THE GRANDEST FEASTS FOR THE BODY

THE GRANDEST FEASTS FOR THE BODY

The Vedic physicians of ancient India say that food that contains the six tastes of Sweet, Sour, Salty, Hot, Bitter, and Astringent, is the grandest feast for the body.  This is the secret for healing.

It is still a practice in India in weddings and festivals to prepare foods that contain all the six tastes. Eating all six tastes every day can balance your body, eliminate cravings, and help keep weight in balance.  Not eating the full complement of tastes everyday causes cravings and thereby obesity.

According to ancient Vedic science, our bodies are greatly benefited by each of these six tastes of food. Each of these tastes are connected with the health and well being of particular body organs and emotions.

The heart, which is the vital organ of our body, is connected with the emotion of happiness and the bitter and astringent tastes are the vital supplement for the heart, they help to keep our emotions in the place of “happy”.  Most of our diet includes salty, sweet, hot and sour, it is very important adding bitter and astringent tastes to our diet everyday.
Bitter tastes are available from foods like bitter melons, and gourds, all kinds of leafy green vegetables, turmeric and fenugreek seeds. Astringent tastes are available from foods like pomegranate, apple, pear, ginger, lentils, legumes, and sprouts.

The lips and the stomach are connected with the emotion of worry, the sweet taste is the vital supplement for these organs, when we add sweet taste to our diet we keep ourselves away from worry.  Sweet can be obtained from natural foods like fruits, honey, jaggery (raw brown sugar), and maple syrup.  Avoid white sugar as much as possible.

The nose and the lungs are connected with the emotion of sadness; the hot taste is the vital supplement for these organs.  When we add hot taste to our food we do not go into sadness.  I have witness people relieved of sinus and cold by taking hot/pungent food.  Recently I had a beautiful experience that assured me of this concept.  My neighbor was 9 months pregnant, I asked her what she liked most so that I can cook some dinner for her, she immediately told me ‘please cook anything but see to it that it is nice and hot taste.’  Only during the 9th month the baby’s lungs start to form ( the lungs are the last organs to form for the baby in the womb) , and here she was craving for hot/pungent food.

The Ear and the Kidneys are connected with the emotion of fear, our kidneys are exactly in the shape of our ears, the salty taste is the vital supplement for these organs.  When we add salty taste to our food we do not go into fear often. Salt blocks are hung from the roof of the barn where baby calves are kept, they happily lick the salt, the salt block keeps them from the fear of separation from their mothers.

The Eye and the liver are connected with the emotion of Anger; the sour taste is a vital supplement for these organs. When we add sour taste to our food everyday, we do not go into anger.  Foods that contain sour taste are limes, lemons, oranges, and fermented foods like yogurt, buttermilk, cottage cheese, vinegar, sauerkraut, and pickles. These foods promote good digestion and elimination for the liver is balanced by these foods.

Hence, all the six tastes are a necessity for the balance of the body and mind.

The next important practice to keep the body and mind in balance is ‘conscious awareness’ in cooking and consuming foods.
While cooking food make it a practice to give thanks to the source of the food, the plant, the animal, the farmer, the storekeeper and every one who helped to bring your food to your kitchen.  Give thanks to the animal or plant for giving its life energy for you.  Cooking with gratitude enriches the food; gratitude is the special spice for the food. Cooking and eating food in the right consciousness helps one to make spiritual advancement in life. Cooking is done to nourish not only our bodies but our souls also.
Being mindful and conscious during cooking we purify our mind and create a grand connection with existence.  Our food becomes a beautiful offering for all who consume it.  Connecting with the Divine through the process of cooking and eating is called as Bhakti Yoga.

The third most important practice is to eat food with gratitude and conscious connection. Consciously relating to your food is the wisest way to maintain the health and well being of your body temple. Most of the dis-eases of the body are because we have forgotten to connect with the wisdom of our body.  Our bodies produce amazing juices, enzymes, and medicines for our well being.  The saliva, the juices of the liver, pancreas, gall bladder etc. are highly potent than any medicine in the world.  They are extremely capable of balancing and healing, but we also need to participate with our conscious connection. It is imperative to trust the wisdom of the body, and to become a true participant in performing the action of eating food.

It is good to eat food only when one is hungry.  When one is eating it is very important to think only about the food.  By this we trust the body’s wisdom and wholesomely participate in eating. We can follow the food from our mouth to our stomach consciously.  It is good to chew the food with closed mouth and consciously be present with the food, allow for the teeth to do its work instead of swallowing the food. Allow for the saliva to completely mix with the food.  Do not drink water about half an hour before eating, during eating, and after eating food, by this we avoid diluting the body’s juices and aid in the digestion and assimilation process.

