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We are all Gods

Sai Baba ... A Biography

Brahma Gyan

Do not try to get ‘ mantra ’ or ‘ upadesh ’ from anybody

Power of Meditation

Self Knowledge

Wickedness

Mind is the Builder

Treasures and Treasures

The Way Toward Health

Brahmarshi Subhash Patri

Science and Mind

Recouping health ... Breath-by-Breath

Blooming Buds School

Dhyana Yagnam

Science of Meditation

My Journey Towards Myself

Physical Health and Wisdom

Soul Cluster Groups

Vibrational Nature of today’s children

Guiding Principles

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Sai Baba ... a People’s God !

Sai Baba ... a Spiritual Master of the early 20th century Earth !

Sai Baba ... entered the physical body on 28th September , 1835 and

vacated the physical body on 15th October , 1918 !

Sai Baba ... quintessence of Indian Spirituality and Cosmic Truth !

Sai Baba ... a simple human being with astounding raw wisdom !

Sai Baba ... born in the village Patri and settled in the village Shirdi !

Sai Baba ... Pure Atma ... turned into flesh and blood, turned into muscles

and bones !

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Sai Maharaj ! ... You are our dear Astral Guru

and our dearest Astral Friend !

All the Anapanasati Meditators are well aware that you are behind most of

their meditational experiences !

You have allowed Pyramid Meditation into all your temples !

� �

We, the pyramid masters, are your followers !

We, the pyramid masters, are your compassion continued !

� � �

We, look forward eagerly to be in Shirdi, on the sacred soil, between the

period 25th Dec. to 31st Dec. , 2006 ... to do Intensive Meditation ... under

your personal guidance and your personal energy !

PPPPPranamsranamsranamsranamsranams Unto Y Unto Y Unto Y Unto Y Unto You !ou !ou !ou !ou !


god-hood means cosmic consciousnesscosmic consciousness

isachieved

only ... through ... a ... regular ... practice ... of

ANANANANANAPAPAPAPAPANANANANANASAASAASAASAASATI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITTI MEDITAAAAATIONTIONTIONTIONTIONcosmic energy

isobtained

only ... through ... being ... with ... the

“ When we are with the breath - energy, the mind becomes empty !

Then, there is a tremendous in-flow of cosmic energy into the physical body !

Gradually, the hitherto dormant third eye becomes energized ... and latent powers

of the cosmic consciousness are released ! ”

THE BREATH-ENERGY IS OUR ONLY SAVIOUR !

BE A MEDITATOR !BE A MEDITATOR !


NO MANTRA

“ no mantra is to be chanted ! ”

Forcible holding of one’s breath ... i.e.kumbhaka ... should never be attempted !

Anapanasati should be undertakenregularly, and for atleast thirty to forty minutesevery day.

Any time, and any place, is perfectly okayfor meditation !

EASY POSTURE

“ sthira sukham asanam ! ”

Take any comfortable sitting posture ! Handsshould be clasped and eyes closed !

Routine thoughts of the mind should be cutright away, as and when they arise !

Attention only on being consciously withthe breath - energy !

close your eyestake all the time you need to get comfortable

shift musclesshift musclesshift musclesshift musclesshift musclesstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relaxstretch and relax

spine and neck are relaxed ... not held stiffly !there is no stiffness here

just comfort ... the beginning of calm ... there is no hurry nowthere is nothing else to do ... or think about ... just pure relaxation !

BE STILL !INHALE SLOWLYEXHALE SLOWLY

let your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmlet your breath be a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calmyour breath is a rhythm of calm

follow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breathfollow your breath

BE STILL !BE WITH YOUR BREATH

use your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathuse your mind to follow your breathin in in in in ............... out out out out out ............... in in in in in ............... out out out out out

that is allthat is allthat is allthat is allthat is allBE STILL !

BE WITH YOUR BREATHbe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energybe with your breath-energy


Sai Baba, a personification of spiritual perfection and an epitome ofcompassion, lived in a little village called ‘ Shirdi ’ in the State of Maharashtra(India) for sixty years. Like most of the perfect saints, he left no authentic recordof his birth and early life before arriving at Shirdi.

Sai Baba’s simple, yet spiritually enriched, way of life with its supremedetachment and renunciation, and his method of imparting spiritual instructionand guidance to the devotees through instances and experiences of theirdaily lives have an unfailing appeal. ‘ Sai ’ means Savior, Master, or Saint.‘ Baba ’ means father as an expression of reverence.

The following account of the Master has been taken from a number of texts, mainly from “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” .EDIT-TEAM

her husband to wait for a while. But he went his

way. As soon as she was delivered of the child, a

son, beneath the shade of a banyan tree, she

placed her child on the ground, covered it with

banyan leaves and hastened after her husband,

for her duty lay in that direction.

✤ ✤ ✤

A person named Mr. Patil from a neighbouring

village was fetching his wife from her mother’s

hamlet, in a tonga. Sreemati Patil alighted from

the tonga and went to the very spot where the child

had been made to lie by Devagiriamma. She heard

the child’s cry, removed the banyan leaves and

found that it was a new-born child. Excited, she

called her husband to the spot and showed him

the child. They were a childless couple. And it was

their feeling that GOD had given them this child to

look after and to play with. They took the child

home. They brought it up as their own son.

“ birth of sai baba ”

Shirdi Sai Baba was born in September 28,

1835, to a Hindu couple.

Sri Sai Baba was the third child of a boatman,

Ganga Bhavadiya who lived in “ Patri ”, a village

near Manmad, on the banks of a river there.

Mother’s name was Devagiriamma.

✤ ✤ ✤

Torn between her husband and her children,

Devagiriamma decided that it was her duty to

follow in the footsteps of her husband, sent her

two children to her mother ’s house and

accompanied her husband into the forest.

✤ ✤ ✤

After they had covered some distance,

Devagiriamma felt that she was soon going to be

in child-bed. Birth pangs had set in. She implored

Govind R Dabholkar


“ boy-hood ”

The child grew up in the Patil household. Patil

died when the child was growing into boy-hood.

The mother was unable to cope with his activities.

The boy used to go into Hindu temples and recite

the ‘ Quran ’ there. He installed a stone Lingam in

a mosque and worshipped it there. Enraged Hindu

and Muslim neighbours came to the foster-mother

and complained bitterly about the

boy. She was puzzled.

Unable to control the boy,

Sreemati Patil, the foster-mother,

came to know of an ashram

started some miles away by a

sadhu named Venkusa. There

were, in the ashram, some

orphan boys and waifs. She

decided to take Babu (Shirdi Sai

Baba as boy) away and leave him

there. Venkusa had a dream on

the night previous to the coming

of the foster-mother with Baby. Sreemati Patil

went there at about 10 am, with Babu. She told

Venkusa about the boy’s disturbing activities and

prayed to Venkusa to take Babu as an inmate of

the ashram. Venkusa did so with great delight and

reverence.

“ return to shirdi ”

Baba first came to Shirdi when he was a young

lad of sixteen and stayed there for three years.

Then, all of a sudden, he disappeared for some

time. After some time, He reappeared in the Nizam

State, near Aurangabad, and again came to Shirdi,

with the marriage-party of Chand Patil, when he

was about twenty years old.

“ welcome sai baba ”

Sai Baba came to Shirdi with the said marriage

procession, which camped in a field near the

Khandoba’s temple on the outskirts of the village.

One Mhalsapati, a goldsmith by caste of Shirdi,

was a devotee of Shri Khandoba and visited that

temple daily. There, when this Mhalsapati first

saw Sai Baba, the former spontaneously

accosted him thus, “ Welcome Sai Baba ” and

this is the name i.e. ‘ Sai Baba ’ by which thereafter

this Saint of saints became known to the world.

“ l ife at shirdi ”

After Sai Baba’s return to

Shirdi in 1858, people observed

a change in his old routine.

Though by day he still spent a

great deal of time under his

favourite ‘ Neem ’ tree, and

occasionally sat near a stream

on the outskirts of the village, the

nights were spent either in the

village’s dilapidated mosque or in

the chavadi.

Sometimes he walked to

Neemgaon, two kilometers north

of Shiridi, and sometimes to Rahata, five

kilometers in the opposite direction.

✤ ✤ ✤

Once from a visit to Rahata, he brought back

with him saplings of marigold and jasmine. After

clearing a small patch of land, Sai Baba planted

the shrubs and tended them. At the end of three

years, under his daily ministrations, a beautiful

garden bloomed on what had once been barren

land.

“ cloth around head ”

Sai Baba wore a piece of white cloth around

his head which was knotted at the back and flowed

down from behind his left ear. He was usually

barefoot and a piece of sack-cloth served him

as a cushion. He kept a fire burning perpetually

in the mosque and when he sat next to it, he

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“ allah malik ! ”

Sai Baba did not mix with the local people and

he was scarcely ever seen speaking to any one.

He was often heard muttering sacred Urdu

phrases to himself but his manner at such times

made it clear to those in the vicinity that he did not

wish to be overheard.

His favourite expression however was

of Muslim origin - “ Allah Malik ” meaning

“ God is the Master. ”

✤ ✤ ✤

Apart from a handful of food and some small

quantities of tobacco for which he begged, the

only thing he really seemed to need was oil for

his lamps. The people of Shirdi ignored him as a

young man who was slightly touched in the head

and indulged in religious practices which were not

in keeping with the precepts of either Hinduism or

Islam.

“ dance .. . songs .. . bliss ”

In those early years of his life he used to go to

‘ Takia ’ , the public night shelter for moslem

visitors to the village. There in the company of

sojourning devotees and fakirs, he used to dance

and sing in divine bliss, with small trinkets tied

around his ankles. The songs he sang were

mostly in Persian or Arabic. Sometimes he sang

some popular verses of Kabir.

“ all are one ! ”

The split between the two communities ...

Hindus and Mohammedens ... widened up and

Sai Baba came to bridge that gulf. His constant

advice to all was to this effect.

“ Ram and Rahim are one and the

same; there is not the slightest

difference between them then, why

should their devotees fall out and

quarrel among themselves ? Join

hands and bring both the communities

together, act sanely and thus, you will

gain your object of national unity.

“ Yoga, sacrifice, penance and

knowledge are the means to attain God.

If you do not succeed in this by any

means, in vain is your birth. If anyone

does any evil unto you, do not retaliate.

If you can do anything, do some good

unto others.”

This, in short, was Sai Baba’s advice to

all, and this will stand in good stead both in

material and spiritual matters.

“ religious amity ”

Sai Baba himself actively discouraged

speculation amongst his devotees as to his

identity and back-ground. Despite extensive

enquiries, nobody was ever able to prove

conclusively whether Sai Baba was a Hindu or a

Muslim.


When asked for his name, he replied,

“ They call me Sai Baba ”

“ Creed or religion ? ”

“ Kabir ”

“ Caste or community ? ”

“ Parvardigar ! ”

Not a single answer was of the least help in

establishing his true identity !

✤ ✤ ✤

Though he lived in a mosque, he always had

a fire going in it. He not only had oil lamps burning

night and day, he even permitted the blowing of

conches and ringing of bells inside his mosque.

On the other hand, it was the name of Allah which

was always on his lips. Sai Baba disapproved of

extremes of religious orthodoxy.

“ knowledge of languages ”

His Hindi was as fluent as his Urdu. Nobody

believed that Baba knew Sanskrit. One day He

surprised all by giving an interpretation of a verse

from the Gita to Nanasaheb Chandorkar.

Nanasaheb Chandorkar was a good student

of Vedanta. He had read Gita with commentaries.

He fancied that Baba knew nothing of Sanskrit

texts. So, Baba one day pricked the bubble.

Nana, then, recited Bhagavad Gita IV-34, which

is as follows :

“ Tadviddhi Pranipaatena PariprashnenaSevaya,

Upadekshyanti Te GnyanamGnyaninastattwadarshinah ”

Baba began to explain :

“ It is not enough merely to prostrate

before the Gnyanis. We must make

Sarvasva Sharanagati (complete

surrender) to the Sadguru.

“ Mere questioning is not enough. The

question must not be made with any

improper motive or attitude or to trap the

Guru and catch mistakes in the answer,

or out of idle curiosity. It must be earnest

with a view to achieve spiritual progress

or liberation.

“ Seva is not rendering service, with the

feeling that one is free to offer or refuse

service. One must feel that, he is not

the master of the body, that the body is

Guru’s and exists merely to render

service to him.

