“Karma And Rituals – A Deeper Understanding.”

Karma And Rituals – A Deeper Understanding.

For you guys you don’t have the ability to make this body alive. Either this body is alive or dead that’s all. It’s not under your control. But for an enlighten person it’s under his control. He can either make this body alive or he can relax. Because of that ability he can make some other body also alive. When he chooses to make a stone or a metal alive, it becomes a representative of his very self. All the deities, the major temple deities or traditional temples, or all deities energized by enlighten masters, Thiruvannamlai – Arunagiriyogeeshwarar, Chitambaram – Patanjali, Tanjavore – Karuvooraar, Thirupathi – Koonganavar, Madurai – Meenakshi, like this enlighten beings have energized, those moorthi’s. So it is considered the very body of an enlighten master. So the disciples start serving even after he leaves the physical body, considering that body as his own body they start serving. They start serving. So that is the reason the deities receive the same respect of an enlighten master. So it’s like a, who ever is initiated by Arunangiriyogeeshwara their generation starts doing worship in Arunachala temple. They are his disciples. They take care of the master. So that’s the reason you will see, what ever is done to human beings, master, same thing will be done to the deity.

Q: Yesterday during the homma what i heard you say was that, energizing the deities that there would be an independent intelligence, that energy your own, so if I understand you, also when we are with the deities and serving them, they are responding to us the same way as you could and as the same way Kali Devi did to Ramakrishna and even after you choose to leave the body you are still with us in those forms?

See masters even after they leave the body they decide to stay and continuously available to disciples through the deities which they energized, that is one thing, even during my life, my physical presence is not possible everywhere you see, so these deities will do my work, they are my representatives.

Q: So when you energise things like, the padhukas and what not?

Padhukas are more a energy centre; but they will not be like an independent intelligence. But the deities will be independent intelligence; the deity take a lot of, it’s a big process. Energizing a deity is more like a giving birth, padhukas is mor like a blessing, it will be like a energy centre, what ever information you give it will reach me, that’s all, but the deities directly will respond, it will just answer. Its much more stronger centre than the Padhukas.

Participant: thank you for bringing them all to North America.

Yes. Now you have got 117. 117 have already landed in Los Angeles. And just before coming to Delhi, just before coming to Himalayas I went to Jaipur and picked up some 70 more. 70 more marble, they are also coming, so let you guys have fun. Each temple will have something like a 20 to 25 moorthi’s . All our 15 USA temple, USA alone we are having 15 temple, just now we have increased one more, 16, in Orlando also we are building. In Florida, Orlando Disney world, we are trying to create a spiritual Disney world. Working on getting some moorthi’s there, we are going to have a temple there.

If you see our pooja, our ashram routine, you will see morning they will play the song to wake him up, they will give oil and tooth powder, a small cup of oil for hair, and a small cup of tooth powder for brushing. And then after that they will give him a bath, and give a fresh cloth, ironed cloth, just like how I wear, same way. Whether Bidadi or Ohio or Hyderabad, all our temples you will see the same routine, or Los Angeles same routine. Then they will have, they will give pooja, food, evening aarathi, the five time pooja will go on, night time they will again put them in bed and fan for a ten minutes. You see these all does not add anything to him, it adds to us, living with god. Practicing the presence of god, practicing the presence of the master is pooja. It’s nothing but every day remembering, you see yesterday I was telling about this click and initiations, if you decide to remind yourself everyday all the clicks which happened in you that is what becomes a ritual. Every thing they do in aarathi, everything is connected to one click. So when you do that, you remember and raise yourself to that mood. Whenever some serious low mood or depression is happening in you, if the right click is reminded that is a great service done to you, because the moment you remember, what will happen? You will come out. You will just come out.

I will today explain about this, how this karma and rituals are directly connected. How our prarabtha, akamiya and sanchita karmas and rituals are connected. I will explain, then we can go and see aarathi. Today morning some body asked to explain about aarathi and all. I did not see that question means, attention need question only. Not truth seeking question, attention seeking question. I hate these fellows who come and talk to me for attention need. If they talk to me to know the truth I will always answer, but I can very clearly make out in body language, whether this fellow is around me for seeking the real truth or seeking the attention. If they are attention seekers I will just say, “Go, put it writing and give, I will answer”.

