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Sharing the enlightened wisdom

Invocation and Prayer

Invocation is to bring out the energy inside us.

Prayer is different; it is to The Lord sitting some‐

where else. In invocation we invoke one of the

powers of divinity which is within us. In prayer

there is a gap between you and God but in case of

invocation there is no such gap.

Many religions of the world are prayer oriented

where as the Indian system is meditation orient‐

ed. Meditation is seeing God inside you, seeing

the divinity in you. The powers are in you, invoke

them. God is within you, see him. In India, ‘Saint’

means the one who is in peace (Shanta) but be‐

cause of our exposure to other religions and cultures we now have a different imagination. We think that the one who

sees what is inside us is called Saint. Don’t be under the impression that prayer is to somebody sitting somewhere.

Bhagavaan is Sarvantaryami, he is everywhere, in everything. Invocation is to invoke one of the powers which exist

within. That is the difference between prayer and the invocation. In prayer you ask for what you don’t have and in

invocation you bring out what is within you. All Shanti Mantras of Upanishads are not prayers, they are invocations.

~ Prabhuji

Prabhuji Speaks

P a g e 2 D i v y a J y o t h i

P a g e 3 D i v y a J y o t h i

The five sheaths of the Self are

those of the food, the vital air,

the mind, the intellect and

bliss. Enveloped in them, it

forgets its real nature and be‐

comes subject to transmigra‐

tion. – 32

Maya is the power of differen‐

tiated perception which causes

the differences to appear where there is none. Due to

maya one appears as many. Unitary experience gets

differentiated into multiplicity.

At the level of Universal consciousness, ability of

differentiated perception is the creative act of freedom

while at the individual level the same ability becomes

the bondage. The power of perception is called Maha

maya at the level of Universal consciousness and maya

for the individual soul.

Maha maya is the creative power of Lord Shiva. Lord

Shiva uses power of maya to manifest universe out of

Him and assume the role of individual soul (jiva) to

explore the universe thus created. Creation or exist‐

ence has four fold manifestation.

Supra causal plane

Causal plane

Subtle plane

Gross plane.

In supra causal plane, Lord Shiva with his Shakti visu‐

alizes the universe to be created in his consciousness.

In this plane, the idea of creation emerges in the Uni‐

versal consciousness. In causal plane, duality emerges

due to play of maya. Of His own Freewill, limitations

arise in consciousness of Lord Shiva for the purpose of

creation. Power of maya creates the perception of

differentiation with the help of following associated

principles and brings about the limitations in Self.

Due to power of maya, bound soul which is called

purusha and matter called as prakriti are created in the

causal plane. Subtle bodies and subtle sensations are

created in subtle plane. Gross bodies and physical

world of five elements of space, air, fire, water and

earth is created in the gross plane.

Individual soul jiva enjoys the causal, subtle and gross

plane of existence with the help of five layered body

called pancha koshas. The physical body, the 5th layer

– Gross body is used by jiva for enjoying the physical

world through the center of eyes in the waking state.

Subtle body consisting of layers 4th, 3rd, and 2nd re‐

spectively representing intellectual, mental and vital

(pranic) sheaths operates with the eyes as center and

the gross body as vehicle in the waking state.

In the dreaming state, subtle body enjoys the subtle

objects of dream world within the throat region. The

causal body called sheath of bliss is layer 1 is the repos‐

itory of all the unconscious impressions. The individu‐

al soul enjoys deep bliss in the dreamless sleep state

while resting in causal body.

Beyond these three states of waking, dreaming and

deep sleep, there is a supracausal state (turiya) experi‐

enced at the crown center. The bliss of transcendental

state of turiya can be enjoyed in a trance state

(samadhi).

At the individual level, maya is the binding force of

perception. Perception is the reality for individual.

Perception is based on the input from senses and in‐

ference derived from those inputs. Inference is influ‐

enced by deep rooted subconscious or unconscious

belief systems which give a shape to reality. Thus maya

is the power inherent in belief systems which alters the

sense of reality based on perceptions. Altered sense of

reality caused by perceptions becomes the bondage for

the individual.

Thus Lord Shiva the Universal Self uses the power of

maya to bind himself into a five layered body – Pancha

koshas enjoying three states of consciousness of wak‐

ing, dreaming and deep sleep and totally forgetting the

nature of Self which can be enjoyed in the supra causal

state of consciousness.

Panchadasi - Tattva Viveka 32

P a g e 4 D i v y a J y o t h i

Kirantim angebhyah kirana‐nikurumba'mrta‐rasam

Hrdi tvam adhatte hima‐kara‐sila murthimiva yah;

Sa sarpanam darpam samayati sakuntadhipa iva

Jvara‐plustan drshtya sukhayati sudhadhara‐siraya.

