Why Are Incense Sticks Used For Meditation?

A monk sits silently in the middle of a room. His eyes are closed. He is lost in a state of bliss which cannot be described in words. In front of him are placed several fragrant incense sticks. The incense sticks burn and emit fragrant fumes which fill the whole room with a heavenly fragrance of several flowers. It is not  uncommon to see incense sticks used in Pujas done by the Hindus.

There is a reason why these incense sticks are used while meditating. Flowers also have an important role to play in the worship done in so many religions. The incense sticks are not merely a means of spreading fragrance but is a means of pleasing God by offering him pleasant fragrances.

There is also one more reason why incense sticks are used during meditation. The fragrance of the incense sticks soothes two very important Chakras in our body: the Heart Chakra and the Mooladhara Chakra. The fragrance of the incense sticks also enlightens the air element around us and charges it with good vibrations.

The incense stick also acts like a room re-freshener. With so many reason for buying incense sticks why should anyone stop himself from buying one. Just light the incense sticks and go into a very deep meditation.

Meditation Is Bliss

An hour of meditation gives you a feel of fresh air and makes you breathe fresh air. All the thoughts can be dumped and you sit in one corner of the world free from all tensions looking into the deep peace and silence within. Tranquilizing the whole subtle system a kind of a new freshness awakens and you feel that you are a new transformed person altogether.

To meditate is fun and to lead a meditation is even more fun. to tell you the truth meditation is one of the most essential norms of today. If someone tells you that you need to be on the Himalayas if you want to meditate, tell that person that the leading scientists of the world are also not able to understand what this simple procedure of closing the eyes and becoming thoughtless does to a person that his brain becomes more alert and active than before.

Meditate like Buddha in absolute peace with yourself. Build personality such that people become peaceful and calm when they see you coming. Some people think that meditation is extremely boring but how can anybody explain to them that this is the best way of enjoying life when you are alone.

A person who meditates never feels lonely. In fact he is the most happiest and satisfied person when he is alone. Aloof from all the hustle and bustle of the modern world sitting in silence and enjoying the inner peace which Lao Tse, Buddha, Christ and so many sages of India spoke of. You may miss a cup of tea but never miss a chance to get into meditation. Meditation is absolute bliss and joy.

How To Build A Corruption Free India | How To Curb Indian Corruption

Is it possible to curb corruption from India? Can one Anna Hazare and his Jan Lokpal Bill make much difference in the way things work in India? Many people say no to both the above questions. But, I say yes. Let us not forget that we live in a land where morality is held at a very high position. Morality cannot be taught, it has to be imbibed. It is absolutely possible to build a corruption-free India and today we will speak of the various ways through which we, the youth, can make India a better corruption free country.

We all know how many alcohol bottles are unloaded during election times for winning the elections. Fact is fact and we know it very well. This is the first sign of corruption entering into the nation. We the people have made ourselves so cheap that we get our country sold for a bottle of alcohol! What we do not see is: for every bottle of alcohol they get thousands of such bottles once they get into power. Next greatest thing which has troubled India is the shocking Swiss bank account statements. The reason of poverty in every nation is simple: rich keeps on getting richer and poor keeps on getting poorer. We never realize that we the middle-men are paying for every Rupee a politician eats. When I see Indian politics I see only robbers sitting on the top thrones. I do not name anybody in particular but all in general. There is not a single politician like Lal Bahaddur Shastri in the present day Indian politics.

Corruption can be curbed if the normal man becomes sensitive. Politicians robbing the country has become a everyday news of our daily life. The news of corruption has become so casual that everyone takes corruption for granted. When Dharma gets established it becomes difficult for corruption to survive. When the feeling of patriotism rises a Mahatma is born in every person. And when the nation is completely filled with such Mahatmas corruption finds it difficult to survive. People think that it is impossible to kill corruption but I will convince everyone by the end of this article that corruption can be completely stopped.

