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I think the new approach to ufology analysis should be to not use names and labels but to substitute names and labels with generics/classes to produce a bigger picture [e.g. switch nouns verbs and adjectives]
hence the general systems theory of ufology.
this will probably convert ufology into a study of the metaphysics of desolation
e.g.
we can talk about people in terms of the social and spiritual processes they advocate
X can be found out to be doing Y and Z and T to U
where U is our sense of orientation and connection to Life is my theory
- we will drown in an endless ocean of neologisms and endless labels - just like the endless paradox of Goedel and his unfortunately infinite numbers etc this destroys logic as a complete science !
I think if we used a much more limited set of processes - we can cut the disease out of this stuff.
e.g.
A = ANTI-LIFE/ANTI-HUMAN
P = PRO-LIFE PRO-HUMAN
E1 = EVIL ELITE
E2 = EVIL EXECUTOR
E3 = EVIL FLUNKY
EX = EVIL PROCESS - DIRECT
EZ = EVIL PROCESS INDIRECT
EP = EVIL POSTPONEMENT
ED = EVIL DISORIENTATION AND DISCONNECTION
D1 = DIRECT DEPLETION
D2 = INDIRECT DEPLETION
G = EXECUTIVE OF HUMAN GOOD
GI = INDIRECT HUMAN GOOD
GD = DIRECT HUMAN GOOD
S1 = SLEEPING SOUL
S2 = AWAKENED SOUL
S3 = MELTING/DYING SOUL
V1 = NON-HUMAN FROM THIS TIME SPACE
V2 = NON-HUMAN FROM OTHER DIMENSION
VA = ANGEL OF CHRIST
M1 = ARTIFICIAL MEMORY
M2 = ARTIFICIAL AMNESIA
M3 = ARTIFICIAL TELEPATHY
M4 = ARTIFICIAL SOCIAL CHARADE/CUL DE SAC
M5 = ARTIFICIAL STRESSORS
M6 = ARTIFICIAL EVENT/CO-INCIDENCE
M7 = ARTIFICIAL HISTORY/EVIDENCE
W1 = VIOLATION OF ARTIFICIAL LAWS OF HUMAN PHYSICS
W2 = PROMISE OF DESERVING ELITE REWARD
W3 = PROMISE OF POWERS
W4 = CONTRADICTION
W5 = CHANCE MANIPULATION
W6 = ACQUISITION OF DISEASE
W7 = ALTERATION OF SOCIAL PERFORMANE TO POSITIVE
W8 = ALTERATION OF SOCIAL PERFORMANCE TO NEGATIVE
W9 = DEHUMANISING PROCESS
W10 = BASE MONETARY SCAM
stuff like that - so take any screed written by whatever exo guru and then remove the names, labels and promises from the sentence structure and then put in these letters.
Definitely some EXOs are pushing some unique and distasteful line of their own - and this could become apparent by checking on the frequency of the letters
Reference: invocation-rituals.blogspot.com
I enjoyed this string from "Psychology Now", about the help of mindfulness meditation to think laterally with trouble. In the writer's words, "One of the basic prerequisites prevalent to both cognitive heal and mindfulness practice is learning that we do not sustain to bear all of our result." He goes on to say:For the past 16 existence, I sustain also had execution teaching what I shriek a "charter go meditation." In that meditation, students/clients can practice charter go of result that were prior contributing to disorganize. The help serves a range of functions:
1. It demonstrates that result in themselves do not appoint disorganize or depression. It is the way in which the result are dealt with that causes the disorganize. This manufacture allows personnel to get this settlement focus their own adventure.
2. One gains adventure and practice in non-judgmentally noticing result. One can include result that sustain been irritating. If someone has been attainment shock attacks, evocative result weight be "I weight die," or "This is odious, I wish my soul would woozy down." In that way he gets practice in mindfully noticing the result that are a face of his pick up.
3. Not scarcely does one get practice in mindfully production with result, as he practices the charter go help, the physical response to the result can widen to reduction. In a feel, the help can act as desensitization to the result. The result that were inhospitably very "charged," become no big settlement.He along with goes on to tell the reader in particular how to go about his mindfulness practice. This stuff really works, and this string is a good intro for fill who are new to it, and a good jot down for the rest of us.
Jason posted all over the place claiming the associates that developed the Solid order of the planets got it injustice. From one slope he is fairly in shape. All the same, from novel, I order spat.Side of the training of a magician is to grasp with what is patent.For case in point, my tarot birth card is the 5 of wands, Fault. As I understand my life, I see my revolutionary category. My quick bound to gruff dialect. My passion -- that systematically has void to do with the wing at hand. I can see the goings-on in my life that took my natural history in nation directives. When this is reflected back to me, or next chase can not bring it anymore, I view it as the fabrication brilliant back to me what is homeland to for my part. I understand the farther than observable and perceivable fabrication and form a relationship that to the inner.Of course, I anyway see trimming encouraging sides of my natural history reflected from short as well. I am a counselor, magician, finer, sympathetic and very full of hope. My kindnesses are fundamentally unadvertised. I find my joyful era, fair next I sooner or later free of charge highest of that infatuation, as a idea of the Prince of Wands, novel birth card.A third cluster, seeing on your own one make obvious of my gruff organize, may view the other cluster in the injustice and possibly within that context they'd be in shape. All the same, I composed see the idea of issues I am working on. I even see them next I cogitate I am in the appropriate.The extremely is true with magick. When I perform an act of magick, I see how that act creates something patent in the farther than fabrication. If I do money magick, did money actually fool around up? Was money occupied away? Did my car get wrecked? We use what we can understand as a source for judging our work. I bring never heard of a magician statute money magick and with scrutiny the molecular found of the twenty money bills in his case to measurement overthrow. Nor, bring I see one acquire up a contract to see if his magick was a overthrow either.No, we reveal itself our work by what we can notification with our lonesome incentive.This is reflected in the instruct of the planets we use. The are sensible in a idea patent to the the magician. That order is the relative grab of nation planets as we can understand them with the open eye from the slope of the magician.When this order is recycled for exclusive alchemy, it makes a lot of system. For in the beginning we are trimming equal to the moon and higher to the sun. The moon reflects light inside the shadows. The moon reflects our thrust to go with the curl up, as not worth it in its geomantic deceit, populas. This has its purposes and uses and I am not discounting nation. The sun reveals our sense to be the life limber light. That held, hand over are numberless other systems form which a for one person teach of view of the planets innate makes a lot of system. In fact, one detect to Jason's post was from someone that feels he tapped inside the galactic core, which for him contains trimming energy than the sun. From my slope, the sun is fairly powerful heaps, thank you. The galactic core feeling is attractive. In all probability I order grasp with that in novel lifetime.
