The essence of spirituality
bhattathiri | 28 June 2004, 5:11am
The only thing is that scriptures have to be read with the third eye.
Simply because I know English doesn't mean that I can understand the Bhagwad Gita written in English. Same for Sanskrit. It is not the language and the meaning that is important, it is the essense that is important.
Scriptures follow this rule of mystic. They are like the mystery script of Nostradamus. They have to be decoded. And this decoding comes only through the path of Guru Marg. No books can teach how to learn this process of learning.
That is why spirituality and all streams of sciences related to it are different from an MBA or a cookery course. No wonder if we teach Vastu or astrology or any other mystic science the way courses are taught in colleges, it can only churn out masters and experts like factory products who will be only too happy to latch on to the frog-tortoise-duck brigade.
I hope I am not mistaken to be deriding Feng Shui or its eminent genuine practitioners. This is about the tremendous loss the fakes in any mystic field are doing to mankind and to themselves. And they can be found in the field of Vastu also.
I was forced to write this piece because of late the questions to this advisory increasingly became of this order. The questioners either seemed to be victim of such fakes or seemed to have stuck in the mirth of the frog-tortoise-south-entry.
That is not Vastu, but of course that is part of Vastu. India has regarded the tortoise as a Kurmavtar, that is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The frog has long been associated with the monsoon in India. If you hear frogs croack around you in the month of June, it means the first drizzle of monsoon is not far away.
And rains don't just mean water, they mean the harvest. After all, Sanskrit is the language in which a single word means different things depending on the connotation. So, water means Jal, means Dravya and Dravya means wealth. Dravya has also been identified with the mind because of its 'chanchalta'.
And hence, and therefore, yes, a frog is important. But surely that wouldn't mean having to keep nine frogs in the house, facing the entry or not facing the entry. The practitioners themselves are confused about this. Those who are not confused are not able to postulate the 'results' yielded by such frogs.
So, dear reader, ask a question on this Vastu advisory only if you must.
There is no compulsion. In spirituality, nobody, least of all I, can force anything upon anybody. Unless the right time comes in your life, right things won't happen to you no matter who advises you, whether it's me or someone else.
The problem is I want a mindset to change. Spirituality is not and is not meant to be a shopper's stop or a mall where you can buy a Rudraksh here, a Shankh there.
It is not a freebie given on mobile phone schemes. Hence, do not kindly insult the Shastra which our sages have written painstakingly after so much of research.
That's why it's a free-to-ask advisory. But that does not mean frivolous questions can be put. Freedom should not be confused with frivolity. Ask genuine and serious questions. And I am making it clear here, questions otherwise won't be answered.
The aim of this advisory is to spread the knowledge that our sages conserved without running any merchandise establishment. Today's marketers are doing exactly the opposite and have succeeded in convincing people that spirituality can also be sold.
They are selling you everything from a crystal Sri Yantra to Kanakdhara Yantra to gems to Rudraksh and everything without understanding the truth behind these things or without passing it on to the Jataka or the seeker. Divinity can be FELT anywhere you belong but it can be FOUND only in areas it has always belonged.
And these areas could be the Shivaliks, the Ganga Sagar, the Kailash, the Himalayas, Rishikesh, Haridwar, banks of Kshipra river in Ujjain, the Jyotirlings, the Arunachal mountain.
We say,"Sa Vidya, Vimuktaye'' , meaning knowledge liberates, liberates in the true sense. That is the whole essence of knowledge, awareness. And only true knowledge liberates. And true knowledge comes from a Guru or a divine form. It does not come from books or shopping malls.
Same for Mantras. Why don't people get results by reading so many books and magazines on religion and spirituality that are today available on the railway stalls or in book shops?
Many of them are sold all over India at something between Rs 25 and Rs 35 and they also give which they say is 'a real crystal Sri Yantra' or 'a Hattha Jodi' or 'a Dakshinavarthi Shankh' etc. Can anything be more untruthful than this?
On the other hand, lakhs of people have benefited from the spiritual guidance provided by Guruvarya Annasaheb More at the Shree Swami Samarth Kendra at Dindori near Nashik.
The Sudarshan Kriya of Guruvarya Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji has benefited lakhs.
Experiments have proven improvements in those who have done this Kriya, lakhs and lakhs of people have benefited from the Satsang and Kripa of Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu, lakhs have felt the inner bliss while listening to Pujya Murari Bapu, thousands have got miraculously cured when they were embraced by Mata Amritanandmayee Maa. Several others vouch for Shree Satya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi.
And I am mentioning only the present day Gurutulya seers. Only if you are spiritually-inclined, can Vastu or any such thing work wonders for you.
For, this is the land of Jesus ---- Blessed are those who are poor . And by poverty, Jesus certainly did not mean the material poverty. It's the poverty of the Tamas and the richness of the Satva.
I welcome all of you who want to tread the path of spirituality. It is both uphill and hard. But it also blissfully satisfying. It has the nothingness as exemplified by Lord Shiva who has smeared himself in Raksha and the richness which Lord Krishna wears
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