Garbha Upanishad (1)

This Upnishad Explains in detail about the conception and growth of a child in the mother’s womb, while it still resides in the womb, in the form of a fetus. At each stage of development in the womb, the physical condition of the child’s body and the mental state and the condition of the jeevan (the soul) within is also explained in detail in this scripture, The soul trapped within the maternal womb, goes through a state of emotional turmoil, remembering past births and deaths.. It is great wonder that our ancient Rishis (the seers of truth) were able to grasp and visualize such intense secrets about the body and soul in those ancient days when there were no traces of today’s modern science and research. To go a step ahead, we can even say that parts of this Upanishad are yet to be physically researched and understood by the modern scientists and will remain unknown to the Science world till such time. This Upanishad is part of the Krishna Yajur Veda.

Garbha Upanishad states that the fetus before birth promises God not to repeat evil deeds but during the process of birth, a force called the ‘Vaishnava Prana touches him, and he forgets his thoughts and prayers. This entails repeating the process of learning and seeking the ultimate truth once again in the life granted.

The body is Fivefold in nature (the five elements), existing in the five, depending on the six support (Tastes of food), connected with the six qualities, (kama etc.) seven Dhatus (tissues), three impurities, having two yonis (of excretion), and (nourished by) four kind of food.

Why is the body called as “Panchaatmakam?” (Pancha -Five)

Because it is constituted out of the five forces of nature, the five elements – viz., Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Ether. In this body, whatever is hard is of Earth, liquid is water, warm is fire, whatever moves about is air and space-enclosed is ether. The function of the Earth is to support; water is to consolidate (digestion etc.). Fire is to see, wind is for moving, and Ether is to give space (for vital functions).

There the earth is to support, water is to consolidate, fire is for light, Air is for movement (sound), and ether is to provide space. Separately, ear are receive words, the skin for touch, eyes are used in seeing form, tongue for taste, nose for smell, and genitalia are for pleasure and apana evacuation. One cognizes with the intellect buddhi, evacuations with the mind manas, and speak with words vak.

How is the six-fold support? It is said to be the six tastes (of food) sweet, acid, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. And sadja, rsabha, gandhara, panchama, madhyama, dhaivata, nishada, together with agreeable and disagreeable sounds and prayer, make ten categories.


It has White, Red, and Black smokey gray, Yellow, Tawny and Pale-White – these are the colours of the seven Dhatus (tissues). Why? For Devadatta (any person) there springs up in his mind desire for enjoyment of objects. From the proper combination of qualities, six types of taste (rasa) emerge. From relish of food blood is born, from it is flesh, thence fat, bones, marrow, semen; by the combination of semen and blood the embryo/foetus (garbha) is born. And its growth is regulated by the heart (mother’s heartbeat as well as the embryo’s).

The seven dhatua are in the heart where there’s inner fire; at the place of the fire I pitta (bile); at the pitta-organs is movement (vayu); and at the vayu -place is the heart, all groiwing in order according to the law (Prajapati)

THE METHOD TO LIBERATE ONESELF FROM LIFE AND DEATH

Due to the actions performed, the body has to undergo transmigration and as a result a wale of sufferings. Humans can liberate themselves only when they realize the eternal truth and the supreme God in their heart. That supreme God is formless but can be attained by devotion, faith and pure love. A person who realizes him becomes immortal and is freed from the vicious cycle of life and death.

At the time of death the soul leaves the physical body but takes the wiliness body and Conscious body along with it. The body is a carrier of soul

All the egg cells in the ovary of the female are formed before birth, and none can be formed later. The male is different; Spermatozoa are continuously being formed in his testicles from puberty onwards, and into old age. The father determines the sex of the child.
According to Hindu Texts when one dies, his soul or life energy or soul which is enveloped in the Linga Sarira or a subtle sheath and invested with the sum total of good and bad Karma passes after sometime into another plane shaping of the gross body as a man castes of his own - out clothes and put on new one.

His re- birth then take place in a physical body corresponding with the deeds done by him in his previous life. The process of death and birth go on until Moksha or final liberation. The Karma is the result of our actions and our actions are due to our thoughts and hence it is man who creates his karma for it is the product of his thought.

