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Dedicated in the Holy feet of Guru-‐Maa -‐Er. I.L.Rathi Chief Engineer (Retd.)
INDEX Messages “Mangal Kamnayen” • Blessings From Dr. Pranav Pandya Chancellor • Dev Sanskriti University and Pramukh, Akhil-‐Vishva Gayatri Parivar,Shanti-‐kunj, Haridwar • Best wishes from Er. R.D.Maheshwari Chief Engineer (Retd) UPSEB • Compliments from Er. Ram Pal Sharma Chief Engineer (Retd) UPSEB • Best wishes from Er. R.P.Jamloki Ex-‐Chairman The Institution of Engineers (India) Uttarakhand State Centre, Dehradun • Good wishes from Capt.S.K.Bhandari Ex. Army Officer. • Best wishes from Er. Narendra Singh. Vice President The Institution of Engineers (India) Kolkata Foreword • ‘Making the Life Amazing’ By Er. S.P.Agarwal C.G.M (Retd.) UJVNL • ‘My Main Anxiety’. By Er.I.L.Rathi, the Author • ‘Preface’ by Er. Gulzari LaL, E.E Retd. ID U.P. Gists of earlier Parts of the book • Gist of Part-‐1 • Gist of Part-‐2 • Gist of Part-‐3
Part-‐4
Chapter-‐1 “Our nourishment through roots is an utmost necessity.” • Blunders need corrective measures: • All about this Creation, up to its roots and the seed, were very much clear to Vedic ancients: • Versatility of Vedic Sanskriti can not be questioned and damage being caused by ignoring it, can not be sustained any longer: • Personality traits developed by adopting Vedic Sanskriti continued to show good results even when the body consciousness continued to over power the soul consciousness:
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Chapter-‐2 “Death and there after?”
• We have no option but to revert back and understand the ‘Vedic-‐Sanskriti’ correctly: • Death that never occurs: • How the death of our physical body occurs? How do we feel at the time of death and just there after in ‘Parlok’? • How are the other worlds ‘Parlok’ where we also create our own Heaven ‘Swarg’ and Hell ‘Nark’ and other Lokas? How this knowledge can benefit the mankind? • Let us proceed wisely to create our after-‐death Heaven by the knowledge of procedural intricacies: • Life in ‘Parlok’, where we have no physical body and brain: • From ‘Parlok’ to mother’s womb for rebirth, our movement is almost automatic but at either step our wish can be still attempted to prevail: • Becoming ready for the Death • Bringing the dead back to life.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Chapter-‐3 “Transforming the self” • To elevate the self, continuous intake from ‘Guru’ by becoming a true disciple and then to attempt understanding His designs is to help a lot: • Transforming the self also means attempting to become capable to control the activities of the nature ‘Prakriti’ to our advantage but distancing from nature has made the task of having control even on our body, very difficult: • Growing Talent to enhance Wisdom: • Importance of Auto-‐suggestions: • Important Auto-‐suggestions for making penance exercise ‘Sadhna’ most-‐ effective: • Exercise of Mirror-‐Meditation • Suggestions to improve Memory • Exercises before and after Meditation
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‘Hindus’ must be proud of the fact that Aryans/Sumerians are the ancients of entire mankind but in the whole world only they still continue to maintain their Cultural, Linguistic and Genetic continuity with this most advanced and mighty race and its heroes / gods are still their favourite deity: Fixing-‐up fairly with the help of ‘Puranas’, the origin of Aryan/Sumerians, their movement in ancient era and the virtues that made them superior-‐most : None remained uncovered from the world-‐wide imperial sway and colonial rule of Ancient Aryan / Sumerians and their existence can be seen every where, for millenniums, even after their flourishing only in India as ‘Surya-‐Vansh’ and ‘Chandra-‐Vansh’: Vedic Texts ‘Puranas’ hold much more valuable treasure than merely the authentic history and movements of the text-‐ heroes: Important findings, derived out of Vedic texts, the historians must co-‐relate the ancient past with Aryan king-‐lists already compiled: The language developments in the world, very well maintain the imprints of Ancient Aryans / Sumerians:
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Chapter-‐5 “We, The Amazing Indians” • Right since beginning, we the Indians can be seen every where in the world: • Various sample names all over the world having solid links with Vedic-‐Sanskriti, is an evidence of the presence of its followers, who were in commanding position every where:
Chapter-‐6 “Self-‐Realization” • Tranquility’ can transform us to divinity by extending in us the self-‐realization to the stage of ‘Turiya’, but since misconceived, it is taking the newer generation down the drain: • Use of Idolatry and Symbolism has been as well misconceived but these are essential for proceeding from known to unknown or from material to abstract, and thus these are the best techniques for attaining self-‐realization: • Virtues inculcated in the State of Tranquility leads to Self-‐ elevation that along with tested techniques of Gurudev Acharya Shri Ram Sharma makes by and by, our self-‐ realization easy: • Meditation is a best investment of ‘Time’, and saves enormous time on either front but its scientific-‐study & practicing, continues to be utterly neglected even now in free India: • Soul-‐elevation by arousing Kundalini: • ‘Kundalini’-‐ related depictions / exhibits in Vedic Sanskriti: • Safe Arousing of Kundalini: • Box ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’ ***************
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BLESSINGS For the book 'Who are we and what we are meant for?' written by Er.I. L. Rathi Retd. Chief Engineer (Level-‐1), which is also being put for your any-‐time access at internet, I feel immensely pleased to forward it. The author is a member of 'Gayatri-‐Parivar' since more than three decades now. When he was the President or U.P.R.V.P. Abhiyanta Sangh, I had the opportunity to attend and address a number of work-‐ shops and family gatherings of fellow engineers, organized by him to carry forward the Mission's program. Now he has made him exclusively available for the mission after performing his after death rites 'Swa-‐ Shradh' in 4/2008 in 'Shanti-‐kunj'. Though we all very well know that the ancient most 'Vedic-‐ Sanskriti' is the root of all other cultures and its Sumerian/Aryan gods are in the root of all religions but the author has put in all out efforts to prove this fact as per evidence on record and this deserves all-‐round appreciation. His efforts to explore the science in various tested Vedic techniques are also commendable because now 71% of world's
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(Dr. Pranav Pandya)
Shradheya Dr. Pranav Pandya is renowned for pioneering scientific spirituality world over. He is a gold medalist in MD (Medicine) and although in 1976, he had a lucrative opportunity after qualifying for U.S medical services, but he stayed in India at the instance of revered Gurudev Acharya Shri Ram Sharma. He joined Yug Nirman Mission at Shantikunj as the director Brahmavarchas Research Institute in 1978. A significant phase of his life started after Gurudev's Mahasamadhi in 1990. From here on, he took on the leadership of All World Gayatri Pariwar, which blossomed into a world wide organization now having established-‐branches in over 80 countries with nearly 90 million followers. He is a shining example for his determination in spreading the message of Yug Nirman Mission world-‐wide from, Russia to China. He addressed joint session of House of Lords and House of Commons in UK in 1992. As the Head of the Organization, he disseminated the message of Indian culture (Dev-‐Sanskriti), in its true spirit, across the globe. Furthermore, under his dynamic leadership the Dev Sanskriti University at Haridwar is establishing new milestones and reforming the face of modern education, and it aims to mould the new generation of inspired youths on the lines of ancient Indian Gurukuls of Nalanda and Taxila with the same emphasis to take on social service along with their own development.
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Er. R.D.Maheshwari A-‐455, Indira Nagar Chief Engineer (Retd) Lucknow U.P. State Electrcity Board Best Wishes I Compliment the author Er. LL.Rathi for bringing out Part 4 of the book 'Who are we and what we are meant for,' after having brought out the earlier three parts, one every year. These books describe the achievements of our Ancients and their contributions towards the advancement of the whole world. In this part 4, Chapter-‐1 deals with the need of educating direct nourishment techniques to our young generation for survival of the mankind. it is possible only if we continue to be connected with our roots. In Chapter-‐2 'Death and thereafter' the Author has emphasized & clarity of the concepts in our easily under-‐standable technical language on the connected issues as 'Death' can not be avoided. The prevailing perverted impressions of 'Death' and 'Life thereafter' shall continue to harm us. For well-‐planned landing in 'Parlok', we have to continue preparations right here i.e. 'Ihlok'. Chapter 3 ' Transforming the Self' emphasises on taking help of the practical excercises developed by experts viz. for growing talent and to improve memory, Exercise of Mirror-‐Meditation found most effective has been dealt in this chapter. Being the subject of our subtle bodies, these assets get carried to our future births. Chapter-‐4 'Aryans/Sumerians' is to boost up our self-‐confidence of Hindus must be proud of the fact that Aryans/Sumerians are the ancients of entire mankind. It has been proved with the help of the facts on record that none remained uncovered from the worldwide imperial sway and colonial rule of ancient Aryans/ Sumerians and their existence can be seen everywhere, for millenniums, even after their flourishing again in India, as 'Surya-‐Vansh'and 'Chandra-‐Vansh'. The development of various languages in the world can well be seen as maintaing imprints of Ancient Aryans/Sumerians. As such all languages of the world are children of Sanskrit language. Vedic texts, especially
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(R.D.Maheshwari)
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Er. Ram Pal Sharma
11-‐A, Saharanpur Road Deheradun 248001-‐15. Ph. 0135/2722075
Chief Engineer (Retd) U.P.S.E.B
COMPLIMENTS I had the opportunity to go into the details “Who we are and what we are meant for” written by Er I.L.Rathi. It is my pleasure to compliment him for his intense hard work, efforts and dedication for going into the roots of Vedic Sanskriti and bringing into light its real worth, which clearly proves that Vedic Sanskriti is the mother of all enlightened cultures of the world. Although I am very much interested in Vedic Culture and Spiritualism but it is the first time that a solid base has been given to my beliefs and also to many spiritual organizations, who are working hard to bring to light the real virtues of Vedic Culture and spreading it through out the world. The writer has clearly brought into the following main points of Vedic-‐ Culture, which has guided the world civilizations. I have to comment on some of the main points and also views of some other spiritual writers, which further reinforce the views brought out by Er.I.L.Rathi embedded in Vedic Culture. (1) The creator of this Universe, “BRAHM” and “MANUSHYA” : The BRA-‐H-‐M created TRIDEV i.e. BRAHMA, HRIDESH (another name of VISHNU) and MAHESH. These three entities are GENERATOR, OPERATOR and DESTROYER and from these three first words-‐ the word GOD came out-‐ for the civilization of this world, as creator of this universe. The writer has successfully traced back the “HINDU” race to Aryans -‐ to Sumerians -‐ to MANU. The descendents of MANU afterwards were known as his “SHISHYAS” (desciples), thereby giving the name of MANU-‐SHYAS to present Hindu race. (2) MEDITATION for peace of mind – for Land Mark Success : On my retirement as Chief Engineer from U.P,S.E,B. in 1995, I joined a Spiritual organization “SANAT-‐MARG” which is a system of Yogic training for awakening the masses to Divine consciousness. It is purely based on MEDITATION, which teaches us how to control our mind and
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POWER CONSULTANT
B.E. (Electrical), FIE Hydro Power, Transmission, Distribution Past Chairman Energy Conservation & Capacity IEI, UKSC, Dehradun Building Senior Consultant-UREC GM (Retd.), PTCUL Member, International Association on Electricity Generation, Transmission and Distribution Member, Indian Water Society
Best Wishes It gives me immense pleasure to have part-‐4 of the book ‘Who Are We and What We Are Meant For?’ written by Er. I.L. Rathi in my hand. It has been my profound pleasure and privilege to work in guidance of Er. I.L. Rathi for last 35 years. He is a person of great determination and has a high appetite to work for the betterment of the society and mankind. I have already read the previous 3 parts of this book, which have enriched my knowledge in knowing the facts about the great supremacy of the Aryans. In part-‐4 of the book author has imparted the knowledge of very purpose of human life in 6 Chapters and thus making us aware about the bliss we can enjoy with the little efforts suggested in the book. The Chapter-‐1 mainly focuses on the values adorned by Aryans, which have been forgotten by our present generation. The author has rightly mentioned that this has resulted in disconnect from our roots of rich culture. On account of this, the present generation is in complete state of utter confusion, ignorance and illusion. The Chapter-‐2 earnestly deals with the conception of improving the present life and life after death. Every Indian believes that if we cherish and practice the high values of a good human as described in Vedas & Upanishads, he ensures a better life after death. The success or failure, joy or sorrow of present life is completely resultant of good or bad deeds in present life. This knowledge is well preserved in Vedas. The author has cited many examples which are sufficient to elucidate that Hindus still have genetic continuity even after 9-‐10 millenniums with renowned civilizations in the world. This is enough to boost the morale and self confidence of the Hindus and inspire them to achieve those heights which our ancestors
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ikFkZ uS o s g ukeq = fouk’kLrL; fo|rs A u fg dY;k.kd` R df’pn~ n q x Z f ra rkr xPNfrAA ¼40½ iz k I; iq . ;d` r ka yks d kuq f ’kRok 'kk’orh% lek%A “kq p huka Jherka xs g s ;ks x Hkz ’ Vks · fHktk;rs A A ¼41½ Lord Krishna said to Arjuna:-‐ “There is certainly no ruin (A birth inferior to the previous one) for him (Who has fallen from good deeds or practicing Yoga) in this birth or thereafter. For no one engaged in good, meets with a deplorable end.” (40) “The man fallen or distracted from Yoga (Good deeds) in this birth is born in the house of pious and prosperous.”(41) The Chapter 3&4 teach us about the “Self” Transformation for growing talent, improve memory and inculcating best values with exercise like Mirror Meditation. This will certainly result in development of a powerful human being and self confidence building to make the Hindus proud of the fact that Aryans/Sumerians are the ancients of entire mankind blessed with all virtues. The assets and values so acquired get carried forward to our next birth and help in building a beautiful world. In Chapter-‐5&6 author has enlightened us that we are the Amazing Indians as the same is clear from the various archeological monuments, megalithic structures, stone hinge/circles in some specific astronomic alliance, temples, star observatories found at various places in the world. This proves that Aryans, who emanated from India have remained in dominating position all over the world for many millenniums and these virtues can still be seen or found in Hindus. The author has urged all Indians to develop all those virtues by way of Meditation, Mantras, the Religious Scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads and teachings of great saints. I extend my best wishes to Er. I.L. Rathi for his praise-‐worthy dedication and untiring efforts for the sake of masses, which are indeed in the very line of the efforts of our ancients, many of them still continue to be our deity. For the sake of new generation too, I also pray to Almighty that this may soon get attention of policy makers of our classroom settings, where we are still teaching them our own wrong history as exposed at length in his deliberations.
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los Z HkoUrq lq f [ku% los Z lUrq fujke;%A los Z Hknz k f.k Ik’;Urq ] ek df’pn~ nq % [k Hkkx Hkos r ~ A A “May all be happy, fearless, May I visualize (see) goodness in all and nobody be in a state of pain” OM Shanti.
(R.P. Jamloki)
_____________________________________________________ 82, Phase-1, Engineers Enclave, P.O. Kanwali, GMS Road, Dehradun-248001 0135-2720538 (R), 9412992739 (M), Telefax:0135-2641190, E-mail: [emailprotected]
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16 (45), Chakrata Road Ex. Army Officer Dehradun-‐ UK 248001 L.L.0135/2723634
Good Wishes
I wish to congratulate the Author for the four parts of his book "who are we and we are meant for?" The Author has done tremendous research into the Vedic-‐Sanskrit and put forward his thoughts based on scientific explanations. In the Forth part of his book he has touched a very serious point in the life of a human being "DEATH AND THERE AFTER". The scriptures clarify that death is a mere point in the soul's journey to the ultimate goal of life -‐moksha or liberation from the cycle of life and death. Thus, this transmigration of the soul is defined as "the passage after death of the human or animal soul from a mortal body to a new incarnation in another body of the same or another species. He has tried to reason out and explain all aspects of death and after death zone "PARLOK" as suited best for the easy grasp of the present era intelligentsia. All through he has cited scientific knowledge derived from reasoning on basis of personal experience. What is death? The author explains death as a stage in the natural and continuous cycle of energy transformation. Death of our physical body is not only an absolute truth, but is an absolute necessity for the re-‐ juvenation. One thing is certain, however, as the Bhagavad Gita says: ‘Jatasya hi dhruvo mrityuh’ for one who is born, death is certain. After death it is "Parlok" -‐ since it is not clear what “Parlok” the author is goes on to explain the necessity of making the best use of our present birth. He goes on to explain how fear from death can be easily eradicated by the facts elaborated. How do we feel at the time of death? How is the life in "Parlok"? How we move back from there to the mother's womb for rebirth etc. have been explained in detail. The journey after death has been written by many but the target after death "Lokas" is not
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Best wishes We are fortunate to have in our hands the Part-‐4 of the book “Who are we and what we are meant for?”, being written by Er. I.L.Rathi, who after his retirement in 8/1999 from the post of Chief Engineer (Level-‐1) in U.P.State Electricity Board, has dedicated himself for the noble cause of mass-‐upliftment. It is a matter of great appreciation that for making himself totally free for the purpose, he has even performed his ‘Swa-‐ Shradh’ rites and under the post-‐rite strict disciplines, he continues to serve ‘Brahm (Gyan) Bhoj’ at its each ‘Punya-‐Tithi’ every year by up-‐ loading each successive Part of his book on his websites ‘punarjanm.com./in’. The best part of his deliberations is that he is also reviving and introducing exercises at various steps of Soul-‐realization process with simultaneous result-‐testing on him self. Though all of us believe that the Almighty has created human beings in His image, but the life that most of us lead is full of sorrow and miseries that is inferior even to the worth-‐less creatures. The author has rightly pointed out that factually we need nourishment through our roots but we continue to be completely de-‐linked from it, for which correct knowledge of our past is essential. Various clarifications and suggestions in this regard have been given right in the first chapter of this Part of his book ‘Our nourishment through our roots is an utmost necessity’. In other chapters of his book, he has further pointed out that different notions prevailing in our minds in regard to ‘Death and life there after’ are so confusing that we have as well missed the real aim of our life. It is really surprising that with this totally blurred conception in regard to our start and in regard to our end as well, and by continuing through out our life, adopting the course totally unworthy of our status, we call ourselves as wisest species among 8.4 million of His creation. In
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Foreword Er. S.P.Agarwal C.G.M.(Retd.) UJVNL
301-‐B Alaknanda Apartments, 51 Rajpur Road, Dehradun (U.K.) 248001 M.09837424478
MAKING THE LIFE, AMAZING Claiming to be the wisest specie of the Creation, we are supposed to enjoy our life to its fullest and must have all that, what we ever aspire for. But this is not at all true in our case. Life filled with joy and excitement in each of its activity can only be termed as an amazing life. But except some intermittent flickers, there is hardly any such gain with which we can foster our claim. Even in case of Health that can certainly be taken as our first requirement to feel happy, our condition is highly deplorable and if compared with even the insignificant creatures, they are apparently better placed, doing away so nicely life-‐ long with out any medical aid. Most shameful aspect of our truth is, while all that, which can make our life amazing and all the treasure of virtues with which we can make even life of others amazing, lay with in us but we fail to utilize it. There is no point of casting any doubt on our capabilities on either front, as we are certainly the part and parcel of the supreme power which pervades and manages this bound-‐less Universe. Factually our ignorance has played havoc on us due to which, though in the supreme design of our mind and body, all the Virtues lay in-‐dormant with in us and we just need to inculcate them out, yet neither we believe in this truth nor work for it. If we analyze the reason of our ignorance further up to its roots, we shall find that negativity that keeps our mind preoccupied, has done an immense harm to us. It can be easily visualized that any improvement in us can not be thought of when we have ignorantly preferred to remain surrounded with Fear, Panic, Jealousy, Suspicion, Protectiveness, Distrust, Anxiety, worry, Apprehensions, Agony, Nervousness and a number of alike negative emotions. Let us elaborate our situation with a few such negative emotions to find out how badly these tell on us. Take the case of Anxiety, its symptoms may include fidgeting, muscle-‐tension, sleeping-‐problems, and headaches. Higher levels of anxiety may produce symptoms as rapid-‐heartbeat,
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sweating, increased blood pressure, nausea, and dizziness. Similarly, up till the time we continue to be angry, it causes loss of memory that means we go devoid of intellect and our actions during this state can never remain dependable. An inference can be thus easily drawn that to remain positive in leading our life, is the lone solution that can, make our life amazing. Therefore the thought-‐pattern, with which we continue all day long, needs willful tackling to our advantage. For this the very first step is to always remain busy and carefree “Vyast Rahain – Mast Rahain”. Many times we unnecessarily confuse ourselves. Preparing for the worst is not a worry till hope for the best, is kept attached. Similarly, weeping in sympathy is no distress until we get involved. Principally our involvement only attracts negative effects. Further, the design of our mind and body is such that ‘one becomes as he thinks and does’. Our thoughts are not only the building blocks of our life but these can always make us feel as we wish, instantly. Slight change in angle of vision, makes the entire difference. With the wisdom we possess, at least we can easily desist being led-‐away by emotions. We must realize that maintaining emotions of our choice is prerogative of only human beings and these emotions set in us the flow of respective thoughts. The other wonderful help of Nature is that to remain positive, is not at all difficult. Rather to continue with the emotions that help us, is in our nature. We can continue to be joyful and happy for as long as we wish but it is impossible to continue to be sad and keep on weeping much longer, as this is against our basic nature. This is true for all negative emotions unless we ourselves ignorantly maintain a welcome attitude towards them. However, supreme commander of all the positive emotions is ‘Love’. Even in worldly affairs, Love can be seen a lot effective. It is so powerful that under its influence, we forget ourselves and all our needs. Negativity, even towards the shortcomings of our beloved, as such gets evaporated. When in emergency-‐service of beloved, all kind of our own pains get subsided miraculously. Undoubtedly, Love has a tremendous force. Those who have set records of leading a great life, have without exception, used this force of Love to attain the greatness in them. That is why in every religion every great thinker, philosopher, prophet and leader has talked and written about high significance of Love. Saint Kabir went to this extent that he discarded entire wisdom of a learned person and valued it very insignificant in comparison with the Love. Pothi Parh Parh Jag Mua, Pandit Bhaya Na Koi !
