When you do Sadhana the side effects automatically flow without any conscious effort on your part, thereby not giving rise to any ego/ sense of personal achievement. For example, fasting, aparigraha (renunciation), maun (silence) etc. was preached which involves extreme use of willpower and is not practically possible over a long period of time. Even if possible, in action, definitely not possible in thought (even in maun, thoughts continue and give rise to karma. Even in maun we communicate through hand gestures).  Hence spiritual growth remains limited. What I personally experienced was that fasting, maun, aparigraha etc. need not be achieved.  They are automatic by-products of Sadhana. When Sadhana is done long enough, automatically a thoughtless, emotionless, desireless state emerges. Automatically food cravings start falling off. You don’t have to control them. I once reached a state where I started avoiding onions not because Jainism forbids it, but because my body could no longer tolerate it. It automatically happened. And when things automatically happen, they do not reverse. With Sadhana, your mind automatically becomes thoughtless.  A deep silence dawns upon you. You automatically attain an inner maun. You need not practice outer maun. With Sadhana you attain a desireless state of mind. Automatically your desires start falling off. You need not practice aparigraha.  It automatically happens. You withdraw your energies from a vast majority of worldly things and these worldly things and processes no longer interest or attract you.  So, you are automatically detached and hence karma mukt.

With Sadhana your connection with the Divine may be established.  As the result immense Divine energy constantly pours down upon you, cutting away karma lesya in your aura. Hence the process of karma bandhan reduces drastically, which is evident from miraculous improvements in your relationships, easy flow of abundance, resolution of health issues, major improvements in quality of life etc. One of the biggest evidence of Divine Connection having been established, I feel is, that I am no longer able to participate in religious or spiritual activities for a long time.  It’s like you participate in religious or spiritual activities to enhance your Connection with the Divine and receive higher energies from them for spiritual growth. But this has already happened. The Connection is already established. The Divine energy is already pouring down upon you. Already the glass is full. You need not turn on the tap any more. The moment I sit down for meditation, chanting, or attend any religious pooja etc., there is a heavy shower of Divine energy which I can’t handle for more than sometime, indicating that I am beyond this. I have already reached. Nothing needs to be done anymore.

Thus post Sadhana, I realized we had been doing things the wrong way all these years and hence not seeing results. We had been healing the symptoms without addressing the root cause. Once root cause is addressed, symptoms automatically clear off. And this I have personally experienced.

We have given a blind chance to a lot of things taught to us since childhood. Come, let’s keep an open mind and give a fair chance to this Sadhana to open up our road to Moksh.

Kindly note this Sadhana is not just for spiritual seekers. Even to those who do not seek spiritual growth, gain immense benefits from this Sadhana. This Sadhana rapidly expels diseased, congested, toxic energies from all chakras, thus opening up the road to immense physical, mental and emotional health benefits.

Those wishing to take up this sadhana may connect with me to have a look at my aura photographs, which may give more clarity and assurance on the topic.
For energy exchange and any further clarifications, kindly connect with me. 

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My inquisitiveness regarding this tradition was at its peak when Guidance from my Gurus (yes, this is a combination of inputs from two different Gurus) and some research work led to some very interesting answers.

It is said that the single source, from which the entire universe emerged, divided itself into two parts. Masculine and Feminine. Also known as Yin and Yang energies. The epitome of masculine energies is the Divine Masculine or Shiv tattva, which supported the creation of the universe. The epitome of feminine energies is the Divine Feminine or Shakti, from which the actual creation of universe happened. So, the Divine Feminine or Shakti is a creating force from which the universe was created. All the women are an ansh of this Shakti and hence are the creating power. They have the power to create life, create an ansh of the universe. (though, all women also have an ansh of the masculine energies as well and all men also have an ansh of the feminine energies as well.)