The formation of the embryo and its stages of development

On a perfect day and on the uniting of the male and female reproductive fluids, after the lapse of one night, the embryo is in a mixed (semi-fluid) state. After seven nights from thereon, it takes the shape of a bubble formed out of water. At the end of a fortnight, it takes the shape of a solid lump. It gets solidified and hardened at the end of one month.

In two months, the head takes form. At the end of three months, the legs and foot are formed.

And by the fourth month, the wrist, stomach and the hip, waist etc are formed. During the fifth month, the spine and the adjoining bones get shaped. The Mouth, Nose, Eyes and the Ears are all formed during the sixth month.

In the seventh month, life or the jivan (Soul) enters the body shaped so far. By the eighth month, it attains full shape and gets fulfilled with all other remaining parts.

Man’s History ---

Man's History is the history of his struggle to conquer the nature and harness it in the service of mankind. The more we read the man’s history and scriptures more we get convinced that a vast reservoir of powerful facilities are dormant within us and once these are activated one could create a life Maharishi Valmiki could even create “KUSH” out of a straw.

In a day of yore, two pieces of wood were rubbed against each other to produce flames. The sparks were invisible till they were brought out. Likewise, milk contains Gee but it can not be seen till a special process is adopted.

It is also true that the finest machines made by man cannot be compared with the marvels of the human body and the intricate way in which all parts work together to keep in health. Here is a living organism that not only reproduces its own kind, but also repairs itself and has the ability to think and plan for the future, so that race is preserved and its ideals are perpetuated.

Our life functions in an organic connectivity. We are one life and this life itself is godliness. While we are creating conflict constantly, living in man-made divisions of religions, races and nations, a man of meditation comes to realize that there exit no divisions and fractions in life. All divisions exist only in the over-developed heads and under-developed heads of people. We are conscious of the leaves, branches and stream of the tree, but we cannot see the roots of the tree, the source of one life. This is the real misery of men on earth.

As in every part of the human body, there is a wonderful harmony and inner strength that enable it to overcome almost serious handicap. Trouble comes when that harmony is broken. Perhaps, through poor habits in living. The germs of decease may then enter and eventually destroy the body unless they are checked by normal defense mechanisms of the body.

Cosmic Cobweb:-

The Universe is a cosmic cobweb of God, who is the Great Spider, who spins it out with his own excretions. We are flies caught in the cobweb, but our slightest motion disturbs the entire cobweb and brings it to the notice of the Great Spider.

The Spider is aware of the fly, as the fly is aware of the Spider. The Spider can harm or help the fly as it chooses. But this choice is not arbitrary. If proceeds from our past Karma, our pains and pleasures, gains and looses, friends and foes is the product of our previous Karma.

When God created the universe and the soul entered the human body, the embodied soul needed divine guidance to lead a meaningful life. That’s when divine guidance came to man though the Vedas. In the Yajur Veda, the second mantra ea= in the 26th chapter makes it clear that the right to read the Vedas is universal. The ea= mantra reads:

Yatheman vacham kalyanima vadani janebhyah
Brahma raianyabhyam shudrai charyaych swaya charnat ch…

UNIVERSE:- We are living on a small earth, which is a part of one solar system, (a physical Plan) which can be seen by the naked eyes. There are eight Plans.

1. Physical.
2. Astral
3. Causal
4. Super Causal
5. Cosmic
6. Super Cosmic
7. Nameless and
8. Absolute

We should know--Where we are? What we are? Why we are? And where we were?

The Physical body- The Physical Body is two types, one is wiliness body and the other is Conscious body. Will or lust of will when completed the soul leaves the wiliness body like the Physical Body . Wiliness Body is one which is called as Pretatma movements are like mad, these cannot stay at one place, to full fill its will and wish it wanders here and there, and when it finds any live person’s will, according to its own nature, it full fill via their body. Pretatma has got a very attachment towards Physical Body . If it finds alike its will it enters in that body and full fills its wishes.

But Conscious Body does not have such tendencies. The body with Conscious Soul is called Consciousness Body and these have got self-determination, wishes with particular aim lives in these bodies.

PHYSICAL

Consciousness body and is having tremendous power. Its will power also determined. The consciousness body lives at one place only. If it finds a difficult to get a physical body, it would get into the Physical body of its own near and dear person with its own determination. It will full fill all it’s will and wishes through its own near and dear.

