Through a messenger, from Kalbhairav

One of the fierce manifestations of Lord Shiva associated with annihilation is Kalbhairav. Born from Lord Shiva's toenail, he has a significant role in punishing Lord Brahma. Kalbhairav Jayanti, also known as Kalashtami, is observed on Ashtami Tithi of Krishna Paksha in the Hindu month of Margashirsha or Kartik. This year, it was observed yesterday, on November 27, 2021.

Chanting mantra for Kalbhairav

Some years back, I included a Kalbhairav mantra to my daily chanting list. I had an amazing experience at the Kalbhairav temple in Shringeri when I finished my 108 chanting. About two weeks back I thought that I would reduce the number of chants for Kalbhairav and Shakti to 54 from 108. In two days time I felt strong objection to this practice and I reverted back to 108 chanting immediately.

The message

On Kalbhairav jayanti day, I got a message from a friend, who is a Reiki channel.

I wrote to her that it was Kalbhairav jayanti and I have been chanting His mantra for some years now. So His presence must be exalted and it led to her dream, and thanked her for being the messenger.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Universe finds means to reach me the messages!

  

The special lemons, Shiva and Shakti

 I have been visiting a famous Devi temple regularly, but couldn’t do that since the lockdown. I can resonate so much with this Goddess since I have been praying to her since childhood.

Lemons with odd shape

When two lemons with strange shape appeared on our lemon tree, it was a surprise. I have been getting lemons from this tree for the last two decades, this is the first time I saw something like this!

One friend commented that lemons with unusual shape are very precious since they are used for special pujas. Now I looked at the lemons with a different eye. 

And I could correlate the shape of one lemon with a rare picture of Devi and the other resembled a rudraksh.

Goddess visiting us

I felt that since we couldn’t go to the temple, the Goddess decided to visit us, which was a great humbling feeling! And I decided to do a special puja, for which I got guidance from the Universe. I followed the instructions and performed a Havan. 

I could feel the Divine energy building around me and filling up the whole house!

Communication beyond words

Connecting with my parallel existence

I was giving distant Reiki healing to a girl in another part of India, Jahnvi (name changed) who was not well, quite tired, and taking rest most of the time. Since the improvement was slow, one night I decided a new approach. I connected with my parallel existence, who is a monk staying in the Himalayas with his disciples. I imagined taking Jahnvi with me to the Himalayas to this monk’s abode among the snow.

While this was happening, my conscious mind was thinking, “Why should you take her to the Himalayas? The healing can be directed to her, wherever she is.” But I usually go ahead with the guidance I receive and we reached there. She was put in the center, the monk, his disciples, and I sat around her and directed healing energy towards Jahnvi. Then I brought her back.

Pacifying Jahnvi

Later I entered her room, stood near her bed, stroked her head and conveyed the message that she is going to be alright and there is nothing to worry. I felt she was responding well to the reassurance. After spending some more time there I returned.

As expected, she was much better the next day, and was on the road to recovery.

Unusual message

Imagine my surprise when saw this message from her the next morning, “Last night I had a dream that I was coming down a mountain somewhere in the Himalayas. There was a sort of Guru or something in front of me, he was walking so fast. I am not a trekking person and find the task difficult. But I was surprised to see I could keep up the pace and come down.

Then I woke up hearing a loud sound, I was really terrified. I felt there was someone in the room. I heard the door opening and from the shadows I felt you entered my room, came over and stood at the foot of my bed. You were pacifying and healing me and I felt so good.”

 

Are you overriding Reiki energy?

 When you read this, the first question that comes to mind is, “Is it possible to override Reiki energy?” And the answer is “Yes, you can.”

Human beings are on the uppermost ladder of creation, the only species that has a veto power on destiny. Today’s destiny is from yesterday’s karma and today’s karma is shaping our destiny of tomorrow. And we do have control on today’s karma.

On learning Reiki

When you learn Reiki, you are empowered to channel the Universal (Rei) Energy (Ki) through your body and direct it for self healing or healing of others. This means that higher amount of energy starts flowing through your body and if you are sensitive, you can feel this energy flow in mild, moderate or extreme sensations.

Once you practice self healing daily, Reiki energy balances your physical, mental, emotional fields and they come to a sort of balanced state. Then onwards, you won’t feel the energy flow as before, except for times when there is some turbulence in your life. For some people, this balancing happens in 21 days, but it can get extended to 6 months too.

Do you feel drained out?

If anybody feels dramatic sensations even after six months, then it is the intense desire to control the outcome of a situation, which pulls out your own energy. Another indication is when you give healing to someone, you feel drained out.

Years back when my babies fell sick, I would heal them with my own energy and as a result, I would feel drained out. On learning Reiki in 1997, the best thing I liked about Reiki was despite the number of healings done in a day, one never feels drained out. This is because we are just taking the Universal energy and directing it to the person who needs healing.

The ultimate destination on learning Reiki

Years of daily Reiki healing that bring about balance will take you to a calm temperament where you will be able to view even deeply disturbing life situations and take rational decisions. This happens because you have realised from your own experience that Reiki is an intelligent energy, which has no limitations of space and time, like human beings. So Reiki knows what is best for you in the long term and helps to manifest those. Sometimes you ask for something and Reiki grants you something else, but you are perfectly ok with it as you know that Reiki always works in your best interest.

Then your life becomes like a calm day, when you don’t feel powerful winds around. If your life feels like a hurricane on a daily basis or very frequently, that means your own energy is fighting with the Universal energy. You have not reached the stage of surrendering to Reiki.

Do you work through Reiki or Reiki works through you?

Whether you have reached a balanced state, this is the litmus test that gives the proof. If you think that you have this powerful energy in your control and you can manifest things you want (without caring for the Universal laws), make others behave the way you want, well, that’s a sad state. There is a long journey ahead of you!

If on the other hand, you acknowledge the greater power of Reiki, surrender to it and are happy to be an instrument in the hands of Reiki, you allow Reiki to work through you. Then you experience miracles every day and a calm, peaceful state of mind!

Podcast- Unit 6- Developing 'Prasaada Buddhi'

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When we go a place of worship, we receive ‘Prasaada’ which is some food, fruit or any other eatable that has been first offered to the presiding Deity. And we accept it with total devotion and gratitude.

We can define ‘Prasaada Buddhi’ as an attitude of gratitude because the word ‘Buddhi’ in this context means gratitude. Attitude of gratitude for everything we receive in life, every experience that comes our way, whether it is according to our liking or not. With this attitude, everything is treated as a gift, without claiming ownership of anything.

When we identify totally with our physical body and are bound by strong attachments, our Ego controls us and it will be difficult to have a strong ‘Prasaada Buddhi’. In such a case, when things don’t go according to our liking, frustration sets in. This feeling soon turns into anger directed towards ourselves and also towards the Universe that we are a part of.  This will make us appear unattractive and repulsive to others.

We need to realise that each and every moment of life itself is a Divine gift. This is easy when we remember that the vital body functions are not under our control at all and that life continues on its own. We have to be aware that anything can happen any time and that it is nothing else but Divine Grace that is protecting us all through the day and also through the night when we are sleeping.

To start practicing Prasaada Buddhi, begin from being thankful for your physical body. Check whether it is gratitude that fills your mind when you look at the mirror every morning.  If you are finding shortcomings of your body and feeling remorse, you have a lot of practice to do.

Secondly, check whether you are routinely saying things like “I am tired of my life”, “I can’t take it any more”, “I want to run away from this situation” etc., these are expressions of Ego. And then the question “Why me?” is a case of extreme Ego because that person considers himself or herself to be far more superior or more deserving than the others.

So let us start having the Prasaada Buddhi or attitude of gratitude in our life. Let us just do our karma and accept everything that comes our way gratefully and graciously. 

Podcast- Unit 5- Bad behaviour from dear ones

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He/she is such a nice person, but with me....

If we understand the basic truth of life, this question will not arise. This world is of duality. Nobody can be totally good or totally bad. Somebody's inner state of the mind, the recent experiences one has gone through, or some belief system can totally influence someone’s behaviour with you, and it keeps changing from time to time.

Why does someone close to you treat you badly?

It is human tendency to analyse things and find the reason behind. But this is not an easy task and it is impossible to find the story behind every drama in this worldly “Maya”. But we are helpless, we need to try. And what is the instrument we have got? The 1.5 kgs of brain inside our skull cap. But it has serious limitations. Your intelligence and intellect can only take you to some distance. Beyond that, well....