It is important not to watch TV, or talk on the phone, or talk to someone beside you, or read books, or think worry or angry thoughts while eating.  We are feeding the body and our cells are listening to our thoughts, they act according to the thoughts that we are feeding.

Choose to sit in a lotus position while eating, folding the legs will help supply more blood to the vital digestive organs of the body, and help in proper digestion and assimilation.

Choosing to participate consciously in the creations of cooking and the actions of eating play a great part in enhancing your body, mind, and soul.  These are the grandest feasts for the body.

Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

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YOU ARE THE SACRED WITNESS TO LIFE

YOU ARE THE SACRED WITNESS TO LIFE

The only way to awareness is to be with the things of the present moment as a witness. Join the breeze, the voices of the children, be with the grass and the flowers, feel the chair that you are sitting on, or be with the dishes you are washing right now. Everything you do with awareness is ultimate success as it is perfect and you have lived that moment fully. 

Practice to be present for just this moment – just be deeply present. This awareness of the present moment creates the space of silence and of stillness. Stillness is the key where life reveals its wisdom and truth. The Spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, states that the entire wisdom of religion can truly be summed up in these few words:

“Be still and know I AM God.”

Only in awareness and only when there is stillness, can true wisdom be revealed. When this moment of life is honored with mindfulness, the next moment automatically falls into place.

Awareness of the present moment brings oneness and connection with our eternal goodness as the illusions of our mind stories dissolve. The mind loves the ego stories and will never come to the present moment as the experience of awareness can never be understood from the mind. It is an experience to know the sacred witness of life. The sacred witness is the knower of all knowledge, ignorance, and wisdom. The sacred witness is the formless, non-judgmental self – our inner being. Awareness reveals the truth that all journeying and seeking of life is to recognize that the destination is WE-ourselves. The Hopi Elder’s Prophecy, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” is a powerful reminder of this truth.

All stories of our past are not who we are. The mind loves this game of gathering information and clinging to identity and this becomes the heavy baggage that hinders our journey. When you come to the present moment, you understand that being in the present moment is a sacred witness expressing itself as a human being.

Noticing the sacred witness is the most powerful part of the journey of life. The journey of life when viewed from the sacred witness, allows understanding and comprehension of the stories of the mind and helps to make peace with them.

This world is our mirror, and the mirror reveals to us who we are in our story. Viewing our story from awareness and bringing in the energy of love, acceptance and compassion, we make peace with the story. We need not try to let go of the story; the story automatically lets go of us.

From the time the mind was born with the body, the mind took its job of safeguarding the body very seriously. Hence, it became a collector of every data from the outside, constantly alert, and constantly pessimistic. Its job is to scare us so that we do not go beyond its boundary. The mind knows only what it knows; it does not know anything beyond the data it collects.
Awareness is the simplest and most profound tool that reveals the truth that we are not our mind. Awareness differentiates us the as the watcher of our mind. We realize that we are much more than our mind; we are the magnificent miracle of life.

Just for fun while watching a movie or television, witness yourself watching, and notice the difference. The moment you witness yourself, you will not be involved in the drama happening in the television or the movie. You will SEE the drama only, and be amused as you will never get involved in it.

This is the way with awareness. It is the art of being a witness of the world around you every moment. You are a sacred witness as you see everything, but you do not identify yourself with anything that goes on around you.

Being the sacred witness is the most powerful place to be. From this place, we can see the beauty of creation, and we can see the drama chosen by each and every soul without judgment. From this place, we make peace with our stories by seeing them from a higher perspective. From this place, we understand that this world is a projection of our thinking, and we understand the world in a much better light. There is immense peace through this understanding, and we come to love the world and ourselves. After making peace with the story, we settle into our Divine Presence and emerge as a new being without limitation, without fear, and without concern about what others think. We become our authentic selves, and we create ourselves anew every moment. We reemerge as the sacred witness to life.


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RESPECTING THE EARTH

RESPECTING THE EARTH

GAIA, is our Earth Mother. Every ancient mythology talks about the Earth Goddess who is the Great Mother of all creations. She gave birth to the sky, the sea, the land and all mortal creatures. All ancient sacred text and ancient religions around the world were based on Goddess worship which centered around the Earth.

The human body is made up of the Goddess' body which are the five elements; air, water, earth, fire, and space. The Earth is our Mother and respecting her and connecting with her helps us to become stronger.

For thousands of years we have lived in total disconnection with the Earth. Hence, we have destroyed, plundered, and tried to possess her, which in turn has wounded us.

Connecting with the heart of the Earth literally by visualizing a cord of light from our belly down to the heart of Gaia helps us to move beyond our fears and heal our wounds. This kind of visualization practiced everyday brings immense peace and it slows down the thought patterns that do not support us.

We can also connect with the Earth by taking the time to be with the stillness of nature. Connecting with nature brings immense healing to the body, mind, and soul.

