Articles on Tantra Mantra Yoga Meditation Kundalini Gita

LORD KRISHNA SPEAKS TO ARJUNA IN GITA :-

"IN TRUTH, THERE ARE THOSE YOGIS WHO SACRIFICE DO DEVAS,OTHERS OFFER THE SELF,AS A SACRIFICE BY THE SELF,IN THE FIRE OF SPIRIT ALONE".

Sacrifice to devas means to certain ceremonies for invoking the presence of liberated saints or of astral gods or other aspects of the godhead who govern various functions of the universe.

In the revelation of the original christen bible, we read that god has "seven angles" before his throne".the Hindu scriptures also mention these supreme deities or power aspects of god, and identify them as follows:The macrocosmic ideational casual universe is created & governed by ishvara, "Lord of Creation", the omniscient reflection of spirit as creator.The law of causation begins with Ishvara, the first cause of matter.The macrocosmic astral universe is maintained by Hiranyagarbha, who forms the blueprint of the universe in casual ideas.Those wanting insight & wisdom may pray to god as "PRANJA"he macrocosmic physical universe (the materialization of the casual ideas The macrocosmic physical universe(the materialization of the casual ideas & the astral blueprints ) is controlled by "VIRATA".The microcosmic ideational astral form of man & of all objects is controlled by "TAIJAS".The microcosmic ideational form of man & of all the objects is governed by "PRANJA".The physical form of the man & all the material things is maintained by "VISHVA".

These six deities governing the six states of the cosmos are in turn transcendentally guided by the creative intelligence of the cosmic and manifesting principles of the seventh angel or MAHA PRAKRATI- great mother Nature or Shakti in Tantra or the holy ghost, the active expression of kutastha Consciousness. These seven angles are before the throne of god.God differentiated himself into these seven deities, imposing a different personality on each so that they could carry on the various functions of the universe--even so the same sunbeam is reflected differently when it falls on the blue sapphire, red ruby,yellow topaz etc.

It is possible for man to reach god directly, as the supreme deity over the seven deities,just as the man may personally contact any important personage.However,just as it is sometimes difficult to get to the head of the corporation without first meeting the responsible secretary, so it is taught by advocates of Deva/Devi worship that is easier first to contact god through one of his seven regents.

1.) The devotee in need of healing may pray to god "VISHVA" : "Manifest in me as Health !

2.) Those seeking a stronger life force may say " "Good TAIJAS"Recharge my energies.

3.) Those wanting insight & wisdom may pray to god as "PRANJA" :"Reinforce my wisdom & guide its determinations to its goals."

4.) Those devotees who want a perception of the whole physical universe may pray to god as "VIRATA": " Make me feel ! thy presence in all the cosmos".

5.) Those who want to know god as the cosmic life force may pray:" O cosmic Astral Engineer, Hirayanagarbha! manifest thyself to me as cosmic light".

6.) Seekers of the supernal wisdom of the first cause of all beings may pray" O god as Ishvaara ! implant in me the omnipresence of cosmic intelligence."

7.) those who want to get released from Maya, cosmic delusion, may direct their prayer to MAHA PRAKRITI, the holy ghost, the active divine conjurer of all illusory manifestations: " O cosmic mother, show me the one reality behind all thy veils of delusion".

Devotees who desire union with the universal intelligence of god omnipresent in the 7-aspected phenomenal world should pray to the immanent "KUTASTHA CHAITANAYA" : "Oh KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS or Christ Consciousness"--be thou manifest in the ecstasy-expanded cup of my consciousness !

Those finally want god, thee absolute beyond creation,should pray" "O Cosmic Consciousness, reveal Thyself ! Reveal Thyself !

In all these prayers the devotee should realize that he must continuously throw the "clarified butter" of devotion into the flame of spirit within these seven deities, or into the cosmic fire of god & perform excellent "YAGYA"

There are many many other deities in the universe too. The Tantra shastra in detail the specific vibratory chants & root sounds that should be properly intoned during a fire ceremony to invoke the presence of lesser or greater deities for the acquisition of power & boons.

But Sir Krishna says in Gita Oh Arjuna whose who worship the lesser gods go on to them after this mortal coil is cast away & that those are devotees of spirit become one with spirit.Satisfaction with anything less than the supreme lord himself continues to tie one to the limited realm of Maya.

Sri Sri .P.Y.

