RUDRAKSHA and Its Power ......................

Searching for ways to increase their spiritual power and practices, India’s ancient masters were the first to discover Rudraksha, the extraordinary seeds hidden within the brilliant blue fruits of evergreen trees, growing in the volcanic earth of the sacred Himalaya mountains. Researching their miraculous spiritual powers, the masters strung the Rudraksha seeds together and realized that, by wearing them, the Rudraksha amplified, radiated and channeled peace, power and protection against negativity. They also found that Rudraksha provided many divine channels, reflected in their different ‘faces’, called Mukhis, which are seen on the surfaces of each bead.

1 MUKHI

TRANSFORMATION & POWER

Deity : Mahadeva | Highest Form of God Consciousness

Changes and heals your karma quickly and profoundly. Considered the sacred symbol of Shiva, this rare and precious sacred bead protects against all forms of negativity, guides and manifests your deepest longings and resonates with peace, wisdom and abundance, while its power increases the power of your will. Highly recommended for every serious and inspired spiritual seeker.

2 MUKHI

UNITY & HARMONY

Deity : Shiva & Shakti | The Divine Union of Male & Female

Balances the male/female dynamic — the protective and receptive energies — between the couple and within each individual, nurtures mutual support and positive alignment of desires, increases the power of forgiveness and enhances one’s ability to give more fully and openly.

Highly recommended for those seeking greater intimacy, love and healing or preventing a broken heart.

3 MUKHI

HEALTH & PURITY

Deity : Agni | God of Fire

Confers freedom from past karmas, increases the purity of one’s intentions and strengthens willpower. Restores health, flexibility of spirit and divine confidence. Opens the heart and mind to greater wisdom, reveals one’s purpose in life more clearly and transforms all endeavors.

Highly recommended for those who feel blocked by unworthiness, self-doubt, anxiety, fear and guilt.

4 MUKHI

CLARITY & KNOWLEDGE

Deity : Brahma | Formless God of Knowledge

Confers greater insight, creative intelligence & eloquence. Awakens and enhances artistic abilities, improves focus and retention of information, helpful in formulating and executing plans in order to realize one’s vision.

Highly recommended for all students, scientists, artists, writers, politicians and for those with learning disabilities.

5 MUKHI

PEACE & WELLBEING

Deity : Rudra Kalagni | The Primordial Form of Shiva

Confers peace of mind and general health & wellbeing. Increases vitality, longevity, and calm in the face of negativity and stress. Balances and enhances one’s receptivity to wisdom and confers the ability to act quickly and surely when faced by challenges and obstacles.

Highly recommended for all who seek a blessing for themselves and others.

6 MUKHI

ATTRACTION & INFLUENCE

Deity : Kartikeya | Commander of the Gods

Confers charisma, a commanding presence and the power to influence others more positively. Helps remove jealousy, anger, and stage fright. Restores confidence and confers extreme poise. Balances the masculine energy and is known to increase male potency.

Highly recommended for actors, teachers, politicians, and those in positions of responsibility.

7 MUKHI

PROSPERITY & ABUNDANCE

Deity : Maha Lakshmi | Divine Form of Wealth, Love & Beauty

Attracts wealth, abundance, prosperity and success in one’s endeavors. Overcomes financial worry and struggles, protecting from reversals of fortune. Confers greater personal authority, generosity, insight and the wisdom to navigate one’s path to greater and greater success.

Highly recommended for those struggling with money, career issues and knowing one’s Life Purpose.

8 MUKHI

GOOD LUCK

Deity : Ganesha | God of Success & New Beginnings

Confers the ability to overcome all obstacles, positively channel one’s passions, handle the discord of others and mitigate one’s own resistance to success. Creates a smoother, uninterrupted flow of progress, resulting in greater accomplishment in one’s endeavors.

Highly recommended for those who feel unlucky, anxious or set upon unknown forces.

9 MUKHI

OVERCOME FEAR

Deity : Durga | Dispeller of Fear & Evil

Inspires infinite courage and the ability to masterfully handle negativity. Neutralizes bad habits, opens the heart chakra to divine knowledge and wisdom and provides powerful protection circles against outward attacks, injustice, and cruelty.

Highly recommended for spiritual practitioners, new meditators and devotees of Mother Divine.

10 MUKHI

FREEDOM FROM DEFEAT

Deity : Sudarshana | Mastery over Maya (Cosmic Illusion)

A divine shield against negativity, it removes doubts, fear and confusion, reveals the truth at the heart of any situation, overcomes chronic lack of success and protects from the unknown manipulations of others. Is also said to protect against black magic and evil spirits.

Highly recommended for those in the public eye and anyone dealing with high negativity and illusions.

