I received the following email…

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SHRI PARVATHI PARAMESWARA PARABRHAMANE NAMAHA.

I am from Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India). I came to know about your global spiritual enrichment seva (service) through an english daily (The Indian Express).

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I am really elated to hear and see a great spiritual endeavor being taken up by you Americans. At the same time I would like to emphasis the fact that many in our country (young aged people) really do not understand the value of our religion and the eternal Vedas.

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The main reason behind this is that due to modernization many of the BRAHMINS have withered away from their foremost duty of reciting Vedas and making it their life, including me.  Many of them are software engineers and working for American projects.

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Let your initiative bring the glory back which is intangible (Realized only by those who really deserve it) and show these Indians the true value of Vedas.

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I will pray to the lord for your worldly spiritual cause to succeed in an eternal way.

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To which I responded:

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Kind Sir,

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Your message has touched my heart.

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I am very grateful for your support.  I am fully dedicated to bringing about cultural integrity for India, the land of the Veda.

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What you say is quite correct.  Not only does the world not understand the exquisite jewel that India is, even many of the youth of India do not.  It is my intention to change that.

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I believe I was born, this lifetime, as an American for a reason.  I know well the modality of modern and scientific thought.  This is the language the world, including India, has learned to speak and believe in.

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By speaking in the terms of their language, I can guide those people to see beyond the limits of that language, while not turning their back on what it does have to offer.

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This is indeed Kali Yuga.  Together, may we bring about an Age of Sat Yuga in it’s midst.

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Jai Shiva Shankara,

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Brahmarshi

Function from feeling, not thought.

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You can justify anything with thoughts… with the intellect.  Learn to feel deeply.

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Yet feeling deeply is often confused with feeling intensely.  Deep feelings are refined feelings.  They are the gateway to wisdom.

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At the foundation of your life is being.  It emerges into relativity as the finest of feelings.  Then, it blossoms into reason.  Finally it emerges at thoughts.  As the physiology purifies (as you evolve), this process becomes more integrated, less distorted.

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Einstein did not think up the unified field.  He felt it.  Through reflection, that feeling seemed reasonable.  Only then did it emerge as a concrete thought.  Genius is nothing more than integration.

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Concepts are the finest of thoughts.  Facts are more superficial.

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Yet many think if they know all about spirituality, then they are wise.  Not so.  Too superficial.

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Wisdom is far more profound than the simple parroting of wise words and pantomiming of alleged  ’sagacious ‘acts.

How to pronounce the R in the mantra ‘Ram’?

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It is not a hard ‘R’ as in gr-r-r-r like the growl of a tiger

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It is not like the European rolled R.

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It is properly pronounced by forming your lips to make an R sound, but then saying Lam.  The sound of the R is between R and L.

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If you cannot do this right now, then just say Lam.  That is much better than saying Ram with a gr-r-r  like R.

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Then, keeping the R/L combination sound in mind, in time, it will come to you naturally.

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It is important to use this sound while meditating.  However, in conversation, for example when referring to Lord Rama, it is fine to speak it with the hard gr-r-r-r R sound.  Even Indians often do that.  This ‘R’ sound applies to many Sanksrit terms, such a Surya.

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REMEMBER:  This is Sanskrit, which is cognized, which means the language of nature.  By learning to make these sounds, you are aligning your being with your nature… Mother Nature.

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NOTE:  When learning to meditate, it is best to begin with the Surya Meditation which is taught for free on this website.  After a month or two, it is best to then switch to the Surya Ram Meditation. We offer a dvd with an instruction booklet for free.  You just need to pay shipping and handling.

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You are not your body.  You are not your thoughts.  You are not your emotions.  Having said that once in a lecture, a woman raised her hand and bewilderedly asked, “Well, what else is there.”

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Shocked and saddened, I answered, “What lies beyond the body, thoughts, and emotions is the grandeur of your being… limitless, unbounded, and eternal.”

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To intellectually know that is a good beginning.  To awaken to it is marvelous.  Do not mistake the beginning for the goal.

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Reflecting upon this, I once asked a student with whom I was having lunch in a restaurant, “Tell me something.  When you look at this salt shaker, do you not see it is God?”

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He responded by saying, “I have heard your lectures and know you say it is God.  I believe you and try to see that.  But honestly, when I look at it, all I see is a salt shaker.”

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I strive to understand what life like that is like.  That makes me a better teacher.  However, it would be better if you worked to see what I see.

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The best of what you are goes unnoticed by you.  Relativity is lightly etched on the face of being, yet it is what this world is made of.  It is truly the world of wanting.  Relativity, duality, is the world of separation… the world of wanting.

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Strive to cultivate awareness so you can be in it, but not lost to it.  That is not an attitude or philosophy.  It is a state of consciousness.

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Knowledge, as it is said, is structured in consciousness.  Facts only point in a direction.  They are all too often confused with Truth.

The Swastika is of course a sacred symbol.  Unfortunately, it was made infamous by the Nazis.

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Like the Christian cross, it is formed by two intersecting lines.  The right angle turns in those lines indicate that the path to God is not a straight line.

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Be prepared to change.  Evolution means change.

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“You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” - Rabindranath Tagore

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To conceptualize is easy.  To actualize is challenging.

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Everyone conceptualizes their own greatness.  Few actualize it.

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Deep inside you are great.  Now just live up to it.

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You do know what that means… what that looks like… or at least you have a pretty good sense of it.  To be great, simply do your best to live up to that sense.  From there, the clouds will part and the sense will open with greater and greater clarity.

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Yet be fore warned:  The world is not as you have been lead to believe.

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Evolution means change.

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Be open to change as you live more and more from the depth within.