Ashapura Devi’s instruction

During our Gujarat road trip, we visited Mata no Madh temple of Goddess Ashapura. It was so divine and I could feel intense vibrations. This temple is also known as Desh Devi Maa Ashapura of Mata no Madh. Ashapura Mata temples are there in other cities of Gujarat , Maharashtra and Rajasthan but the main temple is located at Mata no Madh inKutch. 

Later we went to the Koteshwar temple: 

Before climbing the steps to the main temple, we entered the side room that contained many idols and photos. It was dim inside the room and they all looked like male deities. We prayed and sat down on the floor.

Suddenly I felt the strong presence of female energy, giving me an instruction. I was surprised, looked again at the photos and idols, and couldn’t see any goddess. I asked my husband whether he saw any female deities in the room. No, he also didn’t see. My sense of the presence of a goddess was so strong that I was totally confused.

When we came out, a sadhu explained the story behind the temple. Then he mentioned that there was a picture of Ashapura Devi in the room that we sat. I was so glad that what I sensed in the room was correct.

I had never heard of Ashapura Devi, so I was totally surprised to get instruction from her. Since I always trust my intuitions, I made a note of the instruction, to follow on reaching back home. 

Ashapura Mata is one of aspect devi and one of the principal deities of Kutch. As the name indicates, she is the Goddess who fulfills the wish and desires of all those who trust and believe her. The unique thing about most of the idols of Ashapura Mata is that it has 7 pairs of eyes.

From childhood, I have been guided through my spiritual path, and when time comes for the next step, I always get instructions. On coming back home, I did a search on Ashapura Devi. Her temples are mainly found in Gujarat. Some people in Rajasthan and Gujarat consider her to be an incarnation (avatar) of goddess Annapoorna devi.

 Wow! That explains it. If she is an incarnation of Annapoorna Devi, it makes total sense to me. During our visit to Annapoorna temple in Karnataka long back, I bought a small idol of her and kept in my kitchen. Before I start my day’s cooking, I offer flower and  light a candle in front of her.

So now the next step is being given to me and my heart is filled with reverence and gratitude!

Devi Shreedevi......

On August 17 I started feeling feverish and from next day onwards there was high fever and tiredness. I had to just spend time on the bed, could eat just a little food, but kept sipping warm water. After five days I was totally exhausted by the continuous high temperature (there was no other accompanying symptoms) and when I woke up around 4 am, I told the Universe that it has gone beyond my tolerance and I just wanted to leave my body.

A big computer screen appeared in front of me and there were many programs that were regarding my give and take with all people in this life time. I could complete and delete all the programs easily and just before deleting the last program, after which the soul was ready to leave, a small voice came,' Please, can I use this body? I am a congenial soul', and it occupied my body. From next day I had to take some medication for two days. The tiredness continued for several days.

I was not totally normal when we started our trip to Bali on September 5th early morning. On 6th evening I had to miss a local trip and take rest in the room. When I used to touch the center of my palm, I could feel the heat emanating from inside the body.

On 9th evening while I was waiting inside the car, I saw a beautiful cloud formation. It looked like a dragon, with light emanating and projecting upwards from the head. I got the message that my body had been prepared for the crown chakra to receive whatever it was supposed to receive!

On 10th morning I felt normal after all these days. We visited the Devi Shree temple (Pura Beji)and I could connect so much with the energy there.

 As we were standing in front of an almost closed door in front of a deity, we tried to peep in. Just when we were peeping, my daughter and I heard, 'Kaun hai vahan?' ('Who is there' in Hindi). We were really surprised. There were some local teenage boys in the adjacent plot and they were talking in the local language. It was something that they told in Bali language, but it sounded exactly like 'Kaun hai vahan?'

All the time we were at the temple, a Malayalam song I used to sing in my childhood was going on in my head.  I could remember the whole song except two lines! It was ' Devi Shree Devi thedivarunnu njan…', which means,' Devi, Shree Devi, I am coming in search of you'. But instead of the original lines,' I have been calling you, but you never came to me', the line going on in my head was, 'You were near me whenever I called out to you', with similar changes in other lines too. From the temple we went to have lunch and I looked at my watch, which was still showing the Indian time, and I saw 11.11. With 1111, the Universe was sending a signal that an energy gateway has opened for me. The Universe has acknowledged me, and wants me to be aware that help is on the way.

