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Why Do we Get Bhang Parshad in LORD SHIVAS MANDIR?

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In the past, perhaps Bhang was given.
The truth of the matter is, the entire tradition of walking in a Temple is an allegory. When we enter the temple, we take our shoes off, we sound the bell, light an incense and a “diva”. At the end of it, we take prasada!
Most people will not meditate. However, if only we apply our selves sincerely to meditation, then like we go to the temple and take our shoes off, first in meditation we must take all of our mental dirts out!. Then just as when we enter the temple, there is the bell, incense and “diva”, in meditation we can see the light of God, hear the bell and smell a divine fragrance. At the end of it, we get prasada! The prasada of meditation is the divine joy which is very intoxicating (Like bhanga!)
Where is the proof? Try meditating but first learn it from someone who has experienced it to this degree!

In Hindu Mythology, why is Lord Krishna always depicted blue in colour?

1) The sky is blue in color. The sky actually has no color but takes up the color of the ocean! God himself is vast like the sky and takes up attributes of how we perceive God to be!
2) There is a much deeper meaning to it. In Deep meditation, we often see a deep blue color. This is one of the 3 colors seen in the spiritual eye. It significance is that of cosmic consciousness. When established there, one can know all that happens in the universe! Krishna knew all and this was depicted by his blue color, showing he had conquered that!
Hope this helps!

Om omkara reciting makes a person’s body to generate fitness for meditation?

Om recital can be helpful if done with the right attitude.
Higher than reciting the Om, is to hear the Om. If you can find a real Guru, he can help you hear Om.
The purpose of reciting Om, is to awaken the shakti. Shakti can then take you to super consciousness.
A guru awakens the shakti for you, and you can hear Om. This would save you years of work. All you have to do, is then to hear Om and go into Superconsciousness.
Finding a true Guru is hard. He must not only be able to experience the superconsciousness, but give solid,undeniable proof of awakening your shakti!
Best wishes!

How do I meditate into a state of complete “relaxness”?

Everytime I meditate, it seems my mind seems to float of concentrartion. I’d be meditating and then I could be thinking about elephants or demons. How do I meditate so that I am completley relax and I can astral project?

1) Astral projection comes as a natural consequence of being relaxed.
2) If you think of astral projection you are not relaxed.
3) Relaxation should be of both mind and body
4) To imagine anything, including mountains, oceans, nature, is still imagination and an activity of the mind. Abandon them!
5) The mind has a natural tendency to waver. Our senses – ears, eyes, sensation, odor, taste all stimulte the mind and in that situation, it can never become fully silent! Any external stimuli will make it wander.
6) There are many techniques that help the mind not wander. Please email me if you are sincerely interested and I can reveal some secrets! But shortly, the goal is not to control or focus the mind, but the goal is to realize you are the astral self! It takes time but the trick is to go within and above. When you go within and above, you are seperating yourself from the surface chaos of the mind (the useless thoughts of animals, events, people) ! Slowly, when you learn not to get overwhelmed by the surface chaos, you learn that you are the astral self (no longer limited by the emotions, random thoughts etc)
There are other things that may help to speed up the process.The fastest way is with the guidance of someone who has mastered it!
Best wishes.

Where can I buy slaves as stated in the Bible?

Lev 25:44 clearly states that I can own slaves, so where can I pick some up? And for those of you who will not look it up, here is the verse: Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Since the God was written by God or is God’s word, etc then he has stated that it is ok for me to do this and God is perfect so the Bible can not be wrong. So please help me, where can I go and it obviously can not be illegal, since God says we are to have them.

Great question. The soul or spirit is free. It is surrounded by bondmen and bondsmaid. They are our brains, emotions, our senses! They are slaves to the soul working so hard for the pleasure of the soul! (read the paragraph again and think deeply). (of the heathen that are round about you…meaning you as the spirit not the body) and it assures us that we will have both bondmen and thy bondmaids (Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids which thou shalt have)
Message me back if you have further question. I do have to say that your strategy was brilliant and your logic was perfect esp. in response to the retort about picking and choosing lines from the Bible! Hats of to you for your logic!

How would Jesus Christ feel about Muslims, how would he have regarded them if they were around in his own time

Recently, I met a pious man who told me his story. He had a question similar to yours.

Jesus appeared to him and was telling him how there was a young girl who was lost somewhere in the middle east. (The man was very poious and when Jesus talks he listened and did not question him for any details – the point of the story is how Jesus acts). The girl was not a Christian. Her faith was Judaism and she did not believe in Jesus. However, she called for help from the depths of her heart. Jesus appeared before her and walked the girl to safety.
The pious man asked, “But she does not even believe in you!”
Jesus answered, “Did she not pray to God?”
The pious man asked again, “Why are there so many different faiths and religions, all in the name of God?”
Jesus answered, “Do they all not lead to faith and love for God?. I permit other religions to exist for they all increase faith in God”
So, Jesus is aware of all the different faiths and all the atrocities. It is not that the religions are bad or wrong, it is the followers of any given faith are so ignorant that they misinterpret the religions and become fantatics in their own way – they have too much ego! They think they can understand the infinite wisdom and love of God by merely reading a book!

Why do people think the bible is the word of god just because the book itself says it is?

Is your question, why do people think the bible is the word of God or is it, is the bible really the word of God?

If your question is why do people believe the bible is the word of God, then it is a matter of faith. They support their faith by logic and repeating statements in the bible

However,everyone of any faith, generally make the same statement. For eg. they say that the Torah is the word of God and it is stated in the Torah.

So, after that it becomes a contest between religions. Well, your book is wrong because my God did this, this and this and that proves me right and my God predicted this (well, Nostradamus predicted a lot of things, that does not make him God), so the only true religion is my religion!

The object of the game is not to prove yourself right to anyone, but to increase your own personal faith! Strengthen your relation with God. If only, everyone strengthened their own relation with God instead of trying to prove their viewpoint and debating things, wouldn’t this world have more peace?

If your question is, is the Bible really the word of God, then one should look at it carefully. If one looks at the bible carefully, we find that it is a compilation of many different tales. In the tales we find some statements that came from Jesus and those statements can be taken as the word of God. Why would we consider a statement made by Judas (although it is in the bible) as the word of God?

However, it is said in the Bible that first there was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. Now, the Bible was compiled about 2000 years ago. So what was that word, that was first created even before the creation of the universe? This is very similar to the question which arises when one reads genesis. On the second day, God created light and then later on, he created the Suns and the moons. So what was that light he created before the creation of the Suns?

The truth of the matter is what is written in the Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran is not simple to understand. Gods infinite wisdom cannot be comprehended by the human mind. Everything that is said by Jesus is correct but we must expand ourselves to understand it, not try to fit the bible to our very limited understanding! Any effort that we make to understand what Jesus said, we are trying to fit it with our logic, experience and our knowledge of science! The knowledge of God is way beyond Science. Science originated from him!

I take a simple approach. My desire is not to understand the how and why of religion, nor is it to debate different religions. I willl do the one thing, that I can do and that is Love god with all my heart and all my might. If understanding religion is the way to God, then I feel sorry for those who are intellectually challanged for not everyone can understand equally. God does not want us to understand him, he just wants us to love him!

God bless us all!