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February 28, 2009
February 15, 2009
My Stint with Spiritualism
It’s been a long time, I have been hearing about a lot of Gods Men and their help to the distressed ‘Men Folk’ of the world. Raising them to the upper strata of life, enjoying and at the same time being happy within them.
It all translates into absolute bliss and there is so much of talk about relieving, stress therapies, and various centers of concentrated camps (Yeah, kind of!!!) where you can relax and learn to enjoy life in spite of your traumas.
There are various yoga centers and meditation centers mushrooming in the large cities and especially where there is wealth and prosperity for they are the easy targets for all these stints and they get hooked.
Now, being to a genre of the IT, can I be far away? Whenever I claim, I am stressed and over worked there are a number of mouths telling or advising me to various therapies from Ayurveda to Modern Sciences.
This is me, here but my husband is very much inclined to these things, not that I am not inclined. I feel it requires another form of living and two things cannot be mixed up.
He is influenced by the ISHA Yoga Centre, which is based in about 40 kilometers from Coimbatore, the cotton city of South India. He is so up to the mark that he did his research on the net about the place and the offerings and the preaching and something made him feel comfortable with the teachings of this person, who is known as, Jaggi Vasudev.
Hmm….anything under the sun is at the click of the mouse, irony here!!! Something live is driven out of the house. But still finds a place at your study table in an electronic form.
Ok, where was…I wasn’t mourning for the mouse. Yeah, so he had made up his mind to visit this place in Coimbatore, which is at about 4 hours journey from my hometown. We were waiting for an opportunity and there came a fabulous opportunity and we made our plans.
I have been to this place even before this trip together. This place is a very nice, quiet and calm and when I had been there it was just making a mark of its own. It had been just started and there were a lot of construction going on.
It all translates into absolute bliss and there is so much of talk about relieving, stress therapies, and various centers of concentrated camps (Yeah, kind of!!!) where you can relax and learn to enjoy life in spite of your traumas.
There are various yoga centers and meditation centers mushrooming in the large cities and especially where there is wealth and prosperity for they are the easy targets for all these stints and they get hooked.
Now, being to a genre of the IT, can I be far away? Whenever I claim, I am stressed and over worked there are a number of mouths telling or advising me to various therapies from Ayurveda to Modern Sciences.
This is me, here but my husband is very much inclined to these things, not that I am not inclined. I feel it requires another form of living and two things cannot be mixed up.
He is influenced by the ISHA Yoga Centre, which is based in about 40 kilometers from Coimbatore, the cotton city of South India. He is so up to the mark that he did his research on the net about the place and the offerings and the preaching and something made him feel comfortable with the teachings of this person, who is known as, Jaggi Vasudev.
Hmm….anything under the sun is at the click of the mouse, irony here!!! Something live is driven out of the house. But still finds a place at your study table in an electronic form.
Ok, where was…I wasn’t mourning for the mouse. Yeah, so he had made up his mind to visit this place in Coimbatore, which is at about 4 hours journey from my hometown. We were waiting for an opportunity and there came a fabulous opportunity and we made our plans.
I have been to this place even before this trip together. This place is a very nice, quiet and calm and when I had been there it was just making a mark of its own. It had been just started and there were a lot of construction going on.
So, I was actually eager to see this place for a second time. Now, what is there in this place?
There it is at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, is the Dhyanalinga Yogic Temple or the Meditation Centre in which is in the form of a dome and it holds a Shivalingam that is very huge in size.
There it is at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, is the Dhyanalinga Yogic Temple or the Meditation Centre in which is in the form of a dome and it holds a Shivalingam that is very huge in size. It has a Theerthakund, a rectangular space filled in with water and it too has a Lingam in the centre immersed in water. The specialty of this Lingam is that it is made up of ‘MERCURY’.
Yep, mercury solidified and immersed in water. Man, this pool or kund, whatever you want to call has the purest form of water and though it is put to use by several disciplines and visitors. It is believed that this water will enhance spiritual receptivity in a person and if you immerse yourself in the water, hold the lingam with your hands or clutch it for a few minutes and return to the sanctum to meditate, you gain positive vibrations.
It is believed and being practiced. Whatever be the quality of the water not sure but the water has immense buoyant and density. It is clear and it is being replenished by a spring from the above that is on one side of the wall.
So this was something new to me…I was waiting to experience this. I haven’t been immersed in water and never been to a swimming pool. I did not know how to feel inside water or how it feels??!!
I had made up my mind; I will take a dip and following all the procedures that were read out to the group that goes in to the Theerthakund. It had about some several big steps that lead to the water.
I started descending the steps with an air and as I neared the water, I got literally scared. I know it was a water enclosure and there is no happening of an undue current even then I got scared and I stood on the last stair and was just helplessly seeing people in it.
Yep, mercury solidified and immersed in water. Man, this pool or kund, whatever you want to call has the purest form of water and though it is put to use by several disciplines and visitors. It is believed that this water will enhance spiritual receptivity in a person and if you immerse yourself in the water, hold the lingam with your hands or clutch it for a few minutes and return to the sanctum to meditate, you gain positive vibrations.
It is believed and being practiced. Whatever be the quality of the water not sure but the water has immense buoyant and density. It is clear and it is being replenished by a spring from the above that is on one side of the wall.
So this was something new to me…I was waiting to experience this. I haven’t been immersed in water and never been to a swimming pool. I did not know how to feel inside water or how it feels??!!
I had made up my mind; I will take a dip and following all the procedures that were read out to the group that goes in to the Theerthakund. It had about some several big steps that lead to the water.
I started descending the steps with an air and as I neared the water, I got literally scared. I know it was a water enclosure and there is no happening of an undue current even then I got scared and I stood on the last stair and was just helplessly seeing people in it.There were a lot of ladies around the Lingam and they were all lost in meditation. I was just looking around for a savior. We were not supposed to talk in there, so I could not talk to anyone.
So all my efforts went in vain and finally I was standing on the steps looking at the place, the water, the people, and the stairs and thinking and making my mind towards taking a dip. My conscious was trying to tell me, “Kavitha, it is only an enclosure of water nothing will harm you, just try, and get in”
But my fear did not find it a good reason enough and was standing. There are people who help you around, so one such lady came down and was looking. She asked me to sit down on the step letting my legs drop in the water below. I sat down obediently and have just rested on the step, when a pair of hands just pushed me into the water.
That’s it, I wondered I am lost, I am drowned and I almost lost myself. I grabbed someone’s hand and held on to it like it was my last life line. But the effect was fabulous but my fear did not allow me to enjoy.
The first turned out to be a different one and still remember the lady who pushed me into the water and wondered what would have happened to me.
All physics had gone out of my mind and all my learning and survival techniques. I stood out of the water as if I had lost all and had nothing with me. It was an incomplete feeling, not describable. Then we had a deep meditation inside the meditation centre and went home talking about the dip in the water.
The next time I went after two months, I did the same and I enjoyed it. This time it was a different experience and it elated the inner soul and I promised to return to this place one more time.
Each day has a different meaning attached to here and they meditate in the sanctum with different experiences to it.
I did not get really moved and got into the ‘thing’ but certainly I feel a difference and this difference I am not able to explain.
Oh!! Oh!! Did I start the same thing again in a different form? Shucks!! No, yaar, enjoy life as long as you want.
So all my efforts went in vain and finally I was standing on the steps looking at the place, the water, the people, and the stairs and thinking and making my mind towards taking a dip. My conscious was trying to tell me, “Kavitha, it is only an enclosure of water nothing will harm you, just try, and get in”
But my fear did not find it a good reason enough and was standing. There are people who help you around, so one such lady came down and was looking. She asked me to sit down on the step letting my legs drop in the water below. I sat down obediently and have just rested on the step, when a pair of hands just pushed me into the water.
That’s it, I wondered I am lost, I am drowned and I almost lost myself. I grabbed someone’s hand and held on to it like it was my last life line. But the effect was fabulous but my fear did not allow me to enjoy.
The first turned out to be a different one and still remember the lady who pushed me into the water and wondered what would have happened to me.
All physics had gone out of my mind and all my learning and survival techniques. I stood out of the water as if I had lost all and had nothing with me. It was an incomplete feeling, not describable. Then we had a deep meditation inside the meditation centre and went home talking about the dip in the water.
The next time I went after two months, I did the same and I enjoyed it. This time it was a different experience and it elated the inner soul and I promised to return to this place one more time.
Each day has a different meaning attached to here and they meditate in the sanctum with different experiences to it.
I did not get really moved and got into the ‘thing’ but certainly I feel a difference and this difference I am not able to explain.
Oh!! Oh!! Did I start the same thing again in a different form? Shucks!! No, yaar, enjoy life as long as you want.
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