Life Changing Sounds Tools From the Other Side 2010 e Book

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Life Changing Sounds

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TOOLS FROM

THE OTHER SIDE

by

Dr. Baskaran Pillai

, PhD

Published by Tripura Foundation 2010

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The purpose of this book is to bring about measurable positive results in your life.

It is dedicated to Saraswati, feminine aspect of the Divine, associated with speech, education, and the creative arts,

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Truth cannot be communicated through words. I call books the "blah-blah" of the author.

This, in turn, is my "blah-blah."

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Introduction

Section I

Dr. Pillai’sTeachings: A Bird’s Eye View

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The book touches on several key areas of human life and offers plenty of practical solutions. It is a book you can read more than once as you will experience the material in deeper ways with repeated exposure, and as your life changes. Even working with just a few of the techniques will bring great benefit.

Who Is Dr. Pillai?

Dattatriya Siva Baba is a spiritual name of Dr. Pillai. (In past years, he has also been called Sri Siva,Maharishi Brzee, Sri Guruji and Guruji.) Dr Pillai comes from an illustrious and esoteric lineageof enlightened Indian saints, the Tamil Siddhas, who have beenpassing on enlightened teachings for thousands of years, usuallyin very small circles of selected students.

Dr Pillai is quite radical in the presentation of these teach-ings. He says that from now on there are no more secrets. Everything should be public knowledge and inexpensive. His task is to bring these teachings to the West where there is true yearning for wisdom.

Dr Pillai is a fully enlightened teacher. In some traditions,

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his is not just another book. This book will change your destiny. It carries secret soundsand other tools used by enlightened beings inancient times from the esoteric teachings of India.

Dr Pillai extends blessings for new adventures in your current life in the modern age, as you read and try out the parts that appeal to you.

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Dr. Pillai Speaks

elcome to a great adventure in Self- Discovery. The Self is a complex concept. There is a higher Self, and then there is this relative self. The higher Self is the formless one which has manifested in the formed one. We are concerned in this book with the manifested aspect of our self, because the unmanifested aspect is incompre-hensible. It is God. It has no shortcomings whatsoever. But the manifested part has a lot of imperfections.

The Secret Sounds and other tools in this book will enable you to create positive, powerful changes for yourself. You may use these to benefit yourself or others.

Until now, I have never made a serious attempt to publish my writings. There were times in the past when I was asked to meet with attorneys to sign a contract for book deals; and at one time my editor even took an advance, which she returned after six months since I would not cooperate to write the book.

Many people judged me according to their own perceptions of reality. Some said I was lazy, unreliable, and irresponsible. Others who a were little kinder to me said, “No doubt, Dr Pillaiis a rare enlightened being, but that doesn’t exempt him frombeing accountable.”

But nothing of what others thought of me mattered, for I was and continue to be in my own ivory tower which often collapses, and like the phoenix, reemerge instantaneously. My unwillingness to publish was not a self-determined one. In my world there is nothing that is permanent. Everything arises and this is understood as a prophet, a Messiah. According to an

ancient Oracle tradition, the sacred Nadi palm leaves of Kakabhusunda, Nandi and others, Dr Pillai is an incarnation of Lord Siva on this earth-plane. The purpose of this incarnation isto save the world from self-destruction through intervention from another, much higher world.

Dr Pillai’s book offers information that will bridge the gap between matter and spirit for many people, and allow more people direct experience of Divine Grace. The Nadi leaves of Visvamitra, Agastiya, Bogar, Siva Sukshmam and Siva Vakiya have all confirmed the divine avatar mission of Dr Pillai.

Dr Pillai currently lives in the United States with his wife anda daughter who currently attends university.

He served as coordinator of Indian Studies within the Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh and taught several courses on Buddhist meditation and other Buddhist topics. His specialty included research integrating religious phenomena with modern science. He had training in neuropsychology which was used in research interpreting traditional yogic and tantric wisdoms about psychobiology. He also served as an editor for the Encyclopedia of Hinduism.

Dr Pillai has taught meditation for two decades as well as seminars on successful thinking all over the world. He inspired noted author Wayne Dyer to write his recent best-selling book,

Manifest Your Destiny, which Wayne Dyer dedicated to Dr

Pillaias “Guruji.”

In addition, Dr Pillai has been active in the computer field with an office in the Silicon Alley section of Manhattan. He is also engaged in putting his mystical teachings into various modern formats such as CD, video, and now for the first time, a book available to the general public.

For a longer biography, please visit Dr Pillai’s website:

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Life Changing Sounds: Tools from the Other Side SECTION I— DR. PILLAI’S TEACHINGS: A BIRd’S EYE VIEW

DR. PILLAI’S SPEAKS

falls. I have always been a witness to everything that goes on. I must tell you if this book finally gets written and publishedit is not my wish. It is the wish of the Divine to make thesesecrets available to you.

In this connection, I remember an anecdote in the life of Sri Ramana Maharishi, a fully enlightened being from Triuvannamali (southern India) who left his body in 1950. His example taught me many things as we shall see later.

Ramana Maharishi attracted many important people from the West including Paul Brenton, Somerset Maugham, Carl Jung, and others. It was Carl Jung who said that Ramana Maharishi was the “whitest spot in the white sky.” Ramana Maharishi left home when he was 14 or younger and meditated all his long life.

Even after his enlightenment, and even though there was a coterie of wealthy people who would do anything for him, Sri Ramana never had an ashram built for himself, not even a simple home. In fact, once when a European devotee presented him with a Mercedes Benz, he refused to accept it. Ramana Maharishi told the devotee, “I don’t know how to take care of this cart [meaning body], and I don’t need another one!”

However, one day after his walk, Sri Ramana Maharishi sat on the ground and would not get up. He said that he wanted to construct an ashram there and that the desire was not his, but God’s. I think I can relate to his statement.

This book, too, is God’s wish. I totally claim no credit for it. If I happen to misrepresent anything, that, too, is God’s fault and not mine. I am in one sense rejoicing very much, for I have been able to bring out to the world the most precious teachings of the enlightened Tamil Siddhas.

In many respects the Tamil Siddhas teachings are similar to the teachings of Einstein, although the Siddhas were practical and Einstein more theoretical.

In fact, someone told me, or I heard it somewhere, that

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Einstein in his previous birth was Bogar, a Tamil Siddha. Whatever may be the truth of the statement, I personally believe it to be true because Bogar was also a mathematician; there are unmistakable parallels. Einstein was painfully aware of the limi-tation of his work and the purely theoretical nature of physics and mathematics.

Einstein wrote, “Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.” The world still follows Newtonian laws and the Einstenian universe of relativity is considered only theoretically true. When they will become true is the day when we begin to live the concepts or when the concepts become experiential realities.

Wayne Dyer in his best-selling book, Manifest Your Destiny,

expresses this idea: “Unfortunately, the people of the world have yet to apply this hologrammatic understanding to their living. Seeing ourselves as connected to all of humanity is an idea whose time will come, and it will not be stopped.”

