Hari Om,
I was asked a question today so I though maybe I would answer the
question. Before we start I’m sure you all know that right now we are
sitting with Saturn over us continuously and that can be good or bad.
I
showed a [visiting] gentleman all the murthis today and the Kali murthi
and he said about Kali, “This is the terror”. When he saw the
Sani shrine he said the same thing, “Saturn is terror”. The only
reason we have these grahas is to remind us to continuously pray and
remember God.
If
you didn’t have pain you wouldn't be sitting here. There’s some kind of
want in your system that creates the pain. And the only obstacle to you
not getting your desire is the 9 planets. You’re wondering how these
affect your body. You know the lunar cycle is 27 or 28 days and the same
cycle goes for the trance. According to how the moon is placed, that’s
how we get the trance. The moon is not really a planet; it’s a satellite
that reflects the light from earth. That can affect the ocean and the
planet that is 80% water and 20% land. Our body is also 80% fluid and
20% solid. Everything in our body can become fluid, except for 20%.
You
know, there are spiders in Brazil that bite you and put in some kind of
poison and that part of the flesh becomes liquid and they drink it.
Really. That is how this body is. It’s just a mass of fluid. And if the
moon, such a small aspect of these 9 planets, can affect such a huge
ocean, what is it going to do to us? Also, you’ve heard when people
aren’t right in the head we say they’re a lunatic, they’re affected by
the moon. You saw that one child here during full moon, he was in a bad
shape, and other times he’s fine. Now, he doesn’t look at the calendar
to see when full moon is.
Lets
take all the planets. All the planets put together create for you fate –
which we call graha, navagraha or naughara. And that affects you. And
if we don’t satisfy these planets by worshiping them, then it will
affect us. And I think, as you sit here, that some of you are here
because of successful navagrahas to say think you. Of all the poojas,
the most beneficial prayer to all of us is the prayer for the 9 planets.
They don’t give you wealth. Don’t go and do the prayer because you want
to own 20 trucks. But it will remove the obstacles that are there in
front of you preventing your wealth.
Don’t
misunderstand fate for karma. Fate is something else. Karma is brought
upon yourself. Fate is placed there in your destiny. You develop the
karma yourself. No matter what you do in this life you will experience
it and have an encounter of the same thing in the next life. And if you
don’t make a change you will continue with it. This is why we have the
cycle of birth and death. We need to do all these things.
When
a child is born you go to an astrologer and he opens the almanac and
tells you the child is born this year, thidi, nakshaktra … so the child
will be like this and if you do XYZ everything will be fine. But you
know what, 90 % of the parents don’t follow the astrologer. Then as soon
as something goes wrong they go to another astrologer. In Sri Lanka,
especially, they know their nakshaktra, tidhi, and rashi and they have a
chart. As soon as I go there they bring their charts and ask me if they
are matching. They all have charts and they live by the charts. But we
will go to the priest and ask for the right time, and for what to do but
we won’t do it. For example, a couple who are getting married go to the
priest and ask what time the bride must leave home. The priest will
say, “8 o’clock”. But at 8 o’clock the bride is not ready so they take
her handbag and leave it outside, and that’s supposed to mean she is
outside.
We
compromise so we have difficulties. When it comes to God’s work there
should not be any compromise at all. No matter what somebody tells you.
God’s work must continue. Write that in your head. When he comes back to
bite you it’ll be like a boomerang. Many years ago I was at the worst
ebb of my life. It was so bad we couldn’t even buy food or milk for the
children. But it was a cycle. We did what was necessary at that time and
everything has changed and, ever since, that’s all we do. But,
unfortunately for you all, you always find excuses not to do it. If I
say service is from 7 to 8 pm, then at 8 o’clock everyone is looking at
their watch and watching me to see if I’m going to stop service. There
is no time limit for God. It stops when it’s finished – and it’s never
finished. God’s work is never finished. It continues always, every day.
So navagraha is the most important aspect in this journey.