A person, who has developed, his conscious body with Yoga Sadhna, He can see them and have a contact with them. Willness body and Consciousness body also have one or two different subjects. Willness body also called the All the three bodies are inter related and depend on each other. At the time of death the Soul leaves the Physical Body but remains with two other bodies.


The first three stages are in our body. Physical Body being when we are alive; when we die our ethereal counter part of body gets freedom from the physical body and goes to astral. The astral world is the subtle universe compound of finer then atomic forces, vibration of life energy. At physical death, man goes in his astral body of light to one of the astral planets according to merit of KARMAS.

Know Yourself

i.e. “Die when you live” so the Swamis and Sadhu and Saints do Yoga Sadhana and meditation. By taking SAMADHI Meditation Sadhak takes out his soul from his body and see the body with out soul, which is only a dead body, Where is I……….when he was alive, he use to speak ? It is here………. out of Body, then the realization of the inner self comes, It only can be done in guidance of GURU because for entering and taking soul GURU guidance is required.

The entire quest of Sadhana is to look for and to realize this inner self. This is when you get to know your inner self and then you start knowing that you are a different entity and this body is not really you, you will start getting your answers from within, “Your inner self is that entity which keeps your system tickling all the time”.

Occultists believe that the soul or austral body can be free from physical body LFkwy 'kjhj by disciplines of concentration akin to yoga. But there are numerous occasions when black magic take the form of occult and give it a bad name the unscrupulous wizards and magicians. They thrive, crude forms, of pagan worship.

AUSTRAL

Hate Fear Anger Violence Jealousy

Love Non-fearing Kindness Friendship Affection

The Astral body is constantly in a state of alert. It never rests. Impressions of its activities, excitement and dynamism even as it interacting with a subtler and a grosser body are passed on to the surrounding astral atmosphere. This disturbance is akin to that created by a loudspeaker in its surrounding. Its diaphragm vibrates to the tune that is broadcast and sound waves propagating there from making the listener aware of the tune. In the same manner astral body causes a wave of disturbance in astral atmosphere. The aura-seer ( Body Radiation) picks up these vibrations when he gets tuned to receive them (like tuning in to AIR broadcasts).

CAUSAL

Suspicious Consideration


Tolerance Discretion


All these human conscious is called psychology. It is divided into three different parts] in these first two are believed to be the subject of scientist research but

is basically still a headache and a subject beyond the scientists reach and this is only parapsychology where psychology ends there is only the start of parapsychology.

Indian culture and society’s basic stage is at this time in parapsychology scientists have three-research subject.

1. Extrasensory Perception
2. Physical Kenacis
3. Incorporeal personal Agency

Book that will changes the course of your life

PREFACE

New books are being published every day, and millions of books are available Worldwide. Still people just love reading them. The thirst for knowledge and wisdom, fiction and fun is insatiable. Once in a while we come across a book that transforms us and changes the course of our life.

There are millions of books in the world, but this book of stands out far above any other book in existence. It is unfortunate that very few people are acquainted with this book because it is not a religious scripture. It is a parable, a fiction, but containing oceanic truth. It is a small book; this single book contains my whole experience.

“It is an extraordinary book in the sense that you can read it and miss it completely, because the meaning of the book is not in the words of the book. The meaning of the book is running side by side in silence between the words, between the lines, in the gaps. If you are in a state of meditativeness if you are not only reading a fiction but you are encountering the whole religious experience of a great human being, absorbing it; not intellectually understanding it. The words are there but they become secondary. Something else becomes primary: the silence that those words create. The words affect your mind, and the music goes directly to your heart.”

Reading a book like the book is an art by itself. And it is a book to be read by the heart, not by the mind. It is a book not to be understood, but experienced. It is something phenomenal. Millions of people have tried to write books so that they can express the inexpressible, but they have utterly failed. If you allow it, the book becomes alive and something starts happening to your being.”

It is my Joy to state that the subject covered in this book of Total knowledge to bring complete enlightenment to everyone, simply because it is the essence of our sacred Shshtras, Puranas, Vedas, and epics. The secretes of the nature are unrevealed before our eyes.