“ If this is done, the Sadguru then will show

you, what the Knowledge referred to in the previous

stanza is. ”

Nana was humiliated, His pride was knocked

down.

“ always be doing something ! ”

It seems Baba did not like that any of His able

bodied devotees should remain idle and be a

burden on society or his kith and kin. He always

preached, “ A man should always be doingsomething.” He himself never sat idle but was

always busy doing something. In the noon, when

no work was at hand, he would just take a needle

and repair his torn out dhoti or his robe etc. and if

at such a time somebody would turn up and

question Baba, “ Why should you take this trouble8

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when we all are ready and willing to do this for

you ? ” He would at once reply :

“ One has to be always busy doing

something and so far as possible he

should avoid troubling others for his own

piece of work. ”

“ fasting and onion ”

‘ Fasting ’ and ‘ onion ’ were two of the things

which Baba often used as the subject ... matter

for displaying his wit and humour and, at the same

time, for showing his wonderful knowledge of men

and matters and also for

showing his divine powers.

Baba never fasted and

never believed in fasting and

always discouraged fasting as

a means of getting any spiritual

good.

Baba taught that the search

for God on an empty stomach

is not desirable, as it’d not

achieve its avowed goal and

the story of how he met his

Master in the forests only after

he ate. The food offered with

love by an unknown tribesman

and the advice he gave to Radhabai Deshmukh,

when she went on a fast unto death in Shirdi village

for getting his blessings.

✤ ✤ ✤

Baba much liked onion and his daily meal was

not complete unless he ate a couple of them, raw

and dry, with relish and often he had a dig at the

orthodoxy of several brahmins who refused even

to touch it, on grounds of sex and dirty smell. And,

his only purpose of making fun of fasting and onion

was to instruct his devotees and to show up his

omniscience.

“ wonderful bed-stead ”

Nanasaheb Bengle brought for Sai Baba, a

wooden plank, about four arms in length and only

a span in breadth, for sleeping upon. Instead of

keeping the plank on the floor and then sleeping

on it, Baba tied it like a swing to the rafters of the

Masjid with old shreds of rags and commenced to

sleep upon it. The rags were so thin and worn out

than it was a wonder, how they could bear or

support weight of the plank itself, let alone the

weight of Baba. But, somehow or other it was

Baba’s sheer Leela that the worn out rags did

sustain the plank, along with the

weight of Baba on it !

✤ ✤ ✤

On the four corners of this

plank, Baba lighted Panatis

(earthen lamps), one at each

corner and kept them burning

the whole night. It was a sight

for the Gods to see Baba sitting

or sleeping on this plank ! It was

a wonder to all, how Baba got

up and down the plank. Out of

curiosity, many curious

observers kept watching the

process of mounting and dismounting, but none

succeeded.

✤ ✤ ✤

As crowds began to swell, so as to detect this

wonderful feat, Baba one day broke the plank into

pieces and threw it away. Baba had all the eight

Maha Siddhis (powers) at his command. He

neither practised nor craved for them. They came

to him naturally, as a result of his spiritual

perfection.

“ begging ”

Sai Baba himself ate very little; and the little he

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families in shirdi who had come to consider it a

privilege to render this services.

But many were the times when Sai Baba

himself distributed food ! What was unique about

these occasions was that everything from the

shopping to the actual cooking was done by Baba

himself without any assistance from anyone. And,

as if that was not enough, he personally served

the food to all who were present in his mosque.

“ DWARKAMAI ”

“ See God in all living creatures ! ”

Sai Baba’s mosque which he had named ‘ the

Dwarkamai ’ was open to all.

Dogs, cats, crows and lizards were as

welcome as the lame, the blind and the leprous.

Poor man, rich man, the able-bodied and the

handicapped, all were treated with the same

graciousness and courtesy.

“ sister l izard on visit ! ”

One day, as he sat as usual before his sacred

fire in the mosque, a lizard on the wall made a

constant ‘ tic-tic ’ sound. A devotee asked whether

the sound produced by the lizard was of any

particular significance.

“ The lizard is happy because her sister from

Aurangabad is coming to see her ”, Baba told

him !

This explanation perplexed the devotee but

he kept quiet. Minutes later, a gentleman from

Aurangabad stopped at the mosque to see Sai

Baba. He had come on horseback and had

broken journey at Shirdi as the horse was hungry.

As the man unslung a cloth bag (containing feed

for the horse) and thumped it lightly on the floor, to

rid it of dust, a lizard emerged from it and swiftly

made its way up the wall to the other one, and

the two went scuttling along the rafters !

“ manifestation of Brahma ”

Though, Sai Baba looked like a man, three

cubits and a half in length, still he dwelt in the

hearts of all. Inwardly, he was unattached and

indifferent but outwardly, he longed for mass

welfare.

Though, inwardly, an abode of peace, he

looked outwardly restless. Inwardly, he had the

state of Brahma, outwardly he seemed

engrossed in the world.

✤ ✤ ✤

Sometimes, he looked on all with affection

and at times he threw stones at them;

sometimes he scolded them, while at times he

embraced them and was calm, composed,

tolerant and well-disposed towards his bhaktas.

✤ ✤ ✤

He always sat on one Asan and never

travelled. His ‘satka’ was a small stick, which he

always carried in his hand. He was calm and

thought-free. He never cared for wealth and fame,

and lived on begging. Such a life he led. He always

uttered “ Allah Malik ” ... “ God is the realowner ”.

He was the store-house for self-knowledge

and full of divine bliss.

“ miraculous manifestations ”

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and occurrences even at long distances. Though

he never physically left Shirdi, he was known to

materialise himself in other bodies in far distant

places.

But, in order to do so, he never went into

trance, nor did he ever interrupt his normal routine

in Shirdi itself !

✤ ✤ ✤

Curiously enough, to those who had seen him,

he invariably appeared in a form, different from

his own, while for the benefit of those who had

never even heard of him, he materialised as the

well-known figure in the white robe and head cloth.

These manifestations, whatever the form they

took, were always for a reason.

✤ ✤ ✤

Sai Baba himself spoke frequently of his travels

over great distances. Sitting besides his fire in

the Dwarkamai, he often regaled his devotees with

tales of where he had been and whom he had

visited during the night.

“ I don’t mind my arm being burnt ! ”

Diwali day, Baba was seated as usual in his

mosque feeding wood to his sacred fire when he

thrust his arm into the flames. Two devotees who

were present at the time caught him by the waist

and pulled him back.

When asked why he had done such a thing,

Sai Baba explained :

“ The wife of a blacksmith was working

the bellows of a furnace when her

husband called out to her. Forgetting that

she had a child tied around her waist,

she ran to her husband and the child fell

into the furnace. So I thrust my hand into

it and pulled the child out ! I don’t mind

my arm being burnt ... I’am glad that the

child’s life was saved. ”

✤ ✤ ✤

Sai Baba, of course, refused to have his burns

treated. The doctor who was sent for all the way

from Mumbai by some of Sai Baba’s wealthier

devotees was not even permitted to examine the

arm, let alone treat it.

✤ ✤ ✤

The only person who was allowed to dress the

burns was a leper devotee called Bhagoji Shinde.

The ‘ treatment ’ consisted of the burnt area being

massaged with ghee, covered with a leaf and

wound tight with bandages. It was typical of Sai

Baba that he accepted this personal service from

one who was an advanced case of leprosy.

“ no ashrams ”

Though enormous sums of money flowed into

Shirdi after Sai Baba’s fame had spread, he never

kept any of it nor did his life-style undergo the

slightest change.

He owned no property, he built no ashrams

and costly gifts were returned to the donors. The

money collected daily was distributed by him each

evening amongst the poor and the needy. Except

for a few coins which he set aside to purchase oil

for his lamps, wood for his fire and tobacco for his

pipes, he kept nothing for himself ...

At the time of his death, in 1918, Sai Baba’s

worldly possessions were exactly what they had11


been when he came to Shirdi in 1858. a white

cotton robe, a piece of headcloth, a tin can, a

wooden stick and some clay pipes.

“ seventy-two hours of samadhi ”

Thirty-two years before Samadhi, i.e. in 1886,

Baba made an attempt to cross the border line.

On a Margashirsha Pournima (Full moon) day,

Baba suffered from a severe attack of Asthma.

To get rid of it, Baba decided to take his Pran high

up and go into Samadhi. He said to

Bhagat Mhalsapati :

“ Protect my body for three

days ! If I return, it will be all right,

if I do not, bury my body in that

open land ... pointing to it ... and

fix two flags there as a mark ! ”

After saying this, Baba fell down

at about 10 p.m. His breathing

stopped as well as his pulse. It

seemed as if his prana left the body.

All the people, including the villagers

came there and wanted to hold an

inquest and bury the body in the place, pointed by

Baba. But, Mhalsapati prevented this. With Baba’s

body on his lap, he sat full three days guarding it.

After three days passed, Baba showed signs of

life at 3 a.m. His breathing commenced, the

abdomen began to move. His eyes opened and

stretching his limbs, Baba returned to

consciousness again.

“ my life left me today ! ”

Some days before Baba’s departure, there

occured an ominous sign foreboding the event.

There was, in the Masjid, an old brick on which

Baba rested his hand and sat. At night time he

leaned against it and had his Asan. This went on

for many years. One day, during Baba’s absence

a boy who was sweeping the floor, took it up in his

hand, and unfortunately it slipped and fell down

and got broken into two pieces.

When Baba came to know about this, he

bemoaned its loss, saying :

“ It is not the brick, but my fate, that has

been broken into pieces. It was as dear

to me as my life, it has left me today ! ”

“ passing away ... 15th October, 1918 ”

When Sai Baba knew that he

was to pass away soon, he asked

Mr. Vaze to read ‘ Ramvijay ’ to him.

Mr. Vaze read the book once in

the week. Then, Baba asked him to

read the same again day and night,

and he finished the second reading

in three days.

Thus eleven days passed. Then

again he read for three days and

was exhausted. So, Baba let him go

and kept himself quiet. He abided in

his Self and was waiting for the last

moment.

✤ ✤ ✤

Two or three days earlier, Baba had stopped

his morning peregrinations and begging rounds,

and sat quietly in the Masjid.

✤ ✤ ✤

Baba got a slight fever on 28th September,

1918. The fever lasted for two or three days, but

afterwards Baba gave up his food, and thereby

grew weaker and weaker.

On the 17th day, i.e., tuesday, 15th October,

1918, on Vijayadasami. Baba left his mortal coil

at about 2-30 pm.

material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi ...

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There was a rich gentleman who was veryprosperous in his life.

He had amassed a large quantity of wealth,houses, and lands, and had many servants anddependents. When Baba’s fame reached hisears, he said to a friend of his that he was not inwant of anything, and so, he would go to Shirdiand ask Baba to give him “ Brahma-gyan ”, whichif he got, would certainly make him more happy.His friend dissuaded him, saying, “ It is not easyto know Brahma and especially so for anavaricious man like you, who is always engrossedin wealth, wife and children.”

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Not minding his friend’s advice, the fellowengaged a return journey tonga and came toShirdi. He went to the Masjid, saw Sai Baba, fell athis feet and said, “ Baba, hearing that you showthe Brahma to all who come to you, I too havecome here all the way from my distant place. I ammuch fatigued by the journey and if I get theBrahma-gyan from you, my troubles will be well-paid and rewarded.” Baba replied, “ Oh, my dearfriend, don’t be anxious, I shall show you theBrahma. Many people come to me and ask forwealth, health, power, honour, position, cure ofdiseases and other temporal matters. Rare is theperson who comes to me and asks for Brahma-gyan.

“ There is no dearth of persons asking forworldly things but persons interested in spiritualmatters are very rare, I think, it is a fortunate andauspicious moment, when persons like you, comeand ask me for ‘Brahma-gyan’.”

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Saying this, Baba started to show him theBrahma. He made him sit there and engaged himin some other talk and thus, made him forget hisquestion for the time-being. Then he called a boyand told him to go to one ‘ Nandu Marwadi ’ andget from him a loan of Rs. five. The boy left andreturned immediately, saying that Nandu wasabsent and his house was locked. Then, Babaasked him to go to ‘ Bala grocer ’ and get from himthe said loan. This time also the boy wasunsuccessful. This experiment was repeated againtwice or thrice, with the same result.