I will explain with drawings about the prarabtha, akamiya and sanchita and how the rituals directly eliminate those karmas, those samskaras, engraved memories and help you to come out of it. Rituals are very powerful tools, powerful techniques, because it takes time and energy these fools doesn’t want to do, and they think they can achieve everything with out do anything. Many people ask me, “You are enlightened why should you do rituals?” I tell them, “Because I am enlightened only I am teaching rituals”. No ritual is needed for enlightenment is a, let me tell you a small story, “one fellow went to a hotel and started eating and he ate eight idlies, ninth idly his hunger got settled. Then server came and gave the bill for nine idlies, this fellow said, “no, I will pay only for one idly, ninth idly, which put my hunger off, with which I got my hunger settled and first eight idlies did not do the job only the ninth idly did the job of quenching my hunger. So I will pay only for that idly””. How it will be? Same way only people who reject rituals are rejecting the first eight idlies. The ninth idly worked because of the first eight idlies. So your meditation will work because of all these rituals, not by rejecting all these preliminary things. If you reject all these preliminary things you think that directly you can eat the ninth idly, it will never happen. Whoever is thinking directly they can eat the ninth idly they will be just sitting and eating the first idly and starving. May be they will think, “I think this much only is the life” that is why these so called Vedhanthees, so called meditators, all these fellows will be depressed, long face. Really, long face, as if just now they had a constipation.

Ramakrishna says beautifully, “as long as you think you have a body, you will be able to relate only with some body, to the cosmic energy”. Only when you loose your body consciouness you can see divine also formless, till then you need some form, some reminding rituals. See earlier first my three years of mission, from 2003 to 2006, I never gave ritual along with our meditation, till 2006 only meditation, only in 2006 I added the guru pooja into Nithya Dhyan. Now, see 2003, 04, 05, three years if I have taught meditation to half a million people, only 20 – 30% people continue doing after three months also, within three months other 70% gone, that’s all, “ahh.., forget about it”. Now after I added the guru pooja into Nithya Dhyan, now it became a ritual, more than 80% who take initation follow now. I did a statistical study, did a survey. Now anybody who gets initiated more than 80% of the people follow the Nithya Dhyan, because it became a ritual, you have to do. You have to do, so I think it’s good to have little ritual, even along with meditation, so that the regular habbit of sitting and doing, the saddhana, regular saddhana will be there. Otherwise these fellows don’t do regularly. “ahh.., today my mother-in-law is here, tomorrow my father-in-law is here, my sister-in-law is here, too much work and after two days they all have gone I am just enjoying, having my vacation, I don’t want to do today. If I am happy, “today I am happy, why meditation?” If I am depressed, “oh.., today I am depressed, how can I meditate?” These guys find some logic, bur if it is ritual you can’t find any logic. It has to be done. That’s why I added little rituals. Alright, than no question, we can go and see the aarathi. Ofcourse, after tomorrow’s explanation if you guys see the aarathi, it will be much more clean, you will be able to understand much more deeply, than now. Because the chart will give a very logical explanation how, the prarabtha, akamiya and sanchita is directly touched by the rituals. Here you have someone’s question. A Tamil question. She is telling:

Q: I went in palki, people are telling, “It is not punnya” what to do?

Alright, its not puunya, if you have gone by walk, you wouldn’t have come back what to do? You got little punnya, that’s all. Atleast you had dharshan what else to do? What else can be done? But this trip is not done for punnya sake; it’s done just to enjoy the Himalayas, being in energy field.

Today itself let us finish the subject. It’s a diagram, step by step I will have to explain. See how we assume body and how we go through the janana manana charka and how these initiations and rituals can liberate us, take us out of that cycle, which we are doing. Basically we have three layers of karma akamiya, prarabtha and sanchita. Sanchita is the karma, which is like a bank, reserve bank. Whatever you did in your life, see not only in this body, you have taken millions of bodies, in millions of bodies what ever you learnt, you did, all those engrams put together is called Sanchita. They even use the word samoochita. That’s also one more Sanskrit word they use Sanchita. Then next prarabtha, prarabtha means, from this bank you collect little bit and create your body and decide to enjoy all those karmas in this body. This is prarabtha. Understand this is like a bank, all your past collection. That’s huge account; you don’t know when that will disappear or anything? And bank means don’t think some collection, saving, it’s a debt actually, credit, all credit only, you will have to finish them out. This is the prarabtha, prarabtha is the little bit which you brought to enjoy or exhaust through this body. And the third karma, this is the worst thing, akamiya, after coming down you start collecting. That is the worst thing, akamiya. This is the past; this is present which you are exhausting, this you are collecting for your future, adding to the sanchita.

