Bad Horoscope? What To Do

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No horoscope is bad. And no horoscope is good either! Good and Bad is the play of the Mind. And the MIND is a monkey.

Truth can be very shattering. It is the truth that there is no good, no bad. That nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Everything is as it is, all condemnation, division is futile. – Osho

Always remember you are the CHILD OF GOD. And God loves You. I can understand how you would have felt when you were humiliated by people who said your Kundli (birthchart) is bad -very bad.

But don’t worry, such men and women are fast asleep and those who are asleep cannot help you with the TRUTH. And the Truth is that every Kundli comes with a certain purpose – something has to be done – some unfinished business has to be finished – you are NOT born accidentally- the UNIVERSE has a purpose to met through YOU! AND so then how come you become useless? How come you become bad?

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. – Ramana Maharshi

Good or Bad – is totally based on situations! If a KNIFE becomes your shield – and you can save yourself – protect yourself, then the KNIFE becomes your savior! And if the KNIFE is used to harm you – then the same KNIFE becomes your killer. Now if you ask me -Whether a KNIFE is good or bad?

The answer is impossible – a conscious person would never LABEL anything or any person as GOOD or BAD – he is perfectly aware that it all depend on what PURPOSE is – if the purpose is GOOD – than even a KNIFE becomes GOD, if the purpose is GOOD than even the most condemned man or woman can prove to be a great savior of mankind!

Once it happened – a young man and what a man he was – simple, hardworking and always helpful to all the people of his village. One day – he lost his wife, she died in an accident. After a few days – he lost his daughter, she fell sick and he was short of money, the doctor won’t come – and the only daughter that he had, took her last breath at midnight when the whole village was fast asleep. She was only 6 years old and now the young man had to take her dead body all the way to the graveyard – all alone. Now there was nobody in his life – everything was lost – everything was gone. People started gossiping – ‘this man must have done many sins in his past life.’ – some would say “this man must be a curse to our village’ – some said ‘what an ill fated this man is’ – and slowly slowly all the villagers started condemning him – they started maintaining distance from him. Now the young man left out by all – took to drinking. He became a drunkard.

And every day he was found with a bottle in his hand, swinging around, walking through the narrow lanes of the village….the villagers decided to kick him out of the village but they couldn’t – law would not let them do so….

And so they all would try by every means and ways – to ridicule him, to insult him – to treat him like an animal – and the young man would laugh – he would simply laugh – and move on……at times a few villagers would beat him – and he would start bleeding – and yet he would not say anything – he would just slip out and keep moving from one place to the other…..

One day – it started raining and the rains were so heavily showering that the village was flooded with the rain water – the rains were not stopping – many houses were flooded, people became homeless – the crying of the women, of the children – the havoc all around….and the young man could not control himself….he could not see the dying children and the plight of the women of his village – and so for the first time in his life – he looked up in the sky and said “GOD – if you stop the rain, I will stop drinking. And that is my word.”

And the miracle happened – the rain stopped! God said “ If by stopping the rains – one good thing is happening – if one man is waking up from his ‘sleep’ – than it is worth it.”

And the rains stopped – and the man started crying – he became one of the greatest lover of God that the world had ever known – the villagers came and said “ You saved our lives – you please stay with us – we will help you in every way we can…”

But the young man was fired up – he was no more the same – he said “ I am now leaving – the call from the mountains has come – God has chosen me and my ‘journey’ has began!”

And it is said that the young man went on to become one of the finest Yogi that the world had ever known! A man who was condemned – a man who has beaten to bleed – a man who was LABELED as BAD – becomes the finest YOGI – everything is POSSIBLE – and I say it to all my followers and readers – everything is POSSIBLE – only if your HEART is pure – only if you are a man of HEART and not of HEAD.

People are shallow. The majority is shallow – they are quick to Judge – rarely they can observe – and observation without evaluation is the highest form of INTELLIGENCE!

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe. A very deep word – the Yogi only observes – deep observation. The Yogi will never label you as BAD – he will simply observe. Through this observation – he may feel sorry for you – he may feel compassion for you – he may try to HELP you and NOT condemn you.

Compassion will cure more evil than Condemnation. – H.W. Beecher

But Astrologers are quick to condemn – quick to LABEL someone as BAD and that is the greatest tragedy of this human world. It is shallow – so shallow that the real Yogi is therefore not found in this crowd – HE moves as an INDIVIDUAL – because he is perfectly aware that TRUTH happens to an Individual and not to a crowd.

Truth happens to Individuals and not to Crowds. – Osho

Your MIND is made to believe that your horoscope is BAD. The second question about finding a gemstone is a by product of your belief and it is belief that becomes the greatest hurdle between YOU and your PROGRESS.

Belief is PURE POISON. Never believe a thing. Experiment, live it thoroughly so that you can say on your own authority that it is true. – Osho

An intelligent man never believes – HE experiments – and then based on his experiments – HIS OWN EXPERIENCE – he comes to the TRUTH of the matter. It is HIS experiences that makes him a REAL MAN – an INDIVIDUAL who never believes but always experiments and enrich his life with experiences.

Belief is disastrous because it closes your MIND – once you believe that ‘Cutting your hair on a certain day is bad’ – then no matter what – you will never cut your hair on that specific day! Now there is NO proof of anything bad happening – but just because you have come to believe – you have simply closed your mind. Now even if Jesus comes – Krishna comes – Buddha comes – Mahavira comes – nobody could convince you – because you have simply closed your mind by BELIEVING that hair should not be cut on a certain day – else GOD will get angry at you!

Now what GOD has to do with what you do with your hair! There are millions and millions of people on this planet and God certainly have much better things to do than to watch who is cutting when!

But people fall for beliefs – and that is how they go on missing the many opportunities that God brings on….

If you have a belief and you come against an experience which the belief says is not possible, or – the experience is such that you have to drop the belief, what are you going to choose – the belief or the experience? The tendency of the mind is to choose the belief, to forgot about the experience. That’s how you have been missing many opportunities when God has knocked at your door. – Osho

There are women who are approached by men who are simply awesome – and yet the women go on rejecting them because they are MANGLIK!

There are men who are approached by beautiful well-cultured women and yet they go on rejecting because they belong to different community and marriage with somebody who is outside the community or caste is ‘believed’ to bring miseries to the family!

So you see – BELIEF plays a major role in people’s life – they are well educated but what they follow is BELIEF and NOT experience and that keeps them away from the TRUTH – from LOVE – from GOD!

A young man was in love. It happens – love happens at the most unexpected moment and you can’t help – you just can’t! You cannot ‘manage’ love – it is not politics!

And so the young man fell in love – and what a beautiful woman she was! Her glow, her smile, her grace – her soft voice, her understanding – the young man could not stop himself from falling in love! He was a meditative man…he was aware that he is falling in love – but still he could not stop himself! Love is very powerful – more powerful than electricity!

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity. – Neem Karoli Baba

And so love blossomed – he fell madly in love with that woman. Love is alchemist – you become what you love! And the woman was a strong believer of astrology! The young man also started believing in astrology. And then one day – something strange happened…..

The young woman came and she said “ We need to break up.”

The man was shocked. He said “What happened? Did I do anything that made you upset? Please tell me – you are breaking my heart…..”

The woman said “ There is nothing wrong with you – in fact I have been dating with you for last 10 months and you have been such a gentleman….”

“Then why are you breaking up?” asked the young man.

And the woman said “ Because my astrologer has said that your HOROSCOPE IS BAD and it is so BAD that it should be thrown away in a dustbin.”

The man fainted. She had to call an ambulance – but that was the only day when she met him – they never met again. Never.

You see – she says ‘you are a gentleman – you have been such a gentleman….all the time we were together…..’ – her EXPERIENCE says that the man is a real gem of a person – but it is HER BELIEF that overshadows the EXPERIENCE – the FACTS!

The man went into a trauma for the next 6 months until he was finally out of it!

It is a MYTH that it is only WOMEN who become victims of LOVE and RELATIONSHIPS – the majority is of MEN who suffer more than the WOMEN! On this planet there are more men – who take pills at night to overcome their breakup trauma and depressions than the women!

BELIEF plays role – a major role and not the experience. You can easily come out of the BELIEF that your HOROSCOPE is BAD – only when you put aside the monkey mind and start turning inwards! Just look inward and you become aware of the TRUTH. Then you don’t ask for beliefs. Blind people believe in light. Those who have turned inward – have the ‘eyes’ and they don’t need to believe in light – they simply see it.

But there was one blind man – who believed that there is NO LIGHT. And he was very good at logic. He was a very logical person – and the villagers were fed up of him because he would argue that to experience light – either he has to FEEL the light – smell the light or touch the light!

Now light has no smell, and you cannot feel the light – neither can you touch the light! And so the blind man would laugh at them and say “ There is no such thing as light – you all are blind like me – and you all are just fooling me – there is no light.”

The villagers had no answer. But one day – Buddha was passing by – and the villagers thought that now the moment has come – only Buddha can answer this blind man – and so they took the blind man to Buddha. They said “ This blind man is a logical man and through his logic he has been denying the fact that there is ‘light’ in this world – now only you can help us – please help us.”

Buddha said “ The blind man is right – and you all are wrong. What he needs is eyes to see and not argumentation. You have come to the wrong person – he needs a physician – take him to a good physician.”

The villagers asked “ Do you know any good physician – because we don’t have anybody in our village who can cure this man’s eyes.”

Buddha said “ You can take him to my personal physician.”

A great King had provided a personal physician to follow Buddha – just so that he can take care of Buddha’s body. And so the blind man was brought to Buddha’s physician and Buddha left the village.

After a few months, the blind man’s eyes were cured. It was not that he had lost his eyes – it was just some severe infection that had brought a certain blindness to his eyes and now his eyes were cured. The blind man was no more blind – his joy knew no bounds – the first thing he did was to ask “ Where is Buddha? where is the man who have given back – my eyes….I want to meet him….please tell me where is Buddha – where is the master…..?

Nobody could give him the address of Buddha because Buddha never lived at one place for more than a month. And so they just showed him the road through which Buddha had walked – that was the only time when they had seen the Buddha walking out of their village! And the man took to the path of Buddha – he searched and searched and he would ask everybody at every village – every town – “did you see my master – did you see the Buddha?” And people would just show him the way…they would say “ That was the road we had seen him walking…..”

For many days and weeks the man searched until one day while walking through a forest – he dropped down, he was thirsty and somebody came from behind and said “ Take some water….you must be thirsty….” and the voice….the voice moved the man’s heart – he remembered the voice, it was of the Buddha – the same conviction – the same depth – the same love – the same care – the man turned around and his eyes were filled with tears – he started crying – he could control himself – looking at the Buddha, he said “ Master……O master I have been searching for you…..look look at my eyes – they are yours – they are a gift of yours – how should I thank you – because of you I got back my eyes and to meet you – to share this joy with you, I have been searching you all this while. “

Buddha said “ Look now, I have come – now you can relax. Whenever my devotee thirsts for me – I come – my legs move towards those who are deeply in love with me – who are thirsty for my love – you relax, now I am with you.”

And the man relaxed – he relaxed so much in the existence that he went into trance – he transcended the moment Buddha touched him with His ‘Presence’ – the man became one of the greatest lover of Buddha and whenever anybody would ask him “What is the reason you love Buddha?

His would answer “Experience.”

Experience matters – not belief. The man experienced the compassion of Buddha. Buddha provided his personal physician to treat the blind man – who would offer his or her personal physician for a complete stranger? But it was Buddha’s compassion – HIS love – HIS grace that moved the blind man – to him – BUDDHA was GODLY – and Godliness is not something that can be proved or disproved by your logic. Godliness is something that only can be EXPERIENCED!

And so before you start BELIEVING that what has been told to you is the TRUTH – my appeal to you and through your question – to all my readers, followers and fellow travelers is that – instead of believing – instead of falling prey to your belief – turn inwards – and EXPERIENCE who you really are by being more and more meditative!

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. – Osho

Once you become a meditative man – you don’t have to rely on what other’s say about you – then there is a certain depth to your life – a certain music to your life – then everything around you is the same but you are no more the same – then the ‘noise’ on the outside remains but the peace within you remains undisturbed by the noise on the outside – then you are truly transforming – then you are in the true sense – PROGRESSING – GROWING – for the real GROWTH is the GROWTH WITHIN!

When your BELIEF drives your life – you become a coward – you become a closed mind – you become fearful – and than this fear compels you to find some SUPPORT to comfort you! The gemstones that you seek is an outcome of the compulsion that is born out of fear!

And the more you go on believing – the more you would destroy all the possibilities to LIVE YOUR LIFE TO FULLEST.

Life begins where fear ends. – Osho

My whole message through this answer to you and to all my readers, followers, and fellow travelers is that FOCUS ON YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES and DROP ALL YOUR BELIEFS – only then a beautiful person within you will evolve – only then there is a possibility for you all to live a joyous, happy life!

And that is what we all are here for! To live a happy life. But it is our ignorance – our beliefs that come in the way and then you wonder “What is wrong with my life?”

Nothing is wrong with your life – if at all there is anything WRONG than it is WITHIN YOU and unless and until you start turning inwards – unless and until you start meditating – you will continue to live your life by relying on others. You will continue to focus on the outside – and you will continue to miss the fact that NOTHING on the outside can be controlled – but only from WITHIN!

Just watch. Someone today is a friend, tomorrow becomes a stranger. Someone today likes you, tomorrow dislikes you. Someone you have been trusting, betrays you someday. You should never rely on that which is on the ‘outside’ – you have absolutely no control on that which is on the ‘outside’ – people change, situations change, life goes on changing, people come and go – and there are many who will come and go…..you just have to Watch – by being a ‘witness’.

“Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness.”

Watch from your inner sky and let the clouds float. Become just a watcher. And remember, clouds will come and go, you can remain indifferent. – Osho

Remain indifferent – remain unmoved – and you will be able to do so – only when you turn inwards – when you meditate.

And so come – come you all and sit down and meditate – what happens when you start meditating – millions and millions of thoughts start creating a lot of noise within you – and while all this happens – what you are suppose to do?

WITNESS. Just WITNESS the many thoughts that come to your mind – you don’t have to entangle your ‘self’ in those thoughts – you don’t have to entertain any of those thoughts – you just have treat all those thoughts as VISITORS – and visitors should not be served with TEA! And so never entertain the thoughts when you meditate – the very base of meditation is the WITNESSING – the more you become a WITNESS – the more you will be able to focus on the SELF without getting distracted by the THOUGHTS. When there are thoughts – it is a distraction – when there are no thoughts – it is meditation says the Bhagavan. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi!

The key is to WITNESS while you meditate! And the same key also enables you overcome the many challenges of material life as well.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. – Ramana Maharshi

Always remember – that nothing is bad and nothing is good – it is your perception that you go on labeling people as good or bad – in reality there is nothing that can be said as good or bad. It is your INTERPRETATION – you see a flower outside your window – and you say ‘How beautiful is this flower.’ – somebody else who is walking on the road looks at the same flower and says “Looks like a boring flower – no colors, plain white.”

Now the flower exists there in its own authenticity. It has nothing to do with what OTHERS have to say about it or saying about it!

Be like that Flower! Be engrossed in your authenticity – and then millions and millions of people may go on INTERPRETING you as GOOD or BAD and yet it will not make any difference to you – you will become a dance – dancing in the breeze – just the way the flowers dance and swing in the breeze!

Be a flower – be a dance – let the belief drop out and let your experience become your guide and then the whole universe will be available to you – then nobody can disturb you – then you no more remain a limited version – you become unlimited – then you start resonating with the higher realms of consciousness – then you get the ‘wings’ to fly – and then there is no looking back – the sky is clear and you are ready to fly.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Sun in 8th House (D9 Chart)

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Rashi Chart is the physical body – yes everything looks good – but whether the body will operate with full potential is something only the D9 chart can foretell.

D9 – helps you to find the real story. The real face! The ‘story’ or the ‘face’ that you see through the Rashi Chart is not the truth – it is just a mask – and masks are not real!

Whole life you are being told to shape your personality – what is personality? It is a mask. And the world wants you to have a strong mask (personality) – nobody wants you to be real – nobody wants you to be yourself! And that is the greatest irony of this fake society – a society who simply want you to ‘fake’ – and not to be REAL!

Nobody wants to be REAL – because REAL has less like than the FAKE. And so everybody is spending thousands just to sharpen the ‘mask’ (personality).

Be aware – Personality can mislead you – and that is what is happening – you fall for the personality and NOT the individuality!

The society fears ‘individuality’ – the society would always want you to be ‘personas’ – because personas are fake and society is all but fake!

Individual intelligence is a danger to society. And so the society would never want you to be an individual – the society is happy as long as you remain a ‘personality’!

The society exists through lies. Personality is fake and it pays by being a fake, it is a good policy. If you are true, you will be in danger. Society exists through lies. Here truth is not respected, here truth is killed. And lies are enthroned. Jesus is crucified, Mohammed is forced to exile from Mecca, Buddha is ridiculed, Mahavira is offended – you see – the truth, the reality is not accepted – the more you are a persona – the more you would be accepted by this fake society. And the more you are an individual – the more you would be rejected.

To be a persona – a personality – it pays, it is economical, it is safe. It is a mask that protects you – otherwise, people will be against you – they cannot tolerate the truth and the D9 chart or the Navamsa is the truth.

Your Rashi Chart or Ascendant Birth Chart is your MASK (Personality) – your D9 Chart is your INDIVIDUALITY! How you look is your Ascendant chart – WHAT YOU ARE? – is your D9 chart and this is of great significance. To all my followers and readers – I insist – study the D9 chart – and you will be able to do so effectively only when you are an INDIVIDUAL and not just a personality!

You are born not to become – let this be very clear. You are born to BE yourself! And this is very deep and this is of great significance. Once there was a Buddhist priest – whole life he spends in becoming Gautama Buddha! And when he is laid on his deathbed – at the very last moment – he starts crying – nobody is able to understand why he is crying? His disciples are taken aback. Somebody steps ahead and asks “Why are you crying, what is it that you miss?”