The higher chairs of Indian politics are always occupied by people of power. As a general thumb rule a person with power always strives for getting more powerful. The wants of a person are never satisfied. Let us say that there is a politician who has 10Crore Rupees in his Bank. When he sees that others have looted much more money than him, the feeling of jealousy comes up and in order to satisfy his ego he will eat more money. The most interesting thing is: he does not use any of this money for his family. This is the money which comes from politics and goes again to politics when the next election comes. A politician thinks that he is trying to make his future secure. But, the future of a corrupt Politician is never secure. The thought of corruption and fear of getting exposed are always eating up his brain. A politician has so much of external security with him but internally he is never much secure. I would salute the Politician who will take the first bold step and remove all the money from his Swiss Bank account and give it back to the Nation.

There is one more thing which has boosted corruption: all good politicians are killed by the terrorists. It is better to die like a good politician than to die like a corrupt politician. When money plays its role people never think about spirituality. We live on this earth. When we die we live in some other world. If we are righteous on Earth we will have to face hard times on Earth as long as we live is always true. If we are not righteous we enjoy as long as we are on Earth and both the above facts are completely true. But, what after death? When a person knows about hell and the tortures of Hell believe me no man on Earth will ever think of doing one single sin. The wrath of God helps us to face our mistakes and correct them. The one who is righteous and who suffers on Earth is said to get all the pleasures of Heaven in his after-life.

One of the greatest ways for curbing corruption is the inner-transformation. We have to respect the fact that evolution does not happen all by itself. The theory of relativity did not just evolve. It was in existence since a very long time. A person desperately searched for its facts and the day when he became completely tired and was bathing in a tub without thinking about anything, the Theory of Relativity flashed in his head from the Torsion area. Who gives us this thinking? Humans have understood everything about Science but they have not understood the 'how' part of birth and death. For killing corruption it is very important for a person to know that money is not at all necessary to live a happy life. People who have gathered hell a lot of money never find peace in their life. The joy of having lot of money only comes when it is evenly distributed. Else, a rich man is always afraid of someone coming and robbing all his money.

With inner transformation only people will understand that money is a very small part of life. As Buddha says: "When you know Thy Self, you will get immersed in joy and happiness. When your mind will be peacefully immersed in the joy of Self all other impure desires will drop out." The founder of Sahaja Yoga H.S.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi states: "A big inner revolution is taking place. When people will become the Spirit they will stop doing wrong things automatically. I never tell anybody to stop drinking or smoking. Once they come to know that they are the Spirit the enlightenment comes in and people just stop doing things which are wrong. Drug addicts have overnight given away drugs, smoking, alcohol and all other things which are harmful for health." I have seen people getting transformed through Sahaja Yoga with my very own eyes.

We are living in a corrupt India but our next generation should not. 'Let us stop voting for the politicians' can never be a solution. Let the Government work like a crystal clear glass through which people can see very clearly the working of the Government. We the common man are suffering due to the corruption of the Politicians. The rate of every essential commodity is simply rising so high that people are finding it very difficult to live in this world. In order to curb corruption the Politicians will have to remember the slogan "of the people, for the people, and, by the people". Today's politics has the same mantra with the only difference that people is replaced with Politicians.

The Government should show the accounts and should also make sure that every Rupee spent on a project reaches its purpose and not the stomachs of all these hungry Politicians. The Nation should be ruled by ambitious youth, only then, youth power will make its purpose visible. The ruler of the Nation should be very simple and should have a very simple lifestyle and should earn only as much as is sufficient for a living. Till date I have seen only one such Politician and that is Lal Bahaddur Shastri. Shastriji used to get fifty Rupees for doing his duty. One day a man came and asked him for fifty Rupees and Shastriji said that he had saved no money and could not help him. Then, Shastriji's wife cam and gave Shastriji fifty Rupees to help his friend. When Shastriji cam to know that his wife used to save ten Rupees every month from his monthly salary, he went to his office and said to reduce his salary to forty Rupees per month! I am pretty sure that his wife was saving money even with that limited amount. Today I salute to that great man and pray that may such people again come to take care of India and not to rule India as the present politicians are doing. Let us all respect our freedom. Please use the comments section and do give your opinion on this subject and how corruption can be avoided and spread the link of this article throughout the internet to spread the awareness of curbing corruption in India.