Now any fellow who lands on the planet earth to exhaust, for example here you have 1000 karma, I am just giving an example. When you take up your body, when you assume your body, you take only something like a ten karma, “let me finish this ten” and you come down, after coming down, you start collecting 200 karma, by the time you go back what will happen? Your bank balance has increased by 1210. Neither you exhausted this 10 and you collected 200 more. What will happen by the next time when you take the body, 1210, then again you take 10 and come down and collect some more. This becomes a vicious circle. This is what we called janana manana charka, continuously taking more and more and more bodies and dying, body, dying, body, dying. Now, this prarabtha 10 karmas, while you are living, exhausting these 10 karmas, if somebody gives you the knowledge, you are not the body, you are not the mind, these karmas influencing you, the influence of these karmas over you will start coming down.

Understand, for example, in this 10 karma which you bought when you took the body. Don’t sleep I am talking something very important. There’s Tamil song, “palliyielay thoongiyavan kalvi ezthaan” there’s a Tamil song, if you sleep in the school you will loose knowledge. Now if you sleep here you will loose the whole thing. I am giving you the, I can say these are all the business secrets, are the how the world runs or how the cosmos works. These are all those secrets. So listen properly and some way it will enrich your life. Don’t miss it and very rare you will get somebody who will explain such a logical way where you can relate with the whole thing. So don’t miss.

See this 10 prarabtha for example, in this 10 prarabtha karma if you have 3 karma which will put you in depression, means 3 samskara, 3 engram which will put you in depression, 3 engram, depression engram you can say, D, depression engram. Whenever that 3 engrams put you in depression, if you learnt how to come out, these 3 will start loosing its power over you. It means what? In that 10, 3 has become less. Whenever you reduce the influence of prarabtha on you, your accumulating new karma, akamiya will come down. How you know? These 3 karmas have got, these 3 engrams have got power over you to put you in depression. See this 3 engram if they have the power to put you in depression, if you continue, if you obey those engrams and fall in depression, these 3 will not be just 3, they will become 10. That 7 only is called akamiya, you understand, so whenever you cooperate with prarabtha you collect akamiya. Whenever the prarabtha looses its influence over you, you stop collecting akamiya. So when this influence, these 10 engram influence over you stops means, the akamiya collection will stop. Bringing you back to the joy or the pure inner space, the unwavering, undisturbed inner space, not only reduces prarabtha’s influence over you, stops the number of engrams getting collected as akamiya.

Is there any doubt? If you have any doubt put it as a question I will answer. Today we will just grind this idea, this one idea. This one idea we will churn in your head or drill in your head, this one idea. Initiation means the ideas, knowledge, which brings you out of this depressive thoughts. Which brings you out of the depressive thoughts means, the knowledge which brings you out of the influence of this 10 thoughts, prarabtha, is what we call initiation. Click. Pooja is nothing but remembering all the clicks which happened to you everyday atleast once, so that it will come up whenever you have a problem. See for example, 20 or 30 clicks would have happened to you in NSP, in that 4 days, may be some 20, 30 clicks or even 100 click would have happened, for the next 3 months you will remember 80 of them, after 6 months, 60, after 1 year, “its ok, this Bangalore Swami has no other work, leave it”. After NSP energy dharshan they will tell, “you are god, you landed on the planet earth to save us” all these big, big statements they will give, after one year everything will disappear. The reason you know, because those clicks have been forgotten.

The teachings which is given, see when a master teaches it is not even a teaching, it’s a powerful experience, when you don’t use them, when you don’t again and again use those shastras, not only the shastras looses its power, you will not be able to even remember them again. That is the important thing, you see, for example you have this cot, if you don’t use this cot for 2 years it is not that the cot will disappear, after 2 years you can get this cot and use it, but the knowledge given to you, the initiations given to you, if you don’t use them for 2 years don’t think it will be sitting in your bedroom, no, it will disappear. So how to everyday remind, all the click happened. Everyday sitting and reminding all the clicks which happened in us, is pooja. Because in pooja, just the maanasa pooja mantra, how many of you know that maanasa pooja mantra? Just the maanasa pooja mantra will remind you of all the clicks. All the clicks, because all the maanasa pooja mantra, “Hridpadmam aasanam dadhyaat” - my heart is a seat for you means, it has to be clean, otherwise you think I will come and sit. No.

“Sahasraar achutaamrutaihi | Paadyam charanayor dadhyaat” – sahasrara amruta means what? Out of gratitude when you overflow you will have a deep sweet taste in your tongue, in your throat. How many of you have felt? In energy dharshan you can feel that. Energy dharshans you can see suddenly the whole space will become so sweet, that’s what is sahasrara amruta. The amruta comes down from the sahasrara when you are feeling fulfilled, so joyful your whole throat will be filled with sahasrara amruta. That amruta, that nectar, is the paadyam, means water to wash the feet, means when you sit in the pooja everyday you remember the energy dharshan experience and you bring your self back to that experience. If you don’t have that sweet taste in the throat you can’t do pooja, means you are telling a lie sitting in front of my statue. If only you have that real feeling again, than only than, you are authorized to use the word Sahasraar achutaamrutaihi | Paadyam charanayor dadhyaat.

