Monday, 30 June 2014
Sunday, 29 June 2014
tittakudi arulmigu vaithyanatha swami temple
The Holy Sage Brahmarishi Vasishta the ‘Kula
Guru’ or the Spiritual-Master of the entire Ishwaku dynasty also known as the
‘Raghu Vamsa’ gave his Upadesa (Spiritual-initiation) to Lord Rama at this
exalted revered Holy place known as ‘Thittakudi’ and known as ‘Thiru
Vathittakudi’ in the ancient past after the Sage who in Tamil is known as
‘Vatthitar’. (like the Sage Agasthya in Tamil is known as ‘Agatthiyar’).
The young prince Lord Rama was greatly distressed and perturbed
after seeing much sorrow and suffering in the land and the Sage Vasishta
initiated him with deep insights in ‘Advaita tattva’ which is the
Oneness of God and there being nothing in existence apart from God. The
Yoga Vasishta has 32,000 slokas in 64,000 lines and one very
significant sloka tells that like the agitated waters of a pond reflect a
multitude forms of the moon, in a similar manner the One God is seen in
multitude forms when the mind is agitated.
The exalted Sage Vasishta
explains in detail the various techniques and nuances of Ashtanga-Yoga
(eight limbs of Yoga) and when Lord Rama hears that it is possible to
transcend space and time and attain immortality and to remain young
as long as one wishes known as ‘Saha kalai’ in Tamil and to welcome
death at the time one desires known as ‘iccha mrityu’ in Sanskrit, Lord
Rama asks how is this possible and whether he had met such a person. The Sage
Vasishta says: “ Yes! I have met such a person. He is known as ‘Kagabhujenda’
(Kagabhujendar in Tamil). He is said to be in the form of a ‘Andamkaka’
or a black-raven or crow, but it actually means he is the “one who
protects the universe”, ‘andam’ – universe; ‘kaka’ – protects. He lives
in a cave north-east of the Kailash mountain. He welcomed me in all his
youthfull,glorious golden radiant-form. He has witnessed 7500 ‘Pralayas’
or global-level destructions which take place at the end of every ‘Kalpa’
(eon) which is a period of 4.32 billion years being a day-time for the Creator
Lord Brahma. When I asked him how was it possible for him to live for such
a long period of time retaining his youthfull-form,he said: “ I live the
present moment to its full,I watch the intervening-gap between the
breathing-pattern of exhalation and inhalation which is eternity and is the
infinite-state of the Lord! “
***
THE BENEFITS ATTAINED BY
CONSTRUCTING A SIVA TEMPLE
The
person who gets into the act of constructing a Holy-Temple is absolved of all
his sins acquired over a thousand of his previous births.
Even
if the idea of constructing a Holy-Temple dawns in a person’s mind he would be
absolved of sins acquired over a hundred births and he would be redeemed.
By
building a Holy-Temple for the Lord, a person is absolved of the ‘Brahmaheti’
sin (acquired by killing a Brahmin or a Cow). The gains acquired are even
greater than by performing karmas like performing Yaagas. The merits gained by
bathing in Divine-waters are acquired by building a Holy-Temple. The
Paradise-world attained by war-heroes who fight and expire on battle-fields for
the justice of Devas (Angels) are attained by persons who build
Holy-Temples even if they were not qualified by not having knowledge of the
Vedas and Shastras.
A
person attains the Paradise-world by building a Holy-Temple. By building three
Holy-Temples, he attains the ‘Brahma loka’ ( the realm of Lord Brahma the
Creator). By building five Holy-Temples, he goes to ‘Kailash’, the realm of
Lord Siva. By building eight Holy-Temples, he goes to ‘Vaikuntam’ the realm of
Lord Narayana. By constructing sixteen Holy-Temples the person attains all the
merits that are to be acquired and attains eternal salvation by not having been
to take birth again and acquires Divine-peace.
A
person who builds a big Holy-Temple acquires ‘mukti’ or liberation from the endless
cycle of birth and death. The one who builds an ordinary Temple attains the
Vaikunta loka. The person who builds a small Temple attains the heavenly-world.
There is no limit to the fame to be attained by a
person who constructs a Holy-Temple for Lord Vishnu, Lord Rudra and Lord Surya
(the Sun-God). Any amount of wealth gained by a person who does not satisfy his
dead forefathers, Brahmins, Devas or his near and dear ones would be of no use
to him. At least a part of his wealth earned by him should be utilized to
construct a Holy-Temple.
