PRAYER

This is a form of expression of the mind, where he / she remembers or marks the desire or makes a notes to do it in future. A prayer is one, where a person concentrates or meditates to a diety (or the supreme almighty), who could be in the form of an idol, or be it the mother nature, or to an omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient power, or the powerful innerself. The end result is that the desires are fulfilled, be it good or bad. If done in an effective manner following all the procedures, all can happen very effectively, but the fact is that one who does prayer for good, reaps for long, and one who does for wrong and bad intentions lasts short, and they are less respected. A prayer is a 1 to 1 appointment with god. It’s a very personal talk with the one whom they feel secure and in-turn fulfill their desires. A prayer is nothing but, if said scientifically is to create a very desired kind of vibration to complete the task or desired wishes, be it good or bad, as positive vibrations are necessary for good work and negative vibrations for bad work. There are various kinds of prayers, as said above, some people do idol worship, scientifically which is a source of vibration, that keeps radiating to everyone that’s around it. By doing these kind of prayers, the vibration levels are raised, here it could be to specific god / deities. Another is, a prayer where there is no idol worship. Here the devotee keeps an unseen almighty all the powers. Here it can be to any god. In a prayer, one expresses his desires, confessions, wishes, to the welfare of the mass. Prayer can be as simple as a salutation, or recitation of simple slokas or hymns, to performing vedic rituals or homas in a very pious manner.

Our ancestors worshipped nature, as they felt that the nature has all the necessary things for man, like the air we breathe, fire that cooks food, water we drink. Land that gives us the shelter atmosphere that houses all gases that’s necessary to sustain life.

Since ages, a very strict regime or rule is maintains to do prayers, the reason being taking bath, makes us clean and our mind and soul is fresh to concentrate on prayer, as body along with mind is one of the medium to reach the god; wearing neat and clean clothes that are comfortable, to some extent ; then a silent environment to concentrate ; a calm and free mind and no evil desires to get the best results of the prayers are done for self, and sometimes for others, can be on behalf of others, or to do good or bad to others. Prayers if done well, reaches the almighty (scientifically raises our vibration level thus raising the mental, physical and spiritual levels).

All the above factors seems to be so trivial these days, but all have very evident and strong reasons that’s hidden under the thick blanket of unexplained and unexplored scientific knowledge. The reason being, if done in particular direction, time of the day, day of the week and month, and in the correct month and the correct century, it evolves more effective, as this also has a link with the alighment of the planets, which majorly monitors the state of affairs (ssthithi-gathi) of every living being. It depends on the person (male or female), as there are some prayers that if done by females (like gayatri matra, or OM) can lead to negative vibrations within one’ body and retrograde the development. So all these factors contribute a lot. If prayers are done with great concentration on a correct location, time of the day, day of the week , month of the ear, and person, can even result in achieving tremendous powers like shaktiman (a tele serial that was popular in the 1998 ---2001) period. It can be very destructive or very constructive also.

Man, off late has not realized the effectiveness of prayer. In fact its a strange truth that by doing prayers can lead to good digestion of all kinds of food in our body, to an extent it has the power to burn the bones also. Prayers cause real miracles.

Prayers can not only do that, but also helps to flex muscles of the body, increase memory. But one thing that has to be kept in mind is that, it has to be pronounced in the correct way it should be done, else it either becomes ineffective or useless, or even become negatively dangerous. They could do nothing there are evidences of the ghosts, preta, pishachi, mohini, dhakini… that has extreme powers that no man can possess at any time. But the prayers can put them to silence, to an extent that they could do nothing. That’s the power of a prayer. prayers can even spell rain. Scientifically this is called cloud seeding that the scientists do to spell rain in a rain starved area. The ingredients that goes into the prayer induces the environment to rain. Sages in the past had all these powers and had the privilege to display in times when nature had its aggression on the anthropoids. Going farther back, to times of rama (tretayuga) and Krishna (dwapara yuga), or even before to krutyuga, these days prayers causeda lot of welfare to people be it when deamons attacked devas (god) and hid in the ocean, sage agaystya drank the entire ocean, and the deamons were killed, or bhageeratha who with his prayers brought down the great ganges , or be it ravana, who lifted the mighty Himalayas along with shiva and parvati ;on the other-hand it was deamon guru shuklacharya, who with his prayer got a boon to bring alive all the dead deamons, or be it kumbhakarna, or bhasmasura, or mahishasura, or ashwathama who tried ending the linage of the pandavas.

