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Be Judgmentally Non-Judgmental - PART II
The Hypothetical Example:
Let us assume that a young lady Sussan wished to follow the spiritual path and was looking for a guide. If she were to be non-judgmental in the beginning itself, she might well land in the wrong hands of the wrong/fake spiritual masters. The best option would be to know about different spiritual masters. So, she contacted some of her friends to guide her suitably.
One friend suggested to her a certain famous TV-Star -Yoga-Guru having millions of followers world-wide. Her friend advised her not to make any judgments and surrender to this recommended Yoga-Guru. However, Sussan first of all decided to recollect all that she knew and collected further information on him.
She recalled that this swami ji Baabaa Chaalak "Baam Dev" had run away to the Himalayas from his home in childhood leaving behind his parents. She remembered that this Yoga-Guru had in the year 2005-2006 said in a TV interview that this Yoga-Guru would not get his Yoga-Programme/cultural-revolution be sent to the cremation ground by joining politics and as such he would not join the national politics.
But, he later, on becoming famous, started a political party/group called "Maashtra-Abhemaan", intending to nominate his candidates from all 545 parliamentary constituencies in a forthcoming parliamentary election.
Also, she learnt that he merrily went on inaugurating stadiums/programmes controlled/facilitated by anti-social elements/corrupt political leaders, he attended marriage ceremony of a child of one politician who had misutilized illegally the state machinery, by virtue of being the Chief Minister of the state, for managing the marriage of his child, he was charging rupees 500/50 from people for attending his Yoga-Camps and claiming to be a selfless saffron-clad true mahatma/saint/Yogareshe!
Sussan made judgments about this Yoga-Guru. She reasoned - Such a person could not be a role-model for her children and such a person could not be a real/genuine mahatma/saint and so isn't worth following!
Another friend suggested - why not follow this man teaching the art of living? She found that this man called "Shree Shree Kave Ghanachankara" fell short of the standards, too. This man taught others the art of living. Sussan collected information on this Swami Ji.
She found that once, an arrow from out of nowhere hit one of the disciples of this Swami ji. Swami Ji forgot all about the art of living and angrily blamed the local police for negligence in protecting him. He further claimed the arrow to have been an attempt by terrorists to kill this Swami Ji.
Later, the police found that a tribal had shot an arrow to kill a bird and that this particular arrow only had overshot and hit Swami Ji's disciple. She made a judgment - how can this Swami Ji be a true spiritual guide when he himself could not practice what he himself taught to others?
So, Sussan trekked all the way to the Himalayas. There she met an advanced pious Yogi. She made judgments about him, too. She found that he was self-less, pious, honest and possessing the spotless sterling character. He possessed supernatural powers, was humble, didn't ask for any money. She judged that he was competent enough to be her Guru.
So, she requested him to initiate her on the spiritual path. He initiated her in the Kreya-Yoga, gave her some supernatural powers, blessed her and asked her to go back to the world, to her family, her responsibilities and continue with her journey.
Sussan came back to her home, to her family, to her loving husband. She continued practising the Kreya-Yoga. She had now surrendered totally to his Himalayan Guru. Not for once, did she let any doubt about him crop up in her mind. She remained non-judgmental, fully focused and achieved the spiritual salvation when the correct time came.
The conclusion:
Thus, it is crystal-clear that we must be judgmentally non-judgmental instead of being merely non-judgmental. So, it would be correct to say - "Be judgmentally non-judgmental" rather than say - "Be non-judgmental.The Hypothetical Example: Let us assume that a young lady Sussan wished to follow... more-
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Be Judgmentally Non-Judgmental - PART I
We are very often reminded in the mass media and by different spiritual masters that we must not judge others if we wished to live happily and have self-realization. So, should we implement this teaching blindly in our lives? Shall it then lead to chaos or peace in our life?
The Introduction:
We are very often reminded in the mass media and by different spiritual masters that we must not judge others if we wished to live happily and have self-realization. So, should we implement this teaching blindly in our lives? Shall it then lead to chaos or peace in our life?
