break away from your karma. Do you want to breakaway from your karma? This is the first question you need toask. And this is a question that everyone should consider. Am Iin the right job? Karma forced you to become an attorney.Karma forced you to become a professor. Karma forced you tobecome a businessman. Karma forced you to become aprogrammer. Ask yourself these questions: Are you happy doingthis thing? Are you making enough money? Is it worthwhile tocontinue this? This is a very, very important thing for everyoneto ask. The moment you ask this question, you will begin togenerate certain impulses within your karmic consciousness.Normally people don’t ask this question. They are like the fish-erman who goes on fishing at the wrong spot and doesn’tevaluate his action. Now, once you ask this question, you mayfind yourself likely to answer. “Well,” you say to yourself, “Ihave been doing this job because this is where my training is. Iknow that there is not enough money for me to pursue thisbecause I work long hours and get paid very little money. I amnot happy. But what can I do? I have no training in otherareas.” At least if you begin to ask this question it opens a way

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doing. Because the moment you begin to contemplate what youare doing, then you will challenge that karma. But if you justcontinue unconsciously with that of karma, it is going to bethere for ten years. So it’s important for you to ask this question,“Am I going to be doing this for another ten years of my life?”

Time and MoneyHere we’re going to talk about the concept of time and

money. We all know that time and money are related. Time ismoney, and money is time. It is very important that we put thisconcept very deep in our consciousness. People who havemastered material wealth had one thing in their mind: theirconcept of time. They wanted to make their goals within acertain time frame, for instance, a daily goal, weekly goals,monthly goals. And once you have a weekly goal, say, “I want tomake $2,000 a week,” you will start looking at possibilities tomake that money. You may want to ask yourself, “What can Ido to make this $2,000?”

I urge everyone to keep a calendar. Write out weekly goals.There are usually four weeks in a month. Meditate on how tomake the most of your time.

What options do I have? What can I do? Even asking thesequestions are worthwhile. The Divine is going to help you. TheHigher Self is listening to you. It is going to pop ideas into yourmind. “Hey, this is not good. Go here, go there.” You will haveguidance from the inside.

Mantra: Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha (Pronounced: Om KAH-la Sam-Har-a Mert-neNah-ma-ha)

This is the mantra that will remove time karma. Thesesounds will destroy bad time, slow time. Recite this mantra overand over, as much as possible.

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one minute in the left eyethe right ear the left earthe right nostrilleft nostrilthe tip of the tonguethe middle of the tonguethen the tonsils. Then come to the Third Eye, which is your pituitary.

These sounds will help harmonize you with the right profes-sion.

Two Aspects of KarmaNow, I want to talk about two areas or aspects of karma.

One is the karma that is associated with time and secondly,karma associated with space. They are together. Nowdays, evenphysicists say that space and time unfold together. I want you toget some deeper insight into this.

Time KarmaLet’s first talk about time and karma. Say that, karmically,

you have been involved in a job for ten years and that duringthat time you were very focused on what you are doing. Let’ssuppose that on the eleventh year you suddenly say to yourself,“Oh my God—I have been so stupid; I spent ten years doingthese stupid things.” And, subsequently, on the eleventh yearyou might end up doing something which would bring youmore money. In the eleventh year, perhaps you would make inone deal all the money you made in the past ten years. It is amatter of intelligence.

And why did you realize it at the eleventh year and notduring the ten years that passed by? It is because of karma. Younever sat down and analyzed it. That’s why I recommend thatpeople should contemplate and think about what they are

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removes the idea that anything is impossible. Many people have found tremendous things happening in

their lives with these two chants. I am so happy to make these sounds available to you as they

are so powerful.

Space KarmaNow, I will talk a little bit about space—or place—karma. I

travel a lot and use limousines to travel from my home to theairport. Most of the drivers who work for this company knowme; I have met at least 30 or 40 of their drivers. It’s a fairly largecompany. Often in my conversation I will ask my driver a ques-tion (a question I ask other people as well): I inquire whether hewas born and raised in Pittsburgh. Most of them say yes. Andthey don’t want to move out of Pittsburgh. This is true ofpeople living in New York or Florida.

Everyone has space karma. They hang on to a place and diein the same place. If you change your space karma, there will betremendous happenings in your life.

I can give my own example. I lived in Pittsburgh for a longtime. Until I moved out of Pittsburgh, nothing really happened,as far as getting my teaching to the world. It’s only when Istarted giving lectures in New York and the West Coast that Ibegan to have people coming to me.

Now I come to Pittsburgh only occasionally. I’m everywhere,all over the world. And when I move from country to country, Ifeel the karma—the space karma—being challenged. What doesthis have to do with you? If you have lived in a particular cityfor a long time and if you’ve not had any success, then youmight want to move. Make a decision. It’s not going to be easybecause karma is very powerful and won’t easily permit you tomove.

If you move to another city or another country, you willcreate totally new karmic impulses. This is very, very important.

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I pray to the God of Time, to give me understanding abouttime.

Chant with sincerity and deep emotion. You are asking theDivine to condense time for you, to accelerate time for you.

In the Greek tradition the god of time is called Kronos. InSanskrit, the god of time is called Kala. The English wordschronology and calendar seem to be drawn from these words.

Destroying Karma, Creating KarmaIn addition to working with this sound, become conscious

of how you spend your time. Relate your concept of time tomoney. That’s very important. When you do these thingstogether (the meditation, and then consciousness focused onweekly goals) you will find miracles happening in your life. Butthen, you should not get distracted, you have to really befocused on it.

Since you are dealing with karma, you may want to listen tothe Karma-Busting CD which has the chant Thiru NeelaKantam as often as you can. Thiru Neela Kantam producessounds that diffuse your karma. The Tamil Siddhas call it the“karma-busting” mantra. You can also use Ara Kara, becauseAra Kara is new karma. The Ara Kara sound was discovered bythe enlightened sage Thirumular and is presented in his work,Tirumantivam as a tool for manifesting your desires. Be gratefulto him for sharing this wisdom which he received through hisown meditations. Your gratitude for each mantra or tool createsan inner connection between you and the world of enlightenedbeings who have received and passed on these deep wisdoms.This inner connection can greatly assist you. Always be gratefulfor receiving spiritual knowledge.

So to repeat:v Thiru Neela Kantam destroys karma that you want to get

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universe, it can take a lifetime for the manifestation to occur.Things are very slow and dense. They move very slowly. It took300 years after the death of Christ for Christianity to take rootand become a major force. The same thing happened with theteachings of Buddha. It took 400 years. But we have learned touse time in a different way. Time for Jesus, time for Buddha wasvery slow time because there was less knowledge of materialscience.

Science and TimeOne thing that science has given us is a knowledge of how to

better handle time: we want everything fast! Jesus had to walk,so did the Buddha. Now we have airplanes, trains, cars… Wehave microwaves that cook faster than conventional ovens orfirewood. We know how to do things fast, but we should knowhow to do things even faster.

Meditation: Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha(Pronounced: Ohm Kahla Sam-hara Mert-ne Na-ma-ha)

Pray to Lord Siva (Infinite Intelligence) to kill time: Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha

Close your eyes: Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha!

Kala means time Samhara means destruction Murti is the aspect of the Divine that destroys time. I bow to

Him. Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha

Pray to God to allow you to experience the death of time,“Make me timeless. Give the experience of timelessness.”

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You will come into contact with different forces.

Mantra: Om Kala Samhara Murtne NamahaPut this mantra in your:

eyes, ears, nostrils and other sense organs. You will create new time. We all need new time. We don’t

want to live in old time. Old time is karmic time.As regards space karma, I just want to add one more thing.

In many spiritual traditions, people go on pilgrimages.Pilgrimages are trips to sites with a great amount of power.That’s why I take people to India to certain power spots. Oncethey go to the power spots, their karma that is so frozensuddenly begins to become liquid. When it is liquid, you canthen your change karma.

Focus on Your Destiny by Going InsideOne day I was reading the Koran and Muhammad was

praying to Allah. The prayer is as follows: “Allah! You are light! Turn every cell in my body into light, my

blood, my nerves, my eyes, my ears. Turn them into light! Turn theenvironment into light!”

This is the true teaching of Muhammad. When you are quiet, focus on your destiny. You have a

destiny and that destiny was decided a long time ago. It is goingto unfold day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute intomaterial reality. You can close your eyes whenever you are aloneand meditate on, “What’s my destiny?” When you do so, youwill alter your destiny because you are going inside, and the veryact of going inside will create new impulses. Then you willbegin to ask: “Why I am doing it? What am I doing? What elsecan I do?” It is important to see how the inner and the outerselves are connected.

The outer is dependent on the inner. Just ask yourself, “Howcan I improve things?” This contemplation itself is a meditation.What happens is that when you put something out to the

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Non-movement is timelessness. Movement is time! Thismantra profoundly accelerates and dissolves the influence oftime.

Kala Samhara Murtne Swaha!!Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!

Peace, Peace, Peace!

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Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha! Time is destroyed within me!!!”

Behind this mantra is a story.

God Time or the Death of TimeWhy does Siva want to kill time? The reason is because time

slows everything down. We want to be timeless. In the Hindumythology, there is a different association of time with differentgods. What we humans experience as one year is just one dayfor the angels. One year of work that we do can be done byangels in one day. The gods are better processors of time. Oneyear is one hour. So if someone is getting paid $100,000 peryear, if you are a God, you will get paid that much per hour.Vishnu does better than Brahma: one year for Vishnu is 15minutes; for Brahma, 30 minutes. For Siva, one year is 1millionth of a second. He moves very fast. For Him, everythingabout the world is a joke and He wants to help you out of thisworld. This mantra brings in the very fastest energy.

Meditate on these sounds and pray: Kala Samhara Murti:I want to live your time, not my time!Then He will give the ability to experience His time.

Time and the PlanetsIt is the planets that create time through their revolutions. It

is important to understand the relationship between planetarymovement and time. We have a solar calendar, a lunar calendar,and even the names for the days of the weeks have their originin the names of planets (i.e, Saturday is Saturn’s Day, Sunday isSun’s Day, and so on.) These energies and their influences canall be stopped through the Grace of the Divine. The power ofthese sounds puts a hold on them just for your sake so that youcan experience non-movement.

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Two Pros, Profit and ProfessionI want to make a distinction here between profit and profes-

sion. The tenth chapter of this book focused on profession orcareer. This chapter is about profit. It is very important to makea distinction between the tenth house and the eleventh house,because sometimes you may do something for business or jobthat may not be the source of profit. Profit can come throughmany ways, which may not be directly related to your job orbusiness. It could be an investment in which you are notdirectly involved, a windfall or inheritance. Profit is not neces-sarily directly related to what you are doing in your career. Itmay be something that you do with others in which the otherperson plays a primary role and you play a lesser role. You canhave several of these kinds of investments. For profit, youshould be open to different areas, not just focused on one thing.

Branch Out into the LightYou should not be tied down to doing just one thing.

Branch out and look for opportunities, but allocate your time orhave a time plan. “There is so much time available for this andso much time for that.” Most of the time your karma will notlet you go into other areas. If you have karma to be a dentist,then you will think, “I am a dentist, I am a dentist.” If you wantto become a movie producer or a stockbroker, then you have togive up the dentist identity. That is very important. There is asaying in Tamil: “The money that you make by selling dogs willnot bark.” Do you understand? You can sell dogs and makemoney, but that money is not going to bark, because it cameout of selling puppies (a beginning stage, not yet manifestingfull-grown potentials). So you have to break the old identifica-tion pattern. At any point in time you should be willing tochange careers or businesses.

To successfully turn a profit, you have to get rid ofvictim/loser consciousness, laziness, or negative forces. The

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Mantra: Swarna Rajadas Srajam(Pronounced: Swar-na Rah-ja-das Srajam)

I t doesn’t matter whether you’re just doing a job orrunning a business. It is important that you earn aprofit. How do we enhance our profit-makingconsciousness? I want you to learn moral and ethical

laws of profit-making. Profit is a very elusive thing to thenormal human mind. Many people are deluded; they simply donot allow themselves to focus on profit. One attitude is, “Theexisting condition is so miserable, who worries about profit…ifI can just pay my bills. That’s fine.” Another attitude is, “Well, Idon’t even want to look at my finances. Let me be totallyunconscious about it because it is too depressing to look at.”

Profitable OutlookSo, I want to change the “unprofitable” attitudes towards

profit. I would like you to be profit-conscious all the time. Andthe first prerequisite is having a positive attitude toward profit.You have to take a really hard look at what you are doing andask yourself if it is worthwhile continuing to do it. What thatmeans is you have to do the math all the time; you have to findout what the profit is going to be. If you are not doing this now,that’s fine; just promise yourself that you will do this down theroad. You must have a very clear vision of it, otherwise, nothingpositive will happen.