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Dhai Akhar Prem Ka, Parhe so Pandit Hoi !! To analyze Love technically as a force/energy, we can see clearly that the business of the entire universe is dependent of energy getting transformation in thousand of forms, covering Gravity, Heat, Light, Electricity, Electromagnetism etc. etc. However, the force of emotions is subtle. The entire energy at work is however His manifestation. He is Subtle-‐most and transformation from subtle to material stage and its reverse cycle, is an on-‐going process in the creation. On the subtle constituents of all beings viz. Mind, Intellect, and conscious, etc, the subtle form of energy is naturally more effective. Love attracts and mends these fine constituents of our Inner-‐four ‘Antah-‐Chatushtya’ directly and has thus established itself as a tremendous power. It is very active force under the influence of our mood alike a flood-‐tide under the attraction of full Moon. But ahead to worldly affairs, when the selfishness diminishes, love attains superiority and envelopes all the beings that fall in its beat. This is the reason that a matured mind filled with love can not be contained or confined to family, friends and to other favourite items, only. Love is a positive force of life and is the cause of each positive action i.e. the one that is felt as good and bring good results. Love in its purest form is with out any expectation ‘Nishkam’ and at this stage it turns divine. Such a love pervades every where to make our influence omnipresent alike Him. Love is not an attribute of God but ‘Love is God’. Such a wisdom is a gift of the sacred land of India and therefore India is the home land of all the religions. Once in London, as English man asked Dada Vaswani ‘India is supposed to be the ancestral home of the world’s religious consciousness. Will you tell me in three words the essence of religion?’ Smiling he replied ‘the essence of religion in three words –the first word is Love, the second word is Love, the third word is Love’ There is no use of describing love and its tremendous powers any more. In our own history we have seen people becoming mighty and powerful, repeating miracles when mad in love. Many of them even got transformed and became divine as well. So the power of Love or the miracles of its influence at its various states from worldly to divine, are very much clear to us. The only point of our use is, how to tap this terrific source? A fantastic break through is already there, that for equipping ourselves with this tremendous power, we are not required to make any extra effort but just to start loving only. Fundamentally, ‘Love begets Love’ and thus it becomes its own strength. In the paths leading to Him, Love ‘Prem’ surpasses even
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa devotion ‘Bhakti’ or can be taken as ‘Bhakti’ of superior-‐most form. Up till the time we are a devotee, our deity has a separate entity. But in love, both devotee and deity become one. The lane of Love is too shallow and can only sustain either of the two, Devotee or the Deity. “Jab Main Tha Tab Hari Nahin, ab Hain Hari Main Nahi. Prem Gali Ati Sankri, Ja main Do Na Samahi”. If we proceed methodically, the process of equipping ourselves with this tremendous power is too simple and shall go on accomplishing automatically in three steps viz. Imagining, Feeling and Receiving. To proceed with learning to love, we can start imagining all that we wish to have in our favourite. To get the same response, we have to again generate in us a feeling that whatever we want, we are getting from the other end. Receiving is the stage in which we feel satisfied of our intake. Do not get worried with any ‘if or but’. When Love starts taking roots, either we will mend our favourite or shall get adjusted with him. Our amalgamation with our favorite is possible only this way. As is clear by now, Love is a game played mentally and we have to continue to remain positive in all circ*mstances. No cognition is needed be taken of the situation even with slightest negativity. For instance, in case of Almighty at the other end, even in distress, we have to presume our self, as either having been put to some test or our distress has to be taken as a part of our rectification process. Falling in love however starts making us capable of taking advantage of its powers. This can be visualized by the fact that when in love even with some worldly entity, we forget even our hunger and thirst. In penance however, when our love with the Almighty is at its peak, we not only go immune to all type of infections and other hazards but even our aging stops. That means the irreversible biological changes that occur in all the beings with the passage of time, comes to a halt, as if the time-‐lapsed is not getting accounted-‐for in our age. This goes to suggest that winning-‐over of ‘Death’ is also possible by the force of Love. Factually, it is through the spectacles of Love only, that we can explore our might to see clearly who are we?, and to regain our Divinity, we are thus required to extend our immense love to entire Creation, that is what we are actually meant for. Love is thus a tested tool to make our life amazing. The remarkable aspect of this approach is that we become capable to use its extra power from the day one.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I am thankful to Er. I.L.Rathi for, time and again, giving me opportunities to contribute share of my humble worth in his esteemed mission of letting the masses know “Who we are and what we are meant for?” I am here with all my best compliments for Part-‐4 of his book of this Title. His long association with me has always inspired me and (touch wood), to day I feel so amazing that exchanging views fearlessly with the beings of the other subtle worlds, has become my regular schedule. I always remain eager to work for him and aspire to owe a bigger responsibility on this front as and when he considers me fit for.
(Er.S.P.Agarwal) ‘Preface’ and the ‘Best Wishes’ -‐Er.Gulzari Lal We are fortunate to have in our hands the Part-‐4 of the book “Who are we and what we are meant for?” written by Er. I.L.Rathi, who after his retirement in 8/1999 from the post of Chief Engineer (Level-‐1) in U.P.State Electricity Board, has dedicated himself for the noble cause of mass up-‐ lifting by a sort of continuous ‘Gyan-‐Yagya’. As has been done to other Parts in past years, this Part is also being uploaded this year on the author’s websites ‘punatjanm.com/.in’ In this Part of the book, the author has raised some very important thought-‐provoking points that are directly connected with our well-‐being. Such as, if we are the wisest species, then why most of us lead life, apparently even below the status of insignificant creatures or if the present-‐day technological advancement is for the sake of making our life
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa better, then why about 50% of the mankind has by now, gone dependent on pills even for their normal sleep and so forth. After a deep study of the subject, the conclusions drawn by the author are easily understandable. It is a fact that by gradually missing the answers of both major questions that compile the title of his book, we continue to be disconnected from our roots and direction of our progress-‐making also continues to be wrong. For making our home-‐coming easier, in this Part of the book, he starts his deliberations in Chapter-‐1, by exposing to us, our roots with an emphasis, as to why ‘Our nourishment through our roots is an utmost necessity’. It is only after having the correct knowledge of our roots, the type of nourishment that suits us best can be decided. This however needs knowledge of various designs of the Creator. As elaborated in this Chapter, the design of our mind and body is such that if we maintain a natural course, we can continue to be benefited automatically by the abundantly resourceful nature ‘Prakrity’ because in this entire creation, every thing has been created just for our sake as has been elaborated by citing an example in the BOX here under. It is only our indifferent attitude that we the princes of mother-‐ ‘Nature’, have forgotten our worth and continue to haunt for the whole life just as beggars. Reaching towards the end of the book, in Chapter-‐6 he has as well shown to us the correct direction of progress-‐making as ‘Self-‐realization’, proceeding towards which, we shall always fetch maximum benefits not only during this birth but also in our life after-‐death.
Management of Problems by Positive-‐thinking The prominent out of various design features of the Almighty in all of us is that ‘one becomes as he thinks and does’. This, in short can be said that “we are as we have desired our self to be”. But under a state of constant unknown fears, all of us have the tendency of constantly complaining for some or the other reason and for many of us complaining has become our way of life. Whatever we do or whatever happens with us, we just keep on complaining e.g. the weather is too hot or bitter cold, the traffic-‐jams are too bad, people have become inefficient and lazy, the subordinates are not properly working, no body understands me, no body appreciates me, nobody cares for me, no body helps me etc. etc. Many times by making our mind a devil’s workshop, we unnecessarily start presuming all, that is negative. Whereas our thoughts are the building-‐blocks of our ‘Manomaya-‐Kosh’, what can be the net result of such an all-‐day-‐long thinking-‐pattern,
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa which is to mould our future, can be easily worked out. We forget that thinking is the prerogative of only human beings and if it could be managed, can also transform our life. But just because of our ignorance, we are causing a grave harm to ourselves. All the more, as described by the author in the chapter, maintaining positive thinking is not at all difficult. Then why not we start looking at whatever is there for our advantage. Why can not we start appreciating the people for whatever good they do instead of focusing on their defects and why to at all guess, some thing wrong? That is we should stop focusing on all that is wrong and start focusing on all that is right. We must appreciate that by complaining and criticizing constantly we are inviting a lot of negativity in our lives. We need to be totally clear about His this important design feature that our thoughts open a window to our like-‐wise future and all our imagined ills are to become a reality. Factually the danger is still bigger as at each time we utter some thing negative about life, we start believing more and more that makes it more certain. By using our wisdom, we can take a lot of advantage of His this design feature. Our thought pattern does not affect only on us but if we start thinking good about some other one whom we consider our enemy, his ‘Manomaya-‐ kosh’ can be effected for desired change in his attitude. Similarly, if we remain positive for success and work for it, success begins to take shape. Let us see how only the following two steps can make a vast difference and how the support of internal mechanism has been confirmed by medical researches as well. (1) By keeping a thanks-‐giving attitude to God: When we thank God, our heart expands and strengthens our immune system. Medical researches have shown that positive emotions like love and gratitude enhance our immune system that succeeds to a great extent to keep at bay the illness and decease. (2) By positive thinking of gratitude and joy: With positive thinking of Gratitude and joy, the brain and spinal cord release specialized neurotransmitters called endorphins and enkephalins. These chemicals interfere with pain impulse transmission by occupying the nerve cell receptors required to send the impulse across the synapse. By making the pain impulse travel less efficiently, endorphins and enkephalins can significantly lessen the perception of pain. In extreme circ*mstances, they can even make severe injuries nearly painless. If an athlete is injured during the height of competition, or a soldier is injured during
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa elevation, shall lead finally to attain ‘self-‐realization’. This has been explained in the BOX below. To boost up our moral and for our mental preparation that ‘we can as well do’, the author has very rightly inserted Chapter 4 and 5 dealing our ‘Aryans’/’Sumerians’ ancients and the mile stones established by ‘We, the Amazing Indians’. It becomes clear from his in-‐depth study that millenniums ago, these ancients reached to the farthest corner of the entire world for the sake of masses and left their indelible imprints everywhere. Not only the techniques adopted by these ancients for such a rise, have been explained by him with clarity, some tested exercises too, have been suggested in these chapters. Hindus, since carry the instincts and ‘Sanskars’ of these mighty ancients, are definitely at a great advantage and there is no point to miss this rare opportunity of making our present birth a grand success by modifying the fundamental moulds of our destiny to the best of our might.