In many Shamanic traditions, digging a hole on the ground and speaking or shouting our woes or illness into it and asking for help, is practiced as a very powerful method of healing.

Sitting down and placing both palms on the Earth and sending gratitude from the heart for a few minutes, will bring immense peace.

The Earth and everything around us is very much alive as the Earth is a very large being that is vibrant with life and wisdom of the Universe. We forgot to connect with the earth. We poke and plunder, mindlessly destroy forests, burn trees, apply fertilizer and pesticides, and we proceeded to make inventions to make things work. The earth is patient. It continues to absorb all of the negativity of human violence, war, and anger, but when it no longer has the strength to hold back, it erupts in volcanoes and earthquakes.

The earth is willing to co-create with us and is patiently waiting for us to wake up and align ourselves with our Divinity. Our loving attitudes give the earth the strength it needs. Since the Earth gave us her body, the more we communicate with her, the more we will link with our own powerful core, which is the God within.

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KNOWING THE GIFTS OF EXISTENCE

KNOWING THE GIFTS OF EXISTENCE

I am reminded of the story of the beggar who sat near the seaside on an old rusted wooden box that he found near the sea. He put old newspapers and rags on top of it and made it his home. He sat on the box every day begging from the passers-by. Everyone knew him as he sat on the same place every day. He spent many years of his life begging for his living.  People took pity on him and some gave him money while others brought him food or clothing. He accepted everything gratefully. It happened that one day he died in the night as he slept on his box. The next day the town’s municipality came to remove his body. They also wanted to remove the box and clean the place. When they tried to move the box, it was very heavy. So they decided to break it open and remove the pieces. When they broke the rusted box, they found that the box was full of ancient gold pieces, coins, and other ancient treasures. If only the beggar had taken time to notice what was inside the box, he could have lived the life of a king.

Existence is a grand gift but by believing the stories of our mind about our situation, our past experiences, our future, our imaginations, our concepts, and our ideas, we build a huge wall of illusion around ourselves.  We become blind to the gifts of existence. Awareness of the present moment dissolves the stories because the stories are everything outside this moment.

Belief in our stories have created a lot of repressed feelings of anger, hurt, sadness, pain, and need. These form the foundation from which we view our life. Limiting beliefs from childhood of “I am not loved, I am not wanted, I am not worthy, I can’t do it, and I am not capable,” go on a big list of things that support the story even more. We continue to live our life within our stories. Then we project our stories on to the present moment and judge everything in the moment based upon our stories. This creates a distortion about life, about love, and about us in general.

The stories take over every aspect of our life and prevent us from being our wiser, peaceful, and compassionate selves. The stories make us feel imprisoned with hopeless life situations. This then triggers us into making up more stories of a future that can bring us success or love;. Any ideal or goal to achieve in a future makes life more stressful because the future never comes as the future also becomes the now moment.

When we try to practice positive affirmations and follow the laws of attraction without first waking up in awareness, we continue to live within our story making it bigger and bigger. We can continue to improve our stories, but we cannot escape our stories.

Awareness is awakening out of our mind stories of the past and future, and out of the limiting beliefs that we have gathered from our childhood. In awareness, we understand where the truth of life is. We cannot stop our mind from thinking, but we can realize that we need not believe or attach our emotions to our stories. We need not feed or fix our stories, but we do need to wake up to know that they are stories and that we need not believe in them.
 

~Excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
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AFFIRMATIONS FOR EVERYDAY

AFFIRMATIONS FOR EVERYDAY

These are a few positive affirmations that I use often.  You can choose one or combine or create one for yourself with the power of the word “I AM” according to the situation you are dealing with. The affirmations are always for the now, in the present tense. The affirmations become powerful and active only when you bind them with your feelings.  Choose the sentences you want to be true in your life and say them with feeling.  The stronger your intention and feeling, the more faster will be the results.
The word “I AM” represents the Grand Divine Presence. Whenever we use the phrase I AM in a sentence, we are agreeing with whatever we say, and we give our will for it to happen. Therefore, take notice of what are you are focusing your “I AM” on.

