Follow Me IN! Follow Me IN! Relation of Rituals with Karma🔗

little more courageous than the rest of the people. What are the chances that you will get out of the jungle?

Only a person who has seen the goal and knows the way can clearly and safely guide the group. A person in the group who climbs a tall tree, studies the landscape and then maps the way out is the true leader.

In the same way, the great Truths about life should only be learnt from reliable sources! An enlightened master is one who has experienced and is living the Truth. He can simply transmit the experience to you if you are sincerely seeking and open to receiving it.

What follows is the unveiling of the deep mysteries about life and a logical understanding of the secrets about the inner workings of the cosmos, straight from an enlightened master - a rare happening on planet earth.

SEEING THE DIVINE IN THE DEITIES

An important difference you should understand between normal human beings and enlightened masters. A normal person doesn't have the ability to make his body alive out of his will. Either a normal person's body is alive or it is dead, that's all. It is not under his control. But for an enlightened person, it is under his control. He can either make his body alive, or relax. Because of this ability, he can make another body also alive! When he chooses to make a stone or metal alive, it becomes a representation of his very self.

All the deities in our major traditional temples are those energized by enlightened masters. Masters like Arunagiri Yogeeshwar from

Tiruvannamalai, Patanjali from Chidambaram, Karurar from Thanjavur, Konganavar from Tirupati and Meenakshi from Madurai have energized the deities in these temples. So deities are considered to be the very bodies of the enlightened masters, and disciples start serving the deities even after the master leaves his physical body. The body of the deity is considered to be the body of the master himself. That is the reason why the deities receive the same respect offered to an enlightened master.

For example, all the disciples initiated by Arunagiri Yogeeshwar will worship the Arunachala temple for generations together. You will see that whatever is done to the master, the same thing will be done to the deity also.

The deities possess independent intelligence. Energizing the deities is a big process. It is like giving birth. So understand, these energised deities directly will respond to your prayers. They will directly relate with you if you are open in relating to them.

If you see our puja (offering), and our ashram routine, you will see that in the morning they will play the appropriate song to wake the Lord up. Then they will give oil and tooth powder: a small cup of oil for His hair and a small cup of tooth powder for Him to brush His teeth! Then they will give Him a bath and offer fresh, ironed clothes, just like how they offer to the master. Whether it is in Bidadi or Ohio or LA or Hyderabad, in all our temples, you will see the same routine. Then they also offer food and perform the evening arati (ceremoniously waving lit lamps and other items in front of the deities). Five times a day, they will offer puja. In the night, they will put the Lord to bed in a ceremonious way again.