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Why did Sai want the paltry sum of five rupees,and why did he try hard to get it ? Really he did notwant this sum at all ! He knew that Nandu andBala were absent, and the whole thing was a testfor the seeker of Brahma. That gentleman had aroll or bundle of currency notes in his pocket and ifhe was really earnest, he would not have sat quietand be a mere on-looker !

When Baba was frantically trying to get a paltrysum of Rs. five, and he knew that Baba would keephis word and repay the debt, and that the sumwanted was insignificant, still, he could not makeup his mind and advance the sum. Such a manwanted from Baba, the greatest thing in the world,Brahma-gyan !

He was in a haste and he implored Baba, “ OhBaba, please, give me the Brahma-gyan soon ! ”Baba replied, “ Oh my dear friend, for seeingBrahma, one has to give five things : 1. five pranas... vital forces 2. five senses, 3. mind, 4. intellect5. ego. This path of ‘ Brahma-gyan ’ or self-realization is so hard tread ! ”

material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi

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There was an old woman, by name

Radhabai. She was the mother of one Khashaba

Deshmukh.

Hearing Baba’s fame, she came to Shirdi with

the people of Sangamner. She had Baba’s

darshan and was very satisfied. She loved Baba

intimately and resolved in her mind that she

should accept Baba as her Guru and take

Upadesh from him.

She was determined to fast unto death, should

Baba not accept her and give Upadesh. She

stayed on in her lodging and stopped taking any

food or water for three days.

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On seeing her

determination, Baba sent for

her, and made her change

her mind by addressing as

follows :

“ Oh mother ! Why do

you subject yourself to

unnecessary tortures ? You

are my mother and I am your

child. Take pity on me and

hear me through.

“ I had a guru. He was a

great saint and most

merciful. I served him long,

very long, still he would not

blow any mantra into my

ears. I had a keen desire, never to leave him, but

to stay with him and serve him. But he had his

own way. He first got my head shaved and asked

me for two paise as Dakshina. I gave the same at

once. You may ask, ‘ why should he ask for money

and how can he be called desireless ? ’ The reply

is that, he never cared for coins. His two ‘ paise ’

were ... 1. firm belief 2. patience and

perseverance. I gave those two paise to him and

he was pleased ! ”

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“ I resorted to my Guru for twelve years. He

brought me up. There was no dearth of food and

clothing. He was full of love

... he was love incarnate.

When I looked at him, he

seemed as if he was in

deep meditation and then,

we both were filled with

bliss. My mind was always

fixed on him. This

‘ Nishtha ’ ... firm faith ... is

one paisa of Dakshina.

‘ Saburi ’ ... patience or

perseverance ... is the other

paisa.

“ I waited patiently and

served my Guru. This

Saburi will ferry you across

the sea of this mundane

existence. Saburi removes all sins and afflictions,14Spiritual India, September - October 2006

material excerpted from the book “ Shri Sai Satcharita ” by Govind Raghunath Dabholkar alias ‘Hemadpant’ ”English translation by Nagesh Vasudev Gunaji published by D.M. Sukthankar, Sri Sai Baba Samsthan, Shirdi ...

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gets rid of calamities in various ways, and casts

aside all fear, and ultimately, gives you success.

Saburi is the mine of virtues, consort of good

thought. ”

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“ My Guru never expected any other thing from

me.”

“ Oh mother ! My Guru never taught me any

‘ mantra ’ ... then, how shall I blow any ‘ mantra ’

into your ears ? Just remember that Guru’s

tortoise-like loving glance gives us happiness ! Do

not try to get ‘ mantra ’ or ‘ upadesh ’ from

anybody ! Make me the sole object of your

thoughts and actions and you will, no doubt, attain

Paramartha ... the spiritual goal of life. Look at

me whole heartedly. Sitting in this masjid, I speak

the truth, nothing but the truth ! ”

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Instructed in this way, the old lady was

convinced. She bowed to Baba and gave up her

fast.

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Then, Baba spoke as follows :

“ My method is quite unique. Remember

well ! To get the knowledge ... realization of the

SELF, ... dhyan ... meditation ... is necessary. If

you practise it continuously, the vrittis ... subtle

thoughts ... will be pacified. Being quite desireless

... you should meditate on God, who is in all the

creatures and when the mind is concentrated, the

goal will be achieved. Meditate always on my form-

less nature, which is ... Knowledge Incarnate ...

Consciousness ... Bliss.

“ As you go on doing this, your vrittis will be

single-pointed. And the meditator will be one with

the consciousness and be merged in the Brahma.

“ Victory be to our Sadguru Sai Maharaj,

Who is Pure

Consciousness ... Knowledge ...

Bliss ! ”


Rachana Gupta

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Then, I turned towards spirituality.

I got initiated by Sri Sri Hans Raj JiMaharaj of ‘ Ram Sharanan ’. I got somepeace by chanting ‘ Ram Mantra ’. Forthe last twelve years, I have been hisdisciple.

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Then I came to know about Reiki. I learnt Reikifrom the Jalandhar Reiki Master ... Mrs. Pooja Jain;I was very excited with it.

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The turning point in my life came when Mrs.Pooja Jain one day phoned me and asked me toattend a meditation class. She said that mastersfrom ‘ Pyramid Spiritual Societies ’, fromHyderabad, were coming to her house and thatshe has arranged one class for all her Reikistudents !

In the beginning, I was reluctant to go but I don’tknow ... something made me change my mind ...I travelled from Ludhiana to Jalandhar, to attendthe meditation class.

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30th January, 2006 ... the day I will treasure forwhole of my life ! I went to Puja’s house in Jalandharand she introduced me to Mr. Anjaneya Sharma, agreat pyramid master !

Iam Rachana Gupta, a simple house-wife in Ludhiana, Punjab.

I was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, in aroyal family. We are four brothers andsisters.

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I had everything in life ... still I foundsomething ‘ missing ’. I didn’t enjoy a happychildhood because I didn’t posses good physicaland mental health. I remained a disturbed person.

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My father deeply believed in astrology and triedgem therapy from time to time on me. However, Iwas quite good in studies. I came out of mygraduation with distinction ! I wanted to pursue myhigher studies further, ... but being a girl, I was notallowed to do so !

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I got married to Mr. Raj Kumar Gupta ofLudhiana. He is such a gem of a person ! We arehappily married and blessed with two sons !

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After the birth of my younger son, I startedgetting asthma attacks. We went to so manydoctors ... but the relief was temporary. I had sinusproblem also and was using nasal drops. I got fedup with it and sometimes used to go into suchdepression that I wished to end my life, as it wasall so painful.

LUDHIANA


Mr. Sharma enquired about me. My reply ... “ Iam practicing ‘ mantra Japa’ but I am not satisfied.I want something more ! I have read that everythingis inside ! When will I go inside ? Which is theright way to go inside ? ”

Sweatly replying, Sharmaji said ...“ Anapanasati meditation is the only right way !Why are you still sitting in ‘ nursery classes ’ whenthe doors of Ph.D. are open for you ? ! ”

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Madam Satya and Madam Padmaja, seniorpyramid spiritual masters from Andhra Pradeshwere giving the class. They taught meditation tous. We had a half-an-hourmeditation. I felt so very light andenergetic as I had never felt before! It was an entirely new experiencefor me and I immediately desiredthat my family members, friendsand relatives should also enjoy thiswonderful experience !

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I asked them if it would bepossible for them to visit Ludhiana... I so desperately wanted toarrange a class, for others to availthe benefit of meditation ! Theypromised to come !

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1st Feb. 2006 ... they did cometo my home in Ludhiana ! Themeditation class went off so well, everybody likedit !

I had an opportunity to talk in greater depth toShri Sharmaji. He ... like a master, friend andphilosopher ... guided me towards real spiritualityand clarified all my doubts. He asked me to dothree hours of meditation daily ! It was a bit difficultfor me ... but I very seriously wanted to mature inmeditation !

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From that day on ... my journey into truespirituality began in right earnest ! I started doingthree hours meditation daily ! One hour each time

... three times ... a day ! From the very first day Inoticed that ... I was breathing very normal ...without the help of nasal drops ! It was a miracle... my twenty years old addiction vanished in thevery first sitting !

I was so excited, the cure that medicinescouldn’t give me, meditation gave me ! I thankedGod for sending ‘ Pyramid Masters ’ in my life !

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I decided to do forty days meditation sincerely.My forty days were to be finished by 10th March.

Within forty days, I experienced lots of changes... my asthma attacks completely vanished. My

doctors were absolutelyamazed ! Pain in my kneesdisappeared ! I lost extraweight !

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I became a completelydifferent person !

My attitude towards children,family members and my friendscompletely changed ! From ashy, irritated and sickly person ...I became a very friendly, easy-going, loving and healthyperson !

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Seeing me, all my familymembers who were near to me

started taking meditation seriously.

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Earlier, my favorite past-time was gossiping,watching T.V serials, sleeping etc. ... but they allchanged into new spiritual habits ... like readinggood spiritual books, doing meditation andteaching meditation.

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My inner intution advised me to remove all thegem-stones and the rings I was wearing, as theywere ‘ not proper ’ for me now ! I even stoppedpracticing Reiki ! I stopped chanting mantras !

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Now, in my life, only one thing remainsmeaningful ... that is meditation ! The dictum is ...“ do meditation ... and it takes care of all thethings ” !

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March 2006 ... the ‘ Pyramid Masters ’ againcame to Punjab. This time, I also arranged someclasses and joyfully participated in them !

Seeing a tremendous difference in me, myhusband and my family members ( ours is a big joint

family ) all became very enthusiastic. Everybodystarted doing meditation and everybody helpedenthusiastically in arranging the classes inLudhiana. It was my first initiative. The classeswent off very well ! In those two days, Mr. Sharmaused to tell me about his great master BrahmarshiPatriji and how he changed his life. The more hetold about Patriji, the more I was becoming eagerto meet him !

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April, 2006 ... Madam Satya phoned me andtold me that she was going to Pune as Patriji willalso be there for four days. She asked me to joinher. I wanted very badly to meet Patriji. I asked myhusband. He immediately gave his consent.

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1st May, 2006 ... me and my husband left forPune ! At Pune airport, we were cordially receivedby Satya Madam, her husband Mr. Raj Shekharand Mr. Vijay ... all great pyramid masters. Westayed among many masters and every personhad wonderful experiences to share ! We wereso amazed that Patriji has created / is creating somany masters !

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3rd May ... a day I will remember all my life ! Imet Patriji with his white beard, radiantcomplexion ! He appeared like some great God tome ! I couldn’t take my eyes off him !

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He asked me and my husband to tell aboutourselves. We related all our experiences and what

made us come to Pune to meet him. He asked usto join him in all the classes in Pune, Shirdi andAhmednagar.

The first class was in Pune Central Jail. Patrijiconducted the class so beautifully ! He played theflute, taught meditation to prisoners and askedthem to become vegetarian ! He called me ontothe dais and asked me to say a few words ! Tillnight, we attended many classes with Patriji atdifferent places.

Patriji was so energetic, so full of life, and sojovial in nature ! For the next two days, he was inPune. Then, along with him we went to Shirdi,Ahmednagar and many small villages. In everyclass we came to learn different things !

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7th May ... we said ‘ bye ’ to Patriji and returnedto Punjab with an himalayan amount of newspiritual strength, new approach to life and tonnesof wisdom ! Me and my husband immediatelyembarked upon teaching meditation, as requestedby Patriji ! We conducted classes in jails, schools,yoga centres, at homes, traffic police, doctors etc.The more we taught, the more we were spirituallythrilled !

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15th June 2006 ... Patriji visited Punjab ! It wasthe hottest month ... but with his arrival, the coolbreeze started blowing ! For a week, Patrijitravelled the whole of Punjab. He taught meditationin Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Chandigarh,Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala ... and many small villages.Wherever he went, he created a new atmosphere!

In every class, he called me onto the stage andall the respect and importance I got, I can neverforget ! He created altogether a new, confident,highly energetic and lively Rachana !

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I humbly thank God for sending Patriji into mylife. He is like a lamp post, guiding me towards thepurpose of my current life-time !

Rachana Gupta

21-B - Moti Nagar, Ludhiana ... ph : 0 98729 76005


Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.

You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.

You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

And it is well you should.

The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise

and run murmuring to the sea ;

And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.

