MANTRA: OM GUM GANESHAYA NAMAHA (PRONOUNCED: OHM GUM GUH-NUH-ES-SHI-YA)
MANTRA: MRTYUNJAYAYA (PRONOUNCED: MER-TUH-JAH-YA-YAH)
ome people live long and some die prematurely.
Some people have repetitive car accidents and experience losses. It is important to know about the subtle laws of life principles and anti-life principles.
Once I visited a student of mine at her house. Her son was swimming in the pool. Looking at him I thought there was something seriously wrong with the boy. I asked her to do two things. One, to get a Nadi reading for him. Two, take him to the doctor for a physical. The Nadi reading came back and said that the boy will have some life threatening periods. One would be at the age of six and another at the age of 18. A few remedies were suggested. I personally got involved and saved the boy’s life. I am not too much interested in the medical part of his life.
So I won’t discuss it here.
Apart from mantras, numbers do play a great role in influ-encing life. I have briefly talked about number four and six and their positive and negative values. The number eight is tied to is).
As I write this, Mars is appearing before me with his plane-tary god, Muruga, and feels happy. Those of you in conflict with each other might want to propitiate Mars and his planetary god, Muruga.
To do this, you light a candle (a small tea-candle is fine) in front of their pictures and chant their mantras.
MANTRA: OM MANGALAYA NAMAHA
(PRONOUNCED: OHM MAN-GA-LI-YA NA-MA-HA)
The mantra for the planetary god of Mars, Muruga, is Om Saravana Bavaya Namaha (pronounced: Ohm Sa Ra Va Na BA Va Ya Na Ma Ha).
Venus
Venus is another planet that is directly related to relation-ships. Venus particularly creates romance more than sex.
Between Mars and Venus, Mars is associated with sex, and Venus with romance. Venus energy is very active on Friday. This is the reason why lots of people go crazy on Friday evenings.
The romantic energy of Venus causes you to blindly fall in love, without scruples. It is only later that you understand your mistakes. Most of teenage love is caused by Venus. Venus energy leads to lots of partying, movies, wine and beer.
Passionate love feeling or passionate separation are caused by Venus. The planetary goddess for Venus is Lakshmi. You can propitiate Venus and Lakshmi through the following mantras.
MANTRA: OM SHUKRAYA NAMAHA
(PRONOUNCED: OHM SHUK-RAH-YA NA-MA-HA)
The mantra for the planetary goddess of Venus, Lakshmi, is Om Shreem Namaha (pronounced: Om Shreem Na Ma Ha).
Light a candle before a picture of each deity and chant each mantra 108 times.
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life energy.
Here on the East Coast while I am writing this, the weather is as lousy as can be: freezing rain, bitter cold, piles of snow on the road. Think about the power of eight!
The number eight represents difficulty in general. It also obstructs the life process. With the number eight, life itself is in danger.
Saturn and the Number Eight
In Vedic astrology, Saturn is represented by the number eight. He both promotes and destroys life. Saturn and eight could some good for some people. But for most people, the number eight represents difficulty and obstruction of the life energy. I recommend you avoid the number eight when possible. This applies to travel plans as well. When planets travel through the Eighth House, there are problems. For example, don’t make appointments at 8:00 o’clock; make them at 8:05.
If the Eighth House is damaged (or afflicted) in a person’s astrology chart, the life of the person may be short. The Eighth House will also indicate a person’s losses, difficulties and prob-lems. When a planet goes into the Eighth House it becomes weak.
When a free flow of life energy is obstructed it creates the following:
1.Depression 2.Diseases 3.Low Income 4.Loneliness 5.Abandonment
All these negative qualities can be diffused by one mantra:
Mrtyunjayaya namaha.
Mrtyunjayaya namaha literally means “I bow to the conqueror of death.”
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Obstacles and the Obstructions of Life Energy
What is an obstacle? An obstacle is something that was hidden initially and shows up later. To illustrate this point: you start some action, you have some plan, and then following your plan you start that action. But as you are progressing in action you find obstacles. These obstacles are unforeseen things that arose after you started a project.