“Manasthu arghyam nivedayet” –means, at the end of NSP you throw all the samskaras into the fire, that’s what is your manas, mind, you throw everything, now you are remembering, yes how I throw everything there, now I am throwing everything at your feet, Manasthu arghyam nivedayet, arghyam means offering, I am offering.

“Tena amrutena aachamaneeyam” –with that same ecstatic nectar I do the abhisheka for you, means you will have to come back to that energy dharshan experience, that joy, that ecstasy, you will have to come back, so every step of this mantra reminds you and brings you back to that click, that initiation experience which happened in you. Everyday whether you want or not you remember the initiation experience, the click, which happened with the master. So ritual brings you back to the pure consciousness, so these 10 engrams looses its power over you. When this 10 looses its power over you, this 200 collection stops. When the collection stops and the 10 looses its power over you, naturally the person who brings you back to the super consciousness again and again, master, he appears when you leave the body and burns this sanchita. He appears and burns this sanchita. Understand you can’t do anything directly with sanchita, for sanchita only guru krupa can do; only master’s grace can do. For example, if your child sits and tries very hard to build a small home, what will you do? You will say, “Alright don’t bother I myself will build and give you”. When a disciple sincerely works to remove the prarabtha and akamiya the guru’s grace happens. You see guru’s grace is not just dependent on me, understand anybody who does sincerely saadhana or meditation, in spite of me the grace has to land on you. Its not even dependent on me, let you be very clear, it’s just dependent on your receptivity, not on me. I am like a ocean, constantly available, who ever comes with whatever size vessel you carry. If you come with a same coconut shell you will carry that much, like your head, or if you come with a little bigger vessel you will carry in that, if you came with little big container, you will carry in that, if you are intelligent, you will build a canal, you will build a canal, that’s all is the whole thing, ok. Initiation, pooja means, reminding everyday yourself all the initiation, great experiences, happened with the master, and bringing you back to the same high consciousness. Same high spirit, means now you are ready for next 24 hours drama, circus, next 24 hours now you have energy. That is the reason for pooja. May be I will explain the aarathi. Do you guys have time? May be tomorrow we will do. Moreover if you guys are fresh all these things will go inside and help you whenever it is needed. Otherwise it is like a message taught to Karna. See Karna told a lie and learnt the lessons from Vishvamithra, no Dhoorvaasa I think, he cursed, Dhoorvaasa cursed Karna, you told a lie, because of that when it is really needed, the knowledge which I gave will not come to your memory, so if you guys are sleeping and whatever I am talking, what will happen? When it is really needed it won’t come to your memory, then what is the use. So tomorrow morning be fresh, I will explain the aarathi, I will tell them to do the aarathi, and we will not have music, I will just speak, step by step, how every step is connected to one initiation.

Ok, morning be here by sharp 6, we will have the Naaradha bhakthi sutras, I will tell them to do the aarathi and we will have some more explanations and then we will start to Uttarkasi, have lunch, then we will have the dharshan of Uttarkasi Vishvanath mandhir, and in the evening we will have some more pooja, and further discourses on Naaradha bhakthi sutras. Tomorrow actually we could have gone to Gangothri, but I didn’t take the risk, because too many old people are there. Too much height, suddenly rising, see when the altitude raises two thing will happen, if you are a joyful guy your joy will increase, if you are continuously irritable or continuously irritated, the irritational behavior will raise. That’s why I take care. And one more thing, if you are feeling irritated don’t express, because that will become a strong engram. After going down you will be shouting, already you are, and you will be biting everybody. Your family people will tell, “What kind of Himalaya trip this guy went? And this swami what he’s teaching?” they will blame me. That’s a big problem, these family fellows, if they see the husband or wife very happy after coming to me, for that also they will have problem, they will have so much of jealousy, “this fellow is so happy independent of me”. If you are happy independent of him or her that is a big crime. That also will be a problem, if you are not happy, angry, irritated and again they will blame me. “What kind of meditation he is teaching you? Nothing is happening, you are only shouting”. So both the cases I will be, ok, alright, what to do? At least don’t get irritated; don’t create samskaras, so you will have more peace and bliss. Ok let’s gather for next session. Thank you. Be blissful.