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Speech Stages Gayathri Savitri Sarasvati Kesri Vidya

Approaches to God are many.

As many individuals as many Paths.

For the approach to Godhead depends on one's attitude and aptitude, Bhava.

Broadly speaking they have been classified as The Path Of Knowledge(Gyana Yoga),Bhakti Yoga(Path Of Devotion),Karma Yoga( Path Of Action, and Raja Yoga(Through meditation and regulation of sense organs.

Under each are various sub paths.

Again there are different instruments of reaching this goal through these steps.

We have Tantra and Mantra Shastras.

Basing the Sound some systems of worship has been developed in Indian Philosophy/Hinduism.

One such is the Kesari Vidya.

This comes under the Mula vidya of Devi, Lalitha,

In Mula Vidya, The Devi is worshiped thus.

Gāyatri: Vedic Gāyatri, the primary Vidyā that one is initiated into, before the ŚrīVidyā mantras like Bāla or Pancadāsi.

( I shall be posting more on this subject as I am still researching into this, so complex)

Chanting is of three types.

Manage Pleasures Patanjali Yoga Sutra 5

Vruddhiyah panchatahyaha Klishta Aklishtaa'

We are after the objects of the senses initially;later we can not leave them and it needs a special effort to get rid of this.

It becomes a habit.

This applies to even a trivial thing(depends on one's view) like Browsing the Internet or even the use of Fans, Mixers,ACs.

We were living with out these quite some time back.

I was without electricity some 50 years back, with out mobile phones, Internet,PC till a few years.

To day I browse and write for about 10 hours a Day and I can not be without a Fan even a few minutes.

If the Internet connection is off , I become restless.

Let's extend this further.

We have been happy without these and were not inconvenienced with out them.

We were children, went to school played around ,went to college.

We were quite Happy when we compare them with the grown up Life of Adults.

Without wife children, were we,;yet we were Happy.

Now, those things are gone and the things which gave Happiness to us at a point of Time do not exist now,

And the things like Wife, Positions, and other things that gave us pleasure at a point of time to us, no longer give us the same pleasure.

In fact, they give us Pain.

They have not changed,we have rather our Perspectives.

Happiness ,Sadness do not lie in things or people.

They lie within us.

Though we want to change this, we can not.

Why?

It is because these thoughts are a part us that we can not get rid of.

Yet there are certain things we are happy through out,like being Alone.

Alone means being within oneself.

Every one knows what it is.

Again there are certain things that give us pleasure at all times, like watching Ocean,Sky,Infants, Seeing a smile on others,or helping some one who is in dire need and seeing his tears of gratitude.

And of course the instinctive feeling we are more than this flesh and bones.

Why?

Patanjali explains.

The Modifications of Chiththa are the cause.

They are of Two kinds,

Klishta,that which make us delve deep into them and be lost in them, like the objects of the senses.

Aklishta, that those which help us retrieve ourselves from them.

Desire to enjoy is like poring Ghee to Fire, the more one enjoys , more he needs them, there is no end.

But to come out of them there are two practices, as Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.

They are Abhyaasa,Practice and Vairaagya, clear deter determination.

Once we develop these two we can be rid of these tendencies to be happy or Unhappy.