Just as death is certain,
destruction also is a certainity. The person who constructs a Holy-Temple or
one who had built a Holy-Statue for the Lord is never ever troubled by Lord
Yama (the God of death) and his orders to his messengers is never to convey
such persons to his world. Lord
Yama has further instructed his deputies to never even go near devotees who
constantly think of the Lord, those who constantly sing praises of the Lord and
those who daily perform archanas and offer flowers and perform abishekam
(consecration) to the Lord in Holy-Temples. Yama’s deputies are not to even go
near the off-spring and descendants of persons who had constructed
Holy-Temples! Such is the noble-merits acquired by building Holy-Temples!
***
All the exalted Siddhars
(perfected beings) whom we cherish and worship themselves protect,praise and
worship Mother-Nature which is the subtle and powerful form of God and
continuously creates all forms of life. They having realized every aspect of
nature to be an Angelic and Divine-Form of God have organized varied ways to
worship them and taught me those intricate-nuances and mantras (powerful potent
words which help one to be protected as well as gain the blessings and Grace of
the Gods) to appease them. The Siddhars knowing very well that nature is none
other than the ‘Shakthi’ or power of God which permeates all forms of life,from
the ‘lowest’ form of life like the worm, grass, shrubs, birds and beasts to the
‘higher’ form of life like man, have always shown and showered their compassion
on them. The manifestation of this compassion is ‘Dharma’
(righteousness,universal or cosmic-order).
This
compassion alone is the form of worship of the Siddhars. Their ‘Jiva
Karunyam’ or compassion and love towards all forms of life to their full
magnitude manifests in them which results in the rise of the ‘Kundalini
Shakthi’ (the subtle and latent-form of the cosmic-energy that lies coiled
at the ‘muladhara-chakra’ at the base of the spinal-column). This cosmic-force
or energy which is the Power of God awakens the chakras which are whirlpools of
energy and ‘Wisdom-centers’ and let the Siddhars attain the ‘Attama’ or ‘Ashtanga
Siddhis’ which are the eight major supernatural powers as well as realize
all divine-secrets and gain the ‘Kayakalpa’ secrets which allows man to
conquer death and live as a youth as long as he pleases. This is the reason for
the Siddhars to claim ‘Anbe Sivam’ - God to be in the form of love and
compassion. Otherwise they could have claimed God to be in the form of Power or
material-products! Without realizing this, mankind hoardes unlimited amounts of
money,gold and properties without helping the poor and needy. How on earth
would Mother-Nature which is the power of God in any way help or assist
them? It is the foremost duty of every
human being to be of use and help all forms of life and when he shirks his
duty, all sorrows and misries descend on him. The only antidote to eradicate
mankind of his misries is to provide food to the poor and hungry to his
foremost capacity and in accordance to his income. This method is an easy but
powerful one and this alone is the ‘Taraka mantra’ or life’s goal of ‘Annai
Siddhar’ Thiru Rajakumar Swamigal!
”The
Powers of God duly follow the person who possesses love and compassion in his
heart” – Mathaji Radha
To
cross over safely across the treacherous sea that is life that comes in endless
cycles and attain salvation (which according to the Siddhars who are the
‘perfected-beings’ is to attain the state of not being born again) the
simplest and best remedy is to provide free food to at least a hundred
thousand poor and hungry people in one’s lifetime. And further it is
said that with love,kindness and compassion in one’s heart,inducing and
encouraging others to perform dharmam (performing noble charitable-acts
the noblest being feeding the poor and hungry) is the highest form of Dharma
(righteousness,universal-code or law) !
Hence by performing this
meritorious,kind,compassionate and noble act which is feeding the poor and
hungry,the benefits of performing Yogic-meditation,Jnana
(divine-wisdom),Siddhis (divine supernatural-powers gained by attaining
perfection) everything come on their own accord without undue effort.
What did you bring to the earth when you were born? What are you
going to take back after you die? Why these vanities and luxuries? Why are you
bringing worries and sorrows on yourself? Happiness,joy,ecstasy,wonders are all
your hidden-treasures to be unravelled! Discard yourself of your sins and
constantly perform meritorious-acts! Do not go in search of God! Be God! “ Anbe
Sivam” – “God is in the Form of Love”!
tittakudi arulmigu vaidyanatha swami temple funcation by maha siddhargal trust
thittakudi arulmigu vaidyanatha swamy shiva temple
swamy shiva temple
Sunday, 22 June 2014
A ''MAHA YOGI GURUKULAM'' CHILDRENS SCHOOL IN PERAMBALUR
DHARMA AND DHAANAM
Ask any yogi saint in any corner
in india, what leads to the grace of enlightment and the journey beyond it and
in uniformity they will say, ‘anna dhanam’, ie, feeding the stomach fires of
humans.