The Examination:
Let us examine the issue thread bare. We always are busy making judgments. We simply can't escape making judgments.
The housewife goes to the market. She goes around the market looking for the best deal in terms of both the low price and high quality of the vegetables that she intends buying. She then buys from the vendor who offers her the best quality potatoes for the lowest possible price in the market.
So, what has she done? She has effectively made judgments based on the price and quality of the potatoes. It is clear that she did not buy the potatoes blindly from the first vegetable-vendor she came across.
You wish to buy a car. You don't buy immediately the car someone suggests you to buy. You collect information on all makes and brands. Then, you make a comparison of all the cars in terms of price, later-maintenance costs, fuel-mileage per liter, etc. Here, what you are doing is judging different cars on different parameters.
You are a young lady. You wish to get married and settle down with a guy. You don't marry the first gentleman recommended to you by your friend or your parents. You become judgmental. You gather information on as many as number of prospective bridegrooms as possible to find the best match for yourself.
How does the Judging the others help us?
Well, the judging of the others in terms of the duality of the good and bad helps us make the correct choices and take the correct decisions in our life so as to make our life more happy, more meaningful and more fulfilling. Without the correct choices and decisions, the life shall become a total mess. If you cannot differentiate the bad from the good, you always will be falling a prey to the bad things in life.
So, then are the true spiritual masters wrong in asking us to be non-judgmental?
By, now you may have started wondering - does it mean that we must not practice the non-duality of being non-judgmental at all? No, we must not be judgmental, but only after we have made the first correct judgment. The spiritual masters don't wish you to make any blind judgments. This is what the basic message of all the true spiritual masters is. This message has got lost due to the literal meaning we attach to it without understanding its true spirit.
For example, the true spiritual masters would like the housewife to be non-judgmental about potatoes once these have been purchased and brought into the kitchen. The housewife must now consider the potatoes to be the best potatoes in the world and accordingly prepare the potato-vegetable with all the love and affection that she has at her disposal.
Similarly, you become non-judgmental about your car after having bought it. After a while, you start considering it to be the best and you start loving it for no intrinsic reasons so much that most of you may not like it to dispose it off even if someone were to offer you a better option!
Why does it happen? You have become non-judgmental, that's why. Well, if you are still judging your car and finding faults in it, you will not be able to enjoy fully the joy of car-riding because your mind shall remain distracted by your judgments about the car.
Likewise, the true spiritual masters would like you to surrender totally to your life partner in terms of you giving your spouse full unconditional love and considering your spouse to be the best husband in the world. Well, if you are still judgmental about your husband, you'll not be able to have a mentally peaceful and happy married life.
What about the spirituality and judgment?
You may now ask me as to how one can be non-judgmental in the field of spirituality? Well, it is said wisely in the ancient Indian spiritual text Yogavaaseshhtha that "....one must first of all discuss with the Vedwaanas [scholars/learned persons], to get the Shreshtha [best] Vastu[thing]{, i.e., the Absolute/Parama Tatva/Pramaa Tatva} and then adopt/absorb the Neshcheta [definite] Sedhhaanta[principle]that has been established/arrived-upon/accepted. One must not adopt any principle blindly...."
It means that one must first of all be judgmental about various approaches/paths that claim to reach the Absolute/Brhma [Parama/Paramaa Tatva].
This one has to do by comparing the different spiritual paths/philosophies with each other with the help of discussions with the spiritually-learned persons in the spiritual field. One must not accept any spiritual path blindly. Blindly following any path would mean that the person has become non-judgmental in the first stage itself. Such a blind approach may prove harmful.
There is no guarantee that any spiritual choice that has been made blindly shall surely make your material life comfortable, improve your inter-personal relationships or lead you to the spiritual salvation. The spiritual choice has to be a well-informed one, a process which requires you to be judgmental about various spiritual choices that are present before you.