Why did you not foresee it? Because of the inability of the human mind to foresee everything. You can, of course, foresee certain obstacles, but not all of them. The whole of human life has been spent in trying to discover obstacles which lie in the future, and then trying to figure out what to do to remove the obstacles. The whole life or many lives have been spent in trying to discover obstacles and overcoming them so that the future generations are able to benefit from it. In other words, the whole human life revolves around finding obstacles and removing them, and this is what life is mostly about.
Ganesha, Eldest Son of Siva: Remover of Obstacles
Ganesha, in Hindu mythology, is the eldest son of Siva. He represents an intelligence far beyond the reach of human intelli-gence. He is called the Lord of Obstacles or the Master of Obstacles. The study and understanding of Ganesha gives a different perspective on the whole concept of obstacles. Being the Lord of Obstacles, being one who has mastered the consciousness which gives an understanding about obstacles, Ganesha knows right at the beginning where the obstacle is. In fact, Ganesha’s intelligence has the ability to foresee all obstacles whatsoever.
That’s why when you want to start a project, just go to Ganesha or invoke the energy of Ganesha. His energy tells you where the obstacles are. It tells both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind so that you do not waste your time in going through the obstacles. It is intelligent to avoid obstacles right in
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MANTRA: OM G UM G ANESHAYA NAMAHA (PRONOUNCED: OHM GUM GUH-NUH-ES-SHI-YA)
(Please refer to the earlier meditation techniques.) While chanting Ganesha’s mantra, specifically ask him to remove obstacles. Meditation on the actual form of a deity is very important. When you focus on the form of a deity, you imbibe the powers of the deity. Look at a picture or statue of Ganesha or visualize his form in your own mind. This has a tremendous amount of power.
Meditate on Ganesha’s form with a feeling of reverence while repeating the mantra.
How to Talk with God
We live in a world where science alone is “the truth.” We have lost touch with nature and with God, so it has become very difficult for human consciousness in this age to access the energy of God as easily as our forefathers did. This is a sad state of affairs—that we have lost our emotional self, our self of faith.
Ganesha’s picture or statue can bring him right here—it is not superstition. It is tremendously powerful.
Yogananda has a small, but delightful book which you can buy very inexpensively. The title of the book is, How to Talk With God. This book begins with the affirmation by Yogananda that talking with God is a definite fact. He goes on to say that God is not just abstract; He has a form as well. The Bible says,
“God created man in his own image.” Therefore, if God had a form, it was like a human form. So for successful meditations, it is important to visualize a form.
the beginning. How does Ganesha do that? Because his intelli-gence can foresee what is out there in the future. This is the whole secret of invoking Ganesha’s consciousness at the begin-ning of a project.
Symbols of Ganesha
Ganesha has a certain mythological form; he has an elephant head and a pot belly. He rides on a mouse, and he has four hands and a third eye. His form may appear to be amusing to you by human standards; however, the form has a deep symbolic meaning which you cannot figure out through human intelligence. His form has a Divine power to remove obstacles.
Just contemplating Ganesha’s form will accomplish this. Some people may want to put statues or pictures of Ganesha around their house or in their meditation area. Ganesha’s form was designed exclusively by the Divine to remove obstacles. This archetypal symbol addresses the unconscious energy in your being and works at a very deep level.
There is a beautiful book, Loving Ganesha, by Satguru Sivaya Subramaniyaswami for children and the young at heart. For those curious to learn more about the mythology of Ganesha, there is another book, The Broken Tusk by Uma Krishnaswami.
Gum is the seed syllable that vibrates with the energy of Ganesha. As you begin to have this sound in your conscious-ness, the unconscious mind recognizes the sound that is the intelligence of Ganesha. That is how you access the under-standing of removing obstacles and finding shortcuts.
Ganeshais the god who removes obstacles, so to recite his mantra willinvoke this obstacle-removing aspect of the Divine in a powerfulway. Many people like to use this mantra for a bit at the beginning of a meditation session or at the beginning of a project. This recitation is for removing obstacles (physical, emotional,mental, financial, spiritual).
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