Ways To Invoke Nature'S Energy

In his path-breaking book, 'Messages from Water', Masaru Emoto describes the amazing results of his experiments with ordinary water.

Emoto bottled ordinary tap water in various containers and labeled them differently as 'love', 'hate', 'greed', 'compassion', 'terror', 'Bible', 'Koran' and many other such attributes. To each bottle of water, he spoke everyday for 10 minutes in line with its label. To the bottle of water labeled 'love', he spoke on love, with love To the one labeled 'terror', he spoke on terror with an attitude of terror He read the Koran to the bottle labeled likewise. At the end of a month. he froze the water in these bottles separately and studied the frozen crystals of each under a microscope. To his amazement, he found that the crystals of water labeled 'love' shone brilliantly like diamonds. Those labeled 'terror' seemed misshapen, ghostly and somehow fearful. Most amazingly, the crystals from the bottle of water labeled 'Koran' had the imprint of the Holy Kaaba on them! This is the power of words or thoughts on water. Water constitutes more than 80% of our body

system. You can imagine the power of words, our own words and those of others, upon our body system that is made up mostly fluids! In the way that water responds to our thoughts and words, in the same way the rest of the energy of the universe also does.

When we meditate, we invoke the cosmic energy; in fact, the only way for us to link with the cosmic energy is through meditation. The Taitreva Upanishad, an ancient Hindu scripture, said thousands of years ago:

From the energy of the cosmos appeared the energy of the space. From the energy of the space appeared the energy of air. From the energy of air appeared the energy of fire. From the energy of fire appeared the energy of water. From the energy of water appeared the energy of earth. From the energy of earth appeared the energy of health-giving herbs. From the energy of the herbs appeared the energy of plants. From the energy of plants appeared the energy of food. And from the energy of food appeared the human energy.

All energies except the energy of cosmos and space are tangible and can be accessed physically. The only way to access the energy of cosmos and space, of which we are a part, is to be one with them, to be aware that we are one with them. The way for this is meditation.

At the time Bharat was occupied by the British, their soldiers used to travel between England and Bharat often. Thev found that when they carried water from England in their ships to Bharat, the

water spoilt even while on ship. However, when they carried water back from Bharat, the water not only stayed fresh through the voyage, but was still consumable when they reached England.

When scientists studied this surprising phenomenon, they found that this water had been taken from the sacred river Ganges in Calcutta in Bharat and had properties of killing harmful bacteria and rejuvenating itself.

It is no wonder because millions of those who have prayed to the river Ganges over thousands of years have left their chants and prayer imprints that have made this water so energizing.

The river Nile has been studied by the Egyptians over thousands of years by measuring its flow, level, turbulence and other properties. They have found that these parameters of this great river have been found to reflect catastrophic incidents in distant parts of the world, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. This great river foretold events, if only we knew how to read them.

The universe responds to us; it responds to the state of our being; it responds to our awareness. The state of being should be responsible for our status and for the status to be sustained. Status without state of mind brings us only grief. If you wish to see atheists, all that you need to do is to go and see priests in the temples. They take God so much for granted that they treat God as a stone. They are invested with status without having acquired the necessary state.

The priests in the temples should be the most loving people ever but in reality it is quite different. They have become so commercial. Every moment they are with the idols, chanting the name of the Lord, bathing in holy waters, performing fire offerings, meditating and what not. But rarely does one see divinity in them. They claim God is everywhere but their body language shows no sign of it.

There are multiple ways and steps to becoming one with Existence. The energies in this world range from the grossest which is the Earth energy to the subtlest and most powerful which is the space energy. Initially, we worship the Earth energy in the form of idols that are installed in places of worship. It is much easier in the initial stages to relate to this gross energy because it is tangible and can be felt easily. Then, we move to other forms like water as in taking a holy dip in the waters of sacred rivers like the Ganges. Then we move to a higher and more abstract level as in worshipping fire through yajna (ritual fire sacrifice). One step further is realizing that Existence pervades the air and using mantras (holy chants) to attune oneself with Existence. Finally, we aim to become one with Existence which pervades us as the space energy, through meditation

If only the priests really felt the truth behind these things and brought in awareness every moment, every action of theirs would take them closer to realization. But they completely miss the grand truth behind these rituals. They reduce them to mere activity. There is no spirit in it, no reverence in it. They can themselves experience the oneness with Existence as well as offer that experience to people through their profession. But this does not happen. The mass of them have moved away from the underlying truth.

And most of them enjoy a special status in the most revered temples of Bharat and abroad; the temples are revered by virtue of the energy field present there due to the energies left behind by great enlightened Master of yester years.