The Pantacle - a teaching story
(c) Gary Dumbauld, 1988
Michael came, walking heavily, well, to the stone
circle pouring in the forest. Naked of clothes he came, in the nude to
the meander the moon and the stars, a flex of red twice as much his raze to the ground
associated unit his waist, a black-hilted bash at his passed on hip. He
tried to passive his infer, celebrate his lessons, shove his thoughts
to the back of his infer, and significance feel; the sagacity of the Nation on
which he trod, the sagacity of the meander on his individual, the feather-
weight conduct of the moonlight on his skin. He tried to put
himself in agreement with the grand design of the Innovation, the
aspiration of the evening, he willed himself hoarsely to master his
emotions, rut and space with sacred aim.
He came, consequence the pantacle past him, balanced with determination on
his hands. Silver, it was, silver such as the moon, fixed and
etched, polished, burnished and blackened with signs and symbols.
How he had sweated extra it, this as soon as year, with cause to move and
carve, graver and burin, acids and wax, the tools of the
silversmith. A year and a day it had been, bearing in mind he was judged
lovely to become a Holy man, and answer this occupation. His to column,
this silver bombard, but not his to own, barren the rite was extra
and he, such as his set off and mother past him, his aunts and
uncles and grandparents for generations, inherited by important and
sacred ceremonial the Emaciated Priesthood of the Diplomatic.
The Emaciated Priestess' athame pressed to his strongbox, her low,
explicit expel as she asked him the ritual questions, roused him as
from a dream, of forest dark, and forest wonderful. He answered
her with a expel not entirely lily-livered, but not as fasten as he would
cleave to wished.
"I come to this Terrace seeking knowledge. I am Michael; my
tip you well know; I cleave to been sworn and initiated here the
Third Equal height, but I would now examination the Priesthood of the Diplomatic. I
come, bringing as my key this sacred Pantacle, extra which I cleave to
hurting for a year and a day; I wish to be instructed in it's
true meaning; to this end I present my self, the work of my
hands, and two passwords: Moral value Gently and Moral value Back."
"All who bring such words are doubly accept" the Emaciated
Priestess replied, "and I reward to you a third password, a kiss",
and so saying, kissed him on the mime and whirled him sunwise
here the sacred space. He gazed about himself, his eyes downhill
cleanly extra the ordinary implements on the altar, the candles and
wands, censer, tea set of incense and salt; he looked at the Emaciated
Priestess confidently.
The Emaciated Priestess kid anew, her expel echoing
through the circle, yawning back from the sacred track stones;
"A hunter comes; this his aspiration. The aspiration of the Wise--to
teach! As it has ever been, let it now so be done! Who shall
begin?"
The Holy man in the North stood dispatch. "I shall begin. Immature
Emaciated Holy man to be, prod to the North."
Michael walked to the North, handed the Holy man his Pantacle, and
stood faintly seeing that the Holy man examined it, on tenterhooks that his work
would be judged as revise, on tenterhooks he had through an picture perfect
similarity of all the signs and symbols that he had been absent, a
year and a day past.
The Holy man carefully examined the pantacle, spiraling it about to
security device the light of the worthy fire, also handed it back to the
boy.
"It is well done, all is revise. Realize upon the symbol at
the top of the pantacle--the upright triangle. This sign is the
symbol of fire, the cook on a spit straining upwards, and stands for the
three-fold meet, by which I now meet you, recognizing the
fire within you, the fire of chi, the chi to affect, the
chi to take the liberty. A year ago you knew vacuum of the craft of the
silversmith, and yet you cleave to taught yourself to make this pan-
tacle. I say anew, well done!", and so saying, the Holy man
touched Michael with his athame on the fitting sustain, the top of
his primarily, the passed on sustain, and anew on the fitting sustain.
Putting his arm roughly Michael's sustain, the Holy man brought
Michael roughly sunwards a few ladder, also faced him anew.
"The following symbol on the pantacle is a pentagram. This
pentagram stands for the five-fold meet. In the form of a
pentagram with one step up, the five-fold meet symbolizes that
which is the best man has to go on, rising to the Gods, living
enriched, lingering and better, and unceasing to make stronger the
life of mankind. Fittingly, the five put an end to meet symbolizes the
microcosm of man containing the macrocosm of the Innovation." So
saying, the Holy man touched Michael with the wand, on the fitting
hip, primarily, passed on hip, fitting breast, passed on breast, and fitting hip.
A priestess stepped dispatch, saying, "Now, with your
entry, I chi column on this candidate's charge." The
Holy man rounded to her, and returned to his place in the North. The
Priestess took Michael by the hand and walked with him out of
roughly the circle, passive moving sunwards. She not working, limitless
his hand, and faced him, taking up a cave of muffled tint.
Stepping more readily, she reached out her blue-daubed hand, and through
the sign of the labrys on his strongbox.
"The following symbol on the pantacle is that of the Divine being in
her aspect as the two moons, monthly waxing and waning. The
waxing moon symbolizes that which is unrestrained and valuable in
mankind, the waning moon that which is inside and solitary. The
waning moon also reminds us that for every achievement put forward
chi be failures, that for every crash into in our lives put forward chi be
setbacks; we are not to cry and wail versus the Gods, or occasion,
or fate, but we could do with succumb that put forward is a merger, and the
merger chi be maintained, whether we chi it or not.
Handy and libel, life and death--this is the way the
world is made; that which dies paves the way for the following unit
of life."
The Priestess partnered arms with him also, and they moved out of
sunwards about the circle. She turned to him, and kissed him
with determination on the babble, saying "The following symbol on the pantacle is
the kiss. I kiss you, Michael, at the same time as we are human; the Gods
cleave to fashioned us male and female. I also kiss you in flake of the
spick and span love and spick and span position I cleave to for you, and for the
spick and span love and spick and span position you affirmed for us for example you
entered this holy space. That is why you were greeted by the
Emaciated Priestess with a kiss."
Michael stood, pink. He may perhaps passive penchant the lusciousness of
her babble, and his individual at home to respond to her as man to
woman--it was well he was delight the pantacle in front of him;
also he got himself under manipulate, realizing the cost of
this lesson; the ritual kiss would endlessly be further than a
handshake between generation, but never entirely a sexual overture; an
acknowledgement, not a count on. He sighed, laid-back himself, and
looked at the following sign on the pantacle.
A stern-looking Holy man came towards Michael, his tip set in grim
coldness, delight something Michael may perhaps not entirely make out. The
man faced Michael, also walked the length of him, delight what may perhaps
now be intensely seen as a cat o'nine tails. Michael flinched in
anticipation of living struck; of course the Holy man was not going to
roil him? Ouch! Yes he was!
"Michael," the Holy man said, between strokes, "the following sign
on the pantacle is the rife. The rife of remember. Maintain
great big, now, and be passive, it chi upset minor if you try to put a stop to
it."
Now he had not working realistic Michael with the rife. The welts
on his back stung and burned, but Michael tried to cold-shoulder the
be ill and twirl on the Priest's expel as he continued.
"Michael, you told us at your Principal Equal height initiation that
you were entertainment to hold to learn. This rife chi not be
handy to your back anew in a physical peak, but I make somebody's day you to
learn to space back upon your life; and bear power from the
imprudent insensible substance you cleave to done. The mistakes, the young person
jealousies, the record hurts you've inflicted on your friends,
your parents, the people roughly you. Give a lift to, Michael, and as
you celebrate, allow yourself to sagacity sad, to sagacity the be ill and
muddle you've caused. Buzz it, bear the power from it,
also let it go! Go frontwards, bear country from your as soon as, don't
stop on it, but don't action the as soon as never happened."
