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𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗴𝘂𝗿𝘂: Dhyanalinga is a certain energy form - a subtle, intense, high level of energy manifestation. This energy responds to whatever your energy situation is. If your energy situation moves towards sickness, it will move you towards health. Likewise, it is very good for people who are influenced by negative energies, and it does miracles for people suffering from obsessive fear and anxiety.

There are occult dimensions to Dhyanalinga that nullify negative energy influences. On Purnima or Amavasya, when your system is more receptive, just sit in the sphere of Dhyanalinga for one day. You will come out completely free, because the occult dimensions are taken care of in the Dhyanalinga area.

Linga Bhairavi - If you are in touch with Devi – either in the form of a Linga Bhairavi Yantra, or in whichever way, whether the Yantra is in your hands or in your heart – once you are wrapped in the energy we refer to as Linga Bhairavi, energies turning negative for you simply does not happen.

If you ensure you are eating the right kind of food and keeping your system well, the chances of you getting disturbed by some outside energies or influences should be completely removed from your life. Devi will take care of that.

Source: “6 Ways to Protect Yourself from Negative Energies,” Inner Engineering, September 10, 2023

Sadhguru: The more you seek the spiritual path, the more confused you are becoming. That's a good sign, because confusion is always a better state to be in than living in stupid conclusions. With the stupid conclusions that you had made in your life, there was comfort, solace and convenience. There was a false sense of security in these.

But once you step onto a spiritual path, everything becomes turmoil. All the things that you were comfortable with look stupid now. Things that you valued and cherished suddenly look so insignificant and not worthwhile. Everything has turned upside down.

Once you enter the spiritual path, everything is in turmoil, everything is in question. You don't know where you stand - you don't know anything. Before knowing anything about spirituality, you were at least comfortable, self-satisfied. You ate breakfast in the morning, drank coffee, and you thought that was the ultimate. Now, nothing matters. You don't feel like eating, like sleeping, like doing anything, because nothing is really worthwhile anymore. It never was worthwhile. You just deceived yourself into believing that it was. If it was truly worthwhile, how could it go away? If you truly knew what's what, how could you get confused? The very fact that you are confused means you didn't know. You had made wrong conclusions just for the sake of comfort and security.

Source: “Becoming Conscious of Your Suffering,” published by Isha Foundation on February 13, 2024.

Devi Dandam is a form of prostration to make oneself receptive to Devi’s Grace. The posture is such that it closes the right side, so that the left side is much more open. One can best receive the energy which is referred to as Bhairavi through one’s left side.

You can do 1, 3, 6, 9 or 11 cycles of the Devi Dandam each day. You can offer the Devi Dandam in front of Devi's photo, Devi Mukha, Devi Gudi, or a Linga Bhairavi Yantra if you wish. You can also choose to incorporate the Linga Bhairavi Stuti into the sadhana. As you come up from the dandam into the sitting posture, you can sit and chant one cycle of the stuti before standing up.

More info on this can be found at https://isha.sadhguru.org/linga-bhairavi/us/en/sadhana/devi-dandam

Krishna is an irrepressible child, a terrible prankster, an enchanting flute player, a graceful dancer, an irresistible lover, a truly valiant warrior, a ruthless vanquisher of his foes, a man who left a broken heart in every home, an astute statesman and kingmaker, a thorough gentleman, a yogi of the highest order, and the most colorful incarnation of the Divine. #Sadhguru.

Just fix it like this: No Shambhavi No Food. Do not think this is too drastic. On the yogic path, people have taken far more extreme steps. Yogis who want to meditate for twenty-four hours a day keep scorpions with them to have them sting them to stay awake, or they cut their finger and put a lemon on it, for the same effect. For you, it is just twenty-one minutes of Shambhavi. That much commitment you must have. This is not about thinking or talking spirituality. This is about practicing and living spirituality.

This body is a machine that gets better with use. If you have physical ailments, you may have to work a little harder. That is because if the body becomes a problem, it will take your whole focus in life. Let us say you have an asthmatic attack where you cannot breathe – then you just want to breathe; nothing else matters to you. This applies to any kind of pain or disease. When the body is not taken care of properly, it will draw your entire attention. Everything that you have will go into maintaining the body. This is the nature of the body. Keeping it well is not about beauty or flaunting it in front of someone else. The point is that this body should not become an obstacle in your life. It should be a stepping stone. If the body becomes an obstacle, it will be a difficult one to surmount. You can still be spiritual, but it takes a lot more effort. At the same time, once you realize that the body can give you trouble anytime, the longing to transcend the body will grow.