Gita Shloka Translation:-

" OH Arjuna from food creatures spring forth, from rain food is begotten,from yajna(the sacrifical cosmic fire) rain(liquid vibration of astral energy) issues forth,the cosmic fire(light) is born of karma(divine vibratory action)"

Karma yoga the Path-Creation explained

Food is the fountain of lif & the rain is the stream that brings foth body sustaning food.cosmic fire,cosmic light,the quintessence of matter,condenses into enlivining rain & cosmic vibration,the creator of cosmic light throbs out of the heart of Brahma, the creative consciousness of god immanent in creation.The supreme cause from which evolve these successive links in the chain of creation is the sole imperishiable,the everlasting spirit beyond creation.spirit's reflection in vibratory creation as the divine creative consciousness is omnipresent,indivisibly inherent in every part & particle of the manifested universe.Lord Krishna stanzas in gita describes the entire law of creation,the outward evolution of creation from spirit into cosmic vibration & the condensation of vibration as light into man & the universe in casual,astral & physical forms.all living cratures evolved from matter.As every form of material life-sustaning nourishment issued forth from the primordial ocean of gathered waters or liquids that formed as the earth solidified from gaseous nebulae,so in turn the nubulae were precipitated from the ocean of gathered rains of astral cosmic energy,which is the essence of atoms,electrons,protons & neutrons.The rains of astral cosmic energy stream out of the cosmic light & atomic light or fire results from the ordered vibration or will of god(Cosmic karma or vibratory activity)

The original bible speaks the same"In the bengning god created the heaven & the earth.And the eaerth was without form & void & darkness was upon the face of the deep.And the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters(creative elements-5 great elements).And the god said,let there be light & there was light"

The cosmic vibration & laws of action(karma),which govern the universe came from the Brahma or kuthstha chaitayana, gods infinite intelligence inherently present in all vibratory creation.This consciousness of god the son"TAT" immanent in all vibratory creation sprang from the immutable god the father "SAT" existing beyond all vibratory cretion.the creative Brahma being the reflected consciousness & existing in relation to the cosmos is therfore a temporary manifestation,dissolving in spirit when at the time of cosmic idssolution all cretion resolves back into the absolute, the sole impreishiable.

Within the brahman creative consciousness is Mula prakriti(SHAKTI), uncreated or undiffiereated nature,which holds the seed of all creation.Through the outflowing vibratory activity of god's will in the form of intelligent cretive cosmic vibration "AUM" the quiescent Mula prakriti is differentiated and as various vibratory forces & energies,the now-active prakriti brings into manifestation the multiform creation.

The intelligent cosmic vibration has two properties,cosmic light & the cosmic sound"AUM" all are the witness or evidence of the creator in his creation.Relative to the cretion of man these verses explanation from gita is explained as follows: the cosmic energy of the creative cosmic vibration is the immidiate source of all life-sustaning food.Thus man who is a microcosm of the universe is a product of cosmic energy of astral life current that became the condensed vibratory current of earth or matter reffered to in this verse as food.The gross outer sheath of the soul is called annamaya kosha.literally the covering mad from food & refers to the physical body.this gross body or solid vibration of earth or matter sprang from & is in turn nourished by the subtler or liquid flowing vibration of astral energy reffered to as "RAIN" in gita.As rain nourishes the life of the earth so the astral life energy vitalizes all matter.The fluid vibrations of cosmic energy are condensations of the subtle cosmic fire or cosmic light whihc is the essence,the building block of all things.And the cosmic light is born from the intelligent creative cosmic vibration "AUM" the active vibratiry will of god as the forces of prakriti or nature in man.this ordered vibration expression of divine law spirngs forth from the soul,the individualized Brahma creative consciousness.Thus ultimately man is made in the image of god,eternal consciousness.

God's creative consciousness may be desvribed as a dreamer who dreams the identional,astral & physical creation of amn & the cosms(SEE THE PICTURE OF LORD NARAYAN WITH MEDITATIVE EYES LYING ON STARS-HOW BEAUTIFULLY OUR SAINTS DEPICTED THE CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNIVERSE IN SIMPLEST FORM OF PICTURE)The creator dreamed &the cosmos & the man became dream realities in thought o idea form.From this ideational or casual dream god made forth the so called solid universe & man with his illusioary heavy body.The weight of the body or a peice of clod is a suggestion of god.The body as matter is in actually an elcromagnetic wave in the ocean of his universe whihc come & goes & then again comes into existence.

