Fate or Fortune?

The physical body is a series of light waves. As we elevate our consciousness, the light waves change in quality and vibration. We are actually conductors of light.
To elevate our consciousness we need to be daring and willing to change patterns that do not work. Effort is the removing of that which does not work and replacing it with something better. One of the roadblocks preventing balance and peace is the tremendous influence of the subconscious memory. The average person is ruled by fate and has minimal influence in the control of his life. Removing old established patterns that work again balance and not repeating mistakes can change fate. You know what they are because you have experienced them repeatedly. Observe whether responses are working for or against you. Any area of your personality and activities that disrupts will act as a psychic poison.

Every moment you are creating consciously and unconsciously. Why not make a choice to deliberately create a new attitude and habits that work for you? By deliberately making different choices, you begin to stop the engravings that constantly repeat themselves. Destiny becomes a favorable fortune when you recapture and live the goodness of the inner Nature. To be successful, learn and understand the science of vibration. Vibration matches personal consciousness. It is your individual consciousness that is the springboard to freedom. Everything is constantly changing, including the physical body. Dare to open your mind and heart. Take charge. You are much grander than you allow your self to imagine.

Think of yourself as Jacob climbing his famous Biblical ladder. Use the image of the ladder as a symbol for your personal health, success and happiness. Regardless of your placement on the ladder, it is able to change when you are in control. One of the causes of human suffering is not having an ideal and pursuing it. Focus on one. Are you allowing your self to experience greater possibilities? Responses change dramatically with moral and spiritual growth. Effort is its own reward. Try not to worry about the results. Worry is a toxin to the system. It can poison and deplete energy. What needs transformation is the personality. Why not allow your inner Nature to fashion the future? Maturity goes hand in hand with expanding the light of your consciousness. You are the cause who creates the effect. As a creator, keep in mind that you may use the wrong building blocks until you are ready to willingly surrender everything that is working against the masterpiece that is being created. Begin by accepting who you are and deliberately create your heart's desire.

Wounds as Disrupted Energy

The ideal is to have our energy flowing effortlessly. The direction and modulation of human energy flow begins in the mind and is empowered by the mind. If the mind is in a confused or negative state, trouble manifests in the physical body. I always refer back to the Indian concept of human energies mentioned in the Rig-Veda dating back a couple thousand of years ago. Their experiential knowledge states that there are three types of energies concerned with balance of body, mind and soul. Prana, the vital energy, which is similar to glue holding us together is the first type. Prana flows through its circuitry and conveys the soul's willful, emotional and intellectual functions. The goal is to consciously control our senses. If we are inconsistent and neglectful, which is a form of abuse, they become the effect in the physical form, the environment we inhabit.

When we learn to control our emotions, consciousness gradually expands and we function from the core of our being, which is ideal. The currents harmoniously run through our energy centers. The spinal cord is a reference for the second type of energy, the Kundalini energy. It is aroused from its latent state and rises up the spine through the invisible energy centers when we meditate or learn to control energy through yogic practices. The Kundalini feels like heat and is quickened by spiritual pursuits and is basically concerned with creative energies. The third state of energy health evolves around selfless love, devotion or a focused passion. The student achieves a very high concentration of energy through discipline and a profound and personal experience of the sacred. Western thought, which recognizes the brain and the immunological system as the seats of human consciousness, differs from the Indian thought, which considers the nonphysical chakras as centers of consciousness. The energy centers quicken awareness as space-consciousness, emotions and inner movement that harmonizes and lifts the energy of the participant.

Healing our energy fields is a large part of the spiritual connection. The brief description hints at the complexity of our identity on a physical level. The repetitive use of creative imagination has repeatedly proven to heal wounds both within and without. If there is someone in your life who is a constant irritant, imagine the two of you tied together with a heavy rope on a bare stage. Next, imagine an authority figure of your choice walking towards the two of you with a large scissors. Give permission to the authority figure to cut the ropes that bind you to an unhealthy bond with this other person. See the ropes fall to the floor. Embrace the other person and forgive. If you have trouble forgiving, try and understand that the harsh relationship would never have occurred in the first place if you both were wound free. Do this visualization as often as it takes to achieve the desired result. You will know by the lack of emotional reaction and the new found sense of peace.

Who is the Abuser?

There are people who attract abuse all their life. They blame others for their pain. The question to ask is who really is to blame? I feel abuse is a soul issue. If there is something amiss in the soul, whether it be from a long ago forgotten time or experiences remembered, there is a definite imbalance in the energy field. Something serious is obstructed. If an individual feels good about his or her self, abuse is not attracted or allowed. Somewhere in the soul's journey the imbalance has occurred. It is likely that the imbalances have been of a repetitive nature. Disturbances in the energy field remain unless addressed. It is vitally important that we free ourselves from the hurt, anger and the wounds people and events have directed toward us. Even more important is the abuse we direct toward ourselves. Why is abuse in any form accepted? Once accepted, it is similar to a malignancy.