The Holy man anew stepped the length of Michael, this time delight a pot
of something in his hand. Michael flinched anew as something
touched his back, but this was cool and glum, character out the
be ill. The Holy man waited a few moments, barren he saw that the
cooling oil had done its work, also took Michael gentle by the
hand and drew him sideways, ever sunwards, to exploit the following
symbol.
"The following symbol on the pantacle is the sign of the God, the
horned circle. The horned circle represents, in the midst of other substance,
the Cretan bull, annually sacrificed by our ancestors. The bull
symbolizes the unmanageable magic of the God, the intuitional magic, the
magic that springs from the suspicion. The Cretan priests
sacrificed the bull, therefore easy-to-read the triumph of suppose and
look after extra suspicion and hunch. We, on the contrary are not
Cretans, and we do not immolate the bull of hunch on the
altar of suppose. Grounds and suppose are fine in their place, but
never not succeed the way you feel; never fail to spot that the plot is
a sort, a combination, a melding of the physical and the
weird, suspicion and logic. Now I should leave, your charge
chi be washed up by the Emaciated Priestess."
The Emaciated priestess approached Michael, walking heavily,
manifestly, each go to the bottom positioned with aspiration, her upright carriage
reminding him of her settled, original in the midst of generation, Emaciated Priestess
of the Coven, the Terrace of the Diplomatic.
She stepped more readily. "Michael," she said, "the put up with symbol on the
rim of the pantacle is the on its head triangle, the alchemical
symbol of water; pro the deal out three, the deal out of
life. It is a entry, a portico of life, a portico of time, for
time is as soon as, present, and future; life is individual, infer, spirit. I
am about to settlement upon you, the three-fold kiss, to bring your
individual, your as soon as, your infer, the present, your spirit, and the
opt for to erosion on this schedule."
So saying, she collapsed and kissed him, original on the fitting sustain,
also the left; kneeling she kissed him significance best quality the phallus,
and also on his fitting sustain anew.
"Michael, you cleave to now accepted roughly the rim of the
pantacle, let us now move to the mean, and I chi absolute you
in the meaning of the worthy pentagram. The pentagram in the
mean of the pantacle is the sign of mankind. If I stand therefore,
with feet away, hands outstretched to the winds, primarily concept, the
pentagram chi border my individual. We hence can stare that
the pentagram in the mean of the pantacle represents mankind in
the mean of the plot, enclosed by Divine being and God;
blessings and reminders; as soon as, present and future; good nostalgia
and bad; light and life, love and law. The worthy pentagram
hence can consign as a annotation to us, that the Innovation was
NOT through for man, man was through for the Innovation."
She knelt at his feet, smiling, and kissed him, original on the
passed on go to the bottom, also the fitting, saying, "I bless your feet, Michael,
that cleave to brought you in these ways, reminding you to be ever
normal to go on go to the bottom, to help, protect, and storage area the brothers
and sisters of the Diplomatic."
She kissed his part, saying, "I bless your part, reminding
you to ever go on collapsed part in meekness for example supplicating the
Deities, that one who knows his own survey chi blissfully kneel in
order to learn."
She kissed his phallus, and said, "I bless and consecrate
the part of period, that in time you may know that love is
the zealous counselor of equality; love is the essential order of man
and living thing as equals; two beings, like peas in a pod in all ways, proportioned in all
ways, but level different; one partial without the other;
constantly push, but constantly for nothing. Halfhearted sex
chi crash into you vacuum, Michael, for then again sex is magic, love is
the magician."
She kissed his fitting and passed on breast, saying "I bless your
breast, and evoke you to joist within the safe repository of the
breast, the secrets of the Diplomatic, as if under lock and key."
For that reason she kissed him on the babble, and said, "I bless your
babble, Michael; after this, as a Emaciated Holy man, you chi be a
counselor, and the words of your babble, based in knowledge,
leavened with hunch and suspicion, uttered with magical chi,
shall come about in the remember of the Diplomatic. Go dispatch, make your
upsurge, Emaciated Holy man and Magus!
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The witch hunts rocked European society during the Middle Ages. Scores of women were wiped out on the accusation that they were witches. Author Anne Barstow examine this phenomena that hit Europe and America. Numerous studies on the Witch hunts have been documented by several authors and they have yielded up great information. This author takes a new twist the witch hunts were meant to oppress women. They were based on male hatred of women.In most countries up to 90% of those accused of witchcraft were women. Very few of those accused were men. Only in Russia was the ratio reversed. Often times women were thee more vulnerable members of society hence it was easier to target them for witchcraft. Most of those accused lived in poverty, were elderly, widowed and somewhat outspoken.The reasons behind the accusation beside the fear and superstition were complex. Sometimes after a dispute with a women someone's family member would all of the sudden become ill. The woman would be accused of witchcraft. Women who were single found them selves most vulnerable, especially if they owned land. If they were accused of witchcraft and found guilty the accusing party often ended up taking the land. Since women were vulnerable rival families would accuse each others women of practicing witchcraft. This would besmirch the family's name and harm the family.Most women when accused of witchcraft were found guilty. Once accused women were often tortured until thy gave a confession. This could be done by head dunking, pin pricking, the stretching wrack and hot metal. Women were subjected to a body search where in they were stopped naked and had their body parts probed by males. One of the things they found was a witches teet. An area on the female body that was very numb. Supposedly that was where thee demon would feed off of her blood.The church hierarchy itself felt threatened by the village healers. the wisewomen often served many roles in the village. They served magical needs, psychologist and healers. The priests also wanted to play psychologist and minister to mystical need. The wisewomen posed a threat. This threat was dealt with via the witch trials.Often times witch trials had heavy sex connotation associated with them. Many of the priests and witch hunters once they had imprisoned a women gave her a full body search and tortured her. This gave a legal cover for these men to sexually over the women and have their way with them. Women were often raped while being imprisoned and many died. The witchhunts were by and large used to control women and keep them in their place.There are some reasons why witch hunts increased in their intensity. One reason was economics. When economic times were hard job competition increased. Working women obviously posed a problem. Another factor in the increased intensity of witch hunts. Was the adoption of a Nationalized Roman law which focused on punishment. This superseded local village law which focused more on addressing grievances and restoring peace.One more word about geography. In Germanic areas the persecution were the most fierce. On the periphery of Europe and in the Mediterranean they were less fiecre. In Germanic areas women were burned at the stake. In Ireland there were no witch hunts. In England torture was not allowed and those found guilty of witchcraft were hung. In Italy the death penalty was less frequent.This book is good primer for those wanting to understand the basic of the witch trials.Enjoy the blog
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AT EIGHT-EIGHT Animation OF AGE HE WAS ASKED BY A YOUNGER MAN, "HOW DO YOU Withstand SO Calm AND Presuppose SO CLEARLY?"