Imagine yourself as a bird that
has to find food each day and by divine grace, you do find the food for the
stomach.
The receiving of food is the
sacred act, as though it is the Absolute providing for our need. Siddhar Raja
Swamy says, “feeding the stomach fires of many creates the transforming grace
that makes humans the angel. The dharma act provoked by sensitivity to other’s
hunger ignities as a catalyst, the energy of source to work in the human
reality plane that we are in. Higher yogic fruits is attainable only through
divine grace that we receive.”
Most sages live like a bird, not
worrying about the next meal and the meal they receive, they know it is from
Source. By our act of providing the meal, we become the divine instrument that
allows the cosmic energies to go back and forth through our human reality plan
as in the receiving and the giving. This allows the ‘flow’ to happen. This flow
as the random thought of giving and as kindness allows our karmic human
ignorance to dissolve. Pure Yoga is knowing the grace that flows from action.
Your contribution to Maha
Siddhargal Trust will be of immense value!
***
THE BENEFITS GAINED BY VARIED CHARITABLE-DEEDS
1. When a milk-yielding cow is
brought along with its calf,its horn-tips are adorned by gold-crowns,its hooves
are draped in silver-shoes,its bare-back draped in pure white silk-cloth and
presented (donated) to a Brahmin (the pious person who possesses Brahma-Jnana)
along with the milk-container,it is considered as the foremost form of
alms-giving. Further,the alms-giver is absolved of all his sins and he attains
liberation,is born no more in this world of misery and goes to heaven.
2. When a milk-yielding cow is
donated along with its calf,the alms-giver would live in heaven in as many
years as the number of hairs that covers the cow’s body.
3. The person who donates a
‘Kapilai’ cow would liberate seven-generations of his fore-fathers and live
along with his close-ones in heaven.
4. The soul of a person who had
donated a cow along with its calf when on the verge of death,would without fear
traverse the boiling river-waters of vaitharani that flows on the borders of
‘Yamapattinam’ – the world of the dead.
5. If a person possesses ten
cows,he should donate one cow to the qualified needy-person,if he has thousand
cows,he hould donate a hundred cows. But the benefits gained for both are the
same.
6. The person who donates a
thousand cows would live in the heavenly-worlds where apsaras and
beautiful-kinnarvas live,possessing a radiant golden-form.
7. The person who donates cows
would in this present life itself enjoy a peaceful,contented,luxurious and
long-life and after his death would attain a heavenly-life.
8. The one who donates
milk-yielding buffaloes and bulls would live a contented life and attain a
heavenly-life after his death.
9. ‘Samhutha halapanjamam’ means
giving away in charity a bull along with its plough to Brahmins. The
plough-share should be covered in gold. Such a person would after death live a
heavenly-life and would be adored and praised by everyone in heaven.
10. ‘Joshtapushkaram’ are exalted,revered,holy-temples
and when cows are donated in these holy-places,the alms-giver attains varied
noble-benefits.
11. When a person donates bulls to a holy-Temple,he
gains noble divine-benefits. Such bulls should bear the mark of the
Conch,Chakra or the Trishul.
12. When such bulls are donated by his off-spring to
holy-Temples on the eleventh day after a person’s death,his soul would within
six months or a year be released from hell and would reach heaven.
13. A person who gives away as charity a vessel full of
gingely-oil and a vessel full of honey would in his present life itself attain
a peaceful,contented and exalted-life.
14. A person who donates a vessel filled with sesame and
a bed along with bedding would lead a long,peaceful and contented-life.
15. A person who donates a house,a cow-shed,a public
utility-home,a well and such things that benefit the public as large would be
absolved of all his sins,would be born no more and attain a heavenly-life.
16. When a chakra made of silver is heated and then
cooled in water,then covered in gold and presented to a Brahmin it is known as
‘Kalichakra dhanam’ and is highly beneficial to the alms-giver.
17. A person who donates to a Brahmin iron equal to his
own weight would not go to hell. A peron who donates fifty balam (ancient measurement)
of iron covered in silk would never suffer in hell.
