Akarshaya (Siddh) Mala Experience by Taotiger on 16 Sept 2007

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Message posted by Taotiger on 16 Sept 2007

 

Akarshaya Mala Experience

 

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Namaste Narasimhaye & group members,

 

this group is surely a blessing, where there is healing and kind

advice with, like Rudraksha, " no side effects " .

 

today is the 280th day of Rudraksha sadhana for me. there is only

wonderful aspects of effect to relate - all beneficial to myself and

people i connect with.

 

the first 140 days brought many material comforts, physical *things*

which i had wanted and which arrived mysteriously, with minimal

effort.

 

the middle of the entire period saw a lessening of interpersonal

strife, and more harmonious relating with all family and friends.

also a finding of likeminded souls who are engaged in similar ways of

spiritual practice as myself - i suspect as like brings like that

simply in reading this forum there have been attractive energies

manifesting people in life near me like people in here, having

compassionate and devotional characters.

 

all throughout the time of wearing, where every day Aum Namah Shivaya

is chanted at putting on and taking off, wearing for a minimum of 6

hours daily, there has been a " rarifying " of thought, whereby ideas

are not just " rare " , as this word may imply (yet also are), but

greatly more subtle, available to observation at that stage where

they are still barely formed as words. that is, gradually from

sentences forming a sturdy matrix, a progression has occured towards

being " half-felt " intuitions ammenable to easier control. as if,

using the analogy of plant-care, to promote healthy growth in a

plant/thought before, it would need to be trasplanted when already a

large tree using great effort into more favourable soil. wheras now,

there is some ease such as the difference of being able these days to

simply work at the energy of thought in " seed-form " , before it is

even words, ensuring the seed is planted in fruitful conditions.

 

and anyway, over the course of sadhana, there is now less need to

interfere at all, since planting for a long time has been in rich

healthy environment, so that just watering with devotion and applying

the sunshine of love for all is enough.

 

 

interestingly, a particular facet of my personal attitude has

resulted in marked changes. this part of practice is that i wear

Rudraksha (Akarshaya Siddh Mala + One Mukhi) at all times - for i am

taught that Shiva is (in) everything, that nothing is not sacred,

that the soil in the valley is as full of his divinity as the highest

peak.

 

the result of this (left hand) attitude is that gradually, there is a

non-duality evident in every area of existence. no longer the " good "

and " right " separate from the " bad " and " wrong " ... thankfully it is

all being felt as Shiva, since even though strict morality disappears

through such a change in perspective, there are certain guiding

principles of living integral to the sacred which ensure non-violent

and " graceful " action.

 

difficult to describe, i'm sure that anyone to whom AUM is the

highest and who has pursued an experience of this to the utmost, can

understand principles of conduct are not so binding, yet an empathy

and compassion remain as natural baseline functions of humanity.

 

simply, now after long practice at the end of an even longer road in

other disciplines, there is not a " wonderful " state which is *almost*

everywhere but which may be sometimes lost in anger or sour feeling -

instead, just the flow from one manifest part of existence to

another, each so inseperable from the other that all is of the same

nature (*even* brief anger and sour feeling), and all permeated

seamlessly with the grand ordinary blessing of the unmanifest

perfection as Shiva. and while this nature is not *only* good, it is

certainly complete and unfathomable, mysterious and clear, divine and

mundane at once, just as it is with no need of being called " this or

that " , as even the name is only equally perfect as the named, as

water in the ocean is itself the ocean.

 

there is a saying, true in experience eventually, yet only

apprehended intellectually until felt, that " Nirvana is Samsara " .

like one hand as one with the other in respectful greeting, there is

only one gesture and essence of all - and this essence is AUM, and

this essence is Shiva.

 

thanks to all for listening. hope this helps someone in some small

way.

 

love to you all,

taotiger

www.taotiger.com