One of the biggest fallacies in spirituality is that a person must be famous to be spiritual.
There is nothing like that.
In fact some of the best spiritual figures I have met have been relatively unknown (Nakhate Maharaj).
In general you will find that whatever you are spiritually is something. Hypothetically let us call it X.
Now… if you start becoming popular, you may have to adjust to people’s likes/dislikes especially if you are reliant on them for money.
One thing that the pandemic teaches but that wisdom came early to us medics and it’s difficult unless you see death on some sort of regular basis:
“You are what you are… nobody cares..”
Death comes to all. After that account balance will be found.
If you start making 100 adjustments for others in your spiritual practice, you really don’t progress.
Either you will waste time, or you will waste effort or you will waste your intellectual energy in trying to figure out what others want.
In Reality, you came alone, you go alone
Therefore, it’s highly important to spend time with yourself.
You must know first what is right for you. What is right for you must be understood carefully. You adhere to that for say 100 days at least.
Then see if any change has occurred on your mental makeup..
For example: take Chandi Path.
You do that at same time place for 100 days once at Sandhya and see the difference.
It will take you 2.5 hrs slow and 1 hr 10 mins at speed.
Twice a day is 5 hours slow and 2 hrs 20 mins at speed.
Brahmacharya… see what occurs in mental makeup.
Make sure pronunciation is perfect. If you feel this can’t be done without a Guru, that’s ok. Do Durga Sahasranaam instead.
Or something else. But do 100 days and then check. Maintain a diary. Over a decade the change will be permanent and quite impossible to imagine.
Maintain a complete control over your words and don’t unnecessarily bother about others.
Why? 1. You are not responsible for others (Ishwar is responsible)… 2. People’s karma is their karma. Yours is yours. Why entangle yourself and increase your karma…
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Traditionally Moon is karaka for the manasa and Saturn is considered that which dries that juice… that can be (mostly ) involuntary or occasionally voluntary. The mind undergoes introversion (mostly forceful)… but for occasional people it’s voluntary..
This is perhaps one reason, Saturn is also karaka for Tapascharya .. Root Tapa = to shine, but also to suffer, to burn, to mortify even)
Acharan of Tapa… = discipline to mortify/suffer/burn/shine or indeed all of those things.
ShaniDev’s names include “Kalatra Putra Shatrutva Karanaya “… now this sort of enemity with wife/partner and sons of course comes from the history of Shani and Aditya… however, it can also be enmity with disciples/ Putra Tulya, etc.
An old Ganesh yantra.... if memory serves correct, it’s similar to the reproduction of the Yantra that the Peshwa worshipped at Parvati on top of the mountain in Pune.
Generalised principle:
Tantra is visualisation + Nyasa + mantra repetition + ancillaries. One presumes that he who succeeds at this sort of visualisation of oneself using the 1,25,000 X 9 principle japa/homa etc “becomes “ a fraction of the Ganesha in that form!!!
Sri Rama
Thus when the sadhaka pursues the discipline of the Tantra shastra, Ganesha himself finishes the personality of the sadhaka and there stands Ganesha... instead of the sadhaka.
Small thread on practicing of common mantras without a Guru or upadesha.
When growing up, there were literally 100’s of young/middle aged and old sadhakas in Pune doing some or the other mantra with no Guru deeksha.
Most got good (even great) results as such.
In general those who adhered to Niyama got good results. Niyama = doing the practice every day, sitting on darbha asana, etc and Brahmacharya... not taking sankalpa...
Pune those days was a different city. Very fortunate to have been there in that time and space.
Those who did not adhere to those rules got no results.
Even those whose pronunciation was wrong sometimes got good results... 😂😂🙏🏽🙏🏽
So 5561BCE was originally thought of by Vartak because of Halley’s Comet periodicity (calculated wrong at 77 years) and verse 3:12 of chapter 3 of Bhisma Parva.
Let’s check of what I say is true:
5661 + 1986 (last seen Halley’s) = 7547 years
Divide by 77: answer is 98.01
Check it
Of course, Vartak went wrong because the date of 5561BCE wasn’t the 98th return of Halley’s Comet.
The period of Halley’s Comet is actually 75.32 years.
So in actual fact, Halley’s Comet return was 5546BCE.
Let’s check if what I say is true:
5546 + 1986 = 7532 divide by 75.32
The problem is that Shri Vartak was working with pen and paper plus he had a pre conceived idea of 5.5K BCE for Mahabharata. It was debunked 30 years ago in Pune...
His successor Shri Oak didn’t realise that AV observation occurs every year in 1000-3400BCE time frame.
NO EPOCH!
Some very interesting compelling evidence for axial precession done in the West (one amongst many examples this is from an archival paper from Italy) evidence that it was seen in 1700BCE /2000 BCE time frame.
Solar Physicist, John Eddy, recognized that the small cairns which are distributed on the external circle of the wheel serve as astronomical outpost for many alignments, recognized at the summer solstice and at the heliacal rising of Aldebaran, Rigel and Sirius (Eddy 1974, 1977).
The findings of Solar Physicist John Eddy were discussed by Aveni in 2003. The findings were thought to be indisputable and are in keeping with axial precession. In fact there is more than that in the paper itself.
There is a huge issue coming of reports are true.
China plans to build a monster dam, three times the height of 3 Gorges Dam ... on the Brahmaputra in Medog county in Tibet.
IMHO India-Bangladesh must start the response on a war footing downstream.
Thread.
The new dam when built would give power to China to flood Eastern India (Assam/West Bengal/etc) and Bangladesh whenever they wish.
While I cannot ascribe wrongdoing to China, this would give them power over two sovereign nations...
This would need a team of hydrologists to start researching the issue right away and start looking at creation of at least three large reservoirs downstream.. and possibly dams (although that depends on hydrology experts)...