This creative power of a woman peaks during her menstrual cycle, which enables her to give birth to life. During menstrual cycle a woman embodies the Shakti or the Divine Goddess. She is the Goddess herself. Hence, she is capable, at that time of creating life (an ansh of the universe). It is said that because you are the Goddess yourself, at that time, you do not bow down to any other God/Goddess. This is the primary reason for prohibiting any religious activity.

It is said that since at that time you are the Goddess yourself, your power increases tremendously. If you enter the temple, this power will overpower the power of the idol of God/Goddess in the temple and diminish the effect of Pran Pratishtha of the idol. This is the reason for not entering the temple during the menstrual cycle.  It has nothing to do with you being impure. It’s just that you are way too powerful!! If periods were impure, birth would be impure. Entire creation would be impure. Are we trying to say that our creator’s (God’s) creation is impure???

During menstrual cycle, why not just going to the temple (where the power of the idol at the temple may be affected), but even other religious/ spiritual activities are prohibited?

The immense Divine Creative Power that enters your body during menstrual cycle, but your body does not utilize for creation of life, needs to be released from the lower half of the body, through the lower chakras. Whenever you participate in religious/ spiritual activity your energies rise higher, towards your higher chakras. So, if you participate in religious/ spiritual activity during periods there will be a clash of energies. The energies which are to be expelled by the body through the lower chakras will instead rise higher and contaminate the higher chakras. Those who are sensitive to energy may experience discomfort in the body and even those who are not sensitive to energy, may not realise, but certain undesirable processes do happen in the body. Hence it is advisable to avoid all religious/ spiritual activity during this time.

Now the question arises that if I am way too powerful at that time then why am I suffering? Why am I tired, fatigued?

Very high amount of Divine Creative Power enters your body at that time. Your body needs strength to be able to handle so much power or energy. (Those on advanced spiritual path know how much strength a body needs to handle higher energies) Hence it is recommended to rest during these days, so your body gets enough strength to handle so much energy. This probably explains the real reason why women in earlier days (and in some households even today) are not allowed to do any household work during these days. It’s just that their body is going through something big and they need rest. And also, as a mark of respect towards the Goddess that has embodied the lady.

Now we come to another question. Why are women usually emotionally vulnerable and explosive at this time?

For so much Divine Creative Power to enter your body, your aura has to open up. It’s like for fresh air and sunlight to enter your house, you have to open up all the windows of the house. But along with fresh air and sunlight, dust and outside noises will also enter the house. Similarly, to welcome the Divine Creative Energies your entire aura is opened up during menstrual cycle. There is no protection to your aura. Hence along with the Divine Creative Energies, you also soak in the negative energies in the environment, hate, jealously, ill feelings of other people etc. very easily at that time. All the negativity in the environment will affect you very easily and intensely at this time, causing emotional vulnerability. And when you cannot handle so much negativity (which no one can) you explode. There are angry bouts, crying spells. These bouts are just body’s way of throwing out this excessive negativity. This is the reason why in earlier days a lady was isolated /restricted to her room during menstrual cycle. It was for her own protection. To protect her from negative energies of the environment and help her to feel calm and relaxed and also to save many unnecessary arguments and disputes which usually happen in the households during this time.

In earlier times women were stopped from standing under a tree or venturing out during night at the time of periods. Again, the reason is the same. For their protection. their aura is completely open. Negative energies, negative entities etc. are active at night, especially near trees and can easily enter a woman’s aura, attach to her aura or possess her. If not attach to or possess her, can cause intense emotional and mental disturbance. (As a modern society, today, we may not believe in negative entities possessing our body. But the fact remains that sometimes when nothing is working and we, as healers, clear negative entities from the aura, then miraculous changes happen. It is also said that very high uncontrollable fever is usually the result of negative entity attachment to the aura. It has been my personal experience that releasing a negative entity attachment to the aura has finally resolved a very long-standing problem.)

In the light of all these pointers it is advisable that women reduce their exposure to outside stimuli, withdraw from the environment as much as possible and get rest during this time. This will help women to handle their periods better. Understanding of what happens during periods will also help family members to support a lady better. And respect the Divine Feminine or the Shakti that embodies her at that time.