I always tell people: The state is what you should aim for. The status will automatically follow the state; don't bother about the status. When you genuinely aspire for the state, you won't be bothered about the status anyway. That is the reason an enlightened person is so established in his state. He is not bothered about the status even though he is worshipped. Compassion for and responsibility of the entire world descends on the enlightened person. He becomes just a medium through which Existence works its miracles.

I constantly get emails from all over the world from people who have not met me recently saying, 'Master, you came to me in my dream and removed my sufferings', 'You gave me darshan (appearance) in my dreams and healed me', 'You appeared in front of me and answered my questions.' Then, they ask me, 'Master, do you really know when you appear and give darshan to us?'

Now, let me tell you very clearly, I do not know. I have rented this body to the Divine, that's all. Because I disappeared, the Divine is using this form to guide you. The moment I claim that I gave darshan, the whole thing is over. The moment I declare it is I who appeared, it is over. Then, the Divine will stop using this form. As long as I am very clear this is not me, it is just Existence using this form She will continue to use this flute to play her songs. I am just a hollow bamboo for Parashakti (Universal energy in the form of the Divine Mother) to play her music, that's all.

We need to be very clear on how God or Existence flows through every being as much as he or she allows it to. The lesser the resistance, better the flow. And what is this resistance? Ego, that's all. That is why we say, an enlightened Master is Existence itself and is completely egoless.

God is like a dustbin for most of us. When something goes well, we take credit for it. When something goes wrong, we blame God for it. God is great if He answers our prayers. Please remember. God is even greater when He does not make your prayers come true; because only He knows how dangerous your prayers are to you! Look at what man has done: He has piled up atomic weapons which can destroy Earth 100 times over. With such an attitude, you can imagine what kind of prayers he would be putting to God! What will happen if God fulfilled all those prayers?

Understand: Not only the prayers of those who made the atomic weapons, even our own prayers are dangerous in ways we don't know. We ask for name and fame. Imagine if name and fame came to us and we did not know how to handle it! It can be a dangerous thing for us. We will simply destroy ourselves. Imagine if we asked for more money and we spent all of it without frugality? We would be left with lesser money than earlier. So God knows what we are made up of and how much of what we can handle. He will give us that much only.

But we keep blaming God for not giving us all that we want, for everything we ask for. When we keep getting whatever we want, we end up with depression of success. Your status overcomes your state. Status without state of mind, power without wisdom, can kill a person. This is why God does not answer most of our prayers.

A small Zen story:

Once, a disciple asked a Zen Master, 'What is the difference between your life before and after enlightenment?'

The Master replied, 'When I started, a mountain was a mountain and a river was a river; when I

traveled, a mountain was not a mountain and a river; when I reached, a mountain was again a mountain and a river again a river.'

Before achieving enlightenment, you are ordinary. Halfway across your path to enlightenment, you already feel that you have reached and you feel extraordinary though you are still ordinary. When you have reached, you have shed your ego, you no longer care for status; you have attained the state and you feel ordinary even though you are extraordinary. This is the truth conveyed through this beautiful story.

We, as a part of this Universe, are part of its potential and part of its chaos and order. When we try and be in control of us and others, when we try to be perfect, we violate this cosmic order,

Perfectionism is a disease; it leads to madness. Orderly people tend to inflate their ego and suffer through perfectionism.

We try to maintain order because we believe we have boundaries. Let go of your boundaries and your need for order will disappear; joy will appear. The problem is we are always taught anything with the help of boundaries. We are taught we are Hindus and there we draw a boundary which demarcates Hindus from Christians. Muslims. Jains and what not. We are taught we are socialists; then and there we draw a boundary that demarcates us from communists, fascists and what not. We are taught we belong to upper middle class family and there we draw the boundary that demarcates us from the upper class, the middle class, the lower class and what not. We are brought up with boundaries, in every other aspect of upbringing.

Because of this, we perceive ourselves in such a limited fashion. We try and see the boundaries in everything around us, all the non-existent boundaries. It is like trying to pluck at non-existent lint. There is nothing there and you try to create something and discover it. While we are chaotic energies, like electrons that are traveling at super speed, all charged up, we perceive ourselves to be such limited beings.

When you realize the Cosmic Consciousness within yourself, you will discover the order that is inherent in you, without doing yourself harm. You will accept yourself as you are and others as they are.

When you experience the order in the cosmic chaos, you experience bliss; when you realize the chaos within you as order, you exude compassion: that compassion surely will lead you to enlightenment.