And the Buddhist priest said “ I missed – I simply missed my whole life. When I will face God – and if he asks “ What have you been?” – I would have no answer. Because my whole life I have tried to become like someone – I never focused on being myself – and when God will say “ I send you to be yourself – if I wanted to have more Gautama Buddhas – I would have created – if I wanted to have more Krishnas – if I wanted to have more Jesus Christs – I would have created – but I created only ONE Gautama Buddha, only ONE Krishna only ONE Jesus Christ, only ONE Muhammed – and only ONE – YOU. – then why you missed to be yourself?” – and then I would have no answer – what a fool I have been – I cannot face God – I cannot face HIM, and so I am crying, I have missed my whole life in becoming and missed to BE.”

And this is what happens with you – when you spend your whole life in trying to become – you become a slave of respectability – you run behind people just to become somebody – and in this mad rush – you simply ignore your ‘individuality’ – you simply miss to be yourself and that is the greatest tragedy of ignorant human life!

“Respectability is slavery. Individuality is dignity.” – Osho

Dignity is self-respect. A man of dignity will walk like a lion and roar like a lion. And that is not ego, it is his intrinsic energy, his intrinsic power.

Navamsa Chart is your INDIVIDUALITY. And your DIGNITY is based on the DEPTH of your INDIVIDUALITY!

When Navamsa chart is strong and well-placed – the native is definitely an ‘individual’ – and is dignified. You are then meeting a man or a woman who has certain higher values – a beautiful person who has the strength of character!

I met a woman. And she was a beautiful woman. And not only beautiful but she talked about so many good things, I almost felt as if she is that classic woman – a woman of values! Then when she shared her birth chart – I could see her D9 chart all messing up – and it turned out to be that this woman had faked many things to people with whom I had certain connections! You see – when the birth chart is perfect – you meet a perfect looking, behaving (outwardly) woman or man – but when you open their D9 chart – you get know what lies behind that beautiful -plastic mask!

And a man or a woman with a weak D9 chart often find many miseries in their life. Because what they show is not what they are! They say something, they do something exactly opposite to what they say – and to be with such a man or woman is certainly dangerous – because often you will be cheated – you will be back-stabbed!

Sun or any planet going in the 8th house of Navamsa is simply a sign of trouble for all matters that are represented by the Sun in your birth chart. It is certainly not a positive sign but since it is in its own sign – it becomes neutral. 8th house is allergic to Sun – and when Sun is in eighth – you generally suffer due to EGOIST nature – you have an inflated EGO – you want to know many things about the occult world, the strange, the unknown – the mystic – here SUN activates the many dark sciences of life – black magic, voodoo, supernatural elements – superstition and so on – whatever house the SUN represents in your birth chart – has some secret elements – some darkness – some tragedy attached to it. But overall any planet going in the 8th Navamasa house is a sensitive placement. It is a myth that Navamasa or the D9 chart is only limited to examining only marriage prospects – the D9 chart has much bigger canvas – a canvas that helps you to discover your true self – the whole world recognizes you as ‘Somebody’ – but what you are beneath this ‘Somebody’ – the question ‘Who am I’ can only be found through deep study of your D9 chart – for that is where the real thing is found. Tune in to the REAL. Tune in to your individuality.

Nobody is superior and nobody is inferior. But nobody is equal either. Every person is unique. You have to find your uniqueness – you have to find the answer to the question ‘Who am I?’

“Who am I?” – No book, no master, no scholar can give you the answer. This is the only answer that you – yourself have to find by *turning inwards* – meditate. And the day you start realizing your ‘self’ – then you don’t have to depend on others opinion about yourself.

“Discover yourself, otherwise, you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.” – Osho

Unless you drop your personality – you won’t be able to find your individuality! Learn to be yourself – a man who focuses on the ‘self’ – sooner or later finds his individuality and then there is no looking back – he sets himself towards a great transformation – a transformation that changes him inside-out!

If you start working towards bringing your individuality to the surface – then no matter how weak is your D9 chart, maybe not this life, but for the many coming lives – your D9 chart would continue to progress – becoming more stronger, positive and powerful. And let me tell – when D9 improves, your birth chart also improves – it is a connection that goes hand in hand – when the energy within you finds harmony – your health also improves – D9 is that energy and Birth chart is your human body – to bring harmony to the energy within you – meditate, look within, turn inwards – for the way towards happiness is only by realizing your ‘self’ – meditate.

No meditation. No Life. Know meditation. Know life.

Meditation is your intrinsic nature. It is you, it is your being, it has nothing to do with your doings. You cannot have it. It cannot be possessed, it is not a thing. It is you. It is your being. AND that is what exactly – Navamsa is! It is your being.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Simple Remedies for Job Success

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There are certain dimensions to this question. First is – finding what exactly is JOB. And second – if there are anything called GOOD or BAD job. And lastly – the remedy.

JOB helps you earn your living – BUT at the same time – this same JOB takes away the most precious TIME that you would want to devote to your family or if you are on SPIRITUAL PATH – then the same JOB takes away most precious TIME that you would want to devote to your spiritual practice……

So JOB is NOT a BOON – if you may ask me. Because apart from feeding you and your family and paying your monthly bills – it does not help much. And this is a very deep subject. So before you jump on conclusions – wait and ponder over my words…..

I have met many people across the world – having not just good jobs BUT GREAT JOBS – but they all are in deep miseries. Because though they keep receiving applauds for their performances and huge salaries – they are NOT happy.

So your thought that a GOOD PAY and a GOOD COMPANY leads to a GOOD LIFE is an ASSUMPTION – an ILLUSION of your MIND – else this question would not have come to your MIND.

I am here to first remove all the illusions and notions and ideas that your MIND is creating within you – so that you first understand that the idea of GOOD JOB is also a myth – because even IF you get a GOOD JOB – how does it help you in becoming happy – a MAN who is dependent on the OUTSIDE factors to experience happiness – is simply set for more miseries than otherwise.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. – Ramana Maharshi

Good Job or Bad Job – if these factors are impacting the quality of your life – then you are still caught in the trap of the MIND! And the MIND will ensure that you become more miserable – because WHEN your WHOLE BEING – your WHOLE EXISTENCE – your WHOLE HAPPINESS becomes dependent on the external factors – than you really are lost – simply lost and my answer is to help you realize the true essence of happiness – because when you ask for GOOD JOB – you are seeking HAPPINESS. SO the question you have asked is a mask – the real question is about seeking happiness.

Have you ever heard of a JOB that brings a lot of beating and yet the one who is doing it – feel immense JOY within – abundance of happiness flowing through his whole being?”

I will tell you one such job – a story of a man who takes a lot of beating, a lot of abuse and yet you will find him in ultimate BLISS!

This man and his name was Hassan. And he must be really ‘mad’…..really means really. He loved birds. He loved animals. And he could not see anyone of them caged. So he took the mission of releasing any animal or any bird that would find in a cage. This mission itself became his JOB. And it was not a easy JOB – because people would beat him, abuse him, but he would always laugh – because when he would see the BIRDS FLY AWAY….all of his bleeding……all of his pain……would matter no more……the JOY within would HEAL all of his body….

One day Hassan was going through a town and he saw many birds….beautiful birds…..and they look so innocent……so lovable……but they all were caught by a man and caged. Hassan opened the cage – because BIRDS ARE MEANT TO FLY! And so opened the cage and all the birds flew away……they all chirped and were so happy that they seem to have found a great friend in Hassan!

But the man who had caged the birds – came out of his house and rushed towards the cage and he was shocked to see the birds flying away from the cage….he said to Hassan “ What have you done – you FOOL?”

Hassan said “ BIRDS are meant to FLY…look how beautiful they see on the wings….”

But the man thought otherwise. He gave Hassan a good beating.

His whole day’s work had been destroyed, and he had been hoping to go to the market and sell the birds, and there were many many things to be done — and now Hassan had destroyed the whole purpose. The man gave Hassan a good beating….but Hassan was laughing……in fact Hassan was enjoying…..he was bleeding….the man was beating him very harshly…..but Hassan….our Hassan was joyous within…….the HAPPINESS OF BIRDS was healing all his wounds……

The man could not beat anymore….he thought this man is really MAD. You see this is how this world is. It is a strange world. The INSANE is thought to be SANE and the SANE – is taken as the INSANE!

When the man was finished with beating – Hassan asked him “ ‘Have you done it, or would you like to do a little more? Are you finished? because now I have to go.’

The man could not answer. What to answer? This man was simply mad!

And Hassan started singing a song. He was very happy — happy that the birds were flying in the sky….that they have been FREED…..that they have found their FREEDOM and he was happy that he was beaten and yet it didn’t hurt, happy that he could receive it as a gift, happy that he could still thank God. There was no complaint. Absolutely no complaint!

So you tell me – what is a GOOD JOB? Not a job that pays wells – but a job that lets you MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIFE OF OTHERS! A JOB that lets you bring SMILE on the face of OTHERS.

The greatest JOB is when you get to LIVE FOR OTHERS.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. – ParamahansaYogananda

And so through your question – I would like all my followers and readers to FIRST understand the real definition of what a GOOD JOB is.

Then we can come to the question of what to do – to get a GOOD JOB!

It is natural that my answer may not go well with those who are behind money, power, fame – because it is their own ASSUMPTION that all of these can lead them to HAPPINESS!

And so my answer is only for my followers – because a common man – cannot follow me – he will be shaken – only souls that are on the path of TRUTH – meditating can understand my answer. So even if my answer remains for a short time – it can help.

Once you self realize – the REAL DEFINITION of GOOD JOB – only then can you understand the next that is to come…..

Once it happened. There was a great Yogi who through his deep UNCONDITIONAL love, compassion changed millions of lives – HIS HOLINESS name was – AKKALKOT SWAMI SAMARATH.

And HE appeared one night in a village near Solapur. His first appearance also holds a beautiful story – he was seen sitting in a garbage……so a Muslim merchant thought to tease him. He said to the Swami “ Do you want to smoke a cigar?”

The Swami smiled. The master can understand what is going on in your Mind because he himself has gone beyond MIND – he is NO MORE the MIND – he is the SELF and the SELF can understand everything within a fraction of second!

And so the Swami smiled and said “ Sure.”

The Muslim Merchant gave Swami one cigar. And then said “ There is no lighter or matchstick – “

The Swami just looked into the eyes of the merchant and the Cigar was lightened and the smoking started!

The Muslim Merchant stood surprised – no lighter was provider – no matchstick and yet the Cigar was burning and the smoke was coming……and now he could see the Swami deeply engrossed in smoking……

The Muslim Merchant fell upon the feet of the Swami. He said “ Please forgive me…..please……….” And he started crying. Swami raised him up and said “ Abdul – I am hungry….now will you keep me starving or take me to your place…..”

The Muslim Merchant was further moved…..because he had never told his name to the Swami. Moved deeply – he said “ Swamiji – I am a Muslim and you seem to be a Hindu – how can I invite you to my home……”

Swami looked into his eyes and said “ Abdul – when did you start making these kind of discrimination?”

Abdul felt embarrassed. So not to make him feel more embarrassed , the Swami said “ Okay then let us go to Bhola’s house.”

Bhola was a known person in the village. Abdul took the Swami to Bhola’s house – Bhola was deeply touched to receive Swamiji. He was very kind man. But now a new question arose in his mind – how to serve the Swami and Abdul together – Hindu and Muslim eating in the same house!!! That was a taboo – going against the norms – against the society…..

But Swami said “ If Abdul will not be served along with me – then I am leaving your house…..”

Such was the heart of this great Yogi – Akkalkot Swami Samarth – I deeply salute and prostrate before His Holiness.

In this village there was a man called Chollapa. And he served Swami his whole life – selflessly. His love for Swamiji is beyond the power of words. Language is really poor. It cannot express the abundance of love that Chollapa had for Akkalkot Swami.

One night – Swami said to Chollapa “ Chollapa – would you like to work for me? Will the job under me will make you happy?”

Now tell me – and I ask not just to the questioner but to you all – What can be as beautiful and as great than to have such a JOB!

PERCEPTION matters. And PERCEPTION is based on the QUALITY OF YOUR THOUGHTS!

And so I would love to see you all – especially my readers and my followers to focus on raising the quality of your thoughts. Remember your thought is shaping your DESTINY. The SHAPE AND FORM of your destiny that you all are experiencing in this life – is the RESULT of the QUALITY of THOUGHTS that you have been producing in your last many births!

No thoughts will go in vain. Each person will get results according to his thoughts. – Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

When Thoughts start PURIFYING – you GET a GOOD JOB. Then you self realize what is GOOD JOB in true sense and then all that is going to HELP you PROGRESS in LIFE – MATERIALLY & SPIRITUALLY – start flowing towards you – and you also start flowing towards the source of goodness and then the melting happens – the peak is attained!

So any remedy that helps you AND I say it to all my followers and readers – any remedy that helps you all to raise the QUALITY OF YOUR THOUGHTS – that help you to PURIFY your MIND – is always going to HELP you get all that is GOOD for YOU. Then why just JOB – house, wife/partner, friend, social circle – everything starts falling into the right place – the starting point is – the quality of your THOUGHTS!

And tell me – what can be the most beautiful remedy than to TURN INWARDS and discover yourself!

Many astrologers will tell you all kinds of remedies – and they all may be good – but what happens is that people do all sort of remedies just the way a ROBOT does. And then they start blaming the astrologers – I did this and I did that and nothing has happened!

How will it happen – when you EXECUTE an ACTION (remedy) just like a ROBOT – it will never. Your action has to happen from the deepest belief and faith in your HEART. HEART is missing – understand this and I say this to all my fellows – HEART is missing – it just goes on missing – what is left is just a ROBOT who goes on following the instructed remedies – but I would love to see you all doing every ACTION – every remedy – not like a ROBOT – but like a human being – by believing in yourself – by loving what you do – by putting all your faith and love in the remedy you do – and if you all ask me than there is absolutely NO REMEDY as BEAUTIFUL and as DIVINE and as LIFE CHANGING than the remedy of devoting your whole self to the art of MEDITATION.

There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. – Osho

Why meditation? Because it is the only DOOR that is open. It is the only DOOR that can help you turn inward. And unless you turn inward – NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE JOB IS – NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF MILLION DOLLARS you are PAID for the JOB – it will make no difference to your self – it cannot help you to raise the QUALITY OF YOUR THOUGHT!

JOB is lost when the QUALITY OF THOUGHT drops.

JOB is gained when the QUALITY OF THOUGHT is raised!

And to raise the quality of thoughts – the only door – the only way – the only path and the only remedy is practicing meditation.

How to practice meditation?

Meditation needs no training. Every human being is spiritual by nature. The only difference is – the spirituality within every individual is NOT ACTIVATED. The moment it is activated – your spiritual journey begins…..and the way to activate it is through meditation – by being more and more prayerful – more and more meditative.

What you need to meditate?

Remaining unoccupied. Remaining AVAILABLE. Remaining EMPTY by dropping all the learning and notions and ideas that you have been collecting all your life in the quest of becoming knowledgeable. The real question is of UNLEARNING much – because unless there is space within your being – how can the TRUTH come to you – how can GOD come to you – how can LOVE come to you!

Remedies are in millions – but those all are ACTIONS devoted to external factors. I am encouraging you and all my followers and readers and fellow travelers to DEVOTE your time and energy to all that is within you – your being.

A times comes in the most evolved soul’s life – when the only KARMA that remains is ‘meditation’! The only Karma that remains is of experiencing love within – experiencing joy within and then spreading this joy – this happiness to all those who connect – to all those who follow – who resonate! And to me – there is NOTHING AS GREAT AS THIS WONDERFUL ‘JOB” – the JOB that lets you make a difference in the life of others!

Let us all move towards such a beautiful JOB – a JOB – a mission – a purpose that helps us to make this world a much more beautiful place for those who are yet to arrive!

It all comes to the Thoughts. What you read. Whom you follow. What you believe. It all goes on influencing – shaping the quality of your thoughts.

NAAMSMARAN. (Taking the holy name of the Lord) is one of the best means to improve the quality of your thoughts.

When your thoughts are positive – of unconditional love – of serving others selflessly – then as your TIME changes – PLANETARY transits changes – the right JOB comes to you and it comes uninvited – it comes all of sudden – it comes when you would have not expected it to come!

When a person thinks that everything is going wrong, something wonderful happens in his life. – Dalai Lama

Something wonderful always happens in our life. The conscious being realize it – value it and just feel grateful for it. And so the real question is how much of our life we are living with consciousness – when consciousness prevails in our life – then even a BAD JOB becomes a learning experience for us – and that learning helps us to evolve into a much matured human being.

Always remember there is no such thing as GOOD JOB and BAD JOB – it all depends on how your are – what you are from within – if you are conscious within – then no matter how and what the job is – you will survive and excel – and if there is absolutely no effort to live with consciousness then no matter how GOOD the job is – you will continue to suffer. Because SUFFERING is of the MIND and not of the SELF.

And so it is necessary that meditation penetrates deeply into our life – that we no more spend our time in Meditating – rather we become Meditation!

I would like you to become so Capable that you can remain in the marketplace and yet meditative. I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships – because they enrich – and yet remain capable of closing your doors and sometimes having a holiday from all relationship… so that you can relate with your own being also. – Osho

To all those who are JOBLESS – I appeal – focus on raising the QUALITY OF YOUR THOUGHTS. Follow the astrologer who suggests you a certain remedy – donating, feeding, worshiping – no matter what kind of remedy it is – all remedies are good for you to scale up the quality of your thoughts – BUT ONLY WHEN YOU DO IT FROM YOUR HEART and NOT like a robot.

And the Job will come – then you will also learn to appreciate life in totality – then you will also learn to show GRATITUDE and when all of this comes in your life – when you introduce all of these virtues into your being – then SUCCESS has to come – how long can it dodge you – it has to come – it is going to come – the question is – How much you are devoting yourself towards FIRST TRANSFORMING yourself – CHANGING yourself – because it is only when you change yourself that you can SEE THE CHANGE THAT YOU DESIRE!

And there is no science – no art – no miracle than the miracle of meditation followed with positive karma (feeding, donating, helping others selflessly) that can work wonders in your life. And this *is* the only remedy – the only way that bring PATIENCE to your being – FAITH to your being and when you have abundance of PATIENCE and FAITH – can anything go wrong in your life?