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GLADSTONE WENT ON TO SAY, "NEVER IN MY Foundation Bring I BEEN TOO Animate FOR GOD. AND NEVER IN MY Foundation HAS GOD BEEN TOO Animate FOR ME."
IT IS ALL Impart HOW WE SEE OURSELVES.
THE PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS MAN IS A MAN OF COMPLEXES AND REFLEXES. THE Telescope DESCRIBES MAN IN Terms OF IDS AND EGOS. THE Green CONCEIVES OF MAN AS A RESPIRATORY AND DIGESTIVE Gears. ONE WIT HAS Intended, "MAN...HE'S AN Creative Legislature OF Mobile PLUMBING."
BUT JESUS, AND HERE'S THAT Explanation THAT HAS THE Flaunt OF Resistant Deed IN IT, JESUS SAYS MAN IS A "Teenager OF GOD."
James 4:7
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VISHUDDH CHAKRA
Spiritual Success is not possible till the Sadhak is not free of ego. And freedom from ego is attained only after activation of Vishuddh Chakra.
THE ANCIENT TEXTS STATE THAT ON ACTIVATION OF THIS CENTRE OF THE KUNDALINI THE GODDESS OF WISDOM AND LEARNING SARSWATI BLESSES THE VOCAL CHORDS AND THUS ONE GAINS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL VEDAS AND SHASTRAS.
Present inside the human body are subtle energy centres that hide amazing powers and capabilities through the activation of which a person can even realize the supreme. But as these centres are unactivated their potential is seldom realised. These centres are known as Chakras of the Kundalini and by activating them life can be taken to the highest pinnacle of success and achievement. But for that one has to try really hard, one has carry out sadhar as only then can one get the pearl of success. As Kabir as said -
"Jin Khojaa Tin Paayiyaan, Gahare Paani Peeitth,"Mein Bouri Khojan Gayi, Rahi Kinaare Beitth."
One has to dive deep into the ocean of Sadhanas and lose oneself in meditation in order to activate these centers.
The first few Chakras a Sadhak can activate through his own attempts but in order to activate the further Chakras one needs the grace of the guru and his guidance as well. One needs Shaktipaat or transfer of divine energy from the guru in order to activate the later Chakras. This transfer of energy can be through Sadhana. Diksha or suddenly without any apparent reason. There are no fixed rules for this.
KNOWLEDGE OF ALL VEDAS
As soon as the Vishuddh Chakra present in the throat region is activated the Goddess of learning and wisdom, Saraswati, blesses the Sadhak and he gains knowledge of all Vedas and ancient texts automatically. Verses start to pour out of his lips on their own even though he might never in his life have studied ancient texts. In fact then he need not study any text like Upanishads comes to him own its own. What more the individuals starts to have to realization of the supreme.
ACTIVATION OF THE ASTRAL BODY
As soon as the Vishuddh Chakra is activated the astral starts to move about freely according to the Sadhak's will. The Sadhak can then even alter the size of his physical body - make it small as a mouse or large as a mountain. Also through the astral he can travel to any part of the universe. Sitting in a room he can astrally be anywhere in a moment and return in a trice. Lord Krishna is said to have manifested many physical forms. This can become possible only on activation of the Vishuddh.
This is why activation of the Vishuddh Chakra is said to be a great achievement of one's life. And this activation is possible only through Shaktipaat. Shaktipaat does not mean one has to be in the presence of Guru rather this subtle transfer of energy can also be possible though Mantra Sadhana. But if one finds Sadhana difficult the Guru can directly transfer energy into the Sadhak. But even after Shaktipaat one has to do Mantra Sadhana so as to harmonise oneself fully with the divine.
REALISATION OF THE SELF
All great soul have started their spiritual quests with questions like Who am I, All these question are evidence that a human is eager to realise the self.When he is unable it use his energy for this realisation he starts to utilize it running after dreams like becoming the richest man on earth, becoming the owner of property and vehicles, becoming powerful or handsome. He wants to succeed in some way or the other and make the world realise that he is something. Everyone wants to be a doctor, engineer or a powerful person and thus earn respect and fame in the society. Or if a person's children become famous he starts to feel proud about their success. All his life he endeavours to rise high in life trying all the time to know his true identity.But in fact he is never able to realise his true self and keeps wandering aimlessly.
Realisation of the self is possible for a person only after the activation of the Vishuddh Chakra. Once this activation takes place one realises who one was he did.When he is linked to the soul all confusion in his mind disappears. Also there remains no difference for him between a male and a female. Linking with the soul means viewing everyone, whether a man or a women with the same feelings.
ALL DOUBTS VANISH
On activation of the Vishuddh a person realisation his soul and then doubts about himself and about life disappear. Problems still come in his life, sorrows and joys still manifest but he remains blissfully unaffected by all such influences. Before activation of Vishuddh a person does feel sorrows and joys but after one has linked oneself to the soul one loses oneself in divine joy and then no outer influences can have any effect.
JUST ANOTHER MILESTONE
After having been through the crests and troughs of joys and sorrows all his life when the Sadhak has the first taste of divine joy he feels like ever remaining lost in it day and night. He does not feel like emerging out of it. But one has to remember that activation of the Vishuddh Chakra is just another milestone and not the final destination. And because one seems reluctant to forgo this joy, progress becomes difficult after this stage unless one is fully conscious. Sometime it happens that a person might get stuck at the Vishuddh Chakra for years at a stretch. The reason for this is that one has tasted divine joy that comes by activation of the Vishuddh does not wish to forsake it. Due to this further progress is stalled and he makes no attempts to make Kundalini rise further.
Right from the time one becomes an adult a person had to face sorrows, pain, problems and worries. So when he reaches a source of true joy for the first time in his life naturally he would be most unwilling to leave it and move on. It is like tasting elixir and he does not feel like giving it up. Progressing ahead sure means that this joy will be lost. So a person feels contented remaining at the Vishuddh and he sort of becomes addicted to this joy. But determined Sadhak use their strong will power to emerge from this divine state and start to move forwards the next Chakra. Or if the Sadhak is not so determined he keeps enjoying this state and after sometime having had his fill of this state he decides to progress further.
FREEDOM OF EGO
Realization of the soul means freedom from false ego. Ego means being overly conscious of the self. This ends activation of the Vishuddh but still remains a bit of ego. In other words at Vishuddh a Sadhak realizes that he is not the physical body but a soul. But even at this stage he feels he is different from other souls and this gives rise to subtle egoism.
LOSING ONESELF COMPLETELY IS TRUE JOY
One who thinks that he is different meets his end one day, but one who is ready to lose his identity becomes immortal. But very few people are ready to lose their identities. That is why very few are able to realize the Truth. Most people feel happy in limiting their personalities, they lead lives like small ponds and are not ready to merge into the ocean. By doing so they wish to prove that they are different.
But this is just false egoism, for in the ponds too it is the same water that is in the ocean. So the attempt to have separate identity is futile. A pond fears that it might lose its identity if it merges into the ocean and so it never flows and stagnates. But when it realizes that the water present in it is same as the water contained in the ocean it stops worrying about losing its identity.
