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Namaste

Last week we went into the first three days of Navaratri & the sacred mystery of the goddess Maha Durga. 

Navaratri is the 9 day journey of the seeker into the depths of his or her consciousness guided by the light of the goddess.

The 4th, 5th and the 6th days of Navaratri is a celebration of the mother divine as Maha Lakshmi, killing Mahishaasura and Raktha Bija.

Here the myth becomes very interesting. Mahishaasura the demon goes into assuming various forms in battle. He appears once as a bull, another time as a monster, another time as a cloud, as an elephant during this war with the goddess, until she finally kills him.

Similarly every drop of the blood that spills from the asura or the demon gives rise to yet another asura. Much like the covid virus, until the goddess stretches her tongue throughout the world and swallows him before further forms can emerge from his blood.

To the western mind this might seem bizarre. It might be incomprehensible. However you must know that Hinduism is many tiered. It’s deeper meanings reveal themselves only to the seeker.

So let us go a little deeper now. Having become free of the grip of Madhu and Kaitabha, which are the dark forces of greed and anger with the grace of goddess Durga, the seeker must move in to the fourth, fifth and the sixth nights of his journey. 

Krishnaji and I teach that the next milestone on the evolutionary path of the seeker is to go beyond the incessantly desiring mind. Even though you may have crossed anger and greed, longings and desires keep surfacing in different forms tormenting you. 

Once it is craving for position, another time it is longing for pleasure, yet another time it is wanting to be loved - like mahishasura constantly changing forms. 

And this ever hungry mind is a trickster. If you tried to fight one craving another is born.

If you try to suppress and kill one craving many more are born like Rakta Beeja. Here the seeker invokes the divine mother as Chit Shakthi, as the great witness consciousness. 

The seeker at this stage becomes a witness to his or her ever hungry mind. You become a witness.

In this state of being a witness, your craving mind becomes queit. It disintegrates without making you run amock trying to fulfill them. 

In the first stage, you saw the seeker becomes free of Tamas with the power of the goddess dressed in black.  

In this stage the seeker becomes free of Rajas or the aggressive desire for money, for fame, for pleasure with the grace of Maha Lakshmi dressed in red. 

Here is a secret I want to share with you. 

Wealth does not flow to those who are aggressively wanting..... wanting..... wanting all the time.  

The goddess of wealth only blesses those who are calm and those who are peaceful at heart.

Relationship between couples is much more complex than what meets the eye.

When I see a couple, I see huge karmic forces at work. Often times, you and your partner have come together in this life because of the pull of unresolved experiences from an earlier lifetime.

That is why the instant attraction and that is why also the unexplained emotional fallout in the later years. Only when couples become free of the emotional baggage of the earlier life times, can they find a space to heal and also love one another.

Vasanas, your past life tendencies are powerful forces. If you had lived an entire lifetime in loneliness or longing for love, this same tendency would flow into your next life seeking fulfillment of that tendency. The strange thing is you will repeat the same pattern of longing again, unless you become conscious of the force of your vasanas and you achieve spiritual evolution.

We had this couple come to us. Over the years they experienced a huge attraction for each other that alternates with resentment and judgement. They tried separating, but the pull was so simply strong to leave.

In one of the processes at Ekam, they saw their past lives. Ekam is the divine force field that opens up you to the  transcendental dimension during processes. People see other worlds - they see other dimensions of their being, they are able to see beyond the physical. Even total athiests at Ekam come upon the divine presence during the processes.

This couple had lived many lifetimes without ever having awakened to love. Each lifetime it was only a desperate search for fulfillment.

So he saw the force of this vasana of addiction to pleasure and she saw her vasana of possessiveness and control.

Returning back to this couple, today after 3 years of their journey through various processes at Ekam, they both have dissolved their vasanas. An enduring love has taken root in their relationship. They are today an awakened couple evolving in love.

As a couple you can only make sense of your partner relationship if you realise that you two are beings on a shared journey of evolution. Until your heart opens to love, that is causeless, these karmic cycles of birth and death will go on and on in differing combinations.

America is one of the youngest nations in the world, but one that is built on timeless principles.

It is a nation that has contributed the most towards peace along with the UN since the Second World War. It has also contributed to the birthing and the furthering of many conflicts and violence in the world. 

As a nation America has contributed to the emergence and spread of environment movement for the world itself but sadly it is one of the greatest polluter on earth.

As a nation it has two sides. 

One that has stood for freedom, openness and non judgement of any life style, any culture, any ideology.

While there is also a huge population that gives into the dark side of insecurity, intolerance and prejudice towards anything that is different from them. 

For over a century America has been a trend setter for the world. Millions in every nation look up to America as a pioneer. And now when the future of earth itself hangs in a precarious condition,  it is important America makes a very wise choice of its leader. 