Even to this day, both are evident and the bad one is called as black magic.

It all recides in us, how we use the prayers, be it negative or positive.

Elders say at least if not possible to recite the prayers listening to it or reading it blesses everyone.

Why is the prayer so simple at one end, and exemplary at the other end? The reason being, to cater to the economically weaker section, and the rich people. Simple prayers indulge just a salutation or with some incense sticks and camphor and lightening the lamps and offering flowers, and a coconut and prasadams, to the other extent of doing homas, where offering are done to the holy fire god. Prayers can extend from few minutes to few hours to days or even months, depending on its effect. Off-late people are recognizing the positive effects of prayers and are trying to understand it scientifically. The prayers are a form that expresses the mind of the devotee. Sometimes the prayers are preformed with kalashas, which is like the power house of god, and also doing abbhishekas.

At the end of the prayer, prasada is offered, in the form of thirtha (holy water), prasadams (solid food). Flowers … these when seen scientifically says that the abhisheka performed on the gods , which are made of metal, or in some specific stones water, milk, curds, honey… result in a homogenous mixture that is overall good for the body, that’s not only has milk, curds, honey, water plus ingredients of those metals, or stones that’s beneficial to the human being. Now coming to the recitation of the prayer, in an exact form, leads to the flexing of the muscles, both internal and external organs leading to an overall development. In a plain sense, a prayer is a form of meditation or concentration, where we forget our external business worls and involve in ourself. Actually a prayer is not only intended to god, but also to ourselves, and point out good and bad. It’s the time where we tell our problems, which needs solution actually very few do the other half, of finding the solution to it. When we know the problem, a solution has to be found out. There are some, who does all those and finally then come to god to find the answer.

Off late its found that the doctors, who were believed to have more self-belief than on god, are praying that the operation be successful, and in a sense are raising their confidence in an unknown way and saying I can do it.

A prayer in its basic meaning is to make man submissive, telling that there is one who is more superior to you, that’s almighty. And he has super powers. This keeps man powerful in himself, contained in himself, and not being over possessive of his powers.

After a prayer food should be server, or offered to others, be it in form of little prasadam, or feasting them, in a sense as it has induced hunger in them in the course of the prayer. The negative vibrations can not only cause self harm, but also harm others. You ca personally feel the difference of a place that was overdone with prayer to do good, and that place where prayers were done to do bad, like the temple and holy shrines being the source of positive energy, and graveyard and sacrifice places have a gory look. Prayer that is done just to remember the god, can be done at any point of time, day or year. This reduces the pain that one has physically, or mentally, or morally or spiritually.

Last but not the least, it’s in the minds of the person who does the prayer, whether he is doing it for good, or for the bad.

BLESSINGS

What’s a blessing? It’s the true feeling of the heart that one cares for another person. This is not just because the person feels / cares for the person, he blesses, but also it’s the similar vibration that emits from the person, which s/he responds to, unknowingly. When the vibration level matches well, great things can be done, and fantastic things happen. On the other hand, if the vibrations negate, then it can cause no better, than destruction.

Some say that, some people are blessed, and some are not! Some say that it’s the previous birth’ karma that’s also carried! Is it all true?

The answer to this is that, whatever be the reason, take the best, may be a good thing you might find in your enemy! That doesn’t matter at all, as you have to grow in all respects and doesn’t matter if you learn even from a child! Now coming back to the fact of being blessed or not. The strange thing is that there are some people who believe that there is reincarnation, and some won’t. I will explain the same thing to convince both kinds of people.

First of all to those people who fall into the category of believing in reincarnation, more the good being done, the better position you are in. one thing these kinds of people should know is that body dies, but not the soul. So, the soul caries all the good and the bad. After reincarnation when the soul finishes with searching for the body that’s made for that soul, according to the environment and all the nature of the soul, it reaps so, in the birth. Some say, that if u do bad things you could take birth of a dog, pig, whatnot? That actually not true. The inner meaning is that your next birth will be in such a poor state as that of a dog, or a pig, which is not given great respect a human gets. Our ancestors did all good, and preached well. But because the medium of teaching was oral, and no records being maintained as being done in today’ schools and moreover practical training being more weightage in those days, writing scripts wasn’t popular. This broke the bridge of communication which was misinterpreted by many people. This lead to dilemma, and lead to the rejection of the age-old ethics and practices, which blasted many of those precious tricks that were to following the lineage. Now off-late people are thinking of finding that the ancestors followed and lead a happy long life. Yes blessed are those who did good in their past, and do good at-present and keep doing in the future. What does a man achieve in life? Money? Treasure? More than those is the number of admirers that surround him, and praise his good works. Man’ nature is known by how many good people he has when he celebrates, and when he dies. This tells what kind of life he has lead. Leading a life that doesn’t matters to anyone is of no use. Yes this is better than those who harm others.