Get in touch with the Universal intelligence

If we can go beyond our limited intelligence and get in touch with the Universal intelligence, things slowly start unfolding. Every being in the Universe has innate intelligence. The planets around us have influence over us and depending on which planet is having maximum influence at a given time, our behaviour is going to change.

Soul contracts

We travel, or come to the earth as soul groups and before incarnating, we make soul contracts with other souls who will be with us here. So the behaviour with each one has had a blue print prepared beforehand. If somebody needs a harsh treatment to mend his/her ways at some stage in life, the soul that had agreed to mete that treatment would do its duty.

Death - The Journey Back Home

In anticipation

When we look at life, it is seen that we are always living in anticipation of something to happen in the future. As a kid, one waits for the day of joining school, once in school, waiting for the day in college, then for the day of first salary. This is followed by the dream of marrying, having kids, then their education and them standing on their feet, their marriage, grand kids. I often wonder why nobody is waiting for the day of returning ‘Home”, or, if I may say that, the day one is going to die.

Our real home

Earth is not our real home. We have come to this earth school to learn some lessons, that too some tough lessons, and progress on our path. We are all souls having a human experience. When the lessons for one life time has completed, we need to go back, have a resting period, rejuvenate, plan for the next life time, choose our body, place of birth, parents, life experiences, and start over again.

This may not seem true to many, but for me, it is all experiential. I have seen many of my past lives, experienced going through the death process of those lives, and the joy of returning to the Real Home, being welcomed by the soul group members.

It is interesting that not only have I experienced myself, but multiple clients have narrated similar stories when I take them through their past lives.

Death is just a transition

For a new beginning, there has to be an end preceding that. Death is not the opposite of life, but a prelude to life.

Once we acknowledge ourselves as souls and not this human body, it is easier to see death from a different perspective. Plato had defined death as the end of a terrestrial life and access to an ideal world.

In the soul state, we are ‘Sat Chit Ananda’, which means ‘Truth (Existence) Consciousness Bliss’. When we enter a human body, we become limited, in physical movement, in thinking and actions. Just watch a new born baby and you can clearly visualise how it is getting used to being restricted in the body.

You decide the time of death

Once you are born, the most definite truth facing you is the death. Time of death is decided at the time of birth, by your higher self. Humans (doctors) have absolutely no role in delaying death. Many people get a premonition of death a few days beforehand. If they are cognizant of the impermanence of the physical body, they will ease off, and participate in the death process. Instead, if one gets petrified of death and try to cling on to life, and believe that doctors can prolong their life, they will go for the most expensive diagnostic tests and treatment that they can afford.

The body is poked, punctured, needled, intense radiations passed through, put on ventilator, all this done in a scary, lonely environment. I wonder whether the soul gets tormented on seeing all this, with the confusion why the humans don’t allow a graceful, peaceful death to their fellow beings!

Imagine a granny sitting on her rocking chair, knowing that the time for her to leave has come. Her eyes are filled with love when she looks at her loved ones, sipping the soup that is lovingly prepared for her. Her good wishes and prayers are emanating around, spreading in the house and reaching the dear ones. And as her soul leaves, her further journey is mostly smooth.

On the other hand, another the soul watches its weak, shrivelled helpless body, with the dead brain, being tormented, pumped up by the ventilator. Finally when the ventilator is disconnected and the body declared dead, it is anybody’s guess how the onward journey of the soul is going to be.

You decide the quality of your life

Though the time of death is decided by your higher self and your conscious mind won’t know this till the last days, the quality of your life is decided by your thoughts and actions. Health has to be taken as a high priority right from the beginning. My heart aches when I see the overweight, sedentary, electronic devices addicted children around. A healthy life style has to be followed by the parents so that the children follow the same.

One should know that the human body is a wonderful healing machine and when the healing is delayed or not happening, it is because of the thought waves that are percolating the mind. Instead of correcting the mental activity people prefer to hand over the responsibility of bringing back wellness to the doctors. I am not talking of the emergency situations in life, when doctors are of definite help.

Learn to live

If one can learn to live properly, the satisfaction of having lived a full life can bring in a curiosity to the life ahead after death and they can be active participants in the transition. They won’t be shrinking in horror and clinging onto the hope to live longer!