Transforming the self (Means breaking the end-‐less journey)At the time of death, Alexander the great, asked his Generals to leave his empty hands out of his coffin for a lesson to the world that one enters and exits this mortal world empty handed. But Vedic sages knew that this is true only by material angle. One takes along with him, his astral body which holds the blue print of all the desires and corresponding karmas that ultimately decides the fate of our next birth and thus he comes back with his set destiny ‘Prarabdh’. To understand this mystery, our ancients have explored that we are not the body what we see in the mirror but it extends beyond to include the five sheaths ‘koshas’ named as 1. Annmay kosh or physical body, 2. Pranmay Kosh or life force, 3. Manomay Kosh, 4. Vigyanmay Kosh and 5. Anandmay Kosh. An ordinary being desires only material objects and play for the whole life at the level of Annmay Kosh, which is controlled by ‘Pran’. The soul stays in the body till there is Pran in it. When death occurs and there is no Pran left in the body, the soul leaves the body. Though the soul leaves the body but it still remains tied-‐up to its desires and karmas. The author has very well explained this fact in his book up to four volumes “Who we are and what we are meant for?” that Punarjanm becomes a must depending up on our desires and Karmas in
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa balance, until our liberation or merging with Almighty. Human beings being a ‘Karm-‐Yoni’, in the next birth too we are bound to involve in various Karmas associated with our respective desires. This is to make our journey end-‐less. Detaching desire from Karmas i.e. ‘Nishkam-‐Karm’ is the only option to liberate us from this unending cycle. However we can not switch over to ‘Nishkam Karm’ so easily. Our intense desire of ‘Self-‐realization’ can only set our direction of effort-‐ making. That is possible only by our soul-‐elevation by and by. By detachment we have to get rid-‐off the negativity and this call for involving in practicing for good karmas with a blind faith in the deity. Chapter -‐3 ‘Transforming the self’ covers this point explicitly. I consider myself lucky to have a chance of working with Er. I.L.Rathi for the last about four decades. The websites were launched by him in the year 2000 and I continue to be his close associate in his on-‐going mission in which he has unfolded many intricacies of Vedic-‐sanskriti with more clarity in impressive and scientific manner. His clarity in ‘Anulom-‐Vilom’ pranayam in Chapter 6 is really an eye-‐opener. He is right that the brighter to-‐morrow can be guaranteed to new generation only by inculcating their in-‐dormant virtues, which in turn is possible only by imparting correct knowledge and techniques for self-‐elevation, as embedded in Vedic texts. However he has also reiterated his anxiety in his forwarding note of this Part and that needs attention of all concerned. I extend my best wishes to Er.I. L. Rathi in his untiring efforts for his inspiring and legendry work of mass wakening mission. ( E r (Er. Gulzari Lal)
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa My Main Anxiety. -‐Er.I.L.Rathi As expressed earlier in the various parts of the book ‘Who are we and what we are meant for?’ available at website ‘punarjanm.com/.in’, my main anxiety is that the new generation is being still taught a totally wrong history of Vedic ancients, who are the ancients of the whole mankind through out the world and their Versatile-‐most Vedic-‐Sanskriti is being neglected even in our own free India. The facts given in the Chapter-‐4 “Aryans/Sumerians” and Chaptrer-‐5 “We the Amazing Indians” of this Part of the book prove that none remained uncovered from the world-‐wide imperial sway and colonial rule of Ancient Aryan/Sumerians. In fact they dominated right since the Neolithic age 8000 BC onwards when small colonies started brewing-‐up in the world, and their existence can be seen every where with their original identity, for millenniums even after their flourishing lastly, again only in India as ‘Surya-‐Vansh’ and ‘Chandra-‐Vansh’ i.e. very well up till 2000 BC. Drying-‐up of Saraswati-‐ River (1900 BC) marks the beginning of their decline. The Chapter-‐5, of the Part-‐4 which is presently in your hands, provides conclusive evidence to this effect. ‘Hindus’ must be proud of the fact that though Aryans/Sumerians are the ancients of entire mankind but as also proved archeologically, in the whole world only they still continue to maintain their Cultural, Linguistic and Genetic continuity with this most advanced and mighty race and its heroes / gods are still their favourite deity. But a constant attempt can be seen to detach us from our roots and thereby to deprive the whole mankind from this rich cultural heritage of Vedic Dev-‐ Sanskriti. It is only due to its own versatility that it still, not only continues to be alive but being tested, can only become the savior of the entire mankind from the presently prevailing chaotic conditions all-‐ around. In the Prelude of Part-‐3, I had given various facts that are factually very hard to digest. Repeating these facts once again here is to hammer on the minds of fellow Indians that we need to know our correct identity. It is a fact that after two centuries of British rule, a totally distorted and pathetic image of Indians got emerged as if right from the beginning we are backward and diffident. Even after long 65 years of freedom, we
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa present a scene as a welter of conflicting ideologies amidst drift and restlessness. A sincere thrust has never been given to introduce our new generation the ancient values how these kept this great country at the top. When India got freedom, various famous historians of even England viz. C.H. Philips were sure that free Indians will now write their own correct History as up till that time India was being taught History as written by British historians. But drained of their wisdom during slavery period and having developed a different type of mentality, most of us remained either unconcerned or felt ourselves as much inferior to challenge the history written by British historians. It was pointed out by me earlier that I still remember a time when a section of scholars in India used to feel a sense of pride when addressed by suffixing their name ‘England returned’ and ‘America returned’, as if these words decorate their academic degrees. During freedom struggle, dedication towards nation was at its peak only up till attaining freedom but the voice of veteran leaders too, soon went feeble with in a few years there after. In 1981 German writer Wiliam P. Humour, who lived in India for 35 years, wrote in his book ‘India Roads to Nationhood’ that when I read History of India, it does not sound correct as ‘Indians were defeated and Indians were deserted’, can not be their history only. He said that it is unfortunate that Indians are not particular of their correct History. Many scholars such as Arnold Taynavi agreed that thinking of Indians has fallen prey to Europeans. Among many great persons of pre-‐independence era, who insisted for correct history writing, Swami Daya Nand Saraswati has given in his book ‘Satyarth-‐Prakash’ a list of reliable books for this purpose and considered the rest of the history books as manipulated/forged. Swami Vivekananda insisted on Indians for not to follow the History books written by British. Rabindra Nath Tagore as well said that apart from destruction and distress, the ingenious and inspiring History of India must also be read. Bhagni Navodita considered correcting the History, as the first work to be done after independence. Right from Mahatma Gandhi to many modern-‐time intellectuals were against the present confusing History of India. Sardar K.M.Panikkar, Chancellor of Kashmir University said in clear words that the false and wrong History had to be changed. The famous writer Anand K. Kumaraswami said that as to how long we shall read our own distorted
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa History that has been forced up on us and how long we shall depend on the historians of the west? He said that we have lost ourselves with a constant sense of defeat and due to nourishing inferiority complex continuously with in us, we keep on copying the west blindly. Really, our novelty, originality, uniqueness, and innovation still lay kidnapped by our own slave mentality. If we are satisfied with progress that India has made after independence, we surely have no idea, what we could have attained by following our own tested techniques. For instance, ‘mobile to mobile’ communication, which is being taken as the miracle of modern times, is nothing in comparison with the ‘mind to mind’ communication, which our soul-‐conscious ancients already had. However it is none of the new generation’s fault who have never been told what ‘becoming as soul-‐conscious’ means. I had pointed out earlier as well that what haunts me terribly is that, till date there is no sign of any interest or effort towards bringing before the new generation the correct picture of ancient India. A lot of wonderful data is available in Vedic texts and it simply requires co-‐relating with the history of various areas of the world. Paradox of David Frowlley continues to persist only due to not linking of Vedic texts with the archeological excavations. On the one hand, apart from what is there under ‘Thar-‐Desert’, where river Saraswati got dried-‐up in 1900BC, and also apart from many sites now abandoned in Baluchistan, more than 2500 sites of small towns and big cities lay excavated in Indus Valley ‘Sindhu Ghati’, in west of the deserts, but there is no trace of history of the heroes of this civilization ‘Sabhyata’, on the other hand long descriptions of a lot many heroes and even that of their re-‐births, are available in Vedic texts but there is no trace of the areas to which they belonged to. Vedic texts have been kept beyond the peripheries of time and space for a greater purpose but that has not been correctly understood. Otherwise Indus valley civilization is nothing but a part of Vedic-‐era which is being wrongly taught even in history books of India after the chapter of Indus-‐valley-‐civilization. I wish to highlight once again that ignoring these facts and in spite of a lot many above mentioned strong feelers, History continues to be distorted to a great extent even through N.C.E.R.T, U.G.C and I.C.H.R.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa From the books selected for syllabus, even mistakes of language and the facts were not corrected for more then 30 years. After taking the matter to courts of law, ‘Shiksha-‐Bachao-‐Andolan’ could succeed in forcing the government to delete about 75 paragraphs from these books. Should this happen in our own country, is really hard to digest? Piled-‐up with contradictions, instead of clearing facts, these books continue to give importance to discrimination and give rise to more confusion merely due to unawareness. Let us consciously look at our face in the mirror of History that we presently teach to our new generation and determine if we are not behaving just as our own enemy? Nation, Nationality, Indian ‘Sanskriti’ and its original spiritual thinking, all have been kept at bay. Only perversions and distortions in Hindus and their traditions, that were a compulsion of slavery period, continue to be a matter of criticism in the history books of foreign universities and we have gone much thick-‐ skinned offering even no reaction to such an insult. Communalism has been exaggerated and even Lokmanya Tilak, Mahrishi Arvind and great persons like Swami Vivekananda were also not spared. Mughal-‐period has been glorified in our history books and their era has been taken as extraordinary. Invaders have been taken as national heroes and many of them have been discussed beyond proportion. 1857 mutiny was taken just a limited revolt of north-‐India by farmers against money lenders. Correct picture of Nana Saheb, Jhansi Ki Rani, and Kunwar Singh etc. has also not been given. In these history books, entire energy appears to have been put to keep students at a distance from their ancient India. Though keeping the roots connected with country’s culture was considered necessary in either syllabus by UNESCO, but in the books of Indian syllabus, the details of Vedas, Aryans, and Vedic-‐Sanskriti etc. have not been given. Ram, Krishna, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Gita, all have been kept out of course. What to do of this History of India with out Mahrishi Ved Vyas, Mahrishi Balmiki, Adi Shankaracharya and very many great scholars and researchers ‘Rishi-‐Munis’ who put-‐in their whole lives for the sake of relief to the suffering mankind? There is high degree of over-‐looking of the Mother-‐hood potential ‘Matra-‐Shakti’ which has been through-‐out instrumental in keeping Vedic-‐Sanskriti alive right since times immemorial. When Chandragupta Maurya, Chandragupta Vikramaditya, Harshvardhan and other many important personalities
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Part-‐4. Gist of Part-‐1 (Given in Part 2 and Part-‐3 as well) Book Who are we and what we are meant for? Part-‐4. Gist of Part-‐2 (Given in Part-‐3) Book Who are we and what we are meant for? Part-‐4. Gist of Part-‐3 1. ‘Greatness of India Greatly Undermined’ (even by People of India) In this chapter, a few reasons have been given as to why the historians could not do justice in linking correctly the happenings and developments after major disasters causing long blank periods of Human history, viz. the Ice-‐age (before 10,000BC) and Manu’s/Noah’s deluge (around 3600BC) etc. and thus the world has forgotten that it has received every thing from the banks of sacred River-‐Ganga. The world continued to write the history of different areas unmindfully with out linking it with the oldest Indus-‐Saraswati civilization that has been later confined to Sindhu-‐Ghati civilization, and of which, remains of more than 2500 sites of ancient villages and cities have come on record, covering an
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culture (that flourished in North and Central America for 3000 years occupying 500,000 Sq Kms). Thus all other present day religions/cultures retained from their mother, what ever they could. Vedas themselves declare that no one can understand them. Even when one becomes capable, he understands them as per his own basic traits (‘Tamsik’, ‘Rajsik’ or ‘Satvik’). This depends on the stage of activation of various energy centers ‘Chakras’ of individuals. So there is no useful gain in taking seriously the criticism of Vedas. Actually the planning of our ancients is getting results as anticipated by them. Accordingly, now after getting distressed from the side effects of the material advancements, we now again feel a dire necessity to get back to nature (His spread) and spirituality (His designs). That is why now when India became free to express its worth, spread of its ‘Yoga’ and ‘Ayurveda’ are again gaining momentum world-‐over. Versatility of Hindu’s ‘Vedic-‐Sanskriti’ stands proved in many ways. Where as, no other country could ever reach to such heights, India continued as master of the world ‘Jagat-‐Guru’ for millenniums. We know that false-‐hood does not have its own legs ‘Jhuth ke paunv nahi hote’. As this ‘Sanskriti’ is surviving since time immemorial, it proves that it stands on the firm foundation of Truth only. It has witnessed the rise and fall of its 35 off-‐shouted cultures. Versatility of Vedic Sumerians/Aryan ancients is further evident as they built in that resource-‐less pre-‐historic era, various Ziggurats, Malta-‐style temples, Pyramids and other ‘wonders of the world’ looking at which, even today we simply stand puzzled for not able to understand the techniques used and their purpose. Amazingly many Megaliths, Stonehenge’s and Stone circles were built in some definite and perfect astronomical alliance and that clearly speak of advancement of these ancients. Latest proof of its versatility is the Vedic approach of ‘Truth and Non-‐violence’, gains of which every time remains much above than from the acts of terrorism. Mahatma Gandhi adopted the same path and got freed India. Recent episode of Anna Hazare can as well be quoted here that proved to be a grand success. Further, though credits have been and are being taken by many scientist but many of their inventions relate back to that of Vedic/Aryan/Hindu ancients. Chapter-‐1 part-‐3 ‘Greatness of India has been greatly undermined’ of author’s book ‘Who are we and what we are ment for’ deals this aspect exclusively.
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Factually many of His intricate design-‐features could be appreciated by this ‘Sanskriti’ only. That the ‘Soul’ being a divine entity and ‘Thought’ being its expression, all that works on us and all around us, is strictly in line with our own belief system. In ‘Yog-‐Vashishtha’, Mahrshi Vashishtha told to Lord Rama that “Jagat Man Se Upja Hai” i.e. each individual has his own world created by his mind. We become as we seriously believe us to be. Inculcation of virtues lying in dormant with in us, is possible only in this way and we can affect changes any where to the extent we can think or imagine. The propagation of thought and more specifically the feeling of Love has been well-‐taken by this ‘Sanskriti’. Making ‘Sanskriti’ free from the bonds of time and space was essential to perceive the infinite entity of the Almighty, which (‘Kal-‐Ganana’ and ‘Yojan-‐Vistar’) we some times criticize ignorantly. If we go a little deep, opposites are complementary in this Sanskriti. Look at the fact that though all the systems of Hindu philosophy ‘Darshans’ are indifferent to each other but are taken as it’s Jewels. These are the reasons that no criticism works on this Sanskriti. Devotees prefer the path of love but Ravan attainef Him by hatred and Kans by fear. This is not a double vision as criticized inconsiderately. There is as well nothing wrong in giving names to mountains, rivers and cosmic bodies connected with our deity and making family like relations with them. In this way our deity, as we want to become, can be easily felt always nearby to influence us psychologically. In the same way, idol worship is much helpful and ‘Karm’, ‘Gyan’ and ‘Bhakti-‐marg’ are all for this purpose only. Amplification / exaggeration of facts, is some times essential. Allurements to keep the child-‐mentality on the track or scaring efforts to get rid of animal-‐instincts in us, are not the acts of deceiving, as criticized. These are rather, tested psychological treatments. This sacred ‘Sanskriti’ can not be blamed for narrow mindedness and the facts of our own recent history prove it otherwise. Delhi witnessed more than two dozen massacres ‘Katle-‐aam’, Self-‐immolation was done by thousands of ladies to save themselves from the enemies. Hindus were forced to pay tax for visiting their own pilgrim places. India was looted by British for centuries; they burnt Vedic text of libraries for months together as it happened in Nalanda and Taxila. Is it not amazing? that still Hindus nurture hatred with no-‐one. Though remained mightiest for long, capable to capture many adjacent countries but India has a history of invading none. Becoming possessive due to such fatal circ*mstances as described, is not narrow mindedness. Having followers
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa of 8 out of total 11 religions in the world, speaking 22 languages in more than 800 dialects, and maintaining many such other varieties, is unique in India and speaks well in regard to the piousness of its soil. ‘Vasudev-‐ Kutumbhkam’ is slogan of this ‘Sanskiriti’. Drifting away from it has brought the mankind on the brink of its own extinction. Revival of ‘Vedic-‐Sanskriti’ of Hindus is the need of the day as only it can answer the ‘chaos and challenges’, the world is presently confronted with. 5. The knowledge of ‘Sahaj-‐Yoga’ and ‘Chakra-‐Hermeneutics’ is an expertise of Vedic Sanskriti. Vedic/Aryan ancients have left no stone unturned to benefit the masses by the techniques of making union with the Almighty, termed as ‘Yoga’. The Almighty being at the highest potential, the subtle energy and His other qualities start flowing in us as desired, due to this union, and continue to flow till the time its feeling is maintained by our mind ‘Manah’. We know that our mind ‘Manah’ is the mightiest enemy in the entire word and to force it to remain in the fold of Almighty is the hardest task. But these ancients as well knew that our mind ‘Manah’ is also our faithful-‐most friend. Therefore after understanding the designs of our mind and body they devised methods that our union with Almighty goes effort-‐less, which in Vedic terminology is termed as ‘Sahaj-‐Yoga’. Therefore, becoming a ‘Sahaj-‐yogi’ also means the one who has constant union with the deity even unconsciously, and perceives Him constantly every where and all the time. Our main problem is that with ‘mayik’ senses we can not perceive him. In this chapter ‘Maya’ is explained technically as ‘our perception with our limited capability of senses’. Factually, in this regard many animals and creatures enjoy status better than what human beings possess. But unlike them, we have been bestowed with such virtues that we can enhance our all the capabilities to any extent. This firstly needs inculcation of virtues hidden with in us, to increase their capability i.e. to make our inner senses to start working. This takes us a step ahead towards our liberation from ‘Maya’. We can increase the capabilities of these senses even to cross the barriers of space and time, as our creator possesses. With all our finer senses at work, we can cover any distance with the speed of our thought in either direction of time and space. To what ever extent we succeed in this birth, all becomes our asset for next birth. Trying for this uplift requires neither neglecting of our normal duties, nor can this be termed as encroachment in His jurisdiction. Rather it is correct use and the purpose of His designs. With the increased
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Tamoguni’ and ‘Rajoguni’ persons, can not understand correctly Vedas and other religious books. This needs rectification of the deformations of our ‘Akash-‐tatva’, which is only possible by activation of higher level energy centers. It has been clarified as to how modern science as well advocates the advantages of meditation which are easily attainable by ‘Chakra-‐Hermeneutics’ with out much of effort. As per His designs, receptors all kinds are already there with in us, only activation is needed for inculcating virtues of distant seeing “Door-‐Darshan’, distant hearing ‘Door-‐shravan’ etc. etc. Though ‘Chakra-‐Hermeneutics’ works as per the depth of thoughts of practitioner, i.e. the quantity of Pranic-‐energy these carry, but with the switching over to ‘coloured-‐Pran’ technique, the readers shall find their affectivity having increased many fold. Negative thinking is prohibited for such higher level practitioners otherwise it shall prove to be suicidal. For the last many generations, such practices are missing even in Hindus who have inherited the ‘Vedic Sanskriti’. Immediate necessity however is that we take the matter to our subconscious mind, and work for getting next birth as Human beings so that it becomes possible to accomplish left over task in future births. If this is missed, it shall mean the miss of rarest opportunity as we do not get opportunity to do any thing good for our future in our births as other species. This needs taking actions as suggested in the chapter. The importance of having a master ‘Guru’ has therefore been as well spelled out. 6. ‘Reviving the Miracles of Mantras’ is the need of the day. It has been attempted here to explain that initially Ved-‐Mantras were transpired by Par-‐Brahm on the mind of Lord Brahma and the Creation, being an all time continuing business, came again in to being with the start of latter’s ‘Mantra-‐Sharashti’. It is a task of developing physical bodies with the help of Pranic-‐energy in their astral moulds that come out of ‘Mahodar’ of Par-‐Brahm, where these are restored after each ‘Maha-‐Pralya’. We know that Pranic-‐energy, which is His personification, works at His command or say at the command of ‘Chetna’. All the beings carry His Chetna in tiny form ‘Chetnansh’ that expresses itself through intent of our thoughts. The command becomes sharper and goes deeper when passed through Mantras. Commands of ‘Chetna’ with the soothing/rhythmic subtle vibrations of Mantras affect various changes in energy and the mass, and as such the entire creation continues to be filled up with the melody and rhythm of divine music in all the ten