What do these blessings do? This is nothing but a morale booster, a feather in the cap to his behavior, a certificate of his goodness, an advice to do more good in future. This in fact, unknowingly raises the positive vibrations of the self. The more positive vibrations, the better you do, and whatever good you do, reaps a better result.

Now let me explain to those people who don’t believe in reincarnation. These blessings are the ways how people relate to you. It’s those many people that connect to you affectionately and truly. This is more important that whether you are truly recognized. It tells how your rapport is with many people. The better response you get, better your relationship is with people, the more blessed you are. Though the beginning may be different as to whether you agree to reincarnation or not, that better relationship leads you to a better position.

What does happen in case of blessings? It’s the belief that binds people together. Blessings are a kind of riches you earn without any investment other than being good only to you, but also to others. It’s a measure of how people accept you, and what they give you.

IT’S ALL HOW WE TAKE THINGS. DIFFERENT THINGS MATTERS TO PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WAYS. SO TAKE THE ONE THAT BENEFITS YOU IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION, AND LEAVE THE REST. A HALF FILLED GLASS OF WATER SEEMS HALF FILLED TO SOME AND THE REST REEL ITS HALF EMPTY. YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT AN ISSUE, THINGS SHALL CHANGE FOR YOU.

FEELINGS

Our mind is the playground, which often turns into a theater or a battlefield. How strange is this world? We all live in the same area, same environment, yet are different from everyone. That’s the nature of this nature. We all being different are same, yet different. It’s the nature’s creation, that we are made to think in a more different way than the others, but when we work together, though not forcibly, sometimes we think the same as others, not because that we just live closer and think similar, but also sometimes that we like the other’ feelings and thoughts which make us take hasty decisions sometimes. This is evident that many judgments, be it by the court of law, or by us, go biased because of these kinds of feelings. What are these feelings? Where do they originate? Why does it show a kind of happiness as well as gloomy sometimes? On whom does this originate? Why? Why? Why?

The reason being that, our heart always tends to fine a soul that’s close to us, that listens to us, although we may have many / few friends or close-ones with whom we reveal those things, yet, we will not reveal the entire truth to them, may be because our heart has the insecurity of loosing that friend. So, generally we tend to reveal the most basic truths of our life to the unknown people that to the trusted ones or with those with whom we confide generally.

Now coming to the point as to why we feel the comfort for others. It can be either because of some of our feelings that match with that of others, or, that others respect our feelings or prevent the dent that might happen or is happening, or for the reason that we respect the person, and for that reason we have a good feeling towards others.

Why do some people not tend to confide at all? It could be because that they are scared of the feelings of others, or that they don’t believe in others helping then in those kind of situations, or that they feel others too uninformed to help them. They feel insecure in front of others, or feel that others may take an undue advantage of them.

There are some who r very cold. In the sense that they don’t at all reveal any feelings, or react to any feelings of others. They don’t have an exact reason for their unique behavior. They suffer from within, but at any cost don’t reveal their inner-self to others. Some feel that it’s a jolt to their prestige.

Why do we feel the chucking, or the tickling of the senses, when we meet people who are close to us? It’s because that our heart always expects something good out of them. We at no cost don’t want to harm them, who care for us. But sometimes why do we tend to scold the ones with whom we are to share our pretty thoughts, it’s because that we take them for granted and as if we have total rights over them. But this is always mistaken as it’s not expressed correctly. Relations are very sensitive and fragile. It can last for a generation, or not even for a day. We must carry on the warmth that’s there in the feelings and enjoy the relationship, and even try to understand the relation that’s at stake.