It needs a leader who is not national or international in their outlook, but a leader who cares for the earth as a whole. 

Let us Bless America. 

So that it’s influence may be beneficial to all living beings on earth.

Let us now do upasana of Devi Saraswati.

Please sit still. 

Look at the form of Maha Saraswati. 

Take in her form, the white lotus on which she is seated, her ever pleasant smile, her veena from which the Vedas spring, & her swan, the hamsa

Please close your eyes and do dharana upon her form in your chidhakasha or the dark space in front of your closed eyes. 

Ask her to dissolve the illusion of separation and fill your consciousness with oneness. Ask her to bless you with wisdom. 

With this intention chant the mantra Shreem in Namaskara mudra and feel the blessings of Maha Saraswati flow to you. 

On this day of Vijaydashami, energies of victory flow in abundance from Parashakti or universal consciousness. You could start anything and lead it to victory. So ask Para Shakti to bless you for what ever you want to begin.

Offer your gratitude to the divine mother for her blessings.

Open your eyes now

Namaste

How do you choose a leader? Do you choose a leader based on colour?

A leader may be black or white; a leader may be brown or yellow.

Do you choose a leader based on gender?

A leader may be a man, a woman or a transgender.

Do you choose a leader based on age? 

A leader may be young, middle aged or old. 

If your choice of a leader is based on any or all of these factors please know that these traits are mere superficialities that end with the body. 

But how to choose a right leader?  What is right leadership? 

Choose a leader who is inspired by a vision for their nation  who is driven by a sense of purpose.

Don't choose a leader who is driven by aggressive ambition and whose only claim to power is the mistakes of their opponents. 

Choose a leader who is responsibility driven one who is aware of the consequences of their decisions and actions upon the nation and its people.

Don't choose a leader who is ego-driven who is full of oneself. Never choose a leader whose decisions and actions are directed towards serving themselves alone. 

Choose a leader who focuses on the present as well as the future. Choose them who initiate plans and actions that ensure the safety and wellbeing of today as well as the distant future. 

Don't choose a leader who focuses on the immediate future alone and is myopic. Definitely don't choose a leader who is heartless and cannot connect to another human being's pain. 

Finally don't choose a leader who exaggerates differences and divides them. Such a leader would breed discrimination and would inculcate a culture of exploitation.

Choose a leader who focuses on creating oneness; oneness between one human being and another; One culture and another; Between one's nation and another; 

When the earth itself is in a precarious situation, choose only a leader who cares for mother earth.

A right leader chosen today can change the course of your nation and the world for now and for future for the better

The upasana we will do now, is what you can do for the first three days of the Navaratri or Dussehra.

Sit cross legged. 

Look at the form of the mother Goddess as Maha Durga.

Close your eyes

Do a dharana upon her form in your chidakasha or the dark space in front of your closed eyes. 

Ask her to dissolve the traces of anger and greed from your consciousness and fill you with peace and generosity. 

With this sacred intention chant the mantra in Namaskara Mudra at your heart and feel the blessings of Maha Durga flow into you. 

Shreem 

Offer your gratitude to the divine mother for her immense blessings.

You may slowly open your eyes.

Namaste

Dussehra or Navarathri is a celebration of the mother goddess. However Krishna ji and I see it also a celebration of the feminine in all of us. Navaratri to us is also the journey of a spiritual seeker towards Enlightenment.

Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religion and its timeless messages are often communicated not in the lengthy explanations, but are coded in symbols, they are coded in images. 

Most Indians assume Dussehra is celebrated because Durga killed the demon Mahishaasura in some parallel reality, in Some by-gone time. 

But do you want to know the truth?

The truth is that we are the goddess and we are the Asura or the demon.

To me the goddess is not a force outside of us. She is the mother, the feminine, the shakthi, the divine womb in which universes are birthed and dissolved, who can be accessed in our consciousness. 

And the demon also is not outside us. It is our own unawakened, ignorant, separate self. 

They call Dussehra as Navaratri, meaning 9 nights instead of Nava Dina or 9 days. Do you know why? Close your eyes for a moment. What do you see? You see ratri.

Ratri symbolizes the darkness that happens when you are sitting with your eyes shut in meditation. It is an unfoldment in consciousness. 

The first three days of Navaratri is the play of Durga. 

Goddess Durga accordingly to the myth wakes up the Yoga Maya of Mahavishnu and kills the demons Madhu and Kaitabha. 

On the seekers path the death of these asuras means, the dissolution of the two core suffering states of anger and greed.

In a state of meditative awareness, the seeker summons the power of the mother goddess and goes through a deep powerful spiritual process of dissolving all anger related states of frustration, hate and vengefulness.