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Because you cannot pour from an empty cup.

Because you can’t give what you don’t have.

All of these people mentioned above and many more are mere human beings like you and me. They are carrying their own set of karmas, past life traumas, childhood impressions, lack of knowledge of spiritual laws of the universe etc. When they have themselves not received love and care and understanding and respect and politeness and happiness, how can they give it to you? You cannot give what you do not have. That is a spiritual law as well as a physical law.

You cannot ask an injured to nurse you to health. You need a healthy person to nurse you back to health. And all the people you see around you, including your parents and your dear friends that you hold so closely, are injured somewhere on their journey. No one is whole. How can these injured people nurse you to health? It’s not like they don’t want to but they do not have the means to. Like when you don’t have money, you can’t help someone financially. Even if you wish to.

So, what is the solution to this problem? How to break this cycle of transferring the energy of lack from one generation to the next and further to the next and so on?

The solution is to receive from the one who does not experience lack. And who is that?

THE DIVINE!

The Divine has a never-ending supply of Unconditional Love and the Absolute Truth and knowledge. When you tap the Divine source for your supply of love, care and guidance, all falls in place. Firstly, you relieve those people from unrealistic expectations of supporting you, who are genuinely not equipped to support you. There is no point blaming them without a reason. They are spiritually, a wrong source to look for these things. Secondly, when you look towards the right source for these things, not only will you receive these things, but you will receive in abundance. Because the Divine has abundance! You will receive in such abundance that it will be way beyond your expectations! And then the entire cycle will fall in place! Because when you have in abundance, in excess of your expectations, then you are able to and even willing to give further. And this abundance will now pass on from you to the next and to the next and so on.

But how do you receive from the Divine? With your simple prayer. Yes! That’s all the Divine asks for. A simple prayer in your own words and your own language, sincerely flowing from the heart. A simple prayer for opening the gates to Unconditional Divine Love. The key to this gate is faith and belief. If you have faith and trust that the Divine has it and it will shower it upon you, then one day it truly will. And until it truly showers its Unconditional Love upon you, it will guide you to the way to this Unconditional Love. Make sure you are open enough and have the courage enough to walk the path. If it steers you from your regular path, shakes you from your comfort zone, don’t hesitate. Have the courage and follow your heart. Follow the new path if the need be, inspite of all hurdles, all the obstacles, it may initially offer you.

And when the doors finally open and that so elusive Divine Unconditional Love showers down upon you, it’s just so beautiful you can’t stop from expressing yourself. This poem came to me in the middle of the night along with the most beautiful experience of Unconditional Love and Bliss I had ever experienced before. I am not sure that this poem does justice to what I felt. But I can’t help sharing it. Something this beautiful, all deserve to know. Only when you know, you will one day be inspired towards it.

May the Divine light shower down upon you in all its glory!

SOMETHING VERY BEAUTIFUL HAS HAPPENED TO ME!

Something very beautiful has happened to me

Something very beautiful has happened to me

I have fallen in love with you, Oh Dear Divine!

I have merged into you, Oh Dear Divine

I have no separate existence

I am one with you, Oh Dear Divine

I completely surrender to you, Oh Dear Divine

Your immense and Unconditional Love I feel, Oh Dear Divine.

This sweet nectar I have tasted

Never before

Into this taste I dissolve

I loose myself

This has happened with me never before

And may this leave me never again

Into you I have merged, Oh Dear Divine

Into you I have merged, Oh Dear Divine

I am one with you, Oh Dear Divine

I still can’t believe this BLISS is mine

May this bliss always remain with me, Oh Dear Divine!

So joyful I feel I can’t contain it within me

I have to tell the world about this

Oh my Dearest Divine!  

When you look deep within yourself, there is immense Joy and Bliss. Happiness is a small word!