When Wayne Dyer and I met at Ed Marzec’s home in Beverly Hills, I asked Wayne Dyer what he wanted in life. I remember him replying, “I want to disappear.” I knew that he had disappeared before in his previous life times. That is why he speaks about Castaneda’s teachings from Don Juan many times, as they contain the idea of disappearing into another world.

Disappearing with the body is realizing E=mc2 in an

experi-ential way. The Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Jnanasambanda, Appar, Sundarar, Manikavacakar, and a host of Tamil Siddhas all disappeared. None among the list of ascended masters was a scientist, but then they had access to a higher science in which energy and matter are experientially interchangeable.

In Einsteinian terms these masters converted their mass m

(representing their body) to the speed of light (about 183,000 miles per second) which is represented by the c2 in the

equa-tion. All that we need to know is that our physical body is

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solidified light; and that it can be transformed back into light particles again at will.

I want the readers of this book to know that before time in memori-am, Tamil Siddhas had bridged the gap between physical laws and real

life experience—the problem as Einstein saw it. For instance, the Siddhas saw the five elements as much in the physical environment as in the body/mind and sense perceptions of life. Space, air, fire, water and earth, all elements of nature, transform themselves into vata

(space and air), pitta (fire) and kapha (water and earth). I hope to share

more about these Siddha secrets later. Birth and Childhood

I was born February 1, 1949 on a small island named Rameswaram in southern India. Rameswaram is near the southern-most tip of the Indian subcontinent and is only a few miles away from Sri Lanka. In mythical times Lord Rama had ordained this island as the perfect geographical space to remove the most sinful karma. In Rama’s own case he had to get rid of his karma for having killed his rival in battle, the demonic Ravana. Although Ravana was an evil person and deserved death, killing someone in and of itself has its own consequences, and Rama needed to pay for this karma.

Rama established a shrine for Lord Siva and ordained that whosoever had done terrible karma could come to this shrine and wash their sins in the temple. The tradition is still followedin the temple. Pilgrims go to the temple and take a dip in thewaters from 20 or more wells that surround the temple. Withwet clothes, the pilgrims then walk into the sanctum sanctorum. Because of this custom the temple floor is always wet. Ifwater can purify sins, it is truer in this temple than anywhereelse.

Until recently I had no clear idea of why I reincarnated in Rameswaram. Kakabhusunda, the immortal yogi of all times, in a vision revealed to me the purpose of my birth at Rameswaram.

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I needed to breathe and later master the spiritual energy that dissolves terrible karma of people so that I can help them to diffuse their karma. This vision made perfect sense to me because, until I was 18 years old, I never left the island, so I was soaking in the aura of Rameswaram very deeply.

I remember as a boy I used to go to the temple every single day. My greatest attraction in the temple was not the main deity, but a beautiful shrine of Siva Nataraj (the dancing form of Lord Siva) which is situated in the outer corridor of the temple.I was attracted to this spot over and over again, and I spent allmy free time sitting there. I told my family that on my birthdaywe needed to do special food offering to the dancing Siva, apractice that went on for a while.

Even after I went to college, I came back to this shrine. But this time I had a little more understanding. I had learned that below the statue was the tomb of the Siddha Patanjali, the enlightened master who is the author of the Yoga Sutras. The Siddhas do not die. Some of them walk into a small enclosure and turn into a Siva Linga (a holy object symbolizing Siva).

My father was a painter and sculptor. He was a good one, although with the indifference that goes along with artists in general. The burden of raising five boys naturally fell on my mother who made sure that everyone had the right education and did not become an artist!

However, I was the most beloved and problematic boy for my mom. She loved me because I was the most intelligent of all her kids and stood first in the class, but she hated me because I kept her up in the night. She thought that I had insomnia and took me to the doctor who, after examining me, concluded that there was nothing wrong physically or mentally, although he could not figure out why I could not fall asleep. During the night I used to move from one bedroom to another, and my mother had a hard time finding me out. Although my sleepless-ness has continued to this day, I have greater understanding

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about sleep now.

When I was 10, I started to meditate on my own. I remember lighting a candle in front of a small picture of the Buddha and meditating. I liked the Buddha because he taught nonviolence and compassion. Even at a very young age, my emotions were very stable.

When I was twelve, my father died of cancer, and I hardly cried or was visibly moved. My relatives thought I was weird, and they gave up on me when I protested against some of the traditional funeral rites and rituals. Looking back, I now under-stand that my strange behavior was my protest against death which I now clearly know is life’s slap on our face.

In 1991 my mother died and I was in the U.S., and again, I hardly cried, but by then my understanding on this point was much more mature. I even knew in advance that my mother was going to die, for she had been bedridden for long time. A few days before her death, I had Shridi Baba come to me in my meditation. Shridi Baba was a Siddha who lived in central Indiain the later part of the nineteenth century and died in the earlypart of the twentieth century.

Shridi Baba told me that my mother was going through a lot of pain and that I should give permission for her to make the transition through the death process. My mother had been my first meditation student, a fact that I had always been proud of.I wanted to give her what Sri Ramana Maharishi gave to hismother. When Ramana’s mother was dying he put his hand onthe chest where the spiritual heart is and disbursed her karma.The woman died, and Ramana declared that she would notcome back again. This is what I did for my mother, thoughfrom a long distance. My mother cooperated with me. She saidthat she had no desire to come back to the earth-plane and washappy to be liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

My college life was nothing spiritually significant, and I did what other college kids did. I got out of college with a bachelor’s

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degree in English Literature. I wanted to do my Masters imme-diately, but I was not accepted that year.

What followed was an intense period of soul-searching expe-rience. My uncle who was a Vedic astrologer predicted a few things which turned out to be true in spite of my attempts to challenge them. It was my first serious attempt to look into destiny, karma and astrology. I began to raise questions like why someone was born rich, and someone else did not even have food to eat; why someone despite being very intelligent could not even get a job, while some idiot became the CEO of a company.

I began to look for answers to these questions in Vedic astrology which in India is a science that explains the karma of individuals. Vedic astrology became almost an obsession in my life during this time, and I collected about 1,000 horoscopes of people belonging to various vocations in order to do an empir-ical study.

My mother was getting annoyed about my interest in astrology and metaphysics. She wanted me to be a normal person and pursue the common pleasures or agony of human life, including getting a job and getting married and begetting a bunch of kids. Her greatest dissatisfaction was my spending all my time studying Vedic astrology, because in India it is believed that you should not mess with one’s future, for it is the realm of the Divine. One day when I was away my mother pitched out all my Vedic astrology books and notes and when I returned, she threw a tantrum to underline her point. But, by this time I was so deeply involved in the metaphysical areas of life that it was impossible for me to lead a normal life, although during this time I had earned my Masters degree in English Literature. It was during this time that I met a famous man who had influence in my life, Dr. Meenakshi Sundaram. He was a man of great accomplishment and an internationally renowned academician. He introduced me to Transcendental Meditation

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as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I could not wait to become a TM teacher. TM teacher training, which took about four months full-time to complete, was a God-given opportu-nity. I take this opportunity to publicly thank Sri Guru Dev (Maharishi’s guru) and the Maharishi himself for that wonderful learning opportunity, for after the training, I was never the same person.

