Miscellany: Future, bestest homam, purity and overcoming ego

June 29, 2009

Namaste,

I mentioned an episode of a small boy who did a very short Chandi homam and saw

Vishnu's ten incarnations above the fire in the following mail:

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This boy was born and brought up in US and is not proficient in his knowledge of

Hinduism. He did not know much about some of the ten incarnations. He described

what he saw and I told him who was who and a little about them. One of the forms

he saw was a radiant man with white clothes riding a white horse on a dusty

road. I told him he was Kalki and he hadn't come yet.

* * *

This boy is usually playful, easy-going and smiling. But, when I was with him

one morning, I saw him lost in some serious thought. This was abou a week after

the episode mentioned in the above mail.

I asked what he was thinking. He said, " it is not that the future that is to

come has not already happened. It has already happened in reality, but it will

happen later when the time comes. You know what I mean? " I guessed what he was

getting at, but pretended not to know. I said, " no. What do you mean? "

He said, " I don't know how to say what I am thinking. " This boy is not known to

be overly intelligent or articulate. His main characteristic is that he is

usually cheerful, playful, sweet, kind, contented and relaxed. However, he was

onto something today. But he could not express himself.

I helped him, " do you mean to say that future has already happened at some

level, but will reveal itself to people later? Kind of like a movie. A movie may

have been shot and become ready in a studio. Some people may have already seen

it. But people seeing it on the screen later will think it is happening in front

of them. Are you saying something like that? "

He exclaimed, " exactly. That is what I am saying. If something is going to

happen in future, it will happen when future comes. But somebody may be able to

see it before future comes, because it has already happened. "

Though he did not mention it, I knew why he was thinking along these lines. When

I told him the man riding the horse in his vision over the fire was Kalki and he

was yet to come, he was probably confused. Given his age and ability to think

and understand things, this probably seemed like an oddity to him that he should

see somebody who had not yet come. So he was trying to think how it was possible

and came to some important conclusions about " time " in his own way.

Time seems linear at the level of regular consciousness. However, in many planes

of conssciousness, the concept of time becomes changed. It even loses its

meaning when one is established in non-dual Aatman or Brahman or Self.

* * *

The same boy once performed a very short Kaali homam with a small naama mantra

of Dakshina Kaali with beejaakshara added before name. When we were meditating

after poornaahuti, I felt a very intense and powerful energy. It was quite

different from the energy I feel normally. This intense energy made my mind feel

satisfied and blissful and a feeling that can be loosely expressed in words as

" I am done here. I have nothing more left to do. Time to leave " filled my entire

consciousnss.

I had experienced the same kind of intense energy twice before that. Once I

experienced the same energy when I was meditating sitting next to my guru Manish

who was doing a Chandi homam in India. Second time was when I had an unexpected

opportunity to meditate inside the garbhaalaya of a famous temple, standing

within 3 feet from the main Kaali idol there, which was sanctified and

worshipped by a great saint in the past. The energy I felt was the same on all

the three occasions. At no other time did I feel that intense shakti.

Interestingly, after we finished meditation and opened eyes, that boy remarked,

" out of all the different homas I did so far, this is the bestest homam. " I

asked him why. He said, " I don't know how to say it, but it just felt awesome

and different. "

* * *

This boy performed a really simple and short procedure, shorter than what I give

in manuals. But it seemed like he was successful in making a powerful energy

manifest there. The bottomline is that internal purity is the most important

thing.

Rituals help purify one and purity helps one do a ritual better and get more out

of it. It is an egg and chicken problem and one has to keep doing it until one

breaks through.

Keep performing your chosen spiritual practices, but do pay attention to

internal purity as you engage in external practices. The only worthwhile measure

of spiritual progress and purity is how smaller your ego becomes. As ego becomes

smaller, you can resist attraction to external things better and you can resist

internal enemies like lust, anger, jealosy etc better. You can do your dharma

better. Ego - thinking that this is " I " and this is " mine " - is the root cause

of all problems.

* * *

Overcoming ego using jnaana yoga is relatively challenging, but bhakti yoga is

easier. Think that all that is around you - including your house, money, cars,

spouse, children and your own body - is god's property and that you are a

temporary caretaker of all of these properties of god. Do the best job you can,

but without entertaining the notion " this is mine " . A faithful servant takes

very good care of his master's properties, but without thinking of all those

things as his or her belongings.