I feel that humans allow injuries to be stored in the subconscious through lack of a higher knowledge of mental law, which also includes a spiritual ignorance. Spiritual ignorance is not understanding your soul identity and the purpose of life. When understanding is lacking, wounds fester and the human hasn't the faintest clue that he or she is the one who is the abuser. A soul's journey is not honored if abuse is allowed in any form. The physical body is the temple for the soul and the spirit. How can true love, joy and harmony exist if the body, mind and soul is not honored? Who takes the time to analyze what is really going on? Many people do not understand that their thoughts and behavior are undermining the very structure of their being. It is easier to blame another rather than looking at one's own pattern of reacting. When one is both the abuser and the abused, a state of inner disorder continues to attract pain, lack and confusion.

Forgiveness is the angelic road that leads to healing. If we do not forgive others and ourselves, we create strong and unhealthy bonds that continue into future experiences. It is in the forgiving of our lower nature, the ongoing mistakes, that will help us realize that an inner state of disorder is abuse. What is even worse is that the disorder is accepted as normal. The goal is to bring order out of disorder. People get so used to being hurt and in pain that they do not realize the depth of healing that is needed. They become too wounded to care. When we are wounded, we consciously cut ourselves off from our true Source, God. Forgiveness is a beginning~

Final Comments on Mantras

Mantras are a part of my life. If you would like to pursue this subject, I highly recommend the book "Healing Mantras" by Thomas Ashley-Farrand. He covers mantras for attracting love, changing physical and planetary karma, health, mastering fear, abundance and prosperity, self-improvement and working with planetary energies. When we are open-minded to exploring new tools, we can remove attachments and issues that have plagued us since before birth. There is also a mantra to remove unwanted entities attached to you or your home environment. I would suggest chanting, Om Nama Shivaya. (om nah-mah shee-vah-yah) Shiva is consciousness in an expanded and powerful state of being and accomplishment. Christians remove unwanted visitors in the name of Jesus. They can also be removed by the power of Shiva. A statement you could use: May the spirits that are earthbound in this area leave and never return, by the order of Shiva. I have offered this suggestion because it appears that more and more people are being bothered by unwanted entities. You can only remove them if you are ready to let go of them.

If you choose to do mantras, you will experience spiritual change. Mantras work regardless if you have been initiated by a teacher or not. Sounds are directly linked to the activities of the chakras. Each case is unique. There are many traditions who use mantras: Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Chinese Buddhism, mainstream Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. What and how you use them is totally up to you and what the package called your self needs at the time.

According to Vedic cosmology, there are seven luminous spheres of light. Each successive sphere or realm is much more spiritually advanced and sublime than the previous one. If you have read Dante's, The Divine Comedy, it is very similar. As we spiritually develop as humans, we eventually rejoin or consciously merge with God. The Gayatri Mantra is considered the essence of all mantras because it is a simple meditation on spiritual light. I will type the pronunciation for the short form. (Om boo Boo Vah Hah Swah Ha Om Taht Sah Vee Toor Vahr Ehn Yum
Bhahr Go Deh Vahs Yah Dee Mah Hee Dee Yoh Yohn Ah Ha Prah Choh Dah Yaht)
If this is too long and complicated for you simply state, "O Self-effulgent Light that has given birth to all the spheres of consciousness, who is worthy of worship and appears through the orbit of the Sun, illumine our intellect." We have a destiny of service for the planet and her inhabitants. The greater the numbers of those who choose to serve, the easier for humanity as a whole to advance.

Training Wheels-Planetary Mantras

There are unlimited tools available to develop all the necessary circuitry at physical and subtle levels required for us to fulfill our evolutionary needs and our intention. The overall process is like sculpting in clay. The direction and modulation of human energy flow originates in the mind and is empowered by the mind. As part of our training, we can look at the influence of the planets. Astrologers will tell us that certain parts of the body are governed by specific planetary principles. This knowledge is another way of looking at the truth that all creation whether seen or Unseen is one in Essence.