But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;

And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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Say not, “ I have found the truth ”, but rather, “ I have found a truth ”.

Say not, “ I have found the path of the soul ”.

Say rather, “ I have met the soul walking upon my path ”.

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

material excerpted from the book “ Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran ”published by Shrijee’s Book International. New Delhi ... grateful acknowledgements ...edit-team

Kahlil Gibran


The man who ranges himself on the side of

evolution realizes the wickedness of destroying

life.

He knows that, just as he is here in this physical

body in order that he may learn the lessons of this

plane, so is the animal occupying his body for the

same reason, that

through it ... he may gain

experience at his lower

stage. He knows that the

life behind the animal is

the Divine Life, that all life

in the world is divine.

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The animals,

therefore, are truly our

brothers ... even though they may be younger

brothers, and we can have no sort of right to take

their lives for the gratification of our perverted

tastes ... no right to cause them untold agony and

suffering merely to satisfy our degraded and

detestable lusts.

We have brought things to such a pass with

our miscalled ‘ sport ’ and our wholesale

slaughterings, that all wild creatures fly from the

sight of us. Does that seem like the universal

brotherhood of God’s creatures ? Is that your idea

of the golden age of worldwide kindliness that is

to come ... a condition when every living thing flees

from the face of man because of his murderous

instincts ?

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Every one of these

creatures which you so

ruthlessly murder in this

way has its own

thoughts and feelings

with regard to all this; it

has horror, pain and

indignation, and an

intense but

unexpressed feeling of

the hideous injustice of it all. The whole

atmosphere about us is full of it.

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Though all the inhabitants may not be directly

conscious of it and recognize it as Mrs. Besant

did, they may be sure that they are suffering from

it unconsciously, and that that terrible vibration of

horror and fear and injustice is acting upon every

one of them, even though they do not know it.

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Bob Trowbridge

Bob Trowbridge received his Master of Divinity degree from

San Francisco Theological Seminary. He served as a Presbyterian

minister for five years before directing his efforts and his

considerable talents to private counseling, writing, lecturing, and

leading workshops. When he is not speaking or facilitating

workshops, he resides in Mountain view, California. edit-Team

Being sick is seldom fun, and sometimes itis life threatening.

The symptoms of an illness ... and thetreatment ... can range from annoying anduncomfortable to extremely painful. For many,feelings of being powerless and victimized arenearly as bad as the illness itself.

“ natural principles ! ”

What if you weren’t the victim of your illness ?What if illnesses were the result of natural orspiritual principles, principles that could be learnedand applied in order to heal and prevent illness ?What if you could live your life illness free andcould experience a quality and fullness of life farbeyond what you now know ?

“ mind is the builder ”

The ‘ Maitri Upanishad ’ tells us, “ One’s ownthought is one’s world. What a person thinks iswhat he becomes ”.

In the ‘ Dhammapada ’ , Buddha says : “ Weare shaped by our thoughts ... we become whatwe think.”

Edgar Cayce expressed the principle of “ Spiritis the life ... Mind is the builder ... Physical is theresult. ”

“ For mind is the builder and that which wethink upon may become crimes or miracles.For thoughts are things and as their currentsrun through the environs of an entity’s experiencethese become barriers or stepping-stones.”

Edgar Cayce

“ spirit is the building block ”

We are spiritual beings. Spirit can be seen asdivine energy or divine ‘ matter ’.

Both the energy and the material we use tobuild our physical experience come from Spirit.That which eventually becomes our physicalreality, including our bodies, comes directly fromthe Creator. Spirit is the building block for matter.

“ thoughts and feelings ”

Imagine your mind as pipe. Divine energy ispoured into one end of the pipe. Inside the pipeour mind modifies that energy. We shape it withour thoughts and feelings. We shape it with ourfears and desires, our attitudes and beliefs.Pouring out of the other end of the pipe is thephysical result, our life experience, including ourbody and its state of health or illness.

“ we are powerful ! ”

Our ability to make ourselves unhappy or sickdemonstrates how powerful we are. This shouldn’tdiscourage us, however. It is possible for us toco-operate with the positive intent of the universe,to come into alignment or attunement with it, sothe Spirit can come through our minds with verylittle distortion.


When this happens, we can become a channelof blessings to ourselves and others. We canlearn to create miracles and stepping-stones evenmore easily than we now create crimes andbarriers, or serious illnesses.

“ conscious and unconscious ”

The mind is the waking consciousness as wellas the unconscious and the superconscious.What is conscious is what we are aware of at anygiven time or can easily be brought to awarenessfrom our memory banks.

Obviously , the line between what is consciousand what is unconscious is not fixed. Theunconscious, on the other hand, contains thingsthat are not easily available to consciousness.Many of these things are childhood experiences... or past-life experiences ... that have beenforgotten or even repressed.The unconscious also containsmany ideas, attitudes, beliefs,expectations, fears and desireswhich affect our lives every day.

“ superconscious ”

Superconscious is the realmof consciousness in which ourspiritual nature resides. This isthe realm of the Higher self, theChrist self, Buddha self, or God self.

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We repress our powerful, positive, beautiful,divine selves and they reside in thesuperconscious. Just as the unconscious can beexplored through dreams, meditation, and otheravenues, so can the superconscious be exploredand many gifts can be raised to consciousness.

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A surprising number of our physicalexperiences, including illnesses, are created bythoughts and feelings that are quite conscious.

“ mind moulds divine energy ! ”

We believe that life is difficult, and our livesbecome difficult.

Some experiences are created by thoughts andbeliefs that are beneath our normal wakingconsciousness, like hidden fears. We will attractand experience the things we fear, and our fearwill grow stronger.

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All of these thoughts, whether conscious orunconscious, whether fears or desires, modifySpirit as it passes through the mind.

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As we look at the process of the mind mouldingdivine energy into our life experiences, we shouldkeep in mind the existence of these unconsciousand superconscious shadows. We also need topay attention to our conscious thoughts and thewords we speak.

“ we create our daily experiences ! ”

We create our world and ourdaily experiences with ourthoughts.

In a sense, we hypnotizeourselves every day with thewords we say and the thoughtswe think. If we believe and saylimiting things about ourselveswe are creating limits in our

lives.

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The energy that comes from Spirit does nothave ‘ can’t ’ attached to it. The ‘ can’t ’ comesfrom our minds.

“ illness ... a self-hypnotic process ! ”

Illnesses are frequently created through theself-hypnotic process. We give ourselves hypnoticsuggestions all the time. Spoken or thoughtfrequently enough and with enough energy, thesehypnotic statements will make us sick and can, insome cases, kill us.

“ de-energize negative thoughts ”

Pay attention to your words, thoughts, andfeelings.

Whenever you catch yourself saying or thinking22


material excerpted from the book “ The Hidden Meaning of Illness ”by Bob Trowbridge, ... published by A.R.E. Press ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team

anything of a negative or limiting nature, stop.Immediately begin to de-energize negative andlimiting thoughts or ideas by saying to yourself.

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If you deny your negative and limiting thoughts,their status as truths or facts, they will begin tolose their power over you. Even those things whichseem as real as money problems, relationshipproblems, or serious illnesses are nothing morethan materialized ideas.

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A person who is successful in business canbring some of the thoughts and feelings from thatpart of his or her life and apply them to an illness.In dealing with a serious illness, our feelings canbe our greatest foe or our greatest ally.

“ your self-image is creative ! ”

Your self-image is creative. What you thinkabout yourself has a powerful effect on how youact in the world, how you treat others, and howyou expect to be treated.

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Many limitations in your life are the result ofhow you view yourself. Many of the things youcreate in your life or are unable to create in yourlife are the result of your self-image.

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Your self-image is not fixed. Your personalityis not fixed. Your gifts and abilities are not fixed.Your limitations are also not fixed. Your self-imageis a constellation of ideas you have about yourself.

“ everything is a feed-back ! ”

There is no part of your life that is not part ofthe feedback system !

It is important to understand the unity of life. Inother words, you can’t separate your illness fromother parts of your life.

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Illnesses are not the problem but arethemselves simply part of the feedback system,pointing to the real problem.

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As you begin to see your experiences andrelationships as part of a feedback system, aguidance system for helping you to improve yourlife, you will be able to see yourself more and moreas the author of your experiences and less as thevictim.

“ teachers and helpers ”

Ironically, you can begin to see all of thenegative experiences and individuals in your lifeas teachers and helpers rather than as obstaclesand enemies. Illnesses are not the problem. Theyare, in fact, part of the solution. Our illnesses havewithin them a healing intent.

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The negative feedback we get from our worldis not a reflection of what is true about us or aboutthe world. It is a reflection of our beliefs.

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A serious illness may be the result of manymonths or years of feedback that we either did notperceive or we overlooked or ignored. When youdeny the power of your own thoughts and placeyour issues outside yourself, when you blame otherpeople or situations for what’s happening in yourlife, you give your power away and confirm yourselfas helpless.

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Any part of your life that is not working may betelling you something about an imbalance ordisease in your thinking. In a sense, it’s a thoughtproblem.

Your problems and illnesses should thereforebe seen as blessings because they can serve toheal your life, to get you back on a path of healthand wholeness.


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When I was four years old, while hiking with

my Father in the mountains I saw some people

who were driving a carriage with four horses. After

watching their joy, I turned to my Father, looking at

me, said, “ I do not have a carriage, a horse ... ”

My Father, looking at me, said, “ Let us sit on this

rock for a moment and I will tell you what you

have ”.

We sat on a rock facing a valley which spread

out in front of us for hundreds of miles. “ Now, first

of all ”, he said, “ you have a nice body. Look at

your hands. Here : look at your face in this small

mirror. Do you see ? ”

“ Yes ”

Torkom Saraydarian

Torkom Saraydarian (1917-1997) was born in Asia Minor. He lived with Sufis, dervishes,Christian mystics, and masters of temple music and dance. Meditation became a part of hisdaily life, and service a natural expression of his soul.

Saraydarian wrote a large number of books, many of which have been published. Hiswritings and lectures and music show his total devotion to the higher principles, values, andlaws.

A few excerpts from the book “ Dynamics of The Soul ”. edit-team

“ spirit of gratitude ”

Those who have the spirit of gratitude already

know that all of Nature, all of Life, is a treasure.

We must learn to recognize that everything

that exists is a treasure : mountains, rivers, lakes,

streams, forests, flowers, birds, animals,

minerals, and human beings. All of these are

treasures in the treasury of space, and we must

relate to them as treasures.

“ what is a treasure ? ”

A treasure is an object, a power, a living being,

or a virtue that multiplies and meets your physical,

emotional, mental and spiritual needs. It also

becomes a blessing to all around you, and to all

those who are far away from you.24


“ Also, all these mountains are yours. The air

is yours ; the sky is yours ; that river is yours.

This pure fragrance is yours ; these birds are

yours. All of this is yours ... so long as you enjoy

and care for these things. ”

“ Father, ” I said, “ I did not know that I had all of

this ! ”

“ Later, when you grow up, you will realize that

there are treasures which cannot be seen ! ”

“ Can any treasure exist which we cannot

see ? ”

“ Yes ! For example, your vision is a treasure

which you cannot see. Can you see your mother’s

love for you ? ”

“ No, but I know that she cares for me ! ”

“ Right. There are many treasures in man. One

day you will discover them.”

“ human being is a great treasure ”

I never forgot this talk with my father, and

gradually it sank into my heart.

As I grew up I realized that the human being is

a great treasure, with his senses, thinking, and

creativity. Whenever, I walk in the mountains and

canyons, it seems to me that I am walking among

treasures.

A flower, a bush, a bird, a deer is enough to

make you feel ecstasy !

✤ ✤ ✤

Just as a man who lives in luxury feels that all

that he has is nothing special, so mankind lives in

the treasury of Nature and feels that he has

nothing. Unless one realizes that he is a treasure

in himself, he cannot see the real treasures in life.

The moment he realizes his own worth, he will be

filled with gratitude and will become aware of all

the treasures by which he is surrounded.

“ four facts ”

In later years, when I contemplated about

treasures and the treasury, I discovered four facts

that made me extremely happy.

First, I found out that there were inner, invisible

treasures as well as outer and visible treasures.

Second, but a more important discovery was that

the outer treasures could be increased by investing

and sharing them or by using them economically.

Inner treasures were also increased by sharing

and distributing them with joy and love. The more

you gave of your inner treasures, the more you

had.