The seeker through a process dissolves all the greed related states of jealousy, anxiety and covetousness.

The mother goddess as Durga dispells darkness or dispells thamas from our consciousness. With this first milestone crossed, a spiritual milestone crossed, we have transcended Durgati or the downward collapse of our destinies into a disastrous fate.

When we transcend these states with the blessings of the divine mother, blessings of abundance begins to pour into our lives. That is why the 4th, 5th and 6th days of Navaratri are dedicated to mother goddess as Maha Laxmi.

Let us now do the Mahalaxmi Upasana.

Invoke the blessings of Maha Lakshmi or the Goddess of Abundance.  

You can do this prayer on the 4th, 5th, and 6th days of Navarathri. 

Please sit still. 

Look at the form of Maha Lakshmi. Take in all the details of her form the lotus on which she is seated. Her blessings and giving hands. Her ever pleasant smile. 

Please close your eyes and do dharana upon her form in your chidhakasha or the dark space in front of your closed eyes. 

Ask her to dissolve this ever hungry and aggressive mind and fill you with peace. 

Ask her to bless your life with abundance. 

With this intention chant the mantra Shreem,

Chant this mantra in Namaskara mudra and feel the blessings of Maha Lakshmi flow to you. 

Offer your gratitude to the divine mother for her blessings. 

Open your eyes.

Namaste

Food is a universal pleasure.

Every creature in the universe eats from the single celled organisms

to us, to the stars. 

Do you know giant stars eat smaller ones? 

The black hole in the centre of our galaxy is going to someday eat in the distant future our milky way. 

That is why the ancients compared the entire universe to a Yagna - a fire sacrifice. 

Where the great fire consumes everything that is offered in it and transmutes the offerings received into energy- into life force.

That is why Brahmaarpanam Brahmahavir Brahmagnau Brahmanaahutam

which means everything is one indivisible consciousness or Bramhan.

It is consciousness that is the digestive fire. Consciousness is the food. Consciousness is the one who is offering it and the one who is eating it. Consciousness is the energy that emerges as the end result.

Food is a sacred mystery.

21st September is international world peace day. 
Peace in the world stands on four factors. You could say the temple of peace stands on four pillars. 
The first of the pillars of the temple of peace is forgiveness of oneself. 
The second pillar is non-judgement of the others. 
The third pillar is peace education for children.
The forth pillar is meditation for world peace.
Let us look at the first pillar of peace. Which is forgiveness of oneself.
Most people are unhappy with themselves. You are not unhappy with the money you made. You are not happy with the mistakes you did in the past. 
You are not happy that you give in to anger, you give in to suspicion so easily.
You are actually walking around with this fire of unhappiness within you. And the sad part is  you are terrified of seeing your own unhappiness. 
When you are not at peace, your family cannot be at peace and the world cannot be at peace.
Because the individual consciousness is deeply connected to world consciousness.
A lifetime of this running from Inner unhappiness is the violence you are inflicting on yourself.
So, pause. Be compassionate to yourself. Take time to reflect on yourself. 
To look at your unhappiness within yourself and forgive yourself. It is okay to forgive yourself. And that is the beginning of Peace with yourself. 
The second pillar of peace is non judgement towards the other.
Most people feel that they are superior to others. They think they are more intelligent,  more righteous, more noble, more scientific, more spiritual, more hard working or more deserving than others. 
And as a result of this superiority you judge and judge and judge untiringly. 
Once you judge - you dislike the other. you even hurt them. 
You take away peace from their lives. 
If only you can feel their pain and their fear  - you could realise their fear is just like yours.  Their sadness is like yours. Their desire for joy and peace is like yours and it will become possible to let go of your judgment. 
This non - judgmental letting go and compassion is at the root of peace in interpersonal relationships. 
The third pillar that holds the temple of peace is to make peace a part of education of every child. 
If you want a world where leaders will drive their organisations and nations towards peace, where the police and bureaucrats will use their power with great awareness, if we want every citizen on this world, on this planet to treat the earth as their own mother- peace studies must become part of every child’s education. 
Peace, compassion and joy in children must be recognized and must be respected much the same way we respect grades, cleverness, intelligence and outspokenness.
If you have taught a child to live peacefully and compassionately, you have saved the future of the world.
You may be preventing the arising of a Hitler and you are probably bringing up a Gandhi.
The fourth pillar of the temple of world peace is collective meditations and the transformation of the collective.
Each and everyone of you have to work to tip the balance in human consciousness from one of violence and fear to peace and compassion. 
We believe that when a percentage of people move into powerful states of peace and immerse into deep meditations for the earth, there will be a phase transition. We will tilt the balance in human consciousness towards peace. 
Join us in our mission, a movement of awakening humanity to peace away from suffering, to connection away from division, to oneness