Modern India

Modern India is a lot more different than the ancient India which once existed. Modern India though retains certain factors that were its heritage then and even now.Though the modern day Indians stress more on science and technology they tend to forget with time that science had its roots in India and was very much developed a few thousand years back.

The modern woman of India has become more sensible and has fought a war against the useless rituals of  the earlier days. The modern woman is well educated (as was the case in the earlier period where great queens and leading women of the society were taught vedas and upanishads in those days). But now every girl has the right to education which eventually brings forth a generation of kids which is also well educated and much wise.

Modern girls need to learn martial arts more than the guys, but, the case is a bit reverse. In earlier times women were valorous and fought great battles single-handedly. If you read the Devi Mahatmya you will  be surprised to know that a single Devi could fight against huge armies of Demons without any help being rendered from other Gods. And hey the description of the battle makes you feel so sure that a battle as such can definitely take place. The modern day girl knows the world history but very little about the epic history which many term to be falsehood (except the scientists of the modern time who found evidence of the existence of the incarnations like Shri Rama And Shri Krishna).

Modern India studies Western science whereas Westerners are more interested in the spiritual science of India. Modern days have seen many spiritual leaders who loot people on the name of spirituality. Man has reached many planets with the help of great telescopes and is yet ignorant about the most common question: who could have thought of creating such a beautiful universe. After all every creation has a creator!

Modern India has corruption rooted deep within its system. As in the earlier days even today a big guy rules over others and snatches their money. And the ordinary man is more than happy with the little amount of money that lightens his stove. But definitely the greed for getting more money has spoiled that attention of so many Indians. Modern India has many factors that can make it a leading country but the future of politics in this country seems to be in disaster.

The Message Of All religions

     We all follow a religion in order to pray to God. According to me religions are just different styles of attaining the same goal: self-realization. Before speaking about any other thing let me tell you a few very important messages given by all the religions.

     Lets start with the religion with the maximum number of Gods in it. The Hindu religion. According to the Hindu religion there are 350 crores (crore=10millions) of Gods present in the heavens. The message of Hindus: get Atma-Saakshaatkar (self-realization). The Yagnopaveet ceremony is to be done by a realized soul in order to give realization to the younger one. The technique used by the Hindus to attain God: meditation.

     The Islam religion is also one of the greatest religions which can help a human being to attain God Almighty known as Allah. The technique used by them: Namaaz. They have to become prophets (i.e. to get their self-realization). Muslim means a saint who is surrendered to God Almighty. The great Prophet Mohammed introduced this great technique of doing Namaz which helps a person to attain self-realization and also to become a Prophet.

 The next one is Christianity. In Christianity the main aim is to get baptized (to get self-realization). To become a twice born is the symbol of the Easter eggs that are being distributed by the Christians. It is also known that only a Baptized person can baptize another person by purifying him through Baptism which was also done to Lord Jesus Christ by John the Baptist.

     The aim of Buddhism: know thy self: which means- attain your self-realization. This is also the aim of the Jains and most of the widely spread religions of the whole world. To spread Divine love has also been the messages of all these religions. But, what is self-realization, what is its significance and how do you know that you have attained your self-realization.

     The answer to the above question also lies in the religions. The same Divine cool breeze is known by many names in different religions. In Bible it is the Cool Breeze of the Holy Ghost, in Islam it is called as Ruh (Prophet Muhammad had actually said that at the time of resurrection your hands will speak, this also refers to the flow of the cool breeze in our hands), in Hindu religion it is called Sallelam Saleelam by Adi Shankaracharya, it is also called as Chaitanya Lahari, Ritumbhara Prgnya, etc. Gnyan as in Buddhism also refers to knowing thy self on the tip of thy fingers.