And as these secrets of nature are unrevealed before our eyes, we come to understand ourselves more fully and appreciate the benefits of living in harmony with the laws of nature. These are the laws that guide the sun and the stars, and cause the plants to grow and the flowers to bloom. This is the power we see at work within the human mind and the body, the power of the life itself. Such a study not only helps us to closer to the great mind that rules the mighty Universe all around us.

A living being, especially civilized man, has a natural desire to live forever in happiness. This is quite natural because, in his original state, the living being is both eternal and joyful. However, in the present conditioned state of life, he is engaged in a struggle against recurring birth and death. Therefore he has attained neither happiness nor immortality.

The latest desire man has developed is the desire to travel to other planets. This is also quite natural, because he has the constitutional right to go to any part of the material or spiritual skies. Such travel is very tempting and exciting because these skies are full of unlimited globes of varying qualities, and they are occupied by all types of living entities. The desire to travel there can be fulfilled by the process of yoga, which serves as a means by which one can transfer himself to whatever planet he likes--possibly to planets

Where life is not only eternal and blissful, but where there are multiple varieties of enjoyable energies. Anyone who can attain the freedom of the spiritual planets need never return to this miserable land of birth, old age, disease and death.

One can attain this stage of perfection very easily by his individual effort. He can simply follow, in his own home, the prescribed method of Bhakti-yoga. This method, under proper guidance, is simple and enjoyable. An attempt is made herein to give information to the people in general, and to philosophers and religionists in particular, as to how one can transfer oneself to other planets by this process of Bhakti-yoga --the highest of all yogic processes.

We are lucky to have been born on this sacred land, which once upon a time was the Land of gods. It can and should still regain its glory, if we, the devotees, the worshipers of the Vedic (Indian) Philosophy, sincerely adopt its values and attempt towards spiritual elevation of our conduct and refinement of the ambience around us. Divine beings generate love, peace, beauty, piety, bliss and prosperity wherever they go. We should also adopt and expand such qualities.

Truly we live in a thrilling age. Everyday new discoveries are being made, so that we may live without pain and unnecessary suffering. We are continuously finding new ways of conquering the dread diseases that have so long held the whole human race in bondage.

It is also well known that the quest for health is almost as old as the human race itself. This we know from the most ancient writing of the past. And still the wonderful search goes on, for there is no quest in which man and woman are as vitally interested as in this search for vibrant, youthful living.

Man is the most superior creation of the cosmic order. Once he knows how he can improve his fortune, he will certainly take measures to improve it. He will become the architect of his destiny and not a tool of the destiny.

Human is better placed than the other species. He is not born just to enjoy pleasures. All sentiment being eaten, drinks, sleep, and possess sexual impulses. The Beast need not labor much to obtain their needs but the civilized man has to toil to get his food and shelter. By mere eating of grass the elephant grows to a huge size. A lion deprived of its meat will not consume grass. But man’s desire can never be satisfied, by enjoying pleasure. He has been gifted with various senses and he should use them properly.

The animals confronted with danger protect themselves in many ways. But man has no poisonous fangs to bite. Their hands and legs are used for constructive purposes. The organs provided for man should be utilized for creative purposes. The organs provided for man should be utilized for creating conditions for better living. No doubt that all the beings in the world have been created by a super power –God.

The millions of creature from amoebas to mighty animals do not acquire knowledge, but the human beings are a special category and they desire to equip themselves with knowledge and regulate their day-to-day activities.

You've been building value within you all your life. It is the priceless value of experience, and every bit of it is still with you.

Today you have more than you've ever had. Think of all the Good and useful things you can do with that wealth of Experience.

From every victory, from every defeat, that experience grows Wiser and more valuable. And now, in this moment, you can utilize the value of your lifelong experience to create even more value.

Your perspective is unique, and from that perspective you can build a richness of living that is perfectly suited to you. What's more, you can share that richness with those around you to make it even more fulfilling. What a great opportunity you have. And you do indeed have it, wherever you are and whatever you've been through.

Feel, appreciate and explore your living and growing wealth of experience. You are worth far more than you can ever imagine, so imagine the very best and bring it to life.

Man wants to be Happy- but the interpretation of Happiness for every individual is completely different. To some happiness means a relationship with God. For most of people means earning a substantial amount of money.

Therefore as you read this book, keep in mind that happiness is a word that is loosely used without knowing what means is really. In other words happiness could mean different things to different people. To me a relationship with God could mean something completely different to different people to some it could mean a religion of some sort that you practice and to some it is a relationship with God means seeking the truth and then living by that truth.

As I think of all the people who have helped me to write this book I am filled with emotions of gratitude.

First, I would like to thank my creator for giving me the wisdom and strength to complete this book. I realize today that God is bigger than any problem I could ever experience.

I want to thanks my parents. You have been a light to me in times of darkness.

Finally, I want to thank you (the readers) for reading this Preface of the book.

You posses Humility, Courage and Power.

Humility-because you are willing to learn.
Courage-because you are willing to break through your fears and go after your dreams. and
Power- because you’re not just dreaming about improving your life, you are doing something about it.

The significance of saying NAMASKAR ( नमस्कार ) :-

One of the single contributions of Hinduism to the world to solve problems which trouble various nations is the weapon termed “Namaskar” नमस्कार a method to express the view that God resides in the heart of every person. Folding the palms and bowing the head can help us to ford across linguistic and other barriers. Namaskar diminishes our selfishness and induces in us the desire to help others and cooperate with them to fetch peace.

In religious parlance this step of displaying our utter humility is also termed “Anjali.” The significance behind this demonstration of one’s modesty is the acceptance of the theory that the obeisance shown is to the Almighty who has taken a birth in every heart. There is the presence of the Divine in all souls. This noble concept has been given to the world of culture by the Hindu religion.

Saying “Namaste” नमस्ते or doing the “Pranam” प्रणाम Removes from us, the feeling of enmity, jealously and selfishness, it makes us forget the differences between the higher and the low. In the present day, people tend to give up their faith in God by monstrously constricting their hearts. Resorting to the offering of salutations to even those who may hate us can change the situation.

The classic example of invoking divine help in times of peril is that of Draupadi mentioned in our Scripture. When even her husbands could not help, she gave an open acknowledgement of her surrender through this gesture and God’s help was instantaneous. So did the innocent maiden of the village where the Lord resided during His incarnation as Shri Krishna in His youngest days. The scriptures beckon us to accept that God who has created us has also taken a place in our hearts.

The scriptures create an awakening in us that all are but the children of God. Behind this concept lies the tradition of doing the Pranam and prostrating by even aged men before sages, saints, Godly men and divine personalities though they may be young because they are messengers of God.

PHILOSOPHY OF NAMASTE

(नमस्ते ) :- The main point of all Indian Spiritual practices is to raise the Kundalini Shakti (The agent of soul expansion) from the Muldhara Chakra in the perineum to the Sahasara Chakra in the head, thereby enlarging knowledge and insight and opening up the world of higher consciousness. All the exercise found in our various systems of Yoga, namely, Bhakti, (Devotion,) Karma (action), and Jnana, (Knowledge), are based on /Dharma (Righteousness) and are complementary in the process which is evolutionary in nature. This is the concept of Ardhanaareesware (Shiva and Shakti in one cosmic form).

Shiva is the Lord of Yoga in our tradition and the Shakti Bio-Energy that is Creative power in us to realize the highest goal in life. Ardhanaareeswara is the one cosmic Form in which both the matter and spirit are perfectly united and integrated. We are reminded of this highest philosophy of life as and when we do NAMASTE in our day to day life because the wise people who introduced this Namaste in our culture knew that in this practice alone lays our real happiness.

The literary meaning of Namaste is (नमस्ते ) I bow my head in front of you. The simple act on the part of a person of bringing the left hand and right hand together. Just over the breast is accepted as a humble greeting and reciprocated accordingly knowing or unknowingly, however helped themselves to make any progress in their lives and in the lives of the others did it in tune with the spirit of Namaste नमस्ते. Where ever the humility is absent and not expressed in any human forms of matter and spirit, whether it is in the relationship between employer and the employed, Student and teacher, rich and poor, man and woman etc. there remain tension and frustration in the life of man and woman and nation.

We do many things, which include criticizing and fault finding without knowing why and for what we are doing them. These actions produce no meaningful result compared to those of a man who acts with proper understanding. The gesture of Namaste embodies the efforts to know and act properly. The spirit of this simple practice does produce better understanding and genuine interest in human welfare, not only in our country but also in the whole world.

Namaste is part and partial of the system of self-culture of this land, which has been revived recently by Saints like Ramana Maharshi , Swami Vivekananda , Sri Aurobind, and others. Therefore in addition to cultivating a life according to its great philosophy, Namaste helps us to work out life in harmony with the progress of our evolutionary process.

We can find in India millions of religious minded people doing Namaste to various deities in our temples, but many people now a days, do it quite mechanically without knowing its significance. That they are not sincere to the philosophy of Namaste may be due to their not knowing about it.

The purity that develops in us is based on the right understanding of two aspects of life symbolized by the folded hands in Namaste. The folded hands are always drawn towards the breast and placed right in front of the heart. What is the reason for this?

The body is a combination of chemical elements. Indian Rishis knew this fact thousands of years ago and it was clarified and taught by Kapila Maharishi through Sankhya Yoga. This was long before the discoveries of modern science in this line. He explained that all the forms are a combination of Earth (Solid), Water (Liquid), Fire (Gas), Air (Oxygen), and Ether (Subatomic Matter). Tantric School of Yoga without it no form can ever exist also recognized the source of Bio-Energy on which all these elements depend as Kundalini.

In the Kundalini Yoga system and tantric practice, stage of understanding have been linked with the knowledge of the chemical combination of this world and the spirit that keeps it going. The location of these centers of consciousness had been made on the Torso. A man can still live when both the legs and hands are amputated. But none can survive when the torso is cut apart. This proves the correct location of Bio-energy of Kundalini Shakti in connection with the special cord in living beings.

The energy of spirit is that which is important in man and it is to be maintained in harmony with the form. In this alone lies hope for progress in human evolution. This harmony is the basic theme of Namaste in our culture. This is also the cream of the teachings of various yoga systems. The sum total of this energy or spirit is called self or GOD and is one and the same to every one in this world. It is so because the principles of functioning of the form and spirit are common to all mankinds.

The spiritual heart in man is recognized in Yoga systems as Anahata Chakra or air element. Consider the working of a turbo-generator. It though the co-operation of the solid form of the engine with the suitable steam form boiling water that results are achieved and work is done, Similar is the case with the body. It works because we take solid and liquid food and convert it to energy by digesting it with the aid of digestive fire, this stirs the heart to life and the relationship between cause and abstaining from food for a few days can test effect here.

The spiritual heat, which is made of the air-element, is the seat of feeling in us. To start with, it is this little feeling that helps us to expand emotionally and intellectually in thought, word, and deed. Therefore the simple silent Namaste remind us to recognize the important center of our life principle and communicate the feeling of welcome and friendship to the person when we wish it.

Now we can well imagine how significant is Namaste in our culture and how it can help us to attain cordial relations with one and all in this world. This Namaste creates a feeling of belonging, friendliness, and brotherhood among people and establishes a true welfare society where there is no dearth of basic necessities of life for common man. At the same time it makes us ponder our matter and spirit, life and death in humanity with feeling that keeps on expanding in every one of us in tune with nature.

Namaste is the cultivation of a new trend in our personality and integrated approach to life. It is like the negative and positive terminals that help to generate light. It cannot be cultivated by indulging in any one thing without any inhibitions.

Purity is the backbone of four spiritual progresses. Purity of body and mind are essential to make any progress in the field of higher consciousness or even to transcend our subconscious. Consciousness is ever pure and limitless and purity in life identifies us with it. We are neither sure of the existence of this nor do we have any knowledge of it as a thing in itself because our bodies and minds are not pure. But Namaste can helps us here, objective study can guide us to subjective understanding but it is practice and discipline which leads to reduction of impurity. This cannot be achieved through any kind of indulgence.

In Namaste we are integrated with purity of thought into oneness and with the proper understanding of matter and spirit embodied in the joined hands and humanity expressed by the bowed head, we attune ourselves to the unknown power consciousness with us.

Namaste is distinct from all other forms of greeting, such as the handshake, in that it helps us to transcend the self-imposed physical and mental limitations. Two people must be involved in the handshake for each to be satisfied. This imposes limitations and it become physically impossible to deal with large number of people, as in an assembly, but in Namaste one man can greet thousand of people. And simultaneously thousands in the audience respond with Namaste.