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tions that make big bucks and he put that awareness into hishead. So what you present to your logical mind also helps tochange your thinking. Consciously, you have to do somethingabout it, too, placing more focus on profit awareness.Constantly evaluate whether or not what you are doing is theright thing to do.

Asking the Right QuestionsI met a man in Canada, who told me that he brings $100

million dollars to his company and the company gives him$100,000. He started asking himself these questions, “Whydon’t I do something to get the $100 million for myself, ratherthan making this $100 million dollars for someone else? Afterall, I bring this money from my division, my intelligence, mycontacts.” So, it’s important to engage in practical thinkingabout profit in addition to working with the sounds. VedicAstrology can also be very helpful in discovering your mostprofitable areas. You can do this by having an Eleventh Housereading done.

Mantra: Swarna Rajadas Srajam (pronounced: Swar-na Rah-ja-das Sr-jam)

In Sanskrit, Swarna Rajadas Srajam means, “garlands of goldand silver.” The Goddess Lakshmi is visualized as wearinggarlands of gold and silver. This mantra comes from a longerchant for Lakshmi in the ancient sacred scriptures called Vedas,but for now I want you to understand that Swarna RajadasSrajam is a mantra specifically for profit. In Hindu mythology,Kubera, the God who is the banker in heaven, used this mantrato get his position!

Archetypically, Swarna Rajadas Srajam has lots of othermeanings. The “bottom line” is that these sounds will give you adesire to acquire gold which is an indicator of wealth. (Notdollars or pounds or euros, but gold, the precious metal.) Again,picture the images for Lakshmi that were introduced earlier in

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mantra I’m giving you in this area will help you to become alert.When you are not alert, what happens is that you simply passthe time without analyzing it. Thoughts become lethargic. Forexample, “Well, at least I’m paying my bills now,” or“Somehow, I’m getting by.” This is a attitude common amongmany people. To have the right attitude toward profit, this kindof thinking must be changed. We have to develop a very strongmaterial consciousness. A very strong material consciousness isrelated to profit consciousness. So profit consciousness isgaining more material consciousness, material insight, materiallight.

Once, I was reading some of Einstein’s original papers wherehe was defining matter. What is matter? He says that matter islight energy stopped. When you stop light energy, it becomesmatter. If you arrest the flow of energy, it turns into matter. Andif it doesn’t become matter, it just flows away. So we needmatter, although matter is a very “stuck” condition, we still needmatter because we are material beings. We can change light intomatter—and matter into light. Put another way, profit=matterin Einstein’s famous energy equation: Light (energy)=matter(profit) x (speed of light ) squared.

Delete the Loser MentalityEach soul has its own qualities. It is a kind of programming.

Some souls come here with profit-orientation, but only some.Most come with an orientation to lose. That’s why there are somany losers everywhere. I want you to delete loser consciousnessand to install profit consciousness.

So use this mantra wisely. This is for the unconscious layerof your mind. For the conscious levels, engage your logicalmind in profit thinking.

I read something once about Bill Gates. Even when he was ahighschool boy, he had a passion for reading Fortune magazine.He read this all the time. Fortune magazine deals with corpora-

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Chapter 12Expense and Enlightenment

Mantra: Gayatri (Pronounced: Guy-ya-tri )

W e are at the last leg of a 12-stepprogram to change your life. In somesense, this chapter is odd. It putstogether two totally unrelated areas:

expense and enlightenment. But the astrological scheme that Ihave followed throughout the book accommodates these twothemes.

Expense is ThoughtlessnessFirst, let’s look at expenses. Most of the time we overspend

or spend unnecessarily because we have not thought thingsthrough. To me, thoughtlessness and expense go together. I’mnot saying that expenses can’t happen unexpectedly. They dohappen. But you can control your expenses if you become moreaware, if you anticipate. But unfortunately, we do not haveenough consciousness. And when we don’t have enoughconsciousness, we just let things go on in an erratic way, andwhen things go in an erratic way, they often end up in unneces-sary expenses. So, the way to control your expenses is to becomemore conscious about cash flow.

Necessary vs Unnecessary ExpenseOf course, you should spend for good causes because what-

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Chapter 2. See all those images: Lakshmi with a golden body,with elephants on both sides, the moon, the money tree, thehorse…

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You have to see what the ego structure is and how thoughtscome to your mind, and how what you see—the appearance ofthings—are only illusions that come through a limited aware-ness. We block much of our total potential awareness in orderto have an ego experience. All that we process is just a linear egoexperience. We disallow any other experience to come throughus. Even scientists agree that we only use five to ten percent ofour mental potential. So, what happens to the rest of the brain?This information is blocked by the mind. Now, it is very impor-tant at this point in time that our responsibility to the world isover so we have more time to reflect on, “What is the nature oflife?” How are we going to deal with our own consciousness?This is very, very important because it is going to give us aninsight into what we are going to be doing in the future,whether we want to come back to this earth-plane or end rein-carnation and the cycle of birth and death.

Is there Lasting Happiness?One thing that I must tell you is that nothing of this earth-

plane is going to give you lasting happiness. Money is amotivating factor for many of you as long as you don’t havemoney. However, once you have money, then you will find thatit has its own limitations. There are other things that you stillneed to deal with, like an aging body, aches, pains, diseases andso forth. But, still, we love this painful body. And we have notyet considered a way of mastering our limitations—at the levelof the mind and at the level of the body.

A man came to me and said, “Sri Siva, I will come back toyou when I am say, seventy, and have stopped working.” He wasthen sixty-five. And I told him, “You are already sixty-five, andyou want to work for five more years, even though there is noneed for you to work anymore because you already have all themoney in the world.” But he thinks that he should come to meonly when he can no longer make any more money. That’s the

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about unnecessary expenses. Consider those things whichconstitute expenses at two levels: unnecessary and necessary.Necessary expenses pertain to your education, health, housing,travel, your vacation, and your comfort.

It is the unnecessary expenses you must learn to avoid.Again, as in earlier chapters, we will learn sound vibrationswhich will spontaneously help you to make some decisionswhich will cut down on unnecessary expenses while promotinglegitimate expenses that are going to be helpful to you. We willdo that when we come to the meditation at the end.

Spiritual Life Begins at 50Now, I want to talk about your spiritual life. In India they

have a life model: Everyone has to go through certain stages inlife. When you are young, you go to school and get a degree.And after that, you get married, get a job and then you spendall your time trying to make money; not only make money, butsave money. And then at fifty or fifty-five, you must retirebecause you shouldn’t be working forever. I would encouragepeople to retire when they are fifty or fifty-five at the most. Andwhat you do after that? In India, they call it Vanaprasta. Itmeans going into a jungle. You leave the world. You do notwant to experience the marketplace anymore. You just want tofocus your attention on consciousness. Your spiritual lifebecomes very important at that point in time. This is a verygood model because by that time you no longer have the energyyou had when you were young. So, you conserve energy and useit to reflect on, “what is life?”

The important thing about spirituality is that it gives youawareness or puts you in touch with who you are. Who you areis not what you have been doing on this earth-plane, who youare related to, and so on. Who you really are is the Being whosetask it is to understand the infinite levels of awareness, ofconsciousness.

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Saint Thirimular, who gave us the Ara Kara meditation,talked about the sun at length. He said the sun needs to beunderstood at different levels. In the galaxy, there is the centralsun known as the macrocosmic sun. Then there is the local sunthat reflects the soul, and at an eternal level, the mind.

Mantra: Gayatri(pronounced: Guy-ya-tri)

Now I am going to teach you a prayer to the Sun, who is thelife giver. Remember that the Sun is not only just a star, but aBeing whom ancient people called the Sun God.

The purpose of this chant is to enhance the potency of thelife principles, including one’s body, mind and soul. Visualizethe sun’s rays streaming forth into your body, mind and soul.

This is an ancient Sanskrit chant. It is called the Gayatrimantra, the prayer to the sun. I am happy to give this to you.(Pronounciation follows the chant.)

Om Bhur Bhuvah SwahaTat Savitur VarenyamBhargo Devasya DhimahiDhiyoyona Prachodayat

(Pronounced:(Ohm Bur Boo-Vah Swah-haTaht Sah-Vee-Toor Vahr-Ehn-YumBhahr-go Deh-Vahs-Yah Dee-Mah-HeeDee-Yoh Yohn-Ah Prah-Choh-dah-Yaht)

The sounds Om, Bhur, Bhuvah, Swaha, Savitur—they allrefer to different principles of consciousness and different lightprinciples. Light and consciousness are one and the same. Thesesounds have their own light equivalence. They are light wavesindeed.

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time that he thinks he can spend time on God or self-analysis.

True BlissTrue bliss comes when the mind dies. True bliss comes when

the breath goes into the susumna, the central nadi or energychannel, which is invisible. We don’t usually access it because wespend most of our time “blah blah-ing.” Either we “blah blah” toourselves or to another person. It is important for everyone toshut up and meditate for a while everyday.

During this millenium, our spiritual nature is going to berevived. We are going to understand more about spiritual laws.This is realling going to give us a new life. Now let us go to themantras that can open your spiritual awareness.

The sounds that you’ll be learning later on during theMeditation portion will deliver you from bondage—thebondage of the human mind and body. It will also help you cutdown on expenses caused by lack of consciousness or awareness.

Sun and Seeds of lifeI want you to learn how you can strengthen the life energy

within you. Technically speaking, what promotes life is theenergy of the sun. Without the sun, there would be no life onthe earth-plane. The rays from the sun not only support life,but the rays of the sun are indeed seeds of life itself.

The sun represents the reflection of the soul. Obstruction ofthe sun’s energy on any level creates unhappiness. You may haveheard about winter depression. Some people get depressed inthe winter because of the non-availability of positive rays, whichare joys of nature from the sun. These people are normally askedto expose themselves to bright light in order to treat theirdepression. Even ordinary people don’t feel happy duringwintertime when there is less sunlight. So, bright light is used totreat winter depression. In the spring when you see the sun andthe sunlight is available more frequently, you feel so muchhappiness!

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Travel to different foreign countries can alter your fortune. It isimportant that you breathe different life energies from differentlands.

Negative Enlightenment and Ignorant GurusThe following section is for those on a spiritual path. It gives

you some checks and balances to help you on your way.Everything is changing constantly. We call this evolution.

Evolution is brought about by time. Time, as it progresses,reveals many hidden secrets about knowledge and the materialuniverse. What was once unknown is known now. What isunknown now will be known someday in the future. Thebottom line is that everything is changing every moment. But,there are institutions that have resisted change: Our religiousinstitutions and our fanatical attachments to particular faiths.We say God is beyond reason and logic. It is a matter of theheart and inner knowingness. I totally agree with this. But Iwant to warn those on a spiritual path about ignorant gurus andnegative enlightenment. These terms may be consideredoxymorons, but they exist.

Evaluate Spiritual Teachings along with the TeacherMany years ago when I gave a New Year’s Eve lecture in Los

Angeles, I talked about the ignorance of the Buddha. I said theBuddha lived in a primitive society without electricity, airconditioning or antibiotics. Science and technology, as we knowthem today, did not exist then, so the Buddha suffered alongwith his contemporaries. They slept on hard floors, walked inthe hot sun, drank dirty water and died of epidemics or cloggedarteries. Although enlightened, Buddha was not only condi-tioned by lack of scientific or technological knowledge, but by acrippling monastic and ascetic culture. The Buddha, though hecalled himself a rebel and was known for his polemics againstHinduism, nonetheless was a victim of Hindu asceticism andcelibacy imposed by the Upanishadic tradition of pre-Buddhist

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Bhargo devasya dhimahiDhiyoyona prachodayat

Here are some of the meanings embedded in this mantra:bhur (earth)bhuvah (atmosphere)swaha (heavens)tat (that)savitur (of the source)varenyam (to be held sacred)bhargo (light)devasya (of the effulgent)dhimahi (we meditate on)

Some people like to use the Gayatri mantra on Sunday,literally the Sun’s Day.

Prayer for Immortality This is the prayer for immortality.

Tryambakam YajamheSuganhim PustivardhanamUrvarukamiva BandhanatMrtyor muksyia ma’mrtat

(Pronounced:Try-Um-Bah-Kum Ya-Jahm-Mah-HaySoo-Gahn-Dim Poosh-Tee Vahr-Dah-NahmOor-Vahr-Oo-Kumee-Vah Vahn-Dahn-AhnMrit-Your Mook-Shee-Yah Mahm-Ree-Taht)

Put these sounds into the eyes, ears, tongue, Third Eye, andso on as I’ve instructed with other mantras.

Savings Consciousness: A Moving TargetSome people end up spending more than they earn. It is due

to a lack of savings consciousness. It is important to develop asavings habit, for money in the bank gives safety and security.

