Today we did Navagraha for the 12 zodiac houses. One set of mantras was for
the sub-lords of the zodiac and the other was for the lords and
sub-lords of the Navagraha.
With Jupiter having just left many of your signs right now, we still have a problem and
therefore we did the pooja for the zodiac. You can go anywhere you
want in the world, you'll find that nobody does the pooja for the zodiac, and this is
an instruction given to me by my guru, that if we want to have a
prosperous three months ahead of us without any obstacles, we should
do the zodiac first, and that's what we did. You all offered to your
specific sign, and then we gave you the opportunity as businessmen,
breadwinners and home-executives. That is because whichever of those
you are, the planet has an affect on you that you cannot run away
from. All this is from Vedic astrology and I know from my experience
that it does affect you, and many of you now will find that you are
going through a bad patch. That's because Jupiter has just left you
with your pockets inside-out. This isn't the time for you to chew on
the end of your pencil and gaze endlessly out the window. This is a
time for you to work so you don't have any negative affects from
the planetary and zodiac setup. This prayer is to remove the obstacles that were going to
affect you over the next three months. Each one of you made your
special offering, 'athma sudhileni', as your soul was the purest, you
made this offering and you had Lord Shiva in all the lingams. 'With
my third eye I look at Shiva and make this offering, and he must
energise my third eye and make me aware of all that's coming in my
direction, good or bad'.
Now we're going to do the hawan so
that each of you carrying baggage on your back and continuing to fill
it up with the happenings of the day and past days, can throw that baggage into the fire. That is the purpose of
today's hawan. Throw your baggage in the fire. You don't need to
carry baggage. Look at the three months ahead of you so you don't
have any difficulties, obstacles or pains, and the love that comes
from you is eternal. If you can do that then you have no baggage. But if
you cannot show another individual unconditional love, then you have
baggage and are carrying something you shouldn't be carrying. This is
your opportunity to burn your baggage and walk from here, your walk
to freedom. Your attainment of God- or Self-realisation will then
become possible when you let go of the baggage that you carry. It is
very sad that we don't let go. If I had to hold onto everything that
each one of you did to me knowingly and unknowingly, wittingly and
unwittingly, then I would have more enemies than friends. But I don't
carry that baggage.
My guru has taught me that every time you have a
situation where you carry baggage, you should do a mental hawan and offer the baggage to the
fire. That is why I gave you all these special cards yesterday and today,
confessing my sincere cosmic, unconditional divine love for each one of
you. I live by my guru's teachings
only, and his teaching was always, "See the person in front of you as
bigger than you". If
you see others as being inferior to you, you'll go
nowhere because you'll have nobody there. He also told me that
whenever a bird is flying, it has to come down to drink water. So
even when you're riding a high horse, you have to come down. So don't
ride the horse then you'll be down on the ground with everybody all
the time. Teachers, lecturers, nurses, they have excellent karma
because they are doing something that is benefiting others. And that
is how karma works. So, before we start the hawan, I'm going to
conclude with my line: “You are here in this restaurant. We don't have
a menu. You get what you deserve”. Once you remember that then
karma is an easy thing to understand.
Whenever we are in a prayer we always
have to go somewhere but whenever we're in a party we have to go
nowhere. And even when we're there, we go nowhere. Before we do aarthi I just want to tell
you that we have some booklets here printed by Ma Foolchand for free
distribution. It doesn't mean you have to take a book. It means if
you take a book you must follow it and read it. The Narshma Kavaka Strotram is very powerful and has special methods and procedures
so don't take it home and throw it with the other books that you
have, the pile of religious books you've never opened before. It is
pocket size. Carry it in your pocket and whenever there's a moment of
dire straits, pain or distress, just flip through the pages of the
booklet and you'll receive the solution or answer to your problem.
So, as I said, this is not for you to take and keep at home not to
read. It is for you to carry in your pocket and it works very much
like the Bhagavad Gita.
The verses, if you can read the Sanskrit, have a beauty in the way they
streams into each other. They are very beautiful to listen to. So,
after aarthi, you can take one of
these books per family, and go home and practise it.
Also some of you
will be getting a mala from me. This is because of the planetary zodiac
signs as they stand right now. Others of you - generally businessmen - will be getting a ring to will keep away evil
mind and evil eyes. And some of you will be getting the Shivaling
ring to wear for your protection. There's always a time to
give, and today we find this time. Also on life's journey, we do not
know if we'll have the opportunity to give tomorrow, so if you feel
like giving today then let it be today because tomorrow you don't
know whether the sun is going to rise above you. Life is uncertain. You need to live this life in its
uncertainty, knowing full well that it has to end. If you deserve a
mala, you'll get a mala. If you deserve a ring, you'll get a ring. And if
you deserve a slap you'll get a slap.
Hari om and God bless you.