· I am open to receive all the abundance of the existence
· I allow my soul to heal and teach me with love
· I am learning with joy
· I am ready for wisdom
· I use the wisdom of all my experiences for the Good of All
· I love my Self
· I am friendly and loving
· I am healthy
· I am brave
· I am independent and make my own decisions
· I take responsibility for my life
· I am connected with the Cosmic Central Consciousness
· I use my talents in the service of the Light
· I am thankful for all the good things in my life
· I am giving and receiving love
· I am living a life of love
· I use love to transform any blocking energy
· Love is the biggest power there is
· Good things will eternally flow to me
· There is clarity within me and around me
· I honor my commitments to myself and others
· I love and accept who I am and who I am is enough
· Fresh invigorating energy fills my life
· I am safe and centered no matter where I am
· Who I am is enough and so it shall be
· I am an infinite being, a child of the Creator
· My life experiences have positive powerful meanings
· I am moving into harmony with everyone and everything in the Universe
· I love deeply and fully and I am loved deeply and fully
· In the center of my being there is always stillness and peace
· My life is blessed and I am so grateful
· I am safe
· I am free to experience joy in every moment no matter what is happening in my life
· I unconditionally accept all parts of myself
· I invite the pure light of the sun into my heart.  May it shine from my hear to the world.
· I live in the present moment with courage and love
· Incredible creative life force flows through my entire being
· My mind, body, and Spirit are clear channels of love.
· I am in harmony with the natural rhythm of life
· I give love deeply and fully, I receive love deeply and fully.  My essence is love.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar

CREATIVE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

CREATIVE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

As humans we have created language to communicate with each other. The spoken word is something that would touch a person and create a response in them. Language is a powerful tool that carries emotions, codes, and tones that produce a powerful creative energy. We are who we are today because of all the words we thought, spoke, or listened to. Words spoken are very powerful, they become self-fulfilling prophecy. Words thought do not have as much power as words spoken. Spoken words carry tones and codes which manifest. Words have the power either to create life or to create death. So you can either bless your life with your words or curse your life with your words.
One of the Buddhist Gatha (a Gatha is a poem which serves as a reminder for every activity of life) says:-
"Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth,
I vow to speak purely and lovingly.
When my mouth is fragrant with right speech,
A flower blooms in the garden of my heart."
Our spoken words can build a world of peace and joy or it can build hatred and discord.
With this reminder let us choose to bless each other with our words, let us use our words to talk about solutions and not create stories of our problems. Let our words bring out the truth in us and others, let us not use untruthful words for self-interest or to impress others. Let us not use the power of our words to gossip, criticize or to condemn.
Let us use our spoken words to declare Divine Favor, to call in the light of understanding, to call in good things, to call in faith and love.
Let us use the spoken word for truth and kindness. Let us nourish each other with the sweet fragrance of rght speech, so that the flowers in the garden of our Heart can bring "Heaven" on Earth. Let us remind ourselves that we are the builders of 'Heaven' on this Planet.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

A MESSAGE FOR THE YOUTH OF TODAY


We are born into a collective consciousness of fear. This fear programs us to believe in lack, to believe that we are not good enough, that we are not lovable and that we are not worthy. Every social system is based on this theme with laws, rules, dogmas, competitions and comparisons. We are born into this fear but it is not necessary for us to be bound by it.
The fear is a fear only till you are seeking approval and appreciation from the world outside. When you realize that you can create your life the way you want to, you will not need to seek to prove yourself to anyone else. Your power lies in your joy and your excitement, listen to your heart, notice the things you are passionate about.
Finding your true passion put yourself completely into it. You will be surprised to notice that life has been waiting for you to follow your passion, you will begin to meet people who are in your path of joy and new doors will open for your life. You come to realize that you were born with powerful gifts and the gifts in you stir up the joy within every time you come in contact with anything related to your passion.
The Universe loves diversity, all humans cannot be engineers, all need not be doctors, all are not called to be computer specialists. Each one of us have our special gifts and talents, be courageous to explore these gifts. For if you take a small step to go in the path of your passion, the Universe will bring you an abundance of help and support.
Be brave, do not follow the old well used path, make a new and beautiful path for yourself, you will be immensely blessed.
Humans have been born with infinite gifts to empower themselves and to create grandness on this Planet. A wise human chooses to follow where joy and excitement lead, knowing that they are born with these gifts, and that the Universe always seeks to match the deepest desires and feelings!
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~
©2012 Premlatha Rajkumar

SELF REALIZATION

SELF REALIZATION

When living in harmony with existence, every aspect of life becomes healthy. Spirituality is the ability to be in tune with existence and with the light of Love. The meaning of life in the physical is to develop the heart and the consciousness. The responsibility of every created being is to evolve. Our evolving is an integral part of the evolving of the Universe. Evolving involves conscious awareness and wholesomeness.

We are Spiritual beings living in multiple dimensions; however, we have focused our attention to this dimension to gather information through our physical experiences. Humans are multidimensional beings composed of multi-faceted parts with connections to many dimensions.

Pure Consciousness manifested itself into a body in order to experience physicality. The timeless brought itself into time and space. As soon as this was established, attention was focused on the physical and a new, limited, and restrictive consciousness “I am the body” was formed. The truth is that we are Pure Consciousness. Spirituality is the ability to return back to the Awareness of ourselves as consciousness from the physical experience. The physical body and the physical mind reflect the Light of consciousness, but they are a very limited consciousness.