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Particularly we need to discriminate between positive and nega-tive enlightenment, ignorant gurus and enlightened gurus. Thefollowing comparisons will help you decide the key factorsabout the four categories that I have described for yourself.

Negative Enlightenment Teachings1. Desire is the cause for misery and the senses cause

bondage to the world. Practice renunciation.2. Anniliation of the ego.3. Sit in meditation all the time.4. Lead a life of poverty with minimum resources.5. Live in the moment and don’t plan for the future.6. Work is distraction from enlightenment, therefore don’t

work.7. Sex is evil.8. Senses are evil.9. Emotions and fantasies are evil.

Positive Enlightenment Teachings1. Life should be full of positive desires, but one should

remain detached from both joy and suffering.2. Nurtures positive ego, which leads to self-esteem. 3. Sit in meditation for a period of time, e.g. an hour, but

be mindful all day.4. Live a comfortable life with moderate luxury.5. Live in the moment but secure your present and future

needs.6. Work is divine and better than inaction and unemploy-

ment.7. Sex is divine.8. Senses are nourishing, but keep them under control.9. Emotions and fantasies give meaning to life.

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and post-Vedic India. This is what made the Buddha leave hiskingdom, father, wife, and son in search of enlightenment. Theideal was renunciation and asceticism. Desire was seen as theroot cause of misery: Seek nirvana through meditation and endthe cycle of birth and death. The Buddha is understood to havefollowed the so-called “middle path” which avoids extreme lifestyles. Did he follow one? Apparently not. He took to beggingand didn’t allow women in his monasteries for a long time.

So far I have dwelt on the negative qualities of the Buddhaand his way of life. Is there anything positive about him? Yesthere is a lot. The Buddha knew about the unknowable. He wasa great scientist of superconsciousness and nirvana. He acquiredtremendous amounts of superhuman and supernatural powers.He lived like a superman, which in his opinion was better thanbeing a prince or king. Life to him was worth renouncing forthe sake of Enlightenment.

I want you to ponder the question: Do we have to renouncelife in order to reach enlightenment? Most religions, if not all,would say yes to this question. That is how the split between thelayman and the clergy—the profane and the sacred—wascreated. It is time for all religionists to join together and todevelop a hard-nosed look at their holy men and women, alongwith the teachings within their respective traditions. I know thatthis will create a lot of turmoil and confusion among congrega-tions emotionally tied to their particular religions and beliefs.Yet, I am not professing a rationalistic theology. Religion andspirituality are beyond reason. However, I urge you to look atthe neglect and lack of interest that churches, temples, mosquesand monasteries have suffered. People are less able to relate totheir religion easily except through some form of fundamen-talism, which is not a desirable option for those desiringEnlightenment.

We need to contemporize our religion, faith and spiritualpractices. In order to do this we have to use discernment.

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to keep political power.3. Manipulates students to stay with them through fear,

guilt and eternal oaths.4. “I am God or the only one who holds the truth.

Everyone else is either false or mistaken.”5. Wealth is bad and you should give up your belongings

(perhaps to him for safe custody).6. Outwardly condemns sex although it is contradictory to

his conviction and practice.7. Does not socialize with students in order to keep the

students in awe and wonder.8. Donation to the guru or his institution will wash away

your sins.9. Doesn’t talk about his struggles with thoughts and

desires, but lies to the world that he is in samadhi andwithout thoughts.

10. Full of diseases in the body, and blames them on to thekarma of the students and the world.

11. Claims that his personal suffering is due to taking onthe karma of the people of the world.

Checklist for Discerning an Enlightened Guru1. Totally free from concepts, constantly moving forward

and progressive. Robes are not as important as innerdevelopment.

2. Not attached to institutions and hierarchy. Least polit-ical.

3. Always asks his students to feel free to quit without fearor guilt.

4. “I am on the path still evolving.” Respects others’ teach-ings and recommends their books and teachings.

5. Wealth is freedom. You should save money for yourrainy days.

6. Affirms sexuality and its divinity.

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Finding an Authentic Guru is HardDuring the month of February 2000, I took a group of my

American students on a pilgrimage to India. We went to asacred mountain in search of the Siddhas (perfected Beings). Imet a guy in a deep saffron robe and long matted hair. Hewould not speak and it was said that he lived on one meal a day.I gave him some money. He wanted to have his picture takenwith my students and me. I complied, though feeling uncom-fortable. When I was leaving, he asked me to write something. Iwrote to him that he should give up his pretensions aboutsilence and fasting and try to get a job. Later on, the templepriest told me that the so-called saint became silent because hedidn’t know the answers to the questions of his people. All thathe needed to do was fake a mystical look and raise his hands inblessings. He raised one hand if the donation was poor and twohands if it was generous.

Many years ago when I was young, I studied with a guruwho has been a university professor for 30 years of his life. Hewas a highschool dropout, but his knowledge was greater thanmost PhDs. Most universities recognized him and awarded himhonorary doctorate degrees. He would never teach for money,but selected one or two people whom he would teach individu-ally. He introduced me to Sri Vidya, an ancient Tantrictradition. The day he initiated me, the Goddess appeared to mein a dream. This is an example of a real teacher. However, thisdoes not mean that anybody who doesn’t collect money is amaster teacher. Many teachings are available free of cost fromgurus in India who act like the guru I mentioned formerly. It isvery difficult to find an authentic guru.

Checklist for Discerning an Ignorant Guru1. Fanatical, fundamentalist. Robes and beard are more

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7. Mingles with his students and is easily accessible.8. Talks freely about his mistakes and shortcomings.9. Donations may help, but has to be on the basis of true

inner transformation.10. Talks about battle with the body and tries to be

healthy.11. Claims that his personal suffering is due to his lack of

knowledge to handle karma successfully.

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“Post-It’s” from the Divine, giving explanations and directionsfor this lifetime. Many traditions have predicted that this newmillennium will be the setting for tremendous material andspiritual evolution for many people. Nadi astrology is a key toolfor positive, rapid transformation as it explains past errors whichhave resulted in the current state of affairs in one’s life andparticular remedies to perform in order to alleviate difficultiesand open up a new, more positive karmic track in this lifetime.

I am very excited to make knowledge of this most precioustool available in the West. The Nadis truly come from “theother side.”

Siddhas and the Sacred LeavesMany of the Siddhas are not yet well-known in the West,

although one of them, Babaji, has been written about inYogananda’s book, Autobiography of a Yogi. Another bookdescribing the yogic abilities of these masters is, Babaji and the18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition, by M. Govindan. In thismillennium, the wisdom and secrets of the Siddhas are beingpassed into the West more openly for the first time, and I havespecial permission to share things which have never before beenreleased publicly. Many people in the West will benefit enor-mously from these.

The enlightened Siddha masters founded Nadi astrologytruly a long, long ago. Lord Siva, pleased with their devotion,bestowed upon them some exclusive powers. He gave themincredible clairvoyance to know the past, present and future.The Siddhas etched their priceless knowledge on ancient palmleaves called Nadis. Associated with you in your Poorva Janma(previous birth), they promised to help you in a future life, i.e.now. By the Nadi law, you will be involuntarily attracted to theleaves by destiny only. The very fact you are reading this far intothe description of the Nadis is an interesting omen, as noteveryone even hears about them, let alone is curious about

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Chapter 13Nadis

T his chapter may not appeal to everyone, butthere are some people for whom this informa-tion will be a God-send. Literally. There aresome people who are seeking a deeper explana-

tion about their karma, what they did in a past life that hascaused what they are dealing with now…

So consider, have you ever wished for answers about whysome things in your life look the way they do and what youcould do to remedy some of your difficulties?

In India, there is a secret esoteric tradition that has keptrecords detailing the past, present and future for many people.This is called Nadi Astrology. These records were written byvarious enlightened masters who are collectively called theSiddhas. I have mentioned them several times earlier in thisbook.

If you have been drawn to this book and have been findingit helpful, these enlightened Siddhas may have known you in apast life when you lived in India. If so, at that time they agreedto help you during a crisis in a future lifetime, and they alwayskeep their word. For many people, that “future” lifetime is actu-ally the one they are in now. The promised help they will receivewill come from Nadi Astrology.

If you are drawn to investigate Nadi Astrology in this life-time, there is a strong chance that you have a connection withthese Siddhas and there are records waiting for you, sort of

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while making the pilgrimage visit. By offering prayers in theparticular temples recommended for you, you will leave thetemples with divine blessings which will literally open up a newlife for you.

It is not enough to know your destiny, whether it is good orbad. An important step in creating a new life is the ability tochange and reconstruct it as you wish it to be. This is a yogicart.

I have people who are interested in seeking their Nadi leafstart the search with Siva Nadi, the supreme Nadi, which is adialogue between Lord Siva and his consort Parvati—bothconsidered true adepts of enlightened yogic arts. MahasivaSukshmam Nadi, the greatest Siva Nadi, contains minute detailsabout every aspect of human life. Whereas other Nadis usuallygive predictions for every five years or so, this Nadi will givepredictions on a yearly basis or even every six months. However,not everyone on the planet has a leaf available with Siva Nadi.For some people, the Siddha who is helping them left otherleaves. For esample, there are Nadis from other illustrious saintssuch as Visvamitra, Bogar and Pulipani.

To find out if you have a leaf, your thumbprint is used aspart of the “look-up” process. Everyone’s thumbprint is unique.Nadi astrologers search through the palm leaves based on thepattern of the thumbprint to find out if you have a Nadi leafcontaining your destiny, and remedial suggestions about how toremove negative karma. Nadi readings will accelerate the processof burning your karma and can completely alter the course ofyour destiny.

Some of the Nadi remedies may suggest that you visit aspecific temple. These temples have been built in a sacred placewith beneficial space. I have mentioned at the beginning of thisbook that the Siddhas considered water a great purifier. Spaceitself also has therapeutic properities when it is the right space.

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them. The Nadi leaves are inscribed in Sanskrit, the mother tongue

for all ancient Indian arts and sciences. Various people have heldthe Nadis in secret once the Siddhas wrote them. One ruler, theMaharajah Serfoji II of Tanjore in southern India, was a truepatron of art and sciences. He stored these palm leaves safely inhis palace library knowing their importance. He also had themtranslated into Tamil (a language used in southern India). TheBritish acquired possession of these leaves during their rule andlater sold them to some families, which still own them andrespectfully keep them. The Nadi leaves have been held quietlyfor centuries, waiting their time of rendezvous with theirintended recipients, the individuals whose destinies theydescribe.

Time to Release SecretsI have been an enlightened Siddha master in many, many

lifetimes. The time has come to release many of the Siddhasecrets into the West in a broad way, to benefit many, manypeople. The time has come for this knowledge to go out in themasses. I have spent over twenty years of painstaking research inthis life to unearth a combination of Nadis renowned for beinggenuine, accurate and reliable.

Most importantly for you, I am energetically involved in theremedial process of Nadi astrology which gives a very strongboost to the removal of negative karma and accelerates positivetransformations. As suggested by Lord Siva in your leaves, it isimportant to perform remedial rituals at specific temples whichhold ancient divine energies. It is important for individuals toperform the remedies in order to change the problems in theirlives, transmuting difficult karma created in past lives whichmay be affecting this one.

Finding Your Leaf, Changing Your LifeYou will feel a shift even just entering your remedy temples

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India is the nerve center of the Nadi tradition. Surrounded byother temples of great significance, the entire village reverberateswith this ancient heritage of wisdom. The Nadi readers I workwith are from this fertile Nadi Astrology soil; I guarantee theauthenticity and integrity of the readers and Nadis used byVaaak Sounds.

Caution! There is so much out there in the name of NadiAstrology—not every Nadi is comprehensive or legitimate. Thereare fake Nadi leaves! It is important to be cautious about the source.To repeat, I personally guarantee the authenticity of the Nadi’s usedin my organization.

Two Ways To Find Your Nadi LeafFor those who are interested in exploring this sacred tool,

you can find your Nadi leaf through two means: by coming toIndia in person (either on one of Vaaak Sounds special grouptrips or on an individually designed trip for those of you withtight and unpredictable schedules); or through use of an effi-cient mail-order service. In the case of using the mail-orderservice, my staff in India will arrange for remedies to beperformed in your Nadi temples in your name, and this hasgreat efficacy. You may be given a yantra to use at home, and inthat case, you must be faithful to this for the remedy to work.However, I have to be honest and say it is most beneficial tocome to India and personally perform the remedies that theNadi author prescribes for you. You are the best one to clean upyour own mess!