     If this is the resurrection time the comforter must have had already come. Till date I found only Sahaja Yoga promising the Divine Cool breeze. Sahaja Yoga was founded by H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in 1970. It respects all the religions on earth as they are absolute truth and nothing else. Many people of all religions have go their self-realization through Sahaja Yoga. The best part: they do not convert you, they  just give you your self-realization. Self-realization can be obtained through all the above mentioned religions, but, the process is slow. Sahaja Yoga spontaneously gives you your realization and the quality of the people called as Sahaja Yogis also promises the fact that they are real Prophets who are busy transforming the whole world and making them as Prophets too. Sahaja Yoga is free: so they cannot mesmerize you for anything whatsoever. They are chaste and pure people and very loveable. Just go to Sahajayoga.org and enter the experience it now section. I am sure you will feel the cool breeze on your hands or on top of your head.

Modern times and Sahaja Yoga

In modern times, things like auspiciousness and spirituality are seldom thought of. Under such difficult modern times H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s Sahaja Yoga stands up to bring people to the right path with just ten minutes of blissful meditation everyday.

In recent times we do not have much time to spare for spirituality and auspiciousness. Due to the lack of a spiritual dimension in our lives we do all kinds of things which are non-human by nature. We never think of whatever this beautiful nature has given to us before cutting down its trees or hunting down its beautiful animals for our greed. We are in the time where the manifestation of the Satan is clearly visible. Humans have lost their conscience and are doing things which cannot even be thought of by an enlightened person. And in these troublesome days our Divine mother has come in Her complete form being garlanded by the name Nirmala. She is definitely the comforter whom Lord Jesus Christ had promised to us. He had said, “In my next information I will come with my complete powers”. And He had also said that He would come in the form of a woman. A woman equipped with all the powers is referred to as the Aadishakti in the Indian scriptures. To admit this at this stage will be a difficult thing. But as you read on, you will be assured that my words are absolutely true.

Ever since H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was a child She looked around and thought why people were behaving so strangely in a well cultured and auspicious land like India. Indians were following the Western culture in order to show off among the crowds. It seemed that the Indians had forgotten the Boycott movement where the western goods were burnt in a huge fire and people had pledged that they would wear only Indian clothes from then onwards. But today it seems that people will laugh at us even if we speak of any such things. Shri Mataji got provoked when She saw that anybody could become a Guru in India if He/She knew a little bit about the ancient scriptures. She found that some false Gurus were mesmerizing the people and making great profits out of their disciples. The disciples were being looted by their Gurus on the name of spirituality. And even after shelling out whatever their Gurus had asked for, the disciples could not feel even a pinch of auspiciousness in their lives. Instead, even they became greedier than before just like their Gurus. Seeing these horrible things going on around her H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi sat below a tree near the Nargol beach and meditated there till Her kundalini reached the Sahasrara and shot out of the fontanelle bone. And thus the birth of Sahaja Yoga took place in the year 1970 on the fifth of May when Shri Mataji awakened the primordial kundalini of the universe which was in a dormant stage till then. And then the Sahaj movement started. The auspicious work which had started with just a handful people at that time has now extended throughout the world. But, what is Sahaja Yoga? What is its purpose and why should one do Sahaja Yoga? Read on and you will know it.