18. Fruits and eatable-roots and bulbs that grow
wildly in forests that are also liked by the Lord of death when given away to
the poor and hungry would provide the alms-giver a healthy and long-life.
19. The person who donates a village,a hamlet or a field
with crops ripe for harvest would gain everything that is to be gained in life.
No pleasures would be denied of him.
20. The person who donates five or six balams of
copper-vessels,or half of that,or even a quarter of it would not be bound by
worldly-desires.
21. The person who provides drinking water to quench the
thirst of weary strangers on the road and provide small eatables to them would
gain a well-deserved contented-life and after death would live happily in
heaven.
22. The person who reads Puranic-stories in holy-Temples
to benefit the public gains the benefits that are acquired while performing all
known charities.
23. The person who prints and gives away free of cost the
Dharma-Shastras and the Vedas with their six divisions would gain all good
noble-merits.
24. The one who cleans the holy-Temple’s fore-court
pillars and ground with water and cow-dung every day would be absolved of all
his sins.
In this Holy-Temple on the full-moon and half-moon days Yaagas of
immense-magnitude are perfomed at six in the evening honoring the 210 Siddhars
who rule this world and for the benefit for entire humanity and all forms of
life in this world. These Yaagas are very powerful and beneficial for 108 rare
wild-herbs of the ancient-forests are used to purify the sacrificial-fire in
the homam-pit and so purifies body,mind and soul. The further benefits of these
Yaagas are attainment of ‘Lakshmi Gadakshyam’ (blessings,Grace and Form of the
Lakashmi the Godess of wealth; a peaceful,harmonious family-life; attainment of
the blessings and Grace of Sarawathi the Godess of learning and live a long and
contented-life. Those who participate in these Yaagas,please be kind enough to
contact the holy-Temple authorities. Please note that performing ‘anna dhanam’
(providing free-food to the poor,hungry and devotees is the most
meritorious-act! - Aum Jai Guruvae!
***
Saturday, 21 June 2014
வசிஷ்டர்
வசிஷ்டர் A (vasistar)
JNANA VASISHTA or
YOGA VASISHTA
The Holy Sage Brahmarishi Vasishta the ‘Kula
Guru’ or the Spiritual-Master of the entire Ishwaku dynasty also known as the
‘Raghu Vamsa’ gave his Upadesa (Spiritual-initiation) to Lord Rama at this
exalted revered Holy place known as ‘Thittakudi’ and known as ‘Thiru
Vathittakudi’ in the ancient past after the Sage who in Tamil is known as
‘Vatthitar’. (like the Sage Agasthya in Tamil is known as ‘Agatthiyar’).
The young prince Lord Rama was greatly distressed and perturbed
after seeing much sorrow and suffering in the land and the Sage Vasishta
initiated him with deep insights in ‘Advaita tattva’ which is the
Oneness of God and there being nothing in existence apart from God. The
Yoga Vasishta has 32,000 slokas in 64,000 lines and one very
significant sloka tells that like the agitated waters of a pond reflect a
multitude forms of the moon, in a similar manner the One God is seen in
multitude forms when the mind is agitated.
The exalted Sage Vasishta
explains in detail the various techniques and nuances of Ashtanga-Yoga
(eight limbs of Yoga) and when Lord Rama hears that it is possible to
transcend space and time and attain immortality and to remain young
as long as one wishes known as ‘Saha kalai’ in Tamil and to welcome
death at the time one desires known as ‘iccha mrityu’ in Sanskrit, Lord
Rama asks how is this possible and whether he had met such a person. The Sage
Vasishta says: “ Yes! I have met such a person. He is known as ‘Kagabhujenda’
(Kagabhujendar in Tamil). He is said to be in the form of a ‘Andamkaka’
or a black-raven or crow, but it actually means he is the “one who
protects the universe”, ‘andam’ – universe; ‘kaka’ – protects. He lives
in a cave north-east of the Kailash mountain. He welcomed me in all his
youthfull,glorious golden radiant-form. He has witnessed 7500 ‘Pralayas’
or global-level destructions which take place at the end of every ‘Kalpa’
(eon) which is a period of 4.32 billion years being a day-time for the Creator
Lord Brahma. When I asked him how was it possible for him to live for such
a long period of time retaining his youthfull-form,he said: “ I live the
present moment to its full,I watch the intervening-gap between the breathing-pattern
of exhalation and inhalation which is eternity and is the infinite-state of the
Lord! “
***
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