11 MUKHI

LIVING YOUR HIGHEST PATH

Deity : Hanuman | The Power to be Exceptional

Confers the wisdom to know and live one’s true purpose, inspires spontaneous right action and endows you with the inner strength to face and conquer whatever challenges may come. Greatly amplifies and channels true spiritual power and inspires greatness.

Highly recommended for those seeking to know and live their true purpose in life.

12 MUKHI

LEADERSHIP & SELF-ILLUMINATION

Deity : Surya | The Light of Life

Enhances personal charisma, clarity, insight, strength and fortitude. Helps one attain greater influence in society. Purifies the inner mental-emotional blocks that hinder a deeper understanding of your highest truth while it amplifies your personal power.

Highly recommended for leaders & CEOs and anyone seeking to increase one’s influence and self-confidence.

13 MUKHI

LOVE, FULLFILMENT, TRUTH & COMFORTS

Deity : Kamadeva | God of Sensuality & Love

Helps attain a true balance between one’s spiritual and materialistic aspirations. Confers riches and honor as well as opens channels to tremendous spiritual power. Strengthens the heart, heals heartbreak, invigorates and attracts romance and inspires deep abiding love.

Highly recommended for those actively engaged in the world yet devoted to the pursuit of the Divine.

14 MUKHI

LIBERATION & SPIRITUAL MASTERY

Deity : Shiva-Shaneshwara | Giver of Moksha (Enlightenment)

Inspires one-pointed focus, providing an immoveable sense of peace and calm. Removes blocks and internal resistance hindering deeper spiritual experiences. It opens one’s Third Eye, awakens knowledge of the past, present, and future, and reveals one’s divine channels.

Highly recommended for anyone seeking spiritual mastery and those under the affliction of Sade Sati (Saturn Return).

15 MUKHI

BLISS CONCIOUSNESS

Deity : Pashupatinath | Manifesting Your Divine Reality

Opens one’s awareness to the subtlest state of consciousness, Ritambhara Pragya, “where only the Truth is known”. From there, the heart’s deepest desires easily manifest. Confers tremendous energy and vitality and inspires greater depth of insight, including recognizing the status of another soul.

Highly recommended for seekers of truth, scientist, entrepreneurs, and anyone inspired to manifest their creativity.

16 MUKHI

VICTORY & DEEP SOUL RELATIONSHIP

Deity : Mrityunjaya | God of Immortality

Creates conscious soul-to-soul connections, inspires deeper intimate relationships and others to become more open and supportive of you. Confers tremendous vitality, longevity and victory in all things via your relationships, whether they be casual, intimate or business, legal, financial.

Highly recommended for anyone in authority, caretakers, doctors, healers, parents, lovers and anyone seeking deeper knowledge of one’s sacred Self.

17 MUKHI

REMOVES HARDSHIP & GRIEF

Deity : Durga Katyayani | Destroyer of Evil

Confers the power of divine intuition, protects from high negativity and removes obstacles and alleviates unforeseen hardships and the debilitating grief, which commonly inspire confusion, loss and heartbreak. Heals the pain and suffering, which comes from past life karma.

Highly recommended for those facing insurmountable loss.

18 MUKHI

FERTILITY & WEALTH

Deity : Bhairavi Devi | Mother of Divine Wisdom

Confers the abundant, nurturing, gift-giving power of Mata Bhumi, “Mother Earth”. Creates a soulful bond with the Earth element, brings deep joy, healing and opens the channel of wealth and creativity and blesses dealings with land and property. Increases peace and the fertility of one’s mind, heart, soul and body.

Highly recommended for expectant mothers, mothers with children and anyone whose profession includes service to others as well as anyone working in earth-related professions, i.e jewelers, farmers etc.

GANESH

SUCCESS & OVERCOME OBSTACLES

Deity : Ganesha | God of Success & New Beginnings

Ganesh’s power is the synergy of the divine feminine and divine masculine, which overcomes all obstacles along your path to success and enlightenment. This special, sacred bead has a raised ‘trunk’, emblematic of the beloved Elephant God.

Highly recommended for those plagued by worldly challenges, heartbreak, lethargy and confusion.

GAURI SHANKAR

SOUL MATE RELATIONSHIP

Deity : Shiva & Shakti | Union of Two Equal Soul Parts

Improves and heals troubled relationships/partnerships/ marriages, confers great happiness and strengthens the bond between lovers. For single people, it helps to attracts a soul match. Brings balance, mitigates obsessive, addictive behavior. Also blesses men with great stamina and vitality and women with fertility and smoother monthly cycles.

Highly recommended for lovers, newlyweds and anyone wishing to attract and stay in a truly soulful relationship.