On 11th the heat emanating from the center of my palms stopped, but I could feel inner tremendous heat in the abdomen area. We moved to the Amed beach and were staying in a hotel very close to the beach. On 12th night I had a dream. I was being carried by people and taken in a procession to a local temple. I was installed there and the voice told, 'Now for nine years you have to manage here.'

I got up at 4.45 and went outside the room. Sat on the step just adjacent to the sea and did meditation, Reiki healing and chanted the Gayatri mantra. Now the abdomen area felt normal and I felt sudden surge of heat in the root area for a few seconds and then it became normal.

On 14th we reached Ubud and with great difficulty after searching for 45 minutes we got a place to stay. The owner lady was nice and we had a long conversation. She told that sometime back she was very sick and bedridden. She couldn't walk or talk. Then her father went to the Holy water place and brought Holy water for her. She drank it and became completely alright. She told us that we had to go to that site, take bath and drink the Holy water. On the next morning we started out for the Holy place and saw that there were about 300 steps going down to reach the water fall where we had to take bath.  On the way there were worshiping places. We prayed there and kept going down.

When we reached the area of waterfall (there were two waterfalls nearby, we had to take bath in both of them), there were many local people who had already finished bath and the pujari was doing some ceremony for them. After some time they all went off and we were alone there. As I entered the water, it was cold. Usually I have problem in taking bath in very cold water. Here, in a second I started enjoying standing under the water fall and I could feel it energizing me. And we could climb back all the steps easily. During the period of my high temperature, I felt an oven burning inside me. Now I could feel cool energy filling up my inside.

Now I got to see the whole picture. I was being prepared for this ultimate healing experience. Thank you Universe for planning all this ahead!

A mother's care from Kalima

Rishikesh, August 2nd 2016. We travel around the world and have stayed in many exotic locations. But this room in the Ganga Blossom hotel here is the best stay of my life. Through the huge window of our room, I am looking directly at the flowing Ganges and the meditation opened up my Hridayakasa (Heart space). I could feel the Ganges water flowing down the walls of my inner space.

In the evening four o'clock we took a stride, and visited the Shri Bharat temple. It is the most sacred, most ancient and most famous temple situated in the heart of the city. Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya reinstalled the presiding deity of this temple in about 789 AD.

We were on our way to Triveni ghat when my daughter felt hungry. She didn't want to eat anything before witnessing the aarti at the ghat. While we were walking, we saw an old Kali temple and Kali being my deity since childhood, we entered the temple and spent some time. While we were about to leave, the pujari took some prasad, wrapped in a paper and gave to each one of us. Since two days we had visited many temples and this was the first time we got prasad to eat.

My daughter was so surprised that Kali Ma did some thing to satiate her hunger. Now we could spend time leisurely at the Triveni ghat before heading to enjoy awesome pani puri, aloo tikki and dahi vada! 

Blessings to curses

Attending the workshop by Gurpreet Singh during the Past Life Regression Convention taught me some valuable lessons. It Was eye opening to see how blessings can turn to curses. There was  a small kingdom near the sea and every year there used to be floods that was killing many  people. He wanted to protect his people and built a very huge and strong wall all around the kingdom. It protected the people during further floods.

The king died after some years. After some time a fire broke out in the country. The sea was so near and the people could have escaped the fire by just going into the sea. But the fortress like wall prevented this and all his people were burnt to death. Seeing this from the other realm, the King could not forgive himself. He realised that his blessing had turned into a curse.

There is this family where the girls get married with difficulty and many of them remain spinsters. An astrologer told that it was due to some untimely deaths in the family. I got the message that it came from one lady particularly, who died some years after the marriage. Her husband married twice again, and these two wives also had untimely deaths. Now the picture became clear. Whatever unpleasant incidences led to her death must have aroused in her the protective instinct for the future generations. She must have invoked a strong blessing that her descendent females should be strong and self supporting so that they would be self sufficient and not be subservient to the 'aggressive' males. In the present generation, girls are all strong and they don't see any necessity for marriage. Don't know whether she is watching this and considers

it still a blessing, or a curse!

