Guru Purnima

Guru Purnima

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Generally, Hindus and Buddhists traditionally celebrate ‘Guru Purnima’ as a festival to thank teachers. It falls on the full moon day of June – July month (Ashad Month according to Hindu calendar). All the guidance and teachings of Guru is most powerful on the day of Guru Purnima. Teachers are always believed to be the most necessary part of anyone’s life. They are the remover of the darkness. Buddhists celebrate this festival in order to pay respect and gratitude to Lord Buddha. For Hindus, they celebrate to give respect to Sage Vyasa who not only born on this day but also finished writing Brahma Sutras on ashadha sudha padyami.

We all have passed under our teacher’s hands in one or the other way. Sometimes we fail to notice that teachers come in any form and we never know what that teacher is trying to teach us. From infant to aged teacher can be right there near you. If you notice, infants can teach us how to stay calm, peaceful throughout the day like you are in deep meditation. Kids below 4 years teach us how to dance freely like who cares, enjoy each and every moment of life they way they want, for them time is divided only in two i.e. day and night, eat when they are hungry and sleep whenever they are sleepy. After passing 4 year, they will teach us how to see the world in a whole new way, get surprises every minute, enjoy like you have never before just by seeing moving leaves and branches of tree by wind. From 7-8 years they can teach us how to satisfy your curiosity, learn to choose your interesting field, learn new things, follow what teachers said. So this way you never know who is your teacher for any particular thing, you must try to notice their presence throughout your life. Above all these, your parents are your best teachers, good or bad but they will make you best.

 

Try to imagine what would have happen if there were no teachers? You cannot even stand on your feet if there was no one to teach you. Teachers play very important role in our lives. They always help us climb steps. Once I’ve read somewhere that “Teachers call themselves the ladder”, they behave like a ladder step for their students. They ask their students to put their feet on them and go on higher levels.

We should respect them forever because if they were not there, we might be living like zombies. Everyday you should pray to them, you can do sharanagathi (like Hanuman did to Lord Rama) to get help remove every obstacles.

The very famous sloka on guru prayer is :

Guru Brahma Gurur Vishnu
Guru Devo Maheshwaraha
Guru Saakshat Para Brahma
Tasmai Sree Gurave Namaha

Meaning: Guru is verily the representative of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. He creates, sustains knowledge and destroys the weeds of ignorance. I salute such a Guru.

Enjoy teachings of your Guru and all gurus. Respect them in all ways, help them if they need your help at any stage of your life. Sit in their feets and feel like heaven.

I salute the guru and respect my guru with full faith. I was, I am and I will be always thankful to you till my last breath. Thank you so much.

Earth Element

Beloved Mother Earth

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Sky, earth, water, air and fire the basic five elements of nature. All with their super natural power and specialization. When we go for spiritual workout and meditations we should use these powers to get much better results in every part of ours whether it is related to aura, chakras or our physical body. It helps us all for free throughout our lives just by asking their help to send us their special powers and thus, we gain good health and also spiritual benefits.

Modernization is always good but not at the cost of our mental, physical and auric loss. Science is taking us on higher levels for modern techniques and machine world. We all feel good when we see certain new inventions and experiments and most of us even wish to be like those inventors and scientists. It is fun, excitement and victory upon certain thoughts which came into existence successfully.

We never realize the things we left back in our past is also very precious. There was no sophistication about doing things with the help of nature or to be with nature. Playing in mud bare footed, swimming in open water sources, move around in green fields with minimum clothes, cook food on wood/coal fire in open space, etc. If you try to share this with your grand parents or great grand parents they will recall their past and those happy peaceful moments and might get wet eyes full of joy and memories. This will happen to them because they have experienced all of it and they know the advantage. Many people around the world are working hard to explain these things to new generations but they hardly get any response as these processes and life style is very time consuming.

We all living with tendencies of getting free things like anything, it is like we always crave for it, but we forget to use it once it is in our hands. Power of nature is one of those free things we run for and then never use it. The only reason behind it is that – “It’s Totally Free”. Just think, what will happen if nature starts sending us cash invoice every time we use air to breath, water to drink, walk on earth, gaze the sky and fire to cook. Whole world will become bankrupt in months because all these things are very precious. Those who are capable of using it never thinks of the one not able to see it for days.

These five elements have their specific properties used to heal our auric, mental, spiritual and physical body. No medicine is as good as healing energy of nature. Any medication taken will just do certain chemical balance in our body. If we stay with nature and its healing energies we might never need any medication. Let us try to know about our beautiful nature.

We will go through them one by one.

EARTH ENERGY

It is very good for physical strength, mental strength and it is like the real life force which tries to maintain our existence on earth. It helps to get rid of depression and other similar mental imbalances. We can understand this with the example of a farmer, when you look at any farmer you will notice a very good physic, strength, power, happiness because he stays on ground, works with mud for the most of his time everyday. Earth energy gives him energy for all this things and keeps him away from any kind of mental disorders and physical weakness. You can find all the healing energies from the herbs, plants and trees grown on earth which are used to prepare ancient and modern medicines which we use it in either ways i.e. use it directly or convert it into pills.

 

 

It is believed that walking barefoot gives you more energy, clears your mind, fights varicose vein, free reflexology session, helps you do grounding, more ability to spread toes, helps decreasing anxiety and depression, strengthens & stretches muscles, tendons & ligaments in your feet, ankles & calves. So from now onward  try to be bit desi while going out and feel our beautiful loving earth barefoot instead of branded footwear.

 

 

 

Prayer and meditation with earth energy:

Oh beloved mother earth,
We are all your children,
Please forgive our sins, any harm done to you consciously or unconsciously,
May you be bless with divine love, light and power,
May you be rejuvenated,
Blessings be to mother earth,
Please bless us with your divine healing energies,
Send us your power for our betterment,
In full faith.
We thank you for taking care of us every moment.
Thank you.

Start meditation after this prayer:
Do some normal physical exercise for around 3-5 minutes. Stand, sit or lay down on ground bare footed. Close your eyes. Take few deep breaths. Feel the divine energy from earth entering in your whole system, healing each and every part of your system, throwing away any dirty energy or blockages from your whole system completely and destroying those diseased energy. Feel the divine love, peace, light and power in you. Be relaxed. Stay in the hands of mother earth for some time. Open your eyes when you feel like you have finished your meditation. Shake your body to release extra energy. Finish it with thanks giving prayer to mother earth.

Please take good care of earth and it’s properties. We all know that we will be helpless once earth start taking it’s revenge (earthquakes).

See you soon with next element. Take Care!!