Whole life – Sai Baba spend in emphasizing on the immense importance of having FAITH and PATIENCE. These two qualities are the supreme attributes that can help any man or any woman to attain all that they seek.

All that Sai seeks from you all is SHRADDHA (FAITH) and SABURI (PATIENCE) – and these highest qualities can only come when you start turning inwards – when you start taming the monkey mind – because the MIND is always restless – impatient – when you start focusing on doing GOOD to others – and lastly when you self-realize that there are NO OTHERS!

Questioner: How should we treat others?
Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.

When CONSCIOUSNESS expands within your being – GOODNESS starts flowering within you – and when you become GOOD – GOOD JOB and all those GOOD THINGS that you have been seeking – starts flowing towards you!

It is all interconnected – it is all LINKED-IN.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Powerful Nakshatra in Scorpio

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Before finding out the most powerful star in Scorpio zodiac let us first understand the most mysterious sign – Scorpio!

The sign – Scorpio is in itself a very powerful zodiac sign. No other zodiac sign goes as deep as the sign of Scorpio! Scorpio is the 8th zodiac sign and the 8th house is the house of depth. 8th house is the house of understanding – the greater the 8th house – the greater is the quality of understanding!

A Scorpio friend is quick to ‘understand’ you and your problems. And only a man who is understanding can truly bring happiness in your life. Only a man of understanding can run to help you in your crisis – in your difficult times! Only a man of deep understanding can live for others! Such is the depth of a true Scorpion.

A scorpion lives for others – when he is in love with others. A scorpion soldier may simply jump to save his country – he loves his country! A scorpion lover would simply go to any extent – just to safeguard his love – he loves deeply his girlfriend. A scorpion man would always deeply love his life!

And a scorpion man or women are also very sexual by nature! But their sexual drive is very deep – it is not like Aries – that you ‘Just do it’ – it is very much engrossed with deep emotions of love, of belonging – and so when they love – they simply love!

As long as the scorpion is in love – he would simply love you – breaking all the barriers – all the notions – he would simply go to the extremes! Yes – Scorpio is the sign of extremes – you either will see the RAJ of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenga (DDLJ) or you would either see the KARAN of the movie Darr!

And since people are quick to remember the negative, often the Scorpions have to face more condemnation than appreciation!

Now such a highly vulnerable zodiac sign – and you are asking which star is most powerful? For a highly investigative, deep zodiac sign – highly passionate zodiac sign which planet is more of a help? – Of course – MERCURY! And with the zodiac of SCORPIO – there is only one star – JYESHTA – the name Jyeshta itself means ‘Elder or Superior’ and Jyeshta is ruled by the planet Mercury!

The answer to your question is found in the name of the Star itself! The name is Jyeshta – (Superior, elder, powerful)!

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

When Navamsha Chart Activates

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Swaroop.

D9 chart is your real self. It is your Swa-roop (Swa – self. Roop ‘THE Real YOU’)

The whole world may condemn you – because they can only see your physical state – they cannot see the ‘Real You’ – the one that is hidden – the one that is real you! For that they first have to reach the stage of realizing their ‘self’!

There was a young man. And soon he lost his wife, his daughter, and son. Then a day came when he also lost his home. The landlord threw him out on the streets with his luggage. It was a small village. The man took to drinking. Soon he became a drunkard. Whenever he would pass the narrow lanes of the village with a ‘bottle’ in his hand, people would move aside – as if he was untouchable – they would keep distance – they would make fun of him. They condemned him. They hated him. And the man would simply keep walking with a bottle in hand. His clothes were dirty, for many days he may not even have had a good bath, he just used his small amount of saved money for drinking alcohol and he drank to his heart…..and life continued. The villagers had plans to throw him out of the village but they could not – who wants trouble? Law of the land would not let them do so. So they simply continued to make fun, ridicule this man, often they would beat him, the man would bleed…..but nobody would care to come closer to him, they would just leave him bleeding, and the young man with his tearful eyes would see all that was happening to him, smile and would simply continue to live his life……without any complaints, without any resentment.

Then one day something strange happened, it was monsoon season and rains started and it rained so heavily and it just continued – the rains would not stop, the village was flooded with water…..the women, the children, the cattle – they all were trapped…and many were dying, many were about to die……the whole village was in havoc…..but the rains won’t stop.

And it rained heavily continuously for 5 days….and the villagers started praying, the head of the village arranged for prayers…the whole village gathered to offer prayers, for the mercy of God – but still the rains won’t stop…..the voice of crying, the yelling, the screaming was unbearable…..the young man who was always beaten, ridiculed, was, as usual, walking through the muddy lanes of the village and the screaming the crying the voice of suffering reached his heart and for that moment his heart moved….something happened within his being and for the first time his eyes were filled with tears…..unable to bear the suffering of his villagers….he looked up in the sky and with folded hands he prayed, he said: “God I beg you – please stop the rains…..I will give up drinking if you listen to my prayers……”

And it is said …….God listened to this man’s prayers. God said that if something good is going to happen, and if this man is promising to give up on drinking alcohol then let me listen to his prayers and that very moment the rains stopped!

Just one word from your heart just one word that comes from your SWAROOP – real self – and the word is heard, the prayers are answered!

If you take one step towards God then God will take one hundred steps towards you!

With one call from the very inner core of your being can move God than your 1000 words prayers!

This inner core is your D9 chart. Your Swaroop – the real you! Whenever anything that comes, springs from your inner being – it always vibrates with the universe, with the outside world!

The young man gave up on drinking alcohol. And soon he became the greatest lover of God that the world had ever known!

The villagers realized their mistake. They all came to say sorry and also to thank the young man to whom they had been condemning for so many months….they said “It was you who prayed for us and God listened to your prayers. We mistreated you, condemned you and did so many terrible things on you and yet your heart moved for our daughters and mothers, for our sisters and our wives…you saved us….from now onwards we will not trouble you anymore…we will offer you a new house…a job and anything that you would wish for and we can provide you…..”

The young man smiled and said “Now these four walls that you are offering me cannot contain me anymore…..now I am set on the greatest journey of my life…and the journey is with God…I cannot stay in this village anymore. The call from the heavens have come and I should follow HIS footsteps….”

And the young man set out on his spiritual journey……whenever he would meet people he would always share his own life story that – “If with just one word that comes from your heart – God can do this miracle than imagine how much God can do – if you give your whole life to HIM! If you surrender to HIS WILL in totality?”

But people are shallow. They say many things but they do exactly the opposite of what they say! There is absolutely no sync in what people think, say and do – and therefore miseries are more and happiness is less.

The young man in his prayers would always say:

“In the ‘pursuit of desire,’ people become drunkards. But in your ‘Love’ I have become a prayerful man.”

A totally condemned man, a totally rejected man – is accepted, is loved in the Kingdom of God – by God – simply because he has it – that the others don’t!

What does he have? And that is what is his D9 chart – his real self – his SWAROOP!

The water of the flowing river is sweet and pure. What you see is the DUST layer on it because it is ‘raining’ (karmic dues). You SEE the Layer of dust, the pattern of dust ( Ascendant chart) but to see the real pure water…..to see the true self of the flowing river…you have to go to its depth and that is where is your D9 chart or Navamsha chart!

Whether the water beneath the layer of dust is sweet or sour. Is poison or nectar, is good or bad is found only through the D9 chart.

There was one beautiful girl. And a young man fell in love with her. Somehow he found her birth details and requested for my guidance.

I said to him “ This girl will make your life miserable. Drop the idea of getting yourself involved with her and find someone else.”

But beauty is very distracting. The girl was so beautiful that the young lad could not help himself…he went ahead and then began the sweet story of “I love you” and “ You love me”…and after many days, one night I received a call from this young lad…and he said, “ Help me….”

I said what happened…and the boy said “ The girl has abandoned me – cheated me and now I am all stuck….don’t know what to do…don’t know where to go….”

This Girl had the worst D9 chart….with major planets falling in debilitated placements and Venus with Rahu in D9 chart! Moon with Mars, Shani and Sun – horrible mentality. And many such aspects where the “ water” (D9) beneath the layer (Ascendant) is not nectar but pure poison!

Then the next day the young lad came. He looked so weak, so pale. When I had met him, he was so fresh, lively and flowing like a river! But now he was all fade out. He said “ I should have listened to your advice. But I became blind in her beauty and the result you see what has happened to me.”

I said “ Mohan, in life never fall what appears to your eyes. When you SEE…you SEE through the Mind and the Mind cannot ‘see’ what lies beneath the appearance which your self can see.”

The young lad – Mohan said “I want to come out of this mess….please help. I can follow your advice. Please help me…”

I said “ Do one thing. Every day you write to me about what you did from morning to evening. All your daily activities- just draft it down and email me every night before the day ends. And be sure it should be in details.”

Mohan agreed.

Then for the next 10 days, Mohan would write a detailed mail of all his activities and send it to me.

“ Today I got up at 6 Am. Then I did this and that and then I went to college then I did this and then I had a new classmate and so on and on….”

And everyday details of his routine would come to me through his own expressions….

And on the eleventh day, I called him and asked:

“ How are you doing now…”

And his lost voice was back! The old depressed Mohan was gone and a new Mohan was born. He said “ I am feeling so good….. every day I am focused on what I am doing NOW…and it is so good…so beautiful to be in this NOW moment and because I have to write to you about my daily routine– I remain more conscious of every activity that I am doing….I am living now…..and I am so thankful to you.”

Life is all about ‘ING’….PRESENT TENSE!

Mohan found his life back. In the pursuit to share his daily activity with me….slowly he became focused on the NOW moment…..and when you are able to BE HERE NOW – then where is the question of any misery or any worry or any sadness? You are simply happy to BE – yourself and to BE – in this Now moment!

I was happy to see a young talented lad like Mohan getting back to his real self. Laughing…singing..dancing to his heart!

After many years, one day I received a call and it was Mohan. And Mohan said, “ I have got married and now a father of two kids.”

A young lad who was all pale and sad for being ditched by a beautiful girl was now living a happy married life – what else more is required! It just made my day!

The key is NOT to fall for APPEARANCE but to realize what lies beneath. And the way to get hold of this Key is to move beyond your mind and come closer to your self by trying to BE HERE NOW.

Life is flowing at this moment – if you miss the moment – you go on missing life…the height of your success depends on how much you are able to BE HERE NOW.

Meditation is possible only when you are living your life by focusing 100% on the present moment…the NOW MOMENT! When your MIND is able to BE HERE NOW….meditation is possible.

The water beneath the layer is always active. You cannot say that the water is not active and it will become active at a certain stage. The water beneath the layer of dust is always active – right from its point of evolution.

Similarly, the D9 chart (water) is active right from the beginning of your birth stage to your death stage. And also beyond that!

D9 is the blueprint of the quality of your self. To raise the quality of the self – a balance of good karma and the effort to realize your ‘self’ by being more and more meditative is necessary!

Based on your present life karma, the D9 chart does not change in your next birth. Because the D9 chart is of the higher realms. And so unless you put efforts to explore the higher realms of your Consciousness – the D9 chart and its nature remain as is.

The core ‘PATTERN’ is in the D9. The ‘DESIGN’ may keep changing every birth after birth – but as long as the PATTERN remains as is – how can you say that growth has happened, or progress of your ‘self’ has happened?

And it is only the divine intervention of the compassionate master that can help you all to change the repeating pattern of your life afterlife!

But the master comes – only when you are ‘ready’!

This readiness is your ability to surrender yourself in totality to HIS will.

People do everything, they will run from this temple to that temple, from this pundit to that pundit, but when it comes to surrendering – a very few can do so in reality!

Maybe that is one reason why Krishna loved Arjuna! And he loved him so much that it is beyond the power of expression! And why he would not love him – Arjuna had truly surrendered to his master – Krishna, in totality!

On the battlefield of Mahabharat war – Krishna says to Arjuna “Get up and shoot your arrow on that old man standing before you – shoot him, he is standing against TRUTH”

And the old man was Pitashree Bhishma – the man who loved Arjuna. And Arjuna too loved Bhishma – but with just one word of the master – Arjuna gets up and shoots Bhishma with his arrow – only a man who has surrendered in totality to his master can do such a thing – great courage is required and it comes only when you TRUST the word of your master – when you have totally surrendered to your master!

Throughout this human life, I have met people from all walks of life – and I have absolutely no hesitation to say that it is the most common man, the poor who is able to surrender much easily, much faster than your so-called white-collar man.

The poor have more of heart and less of the head. Your so-called rich men are trapped in their heads/logic – intellectuality, too much of learning. It is difficult for them to jump…..into the unknown….they will ask questions, raise doubts, debate but someone like Peter, the fisherman, an illiterate poor man can jump and he does jumps – leaves everything, drops everything with just one call from Jesus “Follow Me”!

And it is this Peter who goes on to become the greatest Saint of Christian Faith that the world had ever known!

Peter, the fisherman was poor – but in Jesus’s dictionary – Peter was the richest man that the world would have ever known!

The definition of the word POOR is very different in what you see in your dictionary and what is in God’s dictionary!

God calls a man rich who has become absolutely frustrated with the world, who has known all that it can give and has come to know that it is illusory. He has become aware of his ‘inner poverty’. Such a man says “No richness of the world can fulfill my hungry heart; nothing that I can possess can ever bring contentment to me. My poverty remains untouched by my riches.”

God calls such a man – a rich man. It has nothing to do with his money – it has more to do with the ‘SELF-REALIZATION of his inner poverty’! Such a man than whether he has millions in his bank account or he has just a penny in his bank account – such a man is RICH in God’s dictionary! Someone who has self-realized that Money, Wealth, Property, Fame is NOT the answer to the real question – the question of finding eternal joy, peace, and bliss!

Understand the fact that when Jesus says “Blessed are the poor because theirs is the kingdom of God.” – Jesus is referring to those who have self-realized their ‘inner poverty’ – it has nothing to do with the bank balance – it has more to do with the realization of your ‘inner poverty’ – a stage in your life when you realize that all of these cars, bungalows, properties – all of these pleasures of SEX, glory of fame, and power of money is NOT helping – and you have come to the point of cul-de-sac – where you have finally realized that in spite of having all of these – you cannot experience *that* happiness, joy, and bliss! Such a man is ‘poor’ and yet rich in Jesus’s dictionary, in God’s dictionary!

And then there are those who label themselves as RICH and yet they are the poorest fellows. These so-called RICH fellows exist in two types. The first – who has a lot of money and yet they want more and more and more. GREED never stops. And the second type is someone who is yet to taste the luster of money, cars, bungalows, sexual pleasures and so on.

Similarly, there are two types of poor men – one who has absolutely nothing and yet with his own self-realization – his own intelligence – he has become aware of the futility of this material world. And there is the other type of poor man – who has millions of dollars or rupees in his bank account and yet have realized that this all of the money, fame, and pleasures of this material world cannot help in true sense – it may serve the purpose of existing – but does not serve the higher purpose of life.

When Jesus says the “Blessed are the poor” – He is referring to those who have realized their ‘inner poverty’ – understand this, this is of great significance!

Jesus, therefore, had 12 Apostles whose financial state varied – Peter, the fisherman was financially poor – but Mathew, the TAX Collecter was financially rich – and yet if you ask Jesus – both were POOR – because when Jesus says POOR – it has less to do with the money factor – it has more to do with the self-realization of your ‘inner poverty’! And Mathew, the tax collector realized this inner poverty the moment he met Jesus – and Jesus just says two words – FOLLOW ME….and something moves within Mathew’s heart – his consciousness is called for and Mathew drops everything and starts following the richest man – Jesus Christ – a man who had no possessions, absolutely nothing! And yet there was nobody as RICH as JESUS – Mathew self-realized it at the very first glimpse of Jesus and then no questions were asked, no doubts were raised – no intellectuality was showcased – no debate – but total SURRENDER!

And that is why – in the very beginning I mentioned that only a POOR can SURRENDER. This poverty has nothing do with the status of your bank account – it has more to do with the status of your self-realization! The higher the self-realization, the poorer you would feel within – and then the journey begins – the journey beyond! And therefore Jesus says “Blessed are the POOR”!

Only a POOR can surrender. And Surrender is the GATE! It is the only GATE that can help you trespass the many miseries of your life – the question is are you willing to surrender in totality to your Lord?

Then no matter how your D9 chart is – you always can raise the bar of your D9 chart – only if you are willing to take that one courageous step – the step to surrender in totality!

The question should not be – when the D9 chart is activated because it is activated right from your birth time, the real question should be how to raise the quality of your D9 chart – and so in the larger interest of my followers and readers, this answer has come!

Only a man – only a woman who is following the heart – can surrender! The Heart can surrender – the MIND cannot.

The MIND is the hurdle between YOU and all that is DIVINE, BEAUTIFUL and JOYFUL!

The whole purpose of meditation is to overcome this monkey mind. But to do so – first you have to catch hold of your MIND and bring it to the present moment and then let it settle down – while you focus on your breathing – breath in, breath out – let the thoughts come and go – treat these thoughts as visitors – and don’t serve them tea! Don’t entertain the thoughts, just remain focused on one thought – the thought of your Lord – the holy name of your Lord!

“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.”

Just one name – one thought of the Lord – then whether that name is of Krishna, Rama, Ganesha, Vishnu, Shankar – that does not matter as long as you remain focused and meditate on anyone name – it is fine. The success of your meditation and when I say ‘your’ – it is meant for all my followers and readers – the success of your meditation is solely based on how much you focus on one thought (the holy name of your Lord)!

Ananda was very close to Gautama Buddha. He followed Buddha for almost 20 years! And yet Ananda had one problem – he could not meditate – whenever he would sit to meditate – many thoughts would come to his mind and then there would be havoc and meditation would become impossible! For many days he had been trying to find an answer to this problem….

One day they were walking through the forest. Ananda was following Buddha and after a while, Buddha turned around and said: “ I am very thirsty – could you please fetch me some water?”

Ananda said, “ Master, you rest under this tree, I will go back and get some water from the river.”

The river was a few miles away. By the time Ananda reached, it started raining heavily – the river was flooded with dust on its surface – Ananda thought that it would not be good to get water from the river as there was a thick layer of dust on its surface – and so he goes back to Buddha and says “ Master – the river is dusty – there is a layer of dust on its surface, how can I fetch you water…..”

Buddha says “ Doesn’t matter. You please go back and wait until you get clean water for me.”

Ananda goes back to the same river, it is still raining, there is a thick layer of dust on the river surface – but ANANDA is a devoted disciple – he loves Buddha, he cannot see his master in this state – he is determined to collect clean water and satisfy his master’s thirst. And so he waits, and he waits and he waits and after a long time – the rains stop, the thick layer of dust starts settling down……and soon he could see the pure clean water flowing through the river…..

Ananda takes the clean water of the river to his master – Gautama Buddha.

And the moment he offers water to Buddha, Ananda starts crying, tears start flowing through his eyes…..looking into the master’s eyes – Ananda says “ How can I thank you – even if I pour out my whole heart to you – still how can I thank you….you have given me the answer that I have been seeking my whole life. I now understand that this request to bring water for you was just an excuse – to help me find my answer. I have got my answer – just the way I witnessed without involving myself in removing or touching the layer of dust – without giving much importance to the layer of that dust – similarly – when I sit for meditation – I should simply WITNESS the layer of thoughts and not entertain them – with time – these layer of thoughts will settle down on its own and then I can experience the ‘Self’ – just the way I experienced the flowing clean water of that river!”

Buddha said “Ananda, today you have realized the significance of WITNESSING – just witness, and all the ‘dust’ – all that is irrelevant will settle down on its own! You just be a witness and that’s all.”

Stay at the seashore – and just ‘witness’ the many high tides and low tides of the ocean (life). Do not go an jump in the ocean – that is how you get drowned, that is how you make your life miserable by getting entangled with all that is happening in and around your life!

So just stay on the seashore and WITNESS. This one small word – if you all can understand – and relate and make the center point of your existence then and only then you can rise above all your miseries – then only you can go beyond all your problems!

Problems exist as long as the mind exists – as long as you remain trapped in the prison of your mind! The moment you move beyond Mind – witnessing becomes possible – then you can meditate, then you can experience a glimpse of the beyond – in that state of NO MIND – you can experience the divine.

Your D9 can only upscale in its entirety when you rise above your mind! And nobody is going to tell you all this – because no books have it – it is not written in any scriptures and yet I am telling you all – if you can relate, you can progress, you can experience something that is far beautiful than what you have been trapped into!

The higher realms of life, the real you, the SWAROOP is only to be found through the state of your D9!

Since the subject is of SWAROOP (D9) – how can I miss to mention the divine Saint – Swami Swaroopanand of Pawas!

A beautiful real picture of Swami in a deep meditative state.

The story of this great Saint is truly fascinating. He was born in a very rich family. They were landlords. And he grew up just like any other boy would. He went to Mumbai for his higher studies and then joined the freedom struggle movement against the Britishers. He was the hero of those times, and life was going on….when one fine day – he fell sick – and it was so severe that he had to return back to his village – Pawas. And it is here that a new story began – the story of transformation, the stage to which Jesus addresses as ‘Reborn’!

After going through many months and years of severe sickness – the young man took to meditation – and he dedicated his whole life to this one purpose – the purpose to know your ‘self’ – self-realization!

And a day came in his life – when the moon became full when meditation came to its ultimate state! When the enlightenment, the ultimate state of consciousness was experienced – and from that day onwards – a new man was born – a new Saint was born – the enlightened Swami Swaroopanand!

People experienced many miracles through his divine blessings. He wrote one of the most beautiful books on Bhagavad Geeta. Today, a beautiful SAMADHI TEMPLE of HIS stands tall in the beautiful village of Pawas! Swamiji took SAMADHI in his village itself, today the whole village is known for his Samadhi Temple!

A beautiful real picture of Swami Swaroopananda Samadhi.

The Government of India recently released a postage stamp ticket in his remembrance:

Swamiji spent his whole life in emphasizing on the significance of meditating on the Lord’s holy name.

The first thing that should be as a foundation for your whole life is – the Art of Meditation.

Meditation is the only science that can transform you into a new person! Then you can understand D9, then you can understand and vibrate with all charts – why just D9!

So come, come you all – let us spend some time in deep meditation. The karmic cycle always remains – as long as this physical body exists – the shadow of our KARMA is always going to be there! So don’t get lost in this shadow (Rahu) – come out of this shadow – by getting to the stage of WITNESSING! The more you detach yourself, the more you can be a Witness. Buddha through his deep compassion share with Ananda – the beauty of witnessing.

A real-life can be built only on the eternal rock of WITNESSING!

Sometimes, marriage is not happening, sometimes, a good job is not coming on your way, sometimes, the marriage is not working out well and there are many such instances that almost everybody have experienced in this life or the lives before this life! Buddha is encouraging us all to remain rooted within and simply WITNESS all that is happening before your eyes – without getting entangled, without getting attached – life is like a flowing river – always REMEMBER – nothing lasts forever – not good times and not even bad times!

Change is constant. Except for Change, everything else changes! My heart moves when I read the many emails that you all send me with all your pain and sufferings, but you all have to be patient, you all have to be faithful.

PATIENCE and Being FAITHFUL are the two greatest qualities that can help you overcome the greatest hurdle of your life – and I say it without any doubt, without absolute NO DOUBT!

Sai Baba wants only these two things from you – and if you can give it – then let me tell you – there is nobody as beautiful, as courageous and as intelligent as you!

Tomorrow – Navratri begins! The Nine days of fasting begins. The singing, the dancing, the celebration of love begins. Without the presence of the woman – this material world would not have evolved! The woman is at the very core of this human world. She is the Provider! A woman is a provider – nobody can understand love as much as a woman can! A man may say “I think, I love you” but a woman will simply say “ I love you”!

The core of existence is a woman. Even to our planet – we address as Mother Earth!

The universe is Mother. Feminine. It is never closed. The universe is never closed. It is always open – the door is not locked. All you have to do is ‘knock’ and the door will open…all you have to do is take that first step towards love – and the universe will take one thousand step towards you! A woman waits, she is never going to step ahead and say “I love you.” – She will wait, her love is expressed through her unconditional waiting. She will wait and wait and wait – and the moment you step ahead with love, with devotion – you will realize that your love is nothing – before her infinite love! The universe responds the deity responds, the Goddess responds – but understand that she responds – she never initiates!

It is YOU all – who have to initiate – and then you will be showered with her infinite love and blessings.

Prosperity comes only when you learn to respect the woman. Love is not ready-made, it comes only through your own action, your own initiative.

As we all begin with the celebrations of the Navratri festival, let us offer unconditional love at Her holy feet and let us all celebrate the divinity in feminity with utmost love and devotion.

Always remember – no matter how difficult is your life, no matter how many challenges you may be facing, no matter how many hurdles are on your way – always celebrate life – because life is all about moments – if you are not here – at this moment – and if you are thinking about the future or the past – then you simply go on missing life – missing all the celebrations that life is made of!

And so celebrate life – and you will be able to celebrate life only when you are able to BE HERE NOW – only when you have realized the higher realms of life which in turn is your D9 chart – it is there, it is always there – there is absolutely no need to wait for its activation – because it is always in active mode – the real question is – whether you are able to consciously relate to your ‘self’ which is your D9 chart – and the way to do so – to relate is only through meditation, deep meditation.

Once you get into the cycle of daily meditation, once you start turning inwards, once you are on the journey towards the beyond – then the celebration begins. Then every moment is a celebration, then life is no more just lived, but also celebrated!

Come, you all, the beautiful moment has once again arrived – the Navratri festival! Come and rejoice in HER love, in HER devotion – dance to your heart, sing to your heart – let there be no suppression of your feeling. Suppression is suicide, Expression is life! Let there be more expression to your life.

Life is for those – who know how to celebrate.

Let there be more ‘life’ to your existence. Let there be a dance, a song, music to your life. On the beautiful occasion of Navratri festival – keep all your worries aside and rejoice in HER omnipresence. The way to live a stress-free life is to celebrate life with all its shades and colors! And you will be able to do so when you learn to live your life in total Acceptance.

Celebrate life. Let the celebrations begin.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Love or Marriage: Karma?

By Acharya Addittya Tamhankar 0 Comments

Sex and Love are two polarities. When there is LOVE there is no idea of sexuality. When there is SEX there is no feeling of Love.

Sexuality is just animal, biological. It can be beautiful if it is part of a deeper love, but if it is NOT part of a deeper love it is the most ugly thing possible; the ugliest. – Osho

This is deep but before we dive in let us first revisit the basics.

The ancient Sanskrit Scriptures mentions a very beautiful verse – अहं ब्रह्मास्मि – ‘Aham Bramhasmi’ meaning I am the Universe.

In simple words – the whole universe is within me.

One of the greatest Sufi Saint – Rumi also relates to the shared TRUTH of our Sanskrit scriptures – when he quotes:

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. – Rumi

So it is natural that all the planets and stars and the energies that they vibrate – is also within us – within each of us.

So all kinds of energies that are on the outside – Divine, Pleasure seeking, Harmful – all kind of energies are within us – there is nothing on the outside – it is all an inside game!

There is no outside of you. It’s all an inside game. – Adyashanti

And so it is necessary to first understand where and how exactly the energies of certain planets operate within our body.

Since the question is about sex and love, let us first understand how the whole sexual act manifests through the play of planetary energies.

MARS operates through the sexual organ.

A young man once asked “But from where does the sexual urge comes and how it comes?”

It is a deep question. Have you all anytime questioned yourself – from where does the sexual urge comes? Only if you are living with consciousness than such a deep question can arise within your being!

The sexual urge comes from the MIND. The MIND sends the ‘signal’ to the BRAIN. The BRAIN functions and processes the signal to your sexual organ and than the actual sexual act executes – and it all happens within a fraction of seconds.

MIND – MOON

BRAIN – MERCURY

SEXUAL ORGANS ACTIVATED – MARS.

So for just one action to complete – three planetsare in play – but yet the action is not complete – it completes only when VENUS comes in play and where is VENUS?

VENUS is in your SPERM (if you are a Male) and VENUS is directly related to you fertility and periods (if you are a FEMALE).

So you see just for one complete act of sex whose goal may be to attain sexual pleasure or along with pleasure attain pregnancy – whatever may be the goal, but 4 major planets energies are required – so the point is that no single planet can deliver a certain result. It always takes a whole combination of planets to deliver – to deliver a certain result.

Manifestation of your wishes is possible with COLLECTIVE energies of specific planets.

MIND is by nature sexual – BHOGI.

A YOGI lives in the state of NO MIND. So the question of SEX never arise in his being! As long as you are enslaved by your MIND – as long as you remain a slave of your MIND – you remain in the trap of sexual desires – the moment you slip out of MIND – you experience LOVE – pure love – with absolute no idea or thoughts of SEX!

My newly published book – NO MIND is now available worldwide on Amazon sites and it specifically emphasis on the futility of MIND and how life can become a garden of bliss the moment you take efforts to reach from MIND to the state of NO MIND.

You all can avail a copy for yourself. I am certain that to insightful individuals, this book will prove to be a great motivator. The book is now available on Amazon and Flipkart.

People want children. They want to become father and mother. But they miss to understand that just having a good fifth house or bad fifth house lordship does not conclude.

For that the whole picture has to be seen in TOTALITY.

When a childless couple tries to have children they fail miserably. The focus is on having sex – just sex. Love is missing!

Understand this. This is deep. You can either LOVE or either have SEX. LOVE and SEX cannot go hand in hand – LOVE is of the heart. SEX is of the MIND. When you are deeply in love – you just penetrate – two bodies become one – at that moment there is absolutely NO IDEA of having sex – it is just like two flames merging with each other!

The idea of sex is of the MIND. The feeling of love is of the HEART.

No idea of sex in the mind and you can make love to a woman, and the woman can make love to you not thinking of sex at all. The whole point is where your mind is. If you are thinking of sex, if your mind is obsessed with sex, you simply want to use the woman, the woman simply wants to use you, it is ugly. – Osho

SEX is not a problem – not even a question – when there is love. You don’t even realize the fact that you are doing SEX – because there is LOVE!

But when there is just the goal of having SEX – suddenly you become alert – now the question of ‘performance’ comes – now the question of ‘duration’ comes – now many questions arise which would never arise when you are deeply in love – when in love all the actions happen on its own – naturally – the MIND has absolutely NO ROLE to play – the HEART is in action and the HEART knows nothing of ‘techniques’ or ‘duration’ – it just goes on and on – until the highest peak of ‘sexual bliss’ is attained!

You can make love when you are in love – and when you are in love there is absolutely no idea of sex in the mind – you just attain to highest peak of sexual bliss – orgasm – without putting any special efforts – any special techniques!

SEX is NOT the function of the HEAD. Understand this. But when SEX enters in through the head it becomes sexuality. Then you THINK about sex, then you fantasize about sex. And then you have lost yourself – because now you are not living in the REAL world – you are lost in your MIND – and the MIND makes sure that you become more miserable than you already are!

LOVE and SEX are two polarities. Love can liberate you from SEX – but it is a long journey and the most wonderful journey you will ever be on!

A young man married a handicapped woman. They never had much of sex, but that never made them fall apart – because the depth of LOVE was so much – that SEX was not at all a question in their life!

LOVE can liberate you from SEX.

When love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love and absence from physical pleasures is called celibacy (brahmacharya), and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through suppression. Liberation from sex is only possible through Love. – Osho

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy.

We all have sex energy within us – this energy is of MARS. All men and all women who attained the highest state of spiritual enlightenment had sex energy within them – but than what did they do with it – they transformed this sexual energy into the highest spiritual energy. But how did they do it?

And the answer is in simple words. These great men and women did not FIGHT against their sex energy – they did NOT repress or suppressed it – they did NOT try to condemn it – instead they tried to understand it – the way of its working – from where does it come – why it comes and how it can be transformed.

The word is ‘UNDERSTAND’ – and how can you understand – only when you don’t hate this energy that is in its lower form – rather you accept it, and then you transform this energy into – higher love.

The meditative person can transform his sexuality without any antagonism. without any conflict. He is in deep friendship with all his energies, sexual or others; he is not in any fight. Why fight with your own energies? Love them, rejoice in them, and help them to transcend the lower forms, the animal forms. Let them move from the body towards the turiya, the fourth. – Osho

SEX is possible just for fun. For pleasure. BUT Love is intense. Love is very intense – Love is not fun, in fact Love is something that only a courageous person can dare to do! To love – tremendous courage is required – one is willing to drop everything just for the sake of LOVE!

Understand the fact that SEX is an act. Love is a very intense feeling. And so you cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence couragecomes first and everything else follows.

Love Is A Dangerous Path And Only Those Who Have Courage Can Travel It. To Love Means To Drop The Ego, To Drop Yourself, Love Means – Not To Be. – Osho

Life can be sacrificed to Love BUT Love cannot be sacrificed to Life.

Love is of higher value than life. There is divinity, there is joy, when you live for someone, when you die for someone!

Once it happened, a young man was in love with a woman who was elder to his age. She must be 6 years elder to him. But LOVE knows NO AGE, NO CASTE, NO RELIGION! Society creates all sorts of rules which in the KINGDOM OF GOD holds NO truth. Understand the fact that it is this SOCIETY that has given you the MIND – MIND is not natural – MIND has been given to you by the society and the MIND is a monkey.

Your Mind Is Nothing But A By-Product Of The Society In Which You Are Born, It Is The Society Speaking Through You. It Is Not You – You Are Hidden Behind The Mind. -Osho

Whatever you speak, follow is controlled by the Society and that is how you all go on missing the TRUTHS. Because the Society would never want you to know the TRUTH, the Society would never want you to be yourself! The Society is always afraid of an individual – and so from the very beginning time – society has gone against the greatest individuals that the world had ever known – Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Mahavira, Sai Baba – and so many – they all were troubled by the society of their times – it always happens, that is the way of its happening!

People Don’t Want To Mear The Truth Because They Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Society loves to live in illusions. An individual loves to live in the TRUTHS.

The young man was an individual, he was a follower of his heart. And he loved the woman. And soon love happened. They were deeply in love. They lived on the border of India Pakistan. And one day War broke between the two countries. And there was firing across the borders, the enemy was firing madly…..

The young woman suddenly got trapped in this round of firings…her father and mother gave up all the hopes that they had, it was impossible for her to come out of the firings, she was trapped, death was evident.

When the young man came to know that the LOVE of his life is trapped and there is no way for her to come out…..he decided to JUMP! He just decided to go for it…

For LOVE – life can be risked, life can be sacrificed…

Her father said to the young man “What are you doing? Are you mad?”

LOVE is MAD and therefore LOVE is beautiful!

The young man said “She is my friend, I love her more than myself. I will go and get her back.”

Her father said “ If you go – you too will be dead.”

The young man looked into the eyes of her father and said “It doesn’t matter” and he went to find her.

It is very difficult in the dark and there are hundred of corpses all around. He looked and looked and in the middle of the night he returned, dragging his friend’s body on his back….he himself was terribly wounded and was bleeding….

The moment he reached his lover’s home he fell on the floor with the body of his dead friend. The father of his friend burst out in tears and said “ I told you not to be foolish….I knew she was trapped and there was no way for her to come out – we had accepted the fact that she is going to be no more with us but what have you done to yourself. Your friend is dead and you are also dying….”

The dying man opened his eyes and he said “BUT it was WORTH it. Because when I went there, she looked at me and said, “Mohan, I knew you would come.”

For LOVE, life can be sacrificed – it is WORTH it.

Those who claim that they loved you but cannot marry you. Those who came up with EXCUSES – has not really understood the depth of the word LOVE. They have not really loved you in true sense!

Love is not ‘If’ or ‘Because’. Love is ‘Anyway’ and ‘Even though’ and ‘In spite of ‘.

It is an irony that the society dictates you that just to survive – sacrifice everything. Just to be alive – sacrifice everything. BUT then what is the value of such a life? It is simply worthless – a living body without a soul.

The word FRIEND itself is very deep. It is more than family. Always remember – and I say it to all my followers, readers and fellow travelers – YOU can sacrifice and not Love. But you cannot Love and not sacrifice!

Tue love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. – Sadhu Vaswani

When you are walking on the street – you offer help, you offer love to those whom you trust. Now some of them will express their gratitude, some will resonate with your love, some will relate with you, some will offer back love to you in abundance and some will bite you, cheat you! Now tell me – and I appeal to all my followers, all my readers and fellow travelers – tell me – whom to blame? There is absolutely NOTHING WRONG with your KARMA – you are just a beautiful darling – the CHILD OF GOD who loves, who shares love – those who can understand will relate – those who cannot will condemn you, ridicule you, turn their back on you! And those who are utterly negative will stab in your back. The problem is NOT with you or your KARMA, the problem is with the other person who CANNOT relate to the depth of your love, your sharing, your caring.

So let this be very clear that FAILURE IN LOVE RELATIONSHIPS has absolutely NOTHING to do with your KARMA. Always remember LOVE never fails you – relationships may fail – but LOVE never fails – LOVE is the very source of your LIFE – no matter how many relationships break – you always have abundance of LOVE within you – and so the journey of love never ends.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself. – Rumi

We are born out of LOVE. And when we surrender to LOVE – our journey becomes a journey of bliss, a journey of peace.

Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to Love. – Osho

When true lovers meet and they fall in love – they surrender to love – they do not surrender to each other – they simply surrender to LOVE that is blossoming between them!

When you VALUE the LOVE that is between you and your lover, when you UNDERSTAND the depth of LOVE between you and your lover, there is absolutely NO question of fighting or arguing or doubting – because you have surrender to the LOVE that is between you and your lover!

DOUBT is DEATH. You will doubt your lover because your LOVE is still NOT total. The moment your LOVE has become a full moon, the moment your love has attained its TOTALITY – there is absolutely no question of doubting – doubting happens when you become POSSESSIVE and possessive nature KILLS love. The moment you tend to be possessive – LOVES ceases to exist!

Love is not possessiveness; many people think that’s what love is:you possess somebody totally. To possess somebody is to destroy all possibility of love. – Osho

Possessiveness is the false love. Hatred is better – at least it is true. And hatred can become love any day, but possessiveness can NEVER become love.

What is love? – once a young man asked.

Love in simple words – is that YOU are ready to merge yourself into the other. Love means the OTHER is now important that you can lose yourself in LOVE! Love is TOTAL SURRENDER!

Now tell me – ask yourself – and I appeal to all my followers, readers and fellow travelers – ask yourself – Have you ever fallen in love?

And if your answer is YES – than my next question is – have you surrendered yourself TOTALLY to LOVE – have you become a ‘nobody’? Because you can LOVE only if you become a nobody – if you remain a ‘somebody’ than LOVE cannot happen – LOVE is possible only when there is absolutely NO EGO – when you are willing to JUMP – when there is absolutely NO MIND – but only your HEART – only than LOVE can blossom, can grow within you! And when love starts growing within your being – you no more remain a child, you mature to the point where you are no more in love – you are love.

Fallinginloveyouremainachild;risinginlove you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love. – Osho

And the moment you are LOVE – the question of SEX does not arise! Because LOVE is higher than your physical sex. And let me tell you all – LOVE has the power to TRANSFORM a stone into an idol!

That reminds me of Amrapali! Amrapali was the most beautiful woman that the world would have ever known! She was born under a Mango tree and so her name – Amrapali! And it is a story of very old times…

It happened so that Gautama Buddha with his disciples arrived in her town. And Amrapali – her beauty – how to describe – she was so beautiful that even the greatest priest of any temple may forgot all about scriptures and just dream of having her – she was so beautiful!

And one day from her palace she saw one young disciple of Buddha. And the young disciple was also a handsome man. But he was monk. A very very deeply engrossed monk. And she would observe him everyday – and she thought that the monsoon season has started so why not welcome the young handsome monk to her house!

Buddhist monks during the four months of monsoon – don’t move – they remain at one place. And so Amrapali – the most beautiful woman welcomed the young monk – she said to him “ It is going to rain for the next four months – I would love to provide you shelter at my palace – please come and stay with me.”

The young monk said, “I will ask my master. If he allows me, I will come.”

The other monks were present – when they heard about such an offer – they became angry. They all rushed to Buddha. They said ” The young monk should be stopped. A monk staying four months with such a woman…..”

Buddha said ” You all keep calm. Let him come. He has not agreed, he has agreed only if I allow him. Let him come.”

The young monk came, touched the feet of Buddha and told the whole story. He said “That woman is a famous dancer – Amrapali. She has asked me to stay for four months in her house. Every monk will be staying somewhere during these four months of monsoon season. I have told her that I will ask my master, so I am here…whatever you say – master….I will follow”

Buddha looked into his eyes and said “You can stay with her.”

It was a shock for all the hundreds of monks who were present. There was a great silence, but great anger, great jealousy. They could not believe that Buddha has allowed a monk to stay in a beautiful dancer’s house.

After three days, the young monk left to stay with Amrapali and the monks every day started bringing gossips – all kind of gossips – dirty gossips.

Buddha said “You all should be silent. Four months will pass and I trust my monk. I have looked into his eyes – there was no desire. If I had said NO – he would not have felt anything. I said YES..he simply went. And I trust in my monk, in his awareness, in his meditation.”

Nobody knew what was going to happen – whether the monk will change Amrapali. Or whether Amrapali will change the monk.

But the monk was not an ordinary monk. He must be like me. He was a great lover of his master. He was a highly meditative person. He was no more meditating – he was meditation! And so after four months – the young monk comes – and he comes not alone – but he comes with Amrapali! And Amrapali rushed to Buddha and fell at Buddha’s feet and said “I tried my best to seduce your monk, but he seduced me. He convinced me by His presence and awareness that the real life is at your feet. I want to give all my possessions to the commune of your monks. And lastly I want to become your disciple…..master…please accept me as your disciple…..”

Buddha raised her up and blessed her. And Amrapali – became one of the most ardent follower of Buddha – a dancer was transformed into the greatest lover of GOD – that the world had ever known! LOVE can transform. Meditation can transform. Awareness can transform. And she experienced all of these in that young monk – that she realized her own ‘poverty’ and the ‘richness’ of the monk – his bliss, his peace his joy – she invited him to seduce him with her beauty – but she herself was seduced by the grace of His presence – by his awareness, his purity of being!

It is this same Amrapali – who later became one of the most enlightened disciple of Buddha.

I therefore insist to all my meditative followers and readers – that if your meditation is deep – if your understanding has gone deeper – if you have become a man of heart – if your awareness is growing – than no matter how many beautiful woman you may come across – it is not they who will transform you – it is YOU who can transform them and help them to attain the higher realms of awareness – consciousness – only if they have a certain depth of understanding that Amrapali had!

Certain hypocrites avoid looking at beautiful woman’s face! I don’t understand why. If there is nothing wrong in your being – than what is the problem in looking at someone who is beautiful!

Some hypocrites came up with a story – that Laxman never looked at Sita – because she was too beautiful!

Now all such stories are the result of a mind that is afraid to face beauty – because it cannot control its desires! And so then such minds come up with such fake stories!

Understand the fact that if your Mind is purified – if your eyes are beautiful and pure than even if the most beautiful woman stands before you – you would wonder – that how great it would have been – had your mother or sister be so beautiful!

When Chattrapatti Shivaji Maharaj acquired the kingdom of Kalyan – the queen of Kalyan was brought before him – and she was extremely beautiful – but looking at her the great King says “How great it would have been if my mother would have been as beautiful as you are!”

And then the great King Chatrapatti Shivaji Maharaj – sends her back with respect and love!

So NEVER blame any woman – if you have fallen from your grace than it is purely because of your IGNORANCE and nothing else.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. – Osho

Love has no expectations. So when people say that my boyfriend ditched me or girlfriend ditched me – than somewhere the LOVE was not in totality. Because real love has absolutely no expectations.

Once a great master was saying to a woman who had lost her lover – her lover had abandoned her – she was crying, she was in pain – the master looked into her eyes and just asked one question “ You loved her totally – right?”

She said “ Yes – very much.”

Then the master said “ Than that is all!”

You have loved. He may not have. But the final answer – the final truth is that – YOU HAVE LOVED and you have loved him totally – tremendously – deeply and that is what love is all about! Love has no expectation – if you have loved – than that is all!

That is all that you should treasure all your life – because the experience of falling in love comes not to all human beings – it has come to you – it has grown within you – you should not cry, you should not repress – you should be thankful – because TRUE LOVE is rare to find – it is indeed the greatest gift that one could have – one moment of LOVE!

If you can be Love, you have Not Missed anything – because a single moment of Love is equal to the whole Eternity of Love. – Osho

Only a man who can LOVE – can meditate! Only a woman who can LOVE – can meditate!

So come, come you all – I know you all have been hurt – it always happens – a lovable person often is hurt many times in life – GOD always loves to test HIS fellows. Only the CHOSEN ONE is tested by GOD. That is why I always say that those who are suffering, those who have been cheated, ridiculed, insulted, offended, – such men and women are truly the blessed ones! Because GOD tests only those whom he LOVES the most! Only when you are tested and you stand to HIS tests – that you become HIS messenger – God’s messenger – God’s fellow – God’s fool!

God Never Uses Anyone Greatly Until He Tests Them Deeply. – A.W. Tozer

You all have been following this God’s fool, so it means that sooner or later you all too are on your way to become God’s fool!

And how beautiful it is to be God’s fool! There is absolutely NO HEAD – NO LOGIC – NO INTELLECTUALISM – NO IDEA OF ‘I AM SOMEBODY’ – how beautiful it is when you take the backseat and let GOD drive your life!

Let GOD drive your life – HE can do more than you can.

One good reason we should pray: God Can do more in a second than we can do for ourselves in a lifetime!

So you just RELAX. Unless you RELAX – there is no coming to the TRUTH. There is no coming to GOD. You all find it difficult to relax because the MIND never wants to relax – the MIND is always wanting to do more – getting to somewhere – getting to something…..but you all – my fellows – you all have to become wise – and turn to meditation – it is only through meditation that you can control the monkey mind – it is only through meditation that you can make love – it is only through meditation that you can self-realize the true essence of love!

But the first thing that you all have to learn is to RELAX.

What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. – Love, Jesus.

Sit down. Close your eyes. Breath deeply. Focus on your breathing. Focus on your lord’s holy name. Repeat. And Repeat and go on repeating until the MIND relaxes – only then love is possible, only then the journey beyond is possible.

Relax. Just relax and let your whole body surrender to the existence – let the existence take over – you just relax.

Respect your uniqueness and drop all comparison. Just Relax into your being.

The greater the depth of your meditation, the greater you can Relax.

The key to attain the highest stage of relaxation is through meditation.

Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Identify Benefic and Malefic Planets

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The ancient Indian food was, in reality, a reflection of our galaxy! The ‘thali’ or ‘Indian Lunch-Plate’ was filled in such a way that it represents all the planets and the SUN of our galaxy! That is how advanced and rich our ancient culture was – it respected each and every planet of our galaxy. There was no discrimination – the ancient seers were perfectly aware that it *is* not the ‘planets’ that are good or bad – it is the ‘receptive’ power of individuals that decide what is good and what is bad for him or her.

If your ‘antenna’ is not receptive to a certain channel (planet) – or is not able to smoothly display the ‘signal’ of the channel (planet) – your television screen (life) would mess with the display (effect) of the channel (planet).

Who is to blame? the channel (planet) or the ‘antenna’ (you)?

Sugar is sweet. But for a diabetic person, it is a sweet ‘poison’! Who is to blame – who is bad and who is good in this case – Sugar or the diabetic person?

Bitter gourd or Karela is extremely bitter in taste. Commonly not many can eat it – for many, it is not a much-desired vegetable – but for a diabetic person – the same much hated bitter gourd is a life-saver! Who is bad and who is good here?

No planet in any birth chart is malefic or benefic – it is human beings who have the habit of discriminating – in reality, every planet in your birth chart has come with a ‘message’ – because you fall short of ‘receiving’ and ‘understanding’ the ‘message’ – you end up asking which planet is causing your trouble and which planet is rewarding you with goodies!

In reality – the trouble is not caused by any planet – and this is of great significance. The trouble is caused because from many past lives – you have been messing up with the ‘energy’ of that planet – and due to over-messing – now in this life – you aren’t able to receive the ‘energy’ of the same planet in harmony, in full form.

So the planet has nothing to do with your good or bad – it all has to do with how you have ‘evolved’ as an individual – how fine-tuned your ‘antenna’ is!

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. – Osho

But people don’t get it. How can they? When the astrologers itself have been categorizing planets and stars in the good and bad list. When ‘ignorance’ becomes your guiding force – you would find yourself in utter darkness – and the height is – when you start believing this darkness as the truth!

And that is what is happening. Astrology has become a Business of FEAR. Create fear, and then start looting. Fear sells faster than FAITH! This is the outcome of this Kali Yug (Dark Age) – Age of Ignorance!

Everything is perfect in God’s creation. Ignorance and suffering exist only in the minds of people. – Ramana Maharshi

One who speaks the truth is violently opposed, ridiculed, offended. Truth is very hard to digest. Millions of them who want to hear the false will oppose you-you will be labeled as a fool – but don’t get lost, don’t give up.

Once, the divine master said to the young man ” You will be rejected several times, but don’t give up.”

The young man bowed before the master and said: ” Why more rejections and less acceptance?”

And the master smiled – looked up and showed him the highest mountain – then he said: “How many would accept the challenge to reach the peak of that mountain?”

And the young man said: “Very few.”

Then the master asked, “How many would reject the challenge to reach the ‘peak’.?”

The young man said ” Many.”

The master smiled, raised him up, he looked into the eyes of the young man and said ” You are that ‘peak’. – and so you would face more rejections and less acceptance.”

The more you move towards the ‘peak’ (truth) – the more you would be facing more rejections and less acceptance. More dislikes and fewer likes. Sounds hard? But that is how the truth is – very very hard. The truth isn’t always beautiful and beautiful words aren’t always the truth.

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe. – Walter Darby Bannard

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need. – Bill Gates

And the TRUTH is – that no planet is good or bad. You will find millions of books on how to find malefic or benefic planets – but no one is going to tell you why they ‘become’ malefic and how to transform these so-called malefic into a benefic!

I don’t believe in ‘parrot-talk’ – I believe in ‘self-talk’. By reading the books, you will talk like a parrot – you become a ‘limited version’ – someone who can travel from A to Z – then the doors close – then there is no further going! And that is how the majority of astrologers have become – ‘limited versions’!

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

But I would want all my followers to become – ‘UN-limited versions’ – someone who can go beyond the set boundaries – someone who would follow his or her heart, someone who has a certain depth of understanding!

A certain quality of understanding has to be there. Only then the truths can be given. – Osho

People approach me with questions like “What is the purpose of my life?” – They want me to read their birth charts to find the purpose of THEIR life! And this the height of IGNORANCE! No astrologer or no man can TELL you the purpose of YOUR life – you have to find the purpose of your life – through your own ‘self’ – meditate, introspect – look within, turn inwards – but nobody wants to do the real thing – they want everything – READYMADE – and so I ignore such men, what else can be done! It is sad to see the current state of things.

People have fancy ideas about finding the purpose of life! I have met people across the world and they all have different ideas – but my answer to all my followers who are unnecessarily putting a lot of stress on finding the so-called purpose of life is in the following quote of His Holiness – The Dalai Lama.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – Dalai Lama

Further to get a deeper understanding of the purpose of human life – the following quote of the Dalai Lama, throws more light:

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. – Dalai Lama

But common men are not bothered to go deeper. They are happy to live a shallow life – happy to derive some shallow meanings – something that they can digest. And so the categorization of planets, stars – continues…..when in reality – neither RAHU is bad, neither KETU is bad, neither SUN is bad, neither MOON is bad – no planets are bad or good – they are simply here – in a certain ‘situation’ (placement) because of your PAST KARMA. Improvise, focus on raising the quality of your KARMA and then you would never have to face with a question of how to find malefic or benefic planets – even if you find – what are going to do? The only answer is in focusing on your ACTIONS (KARMA) – but people are not comfortable with the truth – that makes them uncomfortable – they are happy when someone gives them something that they can digest, that they can play around with!

But I am here not to entertain you and make you comfortable – for TRUTH is never going to make you ‘comfortable’ – TRUTH is here to make you uncomfortable – because it only when you become uncomfortable that you wake up – you become aware – and it is only through more and more awareness – that you can progress in life – that you can experience the ‘real growth’ – astrology is not a parrot talk – it is to ‘move’ you from inside-out – so that you come face to face with reality – so that you grow – inside out.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. – Gary Zukav

I encourage all my followers and readers to focus on your spiritual growth – I would want you all to become more and more meditative.

Meditation: There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. – Osho

Real transformation is your inner transformation. Focus on your ‘self’ – meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Law of Attraction Meets Astrology

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Firstly – there is no such thing as LAW of attraction.

But there is ATTRACTION! There is NO Law – Absolutely NO Law – but yes – there is ATTRACTION. And this ATTRACTION is based on the QUALITIES (GUNA) that you have developed within you. By and by these qualities leads to certain KARMA and then follows the cycle of KARMIC CONNECTIONS – and this is deep – this is significant and I appreciate your question.

LAW of ATTRACTION is a man-made philosophy – and philosophies have nothing to do with the TRUTH.

Philosopher is like a BLIND MAN. And a BLIND MAN can be bold enough to claim how the LIGHT is – though HE has NEVER EVER experienced the LIGHT the DIVINE in true sense.

A Spiritualist has. He has experienced and so whatever he shares is coming through his own experiences and NOT Belief – NOT assumptions – NOT calculations.

Therefore I always say that – EITHER you are a PHILOSOPHER or you are a SPIRITUALIST – you cannot be both – either you are BLIND or either you have the ‘EYES’ to see. Either you are on the side of LOGIC and LOGIC and LOGIC and abundance of INTELLECTUALISM – OR – you are on the side of LOVE and LOVE and LOVE and abundance of INTELLIGENCE.

Philosophy has nothing but intellectualism – it is all HEAD – all calculations – NOTHING REAL. Calculations and LOGIC can take you from A to Z – but beyond that it cannot. Then you start suffocating – and that is what is happening – all these intellectuals and philosophers – continue to go round and round and round – just to realize at the end – that they have gone nowhere.

A philosopher is an intellect.
A spiritualist is a man of intelligence.

The MIND gives birth to Intellect. In fact the MIND loves intellect. MIND is intellectual which is indeed a very poor substitute for Intelligence.

Such a MIND then comes up with such FANCY ideas of LAW OF ATTRACTION.

Firstly – who makes the LAW? And this is deep. Because if you are saying or the whole human world is using the word LAW – than there has to be someone out there who governs the LAW – but in REALITY – there is NOBODY out there who is sitting or who is ‘appointed’ to govern the LAW.

IT ALL HAPPENS ON ITS OWN. THERE IS NO LAW. THERE IS NO JUDGE. THERE IS NOBODY – NO PERSON – IT SIMPLY HAPPENS ON ITS OWN. AND IT HAPPENS AT ITS OWN PACE – IT HAPPENS THROUGH ITS OWN PROCESS – and therefore people get lost when they THINK POSITIVE and yet positive is not what they get in return! BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH LAW. The GOOD that you do – may not be returned to you back – and one who indeed is truly focused on DOING GOOD – is LEAST INTERESTED to EXPECT anything in return – he is simply happy to help!

So this theory of THINK POSITIVE so that YOU GET POSITIVE – is purely the PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND and the MIND IS CUNNING the MIND knows how to manipulate words and its meanings to its own SELF-INTEREST.

The Law of Attraction is the LOGIC of the MIND that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person’s life.

And LOGIC has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the TRUTH.

There was one young man who lived in the US. And he met an old lady. The old lady belonged to a POSITIVIST GROUP that was very prominent fifty years ago in the US – they called themselves the Christian Scientists. They believe there is NO Negative in this world. Everything is divine. There is nothing wrong; everything is right. They forgot completely that IF there is nothing wrong, how are you going to define right? If there is nothing negative, how are you going to define positive? If there is no darkness, how are you going to define light? But certain people found it to be a very interesting philosophy.

The old woman asked the young man, “ I have not seen your father coming to our weekly meetings.”

The young man said “ He is very sick.”

The old woman said “ All nonsense! He has forgotten our philosophy? Sickness is your imagination. Just go home and tell him “Sickness is your imagination.” There is no sickness, no death, nothing wrong in the world. It is God who created the world. How can there be wrong?

The young man said “ I will convey your message.”

Three weeks passed and the old man did not turn up. Again the woman encountered the young man and asked him, “Did you convey my message?”

He said “ I did.”

The old woman said, “ But he has not turned up to the meeting.”

The young man said, “ I am sorry to tell you that NOW he imagines he is dead!”

TRUTH cannot be conveyed to such a woman – such kind of people – who simply cannot ACCEPT – cannot FACE the TRUTH – that DEATH exists – that the old man has died. These kind of people who keep on saying “Be Positive” are in true sense denying to SEE THROUGH the REAL – that exists in and around us and that is the greatest irony of this human world.

WHAT is – is. If a man is doing wrong – you cannot go on saying to yourself – BE POSITIVE – you have to FACE THE TRUTH and DEAL WITH IT.

Always REMEMBER – and I say it all my followers – readers and fellow travelers – that there is ATTRACTION – but there is no LAW as such. Because LAW means CONDITIONS – LAW means -a predefined theory – a concept – LAW means REGULATIONS – LAW means all that which means everything BUT FREEDOM.

And the whole UNIVERSE thrives on FREEDOM – unless there is FREEDOM – there cannot be anything possible under this SUN. Anything that is beautiful – anything that is lovable anything that is meaningful.

So there is absolutely no LAW – because the moment you say it is a LAW – you are giving a GUARANTEE – and LIFE HAS NO GUARANTEE.

And so I tell you all – that DO GOOD – but whenever you DO GOOD – do NOT expect GOOD in return – this very idea of EXPECTATION brings a certain SELFISHNESS to your being and then the essence of all that you DO GOOD – is lost – is simply lost.

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION is for those MIND and those LOGICAL beings and those INTELLECTUAL beings who are DOING GOOD with an EXPECTATION of GETTING GOOD BACK – these are DEALS and DEALS are made in the MARKET – not in the REAL WORLD – not in GOD’s KINGDOM. DEALS are of the MIND – and so men and women who have been following their MIND have come up with these kind of FANCY TERMS – called LAW of ATTRACTION.

Buddha will not understand what this LAW of Attraction – because HE is so innocent – he is so SELFLESS that he JUST IS NOT BOTHERED of WHAT COMES OUT OF HIS POSITIVE ACTIONS – he just DOES GOOD and moves on – and so I love BUDDHA – the meditating beings LOVE BUDDHA – every MAN and every WOMAN who is following the HEART and NOT the MIND – loves BUDDHA – because BUDDHA does GOOD – out of LOVE and NOT out of LOGIC.

JESUS heals a blind man – gives him EYES – a NEW SIGHT – I am certain HE must not have thought of this LAW OF ATTRACTION when he would have healed a passing BLIND MAN…..

Jesus is walking on the road and suddenly a blind man comes to know that Jesus is walking towards him – somebody says ‘Jesus is coming….” and he listens to those words and he waits and as Jesus comes closer – he drops himself on Jesus’s feet and he starts crying and he says “ JESUS……Jesus……I pray to you….please please help me get my eyes back……”

And Jesus is such a beautiful person – such a compassionate master – that HE gets down on his knees – touched the blind man’s eyes and the blind man starts seeing…..at first a very blurred vision……he could see a young face – with some beard….with glowing eyes…..eyes that showered so much of love…..and the first words that he says is that “ I SEE YOU JESUS ——i see you and he falls at the master’s feet – but Jesus raised him up and gave him a hug – and the man could not stop crying – he was touched he was blessed he was no more the same – everything around him was the same but he was no more the same…..

The blind man who is now no more a blind man – gets up and gives a HUG to Jesus and Jesus smiles – the Master is always happy to see the sick HEAL.

The Master – the very coming of the Master is to HEAL the SICK- yes, the master indeed is for the SICK.

Jesus heals the blind man – gives him eyes to see, gives him a hug and then moves on – as if nothing special has happened – and this is how the REAL MASTER is – they never take the credit to themselves – they give it all to the ALMIGHTY GOD – they simply state that

“GOD is the creator and I am HIS humble SERVANT.”

And GOD’s servant has NO EXPECTATION. Has NO AGENDA. He is therefore FREE – FREE to live his life in his own bliss – his own peace.

The WEST calls it GOD CONSCIOUSNESS, INDIA we call it Krishna CONSCIOUSNESS – the FAR EAST call it BUDDHA CONSCIOUSNESS – names change – but what remains is CONSCIOUSNESS – you may give it any name – what needs to be REMEMBERED is that – GOD IS THE ULTIMATE FRAGRANCE OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS!

And to SERVE GOD – selflessly is the most beautiful blossoming that can happen to you – to all those who are reading this answer.

But who wants to listen? Even this answer maybe collapsed – but as long as it remain it can benefit a few of my genuine followers and readers.

People are running and running to advance themselves spiritually – while the real gem of a person is LEAST interested in any advancement – HE or SHE is simply devoted to SERVE the LORD by serving those in NEED.

When you HELP – without any AGENDA – without any self interest – without any selfish motive – you are creating a much better ground for meditation to blossom – to flower! So you see – first comes your KARMA – do GOOD without thinking about any such logical fancies such as LAW OF ATTRACTION and then you will TRULY ARRIVE – you will find way back HOME.

Whenever you do anything GOOD OUT OF HEART – spontaneously – it is called the ACT OF RANDOM KINDNESS (ARK). It comes spontaneously – there is absolutely NO SPACE to even think about such intellectual fancies – when you do good – you do it out of love and NOT out of expectation and THEN it is the REAL GOOD KARMA and this KARMA then follows you – yes it is the KARMA that follows you.

Just the way a ‘calf’ finds his or her mother – even though she is standing with thousands of other cows – similarly your ‘KARMA’ finds you among thousands of people – you just CANNOT escape your KARMA! No matter where you go – your KARMA follows you – What you have done – follows you – the astrologers call it KETU – the Saints call it KARMA. Whatever you have DONE – is your KETU.

Mohan asked “ Then who is RAHU – what is Rahu?”

I smiled and said “For that you have to read my book on Rahu. But since that will take some time for you – let me tell you what is RAHU….”

Rahu is your DESIRE – which compels you to take BIRTH – again and again and again until you SELF REALIZE the FUTILITY of the base desires and start RAISING the quality of your DESIRES.

Attractions to a certain woman, a certain man similarly takes place based on the PAST KARMIC CONNECTIONS or DUES.

AND ASTROLOGY SIMPLY SIGNIFY THESE KARMIC ATTRACTIONS – so the question of co-existing does not arise – they are NOT TWO ENTITIES – they are NOT SEPARATE ENTITIES – they are the TWO SIDES of the SAME COIN – called LIFE!

Once it happened, a great Emperor was found to have a strange ailment. A mole started appearing on his right hand – and before he could know, the mole had grown bigger and it had now started to pain. And the Emperor could not sleep, could not eat, could not enjoy any pleasures of the Palace. Life became difficult – many medical experts were called – but nothing worked. Now the Emperor went into deep depression – all the pleasures of the world were at his feet – beautiful maids, lovely queen, absolute power, millions and millions of treasury – thousand acres of land – EVERYTHING was there – but the Emperor was not happy – he was spending sleepless nights….and the ministers and the people were worried – they all wondered who would heal the Emperor – they all kept him in their prayers….they believed that someday God would send somebody soon….

And that day came. In that kingdom came a very old man – and he looked so gracious. His peace, His bliss, His glow – there was something about this old man – a certain fragrance lingered around him and he used to sit under a huge banyan tree – that tree became his home. The nearby flowing river became his well. And the alms that he used to get on his daily round around the capital – became his meal. On the very first day when he had arrived in the capital – a little girl had welcomed him by hugging him tightly – somehow she got attracted to this old man and the old man had smiled – and his smile was so sweet so blissful that the people of the town had started to notice him. He moved slowly – walked in his own bliss – he would never ask for food, he just would carry a wooden bowl with him. But his grace was so much – his glow – his love – as if the whole eternity was passing through those narrow lanes of the capital that people could not ignore him – some of them would step ahead and offer some fruits to him – the old man then would just look into the eyes of the man who is offering the fruits – and something would happen in the man’s heart – he would feel good – he would feel as if hundreds and hundreds of springs are showering LOVE within his whole being – he would start feeling joyous – without having any thoughts – his hand would come together and he would prostrate before the old man. And the old man would smile – a certain grace would shower through his eyes – and the man would feel blessed. And it was not just this man who felt the bliss within – but almost every generous man and woman who had met the old man – whoever would meet the old man – just a glance of His and the miracle would start happening! Slowly the problems would fade away, slowly the diseases would heal, slowly the pain would start reliving, – Just one glance – just through his gracious glance upon you – all your problems and miseries would start evaporating – leading you to a joyous life!

Slowly the news of his miracles started reaching the Emperor’s courtiers. And the courtiers informed the Emperor….the Emperor was in utter misery – unable to walk, unable to talk….the Emperor just continued to listen to the many miracles of the old man. Somebody said – a blind man was healed – he got the most beautiful eyes the world had ever known and now he remains no more in his home – he started following the old man. A woman who had been longing for a child -was blessed with a beautiful baby – jobless men started earning, sick men are feeling better – they are recovering…….

Listening to the courtiers and the many miracles of the old man that they shared – the Emperor’s eyes became wet…..he asked everybody to leave. When they all left him alone – the Emperor folded his hands – he could not speak, he could not move – he could not move his legs – but his heart was moved – he thanked the old man in his prayers – he thanked God for sending the old man to his capital. That night – the Emperor had a dream and in that dream the same old man had come – and he was saying “Idiot – how long are you going to make me wait in this capital of yours – get yourself healed and let me leave.”

The Emperor got up – he was taken aback – he could not wait anymore – but it was still dark outside – the sun was still to rise – he waited eagerly – every minute was become difficult to bear – the moment it was morning – he signaled the courtiers to take him to the old man.

When the Emperor was brought before the old man – the old man just looked at the Emperor – and the Emperor was moved with just the glow of His eyes. He started crying – and he stood up……and he started walking……and the mole disappeared and the Emperor rushed in the arms of the old man – and the melting – the melting happened – and the whole town – the whole fleet of the Royal members and courtiers stood with folded hands – with tears flowing from everybody’s eyes…it was the most touching movement of their life – a moment that neither they nor their forefathers had ever seen before!

The old man then looked into the Emperor’s eyes and said “ Finally you have met me again in this life – that was your wish last life. It is now fulfilled.”

The Emperor could not understand, he said “ Master please help me understand…what you mean.”

The old man said “ Last life you were a washer-man. You used to be my close disciple. And you would come to my hermitage, collect my clothes and wash them. You loved me and I loved you – and there were many many disciple in the hermitage – but you were so much fond of me that you would serve me all the day. Then one day – while cleaning my clothes on the riverside – you were distracted by the Royal Fleet of the King – the Royal Fleet of the King was passing by and a thought came to your mind “How great it is to live a life of a KING!” And this thought went so deep into your being – that I noticed it and deep within I realized that this desire of becoming a KING has gone so deep into your subconscious mind that unless you become a KING – you would not move ahead towards the final liberation. And so one evening I revealed to you that you next birth will be of a KING – just out of compassion and love I blessed you with a birth of a King and look now – you have become not just a King but an Emperor. But when I had revealed to you – your next birth – you had started crying….just the way when a child comes to know he is going to lose his mother…..you had started crying….and you cried that whole night – you said “ “Even though I become a King next life – I want to meet you again – I cannot imagine any life without your omnipresence.”

And so then I had said that “You will come to me again – a mole would come on your body and to heal you will come back to me and that is how you will meet me again.”

The Emperor now started crying…..with the touch of the master he was able to recollect all of his past life moments – he was a Dhobi (washer-man) last life – he was a devotee of this divine old man who is now standing before him – yes he could recollect everything – and now he could not control himself – he fell on the feet of the old man…..and said “ Now please don’t let me go – I don’t want any palaces and any royal pleasures – I had it all , my desire has been fulfilled – now give me the way ahead…..”

The old man raised him up and said “ This is how the cycle of life and birth continues – this is how the ‘attractions’ are triggered – each and every action has its threads connected to your PAST – and that PAST need not be the immediate PAST LIFE – it can be connected to many other PAST lives that you have been through. Now get up and go back to the Palace. And always remember – you need NOT renounce anything – because that will again lead to EGO – the EGO that – ‘I have renounced everything’! So just be where you are and keep me in your Heart – keep GOD in your HEART and let the journey WITH HIM begin – because always remember – the journey is NOT towards GOD – the journey is WITH GOD. Now go back and always remember – I Am With You.”

The Emperor with a very heavy heart had to return back to his Palace. But the moment he returned – his life was no more the same – a great change had been initiated within his being – and he was all set to begin his spiritual journey with deep faith, patience and love in his heart.

And this is what I have been telling you all – to each one of you who has been following me all these days and months – that YOU NEED NOT GO ANYWHERE – there is absolutely no need to GO to Himalayas – or to any place – just BE WHERE YOU ARE – just EXECUTE your worldly responsibilities with sincerity and continue to spend quality time with yourself – in deep meditation, every morning, every evening, every night – as much as you can.

Always remember – the beauty is when you learn to BALANCE your material life with your spiritual life – when you realize the fact – that ESCAPING is NOT the solution – FACING and LIVING THROUGH the many difficulties of life is the solution and while you do so – you remain engrossed within – you remain meditative – you remain focused within.

Astrology is just a ‘Telescope’ – through which you see the various placements of stars and planets (KARMA QUALITY) – and it is these KARMIC QUALITIES that brings forth the ATTRACTIONS that each one of you come across.

Yesterday Govind came. Govind has been such a simple man. And he had been in touch for many years. But suddenly for last 4 years he had disappeared. Today when he came – I wasn’t able to recognize him. He had turned pale, weak, and also looked depressed. He said “ I have come after a long time.”

I said “ That’s right. What happened. You seem to have lost your glow.”

Govind said “ What to say. I got attracted towards a girl, then slowly I left you – stopped following you – and then I started following her! And I stopped my meditation, I stopped my prayers and day and night I just became so mad in her love that by and by my whole life style was changed – and then for the next 4 years I was in relationship with her and then one day she left me – and then I took to drinking and then my life became more worse and then everything started collapsing – until one day I remembered you and then I started crying – what a fool I was – then I remembered your words – then I remembered all that you had been sharing with me and then I could not control my self – I had to come back to you – NOW please guide me on how should I get back to where I had started with. “

Life is like that. The moment you stop meditating you stop your prayers – you stop living a purified conscious life – the QUALITIES within you start falling – when QUALITIES start falling – you start getting ATTRACTED towards MEN or WOMEN of low quality – base level – then these same MEN AND WOMEN engulf you and start making your life a MESS. Just the way Govind first became impure – ignorant and then fell for a woman who may have those GOOD SEXY LOOKS – but from within she was a MESS – a poor drag – a dirt. And then once he was captured by her – once he was caught in her clutches – his life started becoming a HELL!

So DO NOT blame the WOMAN or the MAN who has spoiled your life – or has ATTRACTED you and then made your life a MESS – the problem is WITH YOU – because HAD YOU BEEN LIVING A PURE CONSCIOUS LIFE – you would NOT have fallen for such a flimsy man or woman.

ATTRACTIONS happen based on WHAT YOU ARE WITHIN. Always remember ATTRACTION to a wrong WOMAN or MAN is basically YOUR OWN SHORTCOMING – it is a sign that YOUR QUALITY (GUNA) is taking a setback – your STANDARD is falling and then every thing starts falling – you jump in the bed – and then misery makes sure that one day the same bed becomes your deathbed!

Always remember – just remember that YOU are your HELL and YOU are your HEAVEN too. It all begins with you – if you want to have a GOOD FRIEND – first you should ensure that you are filled with all the GOODNESS that you expect from others. If you want to have GREAT friend – then first you should be GREAT.

If you are looking a good life partner than first you should have all the QUALITIES (GUNA) of a good life partner.

But people are shallow – they would expect others to be something that they themselves are not. Then how willl the marriage work?Then how will the relationship work? Then how will the friendship will work?

But people say something, feel something and do something else. There is absolutely NO sync in what you feel, you say and you do and hence miseries are more and happiness is less, problems are more and peace is less.

LAW OF ATTRACTION is a beautiful philosophy of the CUNNING MIND. And all that feeds the MIND SELLS like a hot cake! All that appeals the MIND – sells faster.

But I am not here to make your MIND happy – I am here to help you all realize the TRUTH – and the TRUTH is beyond MIND – the TRUTH can only be found in the state of NO MIND.

Meditation is NO MIND. TRUTH is already there – but you can experience it ONLY when you KEEP the MIND ASIDE. And in this KALI YUG – it is going to be more and more difficult because the MIND has become the MASTER – the majority is RULED by the MIND and so you see more miseries – more madness – more murders – more attacks – more clinging – more attachments and more sufferings. Because the majority has become the MIND – and so the TRUTH disturbs the majority – the TRUTH is collapsed – the TRUTH is condemned fiercely.

You have to tame the monkey MIND – you have to take control of your MIND -else this MIND will cause many miseries in your life and I say it to you all – WAKE UP before it is too late – GET BACK TO YOUR ROOTS – GET BACK TO WHERE YOU HAD STARTED – and the way to do so – is by focusing WITHIN.

So come – come you all – the MIND will continue to raise many questions – but always REMEMBER the answer comes – the REAL ANSWER – the RIGHT DIRECTION comes only from your HEART! And so Meditate – Meditate by focusing on your HEART – your HEART is beautiful – what comes between you and your HEART is the monkey mind.

Your HEART knows the way……listen to the voice of your heart and JUMP – JUMP into the unknown – JUMP into yourself – and take a deep breath and meditate. Millions and millions of buds blossom into a beautiful flower – Why can’t you blossom into a beautiful flower? You have all the means to blossom – all you need is to BELIEVE in yourself and let the spirit – the consciousness within you EXPAND….

And when the LIGHT is instilled WITHIN – all the IGNORANCE that you have been carrying along all you life burn up – leading you a blissful path – the path of LOVE, of PEACE, of SILENCE.

The greatest DEFENSE is to ATTACK – but that ATTACK should be of LOVE, of PEACE, of SILENCE. And then such an attack becomes the greatest DEFENSE you could ever have imagined in your life.

Once you start following your HEART – once you realize the significance of LOVE, of SILENCE, of JOY then you will NOT worry – then you will NOT entertain – then you will NOT think about concepts and philosophies like the LAW OF ATTRACTIONS – then you will rather start FOCUSING on the QUALITY OF ATTRACTIONS! And that is what I would LOVE to see happening WITHIN you – that you all start moving from the MIND towards your HEART – that you stop Becoming and start BEING YOURSELF – that you drop the MASK OF PERSONALITY and let your INDIVIDUALITY take on. And then you all will be beautiful – then you all will find the answers to your miseries – then everything around you will be the same but you will no more be the same – then the flowering will start happening – then the meditation will start blossoming – this is the way of its happening – only if you are willing to TURN INWARD and set on the most wonderful journey of your life – the JOURNEY WITHIN – the JOURNEY towards the SELF.

Meditate and whenever you feel LOW – whenever you feel UPSET – whenever you feel angry – REMEMBER – SAMMASTI says the Buddha – just REMEMBER your inner space and go within again and again until you find peace – just REMEMBER – the last word of BUDDHA was SAMMASTI meaning REMEMBER – Remember your inner space – And the more you would REMEMBER – the more you would start understand the FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE – the Language of Silence.

Silence is the most beautiful language but that SILENCE has to be a blissful silence. Real communication happens in Silence.

But People don’t get it – they want to TALK and I am against talking – I am against all those things that come in between YOU and YOUR inner peace. And TALKING is the most idiotic thing that goes on and on and on – and nothing ever is found – you remain a lost man. TALKING can make you RICH from the OUTSIDE. But the same TALKING is taking you away from YOURSELF – from outside you are becoming RICHER – but from inside you are becoming poorer.

And so to all my dear followers and readers and fellow travelers – I appeal – let there be more SILENCE within you – a blissful silence. Through SILENCE everything can be shared – through SILENCE everything can be realized – the larger question is – HOW MUCH ARE YOU READY to rejoice in SILENCE?

Your READINESS to REJOICE in SILENCE states your spiritual progress – the greater the SILENCE the greater is the QUALITY WITHIN and the greater the QUALITY the greater is the ATTRACTION towards the HIGHER ALTITUDES – LOVE happens – LOVE cannot be planned – LOVE cannot be managed – it is NOT Politics – LOVE simply happens and when you are progressing WITHIN – when you are GROWING INSIDE OUT – then you start loving that which is of the higher realms – than you love but you love something that would help you to rise to the higher planes – such a love is WORTH it!

And so no matter where you all go – no matter how many places on this planet you visit -no matter how many clubs and resorts you visit – finally PEACE is only to be found – JOY is to be only found- TRUTH is to be only found WHEN you start turning inward – when you start meditating – when you start self realizing the immense significance of taking the name of the Holy Lord.

The more you come closer to your SELF – the more you would start realizing how the ATTRACTIONS take place – the more you would start understanding that ASTROLOGY is nothing but one medium to help you realize the IMPORTANCE of living life with CONSCIOUSNESS. Then you will realize that ASTROLOGY and KARMA are not separated but a small part of the VAST OCEAN called Spirituality.

And so let there be focus on helping each other to be more and more meditative – because until the TV within you is SWITCHED ON – you cannot come to the TRUTH – you cannot understand the forgotten language – the language of Silence.

Silence.

Meditate.

Aum.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Why Gemstone Obsession Is Harmful

By Acharya Addittya Tamhankar 0 Comments

When everything is in harmony – why you want to cause a disturbance?

And this is the greatest tragedy of the human world. People want to interfere – with the flow of life. The ‘river’ flows, and nobody has till date found on what decides – who decides the flow of the river – it simply goes on flowing – whosoever comes is welcomed, the river is not bothered about the disturbances, about who is coming to join and who is leaving – it simply rejoices in its flowing……and that is how life should be! A flow, a flux. Let life flow…..

“Let Life Flow;
don’t interfere.”
-Osho

But people won’t listen! Who wants to listen? Everybody is running – just to do something with the flow of his or her life – and that causes much misery – this interference leads to many problems!

The focus should be on wearing gemstones – as less as possible!

But the MIND won’t listen. The MIND is illusive – the MIND creates many illusions – the astrologer you visit is also following his or her mind and you are also following your mind. The result is misery.

Calculative minds can never reach an effective conclusion. A calculative conclusion fails miserably and that is how I come across hundreds of people – just throwing away the gemstones that they (MIND) had thought to be a perfect solution!

A meditative man who understands the language of the stars – can help you with the solution. He is not a calculative man – he is not a Pundit, he is not a scholar – he is not a man who would keep analyzing – he would simply give you the most beautiful gift – the gift of consciousness – the gift of awareness. When awareness comes – no calculations are required – you understand the unspoken language – the language of the heart!

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

“The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.” -Rumi

And whatever comes from the heart – *is* the real solution! But people never reach to their hearts – they simply become the slave of their MIND and the MIND can never let you realize the truth. The MIND is a MONKEY – it will continue to wander – it will continue to make you restless – because the nature of the MIND itself is of being restless!

“The nature of the MIND is to wander. YOU are NOT the Mind.” – Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi

To understand your problem, you have to look within, to find the solution to your problem – you have to look within. No books and no astrologers and no pundits can give you – what you can FIND within yourself! Your MIND has illusions – your HEART has the answers!

“You shouldn’t seek greatness outside. It is present within you. You just need to slowly realize your true nature by experimentation.
Listen to your heart and answer your calling.”
– Osho

Millions and millions of books are written on which gemstone has to be donned – hundreds and hundred of astrologers and pundits are recommending gemstones – and yet nobody knows – what is right for me? You are just following – but I am encouraging you to follow your heart, to dive within and find the answers you have been seeking – but who wants to listen?

In your case – the harmony is existing, there is a music, there is a dance, there is a resonance of your stars – then why you want to wear a pearl? But who wants to listen – the MIND wants something – some stone, some talisman, something has to be there – so then you can RELAX!

But I appeal to all my followers – do not let your MIND interfere – do not become so weak that you cannot survive happily without a GEMSTONE! I want you all – not to just keep wearing gemstones – I would want you all to be more and more meditative – so that a day would come when no gemstone is required – because then you have become a Gem of a person! And that is my only prayer – to help you all – become more and more meditative. Come – let us become more human, more meditative and more loving.

Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.

“Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. They are two aspects of the same coin.” -OSHO

Gemstone, Talisman, Threads – these all are just tools – what activates – these tools is your KARMA. You may have the finest mobile – but if it is not ‘charged’ – not activated – then what is the use – it is as good as dead.

A gemstone is a medium – the quality of your KARMA is the real source of your future. But people have made the ‘medium’ much larger than life! And that is the greatest irony of human life! What should be truly focused on (Karma) – is ignored while what needs minimum attention is enlarged!

What you FOCUS on – GROWS! Focus on correcting your KARMA, focus on turning inwards, focus on raising your ‘self’ to higher altitudes. Love is contagious – what you love is what you become! Love, but love something that takes you to the beyond. Bring something higher into yourself and the lower will be forgotten.

In the AGE of Ignorance (Kali-Yug) – the FACE (RAHU) is sought after – the FACE is ‘plastic’- it is artificial – it is ‘lifeless’ – there is no truth in it – the real truth is within – your true beauty is within – your true fragrance is within you.

And I am here – to help you find the real flowers. You may not find my answers like the many perfect looking plastic flowers – but there is a fragrance to the answer that I am sharing – and you can only feel it when you are flowering – and your ‘flowering’ is only possible when you are meditating!

Nothing matters more than your ‘innermost’ flowering – then there is a music to it, then there is a fragrance to your being – then even if you wear a plain stone – it becomes a great magical stone – the miracle, the magic is within you – once you have it – then every stone that you touch – becomes a miracle! Then there is no negativity – but only positivism. Then there is no place for a ‘NO’ but only for ‘YES’!

“No is a closed state of mind, yes is open flower. Just a simple word YES, can revolutionize your whole being.”
-OSHO

Your ‘self’ is much greater than a ‘stone’ – focus on the ‘self’! REalize your self-worth. Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha! Jai Guru!

Shatabhisha in Aquarius Sign

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Long back during the good old days of Indian Television – an Advertisement of a Tomato Ketchup brand used to run – and their punch line was – “Its different.”

Shatabhisha Nakshatra also can be expressed in just two words – “Its different.”

Shatabisha falls in Aquarius sign and in the Western Astrology it is addressed as the ‘Gamma Aquarii’ binary star.

People of this Nakshatra are different and they also like everything that is different. Who knows – that the man who created the punch line “ Its different” – may also have been of Shatabhisha Nakshatra!

RAHU loves all that is DIFFERENT. And SHATABHISHA is the permanent home of RAHU.

RAHU also has other TWO HOMES – SWATI NAKSHATRA & ARDRA NAKSHATRA!

And interestingly – all the 3 NAKSHATRAS of RAHU fall in INTELLECTUAL SIGNS (Airy Signs)

SHATABHISHA NAKSHATRA – AQUARIUS

SWATI NAKSHATRA – LIBRA

ARDRA NAKSHATRA – GEMINI

RAHU simply LOVES Intellectualism. Debates, Competitions related to Knowledge – all of it is what RAHU loves!

An INTELLECTUAL person is definately a RAHU-ish man – and you will often find him or her – in abundance of MONEY, POWER, STATUS – and therefore generally RAHU-ish men and women have SO MUCH – SO MUCH – that it just becomes TOO MUCH!

And Lao Tzu says – TOO MUCH is the only SIN.

RAHU = TOO MUCH.

Money – HE becomes just ‘money’.

SEX – He becomes just so much sexual that it starts making his own life miserable – too many sexual affairs finally leads to nowhere!

POWER – He becomes TOO MUCH hungry for POWER – and in this hunger he commits many mistakes and mistakes repeated transform into SINS.

So – Shatabhisha man or woman may have it all – but they remain far away from the REALITY – the REAL – the TRUTH.

They generally are those INTELLECTUAL BEINGS who find pleasure in DEBATING, ABUSING,OFFENDING others – and in the process empowering their EGO – that says ‘I AM SOMEBODY’!

That is the nature of RAHU – and that is how all RAHU’s NAKSHATRAs has it – you cannot change the NATURE!

So if you love DEBATES, if you love to watch those DEBATE SHOWS on news channels – if you like to compete than you are a perfect RAHU-ish person!

A KETU-ish person is least interested in any debates or any competitions. He is a Yogi – and Yogi is least interested in winning.

KETU is disinterested in WINNING – because HE has gone beyond the state of winning and losing – HE is simply HAPPY TO BE!

RAHU is very much interested in WINNING – HE just loves the RAT RACE – and so he makes you run and run and run – so much that he simply never lets you REST IN PEACE – until a DAY COMES when you are DEAD and on your GRAVEYARD – People instill a nicely inscribed plate that reads “Rest In Peace.”

Shatabhisha Nakshatra – a brilliant glowing Nakshatra – Intellectual – Extrovert and all those qualities that has the potential to shape you into a scholarly person.

Scholar. – Yes the people of SHATABISHA nakshatra like this word a lot. Why?

Because – Its different! Anything that makes you different from the others is instantly liked by the men and women of Shatabhisha Nakshatra. Rahu always likes that – which is different.

So always remember – whenever anybody feels to have something different “it is Rahu calling”!

Mohan asked “ Rahu has THREE NAKSHATRAS that HE OWNS. But then among all the THREE NAKSHATRAS – SWATI, ARDRA, SHATABHISHA – why is it that RAHU LOVES SHATABHISHA more – why SHATABHISA is HIS favorite – why SHATABHISHA makes HIM feel Home?

“The answer is simple. But before that you answer my question.” I said.

“If there are 3 Wings in a Society – A wing, B wing, C wing – and if in the C wing – lives your best friend – then which wing you would love to visit?”

Mohan said “ C wing – because my best friend lives in that WING.”

Similarly RAHU loves to live in Aquarius (C WING) more because His best friend SATURN lives in AQUARIUS too! And since SHATABHISA NAKSHATRA falls in AQUARIUS – RAHU is very comfortable – empowered in AQUARIUS SIGN – especially in SHATABHISA Nakshatra!

And that is the reason why RAHU loves SHATABHISA more than the other two Nakshatras (Swati and Ardra).

INTELLECTUALISM belongs to all these 3 SIGNS – LIBRA, AQUARIUS and GEMINI.

RAHU is BOSS in these 3 SIGNS. In fact in GEMINI – Rahu EXALTS – because that is not his FRIEND (STAURN’s sign) but that is the SIGN OF HIS MASTER – MERCURY!

So when in Friend’s domain (SATURN – AQUARIUS) Rahu feels Home. And when in HIS MASTER’s domain (MERCURY – GEMINI) Rahu feels ecstatic – RAHU is HIGH (exalted) when in GEMINI!

See how beautiful all this can be – Astrology indeed is ALIVE – only if you are ALIVE.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. – Osho

3.7.11 – All these 3 intellectual signs are also highly SEXUAL SIGNS!

RAHU – who rules 3 Nakshtras in these 3 Signs is also highly SEXUAL by nature.

In short – whoever is born on ARDRA (Gemini – 3) SWATI (LIBRA – 7) and SHATABHISHA (AQUARIUS -11) by nature is highly sexual – these men and women excel in the art of mating, love making and romance.

SEX is interesting as long as there is ROMANCE. You remove the romance and SEX will look ugly – utterly ugly!

Imagine you are making love without romance, without poetry – just a biological action and it will be so difficult – and so man has created a smoke around sex – that smoke is called ‘Love’ – ‘Romance’ – because he cannot ‘do it’ without having the ‘smoke’ around….the smoke need to be there!

Now how does these three signs – Gemini. Libra. Aquarius create the ‘smoke’ to initiate sex – to enjoy sex?

Gemini – Talk. They talk and they talk – and have you seen a certain Gemini women or men – how they talk? They talk so impressively – that they can simply seduce you through their TALK. To Gemini – TALK is the ‘smoke’.

Libra – Romance. They are so romantic – they know exactly how to pose – how to wear appealing dresses – how to ATTRACT – the Venusian Libra is perfectly aware of their strength to ATTRACT through their body language. To Libra – Body Language is the ‘smoke’.

Aquarius – Intellect. They try to be DIFFERENT. This ‘being different’ appearance – then it may be in their OUTLOOK towards life – their REBELLION attitude – their STAND against the old TRADITIONS and CUSTOMS – but all of these – goes on creating an AURA of ‘Being Different’ – and this attracts those who also like to have something DIFFERENT! To Aquarius – Being Different, Intellectualism is the ‘smoke’.

So you see every SIGN has a ‘SMOKE’ – without ‘Smoke’ – without some ‘romance’ – without some ‘spice’ – sex is boring – union of two bodies is boring!

One of the most oldest ‘spice’ that brings LIFE to your love story is the game of ‘HIDE and SEEK’!

And it is played across the world – no matter what religion – what caste – what color you are – the game of HIDE and SEEK is played in every relationship – every love story!

How it happens?

If you will observe closely – than it is WOMAN who always HIDE and it is the MAN who always SEEK.

HIDE & SEEK.

The more the woman HIDES – the more the MAN is excited to SEEK. And the more the WOMAN says ‘NO’ – the more he is eager to hear ‘YES’!

In fact whenever a WOMAN says ‘NO’ – it means a ‘YES’ – otherwise she would not even bother to say ‘NO’! She goes on saying – NO – and that NO is her HIDING and the man becomes more excited – this excitement goes on shaping their relationship – adding spice to their relationship and that is how the love story blossoms on the basis of this age old game – the game of HIDE & SEEK!

3.7.11 – these signs understand very well the game of Hide & Seek! Their love life is generally filled up with a lot of ‘smoke’ – that goes on making their relationship – a spicy relationship. And because there is spice – they love it – you remove the spice and their relationship is over!

To make the relationship hot – you have to bring the opposite in; then fighting and quarreling and arguing gives a certain excitement to your energies. And when tired of fighting and arguing, you again move – the pendulum goes on moving between love and hate. When your pendulum moves towards love, you feel strong love because of the CONTRAST. It depends on your likings: people like hot- dogs! Dogs are enough, but they want hot dogs! – Osho

In common relationships – the ‘smoke’ is required – without the ‘smoke’ – without the ‘fights’ – without the ‘arguments’ – you will feel lost – the relationship starts fading out.

But that is not how it is – when it comes to the love of the BUDDHA – the Master!

BUDDHA’s love is beyond the power of expression.

BUDDHA’s love has no SPICE to it. In HIS LOVE – there is absolutely no shade of HATE – and so you will find Buddha’s love boring – because there is no HATE to it – it is pure love – unconditional – flowing like a river – if you come – you are welcome – if you leave – HE will still BLESS you! There is no HATE to HIS LOVE – and so such a love is of the HIGHER LEVEL.

BUDDHA’s love is the love of KETU – there is absolutely NO HEAD – only the HEAD needs the ‘smoke’ – there is absolutely NO MIND – only the MIND needs the ‘smoke’ – and BUDDHA has gone beyond MIND, beyond HEAD – now HE is no more falling in LOVE – HE is LOVE!

Buddha is LOVE. Jesus is LOVE. Mahavira is LOVE!

When you are in LOVE – you are falling for the ‘other’ person in your life.

When you are in MEDITATION – you are falling in your OWN BEING.

Understand that in both situations – you are GETTING OUT OF YOUR HEAD.

Trouble starts only when you AGAIN START MOVING BACK TO YOUR HEAD – then everything starts falling apart.

As long as you remain OUT OF YOUR HEAD – you remain engaged.

In love you fall into somebody else being, in meditation you fall into your own being. They are very alike, the fall is the same just the direction is different: love is other directed, meditation is self directed. The process is the same, that you fall from the head. – Osho

The message for SHATABISHA NAKSHTRA – is to NOT to remain too much into their HEAD – their INTELLECT – else they will go on missing LOVE – they will simply miss.

At one end – in the SIGN of AQUARIUS is SHATABISHA– NAKSHATRA OF RAHU.

At the exact OPPOSITE end – in the SIGN of LEO is MAGHA – NAKSHATRA OF KETU.

SHATBHISHA is the peak of DESIRES – RAHU

MAGHA is the peak of DESIRELESSNESS – KETU

At the SHATABISHA end – is the MATERIAL WORLD – FULL OF DESIRES. FULL OF INTELLECTUALISM

And SO – many scientists, doctors are born with this nakshatra as well as many HI-TECH innovations and inventions and discoveries happen on SHATABHISHA NAKSHTRA – because the desire to find something new – something better is very intense – RAHU.

And so RAHU has in a way helped this WORLD to PROGRESS TECHNOLOGICALLY – but along with this PROGRESS – the same RAHU has also stolen – taken away the much peace – the much joy – the much happiness that one seeks.

MAGHA – the Nakshatra that stands exactly OPPOSITE to SHATABISHA – is the NAKSHTRA of KETU. KETU is MEDITATION. MEDITATION IS A LET GO!

KETU is DESIRELESS. RAHU is overflowing with DESIRES.

Desires are ugly. Needs are beautiful.

Once it happened – a young man went to a Doctor. He knocked at the door – the Doctor said “ YOU – again! Now what has happened?”

The young man came inside, sat on the chair and said “ Doctor – I am not able to sleep. For last 2 weeks I have been having a NIGHTMARE.”

The Doctor observed closely. Yes- the young man indeed looked very tired. His eyes were red – soared eyes. He looked weak. The Doctor became concerned – looking at the young man – the Doctor said “What is the NIGHTMARE – tell me about it.”

The young man said “Every night I am having a horrible dream…..I am alone – in isolation and there are 16 beautiful women – all around me…..”

The Doctor laughed and said “ Then what is wrong with it – what is so horrible about it?

The young man looked into the eyes of the Doctor and said “Have you ever tried making love to 16 women who are standing in a queue??”

And this is what happens with DESIRES. MANY MANY DESIRES are born and then you get TIRED – then you don’t know what to do – YES – you had DESIRED for many beautiful women – and now there are over SIXTEEN beautiful woman all over you – how are you going to manage them all – it is but obvious that it will BECOME a NIGHTMARE!

And that is what happens – YOUR DESIRES become your NIGHTMARE and THEN you are not able to SLEEP – then you have to find ways to SLEEP and this is how you – yourself become the greatest obstacle to the PEACE that you seek.

RAHU therefore becomes the greatest hurdle to your PEACE. This RAHU is your DESIRE – it is BORN from you – and if you want to get rid of RAHU – then you have to KILL your desires – you have to simply KILL your desires!

How to kill the desires?

Neem Karoli Baba – (the divine master to whom Steve Jobs had come all the way from America to seek His blessings) shares the answer in the most beautiful way:-

Needs come from the BODY. DESIRES come from the MIND.

When you meditate – when you all meditate – you all have to move beyond the MIND – meditation happens only when there is NO MIND.

Yesterday – Mohan said “Birds, Animals – they have no desires.”

That is TRUE. That is indeed the greatest TRUTH that if one can realize – he can realize the many dimensions of this human life.

Birds, Animals hunt when they NEED. The NEED is met – then they will not keep running. But Human beings keep running – BECAUSE they are not focused on the NEED – they are focused on fulfilling the DESIRES. And DESIRES never END – after one DESIRE is fulfilled – the other is standing to be fulfilled – the QUEUE of DESIRES never end – MAN is always found engaged in the unending QUEUE OF DESIRES and that is how HE makes his life miserable by HIS OWN IGNORANCE.

Birds are happy. Animals are happy. The fishes in the water are happy. There is NO TENSION – because TENSION comes out of DESIRES – and not NEEDS.

TENSION comes when the DESIRE is to BECOME and when you are not happy to be yourself!

What I AM. And WHAT I want to BECOME. The more you try to connect the PRESENT with the FUTURE – the more TENSION will come.

And the MORE you REMAIN in the PRESENT – the more PEACE will come your way!

MEDITATION is simply to help you all to BE HERE NOW.

Once it happened – the master was having a cup of tea. And it was a beautiful evening – birds were singing their song, flowers were dancing in the breeze and the whole world seem to have come to a certain peak of joy! Amidst this – came a stranger – and he bowed before the Master and the master asked “ Do I know you?”

The stranger says “ No master. I have come for the first time.”

The master smiled and said “ Have a cup of tea.”

After a while a very close disciple comes – Master is in his own bliss – engrossed within – looking at the disciple the masters asks “Do I Know you”

The disciple is confused. He says ” I have been with you for last 10 years….”

Master smiles and says ” Then have a cup of tea.”

Now the Manager was standing near by. Managers are very logical beings – too much into the Head. So the Manager steps ahead and asks ” Master – how come your response to the stranger and the disciple is – same?”

The master loudly calls out – “MANAGER – ARE YOU HERE?”

The call out was so spontaneous that the Manager’s whole being is moved – suddenly his awareness brings him to the present moment – looking at the master – he says “Yes Master – I am here.”

The master smiles and says ” Then have a cup of tea.”

The whole message is simply to BE HERE NOW – no past, no future – life is NOW – just to BE HERE NOW.

Intelligence is the capacity to be reborn again and again. To die to the past is intelligence, and to live in the present is intelligence. – Osho

One who is able to BE HERE NOW – can meditate.

And one who can meditate is becoming aware of His or Her intelligence!

Intelligence is NOT intellectuality.

KETU is NOT RAHU.

HEART is NOT HEAD.

HEART is Intelligence – that is why the sign of LEO is the most intelligent SIGN of all the 12 signs and I have absolutely no doubt about it – it remains a TRUTH – and I remain firm on this till the very last breath of my life.

On one end is LEO – Intelligence (MAGHA- KETU)

And exactly opposite to MAGHA (Inteligence) is SHATABHISHA (Intellectuality)

But one need to understand that it is NOT THE MOON SIGN but it is the ASCENDANT that has the final say in the affairs of human beings.

Nature is your Ascendant.

Mindset is your Moon sign.

NATURE is spontaneous. You are born with it.

MIND is not spontaneous- it is shaped as you grow. It is given to you by the society. Your MIND goes on shaping based in the society you grow up.

Moon is the Mind – a Leo Moon Sign may think of himself as a compassionate man but that is just THINKING – it is NOT the reality.

REALITY is your NATURE – Ascendant sign.

In my life I have met many Leo Moon Sign men and women and they have been the most mean people I would have ever met!

BECAUSE – MOON (MIND) is NOT a reality.

REALITY is your NATURE – Ascendant sign.

Once it happened- a young man and his name was Arjun. And he was such compassionate man – full of heart. He was like a fakir – whatever he had – he would give away and in that GIVING he would find his bliss.

One day he asked me – what is my Ascendant sign? Because with just a matter of minutes — my Ascendant changes. I was born on the night of 16th January at 12.36 AM. But if I move the time from 12.36 to 12.25 – the Ascendant changes from Leo to Cancer. So who am I – Cancer or Leo?

The last part of CANCER is ASHLESHA NAKSHATRA.

The starting part of LEO is MAGHA NAKSHATRA.

Arjun can either be on this side or that side – ASHLESHA or MAGHA.

I have been knowing Arjun for a long time – his nature was of Giving – his nature was of LETTING GO. And had he been born anytime between 12.25 to 12.34 – then Ashlesha Nakshatra would have been rising and Ashlesha was exact opposite of his nature.

Ashlesha is the Nakshatra that loves to CLING. ATTACHMENT is what Ashlesha’s nature is and DETACHMENT is what Magha’s nature is and so I said to him – let there be no doubt about your Ascendant– there is absolutely no need of any Birth Rectification my friend – You are A Leo ASCENDANT – born while Magha was rising on the eastern horizon – MAGHA – the Nakshatra of detachment- the Nakshatra of Ketu.

MAGHA – it is the seat of the ROYAL. The KING. A NAKSHATRA RULED BY KETU is being addressed by the ancient seers and sages as KINGLY – ROYAL!

Because ONE WHO HAS CONQUERED HIMSELF – is the REAL KING. ONE WHO CANNOT BE DISTURBED BY THE OUTSIDE NOISE – is the REAL KING. ONE WHO is deeply ENGROSSED within – is the REAL KING. One who cannot be moved – no matter how many ‘buttons’ you press – is the REAL KING.

KETU is that KING – the KING who has CONQUERED HIMSELF. THE KING who has defeated the MAYA – the LUST – the GREED – the DESIRES and emerged as the greatest CONQUEROR.

Buddha is KETU. Ketu is Meditation. The greatest YOGI exists because of KETU – KETU is the bridge between you and the beyond!

Today coincidentally is the Jayanti of Lord Parshuram – the 6th incarnation of Lord VISHNU – and one of the greatest Yogis of INDIA – the man who CONQUERED Himself – and rise above – LUST.ANGER. And JEALOUSY.

A beautiful picture of LORD PARSHURAM – I earnestly bow before His Holiness. Long back – some five years ago – accidentally I had come across His beautiful Temple in a place called CHIPLUN – Konkan. Such a beautiful temple – magnanimous and located in deep forest area.

Lord Parshuram is the 6th incarnation of Lord Vishnu and Gautama Buddha is the 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Let us all bow before SHR VISHNU for giving us one of the greatest AVATAR who touched our lives in so many ways!

Astrology is just a small – a very small part of this VAST UNIVERSE. But people understand the language of astrology and so – Astrology!

The QUALITIES of SHATABISHA NAKSHATRA is primarily seen through the ASCENDANT and NOT the MOON SIGN.

NATURE (SWABHAV) is important – and NOT the MIND. The MIND is a monkey – now it is on this ‘branch of thought’ and the next moment it is on some other ‘branch of thought’ – MIND keeps CHANGING – but the NATURE remains and SO NAKSHATRA at the ASCENDANT level is IMPORTANT.

A quick walk through of all ASCENDANT – in just one line description if I have to make then this is it:

CAPRICORN ASCENDANT- PRAGMATIC PERSON

CANCER ASCENDANT- EMOTIONAL PERSON

AQUARIUS ASCENDANT- INTELLECTUAL PERSON

LEO ASCENDANT- INTELLIGENT PERSON

PISCES ASCENDANT- FAITHFUL PERSON

VIRGO ASCENDANT- LOGICAL PERSON

ARIES ASCENDANT- STRAIGHTFORWARD PERSON

LIBRA ASCENDANT- DIPLOMATIC PERSON

TAURUS ASCENDANT- PLEASURE SEEKING LIBERAL PERSON

SCORPION ASCENDANT- SECRETIVE CONSERVATIVE PERSON

GEMINI ASCENDANT – TALKATIVE PERSON

SAGITTARIUS ASCENDANT- RELIGIOUS PERSON

SO you see – the Ascendant is the very nature of your whole being. When you call someone a Miser – it is HIS nature. He may want to give – His MIND may want to give – but still his nature won’t let him.

And let me tell you – the NATURE remains – even if you become a YOGI – even if you become one of the greatest SAINT – still the NATURE remains – because it is NATURE and you cannot change the NATURE – changing the NATURE means interfering with the existence – the source and that never happens – it never can.

You can change the MIND – you can overcome the MIND – but the NATURE remains!

You all must have known the great Rishi – Atri Rishi. He was one of the greatest Rishi – and yet it was his nature to get ANGRY at even a small instance! It is NATURE – you can’t help!

And this NATURE is seen through the ASCENDANT SIGN and ASCENDANT NAKSHATRA.

Paramhansa Yogananda was born on LEO ASCENDANT with MAGHA RISING (KETU)!

He became one of the finest YOGI – that the world had ever known.

KETU – MAGHA Rising – brings a NATURE that is willing to LET GO – that is a perfect nature of a YOGI – to LET GO! KETU – the divine energy brings along the realization that the difficulties in your life are to awaken you – to awake you and NOT to hurt you.

KETU’s Magha is placed exact opposite to RAHU’s Shatabisha!

And so is how life unfolds.

On one end is INTELLECTUALISM ( Shatabhisha- Aquarius) and on the other end is INTELLIGENCE ( MAGHA – LEO). Shatabhisha is the HEAD. MAGHA is the HEART.

It is not a question of who is good and who is bad – in Astrology – in thIs Universe there is absolutely NOTHING that can be labelled as GOOD or BAD.

Intellectualism is a poor substitute for Intelligence.

A meditative man is an intelligent man. He is a man of awareness. He may not be literate like the intellectuals – he may not be a PUNDIT like the intellectuals but he has that which the intellectuals doesn’t – and that is LOVE. FAITH. And the readiness to live life in TOTAL SURRENDER!

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear. Bhagavad-gita 18.66, Translation

The intellectual keeps searching for the master – but the master comes only when you are READY – only when there is READINESS to SURRENDER to LOVE.

The ultimate act of power is surrender. – Krishna Das

GOD is LOVE and LOVE is REAL.

So the whole story of 27 Nakshatras is either on the side of INTELLIGENCE or the INTELLECTUALISM.

An intellectual cannot understand the language of Buddha. Buddha’s language is the language of the HEART and the intellectual’s language is the language of the HEAD – of logic.

Love and LOGIC are two ends that can never meet. You either LOVE or you either are caught up in your LOGIC (HEAD).

SHATABISHA – is LOGIC. (Aquarius)
MAGHA – is LOVE. (LEO)

The message to SHATABISHA natives is – to get out of the HEAD and get into the HEART. Thinking will not help – FEELING will.

And so come – come you all and meditate with focus on your HEART. It doesn’t matter whether you are RAHU-ish – at some point of time – in some lives – in some births – those who today are KETU-ish – were also RAHU-ish!

But they changed – and they changed because they allowed CHANGE to happen. You also can change – you also can transform – you also can experience the taste of real freedom – all you need is to start MEDITATING – all you need to start GIVING…..

You have been focusing a lot on the OUTWARD journey – NOW the time has come to start FOCUSING on the inward journey. Transformation happens when you start turning inwards.

When you start turning inwards – you realize what an idiot you have been – you realize the many mistakes you have been committing out of IGNORANCE – you realize how much you have been ACCUMULATING your whole life – when you would have had SHARED so much with others! And GOD had been giving many opportunities to SHARE – to HELP – but you missed, you simply missed.

It is time to GIVE AWAY. It is time to SHARE. Sharing is Caring.

RAHU’s Nakshatras may give a lot of money and fame -still in the end – if you cannot have a good night sleep – if you cannot enjoy life than what is the use?

Being Rich and Famous is NOT the answer. But turning inward and realizing yourself can lead you all to the many ANSWERS that you seek. Your SELF REALIZATION is one of the greatest miracle – and only you can make it happen by turning inwards and meditating – everyday – without fail.

It happens – it always happens that one who is moving towards the beyond – the unseen – the Godly – is labeled as – INSANE!

And yet it is the INSANE whom GOD LOVES the MOST!

आंख और सपने में इक रात की दूरी रखना, ए कलाकार मेरी तसवीर अधूरी रखना.
परमात्मा पागलो को चाहता है, समझदार अकसर चूक जाता है। ।। ओशो।।

God loves the insane, the sane often miss. – Osho

God loves only those who are insane – those who are followers of the HEART – those who can RELATE to His Holy Name – those who are WILLING to JUMP without having any doubts or questions – only such men and women are the blessed ones – the world may call them INSANE – but what they could relate to – what they could listen to – cannot be listened by those who call themselves – SANE!

You will hear the ‘music’ – you will also start ‘dancing’ and then you will be so much engrossed in the dancing that you will forgot the dancer – and that is the peak of your ‘arrival’ – when the dancer (EGO) exists no more – and you become the Dance – then GOD comes in search of you – then you have to go nowhere else – the Master will come in search of you……

And so first become the Dance.

Get out of your HEAD (Shatabisha) and get into your HEART.

Let the journey of many wonderful experiences begin – you don’t have to go anywhere – you just have to close your eyes – focus on your breathing – focus on the Lord’s name and Meditate.

Through meditations you can work out on all your relationships and your miseries – the real work-out is Meditation – and so the larger question that you all should ask yourself is – Are you Ready to Meditate?

Your answer matters. Turn inward and find your answer.Meditate.

Jai Shri Ganesha. Jai Guru.

Author: Acharya Addittya Tamhankar