I came home, and my mother was my first meditation student. I initiated her on Ganesha’s birthday. After teaching TM for a while, I went to Rishikesh in the Himalayas to do the TM-Siddhi training program. Being in the Himalayas widened my interest in spirituality, and after that I returned to the Himalayas for many meditation experiences, visiting my home only a few times.

Again, my mother got annoyed over my spiritual inclina-tions, and she came up with a plot of a marriage proposal for me and threatened that she would kill herself if I would not accept the proposal. Indian mothers are such good adepts in blackmailing their children, and I fell a victim. But I was clever, too. I told my mom that I needed to go to the Himalayas for three more months, and after that I would marry the girl.

The girl is my wife Vasantha whom I only got a glimpse of in one of the arranged marriage interviews, traditionally set up according to certain conventions. Vasantha was shy to look at my face, although I was least worried about her looks, for in my mind, my conspiracy was to please my mom temporarily and get back to the Himalayas. I told the bride’s people that I would come back after three months and marry her. I did not show up for a year intentionally. Once you are not around for such a long time, the bride’s people look for another groom. But, as fate would have its way, I came back, and Vasantha was not still married. I married her on September 16, 1977, again on Ganesha’s birthday.

To me being married mostly meant being stuck at one

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geographical location, something which I never understood, much less could actually live in this lifetime. I took a research scholar’s position at the University of Madurai in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. The University provided me with staff quarters near the mountains, and I spent two wonderful years in that secluded place.

My academic project was to find out the paradox that John Donne (a famous English metaphysical poet) had faced between God and sex. I wrote what I considered, at the time, a brilliant dissertation on the sacred nature of carnality which paved my way to the University of Pittsburgh where I expanded my studies for my Ph.D. However, I don’t intend to discuss my academic life too much, for now I think such endeavors, although not entirely meaningless, are nevertheless useless at this point in my life.

What was very important during my university time at Madurai was my meeting with Sri Dhandapani Desikar, my guru who introduced me to the practice of Sri Vidya. Sri Vidya is the most esoteric practice of meditation that only a few adept teachers have the ability to teach.

The practice involves the worship of the goddess Lalita Tripurasundari with the help of the mandala called Sri Chakra or Sri Yantra. In recent times, the greatest exponent of Sri Vidya was Swami Brahamanada Saraswati, Mahesh Yogi’s guru. Swami Rama writes in his book, Living with the Himalayan Masters,

that during his days with the Himalayan master, Swami Brahamanda Saraswati, the master had shown him a Sri Chakra which he worshipped made out of ruby. Also, Swami Rama writes that if he had any spiritual powers at all, they came from Sri Vidya.

My Practice of Sri Vidya

My guru Sri Dhandapanis Desikar was a very remarkable man. He had no formal education, yet was a professor of

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Tamilology at the university. Every university in the state recog-nized his scholarship. In his long life of 85 years, Sri Desikar had written about 180 books in all. Meeting with Sri Desikar was a Divinely inspired event. We could not resist each other, and Sri Desikar agreed to teach me Sri Vidya.

I went through the regular guru-disciple routine. I was liter-ally his personal attendant helping him with all daily spiritual and religious rituals. My day would start at 4:00 a.m. I neededto go to the flower garden and pluck the flowers, chantingmantras as I did the chore. Then I had to help him bathe,soaping his body, etc. At 7:00 a.m., he would start his puja forLord Siva for about an hour. At 9:00 a.m., his wife would serve us a massive lunch which often made me uncomfortable in thebeginning, to be served so much food.

During this time Sri Desikar taught me many things of which the most important was the worship of the goddess with her special 16 mantras. The day Sri Desikar initiated me into the mantras, I had a profound experience. I was initiated in the morning. He told me there was no fee for the service, but I needed to take some ghee (clarified butter) for the lamps to the temple of goddess Meenakshi (who is considered a form of Parvati, Lord Siva’s wife). I sincerely carried out his instruction and went home in the evening.

Around midnight, I was awakened from a very vivid dream.I saw the goddess, but she was in her ferocious form. She carrieda trident and seemed as though she wanted to kill me with it. Iscreamed and woke up. My wife heard my cry, and she woke uptoo. The image of the goddess began to haunt me. Everywhere Iwent, I saw her constantly in front of me, though she was notpointing her trident towards me any more. But I was still scaredand did not want to do anything with her.

I stopped visiting my guru for a couple of days. Sri Desikar apparently knew exactly what was happening to me and sent for me. I went and saw him and confessed what had happened. Sri

Desikar said what had taken place was remarkable. He said the goddess was responding to my prayer, and on my request, he changed my vision of the goddess into a pleasant one.

Since then the goddess has been with me doing many, many miracles in my personal life, except for a few years when she left me for some reasons that I can’t discuss here at this time.

Some Miracles with the Goddess

For the worshippers of Sri Vidya, the goddess in general appears in two ways. One form is as a light being visible to the eyes, but not tangible. This form is rare, but then, it is the most powerful appearance of the goddess. In Sanskrit this phenom-enon is called darshan (sacred seeing) of the goddess. I have had

many such experiences of the goddess and could call her at any time. I have also been able to show her to other people who are worthy of the darshan.

The other form that the goddess appears is in the form of human females. In the sacred literature of the goddess, it is stated very clearly that the woman and the goddess are the same expression of the Great Archetypal Female. This is the reason why that my charitable organization, Tripura Foundation, and other enterprises are run mostly by women. In fact, the Tripura Foundation was started with a donation of $18,000 given by a woman who wanted to remain anonymous. She never has said anything to anyone about her donation. Since then many women have served the organization selflessly.

The most important help I received from the goddess was during the time I was doing my Ph.D. program. I started out late and knew too much about life, which was actually a hindrance for a student. I never kept my appointments with my examiners; I saw them very seldom and never did anything on time, despite their expectations.

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time and space. I did at least explain this to one examiner who was willing to be my student. He told me that he understood my problems, but insisted that I should be functional in a world of cause and effect, a problem that I may never be able to solve. During this time the goddess’s help was very practical. She knew that I could not read everything in the many, many textbooks that I was expected to read. She was very sharp and to the point. She provided me with the ability to know the questions beforehand so that I prepared answers only for those questions. I know every student who reads this would be envious of me and want to develop a relationship with the goddess! But I must tell you that the grace of the goddess is the result of spiritual work done in many life times. Shankara, the Einstein of Indian mysticism, after his hair-splitting encounters with intellectuals, came to the goddess for his liberation and happiness.