To know and experience the truth of who we are from the limited physical consciousness, we go through the experience of who we are not. These are not negative experiences. These are experiences that awaken us to the truth of who we are, and when we inquire and dwell deep into the awakening process instead of escaping it, we bring grander solutions and greater wisdom. We birth ourselves into Pure Consciousness.

The harmony of evolving into Pure Consciousness is experiencing oneself as a Divine being in everyday reality. It is a process of loving and embracing every aspect of life without judgment and experiencing oneness and Unity with life. And from this Unity, choosing to live from the place of being happy, gracious, peaceful, compassionate, generous, and loving.
The restrictive consciousness of the body and mind bring in illusions to provide a playing field within which we can analyze, create, and evolve ourselves every moment. Our gathered experiences from the game of life create a data bank called the ego or the inner child. Within each and every one of us resides the inner child who is addicted to take on the job of protecting the body from harm. The inner child only knows itself as, “I am the body,” hence it lives in constant fear. Healing the inner child in us with conscious awareness is the way to Self Realization.
Blessings!

~Excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace"
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SIX TASTES HEALS SIX EMOTIONS

Today is New Year's day in my country India. This is according to the ancient Vedic Calendar, people celebrate this day with great expectations. The Spring begins the new year, the time to sow seeds and the time to sow our intentions to the Universe.
The intention for today is to rejuvenate and renew body, mind, and spirit.
Most of the food made today will be with the six tastes :




Six tastes heal Six emotions for the year ahead

Sweet, sour, salt, bitter, pungent, astringent  are the  six tastes  and
happiness, disgust, fear, sorrow, anger, and surprise are the corresponding six emotions
Hence the food made on this day includes the six tastes.
I will share a recipe for a special dish today:

Jaggery , tamarind, salt, neemflower, chilli mango will be the six ingredients with the six tastes :-)


Recipe

Jaggery 1 cup
Tamarind pulp 1 tsp
Mango 1 sliced
Green chillie 1 or red chilie 1
Neem flower 3tsp
Salt
Ghee
Mustard seeds ¼ tsp

Boil mango and tamarind pulp till they are cooked. Add the crushed jaggery to it.
In a pan heat ghee, add mustard and chillie and neem flower and fry till it is brown and now add to the boiled pulp.
This is like a chutney, you can eat with rice, or bread, or chips.
Enjoy !
Happy New Year!

HEALING

Healing is about transforming our relationship to life, and it is about understanding our values and purpose in life. Healing is a mystical experience and the journey cannot be made from the mind. Healing is a journey and not a destination. We never stop healing as every moment life brings us newer situations to deal with, to grow from, and to gather wisdom from. Choosing to live from the place of gratitude is true devotion to the Divine. There is absolutely no purpose in life other than the purpose to live in love and trust. Every purpose of life that the mind can come up with is just a thought for survival. You cannot add or delete anything in life to achieve success, to feel good, or to give more value. Life has already provided all these things for you in the here and now and you only need to open your eyes to see these gifts.

Everything in life is divinely orchestrated. This moment, this day, and this hour is a precious gift – it will never come again. Live from the place of gratitude and learn to see the gifts of life. Take every person in your life, exaggerate their goodness, and notice the gifts they bring to your life at this time. Your gratitude to life becomes a living prayer. Bring in excitement with gratitude.

Celebrate love, celebrate life, surrender the mind stories, and drop the illusion of control. Let life live you and allow the Divine Presence to walk your life. When you understand that life lives you all of the time, you do not need destinations or goals to achieve because whatever life brings is for your greater growth and wisdom. It is wise to live from the place of excited anticipation of the next moment like a little child the eve before Christmas.
Write the words: “Something Magical is about to Happen,” in beautiful big letters. Post it to your fridge, your work table, your bathroom mirror, and read it every day. Expect magic and miracles, drop all of your mind stories and become a little child waiting in excited anticipation. Life loves you greatly, you are a beloved child of the Universe, and when you are in the place of excited anticipation, the Universe brings magic and miracles into your life.

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THE OUTCOME OF COMPASSION

(An excerpt from my book "Twelve Steps to Inner Peace")

The outcome of compassion is transformation of the world into Heaven.  We are born with the tools to empower the world and ourselves; therefore, the authors’ intention of writing this book, is not to teach anyone anything. This book is written in the complete knowing that every human is born with the tools for transformation. This book is just a reminder through words. When one reads words that are a match to the knowing of the inner being, it is easy to sort it all out on the outside.

I am reminded of the story of The Bishop’s Candlesticks from Victor Hugo’s epic novel, Les Miserables, which is a grand portrayal of compassion and its outcome.

The story of The Bishop’s Candlesticks is set In 19th century France. A prisoner, Jean ValJean, had spent 19 years in prison for stealing food and attempting escape. After his release from prison, he roamed from town to town looking for work. But because of his criminal past, no one offered him a job.