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa seriously at least now to bring back the era of effective the Curse ‘Shap’ and the Blessings ‘Vardan’. The only circ*mscribing requirement is that of faith and wisdom, as our faith is the feet and our wisdom is our eyes for harnessing the fruits of spirituality. Revival of the magic of Mantras shall be automatic with the revival of Music of norms as specified in Sam-‐Veda. Other wise as well, different languages have caused differences in the mankind but music is the well understandable common language word-‐over that brings us nearer. As explained in this chapter, the specific ways in which ‘Ved-‐Mantras’/ ’Richayen’/ ’Chhand’ are recited have been covered as ‘Saam-‐gaan’. When oral transfer of Vedas ‘Shruti-‐Parampara’ continued for millenniums, during that period, there used to be more than one thousand ‘Swar-‐Dhwani’ of ‘Saam-‐gaan’ a few of which have now only been left with us. How 22 ‘Shruties’, the powers that are identified by our sense of hearing, get created by seven notes of Indian classical music, have been explained in the chapter. All these do specific exercises of tongue, throat, chest and heart and these body parts can be made strong by their suitable selections. Further, with different combinations of 9 identified ‘Rasas’, mental ailments can be tackled by selecting different ‘Ragas’ and their seasons/timings, for optimum benefits. Those who can create subtle vibrations of the range from 10 lakh (I gegahertz, GHz) to 10,000 Crore Hz, though beyond hearing range, the impact is much higher. Miracle of Mantras thus starts working. Looking at such amazing facts, many scholars got moved. Some sentences expressing their out-‐ burst have been quoted in this chapter to explain the utility of Music. viz. taking one such sentence “God follows the footprints of music”, if we can communicate with God and with the powers of music in Mantras, He can be made to do whatever we wish to do, then what else shall remain to attain? 7. ‘Gyan-‐Yagya’ is the superior most technique for self elevation.Technically, becoming devotee is a step forward towards becoming as our deity is. In Holy Gita Lord Krishna has defined various types of devotees. Why He has considered intelligent/wise-‐devotee ‘Gyani-‐Bhakt’ as the best out of the rest, has been clarified in this chapter. This knowledge is of utmost importance for us to visualize our own position and to adopt a course that leads to bring us up as the best devotee, so that this rarest opportunity of having human birth may not go waste due to our sheer ignorance. Wise devotees remain free from so
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(Gist: The design of Human body and mind can be easily felt by us as too much complicated. Surely, it can neither develop at its own, nor it can be with out any purpose. The perfectness of its designer, the Almighty can be as well very easily visualized with in us and Vedic ancients have not only explained His designs in Vedic texts but developed many techniques to take its advantage and proved it by becoming mightiest in all respects. These facts are clear from their imprints available at various places and in old texts, world-‐over. All about this Creation, up to its roots and the seed, were very much clear to Vedic ancients and their tested techniques are available in Vedic texts. They have also proved that with this design, we the human beings hold a vast treasure of virtues. Keeping ourselves overwhelmed for our selection to have this masterpiece design, must have enabled us to continue to utilize its benefits to serve the purpose of the designer, but we committed a blunder to take every thing in a very casual manner and went on wasting birth after birth. At least now, being the wisest species, we should not let the opportunity of this of human birth, holding such a treasure, go in vain. But the fact is that most of us continue to lead an aim less life, and just because of habit of negative-‐ thinking, continue to live much below the status of even insignificant creatures. Magnificent ancient era of our ancients must have been our guiding support but unfortunately we missed its memories all together. Undoubtedly natural-‐calamities created some blank periods but our constant attempts of ignoring the facts of the past deliberately and even that of hiding the truth can also be clearly seen. Declaring it as primitive and backward in all respects, incorrect picture of our ancient past has been all through put up before the new generation. Just for our ego, we appear to be bent up on to deprive the masses from their rich cultural heritage by detaching them from their roots. The result of these blunders over the millenniums is that, all the remarkable features of our ancients have disappeared from within us and to day every bit of their normal way of life, looks us as full of miracles. Our forgetfulness though a virtue
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa with some angle, has been permitted to ruin ourselves. Due to this, all our virtues, inculcated over the last innumerable births have gone in dormant stage. There fore for becoming potent alike our ancients, we have to understand our design and the unlimited resources that lay at our disposal. Being back in the era of improved IQ, even its little knowledge can make a sky change, not only in attaining our real aim but also in the life-‐style, presently we are leading with. To see his creation booming becomes a natural desire of any creator and therefore in our case, to see mankind lifted-‐up must be His cherished desire. For this purpose, He has kept the entire nature on a sort of automation scheme. The understanding of his designs reveals that entire creation is only there to help us, if we fall in line with the laws of nature. In His designs, helping others is a shortcut to our up-‐lift/evaluation. Therefore His wish must become our command. The four orders of the society ‘Varn-‐Vyavatha’ created by Him, is also a part of His scheme and correct understanding of duties assigned to us corresponding to our ‘Varn’, is necessary. Although we have missed many such aspects but still we can do a lot for our up-‐ lift. Therefore, this again needs understanding His designs of subtle worlds that holds our root & seed and we can not get any success there with leap of any-‐length in material advancement. As a first step blunders committed so far need immediate corrective measures. Teaching of wrong history shall have to be stopped. We need proceeding with correct Vedic approach, missed by us due to natural and man made calamities. Versatility of Vedic Sanskriti also, can not be questioned. It covers all the schools of thought. Its paw-‐marks, emanating from the land of seven rivers ‘Sapt-‐Sindhu’ (Indus-‐Saraswati basin) to all over the world have been narrated in the chapter at length covering its supremacy as master of the world ‘Jagat-‐Guru’ for millenniums and then by explaining, how every other major culture and religion are just its off-‐shoots. The intake of this fact can only bring in us a much needed feeling of the whole world a family ‘Parivar’, which is the indispensable and vital concept of this Sanskriti. Further, it’s surviving since time immemorial in spite of all attempts to wipe it out, clearly speak of its might to withstand against all odds. The History further stands-‐by as an evidence that even in its initial declining-‐period, peace of mind and personality-‐traits ‘Sanskars’ developed by adopting Vedic Sanskriti continued to show good results for millenniums. During this period when in general, the body consciousness continued to work for ego to form a seat (‘Aham’ taking
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Akar’ for becoming ‘Ahamkar’), to over power the soul-‐consciousness, though its followers Aryans/Hindus gradually fell more interested in business and trade, but continued adoption of Vedic Sanskriti, brought them up as top Businessmen and with the added gold reserves, India became the lone golden-‐bird ‘Sone-‐ki-‐chiriya’ in the entire world. At a glance, scenario of “Business & Trade” of that time has been given in the article/chapter covering its spread in the entire world. The main difference is that those detached from their roots have taken the whole world simply a ‘Bazaar’ against the Vedic approach of taking it as ‘Parivar’ that it really is, as elaborated in the chapter. But even now as well, after millenniums of disturbed and finally slavery period, with in 65 years after getting freedom, Indians can be seen again in front lines of various fields. In spite of having being looted ruthlessly for centuries many countries are still directly or indirectly flourishing because of India. All this can be only due to blessings of its sages ‘Rishi-‐Pratap’ of this pious land. ‘Shashwat’ Values of this Sanskriti not only proved their worth in getting freedom but in tremendous success of some recent famous movements. Therefore this fact needs to be well-‐taken as our responsibility that we, the descendents of Sumerian/Aryan gods can take with us the whole world in the era of purposeful advancements at a very fast rate with tested techniques of Vedic Sanskriti. As discussed in the chapter, at the present juncture the revival of this potential Sanskriti, is an utmost necessity, as harms being caused by ignoring it, can not be sustained any longer. We have seen that any advancement with out caring human values finally becomes the cause of disturbance to mental peace. Otherwise as well, we can no longer keep young generations detached from our correct ancient past that holds our roots, necessarily required for direct nourishing.) Blunders need corrective measures: The design of Human body and mind is most complicated and looking at its innumerable astonishing intricacies, the wise would certainly conclude that such a multi-‐purpose formation can not come-‐up at its own. Perfection of its designer amazes us at its each activity and believers are compelled to trust that such a formation can not be with out some definite purpose. We might take time in finding out His ultimate purpose but pleasure all-‐around, can be definitely thought-‐of as His immediate
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Versatility of Vedic Sanskriti can not be questioned and damage being caused by ignoring it can not be sustained any longer: As for as the versatility of Vedic Sanskriti is concerned, it needs no proof. In fact, in spite of all nasty attempts to wipe it out for millenniums, credit goes only to the versetality of this mighty ‘Sanskriti’ that it has been able to survive since time immemorial. Not only this, if with open mind we look at the ancient-‐world scenario, all other cultures are just it’s off shoots only. This has always been a case as various systems of its philosophy cover all possible schools of thought. Siddhartha Gautama, was accepted as enlightened-‐one ‘Buddha’ in the list of various incarnations of Vedic Sanskriti. He proceeded with Yoga techniques and passed through all the ten stages to spiritual perfection. This includes all those that he crossed during his previous births as a part of his career making before his Great Enlightenment. But factually neither he recognized any special role of Vedic gods in it nor valued Vedas for it. The world wrongly sees this aspect of Vedic Sanskiriti as duality but factually it is its versatility. Evaluation of progress-‐making by various adoptions is its expertise. The fact to which our history as well stands-‐by is that, any such branch/off-‐shoot that preferred depending on its individual nourishment, could not survive although some of these flourished even for more than 3000 years. This fact has been elaborated in ensuing paragraphs by citing examples. The point as made out here is that, for the elevation of entire mankind, firstly to link it with its root is a natural requirement and as said, the wisdom demands nourishment through its roots, as that can be the only correct approach. The Failure to do so is again a blunder that needs corrections to stop further going astray, beyond the limits from where the retreat will not be possible. In that case we shall have to go extinct. This fear-‐full scene can be easily visualized as it already stands proved that increased comforts in terms of present day advancement, have only added to our problems ultimately. Even if we succeed in prolonging our life by delaying death a little, or say winning over it finally, but what is the net gain in case we remain perturbed mentally? Adolescents being used for carrying out heinous crimes and incidents of constant attempts to push even minor girls in to sex bazaar, are clear indications of our disturbed mentality that shall spoil the new generations. Abducting even newly-‐born babies for sale of their body parts for replacements needed by riches, is the proof that some of us have completely derailed mentally. When the genius is busy in inventing better methods of devastation only, what future of society
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and therefore suffered a steep value-‐decline. Out of Devas, Surya-‐Dev and Chandra Dev and their near relations were taken as deity in major parts of the world. With the word Aad meaning as Sun, Adam is representation of Surya Dev. Even after 5th Dev-‐Asur Sangram when Ikshavaku grand S/o Surya Dev and Budh Dev S/o Chandra Dev had a home coming to India, their descendents flourished in India for millenniums as Surya-‐Vansh and Chandra-‐Vansh respectively. This was again due to the fact that they continued to adapt Vedic Sanskriti. The descendents of Varun Dev were later called as Sumerians and they along with descendents of other Devas had a world over spread out side India but every where their decline period remained directly proportional to their keeping hold of Dev-‐Sanskriti. In their last phase even their names lost resemblance with their ancients. In regard to Middle East, as per available written history of the area, among last of their successors, Uruinimgina, perhaps having linage with Ur S/o Chaksush (6th ) Manu (fl. about 2365 BC), who was noteworthy for instituting many social reforms, was defeated by Lugalzagesi (reigned about 2370-‐2347 BC), the governor of the neighboring Sumerian city-‐state of Umma. Thereafter, for about 20 years, Lugalzagesi was the most powerful ruler in the Middle East. By the 2300 BC the power of the Sumerians had declined to such an extent that they could no longer defend themselves against foreign invasions. In India however, as clarified earlier, the founders of Surya-‐Vansh and Chandra-‐Vansh who had immigrated to their home land, continued to adopt Vedic Sanskriti and thus flourished for millenniums. Later, all those on the left side of River Sindhu were called as ‘Hindus’, which in due course, completely replaced the name ‘Aryans’. With the increase of body consciousness, Aryans/Hindus gradually became more interested in ‘Business and Trade’, but since they continued adopting Vedic-‐Sanskriti, it brought them up, as top Businessmen: Alike many other skills, the world as well learned “Business & Trade” from India. The artifacts and other archeological remains of ‘Sindhu-‐ Ghati’, the urban spread of which is W-‐E 1600 Km X N-‐S 1000 Km, establishes with out any ambiguity, the trade connections of the Aryans there, not only with other developed places in India but also with many other flourishing countries of that time, world-‐over. The urban spread below Thar-‐desert is in addition to this area and complete Indus-‐ Saraswati basin had a coast line of about 1300 Km. The agriculture must
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa their business, continued to all over India even from border areas of Rajasthan because of surviving conditions turning difficult, with the spread of Thar-‐deserts. It would be however interesting to have a look on the rise of Aryans/Hindus of the area. Though they faced many odds but with the hard labour and might, these ancients added gold reserves to such an extent that by Mouryan-‐Kal (286BC), India was established in the world popularly as a golden bird ‘Sone-‐ki-‐Chiriya’. This needs laying emphasis here that such land-‐marks can only be established by persons possessing peaceful minds, and such peace of mind can only be attained by adopting spiritual ‘Meditation’ techniques of Vedic ancients. As we presently read in our history books, the business and trading scenario of that time is that, Gold was imported in cities of Sindhu-‐ghati from Kolar and Hatti mines (Karnataka). Gold was being perhaps also taken out from the sands of Sindhu and some other rivers. Kolar and Jawarkhan mines (Udai Pur) were the source of silver. Similarly, for stone and wood for buildings, this place was well connected with different places in India. Trade connections were already there with Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Bahrain and countries of Persian Gulf, Egypt, Iran, and Mesopotamia. Slave-‐trade with Mesopotamia was also done from here. With the advent of currency, fast business became possible with the help of horses, bulls, camels, elephants, carts, chariots, boats, ships etc. Port and Docks were also there and import/export was having State patronage. This shows the entire show was run mainly by India under the guidance of these Sindhu-‐Ghati Aryans. Even old Persians were the descendents of Aryan/Sumerians and were called as Indian–Parsis, just as to-‐day we call Indian-‐Biharis or Indian-‐Bengalis. The same seals, coins, weights and scales, (with measurements in decimal system) ‘Chopar’/Chess board with Pawns and pieces of Ivory, and many other things were just the same as confirmed from artifacts even up to present Susa city (old Amravti), reclaiming of which marked the start of post-‐ deluge rehabilitation work by Varun-‐Dev. Similarly trade connection of this basin with Syria, Egypt, European countries, African Nile basin, are as well clear from the artifacts. Factually “Navigation” is a distorted word from ‘Nav-‐Gati’ that started in Sindhu River about 6000 years ago. Vedic texts mention about all the seven rivers of “Sapt-‐Sindhu’ area that small boats to big ships (later developed to carry 700/1000 passengers) were used for short and long distance trade. Babylonia was connected with sea route since 3000 BC. Excavated from here an artifact of half-‐lion idol
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“Varn-‐Vyavastha”
Gita-‐13/4 Chaturvarnyamaya……………viddhkartarmavyayam.” clarifies ‘that four orders of society, viz the ‘Brahman’, the ‘Kshatriya’, the ‘Vaishya’, and the ‘Shudra’, were created by the Lord Himself by classifying them in accordance with their prenatal (existing before birth) qualities and He assigned corresponding duties to them. It further explains that knowing Him as the persona behind this creation and as the immortal Lord, is correct. Yet He is a non-‐doer.’ Three basic properties of the creation are, Trans-‐active ‘Satvik’, Active ‘Rajsik’, and Inactive ‘Tamsik’. Dominance of ‘Satvik’ property specifies one as ‘Brahman’. The domination of ‘Satvik’ mixed with ‘Rajsik’ makes him ‘Kshatriya’. The domination ‘Rajsik’ of mixed with ‘Tamsik’ makes him ‘Vaishya’ and domination of ‘Tamsik’ mixed with ‘Rajsik’ makes him a ‘Shudra’. ‘Shum-‐Dum’ like deeds i.e. the deeds done with peace of mind and endurance are meant for ‘Brahmans’, bravery-‐valor deeds are for ‘Kshatriyas’, ‘Vaishyas’ are required to do deeds concerning agriculture and business, including patronage to domestic animals, specifically the cow and the Shudras are required for dedicated services. Consideration of one’s property or ‘interest and tendencies’ in deciding his duties as specified, is a natural requirement for his best outcome. ‘Varn-‐ Vyavashtha’ has not been created by Him only for the order of Human society but it covers all other species e.g. much of ‘Tamsic’ predominance leads to birth in species of lower–status and ‘Satvik’ to that of higher
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“Death and there after?” (Gist. Though we may boast of being brave-‐enough but from with-‐in, we are generally scared of death. Uncertainty of it’s ‘How and when?’ and the mysterious secrets of the life after-‐death ‘Parlok’, many times perturb us, so much so that any discussion in a family, on this absolute truth of our life, is some times considered as inauspicious and unwarranted. Although every minute secret in regard to all the aspects of this topic, already stand unfolded in ‘Vedic’-‐texts, but the descriptions need elaborations in different ways suiting to the different mental levels. For instance, the approach of keeping every one scared of death in order to exercise a check on his derailment from the moral-‐track may be of use in case of innocent and blind-‐believers but since such scaring depictions sound hypothetical at its face, all these confuse to a scientific analyzer and dealing him this way might become counter productive. Although the explanations of deep rooted concepts of ‘Vedic-‐Sanskriti’, suiting to their mental level were available in its texts being biased, the British rulers of India at one stage, discarded these texts altogether and even Vedas were doomed by them. In this chapter it has been tried to make clear all the necessary aspects in regard to death and after-‐death zone ‘Parlok’, as suited best for the easy grasp of the intelligentsia of present era of higher IQ. Incidentally, the basics of the concepts of all other religions of the world in this regard are same, as these have been either retained to the extent convenient or embraced by intermittent intuitional transfers on the minds of various clairvoyants and crusaders, as discussed. How this becomes possible at Para-‐psychological level?, has been as well explained by citing examples, which otherwise surpasses both empirical knowledge derived from the senses and the scientific knowledge derived from reasoning on the basis of experience. As has been explained on scientific lines, ‘Death’ is a stage in the natural and continuous cycle of energy transformation. Death of our physical body is not only an absolute truth, but is an absolute necessity for our re-‐ juvenation. It has been made out in this chapter that by not having clear insight of our ‘Parlok’ we are certainly missing a life-‐time opportunity of
