Vedic Tradition – Here And Now

In the ancient traditional vedic system, before the Gayatri initiation – the initiation into the prayer for awakening the innate intelligence in the child – he will be made to live in this mriga shareera or animal body for six months. In today's modern world, the whole system has disappeared. It has been simply washed away. We can forgive all the injustice done to Bharat in the name of war and plundering; we can forgive even the damage done to our wonderful ancient temples, because they can be rebuilt. But we cannot forgive the destruction of our vedic education system, the vedic tradition that got destroyed during foreign rule. Nearly two hundred thousand vedic gurukul centers or universities were there in South Bharat alone. Two lakh gurukuls were there in South Bharat alone. Now there are hardly six thousand. In the vedic tradition, when a child takes birth, they will clearly predict, from which animal the child took birth, and what samskaras he is carrying. They will help the child release those samskaras in his young age itself. Yoga is also one of the ways to release these engrams. That is why each asana or posture is related to one particular animal in a certain way. The posture is a technique to release the associated engrams. Then, when the body becomes graceful and pure, they will program it with the Gayatri initiation, with the mantra and with the energy.

The whole system was lost because the gurukul system was lost. Now, even the so-called Brahmins, who wear the yagmopavita (sacred white thread), do not know anything of these long-lost traditions. They don't even know why they wear that thread. The science is largely lost. Earlier, by age ten, you are expected to finish all these things. Now, I am giving you a half hour opportunity to live like the vedic times. If you do this meditation intensely, understand, not a single engram will remain in you.

In those times, an enlightened master would guide the whole process and tell the children individually, which animal engram he took birth from. They would ask him to eat in the same way as that animal; live in the same way; create sounds in the same way. The child would become almost that! There is a beautiful story of a boy Satyakama japa in the Chandogya Upanishad. His spiritual name is Shwetaketu. I have spoken on this story in the discourse entitled 'The Happening'. He took birth from a cow's engrams. Following the master's instruction, he went away and lived with cows for a few years, until they multiplied into 1000 cows, and then came back. As soon as he came back, with just a single word from the master, he became enlightened!

So understand: this is a very powerful process. Of course, unfortunately in today's rat race, we don't have six months to live like animals, but at least this next thirty minutes, we can live intensely to release our animal engrams. Even if you bring out most part of the lust and greed in you, it is enough. The other smaller samskaras, I can take care of. From your side, just work towards removing strong and heavy samskaras like lust, anger and fear. When you get fear out, your whole body will be shivering. Just visualize how an animal shivers and shiver in the same way. In the tips of your nails and teeth, you will feel violence. Even now, sometimes you can feel this when you look at your in-laws, mother-in-law especially! And this is the case mostly in Bharat. In USA, the relationship between the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law is much better because when they meet, they have time only for work - like babysitting etc. When the motherin-law babysits, some responsibility is temporarily taken away from the daughter-in-law for those few hours, so she is very happy. Also, they meet only occasionally, so it is not a problem.