Hunger and tiredness drove him to seek refuge at the bishop’s house. The bishop was known for his compassion, hence Jean decided to ask for food and to stay for the night. The bishop lovingly invited Jean and offered him food and lodging. The bishop’s friend who was with him advised him against letting Jean stay for the night, but the bishop would not hear of it.  Jean noticed silver candlesticks on the altar at the bishop’s home, and  he stole them when the bishop was asleep and left the house. However, the night guards caught Jean, saw the candlesticks in his possession, and brought him to the bishop’s place in the morning. The Bishop said that he had given the candlesticks to Jean to sell so that he could move on in his life. The guards apologized and left Jean with the bishop. Jean cried and apologized to the bishop. The bishop told him to sell the candlesticks and to make an honest living for himself.

The bishop’s friend asked him why he had lied to the guards, for which the bishop replied that in his heart, he had already given the candlesticks to Jean ValJean. The novel goes on to say that Jean ValJean ends up becoming  a repentant, honorable, and dignified man. He becomes the wellspring of kindness for the people of the land.

Placing our awareness on our heart connects us to our God Within as our heart is the gateway to Universal Wisdom.

The physical experience of conscious breathing and bringing the pressure and warmth of the hand on the heart, opens the heart and allows us access to our Spiritual Home – our Kingdom Within.

Experience this moment now, bring your hand to your physical heart, and take in a deep conscious breath releasing it with a sigh or a sound. This connects you powerfully to your heart space, which holds understanding, wisdom, and awareness.

Practice being in this moment, this moment of the heart space, and you will be amazed by the transformation that happens to you.

Practice for the enrichment of energy and transformation; practice whenever there is worry or anxiety, and when you need a solution to a problem. As you continue to work with your heart, you will naturally connect with your Divine Blueprint, your Divine Wisdom, and your Divine Light.
 
~Excerpts from 'Twelve Steps to Inner Peace'
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BEING CONSCIOUS OF NEEDINESS

BEING CONSCIOUS OF NEEDINESS

“The real fight is in, not there on the outside, and the real fight is not
with others. The real fight is with your own unconsciousness, with your
own unawareness.” ~ Osho

Most of us are unconsciously addicted to neediness. This unconsciousness makes us constantly in need of others' love, approval, reward, recognition, acknowledgement, and attention. In order to get this, we go out of our way to please others and do all that which is not true for us.

We forget how to be ourselves. In our neediness, we strive to do the things that the other person likes; we forget what we like.

We put up with things that our body and mind does not approve of just to satisfy the need of getting the attention of the other person. We easily accept any kind of abuse or humiliation just because of our neediness of the other person's love, or approval.

This unconscious behavior makes every human relationship painful. Then worry, doubt, stress, and anxiety become the norm of everyday life.

We come into this world alone, and we go back alone. We are Divine beings, and our Divinity within is abundant enough to satisfy all of our needs. The problem began when we lost focus on our Divinity within and started focusing on the outside for our needs. Attachment to something outside the self is an illusion. Even if people love each other very much and tend to cling to each other while awake, at some point sleep walks in and takes each one far away to mysterious lands.

When we grow up, our senses start working, and we see that we are alone. As we never trained our senses to go within, we often end up attaching ourselves to people, power, and material things on the outside.

Every indulgence of clinging or neediness on the outside, is a sure sign of forgetting to connect with the Divinity within. Neediness comes out of the fear of being alone.

When we choose to focus, connect, and grow in the Divinity within us, we are doing a great service for ourselves. By focusing on the Divinity within, we become mature, alert, awake, satisfied, loving, and compassionate. We become the wellspring of understanding and wisdom. Our actions and relationships are authentic when they come from the place of the Divinity within. All actions and relationships that arise from the mind and its logic, will be out of neediness. Every action that is not from the place of Divinity within, will automatically seek for approval or reward. It will come from the place of expectation, and expectations lead to disappointments.

When we understand and accept our whole selves from the heart, we radiate with the light of wisdom from within. We can then go beyond need, and we can share our light with others. Otherwise, when we have no light in us, we will become addicted to things on the outside to satisfy. However, the things on the outside can never satisfy us. We will continue to seek and in our seeking, we will not be able to live in our truth. When we do not live in our truth, we lose our joy.

We can help others only when we have helped ourselves first. This brings to me the flight safety instructions on an airplane, which simply say, to first put the oxygen mask on you before helping anyone else, even if it is a child.

Let us choose to identify, to notice our neediness with an open mind, let us catch ourselves in the act of self-sabotage, and change our programming to self-growth and well being.

Excerpts from 'Twelve Steps to Inner Peace'
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TWIN SOULS, TWIN FLAMES, AND SOUL MATES

Twin Souls, Twin Flames and Soul Mates

Beloved Friends,

Some of you have been asking me to explain about Soul mates, twin souls and twin flames.  From all that I have read and all that Great Spirit has taught me, I have put into simple words all that I know about this.

