Mantra for Gemini🔗

In this mantra, Aum is the primordial sound and is the representation of Śiva's energy, the male aspect of the universe. Actually, Aum is the cosmic sound that pervades the grahas, their movements and their effects on us.

The Bīja mantra (seed sound), Hrīṁ, has no linguistic meaning but encloses a powerful vibration which attunes you to the primordial energy from which the grahas originate: the female energy, Śakti.

Nithyananda means Eternal Bliss and invokes the truth which is our true nature, and the nature of our own intelligence. It is the pūrṇa mūla mantra (the complete mantra) because it represents a straight path to both Śakti (success in this world) and to Śiva (success in the cosmic world) which is 'enlightenment'. Namaḥa means ‘I surrender’ my ego to Existence, to the Master. Thus this sacred mantra awakens the completeness and fulfillment inside us and balances the male and female energies which exist inside every one of us.

The repetition of this mantra is a powerful technique which can be performed throughout the day as you go about your daily routine. It can also be uttered aloud 108 times every morning. The number 108, which is a multiple of 9, has been sacred since time immemorial. That is because the number 9 is the limit of all numbers: 0 to 9 is all one needs to make up an infinite amount of numbers. Therefore, 108 symbolizes and connects you to infinity.

Its beautiful sound should be pronounced clearly and as loudly as possible and from the navel region.

Eventually, this mantra will replace your inner chatter and create silence in your mind. Your whole being integrates itself towards enlightenment which leads you out of the dynamic of karma and planetary effects.

Are you feeling bored? If you think too much, naturally, you will be bored. Through thinking, you compare time as past, future and present. Through thinking you can hope. Your thinking will ask for the meaning of it all. If you ask 'What is the meaning of life?' you will give a meaningless answer to it. And when this meaninglessness is felt, one feels bored. Animals are never bored; trees and stones are not bored. They never ask what the purpose of life is, so they never feel it is meaningless. They accept their existence as it is. There is no boredom ever. Man only feels bored. And to counteract boredom laughter is necessary. Laughter is the natural antidote to boredom. Seriousness is the fuel of it. So which will you choose?

Devotion towards God is the ultimate happening in life; it paves the way to your enlightenment. When your prayer becomes gratitude, you attract more benevolence to you. Real prayer is not reading prayer books, it is not offering material things to god, it is not donating money to temples; it is deep and silent gratitude to the whole of Existence for being what it is. It is the undaunted trust that Existence is taking care. Prayer is a celebration of the benevolence of Existence. When you pray this way, Existence responds. When Existence responds, it comes to you as more benevolence in your life. This is the virtuous cycle of prayer and blessing.

Worry and tension come when you think you are the doer. And you get tired soon. But if you shift the sense of ownership to a higher energy and continue to do your work blissfully, you will feel tremendously relaxed! Be very clear, when you surrender to an enlightened Master, you are actually surrendering to one who has no ego, no identity and hence no vested interest of his own. He is one with and overflowing with Existence. By holding his hand, you ask him to take you also to the ocean of bliss he is in. When you surrender to the higher energy, you can never feel drained and exhausted because you are directly connected to the one who is an embodiment of infinite energy. This is the gift of surrender. Become the surrender.

Our problems in life are not speculative. You cannot solve them by thinking only. You can only solve them by feeling them. You can only enter into those experiences of struggles and pain, instead of standing aside and trying to resist it. To integrate your reactions to life, you have to feel them fully, instead of suppressing them pretending everything is alright. The mind thinks it can even find solutions to emotions without feeling them through the body. First you have to feel things, and then you can become a witness of it. Otherwise, you will lose your connection to the physical. You will operate from the head only, and the body will disconnect itself from the mind. Slowly, we have lost our contact with our own presence.

Spending time arguing for your point of view and then working on healing the situation afterwards is a waste of time. Your very views, your very mind, are just a creation made out of all the samskaras collected through your own life experiences. The person standing in front of you is also a creation of her own experience, which is different from yours. Fortunately, why there is so much diversity in the world is a question without answer! It is not there to be discussed, but there to be enjoyed! Any knowledge that brings you back to the understanding that life has no logic at all is the right knowledge. If people don't understand it, then better not debate with them for some time.

Budha (Mercury god) as represented in Tiruvannamalai Ashram (India). Around Mercury stand the other 8 Navagraha deities (deities associated with the nine planets), along with their Navagraha trees (trees associated with the nine planets), to bless all with abundance. The circle of deities is placed around the main deities of the temple, Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari; located near a powerful energy field of 1008 Śiva lingas radiating Śiva's cosmic energy in an extremely auspicious atmosphere.