Third, the inner and outer treasures do not

belong to us but to all life !

The fourth and final discovery was that ... when

you share your inner treasures, you not only

increase your inner treasures but you also increase

your outer treasures. And similarly, when you

share your outer treasures with clean motive, you

increase your inner treasures.

“ a poor life, inspite of abundance ! ”

One day, while my family was travelling by boat

on the ocean, I saw a bottle floating in the water.

My mother said, “ Can you tell me what the bottle

suggests to you ? ”

“ That someone put a cork in it and threw it into

the sea. ”

“ Well, that is called a smart escape. But think

now. Let me see if you can find something deeper.”

“ You know, mother, a floating bottle is like a

foolish man. ”

“ You are very close to finding the answer. Think

a little more.”


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It was back on board that I finally found the

answer.

“ The bottle is in the sea,” I said, “but the sea

cannot fill it because it is closed.”

“ Then tell me: who is like this ? ”

I could not answer. Seeing my agony, she

whispered in my ear, “ Like those who have

abundance, but live a poor life.”

✤ ✤ ✤

People live surrounded by treasures, but they

feel empty because they are closed. The word

‘ closed ’ in its

connotation was so

deep that I was often

directed to examine its

depth.

“ what are inner

treasures ? ”

God in man is the

Real Treasure !

All other treasures

belong to Him, in man. There are higher treasures

in man which are the result of age ... long labor.

For example, healing powers, the power to see

the past and the future, the power of higher

clairaudience, the power of higher clairvoyance,

the power of artistic creativity, the power of

renunciation and detachment, the power of

serenity, the power of leadership, the power over

elements, and the power of continuity of

consciousness are just a few.

“ treasure tower ! ”

Treasure is something that increases and

multiplies to meet your needs whenever you give

your treasure to others. With joy, you install a

window or another door in the Treasure Tower.

“ not imposing yourself ”

By making other human beings free, by not

imposing yourself, by not making others, your

slaves, by refusing to exploit or manipulate others,

you build the Tower.

Have you helped others to think freely, to

choose and discriminate freely, to act freely ? Have

you given freedom to

others ? Have you

helped to free them

from their vices,

glamours, illusions,

vanity and ego ?

Every time you

make another human

being your slave, or any

time you encourage a

person to be a slave to

their own weakness, you destroy the Tower.

“ the power within ”

You have within you the power to destroy or to

build. If you are engaged in destruction, you will be

struck in the classroom of this world forever

suffering, inhaling smog, and being subjected to

radioactivity and pesticides.

If you are constructive, you will someday

graduate from this school we call earth and have

a chance to enjoy other creations that God has in

this Universe !


Before we can really study the nature of health

or illness, we must first understand human

consciousness and its relationship with the body.

✤ ✤ ✤

You know that you have a conscious mind, of

course. You also possess what is often called the

sub-conscious, and this merely consists of

feelings, thoughts or experiences that are

connected to your conscious mind, but would be

considered excess baggage if you had to be aware

of them all of the time. Otherwise, they would vie

for your attention, and interfere with the present

decisions that are so important.

If you tried to hold all of those subconscious

memories uppermost in your mind all of the time,

then you would literally be unable to think or act in

the present moment at all. You do more or less

have a certain access to your own subconscious

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mind, however. It is perhaps easier to imagine a

continuum of consciousness, for you have a body

consciousness also, and that body consciousness

is itself made up of the individual consciousness

of each molecule that forms all parts of the body

itself.

✤ ✤ ✤

There is no such thing as an unconscious

mind. The body consciousness is highly

conscious. You are simply not usually conscious

of it.

✤ ✤ ✤

The varying portions of your own

consciousness operate at several different

speeds. Translations between one portion of

consciousness and another goes on constantly,

so that information is translated from one “ speed

” to another. Perhaps you can begin to understand,

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then, that the whole picture of health or illness must

be considered from many more viewpoints than

you might earlier have supposed. Many of you

have been saturated by conventional, distorted

ideas concerning health and illness in general.

The very concept of the immunity system

suggests, at least, the disease invader against

which the body’s immunity system must or should

surely defend itself.

✤ ✤ ✤

Most people do not realize that they can indeed

have access to this inner awareness. This inner

ego or inner self should not be thought of as

superior to your ordinary mind. It should not be

thought of, really, as something separate from

your ordinary mind. Your ego and your ordinary

consciousness bring into focus all of your physical

experiences, and make possible the brilliant

preciseness of physical experience.

✤ ✤ ✤

The conscious mind is one brilliant segment

of your larger consciousness, but it is composed

of the same universal energy and vitality that

composes all consciousness.

This inner ego or inner self uses a process

that is far swifter than reasoning.They consist of

inspiration, intuition, impulses, and deal with

feeling far more than with usual logical thinking.

✤ ✤ ✤

Each person is a vital, conscious portion of

the universe. Each person, simply by being, fits

into the universe and into universal purposes in a

way no one else can. Each person’s existence

sends its own ripples throughout time. The

universe is conscious at every conceivable point

of itself. Each being is an individualized segment

of the universe ... each person is a beloved

individual, formed with infinite care and love,

uniquely gifted with a life like no other.

✤ ✤ ✤

No animal considers itself a failure, obviously.

People, however, often identify with their seeming

mistakes, forgetting their abilities in other

directions, so that it seems that they are misfits in

the universe, or in the world.

The inner ego, however, always identifies with

its source-identity as a beloved, individualized

portion of the universe. It is aware of the universal

love that is its heritage.

It is also aware of the infinite power and

strength that composes the very fabric of its being.

Through being made aware of these facts, the

exterior ego can begin to feel a quicker sense of

support and nourishment. The knowledge can let

it relax, let go, so that it feels its life couched and

safe, and knows itself to be indeed a beloved child

of the universe, both ancient and young at once,

with an identity far beyond the annals of time.

✤ ✤ ✤

It is of great value, then, that each person

remember this universal affiliation. Such a reminder

can often allow the inner self to send needed

messages of strength and love through the various

levels, appearing as inspiration, dreams, or simply

pure bursts of feeling. The inner ego draws instant

and continuous support from the universal

consciousness, and the more the exterior ego


keeps that fact in mind, the greater its own sense

of stability, safety, and self-esteem.

✤ ✤ ✤

One of the attitudes detrimental to good health

is that of self-condemnation, or dislike of the self.

Such attitudes are unfortunately sometimes

fostered by parents, schools, and religions.

Feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and pleasure

with one’s abilities promote feelings of well-being,

health, and exuberance.

✤ ✤ ✤

The universe actively loves itself and all of its

parts. The world loves itself and all of its parts. It

is not true that energy is neutral or indifferent.

Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can

almost be called an instantaneous pleasure with

itself and its characteristics.

Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is

indeed at its basis, love. It is also composed of

highly charged consciousness that operates

almost in a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of

exuberance and vitality. The great - the greatest

creative force - that force that is the origin for all

physical life - did not suddenly appear once in

some distant past, sparking the birth of your reality,

endowing it with an energy that could only then

run down, or dissipate. Instead, ever-new virgin

energy, so to speak, is created constantly, and

appears at every conceivable point within your

universal system.

✤ ✤ ✤

Each new rose in the springtime is in truth a

new rose, composed of completely new and

unique energy, utterly itself, innocent, alive in the

world.

In the deepest of terms, while each body has a

history, each moment in the body’s existence is

also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent

and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world,

it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that

propels life itself.

✤ ✤ ✤

Those who look upon physical life as inferior

to some other more perfect spiritual existence do

a great injustice to physical existence in general.

Physical life is everywhere filled with the universal

energy that is its source, so it can hardly be inferior

to it’s own composition.

Corporeal reality is a brilliant segment of

existence. It cannot be inferior to existence. It is

because you so often view your world through a

system of highly limited beliefs that you so often

misread the implications of temporal life.

✤ ✤ ✤

Environment is not something separate from

yourself, for you to control. Instead, you and the

environment support, strengthen, and fortify each

other in ways that often escape you. All portions of

the environment contain their own kinds of

consciousness. They are aware of their own parts

in the body of the world, and they are aware not

only of their own conditions, but of their

relationships to all other portions of the world. They

add to the world’s health, in other words, and your

own vitality and that of your environment are

everywhere interrelated.

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In the year 2003, I visited my sister’s house in

Bhimavaram, West Godavari district, Andhra

Pradesh.

My brother-in-law ... Naga Babu Appanna ...

gave me an audio cassette “ Yoga Parampara ”... by Brahmarshi Subhash Patriji. He told me just

to ignore a sentence that says “ there is no bhakti

yoga ” and listen to the rest ... to know the stage

of one’s current incarnation ( I am a strong believer of

Bhakti Yoga ... having inherited the concept from my mother).

✤ ✤ ✤

I carried that audio cassete with me to

Melbourne. It took atleast a couple of months before

I first listened to it. I liked it so much and kept on

listening to it repeatedly !

I must have listened about forty to fifty times,

in the next one and half years, the same

cassette ! Meanwhile, I was also searching for

more audios by Brahmarshi Patriji.

✤ ✤ ✤

In the year 2005, on a mother’s day, five of us

(friends) decided to give a surprise party to our wives

and booked a cruise. While in the cruise, a couple

of my friends were discussing about Spirituality. I

over-heard a word ‘ Subhash Patri ’ from the

mouth of Nath Danturty.

Immediately, I interrupted their discussion and

checked whether he meant “ Brahmarshi

Subhash Patri ” from “ Pyramid Spiritual

Societies ”. He said “ Yes ”. He further told me

that he was a follower of him and that he has a

good collection of audios and books by him.

I told about my “ Yoga Parampara ” and

requested him for a few audios. He is a contractor

and a busy man, so I waited for a couple of weeks

to hear from him ... but with no luck. Then, one

day, I rushed to his place and collected four audios

“ Dhyana Vemana ”, “ Jesus Christ ”, “ Jnana

Navaratnalu ”, “ Ledu Maranam ”.

✤ ✤ ✤

I spent the next six months repeatedly listening

to these audios and occasionally going back to

my favourite “ Yoga Parampara ”.

I don’t know ... but I just can’t stop listening to

these ! The knowledge in these audios is

absolutely astounding !

✤ ✤ ✤

Siva Jawaji


Nath and myself travel in

the same train and we

occasionally come across

each other in the evenings.

Slowly, we started sharing

the knowledge we gained

from the material. He told me

about his intention ... inviting

Subhash Patriji to Australia

and he informed me that he is already in touch

with a couple of his friends who are also similarly

interested. I gave my full support to the project

and occasionally checked with him about the

progress of the idea.

✤ ✤ ✤

In one of the audios, Patriji mentioned about

‘ hanuman chalisa ’ and the meaning of it. I decided

to undertake a forty day meditation deeksha. I

almost succeeded in doing it ... except that I

missed out on a couple of days in the middle.

Before this, I couldn’t even do meditation for five

minutes ! I really surprised myself ... to be able to

do meditation upto an hour at a single stretch !

✤ ✤ ✤

End of the year 2005, I enrolled to study

“ Masters in Project Management ” in RMIT

commencing from Feb 2006. A few weeks before

the start of the classes, I re-visited Nath’s house

and he offered a few more

books as well as a few more

audios. The first book I read

was “ Maranam Leni Meeru ”.

It is a gem of a book. I then

read “ Jonathan Livingstone

Seagull ”, “ Atmaayanam ”,

“ Four Agreements ”, “ Third

Eye ” etc.

Exactly at this time, my classes in RMIT also

got started. I couldn’t concentrate on my studies

as I didn’t feel like studying those books. I really

struggled to balance my life ... with work, family

with two young kids, studies with assignments and

then reading these spiritual books.

If I have to give an order of preference, studying

these spiritual books comes first ! I sometimes

felt I should not have enrolled to study. I even

contemplated discontinuing the studies. However,

after a couple of months I managed to regain my

balance.

✤ ✤ ✤

During all these times, I did not stop doing

Pooja. Shortly, I came across the

“ www.pss.org ” website. Therein, I read a

quotation by Patriji saying ‘ meditation ’ and

‘ bhakti ’ are two opposing streams; one can’t do

both, one has to leave one to enter the other !


✤ ✤ ✤

Exactly at this time, my wife and kids were

leaving to India to attend a family marriage. I finally

decided to stop pooja and spend more time for

meditation.

