Brahma Muhurtam

As per Smritibhaskara, the last yaama of the night is the brahmamuhurtha. The night contains four yaamas. One yaama is equal to 7 1/2 nazhikas- i.e. 3 3/4 muhurthas. The last two muhurthas occur before sunrise. They are called brahmam and roudram. Brahma muhurtham is 4.30 A.M. in our time.

This time is called Brahma Muhurtham, referring to the fact that it has sacred energies for the worship of the Brahman inside you.Brahman here refers to the God-immanent in every sentient being.

This time is most fruitful as most of the people are asleep and even the animals are sleeping.
Meditation is a coherent flow of energy and is disturbed by the external atmosphere and other people's vibrations and thought forms. These things do not affect the meditator during Brahma Muhurtha.

The atmosphere is sacred because the vibrations of mind involved in world matters are not emitted from the people since they are in deep sleep. Mind is also a form of energy. Mind disappears in deep sleep. And swapna-mana has no real effect on the Jagrath-mana of the meditator.This has been proved even by modern radiogram studies.

The atmosphere is not polluted by the radiations of worldly feelings. At that time devotees awake and pray God. Their pure mental rays pervade all over the world and make the time sacred. Thus it becomes congenial and encouraging atmosphere.

After sunrise people awake and the materialistic mental radiations are emitted through their physical senses. The atmosphere is polluted. People will disturb you dragging you to materialistic discussions. Even by seeing their face, you will be affected. If you see a devotee, you become sacred. The mind and body are inter-related. Since mind is energy and energy is matter, even if you see the body, the mind in that body is emitted out affecting you. Therefore, avoid even the vision of materialistic people, not to say about their touch, conversation and co-living.
After sunrise when you worship God, close your eyes to avoid such people. But, their mental radiations spread all over the cosmos and are inevitable. It is better to walk in the early morning while singing devotional songs. Morning walk is good for health.

Apart from this, the mind desires dynamic condition of the body. The body was in static condition all over the night. Mind is always for a change. Satisfy the mind and you should not unnecessarily control the mind when it is not necessary.

You can pray God even without bath. Veda, Gita and the very first verse of Sandhyavandanam say that God can be worshipped irrespective of physical formalities.

After some time body is tired and the mind needs rest. By that time, sunrise is over. Now you sit at a place and worship God closing your eyes. Thus the time has its own invisible effect on the spiritual effort. Sattvam is prominent in the early morning. Rajas is prominent in the day time. Tamas is prominent in the night. Therefore early morning is the divine time called as Brahma Muhurtham.

Also, one more thing--Many Rishis, Siddhas, yogis, sants, sadhus, gupta sanchara yogis, Munis and mahapurushas living in the forests and other etheric planes connected to our Janma-bhoomi will be active during this time and shower their blessings upon us.This will not only aid material progress but also more importantly spiritual progress.



Jayosthu Rajarajajeshwari Amba!

Yours yogically,

Shreeram Balijepalli
source:- http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/hinduism-forum/427082-brahma-muhurtham.html


This is our culture to wake up at early morning to pray and meditate. We practice this since 5000 years ago. Now other religions are doing it. They made it compulsory or heaven entrance will not be granted. Shall we 
use the same tactic to our Indians to make them awake on early morning and pray too? Or we can gain it on one day rituals such as sacrifice a goat or other short cuts?

Thaipusam or Dancepusam?

Thaipusam or Dancepusam?

Thaipusam is becoming a carnival. Eearlier it was the guys with the gang fights, street dancing, alcohols, and ect ect, but now few girls starting it.An individu always represent the community. Indian girls are very much respected in this country with their culture, homely attitudes, humble and politeness if compare to other race womans and other country Indian girls. But lately on Thaipusam at Penang, some scenario indicates the other way. What might be the reason of such wrong doings? over freedom? the trademark of the festival to dance? to show modern and brave? to attract attention? anything? ppls.....

Self Realization?

various of prayers with minimum archanai charge of Rm3-RM5

kavadi offering to the God of charge RM10-RM15

breaking coconut ceremony with devotees own money whereby a mysterious lorry frm somewhere will clear all of it and sell somewhere

goat sacrifice prayers which cost about RM2000-RM3000

madi piccai (begging at temple gate prayers) whereby the entire collection goes to temple

pal kudam (milk pot) to offer milk to god's statue with ticket RM3-RM5

Rituals, worships an offerings such as kavadi, cakuk, pal kudam, rolling around the temple, and ect. ect are to attaint self realization or to pay back to God on their fullfilled request and prayers? Just wondering as the numbers are increasing from years to years. Does God accept all these rituals and fullfilled their prayers? At my place there is a family whereby they do 'sacrifice goat prayer' each year and the ladies in the family carry 'pal kudam' (milk pot) every year, and all the siblings are happily married and the family is very happy with wealth and health, on the other hand there is a family whereby the each member of the family will carry out their duty on every spritual prayers. The sisters will carry 'pal kudam' (milk pot), brothers will carry kavadi, the mother will do 'madi piccai' (begging at temple gate), the grandma will do rolling around temple. But recently one of the brother losses his two hands on an accident at work place, another brother and a sister  divorced, the other two sisters are not married. The mother losses her leg of diabetes and the father died on hear attack. Quite confious of the benefit of the offering and prayers. Any comments?