We also find our artists doing it as and when they come on the stage. This, no doubt, brings individual satisfaction to all. Namaste mentally takes shape in the heart and transcends beyond it, until it enables us to achieve unity in diversity is expended consciousness. Therefore Namaste helps to establish report with people without any inhibition or limitations. What so ever.

Repetition of our action establishes strong tendencies and from character and conduct. This process operates both for good and for evil. Therefore, if a custom like greeting with Namaste is done by us in our daily lives sincerely and humbly. After us in our daily lives sincerely and humbly, after knowing its philosophy and significance, it is bound to help us to mould our lives in tune with the true spirit of Namaste.

It is customary to do Namaste to one’s deity, parents, teachers, guests, friends, and holy men. This helps a man to extend it to all human beings who comes in contact with him. Gradually this practice even helps him to do Namaste to all living beings as all the living beings are considered to be within the family of one God, who is the real creator. Soon after the Aarti or showing of the light made of wicks of chamfer to the deity is over, it is customary for all the participants to do Namaste to the presiding deity. This is done to remind the devotees who take part in such congregations to surrender themselves to the source of life without any reservation. It is also a reminder to the people of the Namaste Philosophy. Many sculptures and paintings in our temples and museums indicate that this practice was prevalent in ancient India.

Self-surrender is the essence of devotion and faith and this faith develops out of the repeated performance of Namaste before any form of deity. In the matter of self-surrender, most people do it half-heartedly.

The self-surrender demanded by the practice of Namaste should not be mistaken for the surrender of the ego of a person to the ego of another person. It is surrender to the self or Bio-energy in both. It is the feeling of the unity in diversity that is achieved by the element of humility and surrender in Namaste.

When persons inimical to each other do Namaste in proper attitude, it is bound to reduce tension in mind and animate and help them to achieve cordially and friendship.

Though simple and easy Namaste is the higher form of Sadhana or spiritual practice containing the cream of selfless service, devotion, dedication and self-surrender for attaining the wisdom of unity in diversity. It helps a man to cultivate spirit of selfless service; devotion to God, dedication to noble causes self –surrender to divinity and a feeling or oneness and brotherhood of humanity in his relation to fellow beings in tune with Reality.

A man is transformed into this attitude by doing Namste in it’s to spirit. But Namaste, if practiced sincerely, will definitely lead a person day by day nearer to the final goal while helping to maintain a harmonious relation with his surroundings and contact. Sincerely and humility in our daily practice of Namaste build-up honest in life.

Whenever any one succeeded in any undertaking material or spiritual, we find that he was always sincere, humble, and honest to his establishment or ideas. In the same manner, when ever we see the downfall of a powerful person who was pretending to be trying that he was lacking in these qualities.

Let us now discuss how this simple Namaste is practiced. The Mantra in this Sadhana is, of course, Namaste. The Mudra or pose is the joining of the palms and drawing them towards the breast while bowing the head in humility. In this we are to generate the feeling in our hearts that we are encountering God in the other person. We should be sincere in our thought. “I see God in you” while doing Namaste. This produces prosperity and progress in our material and spiritual life. Once we are introduced to its philosophy our life becomes smooth and happy.

In fact our ego melts in Namaste when we make up our mind to feel that there are many more universes yet to be discovered by us. The spirit of integrating elements in Namaste helps a millionaire to understand the plight of a poor man to appreciate the position of a rich man. Namaste, in fact, practically, helps us to integrate these two aspects in all walks of life. No methods however cleverly, logically and scientifically planned and designed for propaganda can ultimately produce better results if the Namaste spirit of integrating matter and spirit based on the minimum of qualifications needed for its practice is absent in our day to day life.

Pleasure of the World

Pleasure of the world are always attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible and hard to endure, like the temporary pleasure derived by scratching an itch but the sensation turning painful and intolerable a little later. The mind of the man even as the horse with blinkers takes its route straight, should be restrained and made to develop an aversion to worldly objects and not stray into evil paths.

Emperors have left this world but their pious deeds in the form of tanks, roads, shelter, homes, and temples edifices- still remains. Even man who upholds religious traditions cannot easily get rid of the powerful forces of desire and attachment.

