When the Pope first met the Shankaracharya in India
they shook hands and with that a spiritual connection was established between
the western and eastern hemispheres and Hinduism (Sanātan Dharma, a Vedic way
of life) spread in the western world.
Shaking hands is not just a physical action there
is a tremendous transfer of energy
With a touch a spiritual connection is established
A handshake may be beneficial or may not be
depending on the person you shake hands with
The DNA are easily transferred with a touch and
they are named “touch DNA”, in 2015 research was done on this subject and
proved that even an innocent persons DNA can be found on the crime scene if that
person has shook hands with a criminal; DNA are so easily passed on with a
touch
Also the negative energy of one person can be
easily transferred to the other person by a handshake
Namaste--the gesture of greeting by folding the
hands and bowing slightly found on the Indian subcontinent is not only more
respectful but also creates a positive energy since bringing the hands together
is a powerful mudra also any negative vibration emitting from the other person
is stopped at the same time we open up ourselves to receive a higher level of
consciousness, that is the reason we join our hands in front of a deity or a
saint (it would be much beneficial to close the eyes when performing Namaste in
front of a deity or a spiritually elevated person)
As I mentioned earlier “with a touch a
spiritual connection is established”, so always touch some artifact or just the
wall or floor when you visit some ancient place or a place of higher vibrations,
in this way we connect ourselves spiritually with that place
Touching a tree or a bolder is also beneficial
A spiritually elevated person may heal or uplift
spiritually a person just by touching him
Energy is also transferred by looking at a person that
is the reason we must control our sight and not keep on looking here and there thereby
wasting our energy (you know what I mean)
While on the topic of sight it is spiritually
beneficial to keep our eyeballs slightly upwards or straight, most of the
people keep their eyeballs downwards, if you observe people walking on the
street most will have their eyeballs facing downwards only a very few people
look straight ahead this is a very good spiritual practice as it increases ones
field of consciousness
It is all an energy game; most people thrive on
energy from others, that is the reason why people do not like to get ignored
some get angry when a person does not
look at them simply because they do not receive that energy from the person
Beware of the people who always touch you or come
very close to your body, when a person comes very close to another person the
other’s thinking process is affected (disorganized) and one can easily
destabilize you and your decision taking ability
If there is energy transfer by simply touching or
looking imagine the energy transfer during sex. A sexual union is not only
something operative on the physical plane, but also on the psychic (astral)
plane and during the process one partner who has a lower spiritual level stands
to gain and the other with a higher spiritual level loses; So one must be very
careful in choosing a partner
After many years of marriage both the husband and
wife attend the same spiritual level and there spiritual bonds becomes so
strong that they surpass the spiritual connections between parents and children
The priest of the ancient temples carried out the
daily rituals others had the role to memorise the Vedas while some were
assigned the task to conduct the Vedic fire ceremony’s they were called Brahmins because of the role
they had and to maintain sanctity they were the only ones allowed to touch the
sacred objects in the temples hence they had to stay as pure as possible physically,
mentally and spiritually (of course if one is spiritually elevated the other
two naturally follow) that is the reason no one was allowed to touch them, even
today in ancient temples like Badrinath, if the priest has to enter the temple
Garbha gruha (sanctum sanctorum) he has to take a bath, if he has to enter 5
times a day he takes a bath all the 5 times and is escorted to the temple as no
one can touch him, if any one touches him by mistake he turns back to take a
bath again, but it is very unfortunate that even though the Vedas never
acknowledged caste discrimination by birth the Brahmins proclaimed themselves
to be superior to all and have ended up becoming the biggest racist if you
study their history you will not believe that one human can be so cruel to his
fellow human being.
I end this article; please enjoy the chant of the Maha
Mantra (Great Mantra)
At the Sivananda Ashram (Divine Life Society) in
Rishikesh from 1943 onwards a 24 hours a day, seven days a week chanting of the
‘mahamantra' began in the bhajan hall, and this chanting has continued unbroken
till date for World Peace
1) One eternal, infinite, incognisable real Existence.
2) From that the manifested God, unfolding from unity to duality to
trinity.
3) From the manifested Trinity many spiritual Intelligences,
guiding cosmic order.
4) Man a reflection of the manifested God and therefore a trinity
fundamentally, his inner and real Self being eternal, one with the Self of the
universe.
5) His evolution by repeated incarnations, into which he is drawn
by desire, and from which he is set free by knowledge and sacrifice, becoming
divine in potency as he had ever been divine in latency.
In other words: The Tāo
produced one; One produced Two; Two produced Three
…. From the Trinity come many Gods, connected with the
administration of the universe……….
The above points taken from the book-- The ancient wisdom by Annie Besant
Tridev stands for
Trinity
The Tridev are Brahma Vishnu and Mahesh, now the word Mahesh is replaced
with Shiv
The iconographic allegory as follows:
Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver or indwelling life and
Shiv the destroyer and transformer respectively
They are cosmic energies / principles and it is not possible for us
to comprehend them hence they are represented as having human forms
Since Shiv is a direct creation of the formless God, he too is
formless and worshiped as a symbol the Shivling while Shankar is the deity
The left image is of
Shankar the deity and on the right is the symbol of the formless God Shiv, the
Shivling
Tridev the three Deities also represent the three gunas or
attributes of the universe namely sattva, rajas and tamas where Vishnu
represents sattva guna, Brahma represents rajas and Shiv tamas
After being in a deep meditative state one gains the ability to
create that is to bring something into existence, as per the mythical tale
Vishnu was in a deep state of mediation out of his navel came out Brahma who
assumed the duty of creation, whether it is creating the Cosmos or creating a
business empire it is not possible without the rajas guna to be predominant
hence Brahma represents the rajas guna the attribute or quality of activity, of
desire for procreation, that desire owing to which the universe and everything
in it is called into being
Vishnu represents the Sattva guna the property of preservation he
protects those who follow the righteous path and always guides all on this path
While Shiva because of his role as the destroyer represents the
tamo guna which is the attribute of decay
Brahma is not worshiped; maybe because it is more suitable to place
a feminine energy as the creator rather than a male energy hence the worship of
Shakti, the Divine Mother has superseded or replaced Brahma as the creator
Moreover Shakti, the Divine Mother should be worshiped along with
the God one worships as without her worship the path is incomplete
Pancha mahabhuta the
five elements and the Tridev
It is mentioned in the Vedas that the supreme
spirit willed that there may be creation he brought creation into existence
with the word OM, from OM came the five elements first came space then air ,
fire , water and earth
Nothing can exists without space so space is
created first which is filled with air, fire cannot come into existence without
air, from fire water is born (water vapour) and from water earth is produced
Shiv is fire, Vishnu is water and Brahma is earth
This was also the order in which the Tridev were
created
Trimurti त्रिमूर्तिः
Murti means idol and Trimurti is the idol which depicts divinity as
a three faced figure of the Tridev this conveys that the three gods of the
trinity are in reality one and the same God only having different functions in
short the three Gods are explained as three of his supreme forms
This is the famous
image of the Trimurti at the ancient Elephanta caves off Bombay however in this
particular image (as per the official website) here Shiva is depicted as manifesting
all three aspects of the Godhead.
It is very clear that one can worship any form of the Tridev
initially till the stage when he has to go beyond that to realise the one
absolute God rising above the three gunas
Is a pity that there is a conflict among Vaishnavas and Shaivites regarding
the supremacy of Vishnu and Shiv (Vaishnavism is a tradition which considers
Vishnu as the Supreme Lord and its followers are called Vaishnavas, while Shaivism
considers Shiva as the Supreme Being and its followers are called Shaivites).
The conflict has previously reached such proportions that people were killed
At the famous Chidambaram temple where Shiv is worshiped as Ether,
when the idol of Vishnu was reinstalled
as many as 20 priest including the chief priest committed suicide by jumping
from the south entrance tower of the temple
Why are bhang /
ganja / hemp leaves offered on the Shivling
This is one of the
most idiotic absurd stupid and ridiculous image I have ever seen
Shiv is also the God for of all sorts of character’s and creatures
which include ghosts, devils, demons, goblins, evil spirits etc.
Shiv is kind,non-judgemental, ever accepting, merciful, he is naive hence called
Bhole; whom everyone rejects he readily accepts them
By virtue of his tamo guna he can keep all sorts of creatures under
control, when I stayed overnight in the Kalpeshwar Mahadev temple I was
discussing this with a sadhu and he said that Shiv is the biggest gunda (I do
not have the correct English word for the same but may roughly mean an outlaw,
rebel or untamed) and hence he can keep all gundas
under his control, Vishnu cannot do this he can kill them but only a gunda is
required to keep all gundas under control which Shiv can do easily because of
his tamo guna.Shiv accepts them as necessary in a universe
which runs on duality; also he is ever ready to guide them towards the path
of self-realization because every soul that is born one day completes his
journey and attains liberation and the final merging with the Almighty
During Samudra Manthan (churning of the ocean in Hindu mythology) a
poison was released, the Gods and demons present there were terrified. The Gods
had attended immortality by drinking amrit the divine nectar yet they did not
dare to go near the poison which was so powerful that it could destroy all of
creation. Shiv because of his tamo guna was able to consume all the poison (the
snakes also came to help Shiv and they too drank the poison with him because they
too have the ability to handle poison)
This is what everyone needs to know about Shiv and his tamo guna
So to convey the teachings and educate others a custom was formed
to offer things to the destroyer (Shiv on the Shivling) which cannot be
consumed by people.
So when when bhang (hemp) leaves are offered to Shiv on the
Shivling they are to convey a message that we humans cannot consume this since
you are the destroyer with tamo guna you have the ability to consume it
bhang ganja hemp cannabis
leaves offered to Shiv on the Shivling
Similarly milk is offered to the shivling in the month of shravan
(late July to august) the grass is new and when the cows graze they consume the
soil too (since the grass is too short & easily comes off from the roots
also since the soil is loose during rains). The milk thus contains more
minerals than what the human body can digest and therefore during the month of
Shravan one should not drink more milk, so what we should not consume give it
to Shiv
In contrast Vishnu is the protector and is always offered good
nutritive food like tulsi (holy basil),chappan bhog sweets
(56 types of rich nutritive sweets), panchamrit, and his idol is smeared with
chandan (sandalwood paste) and various aromatic oils. This is educate the
people that he Vishnu is the protector and all of these should be offered to
him and consumed or used for common good
Nutritious-delicacies
offered to Vishnu
So in short eat whatever is offered to Vishnu and avoid what is
offered to Shiv that was the teachings given to the masses in form of rituals
Of course elaborate rituals are carried out in ancient temples
where the head called Shankaracharya or the chief priest makes offerings of various
foods and other items on the Shivling and /or Shree Yantra to make offerings
and to establish connections to higher realms, below are videos of the
Shankaracharya of Sringeri math performing such ceremonies, the crystal
Shivling you see in the video was presented by Adi shankaracharya 2500 years
ago also the Sringeri math is in possession of one of the oldest metal shree
yantra, I want to visit this place and other south Indian temples which house
various ancient Shree yantras
What differentiates
us humans from animals is that we have Buddhi (intellect) we have the power to
discriminate between right and wrong.
“Intoxicants destroy
the intellect.”
I repeat again
What differentiates us humans from animals is that we have Buddhi (intellect) we have the power to discriminate between right and wrong.
“Intoxicants destroy the intellect.”
We can achieve higher consciousness and experience bliss that is perfect
happiness; great joy, there is no end to it we can achieve Buddhahood and more
and remain in that state for ever and ever (because as we change our thinking /
habits for good our DNA keeps reprograming itself for better and better) but
what is achieved by consuming intoxicants is just temporary and results in a
hangover and ill health
Marijuana / bhang may be having some medical benefits, even poisons
are used for treatment, but taking a medicine is different than forming a habit
of staying high
On the social media we often come across post like a child saying I
want to live in a world where I am free to grow my own marijuana / bhang. He
just wants to be like a zombie; may be the people who control us and rule over
us want the same so that they can keeps us under control with no one to
question their misdeeds, and that is why they make drugs illegal so that they
being in power can freely run a drug cartel that is the reason the war on drugs
has always failed
A small child is always happy without any reason,
he lives in happiness and joy that his is true nature; our aim is to return to
the origin and be like that small child, our own true self
Look at the child’s bright sparkling eyes and the
dull lifeless eyes of a person who consumes substances just for a temporary euphoria
We should all have a look at your childhood photos
and try to go back to our original true self
Below images of
children who are always happy we can be like them
