As everything with which we interact like things, places and people all have their own energy. And if their energy is negative, it can effect us in some ways when our energy is weaker. Rudraksha saves from external energy attacks by creating a cocoon of energy around the person who wears them.

And with which we don’t interact but they are  imposed upon us by black magic stuff, Rudraksha also saves from that. And it also stops our receptivity to black magic stuff.

It’s easy to see the garland of Rudraksha in the neck of most of the Indian saints. Apart from creating cocoon and saving from external attacks,  a garland of Rudraksha also has its own intelligence, if one hangs it over a pot of water to check whether the water is dirty or clean — if the water is clean it will rotate in clockwise direction and if it is dirty it will rotate in anticlockwise direction.

The thing is: water cleans the aura. And it makes a person more receptive because his aura is cleaner than before. No God or Goddess says that before meditation or going to a temple taking bath is necessary, but as far as receptivity is concerned it is necessary.

It is better to take bath two times a day, one is in morning and second in the evening. It’s just a precaution to keep the aura clean otherwise dirty aura attracts unnecessary negative stuff.

People says when one dips in the holy water of Ganga, all his Karma gets washed away — that’s not the truth! Its water cleans the aura in much better way and takes all the dirt out of it and one feels more cleaned and vibrant … and receptive to the spiritual energies.

In each Hindu home, there is a temple. And in a temple there are idols of the Gods and Goddesses. What happens when we do worship and chant mantra daily in front of them, they get energized and keep on getting energized more and more. But as  one leaves chanting mantra, the energized idols start receding their energy and after some time totally leaked out of the energy and now they start sucking energy from the environment, and that’s not good. It also happens when the idols break somehow.

So in a home temple, this care needs to be taken if no one chants mantras in front of them or they are broken somehow, these idols should be out of home.

I never knew before that wearing or not wearing metal rings can cause to life or death.

This is a small bone, nearly perfect model of a person, called Atma-Ram — having arms, legs, head and other parts of the body. Mostly said to have found after the cremation process.

Though, not the everyone knows about it and it is left unacknowledged. It relates me with the story where people keep the small statues of their parents and grandparents — somewhat like the movie Gladiator if you have seen it. Though in some religions, it is not considered auspicious to keep the things of a passed-away person, as it forces the soul to remain attached and their journey to other plane gets interrupted.

The word Diksha is the composition of Di + Ksha, where the “Di,” is said to be the transmission of something, let’s say it divine knowledge, light or energy. And “Ksha,” is said to be the destruction of ignorance and darkness in life.

So, when a person takes Diksha from some Guru, he is said to be on the sacred path, where he is supposed to raise his consciousness to meet or merge with the ultimate.

During Diksha, a Guru can give either one or the mix of the followings:

• only divine understanding of advaita
• shaktipat with mantra or with some kriya
• only charged mantra
• only the kriya
• or, nothing if you don’t deserve

There are types of Guru of dvaita and advaita, and in that also there are numerous paths…so, the type of Diksha solely depends upon: what you want and where you are going.

Let’s go direct to them, everyone knows about Shiva, no need to describe Him.

Lord Shiva sitting on the block of ice: the homeless nature of an accomplished yogi shows that the all the universe is his home, he can live anywhere as he wants.

Lord Shiva wearing ash: this ash shows detachment, as everything lastly turns in ashes, back to its elements. Ash shows nothing is permanent, things exist just in transition and there is no need to get attached with them.

His trident: it shows three gunas: Satoguna, Rajoguna and Tamoguna. It shows a man should raise himself above these gunas, as they are the creation of the mind, and to settle himself in nirguna state, where no mind but the God only exists.

His damru: when it is played, its beat represents the Omkara, the primordial ever-pervading sound.

Ganga over his head: it shows purification, divinity and wisdom.

Tigor or Lion skin: Shiva sits over the skin, it shows control over senses and desires.

Cobra and other snakes around his neck, hands and waist: they show the control over violence and

First we talk about rat, if you have observed this naughty creature, it never keeps silent, it keeps on moving from one place to another, keeps on rotating its ears and eyes as well. More over, with its sharp teeth, he can destroy anything. Imagine few rats in your home and think what they can do!

Actually, this rat is our mind, and its movements are our thoughts and its naughty actions are our unwise actions.

Ganesha sitting on a rat shows that a person on spiritual path must take it under control otherwise: mind, its thoughts and unwise actions can produce all the obstacles on the spiritual progress.

Shiva loves Damru…unfortunately it is not used in musical compositions where one needs variations of beats after beats. But, the sound of Damru is the sound of Omkara.

Amazing thing about Damru is, it gives one beat at a time, the chords at both ends strike at the same time, and how many times you play it, it gives same beat every-time, no variations; yet, its sound can go high and low but sound goes in the same beat.

Actually, the beat of Damru symbolizes the sound of Aum, the all pervading sound, which also has the only one beat without any variations, that is existing since the infinity. When Shiva plays Damru, he playes Omkara, and when he dances with it, he is called Natraja.

She is the Goddess of divine knowledge, all the knowledge comes from her. She is one of the most worshiped Goddesses…to the students and the seekers. One who gets the grace of Goddess Saraswati, he gets everything, as knowledge is “light.”

Swan is the symbol of awesome discriminatory power between good and bad. If you give him mixture of water and milk, it is said he can extract pure milk out of water.

So a man should be like a Swan, so that he could see: good as exact good and bad as exact bad, without an error. And with this discrimination, could lead his life to more divine dimensions.

[...And it comes later on during and after the enlightenment, when a man feels the unity of opposites, where good is not good and bad is not bad. Then, so called non-judgemental attitude takes place.]