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Then for some time I was guided to chant ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ on a regular basis and it gave me inner strength, clarity and positivity to the next level. Gradually this active regular chanting phase subsided. Though a passive connection with Shivji always remained. Then I came across few miraculous experiences which I am about to share here.

In stark contrast to my personality (who prefers to keep to herself) I am strongly guided to share these very personal experiences. Even right now as I type I don’t know which unknown force is making me type these experiences. But since I am being guided to do this, it definitely must be for a higher purpose. So here I go….

Experience 1

We had gone out of town. By evening I had started feeling little weak and by night fall I had fever and extreme body ache. Only thing possible to do at that point of time was to take a paracetamol and that’s what I did. Though fever came down with paracetamol, the body ache, especially leg pain was very extreme and subsided hardly by 10-15%. I tried for some time but soon realised it was difficult to sleep with such pain and almost impossible to see through night like this. I tried a lot of other things to subside the pain but nothing worked. Then suddenly a thought struck me and I started chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’. Hardly 12-15 chants and my pain subsided substantially and I was able to drift off to comfortable sleep. Every time during that night I woke up with unbearable pain, I would chant and pain would subside and I would comfortably go off to sleep. Had it not been for this Shiva energy, I cannot imagine how I would have seen through that night. Next day morning we visited the doctor and took prescribed medicine.

Experience 2

We were on a vacation and had taken up a short uphill trek at high altitude. Half way through the trek I could not manage anymore, the high altitude was making it difficult to breathe. I decided to stop right there and rest, while my husband continued the trek with our guide. It was a very sunny day and in sometime the intense heat of the high altitude was starting to affect me. To my dismay I realised that my husband had carried with him our common water bottle. I was getting thirsty. After sometime the sun was beginning to burn up my skin. I tried calling my husband but he had no network. At such an high altitude when you don’t move for a long time and do not drink water at regular intervals, High Altitude Sickness may affect you. My mouth was getting drier and eventually I started feeling light headed, nauseous and slightly dizzy. There was valley close to me and it was starting to slowly sway side to side. I was feeling sick and loosing balance. At that point of time, I don’t know how, but I started chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ in my mind. Again just 10-15 chants and the dizziness stopped. I gradually regained my balance and started feeling better. I was much better by the time my husband arrived and was comfortably able to climb down the hill. 

Experience 3

We were visiting a very small town in the interiors. In the middle of the night suddenly I was feeling breathless. My breathing was getting longer and more and more difficult. I could feel extreme pressure at my lungs. This was very sudden and difficult to understand. Nothing was working. Helplessly I started chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’. In sometime I started releasing gas. Burp upon burp upon burp! And within 10-15 minutes all the pressure on my lungs released and I was able to breathe normally and drift off to sleep. Later on, I realized this excessive gas accumulation could be because of some undesirable food eaten the previous day.

After these miraculous experiences, my faith in Shivji became deeper and deeper, though I was not actively chanting the Shiv mantra any more.

Later on, through a video and a forwarded message on Whatsapp, an insight came to me. That Shiva means nothing. Even Sadhguru gives this explanation. Shiva literally means ‘nothing’. Shiva refers to the vast nothingness or the vast emptiness from which the entire cosmos came into being. And Shiva refers to the vast nothingness or the vast emptiness into which all of creation will finally merge into. That’s why Shiva has so much energy. It is raw unmanifested energy of the universe. Even Sadhguru says that once you connect with the Shiva, connect with the energy, not the form. The form will distract you. The form of Shiva is not important, it’s the energy, the concept behind it that is important. Shiva is not about Hindutva or Shiva is not about God. Shiva is just the original source you came from and the final destination you will merge into. It is as simple as that. That’s why Shiv mandir does not have any God in any form, but just a Shivling. You may give it any name other than Shiva and it will not matter. What is, will remain. It is up to you to access this tremendous energy and power to positively transform your life.