Realize that thinking of things as " mine " is not necessary for taking good care

of them. A servant who loves one's master takes the best care of things

entrusted to one. When a thing is taken away, a servant does not waste time

worrying and crying. A servant will accept that is master's property and can be

taken away anytime. This enables one to do the best job with what one possesses

and not worry about what one does not possess or what is out of one's control.

Developing the attitude of a servant who takes care of master's properties will

help one wade the ocean of worldly life without getting caught and overcome ego.

Best regards,

Narasimha

Do a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homam

Do Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpana

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June 30, 2009

Dear Narasimhaji,

Namaste. This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing these daily inspirational gems

with us..I feel that your words certainly help us along our spiritual journey in

some way or another. I got goosebumbs while reading the section about the

Dakshina Kaali homam. Incidentally, it reminded me of something that I had read

before about a concept of 'Crystal Children' - A new generation of children born

to ease us into a new era of spirituality:

http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Children-Doreen-Virtue/dp/1401902294

" As babies, Crystal Children may take longer than normal to begin talking. They

are highly telepathic, and their tuned-in mothers communicate with them

nonverbally. Because they're so sensitive, the Crystal Children babies may fuss

and cry a lot in crowded places. They're also very fond of nature. Doreen once

watched one Crystal Child walk from tree to tree, giving each one a big hug.

Crystal Children are beautiful inside and out, like magnificent little

high-priests and priestesses. One look in their eyes, and you'll recognize

Divine love and wisdom. Their auras are bright, radiant, and opalescent—they

seem to glow from the inside! They talk about past lives, distant galaxies, and

profound insights concerning peace and love. Most Crystal Children's parents are

aware that their kids are special, and they're thrilled to be parenting such

delightful children. "

July 1, 2009

Namaste,

I approach anything that is not "normal" with skepticism. Though I was given by god my share of extra-ordinary experiences and encounters, I still remain a skeptic when I encounter such accounts.

I see that this world today is filled with crass commercialism and everything is sensationalized and hyped and this calls for healthy skepticism on our part. I do not trust everything I read or hear.

* * *

I have seen some special children and young men. Yes, there are some special children born in this world every now and then. There may be more of them at this time. But the generalized characteristics mentioned by these writers may not be genuine. Secondly, talking about past lives and distant galaxies or about coming from a distant galaxy means nothing. Also, it is not really straight-forward to recognize a spiritually special child. What seems special to you is based on your own samskaras! If a boy is indeed from Mars (as some of these "crystal children" claimed) or even a re-incarnation of a gandharva or a kinnara or a vidyadhara etc, it means nothing.

Not many recognized Ramakrishna Paramahamsa or Ramana maharshi as a spiritual giant (or as an avatara), when they were small boys. Great saints who showed the correct spiritual path to many people exhibited many different characteristics in their childhood. The characteristics change from one saint to another. A lot of the characteristics mentioned in the crystal children literature seem irrelevant to me for spiritual purity.

Best regards,NarasimhaDo a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homamDo Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpanaSpirituality: Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.orgSri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:43 PM

Re: Miscellany: Future, bestest homam, purity and overcoming ego

Dear Narasimhaji, Namaste. This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing these daily inspirational gems with us..I feel that your words certainly help us along our spiritual journey in some way or another. I got goosebumbs while reading the section about the Dakshina Kaali homam. Incidentally, it reminded me of something that I had read before about a concept of 'Crystal Children' - A new generation of children born to ease us into a new era of spirituality: http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Children-Doreen-Virtue/dp/1401902294 "As babies, Crystal Children may take longer than normal to begin talking. They are highly telepathic, and their tuned-in mothers communicate with them nonverbally. Because they're so sensitive, the Crystal Children babies may fuss and cry a lot in crowded places. They're also very fond of nature. Doreen once watched one Crystal Child walk from tree to tree, giving each one a big hug. Crystal Children are beautiful inside and out, like magnificent little high-priests and priestesses. One look in their eyes, and you'll recognize Divine love and wisdom. Their auras are bright, radiant, and opalescent-they seem to glow from the inside! They talk about past lives, distant galaxies, and profound insights concerning peace and love. Most Crystal Children's parents are aware that their kids are special, and they're thrilled to be parenting such delightful children."