Sukha or happiness means different things to different people. This is especially so in the context of varying lifestyles prevalent today and the issues that a lot of us are living with and identifying ourselves with. Is happiness really he excitement of FIFA football match of the last ball or watching the rank outsider win the derby by a short head? The hysteria accompanying an excessive and loud lifestyle needs to be looked at so that we can determine whether we can really hope to find true and long term happiness through such indulgences. Thou actually expect Sukha in the make believe world of psychedelic lights and the rhythmic beats of discotheques is as for removed from genuine happiness as taking a mirage oasis to be a capable of quenching one’s thirst. These are the make believe world ventured in to by disturbed insecure individual with low self esteem and belies any hope of Sukha, mirages and delusions cater to the sensate an immediate at the cost of slamming the lid on our sensibilities and our innocence.

Sukha in Indian philosophical system is a heavily loaded term. To understand the quality of true Sukha or happiness also means that we need to define Dukha or suffering. Lord Buddha was very clear in his definition of suffering and about what constitutes true happiness. He propounded as the cornerstone of his teachings the four noble truths. These truths according to him were intrinsic as well as peculiar to samsara, and pervaded all somsariec activity. These four noble truths or arya-satya were the truth of suffering, its cause, the cessation or end of suffering by realizing true happiness and the method or path leading to cessation of suffering and of attaining to a state of true happiness. Sukha as experienced by the wise sages and yogis. Is something that is peaceful, serene, harmonious, and happy. Yet, at the same time. It is not exuberant. A smooth flow of energy accompanied by calmness projects steadiness and an integrating quality.

The yogi immersed in his cauldron of true happiness and bliss conjures up the image of a being, which is alone in this vast ocean of humanity. He is a part of, yet remains quite apart and is ever growing in his knowledge of god’s will for him and having the power to carry out the role god has planned or determined for him. In the yogi one finds a cosmic whole that far from being in the nature of a black hole is more in the nature of a quasar brightest object in the universe. Against the backdrop of a chaotic society and humdrum of today’s turbulent life, it is a relaxed state free of stress. He is one who observes the goings on and plays of samsara with a witness-like attitude or Shakshi-ending roller coaster with undistinguished equanimity. He is not perturbed, nor is the unduly excited.

It is not that the pattern of the yogi’s life stays unchanged. The external environment is always in a flux of change for him just as it is for all of us but the yogi remains undaunted and rarely influenced. Just as in the laws pertaining to nature there are a few eclipses and occasional leap years, so too are minor disturbances and infiltration to a yogi’s calm. All alone, however, he is detached and free from the clutched of samara. He is now beyond Dukha.

It is a well-known fact that happiness is vital for good health. Corroborating this theory, a study conducted at Duke University Medical Centre, USA, proves that adults who are happy, but are suffering from a heart disease, have a 20% more chance of living longer. Thoughts and emotions are controlled by hormones in the brain. Just as electricity moves from pole to pole, in the brain, impulses have to jump from cell to cell. The intervening space between nerve cells is controlled by neuro-chemicals or neuro-hormones. Any alteration in this will produce change in behaviour, thought and emotions. Genetically, people have a certain concentration of neuro-hormones and depending on that; people will be happy or sad. The experience is further modified by external circumstances.

The study revealed that though a constant state of happiness isn’t necessary, avoiding emotional lows is vital for a long life. This is because happy people are less likely to suffer from psychometric problems like diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Different states of mind are associated with the release of different chemicals and hormones in various parts of the body. Happiness and pleasure are associated with the release of dopamine in the brain. Sadness is associated with the release of steroid hormones, which are circulated through the bloodstream to different parts of the body. This is why states of mind can affect the health and physiology of the entire body. However, happiness is also associated with other positive chemical and hormonal changes and same holds good for sadness.

The ever-expanding field of positive psychology emphasises human strengths rather than weaknesses as a way of life. People who are positive and happy have a higher immunological cell count and can combat diseases better. The new IT culture and changing life styles are creating great stress, which in turn affect happiness.

One needs to remember that happiness does not mean an absence of difficulties, and not a continuous state either as it has been noticed that people go through mood changes. Anti depressants can reduce unhappiness but cannot artificially keep you happy all the time. Use of substances like alcohol and drugs usually work on the prevailing mood of the person and amplifies it. To be really happy, a person needs to accept that good things and bad things are a part of life. They must not be too reactive whenever something bad happens.

These drugs are usually addictive and can have damaging short-and long-term consequences on a person’s physical and mental health, and on his social and occupational performance.