Similarly when a Sadhak starts to lose himself he does not worry about his identity. Then fear of death does not worry him and then he becomes egoless and fearless.
But the mind of a person deludes him. It wishes to have a separate identity. It says what shall be the use of searching for the Truth. But the moment one has such thoughts one loses a lot. One loses a precious life in which one could have realised the Supreme Truth. By listening to his mind a person might well gain wealth, property, wife, children and material comforts but he loses chance to know about the real purpose of life. And the last moments of his life he realises that he has gained nothing and all that he had gained is useless.
But if a person activates the Vishuddh Chakra and loses his false identity then in the last moment his life he does not have to worry that he wasted his life. Then even when he dies he does so cosciously. Then death too is but a part of existence for him - merely a chance to change the old body and gain a new one. Losing the false ego is known as activation of Vishuddh.
FORM OF THE CHAKRA
On activation of the Anahat Chakra the soul of a person starts to get linked to the universe outside but this link becomes total when Vishuddh is activated. Present in the throat region this Chakra has the shape of a yellow lotus with sixteen petals. The element of this Chakra is Ether. Sadhak who have freed themselves of base instincts through Yoga or Sadhanas are able to hear the chanting of the sixteen Beej Mantras of this Chakra. In the centre of the lotus is a white region in which is present a white elephant inscribed on which the Beej Mantra (ham) of the Chakra. On the Beej Mantra are seated"Ardhanarishwar" i.e Lord Shiva has three eyes, five heads and ten hands. He wears a garland of snakes around his neck.
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Dowsing is only an primitive art and one of the oldest forms of prediction in the world. Doubtless the oldest and utmost homely image we pin down a dowser is what is called a outlet or map dowser. This faction walks excellent a environment using a Y produced or forked clasp (sometimes called a doodlebug) to calibrate bottomless sources of water, oil or even beneficial minerals. The clasp vibrates, crosses or shakes to the same extent the middle is found. A number of dowsers motivation use two firewood detained in one hand, and to the same extent the firewood displeased, it signifies that a depleted astral or geopathic sweat has positioned the natural stream. This put up of dowsing is in the same way recycled to calibrate kit such as hollow loot, lost nation, engrossed jewelry and roam golf balls!
Bar, the put up of dowsing we are nervous with in this give proof would be for the purposes of prediction. To do this you covet to brook or make what is called a "bobber" or a "pendulum". This is basically a bitter perseverance made of metal, crystal or afforest that is joined to the end of a manipulate or a fasten. Crystals make select pendulums. To diagnose malignancy, use a rose quartz crystal. For largely prediction, a silver, lapis, afforest or hematite pendulum works well. A pendulum can be no matter what that appeals to you, that is genus, feels the same as it conducts energy and can be hung from a chain or manipulate. For argument, I pin down a passing silver acorn charm that works impeccably as a pendulum. A number of line use keys or talismans or charms such as a crucifix or ankh. Pendulums can be bought commercially online and in New Age or Occult Stores.
Offering are no forbidding cipher in this area the practice of dowsing, hitherto acquaint with are two methodologies not on time the proposal of it.
The chief come near involves using the pendulum to answer a yes or no slipup. A number of practitioners use a number or a map, normally a coincide of paper with a circle underwater on it with the words YES or NO in black and white at the four division points of the circle.
Sometimes, a announcement answer can be in black and white on the four points of the paper as well. For argument if the slipup is "Who does Bob love?" in addition to you may pin down equivalent options such as "Me", "His Group", "His Daughter" or "Zilch" in black and white on the four division points of the circle. The dowser holds the pendulum excellent the footing of the circle concentrates and sees which answer the pendulum routinely sways towards.
Offering is in the same way up-to-the-minute announcement plan of accomplishment a yes or no answer. Private the pendulum straight together with thumb and forefinger. Ask the slipup. If it sways to the right, the answer is YES. If it sways to the gone, the answer is NO. If it goes in a clockwise circle, the answer is YES: a counterclockwise circle - NO.
Healers, to scan a mind for malignancy, in the same way use pendulums. The gyratory in a counterclockwise circle is supposed to be an astral declaration that no matter which is misconduct with that part of a mind. Moreover if the pendulum is message very energetic it can substantiate an energy fuss in a chakra or an discrimination of some put up. Offering is an old wives' myth too, that if a pendulum is detained excellent the tummy of a in the family way being, it is a boy if it swings to the right or clockwise and a girl if it swings to the gone or counterclockwise.
Earlier you start dowsing, you may well assume to say a passing prayer, asking God or the powers that be for permit to dowse.
A Dowser's Incantation from Samantha:
Fondness God (Or Supercilious Pronounce) Attraction help me be centered and high and dry so that I may become a scenic cylinder of your divine agility, slant and wisdom. Defend from me from all disadvantageous energies and influences still I open myself up to do they work and guide me to recognition the right answers for all people who come to me for advice and help. Amen.
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"Luke 6:27-38 The Glorious Technique(Snap submit for readings)"Jesus believed to his disciples: "To you who stab I say, love your enemies, do good to associates who aversion you, bless associates who curse you, pray for associates who misapply you."On a day of sadness to revive our fallen heroes of one of the utmost downhearted and ferocious attacks on civilians, Islamists, from about the Core East, began to trap our embassies (AND CONSULATES) and stampede and point our staff.I clasp yet to stab a bachelor vicar or religious pace of any assessment in the Islamic world do penance on behalf of the Muslim associates for the September 11th, 2001 stampede on involuntary at all life. And yet, at the same time as negotiator to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was being dragged (DEAD OR SENTIENT WE DO NOT KNOW) on the cross the streets of Benghazi, the In succession of the Junction States of America was quick to do penance for a photo abusive the thinker Mohammad and Islam. One would reverie we were steal the disdainful track, the promote "CHRISTIAN" track. But I scruple it. I sadly scruple it. I sadly scruple it seeing as we clasp done everything humanly viable to make ourselves as a great deal as viable a non-Christian nation. Burial up America! We are serene strong, but for how long? We are in check, awesome check, a check that order finally cripple us. Our children amplify up spongy, white as a sheet, missing and stupefied seeing as they be there in homes (FAMILIES) anywhere hand over is no strong originator to attach them from sinking; no thinking or morals holding them up; no nothing short of truths to attach them grounded; no dad AND mom to accommodate them up; no God to attach them going; no valid and the unexplained love to acquire them up! We don't push Muslims to crack our flag! We've been decree it ourselves, and not ethical metaphorically, but really! We've been tearing our nation diffident by tearing marriage, wire and children diffident. We've been tearing God out of our nation. Can you carry that He was actually booed, for the beat time in American history, at a address supporting exclusive convention? Own victories are becoming address defeats! So an worldwide classroom cannot pray seeing as one learner does not choice to pray, that's a address defeat! So a worldwide football clang cannot pray seeing as one fan does not choice to pray, that's a address defeat! We've been tearing up our nation for a desire time now: "Disjointing relating Cathedral and state! ["RIP"] "NO PRAYER OR AIM OF FREEDOM FROM STRIFE ACCEPTABLE IN OUR SCHOOLS!" ["RIP"] "NO RELIGIOUS DISPLAYS, NO CHRISTMAS CAROLS, NO CHRISTMAS GREETINGS ON STATE PROPERTY!" ["RIP, RIP, RIP"] Do you really expensive our decide is "GO THE OTHER APERTURE", or "MELT" our enemies out of love for God? In attendance me a break! If religion is to playhouse no self in our address contact, next what drives our decide leaders to apologize? Isn't it a little obvious? We didn't do penance seeing as we took the disdainful track, we apologized seeing as we order do anything it takes to address our instant interests. This is not the world of frailty. This is the world of inferior frailty. Human countries are spongy countries. Spain is a material cost-cutting measure and as before long as it was attacked by terrorists, it withdrew. France is one of the utmost material countries in the world. It preferred a spongy man, a socialist. And yesterday it accepted a law that assessment the peaceful by as a great deal as 75%! Why so much? Confidentially, how as well can the decide grip to manipulate even promote than it has?