Thus man is the materialized mind of god.all creatures are informed or materialized from the frozen mind or ideas of god.all illusions of solid matter came from the liquid astral energy of fluid frozen mind of god.This frozen liquid mind or ideas of god came from cosmic energy as light or fiery frozen mind of god.The source of this light is the active vibratory frozen mind of god--intelligent cosmic vibration or prakriti--which directs all laws of the entire illusioary creation that is nothing but dreams of god.

BY-S.S.S.Y

SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING OF ASTROLOGY

All planets & stars for example are in the charge of divine astral beings.the influence on man from the heavenly bodies is the result of a universal symbiosis,governed by laws upheld by these higher beings.Planets & stars of themselves have no conscious power to guide or determine the destiny of man.But as the whole universe consists of & is held in existence by nature's creative vibratory power,each individual unit radiates a characteristic electromagnetic vibration that links it with other units in the cosmos.Depending upon the interaction,these vibrations are productive of good & ill.Man is a miniature of the universe in which he lives.his basic composition--of which his physical body is merely a gross manifestation--is his astral body from the creative forces & consciousness in the spiritual eye & the subtle cerebrospinal centers.The spiritual eye has a correspondence with the cosmic sun & the six--twelve by polarity--spinal centers(medullary,cervical,dorsal,lumbar,sacral & coccygeal plexuses or chakras) correspond to planetary influences represented by the twelve zodical signs of astrology.

The astrological stars of a person are nothing but an environment that he or she has chosen by the karmic patters he has fashioned by his past life actions.According to this karmic patterns he is attracted to be reborn on earth at a given time that is favorable to the fulfillment of that pattern.In that sense astrology is only one way of finding out what one's past karma is.It is at best an art practiced by those who may or may not have divine intuitive perception.AS commonly calculated today,an astrological chart is drawn for a person according to the time & place of birth,even a slight inaccuracy in this data affects the accuracy of the chart.Further one is actually born at the moment of conception,when the soul enters the first cell of its new body.One's karmic pattern has already begun to unfold at that instant.the intuition in astrology as the divine science it was intended to be knows how to factor this"birth at conception into calculating a horoscope".

In any case it is not the stars themselves that control the happenings in mans life but rather his individual karma that when ripe for fruition is affected beneficially or adversely by the electromagnetic vibrations of the heavenly bodies.The relation of the stars to the human body & mind is very subtle.The astral forces radiating to the earth fro the heavens interact with those in the spinal centers(chakras)that sustain man's body.Ignorant man does not realize how his actions affect--positively or negatively--the centers of the spine.Persons whose bodies & minds & material environment are out of order,the result of transgressions of spiritual laws have inharmony between the energies in the spinal centers & those radiating from the twelve sign of the zodiac.

the true science of astrology,therefore is mathematics of ones own actions,not the mathematics of the brainless stars.Karma governs the stars & ones destiny but the karma is governed by ones will & divine determination can change the course of events in his life, or atleast mitigate adverse aspects.One whose body & mind are very strong is impervious to adverse astrological influences there may be no outwardly observation reaction at all,even when evil vibrations may be radiating from the negative configuration of the stars.But if body & mind have been weakened by wrong eating,wrong thinking,bad character,bad company, then the stellar rays have the power to activate latent harmful effects of past karma.

On the cosmic scale,the combined karma of groups of individuals--social or racial groups, or nations for example--or of the world at large,constitute the mass karma of the earth or portions thereof.This mass karma responds to the electromagnetic vibrations of the earth's cosmic neighbors according to the same laws that effects each individual,thereby inducing beneficial or malevolent changes in the course of world & natural events.A store of good mass karma from living in harmony with divine laws & forces blesses the man's earthly environment with peace,health,prosperity.Accumulated bad mass karma precipitates the wars,diseases,poverty,devastating earthquakes & other such calamities.During times of prevalent vibratory influences,the individual must thus contend not only with his personal karma,but also with mass karma affecting the planet on which he lives.

Therefore it is beneficial to follow certain astrological injunctions based on the mathematical or orderly nature of the unified cosmos-- if such advice is received from the self realized sage or a Rishi & not mere caster of horoscopes.

When one is following gods path to give too much thought to such lesser sciences can be a hindrance.The highest way is to commune with god & by meditation the person reinforces the positive spiritual power in the cerebrospinal centers that are acted upon by the planetary influences & these stars bow done before the presence of god being his agents of governance. So yogi harmonize with god his mind thereby harmonizing with cosmic agents of governance. Contact with devas by attuning the consciousness to these higher forces in meditation elevates the man who may thus avoid fructification of evil karma,misfortune can be greatly lessened,while the liberating effects of good actions are enhanced.

S.S.P.Y