My recent experience in Tryambakeshwar (10th Shiva Ling)

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||Hare Rama Krsna||

 

Dear Mukund,

 

JyotiLingas are most powerful.I will write details about this later,

in hurry, rushing to office.

 

What middle-aged man told is absolutely right, leave behind your ego.

 

Bye

Abhijeet

 

 

vedic astrology, "monmuk111" <monmuk111>

wrote:

>

> Dear Gentlepeople:

>

> My experience is related in a round-about way with Jyotish so I'm

> posting it here.

>

> I was visiting Tryambakeshwar near Nasik (Maharastra), the home of

> the 10th Shiv Ling of total of 12 Shiva Lings located in India for

> conducting Narayana Nag Bali (a sacred rite for appeasing the

souls

> of the ancestors).

>

> The ceremony required that I bathe in a Kund (a public bath)

before

> beginning the ceremony). When I arrived at this bathing place, I

was

> appalled to see thousands of people bathing in the same static

body

> of water which was emitting a foul smell as well.

>

> I refused to bathe in this water and told my priest that I was

> canceling the Narayana-Nag-Bali ceremony and was going back to the

> United States. As I was walking away, a middle aged man who had

been

> watching my disgust at the public bathing approached me and said

> that "when you come to God, come there as a zero, leave behind

your

> ego and status, I guarantee that if you bathe in this public pool

of

> the water of river Godavri, you won't fall sick or get any skin

> disease."

>

> This statement from a stranger struck me like a lightning. I

returned

> back, bathed in the public pool where thousands others were

bathing,

> continued bathing for the three days I was there for the ceremony,

> completed the ceremony that I almost walked away from and I felt

> GREAT, I felt FREE, all the prejudices (possibly based on ego) I

had

> on bathing in a dirty public pool was gone. This same man asked me

to

> meet him at the Shiva temple on the 3rd day.

>

> When I met him, he gave me a YELLOW loin cloth (dhoti) that I had

to

> wear around my waist—no undearwear, no other clothing or

accessories

> were allowed—walking around with nothing on except a piece of

cloth

> felt strange as well. Then, this man took me to the inner-sanctum

of

> the Shiva temple where he asked me to touch the THREE Lingas and

> pray. This was unbelievable—there were millionaires, billionairs

and

> other powerful people getting off their big, fancy cars and

waiting

> in line for hours and hours to get one glimpse of the Shiva Lingas

> through a reflection in a mirror placed on the roof of the temple

AND

> here I was, literally a NOBODY in India or anywhere else in the

> world, actually touching the three Lingas located in the innermost

> sanctum of the temple.

>

> This man never accepted a penny from me, didn't give me his

address

> and disapppeared into the thousands of people waiting outside the

> temple after I came out of the inner-sanctum of the temple. This

> indeed was an uncanny, humiliating and a great spiritual

experience

> for me. All my ego (actual as well as sub-conscious) was washed

away

> with those public baths in the pool of the water from Godavri

river.

>

> Now connecting this to Jyotish—I was born with an Exhalted Jupiter

> placed in the ninth house, I feel this Jupiter is bound to give

such

> uncanny spiritual and religious experiences. At the time of my

> experience (November 18, 19, 20), I was running Mar-Moon-Rahu.

Moon

> antardasa as the 9th lord would give such an experience, but why

> during Rahu sub period that I don't understand.

>

> Sanjay (Rath) had told me a couple of months back that Mars or

> Jupiter located in 2nd from Moon is a powerful Raj-yog and I'll

> experience Raj-yog results in Mars-Moon rather than the bad

results

> that I had predicted based on 2-12 relationship between Mars and

> Moon. Sanjay was right, I was wrong. -- Being able to travel to

the

> 10th Shiva Linga and be able to actually touch the Lingas and pray

is

> indeed a Raj-yog result for a Hindu.

>

> Birth detail: June 14, 1967; Bombay, 5.29 pm.

>

> Hope Narasimha and others don't get mad at me for posting somewhat

> non-Jyotish material.

>

> Mukund