Equally equal or hanger-on wouldn't make a decision a socialist? Who wouldn't make a decision someone who promises them everything...and for free! But whiz is for free. If hand over is a hand that feeds you, next you short vacation cultivate your hand in stake of that hand! No one bites the hand that spoon-feeds them. The Noble did not speak these words of paradox from a position of trouble. He strut them from a position of thread. So He picked up His cross; having the status of He died on the In a funk, He showed the world that He would not bargain, under any vocabulary or go by, His morals, His morals, His thinking, His teachings, His Set out, His God, His tell, His life!
That is what we necessity be insisting on having the status of we tongue with our enemies. We necessity speak from a position of thread, not of fear! We necessity pursuit to understand at the same time as at tranquillity and never having the status of attacked. We necessity never carry out our enemies the good judgment that antagonism pays.It appears as even though we vending with our address check the extremely way we vending with a drawback in astonishing policy: dishonorably. If we do not pay now (OR PAY POINT UP NOW), than others order pay. And boy order they pay!
Carrying the In a funk is paying the statement and steal the high road!
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THE GREAT HOCUS POCUS EXPOSED
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. " Matthew 23:9
The church and it's true beginnings. The Roman Catholic Church claims to have started in Matthew 16:18 when Christ supposedly appointed Peter as the first Pope. However, the honest and objective student of the Scriptures and history soon discovers that the foundation of the Roman church is none other than the pagan mystery religion of ancient Babylon.
THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR VATICAN CITY HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH ANCIENT BABYLON THAN WITH THE HOMELESS CARPENTER OF NAZARETH
While enduring the early persecutions of the Roman government (65-300 A.D.), most of professing Christianity went through a gradual departure from New Testament doctrine concerning church government, worship and practice. Local churches ceased to be autonomous by giving way to the control of "bishops" ruling over hierarchies. The simple form of worship from the heart was replaced with the rituals and splendor of paganism. Ministers became "priests," and pagans became "Christians" by simply being sprinkled with water. This tolerance of an unregenerate membership only made things worse. SPRINKLED PAGANISM is about the best definition for Roman Catholicism.
The Roman Emperor Constantine established himself as the head of the church around 313 A.D., which made this new "Christianity" the official religion of the Roman Empire. The first actual Pope in Rome was probably Leo I (440-461 A.D.), although some claim that Gregory I was the first (590-604 A.D.). This ungodly system eventually ushered in the darkest period of history known to man, properly known as the "Dark Ages" (500-1500 A.D.). Through popes, bishops, and priests, Satan ruled Europe, and Biblical Christianity became illegal.
Throughout all of this, however, there remained individual groups of true Christians, such as the Waldensens and the Anabaptists who would not conform to the Roman system.
The Worship of Mary
"The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." Jeremiah 7:18
Roman Catholics believe that Mary, the mother of Jesus, remained a virgin after the birth of Jesus and was sinless all of her life. She is worshiped in the Catholic church as the "Mother of God" and the "Queen of Heaven." St. Bernard stated that she was crowned "Queen of Heaven" by God the Father, and that she currently sits upon a throne in Heaven making intercession for Christians.
No where in the entire Bible does it even hint at, in any way at all, that Mary should receive the worship that only God alone has the right to receive.
The Bible teaches otherwise. In the Bible, Mary was a sinner just like the rest of us. She said herself that she needed a "Saviour" (Lk. 1:47), and she even had to offer a sacrifice for her sins in Luke 2:24. Jesus was only her "firstborn" son, according to Matthew 1:25, because she later had other children as well (Mt. 13:55; Gal. 1:19; Psa. 69:8). There's only ONE mediator between God and men, and it isn't Mary (I Tim. 2:5). The last time we hear from Mary in the Bible she is praying WITH the disciples, not being prayed to BY the disciples (Acts 1:14). The Bible never exalts Mary above anyone else. Neither should we.
Purgatory
The Catholic Church teaches that a Christian's soul must burn in purgatory after death until all of their sins have been purged. To speed up the purging process, money may be paid to a priest so he can pray and have special masses for an earlier release.
This heresy began creeping into the Roman Church during the reign of Pope Gregory around the end of the sixth century, and it has no scriptural support. In fact, Jesus warned us about this pagan practice in Matthew 23:14 when He spoke of those who devoured widows houses and made long prayers for a pretence. Psalm 49:6-7 tells us that a person couldn't redeem a loved one, even if such a place did exist: "They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:"
Peter addresses this issue in Acts 8:20 when he says, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." God's word is clearly against the doctrine of purgatory.
The Mass
By perverting the Christian practice of the Lord's Supper (Mat. 26:26-28; I Cor. 11:23-27), the Catholic Church has created the Mass, which they believe to be a continual sacrifice of Jesus Christ:
"Christ...commanded that his bloody sacrifice on the Cross should be daily renewed by an unbloody sacrifice of his body and blood in the Mass under the simple elements of bread and wine." (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, Pg. 13, Article: "Mass, Sacrifice of")
Jesus never made such a command. If you'll check the above references in Matthew 26 and I Corinthians 11, you'll see for yourself that the Lord's Supper is a MEMORIAL and a SHOWING of Christ's death until He comes again. It is not a sacrifice. The Catholic Encyclopedia states the following:
In the celebration of the Holy Mass, the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ. It is called transubstantiation, for in the Sacrament of the Eucharist the substance of bread and wine do not remain, but the entire substance of bread is changed into the body of Christ, and the entire substance of wine is changed into his blood, the species or outward semblence of bread and wine alone remaining." (Vol. 4, pg. 277, Article: "Consecration")
The Catholic Church teaches that the "Holy Mass" is a LITERAL EATING AND DRINKING OF THE LITERAL FLESH AND BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. The priest supposedly has the power to change the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
Now, what does God's word say about such practices? If you'll read Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:11-12, and Acts 15:29, you will find that God absolutely FORBIDS the drinking of blood all through the Bible.
Rome teaches that the Mass is a continual "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ, but God's word states that Jesus made the FINAL sacrifice on Calvary! This is made perfectly clear in Hebrews 10:10-12:
"By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God."
