Archive for July, 2009

  • Wearing away at things

    Wearing away at things

    During a recent conversation with a long time yagya participant, we discussed her experience with the Foundation Yagyas.  These offer 1 day of yagya for each of Ganesha (to remove obstacles), Lakshmi (for abundance), and the Navagraha (for balance). She had been doing the series through several years of her Saturn dasa (planetary period) and [...]

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  • Happy Guru Poornima

    Happy Guru Poornima

    We all have gurus in many forms, parents are the first, then teachers of various sorts, and certainly there is much that our children teach us as well.  All of them are the forms of the divine reaching us in different ways.

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  • A feeling of being blessed.

    A feeling of being blessed.

    <<   I came home early from work and did as you suggested… just took it easy and lightly focused on my hoped-for results from the puja. I was with that intermittently for the whole five hours. At the end, around 11:50 PM, I just sent out a lot of gratitude and felt a huge [...]

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  • A stylized lion..

    A stylized lion..

    A lion on the top of a temple wall not far from the yagya facility.  Very stylized and yet most other carvings and images in temples are very realistic.  Not sure why that is…

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  • An interesting experience

    An interesting experience

    One of the effects of yagyas is to enliven the inner, more subtle levels of consciousness.  By doing this, yagyas become a valuable enhancement to any spiritual practice.  And sometimes the experiences are very interesting particularly during the time the yagyas are being performed.; << I had gone to bed with that first shallow falling [...]

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  • Morning in Kanchi…

    Morning in Kanchi…

    There isn’t anything as nice as early morning in Kanchipuram!

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  • Family benefits

    Family benefits

    <<   My mom forwarded me the note you wrote about the nighttime yagya for my son that took place last weekend. She asked me if I had noticed anything and I thought back and realized that we had an exceptionally nice weekend.  Very easy going, mellow, relaxing and nice — which is far from [...]

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