However, if you cannot travel to India at this point in time,you can receive your Nadi reading through the postal service orthrough email. You may fill out a questionnaire and return it toVaaak Sounds along with your thumbprint. Some people startthe process by opting for Nadi remedies through mail-order andthen later come to India to repeat the remedies through theNadi trip service. My staff in India has been taking excellent

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Good VibesAccording to the Siddhas, each space has its own vibes. This

can be clearly understood by a comparision of a “good” neigh-borhood and a “bad” neighborhood. The Siddhas tell a story toexplain the vibes in different geographical spaces.

Story of the House of ThievesOnce a Siddha was caught in rain in the woods. It was dark

at night, and he looked around for a shelter. He found a houseand walked towards it to sit out out the rain as the house wascovered. He also found a newly wedded couple taking shelter.The Siddha had a terrible thought suddenly flashing throughhis mind. That was to kill the husband and take the woman andher jewels. The Siddha examined wherefrom this negative ideacame to him. He discovered that the house belonged to somerobbers, and their thought waves were still floating in the sky,and the Siddha happened to access them.

Just as there are negative thought patterns floating in theatmosphere, there are also good ones. The places where goodthoughts are floating are called sacred spaces. Usually these arewithin specially built temples where in ancient times a greatbeing cured the king of a disease or healed the poor, and soforth. To visit a sacred space and to breathe the vibes there istruly therapeutic.

Good Thoughts and Sacred SpacesSo the temples recommended by the Nadis are dripping

with space energy from the Siddhas. This is why remedies andprayers performed in them are so effective. There is InfiniteIntelligence and Compassion present in the Divine radiations ofthese temples. Each temple is devoted to an aspect of theDivine. Those that are given as your “remedy” temples are keyedto energies suitable for diffusing your old karma and rechargingyou with a new life.

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There are many, many leaves waiting for souls that weremeant to find them. This is a profoundly deep yogic science,and you cannot come to your Nadi before the time of theintended rendezvous. For some of you reading this book, thattime is NOW.

If you are drawn to investigate this further, please get moreinformation about how to fill out a questionnaire and submityour thumbprint from my website www.srisiva.com, or youcontact my office directly at

Vaaak Sounds432 Allegheny River Blvd. Suite #201Oakmont, PA 15139 , USAPhone: (888) 241-7337Fax: (412) 828-0911 or email to [email protected]

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care of people doing their Nadi remedies for several years now,and they really devote themselves to making this a deeply mean-ingful pilgrimage for you with the details of meals, hotels,transportation all attended to. You are accompanied by a Nadiguide who is familiar with the energies of the temples and whowill ensure your remedies are properly performed.

I have seen this to be a life transforming experience for somemany people, and I know there are many, many more leaveswaiting for their rightful recipient.

Some people ask, can some day temples with special spaceenergy be built in places other than India. And I say, “Yes.” Welive in an age when new temples will be built in new lands, andwhen the Divine energies will charge new places as well. Thetime has come for enlightened energy to become availablethroughout the world. It is time for the Age of Truth to takehold.

Nadi Reading ProcessBut, back to the Nadis, for now. First, Nadi readers will

locate your leaf and any accompanying “chapters” of informa-tion. Then, the readers will locate your first chapter for a generalreading: This information identifies you, your parents andspouse by name, number of siblings, profession, religion, etc. Itwill include general predictions for the future.

They will then locate your two remedial chapters thatprescribe the exact rituals to be performed, which will erase thebalance of your past-life sins, allow you to end the currentsuffering and achieve your highest potential in the future.Subsequently, you can request additional chapter readings onspecific areas of life that you wish to learn about such as jobs,business, family, marriage, relationships, health/medical issuesand so on. But I insist that the most efficient way to start is withthe remedial chapters: You have so much to gain by cleaning upthe old karma!

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you use in the war is wisdom, the drum is Nada (sacred sounds)and the armor you will have is sacred ash. What do youconquer? Heaven—for God and peace are synonymous.

Uses of Sacred Ash (Vibhuti)In meditation practice, sacred ash (Vibhuti) is used on one’s

forehead, throat, shoulders and other parts of one’s body. Itusually comes in small packets and is grey in color. Holy ash isused in several traditions. For example, the Catholics have atradition of going to church at the start of Lent and having apriest put some ash on their forehead, and so, the start of Lentis called Ash Wednesday.

Sacred ash has been used in India for other purposes as well.Vibhuti is a tool that comes from the Divine to assist spiritualseekers in opening the third eye and absorbing spiritual realiza-tion at an accelerated pace. Sometimes spiritual seekers are notable to attract things because they lack authentic desire. Thesacred ash has properties for both erasing karma and helpingyou with authentic desire.

I recommend using sacred ash after showering, before begin-ning a meditation session. Some people apply it using the righthand, typically using the ring finger and dotting the third eyearea on the forehead. I have encouraged some people to use themiddle, ring, and pinkie finger of the right hand to create athree stripe effect on the forehead or even liberally apply vibhuticompletely across the forehead as a protective blessing, chantingOm Nama Sivaya during the application. (Traditionally, the useof the index finger in applying vibhuti is reserved for one’steacher.) In addition to the forehead, I have suggested to peoplethat they put some vibhuti on their throat and shoulders.

Some people put the contents of the packets into a smallenclosed glass box or other suitable container and keep thevibhuti near their meditation spot or alter. It’s ok to wash yourface off before leaving the house to go to work or school, or

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Chapter 14Sacred Ash (Vibhuti),Siva-Shakti Malas,Crystal Siva Linga

I n this chapter I share some tools that were divinelygiven, namely Sacred Ash (Vibhuti), Siva-ShaktiMalas (a kind of rosary) and Crystal Siva Lingas.These tools have been used for centuries by the Tamil

Siddhas who believe that the harmony of spirit, mind and bodyresults in total perfection. The term Siddha means “a perfected,completed being who lives a life of unending joy.” To attain thislevel of Siddha success, one must master the ability to inhibitnonproductive and destructive thoughts and generate creativethoughts which will lead to perfection. Meditation is the onlyvehicle leading to higher consciousness, and ultimately, to thatperfection. All of the tools I discuss in this chapter are tools toassist your meditative practice. All pathways to enlightenmentinvolve meditation.

I offer these tools to you to use as protective shields in thesevolatile times to help you with attaining peace. Now I want toanswer the question, “Where is peace?” It is with God. Becomeidentified with God; you will have peace. There was a greatSiddha called Tiruvalluvar. He wrote, “No one gets rid ofworries until he reaches the feet of God.”

When I was Manikavacakar, I wrote some lyrics under thetitle “Sacred War.” The lyrics say everyone should engage in asacred war against the army of Maya (illusion). The weapon that

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truth, spiritual wisdom, fire, air, water, earth and sky.

❖ is the most favored item of Lord Siva, is universally usedby Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, all the angels, seers andsages, brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishiyas, sudras (the foursects in the caste hierarchy of Hinduism) and women.

❖ if applied on his physical body, chanting the name ofLord Siva, that person will assuredly acquire eightdifferent forms of wealth and eight different forms ofsuccesses. The very sight of Vibuthi is adequate to driveaway all the evils and all the demons. Vibuthi has thepotential to cure several hideous diseases like leprosy.Vibuthi can be applied as three horizontal stripes or asone single small line (as mentioned earlier).

❖ anybody who disrespects or scoffs at Vibuthi will cometo grief.

❖ anyone who mixes Vibuthi with water and applies it asthree horizontal stripes, on his head, forehead, neck,chest, either side of his stomach, both his forearms,central parts of both his arms, two wrists, on his backand behind his neck, will embody in himself the Trinityof Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma.

❖ adorning, either as three horizontal stripes or as onesingle short line impells one on the path of spiritualprogress.

All sages of yore who are well versed in Vedic knowledgeproclaim that Vibuthi dispels all darkness and ignorance,allowing for supra-mental illumination. All the ardent worship-pers of Lord Siva whose aspiration it is to attain salvation mustconstantly apply Vibuthi, either as three long stripes or as oneshort line.

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other public places. Some people put a very light amount on allover their body before going to sleep at night.

Vibhuthi Legends and StoriesI can share some of the older stories from India to illustrate

the significance of using Vibhuti.

Sage Sudhama’s NarrationOnce the Saints of Sownagadhi collectively appealed to the

Sage Sudhama to reveal to them what Lord Muruga taught toAgasthiyar.

Sage Sudhama began to narrate…Lord Muruga expatiated on the multifarious ways in

which one could worship Lord Siva and particularly high-lighted the significance of Vibuthi.

Vibuthi…❖ is Kalpam [Kalpam is a concoction of rare herbs made

by the siddhars—persons who have acquired the eightgreat mystic powers—in their superior wisdom. Theconsumption of this Kalpam in prescribed doses extendsone’s life span on the earth, combats aging and enhancesvirility.]

❖ has the magical power of instantaneously washing awayone’s sins if applied on the physical body. The meresmelling of Vibuthi is enough to fetch one many goodfortunes. The use of Vibuthi, prepared strictly in themanner proscribed, will help one achieve successes inone’s life and all his or her cherished hopes, aspirationsand dreams will get fulfilled. In as much as one cannottotally comprehend the supreme and absolute aspects ofLord Siva, so also one cannot understand the infinitepotency of Vibuthi.

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suddenly died in his village. Driven by feelings of utter hatredand revulsion, the village folks tied the hands and feet of thisBrahmin and dragged the corpse beyond the boundaries of theirvillage and cast it away. The messengers of Lord Yama (the Lordof Death) also swiftly appeared to take away his spirit to theHell. At this point of time, a dog with its body smeared acci-dentally with Vibuthicame to devour the corpse. When theVibuthifell on the arms and chest of the dead Brahmin, all hissins were forgiven and he attained immediate salvation.

The Story Of King Bujabalan Who Lost VibuthiSage Sudhama then narrated the tale of Bujabalan to the

Saints of Sownagadhi, to further impress on them the signifi-cance of Vibuthi…

Bujabalan was a great king ruling Bengal with fair playand justice. He was known for upholding the high moral andethical standards. He steadfastly loved his subjects and wasconstantly found in the company of well-meaning advisors.

On an auspicious occasion, King Bujabalan offered a lot ofgifts to Brahmins. A multitude of Brahmins invaded Bengal toavail themselves of the king’s generous gesture. Amongst themwas Suseelan, a Brahmin of exceptional qualities and erudition.All the assembled Brahmins petitioned the king that he shouldaccord priority to Suseelan and offer him the most gifts, asSuseelan was well-versed in the vedas, a great disciplinarian, andan ardent devotee of Lord Siva. The King readily complied.

Suseelan pointed out to the King that all his acts of charitywill become purposeless and futile unless he applied Vibuthi onhis person, either as three horizontal stripes or as one smallsingle line.

The King became furious and told Suseelan that acts ofcharity have their own rewards and it was certainly not requiredthat he should apply Vibuthi.

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Meeting of Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu and Lord BrahmaOnce upon a time, there was a deluge that engulfed the

whole universe, and amidst the torrential floods, Lord Vishnuwas lying on a small Banyan leaf. When Lord Siva appearedthere, the colossal expanse of water appeared suddenly like asmall pool of water under His feet. Lord Vishnu was flabber-gasted to see this phenomenon and enquired who the visitorwas. Lord Siva then gave Lord Vishnu a pinch of this Vibuthi,which Lord Vishnu applied on His forehead and alsoconsumed. Instantly, Lord Vishnu was able to realize that thevisitor was none other than Lord Siva Himself.

Lord Siva told Lord Vishnu that He had come with amission to beget Lord Brahma, who would, in turn, create alllife, mind and matter. He appealed to Lord Vishnu to transformHis sex and become His consort in order to create thisprogeny—as Lord Vishnu embodies in Himself all the supremepowers of Lord Siva. Lord Vishnu turned into an extraordinarilybeautiful and seductive woman and had sexual intercourse withLord Siva. Thereupon, the five-headed Lord Brahma appearedthrough the holy navel of Lord Vishnu.

That Lord Brahma subsequently lost one head and becamefour-faced is a different story.

Resurrecting AngelsThe mighty and all-powerful Virabadhran used Vibuthi to

resurrect the angels who were killed by demons.

Eliminating SinYovanarajan, who had perpetrated countless acts of sin,

suddenly attained salvation because he physically came intocontact with Saint Vamadeva whose body was smeared withVibuthi.

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circumstances drove them to their sorry plight. Bhujabalan toldSuseelan that he was the former ruler of Bengal.

Bhujabalan was suffering from amnesia and did not recog-nize Suseelan. Suseelan reminded the erstwhile King of theearlier incidents and told him the reasons for his deprivationand grief.

Bhujabalan began to slowly recollect the way he hadcontemptuously discarded Vibuthi. He begged for forgivenessand implored Suseelan to offer him Vibuthi. Once again,Suseelan gave the Vibuthi and exhorted Bhujabalan to apply itall over his body. He further blessed Bhujabalan saying, ‘Youwill soon recover all the eight forms of the wealth which youlost. Your wife who abandoned you will come back seekingreunion with you. All your physical ailments will vanish. Youwill conquer the invaders of your erstwhile kingdom. You willenjoy longevity and all the comforts.’