The mantra ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ generates tremendous energy, tremendous power, tremendous positivity and balances all five elements in your body, for the simple reason these five elements have come from this raw unmanifested energy called ‘SHIVA’.

Anyone interested in group chanting of the mantra ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ online, may kindly connect with me.

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Luckily, the client took me seriously and spend next 2-3 months sincerely decluttering the house and giving away unnecessary items. Next time I visited the client place it was a completely different ball game. They had done an amazing job of decluttering! Entire house looked like a makeover. I was feeling much better in that space than the last time I had been there. Last time I had been there my hands were literally shaking from energy blockages.

I and the client had a small discussion wherein he went on to explain how the house came to be cluttered so much. The culprit was the innocuous looking concept of gifting! He said that majority of the multiple numbers of same items they had in the house had been gifted to them. And considering that with so much love and thought process someone must have gifted; they never discarded that item even though they already had those items in the house and did not require more of those. So many multiple items kept in the house for years for which there was no use. All accumulating energy over the years and blocking free flow of energy in the house!

Let’s look at the concept of gifting from two perspectives: the giver and the receiver.

When a giver is planning a gift for someone or for a group of people, a lot of thought process goes into it. The background, age, gender, occupation of the person to be gifted etc. Then comes the actual buying and many a times packing and then gifting. Believe it or not this entire process entails a lot of energy drain. Precious energy (and time) is lost which can be used for a more productive purpose. Not to mention here all the material that goes into packing, which causes environmental harm.

And for the receiver more often than not he/she receives gifts that he/she already has and hence is redundant or does not really serve purpose. I am not saying all the gifts go waste. But a great number of gifts, though bought with utmost care and love and thought process by the giver, may still end up being redundant at receiver’s end because unless the receiver is really close to you, you would not have an absolute idea of his/her choice or preferences and also the knowledge about his/her actual belongings. So, in effect it adds up to the clutter in the house affecting the house energy!

At this point the words of a friend of mine come to my mind. We were to plan a gift for the birthday of our kids’ friend. This friend of mine point blank told me that I don’t believe in gifts. I shall buy a gift voucher and gift the child freedom of choice. Those words never left me. They always ring in my mind.

Many functions these days write ‘blessings only’ on the invite. This new system is truly a blessing. But I would request those who have these words on their invite to please refrain from giving any token return gifts. Let’s adopt this extremely sensible and a practical system in its complete entirety.

This article is not meant to take away the joy of gifting the loved ones. Close loved ones whom you know well, whose preferences and needs you know well, for them gifting is a beautiful gesture! For others definitely a gift voucher. But mass return gifts on social gatherings, festive and religious functions and occasions are better done away with. I know a lady who was gifted a total of 5 coconuts on occasion of various religious functions within a week. Even after giving away two coconuts to her maid, she was still clueless as to what to do with the remaining three! What a waste of the energies of the giver and the receiver and even food!

Won’t it be beneficial to do away with these mass giftings and save a lot of social waste, let alone helping in keeping people’s houses decluttered? Remember decluttered house is a decluttered mind and a decluttered body. Don’t unnecessarily become a health hazard to your loved ones.

Think before you gift!      

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Fasting is a beautiful way to raise your consciousness, to take care of your health, to preserve precious energy for spiritual growth. But this is for people to whom this comes naturally. Those who have naturally overcome their interest in food. Some are meant to grow via fasting, some via service to others, some via bhakti or devotion etc. For this other category let’s look at fasting from a different perspective.

I have seen many people whose craving for food increases after fasting, especially long, intense fasting. Some long to eat certain foods after the fast is over and feel satisfied only after this wish is fulfilled. Kindly note this is a case with few and not all. Kindly recall the last time you observed a fast and you really had to control your cravings. Now what happens in this process. You have observed a fast to clear away your negative karma. But when you are under a fast and you feel cravings for food or are unable to keep away thoughts about food, then ‘in thought’ you have broken the fast. And you end up incurring negative karma for breaking the fast. So, in effect, in an effort to clear karma, you have incurred more karma. That is the nature of karma. If you look at it from a very minute perspective then most of the time you are trying to clear karma, you end up incurring more karma. That is why it is so difficult to clear karma and it takes innumerable lifetimes. Sometimes you are better off not trying to clear karma and just be where you are and at least do not incur more karma. Be aware of this trap!