✤ ✤ ✤

While my family was away in India, I spent

most of my evenings studying spiritual books and

spent most of the nights doing meditation. Mr.

Nath introduced me to a

person by named Rao

Parmarthy. He gave me

“ Spiritual Reality ” video

and a book “ Ramtha ”.

The video inspired me so

much that I plunged into

even more intense

meditation. “ Ramtha ” is

another jewel of a book !

It changed my definition of God and human being.

✤ ✤ ✤

Jhansi Madam gave us the good news that

Patriji accepted our invitation to visit Melbourne

between 5th and 25th of September 2006.

We immediately formed “ Melbourne

Pyramid Masters Group ” with five members.

All the members visited for the first time my place

and then I was introduced to Raveendra who

stays in the same suburb as me.

✤ ✤ ✤

Ravi shared his experiences and one of the

things that caught my attention was “ twenty

seven hours of meditation ” that he tried on his

27th birthday ! As my family was still in India,

Raveendra and myself started trying long

meditation sessions.

We started with two hours intensive meditation

and proceeded to three hours ! I tried four hours

with mixed results and sometimes even a whole

night !

✤ ✤ ✤

Middle of June, I too

went to India to meet my

parents and other family

members. I shared all

my experiences. They

were very much

impressed by my

knowledge and they also

started following the

path of meditation.

I spent almost every evening discussing and

sharing the knowledge I had gained. The trip,

which was supposed to be a family visit ... changed

into a spiritual one !

✤ ✤ ✤

Finally, I got a chance to meet the SOURCE

of the abundant knowledge ... Brahmarshi Patriji

on 7th of September, at the Melboune Airport ! The

most joyful and colorful days of my life in this

incarnation started on that day !

We learned a lot in this short duration before

he concluded his trip on 24th September with a

promise to visit us back in the month of March

2007 !

Siva Jawaji

2/12, Maroona Road, Carnegie, Melbourne, Australia


Prof. B.M. Hegde, an internationally recognized cardiologist, born teacher, author, philosopher,social worker whose heart bleeds for the less fortunate, and researcher par excellence. He trainedin cardiology at the National Heart and the Middlesex Hospitals in London and the Harvard MedicalSchool, Boston. He retired recently as the Vice Chancellor of MAHE Deemed University, Manipal.

The book “ What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in the Medical School ” is the culmination of hisefforts to change the teaching and learning methodology in medicine in addition to pointing out thefallacy in following the time-honoured reductionist science in place of holistic science as the base ofmodern medical research.

excerpts from the book “ What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in the Medical School ”. EDIT-TEAM

Prof. B.M. Hegde

Science, in the correctsense, is the only saviour ofmankind.

Science could makeman realize the secrets ofNature ... to see how hecould use science for the

good of humanity.

Science, in every sphere, is dying slowlybecause of specialization. New science of fractalsand chaos looks at the dynamic human being asa whole, and as a part of this macrocosm. That isthe future of science including our medical science.

✤ ✤ ✤

Art is defined best by Henry David Thoreau as“ that which makes the man’s day ”. The art ofmedicine is that which makes the patients’ day.

Long live medicine which aims to “ cure rarely,comfort mostly, but console always ”.

“ mind of the scientist ”

It is the mind of the scientist or his financialmaster that has created misery for mankind andnever science by itself.

In fact, without a scientific temper, man couldsink himself into the vally of illogicalism. OttoFrisch and Rudolf Pearls were responsible forconceiving the formula for the first atom bomb.But it was the mind of Harry Truman and WinstonChurchill that resulted in its being dropped on thatfateful August morning in 1945 on Hiroshimaresulting in instantaneous death of more than80,000 people within minutes. Culprit, then, is notscience but the human mind.

“ even-mind of yoga ”

Every single killer disease, starting from heartattack to cancer, is now thought to originate in thehuman mind. Their cure or otherwise alsodepends on the mind. Every human cell, includingthe heart muscle cell or the cancer cell, has itssubatomic mind that either makes or breaks thefinal outcome !

✤ ✤ ✤

Short-term ‘ quick fixes ’ to make money, likedrugs and surgery, are only temporary palliation.Long-term gains by way of primordial preventiondepend on the mind, the even-mind of yoga !

✤ ✤ ✤33


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to a particular organ. This organ-based medicine,like the modern so-called scientific medicine, usedto believe that the mind resided in the heart, for avery long time.

Brain, or for that matter, any other organ in thebody, could not be the seat of the mind. The mindcould never be thought of in terms of cellularstructures.

✤ ✤ ✤

The Science of Robotics, which is nearly seventyyears old, has not been able to replicate the humanmind to be packed inside a human robot.

The mind is a subatomic quantum state. Humanmind, or other-wise called the humanconsciousness, is a quantum level thinking.

“ educational system ”

The educational system should change from thepresent competitive ethos where one has tocompete with another to the one where onecompetes with oneself for excellence. In the lattersystem, there is no room for hatred and jealousy.In addition, value-based education could easilyinculcate certain basic values in the child’simpressionable mind.

✤ ✤ ✤

If only we could change the Macaulay type ofeducation to our ancient Guru Kula type, one couldavoid all the negative feelings getting into the child’shead.

Our only hope for the future is to bring up a wholenew generation on this new educational ethos ofexcellence, camaraderie and co-operation, inplace of competition, hatred and jealousy.

✤ ✤ ✤

Materialism without a touch of spirituality wouldsink man into the valley of moral nihilism

The real Yoga or Meditation ... should aim atkeeping the mind tranquil (chitta vritti nirodhaha yogaha).Yoga should not be equated with ‘ asanas ’ andsimple meditation of closing the eyes and chantingsome ‘ mantra ’ !

✤ ✤ ✤

If I am able to make the reader realize the gravityof the problem and dire need to change the waywe live, to have a tranquil mind as the cure for allhuman ills, I will have achieved some success.

✤ ✤ ✤

One does not have to compete with others todestroy them to build oneself. One could live andlet live with co-operation as the motto. The newscience of the mind and its quantumconsciousness would be able to send man notonly to the moon but also to the neighbour’s housewith a smile.

“ Love thy enemy, love thy neighbour ”

- Jesus Christ

✤ ✤ ✤

Are we not all same on this planet ? How thencould you compete with your brother ? Co-operatewith him and love him.

“ enigma called the mind ”

Where is the mind ? Never mind ... it iseverywhere inside and out-side !

What is the mind ? Where is it ? Mind is like thewind, which the poet described thus :

“ Who has seen the wind ?Neither you, nor I,

When the trees dance and bend,The wind is passing by ! ”

Christina

People have been trying to fix the mind, like allother cellular structures of the human anatomy,


On every full-moon day, around 300 people of

all ages and various walks of life converge at the

Spiritual India Centre at Mehdipatnam. They do

meditation under the full-moon throughout the

night. When “ City Express ” spoke to a few

people on October 7, the full-moon day,

their accounts were bewildering.

✤ ✤ ✤

So far, one heard

of spiritual and

r e l a x a t i o n

benefits of

meditation, but

here are a few

people claiming

immense health

advantages from it. And

they said they bettered

themselves all the while without

any medication. They defined

meditation as being with breath. In doing so,

the mind becomes empty and that is when huge

amounts of cosmic energy flood the body.

✤ ✤ ✤

P Varalakshmi, a house-wife from

Sreekalahasti, has been practising meditation for

four years. Earlier, she used to suffer from uterus

and skin problems and now she claims she is

t o t a l l y healthy. “ As I was desperate for

medical solutions to my

problems, I sat for a minimum

of eight to nine hours for the

first thirty days. My Skin

problems perished

and other problems

also started

w a n i n g

g r a d u a l l y.

Now, I am

totally healthy ”,

she said.

✤ ✤ ✤

The case of Shalini Lashker, a

B.Sc., first year student, is revealing.

“ Believe me, I had long sight since my

childhood. I also had frequent spells of headache.

I started meditation nine months ago and stopped

taking medicines. Now, I am not using spectacles

and there is no trace of headache either ”, she

said.

✤ ✤ ✤

Pallipattu Ramesh, a senior executive with

Sahara India, claimed that he had cured himself

of Chikungunya recently. “ As it struck, I intensified

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my meditation for long hours even as I was

languishing in the bed. In three days, I began

recovering. I had a foot pain for long. It is no longer

there. The healing properties of meditation are

for real ”, he said.

✤ ✤ ✤

K Venu, an officer with Punjab National Bank,

claimed that meditation had cured him of

diabetes, joint pains and acidity.

“ Over two years ago before starting

meditation, I was a diabetic and suffered from

joint pains. Within sixty days, my sugar levels

came to the normal levels and the joint pains

relieved. Acidity is also gone. I regularly meditate

for two hours a day and do not miss out the full-

moon meditation, ” he said.

His wife, Parvati Kumari, said she had totally

overcome her hypertension and stress problems

without any medicine in two years through

meditation.

✤ ✤ ✤

N. Raga Latha, working with SCCL, in the

city, said : “ A year ago, I used to suffer from

cold, breathing problems and acidity. After

starting meditation, they have mostly

disappeared. ”

✤ ✤ ✤

Rajeshwar Poola, who runs an SSI unit,

said : “ I was skeptical initially. But as I started

doing it daily, my attitudes changed for better;

my employees began to be more cooperative. I

started the Spiritual India Centre under the aegis

of Pyramid Spiritual Societies of India. The

service is totally free, there is no guru, no initiation

or any mantra. There is no association either and

no obligation to attend every session. ”

His wife, Arundhati, has also been doing

meditation for the last four years. She claimed

that she had overcome around 30 ailments

through meditation. Group meditation, pyramid

meditation and full-moon meditation are advised

for greater and quicker benefits. A pool of energy

surrounds a meditating group. As for meditating

under a pyramid-like structure, the benefits are

thrice than when one sits outside it. And during

the full-moon night meditation, one comes in

touch with extra-planetary forces. This results in

spiritual illumination and physical well-being.

K Balaram Reddy


To

THE SPIRITUAL INDIAPyramid Meditation CentreMehdipatnam, Hyderabad - 28

Sir,

It is to express our gratitude to the members of “ Spiritual India ” team for sowing the seeds ofmeditation in the tender minds of the children of “ Blooming Buds School ” by regularly conductingmeditation classes during morning assembly time. The process has taught the children discipline inmeditating together and the power of silence which spreads everywhere throughout the premises.

It is good to observe that a few of the children are able to meditate. However, a few are unable toclose their eyes even for a while. This situation as educationists is worth observing and it gives us anopportunity to realize that it is our work to help out those children who are unable to give rest to theirminds.

We are fortunate to get this opportunity at the earliest ... otherwise, it is difficult to imagine their futurewhich demands lot of work with good focus and stability.

Teachers participating in the meditation workshops found the process very soothing and meditationindeed helped them in concentrating better in their classes.

A little feed back from our teachers :

“ When I do meditation, I feel fresh throughout the day. It gives calmness to my mind and it isincreasing my memory. On the whole, it gives strength and patience to the teacher for thewhole day. ” - Preethi ... teacher

“ After a lot of work pressure at home, meditation is giving complete relaxation of body andmind. I am able to have a good start in the class. I am also having a feeling of full energy andhappiness throughout the day. ” - Kameswari ... teacher

“ On the first day I did not feel anything while doing meditation . From the second day onwards,however, I could feel mental peace, physical energy and new vigour. I am not feeling tired. ”

- Leelavathi ... teacher

“ Meditation helps me to control anger, tension, restlessness and calms me down in my dayto day busy schedule. ” - Priya ... teacher

“ Meditation gives calmness and rest with peace of mind. ” - Daphne ... teacher

“ Meditation helps me to be fresh with relaxed mind. ” - Laxmi ... teacher

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“ meditation ”

Meditation is an effort to shift yourconsciousness from lower levels to thehigher levels of mind.

✤ ✤ ✤

Consciousness must penetrate into still higherlevels of the mind until the highest level is achieved.

“ network of communication ”

Through meditation, the network ofcommunication is established with the lower mindand the pilgrim can, at will, use both parts of hismind to achieve balance : using the lower mind tocontact the world of concrete values, problems,and needs of the world ... and using the highermind to shed light, love, and beauty upon the lowerworld to meet its problems.

When the communication network iscompleted, the whole mental plane works as aunit.

“ meditation helps to unify the mind ”

Meditation helps to unify the mind and to buildthe communication network so that later, when thehuman should penetrate into the Spiritual Triad, itcan use the mental mechanism for its creativework.