He who meditates in his mind,

On you who showers nectar from all your limbs,

And in the form which resembles,

The statue carved out of moonstone,

Can with a single stare,

Put an end to the pride of snakes,

And with his nectar like vision,

Cure those afflicted by fever.

Curing of all poisons and curing of all fevers

When one meditates on the Universal Mother they

will be capable of curing any type of diseases. Disease

is due to blockage in energy flow in the body. The

healing can be done through Rekhi and Pranic healing.

In Reiki healing and Pranic healing, they do energy

transfer, is there any difference? Yes, there is a differ‐

ence, the energy is same but in Reiki you channelize

the universal energy. Kundalini energy is your own

energy, which is sleeping at the base of spine. It is

there in sexual fluids, it moves upwards, in Reiki you

become channel, in Kundalini it is your own energy.

You can be channel and still be unaware. In kundalini,

it leads to awareness. Kundalini energy is the Universal

Mother herself. Reiki is to channelizing universal en‐

ergy through you. Original Reiki master meditated

under ice‐cold waterfalls. He saw some symbols of uni‐

versal energy. Those are Reiki symbols; you need to get

from master.

Mantra Drastra

Sanatana Dharma says the Rishi are Mantra Drastra –

The Seer of the Mantra. Let us understand what our San‐

atana Dharma says about the Rishis. Rishi is the seer of

the Mantra. It is called seer – Drastra, Mantra Drastra.

One who sees the Mantra is called Rishi. Seeing the Man‐

tra is being the Mantra. There is no difference between

seeing and being. It is an inner experience at the time of

realization of the mantra. Mantra drastra means not just

listening the mantra. When hearing the mantra they ex‐

perience the inner truth. In that short experience, what

they listen becomes the spoken words of them and it is

called mantra. It is very crisp and clear. You cannot add

something to that. For example we can give explanation

of God, as ‘God is everywhere’. That is explanation.

There is a gap between one who experienced, one who is

experiencing and one who is experienced. There is a

difference between them. While saying that God is every‐

where, there is a difference in experience and listener.

Everybody says that God is everywhere. You can ask to

kids, they say that God is everywhere. It is only words. It

is not an experience. For Rishi, the words came at the

moment of experience and those words became Mantras.

Rishi is the one who experience the truth and at that

time the words came through his mouth and that is

called Mantra. That is the closest experience of the man‐

tra. So many people thinks that ‘Mantra drastra’ means

somebody closes his eyes, in meditation, some mantra

will come out of it. He hears something because it is

called ‘Shruthi’, means he listens something and that

comes out as Mantra, No. It has to be a living experience.

When he hears the mantra while he is experiencing, that

is called ‘Mantra’. So Mantra Drastra is not just seeing

the mantra, it is not just hearing the mantra; it is not just

memorizing the mantra, but has become that mantra. So

Mantra drastra is not just one who has heard that man‐

tra, one who has not just understood the mantra, he ex‐

perienced that mantra; with that inner experience he

became the ‘Mantra swaroopa’. He is called Rishi. They

speak the truth.

Sanatana Dharma Soundarya Lahari

P a g e 5 D i v y a J y o t h i

Let us understand what is the real meaning of disease.

Arogyam, means the health will improve. Does it mean

that a person who is Self‐Realized will have no diseases?

So if you look today, the modern day, what Doctors say

is that more than 80% of the diseases are psychosomat‐

ic in nature. There are two types of diseases, Psychoso‐

matic and Contagious diseases. Contagious diseases

come from bacteria and virus spreading from one per‐

son to another person. If a child gets fever from the

school, it spreads to his family members and then from

that child's brother/sister the bacteria/virus will again

get carried to the school and other children will get it

from them. So this is called contagious disease. There

are some diseases which are genetic in nature and some

diseases are psychosomatic in nature like Headache,

Depression, Blood Pressure and overweight. Many of

these diseases are because of the mind not because of

the body. Rheumatism and Cancer are also psychoso‐

matic diseases. These are all because of the mind.

A person who is established in Yoga, his mind gets

healed. Please understand, the healing is actually what

they call as ‘healing’ in earlier days. It is said that

"Vaidyo Narayano Hari", the greatest healer is Narayana

himself. So what it means is that Consciousness is the

greatest healer. When we identify with the Body, Mind

and the Intellect, the mind becomes very heavy.

When the mind identifies with the object it becomes

heavy. When the mind recognizes the subject, the

Atma, the Paramatma, the Narayana or the Universal

Mother in you, the mind becomes light. The root of all

diseases is called 'bhavaroga'. The disease of the world

is called 'Bhavaroga'. The disease of the world, that dis‐

ease is our feeling of separation from the existence, our

feeling of separation from the Consciousness, the God,

the Universe, even though we may not explicitly say

that, that is the root cause. It is called Bhavaroga, it is

the root disease.

Imagine a child who lost his father or Mother at a very

young age, throughout his life, that child will never for‐

get the pain of losing his Father or Mother. It is very

painful. So, how painful it will be for us when we have

lost our earlier Father and Mother which is actually Na‐

rayana himself. Narayana is our Father, Mother,

Bandhu (relative) and our friend. Narayana is the Guru.

There is no closer relationship than Paramatma. The

feeling of separation from Paramatma is very painful.

It is the deepest pain, which anybody can have. It is

most hurting and that is called 'Existential Suffering'.

Because we don’t know that such a thing exists, we

give different names to that. We say, 'I suffer because

of my Father, Mother, Husband, Wife, Boss or Econo‐

my', people give lot of reasons because they don’t

know that the root suffering which is because of the

separation from the existence. That is the root suffer‐

ing, which is why it is called 'Bhava Roga'. That is the

fundamental disease and from that disease every other

disease comes into picture. So the person who is free,

Jeevan Mukta gets healed at the deepest level.

You may ask, how come Ramana Maharshi or Rama‐

krishna Paramahamsa had a Cancer. See, what hap‐

pens is, a person's mind and body become peaceful,

but the disease, which has already started because of

what you call as 'Prarabdha Karma' which is not

healed, that Prarabdha karma will continue since the

arrow has been already shot. So, Agami karma will

stop, Sanchita karma will stop, Kriyamana karma will

stop. The remaining residual Prarabdha karma fructi‐

fies and brings the Cancer. But the person becomes

very peaceful, very silent and serene. His health will

improve.

So, one who meditates in his mind on the Universal

Mother, she showers nectar from all her limbs, and in

the form of divine energy that can put an end to the

pride of snakes, and with his nectar like vision,Lcure

those afflicted by diseases.

P a g e 6 D i v y a J y o t h i

Sarvaruna navadyangi sarvabharana bhushita Shiva ka‐

meshvarankastha shiva svadhina vallabhe.

Sarvaruna: Who is rose – hued all over.

Anavadyangi: Who is faultless in every limb.

Sarvabharana bhushita: Who is adorned with divine

ornaments.

Shiva kameshvarankastha: Who is seated on the lap of

Shiva, the conqueror of desire (Kamesvara).

Shiva: The Consort of Shiva, whose Power She is.

Svadhina vallabha: Who dominates over Her Consort

Siva in the creative part of the cyclic motion of time.

Shiva is the Universal Consciousness . Shakti – the ener‐

gy is His Consort. Shakti, the Universal Mother is the

power of consciousness in the form of Will, Wisdom

and Action. Lord Shiva as house holder creates the Uni‐

verse with his Shakti. Shiva and Shakti are not different

from each other. Ardhanareeshwara half male, half fe‐

male form of Shiva and Shakti represents this Truth.

This representation is akin to the yin and yang, mascu‐

line and feminine representation in eastern cultures.

Shakti is the energy of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva and Shak‐

ti are one. Shiva is Shakti and Shakti is Shiva. They are

inseparable like heat in fire or fragrance of flower. She is

the Self‐awareness of Shiva and also the power of con‐

sciousness by which everything else is revealed. She ex‐

presses in the form of infinite Will, Wisdom and Action

of Lord Shiva. As Universal Mother, she creates, sustains

and destroys the whole Universe.

Shakti – the energy, in the form of subtlest vibration is

the heartbeat of Parama Shiva. Because of pulsation of

Spanda Shakti, whole of the Universe is created sus‐

tained and dissolved. She is also called Para Shakti in

this form.

The Lord of desire Manmatha emerges in the form of

our sense organs. There are jnanendriyas; Objective

Mind; Subconcious Mind – with egoistic impressions

(samskara), memories (smriti) –, which is nothing but

identification of objects; Subjective Mind (intellect) –

Buddhi the decision‐making; Karmendriyas – the out‐

put to organs of action (leg‐motion, hand‐grasping,

mouth‐speech, sex organs‐reproduction, anus‐

excretion).

When these sense organs are fedup of the outer world

(materialistic), they start moving inwards surrendering

completely to the Universal Mother Sri Lalita. Sri

Lalita out of compassion manifest in the form of

Srividya – The Auspicious knowledge. The knowledge

which liberates the senses from pain and suffering.

That is the Knowledge of Wisdom.

Lalitha Sahasranama

P a g e 7 D i v y a J y o t h i

Akkamahadevi – Atma Bala ‐ When the Realization

Happens the Power Flows and Spreads Allover.

In the 14th century, some Muslim Empire ruled the

West Bengal. It was a sin if anybody chants Gods name.

Then Chaitanya Mahaprabhu started singing, “Hare

Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Hare Krishna

Hare Krishan Krishna Krishna Hare Hare”. When he

started singing on the streets and dancing not any em‐

pire could stop such power. That is the power of Divine.

A 29‐year old Vivekanda went to spread Sanathana

dharma of India. And he brought courage and strength

to Indians. It is not an individual power. It is a power

from divine (Athma bala) flows through him. That

strength is within all of you. But as long as you are in

delusion of ‘I am the body I am the Mind and I am the

intellect’ then that power gets masked. You have to be‐

come flute of God Krishna so that the divine energy

flows through you. That’s called Brahma Bala.

That happened in the life of Akkamahadevi. She was

forced to marry but she had a condition with her hus‐

band that he should not disturb her Shiva Puja and if

disturbed she will leave that palace. When he disturbed

one day she got angry and threw her clothes and walked

naked out of the palace. Imagine one girl walking with‐

out the dress what happens. That is the courage. That is

the Atma bala. And what is the Courage? ‘I am not the

body I am not the mind and I am not the Intellect I am

the pure awareness’. In front of this courage the king

could not stand. It was difficult for him. The fear of ‘I

am the body’ has to go. When the courage that I am

self I am the Shiva comes then world cannot stop you.L

This happened with Meera Bai also. In her palace, peo‐

ple tried to kill her. She took a poison but she didn’t

die and went out of the palace. That courage comes.

That is called ‘Atma bala’ power of the Self. So they

become the courageous one – Veeryam (“Veeryavan

bhavathi”)

With the knowledge of Self one becomes evolved. He

will not forget the Self in all the 3 states, waking

dreaming and deep sleep. He lives courageously. And

when he dies he merges with the universal conscious‐

ness. And he will not return because there is no desire

left. So one who realized the illusory nature of the

world he will never get tempted again. So why will he

never reborn? After death he merges with the Univer‐

sal Consciousness. It is like when bubble in water

bursts merges with the water and becomes water itself.

~ Prabhuji

Atma Bala

P a g e 8 D i v y a J y o t h i

Student: Guruji, Why is Ugaadi celebrated every year?

Guruji: This is because we forget the message of

Ugaadi; to remind us the message Ugaadi is celebrated

every year. Once we realize the significance of Ugaadi,

once we begin the new era that is the real Ugaadi.

The message of Ugaadi is embedded in many of the cus‐

toms we follow. On Ugaadi day we wear a new dress

and discard the old dress. Discarding the old dress sym‐

bolizes discarding the old values, wrong ideas and no‐

tions. The wrong notion is I am the body, mind and the

intellect which gives rise to deep‐rooted impressions in

our consciousness called vasanas and samskaras.

Vasanas and samskaras are responsible for our repeated

birth and death cycle – punarapi jananam punarapi ma‐

ranam. We keep on taking newer and newer body and

taking birth to experience the vasanas and samskaras

(deep rooted impressions). These vasanas and samska‐

ras are coming from deep‐rooted ignorance that I am

separate from the Self. Discarding the old dress symbol‐

izes discarding these wrong notions. Wearing a new

dress symbolizes taking up new ideas and realizing the

new truth that I am the immortal Self. One who realizes

this becomes Sthitha prajna. Life of such a person is

symbolized by equanimity in all situations of life. This

is told in Bhagavagita

‘duhkheshv anudvigna‐manah sukheshu vigata‐ spri‐

hahvita‐raga‐bhaya‐krodhah Sthitha‐dhir munir ucyate”

Being unperturbed by ups and downs in life; not being

attracted by anything or not being repulsed by anything

– a Sage; an Enlightened one, a Sthitha prajna leaves

peacefully and brings peace, love and harmony in the

world. To symbolize this, we eat jaggery (sweet) that

means joy, success in life. Neem means bitterness the

pain suffering in life. By eating these two we should be

accepting life as it comes as a Sthitha prajna. Call of

Ugaadi is to lead the life of Sthitha prajna – the enlight‐

ened one. This we can do only when we can respect

time.

The time is very precious, it keeps skipping away from

past to present to future. The past is dead; the future is

unborn, we have a very short duration the present at

our disposal. How effectively to use that present mo‐

ment for our self‐realization, liberation and serving the

world, “Atmano Mokshartham Jagath Hitaya Cha” is

the art which you have to learn.

Ugaadi also represents one more important aspect of

the spiritual life. A deep respect for the principle of

time. The lord of time Kala Purusha has to be respect‐

ed. We have to utilize our time very carefully. This Kala

Purusha has five parts just like we have bodies – pan‐

changa they are tithi; vara; nakshatra; yoga and karna.

The idea of telling about this panchanga, reading pan‐

changa is to bring the concept in our mind day in and

day out, again and again bringing respect for the time.

It is reminding us that the time keeps flying, use the

present moment effectively. Work towards our libera‐

tion; work towards the service, lead the life of a Sthitha

Prajna – an enlightened one. This is the essence of the

message of Ugaadi.

~ Prabhuji

Significance of Ugaadi

P a g e 9 D i v y a J y o t h i

Shri Rama Navami Celebration of Eternal Values

of Sanatana Dharma

Name of Shri Rama inspires people all over the

world; Rama stands for the 'Truth' the principle of '

Dharma'. Dharma is the Eternal value, Eternal Prin‐

ciple, Eternal order, It sustains upholds the whole

Universe. Sri Rama represents the principle of Dhar‐

ma, operating through out his life. He is called

'Embodiment of Dharma' (Ramaha Vigrahavan

Dharmaha).

Navami stands for Nine, Nine is the number that

represents Eternity, Ramanavami in other words

represents 'Eternal Values of Dharma'. Ramanavami

is the celebration of Eternal Dharma, what we call it

as 'Sanatana Dharma'. Ramanavami is a day when

we bring Dharma in our Life i.e., the birth of Sri Ra‐

ma. There is no equivalent meaning for Dharma in

any other language. Many people confuse and trans‐

late Dharma as religion; Dharma has nothing to do

with religion. Dharma is the principle which uprates

in various dimensions, in simple words, Dharma

means essential nature, for e.g., the essential nature

of fire is to burn, so, we can say the Dharma of the

fire is to burn. What is the essential nature of hu‐

man being? Is it body? Is it mind? Is it intellect? The

sages say 'the essential nature of human being is

divinity'. The divinity is called 'That' Tatwamasi is

the essential nature of human being. To live a way of

Dharma means to live true to our nature, live ac‐

cording to our essential nature that is divinity. That

is Dharma and that is the essential message of Shri

Rama Navami. We have to understand our true na‐

ture, we are not the body, mind or intellect, we are

the supreme spirit – Atma. Atma is same as Para‐

Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha matma, to live the divinity in our life, to experience

divinity in all our actions, to express divinity in our life

is Dharma, and this is Shri Rama Navamai – Birth of

Shri Rama in our life. Come let us understand some

dimension of Dharma and Rama Navami.

Shri Rama Navami is celebration of birthday of the

Lord – Shri Rama. Shri Rama is called Maryada

Purushotham, best among human beings, embodiment

of highest human values and ideals. Shri Rama repre‐

sents ideal son, ideal husband, ideal friend, ideal mas‐

ter, ideal enemy, ideal King. Mahatma Gandhi dreamed

of Shri Rama Rajya, ideal Kingdom as model for inde‐

pendent India. Sanatana Dharma, Eternal Law – Na‐

vami stands for nine. Nine represents eternity. 9 x 1 = 9.

9 x 2 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9. Etc. Bow in hand of Rama called

kodanda represents the infallibility of Dharma ‐ eternal

value. Rama means bliss, Rama means Dharma

(Ramaha Vigrahavan Dharmaha) Rama navami stands

for bliss of following eternal Dharma (Sanatan Dhar‐

ma) in Life.

Dharma means to hold. That which supports / holds

existence of a thing. (Dharayati iti Dharma). The order

in the universe is called Dharma, without Dharma

there will be only chaos! There is physical order, bio‐

logical order, and psychological order in the universe.

All actions done by human beings in tune with cosmic

order are called Dharmic. Actions violating cosmic or‐

der are called Adharmic. Shri Rama‐seventh incarna‐

tion of Vishnu is the embodiment of Dharma. The pur‐

pose of incarnation is to teach Dharmic life. One, who

protects Dharma, gets protection from Dharma.

(Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha). Shri Rama always pro‐

tected Dharma. He only killed for righteousness and

benefit of all. He was not only an Ideal warrior but an

Ideal man because he performed all his duties as hus‐

band, son, brother, friend, king, citizen, to perfection.

‘Sree Rama Rama Rameti, Rame Rame Manorame : Sa‐

hasra Nama Tatulyam Rama Nama Manorame'.

~ Prabhuji

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