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We have no option but to revert back and understand the ‘Vedic-‐ Sanskriti’ correctly: None other than a dead can tell better about the experience of death and that of the life thereafter. Unfortunately, barring some exceptionally rare cases, the dead do not return to tell their feelings or experiences. In a series of interview with the persons who some how happened to get revived even hours after their clinical death, many of them told similar out-‐of-‐the-‐body experience, where in at one stage they started feeling to have become very light, swimming in the air with out any effort. Some of them could notice that yet they are connected with some thin shining silver cord with the navel point of their dead body. Their further experience of ‘Parlok’ however was mostly found matching closely to their thinking as they usually maintained aligned with their concerns. This exercise could serve no useful purpose to have some wider knowledge of that zone and a very little of the anxiety could be hardly satisfied. In Vedic Sanskriti, communication with the dead beings i.e. with
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa these ‘body-‐less’ species, has been a normal practice and since ages its ancients have collected a lot of relevant information in regard to death and life there after, through mediums. They were also capable of traveling in the astral worlds that constitutes 98% of the creation and exploring which, needs developing an expertise by inculcating virtues lying in dormant. The laws of material-‐world are not applicable there and the psychic status of individual plays important role in exercising direct control on various forces, he feels. This use of thought-‐power to play with enormously available ‘Pranic’ energy, being an inseparable part of Vedic Sanskriti, was also common in ancient India. The history of mankind suffered a jolt and India, from where factual knowledge in this regard came into light, firstly faced a disturbed period of more than a millennium and finally fell slave to British. Though, a lot of written text and the practitioners of the mentioned techniques were still available but discarding all that, a new class of seemingly wise persons emerged, specifically in 18th century onwards with the slogan that only “Seeing is believing”. If analyzed critically, ‘body-‐consciousness over powering the soul consciousnesses is the main reason of our downfall. The west continued to display the superiority with constant attempts to prove that all others, specifically Indians, as most backward. They however could not ignore the cases of rebirth, specifically when small children recognized their near relatives of last birth. They as well could not ignore such persons in their own vicinity who purport to mediate between the living and the dead. Often their mediums delivered utterances while in a trancelike state, and their followers believe that they can deliver messages from the deceased. Around 1848, James Braid, a British surgeon provided a scientific explanation of mesmerism, used by Mesmer, Franz Friedrich Anton (1734-‐1815), Austrian physician, and thus helped to establish the modern technique of hypnosis. Such Mediums were popular particularly in the 19th century and their Psychic experiences many times seem to defy scientific explanation. Yet there were many others to prove that while in trance, they have unbelievable extra sensory perception. All this lead to an era of Psychical Research or of parapsychology, scientific investigation of alleged phenomena and events that appear to be unaccounted for by conventional physical, biological, or psychological theories. The mental manifestations, or extra sensory perception ESP, include telepathy, which is the direct transmission of messages, emotions, or other subjective states from one person to another without the use of any sensory channel of
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa communication; clairvoyance, meaning direct responses to a physical object or event without any sensory contact; and precognition, or a non-‐ inferential response to a future event. ‘Divination’ as well attracted intelligentsia in which practice of attempting to acquire hidden knowledge and insight into events—past, present, and future—through the direct or indirect contact of human intelligence with the supernatural, is required to be done. The practice was closely allied with religion among pagan, Hebrew, and early Christian peoples. The followers of other religions that came in to being afterwards too could clearly see the high ESP or the mental manifestations of their master. Intuitions before, almost all big events were there to believe that some thing is definitely there, which surpasses both empirical knowledge derived from the senses and the scientific knowledge derived from reasoning on the basis of experience. Psychic study continued and thorough investigation of human body and mind suggested many things happening beyond it and all that was covered in Parapsychology. Parapsychology, having received a scientific status helped better in understanding facts that so far amazed people to an unbelievable stage. Intuitive knowledge gives an individual the comprehension of an orderly and united universe and permits the mind to be a part of the ‘Infinite Being’. Intelligence is adequate for the consideration of material things but could not deal with the fundamental nature of life or thought. The distinction between instinct and intelligence was better explained by Bergson, Henri (1859-‐1941), a French philosopher. He took intuition as the purest form of instinct. He defined intuition as “instinct that has become disinterested, self-‐conscious, and capable of reflecting upon its object and of enlarging it indefinitely”, He believed that intelligence can only analyze, and the function of analysis is to produce what is relative in an object, rather than what is absolute, or individual. Many other philosophers around the world have impressed the intelligentsia of the time by telling the ways to know the absolute truth that can not be grasped by our senses. This incapability or the limitation of senses was already clear to Vedic ancients and they were aware as to how incorrect information supplied by our senses, together with figment of our imagination creates a totally unreal world for us. They covered this aspect of our creation by the concept of delusion ‘Maya’. Versions of Vedic ancients attracted attention and these being the oldest and have been put forward after understanding the fundamental nature of thought. This also became certain that while same old beliefs
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Manyatayen’ were coming to light after ages, it means that the intuition of Vedic ancients was working in those truth-‐seekers. For instance, Pythagoras Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose doctrines strongly influenced Plato, believed in immortality and in the transmigration of souls. During last phase of his life (around 500 BC), he delivered many finer details of life after-‐death, to the world that as well existed in Vedic texts. It became apparent that in his previous births, he has remained connected with Vedic ancients and Intuition of his ancients must have worked in him. e.g. According to Vedic texts, in Seventh Manuvantar, Greece was with Shani Dev S/o Surya Dev. Earlier to it in sixth Manuvantar, Abhimanyu S/o Chakshus Manu is Manu of ancient Persia, and has been also associated with Angira in ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism. He is Ahirman ‘Ahit-‐Dev’ of Avesta. He is also the King Minos ‘Menun’ of Greece and is the conqueror of war of Troy. Incidentally Pythagoras himself claimed that he had been Euphorbus, a warrior in the Trojan War, and that he had been permitted to bring into his earthly life, the memory of all his previous existences. In Vedic researches the thoughts being the expression of our soul, once generated, shall remain alive for ever and these travel at a very fast speed (thousands times more than the speed of light) that can be enhanced with input of more ‘Pranic’ energy, in Ether ‘Akash’ that is the astral-‐most element of the creation and the minds ‘Manah’ of all the beings are in one another at this level. The intuitions that are nothing but transition of knowledge between the familiar identities are bound to occur and in Vedic philosophy, this phenomenon can be as well guided to occur. In this way, we are once again required to revert back and under stand what Vedic texts have to say in this regard. But it has to be a reading between the lines, other wise, specifically for the knowledge of life-‐after-‐death, reading Vedic ‘Garud-‐Puran’ is customary even presently and is taken just as fantasy by the non-‐believers. The techniques are already available by which we can develop our senses to know through our out-‐of-‐body experiences as to what is happening in our Astral worlds where we are certainly to go after death. If we go through religious texts available world-‐over with open mind, we shall observe that such wonderful texts can be the result of intuitions only. Otherwise how a totally uneducated person could deliver some thing that takes a lot of labour and time for scholars to grasp. From the
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Death that never occurs: It sounds merely a joke to say that ‘death’ never occurs. In Chapter-‐5 of Part-‐2 of this book, death has been explained as an absolute truth. Factually in earlier parts of the book, answer of the question ‘Who are we?’ has been attempted with various angles. Out of the various explanations, Who are we as a species?, Who are we in the history of mankind?, Who are we archeologically?, genetically?, etc. are some with material angles. The answers of these questions do not explain different virtues that exist in an individual by birth. Transfer of instincts can be understood by studying deoxyribo-‐nucleic-‐acid (DNA) strands. Complex molecules nuclei acids govern the body’s development and specific characteristics, by providing hereditary information and triggering the production of proteins with in the body. Volumes of information lay compacted in DNA strand and using the same, not only body cells and
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa different organs get formed but start functioning as per their designed work. But when it comes to transfer of ‘Sanskars’ along with us from birth to birth, it is far more miraculous an act that happens to take place in us and we mend it in many ways during in our each life time, yet it does not have any physical entity. The seat/playing-‐field oh these Sanskars needs to be located / visualized. Vedic ancients were very well in know of these seats and they classified them in accordance with the level of their subtleness as Astral and Causal bodies. When the soul travels along with these bodied, it is called ‘Jeev-‐Atma’. They as well knew the techniques of affecting desired corrections in these Sanskars, and thereby building up these bodies for providing better service in newer births. The entire exercise simply means steps towards destiny making i.e. taking new birth with desired virtues as active, instead of these laying in dormant. If we have a close look, the orientation of all our acts through out our life, is the fear of death. We wish to get as fast as possible, the wealth, prosperity, success, recognition, fame, prominence, etc., so that we become comfortable before death approaches us. We have even created many gods and worship them only because of this fear. All these work because of our belief, should not be confused with the absolute truth. We might belong to different religions but for construction of different worshiping places and for other religious acts, we remain generous in giving donations because of the fear of death. This fear is the very reason of our love or dedication to God. As we observe, the more we are afraid of death, the more religious we become. The chapter-‐5/Part-‐2 was written, aiming to make this certainty of Death of physical body, as advantageous, as possible. To keep remembering death all the time, was suggested as this desists us from keeping ourselves remaining occupied with many unwarranted acts that not only consume most of our life time but ultimately raise many botherations. Keeping away from unwarranted acts and keeping involved in the good acts, raises our self confidence, there by lowering the fear of death. Attempts were thus made therein the chapter-‐5/ Part-‐2 of this book, to make ourselves fear-‐free since fear is the main mind-‐occupier that can even jeopardize our destiny-‐making process. As far as the soul is concerned, that never dies or vanishes. So the death, if it is taken as death of the soul, it is fundamentally wrong. The life is an everlasting feature, as we are continuing since ever and shall remain for
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa The separation of ‘Pran’ becomes easy only when we also do not want to remain to continue as live, earlier to setting into the dying process, one becomes introvert with all his might. Even if one is young and healthy, the pain of ‘Pran’ separation is bound to be there but faintness of the last moment also makes the parting of ‘Pran’ easy. If conscious is active, all the incidences of life which we have forgotten but lay in dormant, come to awareness at that time. The whole film of the entire life get resolved in a very short period, though all that must have taken much time if we had tried to recollect. The essence of the same goes with us as ‘Sanskar’. If we never happen to think for making good use of this rarely available human birth, its regret has to pinch us at this moment and if the life time has been wasted or misused, the mental pain of it, goes boundless. The ‘Pran’ leaves the body generally from upper body-‐orifices ‘Randhras’ viz. mouth, eyes, ears and nose. Only cruel persons’ ‘Pran’ comes out through lower ‘Randhras’, from where we excrete our waste and make water. Yogis try taking their ‘Pran’ out, through the suture on the top of the skull ‘Brahm-‐Randhra’. As said, the entire ‘Pran’ does not come out all of sudden in one go, except in cases of ‘Ichha-‐Mratyu’. If not forced to come out, say by burning of the body, outing of the complete ‘Pran’ might take 24 hours in cases of a normal death, and in case of suicide and murder this departure time might be 2/3 days to 6/7 days respectively, depending on the time, being taken in accepting the happening and adjusting with it mentally by the deceased. It has been indicated in the chapter-‐8/ Part -‐2 ‘Aura-‐ Photography’, that if the circ*mstances permit, the detectives can make use of this knowledge to ascertain the real cause of death. If the ‘Pran’ is found sticking with the dead body even after seven days, it is certainly speaks as a case of murder. When the complete ‘Pran’ is out, we then await a peculiar stage of complete and long rest. After having gone dead, the activeness of soul now confines to our subtle bodies. The dead get surprised experiencing a body similar to his physical body but light like a feather, moving just at the command of his thought. He however remains haunting around his dead body. Finding friends and relatives desolated, he wants to communicate with them and even tries to go back in the body, but remains unable to do so. It is certainly a different world of different parameters of time, distance and communication etc. so called ‘Parlok’. Many Yogis still move around all the 14 ‘Lokas’ even while alive. No doubt that imparting such practical experience is time consuming but even if theory of such courses is introduced in the
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Becoming ready for the death: This point has been covered at length in Chapter-‐5/Part-‐2 oh this book. Through out the life we never want to think in regard to death or the life there after it. This is taken as inauspicious thinking. This is the reason that when death of some one occurs, it is felt as a jolt and if it is all of sudden, the news comes as a severe jolt, bringing us in grave situation both, bodily and mentally. Some of us remain panicky and ignorantly consider the after-‐death worlds full of unknown deep fearful secretes. Such ignorance is harmful and when we are to certainly face the death, not to even think about it, is to serve no useful purpose. This is not at all a negative thinking. To always hope for the best is true in making ourselves ready and in our preparation to face the worst. It has been explained in Chapter-‐5/Part-‐2, as to how keep-‐remembering the death, saves us from many bad-‐‘karmas’ and by doing so, how our life becomes extremely simple and most-‐truthful. The knowledge of the life after death as elaborated in the text is further sufficient to make us feel comfortable as factually there is no point to go panicky in ‘Parlok’. As said, we along with our thoughts, emotions, mind, intellect, are there with us in ‘Parlok’ except only physical brain and body. The before-‐hand knowledge of ‘Parlok’ can help us to a great extent. Cutting short of deep-‐rest period can be attempted by meditation practice while alive. Practice of enriching the thought by Pranic energy, if could be mastered before death, the usefulness of the period of ‘Parlok’ can be enhanced many fold for attaining our final or further elevation of soul. The breathing-‐in and breathing-‐out during life time is needed to be associated with the thought of ‘Pran’ coming in and subtle impurities (viz. ‘Kam’, ‘Krodh’, ‘Lobh’, ‘Moha’, ‘Durbhav’, ‘Dwesh’ etc.) going out. As breathing is a continuous process of life, it suits best for this ‘Kriya-‐Yog’. It will not be possible to get this natural aid after death. If by practice the ‘Pranic’ intake and expulsion of subtle impurities could be linked with thinking to respective effect, it would become possible to make use of the ‘Parlok’ period in far better manner. If we have been bestowed with some ‘Guru-‐Mantra’, it must be practiced while alive to become silent-‐ automatic-‐repetition ‘Ajapa-‐jap’. Correction-‐making period for which we create our Hell can also be cut short by refraining while alive, to the eruption of thoughts that carry any type of guilt. To err is human and taking cognizance of error and doing ‘Karmas’ to counter act the error, will not let any impression of guilt develop. Confession of mistakes or
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“Transforming the self”
(Gist. Transforming the self can be taken as an attempt to become more and more capable to have a control on all the resources of nature ‘Prakriti’, to our advantage. Attempt to attain Almighty is the only advantageous course for our real self wherein right at the start, the fulfillment of all our worldly desires is an inbuilt aspect. This has to be borne in mind that such an attempt can be done only by human beings and if this opportunity is missed by us, it shall amount as to total failure of this rare birth. We can proceed fast for achieving this target by working at subtle level after understanding His subtle-‐level designs that are beyond our sensual reach. For all this knowledge and for monitoring and maintaining of correct track along with pushing encouragement on us, the requirement of a master ‘Guru’ becomes essential. ‘Guru-‐Tatva’ and its working, has been earlier explained in the start of Part-‐2 of this book. Understanding of His designs of our mind & body by ‘Vedic-‐ Sanskriti’, has marked a break through for a still faster intake of the required knowledge. What has kept live for many millenniums to this potent ‘Sanskriti’ is its resolve to go on imbibing each and every ‘good’ aspect available from any source. In the quest of knowledge this Sanskriti guides even to imagine insignificant creatures as Guru. The well set guidelines have been given in the chapter to become a true-‐disciple that can enable us to derive out the secrets of Guru even with out his knowledge. This clarifies the availability of an interacting live Guru as non-‐essential. The chapter further deals with unique feature of human-‐ beings that, how becoming introvert, sharpens our senses and , how we can attain subtle level competence that factually rules the entire activities of the material world. In fact, we have gone ignorant not only in regard to our capabilities, but have missed taking advantage of the automation mode on which He has kept the Mother-‐ Nature ‘Prakriti’, for our sake. The automation of Nature provides us a healthy body right at the first step of our ultimate aim. Simply by maintaining a natural life style all other species of the creation are very much at ease in this regard. However, our distancing from nature has made our health problems so acute that we remain desperate or worried only for it for the whole life.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa to this fact, we shall reveal that there is no reason to go panicky, to get frightened or to get exited. In worst to worst situation we have sufficient strength to combat all our enemies, born and nourished by our own thinking. The basic strength in our auto suggestion is our faith and more we rely on our determination, the better results are ought to be there because of improved self-‐confidence. Holika – Prahlad episode in Vedic Purans ended with results reversed to what were being expected. Thus our faith in our-‐self / Him is our strength and not to rely on it or even the kink of doubt there, is suicidal. One tested way to develop self confidence is by successful completion of tiny resolutions. Avail opportunities to do this activity whenever possible. Suppose we are fond of some dish. We are taking it daily because we like it. Resolve not to take it for two days. While taking the same dish on third day we shall find that pleasure of relishing it, has increased. By auto suggestion this can be further boosted-‐up. Relishing the taste is to eradicate out the distortion of the water element ‘Jal-‐Tatva’ in us. Similarly we can resolve not to take salt on a particular day and not to take any sugary item on some other day, in a week. Let us try a resolution of maintaining a smile on our face say, for one week. The best way of building a pressure on the self is to make such resolutions public. Remain constantly aware that strength of our determination is to be proved at all costs, for a strong message all over. Bhishm Pitamah of Mahabharat is known for his determination ‘Bhishm-‐Pratigya’. We, in our character building-‐up stage, can not put a total brake on any of our habit. However our utmost efforts must remain distinctly visible. For instance, when ever we get agitated for some reason, we have to try to calm down the self, immediately. Practicing this constantly, shall make us calm by nature, in due course. Successful completion of the resolutions shall boost up our self-‐confidence. Occasional fasting or ‘Moun-‐Vrat’ for two/three morning hours daily and one day in a week, must be made a part of our routine. Let us exhibit show that we have control on our ‘self’. Acharya ji said “Sab Se Bara Deen Durbal Voh Hai, Jis Ka Svayam Par Niyantran Nahin” and naturally “If we begin to reform our self, we can start reforming the world very well”. Sincere efforts are to always bring better results.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Important Auto-‐suggestions for making penance exercise ‘Sadhna’ most effective: Our psyche is such an important aspect of His designs that if it could be understood well, many advantages can be taken in making our ‘Sadhna’, most successful in a very short period. The land where we wish to carry on our ‘Sadhna’, matters most and therefore, if there is a choice, Land for this purpose should be selected carefully. The best land is that which has been used earlier by saints for rigorous exercises of soul-‐elevation because sacraments of ‘Sadhna’ have deeply embedded in it. Our nature is a permutation and combination of three basic qualities i.e. ‘Satvik’, ‘Rajsik’ and ‘Tamsik’. These have their typical subtle fragrance and as well have an aura of respective quality. Such “Tanmatra’ of Satvik saints and their ‘Aura’ has been having an automatic absorption in the land of their use, thereby raising its energy level. There is nothing hypothetical in this version. Many revered saints have displayed this transfer in the whole environment in the ambit of their influenced aura. The influence on the living beings specifically, could be seen up to many miles around such elevated souls. It could force the lion and deer to drink water together from the same nearby stream. Even the ‘Pranic’-‐healing learners can differentiate the sanctity of land by checking its energy level. Not only that of the land, the energy levels of Toilet, bed room and that of a worship place, in the same house, if checked, varies appreciably. Thoughts can be made powerful to any extent by intensifying these with cosmic ‘Pranic’ energy and the cosmic energy these carry, is to act as per intent of the thought. Thoughts, being the expression of our ‘chetan’-‐ soul never die or decay. Saints can have a feel of the Auric-‐influence of say, Tirupati Balaji from miles away. They can easily differentiate persons of varying characters. This elevation of even non-‐living objects viz. structures and idols is due to the joint effect of cosmic energy of devotees carried over to the temple and more specifically over the deity, through their dedication. Why we experience that the exercises ‘Sadhna’ performed in sanctified places are more rewarding? The reason is very simple, as energy at a higher level has to have its natural flow towards lower level and therefore being at lower energy level, we get benefited more. The process of transfer gets boosted-‐up with an intense urge thought desiring to take its advantage. For this reason, the best available place on earth for ‘Sadhna’ purposes is Himalay Mountain. It would be much rewarding if intricate aspects of ‘Sadhna’ become clear from early age. But young ones can not be advised to go to Himalay and
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa therefore for them it is not practically possible to take that advantage of natural flow of energy that is likely to be automatically maintained due to difference of energy levels. We can still take advantage of the design feature of our mental faculties. Design of our mind is such that we can benefit ourselves by our own psychological treatment. We can reach in the ambience of Himalay by our inner consciousness. By creating the background, advantage of the same environment can be taken to a great extent. Not only this, the mending of the mental and sentimental background so created is also possible, as desired. We are required to just establish a mental link, right sitting in our own room. Begin with the various feeling that we are sitting on the top of some peak of Himalay in the same ‘Asan’ with stable body, eyes closed and consciousness with out any bustle. Our cosmic body is to surely behave in line with our thinking as our thinking in fact, is the command of our soul ‘Chetna’. Generate a feeling that as far as we can see all around, higher snow peaks of Himalay are visible. There are small plants of flowers which are making the environment pleasing with their sweet fragrance. A small stream of water is buzzing on the other side. Non violent animals like rabbits, dear and birds-‐ like cordial and beautiful swans, goose and heron are visible and we are sitting for ‘Sadhna’ at such a pleasant place. ‘Sadhna’ is started with these auto suggestions and the colourful world so created, is concentrated up on. To go in for meditation, final suggestion is given to self that every thing around us has become white. Feel that our clothes, body, sitting-‐mat, peaks of Himalay, sky, and clouds everything has become white. Maintain the feel of this white world all around as long as possible. Intermittently ‘Pranakarshan Pranayam’, and ‘Naad-‐Yoga Sadhna’ should also be done here at the same place. Exercise of Mirror-‐Meditation Place a large size mirror in front after choosing a place of solitude, (either in reality or in imagination) concentrate on the mirror image. While managing the sequence of thoughts as per para in bold as hereunder, feel that eyes have illuminated and face is glowing with desired achievements. Relying on these suggestions is very necessary. A slight doubt will kill the ambitions even before the start. Watch all the body parts confidently in the mirror. Start the audio cassette of the para in self voice. This dose, before going to sleep, suits best to the activeness of the subconscious mind. If the determination is firm, the thoughts shall echo even while conscious mind is asleep.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I am awaking my dormant powers. Today is the awakening day of my soul. I am materializing my spiritual powers, disclosing my hidden expertise. I am an immortal soul. I am always stable in my incorporate consciousness. Every time I am moving high and making best use of every movement. This has been realized by me that I am invariably an extra ordinary talented person. I am a treasure of novel thoughts. I will mesmerize the whole world with my thoughts. I will be a superman one day. The roads to my success are open and all the powers of the universe are on my side. I am enlightened with the truth that my true teacher, guide, guru is my soul. I realize my powers. Blood in my body is full of vitality. My destiny is assigned to me on an auspicious time. I am the master of my thoughts and I formulate them. I am stepping in the struggle to upgrade my life and I am valiant enough to fight the asperities. I am able to tame the asperities with my courage. I have to accomplish a lot in my life and touch the highest standards. I firmly decide to be honest to my virtual values and inspirations and will adhere to my priorities. God has bestowed me with the power of conscience and I will upgrade those powers. Only positive thoughts come to my mind. My prudence is awakened. The perception of altruistic actions is awakened in my heart. My heart is purified and I have experienced that the treasure of real pleasure is in my inner self. I am always cheerful even in worst circ*mstances. The dormant powers of my soul are awakened. I happily solicit the adversities also. I am sitting in a calm environment with consolidated mind and stable body. The cosmic rays from my brain are flowing rapidly to my organs and are replacing debility with dynamism. All parts of body are becoming dynamic. Body is becoming Healthier and Stronger. The power of grasping is on the rise. My face is gleaming and ameliorating. Level of wisdom is rising. Memory is becoming strong. I can memorize whatever I read. My talent is rising. I am experiencing the progress in talent. I always think positive. I embrace to the qualities of great people. My noble thoughts attract the like minded ones. I possess a distinct position in the universe. My skill is developed. I am healthy with my body and mind and consciousness is pious. My progress is certain and I succeed in my efforts. Om Shanti. Gently rub the palms, place these on the eyes. Open up the eyes slowly and regain the normalcy.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Suggestions to improve memory: Concentration stimulates the work force and even the feeble mind becomes opulent with extraordinary skills alike the mild sunshine of winters when concentrated through a convex lens ignites the paper put at its focal point. For concentration ‘Dhyan’ we are required to make our mind empty of sensuality ‘Dhyanasya Nirvishaya Manah:’ Such a concentration helps ‘yogic’ exercises. Mahrshi Patanjali has disclosed the concentration as the treasure of Yoga. Accordingly the resistance to mental instincts is Yoga “Yogashcha Chittvratti Nirodha:” In very simple words ‘Yoga’ means to add or to join. Here we should only think that what ever we are interested in is happening and this thought has to be kept joined with the Pranic-‐energy at work. Continuous thinking is the constant expression of soul that acts as command for Pranic energy which is all capable and has been designed to the act on the command so given by this ‘Chetnansh’ in us. In normal routine God-‐worshiping, we are advised to sit and think of those qualities of God that we wish to inculcate in us. Thinking process can be kept continuing by reminding the self with His acts ‘Leela’ in His various incarnations or by any other means. When we are absorbed in concentration, though we are devoid of any desire, but absorption of skills and qualities, continue in us by the transfer of Pranic energy carrying these traits as thought of by us. A brake on natural instincts in our conscious, which takes away the mind ‘here & there’, is naturally an important necessity. There is virtually no other way to upgrade the mental power and to foster the development of skills. Simultaneous to this, in innumerable births we have mustered every thing that lies with in us in a dormant stage. All the more a spark can always become a jungle-‐fire. Here as well, it needs concentrating on the virtue that we wish to inculcate from with in us. To make the process of concentration automatic and smooth the development of keen interest in the job is required that either satisfies our self or makes us pleased. A girl was studying for becoming a Master in Music (M.A). Colleges are many times treated as waiting shed for marriage. There was no importance of the subject in her mind so much so that on asking she disclosed the name of her subject very hesitatingly. She was made to read a book of Acharyaji ‘Shabd Brahm – Nad Brahm’. This changed her angle of vision completely. Having come to know the vital aspects of music she got impressed to such an extent that leaving aside the earlier aim of marriage, music became her passion. Similarly
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa many children have developed a sort of phobia from mathematics. But when counseling is done and they come to know that Mathematics is the father of all sciences and is a scoring subject, that opens many opportunities to place them at the top, they became interested and got encouraged with the possibilities of a very bright future. To make any mode of action pleasing is tricky as well. Anxiety and negligence must not be allowed to come in way while performing any job. Treating every job an amusing activity needs very little effort but it in turn rewards us with many benefits. What takes ahead us is ultimately our concentration, by whatever way it is infused in us. Smiling is very good habit, it revives and cheers the tiny cells of brain that are always eager to emit out rich knowledge they possess. Repetition is another very old method of memorizing. It works promptly and memory does not fade away early. Maintaining a steady thought with concentration on any topic for some time is a good exercise to upgrade the skill. If it is a feeling that memory is fading, take the following steps. -‐Take a piece of small wooden plank, put it on the head and pat it slowly with a small wooden hammer. -‐After having food, hands and face should be washed and hairs be combed a little hard with a wooden comb, feeling pressure of pointed bristles. This shall keep the brain free from diseases and shall enhance the memory. -‐Sitting below a stream or tap-‐water for 10-‐15 minutes is also beneficial. Head should be gently washed again and again with a feeling that memory is becoming sharper. Physical Exercise before and after Meditation: Only 5 to 10 minutes exercise before and after Meditation is a dire necessity in order to take its maximum benefit. Before Meditation we are required to clean the energy centers and energy channels so that a lot of energy that we are going to attract by meditation can easily flow through our physical and energy bodies ‘Sthool and Sooksham-‐sharir’ with minimal obstruction. Other wise Pranic congestion is likely to manifest physical discomfort and problem during meditation. Similarly after meditation, it is necessary to get rid of the old ‘used-‐up energy’ and to release the excess energy attracted during meditation. By self-‐practice, only such exercises have been included in the suggestions given as here
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under that can be done even by old persons but care has to be taken only by those having problems in the back while doing bending and stretching exercises. Eye Rotation. Rotate eyes 12 times clock wise and 12 times anti clock wise. Neck Rotation. Tilt the head to right and then to left. Do it 12 times. Bend the head backward and then tilt it down ward. Do it 12 times. Arm Rotation. Bend the arms in front, swing them upward over the shoulders towards the back and return them in the original position. Do it again 12 times and then 12 times in reverse direction. Upper body twist. Twist the upper body to the left and then to the right. Repeat this 12 times. Hip Rotation. With the hands on hips, rotate upper body to the right and then to the left. Do it 12 times. Semi-‐Squat Exercise. Bend the knees slightly and then rhythmically move up and down 50 times. Bending and Stretching Exercises. Raise the arms over the head, arch the body and tilt the head backwards. Bend the body forward and while doing so, bend the knees slightly while extending the arms to touch the floor with fingers. Repeat this 12 times. Knee Exercise. Rotate the knees 12 times clockwise and 12 times counter clockwise. Feet Exercise. Sit with legs stretched in the front. (1) Point the right toe forward and then backward. Do it 12 times with the right foot and then 12 times with left foot. (2) Rotate the right foot 12 times clockwise and then 12 times counter clock wise. Do it with the other foot in the same way. Do this entire set of exercise one to three times before meditation. Physical Exercise and Massaging after Meditation.
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Shaking. Stand on the toes and shake the body 50 times to get-‐ rid-‐off the used-‐up and extra attracted energy. Jumping Exercise. Stand on the legs. Jump up and raise the arms for hands to clap by opening the legs simultaneously. Then jump again to bring the hands to the hips and the feet together. Do this 24 times. Eye Rotation. Rotate eyes 12 times clock wise and 12 times anti clock wise. Bending and Stretching Exercises. Raise the arms over the head, arch the body and tilt the head backwards. Bend the body forward and while doing so bend the knees slightly while extending the arms to touch the floor with fingers. Do it 12 times. Upper body twist. Twist the upper body to the left and then to the right. Repeat this 12 times. Hip Rotation. With the hands on hips, rotate upper body to the right and then to the left. Do it 12 times. Massaging. Massage is advisable for minimizing & avoiding the Pranic congestion and for smoother flow of energy in the body, systematic massaging should be done starting from the scalp, back of the head, face, neck, shoulders, arms trunk, with special emphasis on liver and kidneys as these are susceptible to congestion. The other parts of the body including the hips end legs as well be covered in this massaging routine. *****************************
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“Aryans/Sumerians” (Gist: The narration of this chapter covers the world-‐wide gigantic spread of India-‐originated Aryans ancients duly established with the help of their archeological remains and existing linguistic similarities. ‘Hindus’ must be proud of the fact that Aryans/Sumerians are not only their ancients but they are virtually the ancients of the entire mankind. Since Hindus still continue to maintain their Cultural, Linguistic and Genetic continuity of this most advanced and mighty race, they thus rightly claim themselves to be their lone successors. This is a natural requirement of their ‘Sanskars’ that they still aspire to become alike their ancients and for this reason, many of these ancient heroes / gods still continue to be their favourite deity and ultimate aim. The phases in which their spread occurred, has been covered in this chapter. Such an insight of the prehistoric era could become possible by co-‐relating the Puranic texts with the presently available written history of various areas and archeological artifact discovered there. It can be easily seen that due to ignoring of Vedic texts, the written History of India has as well gone wrong and its correction has now become an utmost necessity. Taking the gradual development of various western side ancient settlements of Aryans/Sumerians, it has been indicated as to how these grew in big colonies and later in to civilized nations, presently known as the western-‐world. For other areas as well, we should be able to see clearly with reasons as to how Aryans / Sumerians gods and heroes have received their due recognition all over the world. Some distortions as seen in their present identities there, have been clarified and the virtues that made them superior-‐most have also been indicated in the chapter. Factually, each and every aspect of Vedic-‐Sanskriti is unique. As shown in the chapter, the derived alphabet of ‘Sanskrit’, which is
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Hindus’ must be proud of the fact that Aryans/Sumerians are the ancients of entire mankind but in the whole world only they still continue to maintain their Cultural, Linguistic and Genetic continuity with this most advanced and mighty race and its heroes / gods are still their favourite deity: In both the earliest languages, old classic ‘Sanskrit’ of India and in the ancient Persian ‘Farsi’, ‘Arya’ means an exalted or noble one’, A truth of the history of mankind is that while ‘Ved-‐Mantras’ remained in oral transfer tradition ‘Shruti-‐Parampra’ for millenniums, Sanskrit language was developed to write these ‘Mantras’ by maintaining simultaneously, the mighty vibration effect of their pronunciation in all the four types of sound viz. ‘Bekhri’, ‘Madhyma’ ‘Pashyanti’ and ‘Para’. The different languages of the world were derived from the various stages attained in the course of development of this language. Starting from ‘Picture writing’, to pictographic ‘Cuneiform’ -‐acquiring ideographic elements, to ‘Symbol’ -‐representing object along with associated ideas and qualities, to ‘hieroglyphic writing’ -‐ another pictographic-‐ideographic form of Script-‐style writing on papyrus sheets bearing written hieroglyphs, incorporating phonetic elements (symbols indicating pronunciation) in Cuneiform hieroglyph eventually, invention of alphabets and later addition of ‘vowels’ sound. In its later developing stage the ‘Sanskrit’ language that got embraced in ancient Persia was known as Farsi, the Iranian branch of the Indo-‐Iranian languages. It was taken there through so called Indian-‐Parsis, as we call today Indian-‐Biharis or Indian-‐Bengalis etc. Due to ignorance of this fact the artifacts of other aforesaid forms of its different stages, appeared to be suggesting as if these were taking shape in isolation in Mesopotamia and Egypt etc., But it was due to the presence of wandering ‘Aryans’ every where in the ancient world. This fact can be thus easily observed that all other languages of the world have emanated from Sanskrit. That is why in other languages also, the word ‘Arya’ is in the root of words used to mean viz exalt, lofty, shining, glory, noblest or most excellent governor ‘Lok-‐Pal’, aristocrat, a master man, the ruling race who established civilization and who civilized the ab-‐ origines by their enlightened rule and science. For recollecting the ancient history of different parts of the world, we are left with various inscriptions obtained from the ruins of historic sites but it is rejoicing that by now deciphering these inscriptions that are in different developing stage of Sanskrit language, has fairly fixed-‐up most of the events of that entire dark pre-‐historic period, thereby encroaching up on it by and by
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and converting more of it as a part of our History. All this has brought us now to a stage that by now authentic evidence is available to archeologists and historians in regard to the rise and spread of Aryans or Sumerians in the entire inhabited world of that ancient past, with clue to their origination and propagation of civilization, their extension of it to Egypt and Crete, Iceland (Greece, southeast of the mainland), personalities and achievements of their kings, historical originals of mythic gods and heros, with dates from about 3380 B.C. onwards. But as per Vedic texts, this is the history of only the descendents of Devas (11 Nos.), who got separated from the descendents of Surya Dev and Chandra Dev who came to India after 5th ‘Devasur Sangram’ and kept embraced the Aryan-‐Sanskriti. The wrongly imposed Aryan invasion theory (1500B.C.), has already fallen flat with the shifting of drying-‐up date of Saraswati River from 1200 B.C. to 1900 B.C. So much so it has been confirmed from archeological sources that no different set of people has entered in Indus-‐Valley up till 800 B.C. From the facts elaborated in this chapter, visualization of this earliest scenario becomes possible that Aryans right since their origination as a mighty race occupied the whole inhabited world of ancient past, with Land-‐of-‐seven-‐ rivers ‘Sapt-‐Sindhu’ area as their headquarters. Starting from their origination, the correct movement of ancient Aryans, as is confirmed by the facts having come to light lately has already been uniquely preserved in their early traditional history and records i.e, in Vedic texts ‘Purans’. If this record is taken up seriously, it shall not only bring the whole world under one fold of vibrant thoughts but shall push the mankind ages ahead as the techniques of these ancients for becoming superior-‐most, the description of which is luckily still available in the Texts, has no parallel. Votary For a long time Mesopotamia (a Greek word, meaning thereby “between the rivers”, in the area of modern Iraq and eastern Syria between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), was often called the cradle of civilization. The history of this area goes to say that during the 5th millennium BC a people known as the Ubaidians established settlements in the region, later known as Sumer. These settlements gradually developed into chief Sumerian cities, namely Adab, Eridu, Isin, Kish, Kullab, Lagash, Larsa, Nippur, and Ur. By 3000 BC the ancient country of Sumer was the center of a sophisticated culture. These Sumerians irrigated their fields from precisely measured canals, used bronze and polished stone tools, made textiles and wheel-‐turned pottery, built temples and palaces, and
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Fixing-‐up fairly with the help of ‘Puranas’, the origin of Aryan/Sumerians, their movement in ancient era and the virtues that made them superior-‐most : It is strange that most of the techniques of ancient ‘Aryans’ are still beyond the grasp of even modern technological advancement. For these reasons, instead of knowing and learning their techniques, we have preferred to take its heroes simply as myth. Toeing the same line, all the religions, which deal with the acts and deeds of their heroes that still remain beyond our practical perception, have been termed as mythology. Though a large number of the inventions done by Aryans, being taken as invented for the first time by the mankind in the modern times, have contributed a lot in shaping and accelerating the progress of mankind, but the original home land of these Aryans and their early history, still remain un-‐certified. This has happened so, mainly due to the biased approach of the explorers, who ignored the Vedic texts ‘Purans’ that mainly deals with their history and achievements, deploying amazing Vedic techniques. Though Hindu religion it self call these epics as recapitulated one ‘Smrati-‐Granths’, yet the recapping has been done by the saints of high stature, the word character for whom falls short to wrap up their personality and immense knowledge. Modern historians hoped archeologists to get the traces of the lost history of their origination in Central Asia and in N.W, Central & S.E. Europe. They however could not locate the exact traces and links of their origination as required. Fair fixing of the point, when this oldest and advanced-‐most Aryan civilization did emerge on the horizon of written history is being still attempted. At one stage, as per Sumerian accounts, with the establishing of one king in Cappadocia and his building-‐up of a first town or city, the origination of civilization from Asia Minor remained unsuspected for quite some period. Vedic chronicles take origination of Aryans in Indus-‐Saraswati basin and also support the Cappadocian theory only to this extent that at a later-‐stage of Aryans’ spread, the said civilized king and his capital had its location in Asia Minor. Traces of the existence of the earliest towns have been traced out in Indus Valley and still earlier remains are expected below Thar-‐Deserts formed after 1900 B.C. due to drying-‐up of Saraswati-‐River. In regard to Cappadocian king however, some evidences indicate that the similar expansion did occur earlier, when an adventurous band of fellow-‐tribesman came in Cappadocia from the Goths’ land of S.W. Europe. Later from Cappadocia, his successor along with his armed peasantry of civilized Aryans entered
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa * According to Vedic texts, amongst the descendents of Bhragu s/o Varun Dev, Tvashta (s/o Shukra and Ushna) was called ‘Vishvakarma’ by Devas and ‘Maya’ by Daityas. He is taken as all time high Architect and is the God-‐man of Mayan-‐culture of Central America. He was monarch of southern Kur-‐area (Kurdistan), below Armenia. ___________________________________________________________ In their civilization, language and writing, Sumerians are the origin of the Britons*, Anglo-‐Saxons, Cymri, Irish Scots, Scandinavians, early Germans, Goths, ‘Phoenicians’ (All, Phoenician dynasty in Persian Gulf and Phoenician as Barats or Brit-‐ons and their sea tutelary as Britannia), as is evident from the inscriptions on the pre-‐historic monuments in the British Isle with their Sumerian symbolism and from the identical religion & folk-‐lore of the ancient Britons and Goths (first Germanic peoples to become Christians). Ancient Briton Coins (of pre-‐Roman “Catti” kings of second century B.C. inscribe Tascio and Tascif with portraits of that Sun-‐ archangel of Hitto-‐Sumerians and corn cross of Indara (Vedic god) or Andrew X type. The adorning Priest kings of that era used to wear Sun-‐ cross ‘Swastika’ (Vedic auspicious sign) in key pattern embroidered dress. In Vedic text Yam S/o Surya Dev, when married with Sandhya, one out of 10 daughters of Daksh Prachetas, there originated Scythian race of old Egypt and Greek. Thus in long list of his descendents are Vasus, Maruts, Bhanus, Ghoshs, Sandhyas, Hans, Vishvakarmas, Manishies, Dravids, Hoons (also white Hoons), Mangoles, Ramans, Dhars, Turks, Hetals, Kushans, etc. etc. The descendents of Rudra (s/o Dhar) belong to Herat (Afghanistan). Hans specifically, are probably Germans. *Britons, name applied to the inhabitants of Britain before the invasions by the Germanic Angles and Saxons in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. In modern usage the word denotes residents of Great Britain in general. By the 7th century the Germanic kingdoms included Northumbria, Bernicia, Deira, Lindsay, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Wessex, Sussex, and Kent. They were turbulent states, but all Anglo-‐Saxon societies were characterized by strong kinship groups, feuds, customary law, and a
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“We, The Amazing Indians”
(Gist: To know “who we are and what we are meant for?”, is essential
for our better performance in every walk of life. Factually, this much realization of our reality can only justify our awakening towards the fact that we are the only one, created by the Almighty in His own image and for this reason we are the best out of 8.4 million species created by Him in the universe. Once we know “Who we are?”, we can make optimum use of the superior-‐most design bestowed on us, in tackling decisively the problems of this life and lives there after, and if find ourselves lacking some where, we can at least make efforts to enhance our competence to cover, what we consider as the deficit. In fact for raising our competence, the sky is the limit as we are His best creation and with this complicated and flaw-‐less design of our brain and body, dwelled with His perfect ness, we can even achieve what ever we can think/imagine. If we see critically, in His automation scheme in-‐force, we hold the key of our destiny. To prove our worth, we are supposed to constantly try to make progress for our elevation. This is factually “what we are meant for?” This is also, what whole of the spirituality ‘Adhyatm’ in nutshell is, i.e. to visualize the self and to bring it back in its basic nature. This is as well a fact that only we the human beings have the potential to understand how the rise of our potential is linked directly with the ‘Elevation of our soul’. Our soul is the fraction of Almighty himself and there fore being immortal and divine, it is also capable to turn all in its beat as divine. But the wrapped turbidity of our Inner-‐Four ‘Antah-‐chatushtya’ (Mind, Intellect, Conscious and Ego) has marred its influence even on the constituents of our own brain and body, bringing all our virtues, attained during past innumerable births, in a dormant stage. Not caring for inculcation of our these in-‐ dormant virtues to boost up our competence ‘Yogyta’ or acting against the interest of our own self and thus to make the divinity more and more distant, is our utter ignorance and that is the root cause of all our present-‐day miseries and sufferings, forcing us many times to lead our life even below the status of insignificant creatures. For this purpose, Indians are best placed amid all the possible resources for their most advantageous use. Not only the sacred Indian land has a
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa It is common for some inhabitants of Middle East, y and j are interchangeable. Hence, Yaduism (Yeduism) is Judaism. Jerusalem is from ‘Yadu-‐isha-‐layam’ meaning, the township of Lord Krishna of Yadu dynasty, as per Indian Main-‐line King-‐list of Early Aryans (from the Purana-‐epics). Word by word, ‘Yadu’ means dynasty of Lord Krishna, ‘Isha’ means God and ‘alayam’ means abode or place. Israel is thus ‘Ishwaralaya’, the abode of Isha i.e. God. Similarly Shalome is also ‘Ishalayam’, the abode of God. (Ishalayam -‐ shalayam -‐ shalome). In Talmud (Jewish script), ‘Tal’ is Sanskrit word used for palm, ‘Mud’ comes from the word ‘Mudran’, which means imprint or script, hence Talmud is Sanskrit for palm-‐leaf-‐manuscript. Syria is directly the changed pronunciation of Surya, Vedic Sungod -‐ Surya-‐Dev. Palestine is in fact a Vedic sage Palustin. The Palestine city Ramallah means the city of Lord Rama. Adam though is from Sanskrit word ‘Aadim’ to mean the first or most ancient, but in Arabic ‘Aad’ means Surya. So Adam is Surya-‐Dev. Adan was earlier called Aditi-‐pur, one of the kingdoms of ‘Surya Dev’. Vedic demigod Brahma has become Abraham, by prefixing the letter ‘A’, suffixed hither to. Christians, Muslims, and Jews accept Abraham as an epitome of the man of unswerving faith. David (king) of Judah and Israel is founder of the Judean dynasty. Several accounts of his accomplishments occur in the Old Testament, chiefly in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. The town Bethlehem (West Bank) is specified in the Bible as the birthplace of both David and Jesus Christ. The word David is from ‘Devi-‐d’ that in Sanskrit means bestowed by the mother Goddess. The in-‐use ‘Star of Devid’ is a simplified version of the ‘Shri-‐Yantra’, connected with sthe Goddess Laxmi, used to be widely drawn earlier in front of many Hindu homes. Semites means from Shyam. Semites were the descendants of Shem which means having originated from Shyam, Lord Krishna. Horites are Harites meaning Worshipers of Hari (Krishna). As indicated Ahirman, the Evil Spirit, or Avestan Angra-‐Mainyu, in the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism is Vedic ‘Abhimanyu’, who is also the descendent of Chakshus ( 6th) Manu. ___________________________________________________________ The Heliodorus column was erected in 113 B.C. by the ambassador of Greece. Over 2000 years ago the Greek ambassador worshiped Vishnu. Inscription elaborating meaning is as below. “This Garuda column of Vasudeva (Vishnu), the God of Gods, was
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“Self-‐Realization”
(How only first few steps for it, can even-‐out all our worldly problems?) (Along with Some simple, workable and tested techniques.) (Gist: Doing ‘Karma’ for setting our destiny as desired, is the prerogative of only human beings. Since our birth as human-‐being, is a rare opportunity, better performance all through this short life, is to matter a lot and the key for it is, our involvement ‘Tanmayta’ in any work we take-‐ up. This calls for continuing our mind in a state of ‘Tranquility’ that gets attained by seeding dedication and devotion. Requirement of this state is essential because His design of our mind and body is so wonderful that in this state only, due to pressure of emotions/thoughts, different subtle secretions ‘Rasas’ start occurring with-‐in us. Just as endocrine and exocrine secretion-‐system works as per requirement of the body guided by inner-‐will. Earlier vibration-‐resonance of ‘Mantras’ used to help soul-‐ conscious ancients, attaining this stage instantly. More body-‐ consciousness now needs more effort to concentrate. At the very outset of this effort-‐making, self-‐healing ability of our body start getting strengthened. Further to it, as explained at length in the chapter by unfolding various intricacies of the subject, ‘un-‐hindered pleasure’, ‘sharpening of our senses’ and ‘keeping us firmly involved in our mission’, etc., are not the only built-‐in aspects of this state, but by going in depth of this state i.e. just by maintaining emotionally balanced stillness, along with full belief in the process, so referred as Meditation-‐ sittings, many in-‐dormant qualities/virtues get expressed/inculcated in different ways from our persona and it appears as if our factual identity, the real self, is by and by getting articulated. Most marvelous aspect of our divine design is that propagation of many subtle ‘Rasas’ affects our entire surroundings, hypnotizing all beings in the beat and we start getting co-‐operation from every corner. The beat can be extended to subtle worlds and through energy points with in our energy body, controlling the desired activities of these worlds was the expertise and passion of our Vedic ancients. All this has to have miraculous
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa In the process of concentration by bringing our mind on one thought and then by meditation for achieving the state of absorption (‘Dharna’=>‘Dhyan’=> ‘Samadhi’), at a stage, the thought maintained triggers secretion of tranquilizers by various glands with in our body and its quality and quantity depends on the potency and intent of our thought i.e. how much ‘Pranic’ energy it carries and what it aims at. Different tranquilizers so excreted are helpful in many ways, the main two, quickly-‐appreciable being, sharpening of our senses and keeping us firmly involved in our mission. The best suiting word for this state as used by Vedic ancients is ‘Tanmayta’. If in this state of mind we are involved in self-‐study ‘Swadhyaya’, it goes far-‐more paying and in the same way, if involved in some creative works, our jobs in hand starts getting finer finishes i.e. all our creations start reflecting our expertise. However sharpening of the self-‐intellect, which gets activated due to our senses having become capable to have an extra cognition, is not always enough for better outcome, as ‘Missions’ generally involve give & take of help with others. Problems require to be tackled; as well need changing angle of vision of all others, involved in our mission. If no outsider is involved, we many time need full emotional support of all our family members. Thus for useful progress in totality, co-‐operation of/with others becomes a requirement and for this too, as it is a built-‐in feature of complicated-‐ most design of our brain & body, other subtle secretions ‘Rasas’ in the deeper state of Tranquility, further help in making our intellect purer, mind pious and the conscious clearer. Vedics as well confirm that the Heart also goes sin-‐free but here, heart is not the hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the body to which we are generally acquainted with but it is referred to ‘Hriday-‐guha’ that Start from the center of the chest, ending at the joining point of lower ribs, having two seats of higher & lower emotions at its two ends, respectively. During the practice of reaching to state of meditation, such subtle secretions along with influence of our changed personality envelopes the mind and conscious of other beings and a sort of process of motivation starts there. Thus, our dedicated working starts after having a fine grasp of the situation and by simultaneous utilization of the available resources, including the co-‐operation from others. This results in superb achievements making our each show indeed a great. Impressions as well likewise go indelible and specifically due to our changed personality, many times the effect becomes so high that other fellow beings, including animals, become our fans/devotee. This can be described in the field of spirituality as these ancients, rising from the state of Tranquility
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa this study is to destroy the fabric of inter-‐cast harmony. Gita’s professionalism ‘Varn-‐Vyavastha’ has been totally distorted in to caste-‐ system and a heavy price of this is being paid by each generation. Discarding Vedic Sanskriti on the basis of such wrong interpretations is to prove suicidal. Vedics knew that wisdom demands to adopt, whatever it is best, available from any source. Following this course only, can keep us everlasting since this attitude becomes our ‘Sanskar’ and also gets carried over from each birth to next birth. Taking care of such a depth is the wisdom of ‘Vedic-‐Sanskriti’ only. The word ‘Culture’ confines itself to the non-‐negotiable customs & traditions of some particular group. India’s soul has been following Vedic-‐Sanskriti is line with Gita’s essence correctly and that is why it has gone everlasting. The religion that embraces this principle has been rightly termed as ‘Sanatan-‐Dharm’. Had this religion not been the soul of India, we must have continued to hate all those who crossed all the limits of the atrocities on its natives for many centuries. May it be self-‐immolation ‘Johar’ of ‘8000 plus’ ladies in the Rani Padmini episode of Rajasthan during Ala-‐ud-‐din Khilji period, or execution of dozens of orders of their mass-‐slaughtering ‘Katle-‐aam’ in Delhi during Aurangzeb period or Jaliyan-‐wala-‐Bagh episode in British period, etc. etc., such heinous criminals could lay a very short impression on the memory of followers of Vedic-‐Sanskriti. Because, when our mentality imbibes that only best is to be embraced, then the rest naturally gets neglected or ignored. If we wish either good or bad of some one, it has to be first thought of by us. Thus for acting on a bad thought, the bad thought has to come in our mind first. So it does many harms to the thinker, prior to any harm to any body else. Thinking bad or negative is therefore prohibited in Vedic–Sanskriti. This is a fall-‐out of their dynamic principle to only see Him (His divinity) in all the beings and thereby hate the sin not the sinner ‘Bure se nahi, burai se ghrana karo’. We need attacking the sin; the sinner always meets his end. Even ‘Namastey’, which is a normal greeting word of Sanskrit language, means a salute to the divinity present in each-‐other. This is in fact the reason that the variety in many respects that is the built-‐in aspect of this great country can not be found any where else in the entire world. Vedic-‐ Sanskriti, surviving since time immemorial against all the cruel tests of time, is the proof of its vitality. Undermining or ignoring it can be termed as an insane act. Serious pondering is thus must on the point, as to how long we can afford to ignore our own history, its all-‐through civilization achievements in science and technology, or its contribution even now to modern lifestyle like Yoga, vegetarianism, non-‐violent political protest
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continue to follow Vedic-‐Sanskriti, have also missed what they stand for, but that does not lay any criterion to discard the original philosophy straight away. Putting to fire the libraries of Taxila and Nalanda universities for months together, to destroy the entire invaluable Vedic literature and research work, at the instance of British rulers, is certainly an insane act and the crime against humanity. Our mind ‘Manah’ is a subtle entity and we need special means to lay hands over its activities, especially in using it to attain Him who is the subtle-‐most. The Holy Gita declares that if it could be kept under control, our mind is our best friend or otherwise it is a dreaded-‐enemy. For its taming, symbolism is again a well-‐tested technique. Meditation is nothing but engaging the self in contemplation of thoughts around some thing that we can perceive. A little correct knowledge of the aim of our life which we identified as ‘spiritual’ to mark its devotional nature and practicing for concentration correctly, has been elevating the practitioners for ages. Once we are used to it, working with concentration, while even surrounded with intense worldly problems, becomes our habit. This has naturally to yield better results. In various surveys, orthodox are thus found delivering better farsighted results than atheists. Virtues inculcated in the State of Tranquility leads to Self-‐elevation that along with tested techniques of Gurudev Acharya Shri Ram Sharma makes by and by, our self-‐realization easy: With improved concentration practices we can use our ‘power to think’, which we have been bestowed with in us as an endless feature, like a remote’s command for carrying out any operation any where in the universe. We have with in our subtle bodies the energy points (buttons) of this remote control and that has been the unique discovery of Vedic ancients. Based on this feature, ancients developed techniques to set right the body ailments through points on physical body, later-‐on enlisted as in Acupressure and Acupuncture techniques. ‘Chakra-‐ Hermeneutics’ that uses the pressure of thoughts for carrying out desired operations has been dealt with clarity in this book separately in Chapter-‐5 of Part-‐3 of this book. But for proceeding ahead on the topic some re-‐freshening of the process is essential. Though predominating colours are also being given separately as hereunder, but starting from the bottom of the spinal-‐Cord, the lower three chakras correspond to the
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Kundalini’-‐ related depictions / exhibits in Vedic Sanskriti: All the Vedic depictions are very potential guides. Depending on their dedication and devotion, these depictions many times help for their soul-‐ elevation to the innocents and ignorant persons more than to the intelligent ones. For the scholars however, these depictions always prove to be an ocean of knowledge having immense depth. Let us take the common pictorial depiction of Lord Vishnu in Yog-‐Nidra on the bed of ten thousand headed ‘Shesh-‐Nag’ in ‘Ksheer Sagar’, with Lord Brahma on a lotus, extending from His navel and Ma-‐Laxmi in service, sitting by the side of His feet. There is a lot much of divinity in this depiction. Let us find out how it explains His entire venture of handling the Creation. If we go to His process of manifesting Himself as Creation ‘Brahmand’, the first step is, His division in to two polar aspects, static and dynamic (inert male ‘Purush’ and active female ‘Prakriti’) and this process is same in the creation of an individual being, termed as ‘Kshudrabrahmand’ / ’Pinda’. Here Cerebrospinal Fluid represents ‘Ksheer Sagar’. Our ‘Pinda’ is a tiny model of this depiction, so to say ‘Yatha Brahmande -‐Tatha Pindey’. ‘Maha Kundalni’ that in supreme form is at rest on ‘Sahasrar’ or as here in our brain coiled around and one with Shiv-‐bindu. As it happens in the process, while uncoiling in order to manifest in the cycle of recreation, Maha Kundalini emanates out the ‘Tatvas’ and ‘Matrikas’. Thus at first, mind gets created and then the matter (as said earlier, starting from creation of Ether ‘Akash’, then by it the Air ‘Vayu’, then by it the Fire ‘Agni’, then by it the Water ‘Jal’, and the uncoiling continues till finally the Earth ‘Prithivi’ gets evolved). In our case ‘Muladhar’ or the ‘root support’ is the seat of ‘Prathvi-‐Tatva’. This is how this depiction as well relates with the fertilization that starts after our seeding in the womb. The Kundalini is at rest as the residual power i.e. the power that had left after the process of creation gets completed. Just as the Mahakundalini coiled around Shiva (before manifestation) is static potential, similarly the kundalni power in each body is the power at rest or has become static center around which every form of existence as moving power, revolves. In spiritual practice this kundalini-‐power, if some how could be taken there, enables the brain cells to register spiritual (higher) experiences and stimuli. What our perception does not take any happening as natural, is a supernatural or a divine act for us. Arousing of ‘Kundalini’, right after awakening of a few more degrees thus, along with improved or upgraded physique, brain and nervous-‐