Bhujabalan applied the Vibuthi on his physical body withgreat care and devotion. He regained his lost legs and arms, andall his ailments suddenly disappeared. He prostrated at the feetof Suseelan in an act of sheer repentance.

Bhujabalan’s wife also narrated her tale of woe and soughtSuseelan’s forgiveness. Suseelan gave her a small quantity ofVibuthi, which she applied all over her body and she was alsoinstantly restored to her original self.

The King of Vidharba, Vichitraratham met Suseelan and fellat his feet. He profusely thanked Suseelan for saving hisnephew, Bhujabalan and his wife and restoring to them all thatthey had lost both physically and materially. Vichitrarathamthen escorted Bhujabalan and his wife to his kingdom, feastedthem and gave them enormous riches, horses, battalions andother valuable gifts.

Bhujabalan and his wife once again met Suseelan and soughthis blessings and help in retrieving for them their originalkingdom of Bengal, which boon Suseelan was too glad to grant.

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and belittle Vibuthi, as the repercussions would be far reaching.[Anybody who condemns the use of Vibuthi will instantly loseall their wealth, become physically sick and every part of hisanatomy will decay. All his progeny will meet with destructionand he will be cast away into the Hell.]

To this, the King derisively remarked that his wealth wasinexhaustible, his physical frame incapable of decay, and hisprogeny could not be destroyed. The King further told Suseelanthat he would approach him for Vibuthi, should any suchcalamity befall him.

Since the King was unrelenting, Suseelan politely declinedthe gifts and departed abruptly.

As time passed, King Bujabalan became physically diseasedand confined to bed. His army was completely liquidated, andhe was driven out of his kingdom by alien invaders.

King Bujabalan took refuge in a forest where his wife elopedwith a tribesman. Plagued by hunger and thirst, King Bujabalanwandered around in the forests nomadically. Since everybodyrefused him alms, Bujabalan resorted to robbery, and he wascaught by the police. His legs and arms were amputated and hewas cast away on the outskirts of the town.

Bujabalan led the life of a beggar in a place called Kundinamin Vidharba.

The tribesman, who eloped with Bujabalan’s wife, was killedand devoured by a tiger in the forest. Bujabalan’s wife wanderedaround as a mendicant and was caught by the police whileattempting to steal. Her nose was cut off and by a quirk of fate,she also came to the same Kundinam where Bhujabalan wasloitering. Although they met, they could not recognize eachother and forgot their earlier matrimonial bond. They sufferedfrom severe physical ailments, their bodies turned ulcerous, withblood and puss began oozing out.

One day, they chanced to come to the doorsteps ofSuseelan’s house with begging bowls. Suseelan enquired what

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was also immensely pleased with developments, organized afunction, showering lavish gifts on all the Brahmins whoattended it. In the ensuing seminar, Sudharman vanquished allthe learned Brahmins with his superior knowledge and debatingskills. Alas, Sudharman became arrogant; he ridiculed andhumiliated all the erudite Brahmins. Suddenly, Lord Brahmaappeared on the scene, disguised as an aged Brahmin. Hecautioned Sudharman to exercise restraint and warned him thatany learning unaccompanied by poise and patience could spelldisaster.

An indignant Sudharman condemned Lord Brahma (indisguise) and proclaimed Him to be as ignorant as the rest ofthe Brahmins. Thereupon, Lord Brahma shed his disguise andappeared before Sudharman in his original four-faced form. As afitting punishment for Sudharman’s insolence and vanity, LordBrahma cursed that Sudharman’s tongue would no longer beable to wag and it will, forever, remain motionless.

Siva-Shakti Mala BeadsMala beads are a special rosary used for counting recitations

of mantras. Typically they come in a necklace form with either108 or 54 beads. (Twice around a set of 54 beads equals a countof 108.) 108 is a sacred number for mantra repetition.Repeating a mantra this many times brings it through manyenergy channels in your system and the mind lets go and letsthe sounds penetrate into a deeper level.

The best mala beads are composed of both rudraksha beadsand crystal beads. Rudraksha beads are symbolic of Lord Siva,and crystal beads are symbolic of the Goddess. Lord Siva givesspiritual volution, and the Goddess gives material possessions.The rudraksha is said to be the compassionate tear of Siva forthe suffering of the world. The crystal has been used sinceAtlantean times to boost meditiative practice.

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Bhujabalan enthusiastically marched towards his kingdom toengage in battle the demon king who was conducting his tyran-nical rule in Bengal during his absence. But, the moment thedemon king accosted Bhujabalan wearing the triple stripes ofVibuthi on his forehead, he meekly surrendered and shed hishideous demonic appearance and became a kindly-lookingangel. A visibly stunned Bhujabalan enquired who the demonking was.

The demon king escorted Bhujabalan and his wife to thethrone, made them occupy it and showered on them bountifulriches. He organized the coronation of Bhuabalan on a grandscale.

Thereafter, the demon king, turned angel, revealed toBhujabalan his identity.

The Demon King Tells A StoryOnce upon a time I was Varunass and at that time, I was

harassed and occupying the mid-oceans. I sought refuge andstayed at Lord Indra’s palace.

Agastya and Narada visited Indra’s palace and Indra accordedboth of them a tumultuous welcome.

Thereafter Narada spoke to Indra thus…I have just returned from the human world where I

witnessed some strange occurrences. In the palace of the famousKing of Kashmir, Vajradehi, there was an ignorant priestSudharman who knew nothing about the various rites andrituals. The King asked this priest why he remained ignorant ofall the spiritual knowledge which he was expected to possess.The priest pleaded with the King that he was unable to compre-hend the scriptures despite his best efforts and that he isfervently praying to Lord Vishnu to help him become knowl-edgeable. Pleased with this priest’s steadfast devotion and hisincessant prayers, Lord Vishnu appeared before him andimparted to him all the sacared knowledge. Vajradehi, the King,

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This ancient tool was given with Divine blessings, and I ampleased to share these blessings with the world through CrystalSiva Lingas.

Uses of the Crystal Siva LingaThe Crystal Siva Linga can also be used with the mantra

Thiru Neela Kantam during Pradosham times as one pours somemilk on the Crystal Siva Linga. The benefits of chanting andmeditating with Thiru Neela Kantam on Pradosham days arevery heightened when combined with pouring some milk on aCrystal Siva Linga

I have written about the karma-busting mantra, Thiru NeelaKantam in an earlier chapter. While this mantra is effective atanytime as both a chant and as a meditation, there are certaintimes and days when it is especially powerful. These are calledPradosham times and days. These are times when it is easier toget connected to Lord Siva as a window is more open on theinner planes.

Story of PradoshamThe story of Pradosham is a legendary tale about an ancient

cosmic event in Hindu mythology called the churning of theMilky Ocean (Sagar Manthan).

In this story, the Milky Ocean was churned by the Devas(Angels) and the Asuras (Demons). They both used MountMeru as the churning stick and a snake named Vasuki served asthe rope. The Angels held the tail side and the demons thehead. The object of churning the ocean was to get AMRITA,the elixir of immortality, which both parties wanted. During thechurning, there came out of the Milky Ocean many beautifulbeings and other objects. Kamadhenu, the wish-fulfilling cowcame out of this Milky Ocean, along with other magicalcreations including Kalpa Vriksha (the wish-fulfilling tree), theUcchaisrava (a magical white horse), Airavata (a magical whiteelephant), and Kaustubhamani (a wish-fulfilling jewel). The

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the balance between spirituality and materiality in your life.I have custom-designed mala beads, called Siva-Shakti mala

beads, which will use both these materials to give you the verybest results in chanting mantras. As a protective shield, Iencourage everyone to do OM NAMA SIVAYA 108 times a dayfor the highest material and spiritual fulfillment.

Crystal Siva LingaA Siva Linga is a powerful ritual and meditation tool. The

linga is a symbolic icon representing the male and female gener-ative organs. This is an ancient sacred, tantric symbol for thecreative and powerful energies of the Divine. This is a potentform of Lord Siva containing both masculine and feminineDivine energies—the sum of Divine Intelligence andCompassion.

Crystal is a material that amplifies subtle vibrations; it isused in meditative arts for positive purposes only. Performingrituals and meditations with a Crystal Siva Linga accelerates theresults of your meditation practice.

Some people keep a Crystal Siva Linga on their meditationtable or alter. I suggest doing a daily practice of pouring a smallamount of liquid over a Crystal Siva Linga each day, perhaps inthe morning. You can put the Crystal Siva Linga in a small cup,pour a small amount of milk or water or juice over the SivaLinga, reciting the chant Om Nama Sivaya a few times.

This simple practice strongly focuses and energizes yourprayers and brings the Divine energies into your daily life.

When finished, rinse the Crystal Siva Linga and dry it off.Some people place a flower or offer incense or candlelight whenthey return the Crystal Siva Linga to their meditation table oralter.

If you want to drink the liquid you poured over it when itwas in the small cup, that is fine; it then acts as a kind of“communion.”

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therefore sunset is an ideal time for meditation. Until all yourthoughts and processes slow down, including your breathing,you can’t see the dance of Siva. Pradosam time prepares you forthe night.

During every day, Pradosam time is typically between 4:30p.m. to 6:00 p.m. In addition, each month there are days whicharea called “Pradosham Days,” and the 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.time during those days is especially charged.

Those who chant or meditate with Thiru Neela Kantammantra during Pradosam time on Pradosham Days will havetheir karma-bursting efforts naturally magnified by the power ofthis special time, which has Siva’s grace and is a doorway toInfinite Intelligence. If you have access to the Karma-BustingCD, this is a great time to play it!

More about Pradosham Times❖ Paksa Pradosam is the 4th moon called Caturti Tiki

during the waxing moon fortnight.

❖ Monthly Pradosam is the 13th moon called Triodasi Titiduring both the waxing and the waning cycles, countingthe 13th night after the full-moon and the new moon.

❖ Maha Pradosam is when the number two above falls on aSaturday.

❖ Pralaya Pradosam is the Doom’s Day or Ending of Time,when Siva dissolves everything and dances.

❖ People who worship Siva during Pradosam time reap themerit of the Asvamedha fire-ritual, a ritual conducted byemperors anouncing their supreme power.

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Moon came out of this Milky Ocean as did the GoddessLakshmi (goddess of purity and prosperity) The last to comeout was Dhanvantari (the divine physician) who held a pot ofthe elixir Amrita in his healing hands.

Despite the wonder of all this happy magic, nevertheless,something dangerous also developed. The snake Vasuki wasunable to bear the pain caused by being used as a rope andbeing pulled in opposite directions. She vomited poison whichfell on the elixir. No one wanted to go near the poison.Everyone panicked and prayed to Siva for help. In an act ofcompassion, Siva drank the poison. Parvarti, Siva’s wife, heldSiva’s throat to stop the poison flowing down further into Siva’sbody. The poison solidified into a blue spot within Siva’s throatgiving him the name Sri Nilakanta in Sanskrit (“blue throat”).This story is a way to describe the power of the karma-bustingsounds in the mantra “Thiru Neela Kantam,” a power thatcannot really be put into words. In the story, Siva then dancedon the head of the Nandi Bull, between his two horns.

Siva’s drinking of the poison is a cosmic event that symbol-izes the dissolution of karma and negative thoughts within usand the world. During every Pradosham time Siva does this forus. It is the best time to remove our karma and negativity as it iseasier to get connected to Siva during these times.

A daily Pradosham time starts with the sunset. Where thesun sets outside, both Nature and the human mind sense theinner worlds open up for a moment. Peace reigns both in andout. It is the time of Pradsham; the time of dissolution of thecosmos. Sunset is like a mini-renactment of this as the daydissolves.

Siva performs a beautiful dance during this occasion. Thecosmic dissolution event that is performed every epoch takesplace at a miniature level on a daily basis. The on-set of night isthe daily Pradosham. The Sun goes away, and everyone is readyto go home and rest. This is a quiet time inside and outside, and

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Chapter 15Om Nama Sivaya

(Pronounced: Ohm Na-ma She-va-ya)

T he first mantra in this book is OM, and I willreturn to it near the close. As T.S. Eliot theAmerican poet said in Four Quartets, “In myend is my beginning.”

Om is God.God is Om.Om is the primordial sound from which everything

emanated. Om is consciousness. Om is Life. The domain of Om is incomprehensible to the human

mind. Om is the realm of all possibilities. Om is Grace Light.Om is Arul, the Divine Intelligence. When you have enoughGrace, Om will manifest as Divine Light just in front of youand will envelope you. This Light of Om will dissolve yourignorance.