TWIN SOUL

You have heard about twin children, one egg divides into two, this is the message to relate to while thinking about twin souls

 Our souls come from the Monad or the Almighty I AM Presence, the Monad is the Over Soul that holds many souls.  When a soul takes birth as a human on the earth it goes through a process of dividing.  The soul divides itself into two like an egg and one part aligns itself in the human body and the other remains in the etheric field as a guardian for the soul that has birthed as human. 

 Always the principle of YIN YANG is used in all creation so the soul seed divides itself to male and female, if female takes birth in human form the male is the guardian, if male takes birth in human form female becomes the guardian.  So when the HUMAN chooses to align with the soul and chooses to live to the soul purpose then the HOLY MATRIMONY - the HOLY UNION of the male and female twin souls take place and the person becomes the ascended master on Earth. 

TWIN FLAME

This is the flame in the heart.  The twin flame is the flame of Father/Mother God.  Unity with the flame makes us the child of God or the sun of God.  Thus when we choose to surrender to the love and power of Father/Mother God we become the son/sun, the Christ, thus making the three fold flame – Love of the Father, Wisdom of the Son, and Power of the Mother. 

The original Adam model had the flame more than 7 feet high and wide, covering the entire body like an auric field.  The decision of the physical body to descend into density was the point when the flame had to recede from the physical, because the flame is pure light and density does not go hand in hand with it.  It was found that if the flame receded the physical form would die, hence the Great I AM Presence sent out the pillar of light or the crystal cord that anchored the flame in the heart.

This crystal cord that arises from the Great Central Sun of the Almighty I AM Presence, descends down to the four lower bodies from the crown.  When a child is born the crystal cord kindles the flame in the secret heart chamber. Elizabeth Clare Prophet in her book "The lost teachings of Jesus –2", says that the baby's first cry or sound is often indicative of its sudden recognition of the burst of flame in the heart, of the sacred breath infilling the lungs, and of the bodily sensations now keenly felt.

The same way at the time of death the crystal cord is cut and the flame goes out in the physical body!

Most clairvoyant people can actually see the crystal cord being cut at the time of death.

Every birth in this realm of density is a service to the Divine.  Every service is to make known the unknown.  As the Great I AM Presence is light and it cannot see darkness, the soul with immense love for the Great I AM, decided to descend into density to learn to embrace dark and light and make known the unknown.  This is where the individualized soul attains Christhood, it becomes the Sun of God.

We are at this time on this very important and exciting journey of surrendering the self to the love and power of Father/Mother God, thereby igniting the heart flame to its original power to expand from our hearts and fill our auric field there by transforming the density and unknown of this dimension to the knowledge and power of the light!  Thus we become Christed beings and make this planet the Christed Orb!!!

Some of you may have the question, how do I go about doing this.  It is very simple when you draw nigh to God, God will draw nigh to you.  This is absolute truth.  Surrendering the Self is totally asking the Great Spirit of God to be the pilot of your body vehicle.  Every morning as you wake up ask Great Spirit of God, "Dear God, what is it that you want me to do today", be in silence and listen.  Even if you did not feel the answer, Spirit will guide you through out your day in everything you do and you will notice the amazing synchronicity of the events as they unfold magically in your life.

 Remember that you are anchored in the light of God by the Crystal Cord from your crown so it is good to visualize this powerful blinding light of the cord going through your crown into your body, and with every in-breath, breathe in this light into your body temple and fill your body, your very being to overflow with this light, it is good to do this kind of breathing always, for here lies your power to sustain, to protect and to guide you in every situation.

SOUL MATES

Soul mates are people who have signed up soul contracts with us before our birth.  We write our plays before we come to the earth; we choose our parents and the community where we want to be born so that the play we write may be fully realized. 

Every person in our life wives, husbands, children, friends, neighbors, acquaintances, people we meet in the bus, in the store, all are our soul mates!  They have signed up to help us realize our soul purpose fully and they play the roles we gave them to play.  Thus they may stay with us just for a while, for a season, or throughout our lifetime according to the roles we gave them. 

Hence the service of each one of them, whether we judge as good or bad from the human perspective is always the most beautiful service to help us learn and evolve as souls in this earthly journey!

Indeed human life in a human body is very beautiful.  We are Spiritual beings, living in a Spiritual place to fulfill a Spiritual Purpose!

Blessings of infinite Love, Light and Peace!