But this made a point very clear to me. In our later years, we should concentrate more on our ultimate journey and leave all thoughts of how to protect our children. If they have been brought up well and were given proper foundations of life, they will manage their lives well.

Sign from the Goddess

I came across a Devi mantra in May 2016. In two weeks' time I byhearted the mantra. During June we made a trip to Padubelle and stayed in a friend's house. He took us to a very ancient Durga temple neartby. When I set my eyes on the idol, I got the message that the mantra was from her, for her. Standing there, I chanted the mantra.

From Padubelle we went to Coorg to another friend's place. On the next day I woke up at 3 am, totally fresh. I sat on the bed and chanted the new Devi mantra for an hour. When I chanted the last words of the mantra, 'Jago Ma', it was with intense feeling from the depth of the heart , inviting  Ma to awaken in me.

Next day my friend requested a healing from me and I gave her a silent healing. While ending the healing, I chanted the  Devi mantra. She told me that she felt absolutely light and peaceful. Initially she felt heaviness in the chest, felt herself shrinking and shrinking, to become a point. Then the expansion started, she felt one with the Universe in the final stage. Her breathing quickened at first, then turned to deep and long breaths.

At the end she saw a female face, which looked divine. The eyes were large and powerful, and there was a big bindi on the forehead. I told her it was the face of Durga and I had chanted the mantra. She was so impressed that she wanted to learn the mantra.It was an indication that Devi was awakened in me and got projected onto my friend when I chanted the mantra. 

Breaking the ego

Vishu

Vishu is one of the major festivals of Kerala. It is celebrated on the first day of Malayalam month Medam, which usually falls on the 14th of April. When sun crosses the equator on the Malayalam month Medam, it is Astronomical New Year Day for the people of Kerala, which falls in April, mostly on the 14th. Vishu is a symbol of good luck, hope and prosperity.

Vishukkani

It is believed that at the Vishu pulari, (the dawn of the auspicious day of Vishu,) one should see the Vishukkani, as the first sight of the New Year, to have a prosperous and peaceful year. Vishukkani is a collection of several auspicious things such as grains, vegetables,fruits,lamp, flowers, coconut, gold, mirror , Ramayanam or Bhagavatgita (Hindu holi books) etc. set in a large uruli, a circular vessel (made of panchaloham - five metals), with the image of Lord Krishna, in the puja room. The golden color Konnappoo, (Cassia fistula) which usually blossoms during this time only, is the special flower used for this purpose.

Coconut, full or halves?

This year, while preparing Vishukkani on 13^th night, a thought occurred to me. Instead of breaking the coconut, as I sometimes do, I kept it intact. It symbolized the ego of my husband and me. I conversed with the Universe, ‘I am keeping this overnight. Please do whatever is destined for us’.

In the morning we saw the Vishukkani, and I was busy with other household works. After breakfast, I removed the Vishukkani from the puja room and to my surprise and joy, I saw two clean crack lines on the coconut. As if the Universe is cracking the ego of both of us!

Unique design

I have seen coconuts cracking open before too, but never in this fashion. Here are two clean, straight line cracks, symbolizing that the Universe has started working on us. For those who are on the spiritual path, it is a matter of great happiness and encouragement!

Ref:

http://hubpages.com/holidays/Significance-of-Vishu-a-Kerala-festival

A spot on your forehead

Whenever I come in contact with westerners, they get fascinated with the bindi I have on my forehead. They ask about its significance and many of them get it as gift from me and they happily wear it too.

On the other hand, many Indian girls and ladies have stopped wearing bindis. I am curious about the reason for this and whenever I get an opportunity, I ask.

‘Oh, aunty, bindi doesn’t go well with the western dresses that we wear.’ May be… Or am I getting old fashioned?

Bindi is old fashioned for Indian ladies

Then I started seeing Indian dames in Indian dresses sans bindi. May be wearing bindi is now outdated. And why am I even bothered whether bindis are seen on their foreheads?

Intuitively, I have always felt that bindi had some connection with preserving energy. This is the sequence that happens in my life. First I sense things and I do it in my life. But if I have to ask others to do, I have to provide a logical reason. This is true even in my professional life as an Endodontist.