✤ ✤ ✤

Those who penetrate into the abstractlevels of mind demonstrate pure idealismwhile manifesting practicality in all theirrelationships and services. The world ofvalues and the world of practical concrete

forms become one world. This is why such peopleare true leaders.

“ ray energies ”

It is important to know that the communicationnetwork built between the mental levels is not onekind of network. This network generally is built withmental substance, but in that mental substancethere can exist strands of varying Ray Energies :First Ray, Second Ray, Third Ray, and so on. Asthe network approaches completion, it becomesa Rainbow with the energies of all Seven Rays.The perfected Rainbow is a transmitter of RayEnergies and related zodiacal energies. Howpowerful and abundantly creative is the personwhose Rainbow is complete !

“ foundation for the rainbow ”

Meditation lays the foundation for the buildingof the Rainbow and carries on its construction tocompletion. The deeper, the more persistent isyour meditation, the more soundly your Rainbowis built.41


✤ ✤ ✤

Communication lines increase year after year,life after life, until the mental plane, as a unifiedfield of energy, turns into a central station ofcontact.

✤ ✤ ✤

The mental body has many specialized centerswhich perform various jobs, such as receiving,assimilating, and translating the traffic ofimpressions coming from higher or lower realms.These specialized centers are related to specificneurons which act like programmed diskettes. Thecapacity of the ‘ diskette ’ determines the creativemanifestation of the mental currents.

✤ ✤ ✤

Meditation not only builds specialized centersin the mental body, but it also builds and programsspecialized groups of neurons or ‘ diskettes ’ inthe brain. The more evolved is the brain, the greateris its capacity to manifest accurately highercurrents coming from mental centers.

“ a healthy future for man ”

Meditation, which helps the brain organize andfuse closer to the mental body, actually preparesa healthy future for man. Because it is the brainthat manages the health of the body, the moreorganized the mind of man is, the greater is hisprobability of survival.

The brain is an independent organ in the sensethat it continues to work, even if the mental bodyis suspended. The reason for this is that certainneurons are like automatic record/play-backmachines. But the task of meditation is not only tobring the brain under the full control of the humansoul via the mental body, but is also to erasecertain ‘ diskettes ’ which contain programsinherited from millions of years of living in thehuman or animal kingdoms.

“ building the rainbow bridge ”

Meditation, in building the Rainbow Bridgebetween the body, emotions, mental body, andSpiritual Triad, gives man an opportunity to bring

forth recordings stored in deeper and highersources which can change the contents of genesand DNA. This change is caused by energycurrents, visualization, and creative imagination.

“ revitalizing the neurons and genes ”

It will one day be possible to form a body whichwill live as long as one wants by revitalizing thecells, neurons, genes, and DNA with advancedmeditation !

Meditation of this caliber even attacks viruses,microbes, and germs with the laser of the humansoul.

✤ ✤ ✤

The future of humanity does not exist inmedicine or in physics but in meditation, usingvisualization, creative imagination, and, in highercases, through direct command, to create, to healor to destroy.

Through meditation a person can introducebeneficent changes in his genes and DNA bycontacting their prototypes ... the permanent atomsin the etheric, astral, and mental bodies.

✤ ✤ ✤

A human soul advances, like any cell orneuron, through specializing himself so that he issuitable for greater and greater labor.

The process of specialization is carried onthrough meditation.

Through meditation, specialized cells andneurons are trained and drawn to their rightlocations.

Through meditation, the human soul is


material excerpted from the book “ Dynamics of The Soul ” by Torkom Saraydarianpublished by T.S.G. Publishing Foundation, Inc ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team

✤ ✤ ✤

Medicine, in general, is centered aroundchemistry and diet. But ideas, dreams, visions,hope, courage, daring, and heroism are also foodswhich create very special chemicals in oursystem ! Meditation increases a pro-survivalchemistry in our system !

“ space medicine ”

Space medicine is becoming a reality. Throughmeditation, the human soul absorbs elements inspace which are not composed of matter but arecomposed of mental or intuitional substances. Byabsorbing such elements through meditation, thehuman soul creates chemical compounds in thebody which help the body survive in unbelievableconditions.

“ learn to meditate ”

It is important for people to learn to meditateand enrich their spheres with good thoughts, goodemotions, and joy if they want to live a happier life.

All of this is possible through the science ofmeditation.

specialized and drawn to the location where it willbe of greatest service.

“ begin to live consciously ”

The promotion of a cell or neuron is controlledby the programming impressed upon the humansoul. This programming continues until the personbegins to live consciously as a self-conscious soulusing his mechanisms as a separate unit. Fromthis moment onward, the specialization processof his cells, neurons, and atoms comes under theconscious control of the human soul throughmeditation.

“ graduation ”

Through meditation ... the lower atoms, cells,and neurons graduate, take initiations, and servein greater capacity in the whole mechanism.

✤ ✤ ✤

This is what we call the process oftransmutation, transformation, and transfigurationas far as the personality is concerned. After that,the process of resurrection begins to penetrateinto intuitional, atmic, and monadic levels and buildthe subtle mechanism through which the humansoul contacts a greater universe.


I am Suniti Sharma.

I was born and brought up in

Delhi in an educated, reputed and

respected family with a thoroughly

enjoyable childhood.

✤ ✤ ✤

Despite being married in a respectable family

of Doctors and having three beautiful children, a

post graduate degree in obstetrics and

gynaecologist by profession ... and having a decent

government job with Indian Railways ... yet, I was

leading more or less a mechanical life and kept

feeling something ‘ missing ’.

I wasn’t a very spiritual person ... yet, I was

deeply religious.

✤ ✤ ✤

Apart from a couple of experiences in the

childhood, which had lot of impact as a child, I

used often to play as a ‘ Child Krishna ’ in the lush

green gardens in my dreams. Once, ‘ Hanuman ’

showed me the exam paper of Hindi two hours

before the schedule in my dream ... as I was too

sick to go for exams and it was Board

examination.

✤ ✤ ✤

Once while going to Vaishnodevi temple in

Suniti Sharma

Jammu, I got the darshan of maa durga on the

way itself and the high fever lasting for ten days

vanished with no traces of weakness

whatsoever !

✤ ✤ ✤

However, I was longing for something more ...

I didn’t know what it was. I was experiencing lot of

restlessness, etc.

I was having many interests in various fields

like ... giving health programmes on Doordarhsan,

opportunities to perform in telefilms ... I was a good

painter ... teaching pranic healing in my medical

profession for holistic treatment of the patients etc.... yet, there was an emptiness in life.

✤ ✤ ✤

In the year 1984, the first seeds of spirituality

were sown by Brahmarshi Patriji ... whom I had

known as ‘ bucchi uncle ’ (his pet-name in his family),

who introduced so many new words in my

vocabulary of spirituality !

✤ ✤ ✤

I learnt so many new terms like ‘ silver-cord ’,

‘ astral body ’, ‘ astral world ’, various other bodies

of ours, explanation about ‘ phantom limb ’ etc. ...

all of which I found very fascinating and my first

session lasted from 11 pm. in the night to 5 am. in

the morning ... without even a blink of eye along

NEW DELHI


with my friend Dr. Sudha Koduri ... elder sister of

Patriji.

✤ ✤ ✤

In the year 1996, my restlessness increased

to such a pitch that I started desperately to pine

for my guru. When the student is ripe to start on

the spiritual path the guru himself makes an

appearance ! And, for me, it happened in a

dramatic way !

✤ ✤ ✤

One fine day, while I was resting in the duty

room of the hospital where I was working, while

reading the book of Vivekananda on Raja Yoga,

something compelled me to look sideways and lo

and behold ... none other than Sai Baba sitting and

smiling on the sofa was lying there ! It was 28th

October 1996, I was puzzled and elated and it

lasted for about forty five seconds !

✤ ✤ ✤

I did not talk about this to anyone but then there

were so many things, experiences, dreams

happening one after the other in my life ... I knew

intuitively that I was heading for ‘ something ’ !

Since then, there was no looking back on the

onward inner journey.

Within a week of that, I had another experience

at Mumbai where I had gone for a conference. The

last day of my stay there it was midnight ... I was

sleeping ... yet, I was awakened by a bright golden

white light all around ! And here again ... I saw Sai

Baba sitting by my bedside ... and he told me so

many things, which he said would unfold over

time !

✤ ✤ ✤

Another five months, I happened to go for a

workshop to U.S.A. and Canada ... wherein, apart

from many significant happenings, throughout the

six weeks tour I had just two words ringing in my

ear ... “ do meditation ”, I started getting restless

as to :

Who’s voice was it ?

What is meditation ?

How to do meditation ?

Where should I learn to do meditation ?

✤ ✤ ✤

I was longing to reach India and home and the

day I reached ... I sat in the ‘ pooja room ’ of my

house with eyes closed with all the questions in

my mind ... to get some direction ... and lo and

behold ... it was Sai Baba over the third eye screen

again ... dictating me many things about the future

and said “ You will soon get help for meditation ”.

✤ ✤ ✤

Shortly, Patriji happened to come to Delhi and

I happened to come in contact with him after a

long gap of fourteen years ... and the super

specialist in the science of meditation taught me

the correct way of meditation !

✤ ✤ ✤

The impact of his words was so powerful ... it

stays on with me till today ! His inspirational

statement was : “ Once you know about the final

goal of your life ... why not try to achieve it first and

then live life king-size ! ”

✤ ✤ ✤

His method of teaching was very simple,

calming, soothing ... yet very concrete and

effective. Although the impact was very strong, I

discontinued meditation after about six months,

as I could not spare more time due to the job and

family responsibilities.

✤ ✤ ✤

However, I continued communion with Sai Baba

and during meditation there was an ushering of

visions of great beings like Buddha, Shiva,45


Hanuman, Einstein, Jesus Christ, Lord Krishna,

etc.

I also happened to have the glimpse of my

previous birth as a monastic in a Himalyan cave.

✤ ✤ ✤

One fine day, while in meditation, I saw a long

fair hand coming towards my forehead and it

touched with the thumb which turned into a flame

in my inner gaze and I was engulfed in a feeling of

heat and tingling sensation in the physical body at

the ajna chakra. Slowly, the flame transformed into

a live Shirdi Sai ... which stayed for full nine days

of navratri. It was such a very blissful feeling ! I

could not see anything else without first seeing

My Beloved Sai with eyes open ... and like a pasted

photo on my third eye screen in my inner gaze ...

I had the vision continuously for full nine days.

On the tenth day (which happens to be his maha samadhi

day), I saw him getting up from his stone throne

and walking up to a garden and he sat under a

tree on a bench and I had the wonderful darshan

of Sai Trinity.

The experience is as live in me, now, as it was

nine years back !

✤ ✤ ✤

Another time, during meditation, I saw the

purification process being done on me in four

stages, each one on a different day of meditation.

I saw hundreds of Masters sitting and chanting

together in a strong vibrating repetitive omkar

around the havan kund, which was a flame and I

saw myself standing in the havan kund with no

feeling of pain at all.

After a few days, the next stage was shown

where-in, my half body being black turning to grey.

The next stage was that whole body turned into

ashes collection in the havan kund as a heap of

ashes and the final one it was shown that Sai Baba

was sitting by that side of havan kund and was

saying : “ all your old samskaras have been

burnt ” and he blessed me with his smile !

✤ ✤ ✤

One very frequent vision I used to have was ...

the whole third eye screen would turn into a liquid


metal which would take the shape of Shirdi Sai

Baba and melting back again into formless. I would

often see a tall fair figure of Shirdi Sai ... mixed

amidst crowds in a market-place or so and then

disappearing.

✤ ✤ ✤

My second phase of meditation started some

months back when I was desperately feeling that

my inner progress had come to a standstill for

almost an year.

✤ ✤ ✤

I was really begging The Almighty for help and

once again Patriji was there to give me a big jolt

and push, after a gap of another nine years which

was very much required ! Thus, materializing my

vision of sitting inside a pyramid which was tied in

the form of a gift from top with a calm feeling of

home-coming with a light hearted feeling. It was a

gift from above indeed !

✤ ✤ ✤

Meditation changed my life dramatically ! A

sharp turn indeed ... inwardly. I now understand

the meaning of meditation. It means to unwind

oneself back to the core ... and recognizing the all

powerful SELF. And, in that unwinding, you will face

so many ups and downs in the form of obstacles.

✤ ✤ ✤

As my understanding was unfolding, many

things became absolutely clear ! Obstacles do

occur in this path ... because of past negative

karma. However, because of meditation, there is

a clear shortening of karmic negativity. Many births

do get compressed into a couple of births

perhaps ! May be, the present life time will even

become the ... ‘ last one ’ !

✤ ✤ ✤

While walking on this path, one will find peace

and calmness on one side and simultaneously

restlessness of another type ... spiritual type ... on

the other side !

✤ ✤ ✤

With meditation, I feel increase in awareness,

expansion of consciousness, clarity of thoughts

and intuitive wisdom.

✤ ✤ ✤

Throughout this inner journey, I was constantly

helped in various ways ... like meeting the right

type of people and reading the right type of

inspirational books.

I was fortunate to read ... Shivananda,

Vivekananda, Sai literature, Ramakrishna

Paramhansa, YSS literature by Paramhansa

Yogananda ... other New Age spiritual books as

suggested by Mr. Sai Kumar Reddy, and my friend

Dr. Sudha.

The first book to start with was “ Autobiography

of a Yogi ” by Paramahansa Yogananda, back in

the year 1983, given by none other than Patriji !

✤ ✤ ✤

I do have an intense desire to inspire people

towards the benefits of meditation, relying on their

inner energies instead of depending wholly on

medication.

✤ ✤ ✤

I thank a million times The Almighty, which is

within me ... Unseen Power called God ... for giving

me continuous help and special thanks to my

enlightened teacher ... Patriji ... for the help, for

accomplishing the tenuous journey of myself to

my SELF !Suniti Sharma

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Dr. David Hawkins is an author, mystic, spiritual teacher, and psychiatrist in Sedona.Arizona. Dr. Hawkins is a proponent of using ‘ applied kinesiology ’ to calibrate theconsciousness level of ideas, things, and people. He directs the Institute for AdvancedSpiritual Research.

The objectives of Dr. Hawkins’ research and teaching are to facilitate spiritualunderstanding and to confirm the reality of spiritual truth in the individual as well associety.

His unique spiritual journey ... in his own words ... excerpted from the book “ Powervs Force ” published in the year 1987. ... edit-team

David R. Hawkins

We become healthy, as well as wealthy, by

being wise !

what is wisdom ?

It’s the result of aligning with high-power

attractor patterns.

“ attractors create context ! ”

In essence, this means that one’s motive,

which arises from the principles that one is

committed to, determines one’s capacity to

understand and, therefore, gives significance to

one’s actions.

“ alignment with principle ”

The effect of a alignment with principle is never

more striking than in its physiological

consequences.

Vibrant health follows alignment with high-

energy attractor patterns ... alignment with weak

patterns results in disease. That this syndrome is

specific and predictable, and can be proven

through a demonstration meeting the scientific

criterion of 100 percent replicability, is a fact that

by now is familiar.

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The human central nervous system clearly has

an exquisitely sensitive capacity to differentiate

between life supportive and life destructive

patterns. High-power attractor energy patterns,

which make the body go strong, release brain

endorphins and have a tonic effect on all of the

organs ... adverse stimuli release adrenaline,

which suppresses immune response and

instantaneously causes both weakness and even

breakdown of specific organs, depending on the

nature of the stimulus.

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This clinical phenomenon forms the basis for

such treatments as chiropractic, acupuncture,

reflexology, and many others. These therapies,

however, are usually designed to correct the

results of an energy imbalance, but unless the

basic attitude that’s causing the energy imbalance

is corrected, the illness tends to return.

“ self-help groups ”

People by the millions in self-help groups have

demonstrated that health and recovery from the

entire gamut of human behavioral problems and

illnesses comes as a result of adopting attitudes

correlated with high-energy attractor patterns ...

that is spiritual.

“ positive attitudes ”

Generally speaking, physical and mental

soundness are attendant upon positive attitudes,

whereas poor physical and mental health are

associated with such negative attitudes as

resentment, jealousy, hostility, self-pity, fear,

anxiety, and the like.48


material excerpted from the book “ Power VS Force ” by David R. Hawkinspublished by Hay House, Inc ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team

In the field of psychoanalysis, positive attitudesare called ‘ welfare emotions ’, and the negativeones are called ‘ emergency emotions ’.

Chronic immersion in emergency emotionsresults in ill-health and a gross weakening of one’spersonal power.

“ seek good company ! ”

How does one overcome negative attitudes soas to avoid this deterioration of power and health?

Clinical observation indicates that the patientmust reach a decision ... a sincere desire forchange allows one to seek higher attractor energypatterns in their various expressions.

For instance, one doesn’t get over pessimismby associating with cynics ... the popular idea thatyou’re defined by the company you keep does havesome clinical basis.

“ you get it by osmosis ! ”

Attractor patterns tend todominate any field ... thus, all that’sreally necessary is to exposeoneself to a high-energy field andone’s inner attitudes willspontaneously begin to change.

This is a well-knownphenomenon among self-helpgroups ... it’s reflected in thesaying, “Just bring the body to themeeting ”. If you merely exposeyourself to the influence of higherpatterns, they begin to ‘ rub off ’, or, as it’s beensaid, “ You get it by osmosis ”.

“ all stress is internally generated ! ”

Traditional medicine generally holds that stressis the cause of many human disorders andillnesses. The problem with this diagnosis is thatit doesn’t accurately address the source of thestress. It looks to blame external circumstances,without realizing that all stress is internallygenerated by one’s attitudes. It isn’t life’s events,but one’s reaction to them, that activates thesymptoms of stress.

“ attitudes stem from positions ”

Challenges on the job can result in stimulationor anxiety, depending on whether one’s supervisoris perceived to be a ‘ teacher ’ or an ‘ ogre ’.

Our attitudes stem from our positions, and ourpositionality has to do with motive and context.According to the overall way that we interpret themeaning of events, the same situation may betragic or comic. In the choice of attitude ... onechooses between anabolic endorphins or catabolicadrenaline.

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It would be foolish to claim that the only impactson our health are those originating internally, forimpersonal elements of the physical world canalso increase or decrease our strength.

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Synthetics, plastics, artificialcoloring, preservatives,insecticides, and artificialsweetener etc., make the body goweak ... whereas substances thatare pure, organic, or made byhuman hands tend to make us gostrong. Organic vitamin C, is farsuperior to chemically produced.

“ acceptance andcompassion ”

It’s a foible of human nature tostoutly defend an established position despiteoverwhelming evidence against it ... the onlyhealthy way to deal with such lack ofrecognition is acceptance. Once we reallyunderstand the human condition we’ll feelcompassion where we once might have feltcondemnation.

Compassion is one of the highest of all ofthe energy attractor power patterns. Ourcapacity to understand, forgive, and acceptis directly linked to our personal health.


Dr. Michael Newton, is a world renowned hypnotherapist. He is a member of the AmericanCounselling Association. He has been on the faculty for higher educational institutions asa teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Dr. Newton developed his ownage regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their pastlife memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives.

In 1998, he received the annual award from the “ Most Unique Contribution ” in bridgingmind, body and spirit from the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. He

is now residing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.A few excerpts from his book “Journey of Souls ”... edit-team

Dr. Michael Newton

material excerpted from the book “Journey of Souls ” by Michael Newtonpublished by Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team

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It is rare for me to find souls involved with eachother in any meaningful way who are members oftwo different secondary groups, because thenumber of souls is so great it is not necessary.

“ inner circle ”The smaller sub-group primary clusters vary

in number, containing anywhere from three totwenty-five souls.

The average assemblage is around fifteen,which is called the Inner Circle.

Any working contact between members ofdifferent cluster groups is governed by the lessonsto be learned during an incarnation.

This may be due to a past life connection, orthe particular identity trait of the souls involved.

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Soul acquaintanceships between members ofdifferent cluster groups usually involve peripheralroles in life on Earth. An example would be a highschool classmate who was once a close friend,but who you now see only at class reunions.

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Members of the same cluster group are closelyunited for all eternity. These tightly-knit clustersare often composed of like-minded souls withcommon objectives which they continually workout with each other. Usually they choose livestogether as relatives and close friends during theirincarnations on Earth.

“ journey back home ”Group placement is determined by soul level.

After physical death, a soul’s journey back homeends with debarkation into the space reserved fortheir own colony, as long as they are not a veryyoung soul or isolated for other reasons.

The souls represented in these cluster groupsare intimate old friends who have about the sameawareness level.

“ a soul cluster group ”When people in trance speak of being part of

a soul cluster group, they are talking about a smallprimary unit of entities who have direct andfrequent contact, such as we would see in ahuman family.

Peer members have a sensitivity to each otherwhich is far beyond our conception on Earth.

“ spiritual ponds ”Secondary groups of souls are arranged in the

form of a community support groups which ismuch less intimate with one another.

Larger secondary groups of entities are madeup of giant sets of primary clusters as lily pads inone pond.

Spiritual ponds appear to be endless ! Withinthese ponds, I have never heard of a secondarygroup estimated at less than a thousand souls.

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The many primary group clusters which makeup one secondary group seem to have sporadicrelationships, or no contact at all between clusters.


material excerpted from the book “ One-ness ” by Rashapublished by Jodere Group, San Diego, California ... grateful acknowledgements ... edit-team

Rasha

“ radical transformation ”

The world as you know it will undergo radical

transformations in the times to come !

For the world as you know it to be is, in fact,

dematerializing in the wake of the momentum that

is driving all creation.

“ significant shift ”

The changes are taking form in subtle

increments. And, often, one does not even notice

that a significant shift has occurred. But, from the

perspective of a broader vision, one will be able

to look back upon these times with wonderment.

And those of you who will have retained your

physical form will have fascinating stories to tell

as to how these changes came to be !

“ an act of courage ”

Your willingness to be in physical form during

these changes is an act of courage. For, it would

have been far easier to wait until the dust had

settled and simply manifest into more favorable

circumstances ! You, who read these words, are

among those who chose to experience the

transformational journey in physical form and to

have the experience of physical ascension.

“ current infants ”

The beings now in their physical infancy will

exhibit abilities that would have been considered

most unusual, not long ago. These beings are

incarnating fully equipped to cope in a world that

neither you nor they have seen, as yet.

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It will be a natural condition of humanness to

become telepathic, not only with other humans

but also with other life forms and with other

dimensional forms of existence. The phenomenon

of channeling will come to be considered

commonplace.

The very young amongst you know this

instinctively and will demonstrate far less attraction

to the otherworldly and the unexplained than do

present adult generations.

The very young will be absorbed in the wonder

of being alive and with their formidable skills in

manipulating their reality to produce what they

want to experience.

Rasha ... is a healer, channel, and author, who has served as a conduit of divineguidance since 1987. She has dedicated herself to addressing the profound spiritualawakening that is a hallmark of these times.

February, 1998, Rasha received the teachings from “ One-ness”. A few excerpts from“ One-ness” .. grateful acknowledgments to the publishers. edit-team


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2 Read right spiritual books,e.g.,books by Osho, Rampa,Castaneda, Jane Roberts, AnnieBesant, Deepak Chopra, BrianWeiss, Sylvia Browne etc.

1 Meditate in the right way... i.e.,Anapanasati,... and teach everyonethis same way of Anapanasati.

Let’s establish Vegetarianism and Anapanasati ...on a global scale ... at the earliest possible time !

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5 Utilise full moon and new moonnights for meditation.

7 Give-up medicines; onlymeditational energy heals.

9 Spend much time in environmentsof pure nature e.g., forests etc.

17 Establish Meditation Centres inall villages, towns and cities.

11 Impart meditation training to children,right from their early child-hood.

13 Reject money exchanges inmeditation-training programs.

15 Solve all individual personal problemsusing own meditational strength.

3 Exchange meditational experiencesand life-wisdom with everyone.

10 Never indulge in ‘ spiritual ’ clothing,or ‘ sacred ’ body marks.

12 Learn to live as Masters and neveras disciples.

14 Not indulge in the worship of idols, orworship of Living Masters.

16 Enjoy normal family lives, and givejoy to all other beings.

8 Never eat meat; no eggs !Eat according to need, notaccording to greed.

4 Spend... much time... every day ...insilence.

6 Utilise pyramid power formeditation, as much as possible.

18 Publish meditational experiences andpersonal spiritual transformation.

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