Different Enlightened Beings belonging to different religionshave encountered the Om Light prior to their Enlightenment.The Om Light is Allah, Siva, Yaweh, the Tao, Nirvana, etc.Practice Om in the following way.

Meditatation on Om (Pronounced: Ohm)Om is formed of three sounds: Ah, Oo, Ma. At the ordinary

level of human existence, Ah creates the waking state of humanconsciousness; Oo, the dream state; and Ma, the sleep state.

❖ Meditate on Ah for 3 minutes at the root chakra. Keeprepeating this sound mentally. This will attract allworldly things towards you.

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Even if you don’t have time

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Va – throat and nostrils, wind/air energy, yellow lightYa – two eyes, two brains, third eye, space energy, white

light.

The chanting of Om Nama Sivaya does the following. Om,when practiced in the above manner, cleans up the conscious-ness. Nama awakens the lower realities necessary for earthlyexistence. Sivaya helps you to be grounded in awareness of thedivine. One should chant Om Nama Sivaya with this under-standing.

Saying Om Nama Sivaya 108 times a day will help youattain the highest material and spiritual life. It will help you tobe in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. Itharmonizes you with all the elemental energies.

There is much more I can teach about Om Nama Sivaya, butthis is a starting point. If enough people work with this, I willbe able to teach more.

This new century will be a very powerful time; the Age ofTruth will dawn. You will be elevated to a new reality. We areliving at a favorable time for evolution. More than any othertime in human history, it is possible to get rid of all ignorantprinciples. Please use these tools and share them with others.Some of you may want to experiment with chanting Om NamaSivaya in groups on a weekly basis.

Prayer to Lord Siva, Infinite IntelligenceOh Lord Siva, I am caught up in this limited body-mind and

the world of samsara. Liberate me from ignorance, attach-ment and suffering.

My ego, karma and maya do not allow me to remember you. Ineed your grace to chant your name all of the time:

Om Nama Sivayawith Om, purify mewith Nama, let me handle this worldwith Sivaya, let me handle the other world

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❖ Meditate on Oo at the heart center for 3 minutes. Thiswill give you Divine Intelligence and influence yourdreaming.

❖ Meditate on Ma at the throat chakra for 1 minute. Ma,will create awareness of maya (illusion). It will createearthly consciousness and provide rest to the system. Weonly sleep a third of our lives, so that is why Ma is for ashorter duration, so you do not become too sleepy!

❖ Go to the Third Eye and chant Om for 3 minutes.

Remember the following over and over and over and overagain; one day when you do this meditation or when you arepraying, Om will flood your entire body. From that timeonwards, you will know that Om can get into you and totallychange your human consciousness.

I have done an entire video tape on a mantra beloved bymany of the Tami Siddhas. This sound is: Om Nama Sivaya.

Mantra: Om Nama Sivaya(Pronounced: Om Na-Ma She Va Ya)

The purpose of Om Nama Sivaya is very meaningful. Om isthe primordial sound. The whole universe—both animate andinanimate—is contained in Om.

Om is the equivalent of Amen.Nama Sivaya has two units. Na Ma is to be chanted at the

root chakra and the navel chakra respectively. Nama representslower worldly realities like earth and water, karmic and egocen-tric life. Sivaya is the second unit. It represents higher life. Si VaYa has to be chanted at the heart, throat and two eyes respec-tively. Sivaya gives the awareness of the Divine existence whichis the right of every human soul.

Na – root center, earth energy, green lightMa – navel center, water energy, blue lightSi (pronounced like the English word “She”) – heart

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Chapter 16

Tripura—The Philosophy of Sri Siva

T he word Tripura (pronounced: TRI poo rah)means several things within Indian philosoph-ical contexts. “Tripura” literally translates as“three cities” (Tri=three, Pura=cities). In one

legend, these cities are supposed to have been occupied bydemon kings who were destroyed by Lord Siva with hispowerful arrow of fire. The mythological story of Lord Sivatriumphing over the evil forces carries several cosmological,biological and elemental components.

Tripura also refers to three bodies—physical, astral, andcausal dimensions. Yet another meaning of “Tripura” in Sanskritis called triputi (the triad), which refers to three psychologicalactivities involved in perception: the Knower, the Known, andthe process of Knowing.

There are several other possible meanings of Tripura.However, I use Tripura usually in reference to three states ofconsciousness which constitute human life and living. The threeconstituents of life are:

1) Anava, “I” consciousness or ego consciousness, who youthink you are

2) Maya, cosmic illusion The relative world appearsbecause of maya. Maya creates everything. It is not a realprinciple, as it is a delusionary power. Maya has an

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are known by, nor are you the body, nor are you an identity youthink you are: physician, administrator, janitor… It’s because ofego and “I” consciousness that you limit yourself in this way.

From the perspective of absolute bliss, both the king’sconsciousness and the janitor’s consciousness are strictly limita-tions in existence. Destruction of the ego is the first step toevolve to the next stage.

Destruction of the ego does not mean losing the purpose ofone’s life and becoming a monk or recluse. Unfortunately, thishas been the interpretation in practice among most mainstreamIndian traditions such as Vedanta and Buddhism. Both theVedantans and the Buddhists leave the world and their responsi-bilities in favor of the “other world.” True, they kill theirego—but only through denial of a phenomenal existence. It’snot a desirable model.

In fact, this perception has created extreme povertyconsciousness in India. What I emphasize through the destruc-tion of ego is in fact the destruction of limitations created byego. Within the Tamil Siva tradition, there is a beautiful storywhich illustrates ego identity in its extremities.

Story of the Prince and the HunterThe Guru narrates the story of a prince growing up in the

household of a hunter… A prince was allowed to grow upanonymously in the hunter’s house for political reasons. Manyyears later when he was called back to the kingdom to becomethe prince, he had to switch his consciousness from that ofbeing a hunter’s son to that of the prince.

Everyone, the Guru says, is in a situation of the prince. Weare pretending that we are poor, weak, and unworthy. In fact weare gods and goddesses. The realization of our true identity willnot come until the notions of the limited ego are destroyed. Myexplanation of ego-death is the destruction of a false and lowidentity and the affirmation of divine identity.

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incredible power to charm.3) Karma, the law of causality that combines cause and

effect. Karma is what you desired to do in the past, whatyou desire to do now, and what you desire to do in thefuture.

All three of these are ignorant principles. They limit you andpollute your consciousness. These principles are a misconcep-tion of your Self. You are God, period. Your potential isunlimited. Maya makes this world so appealing. It aids theprocess of the individual “I” consciousness, so you areentrenched. Then comes karma, which gives a very strongfeeling to experience certain things. The three principlestogether create human existence.

Remember, Lord Siva destroys the “three cities” of limita-tion. You lose the concept of “I,” maya and karma. All threevibrations are within our own consciousness. If they areremoved, you will live as a pure being of unlimited awarenessand there is nothing you cannot do. This is evolution. This isthe meaning of Tripura.

The Tripura FoundationSo, I have placed my charity projects under the name

Tripura Foundation to celebrate the way Lord Siva destroyed thethree principles which hold human beings in bondage. This isthe ultimate of human life. As long as we are ignorant, we areunder the grip of karma and maya. We are forced into a limitedexperience of existence.

Pure, joyous, unlimited life of bliss exists outside the terri-tory of the three factors outlined above.

Destruction of Limited ConsciousnessPrimarily one has to step out of one’s own “I” consciousness

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After September 11, 2001, I was asked by many people toshare my thoughts with the world, as people wondered if theWorld Trade Center collapse was a sign of the Apocalypse.There is no doubt:This event caused me to increase my commu-nication with the larger world.

Mystery of EvilBilly Graham, during his national prayer meeting held at

that time, raised questions about the mystery of evil. I believeeveryone is intrigued by the question, “Why does God allowevil?” I totally agree with his conclusion that there is no satisfac-tory answer. You can only kneel down and pray and have faithin the mercy of God. We live at a time of spiritual crisis—having come to a point where we can destroy all life on theplanet in a matter of minutes through our weapons of massdestruction, weapons that we developed so proudly. Humanityis at a point that God alone can save us because nobody islistening to anybody and everybody thinks that he is right.Now, God has to do His thing, and that is what is happening.He has allowed evil to proliferate so that we can get a wake upcall. We are haunted by the reality of death, pain, and sufferingon a massive scale.

Almost every religion in the world speaks of the ending ofthe world and the appearance of their God on the face of theearth. Christians are looking for the second coming of Jesus;Buddhists look for Maitreya; the Hindus, the Kalki, avatar ofVishnu; Shite Muslims, the the 13th Imam, Native AmericanIndians talk about the white Buffalo. Again, there is confusionaboaut the manifestation of these different Gods. Are they allgoing to come at the same time? Or, is it just a belief that ishighly improbable in the physical world?

Every religion agrees that there will be some form of cata-strophic destruction before the advent of the new epoch of God.However, no one has seen God in historic time. The prophets

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The Upanishads, sacred writings from the Vedantic tradi-tion, beautifully described the ego experience of life. What islife? Is it breathing, thinking, or the experience of sensory activi-ties like touch, seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting? None of theseindividual activities can be called life. Even the ego, which coor-dinates thinking and sensory activities, is not life. Even prana,which is life energy, is not life. Life is ineffable, continuous bliss,light and intelligence.

For more understanding about ego consciousness, you canread selected writings of Ramana Maharishi, an enlightenedteacher who spent his entire life in the quest of finding egoawareness. His meditation on, “Who am I?” could be useful inorder to gain the non-ego-self. However, please avoid the trap ofgetting lost in the self-inquiry quest, of falling into the pitfall ofinaction.

I want each of you to reflect on the fact that fifty percent ofthe world goes to bed hungry at night, and it is not becausethere is not enough food on the planet. We must create theglobal will to change this right now. It is a sin for these peopleto be hungry, and it is not pleasing to the Divine.

Divine Action and CharityTaking action to help feed the hunger is a powerful way to

destroy the three demons of ego, maya, and karma. TripuraFoundation charity projects are a pragmatic way to benefit boththe suffering as well as those seeking higher consciousness. Formore information about Tripura Foundation’s projects, seewww.tripurafoundation.org.

A great secret I want to share with you is to see God in thesmile of the poor. God likes people who share their wealth withthe poor. While I was Swami Ramalingam in my previous incar-nation, Lord Siva revealed to me what really moves His heart isa kind act of charity extended to the poor. Give the poorpeople, food, money or whatever you can give.

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Mourning of Leela the QueenIn the book, Vasistha’s Yoga, translated by Swami

Venkatesananda, there is an important teaching about death.Leela, the queen, mourns the death of her husband. She praysto the goddess of learning, Saraswati, to help her cope with thesituation. Saraswati gives her some extra power of consciousnessto see the reality of the matter. Immediately, Leela is able toperceive that the birth of her husband is only his dream and sois his death. She participates in the dream through consent. Lifeand death are no more then dream experiences. There is noneed to rejoice or grieve.

Buddha and the MotherA woman goes to the Buddha asking him to revive her dead

son. The Buddha says that he could resurrect the son very easilyand that he needed some mustard seeds. The Buddha sends thewoman away to get some mustard seeds. The condition,however, is that the seeds should be taken as alms from a house-hold where no death has occurred. The woman comes backwith the understanding that death is common and her son is noexception.

The general sense of Eastern teaching is that birth and deathare diseases of the soul impelled by desires to incarnate over andover again. So, get rid of your desires and you will not comeback here.

Sri Siva’s Teaching on DeathMy teaching about death does not fall in line with these

great teachers. Having said all these great things, death is still apainful reality. It is said that while on the Cross, Jesus isreported to have said, “God, why you have abandoned me?”

So, what is the solution? I pin my faith in the teachings ofRevelations. God is coming to the earth-plane to evolve thehuman race. Accordingly, those who do not want anythingexcept enlightenment will get a light body similar to Babaji’s.

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and messiahs have only seen God’s apparitions and heard Hisvoice. It is an exciting time to be on the earth-plane to confrontGod face to face. The Book of Revelations describes the newworld of God:

And I saw a new heaven and new earth; for the firstheaven and first earth passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold thetabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them,and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be withthem, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes andthere shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neithershall there be any more pain: for the former things are passedaway.

Meaning of Life and DeathThe extensive loss of lives at the World Trade Center

collapse was an eye opener.Particularly, people want to know about the phenomenon of

death. Death is a horrible reality. First of all it hurts the personwho dies; then, those who are near and dear to him. There arehowever, very useful teachings from great spiritual teachersabout death and dying. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna, whileurging Arjuna to kill his kiths and kin in the war, gives out threeimportant teachings:

1) It is important to kill the bad guys, even if they wereyour relatives, using both right and wrong methods.

2) After all, killing the body does not amount to killingthe soul because the soul is immortal.

3) Even if you kill someone, don’t think that you are thedoer. God is the only doer and you are only an instru-ment of God.

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Please use what makes sense to you from this bookin your own spiritual tradition.

M any times people ask me if the sounds areonly for Hindus, and my response isemphatically, “No!” These sounds aregenuinely sacred sounds that exist, and

anyone who meditates deeply has the potential to encounterthem independently of any exposure to Hindu material. I wantto make them available to everyone, regardless of any particularreligion. My desire is to give these sounds to anyone who seeksLight and higher consciousness. Share them with others.

Sylvia Brown and Lakshmi’s MantraSylvia Browne is one of America’s most celebrated psychic

and spiritual teachers today. She channels a spiritual guide,Francine, who aides her in psychically seeing the past, presentand the future with such accuracy that it “blows the minds” ofpeople everywhere. Sylvia also uses her own altered levels ofconsciousness to predict the past and the future. Sylvia helpspolice to investigate criminals with great accuracy. She uses herpsychic abilities to help people heal from serious diseases. Sheputs people in touch with their deceased loved ones and helpspeople to unravel their psychological problems through past-liferegressions.

Sylvia is able to visit what she calls as “the other side.” The

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That’s the end of your pain and suffering. When you don’t havea flesh body, it doesn’t hurt. You won’t need food or sex, moneyor housing. This is total liberation. The rest of humanity willhave some interim relief, but will have to come back to worktheir way.

Ending Mediocrity Most people experience one or more of the following: You wake up in the morning and have one of the following

moods: 1. Happy.2. Lousy and frustrated.3. Flat, or in the routine work mode.

During the course of your day, you may fluctuate betweenmoods. The demons—negative forces—will not let your mindstay in a happy state nor allow you to think about an outrageouslife of abundant health, wealth, happiness, and peace.

Whenever you feel depressed, say the mantra, Thiru NeelaKantam. Keep a flower pot on your desk and pluck a flowerevery three to four hours and infuse it with the mantra ThiruNeela Kantam, saying the affirmation, “I am ending mediocrity.”

Every day, put a red flower in front of my picture and watchthe magical changes in the flower and your life.

Om Nama Sivaya

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of my mantra, however.) Apparently and sadly their divine reso-nance gets drowned out all too often by the noise of ourconscious minds here on earth.”—Life on the Other Side bySylvia Browne, p.111.

Sylvia Browne’s channeled information is very useful.Shreem, which is Sylvia Browne’s own mantra, is also Sanskritmantra for Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Similarly, themantra Kiri is the sound for Kali, the ferocious goddess whokills demons. I am sure that from what I know of the writingsof Sylvia Browne, that she, herself, is not aware of the Hindubackground of the mantras. Some of the explanations of themantras that come from Sylvia are quite profound and esoteric.For instance Sylvia says that the mantra is the sound of “affirma-tion and ascent.” Very few people will understand the depth ofthat statement, and this is not the place to discuss it.

However, it is interesting to follow Sylvia’s thoughts aboutthe Hall of Tones. She says that mantras will put you in touchwith your genetic lineage. As a matter of fact, you can accom-plish a lot of your material goals through the use of mantras.The success of Transcendental Meditation worldwide is due tothe use of mantras. Sylvia, herself, has given a guided medita-tion to find out anyone’s mantra. If you can’t find your ownmantra, you can use specific mantras for a specific result.

Need for Universal ReligionReligion is a mysterious force. It is simultaneously both posi-

tive and negative. It gives peace to the soul, but at the same timeit also destroys peace. Religion is responsible for great civiliza-tions and awesome architecture, but conflicts among religionsdestroy not only those cultural monuments but also the humanrace itself. Religion’s power comes from its total irrationality anda blind concept of loyalty. Almost every religion, except a fewEastern ones, claim that each has The Truth and every otherreligion or faith is misguided. Often an argument is put forth

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other side is the domain to which a spirit retires after death ortemporarily visits during sleep… It is a realm that appears tohave no physicality of its own although its form is perceptible tospiritual sight. As a spirit, Sylvia has unraveled a wealth of mate-rial about the other side.

Sylvia’s experiences provide validity to some of the teachingsof Hinduism. For instance, the practice of mantras is a veryimportant tool in connecting to the divine within Hinduworship. Each god and goddess has his or her own mantra. Infact, the mantra is the very essence, the body of the divine, so tospeak. The mantra is often a two to three syllable sound thatcarries the energy of a god or goddess. In Sanskrit, the mantra isknown as a seed (bija). Just as a seed carries the whole treewithin itself, a mantra carries the deity’s presence and qualitieswithin its structure. The mantra practice is based on the theorythat if one continually chants the mantra, either quietly or outloud, the deity is expected to appear before the practitioner. Thetheories about mantras are indeed very complex. However,everyone familiar with mantras knows this much — to get helpfrom a particular deity, you have to chant the deity’s mantra.

The important question to ask is, “Do mantras belong toHinduism or are they a universal, transcendental phenom-enon?” From reading Sylvia Browne’s writings, it becomesevident that mantras belong to all souls in general. In her book,Sylvia talks about her visits to the Hall of Tones on the otherside. The following is her description of the Hall of Tones:

The Hall of Tones“When each of our souls was first created, we were given our

own individual Mantra, a specific word or series of syllables, towhich our spirits will eternally resonate. Every mantra startswith Om, which is a word of affirmation and ascent, followedby a tone that is typically made up of two syllables. Mine is‘Shreem.’ (I didn’t light up with instant recognition at the sound

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I am glad that in the some countries, a political systemevolved separating the church from the state. Such a separationis indeed the beginning of a New World Order. I pray that theFormless and Nameless Almighty will do some miracles to makethis separation happen all over the world.

In the final analysis, the Ideal would be to define theAlmighty as Light and Love. This is what I attempted to do inmy last life as Swami Ramalingam. I had tremendous resistancefrom the Hindus who thought I was crazy to deny the Hindugods. Here I am, again preaching the same message:

Arut perum jyoti arut perum JyotiTaniperum karunaiArut perum Jyoti.

The mantra is saying: All knowingness (God) is an illumined Light. This Light is also compassion.)

I think the above definition of God would help to lay thefoundation for a Universal Religion. I would be delighted if theUnited Nations would consider promoting this World Religionof Love and Light.

New Mind for the New MillenniumDuring the past three hundred years or so, science and tech-

nology have revolutionized human growth. People live longer.The discoveries and inventions in the field of medicine havelead to pain reduction, automobiles, air-conditioners, and everso many other gadgets that have, no doubt, made our liveseasier. We are still in the process of finding out more things.However, modern science has failed in one major respect andthat is “looking inside the mind machine.” Scientists havestayed away from asking questions about consciousness. Forthem it is a gray area and belongs to philosophers. It is veryimportant that during the new millennium that we pay atten-tion to the mind machine.

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that there can’t be more than one Truth. “There is one Truthand there are several other misrepresentations of Truth,” theysay.

When I was in graduate school, a professor of anthropologygave a definition of religion as it is understood in the contempo-rary world. He said, “Religion is what I practice and ‘cult’ iswhat my enemy practices.” The Jews thought that the non-Jews(whom they called Gentiles) worshipped a false God, and to thisday they don’t think that Jesus Christ was a messiah fromYahweh, although Christianity became a major world religion.The Moslems think that there is no God but Allah. Sects withinHinduism think either Vishnu or Siva is the supreme God. TheBuddha said that there was no God, but unfortunately hehimself was elevated to Image worship along with a host ofother Buddhist Gods and Deities.

In our contemporary civilization, the common man caresless for God or religion. The attendance inchurch/synagogue/temple/mosque is relatively small whencompared with the population who are indifferent to religion.The danger for society comes from the believers, particularly thefundamentalists. If we objectively look at the fundamentalistmovements in religion, it will be apparent they are the trouble-makers. They have very little tolerance towards other faiths andlive in the belief that they alone have “got it right.” More oftenthan not, fundamentalists are obsessed about their respectiveGods and spend their entire lives ridiculing other faiths andtrying to convert non-believers

Although most religions speak of tolerance and acceptanceof other faiths, there are deep problems in putting this conceptinto practice. One’s faith is ingrained in the blood and evenpenetrates one’s bone marrow. It is emotionally impossible for aJew to accept Jesus, or a Moslem to accept Krishna. As I pointedout earlier, religion is irrational; you and I are tied to a partic-ular faith because of past life memories.

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The New Technology Will be Based on Spiritualizing Matter and Vice Versa

At some time in the future, we may buy sound software toenhance our mathematical skills or athletic abilities. I havetested the value of the sounds in this book over a period of twodecades in this lifetime and know first hand that they work. Ihave put them into CDs and videotapes. This is the easiest wayto share them with large numbers of people, as I cannot travelto every city and speak personally to all the people I would liketo help. But you can do homestudy with enlightened tools, andI will be with you through this book, the CDs, the videotapes,and any other products I devise in the future. And of course, Ivisit people on the dream plane and am always available forinstant contact inwardly to sincere seekers.

What is going to give the world happiness is a new tech-nology. This new technology will use a higher intelligence. Thishigher intelligence is not carved in logic; it is a higher scienceand a higher technology that will find a practical application ofEinstein’s theory of relativity.

This new technology will give us the missing link betweenenergy and matter, between spirit and matter. We will know theclue of how we can make this conversion. Right now it is onlytheoretical and mathematical probability. We do not know themethodology by which we can convert energy into matter ormatter into energy without a lot of destruction.

Once we know how, we will have infinite freedom. Thedestiny of Science and Technology in the new millennium willbe in this direction. I will play my role in giving to this newtechnology to the world and this new science that will make ourlives easier. I am hopeful that many of you reading this bookwill use the tools and experience incontestable, positive results.

As I have said before, the foundation for this new science and tech-nology will be based on practical wisdom that has come to us throughthe Siddhas of southern India. This tradition goes back to Lemurian

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Why do we have to pay attention to our mind? It is throughour mind and intellect that we have evolved from ignorantconditions to intelligent life. I want to maximize the ability ofthe brain/mind domain. Right now the brain/mind domain formost people is at the lowest level. The brain/mind of thesepeople are producing stupid thoughts nearly in the range ofeighty to ninety percent. We have to stop the brain/mind fromproducing stupid thoughts.

I define stupid thoughts as: Unproductive bio-energy thatcreates unrewarding, unproductive, and destructive thoughts.Currently the brain/mind domain is full of Bio-energy fieldswith dominant signals of poverty and pessimism.

I have a new view of the brain/mind domain. In fact, mytheory is very old, and I have modernized it for our contempo-rary use. I can get into a very complex and complicateddiscussion about it. But that is not my intention here. For now,I want to be very practical and will give hands-on technologies.This book is based on this Theory of Mind: Ninety percent ofour mind is composed of language. If you pull out languagefrom our mind, there will be very little or no mind at all. Ournext question is, “What is mind?” Language is a combination ofsound and meaning. At a very deep level of the language (pre-thought level), meaning merges in with the sound in anemotional-ideational complex. Changing the mind theninvolves changing the sounds within the mind.

So, the bottom line contention is that if a person is rich, heor she has prosperity sounds in the brain/mind complexwhether from this lifetime or an earlier one. Conversely, if aperson is poor, his brain/mind is ingrained with poverty sounds.This is a rule of thumb which applies to every area of life, notjust wealth, but also health, happiness and enlightenment. Thistheory could have great impact on education, commerce andpolitics.

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Crystal science is a science that belonged to the older civiliza-tions. We have to revive that science because it is truly going togive us infinite freedom.

Back to the FutureYou won’t have to sweat so much. The message for the

millennium is that we need to go to the past not to the future!Not the dim past wherein our consciousness was polluted bylogic, material principles, negative vibrations that create doubtand so on, but a more ancient past of very ancient wisdoms. Weall know that our modern science and technology is only a fewhundred years old. Within these few hundred years what wehave done is to understand the laws of nature and to develop ascience and technology that would appear to benefit our lives.

However, we have not eliminated suffering. We have notcreated anything perfect, everything is relative. Even with ourlaser surgery, still we have to go through surgery. It may or maynot work. We are finding it difficult to deal with the process ofaging the pain created by matter.

Matter has dual consciousness: one is tremendous power toallure, it gives you a sense of false happiness, and every time youfall prey to this false sense of happiness, there is a price wepay—we are sucked more and more into material laws. Seldomdo we understand the freedom that can happen if you followother principles, metaphysical principles, the principles of thespirit. We have come so far to disbelieve anything that is notstrictly limited to a material description and finite experience.

It is not convincing for the scientifically-oriented to natu-rally believe in God or Spirit. The life of the spirit is virtuallynon-existent in their lives, and it is important that we have tostop here and analyze if our attitude to life and our approachesto science and technology have given us happiness or suffering.It makes tremendously sense to us on a theoretical level thatenergy or spirit is much more desirable, is much more intelli-

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times. For me, they are timeless. The Siddhas have existed forever.

Agastiya whose incarnation I am in this lifetime has incarnatedseventeen times. The historians get confused about the works ofAgastiya; they look at the numerous volumes and volume attrib-uted to Agastiya. They are all written at different time periods,and yet the Tamil of each is “contemporary.” The historianswonder if they are all really by Agastiya or interpolations ofother texts. They wonder if other people wrote something andthen later said this was written by Agastiya, so that their textwill carry some weight. It may have happened in some cases, Idon’t rule it out, but then it is also true that Agastiya himselfreincarnated several times, seventeen times or more, and duringeach time period he revealed a knowledge, and he used thecontemporary Tamil of that time in order to communicate topeople.

These literatures contain the clue, the missing link, that isbetween matter and energy. All other sciences, all other tech-nologies will be open to revision as we incorporate a new, moreprofound understanding. We will have to drop off a lot of ourmental constructs, our physical laws, in order to understand thishigher Science.

I was reading Jean Dickson, and a guy who wrote the bookon Jean Dickson had been a newspaper columnist. He recordsthe predictions made by her. Jean Dickson had a crystal ballthat she looked into. The ball showed her the future. Now I amreferring to this because what is going to be created is similar tothe crystal ball. The question for us is to ask, “if Jean Dicksoncould do it, why not others?” Is there anything special withinthe brain of Jean Dickson? Apparently she had the ability toconnect with the crystal ball. The crystal is an energy vortex—itcan carry and be a medium of great electromagnetic power. Youcan make connections with the crystal, and then you can usethe crystal to see the future and other extraordinary things.

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Geometrical OriginsGeometry explains the origin of things. You put a dot. It

means you create something, and before then, there wasnothing. The understanding of geometry will provide ustremendous clues about understanding the relationship betweenmatter and spirit. The Science of Sacred Geometry, again,belongs to the old world. Plato described many solids andliquids through geometrical figures. The Siddhas went one stepfurther and came up with many geometrical shapes that linkmatter and spirit. Some of these geometrical shapes have comedown to us as yantras/

Divine IntelligenceWhat really excites me is to be living at this time when we

can provide new spiritual technology to this world and raise itfrom its bondage to material existence. This is very, very close tomy heart. Material existence is defined by a low level of intelli-gence—bondage to certain fleeting sensory experience, bondageto a frozen concept of time which uses the experience of thepast, present, and the future. These are all hindrances to under-standing the divine intelligence. I have characterized them; Ihave characterized the nature of the higher intelligence.

In a previous lifetime when I was Swami Ramalingam, I wasable to demonstrate to myself, to my spirit and to the world atlarge that I could transform the various layers of my body intolight molecules and then ascend into the sky. My evolution wassuch that even the divine beings were afraid of my evolution; Ieven challenged the Hindu gods during my lifetime as SwamiRamalingam because what I was teaching people was to focusjust on Light. My disciples in that lifetime did not like it, theythought that I was deep into my ego, nevertheless they wereafraid of me because of the body that I had gained which wasjust a luminous body with no substance in it. And here again, Iam teaching you do not need to be Hindu to use the tools to

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gent than matter, but we haven’t done anything to understandenergy or to understand spirit.

The new technology that I am proposing will give us anunderstanding about the domain wherein mind and mattermeet. I want to repeat this: the new technology pertains to thedomain where mind and matter meet. Now they are two sepa-rate worlds connected only very, very superficially.

We have not understood the meeting ground of the twobecause matter is so gross and slow and the spirit or higherenergy is so fine and swift that it cannot be localized. It is every-where, but matter is stuck in one place. Yet, we can evolvematter or spiritualize matter so that matter rises up to the levelof the spirit of the level of the mind or the level of energy wherethey can be together at a manifest and an unmanifest level.When it manifests it becomes matter, and when it unmanifestsit becomes energy.

Einstein, for instance, somebody told me, was the TamilSiddha Bogar in a previous lifetime. This makes sense to mebecause Bogar, the Tamil Siddha, had great mathematicalunderstanding and was a scientist. There is a lot of literatureavailable about him. In the Siddha literature they describeBogar’s attempt to build a ship propelled by steam. Remember,this is from a very ancient literary source, so it seems plausibleto me that Bogar could have been Einstein. Now Einstein, whenhe describes light and matter, says that when light is stopped itbegins to coagulate into matter. It is a tremendous statement. Iwas reading Einstein’s original writings. He speaks like a mysticand knows where discursive reasoning can take you to and heoften says that “I don’t want to go further; it cannot be analyzedany farther; we have to stop it here.” Now light coagulates intomatter and during the coagulation process what happens is thatlight becomes dim to an extent that it looses all its radiantenergy and becomes a gross manifestation. It is form beingformed out of non-form or chaos.

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thirtieth of January under the star Pushya, I went into a roomand said that I would be in divine communion with the light. Igave the message that I would disappear and so I did. But then,I said I would get the light into the bodies of everybody becausemy intention was to give my evolution to everyone so that theycould participate in the Intelligence that has the clue betweenmatter and energy. I put as much light as I could into people asthey were receptive to receive at that time.

I have come back now, and I am excited that we havecomputers and that the sciences have also evolved. We aredoubly blessed. I am thankful that so many more people seemreceptive and this understanding and are more developed. TheUnites States is a very blessed country, and is best place torelease these teachings. Many of the people who live here areblessed with a good karma. Some of them may have lived inAsian countries in past lives and studied yogic arts, but in thislife, they have come to the West. The people of the UnitedStates have really balanced these two energies of matter andspirit more than any other country.

Washington, DC is a power spot on this earth-plane whichaffects the destinies of many countries. The sound “V” at somepoints in history switched in some places over to “W.” SoWashington starts with the sounds WA-SI or VA-SI. This city ison a power spot sacred to SI-VA. Someday I will tell the story ofhow I learned this.

In fact, the whole earth-plane is controlled out ofWashington, DC. It will continue to be an important powercenter, and a technology of a new nature that is going to revolu-tionize the entire world should appropriately start out of theUnited States. Scientists, the government people, and theSiddhas will come to the same table in order to create the newtechnology for this new millennium. I will do my part.

Arut Perum Jyoti, Arut Perum Jyoti, Tani Perum Karunai,Arut Perum Jyoti

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manifest your goals or to develop a Light Body. I am makingthis openly available to sincere spiritual seekers everywhere,regardless of their religious tradition. Material progress andenlightenment is not about religion. And if you are religious,that is fine. I am wishing you well in your Self-Discovery.

Photographers tried to photograph me when I was SwamiRamalingam after I transformed into the Light Body, butnothing came through in their photos when they were devel-oped except the clothes that I was wearing on my body.

During a Nadi reading in this lifetime, I was asked to go tovarious places connected with me in my past life and theseplaces were charged with energy. As I went to them, I began torelive my past lifetime, and it was very important for me to dothat. I was asked at one point to go to a particular temple andthere I was told that I would go to a particular place and therewould be a pool and I have to take some water from the pooland put it over my head and this is a very ancient temple nowalmost abandoned.

I went there, and as it was predicted in the Nadi, a priest waswaiting for me, and he was very cordial. He was an old man,but he knew exactly about this pool which was far away fromthis temple. He explained actually that there is no pool therenow because people have forgotten the tradition, but what isthere instead is a well inside the pool. I managed to get somewater from this well and pour it on my head.

The Nadi predicted that I would remember all my previousbirths after having sprinkled this water. And so it happened. Itdid not take place immediately, but over a period of a fewmonths, information about my old lives came to me, and I hadto reconnect myself with those energies and integrate them intothis life.

So, that is how I came to know about my previous births asthe enlightened teachers Agastiya, Manikavacakar and SwamiRamalingam. While I was Swami Ramalingam in 1874, the

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because I have not known a Siddha who is more knowledgeable,more intelligent than Thirmular, his knowledge is encyclopedic.Thirumular talks about the intelligence of Siva, and he makes areference to two kinds of intelligence: one concerns those thingswhich are generally known, and the other refers to those whichare unknown.

The known intelligence or known knowledge is limited;whatever you can or do know is limited; but whatever you donot know the meaning of— the unknown—is limitless, for theunknown is open-ended. So, there is the known knowledge, andthen there is the knowledge about the unknown. Thirumularsays that Siva (Infinite Intelligence) is beyond this, the knownand the unknown. The unknown is also a category that is undersome conceptual limitation. Siva is beyond the known, beyond theunknown. Then the question is, “What is this intelligence ofSiva?” It is the intelligence that is everywhere, that is the known,the unknown, that which is not the known, that which is notthe unknown and that which is present eternity.

It may appear to be a puzzle to you because the mind cannotconceive anything that is not logically sensible. The intelligencethat I want to develop for everyone during the coming millen-nium is Nonreferential Intelligence. With this Intelligence, wecan have everything instantaneously.

Then we will have heaven on earth.

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Arut Perum Jyoti, Arut Perum Jyoti, Arut Perum Joyti, Arut Perum Jyoti.

I can give a clue of what is going to be involved in thecreation of this new science and technology. There are fivefactors that we are going to study at length which will give usthis new science. There are two pairs the first pair is energy andmatter, the second pair is time and space and along with thesetwo pairs is consciousness.

We are going to have tremendous understanding about time,space, energy, matter and the fifth element, consciousness. Theunderstanding that will happen will result in the study ofconsciousness more because consciousness is going to give whatI have been talking about as the missing link between matterand spirit or matter and energy. Without consciousness which isintelligence per se, nothing can exist. What I am saying here isthat we are going to make some important changes within ourintelligence structure that is embedded in our consciousness,and this change that we do within our mind, within our brain,will change our concepts of matter and energy, of time andspace.

Matter and energy, time and space are not independentconcepts. They are subject to our own perception and our ownperception is limited by our own intelligence. If we bring inmore intelligence, then we will have a different idea aboutmatter and different idea about energy. We will then think thatspace is no longer as we thought it to be, the same with time.

It will be so beautiful to have this experience which will giveus incredible freedom and joy. That is true evolution. Einstein,when talking about reality, says our concept of the reality of theworld including time, and space is dependent on the point ofreference that we bring in. When I was reading Einstein thismade tremendous sense to me, for this is what the Siddhas talkabout as non-referential knowledge. For instance, Thirumualar,the first Siddha, is someone I have tremendous respect for

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(Ohm Bur Boo-Vah Swah-haTaht Sah-Vee-Toor Vahr-Ehn-YumBhahr-go Deh-Vahs-Yah Dee-Mah-HeeDee-Yoh Yohn-Ah Prah-Choh-dah-Yaht)

c) Triyambakam Yajamhe p170Suganhim PustivardhanamUrvarukamiva BandhanatMrtyor muksyia ma’mrtat

(Try-Um-Bah-Kum Ya-Jahm-Mah-HaySoo-Gahn-Dim Poosh-Tee Vahr-Dah-NahmOor-Vahr-Oo-Kumee-Vah Vahn-Dahn-AhnMrit-Your Mook-Shee-Yah Mahm-Ree-Taht)

Other Terms A) Om Shanti (Ohm Shahn-Tee)B) Thiru Neela Kantam (Tee-ru Nee-la Kan-tam)C) Jnana (Jana)D) Bhakti (Bahk-ti)E) Om Mangalaya Namaha (Ohm Man-ga-la-ya Na-ma-ha)

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Mantras featured in Section II, Chapters 1-121) Satyam Sivam Sundaram p49

(Saht-Yahm She-vam Sun-da-rum)

2) Brzee (Bree-zee) p62

3) Trishulam (Tre-shu-lam) p76

4) Shreem Shreeng Siriyum Siriyung p95(Shreem Shreung Sir-i-ym Sir-i-yung)

5) Arut Perum Jyoti (Ar-rut Pey-rum Jo-tee) p113

6) Saravanabavaya (Sah-Rah-Vah-Nah-Bhah-Vah-Yah) p120

7) Kleem Shreem Hreem (Kleem Shreem Hreem) p127

8 a) Om Gum Ganeshaya (Ohm Gum Guh-nuh-es-shi-ya) p137

b) Mrtyunjayaya (Mer-Tuh-Jah-ya-yah) p138

9) Arul Karunai Daya (A-ruhl Kar-u-nayee Dah-ya) p142

10 a) Sada Shivom (Sahda She-vohm) p148

b) Om Kala Samhara Murtne Namaha p153(Ohm Kahla Sam-hara Mert-ne Na-ma-ha)

11) Swarna Rajadas Srajam p160(Swar-na Rah-ja-das Srajam)

12 a) Gayatri (Guy-ya-tri) p165

b) Om Bhur Bhuvah Swaha p169Tat Savitur VarenyamGhargo Devasya DhimahiDhiyoyona Prachodayat

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