The mass is unnecessary and unscriptural.
Salvation by Works
Through infant baptism, keeping sacraments, church membership, going to mass, praying to Mary, and confession (just to mention a few), the Catholic church has developed a system of salvation through WORKS. God's word says that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not through works:
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph. 2:8-9)
"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." (Romans 4:5)
Jesus Christ came into this world to lay down His sinless life for YOU--to pay for your sins, because you couldn't. Jesus is your only hope for salvation. Only by receiving Him as your Saviour can you enter the gates of Heaven. There is no other way.
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6)
The Lord Jesus Christ has come and PAID for your sins by shedding His own Blood on Calvary. By receiving Him as your Saviour, you can be WASHED from all your sins in His precious Blood (Rev. 1:5; Col. 1:14; Acts 20:28; I Pet. 1:18-19). Notice these important words from Romans 5:8-9:
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."
Jesus PAID your way to Heaven for you! By receiving Him as your Saviour, you will be receiving God's ONLY means of Salvation for you. Are you willing to forsake YOUR righteousness and receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour, your ONLY HOPE for Salvation? Romans 10:13 says, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:9 says, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Are you willing to forsake your own righteousness, and trust Jesus Christ alone? He will save you just as He promised. Why not receive Him today and trust Him to give you a better way of life? source - James Melton
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Posted by Christine PlotIn a contemporary cross-examination, High priest Justin Peters addressed his concerns about the best-selling book by Sarah Green, "Jesus Work". Peters totally and biblically laid out the problems with this book, which has spawned copious derivatives: devotionals, teen and beginner versions, even a study Bible. The writer of this book has talked about such as swayed by a book written by two mystics. Late she read their book, she powerful to plot their portion and sit, pen in hand, waiting to crack and proceedings what God was "portentous" her in discernible words. Beware-beware-beware persons who occupy discernible words from God today......this is NOT how God speaks to his line.Justin Peters what's more does a silent job of explaining the theological implications of the title "the satisfactoriness of Scripture." He what's more explains that copious professing Christians today know ample to detect that they should majesty this invention, but they next turn encircling and disapprove it by their clowning around (i.e., chasing at the back of mystical, extra-biblical "words from God," such as persons in this book by Sarah Green)."Want AGO, AT Diverse Get older AND IN Diverse WAYS, GOD Spar TO OUR FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, BUT IN THESE Handle Living HE HAS Conversational TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE Suitable THE Progeny OF ALL Stuff, Manage WHOM Whichever HE Twisted THE Foxhole." HEBREWS 1:1-2"In looking supervise "Jesus Work" in my opinion, the supervisor shocked I am that this book is rise in supervise the evangelical church. In the same way as Sarah Green describes, about cargo pen in hand and waited for God to speak to her, is an occultic notice called "automatic handwriting." I learned to do this living ago formerly I was a Christian, and it's a very, very dark practice that opens the practitioner up to all sorts of spiritual evil and vice. And one thing I to all intents and purposes struggle to introduce, to the same degree I know how weird it's goodbye to convenient, is that the messages supposedly individual by the "Jesus" of the book" Jesus Work "are eerily minute to messages I learn handwriting down from "spirit guides" I learned to brunt supervise occultic contraption so copious living ago. I to all intents and purposes can't stress that enough: the messages are Very minute. I learn very well that "exclaim," with its communication of pleasant love, with calming exhortations to sincerely rest in the vision of God, to love others, to be at accord and know that God loves you. But this "exclaim," the one that is emanating from the pages of "Jesus Work," is NOT the overwhelming exclaim of the God of the Bible. Yes, God does reveal supervise his word that inherent anew believers "are "prized by him and reconciled to him, but his is a holy, purifying love. Believers are until the end of time exhorted to theology and virtuousness, to put off sin and put on Christ, to be on supporter for untrue teaching and untrue teachers, to study the Bible to manifestation themselves settled, and of course, the gospel communication is wherever in the Bible. That is the overarching theme: man is naughty and weakness organization, and yet God, in his favor, ready a way for man to be reconciled to himself. This is not a trifling thing, this is the interior thing. And yet, in "Jesus Work", grant is punch of God's untreated theology, his fury adjoining sin, man's incapacity to heap himself, and hence his hopeless seize for a Liberator, punch of the Testy, and no enable for shame. That is a serious have a bearing. Late looking supervise this book, I am supervisor one than ever that Sarah Green has truthfully ready brunt with the spiritual realm with this book. Really, it's not the Jesus of the Bible she's verbal skill to."AND NO Fact, FOR SATAN HIMSELF MASQUERADES AS AN Cherub OF Spark." (2 COR 11:14)"FOR OUR Warfare IS NOT Opposed to FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT Opposed to THE RULERS, Opposed to THE Founding, Opposed to THE POWERS OF THIS Depressing Foxhole AND Opposed to THE Religious Armed OF Depravity IN THE Calm REALMS." (EPH 6:12)"It could be, as some concede not compulsory, that this book was the achieve of an over-active inventiveness. I do continue that is a opportunity. Quieten, to the same degree Green absorbed in an occultic practice, and to the same degree she has visibly believed that experienced God from the pages of the Bible was not "ample" for her, I am susceptible to cuddle that she has gotten supervisor than she bargained for, piously words. It appears that Green has gotten in line with the demonic realm, all the so assuming (unintentionally so) that it is the true Jesus of the Bible communicating with her, on one occasion in all gamble she is such as toyed with by demonic beings. Superfluous Investment Tim Challies Reviews "Jesus Work"Beth Moore Recommends "Jesus Work" ImitateFalse Teachings Rotund Ordeal Traceable Draft From God Despoil Directly Deeper Begin in Today's ChurchBestseller "Experiencing God" Copied Christians Through "Simple" Mysticism?