Premlatha Rajkumar

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THREE SIMPLE SPIRITUAL TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY

THREE SIMPLE SPIRITUAL TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY

We are energy beings, and we live in these physical bodies and experience physicality.  But the experience of physicality originates in the non-physical.
For example if we are about to cook, we visualize the ingredients and the way we want to cook in our mind first and then we birth it into the physical.  If an artist wishes to paint he/she first visualizes the painting in their mind and then their physical hands birth it to the canvas.  When the mother gives birth to the baby's body, unless the Spirit energy enters into the body the body of the baby cannot come alive.
These examples point out that every thing in the physical is birthed only from the non-physical.  In our busy mechanical lives we have forgotten the non-physical and have submitted ourselves into an autopilot mode run by the mind through the physical senses.
 The art of learning about ourselves not only in the physical, but also from many dimensions is spirituality. When we know this we come into our power and we live from the place of freedom.
We are born as beings with the human self and divine self; we only know our human self, but Spiritual tools  help us to know and anchor our divine self in this Planet.
We are born with the ability to connect with the non-physical which is the Divine Sacred Presence, and create what we want in this physical world. Working with the non-physical is energy work.  I have been doing energy work from my very young age and I have been greatly benefited by it.  I have seen its empowerment in the many clients, students, and friends.
In order to begin energy work, it is very important to ground and center oneself.  Grounding and centering connect us with our Divine Sacred Presence while in the Physical.
Grounding and centering are done as energy work, through visualization.

GROUNDING
To keep us away from the pull and push of every mind perceived situations, and align with our Sacred Presence it is important to ground oneself.  Grounding can be done as soon as you get up in the morning just imagine a tube of light connecting the tip of your tail bone area to the center of the earth below your feet.  Something that represents the conductivity of all energies for you, there is no effort here, just play with your imagination, know that it is there. The more you practice grounding the more you will be in your center and in the place of the awareness of your Sacred Presence. Continue to play with your imagination and be aware of the tube of light that connects you and grounds you through out the day.

CENTERING
This is the practice of placing your awareness to the center of your head.
 Use both index fingers and touch your temples on either side. Notice where your fingers touch, and draw an imaginary line between the two points. Now move your hands 90 degrees to the right and touch the back of your head and forehead with your index fingers. Note the two points and draw another imaginary line intersecting the first line. Find the point where these lines intersect; this is the center of your head. Now remove your fingers and place your awareness in this place. You will definitely feel something here. This is because this is our place of power.
Energy work can be done from the center of the head, the place of power.As you are placing your awareness on the center of your head continue to breathe gently. Be aware of your center and also be aware of your breath.
Stay in the center with your eyes closed, observing your breath, open your eyes and see the world from the center of your head using your eyes as windows.
 You can even be more imaginative by seeing yourself as a tiny figure sitting on a beautiful chair in the center of your head.

Your ability to imagine and visualize from the center of your head is your greatest tool. Imagination and visualization is energy work. When you are able to be in a quiet, undisturbed space, have centered, and think of it in your Spirit-Presence, then it already is. Being present with yourself, you are always in control. Energy work takes practice, but there is no right or wrong way to do energy work. When you are sincere and consistent in your practice, you will attain success.

USING THE ROSE as a Spiritual tool

The rose is a powerful spiritual tool. While doing my study in Mastering Alchemy, my teacher, Jim Self, gave a wonderful explanation of why we use the rose as a Spiritual tool. He said that every plant on the planet has a particular vibrational frequency that is measured in Hertz. All plants, herbs, and trees range from 0-210 cycle/sec Hertz of frequency. Sandalwood and frankincense have the highest of 210 Hertz. But amazingly, the Belgian red rose has a frequency of 800 hertz which is way higher than any other of the plant species.  It is no wonder that the rose is used as a symbol of love on this Planet.  Roses are the most admired of flowers and most love gifts given are roses.

Also from my personal experience, I have noticed that the arrangement of petals in a Rose flower is a form of sacred geometry, which is the feminine energy pattern of the Creator. I see artists who paint pictures of deities like Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lady Nada, paint the picture of a red rose in the place of their heart. From my experience with the rose tool, I know that every time we use the ROSE as a tool, it steps up our vibrational frequency and aligns us with our powerful creative energies.

(This is one of the many ways a rose tool can be used in energy work)
From the center of your head, see a red rose in front of you at your arms length. See the rose as very real with soft petals, dewdrops on it, see a stem, a few leaves, and make it as natural as you have seen it in nature. The rose is a powerful energy tool of protection. You can keep a rose at the end of your aura and ask it to protect your energy field throughout the day. Visualize the rose between you and the people and the situations you interact with. The rose creates your boundary, you will stay in your space, you will not fragment your Spirit, and you will not hold other people’s energies in your conscious or unconscious awareness. Holding other people’s energies in your consciousness does not benefit either of you. You will be in your space and in your power. Spiritual protection and awareness becomes enhanced by this tool.

Practicing Grounding, centering, and the Rose Tool everyday is easy and simple, but they are very profound practices that help us to live our lives away from discord, in peace and in well being and ease.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar