Why should we go to temple?

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this!
If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it.
If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!

A 'devotee' goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple .

'I've gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 mantras. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all.

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, much to the delight of the editor.

It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.
But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.

But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.

If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!

Credit: Shanthimati Mohan!
Thank you.

A handbook of dreams and fortune telling!

Never once in my blog post I have given indication that I am a believer in knowing what is in store in future. I never consulted any fortune teller, a palmist or an astrologer.

I believe in one this very firmly:
"Whatever happens in my life is for my own good only as the divine sees fit". So, what is he point in trying to know what is going to happen?

Still, I received a gift yesterday a paperback entitled, "A Handbook of Dreams and Fortune-Telling"

So, what is in this book that can interest me?
If I dream of standing in a carpeted room, that should be interpreted as an indication of coming riches. My God! So much .....no, it is better I keep my belief to myself.

I intend to gift this book to one of my husband's friends who is mad about these life mysteries.

What is your choice?

Have you sought the assistance of psychic mediums to manifest your desire?
Have you approached any other medium to get to know your future?
Have you approached any hermit for anything?
Have you used Tarot cards, Ouija board to know your future?

Then, you would have probably found out you have wasted a lot of time and money in pursuit of all the things.

It all works out in a very simple way. You are given the choicest of choices by your creator-the choice to think. By the way you think, you build up your beliefs.
By your beliefs, you experience everything in this world.

Using the choice to think, you change your thinking that will also change your beliefs and that will change your life experience.

There is an unwritten law of universe: What you believe inside is what you will see outside!

Pray to who?

I was provoked yesterday by a believer but against idol worship. I don't easily get provoked but of late, I am deeply involved in Srivaishnavism. Now I know the full meanings of its philosophy.

I don't criticize any belief; each one to his or her own belief. As long as one has a belief of God, it is fine. Belief is the only link to your creator.

I put forward my argument like this which is based on teaching of 'The Mother' of Sri Aurobindo Ashram of Pondicherry, India.

It is difficult to pray without praying to someone
Pray to what
One doesn't pray to something that has no personality
One prays to someone who can hear us
If there is nobody to hear to us, how could one pray?
Prayer is a personal thing, addressed to personal being, who can hear us and answer.

No, my arguments did not create the desired impact on the listener but I am just not bothered.

Mary Magdalene, in a dramatic 19th-century popular image of penitence painted by Ary cheffe

Image via Wikipedia

The easiest way to manifest what you want.

Look, you ask for anything right now. Right now. Suppose, if you want more things, write out in a paper; list them out.

Give yourself 24 hours.

Now take your list out and go through one by one. Tick off them by reasoning out as to why you want a certain thing. Done? List is now short?

Put the shortened list away for another 24 hours. Again go through. Applying the same filtering of why you want anything, you might again score off some more. If not, it is quite alright dear.

Let me come to the point now. When you think about why you want something, you are mostly like to get it for two reasons.
* The cosmic force doesn't want to deprive you of your necessities.
* You also go soft on your inner resistance when you think on the lines of why you want.

But your resistance might surface when you look at your list of wants and you recognize somethings that you can do without. If you still persist with such things, you will increase your inner resistance like when will it come, how it will come, who will give you the means to buy them and so on.

Got my point?

This works; I swear!

What to do with anointing oil?

Religiously, I use the usual products that enhance the mood to feel the Divine. Flowers, incense sticks, wick lamps and occasionally scented candles too make my list of preferred items while performing the morning prayer that we call 'pooja'.

I mostly stand and but my husband sits in a plastic chair; we don't use any anointing oil or faux crystals. A foreigner visited our house last month. After seeing her devotion to our religion, he gifted my husband a bottlt that is shaped of cross.

It contained Frankincense & Myrrh anointing oil and had a nice fragrance. We didn't know what to do with it.
Last week, I came across a blog post citing a similar incident and the recipient of the gift gave it away to the local church.

Can I also do the same?

Identify your personal angels.

We are born with our own guiding angels called spirit guides. Everybody without exception is accompanied in the earth by at least one angel but some have two or more.

They are available for help always 24/7. But they don't speak to us. They communicate with us by nudges that we must be attuned to recognize. These nudges also come in various forms such as hunches, signals and a few other indications that we have to develop.

We require proper guidance and training to fine tune our hunches and intuitions. Here is a guide that explains how to form a personal relationship with one's angel and make that angel a source of protection, comfort, wisdom, and guidance.

You are promised that you will learn the secrets of the spiritual world inhabited by Celtic angels and also be shown how to create an angel diary and begin the process of inviting an angel into one's life.

Get Spiritual Guidance from Your Personal Celtic Angel