Rituals

In factories knowledgeable experts do extensive trials tests and come to the best way of doing a process,

for example,

to get a fine painted finish on a product, he makes the process specification, in detail, on inputs, materials, tools, methods, precautions, safety aspects, and educates the technicians and trains them guiding step by step, so that by following these procedures, the technicians delivers the quality output with minimum waste, in minimum time, 

they will not know the full science and logic behind these specifications, yet by following the specs rightly as specified they produce the desired output

it is essential that those who make the procedures are fully knowledgeable 

if not, the specs they make may lead to disastrous results

similarly 

in spirituality the rituals and rules are formed by the best masters, based on the authenticity of self realization,

 

if not

they loose the very purpose for which they are made .

hence the emphasis on the purity of knowledge in every tradition 

  maatha” 

is one of the many features of devi

….in the sloka ”yaa devi sarva bhuteshu…..mathru rupena samsthitha”

..devi is a goddess, not one particular mother,

nor a statue in a temple,

but it is the principle of mother in all pranis,

whether cat dog monkey human, chicken, bird, elephant, lion

..the principle of motherly care , responsibility, love, tender qualities, patience, in conceiving, giving birth

and protecting, feeding,

teaching skills , play , work, protection ,

cleaning, sanitation, etc.

..which are common features of mother in all pranis

… when i saw a cat attending to her children,

so lovingly , and commitment, against all odds, involving hard work,

i really was thrilled to see mother ”devi”’ in it

……………..that is how devi is eternal ,

all pervading in all beings, sarva bhuteshu,

not localized in time or space or to a specie

…so similarly all gods are particular eternal, principles,

eternal non changing laws of nature governing the universe

      lalithamba powers

QuoteThe devas prayed to her to kill Bhandasura. When she started for the war with Bandasura, she was accompanied by the powers called anima, mahima, Brahmi, Kaumari, Vaishnavi, Varahi, Mahendri, Chamundi, Maha Lakshmi, Nitya Devaths and Avarna Devathas who occupy the chakra. While Sampatkari was the captain of the elephant regiment, Aswarooda was the captain of the cavalry. The army was commanded by Dhandini riding on the chariot called Giri Chakra assisted by Manthrini riding on the chariot called Geya Chakra. Jwala malini protected the army by creating a fire ring around it. Para Shakthi rode in the center on the chariot of Chakra. Nithya destroyed a large chunk of Bandasura’s armies, Bala killed the son of Bandasura, and Manthrini and Dhandini killed his brothers called Vishanga and Vishukra. When the asuras created a blockade for the marching army, Lalitha Tripura sundari created Ganesha with the help of Kameshwara to remove the blockade. Then Bandasura created the asuras called Hiranyaksha, Hiranya Kasipu and Ravana. The devi created the ten avatars of Vishnu and destroyed them. She killed all his army using Pasupathastra and killed him with Kameshwarasthra. The gods then praised her. She then recreated Manmatha for the good of the world. This story is contained in the first 84 names of the first 34 slokas of Lalitha sahasranama. All together it contains one thousand names. This is also called the Rahasya Nama Sahasra (the thousand secret names). Reading it, meditating on the meaning of the names would lead to the fulfillment of all the wishes of the devotees

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so , to lead a powerful life, what has to be gained back is the all winning childhood, the childlike tenderness, the original, yathaa poorve state,.nascent state of the universe, the field of pure consciousness, pure awareness, and live a life free, nonchalant , a child's play of course It takes a long time to become young"

    bhagavathi chethana---what, how, why, when

chethana=consciousness= awareness

life in unenlightened stage is lived in 3 states---

1. sleep--suptha chethana

2. dream--swapna chethana

3. waking--jagruth chethana

guru graces, he gets a glimpse of 

4.  the fourth state---transcendental--thuria- chethana--chathurtham 

the state of settled state of mind, momentary in the beginning, a deep silence

a passing first glimpse is the beginning of a true love story,

the mind falling for the love at first vision,

and craving to have the darshan, sparshan ,of man mohan, 

searching and waiting for the eternally charming absolute, 

a radha after shyam.. and shyam luring yet eluding, playing flute—-

it's a life long romance for a few, in their inner yaan,

an eternal inspiration for others to sing the glory of him

in bhajan, keerthan, gungaan, 

a worthy theme for few others, to create romantic poetry

weaving as web and warps, the transient reality and mystery

creating lokas and romantic characters in upakhyanas, udanthas.

here is the first level of the aspirant, 

most stay stuck here, eternally searching, having had the vision, 

and not knowing a sure way to move forward, compromising into thinking that their search it self as the goal ,

they are fortunate yet unfortunate..

sadhana continues, alternating silence and activity , nervous system gradually gets refined and retains the silence while in activity leading to

5.   the 5th state, cosmic --vishva chethana

experience is karma sukaushalam=easiness in business

petals of gnan sprout, gyana prasoonaamba blessing, identification of himself with the univesre as one

Human body is born with best of purity, perfection, yet, if you believe in rebirth, it has remnants of impurities---remnants of karma day to day done, like metal gets work hardened if bent and unbent a number of times ---it will be annealed to regain its original malleability ductility ---in the same way --this personality has to undergo repeated purification, for body we take bath --for mind ---for intellect some good book/lecture/satsng.---for feeling level ,fine arts, music dance, bhakthi on a istha devatha,---for yet deeper levels meditation etc are the ways

sadhna results in accelerated purification, thus we get evolution in to higher states, and mukthi will be faster. as the purification intensifies thru regularity of sadhana, the mind and nervous system retain awareness abundantly, stresses having been eliminated , individual becomes nicely refined and divine virtues., rather divinity descends in to him, so he becomes a personification of god like kishan, lakshmi, ram, --their features become his property --like prasanna vadanam,mandsmitha vadanaaravindam . no more he will be tossed up and down will be a calm deep ocean , though he is engaged in the most busy activities---essential to lead a eminently successful life, in every sense of the term

now the system is so pure, refined, mind gaining the subtles stastes 

with ease

6.   the 6th atate arrives, all devi devathas pleased and ready to come in to this purified temple----godly--bhagavathi chethana

