PURNIMA🔗

Purnima, the full moon, is linked to our mindset. Listen to me in silence tonight. My silence is my essence. My words are mere skin. You get caught in the skin and forget the fruit. Those of you who do not understand Tamil are blessed; you are the right people to enjoy tonight. These fellows think they understand, but understand something else.

The salt water in the ocean is turbulent on full moon and new moon days. In Rameshwaram, the sea has waves only on full moon days. The moon makes salt water agitated. Our body is made up of only salt water. We get agitated during full moon days. Lunar and lunatic are linked. The mind moves up and down with the influence of the moon. When the mind gets agitated, memories or samskara get deeply embedded. The blood is agitated on full moon night. That is why rishis prescribed spiritual events on full moon nights. All 12 full moon nights of the year are festival days. This is so that seeds of spirituality are planted on these days and they go deep.

Naturally

One who is satisfied with material pleasures leads an animal life. Humans cannot be fulfilled by physical pleasures alone. Humans become discontented with material pleasures alone. This discontent leads to the search for God. Such a discontented person is blessed.

Have you ever seen a discontented buffalo? It does not go to meditation class! Its consciousness does not give rise to discontent. Experiencing deep dissatisfaction in spite of basic comforts is what leads to spirituality.

When we have a headache, we try to go back to our state of no headache-ness, which was comfortable. Similarly humans try to go back to their natural state, more than material comforts, when there was no discontent.

Of Cosmic Energy

Temples are created just to hold enormous energies. Enlightened Masters install their energy in them. All the great Indian temples are installed by enlightened Masters. It is like when a rich person dies, he leaves all his property through his will to somebody - his sons, daughters or some relatives. He leaves all the property. In the same way, when an enlightened person leaves his body, he leaves all his tapas - penance, all his punya - merits installed in temples. Our Masters have designed beautiful batteries which can hold this energy and radiate it for thousands of years. Temples are the batteries in which they have stored their energy.

At the Los Angeles ashram

At the International Vedic Hindu University (IVHU) campus, Florida, USA - 2007. The university, formerly known as the Hindu University of North America was handed over in toto to Parmahamsa.

MAGICAL MANIFESTATIONS

We should understand one thing: how our prayers become reality, how our prayers come to real life, how they become reality. If you keep a picture slide in front of a projector light, you will see that picture on the screen as reality. If you keep a temple picture slide, you will see the temple. If you keep an actor's picture slide, you will see that actor. Whatever you keep in front of the projector light, you will see that in reality. In the same way whatever thought we keep in front of concentrated energy, you will see that the thought becomes reality! The garbha mandirs - sanctum sanctorum of temples - are intense energy centers created by enlightened Masters and maintained by regular pujas - offerings, and mantras - chants. Continuous repetition of mantras charges the whole energy. The whole space is kept alive. When you go and stand in front of such an energy field, when you offer your thoughts, simply the whole thing becomes reality!

Enlightened Masters when they leave planet Earth, when they leave their body, they feel there should be a space which can continuously inspire people, which can continuously heal, which can inspire, which can give people the experience of spirituality, which can give them a sacred feeling. That is why they have created these structures - temples.

Paramahamsa