For some people, the greatest obstacle is fear of judgment or ridicule. First of all, are other people really interested in what you do, and do they have the time to make judgments about you? Do not worry about what someone else thinks. What happens in their mind is their problem. You should be concerned with the quality of your mind. That will improve your life. Do not worry about the quality and content of other people’s minds. If you are concerned about what others may think, you will go crazy, because it is all guess work. If you think something is worth doing, just do it, no matter what someone else may think. And if someone laughs at you, you can laugh with them. Possibly, they will help you out of something that you may be doing wrong. But anyway, most people are not thinking about you. They are busy with their own stuff.

Above all, you must create a stable base. The most important thing in life is balance. If there is no balance, your body and mind will work against you. A stable base means a body and mind that take instructions from you. You must be able to create the right kind of chemistry within the system. This is essential for your health and wellbeing. You need the skills to manage your own system. This is why yoga. The simple process of bending and twisting is not about stretching your muscles – it is about changing the fundamentals. At least start with twenty-one minutes of Shambhavi, maybe along with it

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Rituals for the deceased are done by invoking Devi’s Grace to tend to life here and hereafter. These rituals bring a certain ease and pleasant transition for both natural and unnatural deaths. Kalabhairava Karma can be done within a certain period of time after someone’s death (within 14 days), whereas Kalabhairava Shanti can be done any time after death. Agni Arpanam This process can be done for all of the ancestors and departed relatives, for whom one does not have names, photos, or other details.

If you know someone who has lost a loved one in the recent Nepal–Tibet floods, please share this information with them.

Someone you know may have lost a loved one, and they may not know this is available.

Kalabhairava Karma is a sacred process offered in Isha for those who have passed away. It is a way of offering spiritual support to the departed during the transition after death.

Details of the deceased can be submitted here:

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Devi is present through every phase of life, in joy and sorrow, in stillness and intensity. She is grace, strength, and the possibility beyond one’s limitations. Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔥🔱🙏🏼🙇🏼‍♀️

Sadhguru: If you buy yourself a bicycle or a boat, will the bicycle or boat decide where you should go? Wherever you want to go, it will enhance your journey. Bhairavi is not interested in where the hell you are going. Bhairavi need not know where you are going, she just enhances your ability to go. You can go wherever you want. That is why I am saying that she is a machine. If we calibrate Bhairavi in such a way that she takes you in one particular direction – let’s say to your mukti – then no matter where you want to go, she will drag you and take you only there. But even though she takes you towards the highest possibility, if you go unwillingly, it will be a miserable life for you.

But she is not calibrated in one direction. Bhairavi will just enhance what you want, she does not decide. It is very important that once you enhance your ability to move, you must make it clear within yourself where you want to go. If you keep changing your destination every day, then the mistakes that you make are big, because the machine has enhanced you. If you are walking and you are taking a wrong direction, you can turn around. If you are flying an aircraft, you cannot suddenly turn around, it will take a long turn. Once you have an enhanced level of capability, it is very important to clearly determine where you want to go. Changing directions every day would just waste life.

Do not think in terms of, “She’s going to give me something.” Just connect with devotion. She need not do anything. You just take care of her. What has to happen will happen. The best way is not to ask for anything. The best way is to simply see how profoundly you can connect with that dimension. If you ask, you will only ask from what you know. You cannot ask for what you do not know. Asking for what you know may look like development for now, but it is actually a backward step.

For what you do not know to happen, you should stop asking. If you simply connect with that energy, things will happen. Whichever way it happens, it is fine with us. For all these things to happen, you should have established yourself in such a way that what happens around you does not determine the quality of your life. What happens around you determines the quality of your work and what you do in the world – it should not determine the quality of who and what you are. Once this is established, then you will see asking for something is silly, because you are only asking for things that you already know.

For something beyond what you know to happen, the best thing is to understand that asking is not the way to exist. Asking is a very rudimentary way to exist. There are better, more profound ways to exist. The same with me – I do not sit and decide anything. I take Shiva as my fifty percent partner not because he does anything. He does nothing. I do all the work. But he puts on the indicator which way to turn. The driving is all mine, but just for giving that simple direction, he gets fifty percent. Where the blinkers are on, that is the direction I go. I do not turn on the blinkers – the blinkers simply turn on. Once the blinkers turn on, I know I need to turn that way. This is an arrangement made for dumb drivers.