Energy leakage

The other day, after my morning meditation, I got the guidance to check the leakage of energy from the ajna chakra (third eye area) with and without the bindi. Both my husband and I are good at dowsing. I went to my husband with a pendulum and bindi and asked him to check my ajna chakra. He was working on the computer at the time. Just turning his chair towards me, he checked. Then, he stood up, ‘Oh oh, let me check again. This is making a tremendous difference.’

‘We will wear it now’

Yesterday (7-3-2016) two young girls came to me for Reiki healing. It was Shivratri and both were wearing Indian dresses, but no bindis. One girl’s (she looked like a skeleton) problem was constant tiredness, lack of energy and continuous head ache. For the last three weeks she was taking pain killer daily. When I checked her energy level, the pendulum showed no movement on any of the chakras, which explained her lack of energy. I gave her a Reiki healing and she got relief from her head ache.

Then I said to them, ‘Let me show you something,’ and brought a pendulum and bindi. I showed the difference in pendulum movement with and without bindi.

‘Already you are having shortage of energy, and whatever is there, is continuously leaking since you are not wearing a bindi.’

Both the girls said in unison, ‘From now on, we will wear the bindi. We never knew its significance.’

The health aspect

From a health point of view, the Bindi is worn between the eyebrows where the pineal gland lies. This is an important nerve center and applying sandalwood or ash keeps the nerves cool and so keeps you cool and conserves energy. In the past the Bindi was made from the yellow and red sandalwood, red and yellow turmeric, saffron, various flowers, ash, zinc oxide. All these had cooling properties in nature.

Traditionally, the area between the eyebrows (where the bindi is placed) is said to be the sixth chakra, ajna, the seat of "concealed wisdom". The bindi is said to retain energy and strengthen concentration.

The pineal gland is a light sensitive gland that produces the hormone melatonin which regulates sleep and waking up, and is also postulated to be the production site of the psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, the only known hallucinogen endogenous to the human body. Ajna's key issues involve balancing the higher and lower selves and trusting inner guidance. Ajna's inner aspect relates to the access of intuition. Mentally, Ajna deals with visual consciousness. Emotionally, Ajna deals with clarity on an intuitive level.

In South Asia, bindi is worn by women of all religious dispositions and is not restricted to religion or region.

A much deeper significance

From Vedic times, the bindi was created as a means to worship one's intellect. Therefore, it was used by both men and women. Worship of the intellect was to ensure that thoughts, speech, actions, habits and ultimately one's character becomes pure. A strong intellect can help one to make noble decisions in life, be able to stand up to challenges in life with courage, and recognize and welcome good thoughts in life. The belief was that on this a strong individual, a strong family and strong society can be formed. Red represents honor, love and prosperity; hence it was worn to symbolize these aspects.

You have the veto power

Those who are determined to do, they do. Those who don’t want to do from their core, they find millions of reasons for not doing. I have found this very true in innumerable situations.

The story that made a deep impact

During my childhood, one story left a deep mark on my mind. In a kingdom, as the corruption went high, the Gods decided to create drought there for seven years. One year of drought passed and the people were suffering. One day, Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati in disguise, were traveling through this kingdom. They saw one farmer walking through his field, cleaning and oiling his plough. Lord Shiva got curious and asked him, ‘Your royal astrologer has told that there will be drought for seven years and only one year has passed. You won’t be able to do cultivation till rains come. So why are you doing this?’

The farmer replied, ‘Yes, that is true. But I have to do my duty. If I become lazy and don’t take care of my tools, when the rain comes, I won’t be able to put in my best effort immediately.’

The story goes that Lord Shiva was very pleased with the farmer’s answer and blessed the place with immediate rain.

The role of horoscope

I come from Kerala, where we have many awesome astrologers. I know that my father’s ( he himself had some knowledge of astrology) horoscope was written by a famous astrologer and every major event in his life happened at the exact time it was written. Like the post graduation he did in his forties and his car accident that happened when I was a teenager.

Later I realized from personal experiences that what the astrologer predicts is a possibility depending on the planetary positions and the mental/emotional/spiritual status of the person at that particular time. If he/she changes his outlook on life and elevates his/her inner level, they cease to be helpless victims of fate.

Another lease of life

One of my relatives did not believe in astrology and refused to get the horoscope matching checked before his arranged marriage. After his marriage his mother got it done any way and found that the girl’s horoscope predicted premature death of her husband. The husband indeed got a fatal disease, and his devoted wife was instrumental in getting him timely treatment and they are in their sixties now.

Sade Satti for the couple

Sade Satti is a very dreadful word for the common masses. When Saturn transits through the 12th, 1st, and 2nd house from the natal moon (where one's Moon is placed in the birth chart), it is termed Sade Satti. This is  a period with many challenges.

Once during a train journey, I came across this lovely lady in her late thirties. She was a Christian and she had a love marriage with a Hindu boy. His mother got her horoscope done and when the couple’s horoscopes were matched, they realized that both of them would be having Sade Satti at the same time, which will lead to their separation. Luckily it so happened that  before that period started, they both learned Pranic healing.

With moist eyes, she told me, ’Pranic healing  helped us to tide over the situation and we are now happy to be together with our toddlers.’

Nothing is written on the rock

Yes, nothing is written on the rock. But our belief that it is so will definitely make us puppets in the hands of fate. The strongest negative influence on our lives is our limiting beliefs.

You have the veto power

Every thing around has power, including the planetary positions. But your (jeevatma) power is more than that and the Universal energy’s (Paramatma) power can over rule any other influence. So we can exercise our power and by connecting with the Universal energy (by meditation, healing techniques or others), it can still be augmented, and we can  have a  happier and peaceful life.

Sarkara Devi's intense vibrrations

On 19th January 2016, as we visited Sarkara temple and were praying, I saw the idol covered with sandal paste, in its full glory. I recalled that since my childhood time I had been visiting the temple, and I had always seen the idol covered with sandal paste. The thought just crossed my mind whether at any time the idol will be without any covering. I slowly did the circumambulation and reached the front far end. To my surprise, I couldn't see the idol. By this time a lot of lamps had been lit outside the sanctum sanctorum   and it was totally dark in the area of the idol. I was totally confused and thought that they must have put a black curtain  in front of the idol. I walked closer and to my surprise, saw the idol without the sandal paste. The idol was made of black stone and there was this intense vibrations coming from the idol towards me. It was a very unique experience. I prayed to her,' Just make me your instrument and bless me to do whatever I am supposed to do in this world'. Then we got to attend the special navagraha puja as it was  a Tuesday.

During the drive back, I noticed a tree with 'Agasthi' flower. I remembered that my mom used to make agasthi flower thoran and suddenly felt a longing to eat it.

 On the way we decided to visit my aunt. We had tea with her and spent some nice loving time with her. When we were about to leave, She brought a plastic cover with something inside it and told me, 'I had plucked these today, you take it and make sabzi. I looked inside and almost shrieked with joy, it had agasthi flowers inside.  Lord Krishna's words reverberated in my head, 'You surrender unto me and I will fulfill even your smallest wishes '. It was a divine experience for me..... 

Sago khichdi for Monday

I was observing the solah somavar wherein I was to take only fruits, tea and milk through the day, with sago (sabudana) khichdi for lunch for 16 Mondays. On one Monday during this period, we were driving down from Bangalore to Belgaum. I had a banana and tea for breakfast and we were supposed to reach Belgaum by lunch time.

Whenever we come back after our trips, we have veg pulao in a small joint near our house. We have not seen sabudana khichdi being served there, or in any of the hotels in Belgaum.

As we were nearing Belgaum, my husband asked me, ‘What will you have for lunch?  Sabudana vada may be available in our usual place, shall I get you that?’

Reluctantly I told yes. As we were nearing Belgaum, a vehicle passed in front of us, which had Lord Shiva’s picture at the back. I prayed to him, saying, ‘Please make sabudana khichdi available for today’s lunch.’

When my husband went to get the lunch for us I requested him to ask for sabudana khichdi before buying sabudana vada. To my satisfaction and great surprise for my husband, sabudana khichdi was indeed available on that day!