He system becomes a transparent host to invite devi devathas.

he invokes siva, and all the characterisics and features qualities will be housing in him

if he invites vishnu . vishnu's qualities and so on

this is the state one is ready to aavahan the devathas.

spirituality can be much more easily understood with analogy of internet and computer.

our ista devatha is like our home page within it you can invite other websites

If googe is home page, within it you can browse yahoo,rediff etc 

if shiva is istha, thru him you can invite vishnu

so it is possible to enter shivlilok and from their within vishnulok, brahma lok, indralok.

basic rquiremet is the computer, our system, should be freed from clutter

there are 33 koti devi devathas--like several web sites--with their special characteristics, capabilities, mahimas, as extolled in astothara shatha,,sahasra naamas.

we take a gods name and a characteristic, and we invoke them in to ourselves, along with their special mahimas, life becomes a mahimaanvitham-- glorious.

just like we take a web site, we apply a theme , different themes being available.

google is not made by me but all the power and capability of google i command--since i connected to net and i invoked google--basic is my computer is very good latest model, highly evolved, pure from all virus and clutter. hard disc is having high capacity ram also is powerful large capacity.

similarly our system goes thru purification and expands capability to invite gods and their mahima.

all the knowledge of all gods --like wiki -- the samhitha--the collected --unified in the gods web sites can be accessed in that gods website

now e books 

so are gods knowledge opens inside.

so there is every need to do sadhana and evolve/update ourselves moment to moment with the cosmic evolution , need to be able to enjoy infinite possibility within the limited body mind complex--like a pc with its h/w and s/w and net, is able to scan the earth google earth, --is able to listen music, see dance, hear speeches.

so all the gungaan, naama vali, vedas, puranas, episodes, all the help, understanding are possible , virtually one can create his universe as beautiful and charming as a heaven by down loading heaven in to his system.

and like all web sites are waiting to welcome us to enjoy all their capability, all devi devathas are waiting to invite us to get downloaded on to our system,

if we do not avail google, what google will do 

it goes to one who invokes it

richo akshre parame vyoman yasmin deva adivishve nisheduhu 

yasthan naveda kim richa karishyathi?

so then what further?

it is the final or?

sadhana continues system becomes much more pure, all sanskars vasanas fully eliminated, mind experiencing abundance of awareness. is now ready to take off to the next ,the ultimate level ,

7.   7th state--unity—kaivalya chetana

as the pc having explored , having become familiar with all the sites, all lokas, having been further updated, and upgraded to much more powerful version now interacts with the site owners, lokaadhipathees, and they so pleased with this pc and its owner will be happy to invite him to their lokas and offer the seat just next to themselves making him the co-owner co- adhipathi

he integrates all lokas and adhipathees and joins the supreme who is governing the entire lokaas and adhipathees and pleased., he makes him the joint owner, the ruler . and gradually hands over his supreme seat having found him worthy and loves him so much that he mingles with him unites with his consciousness and the individual consciousness finally and permanently becomes the sole supreme ruler of the universe a jagannath, his command most lovingly obeyed by all the devidevathas.

and all the lokas just reveal to him as if a new bright light has lighted,.the paramjyothi

he is at will to to stay in the body system or stay as awareness unlimited by even the least limited by body.

and after living his life at his will he may drop his body, having served all and best purpose fully, , completing the longest journey from uncountable births and deaths and will stay as awareness governing the universe for ever

   after matured sadhana, heightened awareness gets stabilized in all our activities, 24 h , in sleep dream wake states , and one experience wakefulness continuously, he hears even his snore, sees his sleep, & dream while body remains in sound sleep  hence devathas are said to be artha nimeelitha nethra or animesha, non blink

    

U unique and universal

one will become universal when one accesses one's self which is the universal core in every being , and there by one reaches out to the community around, society, state, country, humanity, all the living beings, even the inanimate, in divine love"

   mystery begins

vague things, perceived when i was 8 , some flashes of some poetic, unclear flow, but definitely i felt it's happening inside me --once , resulting in some exhilaration, unusual and characteristic, alas , i could neither catch it and talk out nor could scribble it .

it just passed and i wasted a decade .

in my be course in the class room my prof was teaching with elaborate equations the heat flow process in the subject ''heat and mass transfer'', again a flash happened in the mind indicating to me that i discovered a n equation thru which every phenomena can be deduced and understood or derived . alas, neither could i explain nor put on paper but it did give an affirmation that i have discovered a valuable thing, 

it too just passed and i wasted another decade.

fortunately i stumbled upon tm 

now things are not as slippery as they were

except with a lament that ''if only i had that opportunity at 8 or at least 18 ......''

this is where, we have lost ourselves lost the life. this is when we must give the technique to the budding youth , to blossom in to gnana prasunam, --a way to reach in to his depth and accelerate the pace of evolution that is possible only for a human being.

hence one of the 16 shodasha samskaras the ''upanayana''

oh what a loss , youth has lost the wealth, the character , having only trivial at their disposal in plenty