So, do not become anxious about whether something is going to happen or not. If it happens – good. If it does not happen – very good. “Then, why Bhairavi? Am I wasting my time with her?” Should you drive the Divine, or should the Divine drive you? If you understand that, then there is no issue. But right now, you are trying to drive the Divine, which is a silly way to exist.

Source:

isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/article/devi-know-what-you-want

Now, am I aware of your problems, your this and that, and your day-today whatever? If I wish to be I am, but not otherwise. Most of the time, I am not, because your nonsense doesn't mean anything and is of no value.

Today you think something, tomorrow you think something else, and it just does not mean anything. It is like I set two lines, an upper limit and a lower limit for everyone. Within these two lines, whatever games they play, I don't bother them. If they go below them, yes, and if they go above them, immediately yes.

If they are playing within that playing field, it's okay, it is up to them. I don't want to meddle with them and the little things that they do.

If they sink below that, immediately there will be help. If people rise above that also, immediately there will be help. If they are playing around in the middle, I just let them handle it.

They have been given brains, isn't it? The Creator gave you brains and you have got to use them. Going low can take you below the physical, which can be very damaging; also for people who go above the physical there will be help. Within the physical, just play the game as you know it. There is no need for me to look at it.

An excerpt from the book Mystic's Musings

Linga Bhairavi Devi, in Her form as Lakshmi, is the very dimension of the Divine that brings forth the richness of life. Wealth, wellbeing, passion, beauty, and the many gifts of the material world are all expressions of Her grace.

May become receptive to the fullness of life that She represents. Jai Bhairavi Devi Sarva Mangali Namah Shri 🪷

Naga became prominent wherever people spent more time with eyes closed, and perceived something beyond five senses. They recognized the significance of this dimension of evolutionary residue which remains within us, how we can activate that to evolve beyond the limitations of the senses. There are innumerable legends and mythological representations of a serpent across all cultures without exception. You can see symbols in the forms of various artefacts all around the world, showing how snakes played an important part in the mystical journey of those tribes. There are serpent symbolisms in a variety of places – Russia, China, Africa, Egypt, Greece, South America, North America and, of course, India.

This day (Naga Panchami) is very significant for those who want to penetrate and know life beyond their physicality, and beyond their five senses. This is not just about experiencing, realization, or liberation – this is about knowing. Maybe not everyone wishes to know. Some people just want to be free, and they do not care to know. That is all right. But for those who want to know, this aspect of evolutionary reminder within you is very important. Whether you actually relate to the symbolism or not, you have to invigorate that dimension. If you want to know aspects beyond the five senses, your Adishesha has to begin to uncoil and move.

This is something that Indian culture has always valued, that people never killed a snake. In case they killed it accidentally, they gave the snake a proper funeral, just like it is done for a human being. This is because they recognized certain aspects of what a serpent is.

An excerpt from: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/wisdom/article/naga-panchami-festival-snake-worship

Sadhguru: Time as we know it, in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, and decades, and centuries, and millennia - the time that we know in our experience is essentially an outcrop of an infinite space whose nature is timelessness. Probably these names are just heard, probably nobody really bothers to ask why they are named like this. You have heard of certain snake being called Ananta. Ananta means eternal. So, there is one snake which represents eternity. This is why the Kala Sarpa is in the form of infinite symbol or infinity symbol that is representing eternal - it is a Kala Sarpa. There is another snake which is called a Shesha Naga. You've heard of that? When the creation collapses, when galaxies collapse, there will be some residue left. That is the Shesha. If you have learnt mathematics in a local language in India, you would know shesha means the residue, in the mathematics. What is leftover, what is a remainder - in English, it's called the remainder - that is the Shesha. So, this is the Shesha Naga - one who is leftover from previous creations. So, one who is leftover is very vital for the next creation to happen, to have some kind of information which can go into the next making of the creation.

So, when we say creation, we mean everything. We don't mean a universe or a galaxy or a planetary system, we mean everything. Everything that is created, at some point, collapses. In that, there is a Shesha, or something that is a remainder which becomes the basis for the next creation. This is the 84th creation according to the Yogic sciences. When we say this is the 84th creation, we have not arrived at it by going and looking into the galaxies and cosmic spaces as to what is happening there.

By looking into (Referring to oneself) this one, we see there is a record of 84 creations. That is the Shesha in us, the remainder in us that there have been 84 creations. How many more can happen? Well, up to 112 can happen. The 112 - beyond that, the creation will not be of physical nature, will be of pure energy form. This is what it means by saying only 112 chakras are physically manifest, rest, or above the body or beyond the body means they are beyond physical nature. So, the future creations... we are not talking in terms of years, or centuries, or millennia, or even millions of years. It is many, many billions of years probably. So, having said that, these are 2 important aspects of Naga.

One is Kala. In that... in the Kala, there is one which is Ananta, another which is Shesha. The third one is Karkotaka, which is what these 3 aspects that we are handling here. There has not been a single civilization where there is no usage of snake as access to deeper dimensions of life. In nearly over 800 years, a proper consecration of Naga has not happened. This guy is special that way. This is about divinity rising within a human being who is willing.

So, there are 2 kinds of Kala Sarpa Yoga. One kind is to enhance one's lifespan, another wants to curtail their lifespan. The Naga is sitting here, is a Kshetrapala. Kala and Naga are the same things. They are beyond physical nature. My exploration, my ability to see things have been largely aided by the Naga.

An excerpt from the Naga Consecration video on Sadhguru Exclusive.

Sadhguru: You know you have a reptilian brain in your head. In the evolution of the physical form, your nearest neighbor is the orangutan or the chimpanzee. In the evolutionary process of the being, the snake and the cow play a very important role. When we utter the word “snake,” most people only think of a venomous creature, so the first reaction is to kill it. A snake is the only animal in India that gets a funeral. Not even a cow gets a funeral. But if a snake dies, it gets a funeral, because in terms of life energies, they are close to a human being. There are various aspects to it, but the important thing is that we do not think of a serpent as a venomous creature. We are thinking of a creature who is energetically so sensitive and whose perception is so keen that snakes know things that you cannot imagine.

When the Cobra becomes a deadly weapon.

Those who come from certain parts of India may have heard stories like this: if you do something to a cobra, it will remember for 12 years, come after you, and bite you. That's a very unfair thing to say about the cobra, but why and from where this legend has originated is – if you do certain things, if you acquaint the snake, or the cobra particularly, with the flavor of energy of a certain person and create a certain situation, wherever he may be, he will go and bite him – only him.

There is a cult like this in India where if we want a particular person to be bitten by a snake, they will usually steal that person’s unwashed undergarments. If an unwashed undergarment is stolen from the house, people will try to block every hole in their house, or they will travel. They do not want to be around because someone may employ a snake to bite them by making it acquainted with their physical energy. A snake can be programmed to go and bite a person wherever they may be. Once they do a certain ritual and process, it will go in search of the person.

This negative usage is always more dramatic; that is why it draws more attention. But there are also positive ways of using this energy. It can be used in so many beautiful ways for one’s wellbeing and development. Snake worship is not unique to India alone – almost every civilization has done it. Only in the last 2000 years, these things have been obliterated in other societies; otherwise, it was everywhere. They say even Moses set up a snake temple. The serpent and human life are closely connected.

Source: This is an excerpt from a series on occult phenomena, only on Sadhguru Exclusive.

Sadhguru: Mysticism and snakes cannot be separated. Wherever there was an exploration or experience of mysticism – in the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Crete, Egypt, Cambodia, Vietnam, and of course India – snakes were always there. There is no Indian temple without a snake. One aspect of it is symbolism, because in yoga, a coiled-up snake symbolizes kundalini. But the reason for this symbolic status is because when celestial beings – those who are in consciousness and capability superior to human nature – entered this dimension of existence, they always took the form of a snake. This finds mention in every mythology on the planet. In India, there are innumerable stories, starting from Shiva being a Naga Bhooshana.

In mythology, there are Naga Lokas in the netherworld – a whole society of not just snakes, but human beings who belong to the snake clan. They are known as Nagas, and they played a very important role in shaping the consciousness of this nation and many other cultures. Historically, we know that the great temples of Angkor in Cambodia were built by Naga descendants. They went from India, intermarried with the indigenous people, and established a kingdom. Nagas were ruled by queens, not kings, as they were matriarchal families. Later on, Kaundinya, a Brahmin king from India, went and defeated the Naga queen.

Human beings who are very deeply associated with snakes exist even today. I am one of them – not a Naga, but my life and snakes cannot be separated. Every significant event in my life is always punctuated by the presence of a snake.

All the Goddesses in the world – the Middle Eastern, North African, Mesopotamian, South Asian, Central European – are always symbolized together with snakes. At Linga Bhairavi, sarpa seva is available for people every full moon day. Here, the two snakes are in an embrace. They are not in entanglement. An embrace happens out of involvement. Entanglement happens out of compulsive needs. They are in a certain embrace and a certain dance to bring this forth into everyone’s life. Once a month, these snakes are filled with the earth taken from a termite mound mixed with certain other substances. This is a way of making use of the snake to enhance one’s perception.

An excerpt from:https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/snakes-and-mysticism

Sadhguru: Snakes are comfortable with anyone actually. One reason why the snake is worshiped in India is because it is a symbolism of kundalini. In India, if a snake dies they give it a proper funeral, because in the evolution of the body, a monkey is very close to human beings but in the evolution of the soul, a snake and cow are very close to the human soul. It is because of this that energy-wise, snakes are very comfortable in the human hands if you don’t get alarmed and agitated. Among wild animals, it doesn’t matter which animal, even an insect will not be comfortable if you catch it. It will immediately react to you. But the snake is one animal where you can just pick it up gently and it just won’t do anything to you if you are not agitated.

I developed a certain keen sense, which has gone out of my system these days because of a lack of application. I could easily track a snake in the wild. I would smell it and just go and catch it. If I went to some spot on Chamundi Hill, I would know under exactly which rock the snake would be at that moment. These days I have lost that sense - too many people and too much city stuff around me.

There was a time when I used to have twenty live cobras all over my bedroom. They would be just everywhere. It takes a certain level of alertness and awareness to live with them. They are very wonderful but one wrong move and you know what. I was living in a farm at the time and I just left them free in my bedroom. Many times in the night they would want the warmth of my blanket and one of them would crawl in. You learn to move slowly when you live like that. You don’t make any sudden moves and you learn to move every single muscle in your body carefully, cautiously, fully aware. Otherwise you will be dead.

Even today, I have some friends in my home. There is one who is over twelve feet long in my garden. When we decided to build a wall around the house, we decided to leave a hole in the western wall so that he can go out and come as he pleases. But he has such a sense of dignity that he refuses to crawl through this hole. He always comes through the main gate!

An excerpt from: https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/sadhguru/man/snakes

Sadhguru: Nearly four hundred years ago, there was a man in a small village in the present state of Madhya Pradesh. His name was Bilva. He lived a totally different kind of life. He was too wild and intense. He didn’t really fit into the norms of society.

Bilva was the snake charmer of his tribe and he was deeply in love with what he was doing.

Bilva loved snakes. If you love poisonous creatures, you have to be a different kind of person. To kiss a snake, you must be very courageous. For a person for whom love means everything, everything else is secondary; being alive itself is secondary. That’s the kind of person he was. He was someone who could not fit into the social structure and was looked upon as a rebel. For one of the many rebellious acts he did, not respecting the prevalent caste distinction, at a very young age he was put to death by a snake’s bite, while he was tied to a tree.

He was a great devotee of Shiva. Our mantra, “Shambho,” comes from that era. At that time, you couldn’t really call him a spiritual person; he was a devotee, but not really a spiritual person. Those last few moments of his life, he watched his breath. Cobra’s venom acts on the cardiovascular system. The blood thickens and makes cardiac and respiratory action difficult and ultimately it stops. Poison was all through his body and death a few minutes away. There was nothing else he could do and breath watching just happened. It was more of an accident than a conscious awareness. It was more Grace than a sadhana. From that breath-watching, which happened for just a few minutes, a new spiritual process began which changed that person’s future in so many ways. In his next life, he was a very intense seeker of the Ultimate nature. Shiva was his way.

https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/sadhguru/mystic/bilva

When the night sky is at the darkest hour on a no-moon day of Amavasya, it is yet again a time to pay our respect to the loved ones who have departed.

The Kalabhairava Shanti process is a sacred ritual that can be performed after the death of a loved one. Using Linga Bhairavi Devi's abode as the energy base, this process has been very much a part of Yogic culture, that if someone dies and does not have the awareness to conduct their death properly, then someone else does it for them. It can be done anytime after death on any Amavasya night.

Today is Adi Amavasya and especially significant for performing the Kalabhairava Shanti and Kalabhairava Karma processes.

Sadhguru describes Linga Bhairavi Devi as an ocean of compassion and a steadfast companion when sought with devotion.

When the heart truly melts in devotion, we become less rigid, less fearful, and less focused on controlling how life should happen.

Sometimes Devi's grace may come as something we recognize immediately—a new possibility, protection, or a situation unexpectedly falling into place. And sometimes we may not even realize it is grace until much later, when we look back and see how life unfolded.

The deeper the devotion, the more receptive we become. That is the beauty of surrender - a profound trust in something greater than ourselves.

Let the heart melt. Let the offering be sincere. Let Her grace do the rest. Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔱🔥