My Goodness !

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It certainly has gotten quite lively here since I last looked!

It is going to take me awhile to catch up with everyone and most

certainly a couple of

re-reads of the latest messages are in order.

 

Pretty cool we have some new members as well.

There seems to be a tremendous potential for learning from each other

in this group.

 

I want to thank Kirkji for mentioning Shri Rudrum.

I was fortunate to receive Shaktipat from SadGuru Muktananda.

He felt it was important to teach the Rudrum and chant it regularly.

It is extraordinary.

(Not to mention a challenge to chant)

 

The first message that caught my eye when I entered this Group page

was Paul Z's lovely

Sharing from Satsang with Baba & now this. Very typical of the kinds

of synchronicities I have experienced with the Rudrakshas and Lord

Shiva's Grace in general !!

 

Regarding Arun's question about the mukhi's and Kirkji's response, I

have a couple of things to share.

I have found the information contained on www. Rudraksha-Ratna.com to

be quite wonderful. Everything is explained very thoroughly and there

are some amazing sections that have great info throughout the site.

 

I would highly suggest to anyone to receive a consultation

recommendation based on one's astrological chart (which is free on

the site) and then progress from there in bringing other rudrakshas

into one's continuum.

I see this particularly in the experience Kirkji has had with 9 Mukhi

and what mine has been. Mine has been slightly different. I think it

may be because I am female, but more so I think it is because there

seems to be a deep connection that I have with 9 Mukhi Durga

Rudraksha based on my recommendation.

 

I have found that my devotion to Maha Shakti has increased

tremendously. Her reality has manifested in ways that I cannot put

into words. It is important to share briefly that circumstances in my

life were such that I was in the midst of intense spiritual battle

with some ugly energies prior to using rudrakshas. This negativity

was entering into my thought process and of course I would react

emotionally.

 

Using the Sheild of Durga mantra: Om Dum Dugayei Namaha, I found

immediate relief from those thoughts and emotions. Later I had the

sense of Kali Durge herself doing battle for me against outer

opposing forces as I was protected within this shield. In less then a

month all of this discord was removed. I also wear 11 mukhi Lord

Rudra Hanumanji as well. Which gets me to this notion of spiritual

battle that has been discussed…

 

.. The more I used the shield of Durga Mantra the more Light entered

into me and around me. I had been exhausted & needed to refrain from

work and had been working professionally with a shaman who I later

discovered had only intentions of "stealing my power", so I had

undergone very intense psychic attack for 6 months to a year prior to

using the mantras and rudrakshas.

 

Anyway, I never used the mantra to attack this individual. At first I

used it to battle my own mind and consciousness. As this spiritual

light increased and the discordant thought patterns went away. I

started to do japa simply out of love for Shiva/Shakti either the

Durga mantra or Om Namah Shivaya. I was in a state of total

equilibrium and peace and all of the outer negativity that was thrust

at me disintegrated. It was as simple and as painless as that. A

healer had diagnosed a flower essence for me that was specifically

for entity attack and that essence is no longer necessary.

 

(I was/am using a wrist mala of nine 9mukhi beads and wear one

11mukhi on red thread.)

 

What I am getting at in all this is another perspective of the value

of these two mukhi's and the concept of spiritual warriorship. The

grace in both the blessed rudrakshas and mantra repetition led me

into a state of non-duality and non-doership in the face of a

circumstance where I was fighting most certainly for my sanity and

physical health.

 

This reality is heralded in the "Bhagavad Gita" and throughout the

teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. Not to mention in both the Old and New

Testaments of the Bible. For we all know that Arjunaji is despondent

over the reality of fighting his relatives. What do we learn about

his circumstance, not only is the chariot driver Lord Shri Krishna

Himself , but he is carrying the Banner of Hanumanji ! Look at that

symbolism !!

 

One of the great teachings of the Old Testament is "The Battle is not

mine, it is the Lord's". To me that is the nature of surrender.. Once

again, going back to the Gita and the concept of non-doership & what

I had mentioned a couple of days ago concerning Bhakti.

 

I am seeing the rudrakshas assisting me in moving into that

consciousness that I am not responding to circumstances out of

emotion and the works get done through me. Like when Jesus said "It

is not I, but the Father within Me who does the Works." To enter into

battle to free myself from an entanglement of negativity and let go

of all these emotions such as outrage, sadness, hurt, revenge, being

victimized etc. etc. The Gita teaches of the sacrifice of

the "attachment to works".

 

I hope this is making sense, for I felt the need to share this yet

it is huge because you all have been having this "gab fest" ;-)

 

What the 9 & 11 mukhi's helped me do was enter into the reality not

just the theory expressed in Tibetan Buddhism in the cultivation of

Patience, In the "Guide to a Boddhisattva's Way of Life" Shanti Deva

gives the example that if some one hits us with a stick, we are not

to get angry with the person but with the stick. Because the person

is suffering from a severe afflictive emotion that we should have the

same concern and compassion for them as if they had cancer or heart

disease.

 

It is in this same consciousness Jesus teaches when he instructs that

we should Pray for our enemies. That is exactly what I have been able

to do thanks to the grace of the rudrakshas and the Durga Mantra.

 

I could give you more Buddha Dharma (for we know rudrakshas are

beyond religion), but this is terribly long.

 

I also am in the midst of doing some research on the 11 Rudras which

I will post when complete.

 

Oh yes, one other thing and I will close.. The notion of Rudras being

wrathful deities. Once again, according to Tibetan Buddhist

teachings, the wrathful deities are simply out pourings of Divine

Love and Compassion who are set to destroy the poisons of ignorance

and darkness, attachment and aversion. To destroy those powers those

aspects of consciousness that are out to destroy us. (ie destroying

sin. Love the sinner. Hate the sin)

 

Sri Bhagavan Haidakhan Wale Baba taught once that of all the forms of

Maha Shakti, Shri Kali's Love was the most intense for she takes up

that activity of destroying darkness (with her love)

 

You could say the Archangel Michael was a wrathful deity.

 

Gosh , I could go on and on. Looks like Mother Saraswati is living

with me today.

 

Thank you especially Dharma Deva Aryaji and Kirkji for all of your

wonderful insights.

Hope everyone in the States has a wonderful holiday weekend.

 

(To be continued…)

 

Love and Light

Kanti

 

Om tat purushaya vidmahe

Maha Devaya Dimahi

Tanno Rudrah Pracho dayat

 

"We comprehend and realize that Celebrated Supreme Being and meditate

upon that Great God, Maha Deva. May Rudra impel us to do so. This is

the Rudra Gayatri Mantra"