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa system, etc., makes a man genius and charismatic. More brain cells becoming active, means only this that now these shall register spiritual (higher) experiences and stimuli. With its further arousing, this goes to make us feel as a supernatural being, able to perceive the activities of subtle worlds. So, arousing status of Kundalini has to always remain an index of soul elevation. Self-‐illuminated, spiritually-‐advanced and benevolently guided persons, all fall in supernatural zone for a common man. The status is however expressed in various ways in different depictions. Vedic ancients have left their imprints all over the world indicating their status of divinity in various ways. The use of snake is usual in various ways, for its arousing expression e.g. a snake around the neck of Lord Shiva. In Egypt this feature was retained as a snake on the headgear of a Pharaoh (Derivative of the word ‘Prabhu’, meaning the God). Phallus ‘Linga’ of Lord Shiva is a characteristic element of many religions and it along with its counter part, both are the manifestations of nature worship. Person standing or riding on a dragon in China appears replica of what Lord Krishna did even before touching his Teen-‐age, and so forth. The degree of awakening of Kundalini is denoted with the number of cobras covering the head. However, even seven cobras hovering over the head, is taken a very very high degree of awakening. Where as our normal sleep is taken away just by a few worries, the pictorial depiction under discussion indicates that one, who is a care-‐taker of all exigencies and eventualities of His running Creation, can as well manage smiling and can be comfortably at complete rest i.e. even in ‘Yoga-‐Nidra’ that is a state far-‐ahead of normal sleep when even the conscious is also at complete rest. By the impression of His look it appears as if ‘Peace’ has taken a form ‘Shantakaram’. This has become possible because of His fully blossomed crown chakra ‘Sahasrar’ depicted by a ten thousand headed Cobra, described as ‘Bhujag Shayanam’. This is a representation of 100% activated kundalini. Lord Vishnu, the setter of all the activities of the world is thus rightly addressed as ‘Vishva Dharam’. In its unending cycle, this is a start of ‘Creation’ from subtle-‐most stage ‘Gagan-‐Sadrasham’ with a thunder like a bolt in the blue ‘Megh varnam’, through Brahma sitting on a lotus ‘Padm nabham Suresham’. In this depiction, dozens of other vital explanations can be further had with ease and even the articles in hands carried by Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma are there with their varied and valid explanations. e.g., Vedas in the hand of Lord Brahma are the complete design criterion on which he was asked to act
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa for bringing the Creation in to being, etc. This depiction as well goes to certify that the personality imbibing qualities that makes one alike Lord Vishnu, shall always find Laxmi, the goddess of ‘wealth’ and ‘Shree’ in his service ‘Laxmi Kantam’. Each of us, being exactly in His image, has an opportunity to assimilate in our self, the ‘Vishnu-‐tatva’ to avail our share benefits ‘Laxmi’ of this design provisions. Lord Vishnu is certainly the Master of all the worlds ‘Sarva lokaik Natham’, and being subtle-‐most, His stature or He can only be attempted/attained through the path of ‘Yoga’ and meditation ‘Yogi bhir Dhyan Gamyam’. His prayer goes systematically like this: “Shantakaram Bhujag Shayanam, Padm nabham Suresham ! Vishva Dharam Gagan-‐Sadrasham, Megh varnam Shubhangam ! ‘Laxmi Kantam Kamal Nayanam, Yogi bhir Dhyan Gamyam ! Vandey Vishnu Bhav Bhay Haram, Sarva lokaik Natham !!”. Safe Arousing of Kundalini: Arousing Kundalini means multiplication of all the tendencies and qualities of the seeker, whether good or bad. Thus if we have negativity, it shall as well get multiplied. On spiritual path, to avoid intense inner battles later, it is necessary to first go for inner purifications. A word of caution is, that we are not Lord Vishnu, a slight premature arousing of Kundalini, as is usual in ‘Tantra-‐Sadhna’, is to cause an excessive or unregulated sex drive; extreme pride and one may become a megalomaniac. That is why Vedics have laid emphasis for masses to adopt its rising by ‘Satvic’ food habits’, ‘worthy conduct’, and ‘rectified thinking’ i.e. by nourishing, physical body, mind and soul, simultaneously since in this way the worthiness ‘Patrata’ as well goes on developing. This is the miraculous design of our mind and body or otherwise it would be dangerous, like giving a razor to a monkey. Accelerating the process by meditation (as also on ‘Twin heart’) is also safe to some extent as it as well take care of enhancing worthiness. As cleared earlier it is basically ‘Gayatri-‐Maha-‐Mantra’ way but in this concept, mother like affection of energy is our mental armor to save us from any harm. There is yet another way of forcing Kundalini to arouse and to activate all the neurons in the skull in one go. This process with the help of Vedics’ deep study of our subtle bodies is explained as here under.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa All the ‘Tatvas’ are embedded in our body in subtle form with in ‘Sushumna’ referred as Chakras. Each chakra radiates thousands of yoga ‘Nadis’, conduits of ‘Pranic’ energy in all the directions covering the entire body and mind. But, out of these, three are main and are of prime importance, namely ‘Ida’, associated with moon, ‘Pingla’, associated with sun, and ‘Sushumna’, the hollow passage that runs through the spinal cord, from lotus of kundalini The Caduceus and ending in ‘Brahmrandhra’ the tenth opening in the brain. This subtle arrangement as shown in the figure, taken from the Caduceus, explains the phenomenon better. It is a presentation of Vedics’ insight dealing our rise with the perception of subtle worlds and was taken by Greeks as a messenger of God. We know that with ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’* also termed as balancing breathing technique, there is a triple energy movement, through the channels ‘Nadis’, starting from ‘Mooladhar’ as shown, two of these are alike entwined snakes (‘Ida’, opening in the right nostril & ‘Pingla’, opening in the left nostril, and third through central column ‘Sushumna’. Crossing/interacting each other at various points called as ‘Chakras’)’. ‘Prana’ from cleansed and energized ‘Ida’ and ‘Pingla’, when made to enter in ‘Sushumna’, the mass of energy stored in ‘Mooladhar’ begins to travel in ‘Sushumna’ with a tremendous force being drawn to the other static center in the ‘Sahasrara’. In the process the chakras get pierce and a lot of sex energy gets transmuted into the spiritual energy and get stored in to brain enabling the seeker to experience the vision. A lot more detailed study and experimentation done by Vedic ancients in respect of each chakra, its working etc. fascinates to a great extent and in this mental background. Imbibing of this awakened ‘Kundalini’ when unites with consciousness at Sahasrara, the seeker enters a sublime state ‘Nirvikalp Samadhi’, wherein he experiences bliss and the full blaze of illumination, the perception of the self. ************************************
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa * ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’ (The expert Vedic way) ‘Pran’, the mother energy and ‘Chetna’, the command under which it works, are inseparable Divine-‐Pair ‘Divya-‐Yugm’. Five ‘Prans’ working in the body are (1) Apan: (in anus and is of orange colour, affects ‘Basic-‐ Chakra’). It is responsible for all types of secretion and excretion of the body. (2) Vyan: It pervades in the entire body, is of Reddish pink colour and affects ‘Swadhistthan-‐Chakra’ to keep all the systems (viz. Breathing, Blood circulation, Nervous system etc.) in working order. (3) Saman: (In the Navel and is of green colour, affects ‘Manipur-‐Chakra’). It keeps activated the energy of the body. (4) Pran: (At the centre of the chest and the mid-‐point connecting breast tips, is of yellow colour and affects ‘Anahat-‐chakra’). It keeps extracting out and provides the energy to body from breath and food intake. (5) Udan: In the Throat, attracts for all sorts of intake (breath and food etc.), is that of violet colour, and affects ‘Vishudh-‐Chakra’. It keeps the body lifted up and even its little presence does not permit the body to fall down. It is also responsible for the entire automation of subconscious ‘Antarmanah’. In Bhastrika Pranatam which is a regulated deep-‐inhale and exhale through both nostrils, the simultaneous thinking in regard to function of each Pran sets them on the job. Much more care is however needed in ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’. Sitting with back straight and inhaling through one nostril and exhaling out from other, is ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’. The inhaling and exhaling period is to have ratio of 1:2 and extending the duration of cycle has to be our constant endevour. After doing this for five minutes, the style should be changed. Stoppage for some period after inhaling ‘Antah-‐ Kumbhak’ and after exhaling ‘Vahya-‐Kumbhak’, is to be introduced. The time taken in both ‘Kumbhak’ must be same but the period of inhaling and exhaling must be double and four times to this period, respectively. Thus the whole cycle must follow 2:1:4:1 ratio pattern. Some experts suggest that the inhaling must be in installments and the exhaling in one go. For the total period of one cycle, it is further suggested that its cycles must be made successively slow, as much as possible. The more it is slow, the results are better as sufficient time is available to maintain corresponding thought.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa It must however be noted that up till now this is a breathing exercise only. It can not give the benefits, this ‘Pranayam’ is meant for. This exercise so far has nothing to do with the balancing of our mind ‘Manah’. ‘Anulom-‐Vilom Pranayam’ however is supposed to dispel out entire negativity from with-‐in us. Though ‘Pran’ is capable to do any thing what ever we can think, but till it is a breathing exercise, only oxygen inhaled does its work as ‘Pran’ is not being attracted at all. Vedics, after taking all the aforesaid considerations have already made it a most effective ‘Pranayam’ exercise and as a fool-‐proof approach, the Mantra (10.27) of Tettreeya Aranyak, have been designed for each step of the cycle, to automatically serve the basic requirements as the experts advise now. The whole cycle thus gets connected with the thought as per intent of the Mantra. While inhaling the thought has to be maintained that ‘Pran’ is going along with the breathe in abundance, so much so that its glow is also visible. While holding the breathe, the thought has to be maintained that the respective ‘Chakras’ mentioned in the Mantra are getting cleansed one by one and are being nourished by the ‘Pran’. While exhaling, the thought has to be that the turbidity, including that of mind ‘Manah’, intellect ‘Buddhi’ and conscious ‘Chitta’, is going out with the breathe, making each of our aspects better, and while in ‘Vahiya-‐ kumbhak’, the thought is to be maintained that the negativity so discarded, will not being allowed to return by maintaining such determination. Our thought is the expression of our soul. His design is such that the Pranic energy has to act as per intent of the thought. Factually, as we have acted as our real-‐self while extending its expression to Pranic energy, our enjoining ‘Yoga’ with our real self makes this breathing exercise a ‘Pranayam’ exercise. -‐Inhale in installments by filling the air by and by, from the point of Basic-‐ Chakra ‘Mooladhar-‐chakra’ up-‐till Sex-‐Chakra ‘Swadhistthan-‐Chakra’, Navel-‐ Chakra ‘Manipur -‐Chakra’, Heart-‐ Chakra ‘Anahat chakra’, Throat ‘Vishudh-‐Chakra’, Ajna-‐Chakra ‘Agya Chakra’ and then Crown-‐Chakra ‘Sahasrar-‐Chakra’ by speaking mentally by maintaining corresponding thought: Om Bhu, Om Bhuva, Om Swa, Om Mah, Om Janah, Om Tapah, Oom Satyam. -‐Hold the breathe for ‘Antah Kumbhak’ and keeping in the mind the time, (comparatively half of first step), speak mentally by maintaining corresponding thought:
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa My lessons - Er.Samir Rathi From my early age I was nourishing an idea that last few years of life should be reserved for ‘Dharm-Karm’ only as during the entire life-time we the house-holders ‘Grhasths’ are otherwise required to keep ourselves absorbed necessarily for sufficient earnings and in disposal of all other worldly duties for leading the old age comfortably. Once, while a discourse of my revered father Er. I.L. Rathi was on, it forced me to change my aforesaid idea since I discovered that neither the life is certain and nor the old age circ*mstances can be guaranteed to permit for working as planned. The question is then, how to secure the benefits of one’s religion for elevating the self, simultaneous to best attending of all worldly and family duties. I learnt from him that this question is not seeking its answer for the first time. People have been putting such queries before sages and saints very often since time immemorial. All the more, most of Vedic ‘Rishis’/’Munis’ and even our various deities were ‘Grhasths’ and their lives itself are a satisfying answer. Once while Mohammad Sb. (PBUH) was in a hurry to go some where for an important meeting, one old guy who had come from his long distant place, requested him to explain religion ‘Dharma’ in the said context. Some close disciples of the Prophet tried to make the stranger understand that justice to the answer of such a tedious question can not be done in haste. This is a question on which if one starts explaining, the whole life time might fell short and if one starts writing its answer, even a well of ink might get consumed. So, better come again after checking the availability of sufficient time with the Master. The Prophet however smiled and calmly told that do not present the religion ‘Dharma’ that much complicated. Hear and follow my one sentence carefully and you shall become religious instantly with out ignoring your other liabilities. He told that all of us very well know that there is one Almighty and the entire rest is His Creation. Therefore remain praying Him and extend all your love to His Creation and that is all, what the Religion is. Therefore the worldly duties of a ‘Grhastha’ and the religion do not hinder each other. The ups and downs of a family-man, if confronted considering them as His tests, these instead add to our maturity and thereby much better results can be
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ‘Badla’ should not worry us even the least. With this attitude we shall get rid of the pre-occupancy of our mind, and this shall make our decision-making more comprehensive and far-sighted. In fact, adopting only the course of forgiveness, and thus by breaking the continuity of each chain of actions and reactions, through out the life, one can even attain the liberation ‘Moksha’. 3. Self-Control ‘Damah’: The controlling of mind ‘Manah’ requires a state of achieving control over internal enemies viz. Lust ‘Kam’, Anger ‘Krodh’, Greed ‘Lobh’ and attachment ‘Moha’ along with their other family members viz. Grief, Bitterness, Jealousy, Hatred, Revenge, Attachment, Malevolence, etc. etc. As much we succeeded in exercising control on our mind, the likely-hood of best results of our effort-making, is ought to increase. 4. Non-stealing ‘Asateya’: This requires not stealing any thing physically or mentally. We can easily consider that most of us never involve themselves in physical-stealing but mental stealing is to invite a lot of thought-pollution that is much dangerous as better thought-pattern is after all our main concern, being a mould of our future. 5. Purification ‘Shauch’: External (that of body, clothes and surroundings) and internal (that of mind) cleanliness. The said purification is essential for our whole day long encouraging thoughts-pattern? 6. Control on Senses ‘Indriya-Nigrah’: The five senses and five motor organs along with their controller, the mind ‘Manah’ that dominate the control on our activities are called ‘Indraiyas’ and exercising restrain over them is essentially required. This in turn shall invite positive thought-patterns. 7. Benevolent-Intellect ‘Dhi’. Our Mind controls our ‘Indriyas’ and intellect controls the mind. Channellized intellect is necessary to regenerate society for the benefit all the beings. If not channelized the intellect shall go destructive, as it happened with various demons of the Vedic ancients’ history. 8. Internal assimilation of external objectivities ‘Vidya’: Modern science that helps to develop physical sphere is called ‘Avidya’. Though Vidya deals the spiritual sphere of liberation, but Avidya as
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa well can not be ignored to attain liberation, as developed physical base is the seat of our better thought pattern. For instance our physical body if neglected, can no more be utilized or improved as a better instrument to push us ahead spiritually. Rather its problems can even keep us too much involved thereby derailing us from our track and thus ruining all the efforts made so far. 9. Truth ‘Satyam’: It is required to be observed, both in individual and collective lives. No one knows better than the Vedic Sanskriti, the importance of ‘Trurh’. Utterance of one single lie in the whole life, kept Yudhishthir perturbed even when he was just to attain his goal of life. One who is truthful, is appreciated every where and a wrong thought-pattern in his mind is out of question. 10. Non-Anger ‘Akrodh’: It is a very subtler propensity. To remain under the influence of nerve cells and fibers, instead of being influenced by subtler layers of mind, is very dangerous. The working of mind as such gets obstructed. Some times, show of anger becomes necessary such as to stop unholy activities of sinful people of the society or say, to scare-away a child from the activities that shall ultimately harm him. Such sentient anger is not to harm if taken as a role of an actor in some play. For the anger having erupted for not being alert, its quick back-normalization is essential. In Gita Lord Krishna explains how step by step the anger leads to fading away the intellect for that period, leading to harmful decisions and finally the destruction of the angry man. We can thus test all our activities on these characteristics of Dharma and can remain indeed a religious man through out the life. Many times, all by the grace of God, slight change in the angle of vision affects a sea-change in our working and casts tremendous Job-satisfaction. For instance, right in the start I was told by my revered father that earnings should not worry you as much as the career-making of the students joining your institute. My thought-pattern has changed completely and now factually, only their exam-results have become my real earnings. This has also changed the angle of vision of my wife Dr. Shweta Rathi, who is in the same profession of teaching, along with me. Fortunately our profession is such that all the characteristics of Dharma can be easily adhered to. Sticking to Patience, Forgiveness, Self-Control, Non-stealing, Purification, Control on Senses, Benevolent-Intellect, internal assimilation of external objectives, Truth and Non-anger, all are the close
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa associates of continuously prevailing positive thought pattern in our minds because of our changed angle of vision as per the teachings of my father. We have visualized that if we could contribute to the career-making of students joining us with that aspiration, they will never be able to forget us and as such their life long gratefulness shall be our invaluable earning. So much so, very soon after joining, even the students start looking at us with a changed vision. Positivity thus surrounds in the entire environment of our center and this remains a matter of great job-satisfaction at the end of each hour, each day and each session.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Er. I.L.Rathi was born on August 16th, 1940 in village Pandoli, (Nagal) Distt. Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh (INDIA). He got his primary education in a Village-‐Madarsa (Urdu) and up till Intermediate he studied in the connected Township-‐School and in Saharanpur. He completed rest of his education in Aligarh, except one year of his M.Sc. in Meerut College. He graduated in Electrical Engineering with ranks from AMU Aligarh in 1964. He joined U.P. State Electricity Board, where he got opportunity in all the disciplines Viz. Distribution, Vigilance, Rural Electrification, Transmission, Design, Construction and Maintenance of Hydro Power Stations. During his 36 years service he remained posted in Jhansi, Etawah, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Varanasi, Dehradun, Haridwar, Uttarkashi, Tehri, Srinagar, Roorkee, Agra and finally got retirement in 8/99 as a Chief Engineer (Level-‐1) from HEP Dehradun. Right since his college days he had an inclination towards the science of Vedic-‐Philosophy. Where ever he went, he became popular, especially for his Vedic ways of self-‐control. His few recollections, in connection with the results of his such experiments during the service period, have appeared on his website ‘punarjanm.in’. He has been writing and presenting not only Technical papers connected with his profession but also on Spiritual matters and has exhibited his will-‐power as his core strength at many critical junctures. Once, as the President of UP RVP Abhiyanta Sangh, while informally addressing the members, he disclosed that right since his birth, he has been confronting unimaginable odds after odds through out his life, but all these instead turned as boon in strengthening his
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa will-‐power by making slight change in his ‘attitude’ and ‘way of thinking’. His becoming disciple, a ‘deeksh*t-‐shishya’ of Acharya Shri Ram Sharma in 1884 gave new dimension to his personality. According to him, as ‘thought’ is the seed of ‘Chetan-‐Srashti’, missions like ‘Vichar Kranti Abhiyan’ of Gayatri Parivar (Shanti-‐Kunj, Haridwar) can only save the world from the prevailing chaotic conditions. He has come out with a much encouraging fact that the world-‐accepted oldest and advanced most Sumerian-‐Race originated from India and combating of most dangerous present menace of ‘Thought-‐Pollution’ is only possible through the tested techniques of Vedic-‐culture of this race as embedded in Vedas. He has taken up ‘the mass awakening towards these facts and suggesting tested steps for effective measures’, as a mission of his life. He rightly considers that this is the best way to elevate the soul and that the inculcation of hidden virtues has to go automatically with it. He plans to incorporate in his book all Vedic experiments, he has been doing on him; along with the results of his own experience. We feel indebted that he has considered us worth associating with such a noble cause being done by him for the sake of mankind.
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(Er. Samir Rathi) GIIT Classes Jwalapur, Haridwar M. 9319041136
(Sr. Anil Gupta) NIIT Haridwar center Jwalapur, Haridwar M. 9548377988
(Dr.Shweta Rathi) Daksh Tutorials Jwalapur, Haridwar M. 9359980270
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Let us align our mind in the well known peace prayer ‘Shanti-‐ Path’ of Sam-‐Veda: “Aum dyou: shantirantariksh gvam shanti: prathivi shantiraapa:, Shantiraushadhya: shanti: Vanaspatya: shantirvishwedeva: Shantirbrahm shanti: sarvagvamshanti: shantirev shanti: sa ma Shantiredhi II Aum shanti: ! shanti : !! shanti: !!! Sarvarishta sushantir bhavatu” May there be peace in the sky, may there be peace in mid region, may there be peace on earth, may there be peace in the waters, may the medicinal plants be peaceful, may the forest be peaceful, may there be peace in gods, may Brahma be peaceful, may all the creation be peaceful, may there be peace and peace only, may such peace come to us and every where. **************************
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