I must also tell you that the most powerful way of invokinga divine entity is to use the mandala for that being. Within thegoddess tradition, the most powerful tool used in her invocationis the Sri Yantra (also called Sri Chakra). Sri Yantra or SriChakra is a formation of 43 triangles transposed in a certaingeometrical pattern within concentric circles enclosed bysquares.

Sacred geometry belongs to the language of the divine. It is such a powerful tool that the Divine lets only certain individuals who have transcended their ego-self know its secrets. Everything from attracting a woman or a man you want, or incredible wealth, or talking to dead people, to harming your enemies, can be accomplished through the use of the mandalas. In other words, mandalas are the DNA codings of a universal energy system. The Tamil Siddhas are quite adept in this esoteric system.

Another major gift that I received from Sri Desikar was initi-ation into the five important mantras representing the five faces

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of Lord Siva. The five faces of Siva (Isana, Tatpurasha, Aghora, Vama and Sadhyojata) are five parts of the human brain. The initiation was so powerful that revelations about the five parts of the brain keep coming to me in an unending way. The initia-tion was in 1981, and in a prestigious conference presided by Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner, I presented the correlation between the five faces of Lord Siva and the human brain. At some point in my life, it is my destiny to reveal the secrets of awakening the five faces of Siva. This book is to begin preparing people, so I do hope many of you will actually practice some of the techniques I give here, so later I can share more with you. You must begin preparations now.

Without much further ado, I want to dwell on some of my enlightenment experiences, just a few, and I am deeply indebted here to two great spiritual masters of the last century who I never physically met: Bhagavan Rajneesh (also known as Osho) and J. Krishnamurti.

I have read almost every piece of Sri Rajneesh’s writings and experimented with most of the techniques advocated by him. It was during one of the dance meditations called Nataraj that I fell down and was in Samadhi for 12 hours. Since then, there was a great shift in my consciousness which got intensified in my attempt to understand time.

One day I was reading J. Krishnamurti’s excellent, although somewhat advanced book, Ending Time. The book is a very

intense conversation between Dr. David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti. Dr. Bohm in that book pushes Krishnamurti to explain thought and time. As I was reading this book, my mind blanked and experienced no time. This was the scariest experi-ence that I ever had. I felt that the Divine was giving me a choice to be here in the mind or be totally mindless. I thought that I had almost lost my sanity and wouldn’t be able to come back to the normal world. With tremendous effort, I came back; and I am glad that I did, for I never wanted to be a yogi

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in a coma.

Recently during a public gathering, I said that I knew the ugliness of silence, and this is a commentary about the Divine coma stage. I must add also I had an extended trance experience practicing a light technique described in the book, The Secrets of the Golden Flower.

During my long search for enlightenment, I have had the grace of several gurus, Siddhas and Divine beings, and I am grateful to all of them. I have learned something from every one of them. My ultimate encounter with enlightenment was due to the infinite Grace of the Dancing Siva at Chidambaram in India. I have had a very long term relationship with Him in many, many births. His guiding hand leads me every minute of my life. Some day He will, through me, reveal the secrets of the five letters NA MA SI VA YA which is the answer to the mystery of the universe. Every master comes to the earth-plane with a mission and his own idiosyncratic version of enlighten-ment. It is so beautiful to see so many blossoms from God with such miraculous colors.

It does not make sense to me that the truth is one/none/many. To me, celebration is the only Truth there is. This is the secret of the dancing Siva at Chidambaram. Lord Siva is the eternal dancer who lives both stillness and dance simultaneously. This is the meaning of the marvelous sculpture of the dancing Siva Nataraj which has attracted the attention of the entire world.

During my long path of inquiry through several of my births, I have found that Truth is open-ended, and even the Absolute is Relative, as time causes evolution. As digital science begins to understand the nuances of light and sound waves, there will be an outburst of wisdom that will bring heaven on earth. This will be my mission in the years to come. But for now, I wish to open up the world of secret sounds (mantras) and other tools.

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Some of you may find it helpful to use the book in accom-paniment with some of my CD’s and videotapes as I cannot put everything into just a book! But hopefully, you will find some things here that are useful to you.

Currently, I have the following websites, and more are in development:

www.pillaicenter.com www.vaaaksounds.com www.tripurafoundation.org www.astroved.com.

This is my first book. And as I stated earlier, it is not from “me,” but it is the will of the Divine for you to have this infor-mation now.

OM NA MA SI VA YA. March, 2002

New York, New York

The above pages of my autobiography were written in 1997, and I had put them aside until now. During the past five years many, many things have occurred. I don’t currently intend to discuss them in this brief sketch of my life. Sometime later if I find it necessary, I will do a longer version of my spiritual auto-biography.

I feel compelled to say something about Nadi astrology. Nadi astrology is a special form of astrology practiced by the Siddhas of ancient India. The Siddhas, who are enlightened beings, recorded on palm leaves the life events—past, present, future—of some souls in order to help them in this lifetime.

There are many types of Nadi astrology, and one should approach them with caution, discrimination, and intelligence. One of the most remarkable Nadi leaves came from the enlight-ened sage Saint Visvamitra. There are many types of Visvamitra leaves, and all of them are not of the same quality. It is fair to

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say that Saint Visvamitra contacted me through his leaves. These leaves were in the possession of a guy who has been reading regularly for the prime minister and president of India. The leaves commissioned this guy by saying that he should seek me out and read my future to me. To make a long story short, through a series of miracles, he came to see me. The leaves opened up a new world for me.

I remembered many of my past lives as great saints of India. The final revelation was that I was the incarnation of Siva himself. It is embarrassing for me to write this. But since I am neither attracted nor repulsed by it, I decided to include this information. Nevertheless, I also wrote sometime ago the following lines in response to those predictions.

The Human Becoming the Divine

It is very interesting to dwell upon the process of the human becoming the Divine. Within the Hindu-Buddhist tradition, the difference between the human and Divine is a matter of consciousness. The human is limited. The human is stuck in the material body and in an ignorant mind, whereas the Divine has no material existence and has a divine mind. The Divine is also infinitely intelligent. Man’s destiny is to become, ultimately, Enlightened—what this means is that the human is becoming the Divine. To use the terminology of physics, it is matter becoming energy. The Judeo-Christian tradition also has some reference to the relationship between the human and the Divine. The Bible says that God created man in his own image. This means that God has an image, and it looked like the image of a human being.

All traditions speak about angels and other Divine beings. Mythology has it that these Divine beings have no physical body, although they have a form made up of light. They appear and disappear by their choice and by their power make them-selves known to certain human beings.

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The transition from a material body to an immaterial bodyis a fascinating experience. Over the past two years I have hadmany revelations about the evolution of my soul. Ancient palm leaves in India that are in possession of some individuals unveiled my previous incarnations on this earth-plane.Evidently, I have had thousands of incarnations, if not more.The palm leaves revealed a few of them: Bhishma, Agastiya,Bhrigu, Manikavacakar and Swami Ramalingam.