Religion says that you fast, you renunciate and you will reach higher states of consciousness or at least that is the belief. But based on my recent intuitive insights, the deep inner knowledge says that it is actually the other way round. You reach the higher consciousness levels and automatically as a side effect your cravings will subside, your need for belongings will reduce (you will renunciate) and you will relate less to your body. These are supposed to be the natural side effects of reaching higher, growing spiritually higher.

When you first try to control your cravings or renunciate (without raising your consciousness), you are suppressing your wish. And remember a wish can only be suppressed and not killed. It will always come up in a different form and usually with more intensity. And this will become a vicious cycle which is extremely difficult to break. The only way to kill a wish is to fulfill it! But some will argue that once you fulfill one wish another will arise and another and another. That is again another vicious cycle.

But there is a way to break this vicious cycle! The correct way to go about is to raise your consciousness first and all of the rest automatically follows. No effort required. All automatically falls in place. Like Osho says, don’t fight with the darkness. It does not work. Switch on the light and darkness is automatically driven away.

Now let’s look at why the concept of fasting or intense fasting may have come up. When a soul grows spiritually very high, the urge for intense meditation automatically comes in. There have been cases of many saints and sages practicing intense meditation in harsh conditions. Even Jain tirthankaras have meditated extensively for years before they could attain nirvana. Now, what happens during long lasting intense meditation is that your soul reaches higher consciousness levels. Some souls will leave their body and reach higher dimensions from where pure authentic knowledge and Truth can be accessed from the actual source. So that, what you receive is pure knowledge and Truth and not something that has been misinterpreted after centuries of passing down to next generations. In such cases the soul has temporarily left the body (yes! At very advanced levels this is possible) and hence there is naturally no need for the body to eat, which naturally results in long-term fasting, without suppression of wish and creating a strictly avoidable vicious cycle.

Similar explanation can be given as to how these saints live in freezing Himalayan cold without sufficient clothing. Because with intense long-term meditation either you have temporarily left body. Or at a certain higher level of consciousness your focus on your goal is so high that all energy of the individual is diverted to this goal and the soul automatically withdraws its energies from sensory organs. All the energies are concentrated at spiritual growth and accessing higher knowledge and the Ultimate Truth. Hence your senses become immune and you may not feel the cold. Like when you are involved in something you really enjoy, you do not experience the fatigue! Also, there are certain siddhis which may be attained by these saints and sages which gives them control over regulating their body temperature.

So in a nutshell, a better way is to first raise your consciousness levels and let other drama unfold automatically. With this route, the changes that will come in will be more permanent, since these will be natural without involving any suppression of wishes and urges.

Again, this goes only for those who find it difficult to control their cravings during fast. For others to whom fasting comes naturally without any suppression of urges, my utmost reverence and respect to them. I bow down to them a million times!

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For example, for clearing off our karmic baggage with someone, we enter into a contract with that person to meet that person on earth. But while on earth when that person gives us a tough time, we usually don’t peacefully see through that phase to clear off our karma. Instead we harbor feelings of hatred, irritation, anger, revenge etc. against that person and incur even more negative karma.
This process is almost never ending. Process of calculating positive and negative karma keeps going on, and we are never really able to tally our balance sheet and set ourselves free.

Every small daily action seems to have a karmic consequence, making it almost impossible to live a normal life without incurring karma. This can feel very strangulating. Life becomes suffocating, rather than a joy!

What is a solution to this?
Osho says it is impossible to fight with the dark. You can never clear off the darkness. There is no point fighting with it. The solution is to switch on the light. The moment you switch on the light, the darkness is automatically driven off.

Similarly there is no point struggling with negative karma. It will keep popping up in some form or the other. The solution is to raise yourself to higher vibration. Once you have risen enough to realize your true self, all your karma will be automatically cleared, removed, deleted! Yes, that’s true!

Also when you raise your vibration, other minor issues you keep struggling with automatically clear off. You don’t have to struggle to control your cravings, you don’t have to struggle to control your anger, you don’t have to struggle to stay emotionally independent, you don’t have to struggle to raise your immunity or cure minor illnesses, you don’t have to struggle to overcome your addictions, you don’t have to struggle to stay happy! All these things automatically happen as you keep climbing up the ladder of higher consciousness!
MAGIC!

And how does this magic unfold? Through MEDITATION. Meditation is the most direct way to higher consciousness. To finding your light. And unlike so many other processes, it does not involve any effort. It automatically starts flowing once you start spending some time everyday DOING NOTHING.

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Once a woodcutter, due to heavy rains and very poor visibility was stuck in the forest overnight. Because he could not go home, he climbed up the tree where he intended to stay till morning. Suddenly a tantric came there and set up a small patch near the tree for his mantra sadhana. Before starting his mantra sadhana he prayed to Maha Kali, ‘O my dear beloved Maa Kali, I have been chanting your mantra for decades now, but I have not been able to appease you. I am thirsty for just one vision of you. After trying everything, today I start yet another mantra sadhana in the forest in the hope to appease you. Accept my sadhana please!’. Saying this the tantric bowed down and started chanting the mantra. After a few chants suddenly lightening struck and the tantric died on the spot.

The woodcutter was horrified to see this. After a few moments something came over him. He climbed down the tree and sat next to the dead tantric and using his set up started chanting the mantra. Just three chants and suddenly a vision appeared in front of him. It was Maa Kali herself in front of him in all her splendour!

The woodcutter was taken aback.  Before he could recover from the shock, Maa Kali addressed him, ‘tell me son what is your wish? Say and it will be fulfilled!’. The woodcutter could not understand this. He asked Maa Kali, ‘This tantric has been chanting your name for decades and here he is, dead and not having been able to appease you. And I just chanted your name thrice, without any knowledge and here you are right in front of me. I don’t understand this Maa Kali….’

Maa Kali had a hearty laugh. Then she explained, ‘My dear son, the tantric still has many lifetimes to go before he will be able to get a vision of me. His time here was done. You on the other hand had been immersed in my bhakti since lifetimes. In the last lifetime only three chants were remaining, which you unfortunately could not complete. And that’s why you were stuck here today in the forest to complete what was left from the last lifetime’.

This is how the divine works. Any spiritual work you do, be it chanting, bhakti, service, healing for self or others, meditation, it never goes waste. We have a very short-term view of this single lifetime. But you have been carrying forward a lot of things from the past lifetime and a lot of things you are doing right now will be carried forward to future lifetimes. So sometimes you may do a lot of spiritual work and not see any result. Do not give up. Maybe something you have undertaken is so big it may need future lifetimes to complete. Be happy that at least you have started off on something so big. Never loose heart. And always continue your practices as you are intuitively guided with full faith in the Divine. All spiritual work always works, though in different ways!

A part of the story taken from the book ‘The ancient science of mantras’ by Om Swami, presented in my way with my learning.

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Crystal Magic’s WhatsApp based workshop schedule for coming quarter:

1.4.22 – Angel guidance workshop with special reference to weight loss

4.4.22 – Forgiveness, blessings and meditation challenge!

24.4.22 – Angel guidance workshop with special reference to diabetes.

5.5.22 – 18 days prayers workshop

25.5.22 – Seven chakra with self-healing workshop

6.6.22 – The classic and ever so popular Angel guidance workshop.

26.6.22 – Affirmations workshop.

(Check this link for details of the workshop.  https://crystalmagic.in/workshops/)

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