The following information is taken from Vedic, or Eastern, lunar-based astrology.
Sun: Influences the heart, spine, diaphragm, thymus, blood and veins. The mantra is 'Om Sri Suryaya Namaha' pronounced: Om Soor yah yah Nahm ah ha

Moon: Influences stomach, gastric processes, breasts, lymphatic and other non blood fluid systems such as perspiration and saliva, sympathetic nervous system. The mantra is 'Om Sri Chandraya Namaha' pronounced: Om Chan drah yah Nahm ah ha

Mercury: Influences the hands, arms, lungs, sensory organs, some thyroid gland influence. The mantra is 'Om Sri Budhaya Namaha' pronounced: Om Bood hah yah Nahm ah ha

Venus: Influences throat, neck, kidneys, secondary connection with sex organs and feet, some thyroid gland influence. The mantra is 'Om Sri Shukraya Namaha
pronounced: Om Shoo krah yah Nahm ah ha

Mars: Influences sex organs, adrenal glands, red blood cells. Mantra is 'Om sri Angarakaya Namaha pronounced: Om Ahng gah rah kah ya Nahm ah ha

Jupiter: Influences liver, gallbladder, posterior lobe of the pituitary (related to growth), thighs. Mantra is 'Om Sri Gurave Namaha' pronounced Om Goo rah vey Nahm ah ha

Saturn: Influences spleen, skeletal system including cartilage, skin, lower leg from the knee to the ankle, anterior lobe of the pituitary gland (related to body type)
Mantra: Om Sri Shanaishwaraya Swaha pronounced 'Om Shahn eish chahr eye yah Nahm ah ha'

Knowing which planetary aspects may be causing problems offers another tool or route to clearing them.

Will Any Mantra Do?

Preferably, choose a mantra that reflects your discipline, the goal you desire to manifest. Once you seriously begin a spiritual discipline, there will be effects from your effort. What you are doing is clearing out negative energy. Tensions may lessen and in some cases, temporarily increase. Some people experience supernatural things either seen or heard. When you make a choice to chant and your intention is to evolve, you have placed yourself in an energy where spiritual forces are activated. The body is doing two things. It is attracting energy from subtle planes as well as processing the inner energy passing through the chakras. The energy coming in is causing accumulated junk to be released and passed out from your energy world. You have probably already noticed how thoughts and emotions are released and the negative patterns are tapped into.

Speaking of tapping, several of the three hundred plus meridians on the physical body also release trapped energy. Whatever method we use to remove unwanted patterns will more than likely be recalled because they have been important to you on one level or more. Pay close attention to what you feel, see and hear. Many people experience mystical images, designs, at the center of the brow. It is prudent for you to do some research regarding the image given to you. There is a reason why it appeared. Try to be consistent with your spiritual disciplines. I do not look at disciplines as a test. The powerful forces within us frequently resist change. They are used to being in control. Continue your practice even though internal conflict arises and eventually you will achieve victory over the subconscious part of the mind.

Some people confuse fate and karma. Believing in fate is in some ways accepting helplessness, losing control of your life. All too common, people associate karma with a negative condition. It is true that what we send out into the universe returns to us. We have free will. We can through our own soul work heal ourselves from the negative aspect of karma. Vedic teachings describe four types of karma: 1, the sum of all accumulated past actions in all of our previous individual lifetimes. 2, Karma that has resulted from past actions in this current life experience. 3, Results from actions in the present lifetime that will affect future incarnations. 4, Results experienced immediately from our present actions. All actions are stored in the baggage department of the soul. It is interesting how the people we encounter or circumstances we are met with will trigger bits of karma, releasing them and bringing them out into the open. Chanting mantras works directly on all types of karma.

Choose a Mantra

A mantra can be used as a healing tool. There are mantras for healing, abundance, protection, removing obstacles, making the right decision, enlightenment, increasing energy, karma and many other desired results. They obviously are not the only way or even the best way to solve a problem and yet, repetitive mantras create an energy that will work for you. I personally gravitate to the divine sounds recorded by the ancient sages of India and Tibet. We are very complex beings. Mantras like so many other wonderful tools soften problems and create a mindset for healing.

Mantras help in managing emotions. All the really good teachers emphasize mastery of the lower nature, which involves mastery of emotions. If you are depressed, mantra practice can help you regain clarity and a sense of peace and purpose. We can do mantras for other people and help them find the right course of action. They are a simple and ancient tool that does not cost us money...only persevering and time. Positive action is required for anything that is good. Knowing about a useful tool is not enough; we need to remember to use it. Why not experiment with a mantra and find out what it can do for you? Use it in the morning and if you have time again in the evening. Choose a specific length of time and observe what happens to your own energy and life experiences.

One of my favorites is the Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha. It means, Om and salutations to the remover of obstacles for which Gum is the seed. The correct pronunciation is: Om gum Guh-nuh-puh-tuh-yei nahm-ah-ha. This is a universally acknowledged mantra that is very effective for clearing away obstacles of all sorts. This mantra also works to overcome misunderstandings and to get a relationship back on track. It will definitely bring a sense of spirituality into a relationship if you both use the chant. It is not necessary for both of you to chant but, it will remove any hidden or underlying hostility toward the other and bring the feelings to the surface in a joint meditation. Meditating together for a thirty day period is a good thing. Any hurt, resentment, grievance or other lingering negatives can be addressed because a harmony is increased within you and your partner.