Once a spiritual choice has been made based on your judgment, the true spiritual masters would like you now to become non-judgmental about this choice that you have made. Now, you must devout yourself whole-heartedly to your chosen choice/path. Any wavering/doubts about it shall only disturb your mind, distract you, disturbing your focus/concentration. This shall only harm your spiritual progress.We are very often reminded in the mass media and by different spiritual masters that... more-
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Photographic Portaits of Sadhus from the 2010 Maha Kumbh Mela, Haridwar India.
Having any contact with a Sadhu is considered Holy. Even looking at a picture of one of these Indian Holy men brings good feelings and calms the soul. Kumbh Mela is the worlds oldest and largest religious gathering in the world. Attending one of these festivals brings good luck and washes away old karma. It is even a chance to become enlightened.
http://open.salon.com/blog/alkeme/2010/02/02/one_hundred_sacred_sadhus_the_maha-kumbh_mela_2010Having any contact with a Sadhu is considered Holy. Even looking at a picture of one... more-
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The Shaambhavee Shakte - The Top Secret Laid Bare for the First Time!
The Introduction:
1. The yogic technique of the Shaambhavee-Mudraa is said to be one of the most powerful one amongst all the Yoga techniques. But, it is kept a TOP SECRET by the Yoga Experts, Masters and Gurus.
2. Also, it is fully secular in nature unlike what is being now a day taught as the Shaambhavee-Mudraa by certain Shiva Yoga experts. The Shiva Yoga Experts describe a methodology containing necessarily the invocation of the Hindu God Lord Shiva and the holy Sidhas, chanting of the hymns in praise of the Lord Shiva, and concentrating on a stone structure called Sumaeru, etc.
3. In reality, there is no need to follow any God/Goddess. All that one is required to do is to tap oneself into the universal reservoir of the energy.
4. The original Sanskrit text ‘Gheranda Samhita' carries five verses, serial numbers 64 to 68 regarding the ‘Shaambhavee-Mudraa' in the Third Lesson titled ‘Atha Mudraakathanama.'
You may see the original text for these verses [ I have relied on 'The Gheranda Samhita' translated into English by Rai-Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu, SSP edition 1979, published first in the year 1914-15]. However, I found a few words not correctly translated. Hence, I have attempted to give the correct English translation of these four relevant and important verses as follows:
1. The verse number 64 tells - keeping the focus inwardly between the two eyes symmetrically, examine/observe the ‘RAMA of the Soul - that is the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA - kept a SECRET in all the TANTRAs.
2. The verse number 65 says - The Vedas, the Shaastras, The Puraannas are like ordinary public women - Keep the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA secret like keeping a daughter-in-law of the respectable family a SECRET/AWAY FROM the public gaze.
3. The verse number 66 says - The one who is an expert in the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA is definitely the Aadenaatha, the Naaraayana one self and the creator Brhmaa.
4. The verse number 67 says - True, true, again true, True, the one who knows the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA is the True Liberator/Truly Liberated Maheshawara, Brahmaa- the one who knows the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA is not otherwise/other than these two.
You can notice clearly that the above verses don't explain the following points:
1. Who is the RAMA of the SOUL?
2. How can mere observing the RAMA of the SOUL be the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA?
3. How is one to examine/observe the RAMA of the Soul?
4. How the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert can be Aadenaatha, Naaraayanna, Brhmaa?
5. How the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert can be the True Liberator/Truly Liberated Maheshawara?
To my mind, following are the point-wise answers:
1. The universal energy reservoir/white light from which the soul comes is referred to here as the RAMA.
2. The word SHAMBHAVEE means the power/faculty to see. The word MUDRAA means the physical posture. Thus, it is clear now that the practitioner examines/observes/sees the universal white light in the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA.
3. After sitting in the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA, close both eyes. Take the breath in from both of the nostrils. Bring your breath in the SHAKTEEBRHAMAANDA [skull/brain] area and retain it for a duration with which you are totally comfortable and safe. Then, Focus on the third eye-centre. There, if you are lucky enough and have done sufficient practice, you will see the huge ocean of the bright light and nothing else. Examine this light. See its ratio compared to the darkness around. Slowly, concentrate only on the light. You will now see only bright light in front of you. This is the most powerful universal energy manifesting itself in reality right in front of you.
4. The SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert can be Aadenaatha, Naaraayanna, Brhmaa. These are the different names for the creator of this universe, in the Hindu mythology. The SHAAMBHAVI-MUDRAA Expert can create whatever one desires, like creating the successful conditions and environment for getting success in life, creating good health by removing illness, etc.
5. According to the Shiva Yoga, the soul gets liberation by merging into the Absolute called lord Shiva, as the Lord Shiva is said to be the liberated Absolute So, the Lord Shiva is said to be the True Liberator and the Truly Liberated one. The SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert can become like the True Liberator Maheshawara by helping other organisms/people get rid of their KARMIC LOAD and by activating their own Bio-Electro-Magnetic Field so as to help them have the SHAAMBHAVEE SHAKTE [power].
How the SHAAMBHAVEE Works:
1. The SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert becomes one with the universal-energy-reservoir [UER] when such practitioner retains the breath in the SHAKTEEBRHAMAANDA [skull/brain] area.
2. The SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert then can do the healing or removing of the illness of any one even sitting away at a great physical distance. In this case, visualize the patient. The malfunctioning body parts shall be visible as the BLACK mass. Go on mentally removing the dark patches and spots from the patient's visualized body for minimum three hours continually [not necessarily continuously at one single stretch]daily for 3-7 days minimum. You don't have to chant anything. Just think that just looking at the figure, these ill-spots are getting removed like a black layer being removed from a bright white light surface.
3. The SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert can imagine the presence of one's desired/ dreamt-for- objects, objectives, goals which can range from materialistic to the spiritual ones. Later, these start manifesting in reality in the real life for the successful SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA Expert in this very world itself.
4. You may lay on your bed with your head placed comfortably on a pillow in the night time when there is absolute calm in case you can't sit in the Sidha aasana. Then perform the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA.
The Example:
Making use of the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA, a practitioner was able to help a person regain his eye-sight fully despite the practitioner and the healing-receiver being separated by thousands of kilometers across two continents in two geographically opposite parts of the earth.
The Desirable DO's:
1. Lead a morally and spiritually good life.
2. Have a staunch faith in the UER.
3. Practice the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA in the Sidha aasana under the guidance of some really competent and fully knowledgeable Yoga-Master, Expert or Guru even if these people don't know anything about the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA technique described above.
4. Practice the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA daily for an hour.
5. Always express gratitude to the person from whom you have read, learnt or mastered the SHAAMBHAVEE-MUDRAA, before and after every session.
6. Always express gratitude to the UER [or any God, Goddess/other spiritual entity you may be believing-in], before and after every session.
7. Always express gratitude to your own soul, before and after every session.
8. Always forgive genuinely your own self, forgive others and seek forgiveness from others mentally before every session.
9. Perform regularly the charity acts like feeding the birds, giving medicines to the needy, etc.
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Wonderful Indian Temples Abroad
Amazingly wonderful Indian temples around the world, making India proud as always.-
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Om Namah Shivaya - Kathak Varanasi Style
This is an excerpt from a kathak dance program featuring a half-dozen of my friends from Benares.
In this piece, the dancers are my dear friends Ravi Shankar Mishra and Mata Prasad Mishra.
It is a devotional dance dedicated to Shiva.
The musicians are:
Ravi Nath Mishra on tabla, my good friend Kanhaya Lal Mishra on the sarangi (a violin-type instrument), my good friend Prem Kishor Mishra on the harmonium and vocals, and Ganesh Prasad Mishra on the Indian zyther (owing to his position on the stage, one cannot see him - he is seated behind the harmonium player and singer, and is the musician who produces harp-like or sitar-like downwards arpeggios).
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The Age of Shiva
Fascinating novel by Manil Suri
...In The Age of Shiva India's birth as a new nation parallels a woman's complex psychological journey confronting tradition and modernity. Exchanging sentimentality for clear vision, Suri reveals an immense humanity, and a tenderness for women making their way in a world of men. Fascinating novel by Manil Suri ...In The Age of Shiva India's birth as a new... more-
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