The word Sahaja is derived from two words: Saha (which means ‘with’) and Janma (which means ‘birth’). And the word Yoga means ‘connectivity with God’. Let me elaborate this point. We all know that children are very sweet and very close to God Almighty. Even Lord Jesus Christ had said, “You have to become like small children in order to enter the kingdom of God”. If you see a new born child you will observe that the skin on top of its head vibrates a little bit. The reason is because a child cannot think. And hence there is no ego in a child. It does not think about anything. It just sees everything around it without ever reacting towards the events that are happening around it. It is deprived of happiness and sorrow. And hence this non-thinking child is always connected with the all pervading Divine love. Eventually when the child grows up its ego develops. With the development of ego the child starts thinking about things like pleasure and happiness. It is quite surprising to know that thinking is always related to either the past or the present. If we are in the present we do not think, we just act. But staying in the present itself is a very hard exercise. Try to close your eyes and shut down all the thoughts that will be coming to your mind. And then you will understand how hard it is to divert your mind from the thoughts which arise and fall one after the other just like the waves of the ocean. But in Sahaja Yoga a simple mantra does the trick to remove the thoughts from our mind. But the mantras work only if they are chanted with full faith. Hence some people succeed in their spiritual lives and some don’t. The reason why one should follow Sahaja Yoga is because the ultimate goal of the human life is to become one with the universal Spirit i.e. the Param Atma. And if you can spare hardly fifteen to twenty minutes per day for your spiritual progress then Sahaja Yoga is the most unique and powerful way of doing so.

You still might be wondering if all this is true or not. Let me tell you a few real life incidents which took place in the life of a few Sahaja Yogis. There was news that a young kid who believed a lot in Morther Mary was once riding a bicycle along the road. There was a deep tunnel dig along the road side. Accidentally the child fell into the tunnel along with his cycle. As a reflex the boy screamed “Holy virgin save me”. The people rushed to the place and removed the kid from the tunnel. His eyes were closed. Everybody thought that he was dead but then they came to know that he had just lost his conscience. the kid did not even remember what had happened when he got up. He was rushed to a nearby hospital just to know that he had received not a single scratch on his body. The second day there was an article in the newspaper about Sahaja Yoga which had H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi’s photograph on it. The moment the child saw the photograph he called his parents and told them that “She” was the one Who came in a white saree and caught him while he was falling in the deep tunnel. The surprising fact is that the tunnel was twenty feet deep and had a hard rock on the farthest end. The cycle of the kid had broken into two and yet the kid had received not a single scratch throughout his body. This was just one example which shows the immense love of the Divine Mother towards Her children. As also, remember Whom the kid had screamed for: “Holy Virgin”. This is a true life story. There is a book in Sahaja Yoga which speaks exclusively about the miracles that took place on this holy earth by the grace of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmamal Devi.

There is one more reason why you should do Sahaja Yoga. If you have drinking or smoking habit I assure you that you will leave your habits either overnight or with the advance of time as per your convenience without being told to do so. Nobody will tell you to leave smoking or drinking in Sahaja Yoga. Instead you will yourself leave all these things which are harmful to you and your spiritual growth. We have been running a Sahaja Yoga center since the past few months and have seen people recovering from many physical disorders. My father had a hemoglobin level of 7.5% which is not a good thing from the medical point of view. We went to the Sahaja Yoga hospital at Vashi and stayed there for around two weeks during which his hemoglobin level boosted to a value of 11.2%. And you can trust me on this. I have seen the reports with my own eyes.

The best thing is that it is all for free. You are never charged for anything in Sahaja Yoga. Except for a little fees which is required to run the Puja there is absolutely nothing you need to pay for. In order to give Sahaja Yoga a try please log on to www.sahajayoga .org and get your self realization at the earliest. It will definitely work. Later you will need a follow up so kindly check and see if there is a Sahaja Yoga centre at your place. Take the details of the centre timings and the venue of the centre. One best method of finding your centre leader is to first check out the phone number of the centre leader of the capital city of the state you are living in. now just give him a call and ask him if a centre exists at the place you are living at and collect the details of the same. You can even test to see if Sahaja Yoga works even at this site. Just hold your hands towards the photograph of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and look towards the red mark on Her forehead you will feel a strange force which will attract your hands towards the photograph. The experiences of the Sahaja Yogis of every centre are quite different. But there is one thing which you will find to be common in all their experiences: the love of the Universal Mother. If you are a Shaja Yogi kindly forward this message to all you friends and also bookmark it in your Orkut profile. This message can be forwarded to anybody you like as it is an introduction page of Sahaja Yoga. Hail our Holy Mother “H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi” and Hail the “Warriors of Immaculate Salve”. Jai Shri Mataji!!!!!!!!