Karma Of Present And Past Birth

At my place, there was an aunty age of  74. She was very humble and spiritual. The uncle passed away earlier of heart attack. Few years ago, her daugther passed away by accident after completed medicine and came back from India. Then her son passed away by accident too. Later she spend the rest of her life in spritual path and help others. Last week she was killed in her home by some burglars. On the other hand, there was a guy who have done almost all vice known to man till the age of 73 and passed away by heart attack too.

Does the life of the both person above is based on karma? Does people enjoy happy life and punished according to their acts no matter at present or past birth?

KARMA

Karma in Hinduism is also considered to be a spiritually originated law. Many Hindus see God's direct involvement in this process; others consider the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.However, followers of Vedanta, the leading extant school of Hinduism today, consider Ishvara, a personal supreme God, as playing a role in the delivery of karma. Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta thus disagree with the Buddhist and Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but rather is also dependent on the will of a personal supreme God. Examples of a personal supreme God include Shiva in Shaivism or Vishnu in Vaishnavism. A good summary of this theistic view of karma is expressed by the following: "God does not make one suffer for no reason nor does He make one happy for no reason. God is very fair and gives you exactly what you deserve."

Karma is not punishment or retribution but simply an extended expression or consequence of natural acts. Karma means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction, that governs all life. The effects experienced are also able to be mitigated by actions and are not necessarily fated. That is to say, a particular action now is not binding to some particular, pre-determined future experience or reaction; it is not a simple, one-to-one correspondence of reward or punishment.

Karma is not fate, for humans act with free will creating their own destiny. According to the Vedas, if one sows goodness, one will reap goodness; if one sows evil, one will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate response.

One of the first and most dramatic illustrations of Karma can be found in the Bhagavad Gita. In this poem, Arjuna the protagonist is preparing for battle when he realizes that the enemy consists of members of his own family and decides not to fight. His charioteer, Krishna (an avatar of god), explains to Arjuna the concept of dharma (duty) among other things and makes him see that it is his duty to fight. The whole of the Bhagavad Gita within the Mahabharata, is a dialogue between these two on aspects of life including morality and a host of other philosophical themes. The original Hindu concept of karma was later enhanced by several other movements within the religion, most notably Vedanta, and Tantra.

In this way, so long as the stock of sanchita karma lasts, a part of it continues to be taken out as prarabdha karma for being experienced in one lifetime, leading to the cycle of birth and death. A Jiva cannot attain moksha until the accumulated sanchita karmas are completely exhausted. - wikipedia

Caste

There is millions type of flower around the world. Each flower has its own specialty. There will be no one in this world who could hate flowers.
Flowers are symbols of beauty, purity, freshness, fragrance and exct.exct. Flowers use to many purpose such as decoration, thanking someone, appreciating someone, for prayers and all of it are positive events. Wherever there is any good events there will be flowers. And flowers is the only object that is very close to God's statue/symbols at  all temples or praying places. Jasmine, hibiscus,daisy,lily,olive,white rose, red rose, sunflower,violet, and no matter what it is called..... it is a flower.
And that is how human are categorized. Humans are differ with their own color, size, and appearance but humans are humans (spiritual person call it as souls).
Each humans are special according to their own skills and by their physical aspects. There is no such thing as  hibiscus is low class and jasmine is high class or low class white rose and high class red rose. Same goes to human, we are created to be differ might be for some positive purpose and not for one human take advantage on another by discriminate them, that is negative. In another way the positive purpose that we are created might be not achieved by doing this. Well, the same physical look like humans divided within them is cause by caste, hence the power and the skills own by this group will be not known by the world. Unfortunately that is happening to the Indians. There is a phrase in malay  saying that ' bersatu kita teguh, bercerai kita roboh'. No matter in what language it is said but we all know that, it is true and fact. The only thing which is blocking us to be united is the ego. A baseless ego.
Sri Ramana Maharishi used to tell that we must stop even use the word 'Naan' (me), because that is ego. Once there was an American philosopher who came to India and he heard about Sri Ramana Maharishi and he was so eager to meet him to have a debate. When he reached his asharam he couldn't meet Sri Ramana Maharishi as he was so busy and the American asked to come back tomorrow. Even on the next day he was not able to meet him and asked to come the following day. The third day he came aggressively and managed to meet Sri Ramana Maharishi. Once he entered the room, Sri Ramana Maharishi asked 'who are you'? He answered his name. And Sri Ramana Maharishi said, that is your name, now who are you? And he answered he is a philosopher and he asked again 'who are you' because he said that is his job. Then he answered he is from America and the saint said that is the place you came from, now who are you? He got confused and pinched himself and said this is me, me. And Sri Ramana Maharishi said, that is your body and who are you? He gave up at last and Sri Maharishi said its the ego when  you brag of yourself, and the word 'Me' it self is a ego. We don't own anything here, we came with empty and will leave empty. We don't even know what will happen on the next moment.
Well it is so foolish when we categorize among ourself and be divided. And all of our skills, speciality, will be not known of the world and will be waste. So preach to our younger brothers and sisters..... 'JATHIGAL ILLAIYADI PAPA, KULAM TALTHI UYARTHI PESUVATHU PAVAM !!!'