My Bhishma incarnation is the weakest when compared to the rest. No doubt Bhishma was semi-Divine, but then I had to die at some point, although it was my own personal choice. I died on a bed of arrows at the beginning of the Winter solstice when the sun moved into Capricorn. The Agastiya incarnation is very interesting. As Agastiya, the palm leaves maintain that I visited the earth-plane some 800 times. In some incarnations out of the 800, I stayed here for some years and at other times, I appeared and disappeared staying only for a few hours or few months. I had miraculous powers to acquire a body and to dissolve it at will. It is because of this reason that Lord Siva once said that Agastiya was his equal.

My incarnation as Manikavacakar was the most agonizing one. I documented my frustrations in the thousands of hymns that I wrote during that incarnation. I resented my filthy human body, my ignorant mind and the torture of the five senses. Although I was the Prime Minister of the King and enjoyed the royal benefits of that office, my mind was little at peace. The appearance of Lord Siva in the guise of a human guru to initiate me was a turning point in my life. After the initiation I was transformed. I was no longer the Prime Minister. Nevertheless, I was not fully Enlightened either. I still had to battle with my human body, mind, and the senses. But finally, at the Chidambaram Temple, Siva absorbed me into his image. Even today psychics perceive my image inside the Dancing Siva at Chidambaram.

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Ramalingam has done immense good for the evolution of my soul. Both were fully realized beings and identified themselves with Siva himself. They both claimed that after their encounter with Siva, they had become Siva himself. However, both felt that although they became Siva, Lord Siva was still different from them. This is in accordance with the Saiva philosophy that your soul is part of Siva but not Siva himself. Swami Ramalingam, before he took off, proclaimed that the God of Light, Siva, would come to the Earth-plane and stay there for awhile performing numerous miracles and trans-forming the planet Earth.

It is interesting that the palm leaves have now revealed that Siva has indeed come to the earth-plane. He is within my body and will reveal himself soon. I am myself both fascinated and excited. On the one hand, I experience this human body with gastric troubles, toothache, poor vision, etc., combined with other human limitations caused by maya, karma and ego. I am awaiting very eagerly for the transformation of this body into Light. This event, when that happens, will have a huge impact on the evolution of planet Earth. As a human being I am fully aware that I cannot manipulate this transformation. It is purely the decision of the Divine. I invite students to pray devoutly to Siva to descend into my body for the upliftment of the human beings on planet Earth.

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PREPARING TO WORK WITH SACRED SOUNDS: KARMA AND MANTRAS My absorption into the image of Siva is very fascinating.

Lord Siva turned my body into light, and I was pulled into the Lord’s image. I was thankful to Siva for ending my karma and uplifting me to his level. It was such a blissful experience. However, I had a deep desire to know the dynamics of the material body turning into light. So, Lord Siva gave me another birth as Ramalingam. This time, the purpose of the incarnation was to systematically and experientially understand the transfor-mation of the body into light.

My entire life as Ramalingam was spent on giving theoretical and practical proof as to how matter can turn into light. From a theoretical standpoint, two basic principles are very important. One is the gross five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space turning to their corresponding insubstantial energy forms. The second principle is the opening of the Third Eye that results in the removal of seven layers of material and energy consciousness. It is important to note that these two purificatory processes are fairly difficult to accomplish by human efforts alone. It is ultimately upto the mercy of Siva that accomplishes it.

Siva appeared before Ramalingam, who was sleeping on the floor. He woke him up. Ramalingam saw the splendor of Siva’s form. Siva then hugged him. Ramalingam’s body instanta-neously became a light body. He also developed the Third Eye of Siva. Siva then left and Ramalingam’s body reverted back to its original flesh and blood form. Ramalingam was quite unhappy. Nevertheless, he remembered the initiation and hoped that one day he would permanently get the Light Body. Accordingly, in 1873 Ramalingam’s body turned into Light. Many of his disciples were in awe, but none wanted the Light body. Ramalingam was upset that his students preferred three meals and full gossip over the Light Body. He decided to take off and come back at a later time. So, he disappeared on January 30th of 1874.

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onsider this example: Someone is the president of a country; someone else lives as a homeless person in the same country. Why is there this inequality? How come some get everything so easily and others have to work hard and still get nothing and suffer? The answer is: it’s all the individual’s karma. Karma is the only theory that can explain the mysteries of life—the mystery of joy and suffering, health and disease, success and failure, long life and premature death and other dichotomies.

Simply put, karma is your past life: the desires and plans that you held in your previous life. These are now presenting themselves in this life. They may not necessarily be from your most immediate past life. They may be from other lives that you had lived long ago.

In fact, what you call the present or the future is indeed your past. Everything that you wanted to do in the past, you are now doing in the present. These things may end now, or they may not end now. Maybe it will take a few more births to end them. This is the philosophy of karma: you desire something and create karma and a lifetime (or lifetimes) to experience it.

I am going to take you on a tour of life with its joys, trials and tribulations. Understanding life is about understanding karma. For your quick reference, I have put together a short FAQ followed by a longer chapter on karma.

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Before you enter the body of the book it is important for you to understand the concepts of karma and mantra.

Karma is what governs life.

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Karma: Frequently Asked Questions

What is karma?

Karma is the spiritual law of cause and effect. Through good acts you create good karma, and through bad acts you create bad karma. For instance, if you have done good actions in your past lives, this lifetime will bring a life of luxury, good health and happiness. Conversely, bad karma from past lives will create problems, suffering and poverty in this lifetime.

Can one change his or her karma?

Yes and no. Karma is one’s destiny. There are certain types of karma that you can change, and some types you can’t change. For instance, it is impossible to change an orange into an apple or a donkey into a horse. But, it is certainly possible to change one’s financial or relationship karma.

We came to the earth-plane to undergo karma. Is it not wrong to change one’s karma?

If you have good karma and that good karma is giving you good results, you don’t need to change that karma. Bad life created by bad karma must be changed. It is not a good idea to prolong pain and suffering in the name of God or bad karma.

Do our present acts create karma?

Yes. Not only your acts create karma, but even your thoughts also create karma. You should be careful about what you think.

Can I change the karma of someone else?

You could. But I advise against it. When you interfere with the karma of others, there is always a price to be paid. One should be strong enough to take on the karma of others before attempting this.

What is the relationship between karma and reincarnation?

Reincarnation is caused by karma. If there is no karma in your stockpile, there will be no reincarnation.

How do I change my karma?

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The easiest way to change your karma is to use the mantra

Thiru Neela Kantam. You visualize a blue light in your throat

and go on chanting this mantra at your throat. This mantra will reverse your bad karma. In addition to chanting the mantra, you need to reprogram your mind with positive affirmations. A set of positive affirmations is in the section, “Prayer to the Mind” on my CD, Meditations and Affirmations with a Master.

Karma, Destiny, Growth

In short, karma is your destiny. An orange seed has a destiny to grow into an orange tree. An apple seed grows into an apple tree. Just as a plant has a destiny so does every human being.

Destiny is destination. You start out at a point and then move forward. Finally, you stop moving forward, and the momentum ends.

Growth is a mystery. Ironically, growth itself is a process of decay! A child is growing, but at the same time it is decaying! The child is growing towards old age and death.

It is the mystery that led the Buddha to explore life. The Buddha said, “I am a prince, but what good is it if I am going to decay?” And, in his escapades out of the palace, he went out and confronted people who were suffering from illnesses. He discovered that the skin shrinks and a once beautiful face becomes ugly. Some become crippled and disabled. He demanded: “What good is this life? I must find out the meaning of this life.”

I don’t want to sound too philosophical. There is an expression, “Philosophy never bakes bread,” which is to say philosophy is not practical. So, what is karma again? Karma is the force which causes you to reincarnate. Birth after birth, you come into being because there is this cyclical karmic force which creates life to experience desires which you had no time to experience in that lifetime. And for some, a time comes when you don’t want to come back at all, because you are tired of

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coming back and you want to return to Being. Then karma ends.

So karma is not just a metaphysical philosophy. It is real. Whatever you think becomes a reality in the invisible space-time complex of your soul, and then this manifests in life after an appropriate lapse of time.

The Buddhists say that you cannot end karma until you become totally empty. When you are empty, there will be no more movement; there will be no more desire. And when there is no more desire, there is no possibility for life. Every one of you has come here to act out something in life. You came here to become the president of the country or to be a homeless person. You came here to marry someone or to divorce someone else. You came here to experience success or incredible pros-perity. Or, you came here to go through poverty and slavery.

Why Do You Do What You Do?

I can understand people coming to live a prosperous life, but who wants poverty? It is a learning process. On the earth-plane you learn everything through trial and error. That is the struc-ture of human knowledge. You constantly go on making mistakes. Why are you not able to make a perfect computer? Every year companies make imperfect computers knowingly, because there is no way they can make a perfect computer. Same thing applies to life. You experiment with this man or woman, with this job or another, and then move on to get a new better partner or vocation.

Story of the Invention of the Bicycle

I often talk about an interesting anecdote as some people find it easier to understand things through stories. One day I was watching a Disney movie for kids. The Disney movie was narrating the history of the invention of the bicycle. The movie explained that when the bicycle was first invented in France, not very many people could afford it. Only aristocrats could afford

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it, and they would only use it on special occasions. For example, when an aristocrat had a date, the aristocrat would ride a bicycle so as to impress the woman he was courting. It was a status symbol.

And the funny thing about the bicycle was that the original bicycle did not have a brake. The man who invented it did not see the necessity for a brake. He told the aristocrats, “What you do to stop the bicycle is dash against a tree and hold onto the tree.” Then the people who tried this method of course crashed, and they thought it was a really stupid way to stop a bicycle. They decided we have to somehow stop the bicycle from moving in an easier way. So, they invented the brake for the bicycle.

Psychic Technology

We are continuing in the same line of development today. We now have cellular phones that we can take anywhere, even to the bathroom! We have phones in the airplanes that we can use. And, at some point, we are going to realize it is better to psychically communicate. Then we don’t need a phone. And what will transmit our voice is space. We are going to do it sometime. Why not do that right now?

In Atlantis, people were doing that—using psychic commu-nication. But in our age, it is going to take time, because the model that modern science follows is limited. It’s very, very limited. However, the people on this planet could make a collective decision to do things in an easier way!

In India all these various limitations were challenged many, many thousands of years ago by the yogis. They said all of these things, including the phenomenal world, are only a fabrication of your mind. What exists is your own mind.

Creations of the Mind

If one has no mind, then nothing will be out there in the world. Everything is created by the mind, including a physical

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object like this. You have to have a mind which can hold this object as a thought in your brain. Look at sleep. When you are sleeping, nothing exists. Remember that during sleep, you are not dead. The mind is dead. The mind is not there. So when the mind is not there, then everything disappears. In the morning, when the mind comes back, everything comes into existence.

So the mind creates. Nothing creates, but the mind. We have to understand the human mind. It creates through thoughts, through understanding. Karma is also created through the mind. The mind creates psychic impressions that somehow stay in the cosmos, and then these impressions cause a person to reincarnate.

So we have to become very, very responsible in handling our mind, because whatever we think is going to become a reality. As I said in the beginning, our life as it is now is a result of our own thoughts in our past lives. We have to become very, very careful about what we think, because what we think is going to manifest as reality.

Thoughts Become Biology

I will give you a practical example. Norman Cousins was an old acquaintance of mine. He wanted me to come and work with him in UCLA on a project about psycho-neuroim-munology. What this high-sounding word means is that your thoughts become your biology. He had a number of projects in this country and also in Europe to discover how thoughts get translated into biological reality.

The major experiment he conducted was on cancer patients with at least 500 people in each experimental group. This exper-iment was repeated both in Europe and in this country. These cancer patients were tested for a placebo effect—he wanted to see how powerfully people translate a certain idea into biological realities.

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In this experiment the cancer patients were told that they are going to receive chemotherapy, and the treatment may cause loss of hair. The doctors didn’t administer chemotherapy, but instead a placebo was given. Nevertheless, 35 percent of the people lost hair anyhow.

This led Cousins to make very serious objections about preventative [measures]. We give some information to people to help prevent certain things from happening, but it may produce a countereffect. An innocent woman who doesn’t know about breast cancer is told to examine her breasts periodically—who knows what is going to happen? Somebody is going to realize that fear in a physical form.

Changeable vs Unchangeable Karma

Now I am going to confine my current discussion to one area of karma, the karma which cannot be changed easily. You have certain givens [or conditions] in this life. For instance, I have brown skin. If I want to turn it into white skin, it’s not going to happen.

I might bleach myself and invite more problems. I have selected certain situations in my life which are very, very diffi-cult to change. That’s why people come to me saying that they have wanted to change their life ten years ago, but day after day they wake up to the same reality. They have not been able to make changes in a significant way.

Why? It is because the givens are like water which has become ice cubes—solid matter. It is very difficult to change solid matter. Everything starts out as energy and becomes matter and when energy has become a material reality, the changes are very, very difficult to make.

I’m not saying that it is impossible. You can change these things. But, we have to operate with the fact that we are dealing with matter-of-fact.

Matter is a fact. This is an area which is resistant to change

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because of its physicality.

In Sanskrit they call it the most difficult karma to change,

prarabdha. Prarabdha is that which is going to be experienced

by you no matter what you do.

That is why when self-help people tell me that you create your own reality, I tell them this is only true in a limited sense. There have been many self-help books, but how many people have been able to turn their lives around? They have been reading hundreds and hundreds of books on self-help which all say you create your own reality and the sky is the limit.

How many of you have dramatically changed your lives? What is the percentage of people who have been able to change their lives? One percent? Two percent?

For most people, change has not happened yet. Day by day we wake up to the same old reality. We get frustrated. Even people who write books saying that you can do everything, they get frustrated, too, although they may not acknowledge it!

Ninety percent fail. This is what people have to look at...

Prarabdha: Difficult Karma

So there is a reality that is very difficult to change,

prarabdha. These are the givens. And we created them. And

these are what we need to diffuse. The diffusion cannot be done by the mind. That’s the most important thing that we have to understand.

Mentally you can go on making affirmations, writing affir-mations, making promises that “I won’t repeat this; I will change this; I won’t repeat this behavior.” But constantly you make the mistake over and over again.

Why do we do that? Because of karma. Karma is the spell. Everyone is under a spell. In Sanskrit they have a word called

samskara which means innate qualities or certain proclivities

with which you are born. That is the karma from a previous birth.

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Someone has come with a mindset that he has taken birth to do certain things. No matter what you do to change him, he is not going to change. This holds true for everyone. Everyone of us is under a spell. We are unconscious. We are unconsciously led to the process of staying with a certain mindset because it is very, very difficult to be alert and be otherwise.

It is easy to be a robot. That is how we live life. We are not conscious at all. The Buddha said that you consider yourself to be in a waking state, but you are not. You are under a spell as if you are drugged. You follow the same path. You are incapable of making changes. The mind thinks, “I want to change my life. I want to change my car. I want to change my apartment. I want to change my job. I want to manifest a good relationship.”

You want it on a mental level, but then it is not happening. Why? Because of the spell. Because of the robot mind. The influence of karma forces you to carry on with the misery. You must ponder this very soberly. Be sincere. Share this material with others who may be interested.

You have to become alert to the core. You have to create more energy to diffuse the past life karma. When you become alert, you begin to challenge reality, challenge karma. When you challenge karma, you are not going to accept things as they are. Every minute you are going to be conscious. At no time are you going to be unconscious.

If you are unconscious, you are allowing things to happen. You are causing the karma to manifest. The moment you become alert, you challenge the cause of karma. So the way to diffuse karma is to become alert and not allow the robot to continue in its unconscious way.

We love to forget ourselves. We don’t know that we are even breathing. That’s why the Buddha said breathe for an hour. And he said that while you are doing this exercise, you have to be so conscious that you should not miss even one breath. Because the breath and the mind are related processes.

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But the reality is you cannot put your mind on the breath even for five minutes. If you successfully become aware of your breath for an hour, that will change your life entirely because by that time you will have created enough energy, enough alertness to diffuse karma.

Diffusing Karma

So, what will diffuse karma is attention. If you are attentive, then things cannot get overlooked. You can stop things by virtue of your own attention. Why don’t we have much atten-tion now? We are lazy. So, with attenatten-tion, you can stop things. This is the law of nature. Attention means care. Attention and care are synonymous. If you bring more attention, you bring more care.

You don’t care now. Mike Tyson has great muscles. You and I don’t have these. Why? Did he care for his muscles? He did. Did you care for your muscles? No. And how did he care for them? His whole life was the muscles.

So what you need is care, more attention. When you bring more attention, then you become more alert. Then karma will stop. Karma stops because you are waking up to a different dimension of existence where you are able to see the karma coming forth, and then the attention burns off the karma.

This is how you avoid the dangers that are yet to come. Patanjali, the enlightened Indian yogi who compiled the Yoga Sutras, speaks about why one needs to meditate. He says you have to meditate because you have to avoid the danger that has not yet come.

You have created enough dangers for several lifetimes. They are unfolding. This lifetime is not enough to live those events, so you are going to create other lives to enjoy it or suffer it. So what you have to do is just meditate more.

By meditating you create more awareness. The Buddha sat under the bodhi tree before his enlightenment, and he began to

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relive all the karma that he had to pass through. And, in that way, he emptied the karma.

Then, there was no more karma to emerge. That is why he said that total reality is emptiness. There is nothing out there and in that emptiness you are full. Emptiness is not a negative quality. Emptiness is unlimited life in which you are not defined. You are infinite. And that, he said, is the nature of every human being, to live without karma.

When you become more aware, you see into the limited circumstances that the mind both creates and makes real. For example, look at a six-year-old girl—she wants all kinds of toys. And what is your attitude toward the girl? Why does she want all these toys? Why does she want chocolate all the time? But for the kid, it is so real and so tempting.

The same analogy applies to grown-up people also. The only thing is that they like different toys. The toys are different. For the grown-ups, these toys are very real.

The Buddha was able to see that all these are games. You have to end playing these games at some point in your life. When you do that, you end karma. What can help you come to this conclusion is more awareness. More awareness means more intelligence.

The term Buddha means one who has accessed buddhi.

Buddhi means Intelligence. It is not intelligence in the Western psychological sense. Intelligence is universal understanding in which you understand everything about yourself and about the cosmos.

From that perspective, everything seems to be a game—an illusion. One has to wake up to the reality which is infinite intelligence. Intelligence is synonymous with awareness. You have to become aware.

You eat with awareness. You sleep with awareness. You study with awareness.

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You work with awareness. You play with awareness.

You never lose your awareness no matter what you do. What happens now is that your awareness is being eaten by your thought process. The thought process is like a vampire. It sucks up all of your energy and limits you. And you live a life as though there is no existence other than thought existence.

Thoughts are your guests. They check in and check out. You are the host. No thought can remain within the system forever. Become alert. The thought will fall away like a dead leaf from a tree. The moment you become aware and tell yourself, “This thought is trying to cheat me and make me unhappy; I dismiss you,” the thought will fall away.

If you give reality to a thought, that thought will give rise to another thought and another thought and another. And, “Oh, how he cheated me on this,” and then you will begin to analyze all the incidents trying to make up a case to make yourself more miserable. You can become alert and dismiss the thought. “I don’t want it. I don’t want to be unhappy. I don’t want this thought at all.” And for that you need more consciousness, more awareness, because you can’t allow the robot thought to do its thing.

Sometimes it is the knowledge that becomes the problem. Shakespeare had a great understanding about this. In his play,

Othello, somebody came and told Othello that his wife,

Desdemona, was having an affair with another guy, even though this was not actually true. He successfully planted this suspicionin Othello’s mind, and Othello’s mind began to rage. “Thiswoman is cheating me!” And in the play he puts his hands onhis head to see if he has developed horns. The gesture is from abelief in ancient Greece that if your wife cheats on you, you willgrow horns. And he begins to analyze the situation. Hecontinues to analyze and analyze, and then he concludes, “I amlike dust in the wind.”

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He wonders what is bothering him: is it Desdemona’s sex act with this guy or the knowledge that he has that she slept with him? And he says, “I had been happy if the general camp... had tasted her sweet body, so I had nothing known.” So what bothers him is not the actual act, but the knowledge that she has slept with this man, which he does not know whether it is true or not.

So, you have to step outside the thought process and for that you need awareness. And then you can check out what you can do and what you cannot do. Sometimes there will be an obsti-nate thought. By becoming more conscious you can stop these processes and when you do that, you are diffusing karma. You have to learn to develop more consciousness within you.

There is a bodily awareness that you have to create, and then awareness of the consciousness itself is another project. While sitting here, you can become conscious. Right now, you are unconscious. I can create consciousness in you provided I tell you how to do it. It’s a simple exercise. Try this right now.

Just sit and then become conscious of yourself, conscious of your body. In order to remain focused, you should keep your eyeballs still. Keep your eyeballs still and just become conscious of your skin all over the body. You will be creating an energy field.

You see how it happens? So, if you remain in this way, you’ll become more and more conscious. The Buddhists believed in this methodology because it agreed with their system in which there is no God and no soul. What exists is your own conscious-ness. You are not using your consciousness in the right way.

This is the Buddhist model. But I don’t quite totally subscribe to the Buddhist model. My own tradition is a tradition that equally emphasizes changing the physical reality. My tradition is called the Tamil Siddha tradition. It’s a tradition that is not very well known.

These enlightened sages believe in changing life both

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materially and spiritually. You have to challenge even your material reality and change it not for the next life, but right now for this life. So their philosophy is 200 percent life: 100 percent material progress, 100 percent spiritual change.

How can I change my karma?

The simple answer is: use a mantra.

Mantra: Magical Sound That Can Change Your Life

What is a mantra?

A mantra is a magical sound. It is a Divine tool to create whatever you want to create.

Who discovered the mantras?

The mantras are part of the space energy. (Space energy is one element among five, the others being earth, water, fire, air.) Meditating on the space energy, the ancient enlightened yogis discovered the sounds in deep states of trance, called Samadhi.

How old are the mantras?

The mantras have no beginning nor an end. They are as old as space and the universe.

What is the oldest extant literature on the mantras?

The Vedas (Books of Knowledge) written in Sanskrit are the oldest texts on mantras. They may date back to 1500-1000 B.C. The Vedas talk about the use of mantras to get into nonordinary states of consciousness and for obtaining spiritual as well as material things.

How do mantras work to get whatever you want to get?

Mantras are energy forms of matter. For instance, you want to buy a house or a car. There is a specific energy form that controls matter that gives you material comfort. In this case, I recommend the use of the mantra “Shreem.” You go on using the mantra repeatedly. The mantra will then attract the car/house towards you. It is magical.

How can a small sound attract large things like cars/homes?

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No doubt the mantras are tiny, often with only one or two syllables. But, is it not true that the atoms, tiny as they are, carry enormous power? The mantras are called Bijas in Sanskrit which

means seeds. The seed carries the tree within itself.

I compare the mantras to DNA. Each DNA is a miniature of a particular person. With the help of DNA you can identify a person, and perhaps in the future, even clone the individual. Mantras are energy DNA’s. You implant them in your mind, and then you manifest the energy.

How long does it take to get results from the use of mantras?

It varies from person to person. Some people have gotten results in days, and some take months. The bottom line is that you use the mantra until you get the results.

I am a very busy person. I don’t have the time to sit and meditate. Is there a mantra that I can practice in a few minutes?

There is a one minute meditation which is very powerful. See the “One Minute Mantra” in Part III.

Should I chant a mantra aloud or think it mentally?

Mantras can be chanted as well as used mentally. When the mind is noisy, use the verbal chanting method. When your mind is quiet, use the mantra mentally. The thinking method will quiet the mind and will give you tranquility.

Will there be any bad results that may come out of the mantras?

There are mantras to create bad effects like hurting others, etc. Those mantras are excluded from this book. I have only put in benign ones.

I am Christian/Jew/Moslem. Will this practice of mantras interfere with my religion?

Mantras are areligious, although they were originally discov-ered by the yogis of India and have long been part of the Hindu tradition. The practice of a mantra does not convert one to Hinduism or interfere with your spirituality.

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Mind is Composed of Sounds

The mind is a bunch of sounds. This is the theory of the Siddhas.

What do the Siddhas mean by this? Your mind is made up of language. Ninety percent of your mind is language. If you pull out language from the mind, the mind would not exist.

Then, what is language? Language is sound—conceptual sound and meaning in some relationship of reference. Now, what is sound? Sound is just a bunch of vowels and consonants. So if you understand vowels and consonants, you have under-stood part of your mind.

So, if you want to change your mind, change the sounds in your consciousness. Your mind has a sound pattern. Your unconscious has a sound pattern. Even your soul belongs to some vowel or consonant group.

John Edwards, the TV psychic who reads spirits’ messages, uses this knowledge. Nadi astrology of the Siddhas also uses the sound techniques to identify souls.

Consciousness itself is sound. So if you change sounds within the system, then you can make lasting changes in your life. All that you need to do is to change the sounds of your consciousness at a very deep level.

When the yogis talk about sounds, they don’t talk about only the spoken sounds. Spoken sounds are only very gross form of sounds. Spoken sounds emerge from unmanifest levels.

The evolution of speech is as follows: first, there is a thought sound (thought also has a sound) called nada and paranada.

The thought sounds become speech sounds.

In order to make significant changes in your life, all that you need to do is to rearrange the sound patterns of your own consciousness. This is what mantras do.

Mantras are sounds of the unconscious. While you are medi-tating on the mantra, the mantra takes you very deep into the layers of the unconscious. That’s why people who use mantras

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get dramatic results.

You don’t have to know many things. Transcendental Meditation (TM) became popular in the United States because they use mantras. They don’t want to waste your time giving a big intellectual seminar on creating your own reality or how the mantras function.

All they say is: “Come here, and I will give you a mantra, and it will change you.” So the mantras have this ability because they work at a different level, not at the mind level.

If you try to change your consciousness at the mind level, the change will be very superficial because it cannot dispel the spell you are under. By clinging onto the mantra, you can go into a deeper level and rearrange the atoms of your own consciousness—the sound atoms of your own consciousness.

The mantras have also been part of the Biblical tradition as well. The Bible says that, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” God created everything through his Word. The Word of God is the mantra.

Jesus speaks about the power of mantras on two occasions. At one time when asked to teach a prayer he teaches the prayer that even today is used in some churches. In the prayer Jesus says, “Father, hallowed be thy name.” What is this name God? God’s name is everything. It represents pure energy.

If you ask for anything in God’s name, it will happen through the miraculous power of God. At the end, Jesus told his followers to ask everything in his name. What is there in Jesus’ name? Jesus’ name is a mantra.

Similarly, Yahweh, the name of the Jewish God, is also a mantra. Yahweh is formed of the sounds for space (akash) and air (vayu) energy, which according to the Hindu tradition belong to the pure energy complex of the Divine. The sounds

ya and va representing space and air are part of the Nama Sivaya

mantra.

Similarly, Allah is a mantra as well. The Allah sound encom-

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