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Significant of Diwali Festival and way of celebration from old time

Diwali or Deepavali is the most important festival of India. Like all Indian festivals, it has no fixed dates. It follows Hindu calendar and falls on the thirteenth/fourteenth day in the dark fortnight (Krishna Paksha) of Kartik Month. In Gregorian calendar, this can fall anytime between mid-October and mid-November. Being the fourteenth night in Krishna Paksh, Diwali is also known as Krishna Chaturdashi.

A usual Diwali in India is made of cleaning houses and shops, drawing Kolam or Rangoli, praying, bursting crackers, feasting on good food, meeting dear ones, and exchanging sweets and gifts. There’s however surprisingly more to the significance of Diwali. It’s way beyond Ram’s return to Ayodhya, as put in Ramayana. In fact, significance of Diwali in other religions is as much, if not more, as in Hinduism. We’ve put forth some cross-religion reasons for celebration of Diwali

Rama Returns to Ayodhya

Basics first. After killing Ravana in (Sri) Lanka, Ram returned to Ayodhya after a 14 year exile in forests. The day of their return was new moon of Karthik. Ram’s followers in Ayodhya celebrated Diwali by illuminating the entire city with candles and lamps.

Krishna Kills Narakaasur

Narakaasur was a demon who scandalized and often kidnapped the villagers of Vrindavan, including Krishna’s Gopis. He had kidnapped as many as 16,000 women and had a boon that he can only be killed by his mother (earth). The all-knowing Krishna took his wife Satyabhaama who was a reincarnation of earth. Unaware of Narkaasru’s parentage, Sathyabaama aimed an arrow at him (when Krishna was unconscious) and killed him instantly. His death – on 14^th night of Karthik – is what we know as Narak Chaturdashee Parv.

Pandavas emerge from exile

In a deceitful game of dice-gambling, Pandavas were imposed with a 12 year exile in forest followed by a year of living incognito. The end of their thirteenth year was Karthik Amavasya (dark night). The well-wishers of Pandavas celebrated this by lighting up their homes.

Vaman (Vishnu) banishes Bali

The demon-king Bali was mighty and god-loving but arrogant ruler who practiced vainglory. Vishnu – in his 5^th incarnation as Vaman (dwarf) – schemed and sent Bali to netherworld (Patal Lok). He then rescued Lakshmi and returned to his holy abode called Vaikuntha. This is why Lakshmi and Vishnu are worshipped on Diwali.

Mahavir attains Nirvana

Mahavira or Vardhamana was the last Jain Tirthankar (liberator) and therefore the founder of modern Jainism. It is said that Mahavir attained Salvation on the day of Diwali (fourteenth), back on 527 BCE. Jainis celebrate Diwali by remembering and revering Mahavira in several ways.

Significance for Arya Samajis

The moment of Arya Samaj was founded by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, a Hindu religious leader of 19^th century. Swami Dayanand – after being poisoned by his cook under the influence of a female dancer – breathed his last and attained salvation on Diwali. The day therefore holds a special significance for Arya Samaj, a spin-off from Hinduism. You can read the detailed story of Dayanand Saraswati’s death.

Krishna Defeats Indra

On this day in past, Indra (the god of rain) was angry at citizens of Vrindavan and rained havoc on them. To save the people from rain, Krishna lifted the Govardhan Parvat on his finger. Govardhan Puja is performed for the same reason each year.

Significance of Diwali for Sikhs

The origin of Sikhism is in Hinduism. Our Sikh brothers were originally a clan of warrior Hindus, formed to protect our land and women from alien infiltrators.

Back in 1619, Guru Hargobind Ji, the sixth guru of Sikhs was released (with 52 kings) from the Fort of Gwalior by then Mughal emperor Jehangir, a day before Diwali. The following day which was Diwali, he reached Amritsar to meet his followers. They celebrate this occasion as Bandhi chor Divas(Prisoners’ Release Day). Akhand Paath(continuous chanting of Guru Granth Sahib), Nagar Kirtan(town procession),

Besides the above mentioned reasons, Diwali or the day after it also marks the beginning of a new year. This is why you clean our houses, dress in your finest and exchange good wishes with everyone. These celebrations were induced as allegorical tools to cleanse your mind and heart.

Alas, we’re losing the real meaning of the multi-event festival and are being consumed more and moer by the so called rituals. Some of us gamble that night, saying it’s the day of Lakshmi’s and gambling is good. If that were true, were Pandavas actually respecting Draupadi when they gambled her in Mahabharata?

If not as a pious festival, consider Diwali as a new beginning without and within you. Try to do one good thing for someone this day. Feed a hungry person, brighten up a dark hut, share sweets with the famished, give education to someone, use your cracker’s money to burn up someone’s miseries, and not merely pollute the world. You will then begin to understand the real significance of Diwali.

Diwali is the festival of lighten the soul , mind , body by positive thoughts and lighten home with diya and worship etc by Reiki Master Vijay kumar Bali .

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