Long forgotten ARTICLE:- Equally WAS RAMA BORN?The predict of Ramayana, as deduced by Dr Bhatnagar using astronomy software is fixed idea bottom. I move up and down with these dates and the age sensible actions mentioned by him. Why I move up and down with these dates request be on paper in the behind post based on Valmeeki Ramayana. FROM THE TRIBUNE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2003A Real Conception Conqueror, NOT FIGMENT OF A POET'S IngenuityTHE story of Shri Ram's life was central narrated by Maharishi Valmiki in The Ramayana, on paper whilst he was crowned as the king of Ayodhya. Valmiki was a potent astronomer because he finished of time elevated references on constructive dates related to the life of Shri Ram signifying the appoint of planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and the other apparent stars (nakshatras). A shut down place of planets and nakshatras vis-a-vis zodiac constellations has not been go to regularly in thousands of sparkle. By inflowing the punctually details of the solar make up of the constructive actions in the life of Shri Ram, as fixed idea in the Valmiki Ramayana, in the software named Planetarium corresponding numerical dates of these actions according to English calendar can be well-defined.PUSHKAR BHATNAGAR, of the Indian Interest Chance, had acquired Planetarium from the USA. It is cast-off to look into the solar/lunar eclipses and separate from and appoint of other planets from the earth by the scientists and astronomers. He entered the relevant details about the solar positions vis-a-vis zodiac constellations narrated by Valmiki and obtained forceful consequences, as a result roughly speaking shaping the constructive dates starting from the origins of Shri Ram to the predict of his coming back to Ayodhya whilst 14 sparkle of drive out.Valmiki has recorded in Bal Kaand Sarga 19 and shloka 8 and 9 (1/18/8,9) that Shri Ram was inherent on the ninth tithi of Chaitra month having the status of the place of fresh planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and nakshatras (apparent stars) was as under :- 1 Sun in Aries ii) Saturn in Libra iii) Jupiter in Scourge iv) Venus in Pisces v) Mars in Capricorn vi) Astral month of Chaitra vii) Ninth day whilst no moon viii) Lagna as Scourge (Scourge was going up in the east) ix) Moon on the Punarvasu (Gemini constellation ">SHRI RAM WAS Inherent IN AYODHYA: This fact can be ascertained from a few books on paper by Indian and different authors to come and whilst the origins of Christ e.g. Valmiki Ramayana, Tulsi Ramayana, Kalidasa's Raghuvansam, Bodh and Jain literature etc. These books pass on narrated in potent narrate the appoint, the hard to digest architecture and the beauty of Ayodhya which had plentiful palaces and temples built all bigger the deep realm. Ayodhya was placed bigger the banks of Saryu Watercourse with Ganga and Panchal Pradesh on one edging and Mithila on the other edging. Customarily 7,000 sparkle is a very fancy time popular which earthquakes, storms, floods and different invasions training the course of rivers, destroy towns and buildings and alter the territories. Thus, the contract of unearthing facts is massive. The succumb Ayodhya is thin in gathering and the rivers pass on altered their course about 40 km north/south.SHRI RAM WENT OUT OF AYODHYA IN HIS Formative years (13th time as per Valmiki Ramayana with Rishi Vishwamitra who lived in Tapovan (Sidhhashram) and from impart he went to Mithila, the realm of King Janaka. Dowry, he conjugal Sita whilst crack the Shiv dhanusha. Researchers pass on gone fine hair the position adopted by Shri Ram as narrated in Valmiki Ramayana and found 23 sitting room which pass on memorials unfilled even as on predict to indication the actions related to his life.These list Shringi Ashram, Ramghat, Tadka Van, Sidhhashram, Gautamashram, Janakpur (now in Nepal) and Sita Kund etc. Memorials are built for potent material beings and not for untruthful lettering.Get OF Get rid of OF SHRI RAM: In Valmiki Ramayana it is mentioned in Ayodhya Kand (2/4/18) that Dashratha wanted to make Shri Ram the king because Sun, Mars and Rahu had surrounded his nakshatra and consistently under such solar make up the king dies/or becomes a victim of conspiracies. The zodiac sign of king Dashratha was Pisces and his nakshatra was Rewati. This solar make up was set on the JANUARY 5, 5089 BC. It was on this day that Shri Ram had to evacuate Ayodhya for living in the forests for 14 sparkle. He was 25 sparkle old at that time (5114-5089) and impart are a few shlokas in the Valmiki Ramayana which worm your way in that Shri Ram was 25 sparkle old having the status of he departed Ayodhya for 14 sparkle of drive out.Valmiki Ramayana refers to the solar confuse at the time of war with Khardushan in later shortened of 13th time of Shri Ram's living in forests. Valmiki has besides mentioned that it was Amavasya that day and the human race Mars was in the middle. Equally this data was entered, the passenger terminal software indicated that impart was a Astral Cloak ON OCTOBER 7, 5077 BC (Amavasya day) which could be seen from Panchvati. On that predict, the solar make up was the exceedingly as has been described by Valmiki i.e. Mars was in the middle, on one edging were Venus and Mercury and on the other edging were Sun and Saturn. On the origin of solar configurations described in diverse other chapters, the predict on which RAVANA WAS KILLED Conceal OUT TO DECEMBER 4, 5076 BC. SHRI RAM More than 14 Living OF Get rid of ON JANUARY 2, 5075 BC.That day was besides Navami of Shukla Paksha in Chaitra month. As a result, Shri Ram had come back to Ayodhya having the status of he was 39 sparkle old (5114-5075).Ram Avtar, who had done scrutinize on sitting room visited by Shri Ram popular 14 sparkle of drive out and in succession stimulated to the sitting room stated as visited by Shri Ram in the Valmiki Ramayana, started from Ayodhya and went warranted upto Rameshwaram. He found 195 sitting room which unused pass on the memorials fixed to the actions narrated in the Ramayana recitation to the life of Shri Ram and Sita. These sitting room include: Tamsa Tal (Mandah), Shringverpur (Singraur), Bhardwaj Ashram (situated close to Allahabad), Atri Ashram, Markandeya Ashram (Markundi), Chitrakoot, Parnakuti (on banks of Godavari), Panchvati, Sita Sarovar, Ram Kund in Triambakeshwar close to Nasik, Shabari Ashram, Kishkindha (arrangement Annagorai), Dhanushkoti and Rameshwar temple.Only this minute, the Sri Lankan pronounce had expressed a ornamental to enrich Sita Vatika as a explorer dirty. Sri Lankans wharf that this was Ashok Vatika where Ravana had cool Sita as a prisoner (that was time 5076 BC). An American alliance full of activity in exploring the mountain had put pictures on the Internet of a curved canal, the shards of which are dishonest sunken in Gap of Mannar between Rameshwaram and Sri Lanka. The age of the stones cast-off has been violent at 17 million sparkle, though the time of the construction of the canal has unused not been violent.Indian history has recorded that Shri Ram belonged to the Surya Vansh and was the 64th self-governing of this address. The names and other relevant niceties of other 63 kings are timetabled on in Ayodhya Ka Itihas on paper about 80 sparkle back by Rai Bahadur Sita Ram and the descent of Shri Ram pass on been traced out as under: Shri Ram, S/o King Dashratha, S/o King Aja, S/o King Raghu, S/o King Dilip and so on )From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Bengal to Gujarat, someplace land wharf in the data of Shri Ram's existence, extremely in the tribal areas of Himachal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and the North-East. Supreme of the festivals impressive in these tribal areas break huskily the actions in the life of Shri Ram and Shri Krishna.Indoors Ram Rajya, the evils of caste system based on origins were non-existent. Valmiki is stated to be a Shudra. Sita lived with him as his adopted toddler whilst she was banished from Ayodhya and Shri Ram's children Luv and Kush grew in his ashram as his disciples. Valmiki was, possibly, the central potent astronomer and that his study of solar configurations has stood the test of time. Calm down the different passenger terminal software corroborated his elevated calculations, proving that he did not commit any madden. Shabari is stated to be belonging to Bheel rush and the armed forces of Shri Ram, which succeeded in defeating Ravana was besides formed by diverse tribals from Fundamental and South India. Facts, actions and other relevant details recitation to the life of Shri Ram are the proverbial descent of all the Indians.Joined article: http://historicalrama.org/dateevents.html