Why do we have the feeling of our-people, our-land, our-work …, its because that we would have put all those things in a sweet dreamy world that we would have built it for ourselves and for our comfort, and see to it that no one barges into our safe territory. It’s these feelings that keep the relations intact, and help for the development of the self, and for the benefit of others. These are very prized things, which must be taken care of. Feelings originate at heart, and are tender feelings, that must be nurtured well. A secret that goes behind the curtain is that because of the positive and similar vibrations that surrounds the person, or the place, or be it anything. Why do we feel that let this be my home, let this be my tool. Let this be my place… its all not just because that we like it, but also because that these kind of feelings will be radiating the positive vibrations, and when we encounter these situations, that would have formed a picture before, turns to a reality now. It’s these vibrations also decides the nature of your work, or how you would be with this. Though feelings and vibrations are different entities, they all end up with the same thing finally. Feeling is like the fruit, and the vibrations are the sweetness / taste you’ll be expecting in it. It could be very sweet, or little sweet, or even sour. Feeling in whatever you do, adds that extra sweetness that really improves the taste u wanted. These feeling makes us jump in joy, and also make us weep. Without them, man is a stone. Expressionless. Heartless. It’s with this, that joy comes around you in your life.

STRANGE FEELINGS AND SUPERNATURAL

These strange feelings are those kind of feelings that everyone experiences, but many don't realize them, and many can't differentiate among them.
some of the strange feelings are that,
(1) As if they see something a shapeless white kind, composed of thin air that moves suddenly in the air,
(2). As if they feel too strained,
(3) As if they are over enthusiazed,
(4) As if they are possessing some outer-world powers,
(5) As if u r going to die, but missed...

These are all the chemistry that goes on in the mind. what we feel, or had felt, or seen or heard about it in the recent past, or sometime ago thats really forgotten, is all that happens in the mind. The chemical reactions to the various fluids that mixed in the brain, or the intensity with which the blood flows into the brain all matters. Our environment too matters, as the we all will be experiencing different things in different environments and with different people.
Why do we feel that some of the things that happened in the past or the recent past repeats? and why do we feel that the situation that is recurring, that is we feel as if the position we are sitting and talking to someone or something happens all in the same type? That is a repetition of the past? Or that we dream of an event and that happens maybe the next moment or few hours later or few days later? Or anti thing that happens, where you feel something and entirely different thing happens, may be to you or to anyone else? Why do you feel that someone has spoken to you just now, but no one around u! or u feel u are being pushed or moved nothing being the reason?
Have you experienced if you have performed extremely faster than you expected, or unimaginably slower than u did before? Or as if u feel the things moving at a slow pace of still objects?

There are many reasons to these facts. some are explainable , some being understandable, or some being total crap, or some unexplainable at all. It all depends on how we take the things, and how knowledgeable we are. cos man many a times takes himself for granted and omniscient and his very obvious nature to object things or views of others makes simple things complicated.
Coming to the fact of what or how people feel these circumstances. Some express and some observe and some ignore and some cant recognize it. Let us be deal this topic in a more optimistic manner.
What i feel is that, in some cases these things are an experience of the past, or of others, that frames up a contiguous motion picture that we sometime realize again. There will be many thoughts that comes to us as a reminder or as a warning to us, which should at no cost be ignored, though we may not realize what it is, and why it is. this is of 3 types. One is that some people are psychic in nature, and can materialize the thoughts, and some just don't care and rest get scared what it is. So we need to think exactly as to why this kind of thought or imagination came up, and what could be the reason to it. Think over and keep in the subtle part of mind, where it does keep a check on it as well as not disturb your other work, so that whenever u get such indications or messages u decide what to do later. Some don't at all bother about it. They think its all in the fate and they need not worry about it in any way, and some feel that what ever is to happen happens all n its own and nothing is in their hands, and they cant do anything about it. Whereas some people try to change the route of the destiny in some way or the other. But one had to know that if one thinks optimistically and practically one can achieve it successfully.

6th SENSE AND BRAIN

I feel that sometimes the dreams that we see be it during the day or at night, is kind of bits and pieces of images that our brain keeps interest of, or those info that has impacted some situation, or caused a different kind of excitement, or agony, and they are arranged in some order, may not be all or may not be all being connected in the dream that we see, can be of a past (i mean a past experience) thats gets connected somehow, to form a story. this all happens as we think what before we sleep, i.e. good or bad. there can be nights that we may not even dream of, which i think is cos of no special thing has happened to keep track of it, or that the body or mind is strained to to dream, or even dream that we in our recognizable sense cant recognize it. dreams r sweet, but sometimes horror.

there r different states of sleep. in deep sleep, we don't/cant recognize what is going on, be it in the outside world, or in our dreams. then in a semi-deep-state where we can see whats going on, but can recall it when we get up. in this state outside world impacts indirectly to a little extent. next is the semi-state, where we can see n recall what we had dreamt about. last state is the state where we don't dream, but listen n can also analyze whats going on in the real world.